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Tennessee Idiocy on Illegal Immigrant Rights Continues
A few weeks ago I shared the news that immigrants have no rights in this country, according to a Tennessee county judge. Now, the Blount County Commission follows Judge Young into idiocy. I'll explain, but first let me catch you up.
The details are still a little unclear about what happened in Judge Dale Young's courtroom on September 7th. We know that Ana Calixto was seeking an order of protection from her husband when Judge Young dismissed her petition. Calixto and the husband are in the middle of divorce proceedings and Calixto claims to have filed reports of domestic violence in the past.
Then things get a little murky. Calixto and unnamed witnesses claim that Young asked her and her husband what their immigration status was before telling her to "Go back to Nicaragua" and kicking her case out of court. Calixto claims to be here legally with TPS status, having received her most recent DHS approval on August 8. Since no one's mentioned the husband except to say he's from Mexico, I think it's reasonable to assume that he's here illegally.
These claims are being met with silence from the judge and his office. Apparently, it was standard practice not to have a transcript of proceedings in Judge Young's courtroom, so no record of what was said exists.
Last week, the Tennessee Court of the Judiciary began an investigation into Judge Young's conduct. The Court of the Judiciary investigates and disciplines judges for misconduct on the bench. The start of an investigation shouldn't be viewed as proof of wrongdoing, but it does emphasize that this type of thing is taken seriously, at least when it makes the papers.
Here's where the Blount County Commission shamefully misses the point and perpetuates the idiocy of Judge Young. At their regular meeting last week, the commissioners voted on a motion to endorse Judge Young's refusal to hear Calixto's petition. That motion has been "tabled" for the time being, but for all the wrong reasons:
"I want to personally commend his stand," Samples said, adding that he had heard her legal status was in doubt. "She did not meet the test of law … My stand is that is a question about illegal immigration. Judge Young stands for what the majority of Blount Countians stand for."Commissioner Wendy Pitts Reeves, who talked about working with victims of domestic violence in her job as a counselor, said she understood there are strong feelings about illegal immigration in the county, but that, to her knowledge, Ana Calixto was a legal resident.
"Until I see otherwise, I can't support this," Reeves said. "The newspaper said she was a legal resident."
"While I support Judge Young's decision, it's hard for me to vote on anything when I don't have all the facts," [Commissioner] French said.
"If she's not an illegal immigrant, I can't support this," [Commissioner] Murrell said.
All of these people miss what should be obvious: a person's immigration status is irrelevant for purposes of determining standing to seek an order of protection. It is similarly irrelevant for purposes of making civil suits or seeking other judicial remedies.
Assuming for a minute that Calixto is an illegal immigrant (as unlikely as that may be), do these people actually think that illegals can get no protection from the courts? Is a victim of domestic abuse to be left out in the cold because she's an illegal? I doubt very much that the "majority of Blount Countians" would support prohibiting a victim of domestic abuse from seeking protection from the courts. Can that be true?
I'm curious how far these people think we can stretch their newfound relegation of illegals to subhuman standards of justice? If I assault an illegal immigrant, do you think they'll prevent the illegal from suing me for damages? What if I enslave one?
~ by Gabriel Malor on September 24, 2007.
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4 Responses to "Tennessee Idiocy on Illegal Immigrant Rights Continues"
There is no question that Judge Young made a bad decision in how he handled this case. Ms. Calixto is entitled to protection.
Living in Blount County and knowing sources close to this case, there is a high probability that the husband is here illegally and that Judge Young was either aware of this or had a reasonable suspicion at least. My real question is, if this is the case, why Mr. Calixto was not immediately turned over to ICE for deportation.
Without getting into whether or not we should reform the immigration laws, I feel that all laws should be enforced. There were plenty of law enforcement officers during prohibition that enforced the anti-alcohol laws. It is not the place of a Judge, police officer, or state or federal agent to decide which laws to enforce and which not to. Once our legislature has enacted a law it should be enforced. Even at the level of the Supreme Court our system has gone haywire. The highest court in the land takes it upon itself to, in effect, write laws even though its authority is only to determine the Constitutionality of the law.
We need to return to our system of checks and balances, we need for those within the justice system to do their jobs and be held accountable when they don't (as the Judiciary review should do with Judge Young). If we don't like something we should change it through our legislature in the manner described by the Constitution.
Scott A said this on	October 1, 2007 at 7:40 am
http://ww2.thedailytimes.com/news/courtdoc.pdf
Another of this Judge's cases comes to light.
Blount County Resident said this on	October 10, 2007 at 4:18 am
The law IS the law. altough she does deserve protectiion from an abuser, Wouldn't it be beneficial to Her And him and better yet OUR quality of life to have them both deported and to habdel this WITH their HOMEland Laws, THIS WOULDNT TIE UP OUR COURTS. Perhaps actually save some taxpayer dollars.I decendant from immagrants that became Legal citizens. Am i wrong to Expect that from the 12 pluse million here and more to come? I, my self have grandchildren that Are Legal…. I expect they will feel the same way, if this country were to become a Spanish(national language) Speaking country. Dora the explorer, doesnt cut it to become Fluent, nor are there any other resources to teach any Other Languages. This country was first invaded by the English.. The pretty much destroyed the american Indian. therefore ewnglish wins by Default.. Is Spainish next and in the same manner? I propose. We declare Victory in Iraq, bring home our troops, and have a Human fence at both borders and just pick off any one trying to sneak into our Beloved Country by sniper As a part of HOMELAND SECURITY.
GOD BLESS AMERICA!!!
Gigi Kail said this on	November 7, 2007 at 1:07 pm
Now everyone from the Mayor and city officials have followed the judge and the commission down the road of confusion…
http://blountviews.com/node/371
Keep going until you get to the audio and listen for yourself.
Blount County Resident said this on	November 29, 2007 at 10:45 am


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On the 30th of October, 2020, Wizkid premiered his 4th studio album, Made In Lagos – MIL by Starboy Entertainment and RCA Records. The 14-rack project features guest appearances from the likes of Burna Boy, Skepta, H.E.R., Ella Mai, Tay Iwar, Projexx, Tems, and Terri. On the 27th of August, the deluxe edition was released, which features additional guest appearances from Buju and Justin Bieber.
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Big Wiz premiered Made In Lagos last October, and we can all agree that it's been a grace-filled journey ever since. Made In Lagos has turned out to not only be Ayodeji Ibrahim Balogun's biggest project yet, but we can also agree that Wizkid has achieved more than he ever has in his entire career with this single album.
The Afrobeat and R n B infused album, is one for all ages, which was teasingly referred to as – the "30 +" album, as the younger generation thought that the types of the song on it were different than what they are used to. However, as time went by, it became evident that all they needed to do was give the album some time to sink. In no time, Made In Lagos became everyone's favorite, giving rise to a balance in cultural diversity.
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I've been working on getting more open with my lower body. My miss is normally a hook or overdraw because my upper and lower body are square at impact and I flip at the ball. My ball flight is also very high. With this swing now, my miss is more of a push. Wanted to get opinions to see if I'm on the right track. My instructor is in Florida for the winter so I'm just trying to keep working by hitting into the net. Would appreciate your thoughts!
Laudable goal. You're a little too close to the ball at setup, so the whole move is a little steep. First move from the top is a pull down with your shoulders. So, you're not really powering with your lower body, you're just pushing your hips out of the way. Not the same thing. FoV would be interesting but probably not possible given your placement on a deck!
You're focused on something you really don't need to think about at all. If you swing the club in the direction you want the ball to go your body will move instinctively to make room for you to swing the club. It will do so unless you do something to interfere such as allowing your body to be rigid or trying to deliberately move your body in some particular way.
Consider an analogy to something you already do pretty well. tossing a ball underhand to a target. When you toss a ball underhand to a target you are conscious of your arm swinging away from the target, then back toward the target, and then releasing the ball. Little else.
Now observe what your body does as you toss the ball, without interfering with it. You will observe as you swing your arm away from the target your body turns away from the target to "get out of the way of your arm". You will observe that the further you swing your arm back the more your body turns. The faster you swing back the faster your body turns. You aren't deliberately turning your body and controlling how far and how fast because you don't need to. The same is true in the forward motion. You are conscious of tossing the ball to the target but if again you observe without interfering you will observe that your body tunrs back toward the target making rood for your arm to swing toward your target. This making room is the getting open you are looking for, but it's something that will just happen if you don't do something to prevent it.
This is a approach to the swing I was taught about 50 years ago and still employ today. It has substantial advantages over methods in which you are consciously controlling the body. Chief among them is that the arm swing and turn will always remain in sync. The faster and further I swing the club the faster and further my body turns. I can honestly say that never has the club been stuck behind my body because never has a turned my hips too soon or too fast. Never have I hit hooks because my body didn't move enough. Like everyone else I hit plenty of bad shots, but not because my arms and body are out of sync.
Thanks for the responses guys. Gives me something to think about. Need to figure out how to power the swing with the lower body. Currently swing around 115-117 with the driver but know I can be faster if I use my lower body. Right now I'm all upper body driven.
Hitting into a net thousands of times with no feedback about ball flight is very dangerous. It's easy to inadvertently start ingraining mistakes.
I see you're in PA. Get yourself to a heated range at least once a week to actually see where it's going.
Just looks like you get your right arm too much behind you at the top (see a lot of bicep away from your pec) and don't get it back in front in transition. So your arms lags the pivot, don't get enough out front of you , pivot stalls to let you catch up. Can speed up arms or tighten up backswing, . . . Send your instructor videos. Face on too. See what they say.
I hate to brag, but I am one of the world's great experts on this topic. Really. Nobody, and I mean NOBODY, is going to challenge my credentials.
I have a body like the OP's -- long and lanky. My strength was in the leverage provided by my long wingspan. Regrettably, I had a upper body swing, just like the OP's. I sought all manner of experts and cures. I did tons of reps of all those drills that are supposed to activate your lower body, all to no avail.
Then one day I fell down the stairs and fractured a cervical vertebrae in my neck, crushing the nerves to my shoulders and arms in the process. Peripheral nerve damage meant that my muscles withered. I could barely lift my arms above my shoulders. To drink a glass of water I had to hold up one arm with the other arm.
Part of my rehab (which is still going on, by the way) was to learn to hit a golf ball with a well-achored lower body. My arms follow the lead from my hips. I did this pretty much the way juststeve describes (above). I didn't try to tell my body how to move. I simply recast the problem and let my body solve it. I couldn't use my upper body, because I didn't have one. I had to re-learn from the bottom up. Everything changed -- grip, stance, everything.
I don't recommend this treatment, but it sure works. What it taught me is that this isn't a small change. It's a big deal, an entirely new conception of how the golf swing works. So, to the OP I say this -- If you're going to change, be prepared for a LOT of work. Otherwise, just get comfy with what you've got and have a nice life.
You have it a bit backwards.
Getting more open is not something you can just do.
You'd hit it worse all other things equal.
You're hooking it because your arms are trailing your pivot and your club is open to the path and arc.
Your hooks are from your body trying to avoid hitting it way right.
If you got more open, you'd hit wipes and pushes all day. Get your arms linked up better as some more flex in your left wrist.
You could try Trevino's set up. You start open at address, quite a bit open from your standard, and then sort it out from there. It will take several swings to figure it out Trevino pushed the ball by setting open and allowing the club to track inside-out in relation to the body but almost straight back to straight through in relation to the target line.
What I think and what I learned from one of the best is that being open isn't the key, but being opening is. A complete hip stall through the ball is a recipe for inconsistency. Very open or less open isn't as important, but being in the process of opening helps with consistency.
This is not the beginning or the end of the world though. A few years back I used to play with a guy who was as flipping and stalling as they come. He wasn't consistent for his level of play, but when he was on fire he would string together a bunch of birdies. He was 20-30 years past his prime, he had an international amaetur carreer under his belt - and he could still get the job done on a good day.
You'd hit it worse all other things equal.
You're hooking it because your arms are trailing your pivot and your club is open to the path and arc.
If you got more open, you'd hit wipes and pushes all day. Get your arms linked up better as some more flex in your left wrist.
That makes sense about my body reacting to save it from going right. My swing path is decently in to out.
To get my arms linked up and not behind me, what would you suggest? I've done the ball between the arms drill but that doesn't seem to help. Thanks Monte!
Funny you mention that, as I've messed with an open stance before and the ball seems to go a little straighter. Maybe something to think about. Thanks for the input!
Thanks for the insight. I hope your recovery continues to go well!
Your hands and arms work too down and not out or forward enough.
How that gets done is a topic for discussion.
OP - you have a super nice swing from DTL.
Can you post a face on in slow motion?
I've been working on getting more open with my lower body. My miss is normally a hook or overdraw because my upper and lower body are square at impact and I flip at the ball. My ball flight is also very high. With this swing now, my miss is more of a push. Wanted to get opinions to see if I'm on the right track. My instructor is in Florida for the winter so I'm just trying to keep working by hitting into the net. Would appreciate your thoughts!
What happens...IMO...is you STILL slow down at impact and that will cause a push-fade. Posted from experience.
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About a decade ago I tried reading "A Brief History of Time" by Stephen Hawking, but I quit near the beginning. It seemed like it was going to take a great deal of brain power to understand it – and much more free time than I had available.
I decided that I'd come back to the book far in the future – perhaps when I retired – when I'd be able to dedicate the time and focus that the book required. I wasn't sure if I was going to be smart enough to understand it even when I had the time available, however.
When I started doing something new each month, I added "Read A Brief History of Time" to my list of potential activities. Then last month I read it, even though I'm not retired yet.
It was certainly complex, and I did a bunch of additional learning online to help myself understand some of the concepts in the book, but overall it wasn't quite as hard to understand as I'd expected.
The are many parts of the book that I still don't totally understand, but that's because either:
They're impossible to understand (i.e. Can you imagine a 4-dimensional space-time? Neither can I, even though it's reality. And neither can Stephen Hawking. He says "It is impossible to imagine a four-dimensional space. I personally find it hard enough to visualize three-dimensional space!"). Or,
The book doesn't go into enough detail. This was quite common. Stephen Hawking does a great job of dumbing down advanced physics so that a lay person can semi-grasp the general ideas. But in dumbing it down he necessarily removes some of the complexity that's required to really understand it.
For people like me who aren't willing to get a PhD in physics, the book is great, but it can only take you so far.
I wanted a deeper understanding a some of the concepts, so after I finished the book I started reading Einstein's book "Relativity: the Special and the General Theory" which I think actually goes into all the detail required (math included) to have a good understanding of relativity.
Unfortunately I didn't get very far through Einstein's book before the month ended. Since that one will also require a great deal of time and focus to understand, I'm postponing it to the future. Hopefully I'll get back to it before another decade is up.
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koon says
thank you for a very honest and unpretentious comment. I found reading it easy but understanding it not easy. I may have to reread it to visualise the concepts.
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I don't think it's difficult at all and I'm 13
Really, you're struggling with this book. Considering you left it for a decade and said until you retired you must be considerably older than me since I am not even 14 yet.
I am now on chapter 5 and only struggled at this example on quantum mechanics which never really showed itself too important since I still understood everything else well.
Also, he does explain it quite well, you just have to understand how writting style.


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Yes, that is correct, young Jontavious Willis who has been booked for our next BlueStages concert on April 11 won Best Self-Produced CD.
Also of note: Bruce Andrews and George Dudley competing as 2Blu for the Music Preservation Society made the finals despite George playing with broken bones in his hand!


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The Lancashire Wolverines are delighted to announce that Lea Hall has been appointed Head Coach with immediate effect. Coach Hall replaces John Halliwell, who has stepped down to return to playing.
Lea has been involved with American Football in the North West since starting out in the late 80s at Fylde Falcons. He would go on to play for GB Crusaders U19 at Running Back and on Special Teams before joining the Wolverines for the first time in the early 90s.
Lea rejoined the Wolverines as Running Backs coach in 2017 after a time away from the sport pursuing a career in Sales Management.
I hope with my past experience playing the best team sport combined, my years of leading successful teams in business and my passion and will to win will be a great foundation for building a successful team.
Club Chairman, Tony McCulloch said "we are excited to announce Lea as Head Coach. We have no doubt that with his unbeatable man-management experience alongside his footballing love and background he can help the team, and the club grows over the next few years."
Coach Hall will work with his coaching team to prepare Lancashire Wolverines for 2021 after 2020 saw BAFA cancel the season due to the COVID-19 outbreak. If you are interested in taking up the sport contact us on social media or contact lancswolverines@gmail.com
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Ace comedian, Helen Paul, BBN contestant sensitise women on ajinomoto seasoning
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Ace comedian, Dr Helen Paul and Miyonse Amosu, former Big Brother Naija contestant on Monday educate over 200 women in Ogbaru, Anambra on usage of Ajinomoto umami seasoning.
Paul, who is a brand ambassador and Amosu, also an influencer chef took time to educate the consumers on how to use the seasoning at a Neighbourhood Cookout at Ogbaru.
The duo treated the women to a delightful taste of local bitter leaf soup, using the Ajinomoto seasoning.
The ace comedian, who thrilled the women to an entertaining event, also gave out free cash, souvenirs and seasonings as gifts to spice up the occasion.
In her remarks, Mr Niki Junichi, the Managing Director of West African Seasoning Company Limited (WASCO) which produces seasoning, said the cookout was aimed at sensitizing consumers on the use of the seasoning.
Junachi said, "We conducted a research that suggests there were negative opinions about the Monosodium Glutamate flavoring – Ajinomoto seasoning.
"Women make most decisions in terms of what to buy in the markets especially as it concerns food, so, we feel it is important to educate them that the brand is safe for consumption.
"Our objective is to sensitise them and also change the perception of the people of South East about our product.
"The campaign will continue until people change their mindset and realise that there is no harm in using the brand,'' he said.
Speaking on the health benefits of Ajinomoto umami seasoning, a nutritionist, Dr Helen Unaeze explained that a lot could be derived from the use of the product.
"First of all, it adds flavor and heighten the natural flavor of food; it also helps in protein and energy synthesis and helps to reduce salt and fat in diet.
"It is pure, produced and packaged from sugarcane under hygienic condition, I urge women to ignore the negative reports said about the product,'' she said.
Mrs Francisca Ikediashi, the Corporate Communications Officer told newsmen in an interview that the campaign started in the South-West region where they also visited the Ooni of Ife and engaged the people.
Ikediashi said the campaign train would move to the North where it hopes to further persuade and sensitise the people on the right information about the product.
"Here in Onitsha, we visited the Obi of Onitsha, Igwe Alfred Achebe.
"We also invited the women because they are key in helping to disseminate the message and because they take most decisions when it concerns what is used to prepare meals," Ikediashi said.
Speaking on their experiences, two consumers who are petty traders, Mrs Eucharia Ede and Mrs Nkechi Uguta extolled the benefits of using Ajinomoto.
"I am excited about the campaign, especially as I have heard the truth about the product which is that it is good for our health and not dangerous as was speculated in the past," Uguta said.
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Meet Fellow Lainie Fefferman
Exploring the personal and the idiosyncratic aspects of music-making, Brooklyn composer Lainie Fefferman's most recent commissions have been from ETHEL, Kathleen Supové, TILT Brass, James Moore, Eleonore Oppenheim, JACK Quartet, and Dither. Her recent evening length piece Here I Am for Newspeak and Va Vocals, the culmination of her residency at Roulette through the Jerome Foundation for the 2013-2014 season, was warmly received by a sold-out audience. Starting in April 2015, she began her time at HERE Arts Center as a resident fellow, where she will create a multimedia opera based on ancient mathematical texts for sopranos Mellissa Hughes, Caroline Shaw, and Martha Cluver, with Mantra Percussion and lighting designer Eric Southern. Fefferman is the founder and co-director of Exapno, a New Music Community Center in Downtown Brooklyn, lead-organizes the New Music Bake Sale, and is co-founder of the New Music Gathering, a national new music event. She received her doctorate in composition from Princeton and continues to be a performing member of Princeton-based laptop ensemble Sideband.
LABA PROJECT:
For years, I have been urgently drawn to James Sturm's graphic novel Market Day. It tells the story of a visionary rug maker in turn-of-the-century Europe who is fast coming to the realization that he can longer support his family doing the art he loves, pursuing the beauty he understands. It's a poignant story told lovingly by Sturm with his stark, but warm, illustration.
I'm hoping to set the whole book to music over the course of the coming years. Ideally, I'd love for my project to be a live-string-quartet performance, or pre-recorded soundtrack that plays during projections of the novel itself. The pictures are so moving. I'm not sure quite how the mechanics of this are going to work, but JACK, a wonderful NYC-based string quartet who have signed on to the project, are fabulously supportive and I'm hoping to develop the work with them and for their particular sound and talent. I've already written them a few sketches for the work, and they've brought my ideas to life with astounding clarity. I can't wait to continue this journey with them!
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What drew you to apply to LABA?
I've spent so much of my intellectual and artistic life grappling with issues brought up by my Jewish identity. When a previous LABA fellow mentioned this residency to me, I was so excited to continue my grappling with a community of curious and questioning artists.
Why do you want to study beauty?
What beauty means in the context of music has evolved for me over the years. Refining what beauty means to me now, at this age and in this artistic phase of my life as a Jew and a New Yorker, is what I hope to occupy myself with this year. The project I hope to develop during my LABA residency, music to a film realization of the graphic novel Market Day, will be concerned with what it means to craft a life around a pursuit of beauty.
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"Death to America" heard today in Iran
Thousands of Iranians burned flags and chanted slogans against Israel and the United States on Wednesday in the largest demonstration in years outside the former U.S. Embassy in Tehran.
More than 10,000 demonstrators shouted "Death to America" and "Death to Israel" in front of the former embassy compound, marking the 26th anniversary of the Nov. 4, 1979 seizure of the embassy by student militants.
The demonstration came a week after Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad called for Israel's eradication, saying the country should be "wiped off the map" - comments that caused a flood of international condemnation and criticisms from moderates in Iran that he was needlessly stoking confrontation with the West.
Ahmadinejad has stuck by the comments, and on Friday he joined hundreds of thousands of demonstrators marching in Tehran and other cities to denounce Israel in the country's annual Quds - or Jerusalem - Day protest.
Wednesday's protest was far smaller - but it was still the largest turnout in years for the annual protests organized at the former U.S. Embassy.
Demonstrators carried a large picture of Ahmadinejad emblazoned with his quote, "Israel must be wiped off the map." They burned U.S. and Israeli flags and effigies of President Bush and Israeli Prime Minister Arial Sharon. Some wore a traditional Palestinian kaffiyah headdress, symbolizing their readiness to fight Israel.
"We have to continue our confrontation with the United States and Israel. This could help the world get rid of the arrogant powers," the hard-line Jomhuri Eslami daily said in an editorial.
Since the 1979 Islamic revolution, Iranians have celebrated the Nov. 4 takeover of the embassy by militant students. The students took 52 American diplomats hostage for 444 days.
The protesters also supported Iran's nuclear program and asked the government not to give it up.
The United States, which broke off diplomatic relations with Iran since the embassy takeover, suspects Iran's nuclear program is a front for developing weapons, the AP reports.
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My name is Randall Miller. I have started an English newspaper here in Kumamoto City Japan named The Point. There are lots of Japanese adults who like to learn and practice English. There are also a lot of Japanese students who enjoy learning English. My newspaper gives Japanese a chance to practice and learn English with a native speaker. Japanese people can exchange emails in English with my native speaking English staff. Japanese can also learn idioms, American culture and other English grammar with our newspaper. My goal is to help improve Japanese citizens in English and to give them a safe and comfortable opportunity to practice English with native speakers. I print the newspaper once a month. My magazine reaches up to 150,000 citizens in Kumamoto City and surrounding areas.
1. Do you have any brothers or sisters?
2. Do you get along with your brothers and sisters?
3. What do you have in common with your mother?
4. What do you have in common with your father?
5. Did you have any chores when you were a child?
6. When did you move out of your parent's house?
7. What do your parents do for a living?
8. What do your brothers and sisters do for a living?
as soon as = first thing you do
Ex. I drink coffee as soon as I get to work.
1. Call me as soon as you get home.
2. Start making dinner as soon as dad gets home.
3. Clean the tub as soon as you get out.
4. Take me home as soon as the date is finished.
Ex. Would you stick around to watch someone get arrested?
1. Let's stick around for the fireworks?
2. Let's stick around to meet the cartoon character,
3. Let's stick around to meet the actor.
4. I don't want to stick around for the police.
I was sitting in my apartment one afternoon and I was getting hungry. I decided to go to Hotto Motto which was close to my apartment. It was such a beautiful and sunny day, I decided to walk to get my food. On my way, I saw a police car pass me. I just kept walking and to my surprise, the same police car had made a u-turn. The two police officers in the car turned the red and blue lights on and pulled in front of me. I wasn't nervous because I had not done anything illegal. The first police officer got out of the car and walked up to me. He asked me for my passport of foreigner card. I asked the police officer, "What did I do wrong?" I had only been in Japan for a few months so I could not speak much Japanese. The second police officer got out of the car and told me that I had not done anything wrong. The officers were just stopping me to check my papers to make sure I was in Japan legally. I thought this was not a good way to welcome foreigners into Japan. While I was standing there with the police car lights on, the Japanese in their cars passed by and slowing down wondering what I had done wrong. I felt like a criminal even though I had not done anything wrong. It was so embarrassing so I wondered how many Japanese citizens know that Japanese police stop foreigners at random to check their papers. I didn't feel good so I never walked anywhere again. I hate when Japanese people ask me if I like living in Japan because this bad memory always comes to mind.
Idiom 1 - burn the midnight oil = to work very late
Sam: We have an exam tomorrow.
Ben: It looks like we will have to burn the midnight oil tonight.
Idiom 2 - go to your head = don't let success make you feel better than everyone else
Jill: Ralph was promoted to supervisor last week.
Ray: The promotion went to his head because he thinks he knows everything.
Idiom 3 - splitting hairs = to argue about small details that are not important.
Charles: Are you going to come at 2:00 or 2:30?
Rachel: Let's not split hairs over the time.
Idiom 4 - ring a bell - something sounds familiar
Student: Your face rings a bell but I can't remember your name.
Teacher: I was in your class 5 years ago and my name is Bill.
Most Americans like racing. A lot of people build something to race. There are races for horses, dogs, boats, jet skis, cars, go carts, motorcycles and just about anything that can race. In America, there are so many racetracks that people can go and bet on who will win the race. It is fun to watch horses or dogs run around a track trying to win a race. At the dog track, there is a toy rabbit on a stick that the dogs chase around the track. The toy rabbit is mechanically controlled so it is impossible for the dogs to catch it. There are also so many states that border the ocean that boat racing is almost impossible to avoid. There are also a lot of states that get a lot of snow so that makes it possible to have ski and skimobile races. People in the thousands go to watch these races.
Guion Bluford
Guion Stewart Bluford Jr. was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania on November 22, 1942. He was a quiet boy who enjoyed doing crossword puzzles, brain teasers and building model airplanes. In high school he decided he would become an aerospace engineer. He studied aerospace engineering at Pennsylvania State University. He graduated in 1964. After he graduated from college, he joined the United States Air Force and served in the Vietnam War.
After he was honorably discharged by the Air Force, he received his masters degree and in 1978, he had earned his Ph. D. By 1978 he had completed eight years of college and in January, he was chosen by NASA to become an astronaut. After four more years of training, Bluford became a mission specialist for the eighth space shuttle mission. He would be responsible for coordinating scientific activities and engineering experiments.
On August 30, 1983, the space shuttle Challenger's nighttime launch lit up the sky at the Kennedy Space Center in Florida. Bluford helped launch a communications and weather satellite for the government of India. He also did tests for new drugs to fight diabetes and other diseases. Guion became the first African American in space.
Bluford has logged 688 hours in space during his career. Bluford retired in 1993 and was
inducted into the International Space Hall of Fame in 1997.


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Entertainment Obstacles That Had to Be Overcome to Get TV Shows on the Air
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Making a television show is really hard. Just look at the number of hugely popular TV shows that almost didn't get made: Game of Thrones, Seinfeld, South Park, and 30 Rock are just a few of many beloved TV series with production struggles. These award-winning shows are considered some of the best of all time, but their pilot episodes almost got the shows scrapped before they even began!
Whether it's meddling network executives or sobbing focus groups, even the highest quality programming can face huge hurdles on the path to getting a green light. The next time you watch Game of Thrones, for example, remember that the co-creators thought the first pilot was a "turd" that HBO would never air. Or consider Jon Stewart's "insane" co-workers that almost drove him from his own show before he taped a single episode. Here's a look at some of the obstacles television shows overcame to get made.
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Obstacle: The state of Wisconsin wanted to subpoena the footage.
This Netflix true-crime documentary series was almost shut down by a subpoena request from the state of Wisconsin. Directors Laura Ricciardi and Moira Demos have yet to reveal the nature of the request, but in January 2016 they said the subpoena would have "effectively shut down the production." The state didn't win, of course, and the series garnered worldwide attention. There was even a petition to the White House to pardon the series' subject, Steven Avery, which gathered more than 500,000 signatures.
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Obstacle: Similarity to Weeds.
Breaking Bad creator Vince Gilligan says that his hugely popular drama likely wouldn't have happened if he was aware of Weeds, the Showtime comedy with a loosely similar premise. When making the pitch to an undisclosed network, the network's president thought Breaking Bad sounded a lot like the Mary-Louise Parker vehicle, which Gilligan was totally unfamiliar with (in his defense, it had just debuted). Luckily for Breaking Bad fans, Gilligan continued pitching it and the show eventually debuted on AMC.
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Obstacle: Abysmal reviews from test audiences.
One of the most popular sitcoms of all time was not well-received at all by its first test audience. The audience felt the show - which went on to air for a whopping ten seasons - was "not very entertaining, clever or original" and gave it a "poor" rating overall. The audience's feedback also indicated (to NBC executives, at least) that the show needed older characters. The Friends writers obliged and tried to add an older cop character, but later scrapped that idea and instead wrote parts for the core group's parents.
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Obstacle: CBS was hesitant to air it because they were concerned about whether or not it would fit into their demographic.
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation aired for 15 years on CBS, but the network was reluctant to add it to its lineup at first. Why? Well, the premise was "not a slam dunk," according to CBS president Leslie Moonves. The show's stars were "scientists and nerds," in the words of star William Petersen, and it had less action than most crime shows. Plus, creator Anthony Zuiker had never even written a TV script before! Test audiences, however, loved the show and it later became a huge success for the network.
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Trattoria (Telephone: 2421 0451 – [geolocation]) is a new Italian restaurant located in Al Asalah Towers, more commonly known as the Oxy building nowadays. There is no visible sign outside the building for Trattoria, it is located in the back on the opposite side of the building that has Barcelos. Trattoria shares restaurant space and the kitchen with a Chinese restaurant called Mamasan.
Italiano (Telephone: 2418 0515 – [geolocation]) is a pizzeria located on The Wave Road in Al Mawaleh. If you are coming from Al Bahja, you need to drive all the way to the Wave Roundabout and then turn back to find Italiano in the same building as a Subway on the right side of the road. The parking situation on this road is pathetic, but on both of my two visits to Italiano I always managed to find a lot of easily accessible empty spots on the interlock in front of the restaurant.
Pizza Express (Telephone: 2455 4777 – Map) has opened its branch in The Wave, Muscat a while ago, but I never got the chance to review it. I am a big fan of Pizza Express and I have originally reviewed it in the year 2008. The branch I am reviewing here is located in the commercial area of The Wave right next to Shang Thai.
Come Prima (Telephone 2466 0660 – Map) is an Italian restaurant located on the ground level of the Crowne Plaza Hotel right next the restaurant Shiraz. I only recently tried it for the very first time for lunch.
Tomato (Telephone 2468 0000 – Map) is an Italian restaurant located in the Intercontinental Hotel Muscat in Shatti Al Qurum. It is an outdoors poolside restaurant that operates only in the winter season of the year.
I reviewed Pane Caldo first when it opened back in 2007 and I wasn't the biggest fan of their food, however, over the years I grew to like the place and it is now it is one of my favorite Italian restaurants in town, so I thought I'll do a new review of Pane Caldo to share with you some of my favorite dishes at it. For those who do not know it, Pane Caldo is an Italian restaurant located in Jawharat Al Shatti Mall on the left side of it before DQ (Map).
O Sole Mio (2460 1343) is an Italian restaurant located in Jawharat Al Shatti mall on the right side before D'Arcy's Kitchen.
Pizza Inn is a casual dine-in and delivery pizza restaurant. It has relaunched recently and has two branches one in Qurum (2456 6111) and the other in Ruwi (2478 4555). We recently paid a visit to the branch in Al Araimi Complex in Qurum.
Pizza Inn has a very similar feel and look to Pizza Hut, but a bit flashier because it has very recently opened. We went on an evening of a week day and the place was pretty busy, but we had no trouble finding a table.
The menu in Pizza Inn is very similar to Pizza Hut, for starters they have garlic bread, chicken wings, french fries and potato wedges. In addition to these they have some salads, pastas, and, unlike Pizza Hut, they also serve RO1.5 Submarine sandwiches that come with french fries and a drink.
For the starters we had garlic bread with cheese (RO 1.2) which was really well done and not as hard as those served at Pizza Hut.
Pizza Inn has a variety of pizzas including a Taco Pizza, a Tandoori Pizza, a Hawaiian Pizza and several other ones. Pizzas come in small, medium, large, or family size (12 slices). We decided to have a family size Pizza Inn Special pizza (RO 6), this pizza had pepperoni, sausage, beef, onions, mushrooms, black olives and green peppers. We really enjoyed it, we thought that the dough was very tender and barely had any traces of oil. The toppings also felt fresh.
We didn't try any desserts but they had a couple pizza-style sweets. For the drinks we just had soft drinks, but surprisngly they were served in fast-food style plastic cups even though were dining in. The drinks were not refill-able.
In total we had one starter, one family size pizza, and four drinks, our bill came out to RO 9.800.
Overall we thought that the service was good and the food was really excellent. I was not happy about the way our drinks were served and I thought that our table was too small for our plates. If you are going to dine-in at Pizza Inn make sure you do not sit at the small tables if your group is going to be more than two people.
Biella is a new Italian restaurant that has opened in Muscat City Centre right below the Noodle House. We have been waiting for this restaurant to open for ages and have called up City Centre several times to ask when the hell it will open. I heard a couple of days ago that it has finally opened up so we had to pay it a visit ASAP. I have no idea if this is an international franchise, but I know that it has a branch in Dubai.
The atmosphere and seating area at Biella are both quite nice. There are loads of seats inside the restaurant. The place is divided into two main sections, one for smokers and the other for non-smokers, however, there are not real separators between the two sections, but we could not tell if smoke could be an issue because the place was almost empty when we went there.
Biella has just opened three days ago, so just like Japengo the other day, their menu is not fully available yet. We took a bit of time to decide on what to have, we were a little bit hungry and everything on the menu sounded delicious. We ended up having a 'Insalata Di Pollo Con Aceto Balsamico' (RO 3.6 – pictured above) which I thought would be some cheese coated chicken starter, but turned out to be chicken salad with cheese balls (How come I didn't notice the insalata?!). It was alright, for a salad at least, but it was not really our usual idea of a starter.
My colleague and I hand originally wanted to have something from the sandwich menu, but it was not available for serving yet, so we ended up having a sea food spaghetti (pictured above) and a L'affumicata pizza (RO 4.4 – picured below) which had onions, mushrooms, pepperoni and chicken. I loved the bread of my pizza, but that was about it. I do not like mushrooms and I thought that the onions were just way too much. I probably ordered the wrong meal and that's why I did not like it much. My colleague thought that the spaghetti was nice, but not AMAZING. I thought exactly the same about my pizza, not bad, but not the best I've had for sure and nowhere near that.
We wanted to have a cheese cake and a chocolate fudge cake for the desserts, but none of these were available yet, so we thought that we will have a Tiramasu (RO 3 – pictured below) instead which we thought was just alright. It was quite large in size and can be shared with one or two people.
We thought that the service of Biella was excellent, the staff were very friendly, probably a bit too much because the place has just opened. The place was not busy at all while were were there, so the whole fleet of waiters was buzzing on our table all the time asking us how our food was. They had a small blooper though and broke a glass we had on our table, luckily nobody got hurt.
We ordered 1 starter, 2 main courses, 1 fresh juice, 1 fruit cocktail, and 1 desert, our bill came out to RO 21.
We thought that our experience at Biella was okay, but I personally did not think that the food was all that. I would give it a 7/10 for the quality of the food and I'm being very generous. That is probably because we ordered the wrong stuff, salad was a bad idea of the starter and my choice of Pizza was badly not compatible with my taste. Might give it another chance, but only for the sake of experimentation and not when I'm craving for a good meal.


Known for their appearances in the work of C.Louis Leipoldt and later the music of David Kramer, Boggom and Voertsek were two nomads who lived life without limits and bowed to no rules but their own. Stricken with wanderlust and an unquenchable thirst, these two rogues traveled the barren plains of the Cederberg region. BOGGOM BLONDE ALE forms the more casual side of the duo with Boggom's relaxed attitude making him the more approachable half of the iconic pair. VOERTSEK INDIA PALE ALE follows the mantra of living fast and dying young. Voertsek forms the wilder side of the legendary duo.
Alex and Tammy, both winemakers at Cederberg Wines, talk to wine.co.za about Ghost Corner Wild Ferment Sauvignon Blanc 2016 and Ghost Corner Pinot Noir 2016. The Sauvignon Blanc shows concentrated fruit and the Pinot Noir, due to soft extraction, elegant fruit such as cherries. Both wines will mature well in the bottle.
Pieter du Toit shares his Cederberg travel adventures with wine.co.za. Find out what the Cederberg team is up to and what Pieter's favourite Cederberg wine is.
At Cederberg Wines the hard work from harvesting now makes way for the bottling of the 2017 Cederberg Sauvignon Blanc. David Nieuwoudt gives feedback on the 2017 harvest, being an excellent white wine vintage with aromatic chenins and potent sauvignon blanc flavour profiles.
The 2017 Sauvignon Blanc shows strong hints of gooseberries and lemon zest with great minerality.
Don't forget to try David's personal favourite, the Cederberg Chenin Blanc.
David talks to wine.co.za about the last 20 years and how Cederberg Wines changed from being originally a 100% fruit farm to 100% wine farm. The main focus being on Cabernet Sauvignon, Shiraz, Sauvignon Blanc and Chenin Blanc. Cederberg Shiraz is a continual award winner.
Big shout out to Christelle Pienaar from Can Do Slim for making this great video!
WINEMAKER David Nieuwoudt seems to be a man who likes extremes. Not content with making wine at South Africa's highest vineyards in the rugged Cederberg mountains and in the most southerly in Elim near Cape Agulhas, he also travels half-way around the world to make wine at the foot of the Andes in Chile.
The outcome of Nieuwoudt's adventures is a suite of cool-climate wines, each range distinguished by its particular location, making for interesting comparisons between the different expressions of "cool climate".
Cederberg's 'wines with altitude' come from vineyards 1000m above sea-level on the family farm Dwarsrivier where Nieuwoudt is the fifth generation to farm in the harsh, dry mountain terrain with extreme winters. Unlike most other cool-climate areas, Cederberg is too far from the sea to have a coastal influence.
The Ghost Corner range on the other hand, is all about the sea – from its wild maritime location in Elim just 20km from the southern tip of Africa, to the name that's a reminder of the more than 130 ships that have found their last resting place in the treacherous waters off Cape Agulhas.
Altitude and maritime influence come together in Longavi, Nieuwoudt's partnership with Chilean producer Julio Bouchon, growing and making wines in Chile's mountainous Leyda Valley where daytime temperatures are regulated by the Pacific Ocean just 8km to the west and the grapes are cooled at night by the chilly air flowing down from the snow-capped Andes to the east.
The only thing uniform about the three ranges is their excellence. Red ink indicating 4.5 and 5 star ratings dominates the Platter's entry for Cederberg and Ghost Corner, and the few that didn't make that cut are uniformly 4-starred.
The awards table is lengthy – as an illustration, take a look at last October when in the space of under two weeks, the Cederberg and Ghost Corner wines brought home a Gran d'Or award, platinum, gold and two silver medals from the Michelangelo International Wine & Spirits Awards. That was closely followed by Cederberg Shiraz 2014 taking the Best New World Shiraz trophy at the Six Nations Wine Challenge in Australia and back home a Veritas double gold each for the Ghost Corner and Longavi sauvignon blancs.
The Longavi Sauvignon is rich and flavourful, intense and savoury with some tropical notes, balanced with a streak of mineral tang and a subtle, silky mouth feel to lingering finish – a really special and different experience.
The Longavi Cabernet Sauvingon, a 2013 released last year, is equally special – rich and intense, inky-dark and full-bodied with ripe fruit and a velvety finish.
While Longavi wines are available to local readers only online via the Cederberg Wines website (www.cederbergwine.com), Preston's Main Road Walmer have a wide selection of the Cederberg and Ghost Corner ranges. It's hard to pick a favourite, but the Cederberg Shiraz is always a winner, and Ghost Corner the Bowline is a beautifully balanced, rich and zesty, blend of Sauvignon Blanc and Semillon.
Winemakers from across South Africa's Elim Wine Ward, celebrate the ward turning 20 years old at the Elim Wine Festival.
Tickets for the day are R100 per adult and include a branded wine glass. Purchase your tickets online from www.webtickets.co.za or from participating PnP stores.
Date: 5 November 2016, at the Black Oystercatcher Wine Farm in the Overberg.
For more information visit www.elimwines.co.za.
Cederberg Shiraz 2014 wins trophy at 2016 Six Nations Wine Challenge!
The Six Nations Wine Challenge is a Sydney-based wine show that uses an international judging panel to compare the very best wines from six countries (Australia, New Zealand, South Africa, Chile, Canada and the US). Only by individual invitation are 600 wines entered and judged. Of the Top Wine of Class trophies, the USA won six, New Zealand four, South Africa four, and Australia one.
We are honoured to announce that the Cederberg Shiraz 2014 was awarded the trophy for Best New World Shiraz!


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Sporting Guide
Los Angeles, 1897
By Liz Goldwyn
LIST PRICE: AU$ 19.99
Rave and Reviews
A brilliantly imaginative, illustrated recreation of an 1890s Los Angeles pocket guide, or "Sporting Guide," to the brothels of the day.
Los Angeles, 1897, When Vice Ruled The City
Long before the glitz and glamour of Hollywood, Los Angeles was a city where dreamers from all over the world came to make their fortunes—where a madam named Pearl Morton entertained the most powerful politicians and entrepreneurs inside her namesake brothel. In a series of haunting, interlinked stories set in the period, author and filmmaker Liz Goldwyn re-creates a "sporting guide"—a secret diary and guidebook of the best brothels and prostitutes in the city. In this world a hushed conversation inside a velvet-lined boudoir could destroy a man, and the rustle of bushes might reveal a sordid assignation. Based on original research in the libraries and archives of Los Angeles, these fictional stories are often inspired by real historical characters—like the laudanum-addicted Cora Phillips, whose tombstone Goldwyn rediscovered, or Bartolo Ballerino, Italian immigrant slumlord of the forgotten red-light district, or thirteen-year-old Frances dreaming of life beyond the Children's Orphan Asylum. Interspersed in these stories—and featuring over a hundred historical photos and illustrations—Goldwyn reveals the history of the period, from the rage for corsets to crushed pearl powder cosmetics and the awful cures for syphilis. Sporting Guide evokes a lost world of those on the margins of Los Angeles, of the hustlers who made it into one of the great cities of the world, and Goldwyn gives a poignant voice to the people and stories forgotten by time.
Liz Goldwyn
Publisher: Regan Arts. (October 6, 2015)
"Goldwyn zeros in on the delightfully sordid demimonde of 1890s downtown prostitution…in the familiar Joycean format of interconnected short stories, Goldwyn's poetic and empathetic prose raises the raw, factual material to the level of tragicart, in passages of loneliness and desperation that burn off any distancing"nostalgia" for the old times."
– Tony Mostrom, LA Weekly
Sporting Guide is a guidebook to the glamorous world of high-class brothels, madams, and prostitutes of 1890s Los Angeles…think Zagat, but just a tad more risqué, chronicling – rather than restaurants – the city's brothels, gambling dens and houses of ill-fame.
– The New Potato
"Liz Goldwyn's writing and film-work merge the focused dedication of intellectual study with the brilliant and subversive storytelling tradition she grew up around…her book is filled with stories of vice set in pre-Hollywood L.A and follow the fictional tales of men and women affiliated with the sex industry"
– Tierney Finster, Vice
Book Cover Image (jpg): Sporting Guide


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Lyft Bets Big on Bikes in NYC, and Uber Is None Too Happy
Aarian Marshall
Now the owner of the continent's largest bike-share company, Lyft is growing its footprint in NYC's outer boroughs—upsetting Uber and Lime.
Now that it owns America's largest bike-share company, Lyft is expanding Citi Bike into NYC's outer boroughs. Not everyone is happy to hear it.Jeff Greenberg/Getty Images
American bike-share is growing—and getting way more contentious. On Thursday, Lyft announced it had completed its acquisition of North America's largest bike-share operator, Motivate, after previewing the deal in July. Motivate operates the Bay Area's Ford GoBike, Chicago's Divvy, Washington, DC's Capital Bikeshare, New York City's Citi Bike, and five other US systems.
Citi Bike is already the biggest bike-share system in the country, and under Lyft's ownership, it's about to get bigger. In an announcement with New York City mayor Bill De Blasio, Lyft said it would pour $100 million into the system, expanding its reach into lower-income (and oft-neglected) outer boroughs, doubling its geographic footprint and tripling its number of bikes to 40,000 over the next five years.
"We're expanding to more neighborhoods outside Manhattan to be able to achieve the equity goals of the system," says Caroline Samponaro, who heads up bike, scooter, and pedestrian policy at Lyft. The company says it will pour its money not only into expanding bike-share infrastructure, but also into creating relationships with low-income communities to promote bike use and make it easier to cycle there.
That addresses a common criticism of these programs, that they cater to wealthy riders in downtown areas. Twenty-four percent of American bike-share systems have income-based subsidy programs, including Citi Bike. But while a Motivate spokesperson said the company didn't have data on how many people have participated in its subsidy program, the company has admitted that its members skew whiter and richer than the city's wider population.
Not everyone, though, is happy to hear about the expansion. Lyft's move might hurt the prospects of Lime and Uber-owned Jump in one of the most cycling-friendly markets in the country, where bike-share fortunes might be made or dashed. Both of those companies are part of a city-run dockless bike-share pilot operating in the outer boroughs: Lime in Staten Island and the Rockaway section of Queens, where it has served more than 75,000 rides since June, and Jump in the Bronx and Staten Island, where it has completed more than 40,000 rides. (Citi Bike is also part of the pilot, operating dockless bikes in the Bronx.) That program was just extended by three additional months, in part to examine the viability of electric-scooter-share in the city, which is currently illegal. A spokesperson for New York City's transportation department says Citi Bike's expansion shouldn't affect the pilot. But Uber and Lime would be right to be disappointed. They both say want to expand service to more lower income New Yorkers.
A mock-up of Lyft's branded dockless bikes, which the company says it might deploy in cities all over the US.
"The City should work with all parties to ensure access to everyone who wants to ride a bike to get around their communities—not one company which has long left outer borough New Yorkers stranded," an Uber spokesperson said in a statement. The spokesperson said Jump was ready to deploy as many as 20,000 ebikes in the outer boroughs.
Lime indicated it would like the city's permission to deploy more than the 600 bicycles it operates in the city. "New York's transportation equity problem requires an immediate solution—and the best solution for New Yorkers is for multiple companies to compete, delivering the most options to every community," Lime spokesperson Evan Thies said in a statement. "Lime stands ready to deliver for New Yorkers right now."
Lyft's investment also signals that the company has mostly committed to the docked form of bike-share, despite a recent explosion of dockless options. According to the National Association of City Transportation Officials, 44 percent of the more than 100,000 American bike-share bikes are dockless, but they represented just 4 percent of last year's 35 million US bike-share rides.
And if Lyft has its way, New York City bike-share stations will soon be more than places for keeping bikes upright. The ride-hail company wants more than a thousand bicycle docks woven throughout the metro area. (There are currently 750.) "Docks are very important, and they're only going to become more important as we get more electric bikes," says Samponaro, who notes that the 200 electric Citi Bikes that currently exist in the system are ridden 14 times a day, twice the usage rate of the non-electrics. Docks will be crucial sites for charging and for rebalancing electric bikes throughout the system.
Lyft would also like docks to be destinations. "Docks have place-making benefits," Samponaro says. "They can help tie together urban planning initiatives, whether those are parklets, or neckdowns." Lyft, in other words, says it wants to help shape a future that includes more alternatives to cars, like walking and cycling. And if docks make for easy places to pick up and drop off ride-hail customers—well, all the better.
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Candy IndustryArtificial and Natural SweetenersCandy Industry News
Sweetener Wars: How do Americans really feel about sugar?
Why do they tend to avoid it and how can companies combat negative perceptions?
Editor's Note: The Hartman Group, a research and consulting firm specializing in consumer behavior, recently released a report about consumer perceptions on sugar. The white paper details how Americans really feel about sugar, why they tend to avoid it and how companies can combat negative perceptions.
Sugar and sweetened products play a complex role in American culture and diet: For generations, sugar has been an integral part of personal and social occasions centering on indulgence, celebration, and reward, with patterns established early in life at home (e.g., making cookies with Mom) and socially (e.g., raising money with school bake sales).
Starting in the 1970s, however, a rising sentiment portraying sugar as a "demon" gained momentum, culminating with the rise in popularity of the Atkins and South Beach Diets, both of which "taught" consumers to avoid refined white sugar and high fructose corn syrup.
Today, it is not uncommon for the media to be on a sugar high with stories focused on the dozens of pounds of sugar that Americans consume on an annual basis. And, while few studies have definitively linked sugar to obesity, many diverse stakeholders ranging from federal agencies to health authorities to public interest groups agree that changes in lifestyle that include high consumption of sweetened foods and beverages have contributed to what is broadly considered an epidemic of overweight Americans.
Over the years, our own research has borne out the fact that, when consumers are asked what they are doing to improve their health and wellness, a common refrain is "I'm watching my sugar intake."
How Americans "manage" sweetness is becoming increasingly a divided issue whereby on one hand consumers view sweetened products as an important part of their lifestyle while on the other hand they view it as a potential threat to their health.
Under pressure from a variety of stakeholders, including government, consumers, and public interest groups, food and beverage manufacturers in the U.S. responded to what amounts to be a societal focus on sugar and, in addition to launching hundreds of reduced sugar and sugar substitute products, have also been seeking new ways to alter consumer perceptions of sugar.
A Tense Association
This strained relationship within our culture over sugar and sweeteners continues to ebb and flow in terms of intensity. Sweet treats, after all, are viewed both as friend and foe depending on differing points of view.
When viewed as a demonic source of obesity, calories, and ill-health, iconic villains abound, highlighted most recently by the increased state and local government debates surrounding bans on carbonated soft drinks (CSDs) and the related and often equally-disparaged sweetener, high fructose corn syrup (HFCS).
Simultaneously, while they often tell us they are trying to eat healthier and avoid certain ingredients (yes, sugar and HFCS), we see consumers pursuing premium sweet indulgences with greater delight and abandon than seemingly ever before: Whether gloriously complex cupcakes, dark chocolate as an everyday expectation, or soda made with "real" sugar, the occasions and celebrations linking to sugar and sweeteners are — needless to say — hardly shrinking. Whether friend or foe, consumers appear quite intrigued today with smaller examples of formerly large indulgences.
As an overview to how consumers "talk" about sugar and sweetened products, several significant themes have developed from language analysis. (Figure 1)
From the consumer perspective, sugar is a product that is:
Addictive. Sugar contributes to "highs and lows" and is hard to break free from.
A contributor to health problems. Many different ailments and diseases, ranging from tooth decay to obesity, hypertension, heart disease, and diabetes, are attributed to sugar consumption.
In everything. As taught especially by low-carb diet plans (e.g., Atkins), consumers have learned that a number of products contain not only sugar but high fructose corn syrup and other sweeteners.
Banned from low-carb diets. Sugar is associated with low-carb diets because of their emphasis on avoiding sugar consumption.
"Watching" or "reducing" sugar intake is a common strategy deployed in the following patterns:
Reducing caloric intake related to weight management goals
Managing or avoiding disease (diabetes, heart disease)
Hoping to stabilize blood sugar spikes
Managing mood and performance
Aspirationally, consumers tend to "save up" or "ration" sugar intake for special foods or beverages that are particularly noteworthy:
Indulgent foods to feed the soul (e.g., dark chocolate)
Ritual foods (wine after work, wedding cake, restaurant dessert)
Comfort foods for reward or therapy (e.g., ice cream)
While consumers openly profess a desire to avoid sugar, HFCS, and many artificial sweeteners (especially in products like beverages), there is a growing interest among consumers in higher-quality experiences when it comes to sweet indulgences: As if in response to the ubiquitous office candy jar or food retail aisle groaning with shelves of legacy candy brands during Halloween and Valentine's Day, the commodification of sweets, baked goods, CSDs and even ice cream has forged greater interest among consumers in unique premium indulgences, with the aforementioned cupcake (formerly a relatively simple miniature cake found in school lunches or bake sales) perhaps one of the best examples: After all, how many sweet indulgences, aside from cake, can claim their own Food Network show (Cupcake Wars, not to be confused with Cake Boss or Ace of Cakes)?
Yet with all the sweet celebrations and despite the healthy lifestyles consumers aspirationally claim to be working toward, there is an underlying acceptance that a bit of indulgence plays a significant role in being health-minded today, including play, reward, and fun. As if in reflection to this, we note the appearance among dessert trends of "the mini." These are bite-size treats encouraging portion control while avoiding diet or alternative health ingredients.
Within the mini trend, preciously small cupcakes have morphed into cake balls, and little pies have appeared atop lollipop sticks. Restaurants are happy to accommodate the "baby" sweet tooth. They find that average checks are higher when small desserts are on the menu; customers who wouldn't typically indulge are lured by the novelty and smaller commitment of the miniatures, and, while they're at it, they'll order a coffee, a tea, maybe an after-dinner drink.
As a culture, we can be more adventurous with tiny desserts. Consumers want a big taste in a small package and are willing to experiment with unfamiliar ingredients and preparations. The stakes are low: It's just a commitment to a few bites at a lower price point than for standard desserts. A tiny dessert can be perceived as a guilt-free indulgence. Whatever the caloric reality of a flight of tiny custards or micro nut tarts, consumers view minis as a lo-cal, portion-controlled treat somewhat like 100-calorie pre-packed snack bags of chips and crackers.
Diminutive sweets are a form of playful portion control and a way to treat oneself with small indulgences containing real ingredients. Consider:
Small sweets with high-quality ingredients like European butter (high in butter fat), eggs in their whole form (not absent of their deeply hued yolks), and sweeteners of the real and honest variety, such as maple syrup and deep brown muscovado sugar, are on the rise.
Starbucks has offered Starbucks Petites "perfectly-sized bites of delight" coming in at under 200 calories and priced at $1.50 each.
Select Whole Foods Market bakeries offer tiny vegan cupcakes, using good-for-you coconut oil, and not-so-vegan French classics, such as éclairs, ganache tarts, and cream puff minis, as well as miniature versions of classic sandwich cookies.
Diminutive treats are representative of a consumer movement toward higher-quality ingredients on everyday and even solitary occasions. Previously, consumers looking for a treat often found themselves with a rather soulless convenience store candy bar, leaving them feeling both guilty and a little empty inside. Petite indulgences are a way for consumers to celebrate the everyday and even feel positive about treating themselves.
The overwhelming availability and ubiquity of legacy candy, CSDs, and related sweet indulgence brands will continue unabated with resulting commoditization. Higher-quality chocolate is increasingly seen as part of a healthy lifestyle. Fresh, real and less processed are the foundations for permissible indulgence. This includes raw and least-processed forms of sweeteners, such as raw honey. Global and novel flavors appeal to the growing number of curious and adventurous palates. Functional and better-for-you should not be your message: Instead, rely on fun and playful product narratives, and highlight quality ingredients. Reimagined packaging with clever design and even edible wrappers will surprise and delight.
About The Hartman Group
The Hartman Group, located in Bellevue, Washington, blends leading-edge customized research and consulting to understand the subtle complexities of consumer and shopper behavior. Since 1989, The Hartman Group has provided unique perspectives on the underlying motivations and behaviors that move the needle for our clients. For more information, visit: www.hartman-group.com
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Ford Gum & Machine Co. is a leading U.S. manufacturer of retail confectionery and gift products, private label gum, and bulk vending confections and toys. Ford Gum specializes in both sugar and sugar-free products including Big League Chew bubble gum, Jelly Belly sugar-free gum, Smarties gum and candy, WARHEADS gum and candy, and Carousel gumball machines.
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As the largest wholesaler in the Southwest, Redstone Foods has been delivering a sweet experience to its customers since 1966. With an inventory of over 6,000 selections, we feature an extensive range of bulk candy, novelty candy, old fashioned candy and fine chocolates that are perfect for any occasion, along with a holiday offering that is second to none.


Earthquake Prediction: 5.5R in Gulf of California.
5.5R in Gulf of California.
This 5.5R in the Gulf of California, we expected yesterday, arrived late as far as we are concerned. Fo our yesterday predictions for Mexico we gave two locations one of which was (20.2N, 106.2W) This is closest to the one we are reporting today.