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Newsom proposes billions in spending cuts as California confronts $22.5B budget deficit
by Eli Walsh, Bay City News Foundation January 11, 2023 January 11, 2023
California Gov. Gavin Newsom reaffirmed his commitment to work with West Coast neighbors on fostering a low-carbon economy by signing a climate agreement on Thursday, Oct. 6, 2022 in San Francisco. (Olivia Wynkoop / Bay City News)
California faces a $22.5 billion budget deficit, Gov. Gavin Newsom said Tuesday as he proposed billions in cuts and deferred spending amid a significant drop in capital gains tax revenue.
After the state's revenue boomed a year ago due largely to a capital gains tax rate that reached nearly 10 percent, that revenue is now down by $29.5 billion year-over-year, as the capital gains rate fell to roughly 5.5 percent.
As a result, Newsom said, state officials have taken steps to pare down his budget proposal for the 2023-24 fiscal year and avoid dipping into the state's $35.6 billion in reserves.
The proposal would delay roughly $7.4 billion in spending to which the state had committed between 2021 and 2024 while reducing or pulling back some $5.7 billion in spending that had been planned over the prior two fiscal years.
"What this means is we're looking at investments that we've committed to over the multi-year, we'll continue those investments but we'll just delay some of those," Newsom said of the $7.4 billion in delayed spending.
The California State Capitol appears in an undated image. State lawmakers will soon have to grapple with a proposed budget that reflects the realities of declining tax revenue in a post-pandemic economy. (Wikipedia photo)
The proposal also shifts the source of some investments away from the state's general fund, using debt from previously issued bonds and other pools of state funding like the Greenhouse Gas Reduction Fund.
Some $4 billion in spending cuts in Newsom's proposal are so-called trigger cuts, and the spending would be restored next year if the state's revenue is high enough.
The trigger cuts are primarily centered on the state's allocations to combat climate change and expand the use of and access to zero-emission vehicles.
The state had previously committed to invest some $54 billion through 2026 to combat climate change, but Newsom's proposal reduced that to $48 billion, a total which the governor still classified as "unprecedented."
Prioritizing education, housing and Medicaid
Newsom noted that the deficit could have been even larger if state officials had not focused on one-time and short-term expenditures during last year's budget negotiations, which included allocating a surplus of nearly $100 billion.
Roughly 93 percent of that surplus was used for one-time spending instead of long-term spending projects.
"We're in the position we are today because we were not profligate as it relates to ongoing spending," Newsom said.
The proposed budget maintains large investments in the state's efforts to improve K-12 education and expand housing access as well as the state's plan to expand Medicaid access by Jan. 1, 2024 to all state residents who meet the program's income requirements, regardless of their immigration status.
"… We're looking at investments that we've committed to over the multi-year, we'll continue those investments but we'll just delay some of those."
Gov. Gavin Newsom
The budget allocates $128.5 Billion for K-12 education, representing nearly $24,000 per student across the state, and roughly $39.5 billion for the state's higher education system, a 2.1-percent decrease over the 2022-23 budget.
"This proposal, despite uncertainty surrounding the state's economic circumstances, reinforces the administration's commitment to (the California State University), it's belief in our mission and appreciation of our successes in transforming the lives of Californians," CSU Interim Chancellor Jolene Koester said in a statement.
University of California President Dr. Michael Drake also lauded Newsom's proposed investments in education.
"Governor Newsom has put forward a budget proposal that maintains his strong commitment to the University of California and allows us to continue our important work supporting all Californians," he said.
The proposal also shaves $350 million off the $11.2 billion in housing-related spending included in last year's budget, but those cuts will be restored in 2024 if the state's revenue allows.
A call for 'smarter spending'
In a statement, California Republican Party Chair Jessica Millan Patterson called for Newsom and other state leaders to prioritize "smarter spending" in light of the projected deficit.
"Californians would be best served by this failing governor working with Republicans to find real solutions to our state's biggest problems," she said.
Assemblyman Phil Ting, D-San Francisco, argued the state is well-positioned in spite of the reduced revenue, which will allow state officials to continue prioritizing spending on education, housing and health care.
"Thanks to this diligence, there are many solutions available to us to ensure that access to vital services and programs won't be cut," said Ting, the chair of the Assembly's Budget Committee.
Newsom will present a revised budget proposal in May based on updated tax revenue totals. State legislators have until June 15 to adopt the budget before the fiscal year begins on July 1.
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HARRISON—The repurposing of outdated suburban office buildings along the I-287 corridor along what had been known as the "Platinum Mile" took a historic turn to a new crossroads on Aug. 15 when Toll Brothers Apartment Living officially broke ground on the conversion of two outdated office buildings into a 421-unit luxury multifamily project.
At the groundbreaking ceremony, Toll Brothers executives were joined by Westchester County Executive Robert Astorino and representatives of the Town of Harrison, including its Mayor Ron Belmont. The project involves the demolition of two office buildings—103 Corporate Park Drive and 105 Corporate Park Drive—that will be replaced by Toll Brothers' Carraway development.
The project is a first for Toll Brothers Apartment Living and for the Town of Harrison. For Toll Brothers the project marks the firm's entrance into the Harrison and Westchester County multifamily markets. For the Town of Harrison and the I-287 office market, the project involves the first conversion of an office building to residential use. The Town of Harrison passed a zoning amendment that allows residential use along the corridor.
Toll Brothers acquired the two three-story office buildings and surrounding property from Normandy Real Estate Partners, the owner of The Exchange, a portfolio of suburban office buildings that border the Cross Westchester Expressway in White Plains and Harrison.
The 103 Corporate Park Drive totals 69,000 square feet and was built in 1967 and at one time served as the home for Joseph E. Seagram & Sons, which occupied the entire building. 105 Corporate Park Drive was built in 1985 and was a multi-tenanted property. Toll Brothers has already demolished 105 Corporate Park Drive and at the groundbreaking began demolition of the 103 Corporate Park Drive building.
The five-story Carraway building will feature a mix of 22 studio apartments, 217 one-bedroom and 182 two-bedroom units. Oos says the building will total approximately 500,000 square feet. Leasing and move-ins are projected for the fall of 2019 with a project completion penciled in for the summer of 2020. The complex will also feature retail on the first floor and an in-building parking garage.
Planned amenities at the luxury property include a club room, fitness center, kid's playrooms, pet spa, bike lounge, craft room, co-working lounge and swimming pool.
No financial details of the purchase or the project development were released. Bryan Oos, vice president of development at Toll Brothers, said the cost of the project is still being finalized.
Toll Brothers' Oos said that the company is studying the Westchester County market for additional multifamily developments. Toll Brothers currently has four for-sale residential developments in Westchester County—Summit Estates at Westchester in Valhalla and Westchester Estates at Wilson Park in Tarrytown that are both single-family developments. Its other properties in Westchester are townhome developments—the Enclave at Pleasantville and Toll Brothers at Valeria in Cortlandt Manor.
He said he expects the Carraway development will attract a variety of age groups, including millennials as well as empty nesters that are seeking to remain in the area.
Property owners in an attempt to turn around a moribund office market along the once popular I-287 corridor have turned to adaptive re-use projects. Office building properties have been converted to hotel use, educational use (Fordham University has its Westchester campus at 400 Westchester Ave.) and other uses, such as the former Journal News offices and printing facility on Gannett Drive, that was demolished to make way for a Life Time Fitness location.
Just down the road from the Toll Brothers Carraway location, Wegmans Food Markets, Inc. plans to build a stand-alone 125,000-square-foot store. Late last year the family-owned supermarket chain signed a purchase agreement with Normandy Real Estate Partners for a 20-acre parcel of land, located at 106-110 Corporate Park Drive in Harrison to build a new store.
Three office buildings will be demolished to make way for the new retail store. The four-story 106 Corporate Park Drive and 108 Corporate Park Drive, which were built in the early 1970s that each total approximately 102,000 square feet, and 110 Corporate Park Drive, a two-story 39,000-square-foot office building constructed in 1977.
Harrison Mayor Belmont told Real Estate In-Depth that the push for adaptive reuse of some properties along the I-287 corridor that prompted the town to pass zoning changes that included allowing residential use was made out of necessity.
The mayor related that at one time during the heyday of the Platinum Mile, office properties in the corridor shouldered 65% of the tax burden of the Town of Harrison, while residents paid the remaining 35%. He said that since that time, the tax burden has reversed with the office properties along Westchester Avenue paying approximately 35% of the tax burden, with residential homeowners kicking in the 65% share at the moment.
Also, along the Platinum Mile, Simone Development has proposed building a new medical office building in its Purchase Professional Park complex. Mayor Belmont said that at the moment there are no other proposed office to residential conversion projects in the pipeline.


Beer at a Walmart in Kissimmee, Florida. Some states permit alcoholic beverages to be sold at all stores selling groceries while others have more restrictive laws, with laws of many states specifying different restrictions for different categories of alcoholic beverages.
The following table of alcohol laws of the United States provides an overview of alcohol-related laws by first level jurisdictions throughout the US. This list is not intended to provide a breakdown of such laws by local jurisdiction within a state; see that state's alcohol laws page for more detailed information.
On July 17, 1984, Congress passed the National Minimum Drinking Age Act. The bill would force all states to raise their drinking age from 18, 19, or 20 to 21. States that did not choose to raise their drinking age to 21 would risk losing 10% (Changed to 8% in 2012) of federal highway funding as a penalty. As of July 1988, all 50 states and the District of Columbia had a minimum purchase age of 21, with some grandfather clauses, and with the exception of Louisiana's complicated legal situation that was not resolved until July 2, 1996.   Prior to 1988, the minimum purchase age varied by jurisdiction. After Congress passed the Act, states not in compliance had a portion of their federal highway budget withheld. South Dakota and Wyoming were the final two states to comply, in mid-1988. However, most states continue to allow those under 21 to drink in certain circumstances. Examples are some states like Tennessee and Washington, which allow those under 21 to drink for religious purposes. States including Oregon and New York allow those under 21 to drink on private non-alcohol selling premises.
Unlike on the mainland, the U.S. territories of Puerto Rico and the U.S. Virgin Islands have a minimum purchase and drinking age of 18. The minimum purchase age is 21 in the Northern Mariana Islands, Guam, American Samoa, and US Minor Outlying Islands.
U.S. military reservations are exempt under federal law from state, county, and locally enacted alcohol beverage laws. Class Six stores in a base exchange facility, officers' or NCO clubs, as well as other military commissaries which are located on a military reservation, may sell and serve alcohol beverages at any time during their prescribed hours of operation to authorized patrons. [i] While the installation commander is free to set the drinking age, with some exceptions, most stateside military bases have a drinking age that mirrors the local community.
Individual states remain free to restrict or prohibit the manufacture of beer, mead, hard cider, wine, and other fermented alcoholic beverages at home.  Homebrewing beer became legal in all 50 states in 2013 as the governor of Mississippi signed a bill legalizing homebrewing on March 19, 2013 and as the governor of Alabama signed a bill legalizing homebrewing of beer and wine which came into effect on May 9, 2013.  The Mississippi bill went into effect July 1, 2013.  Most states allow brewing 100 US gallons (380 L) of beer per adult per year and up to a maximum of 200 US gallons (760 L) per household annually when there are two or more adults residing in the household.  Because alcohol is taxed by the federal government via excise taxes, homebrewers are prohibited from selling any beer they brew. This similarly applies in most Western countries. In 1979, President Jimmy Carter signed into law a bill allowing home beers, which was at the time not permitted without paying the excise taxes as a holdover from the prohibition of alcoholic beverages (repealed in 1933).   This change also exempted home brewers from posting a " penal bond" (which is currently $1000.00).
In land or property that is being rented or owned by the federal government, state, federal district, and territory alcohol laws do not apply. Instead, only laws made by the federal government apply.
Alcohol may be served 24 hours a day unless restricted by local ordinances. Twenty-six of Alabama's 67 counties do not allow the sale of alcohol. However, possession and consumption remain legal within those 26 counties. Of the 26 "dry" counties, 23 have at least one "wet" city; these are considered "moist" dry counties. Within those 23 counties there are 43 wet cities. State law allows any city with a population greater than 1,000 located within a dry county to "go wet" if a referendum is passed by 50% of voters. State retains monopoly over wholesaling of distilled spirits only.
Distilled spirits (liquor) are purchasable in either state-owned retail liquor stores, known as ABC Stores, or privately owned retail liquor stores. Privately owned retail liquor stores tend to be open on Sundays, public (federal & state) holidays, and later hours than state-owned liquor stores.
Yes 21 21 Exception: Underage drinking allowed for religious  and medical purposes  Sales of any type of alcohol are legal at any store that has an off-premises liquor license, including but not limited to convenience stores and grocery stores. Bars may sell closed containers of alcohol for consumption off the premises. Drive-through liquor stores are allowed. Everclear Grain Alcohol Proof 190 (95% alcohol) is legal. A large percentage of the land area of Arizona is in Indian reservations, many of which have liquor laws considerably more restrictive than state law, up to and including total prohibition. "Beer busts" (all the beer/liquor one can drink for a set price) in bars are illegal. Persons 18 years of age or older may work in bars and liquor stores serving and selling alcohol. Patrons may not purchase for on premises consumption more than 50 ounces of beer, 1 liter of wine or 4 ounces of distilled spirits at one time.  DUI penalties are some of the most severe in the nation. A person convicted of a DUI (even first offense) must have an interlock installed in his car for one year. Arizona has an 'Impaired to the Slightest Degree' law that can convict a person even if his BAC is less than .08%.
10 a.m. – 5 a.m. (Class B license) 7 a.m. – 1 a.m.
(Generally prohibited on Sundays, but exceptions can be made through local option.) Yes No 21 21 No exceptions to the law Has numerous dry counties and other dry areas, but private clubs can serve even in dry areas.
No sales on Christmas Day.
Alcohol sales are permitted 24 hours a day 7 days a week regardless of holiday in state casinos.
California No 6 a.m. – 2 a.m. Yes 21 21 Exception: A minor will not be penalized for consuming alcohol if discovered or reported through a medical emergency.  Relatively unrestricted; beer, wine and liquor available at grocery stores, convenience stores, gas stations, and warehouse clubs. No statewide holiday restrictions.
You may serve alcohol if you are at least 21 years of age.
City and county governments can set different sale hours.
Yes No* 21 21 Exception: Underage consumption allowed on private non-alcohol selling premises with parental consent, for religious, medical, and educational purposes.  Spirituous, vinous & malt liquor available in liquor stores and liquor-licensed drug stores only.
Liquor stores closed on Christmas Day. Sunday sales restriction lifted on July 1, 2008. Liquor stores and liquor-licensed drug stores may have only one location, while beer may be sold in gas stations, supermarkets, and convenience stores. As of January 1, 2019, such establishments may sell full-strength beer.  Appropriately licensed businesses may sell beer for both on and off-premises consumption. A small number of grocery stores are licensed as drug stores and sell full strength beer, wine, and spirits. As an example, a chain grocery store that has pharmacy services at most or all locations may elect a single location in the chain as the licensed establishment to sell beer, wine, and spirits.
11 a.m. – 1 a.m. (Sun.) 8 a.m. – 10 p.m. (Mon.–Sat.) 10 a.m. – 6 p.m. (Sun.) Yes No 21 Exception: No explicit age if a present legal guardian is 21 or older  21 Exception: Underage consumption is allowed on private non alcohol selling premises with parental consent, for medical and religious purposes, and on alcohol selling premises with parental consent.  Sunday off-premises sales allowed as of May 20, 2012;   Sunday on-premises sales subject to local ordinances.
Beer can be purchased at grocery/convenience stores. Spirits and wine can be purchased only at liquor stores.
No off-premises alcohol sales on Thanksgiving, Christmas Day, and New Year's Day.
Open container law applies only to drivers, not passengers.
8 a.m. – 3 a.m. Fri.–Sat.
No retail sale of wine in containers larger than 1 gallon. FS 564.05 Supermarkets and other licensed business establishments may sell beer, low-alcohol liquors, and wine. Liquor must be sold in dedicated liquor stores which may be in a separate part of a grocery or a drug store. As of July 1, 2015, the restriction on 64 ounce refillable containers, or growlers, has been lifted and beer may be sold in quantities of 64 ounces, in addition to the previously legal 32 and 128 ounce sizes.
Georgia No Hours of sale determined by local jurisdiction. No alcohol sales on Christmas Day. Yes No 21 21 Exception: Underage drinking allowed on non-alcoholic premises with parental consent, and for religious and medical purposes.  14% ABV cap on beer.
In general, one may not be drunk in public. Though there is no state law prohibiting drinking in public, most municipal corporations and political subdivisions limit the possession of open containers of alcohol to private property, with notable exceptions being Savannah and Roswell. A charge of public drunkenness is only warranted when one is drunk in public and his acts are either loud or disorderly.
Idaho No Yes 6:00 a.m. to 2:00 a.m., 7:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. in some counties Yes No Alcoholic beverages exceeding 16% ABV can only be sold in Idaho State Liquor Dispensary stores, or contracted stores.
Illinois No Depending on local government; 24-hour bars are permitted in Cicero; a handful of 21- to 22-hour bars exist in Cook County, and the Metro East. In Rock Island County, many establishments sell alcohol 24 hours a day. Yes Opening/closing hours are up to the decision of counties or municipalities.
Indiana No 7 a.m. – 3 a.m. 7 a.m. – 3 a.m.
Noon - 8 p.m. on Sunday. Yes Indiana prohibits the sales of cold beer by grocery stores or gas stations, but allows cold beer to be sold from liquor stores (IC 7.1-5-10-11).
Minors, including babies, are not allowed to enter a liquor store.
Indiana has a photo identification requirement for all off-premises transactions to anyone who is or reasonably appears to be less than forty (40) years of age. (See IC 7.1-5-10-23).
8 a.m. – 2 a.m. Sun  Yes If a controlled substance is detected in a person's system at or near the time they were operating a motor vehicle, they can be charged and potentially convicted of operating while intoxicated (OWI) even if they were not "impaired" by that substance.
noon - 7 p.m. or 8 p.m. (Sun) (in communities which allow Sunday off-premises sales) Yes (6.0% ABV maximum) No 21 21 No exceptions to the law Kansas's alcohol laws are among the strictest in the United States. Kansas prohibited all alcohol from 1881 to 1948, and continued to prohibit on-premises sales of alcohol from 1949 to 1987. Sunday sales only have been allowed since 2005. Today, 29 counties still do not permit the on-premises sale of alcohol. 59 counties require a business to receive at least 30% of revenue from food sales to allow on-premises sale of alcohol. Only 17 counties allow general on-premises sales. Not all communities which allow off-premises sales allow sales on Sunday. Sales are prohibited on Christmas and Easter.
Beer containing no more than 6.0% alcohol by volume may be sold in grocery and convenience stores. Prior to April 1, 2019, the only alcoholic beverage which grocery stores and gas stations were allowed to sell was beer with no more than 3.2% alcohol by weight. Other liquor sales only are allowed at state-licensed retail liquor stores. Kansas has comprehensive open container laws for public places and vehicles, public intoxication laws, and requirements for prospective on-premises or off-premises licensees.
Kentucky No 6 a.m. to 4 a.m. on Monday through Saturday 1 p.m. to 4 a.m. on Sundays Yes No Local ordinance may vote to permit Sunday sales at restaurants. Sales 2–4 a.m. only in Louisville. As of 2005 Sunday sales were allowed per state law, but may still be prohibited in some areas by local ordinance (as of early 2006, such a situation existed with smaller cities within Louisville Metro, though these cities have since changed local ordinances).
Alcohol sale restriction and wet/dry (both by drink and package) allowed by both county and city local option. Approximately 39 counties in the state (mostly eastern and southern counties) are dry, all alcohol sale and possession prohibited; 22 "moist" counties (with "wet" cities allowing package liquor sales in counties otherwise dry); 29 counties that are otherwise dry but have communities with local option that allow sales of liquor by the drink or under special exemptions allowing sales at wineries. Majority of wet counties are around major metropolitan areas (Louisville, Lexington, Covington, Bowling Green). Note: Beginning in 2013 Liquor by the drink and beer by the drink are available on Sundays in Louisville, KY beginning at 10:00 am. Bowling Green, KY recently began allowing Sunday sales in December 2013 for carry-out beer, wine, and liquor. Prohibition on liquor sales on Election Day was repealed effective June 24, 2013. Kentucky was one of only two states to still have Election Day prohibition, the other being South Carolina.
The sale, handling, transport, or service in dispensing of any alcoholic beverage pursuant to lawful ownership of an establishment or to lawful employment of a person under twenty-one years of age by a duly licensed manufacturer, wholesaler, or retailer of beverage alcohol.
Packaged alcoholic beverages of any strength may be sold in supermarkets, drug stores, gas stations, and convenience stores. Local municipalities may not restrict this. As a result, dedicated "liquor stores" are mostly specialty stores in larger cities, and some supermarkets have large selections of liquors and wines, and compete on the basis of liquor prices and selection.
Alcohol can be consumed in the streets of New Orleans as long as it is in an "unbreakable container" (no glass) and may be taken from club to club if both establishments allow it. Otherwise, it depends on the locality. Most parishes other than Orleans Parish do not permit alcoholic beverages served on premises to be carried out. However, many parishes and municipalities permit consumption of packaged beverages (for example, cans of beer) on the street. Glass bottles on the streets are prohibited. One can enter most bars at 18 years of age but must be 21 years old to purchase or consume alcohol. Also, it is legal in the state of Louisiana for a legal parent or guardian to purchase alcoholic beverages for their underaged child.
Maryland Variable by locality Variable by locality Variable by locality Variable by locality Baltimore County prohibits the sale on Sunday in some areas.
In the counties of Montgomery, Somerset, Wicomico, and Worcester sale of alcoholic beverages are controlled directly by the county Liquor Control Boards, there are exceptions in Montgomery where some liquors are still sold in grocery store due to being grandfathered before the change of the law.
Garrett County prohibits the sale on Sunday except in some areas.
The sale of alcohol at grocery and convenience stores varies by county.
There are no dry counties, but some individual voting districts within counties restrict or prohibit alcohol on a local-option basis.
Yes 21 21 The Michigan Liquor Control Commission allows the sale of alcoholic beverages until 11:59 p.m. on December 24 and after 12:00 p.m. on December 25. On-premises sales are permitted on January 1 until 4:00 a.m. Local or county ordinance may restrict Sunday or Sunday morning sales. State does not operate retail outlets; maintains a monopoly over wholesaling of distilled spirits only.  State owns liquor until purchased and distributor acts as a delivery service for cases sold to retailers.
No sales on Christmas Day. No state open container laws. Complimentary alcohol all day and night in coastal casinos.
In most counties, alcohol cannot be sold on Sundays. There are many dry counties in which it is illegal to possess alcoholic beverages, though some cities within dry counties have voted in beer sales.
Sales permitted until 3:00 am in those Kansas City and St. Louis bars grandfathered into the ability to double as liquor stores.
No state public intoxication law.
State preemption of local alcohol laws which do not follow state law.
Certain bars in Kansas City and St. Louis grandfathered into the ability to double as liquor stores.
Montana No Yes Closing 2am No alcohol sales between 2 am and 8 am Yes Distilled spirits cannot be sold in grocery stores 21 Minors can consume alcohol purchased by a parent or guardian in a private location.  ABV > 16% wine sold in state-contracted stores, ABV < 16% may be sold in grocery stores. Some local ordinances restrict alcohol sales on Sundays. State run liquor stores are closed on Sundays.
Nebraska No 6 a.m. – 1 a.m. Legislation passed in 2010 allows for municipalities to extend on-premises sales to 2 a.m. with two-thirds approval of city or county councils.  Yes No on- or off-premises sales of spirits before noon on Sundays. All beer, wine, and champagne can be sold starting at 6 a.m.
New Hampshire No Yes 6 a.m. – 1 a.m. 6 a.m. – 11:45 p.m. Yes No Liquor sold in state-run stores, many found at highway rest areas.
14% ABV cap on beer. State is wholesaler of wine. State taxes beer $0.30/gal at the wholesale level.
New Jersey No Each municipality can control hours by local ordinance. Most municipalities have a last call of 2 or 3 a.m. Atlantic City, Brigantine, Absecon, Elwood, Pomona, Smithville, Galloway, and Mullica (All in Atlantic County) serve 24 hours. There are some dry towns in the southern part of the state, including Ocean City. 9 a.m.-10 p.m. for liquor. Beer and wine can be sold at any time on-premise sales are permitted in that municipality. This causes most liquor stores to close at 10 PM, however some will stay open an hour later selling only beer and wine. Cities of the first class (e.g. Jersey City and Newark) are exempt from this law and may set their own hours for liquor sales.  Rarely 21 21 (unless provided by parent or guardian in private) Some dry communities in historically Methodist and Quaker communities in the southern part of the state.
Though there is not a ban on selling alcoholic beverages at grocery stores, New Jersey limits each chain to two licenses, so with only a few exceptions, most supermarkets/convenience stores/gas stations/pharmacies do not sell alcoholic beverages. In addition, liquor sales are only permitted in a separate department or attached sister store.
The ability of a "liquor store" to sell other items, such as convenience store fare, is determined by municipality. Many towns permit beer/wine/liquor stores to sell non-alcohol items including convenience store items at the same register. In such towns, grocery stores including chains may theoretically apply for and receive a liquor license if the company does not already have two in the state.
Bars are allowed to off-sale packaged goods.
With the exception of Jersey City and Newark, all municipalities MUST allow off-sales of beer and wine at any time on-sales are permitted. However, since alcoholic beverages are generally only found in package stores, this right is rarely exercised.
Alcoholic beverages by the drink as well as off-sales of beer and wine are permitted 24 hours a day in Atlantic City and Brigantine.
7 a.m. – 11 p.m., except Sundays, for restaurants with beer and wine license.
7 a.m. – midnight except Sundays  Yes New Mexico issues two types of license for consumption on-premises: a full dispenser license allowing sale of all types of alcohol, or a restaurant license permitting sale of beer and wine only. An additional Sunday permit is available which allows sale (on or off premises) on Sundays from noon until midnight. Exceptions are the prohibition of alcohol sale on Christmas, regardless of the day it falls on,  and a Sunday permit allowing of sale (on or off premises) until 2:00 a.m. January 1, if December 31 falls on a Sunday.  Sunday permits are only available where approved by voters within a local option district.  Selling, serving and giving alcohol to a minor is a class 4 felony punishable by up to 18 months in prison,  except when "a parent, legal guardian or adult spouse of a minor serves alcoholic beverages to that minor on real property, other than licensed premises, under the control of the parent, legal guardian or adult spouse",  or for religious purposes.
Some counties may retain the Sunday morning beer prohibition which the state discontinued as of July 30, 2006. Twelve dry towns, mostly in western region of state. Many counties have more restrictive off-premises hours, such as bans on beer sales overnight (hours vary). All liquor stores must be owned by a single owner, who owns that store and lives within a certain distance of it—effectively banning chain liquor stores from the state. New York City law does not allow open containers of alcohol in public.
Distilled spirits may not be sold within 200 feet of a school, church, synagogue or other place of worship.
Noon – 2 a.m. (Sun) No 21 No off-sale on Thanksgiving Day. No Christmas Day on-sale, nor sales on Christmas Eve after 6 p.m.
Ohio No Yes 5:30 a.m. – 2:30 a.m. 5:30 a.m. – 1 a.m.
Yes, under 21% ABV 21 21 or older, unrestricted under supervision of individual's parent or legal guardian or legal age spouse  12% ABV cap on beer was removed on May 31, 2016.  21% ABV cap on wine.
Some counties have more restrictive off-premises hours.
The Division of Liquor Control does not operate retail outlets; it appoints private businesses to act as its agents and sell its products in exchange for a commission. Normal proof spirits (>21% ABV) are sold only in a limited number of agent stores. Many retail outlets sell diluted spirits (diluted by water to 21% ABV) under a more readily obtained permit.
Sunday sales vary by county.
Grocery stores: 6 a.m. - 2 a.m. seven days a week including holidays.
Yes No 21 Consumption by those under 21 is not prohibited in private settings, where supervised by a parent or guardian. As of October 1, 2018, strong beer (up to 9% ABV) and wine (up to 15% ABV) can be sold in grocery and convenience stores, and can be sold refrigerated. Prior to this date, only 3.2% ABV beer could be sold in these outlets, and liquor stores could only sell strong beer and wine at room temperature. Distilled spirits are only available in package liquor stores. State law prohibits public intoxication, many counties and cities also prohibit public intoxication.
Yes* No 21 Spirits can only be sold at state-operated stores. All persons must be at least 21 years of age to enter a state-operated liquor store alone. Beer is not sold at state-operated liquor stores.
Beer (but not wine) to go can be purchased at beverage outlets in any quantity. Prior to 2015 beverage centers could only sell 24 pack cases or greater. The rules were relaxed to permit sales of beer in any quantity in 2016.
Sunday sales were prohibited in LCB stores until 2003 (selected locations) and beverage outlets (owner's option) until 2005.
Special permits may be purchased for certain organizations for fundraisers once per calendar year, and are valid for a total of six days under the same rules governing restaurants.  Grain alcohol prohibited as a beverage.
10 a.m. – 6 p.m. (Sun)  No 21 21 All alcohol may be sold only in liquor stores.
Bars may stay open until 2 a.m. in Providence only on Friday and Saturday nights and nights before a state-recognized holiday.
No hard liquor sales after 7 p.m. and none on Sundays.
Tennessee No Mon-Sat: 8 a.m. to 3 a.m.; Sun: Noon to 3 a.m. Hours of alcohol sale can be modified by local jurisdictions if approved by the alcohol control commission. Beer: By municipality.
Wine & Spirits: 8 a.m. to 11 p.m. Mon–Sat, 10 a.m. to 11 p.m. Sun   Yes No 21 Wine may be sold in grocery stores. Liquor stores may remain open on Sundays, and liquor is permitted to be sold from retail stores for off-premises consumption.There are no liquor sales in OFF Premise Grocery Stores as of 8/2018.  Retail package stores must be closed for business on Christmas, Thanksgiving Day, and Easter. Beer above 8% ABW /10.1% ABV must be sold in liquor stores. Open container law only applies to drivers, not passengers.  It is legal to carry alcohol in a non-glass container on the Beale Street stretch in Memphis. While most clubs allow drinks to be carried outside, many do not allow drinks from outside.
Sunday: Noon to 12 midnight.
10 a.m. to 9 p.m. (Mon.-Sat.) Yes No 21 No alcohol cap but ABV > 15.5% requires additional license, so many places are beer/wine only.
Wet/dry issues determined by city/county election.
Liquor stores statewide closed all day Sunday.
An alcoholic beverage served (on-premises) to a customer between 10 a.m. and noon on Sunday may only be provided during the service of food to the customer. Eleven Texas counties are completely dry.  In many counties, public intoxication laws are vigorously upheld.  Texas law permits consumption by minors (any age under 21) if in the "visible presence" of a parent, guardian or adult spouse. (Section 106.04) Possession by minors is permitted as part of employment or education, or in the visible presence of an adult parent, guardian or spouse, or supervision of a commissioned peace officer. (Section 106.05) There are also exemptions for minors requesting or receiving medical attention.
Utah Yes Restaurants: Noon to midnight for liquor, 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. for beer. Bars may serve liquor from 10:00 a.m. to 1:00 a.m. Varies by state liquor store hours 3.2 only No 21 ABV > 4.0+% sold in state-controlled stores only. 3.2% ABW (4.0% ABV) beer may be sold at grocery stores and convenience stores. State-controlled stores close on Sundays and cease operations no later than 10 p.m. the rest of the week. Restaurants must buy from the state-controlled store (no delivery) at retail prices. No alcohol is served in restaurants without purchase of food. Sales of kegs prohibited. Importation of alcohol into the state by private individuals generally prohibited.
Vermont No Yes 8 a.m. – 2 a.m. 6 a.m. – midnight Yes No 21 ABV > 16% beer and ABV > 16% wine are only available through state liquor stores (most of which are integrated within grocery and beverage stores ). A 2008 bill allows the sale of beer in grocery and convenience stores up to ABV 16%.
Virginia No Yes 6 a.m. – 2 a.m. No restrictions at any time for club licensees. 6 a.m. – 11:59 p.m. except local blue law. Yes No 21 Licensed supermarkets, convenience stores, and gas stations may sell beer and wine. Off-premises sales no later than 12 midnight. Liquor stores are owned and operated by the Commonwealth and are generally open 10am-9pm Monday-Saturday and from 12pm-6pm on Sunday.
Washington No 6 a.m. – 2 a.m. (A local government subdivision may establish later opening hours or earlier closing hours.) Yes 21 Beer and wine are available in specialty stores, grocery stores, convenience stores, department stores, taverns, and other locations licensed by the Washington State Liquor and Cannabis Board. Spirits are available in stores greater than 10,000 sq ft (grocery stores, big box liquor chains). There are two exceptions to the 10,000-sq-ft rule: 1) Former State and Contract Liquor Stores that reopened under private ownership may also sell spirits provided they have been issued a new license from the state. 2) Cities, mostly in rural areas, that do not have a store that meets the minimum floor space may be allowed to sell spirits if the Liquor Control Board deems that there are no sufficient establishments within the trade area.
Mon-Fri:7 am-3:30 am, Sat: 7A-3:00A, Sun:1 pm-3 am Yes 21 12% ABV Cap on Beer. 75% ABV spirits Permitted. Liquor, wine and beer products that are not already in closed packaging must be bagged before exiting retail locations. State no longer operates retail stores (formerly State ABC Stores); Number of privately owned stores restricted according to county or city population. All stores are state contracted; Bars and clubs must purchase liquor from state contracted private stores in person. State retains monopoly over wholesaling of distilled spirits only.
Wisconsin No 6 a.m. – 2 a.m. Sunday–Thursday, 2:30 a.m. Friday–Saturday, no closing time on New Year's Day. 6 a.m. – midnight for beer (some counties and municipalities only allow sales until 9 p.m. for beer), 6 a.m. – 9 p.m. for liquor and wine By local ordinance 21 Wisconsin permits the consumption of alcohol by minors, provided they are being supervised by parents/guardians/spouses. Most municipalities have a uniform 9 p.m. restriction on all alcohol sales. Notable exceptions: Kenosha, Green Bay, La Crosse, Maple Bluff (near Madison), Baraboo (near the Dells). Supermarkets, liquor stores, and gas stations may sell liquor, wine, and beer. Law changed effective 12/7/2011 to allow all liquor sales to begin at 6 a.m.
Nonalcoholic beer is not regulated by state law.
Puerto Rico No No territory-wide mandated last call No territory-wide mandated hours of operation for liquor stores, but sales prohibited on Election Day and during hurricane emergencies; some municipalities prohibit sales after midnight weekdays or 2:00 weekends. Beer, wine and spirits available for sale in supermarkets, convenience stores and drug stores as well as liquor stores. 18 Minimum drinking age is 18.
Drinking on the street is illegal in San Juan (except in designated areas during selected street festivals) but not in all cities.
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Q: Automatically run Travis-ci with svn repo? Is it possible to run travis-ci using a svn repo the same way as github is used?
It seems that I can only trigger a rebuild when there is a push to github - but would it be possible to setup a script which triggers a push or a rebuild whenever the svn repo has changed, or mirror the svn repo automatically to github?

A: I haven't found a direct solution, but one could mirror the svn repo to GitHub and trigger a rebuild from there.

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Any player under the age of 16 registered as a player in the following York leagues can attend the above fixture, free of charge when attending with an adult season ticket holder, or full paying adult.
To be eligible to qualify for this promotion, players would be required to wear their junior club shirts with pride.
The junior league side with the most players attending, win the chance to play a fixture at Bootham Crescent, against a league representative eleven (chosen from other players who have registered at the fixture).
All players who attend will also be issued with a raffle ticket, for a draw to be done by league officials, to win footballs donated by York & Ryedale Mitchell League.


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Die Spreizschwänze (Erythrocercus) sind eine Singvogelgattung, die mit drei Arten im tropischen Afrika vorkommt.

Beschreibung
Es handelt sich um kleine, den Fliegenschnäppern (Muscicapidae) ähnelnde Vögel, die eine Kopf-Rumpf-Länge von 10 bis 11 cm erreichen. Zu den Merkmalen der Gattung zählen ein abgerundeter Schwanz mit 12 Steuerfedern (Rectrices) (10 bei den Seidensängerverwandten (Cettiidae)) und auffällige steife Borsten an der Basis des Schnabels. Goldrücken-Spreizschwanz und Gelbbauch-Spreizschwanz sind auf dem Rücken grünlich gefärbt und auf der Bauchseite gelb. Der Rotkappen-Spreizschwanz ist auf dem Rücken grau, Kopfoberseite und Schwanz sind rotbraun, die Unterseite ist beige bis weißlich.

Systematik
Die Gattung Erythrocercus wurde 1857 durch den deutschen Ornithologen Gustav Hartlaub erstmals wissenschaftlich beschrieben. Über die systematische Einordnung der Gattung ist sich die Wissenschaft bis heute nicht ganz einig. Einige Zeit wurde die Gattung in die Familie der Monarchen (Monarchidae) gestellt oder nur als Incertae sedis ("unsicherer Sitz") ohne Familienzugehörigkeit den Singvögeln zugeordnet.

Im Jahr 2006 wurden sie in die neu eingeführte Familie der Seidensängerverwandten (Cettiidae) gestellt. Der schwedische Ornithologe Per Alström und seine Mitarbeiter führten im Jahr 2012 eine eigenständige, monotypische Familie für die Gattung Erythrocercus ein, die Erythrocercidae, was in der IOC World Bird List so übernommen wurde. Die Spreizschwänze sind die Schwestergruppe einer gemeinsamen Klade des Wüstendickichtsängers (Scotocerca inquieta) mit den Seidensängerverwandten (Cettiidae).

Arten
Zur Gattung Erythrocercus gehören drei Arten:
 Goldrücken-Spreizschwanz (Erythrocercus holochlorus)
 Gelbbauch-Spreizschwanz (Erythrocercus livingstonei)
 Rotkappen-Spreizschwanz (Erythrocercus mccallii)

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Seat position; adaptive cruise control; collision avoidance tech; luggage space.
We bought our Outback at end of 2015, and our first main concern was seat height as we are both elderly. We previously owned a Statesman and also a small Mazda 2 hatch and while they were good for a long time, we found them hard to get in and out of. The Subaru Outback completely ticks that box as we find it exactly the right height. We looked at others and most you either had to climb up or drop down into.
What else do I like about the Outback? Everything, I can't praise it enough. Admittedly in the 13 months we have only done 14,000km. The adaptive cruise control is special, we use it nearly all the time. The collision avoidance is a necessity on every car in this day and age and is just so good. I had a child on a bike go out in front of me and the car had practically stopped before I had even thought to brake. Could have been a very different outcome if it wasn't for the collision avoidance.
Fuel usage is something that is mostly exaggerated, however, on a highway trip recently, with luggage for a week away and my wife and I, it returned, according to the readout, 6.3L/100km. Excellent!
A few of the other smaller features that we really like: the ability to preset the seat position for both my wife and I. Just a touch of the button. The luggage compartment is huge which is amazing.
Some reports say it lacks get-up-and-go, but honestly, I have found that it has ample power. We live in a hilly area. Admittedly, after living with a 5.7L V8 Statesman for years it is a little slower, but then, who really wants to leave part or your tyres on the road?
Everything considered, we are extremely happy with our choice, and best of all is when other Subaru owners come up and admire it. Just today, a couple that had a 1985 model Subaru came up and said what a wonderful car it was. My comment was he would be blown away by mine then.


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There are basically two easy ways to measure oxygen dissolved in water: You can guess and then insist that you measured it, which has the obvious disadvantage of being wildly inaccurate; or you can just use the Atlas Scientific Dissolved Oxygen Kit.
The Dissolved Oxygen Kit comes with everything you need to take accurate, full-range D.O. readings for your environmental monitoring, hydroponics, wine making, fish keeping... well, any project where you need to continuous or intermittent Dissolved Oxygen readings. There's a simple 5-second calibration that is required before you can deploy the probe (calibration solution is included with the kit) and it can be immersed and operating continuously for 12 months before recalibration is recommended!
The Dissolved Oxygen circuit returns data in the form of Mg/L to two significant figures. Readings can be taken either dependent or independently of temperature or conductivity and the probe will function correctly in fresh-, salt- or brackish water.
Two things I have found out. Firstly, the specimen code tries to set the baud rate to 13400. This does not seem to work, but 9600 does. Secondly, the calibration command should be CAL and not Cal (it appears to be case sensitive).
Can this probe be left underwater for long periods of time for monitoring farm fish tanks?
This Dissolvd Oxygen Probe can be fully submerged in fresh water or salt water, up to the BNC connector indefinitely.
Do you have the I2C version for sale? Pictures have the UART version.
Probably the Pt. These function partially by reducing (adding electrons to) oxygen. Even platinum has a rather large overpotential for reducing oxygen, around half a volt. For hydrogen, the overpotential (for oxidation at a platinum electrode) is maybe a tenth of that. A good oxygen reduction catalyst would improve the efficiency of hydrogen fuel cells a lot.
Electrochemistry can be pretty vexing, and hence, expensive.
Hi. I would want to know if the oxygen dissolved probe is based on an optical sensor. thanks.
Will this function with Wine?
Why is the output in megagrams per liter?
That's milligrams / Liter or ppm.
And it's only to two sigfigs? That will just show up as zero all the time in my application!
Can the probe be continuously submerged in sea water for long periods (more than 1 year)?
What's the electric parameter to read in the DO sensor? What's the range of that parameter?
How can i avail this? im from the philippines.
Contact our customer service team and they should be able to assist you further.
What are the dimensions for the Atlas sensors?
Any idea if this would be able to detect the level of O3 (ozone) dissolved in water?


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Having secured his own railhead, Sherman now aimed to cut Hood off from his. Of the four lines that had fed pre-war Atlanta, the Western and Atlantic that ran northwest to Kingston and beyond was already safely in Thomas's rear, and the Georgia line had been wrecked from Atlanta to Decatur by Schofield and McPherson. Hood's army now lived at the end of two lines, the Atlanta and West Point line and the Macon and Western. Both, however, shared a single track as far as East Point just southwest of the city. The West Point line had been severely compromised a week before when Federal horsemen swooped down and tore up thirty miles of track east of Montgomery. Now to break the Macon line was to break Hood's hold on Atlanta. Though the bright particular star was extinguished, Howard would take his vengeful veterans on a wide swinging march that had become their trademark. This time they were to march from the extreme Federal left to the extreme right, hiking behind Schofield and Thomas and then leading both in a hard drive for the railroad at East Point. At the same time, two separate cavalry columns under Edward McCook and George Stoneman would ride for the railroad in the neighborhood of Jonesboro twenty miles down the line from Atlanta and break the line there. Stoneman for his part asked and received permission to ride on from Jonesboro once the railroad was wrecked. He intended to strike for Macon and Andersonville to liberate the thousands of Federal prisoners held in abject misery there.
On the morning of July 27 Sherman set them all in motion, and by nightfall Howard's men, marching at their characteristic swinging route step, had turned a smart half-circle around Atlanta, from due east to very nearly due west of the city. With Black Jack Logan in the lead, the march brought them up in the neighborhood of Ezra Church, a hamlet on the Lickskillet Road running east into the city three miles off. The next morning they set out for East Point again only to march into artillery fire as they approached Lickskillet Road. To Howard, the meaning of this fire was unmistakably clear. "General Hood will attack me here," he told Sherman. This Sherman manifestly did not believe, reflecting that Hood had already made two furious and futile attacks. Uncle Billy himself had made one such attack at Kennesaw Mountain and never tried a second. "I guess not," scoffed Sherman. "He will hardly try it again." But Hood was indeed a lion, and Howard knew it. Still, there was also a measure of the fox in the man, who had after all been tutored in the arts of war by Lee and Jackson. Leaving Hardee this time to hold the city, Hood sent Stephen D. Lee, the South Carolinian now in command of Cheatham's corps, to front Howard along the Lickskillet Road. Behind Lee, he sent Stewart's corps, directed to swing around Howard's right and strike his flank from the southwest. It was more or less the mirror image of the design that had come so close to collapsing McPherson's corps east of the city.
Virtually all military plans go awry one way or another as soon as the first foot-soldier takes a step, and this one was no exception. S. D. Lee came down the road about noon and ran into Logan's men. These men, sensing trouble like Howard, had thrown up sketchy works of logs, fence rails, and, in the immediate vicinity of Ezra Church, even pews. Lee, a youthful, zealous corps commander whose tenure was only two days old, sent his three divisions slam-bang into an assault at noontime. They came, as Howard remembered, with a "terrifying yell," but Yankee veterans were not to be moved by noise at this point of the war. They beat back the first furious attack and then a second, both fearfully cut up. Sherman, not content to let this battle fight itself, sent up reinforcements from Frank Blair and Grenville Dodge's corps. The slashing flank attack Hood intended Stewart to make was never made, and the most Stewart could manage for all his energy was to send a division in behind Lee to add to the casualties near sundown. Such success as the Confederates could claim in the effort against the Federal westward movement unfolded to the south. Joe Wheeler's outnumbered troopers turned back the twin raids on Jonesboro. Stoneman himself, along with 700 comrades who had ridden with him to liberate the prison camps, was captive in Macon. It is not recorded how he intended to march 30,000 half-naked skeletons in Andersonville to the nearest place of refuge in Pensacola, Florida. That, however, is beside the point, for Stoneman never reached them in any event, and they remained–those who survived–to sweat out their captivity under the merciless Georgia sun. A full measure of human suffering lurks behind Sherman's laconic judgment: "the cavalry raid is not deemed a success." At Ezra Church, though, Hood's third attempt to drive Sherman away from the Gate City had been decisively turned back at a cost of 2,500 Confederate casualties against just 700 of Howard's bluecoats. Worse yet for the Confederate cause, the ragged Rebels in the ranks seemed to know how badly they had been beaten. Near Ezra Church a Yankee picket called out with the grim cordiality of pickets: "Say, Johnny, how many of you are there left?" "About enough for another killing" was the equally grim reply.
Hood had commanded the Army of Tennessee just eleven days now. He had struck three hard blows north, east, and west of the city at a cost of some 15,000 casualties to Sherman's 6,000. He had lost more men in the eight days from Peachtree Creek to Ezra Church than Joe Johnston had in two and a half months, but he was no closer than Old Joe to driving Sherman from Georgia. On the other hand, Sherman had reached the gates of Atlanta skillfully and, compared to the butcher's bill Grant was running up in Virginia, at a relatively low cost in blood. His total casualty list was about equal to the Confederate total under Johnston and Hood, roughly 27,500, less than half those of the Army of the Potomac. But this salient fact remained: Sherman was now stalled before the imposing works of Atlanta as surely as Grant before the labyrinth of Petersburg trenches. Whatever the Rebel in the ranks thought about his chances, the Southern press put a defiantly good face on the situation. The Atlanta Intelligencer proclaimed that "Sherman will suffer the greatest defeat that any Yankee General has suffered during the war…. The Yankee forces will disappear before Atlanta before the end of August." It seemed to many that Hood's attacks, though tactical defeats, were in fact strategic successes. Richmond papers reported Atlanta quite safe and predicted that "Georgia will be soon free from the foe."
Implacable Billy Sherman and his confident Westerners didn't think so, but on the home front the summer of '64 presented the severest crisis of confidence in the war effort. Back before the trouble started, Lincoln in his inaugural address had invoked the "mystic chords of memory, stretching from every battle-field, and patriot grave, to every living heart and hearthstone, all over this broad land." These chords would, he was sure, "swell the chorus of the Union." But now in this terrible summer of battle, what touched the hearts and hearthstones of the North were the radiating circles of suffering and death and irreparable loss. The eager patriotism of the conflict's first spring was buried in shallow graves at Bull Run and on the Peninsula, at Fredericksburg and Stones River, and a thousand nameless places along the roads the armies tramped. On August 5 Admiral David Farragut's flotilla had steamed into Mobile Bay in the most dashing, romantic fashion. Lashed to the mast to better view the action, Farragut watched as one of his ships, Tecumseh, struck a torpedo (mine) and sank. Moments later, calling out, "Damn the torpedoes! Full speed ahead," he fought a pitched naval battle and closed the Confederacy's last Gulf Coast port. But neither Farragut's personal valor nor his achievement could revive the Union's earlier energies. The call of Democratic newspapers in the North was louder and more compelling: "Stop the War!" was the frank theme of one Democratic editorial, and it reflected the deep core of Northern despair. Perhaps no more determined hard-war man breathed than Republican Thurlow Weed, but he was sure that "Lincoln's reelection [was] an impossibility. . . . The people are wild for peace."
Still, the fall elections were a ways off and the fortunes of war lay between. As far as Tecumseh Sherman was concerned there was not going to be any peace in Georgia just now at any rate. If he couldn't bully his way into Atlanta, perhaps he could batter it into submission. The city was invested on three sides, and he was steadily strangling its lines of supply. Now he rolled his guns forward, augmented by siege guns, heavy Parrots and Rodmans hauled down from Chattanooga by rail, and he resolved to "make the inside of Atlanta too hot to be endured." Inside Atlanta, those who remained did endure in cellars and backyard bomb-proofs as the relentless rain of Union shells fell daily and August dragged on. For most, however, the iron reporting of the shells was more convincing than the defiant confidence of Southern papers, and the citizens of Atlanta rode south with every crowded train that left for Macon or hoofed it to safety with what they could carry on those wagon roads that remained open. Sherman insisted he was doing no more than destroying Atlanta's capacity to wage war, but it happened that those legitimate targets of war–factories, rails, warehouses–lay in the neighborhoods of Atlanta. In a well-known exchange of letters, combative John Hood complained of Sherman's inhumanity against the people of Atlanta. Sherman countered that it was Hood who had made his stand with citizens behind his lines. War is cruelty, he argued, not to be refined. Cruel it was, and it was to become crueler yet. "Let us destroy Atlanta," he resolved, "and make it a desolation."
But if Atlanta was willing to endure a siege, Sherman was unwilling simply to batter it patiently and wait for it to fall as Vicksburg had done the summer before. For unlike Vicksburg, Atlanta could live as long as the Macon line remained open. Furthermore, regular siege operations did not appear to be the means to his original end, which was to break up the Army of Tennessee. Thus, while Yankee guns did their best to make Atlanta, as Sherman put it, "a used-up community," he continued to reach around to his right, feeling for a vulnerable place to strike the railroad. The trouble was of course that while Sherman reached right, Hood continued to extend his left and entrench as he extended all the way to East Point and beyond. On August 5 Sherman swung Schofield behind Howard for another thrust for the railroad, and the next morning Howard struck the Confederates near Utoy Creek. The attack was a messy failure. It was badly managed for one thing, and for another Schofield's men were no more eager to go head-long against breastworks than any other soldiers, blue or grey. Hood for his part was playing the same game, trying to cut Sherman's road in his rear. On August 10 he sent Joe Wheeler's cavalry on a slashing raid up the line. In a month of hard riding Wheeler's troopers tore up thirty miles of track, burned the recently rebuilt Etowah River bridge, and scooped up horses, beef cattle, wagons, and 600 Yankees–all at a cost of 150 casualties. It was a brilliant raid, daring and destructive, but in the end it failed in two crucial particulars: first, it didn't cut the railroad long, for Sherman's gangs repaired track as fast as Rebels wrecked it; second, it didn't budge Sherman from his fixed purpose of seizing the Macon and Western line and throttling Atlanta.
In fact, Sherman saw Wheeler's raid as an opportunity. With Wheeler out of the way, he would send Judson Kilpatrick, just returned to the service after recovering from his Resaca wound, to ride hard for the line at Jonesboro, twenty miles south of Atlanta. (Kilpatrick's colleague, Garrard, he observed acidly, would dismount and entrench at the sight of a single Rebel through his spyglass.) Kilpatrick's instructions were "not to fight but to work." Kilpatrick's troopers, Sherman added, "cannot tear up too much track nor twist too much iron. It may save this army the necessity of making a long, hazardous flank march." Kilpatrick's cavalry reached Jonesboro late on August 19, burned the depot, and tore up a couple of miles of track before being driven off. He returned to the Federal lines on the 22nd, assuring his chief that the road would be closed for a full ten days. To Kilpatrick's chagrin and Sherman's disgust, trains rolled into Atlanta's yards from the south the next morning. Convinced that cavalry "could not or would not work hard enough to disable a railroad properly," Sherman now resolved, as he later wrote, "to proceed to the execution of my original plan." It was to be a "grand left wheel around Atlanta," the hazardous flank march he had hoped to avoid. Slocum's XX Corps was to remain north of the city, sturdily entrenched and covering the railroad bridge over the Chattahoochee. (This had been Hooker's corps until he had gone home miffed by Howard's promotion.) On the far right with the longest arc to march, Howard was to swing southwest, cross the West Point line near Fairburn, then drive east on Jonesboro. Pap Thomas in the center was to drive southwest to Red Oak on the West Point line, then east to cross the Flint River, and strike the Macon line beyond. On the near arc, Schofield would make a tight turn and seize Rough and Ready Station on the same line four miles south of East Point. If all went well, the three blue columns would make three neatly parallel arcs to the Federal right, and the Macon road would be broken in three places, thoroughly, properly, and once and for all. Most important, John Bell Hood would be compelled to come out of his works with just two choices left to him: fight or run.
On August 26 Sherman's columns were in motion, slipping their lines and leaving Atlanta behind as they hiked west on the Sandtown Road, Howard and Thomas in the lead, Schofield to follow. In their wake was silence, a silence Confederates found both sweet and ambiguous after weeks of relentless cannon fire. When cautious Rebel patrols found empty trenches, hopeful and relieved Atlantans rejoiced to think that the Yankees were headed back across the Chattahoochee, thwarted at last by Hood's stubborn resistance. But to Hood now fell the sole responsibility for construing the meaning of this sudden silence. The Yankees, or the bulk of them anyway, were gone, that much was clear. Slocum's corps did hold the Chattahoochee Bridge, and there was a rearguard of blue skirmishers on the Sandtown Road west of the city. It seemed now to Hood that Wheeler's raid had so effectively compromised Sherman's line to Chattanooga that he was taking his starving army north to defend it. The Yankees remaining in the neighborhood of Atlanta were simply covering a withdrawal. Hood was confirmed in this judgment the very morning the guns fell silent. A brigade from Wheeler had ridden up with a lot of Yankee prisoners and a report from Wheeler himself. Not only had he wrecked extensive stretches of track, he was still on the rampage, ready now to cross the Tennessee River and ride on Nashville. It could only mean that Hood had won and the Gate City was safe.
Hood sent what remained of his cavalry down the Sandtown Road the next day to make sure. Led by William H. Jackson, they found Yankees to the west quickly enough, but they didn't seem to Jackson to be leaving Georgia, and he told Hood so. Considering Hood's capacity for independent command, Robert E. Lee had confirmed the Kentuckian's courage but doubted the "other qualities" necessary. One of those qualities was imagination, and Hood seemed at this moment incapable of imagining that Sherman was once more reaching for the Macon and Western by a march around the Confederate right. Jackson of course was right. The three blue columns were marching entirely unopposed toward their objectives. Even now Howard and Thomas were on the already broken West Point line and breaking it even further with the kind of thoroughness that Uncle Billy cherished. His Westerners heaved the rails up a regiment's length at a time, piled the ties into roaring fires, and heated the rails. When the rails were white hot, the men twisted them around the nearest tree or telegraph pole. Plenty of "Sherman's neckties" now adorned the white pines between Red Oak and Fairburn. By the morning of August 30, Howard and Thomas, Sherman riding with them, reached the Flint River. The Macon and Western was just two miles to the east. It had been a long time since McPherson's column had emerged from Snake Creek Gap back in May with Johnston's lightly defended lifeline at Resaca within easy reach. At the time Sherman had crowed he had Old Joe dead, and indeed he might well have had McPherson pushed ahead hard then and there. Now, with September nearly arrived, he was within reach of the critical railroad once more, and for the time being at any rate, it was undefended. "I have Atlanta as certainly as if it were in my hand," he told Pap Thomas.
In Atlanta, events were at last spurring Hood into awareness and action. Three days after their disappearance, Sherman's legions, at least some of them, were clearly well south of the city on the West Point line and pressing east toward the Macon line. Hardee was closest to the threatened southern sector, and Hood sent him at once to Rough and Ready where he could march either north or south to confront the Yankee advance. Stephen D. Lee's corps would follow as far as East Point in support while Stewart's held the Atlanta works. In truth, Hood had a nightmare on his hands. With Slocum still squarely entrenched north of the city and Yankees in unknown strength threatening his line as far south as Jonesboro, Hood had somehow to defend a twenty-mile front against an enemy twice his numbers. By now he knew that two blue columns were aiming for both Rough and Ready and Jonesboro ten miles farther south. Having discovered their whereabouts, pugnacious John Hood was himself once again. Hood believed he saw an opportunity to strike them in detail in the neighborhood of Jonesboro. He ordered Hardee to make a night march down from Rough and Ready to Jonesboro and launch at dawn on August 31 an attack on Howard's exposed position. At the same time S. D. Lee's corps would come down from East Point. Between them they were to "drive the enemy, at all hazards, into Flint River, in their rear." That night in Atlanta Hood added one embellishment to his plan. As soon as Lee was through helping Hardee push Howard into the river, he was to return to Rough and Ready. There he would join Stewart's corps for a smash-up flank attack down the west bank of the river the next day. Hood would not simply drive Howard from his road; he would destroy him.
It was a bold plan. Indeed, it would mean that Atlanta would be held by Red Jackson's troopers and the Georgia militia for a time. But like so many of Hood's bold plans, it was a bust. Cleburne, temporarily in corps command for Hardee, brought his men down to Jonesboro by a hard night march for a dawn attack, but the sun had been up an hour before he reached Jonesboro. It was no matter, really, because Lee didn't come up until noon. In the meantime, Howard was calmly preparing for the attack he devoutly hoped Hardee would make. He had his best corps–Black Jack Logan's–plus a division from Grenville Dodge's corps across the Flint and dug in along the east bank with his other two in support on the west bank. Logan's exposed men would, he believed, goad Hardee into attack. It was 2:00 before Hardee and Lee were in position, and by then Howard was beginning to wonder if the Rebels would strike at all. He was going to have to attack himself if they didn't come on soon. Finally, he ordered a 3:00 assault. Fifteen minutes before the Federals' own jumping-off hour, Hardee struck.
Hardee intended Cleburne to drive the Federal right while Lee struck Logan's front as soon as he heard Cleburne's guns open up. But it was a day when things would simply not go right for the weary Rebels. S. D. Lee, as impetuous as he had been at Ezra Church, mistook the rattling fire of the skirmishers for the main attack and went forward too soon. Meanwhile, Black Jack's men had put their time in to good purpose, strengthening their works. These were after all the same soldiers who had torn Hood's ranks so savagely at the Battle of Atlanta and Ezra Church. Now the whole weight of their massed musketry supported by battery fire fell on Lee's long lines of battle. The attack stalled with heavy losses almost as quickly as it started. Cleburne on the Confederate left had some initial success, driving Kilpatrick's troopers back across the river easily enough. But even this success had unfortunate consequences, for the whole left wing of the attack swung away from Logan's front in pursuit of the Yankee horsemen. (Howard was content to note an entire Confederate division taking itself voluntarily away from the point of attack.) Thus, a weakened right wing ran into concentrated rifle fire from Logan's trenches as well as grapeshot and canister from his batteries. The attack was not very determined and was broken easily. Hardee wanted to try again, but Lee and Cleburne had seen enough. Between Lee and Cleburne the Confederates lost 2,200 men against less than 200 in Logan's corps. More important than mere bloodletting, however, was the plain fact recognized by the Confederate top command: the Army of Tennessee was all but used up as an offensive force. They had done much hard marching on short rations, and now John B. Hood had led them into a fourth murderous and vain assault. Clearly, they were not going to drive any Yankees into the Flint River this day. The Confederates withdrew, and the first day's fighting at Jonesboro was over.
That night John Hood, the pre-war poker player who wagered a small fortune with "nary a pair," was running out of cards to play with dismaying swiftness. The attack he intended to make down the Flint River tomorrow morning with Lee and Stewart was out of the question after this afternoon's failure at Jonesboro. It appeared to him now that Howard's army at Jonesboro must be part of a design to draw him away from Atlanta while Thomas and Schofield threw the knockout punch at the city from somewhere off to the northwest. Wheeler's cavalry might have told him otherwise, but they were still well to the north raiding and would be for ten days more. Now Hood played his next-to-last card. If Atlanta and not the Macon railroad was Sherman's true aim, S. D. Lee would have to hurry his road-weary and battle-worn men back to the city to aid Stewart in its defense while Hardee fronted Howard at Jonesboro. As Lee's men marched, they discovered precisely what Hood was discovering from reports drifting into Atlanta at the same time. Schofield and Thomas were not poised for attack off to the northwest. They were already astride the Macon road, Schofield at Rough and Ready, Thomas between that point and Jonesboro. Sherman's "grand left wheel" had been intended to press two hard choices on Hood–fight or run. He had fought to a bloody repulse on August 31. As the first of September drew near, there was no choice but to surrender the city and save his army if he could. He now played his last card in the campaign for Atlanta. Hasty plans were cobbled together to destroy everything of military value in the city and get Stewart and Lee's corps moving down the McDonough Road. Their march would take them to the east of the Macon line and south down to Lovejoy's Station below Jonesboro. There they would reunite with Hardee.
That is, if Hardee could slip his lines and reach them. Doing so would be no mean feat, for Sherman now believed that Hardee had been left holding the bag at Jonesboro. With Howard's army on Hardee's front, Sherman ordered Thomas to send two corps and Schofield a third to fall with a shock on Hardee's right flank. To close the trap completely, Frank Blair would swing his men south and cut off Hardee's escape. If they could strike together, 60,000 blue infantrymen might well take Hardee's 12,500-man corps out of the war for good. But Schofield came down too slowly from Rough and Ready, wrecking track as he went. Sherman himself was mainly responsible for the laborious pace at which Schofield descended on Jonesboro, for his orders explicitly instructed him to "work down the road, burning and breaking the road good." They did not order him to hurry. Old Slow Trot Thomas did his best that day, even galloping at one point (the only time Sherman ever saw him do so). But one of his corps, Frank Stanley's, took a wrong turn and was lost for a time. Although it did come within easy reach of the field before the day was out, Stanley inexplicably halted and entrenched.
Thomas' other corps, however, happened to be commanded by Jefferson C. Davis. He had taken over only recently when its former commander, John Palmer, followed Hooker home with a similarly bruised ego. Davis was still notorious for the murder of Bull Nelson back in Kentucky, but a man who could shoot a brother officer with a borrowed pistol would certainly attack Rebels with a will. Without waiting for Stanley to come up on his left according to plan, his three divisions came tearing down from the north to strike Hardee's right at 4:00, but the thickets and heavy timber through which they passed helped break the attacking lines into uncoordinated pieces. When they finally reached the sturdy Confederate trenches, Cleburne's division blunted the first attack in furious fighting. Davis' men came on once more with a rush, and this time the assault fell squarely and with weight on Cleburne's right-most brigade and buckled it. On the bluecoats came, scooping up Rebel prisoners as they went. But Davis was not the first Federal to discover that Cleburne's division was uncommonly hard to drive. Cleburne reformed his crumpled right, falling back and extending eastward, and massed musketry and artillery finally took the steam out of Davis' attack. The second day's fighting at Jonesboro cost Sherman's army nearly 1,300 casualties and Hood's nearly 1,000, most of these prisoners. Stanley's wrong turn and the gathering darkness had helped save Hardee's corps. That night the Rebels slipped their lines and commenced their dispirited march toward Lovejoy Station.
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Wake:Thursday, November 12, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM and from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM at the Collins Funeral Home.Mass:Friday, November 13, at 10:00 AM at St. Jerome Church, 23 Half Mile Road, Norwalk.Interment:St. John Cemetery, 223 Richards Avenue, Norwalk.Contributions:Life Extension Center 425 Main Street Ridgefield, CT 06877.
Angela R. Monarchie of Norwalk, CT passed away peacefully Saturday, November 7 surrounded by her loving family. She was the wife of Dominick Monarchie, they shared 57 years together. In addition, Angela is survived by four children Christine (and David) Pinard of Huntersville, NC, Matthew (and Michelle) Monarchie of Fishkill, NY, Jennifer Poku of Norwalk, and Amanda (and Sandro) Gelfusa of Dedham, MA. Angela was the proud grandmother to Nicholas, Sabrina, Jacob, Vincent, Daniella, Alexis, Kylie, Brandon, Jaryn, Ashlee, Gianni, Ava, and Christian.
Born in New York City, she was the daughter of the late Rosaria and John Amodeo and sister to Lawrence Amodeo. She graduated from Evander Childs High School in Bronx, NY. After devoting her life to raising her children, Angela returned to school to receive her Associates Degree in Early Childhood Education. She full-filled her desire to educate, nurture and mold young minds by working at the Westport Nature Center (Earthplace) as a preschool teacher for 24 years till her retirement in 2011. Angela served as a Eucharistic Minister at St. Jerome Parish in Norwalk. She enjoyed traveling, bike riding, spending time at the beach, singing every nursery rhyme ever written, and anything under the sun with her grandchildren.
Although one would never know it based on her fighting spirit and positive attitude, Angela conquered her initial battle with a form of cancer which carried a 5% survival rate in the early 80's. By using guided imagery and primarily homeopathic remedies she not only survived, but thrived. She traveled, enjoyed life and watched all of her children grow up, get married, and have children of their own even while facing still other medical obstacles along the way. In 2009 Angela faced another battle with cancer. Again, through her inner strength and maintenance of a naturopathic environment she was able to work full-time, enjoy her grandchildren and celebrate her 50th wedding anniversary in Italy. Angela ended her battle the same way she began it with dignity and grace.
Angela's improved quality of life over the last 35 years was mainly a product of the treatment she received at the Life Extension Center.
Calling hours will be held on Thursday, November 12, from 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM and from 6:00 PM to 8:00 PM at the Collins Funeral Home, 92 East Avenue, Norwalk. A Mass of Christian Burial will be celebrated on Friday, November 13, at 10:00 AM at St. Jerome Church, 23 Half Mile Road, Norwalk. Interment will follow in St. John Cemetery, 223 Richards Avenue, Norwalk.
Contributions may be made in her honor to the Life Extension Center 425 Main Street Ridgefield, CT 06877.
I love you dearly and will carry you in my heart and soul until the day I die. You have given me strength in my own battle with cancer. You and Dominic were always there for us. Your are more like my sister, than a cousin. My children respect and love you dearly. No words can express how much I will miss you. Your gentleness, kindness and selflessness will ensure your place in heaven. May God welcome you with open arms as you did with others when on this earth. God will have a special treasure with you in heaven….forever loved….Larry and Stephanie Monaco.
May God shower Angela with His undiminishing grace and mercy. She will always hold a place in our hearts.


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While speaking to Factory Girl star Sienna Miller, Daily Mail columnist Baz Bamigboye makes mention of the fact that "those who have seen early rough-cut versions" — partly a reference to yours truly — "tell me the performances of Sienna and leading man Guy Pearce, as Warhol, are brilliant. So much so that studio chief Harvey Weinstein plans a year-end Oscar campaign for them."
I never said anything rock-solid about Harvey planning to release Factory Girl, so presumably Baz has done some digging of his own. That or Sienna said so.
Here's how I put it in mid-August: "I know award-quality when I see it, and Sienna Miller's capturing of Edie Sedgwick totally rates. It may be the most eerily accurate reviving of a dead person I've ever seen in a film. And yet Miller projects dimension and gravitas in spades — an unmistakable sadness and snap and aliveness like nothing I've gotten from an actress in any movie so far this year. She isn't just a dead ringer for the real McCoy — she gets her fluttery debutante laugh, that mixture of Warholian cool and little-girl terror, the giddy euphoria, the cracked voice. It's more than convincing — it's a kind of rebirthing."
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Butuan City (23 September) -- The city government here with the Office of Senior Citizens Affairs (OSCA) conducted recently a forum on Republic Act 9994 or the Expanded Senior Citizens Act of 2010, held at People's Hall, City Hall.
Right before the forum proper, OSCA held a free blood sugar test to first 50 participants from the senior citizens.
OSCA Barangay Health Aide Ms. Marie Joy Pontillo, bared its programs and services for the senior citizens. She said that OSCA is conducting the following: 1) Physical Therapy and Rehabilitation Treatments from Monday to Friday, 8:00-11:00 a.m. and 1:00-4:00 p.m.; 2) "Operasyon: Pag ga-am hong mga pinalanggang senior citizens," which includes free dental extraction every Monday, 8:00 a.m.; 3) "Operasyon: Luwas Pag-atod Program," which includes eye screening/cataract operation; 4) Lecture Demo Program wherein caregivers, patients, and students under the exposure program will undergo training and lecture on healthcare; 5) OSCA goes to barangays, wherein various services are provided to scheduled barangay; 6) Mortuary Assistance Program which provides cash assistance of P2,000.00 to the family members of 150 qualified deceased senior citizens residing in this city; and 7) Aerobic Training to senior citizens.
In his message, City Mayor Ferdinand Amante Jr. emphasized the great importance of the senior citizens in nation-building.
"Your participation in this program is very important because our partnership is part of nation-building," Mayor Amante said.
Also, City Administrator Leah Mendoza stressed that senior citizens should enjoy the benefits that the government is providing them especially that they can now avail of the full 20% discounts on prescribed medicines and other amenities.
"I welcome this opportunity to be part of this program and not just because I am the City Administrator but also because I belong in this program for the senior citizens," said Mendoza.
Meanwhile, other concerned agencies like Department of Trade and Industry, Department of Social Welfare and Development, Bureau of Internal Revenue, Department of Transportation and Communication, Department of Health, Food and Drugs Administration, Butuan City Water District, and Agusan del Norte Electric Cooperative also take part in discussing issues and concerns related to the benefits and privileges of the senior citizens.


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During the week, we are buried by demands and commitments, both our own and our children's. There's work, school, extra-curricular activities, birthday parties, the social calendar, the family engagements. The calendar is kicking our keister. There is no time, both literally and figuratively. We simply don't have the mental bandwidth to talk to our co-parents, our partners, the loves of our lives, about anything other than carpools and shopping lists that never shrink and what's for dinner tomorrow.
We talk about balance, and the lack thereof for a full time working mom. We talk about self care and the need for me-time to restore our mental well being so we can in turn properly care for others. But there is very little dialogue out there about something else that carries a significant weight on the ever-tipping scale- our significant others.
Victory is being the best mom and the best employee ever- but what about the best wife? Just when you think you've conquered it all, your husband asks you if you heard what he said or were you too busy checking your Facebook feed again. Uh-oh. Someone isn't getting the amount of attention they need- and deserve. Sounds like it's time to put down the phone, disconnect from the office, and stop worrying about the kids' reading logs. It's easy to take your marriage for granted because it's till death do us part. But if you're someone who takes satisfaction in perfecting her various roles, dedicating time to be a great partner is a biggie.
Eating a meal neither of you cooked, that neither of you have to clean up is NOT the same as eating at home. Even if you're not feeding little mouths, at home meals are a lot of work, and with work comes stress. If the steak isn't cooked properly, there's no one to blame but the kitchen. If your wine glass is empty, you're not getting up to open a new bottle. Let someone else take care of it all, so the two of you can talk- really talk- uninterrupted for the first time all week.
Friends are fun, but they aren't folding your laundry. It's easy to think this box is already checked because you have plenty of time at dinner with your partner when you go out with other couples, but there's a different dynamic at those social dinners. Men and women tend to self-segregate right off the bat, and before you know it, dinner is over, and you barely exchanged anything with your spouse except maybe a split Caesar salad appetizer. As your social calendar fills up (btw congrats if you have that many friends!!), make sure you leave a night or two open each month to spend real quality time with the teammate you chose for this amazing race of life. It will make things run more smoothly when you're being attacked by the week ahead.
Your identity as a couple will thank you. Remember the days when you slept till noon, took long walks with your dog in Central Park, and watched Monk marathons on TNT before DVR was a thing? No, neither do I. But there was a time when you just existed as a couple, and enjoyed each other's company, and laughed and loved without thinking about any day but today. That's where it all began, and although your coupledom has come a long ways, and changed an awful lot, maintaining that identity and reminding yourselves of simpler, more unencumbered times will propel you forward into a beautiful, if not more complicated, future.
Go ahead, ask your husband on a date. Eat, drink, and be merry. Grab some mints for the kids on your way home. It may seem frivolous to waste precious time and money on your old ball and chain, but the finance professional in me sees it more as an investment that will pay dividends.
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Sony Classical has announced the release of celebrated Argentine cellist Sol Gabetta's new album: Schumann.
Recorded with pianist Bertrand Chamayou, conductor Giovanni Antonini and the Basel Chamber Orchestra, the all-Schumann disc features Five Pieces in the Folk Style Op. 102, Adagio and Allegro Op. 70 and Fantasy Pieces Op. 73 – plus his Cello Concerto in A Minor.
'My idea for this disc was to include all the complete works that Schumann wrote for my instrument on the one disc … " Sol has told The Violin Channel.
"I have had a long relationship with Maestro Giovanni Antonini and the Kammerorchester Basel and we had performed Schumann's magnificent Cello Concerto many times over the past six years … so it felt like a natural time to finally record the results of our long working process," she has said.