Does this scenario sound familiar: You had a bad day at work, got into an argument with your partner over the phone, and then got stuck in traffic on the way home? And now that you're finally home, you can hardly wait to put on your sweats and dig into that carton of double chocolate chip ice cream or that bag of chips in your cupboard?
Or how about this one: You're sitting at home with nothing particular to do, and so you go rooting around your kitchen cupboards, just to see what's there. Before you know it, you find yourself sitting at the kitchen table with an empty bag of cookies in front of you.
Quick! Before you take that bite, have you thought about why you are eating? There are a whole host of reasons aside from hunger that prompt people to eat - boredom, sadness, nervousness, anxiety, stress, even happiness. But if you look at what these things all have in common, it's that they are emotions, and not signals of your body's need for nourishment.
While we are programmed to eat as a result of feeling hungry, many people also feel an urge to eat certain foods when they experience certain emotions, or when they find themselves in certain settings. Often, the foods of choice in these cases are "forbidden foods" - the same fat- and calorie-laden foods you try to resist while on a diet.
The first step to overcoming so-called emotional eating is to learn the difference between emotional and physical hunger cues.
Are you craving something specific? If you really are hungry, you'll likely find a host of foods to be satisfying. But if it's a craving, only specific foods will fill the void.
Does the craving pass? Hunger doesn't go away until you've had something to eat, while cravings sometimes (but not always) pass.
How hungry are you really? It may seem obvious, but next time you are tempted to chow down, stop and rate your hunger on a scale of 1 to 10. By forcing yourself to think about how hungry you actually are, you can learn to identify instances where you are eating for reasons other than hunger.
When was the last time you ate? If it's been hours, you may truly be hungry. But if you just finished dinner, it may be a case of emotional eating.
Keeping a food journal and jotting down your mood every time you eat can help you learn to identify situations where you're eating for emotional reasons and not because you're hungry.
But now that you've learned to identify your emotional eating triggers, what can you do when you're faced with a situation that makes you want to eat for all the wrong reasons?
Exercise. OK, working out may be the last thing you want to do, but exercise can be a 2-front attack against emotional eating: firstly, exercise has been shown to have positive effects on stress and depression. Secondly, if you've just had a tough workout, you may be less likely to want to undo that hard work with a fattening treat.
Indulge, but in moderation. Sometimes, nothing else but a piece of chocolate or another treat will do. Instead of suffering through the craving or eating a bunch of different healthy snacks that just don't do the trick, treat yourself - but savour a small portion rather than pigging out.
Make a list of feel-good alternatives. If you often turn to food to bring yourself up when you're down, make a list of pick-me-ups that aren't related to food. Some suggestions: calling a friend, getting a manicure, or reading a magazine.
Wait it out. Sometimes cravings pass. Hunger won't. So if you're tempted, wait 20 minutes and see if you're still in the mood to indulge.


Pretty close race. Allred has to gotv in the corridor of the district going up 75 on the east side all the way into East Richardson and Garland and over to the white rock area. Sessions support is in the park cities, preston hollow, and rowlett/sachse/wylie. I think Allred has the organizational edge but it's close.


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Appleton Prentiss Clark Jr. (November 13, 1865 – March 25, 1955) was an American architect from Washington, D.C.  During his 60-year career, Clark was responsible for designing hundreds of buildings in the Washington area, including homes, hotels, churches, apartments and commercial properties.  He is considered one of the city's most prominent and influential architects from the late 19th and early 20th centuries.  Many of his designs are now listed on the National Register of Historic Places (NRHP).

Early life
During the Civil War, Clark's family moved from Philadelphia to Washington, D.C., shortly before his birth on November 13, 1865.  His father was a lawyer and prominent local Republican who was a strong advocate of voting rights for African Americans.   After graduating from Central High School in 1883, Clark apprenticed with prominent architect Alfred B. Mullett until 1885.  He then traveled to Europe to observe and study the continent's famous buildings and returned to Washington in 1886 where he opened his own practice.  In 1891, he married Vermont native Florence Perry with whom he had two children, Waldo and Marguerite.

Career
Clark originally designed buildings in the Romanesque Revival style, influenced by his time working with Mullett.  Examples include Eastern Presbyterian Church (now Imani Temple) at 609 Maryland Avenue NE (built 1891) and the Washington Post Building at 1337 E Street NW (built 1893, razed 1954).  Like other architects, his design preferences changed throughout his career.  His works include buildings designed in the Colonial Revival, Gothic Revival, Italianate, Renaissance Revival, Shingle and Spanish Colonial Revival styles.  Many of his house designs used the Georgian Revival style, including the Thomas Gales House (now the Embassy of Myanmar) at 2300 S Street NW, and the J. Philip Herrmann House (now the Embassy of Syria) at 2215 Wyoming Avenue NW.  One of his house designs, built in 1900 for The Washington Post editor Beriah Wilkins, was a 35-room French Colonial mansion at 1711 Massachusetts Avenue NW (demolished) that was one of the largest residences in the city at the time of its construction.

Clark's residential designs were not limited to houses.  He designed 27 apartment buildings in Washington, D.C., including The Presidential at 1026 16th Street NW, The Rockingham at 1317 Rhode Island Ave NW and The Roosevelt at 2101 16th Street NW.  Clark also specialized in designing commercial and public properties, including fifteen banks and five schools.  The only known federal property designed by Clark is the U.S. Civil Service Commission Building.

Clark was active with several professional and business organizations.  He was "very active in civic affairs and viewed architecture as a vehicle for civic betterment."  He was a member of the Washington Board of Trade and American Institute of Architects (AIA), serving as president of the AIA's local chapter.  He also served on the board of directors of the Equitable Life Insurance Company, the Terminal Refrigerating and Warehousing Company, the Washington Hotel Company and the Washington Sanitary Housing Company.  Clark was also an author, contributing an essay titled "History of Architecture in Washington" for volume II of John Clagett Proctor's Washington: Past and Present, and writing Institutional Homes for Children, a book advocating for improved residential facilities for orphans. A strong advocate for these improved facilities, he designed three children's homes in the Washington area.

Later years and legacy
Clark retired around 1945 and maintained two homes, one at 1717 Lanier Place NW in Lanier Heights, and a winter home in St. Petersburg, Florida.  He was hospitalized in 1955 for a broken hip while in St. Petersburg and died on March 25.  In his obituary, The Washington Post referred to him as the "Dean of Architects."  He left an estate of approximately $700,000 to his family members.  Clark is now considered one of "Washington's most influential architects" and one of the "most prominent and prolific early twentieth century architects."

Several of Clark's designs, including buildings he designed expansions or alterations, are now listed on the NRHP, including: 1644-1666 Park Road NW, 1833 Park Road NW, the Christian Heurich Mansion, Engine Company 21, the John Mercer Langston School, the National Saving And Trust Company, Riggs National Bank, Second Baptist Church, Second National Bank and the U.S. Civil Service Commission Building.  Many of his buildings are also designated contributing properties to historic districts throughout the city.  In addition, his buildings listed on the District of Columbia Inventory of Historic Sites include the Denrike Building, Homer Building, Owl's Nest, Saint Phillips Baptist Church and the Victor Building.

Selected works

 312-336 Maryland Avenue NE (1892)
 313-321 C Street NE (1905)
 614 S Street NW (1890)
 1644-1666 Park Road NW (1905)
 1833 Park Road NW (1911)
 1849 Kalorama Road NW (1911)
 1921 19th Street NW (1906)
 1957 Biltmore Street NW
 2007 Columbia Road NW (1899)
 2126 Wyoming Avenue NW (1907)
 The Chelsea, 201 E Street SE (1905)
 Christian Heurich Mansion, 1307 New Hampshire Avenue NW (1914 and 1923 additions)
 Columbia National Bank, 911 F Street NW
 Columbia Title Insurance Company (incorporated into the Keck Center of the National Academies), 503 E Street NW (1924 addition)
 Denrike Building, 1010 Vermont Avenue NW (1926)
 Eastern Presbyterian Church (Imani Temple 1994-2014, now residences), 609 Maryland Avenue NE (1891)
 The Embassy (now the Church of Scientology), 1424 16th Street NW (1917)
 Embassy of the Dominican Republic, 1715 22nd Street NW (1904)
 Engine Company 21, 1763 Lanier Place NW (1908)
 Fazl Mosque, 2141 Leroy Place NW (1913)
 Foundry United Methodist Church, 1500 16th Street NW (1903)
 The Holmes, 3020 Dent Place NW (1902)
 Home Savings Bank, 722 H Street NE (1912)
 Homer Building, 601 13th Street NW (1914)
 The Irving, 3104 Dent Place NW (1903)
 J. Philip Herrmann House (now the Embassy of Syria), 2215 Wyoming Avenue NW (1911)
 John Eaton Elementary School, 3301 Lowell Street NW (1910)
 John Mercer Langston School, 43 P Street NW (1902)
 The Linville, 116 6th Street NE (1914)
 The Lurgan, 919 L Street NW (1913)
 Marlo Building, 901 7th Street NW (1895)
 National Saving And Trust Company, 1445 New York Avenue (1915 and 1924 additions)
 Owl's Nest, 3031 Gates Road NW (1897)
 The Presidential, 1026 16th Street NW (1923)
 Riggs National Bank, 1503-05 Pennsylvania Avenue NW (1922 addition)
 The Rockingham, 1317 Rhode Island Ave NW (1903)
 The Roosevelt, 2101 16th Street NW (1920)
 Saint Phillips Baptist Church, 1001 North Capitol Street NE (1892)
 Samuel G. Wheatley Elementary School, 1299 Neal Street NE (1903)
 Second Baptist Church, 816 3rd Street NW (1894)
 Second National Bank, 1331 G Street NW (1928)
 Second National Bank, 509 7th Street NW (1910 alteration)
 The Sterling, 1915 Calvert Street NW (1905)
 Strathmore Hall, 10701 Rockville Pike, North Bethesda, Maryland (1902)
 Thomas Gales House (now the Embassy of Myanmar), 2300 S Street NW (1905)
 U.S. Civil Service Commission Building, 1724 F Street NW (1911)
 Victor Building, 724-726 9th Street NW (1911)
 Washington City Orphan Asylum, 4125 Nebraska Avenue NW (1926)
 William L. Crounse House (now the Austrian ambassador's residence), 2419 Wyoming Avenue NW (1926)

Bibliography
 Institutional Homes for Children, W. Helburn, Incorporated, New York, 1945,

References

External links

1865 births
1955 deaths
Architects from Washington, D.C.
19th-century American architects
20th-century American architects

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Q: find string in other column but same row vba some cells in column D contains same numbers "123".
The macro needs to find the row of the string "xxx" in different column but same row that contains numbers "123".

A: This seems like a good INDEX(MATCH) use case.
If your table is something like

Col1
Col2
Col3

A
xxx
111

B
yyy
222

C
zzz
333

You can try something like
=INDEX(A2:C4,MATCH(B2,B2:B4,0),3)
Which will return 111 as you matched the row containing xxx and wanted column 3

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As the New Year approaches, we often find ourselves making New Year's resolutions in our personal lives. Whether it's to lose weight, read more, or clean out the garage. These are all great ideas, but don't lose sight of your technology too. Some examples of tech resolutions to help simplify your life are just as important as shedding that extra holiday weight. Here are our 6 tech tips for the New Year which will help keep your tech world as free and clear of clutter as your garage!
This includes promotional emails and newsletters. When deleting just isn't working anymore, unsubscribing can free up the noise in your Inbox, as well as time spent sifting through all that Junk mail. This will enable you to reclaim the space and remove the clutter from your email. It may seem like a time consuming and daunting task, but if you take 5 minutes a day to take care of it – you'll be through it in no time. Click the "Unsubscribe" button!
Whether you're storing on your computer or in the cloud, it is important to keep things organized so you can access them quickly and easily. These days storage space isn't always the issue; however you can use up a lot of valuable space if you are unorganized or have unwanted data. Get into the habit of reviewing all your photos before removing or copying them off your camera card. Only copy what you really want to save, to help save space. There is software on the market that can help out with this task, but nothing beats your eyes only!
How important is your data to you? Whether it's pictures, word documents or spreadsheets – imagine if they were lost and you were unable to replace them. Years of memories in your pictures, or years of documentation that you refer to regularly – all gone. An effective and reliable solution would be to subscribe to an Online Cloud Backup solution. Storing your data in DropBox or Google Drive is a great storage solution and easy to use. However, this is not a true backup solution, as it may be susceptible to Ransomware or other viruses. Purchasing a true backup software or service will protect your data best. If you're looking for solutions that do not back up to the Cloud, then you can review Windows Backup or TimeMachine. For solutions that utilize the Cloud for storing your backups, try CloudBerryLab or SOS Online Backup.
If you're like most people, you have collected technology that you are no longer using due to upgrades. This is a great way to do get involved with different charities and share your unused gadgets. What better way to experience the true sense of giving and helping others than to donate to a great cause. Check out the EPA's website for tips and locations for donation and recycling. Be sure to reset your device to factory defaults so you are not giving away any personal information or data.
A password manager will help you organize, save and securely manage your passwords for all of your online accounts. It may even help simplify your online experience by centrally locating all your usernames and passwords. The app will encrypt your password database with one master password or passphrase so you don't have to remember them all. Take a look at these for example: Keeper and Dashlane.
With Phishing attempts becoming more common these days, increasing awareness just isn't enough of a defense. Ensuring strong passwords (See The Art of creating a Secure Password) is a good first step. Instituting a multi-factor authentication process to protect your valued website logins is another. Most Cloud Apps offer this feature. For example, see how Google and Microsoft help you enable the feature in their apps.
There are many ways to welcome in and enjoy your New Year. Don't forget to include your technology experiences in there as well.
Diligex wishes you a Happy and Healthy New Year!


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Religious people fear hell - Spiritual people have walked thru it.
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Can you hear the lyrics to songs?: How your brain interprets sounds
samfloy~7 December 2019	/Random
Project Making Friends in Denmark took another step forward this week as I went for beers with a couple of Danes and ended up chatting, drinking and playing dice (common in Danish bars it seems) for several hours.
One topic we got onto was music.
I introduced them to Desert Island Discs which got us talking about what eight tracks we'd choose were we banished to a remote island for the rest of time.
I said that when I listen to music I have to really concentrate to understand what's going on.
It's as if the words wash over me. I can sometimes decipher the odd word, but the song has to be really slow for me to then process the lyrics and derive any meaning from them.
For me, music is much more about the melody, rhythm, and beat of a song.
This probably explains why I enjoy music from West Africa*: it's very melodic and, though I can get an impression of what a track is about, I wouldn't be able to understand (literally) what was being said in any case.
Poetry to music
Dane 2 had a differing opinion.
For him, he could only enjoy music where he could listen and reflect on the lyrics.
This meant he felt inclined towards songs with deep meaning that touch him. For him, this meant folksy guitar ballad stuff, but also, interestingly, heavy metal.
Dane 1 felt he was somewhere in between, though instinctively picked out several tracks he'd have to include in his DID selection because of the lyrics.
What does the science say?
One theory I had is that because both Dane 1 and 2 could play the guitar and/ or piano, the musical part of their brain was used to subconsciously processing melodies.
As such, songs could be enjoyed on autopilot by the musical part of their brain, and then proceed to the "language interpretation" part to greater additional meaning.
In mine (can't play an instrument) my brain capacity is taken up focusing on the melodies because it's not attuned to "automatically" doing, for example, the dual actions of multi-tasking on playing the guitar and singing.
I googled it to see how the theory holds up…
**pause for Google search**
… there doesn't seem to be too much:
New Scientist article saying music and lyrics split up and take different pathways in the brain
Reddit thread from people saying they too can't follow the lyrics
Singing to learn a language
Dane 2 has a two-year-old daughter and we spoke about whether she may have inherited his ability to hear and recall words.
He said definitely.
His daughter is learning how to count and has learnt to repeat "1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10" when they play counting. If he then puts up six fingers though, she doesn't know what it means.
More so, when he and his partner read her a book, she has learnt what sounds should be said when, for example, they get to the page with a pig on it.
She has been able to listen, store and then perfectly recall the words for that page when they re-"read" it which feels to me like the "word processing" part of her brain is working very well.
I'm not sure how I was when it came to my first books (I'll ask my Mum…) but I'd be interested in how you listen to music/ lyrics..?
* if you're interested to try out, my top picks are The Toure-Raichel Collective, Toumani Diabete, Ali Farka and Fatoumata Diawara.
** whilst we're talking about music, I've been loving the new album by Michael Kiwanuka
I donated to my friends' organisation in Kenya this week.
Youth unemployment is a big issue in the country. They work with smart young people and take them through a bootcamp to learn practical employability skills (growth mindset, taking initiative, soft skills) and get on the ladder for a better future.
It's a social enterprise (there's a nominal fee for students + they charge fees to recruiters who hire their graduates) but the organisation has been hit by some unforeseen shocks and risks going under.
Obviously I have an affiliation with them as it's my friends, but if you're looking for something worthwhile to put money towards (with zero bureaucratic overhead) then this could be a great cause.
They have a Donate button on their website: https://www.yusudi.co/about-us
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SWAT: Global Strike Team, a squad-based FPS game for the PlayStation2 and Xbox has shipped to retailers worldwide. The SWAT PC franchise has sold three million units worldwide and this will mark the first time the franchise will be available on the PlayStation2 and Xbox for a suggested retail price of $49.99 with an ESRB "Mature" rating.
SWAT: Global Strike Team, a squad-based FPS game for the PS2 and the Xbox has gone gold and will ship to retailers worldwide early November 2003. You play Mathias Kincaid, a former member of the U.S. Army's elite Delta Force turned SWAT: GST element leader. Command your teammates, a veteran sniper and an expert technical specialist, through several diverse missions while maintaining the tactical upper hand over your opponent. To keep the peace there are certain fundamentals that you must utilize that will contribute mission success including; the environment, the latest gear and advanced weaponry, and the element of surprise.
SWAT: Global Strike Team was founded in 2018 as an international offshoot of the U.S. SWAT organization. Primarily established to supplement the income of the U.S. SWAT establishment, the Global Strike Team contract their personnel and expertise to companies and countries around the world to help "resolve" situations for those who have the funds but not the means to do so. The GST is made up of specially selected SWAT officers and ex-military personnel who have shown the ability to adapt to and overcome any situation they encounter. Like the U.S. SWAT organization, SWAT: GST is a life-saving institution whose mission is to uphold the laws of its operating country, so all efforts must be made to use only necessary force.
SWAT: GST is a first-person tactical arcade game combining the strategic elements of SWAT 3 with the instantly accessible arcade action of the Virtua Cop series. Like the real-life SWAT organization itself, the SWAT Global Strike Team is a life-saving organization tasked with defending and saving the lives of the innocent. As a member of the SWAT Global Strike Team gamers will be called to duty at a moment's notice, confronted with missions unlike any see before.
SWAT: GST is a first-person tactical arcade game combining the strategic elements of SWAT 3 with the instantly accessible arcade action of the Virtua Cop series. Like the real-life SWAT organization itself, the SWAT Global Strike Team is a life-saving organization tasked with defending and saving the lives of the innocent. As a member of the SWAT Global Strike Team gamers will be called to duty at a moment's notice, confronted with missions unlike any see before. Check these new Xbox & PS2 screens ..
The SWAT: Global Strike Team was founded in 2018 as an international offshoot of the U.S. SWAT organization. Primarily established to supplement the income of the U.S. SWAT establishment, the Global Strike Team contract their personnel and expertise to companies and countries around the world to help "resolve" situations for those who have the funds but not the means to do so. The GST is made up of specially selected SWAT officers and ex-military personnel who have shown the ability to adapt to and overcome any situation they encounter. Like the U.S. SWAT organization, SWAT: GST is a life-saving institution whose mission is to uphold the laws of its operating country, so all efforts must be made to use only necessary force.
SWAT: GST is a first-person tactical arcade game combining the strategic elements of SWAT 3 with the instantly accessible arcade action of the Virtua Cop series. Like the real-life SWAT organization itself, the SWAT Global Strike Team is a life-saving organization tasked with defending and saving the lives of the innocent. As a member of the SWAT Global Strike Team gamers will be called to duty at a moment's notice, confronted with missions unlike any see before.. We have 12 new screenshots - not of the finest quality, but you don't argue with men this heavily tooled up.
Sierra, a studio of Vivendi Universal Publishing, and UK-based Argonaut Software Ltd. today announced SWAT: Global Strike Team (GST) to release next fall under the Sierra brand on Xbox, and another, yet to be announced, next-generation console.


The average pay for a Collision Estimator is €41,169 a year and €20 an hour in Finland. The average salary range for a Collision Estimator is between €30,561 and €49,876. On average, a High School Degree is the highest level of education for a Collision Estimator. This compensation analysis is based on salary survey data collected directly from employers and anonymous employees in Finland.


New data released yesterday in a commissioned study conducted by Forrester Consulting shows that a majority (57 percent) of IT managers at small and medium businesses (SMBs) underestimate the cost of owning a traditional file server.
Additionally, Forrester found that 41 percent of information workers surveyed were using various unapproved online file storage and data services for work purposes.
In this time of economic uncertainty, SMBs have been asked to do more with less, and the pressure, in what is increasingly looking to be a double-dip recession, is mounting. In a surprising note, the new Forrester study reveals that SMBs often underestimate the expenses associated with their file servers.
When estimating annual file server costs, over one-half of the respondents initially reported costs of under $5,000 per year, while 12 percent reported over $20,000 a year.
But when asked to think about the costs again in a more itemized fashion, including costs like software, administration, file server OS and licenses, the majority of SMBs, 57 percent, increased their total cost estimate. Nineteen percent did so by more than $25,000, with the number of companies estimating costs at more than $20,000 a year almost tripling.
"Confusion over their total cost of ownership is hindering many IT decision-makers from realizing the full cost of savings potential of cloud file servers," noted the Forrester study.
While it's no surprise that 28 percent of those IT workers surveyed use software-as-a-service (SaaS) solutions, what is surprising is that 41 percent of information workers were already using various unapproved online file storage and data services for work purposes.
This is significant for two reasons. First, the increased strain on support creates a significant but often difficult-to-monetize cost to IT. Second, it poses a huge threat to data/file integrity and security, as unapproved tools store and share proprietary corporate data through the cloud without any IT oversight. This model is unsustainable, and IT must take back control by providing the right tools to users.
The writing is on the wall, and we believe within two years, at least two-thirds, if not more, of the file servers that reach the end of their lifespans will go the way of the dinosaur. As budgets tighten and the pressure mounts, tighter scrutiny and attention will be paid to the real costs of buying and maintaining a file server.
Once that's done, as shown in this report, IT will realize the true value and cost savings of a pure cloud or hybrid cloud approach, and will simply retire the traditional file server.
SMB IT managers must look to a file-sharing platform designed for the 21st century. Many of today's information workers are distributed and mobile, and need a solution that enables real-time communication and collaboration, regardless of location or device. Whether behind the firewall or working remotely, easy, fast, up-to-date collaboration is critical.
SMBs should look for a SaaS-based solution with an easy-to-use interface for workers, while providing the ability for IT to retain administration and control of critical data and files. In this way, IT can make smart decisions based on the business needs of the whole company, and not be driven to decisions by one-off requirements of a few users.
To successfully replace the on-premises file server, SMBs should consider a hybrid cloud solution, as it will deliver fast local access to files while adding the security of the cloud. This approach enables workers to stay productive regardless of connection, bandwidth or file size.
Files are regularly synched between the online file server and local network attached storage (NAS) devices, or virtual appliances, thereby ensuring file access from anywhere, as well as effortless sharing with clients and business partners.
Finally, a hybrid cloud solution is dramatically less expensive than a traditional file server. For a monthly fee, companies can easily store, share, access and back up their files locally and in the cloud. SMBs can look to the hybrid cloud not only as a file server replacement, but also as an ROI protector. The death of traditional file servers is imminent.
By adopting a cost-effective hybrid cloud solution, SMBs can ensure complete IT control while providing tools that meet the needs of distributed workers. Forrester's full study can be accessed by clicking here.
*The original article appeared in Business Computing World on November 2, 2011.


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A good lot of Edwardian pomp and (restrained) swagger there – another victim of WWI? Actually, it's position on a narrow street would have made it very difficult to see properly, but the tower would have been a nice counterfoil to Christchurch, the kind of effect we've forgotten how to do. The illustration seems to take little account of the westward slope of the street; were they going to level it?
Hey johnglas, this looks like some of your lot marching up Lord Edward Street about 1900.
The background is very faint, but I'm pretty sure it's Lord Edward Street looking down towards Dame Street before the north side (or possibly either side) had been developed.
Yes it definitely is – great shot.
Given this particular site (or rather part of it) wasn't finally developed until the late 1920s, it seems this proposal lingered around for quite a while. There's quite an incline johnglas with the basement if you look closely – what a dull frontage at street level though as a result. An elegant facade but what a spectacularly ugly tower.
Nonetheless Mr McDonnell still got his way elsewhere in the capital some may have noticed.
Talk about copying and pasting.
It is of course his bank building at the corner of O'Connell Street and Middle Abbey Street of 1917.
Other trademark features include elaborate fluted Ionic columns employed in a double height fashion across the facade, ebullient heavy cornice, and a sparse attic storey.
GrahamH: great shots of the O'Connell St place; I still think they smoothed out the LE St slope a bit. I like the tower – over the top, but it was good enough for Vanbrugh (cf. Blenheim, etc.).
gunter triumphs as usual, but they're about 6 pipers and several drummers short of a band – economies in c.1900 as well?
Another view of the area from around 1930. The northern side has been long developed, but the southern side remains empty except for the 1927 current HSE centre (behind the white Newcomen Bank), the tall and lonely solitary Victorian built on the street (its incongruity still evident to this day), and the remarkably narrow 1910ish terrace to the west.
I've never quite understood how this thoroughfare developed though – did the nasty 1990s infill along here and the 1980s hostel just fill the above vacant sites? And if so, how is it that a short street laid out in the 1880s in the very heart of the city only came to be completed over a century later?
Thats an amazing view of that area. It really is absolutely staggering what we destroyed.
Agreed reddy, but you can't unscramble an omelette; however, I've long thought that some kind of building just north of Christchurch, between it and the Civic Offices, would redress the balance. The views of the old quarter above give a strong hint as to scale. The idea of surrounding public buildings with meaningless open space just to give 'views' is very 20th C with little historical precedent.
The former Labour Exhange on Lord Edward Street is a little-known example of civic architecture of the early 20th century, built by the Office of Public Works in 1915. It is very much in the style of the then-being-completed Royal College of Science on Merrion Street, and was designed by Harold Leask (later to become Inspector of National Monuments) and Martin Joseph Burke (later to become Assistant Principal Architect for the OPW during the War).
It has just been cleaned and fully refurbished. The usual application for setback storeys was refused. Hopefully that scaffold rail is coming down.
The building's distinctly flat and somewhat appliqué facade is remarkably similar in composition to that of the newly refaced Buckingham Palace, carried out in 1913. Given Aston Webb's notions were sloshing around Dublin at the time, perhaps this is no surprise.
Another Palladian portico features on the Ulster Bank on O'Connell Street of similar date.
Lots of orginal glass survives.
Unfortunately the secondary glazing is crude and unnecessarily cumbersome. Merely painting the rear of the frames a charcoal shade alone would eliminate this.
The granite is now glistening – beautiful texture at ground floor level when coupled with the deep chanelling.
The entrance door was more than likely intended to have a date stamp carved into it.
One of the side entrances.
The ground floor also features metal windows, probably steel, an indication of the modernity of this building. Indeed the entire structure is probably of steel.
It is of some concern that the scaffolding has just come down yet already there's rust appearing through the new paint on some of these frames.
The wonderfully expressive main entrance.
Otherwise, the building is completely gutted interior-wise – it appears nothing of substance had survived before the renovation got underway. Chic plaster slab ceilings and walls now predominate. Indeed given the building's original purpose, it's likely it was a pretty sparse fitout to begin with.
A few public domain works wouldn't go amiss.
The glazed corner insert to the side elevation, while perfectly valid, is poorly detailed.
It also compares unfavourably with the texture elsewhere here.
Alas I've no pictures of the building before it was cleaned, but the difference is startling. I've heard a couple of people commenting on it, having never noticed it before. It catches the morning sun very well.
Scrubbed up very well; I remember this being sold in 2004 for what seemed like a reasonable sum.
It is amazing that a leisure use wasn't preferred at this location given the quality of the facade it would look great on last minute.
I like that little shopfront that was put in at the side. Reminds me of the way a traditional dwelling might have been altered for a shop, with just the bare essentials of a window, door & fascia …….. actually there's an example round the corner at Fishamble St / Essex St cnr. building.
The third placed entry has a certain grace and beauty to it, though what has happened to the former Newcomen Bank (Dublin City Council Rates Office)!
That design seems to propose the rebuilding of the facade to Lord Edward Street.
Subtly altered, it's the left-hand bookend, or pavilion if you like; context,context, context.
O'Callaghan & Webb's proposal is definitely the more elegant of the two, with its elegant saucer dome reminicent of the graceful public buildings of 19th century Europe.
Surely a feature that could never be appreciated though?
Hicks' proposed pilastered facades are extremely elegant (and a welcome introduction to Dublin which is devoid of that particular design feature on a large scale), but sadly let down by a crude resolution of the upper storey and roofline. The join with Newcomen is a disaster!
Surely it's the most elegant of the three proposals, not just the two runners up.
I always find the variation in people's tastes amazing. How people thought that the winning proposal by MacDonnell & Reid, shown in the opening post on this thread, was superior to the third placed design by O'Callaghan & Webb is beyond me. If it was because of the alteration to the Newcomen bank, I would have quite easily accepted such a change if it meant having such an elegant design on Lord Edward Street.
Fully agreed. In any event, the most important aspect of the Newcomen Bank is that from outside City Hall at the Castle gate, where the two high quality facades present themselves equally to Cork Hill and the once-important Castle Street. The Lord Edward Street elevation, however exposed by the creation of that same street, is secondary. While still important to its composition, its refacing as part of a palatial public building which shapes the character of this important thoroughfare leading from Christchurch is rendered relatively insignificant!
It's amusing to note that such a gradiose public building project is so compromised by way of being shunted eastwards over the Newcomen Bank, purely for the sake of accommodating a single privately owned plot to the west – the site of the 1880s Victorian sliver of a building. The plot after that is vacant! This also highlights the typical lack of vision that so pervaded in Dublin historically, even in the context of the clean-slate opportunity that was the laying out of Lord Edward Street. The potential for a unified composition reaching from Newcomen all the way westwards, wrapping around the corner onto Christchurch Place (originally Fishamble Street) is so obvious its blinding, offering the opportunity to provide a distinguished setting for Christchurch and a dignified entrance to the processional thoroughfare leading to Parnell Square.
The Processional Thoroughfare gets a bit lost roundabouts Charlies, Supermacs and Abrakebabra on Westmoreland St.
This remarkable colour photograph of Lord Edward Street, taken in June 1961 by Charles W. Cushman, tells us much about the protracted development of one of the city's most prominent thoroughfares. Nearly eighty years after the laying out of the street, large tracts remain undeveloped (all the lampposts have a brand new shiny coat of silver paint).
As previously mentioned, the large red brick HSE building to the left, formerly a Carnagie Child Welfare Centre, dates to 1927, and features a magnificent array of metal windows with inward-tilting top lights – all long since replaced with dubious 1980s timber sashes. Beyond that in the distance, the first building to be constructed – one imagines somewhat tentatively – on the new street in 1887 proved to be just a tad premature. Over half a century later and it was still standing on its ownio. To describe it as precarious looking would also be understatement of the (same) century. Indeed, until the 1910s there was absolutely nothing else standing on the south side of the street, so this building must have been quite a spectacle. Perhaps the obligation to build within one year of purchasing a site here had something to do with the slow uptake of plots.
This aerial photograph from around 1930, as posted earlier, shows how the street developed with a fine grain on the south side, and with monolithic, self-contained structures to the north in a manner not unlike the present-day approach to street building.
Presumably the incredibly narrow terrace at the junction with Christchurch Place came about as a result of the limited acquisition of lands that took place to create Lord Edward Street. Seemingly the bare minimum was compulsorily purchased at this particular location, sufficient to create a 'street wall' and a habitable structure. The narrowest terrace in Dublin?
I wish the infilling around the city centre could be done in this style.
Skirting around the fringes of the early days of photography, we must rely on sketch drawings for perspectives of Cork Hill in the days before Lord Edward Street.
Henry Shaw's ever-helpful The Dublin Pictorial Guide & Directory of 1850 shows a charmingly picturesque urban scene as viewed, somewhat optimised, from outside City Hall.
Tall Georgian commercial premises step up the hill from the entrance to Blind Quay on the right – now Upper Exchange Street – towards the Newcomen Bank in its pre-extended three-bay appearance on the left. The bank's main entrance is clearly apparent as being on Castle Street, which survives to this day with its associated entrance hall, while the Cork Hill elevation is railed with a basement well – this too was a secondary entrance originally.
Of note is that in 1850, only one shop had modern plate glass windows (the vertical strips of the middle shop) while all the others retain quaint Georgian grids. The three-bay house on at No. 10 has its horizontal stacking shutters up.
Of the buildings on the right, remarkably all of these plots still survive. The Queen of Tarts is second from the left!
Indeed, the left-hand buildings possibly retain Goergian fabric behind their sober machine-made brick facades to this day, although I do remember reading a reference to the Exchange Street corner being comprehensively rebuilt – it may have been confused with the former newspaper offices on the corner with Parliament Street though. The viceregal warrants are a proud civic feature that has all but vanished from Dublin streets – sadly an element that could still be seen into the 1950s.
Turning the other direction and reeling back half a century, here is a rare view of one of the great institutional pairings in the city: the La Touche Bank to the left and the Newcomen Bank to the right. What a spectacle, when combined with the west front of the Royal Exchange, as one approached the gates of Dublin Castle. The steep incline, the gracious sweep in the road, the monumental sense of enclosure, the grandiose pretentions of the architecture: urban theatre at its very best.
The print is taken from the December 1788 edition of the Gentleman's Magazine. In the background a few Billys are scribbled in to heighten the sophistication of the new.
Christine Casey's memorable observation of the Castle being 'shamefully upstaged' by its sophisticated neighbours on Cork Hill is vividly brought home by such perspectives.
What a quirky little street Cork Street would have been! Has the space been kept it could have created a lovely "court" about the City Hall. The changed street layout also shows what an anachronism the retained "Cork Street" is, given that the street has no all but disappeared. It confuses the poor tourists to beat the band! All those hapless souls standing at the corner of City Hall desperately looking for Dame Street or Lord Edward Street and squinting to try and find Cork Hill on the map!
I think I remember reading that there was a late 1700s plan to construct a Square on the site of what is now Lord Edward St. If I remember correctly, it was to be called Richmond Sq.
You're thinking of 'Bedford Square', as shown on Rocque's map of 1756.
I don't think it ever really got off the ground and then they came up with the idea to build the Royal Exchange on the site and that was the end of that.
Bedford Sq was planned but never actually laid out despite being shown on the Map??
What a great thread this was – a grand twenty minutes whiled away.
It's a shame that the distinctive, symmetrically-planned rear of the 1927 Carnegie centre – seemingly with a first floor veranda for taking the air – was demolished for the Caste Gate apartments.


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Patriots girls rout Raiders in sectional semi
bgmsports@gannett.com
Annie Ramil scored a game-high 16 points to lead host Binghamton to a 52-35 girls basketball victory over Horseheads in a Section 4 Class AA semifinal Tuesday.
Second-seeded Binghamton (12-7) outscored the No. 3 Blue Raiders, 19-4, in the final period. Ramil scored eight points in the fourth quarter and Kaziah Russ had five of her 12 points in the last period. Lexi Gruss contributed four of her 13 points in fourth quarter, when Binghamton built on a 33-31 lead.
Defense carries SV into Class B title game
Express girls roll into Class AA final
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Waverly no match for Seton CC girls in semifinal
The Patriots advanced to the final against top-seeded Elmira, a 73-60 winner over Ithaca in Tuesday's other semifinal. The title matchup is scheduled for 5 p.m. Saturday at Floyd L. Maines Veterans Memorial Arena.
Jessica Schiefen led third-seeded Horseheads with 11 points. Alli Richmond contributed 10 points and her sister, Jenna, scored eight. Horseheads finished with a 10-11 record.
Vestal 60, Owego 26: Host Vestal used a 36-12 second half to defeat fourth-seeded Owego in a Section 4 Class A semfinal.
Leading, 24-14, at halftime, Vestal pulled away with a 17-9 third quarter. Johanna Gaffney scored all six of her points in the frame.
"That helped spark our run," said Vestal coach Joe Reynolds, whose team held the Indians to three field goals after halftime. "It seemed like every time we needed a big bucket, she hit one."
Gaffney also finished with eight rebounds and Amanda Fedor had six points and seven steals.
"She made a big difference, too," Reynolds said. "Fedor changed the pace for the game and created opportunities for other people. We got contributions from everybody."
Juliana Mushalla led all scorers with 16 points, and Alani Gallagher scored 12 points, including 8-for-11 free-throw shooting, 15 rebounds and two blocks for Vestal. Shelly Anderson contributed 11 points for the Golden Bears. Kaci Donovan paced Owego with 10 points.
Top-seeded Vestal (13-6) faces second-seeded Maine-Endwell in the final for the fifth straight year. M-E won the first two championships. Vestal is seeking a three-peat.
"We're very familiar with them, as they are with us," Reynolds said. "We'll look to execute like we did tonight. We'll play our game and try to get them out of theirs."
Maine-Endwell 58, Johnson City 36: Ashlynn McKnight had a game-high 17 points to help the host Spartans clinch a berth in the Section 4 Class A final.
With her team up by six entering the final period, Allison L'Amoreaux had nine of her 13 points in the fourth quarter for the Spartans. They outscored Johnson City, 19-3, over the last eight minutes. Vivian Ladd paced the third-seeded Wildcats (10-9) with 12 points.
No. 2 seed Maine-Endwell (11-8) will take on top-seeded Vestal (13-6) at the Floyd L Maines Veterans Memorial Arena at 1 p.m. Saturday. The last time the two teams played, Maine-Endwell won in double-overtime.
Watkins Glen 50, Elmira Notre Dame 37: Watkins Glen built a 16-point halftime lead and went on to a Section 4 Class C semifinal victory at Tompkins Cortland Community College.
Hannah Morse paced the top-seeded Senecas (18-2) with 15 points, including three 3-pointers. Mariah Gonzalez contributed 14 points and Amanda Pike scored 12.
Watkins Glen will go for its third straight Section 4 title when it meets second-seeded Bainbridge-Guilford (22-0) at 3 p.m. Saturday back at TC3. Midstate Athletic Conference champion B-G was a 46-37 winner over third-seeded Moravia in Tuesday's opening semifinal at TC3.
"We came out flat and they executed, to their credit," Notre Dame coach Mike D'Aloisio said. "We dug ourselves a hole. We made some adjustments in the third quarter. We got it to nine, but we used a lot of energy to get it back there, being down by 20 at one point."
Mary Foster scored 12 points for Notre Dame, which finished with a 14-7 record that included two wins in the Section 4 tournament. Three of the Crusaders' losses this season came to Watkins Glen.
Delhi 56, Hancock 32: Logan Bruce scored a game-high 16 points to lead host Delhi to a Section 4 Class D semifinal victory at SUNY Oneonta.
The second-seeded Bulldogs (20-2) led, 16-1, after one quarter and extended the cushion to 26-9 by halftime.
Anna Post contributed 11 points for Delhi, which will play top-seeded South Kortright at 3 p.m. Saturday back at SUNY Oneonta. The Rams (21-0) won their semifinal, 46-39, over fourth-seeded Stamford.
Laycee Drake had 15 points to lead third-seeded Hancock.
Norwich 69, Susquehanna Valley 53: Four players scored in double figures to lift top-seeded Norwich to victory in a Class B sectional semifinal. Norwich jumped ahead, 21-8, after the first quarter and built the lead to 39-20 by halftime.
Chris Jeffrey scored a game-high 21 points and grabbed nine rebounds for Norwich, which got 15 points from Dashawn King, 14 from Pop Veale and 10 from Tre Bonham.
The Purple Tornado shot 28-for-47 from the field, including 5-for-10 from behind the arc. Norwich also had 33 rebounds and 15 assists.
Austin Haskell led No. 4 seed SV with 19 points and Lucas Davy had 11.
Norwich (16-5) will play Seton Catholic Central or Waverly in the championship game at 7:45 p.m. Saturday at Floyd L. Maines Arena. SCC and Waverly play their semifinal Wednesday.
Mary Rakas, Paul Groover, Mark Mayes, Rob Centorani and Andrew Legare contributed.
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File #: Int 1095-2016 Version: * A Name: Universal driver's license for taxicab and for-hire vehicle drivers.
Type: Introduction Status: Enacted
Committee: Committee on Transportation
On agenda: 2/24/2016
Enactment date: 4/21/2016 Law number: 2016/051
Title: A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to a universal driver's license for taxicab and for-hire vehicle drivers
Sponsors: Ydanis A. Rodriguez, Costa G. Constantinides, Ben Kallos
Council Member Sponsors: 3
Summary: The bill would create a universal license for taxicab and for-hire vehicle drivers—eliminating separate licenses—and require that English language proficiency not be assessed through a written exam.
Indexes: Agency Rule-making Required
Attachments: 1. Legislative History Report, 2. Summary of Int. No. 1095-A, 3. Summary of Int. No. 1095, 4. Int. No. 1095 - 2/24/16, 5. February 24, 2016 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 6. Committee Report 2/29/16, 7. Hearing Testimony 2/29/16, 8. Hearing Transcript 2/29/16, 9. Committee Report 4/6/16, 10. Hearing Transcript 4/6/16, 11. April 7, 2016 - Stated Meeting Agenda with Links to Files, 12. Committee Report - Stated Meeting, 13. Hearing Transcript - Stated Meeting 4-7-16, 14. Int No 1095-A - FINAL, 15. Fiscal Impact Statement, 16. Mayor's Letter, 17. Minutes of the Stated Meeting - April 7, 2016, 18. Local Law 51
Prime Sponsor
4/21/2016 A Ydanis A. Rodriguez City Council Recved from Mayor by Council Action details Meeting details Not available
4/21/2016 A Ydanis A. Rodriguez Mayor Signed Into Law by Mayor Action details Meeting details Not available
4/21/2016 A Ydanis A. Rodriguez Mayor Hearing Held by Mayor Action details Meeting details Not available
4/7/2016 A Ydanis A. Rodriguez City Council Sent to Mayor by Council Action details Meeting details Not available
4/7/2016 A Ydanis A. Rodriguez City Council Approved by Council Pass Action details Meeting details Not available
4/6/2016 * Ydanis A. Rodriguez Committee on Transportation Hearing Held by Committee Action details Meeting details Not available
4/6/2016 * Ydanis A. Rodriguez Committee on Transportation Amendment Proposed by Comm Action details Meeting details Not available
4/6/2016 * Ydanis A. Rodriguez Committee on Transportation Amended by Committee Action details Meeting details Not available
4/6/2016 A Ydanis A. Rodriguez Committee on Transportation Approved by Committee Pass Action details Meeting details Not available
2/29/2016 * Ydanis A. Rodriguez Committee on Transportation Hearing Held by Committee Action details Meeting details Not available
2/29/2016 * Ydanis A. Rodriguez Committee on Transportation Laid Over by Committee Action details Meeting details Not available
2/24/2016 * Ydanis A. Rodriguez City Council Referred to Comm by Council Action details Meeting details Not available
2/24/2016 * Ydanis A. Rodriguez City Council Introduced by Council Action details Meeting details Not available
Int. No. 1095-A
By Council Members Rodriguez, Constantinides and Kallos
A Local Law to amend the administrative code of the city of New York, in relation to a universal driver's license for taxicab and for-hire vehicle drivers
Be it enacted by the Council as follows:
Section 1. Subdivision a of section 19-505 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 115 for the year 1993, is amended to read as follows:
a. No person shall drive any motor vehicle for hire which is regulated by the provisions of this chapter without first obtaining from the commission:
(i) a taxicab or universal driver's license, if the vehicle driven is a taxicab; or
(ii) a coach driver's license, if the vehicle driven is a coach; or
(iii) a for-hire vehicle or universal driver's license, if the vehicle driven is a for-hire vehicle; or
(iv) a wheelchair accessible van driver's license, if the vehicle driven is a wheelchair accessible van; or
(v) a commuter van driver's license, if the vehicle driven is a commuter van.
The issuance of a license to a person to drive any one of the aforementioned licensed vehicles shall not entitle such person to drive any other such licensed vehicle without first obtaining the additional appropriate driver's license, except that a person who has obtained a universal driver's license shall be entitled to drive a taxicab and for-hire vehicle without obtaining an additional commission-issued driver's license. The commission shall not issue taxicab driver's licenses or for-hire vehicle driver's licenses. Each taxicab driver's license and for-hire vehicle driver's license issued and in effect, including any such license which is suspended, shall be deemed a universal driver's license. For purposes of this section, a universal driver's license is a license which authorizes a driver to drive taxicabs and for-hire vehicles.
§ 2. Section 19-505 of the administrative code of the city of New York is amended by adding a new subdivision r to read as follows:
r. Any procedures established by the commission to determine the ability of an applicant for a universal driver's license to speak and understand English shall not include a written examination.
§ 3. Paragraph 1 of subdivision a of section 19-507.1 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 30 for the year 2014, is amended to read as follows:
(1) Any taxicab or for-hire vehicle driver may attend a remedial or refresher course approved by the commission. Upon presentation to the commission of proof of satisfactory completion of a commission-approved course by such driver, three points shall be deducted from the number of points assessed under the persistent violators program against his or her [taxicab or for-hire vehicle] commission-issued driver's license, except as otherwise provided in this paragraph. A taxicab or for-hire vehicle driver shall be eligible for a point reduction pursuant to this subdivision only once within a five-year period. In the event no such approved course is available at the time such driver seeks to enroll, such driver may take a course provided for in paragraph one of subdivision c of section 19-507.2 of this chapter. In such instance, completion of a course taken pursuant to this paragraph or pursuant to paragraph one of subdivision c of section 19-507.2 shall result in the removal of three points from either the number of points accrued under the persistent violators program or from the number of points accrued under the critical drivers program, but not from both, upon the election of the driver who completes such course.
§ 4. Subdivision b of section 19-507.1 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 30 for the year 2014, is amended to read as follows:
b. Any taxicab or for-hire vehicle driver who has been found guilty of violations of the commission's rules such that six or more points but fewer than ten points have been assessed against his or her [taxicab or for-hire vehicle] commission-issued driver's license within any fifteen-month period and whose license has not been revoked shall have his or her [taxicab or for-hire vehicle] commission-issued driver's license suspended for up to thirty days.
§ 5. Subdivision c of section 19-507.1 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 30 for the year 2014, is amended to read as follows:
c. Any taxicab or for-hire vehicle driver who has been found guilty of violations of the commission's rules such that ten or more points have been assessed against his or her [taxicab or for-hire vehicle] commission-issued driver's license within any fifteen-month period shall have his or her [taxicab or for-hire vehicle] commission-issued driver's license revoked.
§ 6. Subdivision e of section 19-507.1 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 30 for the year 2014, is amended to read as follows:
e. A taxicab or for-hire vehicle driver shall not be subject to an assessment of points against his or her [taxicab or for-hire vehicle] commission-issued driver's license or the imposition of duplicate penalties where the same act is a violation under provisions of law other than commission rules and where such violations duplicate each other or are substantively the same and any such driver may be issued only one summons or notice of violation for such violation. Points assessed pursuant to section 19-507.2 of this chapter may, pursuant to subdivisions i and j of this section, be added to points assessed by the commission under this section for violations of commission rules.
§ 7. Subdivision h of section 19-507.1 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 20 for the year 1999, is amended to read as follows:
h. For purposes of subdivision g of this section, examples of an owner's due diligence shall include, but are not limited to (1) giving to their drivers a clear warning that violations of the meter tampering rules will result in the immediate termination of any lease agreement, the reporting to the commission of driver tampering and the commission's probable revocation of the driver's [taxicab] commission-issued driver's license, (2) including in any written lease agreement provisions containing the warnings against violation of meter tampering rules, (3) stamping warnings about the illegality of meter tampering on the trip cards issued to all drivers of an owner's taxicabs, (4) having management personnel or mechanics periodically check for proper odometer and meter mileage comparisons in order to determine if there are inappropriate disparities between the two sets of figures, (5) conducting periodic random inspections of the taxicab meter and its wiring for all of its taxicabs to detect any evidence of violation of the meter tampering rules and (6) having all of such owner's taxicabs inspected by a licensed meter shop once every commission inspection cycle.
§ 8. Subdivision i of section 19-507.1 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 30 for the year 2014, is amended to read as follows:
i. Any taxicab or for-hire vehicle driver who has been found guilty of violations such that six or more points but fewer than ten points in total have been assessed within any fifteen-month period against his or her [taxicab or for-hire vehicle] commission-issued driver's license pursuant to this section and against the driver license issued to such taxicab or for-hire vehicle driver by the department of motor vehicles or an equivalent licensing agency of the driver's state of residence pursuant to section 19-507.2 of this chapter and whose [taxicab or for-hire vehicle] commission-issued driver's license has not been revoked shall have his or her [taxicab or for-hire vehicle] commission-issued driver's license suspended for up to thirty days; provided, however, that only points assessed against a [taxicab or for-hire vehicle] commission-issued driver's license for violations that threaten the safety of passengers or any other persons, as specified by rule of the commission, may be applied for purposes of this subdivision.
§ 9. Subdivision j of section 19-507.1 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as added by local law number 30 for the year 2014, is amended to read as follows:
j. Any taxicab or for-hire vehicle driver who has been found guilty of violations such that ten or more points in total have been assessed within any fifteen-month period against his or her [taxicab or for-hire vehicle] commission-issued driver's license pursuant to this section and against the driver's license issued to such taxicab or for-hire vehicle driver by the department of motor vehicles or an equivalent licensing agency of the driver's state of residence pursuant to section 19-507.2 of this chapter shall have his or her [taxicab or for-hire vehicle] commission-issued driver's license revoked; provided, however, that only points assessed against a [taxicab or for-hire vehicle] commission-issued driver's license for violations that threaten the safety of passengers or any other persons, as specified by rule of the commission, may be applied for purposes of this subdivision.
§ 10. Subdivision a of section 19-507.2 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 30 for the year 2014, are amended to read as follows:
a. Any taxicab or for-hire vehicle driver who has been found guilty of violations such that six or more points have been assessed by the department of motor vehicles or an equivalent licensing agency of the driver's state of residence against the driver license issued to such taxicab or for-hire vehicle driver within any fifteen-month period and whose [taxicab or for-hire vehicle] commission-issued driver's license has not been revoked shall have his or her [taxicab or for-hire vehicle] commission-issued driver's license suspended for thirty days.
§ 11. Subdivision b of section 19-507.2 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 30 for the year 2014, is amended to read as follows:
b. Any taxicab or for-hire vehicle driver who has been found guilty of violations such that ten or more points have been assessed by the department of motor vehicles or an equivalent licensing agency of the driver's state of residence against the driver license issued to such taxicab or for-hire vehicle driver within any fifteen-month period shall have his or her [taxicab or for-hire vehicle] commission-issued driver's license revoked.
§ 12. Subdivision b of section 19-515 of the administrative code of the city of New York, as amended by local law number 76 for the year 1986, is amended to read as follows:
b. For-hire vehicles shall have the name of the owner or operator displayed on the outside or inside of the vehicle in such form as shall be prescribed by the commission, except that the commission may prescribe an exemption from this requirement for classes of for-hire vehicles for which such display would be inappropriate. All for-hire vehicles must at all times carry in the glove compartment and produce upon demand of any police, peace, law enforcement officer, inspector or officer of the commission:
1. The for-hire vehicle license.
2. The driver's [for-hire vehicle-] commission-issued driver's license.
3. Evidence of current liability insurance or financial responsibility.
§ 13. This local law shall take effect 120 days after its enactment into law, except that the Taxi and Limousine Commission shall take all necessary action, including the promulgation of rules, prior to such effective date.
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Dr. Dre & Anderson .Paak Perform "Still D.R.E." & "The Next Episode"
Dr. Dre joined his protege, Anderson .Paak, during a performance in London on Tuesday.
The legendary West Coast producer and rapper took the stage at .Paak's Apple Music/Beats-sponsored free concert at O2 Brixton Academy, where he ran through a brief medley of his classic hits "Still D.R.E." and "The Next Episode" from 1999's 2001.
Although it was a rare public appearance for the reclusive Dr. Dre, his performance made it seem like the annual member of Forbes' Richest In Hip-Hop list had never left the spotlight.
Watch Dr. Dre's surprise performance with Anderson .Paak above.


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Binay seeks help from historians for overlooking Malvar as 2nd RP president 10/24/2011
Binay seeks help from historians for overlooking Malvar as 2nd RP president
Vice President Jejomar Binay has sought the help of historians in rectifying what could be an oversight in proclaiming revolutionary General Miguel Malvar as the rightful second President of the Philippines.
In his letter to National Historical Commission chairman Maria Serena Diokno and heads of history departments of various universities and colleges, Binay said he received information that Malvar was Gen. Emilio Aguinaldo's right-hand during the war against the United States and took over command when the latter (Aguinaldo) was captured by American forces in Palanan, Isabela.
Since he took over from Aguinaldo who was then the first Philippine president, Binay said some quarters are of the opinion that Malvar was the rightful second Philippine president. A bill bestowing such recognition to Malvar has been filed in the House of Representatives..... MORE
hindi maaring mauna pang maipasok si malvar as former rp president kaysa kay supremo andres bonifacio. at the very least isabay.
"The Vice President learned of the claim during preparations for the general's death centenary. Some sectors claim that since he was second-in-command, Malvar was the legitimate successor to the presidency after Aguinaldo's capture.
"The recognized second president of the country is Manuel Quezon, who served as president during the Commonwealth Period after the fall of the First Republic in Kawit, Cavite."
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import com.team2502.robot2017.Robot;
import com.team2502.robot2017.subsystem.GearBoxSubsystem;
import edu.wpi.first.wpilibj.command.Command;

public class GearPushGearCommand extends Command
{
    private final GearBoxSubsystem GearBoxSubsystem;

    public GearPushGearCommand()
    {
        requires(Robot.GEAR_BOX);
        GearBoxSubsystem = Robot.GEAR_BOX;
    }

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Watchmen Pilots Guide Premieres Renewal Scorecard TV's Top 5 Series Regular Grey's TWD
May 11, 2012 2:25pm PT by Lesley Goldberg, Lacey Rose
CW Renews 'Gossip Girl,' 'Nikita,' 'Hart of Dixie'; Cancels 'Ringer,' 'Secret Circle'
Nikita Maggie Q Wrath - H 2012
UPDATED: The renewals give Josh Schwartz and Stephanie Savage an impressive four series on the network's 2012-13 schedule.
The CW has renewed Gossip Girl and Nikita as well as freshman drama Hart of Dixie and ended the run of buzzy freshman dramas Ringer and The Secret Circle.
In a bid to fill its schedule with more original fare, the network's new president Mark Pedowitz is going on something of a pick-up/renewal spree. Earlier on Friday, The CW ordered to series five new offerings, including Arrow and The Carrie Diaries.
Gossip Girl's sixth-season pickup doesn't come as a surprise as there had been conversations about bringing back the Blake Lively-Leighton Meester hourlong for a final round because the actors' contracts expire next year. In January, executive producer Stephanie Savage told reporters that the Gossip Girl writers were leaving the story open at the end of season five. In an interview with The Hollywood Reporter later that month, she suggested that next season felt like "an organic ending point." Savage will remain showrunner, while Sara Goodman has been promoted to executive producer.
Nikita will be back for a third go-round. In its second season, the Maggie Q-Shane West action drama moved from its plum post-The Vampire Diaries time slot to 8 p.m. Fridays, where it faced stiff competition from the final season of NBC's outgoing spy dramedy Chuck. Thus far this season, it's averaging an 0.6 rating in the 18-49 demo.
The second-season pickup of Dixie, created by Leila Gerstein, brings Josh Schwartz and Savage's count to an impressive four series on the air next season. (With the pickup of NBC pilot The New Normal, Ryan Murphy can claim the same.) The Monday night drama stars Rachel Bilson as a fish-out-of-water New York doctor practicing down South. Dixie follows the network's move into shows with more procedural elements than heavily serialized dramas like Gossip Girl.
PHOTOS: Broadcast TV's Returning Shows for 2012-13 Season
Meanwhile, the network has canceled freshman dramas Ringer and The Secret Circle.
Ringer, the most buzzworthy of all the pilots coming into the fall season as it marked former Buffy the Vampire Slayer star Sarah Michelle Gellar's return to series TV, failed to live up to its hype. It opened to a modest 2.8 million viewers and a 1.2 rating in the 18-49 demo, a time-period success for The CW at the time. However, the freshman drama couldn't hold its footing, despite airing in multiple windows following the early demise of reality effort H8R, ending its season with a 0.5 in the demo and 1.2 million viewers. Not helping the serialized drama's case is Gellar's pregnancy.
Secret Circle, starring Life Unexpected's Britt Robertson, took over Nikita's post-Vampire Diaries slot, giving the network a block of programming from Kevin Williamson. The freshman drama, exec produced by Andrew Miller, earned a full-season order in October, when it was the network's best-performing new drama. After averaging 2.4 million viewers and a 1.0 in its first three weeks, Circle dimmed considerably. With both Circle and fellow freshman Hart of Dixie both drawing similar viewership, sources said the former's serialized nature -- making it harder for new viewers to come into the show -- worked against it. The series finale aired May 10.
Nikita, Dixie and Gossip join The Vampire Diaries, 90210 and Supernatural as having earned renewals at the youth-skewing network.
Philiana Ng contributed to this report.
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What Does Catholic Sisters' Apology for Racism Mean?
By Gina Ciliberto
Every year the Leadership Conference for Women Religious, an association made up of leaders of institutes for Catholic sisters in the United States, hosts an international assembly. This year, it opened with an apology.
"Before God and all who have been grievously harmed through the generations by Papal Bulls that sanctioned the African slave trade, which led to the chattel slavery of 12 million Black people, and the colonization of Native peoples and land, resulting in the genocide of up to 20 million Indigenous, I, Elise García, President of LCWR and a Dominican Sister of Adrian, Mich., — on behalf of our conference and members — acknowledge these sinful acts of our church, offer a profound apology, and pray for forgiveness," García said on Zoom in front of over 800 Catholic sisters and guests.
The assembly, which took place between Aug. 11-13, was entitled "The Realm of Transformation: Creating Space for the Future."
The president-elect, past president, and executive director of LCWR all followed García with similarly structured apologies while a segment of the Black spiritual "Were You There?" played intermittently. The apology segment lasted for around 10 minutes.
The conference has about 1350 members, who represent nearly 80 percent of the approximately 38,000 women religious in the United States. Founded in 1956, the conference "assists its members to collaboratively carry out their service of leadership to further the mission of the Gospel in today's world," according to its website.
As part of their work, LCWR commits to "calls," which are initiatives for prayer, learning, and action over the course of multiple years. In 2016, the conference affirmed a resolution committing themselves "to examine the root causes of injustice, particularly racism, and our [their] complicity as congregations, and to work to effect systemic change."
The 2016 call was intended to spur individual congregations to take action against racism. In 2020, after the murder of George Floyd by a police officer, LCWR encouraged members to "participate in LCWR's efforts to name and eradicate racism within themselves, their congregations, their ministries, and LCWR as an organization."
Shannen Dee Williams, a historian and author of the upcoming book Subversive Habits: Black Catholic Nuns in the Long African American Freedom Struggle (April 2022), commended the apology and "steady work of the (LCWR)."
"Like priests and members of the laity, sisters were never innocent bystanders in the brutal histories of colonialism, slavery, and segregation in the modern world," Williams told Sojourners in an email. "Nuns were violent and often unrepentant colonizers, slavers, and segregationists … It is heartening to see many white sisters, individually and collectively, taking the crucial first steps in acknowledging and apologizing for their sin histories of racism, especially anti-Blackness."
But Williams said that apologies should be just the beginning of anti-racism work for Catholic sisters. While some congregations such as the Georgetown Visitation Sisters and the Religious of the Sacred Heart have begun to confront their history as enslavers, "many congregations (including those that are LCWR members) with documented histories of slavery and segregation have not individually apologized for their histories of exploiting, excluding, and harming people of color," Williams wrote.
Anthea Butler, chair of religious studies and associate professor of religious studies and Africana studies at the University of Pennsylvania, also questioned what the ritual of repentance by LCWR really meant.
"This is a start.. but what does this apology/liturgy really mean? Does it get to the harm that was done? Are they directing it to Black Catholics and Black Nuns?" Butler wrote to Sojourners in an email. "I don't have enough information here to ascertain if this does anything at all."
"Does it get to the harm that was done? Are they directing it to Black Catholics and Black Nuns? I don't have enough information here to ascertain if this does anything at all." - Anthea Butler.
In response to Sojourner's request for an interview, LCWR declined to interview on their anti-racism work or say whether their efforts would include reparations in any form.
Williams hopes LCWR will mandate the teaching of Black and brown history and incorporate the best practices of anti-racism in all Catholic institutions such as schools, seminaries, and formation programs. She named efforts to combat voter suppression, mass incarceration, and racial inequalities in public sectors as goals LCWR ought to pursue.
"The question remains whether or not the Catholic Church can become a truly anti-racist institution," Williams told Sojourners.
Gloria Purvis, a Catholic and host of The Gloria Purvis Podcast, said that she would encourage Catholics to pay spiritual and financial reparations.
"I would like to see them really take on walking in the steps of the people who suffered, both white and Black people," Purvis told Sojourners. "We should also be reading about the loveliness of Black people, the resilience of Black people: there's a lot of wonderful, beautiful things about Black people that they've been denied knowing. White sisters need that kind of education, too."
When confronted with people who claim that financial reparations aren't possible, Purvis said such arguments are not "motivated by love."
"Give me a break," she said. "We put a man on the moon. We can do plenty when we put our minds to it — we can do it."
Gina Ciliberto
Gina Ciliberto is a writer who lives in Minneapolis, Minn. Follow her on Twitter @ginaciliberto.
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Laurence Capron | July 27, 2012
By Laurence Capron & Will Mitchell Companies tend to repeat what has worked for them in the past. In our research on the telecom industry, for example, we found that the great majority of the executives we surveyed preferred internal development to external sourcing when they needed to develop differentiated products and services. We get similar results in other industries, though the preferred growth mode may differ.
The reliance on a single growth mode is misplaced. The other key finding from our research is that firms prepared to grow in diverse ways outperform the ones that narrowly focus on one single mode. Specifically, we found that firms using multiple modes to obtain new resources were 46 percent more likely to survive over a five-year period than those using only alliances, 26 percent more likely then those using only M&A, and 12 percent more likely than those using only internal development. To succeed, therefore, managers have to learn when and how to abandon the strategies they have grown up with.
The latest firm to learn this lesson is the pharmacy chain Walgreens. Its story starts like many success stories do: An innovative concept coupled with a first-mover advantage, enabling a rapid physical expansion and generating increasing returns to scale. Walgreens was a pioneer in the "self-service" format that is now ubiquitous in general-purpose pharmacies, and it became the largest self-service retailer in the country through the green-field development of new stores and distribution centers.
But by the end of the 1990s, the company had run out of steam. Its business model was looking out-dated as the Internet and mail order channels became more important. Pharmaceutical benefit managers (PBMs) were also growing in strength and aggressiveness. There was a larger focus on generic drugs and generic drug leaders. And there was new domestic competition from stores like Target and Wal-Mart, as well as growth in emerging markets.
Walgreens initially responded to these challenges an internally-focused strategy. It created its own PBM and started an online pharmacy in addition to opening almost 1,000 new stores in the U.S. so as to increase coverage. The strategy had moderate success at first: Sales and assets grew gradually, while profitability remained stable and even grew slightly. But it was hard work and returns soon started falling off.
So in 2005 Walgreens started to break with its traditions. Over the past seven years, it has made a series of acquisitions and alliances to expand into new US regions and new product lines. In parallel, the company has divested activities that were no longer part of its growth strategy – including selling its PBM business, relying instead on contracts with other PBMs to supply drugs to their members. Walgreens has continued to use internally-driven growth where appropriate, but the change in its growth strategy is helping Walgreens to reposition itself in a dynamic environment.
This change in Walgreens' approach to growth has finally started to pay some dividends. After ten years of lagging the sector and, more importantly, archrival CVS, the company's share price has come back to life this year, posting a 20% rise in July.
The Walgreens story shows the dangers of becoming reliant on one growth strategy, even a successful one. When the environment changes, as it inevitably will, it is difficult to learn how to use new modes of obtaining key resources quickly and well. It has taken Walgreens almost a decade to learn how to use acquisitions and alliances to complement its internal development strength.
The moral of the story is that it is better not to fall into the trap of being reliant on a single growth strategy. Sustained profitable growth requires a balanced portfolio of growth strategies and the management capabilities to implement them. Firms that do not carefully weigh competing paths, but instead dutifully replicate a preferred past method — no matter how diligently they pursue it — will often stumble and fail. They will lose ground to firms that pursue more disciplined and multi-faceted approaches of reviewing, selecting, and balancing the different growth paths.
As for Walgreens, time will tell whether it maintains the discipline. The company's latest move —taking a 45% share in European health and beauty group Alliance Boots for $6.7 billion — has raised some eyebrows in the financial community: it is a surprisingly big bet on Europe in the midst of the euro crisis. But perhaps the bigger long term risk is that the company will fall into the trap of becoming to reliant on big acquisitions of this kind going forward and forgets the virtues of the other pathways to growth.
Laurence Capron is the Paul Desmarais Chaired Professor of Strategy & Director of "M&As and Corporate Strategy" Program at INSEAD. Will Mitchell holds the Anthony S. Fell Chair in New Technologies and Commercialization at the University of Toronto. They are coauthors of the book Build, Borrow, or Buy.
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Small Claims Court cases are handled in Pennsylvania at the Magisterial District Court. A lawyer is not required. The amount of the claim you are filing cannot exceed $12,000.00. A filing fee is required and depends on the amount of money in dispute. In addition to the filing fee, the plaintiff will need to pay for the defendant(s) to be served. If the plaintiff wins, these costs can potentially be recovered from the defendant.
The court allows a plaintiff to file a complaint through the mail, but a plaintiff should file it in person so the court clerk can notify you if there are any problems with your complaint. Additionally, you can pay the filing costs in person (which can be recovered if you prevail in your lawsuit). In addition to the filing fee, the plaintiff will have to pay a fee to have the Defendant served. Your complaint can be served on the defendant either by certified mail or by a sheriff or constable. Service by a sheriff or constable can cost more than by certified mail (but may be quicker because a person might not be home or refuse to accept a certified letter).
Where Should I File a Montour County Small Claims Court Case?
Once you locate what the appropriate court should be, you should contact the court to determine whether it is the appropriate place to file your claim. The plaintiff should also inquire from the clerk what the filing fee will be. The filing fee can be paid by the plaintiff when the case is actually filed. The plaintiff needs to complete the form "Civil Complaint." If the plaintiff intends to place confidential information on the "Civil Complaint," the plaintiff also needs to complete the "Confidential Information Form" which is located on the same page.
The phone number for 26-3-04 Magisterial District is: 570-271-3022. The fax number for 26-3-04 Magisterial District is: 570-271-3008.
Claims for $12,000 or less can also be filed in a court called common pleas court. However, the Magisterial District Court is not as formal and is cheaper than a case in common pleas court. The Common Pleas Court requires an attorney to handle your case. Magisterial District Court does not require an attorney.
Once the claim has been filed, the clerk will set a hearing between 12 and 60 days from the date of the filing of the claim. Prior to the hearing, you should gather all documents and papers related to your case. Both the plaintiff and defendant should also arrange to have any witnesses with knowledge about the case present in court on the date of the hearing. The hearing is open to the public and usually includes the following: judge, clerk, plaintiff, defendant, and any witnesses for either party. The courtroom is open to the public so anybody may be sitting in the gallery of the courtroom as well. At the beginning of the case (or calendar), the Magisterial District Judge will usually briefly explain the procedures used at the hearing. Plaintiff and Defendant will both be sworn in at the beginning to present testimony to the court. During the hearing, the plaintiff will be given an opportunity to testify about what happened that caused the plaintiff to file the claim. During this time, the plaintiff should present any evidence supporting the case including paperwork, receipts, records, photographs, or videos of the case. The court will then give the Defendant a chance to ask questions to the plaintiff. Once the plaintiff is finished, any witnesses the plaintiff brought will be sworn and have the chance to testify as well. The defendant will have the chance to ask questions for these witnesses too. Once the plaintiff is done, the defendant will have a chance to present testimony (and the plaintiff can ask questions of the defendant). The defendant can also bring witnesses to provide testimony to the judge as well. Once all the evidence has been presented, the judge will either make a decision at the hearing or within five days.
If the plaintiff prevails, the defendant may arrange to make payments on a twelve month installment plan (which will be set by the judge). Also, the defendant has thirty days to file an appeal to the Common Pleas Court. If there is an appeal, a Notice of Appeal is filed with the prothonotary in the county courthouse. A copy of the Notice of Appeal will be served on the judge (who made the decision) and the plaintiff in the case. The Notice of Appeal prevents the plaintiff from collecting any money until the appeal is decided. The plaintiff can also appeal the Magisterial District Judge's decision if the judge ruled for the defendant at the hearing.
Breach of contract is where a party to a contract either doesn't pay or doesn't perform what they are supposed to under the contract. A negligence case occurs when a party who is responsible to protect someone or something using due care, fails to do so. Negligence actions usually arise in an automobile accident or other times where someone sustains personal injuries or property damage.


Each summer, the UBC Faculty of Medicine welcomes British Columbia's next generation of health care professionals and researchers to our campuses across the province.
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Illustrative photo: Pixabay, CC0 Public Domain Over the past 15 years, the city has sold off most of its housing stock but now it seems to be changing its strategy, planning to build hundreds of new council apartments.
"Our first project has been prepared for the Černý Most housing estate and others could be designed within the horizon of two to three years," Petra Kolínská, the Deputy Mayor for urban planning, told Hospodářské noviny.
"The city is currently selecting locations where new apartments could be built in the future. We are also working on the concept of a housing policy which is based on the city's strategic plan," she said.
According to city councillor Radek Lacko, the construction works at Černý Most will get underway next year. The city plans to build 180 apartments with different dispositions, including flats for people with disabilities. Some of the apartments will be reserved for people working in care and emergency professions, such as doctors and firemen, and part will be rented for market rents.
The City Hall originally planned to build 250 smaller apartments, but changed its strategy due to the lack of larger flats suitable for families with children.
According to preliminary estimates, the project of council housing should cost around 500 million crowns. The construction will be financed from the State Fund for Housing Development, where the city currently has around three billion crowns it can call on.
According to the daily Hospodářské noviny, the 12 locations where new council houses could be built in the future include the districts Libeň, Vinohrady, and Troja.
It is not yet clear whether the city will cooperate with private investors, Hospodářské noviny wrote. The first cooperation of such a kind took place at the beginning of this year, when Skansa reality sold the city two flats from their new housing development for a symbolic price of 10,000 crowns each.