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In a desperate election, nostalgia for an America before the decline is the GOP's only message.
By JoAnn Wypijewski
Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney looks up to the balloons as his wife Ann and family take stage after his speech at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Florida, on Thursday, August 30, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Dharapak)
Ann Romney told the television audience that they could trust Mitt Romney to bring them home safe from a date. That is what he had done for her, she said, forty-seven years ago when their love was new; and love had carried her along all these years, love and trust in the man she was pitching to carry them home from the bad economy, the great uncertainty, the world of peril just beyond wherever it was they were watching. She was talking to Republicans, too, gathered around a national convention stage set that was as loud as her red satin dress, as hard as her lacquered fingernails and the crimson slash of her mouth. She shook her golden head like a schoolgirl, then set her jaw and pointed her fingers like gun barrels. "After a speech like that, who says the Republican Party doesn't like women?" a male delegate enthused.
When Governor Chris Christie followed her by saying it is better to be respected than loved, he may have been auditioning for enforcer, but he underlined the objective of Mrs. Mitt, of Mitt himself and of the Republican campaign. "There is doubt and fear for our future in every corner of our country," he said. "Skeptics wonder if America's greatness is over." Did we stay too late at the dance and now find ourselves wandering, hopelessly lost? No, said the overstuffed Jersey boy whose youth was spent jerking to Springsteen's Darkness on the Edge of Town. No, said every scripted moment of the convention. No, said the party's standard-bearer in his big speech on the final night, promising to "restore every father and mother's confidence."
Mitt will bring us home.
But where is home? Outside the Tampa Bay Times Forum, the streets were an ugly tangle of fence and armed men, almost none of whom could give you directions. Inside, the crowd had hailed Condoleezza Rice's endorsement of intervention on behalf of "free peoples and free markets," but an Iowa delegate wearing an OIF/OEF badge indicating his tours in Iraq and Afghanistan said, "There's no freedom in it, believe me." The week's speeches had been pitched to project the party as a national Rotary of small shopkeepers, but conventiongoers were stingy toward Tampa's small businesses. Everything about the convention—its design, its parties, its swag bag, its parade of guests, lobbyists and consultants done up like Barbie and Ken—was such a celebration of Mammon that some Republicans felt uneasy. "Who are these people?" a group of dismayed Christian activists asked one another over a steady supply of alcohol one night.
On the final day, two Ron Paul delegates from Las Vegas lingered by a trash can in a hallway while Newt, Callista and the other warm-up speakers for Romney took the stage. "You feel like you're in a cesspool after being here," said one. Party regulars pooh-poohed the only political surprise of the convention, a quickly organized protest by grassroots Republicans angry at the leadership's slippery rule changes. The only stagey surprise, an evocation of frontier toughness in the projected image of Josey Wales and the person of Clint Eastwood, turned out to be a meandering bit of clowning. That was far from the worst worry for Romney, whose own house was a mess. The convention closed, and his side remained uneasy, scanning the horizon for a bump.
This is a desperation election; nostalgia was the Republicans' only consistent message. That is partly their fault, partly their condition, and it is not theirs alone. Romney's nostalgia for a sunnier, more robust America, that place where we all gathered round our TV sets to watch a man walk on the moon and "went to bed that night knowing we lived in the greatest country in the history of the world," doesn't speak for everyone's experience of 1969, and doesn't admit into the magic circle of memory the millions of Americans who weren't even born then. It does, however, gesture to the sense, aloft throughout the land, that what some may call American greatness and others American hegemony is in crackup. The circumstances that allowed for the moonwalk, that made the US military so formidable around the world and made the working class (especially the white segment) so materially satisfied, that insulated the rich by rewarding the aspirations of the rest just enough to make "the dream" believable—these no longer apply. The wars are lost, the soldiers are killing themselves, the children are stupid, labor is idle or underpriced, the masses are indebted or poor, the rich are vulgar and grabbing all they can while they can.
The problem of the twenty-first century is the problem of decline—how to manage the transition from a present that is untenable to a future as yet unperceived except within the fright frame of science fiction. This problem predates the Great Collapse of 2008. No one knows what to do about it, and neither party can speak of it, even if it wanted to. To do so would be as disastrous as Jimmy Carter talking about malaise.
But the Republicans also have a tactical headache—five of them actually, conflicts that their convention revealed but could not resolve, and that made nostalgia the only rhetorical option.
§ Since 2008 the party and its sound machine (the grotesque crew of radio and television broadcasters, pundits, surrogates and nonprofit outfits) have done a spectacular job of demonstrating that W.E.B. Du Bois was perhaps optimistic: the problem of the color line is not the problem of the twentieth century alone. A black president and the imminence of nonwhites outnumbering the white population have been met with an almost automatic racism, masked in code or tricked out in humor. It has succeeded in mobilizing some of the ranks, but now Romney is trolling for votes beyond them, from people who may be made queasy, or at least embarrassed, by the strong whiff of bigotry.
§ They have been masters of fear, targeting old white people, particularly aging working-class Reagan Democrats, playing on their prejudices but also on their real insecurities. On any given day, a duffer who has answered Republican surveys or sent $5 to a candidate or ordered Rush Limbaugh's iced tea might find himself with a pile of alarming mail from party offshoots or nonprofit allies: Yes, Obama literally wants taxation without representation… He's undermining our national security and endangering American citizens… Stop the invasion of our country… Prayer in public is under assault like never before in America… With this radical agenda [same-sex marriage] comes the silencing and punishment of you… Your tax dollars are paying for a ragtag collection of dictators and socialists… The only thing that serves Obama's purpose better than $5 gasoline is gas that costs $10 or $15 per gallon… Young children are forced into sexual orientation training… Did you know that most Grocery Stores only keep a 3 day supply of food on hand? (All quotes genuine.) But Paul Ryan forcefully insists that it's not enough to scare people to win an election; ideas are what matter.
§ They have Paul Ryan, a man of big ideas, the liberal media insist. But his ideas scare people. Romney's choice of Ryan for VP defused the Tea Party, but Ryan's vision for Social Security and Medicare had to be stifled, because no presidential aspirant can risk welding himself to images of Granny betting her retirement voucher in the stock market, Granny running up against the limits of her medical voucher, Granny dying in the snow.
§ Since the 1970s they have identified with the anti-
abortion and anti-gay crusades, gaining in the bargain money and votes and a formidable ground game rooted in the churches. Being cynical, they underestimate the power of true belief, and in a political year dominated by debate on transvaginal ultrasounds, personhood amendments, restrictions on contraception, redefinitions of rape and defunding Planned Parenthood, they cannot embrace their Christian base without alienating independent voters—and cannot appeal to those voters without putting distance between themselves and their own base.
§ They invoked liberty opportunistically, so as to brand Obama its opposite. They didn't bank on attracting people to their party who actually believe in it.
Trapped in every direction by the pitfalls of whatever resembles principle, the party had only treacle and excess to promote itself. I didn't make it to the Welcome Party in St. Petersburg before the convention, but a young delegate from Oklahoma named Jorge told me how it had impressed him.
"It reminded me of The Hunger Games, like we were going to the Capitol." It was invitation-only, and the bus he was on from Tampa with other delegates passed the armaments paid for by the $50 million that Congress gave each host city for security. About 3,000 out-of-town officers from some sixty different agencies were deployed. ICE was there, TSA, Homeland Security, the National Guard, the Secret Service. They made a kind of bivouac under a highway overpass, where troops coming off duty reclined with energy bars while others began their shifts. Most wore the same beige uniforms. The aim was to create "a perception of overwhelming force," Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn, a Democrat, told ABC. Outside the expansive downtown security zone, a waterfront park, the county center, the police department and a monument to fallen officers were also barricaded. Overhead,
helicopters buzzed.
This was Jorge's first national convention. His bus passed through gates to Tropicana Field, where the party was held. "There was so much food. They had a whole pig, with the head and all, laying there on the table. I thought, Really, you're doing this in a recession?" People were dressed up, some in the kind of partisan costume familiar to conventiongoers, others in the uniform that would be apparent every day in the halls of the forum: short, tight dresses for the women, teetering on platform shoes; khaki and rolled shirt sleeves for their squishy men; maybe a pair of Stars-and-Stripes trousers on a hipster. A country star commanded the stage with cheerleaders for the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in their scanty pirate togs.
For every conventioneer there was a swag bag advertising Busch Gardens, and for every journalist, too. Like provisions for intrepid hunters in the Safari of Fun, it included sunglasses, sunscreen and a battery-operated personal fan that generated no breeze. Here were breath mints, courtesy of railroad giant CSX; a beer can holder, courtesy of the Tampa Bay Storm; No Apology, courtesy of Mitt Romney; a luxury coffee-table magazine called Bay Pop.
"The [Tampa Bay] community is not the flashiest, but the wealth is outrageous," Rob Elder, president of Elder Automotive, told Bay Pop in a mini-profile wedged between features on rare colored diamonds, equestrian-themed fashion and an auto spread that wondered, "Been dreaming of a crossover [SUV] that goes 200 mph and costs 200K? An all-electric, speedster SUV? A custom-built version that can run you over $300,000? All are on the way."
It was only a promo giveaway, but symbolically it told a story that in other ways the convention sought to keep under wraps.
I had picked up mine a few days later at the Convention Center, where the press was mustered, where fawning reporters listened to whatever Jon Voight wanted to say and looked on as Michael Steele did his cutting-up routine. Google had its own cafe. The energy company CNGnow was offering free water and specialty coffee. It was pleasant there in the glass box, with a waterside view and little areas carpeted in AstroTurf with bright blue picnic tables by cheery tableaux of flowers, trees and butterflies. In other circumstances I might have appreciated it as an hommage to Florida kitsch, but in real life the kitsch has been bulldozed. Tampa's towers could be in any city, and there were too many ads, too many lies, too many party leaders onstage justifying all because their parents had come to this country with only $10 or had dug in the mines or had started a business with no one's help, too many delegates mouthing talking points like robots on Obamacare and the need to bite the bullet on entitlements and the shame of throwing Israel "under the bus."
I was regarding Bay Pop with a couple of working-class delegates in T-shirts, Ron Paul supporters who now call themselves free-thinkers and who were not prepared for their encounter with the Republican Party. They'd thought they were coming to Tampa to hammer out positions, to gather together, as another first-time delegate told me, "to make plans to save the United States." They were shocked that the convention was scripted. Shocked by the overwhelming presence of corporate money. They looked at the magazine's cover boy, a smug, square-jawed model under the title "The Young Delegates," and compared him to people walking the halls. "Plastic people with plastic brains," they said, and then told me a story about an 8-year-old who'd come to Tampa with his parents to be part of history. The boy was precocious, wearing a Paul button and delighting grown-ups on the convention floor before the proceedings. "And what do you think of Mitt Romney?" somebody asked him, hopefully. "Screw Mitt Romney," said the child.
By the normal standards of politics, this should be a runaway year for a challenger party. Almost 70 percent of Americans are very or mostly dissatisfied with the political system's performance, if one believes a recent Washington Post/Kaiser Family Foundation poll. By the same survey, 90 percent of people of any political persuasion are split evenly as to whether the Democrats' policies hurt or help their economic interests. Since February, the economy has added just 97,000 jobs a month, not enough to absorb new entrants to the workforce, let alone make a dent in the unemployment rate.
Republicans could win on that message alone, but it is not evident that they will. The normal standards of politics are not operative. Strictly by the distress numbers, Florida, for instance, should not be a swing state. Around 9 percent of the state's (and Tampa's) people are officially out of work. Only 96,000 jobs have been recovered since the Great Collapse wiped out 715,200 of them, according to a report from Florida International University. Although the unemployment rate fell by about 2 percent between June 2011 and June 2012, the State Legislature attributes 70 percent of that change to a shrinking workforce—people moving out or dropping out.
Yet Florida is a swing state. Its Republican governor, Rick Scott, who takes credit for the improvement in the jobless rate, is unpopular. The Tampa Bay Times recently suggested that an uptick in the unemployment numbers would actually be welcome, "because it may signal that discouraged workers are coming back to the labor force." Scott, who bought the governorship with $78 million from his personal fortune and narrowly escaped being implicated in a corruption scandal at the for-profit hospital where he was CEO, belongs to the government-is-useless crowd—a mendacious stance in a state that floats on federal dollars for sugar subsidies, the space program, the military and Social Security.
Paul Ryan could never campaign honestly here, as he did not in his televised address. Like most of the speakers, he substituted biography for politics. They made Obama a punching bag, but with relative restraint. Shtick aside, Eastwood was useful, reassuring voters that they were simply good and reasonable to want to fire Obama and give someone else a chance. The red meat, which Charles Krauthammer worried that Republicans might miss because Hurricane Isaac clipped the schedule, had been served instead at a Cineplex just outside the forum. There, 2016: Obama's America played on a daily bill with Runaway Slave, about the Democrats' plot to hook blacks on dependency, and Dreams From My Real Father, about Obama's mission to realize the black militant, Communist agenda of Frank Marshall Davis. The local Tea Party did its part to get people out, particularly for 2016, Dinesh D'Souza's narcissistic hallucination about Obama as the echt neo-anticolonialist, bent on driving America into debt so as to redistribute wealth globally, and on fostering the "United States of Islam," I guess to honor his "founding father" and "buddy" Edward Said. The evidence: Obama took a class at Columbia from Said, who is described as rabidly anti-Western. As an intellectual pretender, D'Souza certainly knows that Said was a professor of literature, taught the Western canon, wrote on classical music for The Nation and others, grew up in the Church of England and was adamantly secular. If he taught Obama, the experience was unmemorable; otherwise, Said met him exactly once. D'Souza might as well have dramatized the scare alerts from Oliver North's Freedom Alliance, but then he would have had a harder time weaving himself into the story.
Remarkably, some Republicans said the film made them think better of Obama; at least now they had a rationale for his actions. Back at the forum, two conventioneers must have forgotten where they were and had to be ejected for tossing peanuts at a black CNN camerawoman while saying, "This is how we feed animals." The others overcompensated by giving thunderous ovations to every black or brown speaker who trooped across the stage. "This is the dawn before we remember who we are!" Artur Davis, former Democrat, newly minted Republican and certified opportunist, exhorted his listeners. It was nonsense, but the overwhelmingly white crowd was on its feet, stamping and whooping, all the way to the forum's top tier. A more ecstatic reception greeted Condi Rice.
"The Republicans are fools," a crusty Floridian on the street, Donald Barnes, growled the next day. "They should have made Condoleezza Rice their vice president to split the black vote and get the whites who feel guilty. Instead, they're going to re-elect the hula boy." No, he doesn't like Condi, though she's probably competent. He doesn't like any of them. Florida's lieutenant governor is a black woman, and she's competent, though "the governor is an idiot." I asked if he thought white people, some anyway, were scared that they were going to be overrun once the demographics shifted and they were no longer the majority. "Positively," he said. "That's what it boils down to."
Ever since Democrats and Republicans eliminated the central purpose of their national conventions—picking the presidential candidate—these gatherings have had only two functions: unite the party, and project the candidate in the most appealing way to the nation. So it was mystifying that Team Romney should use this occasion to alienate one of the most energetic segments of the Republican base, unseating ten Ron Paul delegates from Maine, others from Louisiana and Oregon, and pushing through rules that were seen as moves by moneyed interests to favor future front-runners, thwart grassroots candidacies and wrap up the nominating process more quickly. Paul's strategy this year had been to participate in Republican caucuses and primaries and then leave it to delegates at the state level to organize through their convention process, spreading their message, expanding their number, hence his chances. Rule 12 allowed the Republican National Committee to change the terms of the game at any time between conventions. Rule 16 neutered the state conventions as sites of scrappy politics, remaking them in the image of the national convention, exercises in symbolism.
When the latter came to the convention floor, John Boehner, as chair, called for a voice vote, and, though it sounded too close to call, he declared, "The ayes have it." For days afterward, activist delegates were replaying video on their iPhones showing a teleprompter signaling the result that Boehner would announce. The fix, they said, was in.
To anyone familiar with national party conventions of either stripe, it's hard to fathom people being shocked by the heavy hand of hierarchy—just as it seems quaint that they hadn't been prepared for the script, or the corporatism, or the signs of vapid wealth, or the charade of representative governance, or their own marginalization.
Cynics waved a hand and said, "They'll get over it. They have nowhere else to go"—words of party regulars down the ages, of Democrats saying the same about blacks, labor, the poor, the peace faction, the left. But the Paul people are a frisky lot, and their naïveté was a tonic breeze.
I was on the street the day after Chris Christie said every American was afraid. "So what scares you most?" I asked a young delegate from Wyoming named Tyler. He was a tall drink of water with a wide-brimmed Western hat, and he looked down at me and said, "Ma'am, the government."
"Can you be more specific?"
He stared at me curiously and then straight ahead, as if the answer were so obvious. "Uh, the drug laws, the police state. Look at that," gesturing to the armored police cordon ahead, the chopper above. "What are they afraid of?"
It was not the most offensive show of US police power I'd ever seen; that was at the RNC in New York in 2004. These police were friendly, and I tried to remember what it was like not to think their massed presence was normal. I was glad the young man from Wyoming didn't want to get used to them. I was glad his fellow free-thinkers didn't consider rebellion futile.
A couple of doors up the street a group had been meeting at Precinct Pizza to clarify their grievances and settle on talking points, using Robert's Rules of Order, which their ad hoc parliamentarian, Troy Christensen of Texas, had decided to learn when he got involved in politics not so long ago. "If they can do this to us, they can do this to anyone," Lexy Nuzum, a delegate from Iowa, offered. Two days later, just before the start of Mitt's big night, I ran into a procession of Paulites and others, walking solemnly to the forum, flying an American flag with a peace sign where the stars usually are. They gathered on the balcony outside the hall until they numbered 200 to 300, holding yellow papers saying Grassroots. Here and there a T-shirt proclaimed . A tall boy with golden locks, Josiah Tillett of Virginia, walked purposefully through the group with duct tape across his mouth bearing the words Rule 12. They called themselves the future.
In their press conference, some were all business on the narrow point of rules while others said the party had betrayed the essential spirit of liberty, and one called the RNC a "criminal enterprise." Most of those I talked with said this was their first taste of politics. Maybe they were for no taxes, voluntarism and the gold standard, but their passion burned hottest talking against oligarchy, war, overseas bases, the drones, the people slaughtered in the false name of freedom, the soldier suicides, the threats to Iran, habeas corpus, executive power, surveillance, government intrusion into one's body, one's bedroom. They believe in the Constitution. I can't imagine they have anywhere to go inside either dominant party, but I don't think they're going away either.
A middle-aged woman from California walking into the hall asked me what the fuss was about. "It's a protest by the grassroots," I said.
"I thought that's what we are!" she said, identifying with the Tea Party. "Oh, are those the Ron Paul people? I just cannot agree with them on foreign affairs. We are a global leader. We just are. It's too late. They're young. I think that's a youthful hope, but it's not realistic."
As the rebels filed into the forum, they were asked to surrender their Grassroots signs.
The balloons fell, Romney's speech had evaporated and the crowd drifted away. Ann Coulter was sashaying out, surrounded by large men. "How do you feel, Ann?" somebody shouted. "Happy!" she said. She was entering what some called the Walkway of Inspiration, a white tent-tunnel connecting the forum with the convention center. The nighttime lighting in blue and red made it dreamlike. Commercials still rolled in an endless loop on video monitors mounted along the sides. In a dry field the woman in a wheelchair, so Christina's World, was still taking her first step within the protective circle of Optum. A child still had water to swim in because Mosaic's phosphate and potash mines recycle up to 95 percent of it. Florida was still "open for business." White tufted benches looked bereft but beautiful against the white fabric walls. Red roses in their hanging baskets suffused the air-conditioning with their fragrance. It smelled like a funeral.
JoAnn WypijewskiJoAnn Wypijewski is a writer and editor based in New York.


The Federal Court of Appeals in San Francisco ruled in an unpublished Memorandum of Disposition this week that the Drug Enforcement Administration's December 2016 Marijuana Extract rule change stands. The rule change added a new code number to the DEA rules for "Marihuana Extracts" to make it easier for the DEA to track and trace CBD and other Marijuana Extracts imported to and exported from the United States.
However, the 9th Circuit based their disposition on procedural grounds — the Hemp Industry Association's arguments lost not because they were wrong, necessarily, but because they did not raise their arguments during a specified public comment period. The court did not decide whether the DEA has the authority to create the 2016 rule or whether expanding the definition of Marijuana to include all plants in the genus Cannabis exceeded the DEA's authority. Specifically, under existing 9th Circuit Court precedent and the Controlled Substances Act ("CSA"), the DEA lacks the legal authority to add or remove substances from the Schedules within the CSA. The CSA permits only the Attorney General (or congress through legislation) to add or remove substances from the CSA.
This changes nothing. This changes everything.
The DEA's new "Marihuana Extracts" rule went into effect in December 2016, so this week's decision was not actually a change in policy at the DEA — that happened months ago. All that happened this week is that a three-judge panel quashed a challenge to the rule, a decision that will most likely be appealed. Cannabis in almost all forms is still illegal under Federal law, but also legal in some form in over 30 states and the District of Columbia. Hemp and marijuana are treated differently in some ways, and the same in others, often turning on some legal fiction that is unsupported by either science or common sense.
CBD derived from marijuana is legally equivalent to THC, heroin, and psilocybin.
While the DEA's rule change did not add CBD to the official list of Schedule I controlled substances, the clear effect and stated intent of the rule change is to treat CBD as a Schedule I drug, just like THC, heroin, magic mushrooms, ayahuasca, and PCP. No one really expects the DEA to start raiding CBD supplement companies, but that risk is higher than it was last Thanksgiving, and slightly higher today than it was last week.


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The father of a teenager who died after taking ecstasy has called for tougher laws controlling dance music events.
Morgan Miller-Smith, 16, from Conwy, suffered a heart attack after collapsing at a rave in October 2017.
Coroner John Gittins recorded a conclusion of death by misadventure at an inquest in Ruthin.
Morgan's father Brian Miller said there needed to be better security and medical care for young people at such events.
The Ysgol Aberconwy pupil had been studying for A-Levels in maths, further maths and business studies and dreamed of working on the New York Stock Exchange.
However, he took two yellow ecstasy tablets - known as bit coins - when he was among the 450 partygoers at HP Fest on a farm in Gwytherin, near Abergele.
He collapsed and died from ecstasy toxicity while being taken to hospital.
Mr Gittins told the inquest Morgan had struck him "as a young man with a sensible outlook for the most part".
"Sometimes people in their lives make bad choices and on this occasion Morgan, unfortunately, made a very bad choice," he added.
The inquest heard the event met all licence requirements and some of the measures in place went beyond legal requirements.
A professional security team searched everyone on entry and there was also a private ambulance on site.
The event organisers and the farm owner said they would not hold such an event again.
"If the ambulance service that was there on-call had included paramedics, they might have been able to give [Morgan] an [intravenous medication] straight away.
"There were six security guards for 450 people. That means each security guard was trying to look after 75 children. Would you let a kindergarten do that? No."
Mr Miller said Morgan had previously spoken out against drugs and added: "He was so anti-drugs, it was ridiculous. When we found out, it was such a shock."
Morgan's stepmother, Marion Miller, said the family were "devastated".
She added: "We thought we were good parents and knew what was going on in their lives, but we didn't have a clue.
"You can only rely on education. "


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'Time capsule." That's how H&H Classics is describing two car collections of primarily pre-war classics consigned for the docket for its upcoming auction June 2 at the National Motorcycle Museum.
'Time capsule." That's how H&H Classics is describing two car collections of primarily pre-war classics — one of them farm-found — consigned for the docket for its upcoming auction June 2 at the National Motorcycle Museum.
One collection — the Home Farm collection — includes 11 cars and 34 motorcycles, all found dust-covered in barns in Berkshire, U.K.
The other collection — the County Wexford collection — includes 14 cars, among them one of three 1939 Triumph Dolomite 14/60 drophead coups known to still survive.
"Once in a while, doing what I do, you stumble across a collection which is pure magic," Damian Jones, head of sales at H&H Classics, said in a news release. "The contents of this horde (the Home Farm vehicles) could have met the vehicular needs of an entire village during the late 1930s from the squire downwards.
H&H Classics noted that many of the vehicles have been off the road for decades. Among the vehicles is a 1912 Buick Model 35C tourer still wearing its original and now 105-year-old paint. The collection also includes a 1925 Bean 14hp saloon formerly owned by British newspaper magnate Ray Tindle.
The motorcycles are primarily from the 1920s and include a 1924 Humber 350, a 1924 BSA "Roundtank" Junior and a 1928 Triumph NP.
"This collection offers a fantastic opportunity to pick up one of the great names of 1920s British biking in reasonable condition," said Mark Bryan of the H&H motorcycle department. "They have not run for a few years but won't take much TLC to bring into good running order.
Also on the docket is the County Wexford collection that includes a 1938 Austin 20hp Mayfair limousine purchased new by the fifth marquess of Bath, as well as a 1931 Willys Overland Whippet coupe.


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Connectors have a number of applications. It is paramount to first understand the features of valves before delving into these applications. Contacts have three components. Each of these is designed to perform differently. The first part is known as a coil. Coils are used to power switches on or off. They are coiled to help pass current fast as well as cut it off. Secondly, there is a pole. Poles are suited for transmitting current. Then there are auxiliaries which panel and signals circuit usage.
In huge buildings such as business premises and office apartments, it is common for a large amount of electric power to be used up. In such cases, connectors are used in paneling lighting. This enables power to be controlled from one specific point. Additionally, those valves efficiently supply large currents to such buildings. Latching switches are preferred in big buildings since coils consume a lot of electric energy in those applications.
Next, contacts are used in vacuum switches. Such is designed to use vacuity bottles condensed valves for arc suppression. Suppression of arcs reduces contact size hence consume less space during excess currents. Encapsulation allows similar valves to be used in dirty environments like mining. Similarly, they may be used in numerous applications with medium currents of about 1000 to 5000 volts since they can efficiently displace circuit breakers filled with oil. These type of switches can only be used with alternating current. Therefore vacuum connectors can effectively be used to disrupt electric arc power as well as where quick lighting is necessary.
Thirdly, connectors are a common element of mercury relays. Mercury transmitters utilize liquid mercury in transmitting electric current. They are unique since mercury is stored in a properly sealed bottled with insulated inner surfaces. Insulation makes such contacts suitable for cycling surfaces which are prone to corrosion. These transmitters are however being discouraged because mercury is known to be environmentally hazardous.
A different version of mercury transmitters is mercury wetted relays. These minimize the amount of liquefied mercury infuses. Unlike in mercury relays, valves are coated with a little mercury before use. For this reason, they cannot relay greater capacities compared to other connectors. As a matter of fact, their carrying capacity is limited to 15 amps and below.
Besides the aforementioned applications, contacts are widely used in transformers. Camshafts require a number of fuses to be arranged and used in a sequential manner. Standalone rechargeable magnets are not best suited for such arrangements. Contacts are more efficient since camshafts are controlled by electric engines or gas cylinders. Motor-driven transformers were preferred in plug-in locomotives since they could easily be speed up. They are also used in internally burning locomotives used to control poppet regulators.
The last usage is in magnetic starters. Magnetic starters are components used for starting off electric motors. Such devices utilize valves in regulating how much power is transmitted through coils. This way, switches cannot overload at any time. Similarly, they offer automatic breaking in case of power breakage.
Get an overview of the things to keep in mind when choosing a high voltage contactor supplier and more information about a reputable supplier at http://www.rossengineeringcorp.com/products/control/single-pole-hv-vacuum-contactors/hbf-haf-hbdcf-series.html now.


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Q: React Native image picker image upload not working on iOS I am having trouble in uploading an image via fetch and react-native-image-picker to Multer and Express backend.
Below is my React Native code:
try {

 const data = new FormData();

  data.append('image', {
    name: photo.fileName,
    type: photo.type,
    uri:
      Platform.OS === 'android' ? photo.uri : photo.uri.replace('file://', ''),
  });

 data.append('id', id)

    fetch(`${API}save-image`, {
      method: 'POST',

      body: data,
    })
      .then(response => response.json())
      .then(response => {
        console.log('upload succes', response);
      })
      .catch(error => {
        console.log('upload error', error);
      });
  } catch (error) {
    console.log(error);
    if (error.response !== undefined) {
      message = error.response.data.message;
    } else {
      message = error;
    }

    return Promise.reject(message);
  }

image variable is the response object we get from a react-native-image-picker library that contains image data and uri with other needed items.
In the backend I am trying to log in the req.files object that is configured by Multer:
const Storage = multer.diskStorage({
    destination(req, file, callback) {
        callback(null, path.join(__dirname, '../uploads/'));
    },
    filename(req, file, callback) {
        callback(null, new Date().toISOString() + '_' + file.originalname);
    },
});

const upload = multer({
    storage: Storage,
    limits: { fieldSize: 25 * 1024 * 1024 },
});
router.post(
    '/save-image',
    upload.array('image', 3),
    controller.saveImage
);

In the controller I will just console.log(req.files) and then return success message.
I am able to see the console log in case of Android emulator but not on iOS emulator.
In fact the image it seems is not being send to the backend. But there is no error on the backend side and it is not logged in case of iOS.

A: There was an issue with react-native and flipper version below 0.39 that caused network requests with file upload to fail, try to manually update your flipper version. In your podfile:
versions['Flipper'] ||= '~> 0.51.0'

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Eglinton-Lawrence (Ward 8), for example, has an average after-tax household income of $119,469, and 55% of its residents own their homes. Of all of the city's 25 wards, it has the lowest rate of child poverty, affecting 15.1% of the ward's children. However, there are areas within Eglinton-Lawrence where child poverty is far more common, with rates as high as 52.6%. Ward statistics paint a rosier picture, masking the struggles that many families face within the ward.
The report shows that inequities within our city are deep, disproportionately affecting Indigenous, racialized, and newcomer communities. In addition to census data, this research draws on the "Our Health Counts Toronto" study of Indigenous peoples in the city, which found that a staggering 84% of Indigenous families with children live in poverty.
"There is a national awakening as to the layers of system failures affecting Indigenous peoples in Canada, including in Toronto, and unacceptable gaps in areas including poverty, employment, education, and health. But if we build on many of our strengths and resiliencies, we will start to find hope for good health and equality," said Wolfe.


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The concept of duty is explored exhaustively in the Gita as Svadharma and Svakarma. Bhagavan Krishna exhorts Arjuna and tells him that it is better to die doing your dharma than to commit a life to somebodyelse's dharma. In our parlance these days, I see this as living a life that is true to oneself, reflected in service, compassio, love and finally good humor.
Emerson reflected deeply on life and its purpose. This is a quotation from his essay on 'Worship'. We see the connection to Svadharma.
Life is like a ……………………….
Your parents and teachers try to sharpen your brains while you are young.
You have falls and hardships and you become blunt.
Sometimes you think you are sharp and hurt other people's feelings.
Other times you are blunt and ruffle feathers anyway.
Each experience sharpens you constantly and hopefully matures you.
Nothing is left of you but the shavings or your contacts with people.
Sweet and hot at the same time.
Sukha and Dukha go hand in hand.
Outside it is a hard shell.
All you have to do is break the hard shell.
So we are like that.
And after sometime we become soft like the banana's inner portion.
So life is hard and soft.
We must always think positive, not negative.
If you want your life to be soft, make others' life soft.
If you over water it, it will die.
If you under water it, it will die.
Therefore do not overdo anything.
It will taste delicious and look beautiful.
Life is like a Rose.
It look so beautiful in the beginning.
It goes through the hard and harsh waves of nature.
Helpless after some time it dies.
After our journey on the earth.
The rose flower is attractive to look at.
When you go near the bush, the thorns hurt you.
Approach it carefully, avoid the thorns, then a bee stings you.
You still manage to pluck the rose.
You enjoy the beauty and offer it to your Lord.
Drink the top part and enjoy the flavor, very soothing.
You need a good stomach to digest the spices.
Mix it before using, it is both soothing and filling.
So life is a mixture of good and bad.
Mix it and enjoy it.
First we get comfortable within.
And the best part is we are in control to steer.
In which ever way we want to go.
It can be in a safe path or the wrong path.
Which may lead up to a crash.
So we are in control of our life.
Which tastes sweet and times sour.
Life is a challenge which has to be taken.
You will never know what.
Is to prepare yourself to solve it.
It starts blooming in the presence of the sunrise of love.
And dies in the sunset of hatred.
It is hard of course.
Enjoy the ride as you go along.
We are living through history.
Making it happen as we go.
Every day a learning experience.
It is how you look at it.
The simplest of things can provide a deep insight into how powerful we can be in the present moment. The other day I tried to conduct a 'Raisin meditation' with my students. Each one was given 2 raisins. To start with, the first raisin was eaten the way one would do – automatically.
Quickly pop it in your mouth, maybe bite it once and a speedy swallow. And then look for the next one.Fpr the second raisin it will be different!!
Hold the second raisin by the thumb and index finger. Look at it carefully. Note the creases. Rotate it and continue to look at it. Press it a little and feel the texture and transfer it to the other hand. Repeat the process. Now slowly bring to the mouth and place it on the tongue. Roll it around in the mouth and keep your self in the sensation. Move the raisin to the left, right and under the tongue. Repeat this process. All in slow motion. Now slowly take a bite – very very slowly. Feel the juice slowly coming out and relish it. Now a second bite – in slow motion. Continue this until it has been completely chewed and almost dissolved. Now slowly swallow it. Feel the emptiness in your mouth. Just close your eyes and savor this experience.
One student writes 'This will help you get through a nervous breakdown'!!!! Om shanti shanti shanti.
As I slowly pierce through Emerson's seminal piece called 'Nature', a pattern emerges. A grand scheme of Dharma and Isvara as non separate from each other – interpenetrating and inseparable. The vision of Chapter 10 of the Gita, which outlines the Vibhutis (Glories ) of the Lord, is equally charged with the grandeur of nature as presented to us. Wherever you see Nature in her resplendent form, the patient, glorious Ganga, the soaring peaks of the Himalayas, the sounds of saints chanting, the ever guiding Polestar, Dhruva, you can capture that Unity, that Brahman as the substratum of all.
TRANSLATION: I am the source of all spiritual and material worlds. Everything emanates from Me. The wise who perfectly know this engage in My devotional service and worship Me with all their hearts.
"All the endless variety of things make an identical impression…..A leaf, a drop, a crystal, a moment of time, is related to the whole, and partakes of the perfection of the whole. Each particle is a microcosm, and faithfully renders the likeness of the world……. Thus architecture is 'frozen music'….A church 'petrified religion'…..The law of harmonic sounds reappears in the harmonic colors… So intimate is this Unity, that, it is easily seen, it lies under the undermost garment of Nature, and betrays its source in Universal Spirit.
Emerson – A revolutionary mind. I see parallels between the Vedic seers who explored consciousness and the nature of Reality with such vigor, letting seemingly foundational pillars fall by the wayside, fearless yet compassionate. These seers helped us understand that not only is Reality not what we think it is, but also not a cause for fear. This they pursued with so much love that we can melt in that understanding, liberating our minds from the prison bars of stale thinking.
1. Why should not we also enjoy an original relation to the universe? Why should not we have a poetry and philosophy of insight and not of tradition, and a religion by revelation to us, and not the history of theirs?
2. I have confidence in the laws of morals as of botany. I have planted maize in my field every June for seventeen years and I never knew it come up strychnine. My parsley, beet, turnip, carrot, buck-thorn, chestnut, acron, are as sure. I believe that justice produces justice, and injustice injustice.
3. Prayer is the contemplation of the facts of life from the highest point of view.
Dedicated to all my friends who have suffered deep losses this year.
I am the softly falling snow.
I am the fields of ripening grain.
I am the starshine of the night.
Benjamin Button did strike me as an extraordinarily Wise Person, with no fear of death. He could make the ultimate sacrifice by walking away from someone he loved, for all the right reasons. Clearly his sense of dharma was very strong. Of course it is a fantasy, played out over 90 years. The movie has the sweep of a saga, yet catches you with so many human details, the ones that fill the minutae of our lives. I got the feeling he was always the observer, who did not carry grudges, who empathized with the 'other' person of the moment and did not get swayed by the emotions hurtling towards him. Yet he lived intensely.
The movie ' The curious case of Benjamin Button' provided a lot of food for thought.


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So you bought a new car or boat....now what?
Welcome to the state of Washington. If you are a state resident, you must license all vehicles and vessels that will be used within the state of Washington. This includes cars, trucks, campers, trailers, boats and other watercraft. Check with a licensing agent if you have questions about whether your vehicle or vessel must be licensed.
You are required to license or title your vehicle within 30 days of becoming a Washington resident. You can do this by going to the County Auditor's Licensing Division, Courthouse Room 117, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. - 4 p.m., or you can license your vehicle at the nearest vehicle licensing sub-agency.


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Where does KALFAS rank in the most common names in the U.S.?
KALFAS is identified by the U.S. Bureau of the Census as a surname with more than 100 occurrences in the United States for the year-2000 U.S. Census. In "Demographic Aspects of Surnames from Census 2000", the Census Bureau tabulated the surnames of all people who had obtained Social Security Numbers by the year 2000.
KALFAS ranks # 56246 in terms of the most common surnames in America for 2000.
KALFAS had 340 occurrences in the 2000 Census, according the U.S. government records.
Out of a sample of 100,000 people in the United States, KALFAS would occur an average of 0.13 times.
For the last name of KALFAS the Census Bureau reports the following race / ethnic origin breakdown:
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Everything You Need to Know About Shibarium
Watcher Guru
Ryoshi, the founder of Shiba Inu Coin, offered Shibarium as a blockchain/layer-2 option.
Ryoshi used the term "blockchain" at first, but it's more likely that it's an L2 that sits on top of an existing (Ethereum) blockchain. "The border between an L2 and own blockchain is thin," the SHIB founder remarked. "I instance, what is the difference between Matic L2 and BSC?"
While the SHIB and LEASH tokens have more use in ShibaSwap, they will not be the primary pair token for Shibarium. It'll be BONE instead. "BONE will have a fair and '0' start," Ryoshi added, "in which we will not have to be concerned about over-arching whale sacks."
When ShibaSwap originally began, though, SHIB and LEASH holders received BONE, thus there are certainly a lot of BONE whales out there.
What Will Shibarium Be Able To Do?
At the time, there are little information regarding Shibarium, but we do know that one of the key aims will be to reduce transaction fees for Shiba ecosystem users.
Ryoshi first said that Shibarium's transaction fees will be minimal, or even zero. Speaking on the Shiba Discord, Shytoshi Kusama, the Shiba Project Lead, said "Shibarium will offer low fees for every service, game or whatever that builds on it."
High gas fees are one of the most pressing issues faced by Ethereum. Given Shiba's reliance on the Ethereum network, it suffered from some hefty gas prices when the Shiboshi NFTs launched.
With Shibarium, SHIB payments through the likes of NOWPayments will also avoid these high transaction costs.
What's recent?
Shiba Inu, a dog meme-based token with a devoted following, is getting ready to launch yet another significant platform. The project's creators aren't willing to let the token become just another sh*tcoin that loses value once the hoopla dies down.
Shibarium, the self-proclaimed "Dogecoin killer," is set to launch shortly. Shiba Inu's layer 2 solution, Shibarium, will be released shortly, according to ShibaSwap creator Eric M on Discord.
It will ultimately function with SHI, Ryoshi's Shiba stablecoin, which he also mentioned in the same blog post. Following the criticism of the Shiboshi release, Shytoshi even promoted Shibarium on Twitter.
Shiba Inu, a dog meme-based token with a large fanbase, is about to launch yet another major platform. The project's designers don't want the token to become simply another shitcoin that loses value once the hype goes down. Shibarium dubbed the "Dogecoin killer," will be available soon. According to ShibaSwap inventor Eric M on Discord, Shibarium, Shiba Inu's layer 2 solution, will be available soon.
"Those that put their faith in the enterprise before the exchange were successful afterward… When you trust a project, you don't need a timeframe. Shib has always functioned in this manner and will continue to do so in the future "announced the developer
Shytoshi Kusama, the project lead for Shiba Inu, also remarked on the future initiatives planned for the meme currency in the tweet below.
Shibarium was initially presented in a Medium article by Ryoshi, the developer of Shiba Inu. "Shiba will have its own l2 soon (and no, we are not cooperating with or having zero relationships with Matic as rumor boys tried to spread, they are much too centralized and always will be)," Ryoshi added.
Because SHIB is an ERC-20 currency, it is affected by the Ethereum network's high costs and congestion. A layer 2 solution, such as Shibarium, will, on the other hand, lower the massive cost of the Ethereum network.
Because of the imminent shift of the SHIB project into the NFT, gaming, and metaverse realms, this will be extremely helpful to Shiba Inu.
To provide the layer 2 solution a fresh start, the Shibarium project will use the BONE token as its native token, rather than LEASH or SHIB. SHIB token holders will have the opportunity to mint the BONE token through a method that will be introduced at the platform's debut.
The debut of SHI, a stable currency with a value of one cent, is the next step for Shiba Inu. It is anticipated to debut following the completion of the Shibarium project.
"The ultimate objective is for SHI (which runs on both ETH and Shibarium) to become a worldwide stable currency that ordinary people in all nations may use as a store of value and a form of payment," Ryoshi said in his blog.
The Shiba Inu currency had a year-to-date gain of almost 54,000,000%, which is a new high.
There are a few major aspects that holders and potential purchasers should be aware of that might impact the price of SHIB in 2022.
Shiba Inu is a risky investment, even given its growing momentum
Since March 2020, investors have watched history in a variety of ways. Stock investors, for example, have seen the benchmark S&P 500 provide the best rally from a bear market bottom in history. The index doubled in less than 17 months from its low point.
However, cryptocurrency "hodlers" have probably made more significant gains and have a longer track record (a term that affably describes crypto token holders). As of late evening on December 3, 2021, the total value of all digital currencies has risen from $141 billion in March 2020 to $2.42 trillion.
The real show-stopper, though, is Shiba Inu meme currency (CRYPTO:SHIB). At midnight on January 1, SHIB coins may be acquired for $0.000000000073. Six of these zeroes had vanished by the weekend, and Shiba Inu coins were being traded for $0.00003962. This equates to a 54,273,873 percent increase year-to-date. To put it another way, a $2 investment made at midnight on New Year's Day on Dec. 3 would have earned you a millionaire.
Despite these record gains, the fervent "SHIBArmy," which has grown to over 1 million hodlers, according to Etherscan wallet address data, expects the coin to continue to rise in 2022. While there were some transient triggers in 2021, such as tweets from the world's richest person, Elon Musk, the following five catalysts are anticipated to be Shiba Inu's top momentum generators in 2022.
SHIB tokens are accepted by AMC.
Newegg Commerce, an online computer shop, said in late November that SHIB tokens will be accepted as a means of payment by "early December." Shiba Inu will now be accepted alongside Bitcoin, Dogecoin, and Litecoin as a digital currency payment option.
The inclusion of SHIB tokens as a means of payment for movie theatre giant AMC Entertainment is anticipated to be the biggest deployment (NYSE: AMC). AMC is undoubtedly a more well-known global brand, and hence a stronger measure of Shiba Inu coin's real-world utility.
Shibarium's anticipated debut
The continuous development of Shibarium, a layer-2 blockchain initiative, is another strong stimulus for Shiba Inu. Layer-2 blockchains are created on top of an existing blockchain foundation with the goal of lowering fees, increasing scalability, and/or shortening network processing times.
The Shiba Inu coin is an ERC-20 token based on the Ethereum platform. Although it is extremely simple to construct on Ethereum, it has also linked Shiba Inu to Ethereum's shortcomings, such as high transaction fees and potentially delayed processing at times.
Shibarium is the solution. The most significant benefit of Shibarium is the prospect of very cheaper transaction fees, or maybe no fees at all. Because the Shiba Inu ecosystem includes game creation and non-fungible tokens, these lower costs are critical (NFTs). Future services must have lower costs than what is now offered on the Ethereum network.
Shibarium is currently in the middle of development, with Project Leader Shytoshi Kusama anticipating a debut within the year.
The Oshiverse has been updated.
The creation of the "Oshiverse" is a third significant stimulus for SHIB in the coming year. This is a word that is being used to describe a play-to-earn video game that will be available to iOS and Android users.
In the bitcoin world, creating decentralized applications and games on the blockchain is nothing new. However, dangling a play-to-earn carrot in front of players may be a potent tool for increasing Shiba Inu's community and encouraging currency acceptance.
It's also worth mentioning that revenues from in-app game purchases might be utilized to burn more coins. Vitalik Buterin, the co-founder of Ethereum, moved around 410 trillion of SHIB's 1 quadrillion token supply to a dead blockchain address, thus removing them from circulation. The premise behind continuous coin burn is that it will increase the value of each surviving coin.
Shibarium must be launched before the Oshiverse becomes the center of attention in the big scheme of things. As a result, in 2022, updates on the Oshiverse will be crucial.
Robinhood is a platform where you may list your business.
The SHIBArmy is also looking forward to a possible listing of Shiba Inu currency on Robinhood Markets, a retail investor-driven trading platform (NASDAQ: HOOD).
Shiba Inu collectors and fans have amassed over 500,000 petitions on Change.org in an attempt to compel Robinhood to list SHIB for trade. Having Shiba Inu available on Robinhood would be a symbolic triumph on a frequently used trading platform, and it would be another step toward increasing Shiba Inu's liquidity.
Robinhood has a vested financial stake in the move as well. Transaction-based cryptocurrency revenue fell to $51 million in the third quarter from $233 million the previous quarter. SHIB's popularity may be able to assist generate more cash.
Staking ShibaSwap
Finally, expect for ShibaSwap, a decentralized exchange, to continue to be a possible positive driver in 2022. ShibaSwap was established in July and lets users buy, sell, and exchange SHIB (along with other tokens) as well as Shiboshi NFTs.
The most exciting component of ShibaSwap, though, maybe its most mundane feature: staking.
In the cryptocurrency world, staking coins to produce passive income is nothing new. But, in order to stake coins and generate passive revenue, you must be patient. If Shiba Inu wants to break free from the meme mindset that now surrounds it, the average holding duration for SHIB will have to drastically increase. ShibaSwap gives an incentive to increase the average holding time, perhaps reducing wild price fluctuations in Shiba Inu currency.
A sobering reality check
While there are plenty of potential catalysts for the world's hottest cryptocurrency, I'd be negligent if I didn't also give hodlers and potential investors a reality check.
For starters, Shiba Inu's utility outside of bitcoin exchanges is quite restricted. Only 375 retailers globally accept SHIB for payment, according to the online business directory Cryptwerk, with over 10% of these merchants being crypto exchanges. In comparison, the world's entrepreneur population is above 500 million. SHIB isn't useful in the actual world, to put it bluntly.
Another gut check for hodlers is that the Shiba Inu breed does not provide any meaningful competitive advantage or distinctiveness. While some may refer to Shiboshi NFTs or the Oshiverse as examples of distinction, I'd want to point out that NFTs and games are used in a variety of other projects. There's nothing about Shiba Inu that indicates, "This is the reason that will cause businesses to battle to embrace SHIB." It won't be able to keep its $21.5 billion market worth if it can't separate out from the throng.
History also serves as a cautionary tale. Payment coins that had earlier risen 24,000 percent or more in a short period of time have reversed their fortunes, losing 93 percent to 99 percent of their value in the same time frame. There's a good likelihood that a 54,000,000% rise in less than a year will be followed by a similarly massive drop.
Thank you for reading my article. I hope you found it interesting and useful. Let me know your views in the comment section.
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Nation should assert South China Sea rights — SWS poll
Protesters hold a sign at a dialogue during a protest on China's deployment of missiles on the Philippine-claimed reefs in the West Philippines Seas, in Quezon City on May 22. — PHILSTAR/MICHAEL VARCAS
MAJORITY of Filipinos think that the Philippines should assert its right to disputed islets in the South China Sea and arrest Chinese fishermen who destroy marine resources in the area, according to a poll by the Social Weather Stations (SWS).
The polling company said 87 percent of Filipinos shared these sentiments based on a poll conducted last month, it said in a statement.
Meanwhile, President Rodrigo R. Duterte's plan to discuss in his yearly address to Congress a verbal deal with China allowing its nationals to fish in the waters would make it a binding legal agreement, Senior Associate Justice Antonio T. Carpio said…
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Model's confidence hit by competition fiasco
WINNING a modelling contest has devastated the confidence of an aspiring model after she had to chase her prize for months. Summa Daines, 15, of Mayfield Road, Dagenham, was overjoyed when she won the Under-16s Face of Barking and Dagenham modelling compe
WINNING a modelling contest has devastated the confidence of an aspiring model after she had to chase her prize for months.
Summa Daines, 15, of Mayfield Road, Dagenham, was overjoyed when she won the Under-16s Face of Barking and Dagenham modelling competition last summer.
The contest was organised by the Fashion Enter store in Vicarage Field, Barking, in collaboration with not-for-profit organisation Fashion Capital, trying to promote up-and-coming designers and models.
The prize apparently included a �150 clothing voucher, a modelling contract and a professional photo shoot.
Jack Marshall, Summa's dad, said: "I rung Syreeta McQueen from Fashion Enter before Christmas. She said there was a photo shoot that Saturday. I never heard anything back from her."
After the POST contacted Fashion Enter last week, company director Jenny Holloway called Mr Marshall and told him that Summa could go into the Barking shop and pick up her �150 worth of shopping and that a photo shoot had been booked for January 29.
Mr Marshall said: "It's not just about the prize - it's the effect it has had on Summa.
"It's knocked her confidence. There was a big hype about it. She got nothing out of it.


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Full Time at The Yorkies
Honestly, it was supposed to be a five-year plan.
What you are reading now, and have been reading on this blog for about six years, germinated in 2007 when a mish-mash of men you now know as The Yorkies, were thrust together in the middle of BMO Field's South Stand. What started as a gag to group together our likeminded TFC-based malarkey/misery, somehow evolved into this site. What was most surprising is that you lot seemed to dig it too.
Back in June 2009 when we launched into the current site in anger, we thought we'd mostly be writing for each other - an outlet for the frustration and laughs we had leftover in the days after a TFC fixture. The fact that there were more of you out there just like us, delighted us and fuelled our brand of "journalism" further. We're sorry.
In the years since, our little corner of the internet has given so much more back to us than we expected. New friends, both near and far, opportunities to be involved in great debate and conversation, an exciting venture into podcasting on The Vocal Minority Podcast and most importantly (and shockingly) a dedicated readership that we are so grateful for.
It hasn't always been easy to keep this labour of love chugging along at a regular pace. As you all know, supporting TFC is a labour in itself and sometimes things felt a bit like deja vu. Man cannot live on Collin Samuel gags alone you know! However, every time one person would approach us and say "I loved what you wrote" or "that made me laugh so hard" - all the exhaustion washed away. You gave us that and we thank you.
Despite that and with bittersweet feelings, it is time to say goodbye to this little "dogblog" that has somehow been clicked on over 475,000 times. Let's leave on a high - well at least as high as it gets around BMO Field. We aren't moving out of the TFC game... just moving on. Change is good and we won't be quiet for too long. Goofs like us just aren't capable.
Before we go, the two of us (You thought there was a staff of 1000's didn't you?!) want to take the time to say a few words...
Eight years ago, sitting in the dead centre of 113, before Twitter, news sites and blogging was a full TFC thing, a rotating band of guys behind me became my very good friends. By the end of the first season, the idea of starting a passive supporters group was pitched and I was eager to be a part of it and help out. That is where and how I became lumped in with this online fanzine called The Yorkies.
Never ones to take ourselves too seriously, it was a brilliant little forum to run my mouth (and fingers) to. I hope I made your post-match visits to the site, at least, amusing and, at the very least, not a total waste of your time. I'd like to thank Dom and Ro for their work on the foundation of the Yorkies mindset and designs (and sweet scarf!). I'd also like to thank Tony for being the captain of this ship and letting me drive whenever I felt like it. If I'm an attacking midfielder on this club, Tony is the other 10 players and bench - sure I poach a few beauties, but the heavy lifting is by someone else.
Lastly, I'd like to thank you, the readers who've tolerated my rants, observations, insights, screw-ups, memes, site-specific jokes, photoshoppings, bogus logos and kits while allowing me to contribute and feel a part of the Yorkies' donkey show and the greater TFC online community.
- Mark The Yorkie @ignirtoq
And now the other guy…
There really is only one suitable way for me to say goodbye to this site that has occupied huge chunks of my life since 2009. The same way I spent almost every Monday morning with you bunch of maniacs...
THE STARTING 11: Things I need to thank before I say goodbye to The Yorkies
11. The world's worst chip buttys
10. Raivis Hscanovics' hatred of vowels
9. Crew Cat
8. Every friend we made in the South Stands of BMO Field that entertained and inspired us to run home and write something ridiculous
7. The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air
6. The two other founders of The Yorkies, Dom and Rohan, who helped form this merry band both visually and creatively. This was all of ours.
5. Every punworthy MLS club, player and character that made our gags so excellently cringe worthy
4. Mo Johnston... for everything.
3. My good friend Mark. He may have left you with the feeling I do the heavy lifting but without his tireless work it would have just been me sitting in a room with a typewriter. The graphics, the look, the logos, terrific writing and a very fair share of the gags here come from a great guy I'm lucky enough to laugh my way through some miserable football with.
2. Toronto FC... for never letting the comedy die
1. You, the readers. Thanks so much.
- Tony The Yorkie @theyorkies1812
Keep following us on the Twitter machine and please listen to us on The Vocal Minority Podcast, we do really have some exciting new ventures on the horizon and want you to join us as our journey through the "wonderland" that is TFC continues.
Thanks one last time to every single person, Toronto FC supporter or not, who took the time out of their day to read our words.
The Yorkies
Posted by The Yorkies
Tuffy December 5, 2014 at 10:31 AM
Good Luck to you Guys and Thanks for the Free Funny. I'll be listening to ya on VMP.
Jonathan Arthur December 5, 2014 at 12:27 PM
Great....just after I got my KF Fushëmbret kit for next year's kit spotting.
Ignirtoq December 5, 2014 at 11:29 PM
Oh that's fantastic... I had to look it up. +1 for the baiting :)
Fhurion December 6, 2014 at 6:06 PM
You guys were one of the few things that made this sham of a club tolerable all these years. Sorry to see you calling time but looking forward to whatever comes next. Thanks for all the laughs!
This is the way a fanzine blog should be: witty and irreverent but, most importantly, you were able to poke fun at yourselves first and foremost. Too many of your contemporaries in the TFC blog world take themselves too seriously as "insiders" just because they were allowed to contribute an article or two to Sportsnet.ca and they were given a press credential to attend the post season pressers and they suddenly thought they were Stephen Brunt and would let posters now it on a regular basis.
You guys did a great job. Looking forward to more of the VMP.
Possum December 7, 2014 at 9:33 PM
Dallatasaray till I die!!
TFC Cobra December 11, 2014 at 11:52 AM
I have enjoyed your work for years now. Really disappointed to hear that you've hit full time, but I do really appreciate how much work goes into keeping up the blog. Don't lose that cynicism, as you're echoing the voice of many TFC supporters!
Been reading this for years now, and haven't been on the site the whole month due to school, just to come and see this. It's been great reading this site and laughing at puns and jokes that honestly had me wondering how you came up with, Photoshopped club badges, Starting 11s and all that other good stuff. I'm not gonna lie, some of the jokes referenced a lot of old stuff I'm too young to know about, but it was overall some great stuff. It was great reading this and a bit sad to see this news, but thank you. *I think I have a tear in my eye*
One of your many silent and zero-comments (until today) fans.