The food industry is watching for an expected flood of lawsuits in the wake of a jury award to a factory worker who inhaled vapors from microwave-popcorn flavoring.
But several industry groups say the case is not on the same level of concern as obesity-related lawsuits that have tried to blame Americans' extra pounds on food manufacturers and sellers.
A Missouri jury on March 15 awarded Eric Peoples, 32, and his wife $20 million from New York flavor manufacturer International Flavors and Fragrances Inc. Mr. Peoples said his lungs were ruined from mixing flavoring oils, which were supplied by International Flavors, at the Gilster-Mary Lee plant in Jasper, Mo.
The case is the first by 30 former employees who say they have a rare lung disease after being exposed to popcorn-flavor vapors.
Mr. Peoples' attorney, Kenneth B. McClain, said the next trial is set for April 20. He is representing at least 20 other factory workers in Missouri, Ohio and Illinois.
Although the cases focus on workers' injuries, Mr. McClain would not rule out the public filing personal injury cases as well.
"I hope this material is not that dangerous, but I can't answer that question yet because we have quality-control workers — not just the flavor mixers — that were injured as well," said Mr. McClain, a former tobacco litigator.
"Every exposure to diacetyl does some damage. Now that may seem like a drop in the ocean if you pop a bag of popcorn in the microwave once in a while, but over 20 years of continuous exposure it could be more," he said.
International Flavors, which plans to appeal the ruling, has maintained that its flavors are safe as long as the workers follow the safety instructions.
The Environmental Protection Agency is studying the effects of the chemicals, particularly diacetyl, released from a bag of popcorn when it is popped or opened, although the agency has assured the public that microwave popcorn is safe to eat.
The American Tort Reform Association, a Washington lawsuit-reform group, said it is worried that trial lawyers may try to magnify the effects of diacetyl, the chemical linked to the lung disease, to the level of asbestos, which has won about $54 billion for plaintiffs.
Mr. Peoples, who was not awarded any punitive damages, is on a waiting list for a lung transplant. He is expected to have a 20-year life expectancy after he undergoes the double-lung transplant.
Glenn Roberts, executive director for the Flavor and Extract Manufacturers Association, said the D.C. trade group is not concerned about the litigation spreading to other flavorings or spices.
"Fortunately, such incidents are very rare in our industry," Mr. Roberts said in a statement.
But health officials at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention have said that the sick Missouri workers trigger new concerns for flavoring-plant operations.
The National Food Processors Association, a D.C. trade group for the $500 billion industry, also is watching the case closely. But the group does not see the matter escalating into lawsuits such as those against McDonald's Corp. that contended that the fast-food giant caused weight gain in several New York children, said spokesman Timothy Willard.
Obesity lawsuits have pressured some food companies to shrink their serving sizes and have prompted members of Congress to protect the food industry.


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2015 Round Up: Luxol steal the show,
As the end of the year 2015 is fast approaching, we take a look at the main events that characterized the futsal scene during the past twelve months.
Without doubt, Luxol stole the show after winning the Gatorade Futsal League and eventually the Gatorade Super Cup.
The Maltese national team was also in action for the UEFA and FIFA qualifiers while FMA successfully announced a new 3-year sponsorship agreement with Gatorade.
These are the main events that happened during this year:
Malta hosts EURO Futsal Qualifiers
England…….3
Malta………..0
England clinched the first victory in the EURO Futsal Qualifiers after beating Malta 3-0 at the Corradino Pavillion.
England scored the goals that mattered through Ian Parkes, Luke Ballinger and Agon Rexha.
Malta's best chance fell on 38 minutes as Matteo Desira Buttigieg saw his shot saved off the line by English defender George Nash.
Andorra …. 4
It was a hard night for the Maltese National Team who suffered the second defeat in the UEFA Futsal Euro 2016 Preliminary Round.
Andorra found the net through braces from Carlos Manuel Barbosa and Ignacio Llamas.
For Malta, Nicola Del Re hit the post twice and Jovica Milijic hit the bar from a free-kick.
Latvia……….8
Mark Marlow's boys were humbled by Latvia 8-0 in their final match of the UEFA qualifiers.
Latvia had to score more than three goals to make sure of their progress in the competition.
A hat-trick by Andres Aleksejevs, a brace from Arturs Jerofejevs and Maksims Sens, Andrejs Sustrovs were the goal-getters for Latvia.
Latvia placed first in Group E on seven points like England but had a better goal difference, Andorra placed third with three points while Malta remained rooted at the bottom of the group with no points from three matches.
Semifinals Gatorade KO
Serbian international Slobodan Janjic was three times on the mark as Balzan outpaced Valletta to win 10-2 and close in on a fourth final in three years.
The KO holders were simply irresistible as they dominated the first half and managed to score more goals through braces from Glenn Bonello, Mark Zammit and Frane Despotovic with Karl Azzopardi adding another one for Boicho Marev's side.
Valletta reduced the scoreline from Javier Montes Burgos and Shawn Vella.
In the other semifinal Luxol had an easy task as they beat Qormi 6-0. Luxol's trio Barbosa-Alves-Anton were a continuous menace to the Qormi rearguard who tried to absorb their opponents' fierce attacks.
William Barbosa broke the deadlock from the penalty spot and the same player doubled the score, five minutes later.
Luxol kept on scoring through two braces by Florin Anton and Dale Camilleri.
Invincible Lija uncork the champagne
Lija's final ambition was reached when the new Gatorade Futsal First Division League champions dominated Mqabba 6-0 in their last match, on a day that was reserved for their celebrations.
Aleksandar Ribic, who was fundamental for the Athletic's promotion, notched a poker while Nicola del Re and Larkin Saffett completed the score for Lija.
The afternoon's climax was reached when the new champions were presented with the winners' trophy from FMA vice- president Alfred Camilleri, for them to savour a much deserved success.
FMA announces new sponsorship deal – GATORADE
The Futsal Malta Association successfully announced a new 3-year sponsorship agreement with Gatorade.
Through this sponsorship agreement, Simonds Farsons Cisk plc, the importers of Gatorade, will be branding the National Futsal Competitions organised by the Futsal Association (FMA) through the Gatorade brand.
Msida promoted after intense game.
Msida St Joseph were promoted to the Gatorade Futsal Premier League after seeing off a mighty Naxxar Lions side 8-5.
It was an evenly balanced match that kept all those present at the Corradino Pavillion on tenterhooks.
The match had to go on extra-time after both sides were tied on a 4-4 scoreline.
The end of the game brought joy amongst the Msida clan who saw their dream come true as they joined the already promoted Lija and Mellieha to Premier Division.
Luxol dethrone Balzan to clinch title
Luxol were declared as Gatorade Premier League champions after seeing off Balzan 4-3 in the second decisive play-off final.
Balzan struggled to find their rhythm in a first half shaded by Luxol who deservedly built a two goal advantage but in the second half the former side improved and after some tactical switches, they stormed into their opponents to level the score.
William Barbosa hit a hat-trick while Dean Gera added another one for the winners.
Frane Despotovic, Glenn Bonello, Slobodan Janjic put their names on the score sheet for Balzan.
FMA President, Mark Borg alongside Vice President Alfred Camilleri and a Gatorade representative, presented the medals and trophies to the new champions.
Balzan take sweet revenge as they clinch Gatorade KO
Another futsal season came to an end with Balzan winning the Gatorade Knock Out Competition as they beat Luxol 5-4 to make up for the disappointment of the Gatorade Championship a week before.
Boicho Marev put Balzan ahead but Celino Alves equalized for Luxol whowho managed to turn on the tables before the break through George Frendo and Peter Pullicino.
In the second half, Balzan were a different lot and after 40 seconds Marev scored Balzan's second goal.
However, it was Peter Pullicino who netted his personal second goal to increase the lead for Luxol.
Five minutes later Balzan reacted fiercely and Glenn Bonello levelled the matters with a quickfire brace.
In the final seconds, Boicho Marev acted as a flying keeper and this move made way for Frane Despotovic to score Balzan's winning goal nine seconds from the end.
At the end of the match, Balzan's captain Carlo Scicluna was presented with the Gatorade KO Cup by FMA's president Mark Borg.
FIFA World Cup Preliminary Round Draws – Malta to face France in the Futsal World Cup
Malta was drawn to face France, Albania and Lithuania in Group C of the 2016 FIFA Futsal World Cup preliminary round in the draws held in Nyon.
Luxol place second in the UEFA Futsal Cup Preliminary Round
Luxol St Andrews participated in the UEFA Futsal Cup Preliminary Round. It was a hard group, having Italian champions Pescara as the leaders of the group who made it for the next round.
Apart from the 9-0 defeat against Pescara, Luxol had a very positive performance winning the hosts FC Encamp 5-3 and having an exciting equalizer of 5-5 against Danish JB Gentofte.
Pullicino appointed new national coach
Peter Pullicino was appointed as coach of the futsal national team, the Malta Football Association announced.
Pullicino replaced Mark Marlow who led the team during the Euro qualifiers.
Malta triumph over San Marino
The Maltese national team has returned home from San Marino tired but satisfied after achieving two positive results in the double fixture against the host team.
The Maltese side got off to a good start after beating San Marino 5-1 on Saturday and succeeded to make a double after seeing off the home side 5-3 a day later.
Malta participate in FIFA qualifiers
Malta ended their commitments in the FIFA Futsal World Cup qualifiers when they lost to second placed Albania 6-3 in Kaunas.
For Peter Pullicino's boys this was their third successive defeat in Group C after losing to France (8-2) and hosts Lithuania (2-1). France finished top of the group on nine points after a 6-0 rout over Lithuania.
Luxol win Super Cup
Luxol clinched the first honour of the season, the Gatorade Super Cup after having the better of Valletta 9-5.
The match had to go on extra-time as both teams were locked in a 5-5 scoreline after the first 40 minutes of the game.
This was the first Super Cup Final for the Citizens, who came out with raised heads as they continued fighting their opponents till the final seconds.
Jovica Milijic put Valletta ahead while a brace from Denis Di Maio increased their advantage. Carl Azzopardi shortened the difference before the break to make it 3-1.
In the second half, Luxol had a tremendous comeback as they came all forward using Frane Despotovic as flying keeper.
Valletta resisted Luxol's pressure as Dylan Musu scored two more goals.
Luxol remained using the flying keeper successfully and achieved their aim to level the matters through goals from Glenn Bonello, who netted a brace as well as William Barbosa and Carl Azzopardi.
The match had to go to extra time with Luxol emerging as final winners when Despotovic, Barbosa and Azzopardi were on the mark to rubberstamp their team's final victory.
FMA's President Mark Borg presented the Super Cup to Luxol's captain William Barbosa, with the latter raising it high amongst his team mates' celebrations.
Ribic scores three as Wanderers claim second consecutive victory
Aleksandar Ribic scored a quick fire hat-trick as he helped Sliema Wanderers see off Gozo FC 8-2 in the last match of the Gatorade Futsal League before the Christmas break.
On his second appearance with the Blues, the 33 year old Serbian experienced player inspired his team with his superb futsal skills providing assists and scoring vital goals.
After a bleak first half, the Gozitans played better futsal in the second half forcing two goals in the process to reduce the arrears to 3-2 at a certain point of the match.
But three goals in less than two minutes gave the contest to the Wanderers who registered their third win of the season to climb seventh in the table.
The game was only two minutes old when another veteran player, Christian Micallef surged the Blues ahead when he fired a shot from outside the arc that left no chance to Abdilla.
On 6 minutes, Ribic was unlucky when he hit the post from close range.
This was a sign that Sliema were taking the upperhand and it was no surprise when they doubled the score as a counter attack led Darren Agius slot home and make it 2-0.
On the quarter, the same Agius had the chance to complete a brace as he placed the ball in the net from close range.
After the break, Gozo surged furiously forward in search of the goal and they managed to score twice in four minutes.
First it was a defensive blunder that led Jean Paul Abdilla to take advantage and hit the target and then after a swift counter attack it was Justin Camilleri whose grounder surprised Farrugia.
On 28 minutes, Mark Camilleri resolved the issue as he met a Ribic pass to score Sliema's fourth goal.
Next it was Aleksandar Ribic who came to the fore as he scored a hat-trick in two minutes to propel his team to victory.
The Gozitans were stunned and Adam Wingfield had the chance to add another one for the Wanderers to rubberstamp their win.
All square between play-off contenders as Luxol go on top alone
A dramatic goal scored by Daniel Mifsud in the dying seconds of the game earned a point for Hamrun Spartans as the latter shared the spoils in an exciting 4-4 scoreline.
It was a typical match betwwen two play-off contenders boasting of some star players in their squads.
Regarded as the plum fixture of the week, the Valletta-Hamrun match didn't disappoint the expectations as it drew a good amount of supporters at the Corradino Sports Pavillion.
Hamrun broke the deadlock through Robert Magro and managed to double the score thanks to an Andy Mangion solo run.
Valletta reduced the arrears as Dylan Musu lobbed past Hamrun keeper Clint Mifsud.
This goal galvanized the Lilywhites as in no time they managed to level the matters through Denis di Maio after receiving from Melvin Borg.
Seconds before half-time, Xavier Saliba put the Citizens in the driving seat after a kick from the second penalty spot.
As both sides had a player sent off, Valletta extended their lead when Xavier Saliba passed perfectly to Dylan Musu to slot home and make it 4-2.
Hamrun refused to throw in the sponge as Rodrigo acted as a flying keeper to intensive his team's pressure on the Valletta rearguard.
As usually happens in futsal, this move paid dividends as goals from Raphinha and Daniel Mifsud in the dramatic moments of the match helped Hamrun level the final score to 4-4.
This result left both teams in the second spot of the table on equal points after 6 matches.
Luxol took advantage of this result as they surged alone at the top of the standings afterseeing off Mdina Knights 13-0.
Mdina tried hard to stay in the match but on the day Luxol proved stronger.
Mark Zammit and Carl Azzopardi notched a hat-trick, Clint Cope helped himself with a brace while returning player Celino Alves, Peter Pullicino, Matthew Attard, Zvezdan Vukovic and Florin Anton completed the rout for the St Andrew's outfit.
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Up and down for Sliema and Swieqi back on track
Sliema managed to get their second win of the season, with a narrow but exciting result of 8-7 against Qrendi.
The Wanderers were gaining a three goal advantage but Qrendi had a good comeback and equalized matters. Qrendi were always close to their opponents as they managed to level the score, each time that Sliema were temporarily on the lead. In the end Sliema were leading 8-6 and Qrendi pulled one back to end the final score.
Sliema's Frankie Xerri had a hat-trick and Adam Wingfield scored twice. Aleksander Ribic, Robert Zammit and Christian Micallef also scored for Sliema Wanderers.
Qrendi's Craig Pickard also had a hat-trick, together with a brace from Alan Spiteri and goals from Antonello Brincat ans Morad El-Torshi.
Swieqi back on track in an entertaining but feisty encounter that saw two red cards, many fouls and countless opportunities missed.
Swieqi scored their first goal in the 5th minute, when player/coach Laszlo Hajossy slotted the ball into the back of the net following some neat work by Diego Gomes de Mello.
Three minutes later, Sirens came back into the match when Swieqi's captain and goalkeeper Karl Balzan lost possession of the ball and gifted it to Antoine Galea, who passed the ball into an empty net for the equalising goal.
Swieqi led again when Diego Gomes de Mello received an assist by Hajossy from a well-executed corner. Daniel Sant, who was a constant thorn in Sirens' side, had two chances to score within a minute, but one drew a good save from opposing goalkeeper Alejandro Garcia Melero, while the other skimmed just wide of the post.
In the 18th minute, Swieqi extended their advantage. Timothy Gingell's shot was saved by Garcia Melero, who could only parry it into the path of the onrushing Andre Ciancio, who could hardly make a mistake from underneath the crossbar. The teams therefore went in to the half time break with Swieqi 3-1 in advantage.
As from the beginning of the second half, Sirens' goalkeeper Garcia Melero was replaced by Lawrence Vella due to injury. After some 40 seconds, Sant managed to scoop up a long ball floated across the pitch by Gomes de Mello and lobbed over Vella.
The same goalkeeper Vella was given a yellow card in the 3rd minute for a foul from behind. Nonetheless, Swieqi continued to pepper the Sirens goalkeeper with various attempts.
However, things took a turn for the worse for both teams in the 10th minute, when there was a scuffle and both teams came playing 4 against 4. In the meantime Ciancio managed to score his second goal of the game, and Swieqi's fifth, with a goal from half pitch, after spotting the flying goalkeeper well off his line.
In the final minute of the match, Sirens committed their sixth foul of the second half, resulting in a penalty for Swieqi, Timothy Gingell stepped up to take the penalty and missed it.
Female futsal tournament in aid of L-Istrina
An event involving four female futsal teams was held at the Corradino Pavillion during the annual marathon organized by the Futsal Malta Association in aid of L-Istrina.
Maria Coppola, who organized this tournament, expressed her satisfaction as the girls who participated showed a lot of interest and seemed keen to improve their futsal skills.
"This was a great event for the ladies. We still hope that we could organize a small league for these players as they wish to enhance their knowledge in this game."
Coppola believes that futsal can improve a lot of skills such as ball control and passing. It can be a good stepping stone to play 11-a-side football.
The idea of a first official women's futsal league is still in the pipeline as Maria Coppola still hopes that this dream will finally come true.
We need to keep our feet on the ground – Josef Balzan
Marsascala are in seventh heaven after obtaining their first win of the season when they saw off Zebbug Rangers 8-5.
It was a collective effort by the south seasiders as four goals by Filipov, a hat-trick from Josef Balzan and another by Steve Gambin gave the most precious three points.
This website contacted player/coach Josef Balzan who seemed satisfied by this achievement.
"These three points will certainly boost our moral after such difficult matches. We encountered four top clubs in one month and these were not easy matches," admitted Balzan.
"We have been training for months to be in shape for this season."
"I believe that we deserved all this. Yesterday we played collectively and managed to get a positive result."
Balzan still doesn't want to boast so much on this achievement.
"We need to forget this match, keep the feet tight on the ground and focus on our next matches."
Marsascala break their duck
Marsascala finally broke their duck in the championship after halting Zebbug's stride for their first win of the season.
This win came after a bad patch of five defeats in the Gatorade Futsal League .
Even though the Southsiders boast some exciting young talent, results were not forthcoming.
This time, however, Marsascala deserved the points as they created the better chances with returning players Nikolay Filipov and Delyan Ivanov also contributing to their success.
Zebbug tried to get back into the game after being 3-2 down before the break.
But they found Marsascala in fine form as the latter surged into quick counter attacks to punish their opponents in the decisive parts of the match.
Nikolay Filipov was Marsasacala's inspirational player as he netted a poker.
Player/coach Josef Balzan hit a hat-trick while Steve Gambin added another one for the sea south-siders.
Zebbug's goals came from an Anton Novoa's hat-trick, Joseph Chetcuti and Jamie Portelli.
Previously, Msida managed to return to winning ways after a hard-fought 8-4 victory over Mqabba.
Paulo Mendes da Silva notched a hat-trick while Ryan Xuereb, Marian Gologan, Matthew Dingli, Herbert Spiteri and Floren Manea were also on the mark for Msida.
Steve Falzon scored a brace while Miguel Alcaraz and Lydon Baldacchino were also on the score sheet for Mqabba.
Lija gave another blowout to Gozo
It was another catastrophic match for Gozo as they still have their goalkeeper Roderick Debattista and Daniel Cosaitis injured. In their first presence ever in the Gatorade Futsal League and after five league matches, the Gozitan team is still under construction.
On the other hand, Lija Athletic are proving themselves as the team to beat in another dominant match. Lija had a comfortable eight goals advantage during the first half.
During the first half Jamie Abdilla was the only hard working player for Gozo but he was substituted for a head injury after a hard tackle with Lija's Nicola Del Re. Abdilla's fighting spirit led him to take Ryan D'Ugo's place as Gozo's goalkeeper. This move was successful as in the last fifteen minutes he suffered only one goal.
Lija's thirteen goals without a reply, were made up of braces from Andre Henrique de Souza, Ebrahim Massoudi, Jason Gauci, Luke John Stivala and Chavi Montes Burgos. More goals were scored by Chris Cardona, Wallace Santos Junior and Nicola Del Re.
Great Friday night for Valletta and Luxol
Valletta and Luxol continued their winning track and kept their place on top together with Hamrun Spartans.
In Friday's first match, Swieqi tried to restrain the Citizen's attacks and keep it a balanced game.
Unexpectedly Swieqi's Boicho Marev, who was the best player on court, was sent off after receiving two accumulated yellow cards. This lead to Valletta's opening goal marked by Daniel Brincat in the seventh minute. A couple of minutes before the half time break, Cristian Cuadros Silva doubled the score by slotting the ball into the corner of the net.
In the first six minutes of the second half, Swieqi didn't throw in the towel as their top scorer Diego Gomes de Mello pulled one back.
This goal set an alarm for the Citizens who reacted fiercely and increased their scoreline with three consecutive goals scored by Denis Di Maio, followed by Daniel Brincat who sealed a brace.
Captain Xavier Saliba sealed another win for Valletta with a stunning shot from the second penalty mark.
Friday's second match was completely dominated by Luxol who little gave chance to Marsascala to enter into the game.
After only five seconds, Luxol's player coach Frane Despotovic opened the score. The same Despotovic doubled the score a few minutes later.
The first half ended with a nine goals advantage for Luxol, with more goals scored by Zvezdan Vukovic, Glenn Bonello, Clint Cope twice, Florin Anton, autogoal from Daryl Muscat and William Barbosa.
In the second half Luxol kept pressing and playing in half pitch, thus scoring more goals. In the first opening minute Despotovic marked his hat-trick.
Florin Anton also sealed a brace as Mark Zammit did when he scored two quick goals in only 15 seconds.
Marsascala scored a little too late when Josef Balzan reduced the arrears.
It wasn't enough for Luxol as Clint Cope had his hat-trick and gave way to Matthew Attard to score too.
Vukovic and Barbosa sealed their braces and made the final score 17-1.
Next Friday both Valletta and Luxol will be in action as they will play against Hamrun Spartans and Mdina Knights respectively.
Dingli saves the day for Msida, Mqabba back to winning ways
Matthew Dingli saved Msida's blushes with a late goal as he came in as a flying keeper to level the matters and earn a point for the Seasiders against Sirens.
In fact the 5-5 scoreline, the first one for this season, was a reflection of an intense match.
Msida managed to dominate possession but failed to capitalize in many occasions of the match.
On the other hand, Sirens operated on some swift counter attacks that resulted fatal in certain circumstances as former Naxxar Lions 11-a-side player, Ryan Gilmour Cassar stole the show after notching a hat-trick.
Trailing 5-3 before the end, Msida's mentor Kevin Agius opted for the flying keeper to pile more pressure on the Sirens' rearguard.
This move paid dividends as his team managed to equalize in the last minutes of the match.
As already said, Ryan Cassar hit the target three times for the St Paul's Bay side while Leonard Zammit and George Chircop also put their names on the score sheet.
Consequently, Ryan Xuereb, Matthew Dingli, Herbert Spiteri, Armando Gjepali and Diones Mendes da Silva were the goal-getters for Msida.
Mqabba managed to return to winning ways after a hard-fought 4-2 win over Mdina Knights.
The winners succeeded to turn the tables before half-time as goals from Steve Falzon and Miguel Alcaraz crossed off Neil Cauchi's initial advantage for the Knights.
Mqabba controlled the proceedings and managed to score their third goal through Thomas Consoli after taking advantage of a defensive blunder.
Mdina's reaction was fierce as they attacked continuously in search of goal, hitting the post in the process.
They succeeded to reduce the score from nippy striker Cleavon Portelli.
However Borja Lopez Fernandez conducted a swift counter attack as he rubberstamped Mqabba's victory in the dying minutes of the match.
The Gatorade Futsal League resumes today with two more matches as Valletta cross swords with Swieqi (kick-off 20.00 hrs) in a match between two teams that are enjoying a positive patch during this season.
In the late kick-off Luxol should not find any difficulty to overcome Marsascala as the latter are still in search of the first points of the campaign.

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Q: Clean up bower_components for production I use bower to manage the client-side dependencies in a Polymer project.
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{
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{
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	inaddr.sin_addr.S_un.S_addr = inet_addr(endpoint.ip.data());
	inaddr.sin_family = AF_INET;
	inaddr.sin_port = htons(endpoint.port);
	return ::connect(m_nSockId, (sockaddr*)&inaddr, sizeof(sockaddr)) == 0;
}

SocketBase Socket::Accept() const throw (SocketException)
{
	sockaddr_in addrin = {0};
	int addrlen = sizeof(sockaddr);
	int newId = ::accept(m_nSockId, (sockaddr*)&addrin, &addrlen);
	SocketBase base(inet_ntoa(addrin.sin_addr), ntohs(addrin.sin_port));
	base.Assign(newId);
	return base;
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SocketBase::SocketBase(void) : m_nSockId(0), m_uRef(1) {}

SocketBase::SocketBase(const std::string& ip, size_t port) : m_endpoint(ip, port), m_nSockId(0), m_uRef(1) {}

SocketBase::SocketBase(const Endpoint& endpoint) : m_endpoint(endpoint), m_nSockId(0), m_uRef(1) {}

SocketBase::SocketBase(const SocketBase& h) : m_uRef(h.m_uRef)
{
	h._Inc();
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}

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{
	_Def();
}

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{
	h._Inc();
	m_endpoint = h.m_endpoint;
	m_nSockId = h.m_nSockId;
	return *this;
}

void SocketBase::_Inc() const
{
	m_uRef++;
}

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{
	m_uRef--;
	if ( m_uRef <= 0 )
		Close();
}

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{
	::shutdown(m_nSockId, SD_BOTH);
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}

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{
	return ::send(m_nSockId, buf, len, 0);
}

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{
	return ::recv(m_nSockId, buf, bufLen, 0);
}

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SCAM ALERT!!!! THIS EVENT IS A SCAM!! I AM NOT IN ANYWAY INVOLVED IN IT AND IT HAS NO RELATIONSHIP WITH THE AFRICAN MOVIE ACADEMY (AMA). BEWARE!!!
One of Nigeria's iconic actress kate Henshaw came out to alert the public about a scam/fraudulent award show which is currently using her image to promote their show, she has come out in the open to declare that she has nothing to do with the it and that it should not be confused with the African movie academy(AMA).


Most retailers and restaurants are open late, but that's not the case with banks. Often they're only open for business during the day, so making deposits can be an issue if you can't get to the branch during those hours. Most institutions try to minimize the inconvenience by offering a number of after-hours deposit options.
Most banks offer an ATM for after-hours banking. You can use your ATM or debit card to conduct a variety of banking transactions. You can deposit funds, as well as make withdrawals and balance inquiries, at an ATM 24 hours per day, seven days a week. An ATM will accept cash and check deposits, but typically does not accept coins. In many cases, funds from an ATM deposit may take as long as 72 hours to become available in your account, but some ATMs are equipped with technology that validates deposits and makes some or all of the funds available immediately.
Some banks offer mobile apps, which let you complete a deposit by taking a photo of the front and back of a check. Bank software scans critical information on the check, including the routing number, account number and amount shown, then electronically process the deposit. Availability of funds varies considerably from bank to bank, and some banks may take several business days to make funds deposited via a mobile app available. Some banks also place limits on the amount you can deposit per day via a mobile app, and no bank allows you to deposit cash via a mobile app.
Some banks offer an overnight deposit box for high-end and business customers. Customers use special currency bags to make deposits 24 hours per day. Banks typically require customers to purchase the bags, and some banks charge a monthly fee for overnight deposit box access. Some banks, though, make overnight deposit boxes available to all customers. Funds you deposit via an overnight deposit box are typically available the next business day, but some checks may take a few days to clear.
Banks typically accept incoming wire transfers 24 hours per day, though these transfers may not appear in your account until the following business day. If you have funds in an online account with a payment service such as Paypal, you may be able to transfer funds into your bank account at any time with little or no delay for processing.


XM scaled back its celebration for its service launch in Dallas/Ft. Worth and San Diego in deference to the victims of the Sept. 11 terrorist attacks. XM President/CEO Hugh Panero said before he pressed the "on air" button that XM has donated $10,000 each to the American Red Cross in Washington to honor the Pentagon victims and another $10,000 to a firefighters relief fund in New York.


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Who's who among NHL free agents
Andrew Gross
NorthJersey
There's no can't-miss buy, no player that, across the board, teams would break the bank for as they might if say, next season, Islanders captain John Tavares becomes an unrestricted free agent.
In general, this offseason's free-agent class is considered a weaker one and, already, several high-profile players such as right wing T.J. Oshie (Capitals), defenseman Kris Russell (Oilers) and goalie Ben Bishop (Stars) have avoided hitting the market by agreeing to new deals.
Predictably, though, some of the unrestricted free agents who do hit the market will wind up being overpaid on long-term deals.
Devils could use free agency to bolster roster
3 players the Devils may target in free agency
The market officially opens on Saturday at noon, though teams have been allowed to make preliminary contact this week.
Here's a look at some of the top available UFAs with their previous salary-cap hit:
1. Joe Thornton (Sharks, $6.75 million): The big, two-way center is 37 and recovering from ACL and MCL tears. Yet there's no doubting his impact when he's on the ice and he could still conceivably man a top-line position.
2. Martin Hanzal (Wild, $3.1 million): A physical presence at 6-foot-6, 226 pounds, Hanzal didn't exactly help the Wild in the postseason after coming over as a playoff rental. But, when healthy, he can still be an effective second-line center at age 30.
3. Nick Bonino (Penguins, $1.9 million): The two-time Stanley Cup winner, 29, is a solid depth player, occasionally seeing time on the second line in Pittsburgh. Likely a prime example of a player who will receive a lengthier contract for more money than his play dictates.
Others available: Brian Boyle (Maple Leafs), Mike Fisher (Predators), Sam Gagner (Blue Jackets), David Desharnais (Oilers), Dominic Moore (Bruins)
Right wings
1. Alexander Radulov (Canadiens, $5.75 million): His second NHL go-round has been much more effective than when he burned bridges in Nashville and returned to the KHL in 2012. He had 18 goals and 36 assists in his first season in Montreal but, at 30, is reportedly now seeking a long-term deal around $7 million per season.
2. Jaromir Jagr (Panthers, $4 million): The ageless wonder just gets more astonishing each season as he maintains his consistency and lower-body strength. He's 45 and has said he wants to keep playing until he's 50. Don't bet against it.
3. Justin Williams (Capitals, $3.25 million): One of the most clutch playoff performers in NHL history, Williams can still produce at age 35 and would be an excellent short-term signing for a strong contender.
Others available: Jarome Iginla (Kings), Brian Gionta (Sabres), Nail Yakupov (Blues), P.A. Parenteau (Predators), Drew Stafford (Bruins)
Left wings
1. Ilya Kovalchuk (Devils, $6.67 million): At 34, Kovalchuk has indicated he wants to return to the NHL following four seasons in the KHL, which followed his "retirement" from the Devils and a 15-year, $100 million deal. He can only re-sign with the Devils, and not until Saturday, but the likely outcome is a sign-and-trade deal.
2. Patrick Marleau (Sharks, $6.67 million): Like Thornton, it's tough to imagine the 37-year-old Marleau suiting up for another franchise after spending his entire 19-season career so far in San Jose. He has gone eight straight seasons playing every game and had 27 goals and 19 assists last season.
3. Thomas Vanek (Panthers, $2.6 million): Long removed from his 40-goal seasons, the 33-year-old Vanek can still produce 20-goal seasons and is likely to continue playing on a series of one- or two-year deals.
Others available: Scott Hartnell (Blue Jackets), Benoit Pouliot (Oilers), Chris Kunitz (Penguins), Dwight King (Canadiens), Viktor Stalberg (Senators)
1. Kevin Shattenkirk (Capitals, $4.25 million): The premier free agent, let alone the top defenseman available, the 28-year-old from New Rochelle, N.Y. is a point producing, right-handed shot who can quarterback the power play. He's likely to get a maximum seven-year deal for more than $6 million per season.
2. Karl Alzner (Capitals, $2.8 million): Alzner, 28, is also in line for a hefty deal though it will come with more risk than his soon-to-be-former Capitals' teammate Shattenkirk. Alzner plays a physical game and is a good shutdown defenseman who can be used on the top pair. The issue becomes how long will he be able to effectively play that way?
3. Cody Franson (Sabres, $3.325 million): Perhaps a consolation prize for a team that wanted Shattenkirk. Franson, 29, is also a right-handed shot who can quarterback the power play. And, too, his defensive game has been an issue, though playing primarily since 2011 with the Maple Leafs and Sabres hasn't helped.
Others available: Andrei Markov (Canadiens), Trevor Daley (Penguins), Michael Del Zotto (Flyers), Michael Stone (Flames), Dan Girardi (Rangers)
1. Steve Mason (Flyers, $4.1 million): At this point, it doesn't appear the 29-year-old will find a starting job via free agency. However, he'd be a solid signing as he's proven, both as a rookie with the Blue Jackets and with the Flyers, he can handle a starter's workload.
2. Ryan Miller (Canucks, $6 million): Once one of the top goalies in the game, and an Olympic standout for Team USA, the 36-year-old Miller is likely headed for a significant pay cut as he's not likely to be a workhorse starter anymore. Instead, he'd be good in a tandem rotation.
3. Brian Elliott (Flames ($2.5 million): Inconsistent as the starter with the Blues and in Calgary, the 32-year-old Elliott will still draw interest. Like Miller, he'd be best served being used in a tandem and not as the No. 1 goalie.
Others available: Antti Niemi (Stars), Jonathan Bernier (Ducks), Chad Johnson (Coyotes), Ondrej Pavelec (Jets), Darcy Kuemper (Wild).
Email: grossa@northjersey.com


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jason chu's much love album release party, november 30
Los Angeles-based hip hop artist Jason Chu has been hard at work on his new album Much Love. He describes the project as "an exploration of all the places and ways that we look for love -- and how we find, or fail at it."
It drops November 30, and if you're in Southern California, you're invited to help him celebrate at a free release concert going down at EBCLA in Rosemead. Here are some more details:
"Much Love." Album Release Party/Concert/Video Premiere
WHAT // "Much Love." live concert - "DTR" & "GRACE" video premieres - guest music & video performances
COST // FREE - invite friends, family, neighbors, anyone!
WHERE // EBCLA (1255 San Gabriel Blvd, Rosemead, CA 91770)
WHEN // Friday Nov. 30, 8-10 PM
Since moving to LA, I've been honored and privileged to write, record, and shoot with many new friends, inspiring and successful artists in their own rights.
The product of all these collaborations is a new full-length project, "Much Love."
On FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, from 8-10 PM, I would be honored for you to join us in Rosemead (east of LA, near the heart of the 626) for live performances, premieres of two new music videos, and sharing about the themes and inspiration behind the project.
The night will also be filled with friends sharing their art and talking about their inspiration, hopes, and creativity.
FEATURED GUESTS // MUSIC
DANakaDAN of afterschoolspecial
Kevin Lien
The Fung Bros.
FEATURED GUESTS // VIDEO
The Jubilee Project
FEATURED GUESTS // APPAREL
Kingdom Culture apparel
Evergreen Baptist Church of Los Angeles - Arts Ministry
I got a chance to listen to an advance rough mix of the album, and I'm really digging it. For further information about the concert, view the Facebook. And for updates on Jason and his music, check out his website.
FILE UNDER: events, hip hop, jason chu, music, san gabriel, southern california


Unified Communications are a set of new generation of applications and devices that enables users to control and manage phone calls, text messages, exchange of data and software resources from different locations using different devices and software interfaces. They provide synchronous operation of all applications and software tools and optimize business communications, thereby increasing productivity and the quality of relationships between employees, customers and owners of the company.
Enterprise Communications Group is a regional leader in the deployment of unified communications. In this area we offer IP communication systems, applications and the terminal equipment without being tied to a specific manufacturer. We have proven knowledge and experience gained in the implementation of projects for almost all major companies and institutions in the region.
Depending on the actual needs of customers, we create specific solutions which price and quality match customers' requirements.


This policy describes how we use your personal data when you use our website www.holkhamcountryfair.co.uk. We also use your data when you buy our goods or when we provide services to you. We have provided this policy to ensure that you understand what personal data we may collect and hold about you, what we may use it for and how we keep it safe. You have legal rights to access the personal data that we hold about you and to control how we use it which are also explained.
We are Holkham Holkham Country Fair (registered as All Green Associates Ltd). Our registered address is Meadow Lodge, Gt Snoring Road, Hindringham, Norfolk, NR21 0PG.
You can contact us in writing at the address above or by emailing info@holkhamcountryfair.co.uk if you would like to speak to us please telephone us on 01328 821821.
personal data that you provide to us. There are lots of ways in which you may share your personal data with us. For example, you may register on our website - www.holkhamcountryfair.co.uk. You may post on social media sites that we run, namely Instagram, Facebook, Twitter. Or you may contact us in connection with goods or services that you would like to buy, or have already bought, from us. These include, but are not limited to, event ticketing, sporting and leisure events. The personal data that you provide to us may include your name, address, email address and telephone number, financial and credit card information, age, gender, dietary preferences, access requirements and any further information voluntarily provided to us by you.
personal data that we receive from third parties. If we work with other businesses or use sub-contractors these parties may collect personal data about you which they will share with us. For example, we may have your name and contact details passed to us by our partners.
personal data about your use of our website. This is technical information and includes details such as your IP address, browser type and version, time zone setting, browser plug-in types and versions, operating system and platform, as well as details of how you navigated to our website and where you went when you left, what pages or products you viewed or searched for, page response times, download errors, length of visits to certain pages, page interaction information, such as scrolling, clicks, and mouse-overs.
personal data from audio and visual recording equipment. This information includes, but is not limited to, CCTV, body cameras, video recording and stills and aerial photography.
We may have CCTV at the Country Fair on event days.
For reasons of staff security and safety, some staff use body cameras, for example, car parking attendants and Stewards.
provide you with the information, products and services that you request from us. These include, but are not limited to, event ticketing, sporting and leisure events.
review and improve our goods and service.
marketing and promotion for which permission will always be sought.
we are entering into and carrying out our obligations under a contract with you.
we need to use your personal data for our own legitimate purposes, such as the administration and management of our business and the improvement of our services, and our doing so will not interfere with your privacy rights.
You have a legal right to know what personal data we hold about you – this is called the right of subject access. You can exercise this right by sending us a written request at any time. Please mark your letter 'Subject Access Request' and send it to Holkham Country Fair, Meadow Lodge, Gt Snoring Road, Hindringham, Norfolk, NR21 0PG or by email to info@holkhamcountryfair.co.uk or by post or email using the details in the Who we are and how you can contact us section.
have inaccurate personal data corrected, blocked or erased.
object to decisions being made about you by automated means or to your personal data being used for profiling purposes.
object to our using your personal data in ways that are likely to cause you damage or distresss.
restrict our use of your personal data.
require that we delete your personal data.
any business partners, suppliers and sub-contractors we work with to provide you with goods or services that you have requested from us. These include, but are not limited to, property maintenance, wedding and event suppliers and organisers.
ensuring that our staff receive regular data security awareness training.
Unfortunately, sending information via the internet is not completely secure. Although we will do our best to protect your personal data, we cannot guarantee the security of personal data sent to our website; you send us personal data at your own risk. Once we have received your personal data, we will use strict procedures and security features, some of which are described above, to try to prevent unauthorised access.
you make an enquiry about our goods or services.
you buy our goods or services.
you have told a third party that you would like them to pass us your contact details so that we can send you information about our goods and services. As a business, we rely on a few third party services. Data protection compliance is a prerequisite in our vendor selection process.
you have opted in via other means e.g. offline data-capture forms or competitions.
We may send you marketing communications by email, telephone, post.
You can ask us to only send you marketing communications by particular method e.g. you may be happy to receive emails from us but not telephone calls, about specific subjects e.g. events, or you may ask us not to send you any marketing communications at all.
We store your personal data on a CRM system provided by a US supplier who has servers located in the US. We have verified that the US supplier is registered under the Privacy Shield.
If you are unhappy with the way we have used your personal data please contact Holkham Country Fair to discuss this using the contact details set out in the Who we are and how you can contact us section above.
You are also entitled to make a complaint to the Information Commissioner's Office which you can do by visiting www.ico.org.uk. Whilst you are not required to do so, we encourage you to contact us directly to discuss any concerns that you may have and to allow us an opportunity to address these before you contact the Information Commissioner's Office.
Whenever we collect or process your personal data, we will only keep it for as long as necessary for the purpose for which it was collected. At the end of that retention period, your data will either be deleted completely or anonymised. You can always unsubscribe from our e-news; to unsubscribe from our postal correspondence, please telephone or write to us (see Who we are and how you can contact us). Our Google Analytics are set to 'do not automatically expire', identifying that data will be kept indefinitely (see our third party links/cookie functions).
The easiest way to check for updates is by looking for the latest version of this policy on our website www.holkhamcountryfair.co.uk or you can contact us (see Who we are and how to contact us) to ask us to send you the latest version of our policy.
This is policy version 1 which came into effect on 12 February 2019.


If you're not already an HHonors member, you can earn 1,000 points by signing up. Ignore the promotional requirements for the 5,000 point offer, as you do not need to fulfill them to earn the 1,000 bonus points for signing up. The points post very quickly, so you should have them soon after registering.
Hilton is the most recent program to offer free points for watching a video and liking he on Facebook. Just follow these steps and you'll be good to go.
Step 4: Enter your HHonors info on the next screen to earn 500 Hilton HHonors™ Bonus Points!
The fine print: Open 9:00 a.m. PST on 09/12/12 until 11:59 p.m. PST on 09/25/12 or until promotion is closed by sponsor to HHonors members who are legal residents of the U.S. (including D.C. and PR) or Canada (except Quebec)…. To participate, go to the Hamptonality Moments tab on the Hampton Page on Facebook at http://www.facebook.com/hampton and watch and/or share the video posted under the title "Winning Team." Then complete the entry form and click "submit" to submit your entry. Once your participation and valid HHonors membership is confirmed, 500 HHonors Bonus Points will be credited to your HHonors account. Please allow 6-8 weeks for points to appear in your HHonors account. You may watch and share the video as often as you like, but each HHonors member will receive 500 HHonors Bonus Points only one time.
This is the highest offer I know of for the American Express Business Gold card. When it's this high it normally only lasts for a few days, and this time is no different as it expires tomorrow, August 9th. MR points can be transferred to many airline and hotel partners, but not all of them are at a 1:1 ratio. I will not be applying for this card since I did a 3 card App-O-Rama last month and there are other cards that I really want. The Landing Page is on eBay, but you don't need to login or be a user. The first link at the top is straight to the application.


A three-week Facebook ad campaign for the Galaxy S3 smartphone reached over 105 million unique users, and generated $129 million in sales, a 13-times return on a $10 million ad buy.
Do Facebook ads work? Of course they do, says company global marketing head Carolyn Everson.
"The biggest myth is that Facebook ads don't work," she said today, reiterating Mark Zuckerberg's comments on Facebook's ad business. And, Facebook's rising stock price seems to support the notion that advertising dollars are flowing faster these days into the company's coffers.
The shift to mobile is a major factor in how Facebook will grow its advertising. "If you look at time spent on mobile devices -- we have 600 million of a billion users on mobile -- from pure budget allocation, the money is going to shift," Everson said, speaking at the BusinessInsider Ignition conference in New York. However, the shift of the money to mobile is slow, and the bulk of Facebook revenue still comes from Web usage. Mobile advertising is only about 1 percent of overall ad spending.
Everson offered proof points of the value that Facebook's ads bring from working with Datalogix, a market analytics firm that is measuring how often Facebook's users view advertised products on the site and then make purchases. The data indicated an average three- to five-time return on Facebook ads. A recent ad campaign for the Samsung Galaxy S3 smartphone, amid the iPhone 5 frenzy, resulted in an even larger return on investment. The three-week campaign reached over 105 million unique users, and generated $129 million in sales, a 13-times return on a $10 million ad buy, she said. Samsung now has more than 20 million fans on Facebook to market its messages.
But ad spending on social media sites, including Facebook and Twitter, is a small fraction of TV advertising. "There is no single Web or mobile platform that is the be all, end all for marketing," said Shiv Singh, global head of digital for PepsiCo Beverages, who was speaking on the same panel. "The most effective use is of different platforms and channels together. Facebook doesn't compete with Twitter or TV -- they feed each other."
Everson maintained that based on reach and frequency, Facebook competes effectively with TV and that mobile will eventually overtake TV as the dominant ad platform.
The advertising industry is heading for always on, real-time marketing through the new platforms, Singh said. Facebook is no doubt in a good position to capitalize on that future as social and mobile become the platform of choice among consumers.


The instance 9/11 and terrorist travel : staff report of the National Commission on Terrorist Attacks upon the United States, by Thomas R. Eldridge ... [et al.] ; and Joanne M. Accolla, staff assistant ; Alice Falk, editor, (electronic resource) represents a material embodiment of a distinct intellectual or artistic creation found in Boston University Libraries. This resource is a combination of several types including: Instance, Electronic.


'DSQ Live in Concert' NOW AVAILABLE!
For the first time DSQ is coming to Michigan. We are going to be performing at the Frauenthal Theater in Muskegon, on October the 5th, 2018Hope to see you guys there, please come say hello we would love to meet you! We will be signing autographs and taking pictures with our fans!
We were so honored to be apart of a featured article in the Dallas Observer last month. If you haven't seen our latest summer video, "Girls Like You" watch it here!Click here for the full article on Dallas Observer.


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Crack Found in Armor Against Pneumonia
Resistance to powerful drugs rises, CDC says
Adam Marcus
FRIDAY, Sept. 21, 2001 (HealthDayNews) -- Health officials say a front-line defense against bacteria that cause pneumonia and ear infections is showing signs of cracks.
A new report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) shows that strains of Streptococcus pneumoniae resistant to powerful antibiotics called fluoroquinolones are becoming more common in North America, especially in Canada, and are particularly prevalent among older adults who generally take more of the drugs.
As a result, officials say doctors and state epidemiologists should be alert to signs of resistance to these medications. Physicians also should take care to prescribe fluoroquinolones appropriately, limiting the antibiotics to only patients with bacterial infections.
"We have seen that there has been a slight increase [in resistance], so that alone does not tell you that this is a huge problem, but combined with other reports from Canada and other countries, that gives us concern that the same pattern is going to happen here," says Dr. Montse Soriano, a CDC medical epidemiologist and a co-author of the report.
Streptococcus pneumoniae is the leading cause of both community-acquired pneumonia -- as opposed to cases picked up in the hospital -- and middle ear infections, or otitis media.
Between 1987 and 1992, the share of invasive pneumococcal samples resistant to penicillin rose more than 60-fold, from 0.02 percent to 1.3 percent, the CDC says. In some areas of the country, 30 percent or more of samples don't respond to the drug, the agency says.
The National Foundation for Infectious Diseases says drug-resistant pneumococci cause 150,000 cases of pneumonia, more than 1 million ear infections as well as thousands of cases of meningitis and blood infections each year.
Fluoroquinolones, such as ofloxacin, levofloxacin and the most common form, ciprofloxacin, are synthetic compounds that cause irreparable damage to bacterial DNA. Their use rose significantly, from 3.1 to 4.6 prescriptions per 100 people between 1993 and 1998, says the new report. While prescriptions for children have remained relatively steady, those for people over 18 and especially for Americans ages 65 or older surged during that period.
The study shows a gradual increase in ofloxacin-resistant pneumococci between 1995 and 1997, from 2.5 percent to 3.8 percent of germ samples. The rate was even greater among people 18 or older, rising from 3 percent to 4.5 percent in samples of pneumonia that had spread to the blood, spinal fluid or other places where the germs aren't supposed to reside. Resistance to a newer, more effective drug, levofloxacin, stayed roughly the same, at about 0.3 percent, during the period.
"We haven't seen any significant increase for these new drugs, but [their entry into the market] is very recent," Soriano says. "Our experience with these drugs is that because the mechanism for developing resistance is relatively easy, soon after it is widely used they start developing resistance," she says.
Drugs that resist fluoroquinolones are sometimes immune to other antibiotics, such as penicillin, the study says.
Dr. Thomas File Jr., chief of the infectious disease service at Summa Health System in Akron, Ohio, says physicians need to be careful to prescribe antibiotics of any sort only to patients with bacterial illnesses. Many, if not most cases of middle-ear infections are caused by viruses, not bacteria, and the same holds for bronchitis and sinusitis, he says.
Yet patients often clamor for antibiotics when suffering symptoms of these ailments, and doctors often comply.
File, a professor of internal medicine at Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, says his practice closely monitors patients on fluoroquinolones for signs of resistance. So far this year he has seen two cases in which the drugs haven't worked.
Recent studies have shown that shorter but more intensive courses of antibiotics are just as effective as longer treatment regimens for some bacterial diseases and may better prevent germs from evolving defenses to the drugs.
What To Do: To learn more about pneumococcal bacteria, visit the Wisconsin Department of Health & Family Services. The CDC also has information about drug-resistant strep pneumoniae.
SOURCES: Interviews with Montse Soriano, M.D., medical epidemiologist, CDC, Atlanta, and Thomas File Jr., M.D., chief of the Infectious Disease Service, Summa Health System, professor of internal medicine, Northeastern Ohio Universities College of Medicine, Akron; Sept. 21, 2001, CDC Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report
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SOLD Original artwork "Farmyard Friends".
Framed pen and ink and watercolour.
This is the newest addition to my range, completing this artwork late June 2015.
Transform your room into a unique and magical space with this whimsical, bright, fun original painting "Farmyard Friends".
Please do not copy without permission.The Watermark (copyright Jenny Laidlaw) is not printed on the original artwork!


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Walking Back
A Hundred Years from Philadelphia to New Hampshire
Walking Back Roads: A Hundred Years From Philadelphia to New Hampshire
February 18, 2016 | Paul Statt
I carried a book as I walked: Immortal Poems of the English Language, an Anthology, edited by Oscar Williams. My parents had a copy lying around the house when I was a child.
I read every night before bed at home, and expected that I would have time for many books on my walk. But how many books can one man carry? The foods you want to pack on a walk are concentrated, dehydrated, freeze-dried or otherwise high-calorie and low-volume.That was my design for my books–for my single book–too.
In fact I hardly had a moment to spare for poetry, really. My evenings were extremely social, or equally tired. But on the morning of May 15–and a fine clear morning it was, after a tempestuous night of wind and conversation and a boatload of fine port wine–I have a hangover, and the companiponship of Robert Browning.
Round the cape of a sudden came the sea,
And the sun looked over the mountain's rim:
And straight was the path of gold for him
And the need of a world of men for me.
Bewteen the Woods and the Water
March 19, 2015 | Paul Statt
It looked like a dull and dusty road. Fifty miles from the Delaware to to the Hudson, over country that seemed flat and useless. I expected a desert of the imagination. I should have known better.
Late last night, as I perused my favorite map, The Reaches of New York City 1939, an all-but-buried label caught my eye. It's a busy map, and well worth reading. (Some people read detective novels for pleasure, I prefer old maps.) This part of the world once was called "The Drowned Lands."
Now that is a Romantic notion: Drowned Lands! I'm reminded of The Polymath, who warned Patrick Leigh Fermor in A Time Of Gifts that
"Everything is going to vanish! They talk of building power dams across the Danube and I tremble whenever I think of it! They'll make the wildest river in Europe as tame as a municipal waterworks. All those fish from the East–they will never come back! Never, never, never!"
Fermo r returned to the Danube, and the prediction of The Polymath, in Between the Woods and the Water. He had continued his walk to the Iron Gates in 1938, but wrote this second volume at a time (1977) when "progress has placed the whole of this landscape underwater." The theme of the vanishing landscape haunts him, as if it were a blue Danube walk. He laments even that the dam-makers have carefully removed and reconstructed the drowned mosques and cathedrals on higher ground.
No imaginative or over-romantic traveler will ever be in danger of thinking he hears the call to prayer rising from the depths and he will be spared the illusion of drowned bells, like those of Ys, the cathédrale engloutie off the Breton coast; or those of the legendary city of Kitezh, near the middle Volga, hard by Nizhni-Novgorod. Poets and storytellers say that it vanished underground during the invasion of Batu Khan. Later it was swallowed up in lake and chosen listeners can sometimes hear its bells tolling from the drowned towers .
But not here: myths, lost voices, history and hearsay have all been put to rout, leaving nothing but this valley of the shadow.
I love the casual way Fermor encyclopedically tosses off a series of irresistible stories. He and The Polymath may be lamenting a sort of drowned land different from the formerly malarial miasmas of Orange County, New York. Drowned lands can also refer to riverine lowlands dammed and flooded, for flood control, power or drinking water. The Walkilll Valley was long thought to be a place that needed drying out. (Its history–and a fascinating contemporary controversy, are explained by Fred Isseks and his students in an excellent blog, called Garbage, Gangsters and Greed.)
The kind of flooded places that I know well, and plan to visit on my walk, are such underwater towns as Enfield, Dana, Prescott and Greenwich in Western Massachusetts where I went to school, or East Weare Village in New Hampshire where I grew up. But before all this modern dam-building, drowned lands meant seasonally flooded areas, like the Walkill Valley I'll be passing through in May.
The swamps of North America, whether they have been dredged and drained or dammed and flooded today, were not always abandoned as lost lands. Hunting, trapping and fishing, the Native Americans swarmed these swamps. (Arrowheads and artifacts still abound.) The early white settler-farmers did not consider the natural flow of the Walkill a good thing. Here is the 1875 report of the New Jersey State Geologist:
The extreme breadth of these lands is four miles,- and their area is 25,600 acres, of which 15,600 acres are in New York, and 10,000 acres in New Jersey. Through the entire course of the stream in these lands the fall is less than three inches to the mile, and the current is scarcely perceptible. After heavy falls of rain the stream becomes swollen and overflows its banks, and these lands are soon covered with water,remaining so for weeks together. In the present condition of the stream there is no chance for improvement; ditches are of little use for lack of an outlet, and nearly the whole of this area is ruined for the best agricultural uses. Some of the land is in swamp; other parts are attached to farms, and coarse and sour grass is gathered from them, when the seasons are not too wet. Along the borders of the upland, some of this ground is cropped, and fine returns are obtained, but the greater part of the area is utterly useless.
By November 1941, the drowned lands had found a new and less useless place, as recounted in the pages of the National Geographic Magazine. Dorothea D. and Fred Everett contributed Black Acres: A Thrilling Sketch in the Vast Volume of Who's Who Among the Peoples who Make America, with photographs of their adopted home in The Drowned Lands.
The color plates display exotic peasants digging ditches, planting onions, blessing the onion seeds in their churches (no onion domes are depicted), eating onions, celebrating onions in old-world dances, and wearing costumes that Patrick Leigh Fermor would have described lovingly. These were recent European immigrants, mainly from Poland, who had drained the swamps and made the desert bloom. The Black Dirt Region of New York State–as it is now christened–had become a major producer of onions, the "wine-scented and poetic soul of the capacious salad bowl," in the words of Robert Louis Stevenson, whom the Everetts quote, romantically. They write
At night the toilers come home black with dirt but happy. Week ends they clean up and gather for a few hours dancing to their own Polish band music. For more than two years we lived across a small valley from their woodland park, and often the summer breezes wafted to us their sprightly tunes.
The swamps are being drained and cleared at an ever-increasing rate. In 1930 some 3,00 acres were in use; in 1939, 6,800; and in 1940 , about 9,000. At this rate the total area of 26,000 acres will soon be under cultivation.
And so it is now, according to contemporary accounts. I want to explore this land myself, and also investigate the irony that the public health of the Drowned Lands is today more threatened by an out-of-control landfill than a malarial swamp.
From these lovable people we have heard many stories brought over from the Old Country, legends based on superstition. Favorite subjects are the balls of fire seen dancing through the swamps on dark nights. Scientists, of course, have an explanation, but to simple folk such phenomena are weird omens.
These ancient sorceries reminded me vaguely of the Danube–was it Patrick Leigh Fermor who told a chilling tale of the watery intervale on the old river below Vienna? No, it was a lesser light I recalled: Algernon Blackwood (1869-1951), a master of the Edwardian ghost story, and author of "The Willows" (1907).
"The Willows" is my favorite ghost story; it was H.P. Lovecraft's, too. The horror is terrifyingly restrained. It is a simple story of two young men on a canoe trip on the Danube, who find a dead body among the the drowned islands of Austria-Hungary:
After leaving Vienna, and long before you come to Budapest, the Danube enters a region of singular loneliness and desolation, where its waters spread away on all sides regardless of a main channel, and the country becomes a swamp for miles upon miles, covered by a vast sea of low willow-bushes. On the big maps this deserted area is painted in a fluffy blue, growing fainter in color as it leaves the banks, and across it may be seen in large straggling letters the word Sumpfe, meaning marshes.
In high flood this great acreage of sand, shingle-beds, and willow-grown islands is almost topped by the water, but in normal seasons the bushes bend and rustle in the free winds, showing their silver leaves to the sunshine in an ever-moving plain of bewildering beauty.
The only source of their dread is that dead body, and the sound of the incessant wind in the willows, But Blackwood is a master of the uncanny, of finding the fear in everyday events. Unseen and unseeable beings surround the lads–as one of them says, " We happen to have camped in a spot where their region touches ours, where the veil between has worn thin."
Herbert Welsh, whose footsteps I'll be following in May, also dabbled in spiritualism, and sought to pierce that veil between worlds–there is a miscellaneous file of "Psychic Interests (1926)" among his collected papers, which I have yet to explore. It consists of letters from corespondents who have tell of weird omens of the other side.
No road, by the way, is dull, once you start down it.
A Time of Gifts
In the indispensable walk book A Time of Gifts (1977) Patrick Leigh Fermor introduces a character he calls The Polymath. Fermor, eighteen years old and drummed out of his English school, set off on foot for Constantinople in 1933. It was as audacious as it sounds.
A voracious reader and autodidact, young Fermor commands enough language skills to complete his education along the way. He stops at the castles of Europe's diminishing aristocracy–he himself is of the right sort and knows people–where his delight at discovering a library that holds the Encyclopedia Britannica, Meyers Konversations-Lexikon or the Larousse XIXème Siècle is only matched when he wanders into Danubian tavern and encounters a learned "man in loden."
I had chanced on a gold mine! 'Enquire within about everything': flora, fauna, history, literature, music, archaeology–it was a richer source than any castle library…He had a delightful Bohemian scholar-gispy touch.
The Polymath tells Fermor the story of the Goths, the Vandals, and also the Macromanni and the Quadi in Central European history,, and, by extension, to the reader. This reader agrees with Fermor when he exclaims "This is the way to be taught history!" From an inhabitant of a Danubian castle, drawing maps of migrations on the tablecloth after a second bottle of Langenlois.
Fermor actually wrote A Time of Gifts forty years later. The Polymath may be a composite character of the kind common to memoirs; he may be a reflection of Fermor himself. The adult writer had now learned some flora, fauna, history, literature, music, archaeology, but ascribed them to a character. (The contrast is sharp with a writer/walker such as W. G. Sebald, whose narrator in The Rings of Saturn simply watches his thoughts turn to, say, a detailed history of the Chinese silk industry as he wanders the coast of Norfolk.)
Truth be told, Fermor, like Sebald, like me, aspires to be a polymath, or, at least, a Bohemian scholar-gipsy. I want to know it all, and to write about it all. When Sebald's publisher in England asked what category–fiction, travel, memoir, essay– he would like to put his book in, the author replied, "All of them."
Indians (II) : Walking the Trail
There is at least one American path, heading from East to West, leading neither into the possibility of the future, nor the morning of the world and of humanity. In the 1830s, we the people of the United States removed tens of thousands of Native Americans from their homes in the southeast and sent them marching west to the Indian Territory (Oklahoma). Thousands died, along what is now known as the Trail of Tears.
Jerry Ellis, a Alabaman writer of Cherokee heritage, walked back to Alabama from Oklahoma and wrote Walking the Trial in 1991. It's a exemplary walking book, mixing memoir and desire, the political and the personal, historical epic and sore feet. Ellis rambles some, but he stays on his path. He meets a representative sample of Americans on the way, some who know more about the trials and tribulations of his ancestors than Ellis; some who live next to the Trail and have never heard of it.
A fascinating digression: Ellis falls in love. Looking for a place to sleep, he wanders, with trepidation, into a Christian hippie commune in Missouri. "Zion's Order" is one of those pure products of America that thrive under wide horizons and religious freedom. Venda is a young woman who was born and raised within the compound.
Jerry meets Venda, and they fall in love, in a stumbling unconsummated romance–a story too real for fiction. Like Ellis's writing and walking, his love affair somehow melds deep meaning and random events. Its sudden starts, twists and stops seem less literary than literal: I believed in this strange assignation, because it seemed absurd.
Following this walk and such stories, I found myself humming the songs of The Old, Weird America, that invisible republic that Greil Marcus and Harry Smith repopulated, largely with the ghosts of black folk and criminals. But there are also Native spirits in the air–after all, Smith, "As a schoolboy, swirling in the irregular orbits of his parents' religion, their fantasies, their poverty and delusions of grandeur, … discovered the local Indian tribes."
That was years before Smith ever walked the Mississippi Delta, listening for America. Jerry Ellis meets some strange folks, as he crosses Arkansas, Missouri, the odd corner of Illinois, Kentucky and Tennessee, making his way home. He hears strange tales–not the least strange, as he tells more of it: the forgotten concentration camps, ethnic cleansing and genocide of his native land. The tales of my land include incest and insanity; but nothing is too weird for America.
I'll be scouting for evidence of Native America as I walk in May. Not just because Hebert Welsh, whose footsteps I'm walking in, was an Indian rights advocate. But because it's "as if the earth under our feet / were / an excrement of some sky" in the words of William Carlos Williams, and it is a Native Sky.
The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry
February 23, 2015 February 23, 2015 | Paul Statt
"The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry" (2012)
"Herbert Welsh walked from Philadelphia to Sunapee," I said, and paused, briefly, not long enough for Amy to ask the question I wanted to ask, "Is that even possible?"
Not impossible, but highly unlikely, which brings me to the title, The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry (2012), a novel by Rachel Joyce. Walking books are legion; novels somewhat more rare. Fiction favors the picaro, the rascal whose adventures–often connected only by the travels of the anti-hero, who lives an entertaining story. It's fun to read because he's a rogue (he's usually male), not because he's on foot.
Harold Fry is no rogue. Mid sixties, dully married, 45 years a drudge and just retired, Fry gets a note from an old friend. Queenie lives 600 miles away, and is dying. On the way to the box to mail Queenie his condolences, Fry decides to just keep walking:
Tell her Harold Fry is on his way. All she has to do is wait. Because I am going to save her, you see. I will keep walking and she must keep living.
Fry is no pilgrim either. He arrives slowly at the idea of a potential religious, or spiritual, connotation of walking to save a soul. A shopgirl he meets between Wessex and The Borders reveals it to him. He meets people like that, and hears a lot of stories on his walk; these picaresque episodes are fun to read. The mystery–who is Queenie, and why must Harold see her?–is less fascinating. My response went from Who cares? to Oh, now I get it rather too quickly.
But along the way (pun intended) I really enjoyed all the stories: the sadly closeted elderly gay man, the Eastern European woman who nurses Fry to health, the fanatic who follows him. Fry is like "The Man of the Crowd," or, at any rate, Fry's tale puts the reader in the position of the nameless narrator of that Edgar Allan Poe story, observing a tumultuous sea of human variety.
That "mood of the keenest appetency, when the film from the mental vision departs," is common to all walk books, even this unlikely one. But The Unlikely Pilgrimage of Harold Fry is anomaly among walks, because no pilgrim actually made the pilgrimage. I will return to the question of pilgrimage on my way.
Really, the only question to ask of a book about a walk is: Would I want to go for a walk with this writer?
British paperback cover. Note Old Type (Gill Sans) and Old Woodcut (Stanley Donwood). The Old Modernism.
When my friend and neighbor Paul K. St. Amour first recommended The Old Ways to me, we were bicycling, unsteadily, home from a bar. Paul's the kind of cyclist with whom a drunken conversation about modernism is always enlightening. "Have you read Robert MacFarlane?" he asked: "He's kind of the dean of the new British school of literary geography." Or maybe it was literate geography.
Either way, The Old Ways is a delight, and I'm grateful for the tip. MacFarlane gets around. He walks in England, Scotland, Palestine, Nepal, Spain–and even manages a "wonder-voyage" by sea in the Outer Hebrides: "The boat we sailed down the sea roads was a century-old cockle-shell." He's a graceful writer and a polymathic companion, familiar with geography, history, theology, philology and old sea vessels.
MacFarlane's old ways are often not on any map, sometimes not even across land. To walk the way MacFarlane does is to stay awake, alert and alive to the passing land- or seascape. I welcome his rare awareness of the old ways, the paths that people of, or in, the past–the old ones–have travelled before us. These are the"ghostly roads," that the Anglo-Welsh poet-pedestrian Edward Thomas (1878-1917) described.
MacFarlane borrows heavily from Thomas, who, in his turn, was influenced by a great English wanderer and Bible salesman with the fitting name of George Henry Borrow (1803-1881). To walk is to borrow, as it is to write. A path is only a path because someone has already walked it; there's no shame in repetition. In fact, "footstepping" a walker from a century before–as I will be following Herbert Welsh–is one of the delights of walking, and of writing, come to think of it. As he appraises the life and work of Thomas and his Modernism, MacFarlane might be said to be writing about literature, but I think he wants us to consider the old Ways of Seeing, too, in the simple but profound sense that John Berger had in mind, that "the way we see things is affected by what we know or what we believe."
The way that George Borrow, and Edward Thomas, and Robert MacFarlane, and even I see the world is informed by all the walkers who preceded us on this path, as well as the time of walking or writing. For instance:
Thomas sensed early that one of modernity's most distinctive tensions would be between mobility and displacement on the one hand, and dwelling and belonging on the other–with the former becoming ubiquitous and the latter becoming lost (if ever it had been possible) and reconfigured as nostalgia. He experienced that tension between roaming and homing even as it was first forming.
Across the Atlantic in Thomas's time, Herbert Welsh was feeling that tension, too, in response to the same world, and the same wars. But British walking literature differs from American in its ways of seeing nostalgia. (And also in the way that the usual American complaints about sore feet and bad weather are summarily dismissed by a Brit, like McFarlane, as "The travelers usual mix of excitement, incompetence, ennui, adventure and epiphany.")
As Frederic Gros put it in A Philosophy of Walking:
To us Europeans, the wilderness is associated with origins: an immemorial fault,permanently open, an obscure starting point. It's the ancestral place to which we may want to return, which sometimes comes up at us, but is our definitive past. For Thoreau the American,the wilderness is located in the West, before him. It is the possibility of the future. The wilderness is not the night of European memory, but the morning of the world and of humanity.
MacFarlane expressed it conversationally, in Patience: After Sebald, a film, about W.G. Sebald, the German-British writer-walker (More to come on Sebald) and his seminal Rings of Saturn: An English Pilgrimage (Die Ringe des Saturn: Eine Englische Walfahrt):
The British tradition is walking as recovery; and the American tradition is of walking as dis-covery: that striding forwards into the oncoming crisis of the world. For the Romantic tradition, the British Romantic tradition, it is to strip away the accretions of civilization, the hawking and hammering of time lived in cities, and return to some original state. In the American tradition, we travel to liberate ourselves, to discover new ways of being.
What distinguishes the British style of walking narrative from the American is visible to the naked eye. Look at the films they inspire.
MacFarlane's British publisher was inspired by The Old Ways to sponsor a contest–"take your own walk–" that drew scores of video submissions. Here's the winner.
The most popular recent American walking bestseller, Cheryl Strayed's Wild, (more on Strayed later) inspired Hollywood to tale of a young woman who walked "From lost to found on the Pacific Coast Trail."
Of these three, whom would you choose as a long walk's companion?
Walking to Vermont
February 9, 2015 | Paul Statt
When first I contemplated walking to New Hampshire, and writing a book about it, I wondered, "Has somebody already done that ?" This is the curse of baby boomer authors.
Ellen Stroud mentioned a book called Walking to Vermont in Nature Next Door. She wrote that "When New York Times journalist Christopher Wren ushered in his retirement with a walk from Times Square to his summer home in Post Mills, Vermont…he had far more company on his walk [than Herbert Welsh], since he spent most of his four hundred miles on the Appalachian Trail…But Wren had it right: hiking from Times Square to the Green Mountain Forest is not so strange. The cities and forests of the Northeast are all of a piece."
Stroud's conclusion is profoundly simple: the unity of town and country. Between the woods and the megalopolis, the connections–of ownership and stewardship, watershed and foodshed, protectors and predators–are stronger than the distinctions. And at a plodding pace, Wren, like Herbert Welsh a hundred years ago, was able to connect the city, the suburb, and the land.
As curious a text as The New Gentleman of the Road is, I prefer Welsh's prose to Wren's. Of course, Wren tells more exciting stories: he was a foreign correspondent for 29 years, in Moscow, Cairo, Beijing, Ottawa and Johannesburg at the UN, and reported from the former Soviet Union, Eastern Europe, the Balkans, the Middle East, China and Southeast Asia, Africa, South America and Canada. The trouble with Walking to Vermont is Wren's apparent resolve to include an anecdote from every outpost, even if it has nothing to do with his walk. His story wanders, and not in an enlightening or entertaining way.
Like every long-distance pedestrian I have read, Wren dropped several pounds and felt fitter and younger when he got where he was going. (Welsh himself published an affidavit from his physician in his book.) He draws no other moral from his story. All well and good. But when Colin Thubron observes that walking, like poetry, makes nothing happen–his wry conclusion seems more hard-won than Wren's.
I note that Wren's route is not exactly mine, and hope my passing thoughts are less, well, pedestrian, too.
To a Mountain in Tibet
January 29, 2015 January 30, 2015 | Paul Statt
The illusion that speed saves time is shattered, in the end, by death. When someone near me dies, I'm reminded that none of us has world enough, or time.
When British traveller and storyteller Colin Thubron lost his 97-year-old mother in 2006, he went for a long walk. To a Mountain in Tibet is the story of that walk, to isolated Mount Kailas, the source of four great rivers of Asia and almost as many religions.The ritual pilgrim practice involves walking around the mountain–clockwise for Buddhists, counterclockwise for Hindus–not to, or up the mountain. "Its slopes are sacrosanct," Thubron notes, "and it has never been climbed."
Thubron is not a believer, but the romance of that massif enthralls him, and he makes the circuit.
This is a breathtaking book, haunted by death. As Thubron walks, he remembers. Struggling to breathe in the thin mountain air, he recalls his mother's breathlessness at the end. Musing on Buddhism and Hinduism or Himalayan botany raises memories of his father, who served with the British Raj in India. The sheer pyramidal faces of Kailas remind him of his sister's untimely death, aged 21, in an accident in the French Alps.
Many walkers and writers try to meld memoir and travelogue; few do it well, because the way memory works on foot is not altogether as straightforward as prose. Thubron, also a novelist, dances gracefully bewteen now and then–from an exegesis of the Tibetan Book of the Dead to a memory of his mother's grief at the loss of her daughter, to her hospital bed, to describing a vertiginous high-altitude monaste ry. The narrative structure is more like a vernacular temple than an architectural drawing. It's a pleasure to explore, if you read slowly.
Maybe the apparently formless scaffolding of To a Mountain in Tibet just reflects the dizzying effects of altitude sickness; but it also feels like the way my mind works on a long walk. Thubron walks and writes with integrity and honesty, and maybe that's why he never reaches any conclusions.
You cannot walk out your grief, or absolve yourself of your survival, or bring anyone back. You are left with the desire only that things not be as they are. So you choose somewhere meaningful on the earth's surface, as if planning a secular pilgrimage. Yet the meaning is not your own.
I am undertaking a secular pilgrimage myself, revisiting some of the haunted lands where my sister Sarah Elizabeth Statt (1959-60), my grandmother Elizabeth Wheeler (1900-1967), my mother Mary Putnam (1926-1999), and my brother John Charles Statt (1953-2007), were born and died.
In the last year, my ex-wife and my mother's sister both died, in New Hampshire. I rented a car, filled a thermos with coffee, and jumped onto Interstate 95. New Hampshire is less than six hours away, that way. But I was responding to death. Is a fore- and afternoon on the road an adequate show of respect? It seems too fast, just as the life that has brought me from New Hampshire to Philadelphia seems too fast–even though it has taken almost 60 years.
I don't believe I need to hike a magic mountain to remember. But walking can be an act of mourning, too, moving slowly where I might hurry–that helps.
A Philosophy of Walking
Frédéric Gros teaches philosophy in France. The practice of philosophy does not require an advanced degree and an appointment at a respected university, as Gros has. The first words–first sentence, first paragraph–of A Philosophy of Walking are "Walking is not a sport."
Logically, you might take issue with that. For instance, in the early 20th century, when Herbert Welsh was advocating foot travel as the way to health, it had been only a few years since the heyday of Pedestrianism, according to the subtitle of a recent book, "When Watching People Walk was America's Favorite Sport."
Gros means something like what I might have in mind if I wrote "Philosophy is not an academic discipline." The thinkers on Gros's mind include Kant and Nietzsche, yes, but also poets–Nerval and Rimbaud–pilgrims and politicians such as Ghandi, and all-around free spirits such as Thoreau and Rouseau.
Like those walkers and writers, Gros's work here is rangy and loose-limbed. He meanders, slowly, and repeats himself–three qualities that also describe the pedestrian pace he prefers. It's not a sustained argument for a particular point of view; this is une philosophie, not la philosophie.
Like Twitter and facebook, Gros favors the style of the aperçu–the quick quip of illumination: "Presence is something that takes time." "The secret of monotony is that it constitutes a remedy for boredom." "You have to walk a long way to relearn self-love." "The illusion of speed is the belief that it saves time." These aren't steps in a proof; there is no Q.E.D. at the end. Right at the start, Gros observes what every walker knows.
When you walk for a long time, there comes a moment when you no longer know how many hours have passed, or how many more will be needed to get there; you feel on your shoulders the weight of the bare necessities, you tell yourself that's quite enough–that really nothing more is needed to keep body and soul together–and you feel you could carry on like this days, for centuries.
And as I will be walking across a century, I will need that.
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Das Heimhof-Theater ist ein 1951 in einem Betriebshof der Dynamit Nobel AG eröffnetes, inzwischen denkmalgeschütztes Theatergebäude in Würgendorf, einem Ortsteil von Burbach im Siegerland, im Kreis Siegen-Wittgenstein (Nordrhein-Westfalen). Das Theater ist wegen der bauzeitlichen Inneneinrichtung und der Raumdekoration, die zum Teil mit im eigenen Werk hergestellten Kunststoffen hergestellt wurde, als in dieser Geschlossenheit erhaltenes Haus bemerkenswert. Auch die Bühnentechnik der 1950er Jahre ist bemerkenswert.

Geschichte und Architektur
Ein Werk der Dynamit Nobel AG lag in der Nachbarschaft und errichtete das Gebäude als Betriebshof. Die dreiflügelige Anlage bestand aus Wohnungen, Pferdeställen und einem Wasserturm, um die Versorgung der Pferde zu sichern. Der 22 Meter hohe Heimhofturm wurde 1917 erbaut und gilt als Wahrzeichen. Im oberen Teil war ein Wasservorratsbehälter untergebracht, um die Pferde mit abgestandenem Wasser zu versorgen. Im Mansarden-Etagengeschoss waren Wohnungen für die Fuhrleute und Kutscher untergebracht. Die Erzeugnisse der Dynamitfabrik wurden 1916 mit Pferdegespannen über die Landstraßen transportiert. Die Fahrzeuge waren bis zu zwei Wochen unterwegs und fuhren bis Süd- oder Norddeutschland. Die Stallungen standen auf dem Werksgelände, hier ereignete sich eine Explosion, bei der 18 Pferde starben.

Es wurde von der Werksleitung beschlossen, neue Ställe außerhalb des Fabrikgeländes zu errichten. In der Nähe der Heimhof- und Hauptstraße wurde ein Grundstück gekauft, das zum Teil sumpfig und mit Disteln bestanden war. Der Architekt Ross aus Köln erstellte die Baupläne, und die Firma Hering aus Holzhausen führte das hufeisenförmige Gebäude aus. Die Pferdeställe wurden im Südflügel, die Wagenschuppen im Nordflügel und die Garagen und eine Futterkammer, sowie Nebengelasse im Westflügel eingerichtet. Die Stellmacherei und die Hofschmiede wurden auf einem Nachbargelände errichtet. Die Pferde wurden bis zur Fertigstellung der Stallungen in einem provisorischen Stall in der Nähe untergebracht. Dieser Stall wurde 1939 abgebrochen und an dessen Stelle ein Doppelwohnhaus gebaut. Im Ersten Weltkrieg mussten ausländische Arbeitskräfte angeworben werden, somit änderten sich die Planungen bezüglich der Nutzung. In den für die Kutscher vorgesehenen Wohnräumen wurden Frauenschlafräume, im Nord- und Westflügel Schlafräume für die Männer eingerichtet. Der Pferdestall diente als Speisesaal, die Futterkammer wurde als Lager für Lebensmittel genutzt. Kartoffeln und Gemüse wurden in der noch nicht in Betrieb genommenen Düngergrube eingelagert. Insgesamt lebten in dieser Zeit bis zu 600 Menschen. Die Frauen unterstanden einer sogenannten Heimleiterin, daraus resultierte der Name Heimhof. Die Anlage wurde noch um vier Wohnbaracken erweitert. Bis zum Ende des Ersten Weltkrieges wurden hier noch eine Poststelle und eine Polizeistation untergebracht. 1918 wurde unter der Leitung des Sanitätsrates Walter Schmieden ein für damalige Verhältnisse modernes Krankenhaus mit 24 Betten eingerichtet.

Nach dem Krieg wurde der Heimhof geräumt, um ihn wieder für das Werk nutzbar zu machen. Die Zahl der Arbeiter stieg schnell an, viele kehrten aus dem Krieg in die Heimatorte zurück. Die Kücheneinrichtung und die Dampfkesselanlage wurden abgebrochen und eingelagert. Unter der Bauleitung des Architekten Alfred Richter wurden Wohnungen gebaut. Die Pferde wurden 1919 in den vorgesehenen Stallungen untergebracht und der Wasserturm in Betrieb genommen. Der Turm erlitt durch Frost im Jahr 1922 starke Schäden, wurde aber nicht wieder instand gesetzt, da die Anzahl der Pferde stark rückläufig war. Die letzten Pferde verließen 1929 den Hof, der Transport der Sprengstoffe wurde über LKW und die Bahn erledigt. Im Jahr 1928 richtete sich in den frei gewordenen Ställen eine Feuerwehrgeräteabteilung ein. Der freiwillige Arbeitsdienst richtete sich in der ehemaligen Kleiderkammer ein, die SA benutzte den heutigen Parkettteil ab 1933, im Südflügel wurden 1937 ein großer Luftschutzraum und ein Sanitätsraum eingerichtet. Zum Ende des Zweiten Weltkrieges wurden hier Möbel und Kunstwerke, unter anderem ein Gemälde Spitzwegs, eingelagert.

Die Besatzungsmächte nutzten den Heimhof ab 1945 als Feldlazarett und Sergantenmesse um. 1946 normalisierten sich die Verhältnisse, die Wohnungen wurden von Zivilisten bezogen, in einem notdürftig eingerichteten Raum in Nordflügel gastierte ein Wanderkino, es wurden auch Lichtbildervorträge gehalten. Im Nordflügel wurden 1951 die Pferdeställe durch den Einbau eines Theaters für die Belegschaft ersetzt, das von außen nicht erkennbar war.  Der Kulturkreis um die Wasserscheide wurde gegründet, für das Theater waren umfangreiche Baumaßnahmen notwendig. Für den Männergesangverein Heimatliebe, den Werkschor, wurde in der ehemaligen Futterkammer ein Sängerheim eingerichtet und 1953 bezogen. Nach einem Brand im Jahr 1955 wurde es vollständig erneuert, ein runder Vorbau als Eingang wurde angesetzt. Das Theater hat 250 Sitzplätze. Der Förderverein Heimhof-Theater kaufte das Gebäude 2006, ab 2007 wurden umfassende Renovierungsmaßnahmen vorgenommen, und das Theater konnte am 16. April 2010 wiedereröffnet werden. Anlässlich der Wiedereröffnung wurde es im Mai 2010 vom LWL-Amt für Denkmalpflege in Westfalen als Denkmal des Monats in Westfalen-Lippe ausgezeichnet.

Literatur
 Georg Dehio (Begründer), Ursula Quednau (wissenschaftliche Leitung): Handbuch der deutschen Kunstdenkmäler. Nordrhein-Westfalen II Westfalen. Deutscher Kunstverlag, Berlin/München 2011, ISBN 978-3-422-03114-2

Weblinks
 Website des Heimhof-Theaters
 Bericht auf den Seiten der Gemeinde Burbach

Einzelnachweise

Baudenkmal in Burbach (Siegerland)
Erbaut in den 1910er Jahren
Erbaut in den 1950er Jahren
Theatergebäude in Nordrhein-Westfalen
Denkmal des Monats in Westfalen-Lippe
Bauwerk in Burbach (Siegerland)

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