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SECTION 103-A
Videoconferencing by public bodies
Public Officers (PBO) CHAPTER 47, ARTICLE 7
* § 103-a. Videoconferencing by public bodies. 1. For the purposes of
this section, "local public body" shall mean a public corporation as
defined in section sixty-six of the general construction law, a
political subdivision as defined in section one hundred of the general
municipal law or a committee or subcommittee or other similar body of
such entity, or any entity for which a quorum is required in order to
conduct public business and which consists of two or more members,
performing a governmental function for an entity limited in the
execution of its official functions to a portion only of the state, or a
political subdivision of the state, or for an agency or department
thereof. For the purposes of this section, a public body shall be as
defined in subdivision two of section one hundred two of this article.
2. A public body may, in its discretion, use videoconferencing to
conduct its meetings pursuant to the requirements of this article
provided that a minimum number of members are present to fulfill the
public body's quorum requirement in the same physical location or
locations where the public can attend and the following criteria are
(a) the governing board of a county, city, town or village has adopted
a local law, or a public body has adopted a resolution, or the senate
and assembly have adopted a joint resolution, following a public
hearing, authorizing the use of videoconferencing:
(i) for itself and its committees or subcommittees; or,
(ii) specifying that each committee or subcommittee may make its own
determination;
(iii) provided however, each community board in a city with a
population of one million or more shall make its own determination;
(b) the public body has established written procedures governing
member and public attendance consistent with this section, and such
written procedures shall be conspicuously posted on the public website
of the public body;
(c) members of the public body shall be physically present at any such
meeting unless such member is unable to be physically present at any
such meeting location due to extraordinary circumstances, as set forth
in the resolution and written procedures adopted pursuant to paragraphs
(a) and (b) of this subdivision, including disability, illness,
caregiving responsibilities, or any other significant or unexpected
factor or event which precludes the member's physical attendance at such
meeting;
(d) except in the case of executive sessions conducted pursuant to
section one hundred five of this article, the public body shall ensure
that members of the public body can be heard, seen and identified, while
the meeting is being conducted, including but not limited to any
motions, proposals, resolutions, and any other matter formally discussed
or voted upon;
(e) the minutes of the meetings involving videoconferencing shall
include which, if any, members participated remotely and shall be
available to the public pursuant to section one hundred six of this
article;
(f) if videoconferencing is used to conduct a meeting, the public
notice for the meeting shall inform the public that videoconferencing
will be used, where the public can view and/or participate in such
meeting, where required documents and records will be posted or
available, and identify the physical location for the meeting where the
public can attend;
(g) the public body shall provide that each meeting conducted using
videoconferencing shall be recorded and such recordings posted or linked
on the public website of the public body within five business days
following the meeting, and shall remain so available for a minimum of
five years thereafter. Such recordings shall be transcribed upon
request;
(h) if videoconferencing is used to conduct a meeting, the public body
shall provide the opportunity for members of the public to view such
meeting via video, and to participate in proceedings via videoconference
in real time where public comment or participation is authorized and
shall ensure that videoconferencing authorizes the same public
participation or testimony as in person participation or testimony; and
(i) a local public body electing to utilize videoconferencing to
conduct its meetings must maintain an official website.
3. The in person participation requirements of paragraph (c) of
subdivision two of this section shall not apply during a state disaster
emergency declared by the governor pursuant to section twenty-eight of
the executive law, or a local state of emergency proclaimed by the chief
executive of a county, city, village or town pursuant to section
twenty-four of the executive law, if the public body determines that the
circumstances necessitating the emergency declaration would affect or
impair the ability of the public body to hold an in person meeting.
4. No later than January first, two thousand twenty-four, the
committee on open government, created by paragraph (a) of subdivision
one of section eighty-nine of this chapter, shall issue a report to the
governor, the temporary president of the senate, the speaker of the
assembly, the chair of the senate standing committee on local
government, the chair of the senate standing committee on investigations
and government operations, the chair of the assembly standing committee
on local governments, and the chair of the assembly standing committee
on governmental operations concerning the application and implementation
of such law and any further recommendations governing the use of
videoconferencing by public bodies to conduct meetings pursuant to this
5. Open meetings of any public body that are broadcast or that use
videoconferencing shall utilize technology to permit access by members
of the public with disabilities consistent with the 1990 Americans with
Disabilities Act (ADA), as amended, and corresponding guidelines. For
the purposes of this section, "disability" shall have the meaning
defined in section two hundred ninety-two of the executive law.
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Q: What is difference between loopstate.Break(), loopState.Stop() and CancellationTokenSource.Cancel() I have a simple question, i have following simple Parallel for loop. this for loop is part of windows service. I want to stop the loop, when someone stops the service. I can find three ways to stop parallel for, which is in if condition. What is the best way of stopping the parallel for loop and what are the differences?
       CancellationTokenSource cancellationToken = new CancellationTokenSource();
       ParallelOptions options = new ParallelOptions();
       options.CancellationToken = cancellationToken.Token;

       Parallel.For(0, maximum_operations, options, (a, loopState) =>
        {
            {
                //Do something

                if(!KeepProcessing)
                {
                    //loopState.Break();
                    //loopState.Stop();
                    cancellationToken.Cancel();

                }
            }
        });

A: CancellationToken is used to signal cancellation.
loopState.Break() and loopState.Stop() are used to end execution.
Here's an example
Parallel.For(0, maximum_operations, options, (a, loopState) =>
    {
        // do work

        // cancellationToken.Cancel() should be called externally
        if(token.IsCancellationRequested)
        {
            // cancellation requested - perform cleanup work if necessary

            // then call
            loopState.Break();
            // or
            loopState.Stop();
        }
    });

loopState.Break() means complete all iterations on all threads that are prior to the current iteration on the current thread, and then exit the loop (MSDN).
loopState.Stop() means stop all iterations as soon as convenient (MSDN).

Another way to terminate execution is call token.ThrowIfCancellationRequested(), but you will need to handle the OperationCanceledException exception:
public void MyMethod()
{
    try
    {
        Parallel.For(0, maximum_operations, options, (a, loopState) =>
        {
            // do work

            token.ThrowIfCancellationRequested();
        });
    }
    catch (OperationCanceledException)
    {
        // handle cancellation
    }
}

All of these methods are valid ways to terminate execution of Parallel.For. Which one you use depends on your requirements.
For example:

*

*Is it essential to immediately stop all execution when your windows Service is stopped? Then you could use token.ThrowIfCancellationRequested()

*Does your loop deal with IDisposable objects that need cleanup? Then you could use loopState.Break() or loopState.Stop()

Some articles for reference:

*

*MSDN: Cancellation

*MSDN: How to: Stop or Break from a Parallel.For Loop

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The market for mid-sized sedans is so competitive that it has been hard for good products like the Mazda6 to find the sales success of the segment leading Accord and Camry. For the second generation Mazda6, Mazda has wrapped aggressive styling around a much larger car in an attempt to stand out. The wagon and 5-door hatchback are gone. Shoppers who appreciated the sharp styling of the CX-9 will find the new Mazda6 appealing. Mazda offers three trim levels: Sport, Touring, and Grand Touring. Each model is available with either a 2.5L four cylinder or 3.7L V6. With pricing ranging from the low twenties to just over $30,000, the Mazda6 is priced competitively with others in the segment.
The U.S. now gets a dedicated version of the Mazda6 sedan. The wagon and 5-door hatchback models are no longer offered. The second-generation Mazda6 has grown appreciably larger in every dimension. In particular, the roughly 5 extra inches of length and 2 inches of width create a more spacious interior. The FWD Mazda6 retains a choice of four-cylinder and six-cylinder engines, both are more powerful than their predecessors were.


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Why governments need to keep oil giants 'honest' when it comes to paying their way
John Robertson takes issue with Shell's apparent 'warning' to Scotland on footing the cost of North Sea de-commissioning.
Here's the Glasgow Herald headline on 7th June, 2016: 'Shell to warn about independent Scotland's finances as it sounds EU alarm'.
Though apparently triggered by anxiety about the EU referendum outcome, the article continues:
'Shell executives will also caution that an independent Scotland could struggle to afford the billions of pounds needed to support decommissioning in the crisis-hit North Sea when they meet investors later this week.'
Just where the idea that we have to support decommissioning came from will puzzle many of us who thought Shell would have factored in this cost at the very beginning. Haven't they made a lot of profit over the years? Wasn't a 'decommissioning fund' part of the initial contract? Of course it was. Just as Philip Green has dodged his responsibility for BHS staff pensions, so Shell, like any other just-for-profit company, would love to dodge their responsibility to pay for decommissioning.
Readers will remember Shell Chief Executive, Ben van Beurden, for his much publicised support of the NO campaign in the 2014 Scottish Referendum. Older readers will remember and prefer, of course, Eric Burdon and the Animals earlier advice: 'We gotta get out of this place!'
Since the Holyrood election, I've not been empirically assessing mainstream media reporting relevant to the Scottish independence question so this has to be impressionistic but they seem to be back up at full propaganda level already. Reporting Scotland have been right back on their campaign to undermine the Scottish government's reputation with inaccurate and misleading reporting on Scotland's universities, schools and health services. I've written previously in Newsnet on these. We've also had the ongoing alleged economic disasters facing Scotland despite massive developments west of Shetland, the consolidation of the oil price and the evidence that renewable power is getting closer to meeting our energy needs.
This latest scare from Shell comes only four days after BP Boss, Mark Thomas said:
There are a lot of basins in the world where it's just about running it out. There's no future growth. There're no new opportunities. You're just running out the commodity. The North Sea is not like that. The North Sea has a tremendous portfolio of mature assets.
The oil companies are not struggling. They just want to make as much profit as they can. Elected governments need to keep on their backs and make them pay what they are legally obliged to pay. Here is a clear explanation of the situation from the Royal Academy of Engineering (page 8):
'Central to the issue of decommissioning is the cost and the question of who holds the liability. According to the OSPAR Convention, ultimate responsibility remains with the owner: The persons who own an installation or pipeline at the time of its decommissioning will normally remain the owners of any residues …. Should a new owner default, liability then transfers back to the original licence-holder. In fact, there is a generally accepted understanding within the industry that, 'if you put it there, you take it away'.
Here's further UK government clarification of the protection of the taxpayer from such costs (page 7):
'It is a fundamental principle of the decommissioning regime that a person who is responsible for developing or operating an offshore installation/pipeline should also be responsible for decommissioning at the end of its useful life. The Department therefore intends to charge Industry a fee for approving and revising offshore (oil and gas) decommissioning programmes rather than passing the costs onto the taxpayer which is in line with the 'polluter pays' principle of environmental law.'
Further, there is no way Royal Dutch Shell can escape their responsibilities given international law on the protection of communities from pollution. In 2015, Shell paid £55 million to Nigerian individuals and the Bodo community to avoid a more costly London High Court Case. More dramatically, in the same year, BP paid US claimants $18.7 billion! Now this latter settlement was welcomed by investors and BP shares jumped 4% on the day. They had feared far worse and, demonstrably, have the funds to pay more than they did.
Finally, if you think not removing oil-rigs could somehow be classified as not polluting, see this from the European Commission (page 5):
'Definition of 'damage': "measurable adverse change in a natural resource or measurable impairment of a natural resource service which may occur directly or indirectly" (amended with Directive 2013/20/EC (offshore) to broaden the scope of damage to waters.
So, Mr van Beurden of Shell, or any other oil executive with similar concerns, there will be no 'burden' on the Scottish tax payer. And, keep out of our politics too!
Ben van Beurden
Mark Thomas BP
North Sea de-commissioning
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Just back from Norway this morning where it was, without exception, absolutely taters. Had lots of fun though, which warmed the old cockles.
I was there for a cracking gig in a small Norwegian town called Hamar, near Lillehammer (which means Little Hammer, fact fans), at which I was plied with free beer and cashew nuts by the owners of the venue. Given the thunderously expensive price of beer in Norway, this was, as they say, a right touch.
Happily, my presence in Norway meant that I could fly down to Stavanger to catch up with my friend Wenche (pronounced 'venker' of course, not as in a bosomy barmaid in a lace-up bodice) of Attention All Shipping fame. You might recall that I first bumped into Norway's finest primary school teacher on Utsira, and as it turned out last weekend was the exact third anniversary of the Utsira football club jolly-up that was the highlight of my first shipping forecast expedition.
We will always have the post-traumatic bond of a weekend in the world's most boring town too, of course, an excursion that still causes both of us to wake up shouting in the middle of night.
I hadn't seen Wenche in a couple of years, so it was brilliant to catch up with her over a curry, a beer or two in the Newsman bar (where I bumped into her by sheer chance on the way to Hanstholm) and a couple of days' wandering around Stavanger in the cold, photographic evidence of which can be found here.
Managing to be at home for a whole four days before going off gallivanting again (my nan always used to get the words 'gallivanting' and 'philandering' mixed up, which was interesting when she wanted to tell me my mum was out gallivanting), yet still managing to squeeze in The Oldie magazine's 200th issue birthday jolly up tomorrow night. A full report will, of course, appear here – just listen out for the thud of dropping names.
Oh, and how nuts is this?


Hurricane conditions will likely hit the area around North Carolina's southern coast on Friday, but tropical storm conditions will arrive on Thursday, according to the hurricane center.
While many coastal residents heeded mandatory evacuation orders, others boarded up homes and businesses and chose to fearless the storm, which is forecast to trigger severe flash flooding as it dumps as many as three feet (almost a metre) of rain in some areas.
Emergency preparations in SC now include more than 2,100 of the state's National Guard soldiers.
The National Weather Service said 5.25 million people live in areas under hurricane warnings or watches, and 4.9 million live in places covered by tropical storm warnings or watches. "This is a storm that is historic, maybe once in a lifetime".
Tropical Storm Florence dumped "epic" amounts of rain on North and SC as it trudged inland on Saturday, knocking out power and causing at least eight deaths as flood waters that have devastated many communities kept rising. In North Carolina, Cooper says, "2,800 soldiers will be on active duty, joined by even more on standby".
The eastbound lanes of several major highways have been shut down to allow for a smooth flow of traffic inland. Jeff Byard of the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) invoked a former boxing champion to warn residents that it would bring "a Mike Tyson punch to the Carolina coast". Reports from the Miami-based weather forecaster on Monday confirmed that the Florence is located about 1,880 kilometers southeast of Cape, however, Fear is now growing bigger in North Carolina.
Duke Energy, the nation's No. 2 power company, said Florence could knock out electricity to three-quarters of its 4 million customers in the Carolinas, and outages could last for weeks. "You're going to be displaced from your home in coastal areas".
In Virginia, where about 245,000 residents were ordered to evacuate low-lying areas, officials urged people to remain away from home despite forecast changes showing Florence's path largely missing the state. Thousands of marines and their families evacuated from Camp Lejeune, leaving the rest to dig in ahead of what could be a direct hit.
"The preparations for a hurricane began long before the past few hours or days", North Carolina Pork Council President Brandon Warren said in a statement.
Michael Kennedy, an engineer at Boeing, said he planned to leave for his parents' home in Atlanta, Georgia. I work for the government, they've closed.
There is no form of pressure that can convince them to budge on this, no promise that will seduce them into compliance. While in Pyongyang, Pompeo was expected to lay the groundwork for a second summit between Kim and the US President.


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The 56th Best Director of All-Time: Kenji Mizoguchi
Mizoguchi. Mizoguchi's strength is that every film of his I've seen is in its year's top 10 and I still have some work to do on his filmography. He's the only director left this far down with 5 films in my top 500. He's a style-plus director with clear reoccurring traits throughout his oeuvre (covered in stylistic traits below) both in content and style. His weakness for the purposes of this list is that I don't have a masterpiece (0 films that land within the top 25 of their respective decade) but that could change because I haven't seen any of his films more than once aside from Ugetsu.
Best film: Sansho the Bailiff. Slyly simple but an emotionally wrenching and poetically told story. After one pass through his oeuvre and I think this is his best by an extremely slim margin over The 47 Ronin.
nature painting the mise-en-scene like von Sternberg in Sansho the Baliff
top 500 films: 5 (Sansho the Baliff, The 47 Ronin, Ugetsu, The Life of Oharu, The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum)
top 100 films of the decade: 7 (Sansho the Baliff, The 47 Ronin, Ugetsu, The Life of Oharu, The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum, Osaka Elegy, Sisters of the Gion)
most overrated: Ugetsu– #47 on TSPDT top 1000 so the fact that I have this as a Must-See film and not a masterpiece makes it pretty significantly overrated even though I like the film a great deal.
this image from Ugetsu would lead me to believe that I missed something the last time I watched and the TSPDT consensus is correct
most underrated: Osaka Elegy – just one of the prewar films not in the TSPDT top 1000 and to me these are all underrated (mostly because I think they are less readily available). Mizoguchi not only died early at age 58 but had years from his career lost in WW2- much like Ozu and many other great auteurs.
gem I want to spotlight: 47 Ronin. It's a 4 hour dialogue-heavy film where the film's major action is told via a story in dialogue form rather than shown…. Sound exciting? Well it's absolutely fantastic and surely one of the best films of 1941. Mizoguchi's camerawork is superb. He floats through walls with complicated tracking shows and brings us into and out of scenes with some pretty complicated crane shots (some mirror Gone with the Wind and Intolerance). The dialogue is intelligent and the ending is very satisfying. Clearly the film is paced in such a way that it will be pretty unbearable to those who don't enjoy cinematic style.
Life of Oharu is another gem. And many think misogyny on film started with von trier? Haha. This is a brutal story but one that is worthy of its lofty critical reputation.
stylistic innovations/traits: Mizoguchi is known for lyrical stories of women in historical settings. Visually his work is composed of long shots with long takes which is one reason he was championed by Bazin, and, in turn, many of the new wavers that followed. His mise-en-scene often included gorgeous natural framing devices, barriers and blockers—variations of von Sternberg's work.
incredible blocking of the frame here
Sansho the Bailiff
The 47 Ronin
The Life of Oharu
The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum
Osaka Elegy
Sisters of the Gion
Crucified Lovers
1936- Osaka Elegy HR
1936- Sisters of the Gion HR
1939- The Story of the Last Chrysanthemum MS
1941- The 47 Ronin MS
1952- Life of Oharu MS
1953- Ugetsu MS
1954- Crucified Lovers
1954- Sansho the Baliff MS
The 250 Best Directors of All-Time - The Cinema Archives August 17, 2020 at 9:33 pm - Reply
[…] 56. Kenji Mizoguchi […]
Georg March 9, 2021 at 9:42 pm - Reply
I'm very excited for this. I had given a look at Sisters of the Gion and Osaka Elegy some time ago (I found them together, same year, same director) and I was interested but not exactly awed by them. I thought Osaka was slightly better due to the sheer power and volume contained in some moments (the final scene and the reflection on the polluted, trashed water are very poignant – and sophisticated for 1936). Anyway, I made sure to look for The Life of Oharu and I was very impressed this time. It was a heck of a film. I don't know where to begin with the traits I picked up on. I will start by saying that I remember reading somewhere Pawlikowski's Cold War being described as a Mizoguchi-esque drama, and I'm shocked at how accurate it is. First of all, the camera movement would make Renoir very proud, it carries along the long takes finely, smooth, discreet and utterly poetic. The way the narrative unfolds is rather quick, but not at all rushed. Quick in the sense that time passes by quickly and we only get to see the events that somehow affect the turns our story takes (chillingly similar to Cold War). There is great play on shadow and light that serves the black and white photography well (at this point, I'm convinced Pawlikowski has been directly influenced by Mizoguchi, all things considered). You could also point out the distinct moments of clarity here and there, some kind of contemplation, so to speak, or realisation of one's condition or fate. All suffering, pain and tragedy is quietly subdued from a filmmaking standpoint – not much music, distanced shots, we're left alone with these characters and their crumbling, unfair reality. Tanaka was indeed sublime as Oharu and her scene at the temple is incredibly strong acting and quite devastating, as well. It's a let down I'm not yet able to get my hands on Sansho or Ugetsu, but my expectations are very high.
Drake March 9, 2021 at 11:31 pm - Reply
@George- as always- appreciate your contribution here. I had not made the Mizoguchi/Pawlikowski connection! Nice
Georg March 10, 2021 at 1:01 pm - Reply
@Drake – as I've said before – it's always a pleasure to give a look here and commend on films. Also, did I, by any chance, mention that all the angles in Oharu are pure Orson Welles? I really think I need to begin a Mizoguchi study now, though I've also left Murnau midway. There's just so much cinema to experience.
Drake March 10, 2021 at 3:24 pm - Reply
@Georg- haha "there is just so much cinema to experience" indeed. My laundry list of films and filmmakers to see and study just gets longer and longer
Zane December 8, 2021 at 7:35 pm - Reply
The introduction can be accessed by clicking either on the white more button on desktop, or by tapping on the italic text at the top of the screen on mobile. This is a much more convenient way to post this than clogging up an entire page with a massive wall of text in my opinion:
To whoever's interested, the cinema of Kenji Mizoguchi as I hold it:
https://boxd.it/eiMZO


A 'climate damages tax' levied on oil, gas and coal companies could raise $300 billion a year by 2030 to bail out hard-hit communities, green groups say.
Taxing the extraction of fossil fuels could help pay for the growing costs of damage from harsher storms, wildfires, floods and rising seas, while providing a stronger incentive to wean the world off carbon-heavy energy, green groups said on Monday.
A "climate damages tax" levied on oil, gas and coal companies could raise $300 billion a year by 2030 to bail out communities bearing the brunt of global warming, said a proposal supported by WWF, Practical Action and others.
Besides assisting those in need overseas, at least half of the funds raised from the government-levied tax would help poorer groups at home switch to green jobs, energy and transport, its backers said.
"The injustice of climate change is that the impacts are felt first and hardest by those with the least responsibility for its causes," said Ralph Regenvanu, Vanuatu's foreign affairs minister.
His Pacific island nation lost 64 percent of its GDP - about $450 million - during Cyclone Pam in 2015, and has struggled to recover financially, he noted.
"We cannot sustain the level of public expenditure we need to keep recovering," he said.
As the pace of disasters picks up, "we're now on a permanent state-of-emergency footing" and new sources of finance are needed to help meet costs, he said.
Saleemul Huq, head of the Bangladesh-based International Centre for Climate Change and Development, said that with cash to help poorer countries in short supply, fossil fuel companies that profit from driving climate change are an obvious source of additional money.
Right now, "the fossil fuel industry is causing this problem and getting out of paying for it", he added.
From 2021, the proposed tax would levy $5 on each tonne of heat-trapping emissions expected to be generated by oil, coal and gas deposits that are extracted from the ground.
The money would flow through existing national systems for royalty payments where fossil fuel companies operate, with a share going through a body set up under the Green Climate Fund to help pay for losses around the world, the report said.
Poorer fossil fuel-producing states, such as Indonesia and Nigeria, would keep all the funds raised, with middle-income nations such as China and Colombia retaining a larger share of income than richer countries, which would keep about half.
The injustice of climate change is that the impacts are felt first and hardest by those with the least responsibility for its causes.
The tax would rise by $5 a year until 2030, jumping to a $10 annual increase after that through 2050, when fossil fuels must be largely phased out of global energy systems to meet government commitments made under the 2015 Paris climate accord.
Julie-Anne Richards, one of the report's authors, said the tax was "a practical way to address the injustice at the heart of climate change".
The fossil fuel industry makes "hundreds of billions in profits while the true costs of their products are paid by the rest of society", she added.
And as losses mount from wilder weather, a fossil fuel levy could become more politically palatable, particularly as companies face a rising tide of costly lawsuits over their responsibility in causing climate change.
"This tsunami of litigation that is coming down the line will make the climate damages tax look more appealing," Richards said on the sidelines of the UN talks.
Storm damage in the United States and the Caribbean alone last year amounted to more than $220 billion, representing nearly two-thirds of global losses caused by natural disasters in 2017, the United Nations said last week.


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Since covid "vaccines" were unleashed, athlete deaths are up 1700%
Never before have so many athletes dropped dead than since early 2021 when Wuhan coronavirus (Covid-19) "vaccines" were first unleashed under Operation Warp Speed.
According to the data, athlete deaths are up 1,700 percent compared to the monthly averages recorded since 1966. And if things continue on their current trajectory, the 2022 data will show upwards of a 4,120 percent increase in athlete deaths.
In March of this year alone, three times as many athletes died compared to the previous annual average. That increase shows no signs of slowing as the full impact of Fauci Flu shots on public health is only just getting started. (Related: Check out our earlier coverage about some of the athletes who have died following the release of Chinese Virus injections.)
According to research out of Switzerland that was published back in 2006, between 1966 and 2004 – this is 39 years – there were 1,101 "sudden deaths" among otherwise healthy athletes under the age of 35. Comparatively, between January 2021 and April 2022 – this is just 16 months – there were at least 673 sudden deaths among athletes of the same demographic.
"This number could, however, be much higher," notes Exposé News. "So that's 428 less than the number to have died between 1966 and 2004. The difference here though is that the 1,101 deaths occurred over 39 years, whereas 673 recent deaths have occurred over 16 months."
Before Fauci Flu shots, only about 28 athletes per YEAR died for no apparent reason – in 2021 there were at least 394 deaths!
To give you a better understanding of the increase in deaths being seen, consider the fact that from 1966 to 2004, the annual average of sudden athlete deaths was 28. In January 2022 alone, three times that number occurred in just one month. That same tripling of deaths was seen in March 2022 as well.
"The 2021 total equates to 394 deaths, 14x higher than the 1966 to 2004 annual average," Exposé News explains. "The Jan to April 2022 total, a period of 4 months, equates to 279 deaths, 9.96x higher than the annual average between 1966 and 2004."
"However, if we divide the 66 to 04 annual average by 3 to make it equivalent to the 4 months' worth of deaths so far in 2022, we get 9.3 deaths. So in effect, 2022 so far has seen deaths 10x higher than the expected rate."
These are shocking statistics that prove, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that covid injections are killing people at an astounding rate. And these are athletic people who one would think have a greater resiliency than the average person consuming SAD (standard American diet) "food" and barely exercising.
Is there something to these shots that targets the healthy more than the unhealthy? Or is the time still coming for the unhealthy to succumb, en masse, to the same fate as these now-deceased athletes?
People all across the health spectrum are getting sick and dying from the shots even as you are reading this, so perhaps there is no discrimination happening. The shots are poison, and eventually that poison catches up to you.
A recent study published in the journal Circulation found that signs of cardiovascular damage, which is probably what took out many of the athletes, increase drastically following one's second injection with the mRNA (messenger RNA) shot from either Pfizer-BioNTech or Moderna.
"The risk of heart attacks or other severe coronary problems more than doubled months after the vaccines were administered, based on changes in markers of inflammation and cell damage," Exposé News explains, offering further insight into the matter.
"Patients had a 1 in 4 risk for severe problems after the vaccines, compared to 1 in 9 before. Their 5-year heart attack risk went from 11% to 25% thanks to the vaccines (that is a 227% increase)."
The latest news about the carnage of Fauci Flu shots can be found at ChemicalViolence.com.
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When it comes to high-performance servers, what name comes to mind first? Dell wants to be at the top of the list, and the company's newest product might just make that happen. The newest generation of the Dell PowerEdge MX server is future-proofed with advanced technology designed to do more than just house CPUs. It is designed to support expansion in terms of GPUs and FPGAs, also.
The new PowerEdge MX server is designed for use in data centers, where it will help to support new technologies currently in development that will have a significant impact on data center operation down the road. AI is an excellent example of this but there are other technologies that will demand significant resources and impact data center workloads.
The PowerEdge MX offers quite a few unique benefits for data centers. Perhaps the most significant is that it features modular capabilities, meaning that it is designed to adapt to future needs by simply adding new modules and removing modules that are either no longer necessary, or that have been outdated and are being replaced.
Dell calls this approach "server disaggregation", but it really just means that users are able to build server configurations that meet their needs using disaggregated resources that can be changed as soon as necessary. Reprovisioning on the fly is possible, and a modular approach helps avoid the prospect of wasting assets.
The secret to Dell's modular technology is a smart I/O fabric that connects servers and storage in the form of "blocks". Software defines the computing environment and needs, allowing complete tailoring to workload-specific requirements at all times. Note that this technology is designed for use specifically in software-defined data centers.
The future-proofing on offer from Dell comes directly from the modular capabilities of the new PowerEdge MX server. The system lacks a mid-plane, which allows direct compute to I/O module connections. This in turn fosters the ability to upgrade the system as needs dictate in the future without disrupting operations. Memory-reliant server devices, such as additional memory and storage, or additional GPUs and FPGAs, can be added simply and easily, without a mid-plane upgrade.
Ultimately, the new server should offer the ability to accommodate new CPUs, new GPUs, and other new technology far into the future, minimizing the need to invest in new servers, and allowing data centers to focus more on building the right systems to meet their clients' needs, without the system being obsolete by the time it has been built and installed.
The purchase of a new PowerEdge MX server entitles a data center to the MX7000 chassis, but also both MX740c and MX840c compute sleds. Both of these can be replaced with an MX5016s storage sled if the customer prefers. It also includes ethernet and Fibre Channel switching modules.
For data center operators itching to put the new PowerEdge MX to work on their behalf, the system was due to hit the market by mid-September 2018. Pricing for the server has not been published at the time of this writing, although it will vary based on the devices installed at the time of purchase.
Michael Price serves as the Vice President of Software Engineering at GCG and Datacenters.com. Mike's role is to lead a team of developers to execute on the vision of Datacenters.com while developing useful tools and applications for GCG sales agents. Mike has over 15 years of experience in technology and strategic communications. Mike is a full-stack developer and has built a reputation for creating lasting brand identities from the ground-up and increasing market penetration.


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Telenor's 4G services introduced in 6 major cities
Largest 4G network in Myanmar
4G network already covered 17 cities in Myanmar
Telenor Myanmar Limited ("Telenor") celebrates the introduction of 4G services in 6 major cities throughout this week. Telenor's 4G network has already been expanded to 17 cities across Myanmar, and from February 13 to 19 a series of introduction events are held in Taungdwingyi, AungLan and Pakokku in Magway Region; Monywa in Sagaing Region; and Lewe and Pyinmana in Nay Pyi Taw Union Territory respectively.
Famous vocalists including R Zarni, Helay, Tin Zar Maw,Po Po, Aint Chit and Zeyar performed as part of the celebrations held in Taungdwingyi and AungLan on 13 and 14 February respectively. Telenor employees were also out on the streets, engaged directly with customers and dealers on the streets to introduce the 4G services. The company employees also provided free-of-charge services such as swapping old SIM with high-speed capable 'USIM', installing popular App likes Facebook, Viber and MyTelenor, and opening social accounts for customers. Concurrently, in an effort to reinforce Telenor's nationwide 'SIM Registration Days', Telenor employees also explained registration process and benefits, and helped users to register right away.Similar activities will also be carried out as part of celebrations in Pakokku, Monywa, Lewe and Pyinmana from 15 February onward.
Telenor celebrated expansion of 4G services toMawlamyine in Mon State and Hpa-an in Kayin State late January. Other cities already covered by Telenor 4G network include Pyay, Bago and Taunggu in Bago Region;Myeik and Dawei in Taninthayi Region;Sittwe in Rakhine State; and DetKhi Na Thi Ri, Oke Ta Ra Thi Ri and Poke Ba Thi Ri in Nay Pyi Taw Union Territory.
Telenor rolled out 4G network in Myanmar since last July and with 4G network footprints in 17 cities it has now established the largest 4G network in the country. The company will continue to roll out 4G services to more cities in the months to come.
With less than two months remaining to register all SIM cards, failure to register is considered to be non-compliant with government regulations and will result in service disruption to customers' subscribed mobile services. The mobile services will continue to be disrupted until SIM card is registered.


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In Surat, the Country Vacations has a trendy club that provides luxurious accommodation options, multi-cuisine restaurant, fully equipped fitness centre, conference hall, indoor swimming pool and numerous other leisure entertainment and guest hospitality amenities. The 4 Star hotel at Dubai has choice of accommodations including family suites and executive rooms. It also has 5 theme based restaurants serving global cuisine. The Amrutha Castle at Hyderabad is a business class hotel with wide assortment of rooms, conference halls, business centre, fitness centre, pub, restaurant and rooftop swimming pool. The Country Vacations in Bangkok has a fully equipped service apartment with wide variety of hospitality facilities including family cottages with luxurious accommodation, kitchen, separate living area, travel desk and 24 hour in-room guest service.


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507 Gray Ave.
35.99942351001, -78.889829021213
Gray Avenue
Local ID
Photograph by Preservation Durham survey volunteers, 10.18.2002.
While county records have this bungalow dated to 1943, historical sources suggest it had been built by the late 1920s. The owners at the time - and the first listed residents at this address - were Alexander C. and Vester Suitt Cokley. A. C. Cokley, as his name frequently appears shortened, was a tailor with a shop at the corner of Roxboro and Canal (possibly this structure later converted to a grocery).
In 1940, this was home to a multi-generational family that had come to Durham from Wilson. Prodigal and Kissie Parker - by then in their 50s - lived with their son Oscar, daughter-in-law Ella, and their 5 young children.
Ada E. and Arthur Dunlap purchased the property in 1943. She worked nearby at the Farmers Mutual Exchange, while he worked for Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company. Widowed by 1960, Ada Dunlap sold the house to Lennis and Pearl Graham Jackson. It remained in their family for more than three decades. After as string of sales in 2014-2015, the house has underwent significant renovation.
507 Gray Avenue, 9.27.2017 (Durham County Tax Administration).
EAST END - VOLUNTEER INVENTORY (2002-2022)
A collective effort to upload 2002 survey photos to new Open Durham pages and improve documentation of this historically Black neighborhood.


Peter C. Thoms, CFA, is the founder and managing member of Orion Capital Management LLC. He founded the firm in April 2002.
Prior to founding Orion, Mr. Thoms was Co-Portfolio Manager and Research Analyst in New York City at PIMCO Equity Advisors, L.P., a unit of Pacific Investment Management Company LLC (PIMCO) of Newport Beach, California. From 1999 to early 2002 he was a Research Analyst for both the $1.5 billion PIMCO Growth Fund, a large-cap growth mutual fund, and the $1.5 billion PIMCO Target Fund, a mid-cap growth mutual fund. In the later half of his tenure he was also the Co-Portfolio Manager of the PIMCO Growth & Income Fund.
Before joining PIMCO, Mr. Thoms served as Investment Analyst at Federated Global Investment Management, the New York City-based global investing unit of Pittsburgh-based Federated Investors. He analyzed investments for the Federated Global Equity Income Fund, the Federated World Utility Fund, and two pension accounts that were benchmarked against global equity indexes.
Mr. Thoms holds the Chartered Financial Analyst® designation and is a member of the CFA Institute. He earned his Master of Business Administration degree from the Darden Graduate School of Business Administration at the University of Virginia in 1998, and his Bachelor of Arts degree in International & Comparative Political Studies from Hamilton College in 1989.
From 1989 to 1993, Mr. Thoms served as a U.S. Naval Flight Officer aboard the P-3 Orion, an anti-submarine warfare and surveillance aircraft. He was stationed at Naval Air Station, Barbers Point, Hawaii and completed deployments to the Persian Gulf in 1990 and to Japan in 1992-93.


Want to go back to the day when you could pop in to a local Five and Dime store and pick up anything you could possibly want for a reasonable price? What if I were to tell you that you CAN? And, that the place you can do it is possibly the largest variety store in the world…..I mean, this place is B-I-G!!! Well, you just may want to visit Vidler's 5 & 10 in East Aurora, NY! I did just that this week for the very first time! A friend and I wandered around this place for about an hour and a half and, while I think we say "most" of the store, I know there were sections we didn't get to at all and others that we just glanced at!!! When they say whatever it is you want, you can find it under the awning, they aren't kidding! And, it is like stepping back in time and walking into an old time Five and Dime store…..just like the ones every town had and every family shopped at…..only MUCH larger!
Here are a few photos I took while I was there……and, you can visit their web site by clicking here and taking the virtual tour of the store to see so much more of it!
Love the kindly shop clerk who welcomes all who pass by or enter the store!
Window display – considered getting a Where's Waldo shirt and hat!
Any kind of old fashioned soda you could want….including some odd flavors, like Bacon and Peanut Butter & Jelly!!!
Into character items? If they don't have it, it doesn't exist!
I was like a little kid with all these funky hats to look at! LOOK – there's a pink flamingo one!!!
Here I am trying on a purple "Princess" tiara….and practicing my pageant wave!!!
These photos were all taken in just the first section we walked through……I got so involved in looking at all the cool stuff, I realized I had stopped taking photos, so scroll back up and click on their web site link to take the virtual tour to see what I missed getting photos of! There is an office supply and stationary section that would put Office Max, Office Depot, and Staples together to shame……and a whole section with some of the cutest fairy garden supplies ever…….and aisles and aisles of stuff that would make any kid (big or little) squeal with excitement…..and old fashioned candy treats galore…..and so much more!!! And then, downstairs, the kitchen section goes on and on and on and on – with every gadget, utensil, pot, pan, and virtually anything you could ever want to use to cook or bake with that you could possibly think of…..and then there is a zillion more you'd never even consider!!!
Do yourself a favor and go experience this store at least once…..but, allow a good couple of hours to take it all in!!!
Vidler's, another reason Western New York State is SPECIAL!!!


To help plants and wildlife, a variety of habitat management techniques are used to maintain, recover or enhance plant and wildlife values.
Refuge staff carefully considers all management techniques and employ them in varying degrees according to the situation. Water levels are carefully monitored and controlled to foster desired plant growth. Sensitive areas may be closed to the public so that the land can recover more quickly. Prescribed burning, mowing, experimental bio-control insect releases, and seeding are also some of the techniques used to help native plants recover on national wildlife refuges.


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The Heroism of Thomas Chadwick
by Arnold Bennett
"Have you heard about Tommy Chadwick?" one gossip asked another in Bursley.
"He's a tram-conductor now."
This information occasioned surprise, as it was meant to do, the expression on the faces of both gossips indicating a pleasant curiosity as to what Tommy Chadwick would be doing next.
Thomas Chadwick was a "character" in the Five Towns, and of a somewhat unusual sort. "Characters" in the Five Towns are generally either very grim or very jolly, either exceptionally shrewd or exceptionally simple; and they nearly always, in their outward aspect, depart from the conventional. Chadwick was not thus. Aged fifty or so, he was a portly and ceremonious man with an official gait. He had been a policeman in his youth, and he never afterwards ceased to look like a policeman in plain clothes. The authoritative mien of the policeman refused to quit his face. Yet, beneath that mien, few men (of his size) were less capable of exerting authority than Chadwick. He was, at bottom, a weak fellow. He knew it himself, and everybody knew it. He had left the police force because he considered that the strain was beyond his strength. He had the constitution of a she-ass, and the calm, terrific appetite of an elephant; but he maintained that night duty in January was too much for him. He was then twenty-seven, with a wife and two small girls. He abandoned the uniform with dignity. He did everything with dignity. He looked for a situation with dignity, saw his wife and children go hungry with dignity, and even went short himself with dignity. He continually got fatter, waxing on misfortune. And--another curious thing--he could always bring out, when advisable, a shining suit of dark blue broadcloth, a clean collar and a fancy necktie. He was not a consistent dandy, but he could be a dandy when he liked.
Of course, he had no trade. The manual skill of a policeman is useless outside the police force. One cannot sell it in other markets. People said that Chadwick was a fool to leave the police force. He was; but he was a sublime and dignified fool in his idle folly. What he wanted was a position of trust, a position where nothing would be required from him but a display of portliness, majesty and incorruptibility. Such positions are not easy to discover. Employers had no particular objection to portliness, majesty and incorruptibility, but as a rule they demanded something else into the bargain. Chadwick's first situation after his defection from the police was that of night watchman in an earthenware manufactory down by the canal at Shawport. He accepted it regretfully, and he firmly declined to see the irony of fate in forcing such a post on a man who conscientiously objected to night duty. He did not maintain this post long, and his reasons for giving it up were kept a dark secret. Some said that Chadwick's natural tendency to sleep at night had been taken amiss by his master.
Thenceforward he went through transformation after transformation, outvying the legendary chameleon. He was a tobacconist, a park-keeper, a rent collector, a commission agent, a clerk, another clerk, still another clerk, a sweetstuff seller, a fried fish merchant, a coal agent, a book agent, a pawnbroker's assistant, a dog-breeder, a door-keeper, a board-school keeper, a chapel-keeper, a turnstile man at football matches, a coachman, a carter, a warehouseman, and a chucker-out at the Empire Music Hall at Hanbridge. But he was nothing long. The explanations of his changes were invariably vague, unseizable. And his dignity remained unimpaired, together with his broadcloth. He not only had dignity for himself, but enough left over to decorate the calling which he happened for the moment to be practising. He was dignified in the sale of rock-balls, and especially so in encounters with his creditors; and his grandeur when out of a place was a model to all unemployed.
Further, he was ever a pillar and aid of the powers. He worshipped order, particularly the old order, and wealth and correctness. He was ever with the strong against the weak, unless the weak happened to be an ancient institution, in which case he would support it with all the valour of his convictions. Needless to say, he was a very active politician. Perhaps the activity of his politics had something to do with the frequency of his transformations--for he would always be his somewhat spectacular self; he would always call his soul his own, and he would quietly accept a snub from no man.
And now he was a tram-conductor. Things had come to that.
In the old days of the steam trams, where there were only about a score of tram-conductors and eight miles of line in all the Five Towns, the profession of tram-conductor had still some individuality in it, and a conductor was something more than a number. But since the British Electric Traction Company had invaded the Five Towns, and formed a subsidiary local company, and constructed dozens of miles of new line, and electrified everything, and raised prices, and abolished season tickets, and quickened services, and built hundreds of cars and engaged hundreds of conductors--since then a tram-conductor had been naught but an unhuman automaton in a vast machine-like organization. And passengers no longer had their favourite conductors.
Gossips did not precisely see Thomas Chadwick as an unhuman automaton for the punching of tickets and the ringing of bells and the ejaculation of street names. He was never meant by nature to be part of a system. Gossips hoped for the best. That Chadwick, at his age and with his girth, had been able, in his extremity, to obtain a conductorship was proof that he could bring influences to bear in high quarters. Moreover, he was made conductor of one of two cars that ran on a little branch line between Bursley and Moorthorne, so that to the village of Moorthorne he was still somebody, and the chances were just one to two that persons who travelled by car from or to Moorthorne did so under the majestic wing of Thomas Chadwick. His manner of starting a car was unique and stupendous. He might have been signalling "full speed ahead" from the bridge of an Atlantic liner.
Chadwick's hours aboard his Atlantic liner were so long as to interfere seriously, not only with his leisure, but with his political activities. And this irked him the more for the reason that at that period local politics in the Five Towns were extremely agitated and interesting. People became politicians who had never been politicians before. The question was, whether the Five Towns, being already one town in practice, should not become one town in theory--indeed, the twelfth largest town in the United Kingdom! And the district was divided into Federationists and anti-Federationists. Chadwick was a convinced anti-Federationist. Chadwick, with many others, pointed to the history of Bursley, "the mother of the Five Towns," a history which spread over a thousand years and more; and he asked whether "old Bursley" was to lose her identity merely because Hanbridge had insolently outgrown her. A poll was soon to be taken on the subject, and feelings were growing hotter every day, and rosettes of different colours flowered thicker and thicker in the streets, until nothing but a strong sense of politeness prevented members of the opposing parties from breaking each other's noses in St Luke's Square.
Now on a certain Tuesday afternoon in spring Tommy Chadwick's car stood waiting, opposite the Conservative Club, to depart to Moorthorne. And Tommy Chadwick stood in all his portliness on the platform. The driver, a mere nobody, was of course at the front of the car. The driver held the power, but he could not use it until Tommy Chadwick gave him permission; and somehow Tommy's imperial attitude seemed to indicate this important fact.
There was not a soul in the car.
Then Mrs Clayton Vernon came hurrying up the slope of Duck Bank and signalled to Chadwick to wait for her. He gave her a wave of the arm, kindly and yet deferential, as if to say, "Be at ease, noble dame! You are in the hands of a man of the world, who knows what is due to your position. This car shall stay here till you reach it, even if Thomas Chadwick loses his situation for failing to keep time."
And Mrs Clayton Vernon puffed into the car. And Thomas Chadwick gave her a helping hand, and raised his official cap to her with a dignified sweep; and his glance seemed to be saying to the world, "There, you see what happens when I deign to conduct a car! Even Mrs Clayton Vernon travels by car then." And the whole social level of the electric tramway system was apparently uplifted, and conductors became fine, portly court-chamberlains.
For Mrs Clayton Vernon really was a personage in the town--perhaps, socially, the leading personage. A widow, portly as Tommy himself, wealthy, with a family tradition behind her, and the true grand manner in every gesture! Her entertainments at her house at Hillport were unsurpassed, and those who had been invited to them seldom forgot to mention the fact. Thomas, a person not easily staggered, was nevertheless staggered to see her travelling by car to Moorthorne--even in his car, which to him in some subtle way was not like common cars--for she was seldom seen abroad apart from her carriage. She kept two horses. Assuredly both horses must be laid up together, or her coachman ill. Anyhow, there she was, in Thomas's car, splendidly dressed in a new spring gown of flowered silk.
"Thank you," she said very sweetly to Chadwick, in acknowledgment of his assistance.
Then three men of no particular quality mounted the car.
"How do, Tommy?" one of them carelessly greeted the august conductor. This impertinent youth was Paul Ford, a solicitor's clerk, who often went to Moorthorne because his employer had a branch office there, open twice a week.
Tommy did not respond, but rather showed his displeasure. He hated to be called Tommy, except by a few intimate coevals.
"Now then, hurry up, please!" he said coldly.
"Right oh! your majesty," said another of the men, and they all three laughed.
What was still worse, they all three wore the Federationist rosette, which was red to the bull in Thomas Chadwick. It was part of Tommy's political creed that Federationists were the "rag, tag, and bob-tail" of the town. But as he was a tram-conductor, though not an ordinary tram-conductor, his mouth was sealed, and he could not tell his passengers what he thought of them.
Just as he was about to pull the starting bell, Mrs Clayton Vernon sprang up with a little "Oh, I was quite forgetting!" and almost darted out of the car. It was not quite a dart, for she was of full habit, but the alacrity of her movement was astonishing. She must have forgotten something very important.
An idea in the nature of a political argument suddenly popped into Tommy's head, and it was too much for him. He was obliged to let it out. To the winds with that impartiality which a tram company expects from its conductors!
"Ah!" he remarked, jerking his elbow in the direction of Mrs Clayton Vernon and pointedly addressing his three Federationist passengers, "she's a lady, she is! She won't travel with anybody, she won't! She chooses her company--and quite right too, I say!"
And then he started the car. He felt himself richly avenged by this sally for the "Tommy" and the "your majesty" and the sneering laughter.
Paul Ford winked very visibly at his companions, but made no answering remark. And Thomas Chadwick entered the interior of the car to collect fares. In his hands this operation became a rite. His gestures seemed to say, "No one ever appreciated the importance of the vocation of tram-conductor until I came. We will do this business solemnly and meticulously. Mind what money you give me, count your change, and don't lose, destroy, or deface this indispensable ticket that I hand to you. Do you hear the ting of my bell? It is a sign of my high office. I am fully authorized."
When he had taken his toll he stood at the door of the car, which was now jolting and climbing past the loop-line railway station, and continued his address to the company about the aristocratic and exclusive excellences of his friend Mrs Clayton Vernon. He proceeded to explain the demerits and wickedness of federation, and to descant on the absurdity of those who publicly wore the rosettes of the Federation party, thus branding themselves as imbeciles and knaves; in fact, his tongue was loosed. Although he stooped to accept the wages of a tram-conductor, he was not going to sacrifice the great political right of absolutely free speech.
"If I wasn't the most good-natured man on earth, Tommy Chadwick," said Paul Ford, "I should write to the tram company to-night, and you'd get the boot to-morrow."
"All I say is," persisted the singular conductor--"all I say is--she's a lady, she is--a regular real lady! She chooses her company--and quite right too! That I do say, and nobody's going to stop my mouth." His manner was the least in the world heated.
"What's that?" asked Paul Ford, with a sudden start, not inquiring what Thomas Chadwick's mouth was, but pointing to an object which was lying on the seat in the corner which Mrs Clayton Vernon had too briefly occupied.
He rose and picked up the object, which had the glitter of gold.
"Give it here," said Thomas Chadwick, commandingly. "It's none of your business to touch findings in my car;" and he snatched the object from Paul Ford's hands.
It was so brilliant and so obviously costly, however, that he was somehow obliged to share the wonder of it with his passengers. The find levelled all distinctions between them. A purse of gold chain-work, it indiscreetly revealed that it was gorged with riches. When you shook it the rustle of banknotes was heard, and the chink of sovereigns, and through the meshes of the purse could be seen the white of valuable paper and the tawny orange discs for which mankind is so ready to commit all sorts of sin. Thomas Chadwick could not forbear to open the contrivance, and having opened it he could not forbear to count its contents. There were, in that purse, seven five-pound notes, fifteen sovereigns, and half a sovereign, and the purse itself was probably worth twelve or fifteen pounds as mere gold.
"There's some that would leave their heads behind 'em if they could!" observed Paul Ford.
Thomas Chadwick glowered at him, as if to warn him that in the presence of Thomas Chadwick noble dames could not be insulted with impunity.
"Didn't I say she was a lady?" said Chadwick, holding up the purse as proof. "It's lucky it's me as has laid hands on it!" he added, plainly implying that the other occupants of the car were thieves whenever they had the chance.
"Well," said Paul Ford, "no doubt you'll get your reward all right!"
"It's not--" Chadwick began; but at that moment the driver stopped the car with a jerk, in obedience to a waving umbrella. The conductor, who had not yet got what would have been his sea-legs if he had been captain of an Atlantic liner, lurched forward, and then went out on to the platform to greet a new fare, and his sentence was never finished.
That day happened to be the day of Thomas Chadwick's afternoon off; at least, of what the tram company called an afternoon off. That is to say, instead of ceasing work at eleven-thirty p.m. he finished at six-thirty p.m. In the ordinary way the company housed its last Moorthorne car at eleven-thirty (Moorthorne not being a very nocturnal village), and gave the conductors the rest of the evening to spend exactly as they liked; but once a week, in turn, it generously allowed them a complete afternoon beginning at six-thirty.
Now on this afternoon, instead of going home for tea, Thomas Chadwick, having delivered over his insignia and takings to the inspector in Bursley market-place, rushed away towards a car bound for Hillport. A policeman called out to him:
"Hi! Chadwick!"
"What's up?" asked Chadwick, unwillingly stopping.
"Mrs Clayton Vernon's been to the station an hour ago or hardly, about a purse as she says she thinks she must have left in your car. I was just coming across to tell your inspector."
"Tell him, then, my lad," said Chadwick, curtly, and hurried on towards the Hillport car. His manner to policemen always mingled the veteran with the comrade, and most of them indeed regarded him as an initiate of the craft. Still, his behaviour on this occasion did somewhat surprise the young policeman who had accosted him. And undoubtedly Thomas Chadwick was scarcely acting according to the letter of the law. His proper duty was to hand over all articles found in his car instantly to the police--certainly not to keep them concealed on his person with a view to restoring them with his own hands to their owners. But Thomas Chadwick felt that, having once been a policeman, he was at liberty to interpret the law to suit his own convenience. He caught the Hillport car, and nodded the professional nod to its conductor, asking him a technical question, and generally showing to the other passengers on the platform that he was not as they, and that he had important official privileges. Of course, he travelled free; and of course he stopped the car when, its conductor being inside, two ladies signalled to it at the bottom of Oldcastle Street. He had meant to say nothing whatever about his treasure and his errand to the other conductor; but somehow, when fares had been duly collected, and these two stood chatting on the platform, the gold purse got itself into the conversation, and presently the other conductor knew the entire history, and had even had a glimpse of the purse itself.
Opposite the entrance to Mrs Clayton Vernon's grounds at Hillport Thomas Chadwick slipped neatly, for all his vast bulk, off the swiftly-gliding car. (A conductor on a car but not on duty would sooner perish by a heavy fall than have a car stopped in order that he might descend from it.) And Thomas Chadwick heavily crunched the gravel of the drive leading up to Mrs Clayton Vernon's house, and imperiously rang the bell.
"Mrs Clayton Vernon in?" he officially asked the responding servant.
"She's in," said the servant. Had Thomas Chadwick been wearing his broadcloth she would probably have added "sir."
"Well, will you please tell her that Mr Chadwick--Thomas Chadwick--wants to speak to her?"
"Is it about the purse?" the servant questioned, suddenly brightening into eager curiosity.
"Never you mind what it's about, miss," said Thomas Chadwick, sternly.
At the same moment Mrs Clayton Vernon's grey-curled head appeared behind the white cap of the servant. Probably she had happened to catch some echo of Thomas Chadwick's great rolling voice. The servant retired.
"Good-evening, m'm," said Thomas Chadwick, raising his hat airily. "Good-evening." He beamed.
"So you did find it?" said Mrs Vernon, calmly smiling. "I felt sure it would be all right."
"Oh, yes, m'm." He tried to persuade himself that this sublime confidence was characteristic of great ladies, and a laudable symptom of aristocracy. But he would have preferred her to be a little less confident. After all, in the hands of a conductor less honourable than himself, of a common conductor, the purse might not have been so "all right" as all that! He would have preferred to witness the change on Mrs Vernon's features from desperate anxiety to glad relief. After all, L50, 10s. was money, however rich you were!
"Have you got it with you?" asked Mrs Vernon.
"Yes'm," said he. "I thought I'd just step up with it myself, so as to be sure."
"It's very good of you!"
"Not at all," said he; and he produced the purse. "I think you'll find it as it should be."
Mrs Vernon gave him a courtly smile as she thanked him.
"I'd like ye to count it, ma'am," said Chadwick, as she showed no intention of even opening the purse.
"If you wish it," said she, and counted her wealth and restored it to the purse. "Quite right--quite right! Fifty pounds and ten shillings," she said pleasantly. "I'm very much obliged to you, Chadwick."
"Not at all, m'm!" He was still standing in the sheltered porch.
An idea seemed to strike Mrs Clayton Vernon.
"Would you like something to drink?" she asked.
"Well, thank ye, m'm," said Thomas.
"Maria," said Mrs Vernon, calling to someone within the house, "bring this man a glass of beer." And she turned again to Chadwick, smitten with another idea. "Let me see. Your eldest daughter has two little boys, hasn't she?"
"Yes'm," said Thomas--"twins."
"I thought so. Her husband is my cook's cousin. Well, here's two threepenny bits--one for each of them." With some trouble she extracted the coins from a rather shabby leather purse--evidently her household purse. She bestowed them upon the honest conductor with another grateful and condescending smile. "I hope you don't mind taking them for the chicks," she said. "I do like giving things to children. It's so much nicer, isn't it?"
"Certainly, m'm."
Then the servant brought the glass of beer, and Mrs Vernon, with yet another winning smile, and yet more thanks, left him to toss it off on the mat, while the servant waited for the empty glass.
On the following Friday afternoon young Paul Ford was again on the Moorthorne car, and subject to the official ministrations of Thomas Chadwick. Paul Ford was a man who never bore malice when the bearing of malice might interfere with the gratification of his sense of humour. Many men--perhaps most men--after being so grossly insulted by a tram-conductor as Paul Ford had been insulted by Chadwick, would at the next meeting have either knocked the insulter down or coldly ignored him. But Paul Ford did neither. (In any case, Thomas Chadwick would have wanted a deal of knocking down.) For some reason, everything that Thomas Chadwick said gave immense amusement to Paul Ford. So the young man commenced the conversation in the usual way:
"How do, Tommy?"
The car on this occasion was coming down from Moorthorne into Bursley, with its usual bump and rattle of windows. As Thomas Chadwick made no reply, Paul Ford continued:
"How much did she give you--the perfect lady, I mean?"
Paul Ford was sitting near the open door. Thomas Chadwick gazed absently at the Town Park, with its terra-cotta fountains and terraces, and beyond the Park, at the smoke rising from the distant furnaces of Red Cow. He might have been lost in deep meditation upon the meanings of life; he might have been prevented from hearing Paul Ford's question by the tremendous noise of the car. He made no sign. Then all of a sudden he turned almost fiercely on Paul Ford and glared at him.
"Ye want to know how much she gave me, do ye?" he demanded hotly.
"Yes," said Paul Ford.
"How much she gave me for taking her that there purse?" Tommy Chadwick temporized.
He was obliged to temporize, because he could not quite resolve to seize the situation and deal with it once for all in a manner favourable to his dignity and to the ideals which he cherished.
"Well, I'll tell ye," said Thomas Chadwick--"though I don't know as it's any business of yours. But, as you're so curious!... She didn't give me anything. She asked me to have a little refreshment, like the lady she is. But she knew better than to offer Thomas Chadwick any pecooniary reward for giving her back something as she'd happened to drop. She's a lady, she is!"
"Oh!" said Paul Ford. "It don't cost much, being a lady!"
"But I'll tell ye what she did do," Thomas Chadwick went on, anxious, now that he had begun so well, to bring the matter to an artistic conclusion--"I'll tell ye what she did do. She give me a sovereign apiece for my grandsons--my eldest daughter's twins." Then, after an effective pause: "Ye can put that in your pipe and smoke it!... A sovereign apiece!"
"And have you handed it over?" Paul Ford inquired mildly, after a period of soft whistling.
"I've started two post-office savings bank accounts for 'em," said Thomas Chadwick, with ferocity.
The talk stopped, and nothing whatever occurred until the car halted at the railway station to take up passengers. The heart of Thomas Chadwick gave a curious little jump when he saw Mrs Clayton Vernon coming out of the station and towards his car. (Her horses must have been still lame or her coachman still laid aside.) She boarded the car, smiling with a quite particular effulgence upon Thomas Chadwick, and he greeted her with what he imagined to be the true antique chivalry. And she sat down in the corner opposite to Paul Ford, beaming.
When Thomas Chadwick came, with great respect, to demand her fare, she said:
"By the way, Chadwick, it's such a short distance from the station to the town, I think I should have walked and saved a penny. But I wanted to speak to you. I wasn't aware, last Tuesday, that your other daughter got married last year and now has a dear little baby. I gave you threepenny bits each for those dear little twins. Here's another one for the other baby, I think I ought to treat all your grandchildren alike--otherwise your daughters might be jealous of each other"--she smiled archly, to indicate that this passage was humorous--"and there's no knowing what might happen!"
Mrs Clayton Vernon always enunciated her remarks in a loud and clear voice, so that Paul Ford could not have failed to hear every word. A faint but beatific smile concealed itself roguishly about Paul Ford's mouth, and he looked with a rapt expression on an advertisement above Mrs Clayton Vernon's head, which assured him that, with a certain soap, washing-day became a pleasure.
Thomas Chadwick might have flung the threepenny bit into the road. He might have gone off into language unseemly in a tram-conductor and a grandfather. He might have snatched Mrs Clayton Vernon's bonnet off and stamped on it. He might have killed Paul Ford (for it was certainly Paul Ford with whom he was the most angry). But he did none of these things. He said, in his best unctuous voice:
"Thank you, m'm, I'm sure!"
And, at the journey's end, when the passengers descended, he stared a harsh stare, without winking, full in the face of Paul Ford, and he courteously came to the aid of Mrs Clayton Vernon. He had proclaimed Mrs Clayton Vernon to be his ideal of a true lady, and he was heroically loyal to his ideal, a martyr to the cause he had espoused. Such a man was not fitted to be a tram-conductor, and the Five Towns Electric Traction Company soon discovered his unfitness--so that he was again thrown upon the world.
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Medium:Antique woodcut on wove paper after the original drawing by master wood engraver Adolf Closs (German, 1864-1938).
Framed dimensions:Approximately 19 x 22 inches.
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Oberon is an epic poem by the German writer Christoph Martin Wieland. It was based on the epic romance Huon de Bordeaux, a French medieval tale, and influenced by Shakespeare's A Midsummer Night's Dream and Alexander Pope's version of Geoffrey Chaucer's The Merchant's Tale. It first appeared in 1780 and went through seven rewrites before its final form was published in 1796.For the slaying of Karl the Great's despicable son, Charlot, Huon duke of Guienne, is condemned to go to Babylon (or Bagdad) and demand four molars and a tuft of the beard of the kalif after kissing the latter's daughter and slaying her intended. This feat is accomplished through the friendship of Oberon and the magic power of his horn, a blast of which causes all wicked persons to dance, and of a certain ring, which had been abstracted from its owner, Titania, and to which all the spirit world was subject. Commanded to go to the Pope at Rome before consummating marriage with the kalif's daughter, Huon yields to temptation and the couple are thrown on a desert isle by Oberon, who had deserted his Titania with the vow never to return to her unless a human couple should be found who were absolutely faithful, since she had championed the faithless girl wife of an aged dotard. About the invented quarrel of Oberon and his queen, Titania, is centred the whole conception of Wieland's poem. Thrown by the instrumentality of Titania into captivity in Tunis, Huon and Rezia withstand the first test of temptation and, reunited, return to Paris and reconcile Karl. It had a major influence on many musical and poetic works of the time, such as Schiller's Don Carlos, Goethe's Faust: The Second Part of the Tragedy and Mozart's The Magic Flute, as well as on the Portuguese poet Francisco Manoel de Nascimento. An adaptation of the poem by Sophie Seyler, titled Hüon und Amande, was re-adapted by Karl Ludwig Giesecke to provide a libretto for Paul Wranitzky, without crediting her. Its English translators include Matthew Lewis, William Sotheby and John Quincy Adams. The libretto of The Magic Flute by Emanuel Schikaneder was evidently greatly inspired by Giesecke's and thus on Seyler's version of Oberon. Carl Maria von Weber used the poem as the basis for his last opera, Oberon, in 1826. The artist Gustav Paul Closs provided illustrations for it.
Gabriel Cornelius Ritter von Max was a Prague-born Austrian painter. He was born Gabriel Cornelius Max, the son of the sculptor Josef Max and Anna Schumann. He studied between 1855 and 1858 at the Prague Academy of Arts with Eduard von Engerth. His studies included parapsychology (somnambulism, hypnotism, spiritism), Darwinism, Asiatic philosophy, the ideas of Schopenhauer, and various mystical traditions. The spiritual-mystical movement was emphasized by the writings of Carl du Prel, and the Munich painter Albert Keller was also an influence. His first large canvas was painted in 1858 while he was a student at the Prague Academy. He continued his studies at the Viennese Academy of Art with Karl von Blaas, Karl Mayer, Christian Ruben and Carl Wurzinger. From 1863 to 1867 he studied at the Munich Academy with Karl Theodor von Piloty, and also Hans Makart and Franz Defregger. His first critical success was in 1867 with the painting "Martyr at the Cross": that painting transformed the "Unglücksmalerei" (dark palette) of Piloty into a religious-mystical symbolism using a psychological rendering of its subject. Still Life (Girl at a Spinet) (1871) He continued to use the dark palette of the Piloty school well into the 1870s, later moving toward a more muted palette, using fewer,clearer colors. From 1869, Gabriel von Max had his studio in Munich; in the summer, he was in the Ammerland at Starnberger Lake. From 1879-1883, Gabriel Max was a professor of Historical Painting at the Munich Academy; he also became a Fellow of The Theosophical Society. In 1900 he was ennobled and became a Ritter. He died in Munich in 1915. His interest in anthropological studies also showed in his work. He owned a large scientific collection of prehistoric ethnological and anthropological finds: the collection and his correspondence now reside in the Reiss-Engelhorn-Museen in Mannheim. At his residence in Starnberger Lake, Gabriel Max surrounded himself with a family of monkeys, which he painted often, sometimes portraying them as human. Max, along with his colleagues, often used photographs to guide painting. The great number of monkey photographs in his archive testify to their use as direct translation into his paintings. In 1908, his painting "The Lion's Bride" became celebrated, and was depicted in motion pictures as an hommage in the Gloria Swanson film, Male and Female, (1919), directed by Cecil B. de Mille. Gabriel von Max was a significant artist to emerge from the Piloty School, because he abandoned the themes of the Grunderzeitliche (genre and history), in order to develop an allegorical-mystical pictorial language, which became typical of Secessionist Art. Characteristic of the ethereal style of Gabriel Max is "The Last Token" (in the Metropolitan Museum), and "Light" (in the Odessa Museum of Western and Eastern Art, Ukraine). The largest collection of the work of Gabriel von Max in the United States is held by the Jack Daulton Collection in Los Altos Hills, California.
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Joanie to Run; Meb to Be Grand Marshal
by Meghan Kita Published: Apr 10, 2012
Image by Andrew McClanahan/PhotoRun
The B.A.A. just announced that Joan Samuelson, the two-time Boston champ who took gold in the inaugural women's Olympic marathon, will be running in Monday's race. She also ran last year, finishing in 2:51:29.
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This bed drape creates a canopy when a double sided length of fabric is draped over three curtain poles which are attached to the ceiling and wall. A fourth curtain pole is threaded through a casing in the fabric to weight the drape at the front edge.
Whilst this is a very simple looking drape, it can have it's own set of problems when coming to make it. If using a patterned fabric, then care has to be taken to align the 2 sides of the drape so that the pattern displays correctly from the main viewable angles.
p If more than 1 width of fabric is needed for the required width, then a full width of fabric must be placed in the centre of the drape with equal part widths added to each side.
Two fabrics in co-coordinating colours or patterns.
4 curtain poles, the width of your bed plus 6" (15 cms).
Stick and Sew Velcro, enough for the width of the drape.
Long length of string and a drawing pin.
Position 3 of the curtain poles following the manufacturers installation instructions. The first should be placed on the ceiling level with the foot of the bed. The second should be placed on the ceiling about 12" (30 cms) in from the head of the bed. The third is placed on the wall behind the head of the bed about 24" (61 cms) above the height of the pillows. These figures can be adjusted to suit personal taste, for example only having the drape coming halfway down the length of the bed is also very attractive.
As the drape at the head of the bed is fixed to the wall at it's bottom edge, you will now need to decide and mark where you are going to fix it, I would suggest a point just below the mattress. Use a length of string to measure the length of fabric required. Attach it to a drawing pin placed on the mark you made earlier on the wall at the head of the bed. Drape the string over the curtain poles until you get the visual effect you want. Measure the length of the string and add 2" (5 cms) to this figure for seam allowances.
To determine the width of your drape, measure the width of your made up bed. Divide this figure by the width of the fabric to be used to determine how many widths of fabric will be required. If more than 1 width of patterned fabric is needed, allow extra for pattern matching. If the width required is only slightly wider than the fabric width, it is seriously worth considering adjusting the overall width of the drape so as to avoid having to add a few inches to either side.
Cut out 2 pieces of fabric to the required length of the canopy including seam allowances. Join widths together if necessary with a flat seam.
Place the underside fabric on a flat surface, right side up and with the top of the pattern at the top. Place the outer fabric on top, wrong side up, with the pattern running the opposite way to the first piece. Pin and stitch along the top edge, 1" (2.5 cms) in from the raw edge.
Pin and stitch down each side edge, starting 2" (5 cms) down from the top seam. Secure the ends of the thread firmly. The 2" (5 cms) opening must be wide enough to accommodate the diameter of the 4th pole. Adjust this measurement if necessary.
Stitch across the width of the drape, 2" (5 cms) in from the seamed end (or at the top of the side seam) to form a casing, making sure to tuck in the raw edges of the openings in the side seams.
Turn in 1" (2.5 cms) seam allowance at the bottom end of the drape and slipstitch.
Stitch the "sew" side of the Velcro close to this fold, making sure to stitch both sides in the same direction to avoid puckering.
Slide the fourth pole through the casing at the top edge of the drape and attach the finials (end pieces).
Attach the "stick" side of the Velcro to the wall at the head of the bed on the pencil mark made earlier.
Place the drape over the three positioned curtain poles and down the back of the bed. Secure the bottom end of the drape by pressing the 2 sides of the Velcro together. Adjust the drape to give the desired effect.
Small squares of Velcro can be used to keep the drape in place on each of the curtain poles if required.


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Q: Export Data on Chart to Excel/CSV LogiXML I have a very simple question. I have been trying to export a set of data (2 columns) from a data-layer that is currently being used on a graph. What I am trying to accomplish is, to obtain the data enclosed in that graph and present it in an excel or csv spreadsheet as data (not the actual graph). I want to know if this is possible without creating a separate data table and linking the export to that. I have tried multiple Action.Export to accomplish this, but I am at a point where I'm not sure if it can be done.
I appreciate any help I might get. Thank you!
UPDATE:  This is the modifications I made to your report David, to recreate my issue:
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<Dashboard2 SaveFile="@Function.AppPhysicalPath~\SavedDashboards\Dashboard.xml" DashboardAdjustable="True" AllowFreeformLayout="False" DashboardTabs="True">
  <Panel ID="pnl1" Caption="pnl1" MultipleInstances="True">
    <PanelContent>
      <Division ShowModes="rdExportCsv" ID="divTable" IdeDisplayStatus="Collapsed">
        <DataTable ID="table">
          <DataLayer Type="Static" ID="dlStatic1">
            <StaticDataRow columnA="Test 1" columnB="100" />
            <StaticDataRow columnA="Test 3" columnB="110" />
            <StaticDataRow columnA="Test 2" columnB="105" />
            <DataLayerLink ID="linkData" />
          </DataLayer>
          <AutoColumns />
        </DataTable>
      </Division>
      <Division ID="divChart" ShowModes="rdBrowser" IdeDisplayStatus="Collapsed">
        <Chart Type="XY" ChartDataColumn="columnB" XYChartType="Bar" ChartHeight="260" ChartWidth="400" ChartLabelColumn="columnA">
          <DataLayer Type="Linked" LinkedDataLayerID="linkData" />
        </Chart>
      </Division>
      <Button ID="ExportCSV" Caption="Export CSV" IdeDisplayStatus="Collapsed">
        <Action Type="CSV">
          <Target Type="CSV" ExportDataTableID="table" />
        </Action>
      </Button>
    </PanelContent>
  </Panel>
</Dashboard2>

After clicking the export button, it exports to a CSV file, but with the error I mentioned in the comments below. Any ideas?  Thank you!

A: Yes, you will need to create a separate data table to export columns as Excel or CSV.  The reason being, the Logi engine uses the column attributes to instruct the export behavior correctly (eg. width, data type, data formatting, etc).   The table you build doesn't need to be displayed in your interactive version of the report, however.   You can use "ShowModes" to show the chart during the web output, and use the table for the exported content.  Also, you can use "Linked" datalayers to populate both the table and the chart, so that your query or other data source call only needs to be executed 1 time.
Here's a simple example, using both concepts- LinkedData Layers and ShowModes
<Body>
  <Division ShowModes="rdExportCsv" ID="divTable">
    <DataTable ID="table">
      <DataLayer Type="Static" ID="dlStatic1">
        <StaticDataRow columnA="Test 1" columnB="100" />
        <StaticDataRow columnA="Test 3" columnB="110" />
        <StaticDataRow columnA="Test 2" columnB="105" />
        <DataLayerLink ID="linkData" />
      </DataLayer>
      <AutoColumns />
    </DataTable>
  </Division>
  <Division ID="divChart" ShowModes="rdBrowser">
    <Chart Type="XY" ChartDataColumn="columnB" XYChartType="Bar" ChartHeight="260" ChartWidth="400" ChartLabelColumn="columnA">
      <DataLayer Type="Linked" LinkedDataLayerID="linkData" />
    </Chart>
  </Division>
  <Button ID="ExportCSV" Caption="Export CSV">
    <Action Type="CSV">
      <Target Type="CSV" ExportDataTableID="table" />
    </Action>
  </Button>
</Body>


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Herring is an English store founded by Richard Herring in 1966. It sells classic shoes as well as accessories. Herring socks are made in Wales (the UK) (by Corgi). They feature hand-linked toes. Unfortunately, Herring offers only mid-calf socks; there are no knee-high socks. Herring socks are made of 75% cotton + 25% nylon; 100% cotton; 63% wool + 37% nylon; 80% wool + 20% nylon.
Herring offers solid colours socks as well as patterned socks (multicolour stipes, fair isle, skulls, tartan checks, argyle, animalistic and fancy patterns). Colours: black, grey, navy, purple, red, yellow, etc. Herring socks are available in four sizes: S – XL. They cost 8.33-15 GBP (excl. VAT). You can buy them at HerringShoes.co.uk. Sometimes they are put on sales (up to 50% off).