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How Far You Can Go on the Median Income in the 50 Largest U.S. Cities
It's important to have a firm understanding of your expenses before you make the decision to take on a construction project. We work with contractors on a daily basis to find the best solutions for their bonding and insurance needs, so see many financial scenarios with varying amounts of discretionary income available to take on projects.
Discretionary income is a factor in financial decision making for individuals too. Whether you're considering a move, starting your own business, or planning for any other investment, having an understanding of your discretionary income is important. In order to get a better understanding of the monthly discretionary income available for individuals and families around the country, we performed an analysis to determine how far the median income goes in the 50 largest U.S. cities.
To determine how far you can go on the median income, we calculated the difference between the median income as reported by the Census and the Economic Policy Institute's estimate for monthly expenses in the 50 largest U.S. cities. The expenses included in the monthly estimate are: housing, food, transportation, health care, taxes, other necessities, and child care (where applicable).
We crunched the numbers for three different scenarios: a single person household, a married couple household without children, and a married couple household with two children.
What we found was a great amount of variety in how far the median income will take you, particularly for single people and families with children. Read on to learn more about what we found.
How Far a Single Person Can Go on the Median Income
We started by looking at the cities where single people could get the furthest with a median income. This is especially important for young people, many of whom are likely looking to move away from home after a year spent saving and living at home with their parents.
The city where individuals can go the furthest on a median income are Washington, D.C, Austin, TX and San Jose, CA. In each of these three cities, surplus incomes exceeded at least $1,150 every month. While these cities don't necessarily have low costs of living, high-paying jobs in local economies like San Jose's nearby tech sector create an environment where median incomes exceed monthly cost estimates for single people.
On the other hand, individuals in New Orleans, LA, Birmingham, AL, and Pittsburgh, PA go the least far on median income in terms of meeting monthly expenses. In New Orleans, a city which has been marked by financial hardship in the last decade especially, the median monthly income comes $466 short of monthly expenses.
It's worth noting that individuals in these cities aren't the only Americans whose median income doesn't cover expense estimates. Of the 50 cities profiled, expenses exceeded the monthly income in 12 cities including New York, NY, Charlotte, NC and Orlando, FL.
You can check out the city-by-city statistics for single individuals in the table below.
How Far a Married Couple Without Children Can Go on the Median Income
Next, we calculated the difference in monthly income and expenses for married couples without children. After all, sharing expenses like rent and utilities with a partner can be transformative in household budgeting.
Indeed, the data showed that in the top three cities where median household income for married couples goes the farthest, surplus income exceeded at least $4,900 per month. Once again, the top three cities were Washington, D.C, Austin, TX and San Jose, CA.
An interesting statistic about the cities where the median income covers the least expenses for married couples without children is that no cities showed a deficit.
Still, the lowest-ranking cities like New Orleans, LA, Birmingham, AL, and Pittsburgh, PA had less than $1,250 leftover every month for discretionary spending and the savings that so many young married couples are trying to build up.
You can check out the city-by-city statistics for married couples without children in the table below.
How Far a Married Couple With Two Children Can Go on the Median Income
Finally, we looked at the data for a two-parent, two-child family, and saw the most dramatic ranges in deficits and surpluses for any group of people.
At the top end of the 50 cities with the greatest surplus of median income after monthly expenses were Washington, D.C., Austin, TX and San Jose, CA. However, for four person households with two parents, only 19 cities' residents were in the black after a month's worth of expenses.
On the down side of things, the cities with the greatest monthly deficit were New York, NY, Buffalo, NY and Birmingham, AL. In New York, monthly expenses for two-parent, two-child households were over $10,000, leading to deficits of $2,392 each month.
We also saw huge ranges between cities that are relatively close to one another. For instance, San Francisco and San Jose, only an hour's drive apart, had a range of $2,480 in their leftover income with San Jose families having $1,841 leftover after expenses and San Francisco families falling $2,480 short of their estimated monthly costs.
You can check out the city-by-city statistics for married couples with two children in the table below.
This data illuminated the wide range of financial circumstances of different Americans, based on where they live and what their family looks like.
Overall, we found that, generally, married people without children can go the furthest on a median income no matter where they live. On the other hand, married people with children have the greatest financial surpluses in the country, but also see the greatest deficits. Finally we saw that even in cities with high costs of living, high median incomes led to surpluses in every family makeup.
As we attempt to move past the pandemic into situations of greater financial stability, understanding how your location and family size impacts your budget is crucial.
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Research and investigation found that with the increase in population and social development, humans have gradually invaded the habitat of animals. With the extinction of some animals, the food web is destroyed, which has a greater impact on the ecosystem. For example, the disappearance of bees would make it difficult for plants to reproduce normally and make it difficult for birds and insects that feed on plants to survive. The species in the Thames also face this dilemma. It is an important fish migration corridor but due to human activities and infrastructure, it is difficult for Thames fish to reach freshwater areas, which makes it difficult for certain species to reach their habitats. Eels are endangered species. The project aims to help eels overcome the obstacles of the Thames. When the number of eels increase, they would feed on plankton and animal carcasses, which would help improve water quality. Birds who feed on eels would also be attracted here, which means that the Thames ecosystem might get benefits. At the same time, humans might be reintroduced to the Thames with more opportunities to get close to nature.
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Inna Khidekel is a Senior Managing Director in the Client Solutions Group at Bridge Investment Group and a member of the firm's Executive Committee. She is responsible for business and product development across Bridge's global institutional client base. Inna serves on the Investment Committees of the Bridge Workforce & Affordable Housing and Bridge Office strategies. Inna also chairs Bridge Gives, Bridge's charitable giving committee, and spearheaded and serves on the firmwide Bridge ESG Steering Committee. Inna is a prominent voice in the industry regarding a private sector solution to the US affordable housing crisis and helped to devise a new paradigm for impact reporting that provides actionable intelligence and transparency on community revitalization. Her work helped Bridge Investment Group's Workforce and Affordable Housing strategy win ESG Private Fund of the Year, as well as to be recognized by UN PRI for real-world impact in addressing the "missing middle." Inna also initiated Bridge's partnership with TOIGO and PREA Foundation, to support diverse leadership in finance, and serves on the leadership committee of the Bridge Women's Network (BWN).
Inna is a frequent writer, commentator, and blogger on the real estate industry. Most recently, she won the REFI US Awards and the Harvard Business School Women's Rising Star Award and was recognized by Crain's New York as a 2021 Notable Woman on Wall Street and as a Woman of Influence by Globest. Real Estate Forum.
Before joining Bridge Investment Group, Inna worked at Goldman, Sachs & Co. in the Investment Management Division where she served as a trusted advisor and managed assets on a three‐person advisory team with over $4 billion in assets under management. Prior to Goldman Sachs, Inna worked for Lehman Brothers and Nomura in their London offices, as a Vice President and founding team member in High Yield and Distressed Credit, advising institutional clients on the Eurozone sovereign debt crisis. She began her career at Lehman Brothers on a start‐up Emerging Markets Equities trading desk in London. Inna received her Bachelor of Science degree in Economics from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, with concentrations in Finance and Legal Studies & Business Ethics, and her Master of Business Administration from Harvard Business School. She is a Chartered Financial Analyst and a member of the CFA Society New York. Inna serves on the Board of the Harvard Business School Women's Association.


On her knees, curled in as close to her own chest as possible, the Ullian remained silent as her mind was tormented and blessed with image after image of memories not her own. The elder man at her side was a soothing presence, but not one she wanted to have for eternity. Remembering those closest to her aboard the ANUBIS gave the acting ExO/ILO a new purpose and strength.
"She's not snapping out of it.... doctor do something?" Ya'Han pleaded, waving her hand in front of the frozen visage of her friend and comrade. Though silent, the usually vocal engineer also had a look of worry on her face.
Taking a deep breath, Lillie squeezed her small frame between that of the raven-haired woman and the mirror she stared blankly into. Recalling their first meeting with tenderness, the Tarellian opened her mind once again to the memory the Commander had first been shown. The wind over the grass, great pain accompanied by unmatched joy and fearful anticipation.
"Please Shar'El... please come back to us..." the blonde woman begged, wrapping her arms around the shoulders of her friend and pressing their foreheads together in hopes of reaching her.
Deep in the darkness, still plagued by the rolling recollections of thousands before her, the Ullian sat in a daze staring up at the old man. Her elder gently placed a hand on her head and spoke again, making clear her mind.
"Time spent reflecting on the past is time lost in the present"
A surge of electric sensations assaulted all of the Commander's five senses. The sweet smell of fresh dew trickling off grass blades. The sounds of encouraging and familiar voices hummed in her ears. The salted coppery taste of blood mingling with sweat. The extreme pain assaulting her lower body. Finally the sight, a loving mother looking down at her clothed in a hazmat suit meant to keep in a sickness instead of keeping any out. Although the scene had been familiar, the black haired woman knew that was she was experiencing was not her own memory but that of one of her closest friends.
"Please Shar'El..." the Ullian heard, a voice stricken with worry and fear reaching to her within the depths of her sub-conscious.
A sense of urgency dawned on her. She was missed. She was needed. Fighting back the swirls of memories that threatened to keep her contained, Shar'El rose up from the ground and staggered in the unseen direction in which the voice had come from. Wave upon wave of reminiscence broke over her, like water throwing itself at an immovable mountain.
"Even the hardest of stones wears thin over time" the old sage's voice echoed, now causing more memories to assault her instead of clearing them away.
"Please..." the far away voice begged, urging her onward.
A dim light began to shine, piercing through the darkness. A ray of hope. Shar'El forced her heavy legs to take steps towards it, as she neared the light became brighter, warmer. The acting ExO/ILO reached for the light, as if hoping to find a hand reaching back for her.
"Come back to us..." the sweet voice coaxed, seeming closer than before.
Close enough to feel the light's hot embrace, the Ullian woman rejoiced and pushed forward with all she had left. The brightness stung her eyes, yet felt familiar. When she opened her eyes again, the scene she saw was a familiar face looking back at her with worry. Tears came to the officer's eyes as she opened her mouth to speak.
As she did so, fear gripped her. Though it was indeed her voice that came out, it was not her words. Silence met her as the memories faded into the distance, and yet she was not the one in control. Another had taken her place.
"Who are you?" the raven-haired woman questioned her previously frozen features twisted into a look of confusion.
Taken aback, the doctor closed off her mind and simply stared at her friend, had it been that long since they had last spoken? She seemed to have recalled her before?
Sonja gasped behind her and commented glumly into the subdermal communicator for all still connected to hear "Houston we have a problem..."
Ya'Han, one hand held over her mouth in shock, had little time to wonder who this Houston was.


The driver involved in a crash over the weekend that resulted in the death of a Liberty woman is in the Adams County Jail.
47 year old Jeff Tenhouse has been charged with two counts of aggravated DUI where an accident caused death, and two counts of aggravated DUI where an accident caused great bodily harm in connection with the crash early Sunday morning that took the life of 34 year old Amanda Krutmeier.
The Jeep Tenhouse was driving rolled over on an Adams County Road. There were six passengers altogether, none of whom were wearing seat belts.
Four passengers were taken to Blessing Hospital, including Krutmeier, who was pronounced dead by Adams County Coroner Jim Keller, and Tenhouse, who was treated and released and then taken into custody.


Canon España S.A. was awarded the Top Employers España and Top Employers Europe certification.
Canon Inc. was founded in Japan in 1937 and has been present in Spain for 50 years, first as national distributor until 2005 when Canon Europe acquired the capital of the Spanish subsidiary. Acting under the umbrella of the corporate philosophy Kyosei 'living and working together for the common good' and with the clear goal of spreading the Power of Image Canon has expanded its technology worldwide. Thanks to the investment in R&D Canon offers the most innovative products and solutions which allow our customers to be creative with their images. From enthusiastic photographers to professional printing companies Canon enables them to realize their own passion for image.
Our comprehensive independent research revealed that Canon España S.A. provides exceptional employee conditions, nurtures and develops talent throughout all levels of the organisation and has demonstrated its leadership status in the HR environment, always striving to optimise its employment practices and to develop its employees.


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Bachelor of Urban Forestry launching at UBC
Written by Joshua Azizi
Sept. 17, 2015 · 2 min read
Stephen Sheppard is the Urban Forestry Program Director. Photo Kosta Prodanovic / The Ubyssey
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UBC Forestry students can now enrol in the new Bachelor of Urban Forestry degree program.
According to UBC Forestry's website, "Urban forestry is about planning and managing urban green-spaces and ecosystems for human welfare, ecological health and protection of our cities' support systems."
Approved seven weeks ago by the Ministry of Advanced Education, the program is an interdisciplinary study field that incorporates classes from various faculties including Landscape Architecture, Natural Resources Conservation and Sociology.
The field of urban forestry has been expanding in recent years as forestry experts have begun to recognize how strong urban forest management can best deal with issues such as climate change, wind storms and even human welfare.
For instance, UBC Urban Forestry Student Coordinator Cindy Cheng said that attentive urban forest planning could have prevented the damage caused by a windstorm last August in Vancouver.
"They may say that we may not need so many trees, but if we have a better urban forestry management plan, then we can avoid these damages," she said. "What we need right now are professionals that can manage our trees in the city area better."
Currently, students are able to enrol in Greening the City which focuses on using urban forests to make cities more livable. Urban Forests and Well-Being, which focuses on the connections between urban residents' health and urban forests, will be available in term two.
According to the Urban Forestry Program Director Stephen Sheppard, talk of an urban forestry degree has been around for decades as the field has started to gain prominence in academic and professional fields.
"Internationally, I think people are recognizing that it's much needed," he said. "A lot of new research is coming out of UBC and other places on urban forestry and the health benefits, the economic benefits, climate change adaptation [and] that kind of thing. These fields are growing and that's really where the ideas come from."
Whereas a general forestry degree places a greater focus on areas such as wood production, an urban forestry degree would place a greater focus on how trees affect city life.
"One of our colleagues said that one of the products of urban forestry is human happiness," said Sheppard. "It's not so much here about the wood -- it's about aesthetics, human health, psychological well-being and safety."
Both Sheppard and Cheng add that job prospects for urban forestry graduates are plentiful. Sheppard said that urban foresters can work for municipalities or private sector companies in areas such as tree management, tree care, park planning and tree installation.
According to Sheppard, a one-year course-based master's program in urban forestry is also being developed.
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The new Brian Daley Bibliography has been added!
Brian Daley is my favorite author of all time. The first book of his that I read was his Tron. It was one of the few longer stories I truly enjoyed. Although I enjoyed it for the ideas and action, what I really enjoyed was the way Mr. Daley conveyed the story. I saw the movie first and enjoyed it and then I received the book as a gift and so read it. The book was, as it always seems, much better than the movie. I have to tell you, reading is something I enjoy, but it's not something I do easily. I have tried reading many books and become bored very easily. It's very frustrating when you hear about wonderful stories like Lord of the Rings by J.R.R. Tolkein and you just can't get into the story. So far, the list of authors who are "readable" for me is very small. The list includes, in no certain order, Barbara Hambly, Ben Bova, Robert Sheckley and Brian Daley AKA Jack McKinney (with James Luceno). This page is for my favorite though, Brian Daley. I first discovered the following information in 1997.
Author Brian Daley, who wrote The Doomfarers of Coramonde and other works of fantasy and science fiction, including three "Star Wars" novels, died February 18 (1996) at his home in Arnold, MD, near Annapolis. He was 48*. The cause was pancreatic cancer, said his wife, Lucia St. Clair Robson.
He worked as a house painter, waiter and welfare case worker before publishing The Doomfarers of Coramonde (1977), about an Army unit that is transported from Vietnam to an alternate universe, where it must slay a dragon. The book's success led to a sequel, The Starfollowers of Coramonde (1979).
The last books by Brain Daley from Del Rey The series centers on the character of Burning, the leader of a military unit known as the Exts. The group is taken from there home planet to another and then a third during a chain of events which changes interstellar space forever. The title of the books is very descriptive. Gamma stands for the mission type (it's low priority as it is not an alpha or beta mission) and Law is an acronym for Legal Annexation of Worlds. I hesitate saying too much about the story as I want it to be a surprise to you. I enjoyed the books for their believable military and human components. The one thing I hated about reading the books was knowing they were the last four new Brian Daley books I would ever get to read. I started by allowing myself to read only a chapter a day and soon gave that up after I was pulled into one of his stories once again. Looking on the covers of the books you'll see on Book1 is Burning and his sister Ghost (in the background), on Book2 is who I believe to Zone (he's a crazy man) and also Burning, on Book3 is Burning and Souljourner and on Book4 is Ghost, Burning and Zone.
My all time favorite. Read it once a year at least.
The partner to the first. Always read after the first.
If you haven't read the 3 Han books, you are not a SW fan.
Based on the screenplay by Steve Lisberger. Story by Steve Lisberger and Bonnie MacBird.
Based on that great Japanese cartoon series!
Liked this one. Mix of light mystery & sci-fi. Easy read.
The radio drama was amazing to listen to. Like listening to the old radio serials.
Brian's last series. These were actually put together by Brian's good friend, James Luceno after Brian died. Was hard to read at first, knowing they were his last books. Many thanks to all involved in getting these out, especially James Luceno.
Also note that Brian Daley was a writer & a story editor for the animated series The Adventures of the Galaxy Rangers From 1986 thru 1989. Also joining him as a writer was Brian's friend James Luceno. I have read many comments on the series which usually say things like: "Ahead of it's time" & "Intelligent stories".
As I continue my limited research on Brian Daley, I will update my information from time to time.
I would like to end by saying that I hope to add many more covers and do a better job of describing the books.
Thanks to Del Rey for the info they provided as well as their assistance.
And thanks Lucia & Ginny for being kind to one of Brian's fans.
Last but not least, thanks to friends from Brian's past and other fans for sharing their views and stories.


Jinbocho is famous for being Tokyo's book district. From literature to art books, comics to books on subculture, magazines and books from all around the world are crowded into this busy district. Yet, while the area is overflowing with old bookshops, sometimes you can catch the fragrance of curry floating by on the air. In fact, Jinbocho is also known for its fiercely competitive curry scene. If you leave the station from exit A5 and head down Yasukuni-dori in the direction of Kanda, you'll hit one of its finest representatives: Kama. Despite all the neighbouring competition, this well-loved Indian restaurant has even die-hard curry fans singing its praises.
Kama's special is its chicken curry. Containing two whole potatoes and generous portions of chunky chicken, it's made with a smooth roux that perfectly complements the rice. To make the soup stock, chicken bones and beef tendons are stewed for around two hours along with vegetables like cabbage, onions, carrots and ginger. The richness of the meat is tempered by the gentle flavour of the vegetables, and the finished product has a transparency unhindered by its spices. The addition of fruits like apples and mangoes also gives the dish a hint of sweetness. Nevertheless, with a single taste, what you'll realise is that it's a pretty spicy dish. But even with all the heat, it's irresistible. One key is that the potatoes are cut into large blocks so their sweetness can match the spiciness of the roux.


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The Media Cube, IADT is delighted to announce Cian Desmond as winner of the recent Student Video Competition, sponsored by Vehicle Software Company, Tracknstop™.
Students from IADT's Film, Television & Animation departments were set a challenge by Tracknstop™ to create viral style videos which would capture the essence of the company's patented GPS technology and specialised software which can track, disable and even stop a moving vehicle remotely from any location in the world.
Congratulating the IADT students on their efforts, Michael Doherty, Co-Founder of Tracknstop™ praised the winning submission by Cian Desmond which showcased the technology and its unique software features.
"This competition sponsored by Tracknstop™ provided a wonderful opportunity for IADT students to showcase their work as well as giving them a real commercial exposure as to what is involved in launching a cutting-edge technology on the global stage".
The Media Cube works in partnership with Enterprise Ireland and the Local Enterprise Office in the Dún Laoghaire-Rathdown Council and beyond. It provides state-of-the-art facilities including office space, meeting rooms, boardroom and canteen facilities, serviced reception areas and of course the best sea views from its roof-top terrace!


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Cycle track passes over this bridge over the River Gaywood connecting the Reffley and Springwood areas.
North end of bridge over the railway to the Hardwick Industrial Estate. Unnecessarily tight slalom barriers at the foot both otherwise popular and well-used.
Grudging footpath crossing of the railway with cycling across not allowed. Instead of automatic barriers, we get heavy metal gates that easily slam back onto your heels and to add insult, the official signs call the location "Nowhere FPW"!
Nice cycle track bridge over a drain connecting Chase Avenue with an underused cycle track to the difficult level crossing and a stone road southwards.


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Hartvik or Hartvic (also Arduin, ; died after 1103) was a prelate (most probably the bishop of Győr) in the Kingdom of Hungary under King Coloman the Book-lover. He wrote a new Life of St Stephen I of Hungary based on the holy king's two earlier hagiographies.

Identification
The author of the Legenda Hartviciana called himself Cartuicus or Hartuicus episcopus, without mentioning his episcopal see. Several historians in the 19th century claimed Hartvik (or Hartvic) was of German origin, and perhaps served as bishop of Regensburg (and thus he is identical with Hartwig I of Spanheim) or Meissen (see Herwig of Meissen). Other historians considered he is identical with that Hartwig, who was abbot of Hersfeld from 1072 to 1090, and was installed as pro-imperial anti-Archbishop of Magdeburg in 1085.

Based on the fact that Arduin of Ivrea, an 11th-century claimant to the title King of Italy, was referred to as Hartvigus in contemporary German sources, historian Gyula Pauler considered that Hartvik is identical with that episcopus Ioviensis Arduin, who – alongside a certain comes Thomas – was sent by King Coloman of Hungary to the court of Roger I of Sicily in 1097 to propose marriage to Roger's daughter. Their legation is appeared in De rebus gestis Rogerii et Roberti by Benedictine historian Goffredo Malaterra. Pauler argued the episcopal see Ioviensis is a result of distortion of text and can be matched with Iaurinensis, i.e. the Diocese of Győr.

His theological proficiency is shown by the fact that he used the 9th-century Pseudo-Isidore decretals in his work. A late 11th-century pontifical liturgical book (Agenda Pontificalis), kept in Zagreb, was compiled for a certain bishop Chartuirgus. Church historian Károly Kniewald identified this person with Hartvik, the bishop of Győr, based on the listed churches and procession routes. The pontifical was compiled before 1100. A now lost royal charter of Coloman issued in 1103, recorded by 18th-century historian Miklós Schmitth, mentioned Bishop Arduin of Győr among the witnesses. His successor, George is first mentioned as bishop in 1111, implying that Hartvik died by then.

Legenda Hartviciana

Upon the order of Coloman, Hartvik composed the hagiography of Saint Stephen, the first king of Hungary – called Legenda Hartviciana or Vita Hartviciana, which was based on two existing legends (Legenda maior and Legenda minor). Historian Gábor Thoroczkay argued Hartvik compiled his work in the period between 1097 and 1099, or the early 1100s at the latest, while other historians – e.g. Zoltán Tóth, József Gerics – considered the bishop wrote the legend in the 1110s. Beside the veneration of Stephen I, Hartvik's legend served justified the political purposes of Coloman in order to defend his royal prerogative to appoint the prelates of his realm, as a response to the Gregorian Reform and the Investiture Controversy. With some modifications in the text, Pope Innocent III sanctioned the Legenda Hartviciana as the official hagiography of Stephen I of Hungary in 1201.

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We hope you are enjoying our second wave of summer here in the City of Elkins. Below are just a few reminders on how you can help ensure that your neighbors are enjoying it as well.
Please clean up after your pets. While City law only requires dogs (not cats) be leashed while out in public, it does mandate that with any pet you clean up any waste deposited on public or private property. Our City parks provide great outdoor play spaces for you and your pets and they provide free waste disposal bag stations and collection containers.
Everyone loves the smell of freshly cut grass, but not everyone, especially those on a bicycle or motorcycle enjoys riding through a pile of it in the street. Not only does this create a dangerous situation for riders, when the rains come (as they always do in Elkins) this material is washed into the storm water system and can cause significant drainage problems. Please dispose of your grass and other yard waste at the City's drop-off location.
These warm temperatures also offer an opportunity for end of season cleaning, but remember that our sanitation department does not pick-up bulk or special items as part of your normal trash collection. If you have large or unusual items, check here to see if the City can accept it and if not, other ways it may be disposed of.


English oak with naval bronze detail.
150mm diameter table, 2900mm diameter overall to sit 8.
One of the lovely couple worked at the Chelsea Physic Garden and it seemed appropriate to have a petalled effect. The names of all those who contributed towards this wedding gift are inscribed onto a disc of naval brass, inlaid at the table's centre.
We want for little, so we've asked our wedding guests to contribute towards a commission from you to design and make us an al fresco dining space down by the river.


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Agnieszka Holland Exhibition at FebioFest
An exhibition entitled "Poland. Europe. The World: The Faces of Agnieszka Holland", curated by the Museum of Cinematography in Łódź, will open on March 14, 2013 at the 20th FebioFest International Film Festival in Prague. The exhibition is co-financed by the Polish Film Institute.
Polish Film Wins Audience Award
The Audience Award for Best Film in Tampere (Finland) went to Łukasz Ostalski, author of the short film Matka (Mother). The film screened in International Competition at the 43rd Tampere International Short Film Festival in Finland.
"Entangled" Awarded in Prague
On March 12, the documentary Uwikłani (Entangled) by Lidia Duda received the Best Director award at the 15th One World festival in Prague. The grand prize in the festival's competition went to The Act of Killing by Joshua Oppenheimer. The awards ceremony will be held on March 13.
Camerimage on Oscar-Qualifying List
The Plus Camerimage International Festival of the Art of Cinematography has been recognized by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences as an Academy Award-qualifying festival in the Best Short Documentary category.
"Suicide Room" in Czech Cinemas
Sala Samobójców (Suicide Room), directed by Jan Komasa and co-financed by the Polish Film Institute, will be released in Czech cinemas on March 28, 2013.
Poland as Guest of Honour at Annecy Film Festival
Poland will feature as the guest of honour at the 37th Annecy International Animated Film Festival, which runs from June 10 through June 15, 2013.
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Teddy Award for "In the Name Of..."
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Dirt, waste and revulsion: How cultures cope with leftovers and mess
Updated Monday 27th June 2011
In a roundtable discussion at The Wellcome Collection, the panel explore the difference between dirty and polluting, and why "not all poo is equal".
Laurie Taylor:
Unless you're a late night comedian on Channel 5 it's not usual to get a chance to talk dirty in front of an audience but thanks to the exhibition currently being staged here at the Wellcome Collection I now have a licence to talk publicly not only about dirt but about excrement, rubbish, sewage and just plain good old fashioned muck, you know the stuff that's presently under your fingernails or on the soles of your shoes or perhaps on the back of the seats where you're actually sitting at this very moment.
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Now this isn't though just about compiling an inventory of different terms for dirt, it's about the universality of those terms, about the manner in which physical dirt can quickly take on all sorts of moral connotations. With me to discuss such matters I have historian Amanda Vickery, who's from Queen Mary, London University; anthropologist Adam Kuper from the London School of Economics and author and cartoonist from The Guardian , Martin Rowson.
Amanda, I don't know whether you noticed but when I just sort of mentioned that business about dirt under fingernails and particularly got the little tiny bit about the possibility of dirt being on these lovely clean looking seats in the Wellcome there was a little frisson ran around the audience, what is it about this instinctual aversion to dirt?
Amanda Vickery:
Well I think some of it is instinctual but I also think it's it's intertwined with culture. We're actually quite neutral about things like blood but once you say 'it's menstrual blood' then everybody would recoil I think in horror - but even that recoil I reckon would vary across cultures.
So I would say that every civilisation draws a line between the dirty and the clean, and the pure and the polluted, but where they draw that line, I think, varies across cultures and I would strongly argue that it varies across time as well.
Well, let's just talk about drawing that line, because when you come into this exhibition you immediately see - I mean almost emblazoned across the entrance to the exhibition is the announcement "Dirt is in the eye of the beholder", and it's a quotation from the anthropologist Mary Douglas.
Now Adam, you worked with Mary Douglas, what did she mean by this?
Adam Kuper:
Well, I think Mary Douglas would have made a strong distinction between the dirty and the unclean.
So the dirty is something physical and the unclean is not necessarily physical, it's not necessarily mud on your boots, it's polluting in some kind of sense, more a spiritual problem.
And for a number of human societies I think most of the time it is the idea that certain things are out of place are polluting, are dangerous, cause you trouble, they make you ill, may lower your status.
And what those things are can vary tremendously from one society to another but there is one constant in most human societies - we all have a lot of symbolic thought associated with the body and in most societies a lot is made out of the things that the body expels or that you put into the body. And these are the things that are often very, very strongly marked as unclean or polluting, dangerous.
You often say there are perhaps some rational reasons lying behind taboos - for example, we don't walk under ladders - there's a taboo about that - but I mean perhaps that might be because of all the incidents of things dropping on people's heads when they walk under ladders. But [Mary Douglas] wanted to say 'no, you can't provide a material explanation for these taboos at all'.
Well her famous example was the Old Testament taboo on pork and she said 'well, modern Jews will often say "of course pigs are dirty, full of infections and so there's a good scientific reason for doing it"' but, of course, the Old Testament doesn't say that at all, the Old Testament says that certain foods are taboo because they don't fit the proper categories. So fish can be eaten so long as they have scales and if they don't have scales are they fish or aren't they fish - they don't quite fit into the category, then they're tabooed.
And pigs, it was some long story about chewing the cud but having cloven feet - what about an animal which had cloven feet, didn't chew the cud or chewed the cud and didn't have cloven feet, they were tabooed because they broke the boundary and anything that breaks the boundaries breaks one's sense of what is right and proper in the world, what fits.
It is out of place.
It is out of place and therefore it's tabooed and dangerous.
Let me turn to you Martin, I hugely enjoyed your autobiography recently, which you called Stuff . What about the relationship between stuff and dirt?
Martin Rowson:
Well I mean there's stuff - the eponymous stuff was the stuff found in my late parents' house when we were clearing it out, two tonnes of which was deemed to be unwanted by anybody, anybody imaginable - no charity shop, no distant relative, or any of this - and it ended up as landfill, therefore was by definition dirt - I suppose because there was nothing else to do with it.
But it was a bit like in Philip K Dick's Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? . Where this society is slowly being inundated with what is called kippel, which is the thrown away, disposable, detritus of modern capitalist consumer life.
Amanda, [to] bring what Adam was saying to you, when you're talking about the cultural differences which might exist in what is regarded as polluting or not polluting or evading categories, isn't there really a universal abhorrence associated with sight, smell, in sounds associated with human excrement. I mean, this seems like a universal abhorrence?
Well, behavioural researchers seem to have said that there is a universal disgust response when you see faeces, but particularly when you smell it. But can you imagine having to do that research? That made me smile, the thought of how you carry out your research project?
But nevertheless, in the early modern past you had status the higher up the royal chain of command you were, and the closer you were to the body of the King or the Queen. So if you were the groom of the stole, which actually meant the groom of the stool, you were the person who carried the King's chamber pot. So to you the smell of his chamber pot was the sweet smell of success.
So it depends what significance you attach to that. So actually being close to what comes out of somebody's body can be a great sign of power. Not all poo is equal.
And there must be many mothers, fathers and grandparents in the audience who don't feel any abhorrence to cleaning nappies, changing nappies, cleaning up and so on. [So] there you are - there's nothing universal.
Like [Proust] wouldn't it - it would be sniffing a nappy, it would bring back the infancy of your children. If you were so inclined.
I'm just remindedit may apply to the monarch but it doesn't necessarily apply to your lover. There's a wonderful line from Swift, who's after all the poet of the scatological, talking to his lover "I think that I might lose my wit Celia, Celia, Celia, shits" - and so even at that moment it actually ceases to be an amorous product of the body, as some others may be. Well it depends how, what floats your boat really, doesn't it?
You encourage me immediately to ask you how as a cartoonist you make use of human excrement and everything associated with human excrement as a metaphor in your satirical drawings?
Well I'm following in a 300 year long tradition in this country of having licensed drawings about poo, which is a wonderful tradition to inherit.
Sometimes editors balk slightly at it, just like people balk at the real thing. I remember during the Tories first encounter with sleaze (another kind of disgusting, dirty word), in the mid-'90s, I was working for Time Out and I'd done three cartoons of John Major getting deeper and deeper up shit creek, so it was just below his nose, and that sort of rather long drooping upper lip he had, the tide was going up, and the editor phoned me up and said: "Look, I'm seriously worried about your mental health you keep on doing all these pictures of shit."
But I said: "Well, if you can think of a better visual metaphor for this government please tell me what it is?" And it is a marvellous visual metaphor because it's abhorrent, there's a taboo against it but also it's part of the voodoo of visual satire.
There was a fantastic cartoon by Gillray, during the Napoleonic Wars, of George III shaped like the British Isles and out of the Solent he is evacuating his body over the French fleet and this was a moment of celebration, that the King was actually sort of discharging the body politic over the invaders.
Oh so it's heroic, that makes my point...
It's heroic, yeah.
Not all poo is equal.
As it is when our children produce a solid stool for the first time in the right place - that is heroic.
A round of applause.
We've reached this - we've reached a point where I want to see if there are any question that you'd like to address to any of the guests here, pick up on anything they've said or to ask anything.
Wendy Maples:
It's Wendy Maples and my question is really just about this notion of taboo. Thinking about all the television programmes that we have nowadays that investigate other people's detritus, I wonder to what extent is dirt still taboo?
Well taboos change, certain taboos lessen, they decrease, they pass over, new taboos take their place.
Societies need taboos because part of the ways in which we think about the world is that we divide it up, we have more valued and less valued parts, and we police the boundaries in our thoughts and in the places that we create by setting up tabooed areas where you walk on the grass or can't walk on the grass or you can do certain actions here and you can't do certain actions here, you can undress here, you can't undress there.
Taboo is relative to particular spaces, places, times, people. So new taboos come, old ones fall away.
Although I think that this kind of preoccupation with what we produce and sort of examining it is actually quite early modern, it seems to me to return to an interesting kind of purging the body and I'm sure if early moderns had been offered the option of a colonic enema they'd have gone for it, they'd have thought great - evacuation.
Because in a system where you believe the body is about the humours in balance, it's all about what you excrete and purge through blood and through evacuation as part of maintaining health and matching yourself to the climate.
So in fact I personally don't think we're on the kind of onward march towards [a] taboo-free and hygienic world, I think we share an incredible amount with the early modern past. And also, I think in the past they had their own ideas of cleanliness as well, it's not that we're clean and they were dirty.
I just wanted to make the point that the reason why you have TV programmes, like the one a couple of weeks ago about filthy cities, was because these are taboos and it's titillating - you're transgressing it, therefore it's fun.
Yes thank you. In the second row here.
Will O'Connor:
I am Will O'Connor from Gryon, Switzerland. There was a cartoon in Switzerland a while ago, a picture of a map of Switzerland and all the romantic countries, France and Italy, were dirty countries and Germany, Lichtenstein, Austria were less dirty countries and that's very strong in the Swiss psyche. I just wondered how do you think of filth and dirt used as a weapon internationally or nationally within a nation?
It's an 18th Century stereotype that the French might have all these beautiful things that we want but underneath it they're not very wholesome, so that you know we northern Protestants, we're clean and what they are - they just have this sort of surface glamour over grime and that it's all front.
And that's kind of much repeated and particularly something that women are often accused of and that they're sort of covering up their dirtiness with a bit of rouge, which is painted blushes because they've lost their modesty, they've no power to blush but they just paint it on.
So that idea of veneer is something you always accuse other cultures of or other social classes, it's a very useful device for disparaging the manners and material culture of your enemies.
In this exhibition, those of you who have been round it, will have seen 17th Century Delft tiles, the point being made by their presence here is the - that they were specifically developed to facilitate cleaning and if you look by those tiles as well there are paintings by Pieter de Hooch very clearly demonstrate a belief in cleanliness being next to godliness because you've seen there's a picture in one painting - a woman sweeping the floor while another's feeding the baby and the shadow of a cross is silhouetted on the wonderful clean floor. But tell me about this association which is going here between cleanliness and godliness.
Well it's a very Calvinist idea. There's a lot of argument among Dutch historians about whether cleanliness came before Calvinism but, in any case, when they met [it] was a very, very romantic union because, so far as the Calvinists were concerned, cleanliness was about discipline and it was also a spiritual state.
So the Dutch painters who are painting the domestic scenes, often with women involved in cleaning or being cleaned around, they're representing people living well, living a good holy decent life.
Paintings like De Hooch's paintings are matched by the paintings of filthy pubs with whores and dogs running around the floor and people smoking and drinking, as you get in the paintings of Jan Steen at exactly the same period, and yet Jan Steen, of course, [is] Catholic [and] rather likes these pubs. So the pub - the filth of the pub, the immorality of the pub - is contrasted with the cleanliness and the morality of the home, which is also the Christian home.
Amanda, the association: health and cleanliness and godliness?
Well of course, John Wesley famously said cleanliness is next to godliness and he thought that you should reflect on your body your kind of inner spiritual worth, and that was reflected in your cleanliness and the sort of sobriety with your clothes.
So he was always praising his wife for her neatness and cleanliness, and he demanded that the Methodists not be at all slovenly in their dress.
But I think the important thing to remember about the 17th and 18th Centuries is that they're not talking about what we would think of as clean bodies, they imagine them to be clean but they're not submerging their bodies in water, really, until the rise of sea bathing and things because they think that water is positively bad for you because things could get in through the pores.
And so to keep the body in balance you need to scrap off the dirt and what does that is your linen and that sort of chaffs you. It's like a kind of exfoliation with your shirt and your shift. But then your clean linen that gets washed, so a sign of cleanliness is your sparkling white linen at your neck and at your sleeves.
And even the working poor expect to have one shirt on, and one shirt in the wash. So if you can't present yourself as clean then in the eyes of the world you're not respectable, you're not decent - but you're probably unhealthy as well.
We'll begin to shift now, because of course we're moving towards moments where ideas of cleanliness are [developing]. Medicine's beginning to advance and thus beginning to bring different notions to bear.
Martin, bringing you in here, I think your other fellow cartoonists - George Cruickshank, and William Heath both had a go at illustrating these so-called animal coli, the germs if you like, the first notion that there were living organisms which couldn't be seen by the human eye but which nevertheless attested to the condition of the body.
This wonderful etching by William Heath which shows a Regency woman recoiling in horror and disgust as she's looking through a microscope and you have the large circle and it's called Monster Soup or Thames Water showing all these creatures, these Cyclopes and so on, writhing around in the Thames water.
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But really it's one of the functions of satire to expose what's underneath. We were talking a minute ago about the finery and showing how clean you are compared to your environment. There's a wonderful Hogarth print from 50 years prior to the William Heath of some French people coming out of a Catholic church in London and they're looking absolutely wonderful, their clothes are magnificent, but they're stepping over this open sewer with a squashed cat and all this sort of detritus around the place. And there Hogarth is actually exposing these people - you know if you tear off their finery they'll be stinking and sweating and pissing just like the rest of us.
And so what the Heath picture is doing is showing that things might appear to be clean and good on the outside but actually we've found this way, scientifically, to discover that it's actually a festering mess.
That means we're moving away from the idea [that] it is the smell which is somehow responsible for the contagion. Most striking, I suppose, evidence or indication of the advance of hygiene and the concern for hygiene that is illustrated here is the drawings, the pictures, the model of the International Exhibition of Hygiene which opened in Dresden in 1911, where five million people came to see that in the first year. It later went on to be the Museum of Hygiene. An extraordinary phenomenon this, Adam?
Well yes and no. First of all there was a good commercial basis for it, and the man who set it up, I think his name was Lingner, was the manufacturer of a mouthwash called Odol, which was part of the salesmanship.
But this is the moment, the beginning of the 20th Century, late 19th Century, when popular opinion becomes seized of the germ theory of disease.
Once we have the germ theory of disease it's fascinating, it seems to answer a whole lot of questions, it's also a bit frightening. And so you have an exhibition which really says this is how you fight the war against this alien invader that you can't see, that's going to be all around you: germs.
So it was a terrific selling point. The modern idea is that things that are dangerous, dirty and so on, are infectious, they make you ill. Whereas, the traditional idea is that it's polluting, that at some other level it makes you unclean and therefore not able to function properly in society, not acceptable.
So the idea of infection in a way absorbs and renews and changes the old idea of pollution, the meaning of dirt was something that was spiritually bad, morally bad and it becomes something that is physically bad - bad for your health.
But the idea of the Museum of Hygiene is, if you like, appropriated by the Nazis as a way of describing the Jews - 'the Jews are the dirty ones, they are not hygienic'.
Yes. Very, very commonly people make an analogy between the body and the society and if you start thinking in this way about the body, in terms of infection by these hidden agencies, and you think about society in the same way, what is going to infect society, what is going to cause these illnesses in society, it must be some agents out there that you can identify. So it provides a way of thinking about society.
Okay, another question.
Terry Plume:
Does the panel have any view regarding the possibility that we might actually be going to such extremes of cleanliness, you know 50 years ago there were soaps to clean, now it has to be antibacterial, so are we actually killing ourselves off with cleanliness?
Well you can hear me hacking away with my asthma, which is arguably a disease of modern life.
But I think that some things that have been forgotten are on their way back in, like you cut down the rate of infection by very, very basic, everyday things like washing your hands and it doesn't have to be with antibacterial soap.
And apparently women and older people are much better at cutting down the rate of infection by doing these very basic things. And in London at the moment there's a massive moth outbreak caused by central heating and the fact that we don't clean our clothes very often and don't sweep in the back of our cupboards.
Well those early modern housewives would be appalled to think that you didn't air out your cupboards and move - get circulation, put dirty clothes away. Horrors!
My father, who's a virologist, always used to say that penicillin was one of the worst things that happened culturally - not medically but culturally - because it made everybody terribly complacent.
So when AIDS came along there was this terrible panic amongst the medical profession because they weren't used to dealing with infectious diseases and they didn't know what to do about them.
And all the isolation hospitals had [housing] estates built over them and things like this, which is why our hospitals are so deadly in their filthiness now, which is an economic consequence because we don't pay the cleaners enough to make them feel part of the process of keeping the place clean.
Another question.
John Clark:
My name's John Clark and I wanted to pick up the questions about aliens and alien invaders because one of the striking images in the cholera bit of the exhibition is John Bullprotecting the British against cholera, and cholera is pictured as an entirely oriental figure, complete with turban and loincloth and just that thing about dirt and the categorisation of people seems to me to be Victorian, colonial and perhaps continually present.
I don't think the idea that somehow these others invading is necessarily [racist]. It might be a racist idea but I don't think it's a kind of recent imperial idea at all because if you look in the medieval past there's lots of jobs that Jews weren't allowed to do, and so you know the kind of jobs that they were given were those which were low down the pecking order, which were not prescribed; [which] were things which were to do with scavenging and second hand clothes, sometimes with certain sorts of surgery.
So then those jobs themselves become seen as dirty and so there's a kind of fusion of the two - that's all that's left for you to do, and you are somehow besoiled by doing them.
But at the same time I think these great heaps of detritus that we produce they are both a sign of the march of civilisation that they're so immense, like the landfill site which is part of the exhibition, but on the other hand they're a kind of place of opportunity and I'm sure many readers will remember Our Mutual Friend and the money that was made from the scavenging on the dust heap.
There's one thing we haven't talked about at all - and perhaps we're all being a little bit serious about this because ,as we know from the work of people like Martin and we all know from constant jokes that we tell around the office and elsewhere, that there is something sort of very sort of funny about this area, it's a constant source of humour.
I mean toilet humour is a complete category isn't it and children growing up almost have to be weaned off toilet humour, as they have to be weaned off the bottle. It's just something they absolutely love.
Martin, I'm going to come back to you now because are we so judgemental that we somehow ostracise or ignore the obvious pleasure that children get from dirt and mud and excrement and talking about all of that?
Well I mean I have long believed that there is a kind of basic human sense of humour which can be typified thus [raspberry blowing] which has made some some infantile people in this audience laugh.
But if you do that to any child under one anywhere they will laugh because it's the noise that the disgusting stuff that pours out of our bodies on a daily basis makes and it's funny, it is funny.
And I think toilet humour is one of the bedrocks not only of British humour but of humour everywhere because it is: it's funny because it's breaking a taboo, it's also funny because it sort of looks funny, it smells funny, it's talking about it in front of adults [and] makes them very cross and that's funny.
But there's also a pleasure in messiness and dirtiness, again referring back to my own profession, I always thought one of the greatest 20th Century British cartoonists was Ralph Steadman because he's so messy.
You get other cartoonists who do nice neat lines, Ralph just tears the page to pieces, blots all over the place and he's having fun, it's like a kid in a sandpit, just throwing things all over the place.
And of course there's also the other thing we've touched on but haven't gone very deeply into the filthiness of sex - the filthier the sex the better the sex. And I don't know whether it says something about sex or whether it says something about the French but there's that great line by Napoleon who sent a dispatch to Josephine saying: "Home tonight, don't wash."
Well actually it's a point that the book makes, this idea that perhaps we should celebrate dirt a bit more and I don't know who it is wrote the chapter in the book but here's for a bit of dirty sex. But it gives you - it conjures up this other image of what is clean sex, then. I suppose we imagine it's missionary with the lights out, nightie on.
It's what they do up mountains in Switzerland.
In lakes.
This is an adapted transcript of the Thinking Allowed special recorded at The Wellcome Collection and broadcast on BBC Radio 4 on June 8th 2011.
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Bob And Doug McKenzie's 24 Anniversary
Last Sunday night, the CBC aired "Bob And Doug McKenzie's 24 Anniversary" prime time special, celebrating the 24th anniversary of the film Strange Brew. Geddy Lee made a guest appearance which can be seen here. Geddy Lee and Rick Moranis (Doug McKenzie) grew up together, and Geddy sang on their top 40 hit, "Take Off" from their 1981 comedy album, The Great White North.
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Two jazz covers of "Tom Sawyer" have been recently released. Last Day In Paradise by the Alex Skolnick Trio, was released March 18th. Known for its inventive jazz take on hard rock and heavy metal standards, the album contains seven originals and three covers, including "Tom Sawyer", which can be heard on the band's MySpace page. This is not Alex Skolnick's first released Rush cover; the guitarist for the band "Testament", he also is credited with the guitar solo on the Subdivisions tribute album.
The second jazz cover of "Tom Sawyer" is included on the new album titled Prog by jazz band "The Bad Plus" released May 8th.
"...their florid take on Rush's 'Tom Sawyer,' may be likely to get the most attention of anything on the album. But they rely too much on irony, on people's previous perceptions of the music, and do not seem quite as enamored of the original. They're jokes that are funny the first time but not so much the second or third."
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On April 12th, Geddy Lee appeared on ESPN's "Cold Pizza" and discussed the commercial, the comentator/musicians, and of course, baseball. The commercial is a music-video advertising fantasy baseball on ESPN, featuring the ESPN crew including John Kruk, Peter Gammons and others. The band, "Iron Diamond", has a MySpace page which offers some great photos as well as the full commercial. The full band complement is: John Kruk: lead vocals, ESPN Baseball Tonight Cohost; Peter Gammons: vocals, (home-plate shaped) guitar, ESPN Baseball Tonight Cohost, writer; Bronson Arroyo: vocals, guitar, 2006 MLB All-Star Pitcher; Geddy Lee: vocals, bass, Rush frontman, fantasy baseball genius; Gary Sheffield: drums, MLB slugger with 455 career HR's and counting; Joe Borowski: keytar, closer, 2006 Comeback Player of the Year Finalist; Jennie Finch: vocals, ESPN Fantasy Analyst, Olympic Gold Medalist; Matthew Berry: vocals, Senior Director of Fantasy for ESPN.com; Eric Karabell: vocals, ESPN Fantasy Analyst, ESPN Radio Host; Buster Olney: vocals, ESPN the Magazine Senior Writer, NY Times.
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Snakes & Arrows was released on CD May 1st 2007, as a double album on June 19th, as well as the new MVI (Music Video Interactive) format on June 26th. In the UK, a "Special UK Tour Edition" was released September 3rd, essentially as a 2 disk counterpart to the MVI; both include 96kHz/24 bit hi-resolution stereo as well as 5.1 surround sound; "Rush: The Game of Snakes and Arrows" 45-minute documentary on the making of the album; digital extras including wallpapers, buddy icons, screensavers, and more. Click here for complete Snakes & Arrows news archive.
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Coinciding with the release of Snakes & Arrows, Mercury/UME is following through with their plan of releasing the individual DVD's of Exit…Stage Left, Grace Under Pressure and A Show Of Hands, which were first released together in the Replay X 3 box. Each DVD features 5.1 surround sound and stereo mixes created for the DVD releases by Alex Lifeson and Mike Fraser from the original concert multi-tracks as well as digitally transferred and remastered visuals. These individual DVD versions are identical to those previously included in the in the Replay X 3 boxed set, which also includes the Grace Under Pressure CD soundtrack.


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Q: R: Update row if any previous row contains a certain value I have a set of data taken from an RFID reader which records when individual birds visit a nest. However, errors with the boards meant they often would stop scanning for day, and so I don't know if the bird visited the nest or not. The dataset contains a record of both the time of the most recent detection, and the date and time of the previous detection. I'd like to update this 'previous visit' column with 'unknown' when the board was off for any day prior to the last known visit.
My minimal dataset is below:
date <- seq.POSIXt(ISOdate(2018, 7, 6), ISOdate(2018,7,16), by = "day")
status <- c("ON","ON","OFF","ON","ON", "ON", "ON", "ON", "ON","ON", "ON")
firstdet <- c("2018-07-07 03:34:58 BST", NA, NA , NA ,
               NA  , "2018-07-12 01:30:37 BST","2018-07-13 03:15:55 BST", "2018-07-14 00:01:39 BST",
             "2018-07-14 23:46:47 BST" ,"2018-07-15 23:28:16 BST" ,"2018-07-16 23:57:00 BST")
prevVisit <- c(NA, NA, NA,  NA, NA ,"2018-07-07 03:34:58 BST", "2018-07-12 01:30:37 BST",
               "2018-07-13 03:15:55 BST", "2018-07-14 00:01:39 BST",
              "2018-07-14 23:46:47 BST" ,"2018-07-15 23:28:16 BST")

mydf <- data.frame(cbind(as.character(date), status, firstdet, prevVisit))
colnames(mydf)[1] <- "date"

Which looks like this:
            date       status                firstdet               prevVisit
1  2018-07-06 12:00:00     ON 2018-07-07 03:34:58 BST                    <NA>
2  2018-07-07 12:00:00     ON                    <NA>                    <NA>
3  2018-07-08 12:00:00    OFF                    <NA>                    <NA>
4  2018-07-09 12:00:00     ON                    <NA>                    <NA>
5  2018-07-10 12:00:00     ON                    <NA>                    <NA>
6  2018-07-11 12:00:00     ON 2018-07-12 01:30:37 BST 2018-07-07 03:34:58 BST
7  2018-07-12 12:00:00     ON 2018-07-13 03:15:55 BST 2018-07-12 01:30:37 BST
8  2018-07-13 12:00:00     ON 2018-07-14 00:01:39 BST 2018-07-13 03:15:55 BST
9  2018-07-14 12:00:00     ON 2018-07-14 23:46:47 BST 2018-07-14 00:01:39 BST
10 2018-07-15 12:00:00     ON 2018-07-15 23:28:16 BST 2018-07-14 23:46:47 BST
11 2018-07-16 12:00:00     ON 2018-07-16 23:57:00 BST 2018-07-15 23:28:16 BST

N.B. The birds visit at night between 22:00 and 03:00 so the date column refers to the day the night started; this is why the firstdet column date doesn't always match the date.
I would like the 'prevVisit' column to update with 'unknown' whenever any of the rows between the current detection and the last known one contain status 'OFF' - as I don't know for certain when the bird last visited. For example:
              date     status                firstdet               prevVisit
1  2018-07-06 12:00:00     ON 2018-07-07 03:34:58 BST                    <NA>
2  2018-07-07 12:00:00     ON                    <NA>                    <NA>
3  2018-07-08 12:00:00    OFF                    <NA>                    <NA>
4  2018-07-09 12:00:00     ON                    <NA>                    <NA>
5  2018-07-10 12:00:00     ON                    <NA>                    <NA>
6  2018-07-11 12:00:00     ON 2018-07-12 01:30:37 BST UNKNOWN
7  2018-07-12 12:00:00     ON 2018-07-13 03:15:55 BST 2018-07-12 01:30:37 BST
8  2018-07-13 12:00:00     ON 2018-07-14 00:01:39 BST 2018-07-13 03:15:55 BST
9  2018-07-14 12:00:00     ON 2018-07-14 23:46:47 BST 2018-07-14 00:01:39 BST
10 2018-07-15 12:00:00     ON 2018-07-15 23:28:16 BST 2018-07-14 23:46:47 BST
11 2018-07-16 12:00:00     ON 2018-07-16 23:57:00 BST 2018-07-15 23:28:16 BST

I have come across lots of questions which ask how to change row values based on previous rows, however none of these seem to be conditioned on a variable range of previous rows, so they haven't solved my issue.
The closest I've gotten is an ifelse statement which I hoped would search for 'OFF' in the preceding rows of the status column - but this doesn't work:
mydf$prevVisit <- ifelse("OFF" %in% mydf$status[which(mydf$date > mydf$prevVisit & mydf$date < mydf$firstdet)], "unknown", mydf$prevVisit)

A: I don't think there's an elegant/vectorizable way to go about this, and ifelse is certainly not going to do what you want. Here's a quick hack that might work for you.
I modified your data slightly to give another test (that I don't falsely assign "unknown" in a gap):
x <- read.table(stringsAsFactors=FALSE, header=TRUE, text="
               date status                firstdet               prevVisit
2018-07-06_12:00:00     ON 2018-07-07_03:34:58_BST                      NA
2018-07-07_12:00:00     ON                      NA                      NA
2018-07-08_12:00:00    OFF                      NA                      NA
2018-07-09_12:00:00     ON                      NA                      NA
2018-07-10_12:00:00     ON                      NA                      NA
2018-07-11_12:00:00     ON 2018-07-12_01:30:37_BST 2018-07-07_03:34:58_BST
2018-07-12_12:00:00     ON 2018-07-13_03:15:55_BST 2018-07-12_01:30:37_BST
2018-07-13_12:00:00     ON 2018-07-14_00:01:39_BST 2018-07-13_03:15:55_BST
2018-07-14_12:00:00     ON                      NA 2018-07-14_00:01:39_BST
2018-07-15_12:00:00     ON 2018-07-15_23:28:16_BST 2018-07-14_00:01:39_BST
2018-07-16_12:00:00     ON 2018-07-16_23:57:00_BST 2018-07-15_23:28:16_BST")
x[] <- lapply(x, function(a) gsub("_", " ", a))

x$unknown <- c(FALSE, sapply(seq_len(nrow(x))[-1], function(i) {
  prev <- tail(which(!is.na(x$firstdet[seq_len(i-1)])), n = 1)
  !is.na(x$firstdet[i]) && (!length(prev) || any(x$status[prev:i] == "OFF"))
}))

x$prevVisit <- ifelse(is.na(x$firstdet) | x$unknown, NA, lag(zoo::na.locf(x$firstdet)))
x
#                   date status                firstdet               prevVisit unknown
# 1  2018-07-06 12:00:00     ON 2018-07-07 03:34:58 BST                    <NA>   FALSE
# 2  2018-07-07 12:00:00     ON                    <NA>                    <NA>   FALSE
# 3  2018-07-08 12:00:00    OFF                    <NA>                    <NA>   FALSE
# 4  2018-07-09 12:00:00     ON                    <NA>                    <NA>   FALSE
# 5  2018-07-10 12:00:00     ON                    <NA>                    <NA>   FALSE
# 6  2018-07-11 12:00:00     ON 2018-07-12 01:30:37 BST                    <NA>    TRUE
# 7  2018-07-12 12:00:00     ON 2018-07-13 03:15:55 BST 2018-07-12 01:30:37 BST   FALSE
# 8  2018-07-13 12:00:00     ON 2018-07-14 00:01:39 BST 2018-07-13 03:15:55 BST   FALSE
# 9  2018-07-14 12:00:00     ON                    <NA>                    <NA>   FALSE
# 10 2018-07-15 12:00:00     ON 2018-07-15 23:28:16 BST 2018-07-14 00:01:39 BST   FALSE
# 11 2018-07-16 12:00:00     ON 2018-07-16 23:57:00 BST 2018-07-15 23:28:16 BST   FALSE

(The modified data shows that row 10 shows row 8's firstdet despite the gap in row 9.)
I am assuming you intend to make these real dates at one point, so I kept it in a separate column (because you cannot have "UNKNOWN" in a POSIXt column). If you really want it in there, you can else do
x$prevVisit <- ifelse(x$unknown, "UNKNOWN", x$prevVisit)

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We need action not nice words from President Granger on the sugar industry
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The GAWU has considered several media reports about His Excellency, President David Granger's visit on June 07 to Albion Estate. The visit which was described by the June 09 Kaieteur News as a "surprise", we noted, saw His Excellency saying quite a lot, apart from the commitments he made. Notably, it was the first time that the President set foot on a sugar estate since he took office over four years ago.
According to a statement of June 07, published on the Ministry of the Presidency's website, President Granger is quoted to have said "I am here to find out what your problems are. I have come to fix things". The rational mind would have thought that the President and his colleagues, who collectively occupy the decision-making chairs of the nation, would have been well aware of the industry's problems and how to go about fixing them. It appears, if President Granger's utterances are anything to go by, that this was not the case. It, undoubtedly, brings into question what factor/s influenced then, the Administration's policy toward the industry.
The President went on to say that he wants the "…industry not just sustainable but profitable…" and that it must "thrive". On the surface, it seems, the President is saying the right things, but we hasten to wonder if the President and his Administration were so interested in the industry thriving, as he says, why were the worthwhile suggestions that were advanced by the Sugar Commission of Inquiry (CoI), among others, ignored apparently.
Many suggestions, had they been implemented, would have helped to put the industry on firmer ground and well on the path to profitability.
President Granger also said he wants "…to guarantee employees' livelihoods… to guarantee sugar's position in the national economy… to safeguard the rural economy". Again these are lofty sentiments. But they come after sugar workers remain the only group of employees covered by the State's umbrella to have effectively had their wages stagnated at 2014 levels though we now live in 2019 when circumstances of life are vastly different.
It came after 7,000 ordinary, hard-working, decent, honest workers lost their jobs following their several expressions to draw attention to their plight. It came after the President's men and women ignored the credible suggestions of the unions and the political opposition, to conduct a socio-economic impact assessment regarding its sugar policy.
It came, too, after the IMF advised the Government to put in place adequate safety nets for displaced workers. It came after the aspirations of thousands have been shattered. It came after entire communities have been thrown into disarray. And, it came after millions of dollars in foreign currency receipts have been effectively lost.
We also saw the President reportedly saying, his Government "…since 2015 has been doing everything humanly possible to ensure the industry thrives". Can we really take this statement at face value? We ask: – how can we?
We recollect that the Administration recruited a certain 'expert' who had a long-held position to significantly reduce the scope of the industry. Or, how can we not remember that there was a sustained attack to reduce workers long-standing and hard-won benefits. Or, what about the billions channeled to the industry but we see sliding production?
Certainly, if the President was serious, in our view, much of what has played out in the industry, during his time at the helm, ought not to have occurred in the first place.
His Excellency is also quoted to say "[w]e are in the business of sugar and we will produce sugar. We will not produce retrenched workers…" Again, we see the boisterous pronouncements by the President.
While we are in the business of sugar, we cannot ignore that the President's Government closed the Enmore Packaging Plant, which output attracted the highest prices according to the Sugar CoI. Or that the Skeldon Co-Generation plant, which raked in nearly $10B in revenues in 2016, is also suffering nowadays from a lack of bio-mass arising from the Skeldon estate's closure. Or that the thousands retrenched by the Administration's policy had their severance entitlements unduly and illegally withheld. Even, at this time, there is a certain segment of the displaced workers who, notwithstanding a Court Order, are having an aspect of their severance payments withheld.
The President was also quoted by the statement to have said "…that Government is going to put the relationship between NICIL and the Corporation on a firm footing". Again, the obvious question that pops up is: why did the President allow the relations between the two bodies to descend to the acrimonious expressions that have played out in the full view of the public. Why wasn't the discord arrested earlier, rather than be allowed to fester and explode into a raging war of words? We nevertheless are hopeful that, indeed, the President, late than never, could bring the bodies to see eye-to-eye.
Our Union was perplexed too when we saw President Granger being quoted as saying he "…met with the sugar unions on December 31, 2016 and February 3, 2017 and, again, with the unions on January 19, 2018 because I am interested in working out with them how this industry will survive… I want them to understand our plans for the industry".
Our Union did meet representatives of the Government, not the President, on December 31, 2016 and February 03 and 17, 2017 regarding what was said to us was a 'consultative' exercise regarding the plans to divest Skeldon Estate and close Rose Hall and Enmore Estates.
While we harboured fears about the genuineness of those engagements, our Union approached it with an open mind but, it appeared that the proverbial door was already shut on the other side. Nevertheless, the GAWU as well as the NAACIE did engage President Granger and leading members of his Administration, for the first and only time, on January 19, last year.
A statement, by the Department of Public Information, about the engagement quoted His Excellency as saying "[t]he Government and the Unions should engage until the issue is resolved". Though the GAWU engaged in good faith and put several suggestions to the Government at the meeting, we have not since heard from the President or his Administration about further engagements.
While the President's interest in securing the remaining state-owned sugar estates is a welcome sign, it is not a time for nice speeches, good words and photo opportunities. Whether the President's apparent newfound interest is connected to other national happenings is left to be seen. However, we require serious and concerted action. There must be, in our view, collective discussions and the sharing of ideas and thoughts. The workers, an important segment in the industry's turnaround, success and sustainability, can no longer be alienated or treated with scorn or derision, but they must be included and treated with respect. We will look in the coming times to see if the President's utterances are reflected in actions and deeds.
Seepaul Narine
GAWU
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Линия Франклин-авеню — это в основном наземная короткая линия Нью-Йоркского метрополитена в боро Бруклин. Обслуживается  На линии всего 4 станции: две северных однопутные; станция Ботанический сад двухпутная и служит разъездом; станция Проспект-парк является общей для этой линии и линии Брайтон, где данной линии принадлежит один путь.

Эта линия — северная часть действовавшей в XIX веке паровой железной дороги. В 1920 году была построена подземная линия от станции Проспект-парк на север к Декалб-авеню. С этого момента поезда стали ходить насквозь по южной части бывшей паровой железной дороги и по новой подземной ветке, которые образовали линию Брайтон, а оставшийся участок образовал данную линию и стал обслуживаться челночным маршрутом. Начиная с 1960-х годов пассажиропоток на линии пошёл на спад, в 1990-х годах линия была закрыта, однако под давлением общественности открыта вновь и реконструирована.

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