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Beastly Clues T. S. Eliot, Torquemada, and the Modernist Crossword
By Roddy Howland Jackson
Just a few years after The Waste Land appeared — a poem whose difficulty critics compared to some "pompous cross-word puzzle" — Edward Powys Mathers (alias: Torquemada) pioneered the cryptic: a puzzle form that, like modernist poetry, unwove language and rewove it anew. Roddy Howland Jackson reveals the pleasures and imaginative creatures lurking in Torquemada's lively grids.
An Ernie Bushmiller "Cross Word Cal" cartoon, from Sunday New York World, 1925. Note how the animals are caged by letter length and genus — Source.
Nottingham Zoo was having a bad month. On January 4, 1925, the acquisition of a thirteenth ostrich had led to public pressure "to train one of them for police purposes", a feat supposedly "accomplished some years ago on an ostrich farm in Florida", reported the Evening Post.1 A fortnight later, a "fugitive monkey" named George escaped from the zoo, bruising a naturalist's knee on his way out.2 To add insult to (genicular) injury, the zoo was under siege by "requests for aid in solving 'cross-word' puzzles'": "What is a word in three letters meaning a female swan? What is a female kangaroo, or a fragile creature in six letters ending in TO?" Nottingham Zoo, as one reporter suggested, "has enough to do with the care of its own animals, and cannot act as consultant to the world at large".3 The poor zookeepers were at the thin end of a puzzle wedge; fated, as Ernie Bushmiller joked in his popular comic strip, to serve buckets of alphabet soup to animals prized and poached for their phonemes alone.4
The "crossword craze" of the 1920s had hit Britain like a "meteorological depression", and, as was traditional, Americans were to blame.5 Following the publication of the first crossword in New York World by Arthur Wynne in 1913, the Tamworth Herald lamented the misfortune of a nation where "10,000,000 people have caught the infection of unprofitable trifling", estimating the loss of productive American labour to crosswords at roughly five million hours per day.6 In the UK, so much damage had been inflicted by ham-thumbed solvers on the dictionaries of Wimbledon that all such reference works were withdrawn from public access.7 Thesaurus sales skyrocketed while library use crashed.8 By the time Vladimir Nabokov published the first Russian krossword in 1924, the Nottingham Evening Post's "world at large" estimation was quite right: the grid truly had run a girdle around the earth.
Commentators on both sides of the Atlantic were aghast at the forfeiture of intellectual capital to a game that seemingly traded on automatic, transactional thinking. To the New York Times in 1925, crosswords were little more than "a sinful waste in the utterly futile finding of words the letters of which will fit into a prearranged pattern, more or less complex".9 (During 2018, the New York Times netted roughly $33 million from crossword products alone).10 In 1920s London, The Times, likewise, sneered that "everywhere, at any hour of the day, people can be seen quite shamelessly poring over the checkerboard diagrams, cudgelling their brains for a word meaning idler, or whatnot".11
Postcards of cruciverbalists with swollen brains and bodies, ca. 1925 — Source.
Postcards from the "Cross-word Craze" series, ca. 1925 — Source.
Two covers from 1925 issues of Judge. On the right hand one, illustrated by R. John Holmgren, we see a parody of Auguste Rodin's The Thinker — Source.
Modernist Crosswords
As newspapers were lamenting the labour frittered away on crossword puzzles, they also had cross words to say about another form of cryptic writing and time-consuming interpretation: modernist literature. With Nottingham Zoo barely recovered from the alphabetic siege, a journalist for the Aberdeen Press and Journal remarked, in a review published on November 8, 1926 about Gertrude Stein's "The Fifteenth of November": "Cross-word puzzles are like eating toffee to this stuff".12 Stein's story, glossed as "a portrait of T. S. Eliot", reads, through squinted eyes, like someone shuttling over the rows and columns of a weekly crossword's clues: "In this case a description. Forward and back weekly. In this case absolutely a question in question. Furnished as meaning supplied."13 Another humorous critic writing for the Daily Mirror on "Rhymes to Cure the Cold", that is, on literature as medicine — Longfellow, for instance, gets prescribed to insomniacs — disagrees with the toffee analogy: "Much more modern [medically] and infinitely more powerful in its effects is Gertrude Stein. Up to date disease like cross-word mania can be banished in one dose."14
Whether an analogue to or cure for the crossword frenzy, Stein's portrait of Eliot failed to inoculate his work from similar diagnoses. In 1939, a poetry critic at the Birmingham Daily Gazette could not decide if Eliot's masterpiece was cryptically brilliant or merely an overwrought cryptic: "'The Wasteland' may be a great poem; on the other hand it may be just a rather pompous cross-word puzzle".15 Here again we find a question asked about labour and idleness in this period: are crosswords and difficult poems worth the efforts required to elicit literary pleasure and linguistic revitalisation? Or merely a waste of time?
Ironically — or perhaps felicitously — only two decades after The Times had typecast cruciverbalists as "idlers" chasing their own tails, a bestselling Times crossword compendium included a clue for IDLERS, which T. S. Eliot failed to solve, angrily scoring himself an "X" in the margin:
20. Written by Johnson; edited by Jerome. Unlike bees and ants (6)
Eliot only got as far as the crossing letters, which he correctly reckoned to be ▢🄳▢🄴▢🅂.16 He had seemingly forgotten Samuel Johnson's The Idler (despite having written on Johnson throughout his career), as well as Jerome K. Jerome's The Idler (despite having been his neighbour in Marlow between 1917–1920), which, alongside a nod to nature's busiest workers — the classical models of allusion itself — yielded the answer. Eliot's voracious appetite for puzzles certainly seemed idling (or even addling) to many of his colleagues, who often found him smuggling The Times crossword into "tedious" editorial meetings under the table.17 Undeterred by Ezra Pound's disdain for such games as "an abomination" in his ABC of Reading (1934), Eliot held the cryptic crossword in enough esteem to consider "finding a reference to myself and my works in The Times crossword" a crowning achievement, aspiring to a rank on the same allusive food chain in which he had chewed, without satisfaction, over Johnson and Jerome.18
Flummoxed by bees and ants, T. S. Eliot nevertheless wound up as a fly. In a strange misdirection of his ambition to an afterlife in the crossword, he is often abbreviated and doubled to clue TSETSE, an African insect known for transmitting insomnia. How apt that the author of The Waste Land, skewered as a "maggot breeding in the corruption of poetry" by F. L. Lucas in 1923, should metamorphose posthumously into a tsetse.19 Eliot's magnum opus may have struck Lucas as a "toad", but Eliot actively embraced animal personae throughout his career, not only as the Old Possum behind a Book of Practical Cats (1939), but also as a March Hare in his juvenalia, T. S. Apteryx (a kind of flightless kiwi) in his articles for The Egoist, and familiarly as "the elephant" amongst his co-workers.20 He addressed letters to Ezra Pound with "Dear Rabbit", and while preparing to publish Marianne Moore's "The Jerboa" for Faber, wondered if Pound was "maybe not a Rabit at all but a Gerboa a Little Animil wich I understan does illustrate the Quantum Theory by being at two Places at once even if he don't understand it" [sic].21
T. S. Eliot was not the first fly trapped in the crossword's web. "Flies!" from a November, 1925 issue of Our Home magazine — Source.
In the cryptic crosswords Eliot enjoyed, creatures could indeed behave multiplicitously; like Schrödinger's Cat (or, indeed, Eliot's fondness for playing Possum), animals could quantum leap between being alive or dead, vegetable or mineral, real or fictional, rabbit or jerboa. Take, for example, ten randomly sampled clues for CAT or DOG from cryptics in the broadsheets of the last fifty years:
1. Leo caught both sides of argument (3)
2. Best friend rejected god (3)
3. Maybe Lion King not shown in Barrow? (3)
4. Do good as a follower (3)
5. Pet fur has nothing removed (3)
6. Hound party girl initially (3)
7. A natural killer disturbed in the act (3)
8. Shadow boxer, maybe (3)
9. Being crafty, occasionally (3)
10. Perhaps setter ultimately tried to ring (3)
Not one of these clues mentions cats or dogs, yet through the quiet conspiracy of syntactic misbehaviour, all of them yield a precise answer (given in the footnotes).22 They are, and they aren't, animals. In a 1915 poem, "Portrait of a Lady", Eliot daydreamed of being footloose from animal taxonomy:
And I must borrow every changing shape
To find expression… dance, dance,
Like a dancing bear,
Cry like a parrot, chatter like an ape.23
Photograph by Lady Ottoline Morrell of T. S. Eliot on a Sunday afternoon in 1923 — Source.
The CAT and DOG clues exemplify the expressive opportunities licensed by letting language dance promiscuously between categories. Each clue is straitjacketed by its obligation to solubility, but the endless possibilities of wordplay supply new opportunities to wriggle free. Letters and lookalikes — collaged from idiomatic, sporting, classical, allusive, and glyphic shorthands — form unlikely alliances, aggregated from vocabularies momentarily in dialogue with one another.
In his cutting review of The Waste Land, then, Lucas' comment that "a poem that has to be explained in notes is not unlike a picture with 'This is a dog' inscribed beneath" must have been particularly stinging to Eliot. Not only did it needle his pet preferences (Eliot was firmly team cat), but it also revealed how Lucas misunderstood the pleasure produced by both crosswords and difficult literature, as William Empson implied in a comparison between "obscure puzzles" and "obscure poetry" in The Gathering Storm (1940).24 One poem in Eliot's Book of Practical Cats seems to claw back at Lucas with its tongue-in-cheek refrain: "Again I must remind you that / A dog's a dog — A CAT'S A CAT."25 Unbidden by nominative determinism, the beasts of Eliot's poetry, personae, and puzzles were under no such obligations, free to hurdle freely across arbitrary Linnean boundaries; free, as it were, to cross-breed.
Torquemada's Crossbred Bestiaries
The cryptic crossword was still inchoate during the career of Edward Powys Mathers, the English translator and poet, who popularised the difficult form and wrote under the alias Torquemada, after the Spanish inquisitor. His style of puzzle delighted in exploiting the materiality of language to revive words from the inert familiarity into which they had fallen: taking the modernist injunction to "make it new" and defamiliarise deadened language as a principle of radical reassembly, rather than mere refreshment.
Animals real and imaginary, hybrid and crossbred, abound in Torquemada's puzzles, granted a kind of furtive camouflage amidst the foliage of ambiguity. In a plain crossword, the name of an animal is an endpoint to which the clue must point in a straight line — to extend Lucas' metaphor, "This is a dog (3)" [DOG] — whereas the cryptic pegs its mischief on wilful misdirection — "This is certainly not a dog (3) [DOG]. The key to a good cryptic, wrote Torquemada, is to make the solver think that they are solving one kind of clue when they are "actually doing nothing of the kind, and you can, for a little, postpone the inevitable end".26 Delayed gratification, staked on the striptease of ambiguity, staves off instrumentalised meaning, diverting the "inevitable end" both in a temporal and teleological sense. Against the baldness of the American quick style, which Torquemada thought "too easy to hold for long the attention of anyone concerned with and interested in words", he relished the opportunity to turn words on their heads.27 In doing so, his cryptic grids created all manner of strange beast, becoming little Punnett squares for crossbreeding animals, real and imaginary alike.
The solutions for three cryptics from Torquemada's Cross-Words in Rhyme for Those of Riper Years (1925) — Source.
It is in a Torquemada grid, indeed, that we come across one of Dr. Seuss's prized specimens, the Lorax, a full forty years before Dr. Seuss believed he had coined it —"I looked at the drawing board, and that's what he was!", or so thought the children's book author.28
24. With enough beer and bromide and borax
25 & 30. To fill a crustacean's thorax
27. Any may sheep can be
28 & 31. In a threefold degree
29. Concealed from the fangs of the Lorax
The rules of the puzzle — named "By the Waters of Shannon" (1934) in reference to Edward Lear's nonsense oeuvre — dictate that "clues consist of one word or consecutive words in each line".29 Each quintet of five consecutive clues are formatted as a sequence of limericks. The clues are not to be taken at face value. The answers are, in this stanza, ALE, PEREOIN, EWE, TREBLE, and HID, masked synonymously amid the continuous verse. The solver poses as a literary critic, performing a caricature of close reading to unlock a secret. It cannot be claimed definitively that Seuss magpied Torquemada's cryptid — though, suggestively, he studied at Oxford during the peak of Torquemada's popularity — but it is intriguing that two writers in the service of silliness would invest a fictional animal with the same name.
Animals have always held a certain reverence in the crossword. In the late composer Stephen Sondheim's guide to the British cryptic for American readers, he caricatures quick crosswords in The Daily News and the New York Times as requiring knowledge of the "Bantu hartebeest" (the KONGONI, an African antelope).30 Grids are crowded with the ASP, EFT, ELAND, GNU, IBEX, NYALA, OKAPI, and XENURUS: animals that have obtained a peculiar hyperreality in the public consciousness, appearing in crosswords more often than in conversation. A 1934 letter from P. G. Wodehouse even credits a crossword setter with "putting the good old emu back into circulation", embalmed in the rag-tag bestiary of the newsprint puzzle, where the unique character of an animal is, ultimately, subordinate to its unique, alphabetic characters.31 Torquemada, on the other hand, themed many of his experiments around the shapes of animals, preserving their bodies as well as their names — as Vladimir Nabokov had done in a 1926 letter to Véra, which contained a puzzle that looked like a butterfly.
Vladimir Nabokov's butterfly crossword for Véra, 1926. Titled "Crestos lovitxa Sirin" — an approximate transliteration of krestlovitska [crossword] and Sirin, Nabokov's pseudonym after the mythological bird-women — the puzzle is generically hybrid, both in the sense of genre and genus — Source.
Only two years after the critic Louis Untermeyer slammed writers including T. S. Eliot and James Joyce for being part of the "crossword-puzzle-school", Torquemada's Cross-Words in Rhyme for Those of Riper Years (1925) pioneered the verse puzzle, where every single clue is formatted as a metrically regular rhyming couplet.32 Each grid in Cross-Words in Rhyme is designed as a kind of concrete poem, where the lattice of solutions — disparate words drawn into surprising compatibility — forms an (often animal) image. "The Swan" begins self-referentially by telling the solver "I am the cross-word setter's base device / For making non-existent words suffice" (ANAGRAM).33 Later in the grid Torquemada remixes a nursery rhyme to clue a short word:
29. As hours in days, so many merulae
Found living tombs in me, but did not die.34
Knowing that "merulae" refers to blackbirds is certainly tricky, but the sing-song cadence of the couplet brings to life its solution, PIE, based on "Four-and-Twenty Blackbirds". The birds are alive, entombed inside a pie; paradoxically, the pie is alive, entombed inside the image of a swan. The crossword apparatus, like George Steiner's archetypal poet, is constitutionally "a neologist, a recombinant wordsmith. . . a passionate resuscitator of buried or spectral words".35 Bird inside pie, pie inside bird: both are "encrypted" (etymologically referring to burial) by the setter, and resurrected by the attention of the solver.
"The Swan" from Torquemada's Cross-Words in Rhyme for Those of Riper Years (1925) — Source.
The entangled difficulties of the cryptic crossword, then, provided a uniquely vital opportunity for defamiliarising language: for reheating, as it were, Bushmiller's alphabet soup, and letting the animals run rampant. Whether "breeding / Lilacs out of the dead land", as in The Waste Land, or breeding bird-pie fractals, the experimental aspects of literary modernism found extreme expression in cryptics, which took literature and letters alike as their raw materials. In his Puzzle Book (1934), Torquemada gave as his exemplar clue "I made self into poet" (MASEFIELD, a British poet whose surname recombines the letters in "I made self"), achieving anagrammatically the very metamorphosis trumpeted by the clue.36 Combinatorial, cleverly arranged letters could disclose portals into surprising realities. In this regard, Torquemada owed a great deal to the language games waged in the nonsense literature of the nineteenth century, which, in turn, also influenced modernist poetry, namely Eliot's more-playful verse.
Lewis Carroll's Doublets (ca. 1879) demanded a similarly interactive hand in making evolution come to life, turning APE into MAN, or FISH into BIRD by morphological increments, as if speeding up Darwinian selection to the pace of handwriting.37 If, as Eliot put it, nonsense literature employed "a parody of sense" rather than "a vacuity of sense", then Torquemada took this sideways slant to its fullest extent.38 In "The Bat", he apes Carroll: "What he was me, that black thing in the middle, / A hatter once confessed to be a riddle". The solution, AT, as Torquemada explains, refers to the Mad Hatter asking "Twinkle, twinkle, little bat, / How I wonder what you're at" in Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (1865), with "that black thing in the middle" singling out the zoomorphic, batty cavity in the heart of the grid itself.
Left: Solution page in Lewis Carroll's Doublets, a Word-Puzzle (1879) — Source. Right: Solution for "The Bat" in Torquemada's Cross-Words in Rhyme for Those of Riper Years (1925) — Source.
Broken Knowledge and Aphoristic Grace
In a moving obituary for Torquemada, written by his widow Rosamond Mathers, she recalls his habit for overwriting inert objects with a certain personality: "All the things he ordinarily used were apt to take on the qualities of toys; he had a happy way of naming all the common household objects so that each had its temperament, predominantly mischievous or benevolent".39 Torquemada, we are told, was not content with things staying in their lanes, and preferred to be "confronted by a haphazard collection of words" than a neat one when he plotted his puzzles. She remembers him "drawing marginal decorations in vari-coloured chalks while he broods on some uninspiring word", a behaviour that would ultimately be reciprocated by his legion solvers, including J. R. R. Tolkien, whose crossword doodles were recently exhibited by the Bodleian Library.
While going through his more than thirty thousand clues for The Observer in preparation for the posthumous publication of Torquemada: 112 Best Crossword Puzzles (1942), Mathers was astonished to find singular words "cropping up fifty times and more" without replicated wordplay: "it was astonishing how he varied the clue", she notes, remarking on his gift for "using words in a sense remote from the intention from their author".40 The epigraph to Cross-Words for Riper Years exemplifies the latter trait, cheekily recontextualising a line attributed to "Anne Wordsworth" for comic effect: "Children, remember each Cross Word / Is written in a dread unearthly Book". The same is true of his prevailing fondness for animals. When Torquemada was not structuring grids around animals, or penning clues which secretly hatched them, he would enlist their help in all manner of games. "Product of a noise many associated with lobster" yields MAYONNAISE (an anagrammatical "product" of "a noise many"), while "Sound of embrace a crocodile in secret" gave HUGGERMUGGER (a homophone for "hug a mugger", making use of "crocodile" in slang).41
Cover for Torquemada's Cross-Words in Rhyme for Those of Riper Years (1925) — Source.
Reducing the appeal of a word game to a few words is almost self-defeating, but Sondheim came close when he said the British cryptic combined "literary cleverness, humour, even a pseudo-aphoristic grace".42 Sondheim's compound adjective refractures an aphoristic mode that, to Francis Bacon, was already "a broken knowledge, inviting men to inquire further".43 Torquemada's cryptics implored their solvers to participate in unfamiliarity: to join a collaborative meaning-making based not only on close reading, but in turn, close writing and close arithmetic, where even the most unremarkable words can be seen anew. Sondheim's antelope may have remained a KONGONI in the "bald clues" of the United States, but uncaged by the cryptic style he favoured, it could flee into whimsical free association with its lexical neighbours; it could, as it were, elope with the ants that escaped T. S. Eliot.
When it came to the affinity between the modernist puzzle and the modernist poem, Torquemada didn't mince his words. Or, rather, he minced his words very selectively to make the same point: "In shape nothing more than a poet". The solution is OVOID, a "shape" generated by adding "nothing" (O) to "a poet" (OVID). Torquemada performs a miniaturised Metamorphoses, reconstituting a literary object, and hatching a new adjective most commonly used to describe eggs, and thereby regeneration itself. The clue is alive with association, and nudges the distractible imagination of the solver one way, while its surface inconspicuously leads elsewhere. The attention nurtured by wordplay, a device for defamiliarity based on the bizarre contingencies embedded in language, leavens the word and world alike with surprising potential. Dispensing penny-drop-moments like arcade coin pushers, the best clues reward a reader not with anything empirically valuable, but instead with the giddy excitement of watching words build up, build up, and topple into surprising new riches.
Postscript44
1. Doublespeak in accord protecting large union (9)
2. Editing out lines, Lamb guilty over current vagueness (9)
3. Imprecision by a doctor, one responsible for cutting trainee (9)
4. Uncertainty after my BA and TUI flights essentially exploded (9)
5. Occasionally calm, B. B. King quaintly produces doubtful tone (9)
6. In the morning, chap who goes both ways welcomes sex with mysterious character (9)
7. Postgraduate rebuffed extensive university computer support with variable confusion (9)
"Ostrich Policeman", Nottingham Evening Post, 14518 (January 2, 1925), 4.
"Fugitive Monkey", Nottingham Evening Post, 14540 (January 26, 1925), 7.
"Posers for the Zoo", Nottingham Evening Post, 14531 (January 17, 1925), 5.
Ernie Bushmiller, "Cross Word Cal", Sunday New World (May 3, 1925).
"Cross-Word Puzzles: An Enslaved America", The Times (February 21, 1925), 4.
"An Enslaved America", Tamworth Herald (December 27, 1924), 7.
"Library Dictionaries Damaged", Gloucester Citizen, 50.44 (February 20, 1925), 8.
"The Cross-Word Vogue", Western Daily Press, 133.22758 (December 31, 1924), 5.
"A Familiar Form of Madness", New York Times (November 17, 1924).
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"Georgian Stories", Aberdeen Press and Journal (November 8, 1926), 2.
Gertrude Stein, The Autobiography of Alice B. Toklas (New York: The Literary Guild, 1933), 247. The "Fifteenth of November" appears under the title "A Description of the Fifteenth of November: A Portrait of T. S Eliot" in Modernism: An Anthology, ed. Lawrence Rainey (Oxford: Blackwell, 2005), 405.
"Here and There", Daily Mirror (May 6, 1933), 6.
"Modern Authors and the Plain Man", Birmingham Gazette (October 20, 1932), 4.
Annotation from "T. S. Eliot's Crossword Puzzles", T. S. Eliot Foundation (March 10, 2017), available online at: https://tseliot.com/foundation/t-s-eliots-crossword-puzzles.
Peter du Sautoy, "T. S. Eliot: Personal Reminiscences", in The Southern Review 21.4 (October 1, 1985), 947.
Ezra Pound, ABC of Reading (London: George Routledge, 1934), 95; Eliot, letter to Sydney Castle Roberts (November 1958).
F. L. Lucas, review of The Waste Land, in New Statesman (November 3, 1923).
For a full list of Eliot's animal personae, see Emily Essert, "Cats, Apes, and Crabs: T. S. Eliot among the Animals", in Representing the Modern Animal in Culture, eds. Jeanne Dubino, Ziba Rashidian, and Andrew Smyth (New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014), 119–136 (119).
Letter from Eliot to Pound (July 1934), quoted in Hugh Haughton, "The Possum and the Salamander: T. S. Eliot and Marianne Moore", in The Poetry Society 110.2 (Summer 2020).
1. CAT = "Leo", C ("caught" in cricket) + AT (both sides of A[rgumen]T) 2. DOG = "Best friend", GOD backwards ("rejected") 3. CAT = "Maybe Lion", R (King, the regnal abbreviation of rex) taken out of CART ("barrow") 4. DOG = "a follower", DO + G (standard abbreviation for "good") 5. CAT = "Pet", COAT ("fur") without O ("nothing removed") 6. DOG = "Hound", DO ("party") + G ("girl initially") 7. CAT = "A natural killer", an anagram ("disturbed") of ACT 8. DOG, twice defined: "shadow" (as a verb) and "boxer" (as a breed) 9. CAT = "Being", the occasional letters of C[r]A[f]T[y] 10. DOG = "Perhaps setter", the ultimate letters of [trie]D [t]O [rin[G]. Clues sourced from a reverse search on: https://wordplays.com/crossword-clues.
Eliot, "Portrait of a Lady", Others: A Magazine of the New Verse (September, 1915).
William Empson, The Gathering Storm (London: Faber and Faber, 1940), 55.
T. S. Eliot, "The Ad-Dressing of Cats" in Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats (London: Faber, 2001), 45.
Torquemada, The Torquemada Puzzle Book (London: Victor Gollancz, 1934), 14.
Torquemada, 11.
Donald E. Pease, Theodor Geisel (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2010), 139.
Torquemada, "Puzzle 239", in 112 Best Crossword Puzzles, ed. J. M. Campbell (London: Pushkin Press, 1942), 181.
Stephen Sondheim, "How to do a Real Crossword Puzzle", in New York Magazine (April 8, 1968), 11.
Quoted in Alan Connor, Two Girls, One on Each Knee (London: Penguin, 2014), 6.
Louis Untermeyer, American Poetry Since 1900 (New York: Henry Holt & Co., 1923), 153. Consider, for instance, the clue "By means of argot I will make you think; / I also turn a lemon into drink". The couplet neatly stratifies the solution (ADE) into two pathways: George Ade published Fables in Slang ("argot") in 1899, but if the reference went over your head, you can deduce that adding "-ade" to "lemon" creates "lemonade". Each approach, hierarchised, is placed into imaginative parity by the rhyme connecting them. The entire clue is premised on the idiom of transformative opportunity — "when life gives you lemons, make lemonade" (first used in 1915) — and thereby glosses the riddle with a sense of its own invigorating power. This puzzle can be found in Torquemada, Cross-Words in Rhyme for those of Riper Years (London: Routledge and Sons, 1925), 22.
Torquemada, "The Swan", in Cross-Words in Rhyme, 10.
George Steiner, "On Difficulty", The Journal of Aesthetics and Art Criticism 36.3 (Spring, 1978), 263–276 (264).
Torquemada, Puzzle, 13.
Lewis Carroll, Doublets, a Word-Puzzle (London: Macmillan, 1879), 38.
Eliot, "The Music of Poetry", in Selected Prose, ed. John Hayward (London: Penguin, 1953), 57.
Rosamond Mathers, "Torquemada", in Torquemada: 112 Best Crossword Puzzles, 9–11.
Mathers, 12.
Torquemada, "Puzzle No. 564" (1937), in 112 Best Crossword Puzzles, 212; "Puzzle No. 319", 84.
Sondheim, "How to do a Real Crossword Puzzle", 11.
Francis Bacon, The Advancement of Learning, ed. Henry Morley (London: Cassell, 1893), 332.
My own clues, inspired by William Empson, Seven Types of Ambiguity (1930), generated by manipulating his The Structure of Complex Words (1951). [1. AMBIGUITY ("doublespeak") = AMITY ("accord") around BIG U ("large union") 2. AMBIGUITY ("vagueness") = [l]AMB GUI[l]TY ("editing out lines"), over I ("current") 3. AMBIGUITY ("imprecision") = A MB ("a doctor") I ("one") GUITY ("responsible for cutting trainee", "guilty" minus "l[earner]") 4. AMBIGUITY ("uncertainty") = anagram ("collapsed") of MY BA TUI [fli]G[hts] ("flights essentially") 5. AMBIGUITY ("doubtful tone") = the occasional letters of [c]A[l]M [b] B [k]I[n]G [q]U[a]I[n]T[l]Y 6. AMBIGUITY ('"mysterious character") = AM ("in the morning") BI GUY ("chap who goes both ways") welcoming IT ("sex") 7. AMBIGUITY ("confusion") = AM ("postgraduate rebuffed", MA backwards) BIG ("extensive") U ("university") IT ("computer support") Y ("variable")].
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Doublets: A Word-Puzzle
Lewis Carroll1879
The Advancement of Learning
Francis Bacon1893 [1605]
Appearing in Others: A Magazine of the New Verse
Modernist Journals Project
American Poetry Since 1900
Louis Untermeyer1923
T.S. Eliot1922
Cross-Words in Rhyme for those of Riper Years
Torquemada1925
Old Possum's Book of Practical Cats
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Food Problems Contribute to Riot at Kentucky Prison
Loaded on April 15, 2010 by David Reutter published in Prison Legal News April, 2010, page 10
Filed under: Prison Rebellion, Conditions of Confinement, Food. Location: Kentucky.
by David M. Reutter
A major riot at Kentucky's Northpoint Training Center on August 21, 2009 resulted in 16 injuries and the destruction of several buildings critical to the prison's operation. The riot was the second serious incident at the facility in as many years, and both involved food-related issues. [See: PLN, Oct. 2009, p.40].
The disturbance occurred the same day that prison officials had started releasing prisoners following a three-day lockdown. After 10 to 15 Hispanic prisoners assaulted black and white prisoners on August 18, the facility was placed on lockdown during an investigation to determine who had participated in the attack.
The prison began a "controlled movement" schedule on the evening of August 21, 2009, allowing prisoners to enter the recreation yard on a dorm-by-dorm basis. Soon afterwards the prisoners began rioting and setting fires.
It took guards about two hours to regain control of the medium-security 1,200-bed facility. Eight guards and eight prisoners received minor injuries; four of the prisoners were hospitalized. Kentucky Justice and Public Safety Cabinet Secretary J. Michael Brown said the lack of serious injuries "was as close to a miracle as you can get."
Six buildings were extensively damaged. The kitchen, canteen, medical center, visitation area and two dormitories were set ablaze. Prison officials transferred around 700 prisoners to other facilities across the state; the remaining prisoners were housed in a 196-man dorm, the gym and the chapel.
The damaged buildings were a total loss, and prison officials plan to raze and rebuild them at an estimated cost of $10.8 million. "We will have to start from scratch," said Brown.
In October 2007, 60 to 70 prisoners at Northpoint staged a peaceful sit-in on the rec yard to complain about the prison's food and commissary prices. An accreditation team that visited the facility a year later noted that a "common theme of the complaints was about the quality of food service and the canteen prices." Prisoners and their family members who contacted Lexington's Herald-Leader said food-related issues continued to be a source of unrest and were a factor in the August 2009 riot.
Prison officials defended their private food contractor. At Northpoint, "there are nutritional standards and calorie levels that must be met, and there is a certified dietician who reviews the menus, so inmates are being offered nutritionally balanced meals," said Justice Cabinet spokesperson Jennifer Brislin.
Regular PLN readers will recall that Northpoint's food service provider, Aramark, is known for skimping on ingredients and providing unpalatable meals, and has had food cleanliness issues. Aramark provides meals for Kentucky's prison system for $2.63 per prisoner per diem. The state saves about $5.4 million a year by contracting with the company; some of the savings were used to give pay raises to prison employees.
Under increased scrutiny following the August 2009 riot, Aramark's $11.8 million annual contract with the Kentucky DOC is now on shaky grounds. State Rep. Brent Yonts has filed a bill that would cancel the contract and prohibit privatized prison food services (HB 33). [See: PLN, Oct. 2009, p.36].
Rep. Yonts said he had received numerous complaints about prison food quality, shortages and even "crawling creatures in the food" over the past year. He noted that some prisoners claimed they found hair balls, rocks, cardboard, worms and even human feces in their meals. Guards who responded to questionnaires distributed by Yonts said food-related issues had caused "control" problems with the prison population.
"There's no reason for people to be treated inhumanely," Rep. Yonts stated. "I don't think the system is recognizing the problem with Aramark. I'm hoping the administration will ... cancel the contract."
Kentucky prison officials, however, maintained that food was not the primary reason for the riot, claiming it was due to the lockdown and tighter restrictions on yard movement at Northpoint. However, upon being questioned by lawmakers, Corrections Commissioner LaDonna Thompson admitted that prisoners "do not like the food" served by Aramark. Prison guard Matt Hughes, who testified at a legislative hearing, was more direct. "The food was slop," he said.
A summary of an investigative report by the Kentucky DOC was provided to lawmakers on November 20, 2009. Legislators were not initially informed that they hadn't received the full report, and it took two weeks of requests and the threat of a subpoena to obtain the original unedited version.
The summary initially provided by prison officials emphasized that anger over the lockdown and yard restrictions at Northpoint had resulted in the riot. The role of food was downplayed. But the original unedited report indicated that almost every prison employee and prisoner who was interviewed cited complaints about food quality and canteen prices as contributing factors to the disturbance.
On the day of the riot, some prisoners reportedly dumped food trays on the floor in the dining hall during the morning and lunchtime meals. "Apparently, there had been complaints for years about the quality of the food, the portion sizes and the continual shortage and substitutions for scheduled menu items," the report stated, noting that "sanitation of the kitchen was also a source of complaints."
"Systematic failure of management over time to deal with the food situation resulted in the riot, which was foreseeable and predictable," Rep. Yonts said at a Jan. 27, 2010 hearing before the House Judiciary Committee, which voted in favor of HB 33. The following day, the State Auditor's office announced it would be conducting an audit of Aramark's performance under the prison food service contract.
Governor Steve Beshear said he wasn't pleased with the legislature's "continued fixation with the menus for convicted criminals," stating, "We have more than 10 percent unemployment and Kentucky families are struggling to put food on the table, and I am loath to consider millions more dollars for criminals who wish they could go to Wendy's instead."
Lawmakers were not dissuaded. "The truth is we had a riot over there that's going to cost the taxpayers of Kentucky probably upwards of $10 million, and we need to find out what the hell happened," House Speaker Greg Stumbo said in response. Rep. Yonts agreed, stating bluntly, "The root problem was the issue of food."
Yonts cited a May 2008 Lyon County grand jury report, based on a visit to the Kentucky State Penitentiary and Western Kentucky Correctional Complex. "We were distressed and concerned about the food services being operated by private industry," the grand jurors wrote. "Those of us who had eaten at the center prior to privatization were greatly disturbed at the difference in the quality of the food. We, in the strongest terms, urge Corrections to return to the previous system and utilize more inmate labor in the cooking and preparation of the food."
Rep. Yonts' legislation and the state audit of Aramark's food service contract with the Kentucky DOC both remain pending.
Sources: Herald-Leader, Associated Press, Courier-Journal, www.newstimes.com
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Toronto: Luminato Festival Toronto announces its virtual lineup for June 11-13
Luminato Festival Toronto, Toronto's international arts festival dedicated to performance, media and visual arts, and programming that cuts across traditional artform boundaries, is thrilled to announced the lineup of its first ever virtual festival which will run from 7 p.m. (EDT) Thursday, June 11 until 12 midnight (EDT) Saturday, June 13 and includes more than 20 hours of free programming, 4 world premieres and 4 works created specifically for the virtual edition.
The festival will feature an array of events including a cooking and singing session with international award-winning Canadian soprano Measha Brueggergosman, a conversation about Refuge, a new album by three-time JUNO Award-nominees Sultans of String, a request radio hour with Canada's godfather of hip hop Ron Nelson and conversation about climate change and activism with UK-based live artist Amy Sharrocks. Science journalist and author of Sea Sick, Alanna Mitchelldemonstrates the art of the interview in Field Notes from the Future, produced by The Theatre Centre and presented by FOLDA (Festival of Live Digital Art). Reprised highlights from past Luminato Festivals will include R. Murray Schafer's epic theatrical oratorio Apocalypsis with a cast of 1,000 (Luminato 2015), Blast Theory's single-shot film My One Demand (also from 2015), and the sleeper hit of the 2019 festival, the cabaret concert The Cave with music by John Millard, lyrics by Tomson Highway, directed by Adam Paolozza. At 9:30 p.m. Friday, June 12 and 10 p.m. Saturday, June 13, the Festival will also feature dynamic late night programming with a Black Summers Night with Unit 2, Black Lives Matter Toronto and Tea Base and The REVELATION, featuring Les Femmes Fatales with DJ Nik Red and Live VJ Roxanne Luchak, respectively, both perfect for partying the nights away. Special appearances include acclaimed Anishinaabe hand drummer-singer Nimkii Osawamick, JUNO Award-winner Quique Escamilla, Halifax, Nova Scotia's Zuppa Theatre Co. and a live stream of Alex Bulmer's performance May I Take Your Armalso presented by Kingston, Ontario's FOLDA.
The full schedule of events is available online at luminatofestival.com; to attend the virtual festival tune into Luminato's website, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube and Twitter.
"Audiences will experience a re-imagined Luminato this June. Our virtual offering includes selections from Luminato's past, a taste of what would have been in this year's originally programmed festival, and a sneak peek into the future: world premieres, theatre, film, singer/songwriters, local, national and Indigenous artists, all wrapped up with intense conversations, late night DJs and VJs, burlesque, special guests and more," said Naomi Campbell, Luminato's Artistic Director. "In Luminato's new free interactive digital space audiences from all around the world can connect through art, performance and conversation."
"Prevented by the global pandemic from presenting our originally planned live festival, it's been a thrilling high-speed challenge to replace it with our first-ever virtual Luminato. It's completely different of course, but we believe our adventurous Luminato flame burns just as brightly in this new incarnation! After five unforgettably rewarding years leading Luminato, I am so happy to be leaving with this enormously exciting step into a new kind of future – for us all," said Anthony Sargent CBE, CEO Luminato.
During the festival, Luminato will be encouraging donations to support Canadians affected by COVID-19. Individuals wishing to contribute to these efforts can make a donation through Luminato's website to organizations providing COVID-19 relief:
The AFC (formerly Actors' Fund of Canada) - a national charity and the lifeline for Canada's entertainment industry, providing emergency financial assistance and other supports to arts and entertainment workers whose lives have been derailed by the pandemic.
Black Lives Matters Toronto - a platform where black communities dismantle all forms of anti-black racism, liberate blackness, support black healing, affirm black existence, and create freedom to love and self-determine.
The Stop Community Food Centre - a Toronto-based charity which increases access to good food in a manner that maintains dignity, builds health and community, and challenges inequality.
True North Aid - a charity dedicated to serving and supporting northern and remote Indigenous communities in Canada through practical humanitarian support and grassroots projects, providing essential and critical care items to the many Indigenous communities.
Illuminating works, Luminato's symposium for industry professionals, will return in an adapted form for its third year. Luminato will assemble a virtual delegation of international and national presenters, producers and artists for 4 hours over 2 days. The sessions will feature specially commissioned papers on the future of festivals, written and presented by 5 international festival directors, then responded to by 4 local artists. It is exciting to be initiating another chapter in an urgent conversation that is taking place around the word about the future of the performing arts. Illuminating works is supported by the Canada Council for the Arts.
Luminato Festival Toronto, now in its 14th year, typically brings artists from across the country and around the world to Toronto each June to perform ticketed and free events in a variety of venues, and on the streets of the city. The festival in its original form was scheduled to take place June 11 – 28, 2020 but was cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.
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Obama blames Europe: His economic press conference ducks the bad jobs report.
Obama ducks responsibility for U.S. unemployment by playing economic doctor to the world.
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The remarkable thing about President Obama's economic press conference today, held one week after a terrible U.S. jobs report, is that he didn't focus on the U.S. economy. He talked about Europe, Asia, and a global malaise. He came before the press not as a national CEO with a bad balance sheet to explain, but as a lecturer to nations whose economic policies showed a failure to learn from his successful example.
The job increases have been anemic, and last Friday's report showed the unemployment rate rising. But today, Obama offered an answer for that shortcoming: Compared with the recovery of a decade ago, "the global aftershocks are much greater." This became the theme of the press conference: Obama actually led us out of the U.S. recession two years ago, and what we're suffering now are side effects from Europe's failure to emulate his wisdom. "Aftershocks" was the first metaphor he deployed to make this point. "Headwinds" was the second.
Does the United States bear any culpability for its economic difficulties? Sure, said Obama. And that culpability lies in Congress. Obama brought up the jobs bill he sent to Congress last fall. He said we'd have more jobs than we have today if Congress had passed the whole bill, instead of just parts of it. He pointed out that private-sector jobs are increasing while public-sector jobs are shrinking, and he blamed Congress for refusing to fund more public-sector jobs. This equation conveniently obscured the alternative viewpoint: that sustainable economic growth requires a better rate of private-sector job growth, and that public-sector employment shouldn't be expected to continue making up the difference.
This seems to be the core of Obama's political response to the faltering recovery. If he deflects blame in a passive way, pleading helplessness in the face of global stagnation, he'll lose. But if he deflects blame actively, by posing as a doctor to other countries who failed to follow his example—and whose consequent economic sickness is now reinfecting the United States—he looks more like a leader.
Will it work? Maybe. I can think of two presidents who tried to answer a bad economy by running for re-election as leader of the free world. One was George W. Bush. The other was his dad.


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Любаші́вка — селище міського типу в Подільському районі Одеської області. Адміністративний центр Любашівської селищної громади. Розташоване поруч однойменної залізничної станції. Біля Любашівки проходить важлива транспортна магістраль — автобан «Київ — Одеса» .

Згідно з переписом населення України 2001 року населення Любашівки становить близько 11,5 тис.чоловік.

Історія

На території селища (біля нинішньої лікарні) знайдено стоянку людей бронзової доби.

Населений пункт заснований у 18 столітті. Перше поселення було засноване обабіч Довгенької балки, від якої й пішла перша назва поселення — Довгеньке. В 1795 році тут разом з навколишніми хуторами Миколаївка та Софіївка було 163 двори (638 душ чоловічого населення). Вже в 1808 році постала православна громада, а з 1811 — храм Св. Михаїла. В акті першого десятиріччя XIX ст. Любашівка згадується як володіння сотника Демида і поручика Тараса Васильєвих, дітей Любашовських, а також сотника Данила Павлюка, у яких було 5975 десятин власної землі. Село Софіївка, де розташовувалась економія панів Любинських, налічувало в той час 99 дворів і 750 жителів.

В 1847 році Любашівка стала волосним центром Ананьївського повіту Херсонської губернії.

У 1890-х роках в містечку була церква, три крамниці, постоялий двір, а також дві корчми.

В 1865 році відкрито першу школу, а з 1884 року існував фельдшерський пункт (лише 1905 року була створена земська лікарня).

Залізнична станція Любашівка

1868 року поблизу села прокладено залізницю, що сполучала Одесу через Балту з Ольвіополем. На відстані 1 версти від села збудували залізничну станцію. Навколо неї виросли будинки залізничників. Згодом поселення об'єдналось з Любашівкою (10.06.1960).

Любашівка у ХХ столітті
На початку XX століття в Любашівці були 2 парових млини, цегельня, корчма, лавки, винні льохи, залізнична станція.

1905 року створена лікарська дільниця та земська лікарня на 10 ліжок, в якій працювало двоє лікарів. В 1910 році Любашівка з'єдналася з Софіївкою. Пізніше до них приєдналось село Миколаївка.

Після повалення монархії у 1917 році владу поступово перебрали прихильники Української Центральної Ради, а з листопада 1918 року — Директорії УНР. У березні 1919 року владу захопили більшовики. У травні 1919 року на селище розповсюдилося антибільшовицьке Григор'ївське повстання — більшовицькі частини в Любашівці було розгромлено.. У серпні 1919 року Любашівкою заволоділи денікінці, які повернули панство та вбили близько 200 жителів. У лютому 1920 року владу остаточно взяли комуністи.

Після початку радянської окупації Любашівка була центром волості Балтського повіту Одещини (1921), а з 1923 року короткочасно перебувала в Троїцькому і Ясенівському районах Балтського округу. У 1926—2020 роках — центр Любашівського району.

Під час Другої світової війни село було окуповане німецько-румунськими військами. Окуповане радянською армією 30 березня 1944 року.

За радянських часів село перетворилося на селище міського типу (рішенням виконавчого комітету Одеської обласної Ради депутатів трудящих від 2 січня 1957 р.; 13 квітня 1957 включено в смугу Любашівки села Велика Софіївка, Мала Софіївка та Миколаївка, 10 червня 1960 р. с-ще залізничної станції Любашівка включено в смугу смт Любашівка), — і стало найбільшим населеним пунктом району. Було створено ряд невеликих підприємств, більшість з яких в сучасних умовах занепали.

За роки існування колгоспу «Зоря комунізму» в Любашівці 7 осіб за свою самовіддану працю були нагороджені відзнаками Героїв Соціалістичної Праці.

Сучасність

У теперішній час Любашівка найбільш відома як пункт на автотрасі  Київ — Одеса (міжміська автостанція розташована в мікрорайоні «ДРП»).

У селищі працюють метеорологічна станція, відділення декількох банків (Ощадбанк, «Приватбанк»).

Любашівку називають «столицею української ковбаси», проводиться однойменний фестиваль.

Відомі люди
 Бондар Василь Васильович (1971—2014) — старшина Збройних сил України, учасник російсько-української війни.
 Джуринський Олег Олександрович (* 1975) — український бізнесмен.
 Друзь Олександр Олександрович (1995—2014) — солдат Збройних сил України, учасник російсько-української війни.
 Запорожченко Борис Сергійович (* 1941) — український хірург, доктор медичних наук, професор, заслужений лікар України, лауреат Державної премії України в галузі науки і техніки.
 Матросов Вадим Петрович (1989—2016) — солдат Збройних сил України, розвідник батальйону «Донбас-Україна», учасник російсько-української війни.
 Рябошапка Руслан Георгійович (1976) — український правник, заступник Міністра юстиції України, Генеральний прокурор України (2019—2020).
 Якубець Іван Миколайович — український військовик, полковник запасу, командувач Аеромобільних військ України (1998—2005), учасник бойових дій в Косово.

Соціальна сфера: медицина і освіта

У селищі розташовані 3 медичні установи:
 Любашівська ЦРЛ
 районний ЦПМСД — центр первинної медико-санітарної допомоги (8 амбулаторно-поліклінічних установ, 31 фельдшерський чи фельдшерсько-акушерський пункт)
 Любашівська міжрайонна станція екстреної (швидкої) медичної допомоги (обслуговує 5 районів Одеської області).

Заклади освіти, розташовані в Любашівці:
 2 загальноосвітні школи: школа-ліцей (колишня ЗОШ І—ІІІ ступенів № 1) та школа-гімназія (колишня ЗОШ І—ІІІ ступенів № 2).
 вечірня школа;
 2 дитсадки;
 музична школа;
 ДЮСШ.

Культура

Любашівські заклади культури:
 будинок культури;
 кінотеатр.
 райбібліотека.

У селищі є стадіон.

Любашівські культові споруди — православна церква Св. Михаїла, каплиця Св. Пантелеймона.

У селищі встановлені пам'ятники — Т. Г. Шевченку, Меморіал воїнам ВВВ, пам'ятні знаки воїнам-афганцям, загиблим міліціонерам, жертвам Голодомору та жертвам Чорнобиля.

Посилання

 Любашівка — Інформаційно-пізнавальний сайт | Одеська область у складі УРСР  (На основі матеріалів енциклопедичного видання про історію міст та сіл України, том — Історія міст і сіл Української РСР. Одеська область. — К.: Головна редакція УРЕ АН УРСР, 1969. — 911 с.)

Див. також
 Любашівська волость

Примітки

Селища міського типу Подільського району

Населені пункти із статусом смт з 1957 в Одеській області

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Q: Flowplayer Facebook Integration I need help integrating flowplayer into facebook. I have done a lot of research and know that I am very close. I think that my only problem is the syntax that I use for the URL, which is here:
http://www.pearlsquirrel.com/flowplayer-3.2.7.swf?config=%7B%27clip%27%3A%7B%27url%27%3A%27http%3A%2F%pearlsquirrel.com%2Fmp3%2FeggoAngel%20[Cover]_mixdown.mp3%27%7D%7D
I keep getting the error

300: Player initialization failed Error #1009.

I know that I almost have it working because I can see the Flash player in facebook, it just gives me this error.  Can someone please check my syntax of the above link and tell me if it is correct and if you know how to solve this problem, please let me know.

A: You missed a / sign what is %2F, but there is just a % sign. So the right url should be:
http://www.pearlsquirrel.com/flowplayer-3.2.7.swf?config=%7B%27clip%27%3A%7B%27url%27%3A%27http%3A%2F%2Fpearlsquirrel.com%2Fmp3%2FeggoAngel%20[Cover]_mixdown.mp3%27%7D%7D
I don't exactly know where do you use this url, here is the url without encode:
http://www.pearlsquirrel.com/flowplayer-3.2.7.swf?config={'clip':{'url':'http://pearlsquirrel.com/mp3/eggoAngel [Cover]_mixdown.mp3'}}

Please try it.

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Win by New York Giants was More Important for Judge
Charlie Voelker
Charlie Voelker Published: November 29, 2021
Joe Judge's second season as head coach of the New York Giants didn't exactly start where last season ended. Big Blue won 5 of their last 8 contests to end the season, culminating with a 23-19 victory over the Cowboys to end the head coach's rookie year. This season has not been so kind to the Giants head coach.
Judge's team continues to deal with injuries. The Giants anemic offense has spent much of the season without a healthy running back Saquon Barkley or star free agent signing Kenny Golladay. Daniel Jones did not appear to have enough talent to carry the team alone. At the same time, personnel didn't seem to be the issue in 3 of New York's losses, where a simple field goal would have tied the game. The play calling was a target of Giants fans all season, until this week when Judge fired offensive coordinator Jason Garrett.
Garrett was an interesting coach on the young Judge's staff. Garrett had just been fired after a decade as the head coach of the Dallas Cowboys. Garrett's installment as the offensive coordinator seemed more like an insurance policy for general manager Dave Gettleman than a fit for the new coach's staff. The Cowboys offense sputtered under Jason Garrett, even with dynamic quarterback Dak Prescott and All-Pro running back Ezekiel Elliot. So why pick him?
With yesterday's New York Giants victory over division rival, the Philadelphia Eagles Judge securely took the wheel for this football team. Dave Gettleman's security blanket if Judge failed was gone. Was the Giants offense marketably better? No but they won. Yesterday was the type of game Big Blue had been losing this season.
Yes, new offensive coordinator Freddie Kitchens is a former head coach but not with the tenure of Jason Garrett. Garrett was always lurking in case things went awry for Joe Judge. Now the second year head coach has his guys in place. The team is his and his alone. There are 6 games left on the Big Blue schedule.
A playoff spot would be a miracle but some big wins over the Cowboys, Eagles and the Washington Football Team could make for an interesting December. However, the Giants have to start with a win over Miami this week and go from there. Yesterday, Joe Judge took the keys to this team.
How Capital Region Towns Got Their Names
Source: Win by New York Giants was More Important for Judge
Filed Under: jason garrett, Joe Judge, Kenny Golladay, new york giants, Saquon Barkley
Categories: Albany Events, Around Albany
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Green Globe Light Bulbs Included! Hang these commercial globe lights in any setting and it will surely light up the atmosphere!
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The Flemish Community exercises its powers in the Flemish provinces and in Brussels.
The Flemish Parliament and the Flemish Government exercise the legislative powers of the Flemish Community. The Flemish Parliament consists of all the Council members directly elected in the Flemish Region and the six Dutch-speaking members of the Brussels-Capital Parliament. The 6 also directly elected Flemish members of the Parliament, together with the 118 Council members, make up the 124-strong Flemish Parliament.
In order to prevent that the number of members of parliament should increase excessively, at the beginning, the institutions of the Flemish Community and the Flemish Region were merged. One Parliament and one Government exercise both the regional and the community powers. It should be borne in mind that the six elected members of the Council of the Brussels-Capital Region do not take part in the voting on decrees by the Flemish Region.
Ten members of the Flemish Parliament have seats in the Senate: they are the "community senators"
The Flemish Parliament votes on decrees: these are the laws of the Flemish Community and the Flemish Region.
The Government of the Flemish Community exercises the executive power and consists of a maximum of ten Ministers, and one Minister-President.
At least one Minister must reside in the Brussels-Capital Region. Please note that the Brussels Minister(s) who is/are member(s) of the Flemish Community Government, do(es) not take part in the decisions relating to the powers of the Flemish Region.
The other Communities in our country are the German-speaking Community and the French Community.
Both the Parliament and the Ministry of the Flemish Community have their own information services and an official web site.


How does VAT refund for the purchase of the first real estate function?
If you are buying an apartment and it is your first real estate, you do not own any other real estates and you never did, if you are a citizen of the Republic of Serbia, then you are entitled to a VAT refund on 40m².
Each family member releases VAT on another 15m² which means that the family that has three members and neither one of them is or was the owner of some real estate, can recover the VAT on the flat of 70m². At this moment VAT is 10%.
Are all the buildings of company Vaer Engineering finished when it's planned?
One of the main goals of the company Vaer Engineering is to set new standards in business and satisfaction of our clients.
These goals are achieved, among everything else, by respecting deadlines and regarding to that every building that company Vaer Engineering works on is completed within the stipulated time.
Can the apartments from the offer be purchased through loans?
Yes, apartments from the offer of company Vaer Engineering can be purchased through loans. When you are buying through loans it is important that the building in which you want to buy an apartment is 80% finished. By calling or sending an e-mail, we can give you information about in which phase the building that you are interested in is and if it isn't 80% finished at the moment, when will it be.
Do all the buildings have calorimeters and do they have a billing system for heating by consumption?
Yes, all the buildings have calorimeters built in and payment of heating is by consumption. All our buildings are connected to the main city heating plant.
Does billing system for heating by consumption means that building is heating on gas?
Do all buildings have elevators and what kind?
Yes, in every building there is at least one elevator for 8 people, no matter how many floors the building has. We install hydraulic silent elevators because they are proven to be safer, more comfortable to ride in and as the elevators that brake down less than other types. If the building has a basement, elevator in this case has a station in the basement, too.
How is the problem of parking for tenants solved?
In each building that Vaer Engineering built there is provided enough parking spaces and garages. Minimum number of parking spaces and garages equals to the number of apartments.
All gates and garage door have remote control, and mechanical keys provide opening in case of power failure or potential breakdown. The whole parking and garages in basement are covered by video surveillance and elevator in each building has a station in the basement.
•	The only building that doesn't have parking spaces or garages is in number 12 Miše Dimitrijević St., because it is not planned according to Urban plan of Novi Sad. Garages and parking spaces tenants of this building will be able to provide in the neighboring building at number 14 Miše Dimitrijević St. when it is finished or in some other adjacent building.
What is the ideal number of floors and apartments per floor?
Over two decades of experience have shown that the streets in which are the buildings with five or less floors are the best organized and the most pleasant for living.
The most ideal conditions for a peaceful life of tenants are in cases where the floor has four to six apartments.
Are the terraces counted in the square footage of the apartment?
Yes, the terrace is counted as any other square meter of the apartment.
Is there a possibility to participate in finishing works in the apartment?
Yes, if you buy the apartment when it's under construction or in the final stage, you can influence on the work that haven't been done up to that point.
Apartments on the last floors reasonably fall into the group of most expensive and most luxurious worldwide.
The advantage of living in a duplex is reflected in peace and comfort of life that a flat on the top floor gives you.
In company Vaer Engineering we believe that duplexes are intended for big families, because in them you can provide enough space for each family member.
All duplexes that company Vaer Engineering offers are designed to have more than 120m², a minimum of three spacious bedrooms and a minimum of two bathrooms.
Totally opposite to developed countries, here the price of these apartments is much lower comparing to the apartments on the regular floors so it is an ideal opportunity for anybody who needs a big family apartment. In duplexes there are spacious living rooms, large kitchen, large bedrooms, two bathrooms minimum, which is ideal for big families.
Where is company Vaer Engineering planing to build in the upcoming period?
Everything that company Vaer Engineering is offering, you will be able to see on this website. If you want to find out something about new buildings you can contact us by calling or by sending an email.
What are the advantages of Grbavica?
Peaceful and quiet streets are the biggest advantage of Grbavica, especially if you are looking for a perfect place for family life. At the same time, all the important facilities are in the immediate vicinity, and kindergartens, schools and colleges are on few minute walk.
At Grbavica life is safe, pleasant and free of everyday noise and pollution. Great density and frequency provides an excellent opportunity for small businesses.
Grbavica is one of the oldest parts of the city, and at the same time modern because of a large number of buildings built in the last ten years. Since it is located near the city center, it's the ideal place for every member of the family.
Close to kindergartens, schools and universities, as well as numerous commercial buildings, guarantees time saving. Each location you can quickly reach by foot.
All the buildings that company Vaer Engineering is currently offering are at Grbavica.
Why to choose Novi Sad?
• As the economic center of Vojvodina, it offers a great opportunities for employment and development of high quality cultural and social life.
• Fairs, concerts, sports events, EXIT, and many other festivals are just some of the events that bring together a large number of people in Novi Sad and make life in it a lot more interesting.
• It is also known as a university city, Novi Sad is the ideal choice for young people who wish to complete their studies and become academics.
These are just some of the reasons why many people who are not from Novi Sad wish to come to live in it, and all residents of Novi Sad wants to stay in Novi Sad.
Novi Sad, the city that is just right for you!


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Q: Combining settings in enumitem package I have trouble combining settings of an indent and label customization in this package.
I want my list to look like this:
Right now I only managed to adjust it like this, with the basic style of numeration - "1.".
\usepackage{enumitem}
\begin{document}
\begin{enumerate}[wide, labelindent=0pt]
\item blahblah
\item blahblah
\end{enumerate}

Where to put the label customization [(1)] to make this work?

A: Here is a possible solution:
\documentclass{article}

\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}

\begin{enumerate}[wide=0pt, label =(\arabic*), parsep = 1ex]
\item \makebox[\linewidth]{$r_1,,r_2,\dots, r_{\varphi(m)} $}

\lipsum[11]
\item \makebox[\linewidth]{$\rho_{k} \equiv r_{k}\pmod{m} $}

\lipsum[11]
\end{enumerate}

\end{document}

A: A small variation of @Bernard answer (+1):
\documentclass{article}
\usepackage{enumitem}
\usepackage{lipsum}

\begin{document}
    \begin{enumerate}[wide=0pt, label =(\arabic*)]
\item \hfil$r_1,,r_2,\dots, r_{\varphi(m)} $

-- \lipsum[66]
\item \hfil$\rho_{k} \equiv r_{k}\pmod{m} $

czycli
    \end{enumerate}
\end{document}


Both lived up to their billing with Chavez railing against U.S. "hegemony" and Ahmadinejad blaming Western greed for "poverty, backwardness, regional conflicts, corruption, illicit drugs."
The role of West-baiting once fell at AU summits to Libya's colourful leader <FORM class=yqin action=http://yq.search.yahoo.com/search method=post> </FORM>Muammar Gaddafi but he has now been welcomed into the Western fold and Libya is soon to be taken off the U.S. list of state sponsors of terrorism.
So why were outsiders Chavez and Ahmadinejad invited?
The striking presence of such anti-Western figures, particularly the Iranian leader, raised eyebrows among the large number of foreign envoys observing the summit, diplomats said.
One non-aligned ambassador who asked not to be identified said the invitation to Chavez was more understandable than that to Ahmadinejad since Venezuela has AU observer status.
He said the Ahmadinejad invitation was apparently extended unilaterally by Gambian President Yahya Jammeh, and provoked criticism from some countries in the 53-member AU.
But Western diplomats suggested the two invitations may also have been intended to underline Africa's breakaway from the influence of former colonial powers in Europe.
"At one time the links with Europe were still strong. But in the 21st century Africa wants to show that these links have finally been broken," one European ambassador said.
Professor Shadrack Gutto, director of African Renaissance Studies at the University of South Africa, said the presence of Chavez and Ahmadinejad should not be seen as anti-Western.
"The AU is not suddenly turning against the West. These visits were not ideologically decided and there isn't necessarily an anti-Western aspect to it," he said.
But he added that it was easier for Africa to assert its independence from the West when meeting in the AU than as individual countries, many dependent on Western funding.
"It does indicate that collectively, as the 53 members of the AU, when they come together the West will not choose for them who they invite or who their friends are," he said.
"They are saying Africa can have a position that differs with that of the West."
Gutto suggested that whereas there were strong and logical reasons to invite Venezuela, Ahmadinejad had probably pushed for an invitation to lobby for African support in Tehran's nuclear standoff with the West.
He said African countries were eager to hear about Chavez's policies toward Western oil companies.
"Chavez has taken quite a radical line with regard to claiming national sovereignty over natural resources and that resonates with a lot of African countries emerging as substantial producers," Gutto said.
He said African producers were anxious to ensure they maximised the benefits of their resources and were not being short-changed in contracts with Western oil companies.
In his speech to the summit on Saturday, Chavez urged Africa to seize greater control of its energy resources, describing the low royalties paid by some oil giants as robbery. Chavez has hiked taxes on U.S. oil companies, which he dubbed "Count Dracula."
Looks nervous in that room full.


I am physical performer, with a particular interest in mime, mask and puppetry. I also have a soft spot for playing larger-than-life grotesques. I trained at l'Ecole Jacques Lecoq 2009-2011 and have worked consistently as an actor since graduating. I was Co-Artistic Director of Rhum and Clay Theatre Company from 2010 until 2016, creating and performing in seven shows that toured nationally and internationally. I have also worked in devising and research & development with other theatre companies, particularly in the early stages of their process.
"Il n'y a pas que la roue qui tourne"


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Premier League 2010-2011: Are You Ready for It? It's for Number 19.
The start of the season is finally there and we have had a rather quiet silly season, other than being rumoured to have been interested in everyone who can kick a ball and has a high price tag. Pretty much like Harry Redknapp during every break but it seems that all our signings were done since a long time and chances of anyone other than Chris Smalling and Javier Hernandez joining the ranks are rather slim. And just like last year, it doesn't matter because our squad *is* strong already and the two only signings we made were sensible ones.
Last year I said:
Contrary to what most people have announced, we do not need any more new signings because ManUtd is already a stronger squad than last season, even after CR7 and Tevez left Old Trafford.
With the arrival of the talented Gabriel Obertan, Michael Owen, who signed on a free and Antonio Valencia's arrival times certainly look great for the Red Devils.
Although at many times last season our vulnerabilities have been exploited, we must be honest and admit that the squad wasn't weaker due to the departure of Cryboy and the Gelled Tumbler. What did happen though was that we struggled once more with a huge amount of injuries and these cost us lots. And to be honest, if I see one problem this season it's in the defensive department again.


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<?php

namespace Mooti\Test\PHPUnit\Framework\Unit\Util;

use Mooti\Framework\Util\FileSystem;
use Mooti\Framework\Exception\FileSystemException;

class FileSystemTest extends \PHPUnit_Framework_TestCase
{
    /**
     * @test
     */
    public function getCurrentWorkingDirectorySucceeds()
    {
        $fileSystem = new FileSystem;
        self::assertEquals(getcwd(), $fileSystem->getCurrentWorkingDirectory());
    }

    /**
     * @test
     */
    public function fileExistsReturnsTrue()
    {
        $fileSystem = new FileSystem;
        self::assertTrue($fileSystem->fileExists(__FILE__));
    }

    /**
     * @test
     */
    public function fileExistsReturnsFalse()
    {
        $fileSystem = new FileSystem;
        self::assertFalse($fileSystem->fileExists('/foo/bar'));
    }

    /**
     * @test
     */
    public function getRealPathSucceeds()
    {
        $contents   = uniqid();
        $path       = '/tmp/'.uniqid().'.txt';

        $fileSystem = new FileSystem;
        $fileSystem->filePutContents($path, $contents);
        self::assertContains($path, $fileSystem->getRealPath($path));
        unlink($path);
    }

    /**
     * @test
     */
    public function fileGetContentsSucceeds()
    {
        $fileSystem = new FileSystem;
        self::assertEquals('bar', $fileSystem->fileGetContents(__DIR__.'/../../../fixtures/files/foo.txt'));
    }

    /**
     * @test
     * @expectedException Mooti\Framework\Exception\FileSystemException
     */
    public function fileGetContentsThrowsFileSystemException()
    {
        $fileSystem = new FileSystem;
        $fileSystem->fileGetContents('/foo/bar');
    }

    /**
     * @test
     */
    public function filePutContentsSucceeds()
    {
        $contents = uniqid();
        $path     = '/tmp/'.uniqid().'.txt';

        $fileSystem = new FileSystem;
        $fileSystem->filePutContents($path, $contents);
        self::assertEquals($contents, $fileSystem->fileGetContents($path));
        unlink($path);
    }

    /**
     * @test
     * @expectedException Mooti\Framework\Exception\FileSystemException
     * @expectedExceptionMessage File /foo/bar could not be written
     */
    public function filePutContentsThrowsFileSystemException()
    {
        $fileSystem = new FileSystem;
        $fileSystem->filePutContents('/foo/bar', 'test');
    }

    /**
     * @test
     */
    public function createDirectorySucceeds()
    {
        $path = '/tmp/'.uniqid();

        $fileSystem = new FileSystem;
        $fileSystem->createDirectory($path);
        self::assertTrue(is_dir($path));
        rmdir($path);
    }

    /**
     * @test
     * @expectedException Mooti\Framework\Exception\FileSystemException
     * @expectedExceptionMessage Directory /572b679aaf597 could not be created
     */
    public function createDirectoryThrowsFileSystemException()
    {
        $path = '/572b679aaf597';
        $fileSystem = new FileSystem;
        $fileSystem->createDirectory($path);
        rmdir($path);
    }

    /**
     * @test
     */
    public function changeDirectorySucceeds()
    {
        $oldPath = __DIR__;
        $path    = realpath(__DIR__.'/../../../fixtures/files');
        $fileSystem = new FileSystem;
        $fileSystem->changeDirectory($path);
        self::assertEquals($path, $fileSystem->getCurrentWorkingDirectory());
        self::assertNotEquals($oldPath, $fileSystem->getCurrentWorkingDirectory());
    }

    /**
     * @test
     * @expectedException Mooti\Framework\Exception\FileSystemException
     * @expectedExceptionMessage Directory /572b685014d03 does not exist
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In a large measuring cup, mix together olive oil, herbes de Provence, and garlic. Place tenderloin in a large, rectangular baking pan. Pour olive oil mixture over meat, and turn to coat. Cover, and refrigerate for 3 hours.
Preheat oven to 400 degrees F (200 degrees C). Soak mushrooms in boiling hot water for 10 minutes to rehydrate.
Heat a large skillet over high heat. Remove meat from marinade, and discard any remaining marinade. Place meat in hot pan, and brown evenly. Return meat to baking dish.
Cook tenderloin in preheated oven about 15 to 20 minutes, or until the internal temperature of the meat is 145 degrees F (63 degrees C). Remove from oven, and allow it to rest for 5 minutes before slicing.
Meanwhile, combine the water in which the mushrooms were soaked, cognac, lemon juice, and shallots in a saucepan. Cook over medium heat until liquid is almost gone. Pour in the cream. Bring to a boil, and then reduce heat to medium-low. Chop mushrooms, and stir into the sauce. Continue cooking until the sauce thickens. Stir in the butter and honey. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Serve over sliced tenderloin.


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Hahn withdraws tax provision
By Rick Orlov | rick.orlov@dailynews.com |
PUBLISHED: July 10, 2008 at 12:00 a.m. | UPDATED: August 29, 2017 at 1:52 a.m.
Even as a new dispute developed Wednesday over a proposed parcel tax to fund anti-gang programs in Los Angeles, City Councilwoman Janice Hahn said she would remove a quietly inserted provision that would have allowed the tax to be increased every year.
The controversy erupted after a draft of the measure, which has been championed by Hahn, included an allowance for the council to boost the tax amount every year to reflect the cost of inflation.
The provision sparked an outcry from taxpayer advocates and others who said it raised concerns over the final cost to taxpayers with no accounting for where or how the money would be spent.
"We should have a truth-in-advertising law for these measures," Councilman Dennis Zine said. "In all the debate, there has not been one word said about raising the parcel tax every year. It's going to cost $3 a month for the first year, but what will it be down the line? How much will we end up paying for these programs?"
Hahn initially defended the provision as necessary to cover rising future costs and said such provisions are common in measures.
"At most, we are talking pennies a year," Hahn said. "It makes sense to have something like this since the amount of money raised in 2008 will not buy the same level of services in five or 10 years. You want to be able to reflect higher costs."
Several hours later as debate increased, however, Hahn said she was directing the language to be stripped from the measure to avoid any problems that could block its passage Friday when the council will consider placing it on the Nov. 4 ballot.
"We don't want people to think we are going to get any more than $3 a month," Hahn said through an aide. "This measure was designed to raise $30 million a year, and that's it."
The parcel tax would be the latest hike Angelenos are facing. City officials recently increased the trash fee to $36 a month – the maximum allowed – to pay for hiring new police officers. In efforts to balance the budget, the city also hiked fees for everything from planning services to golf.
And the Department of Water and Power this year hiked its rates – 6.2 percent over two years for water and 8.5 percent over three years for electricity.
If the council agrees to place the parcel tax measure on the ballot, it would require approval from two-thirds of voters. The measure is expected to raise $30 million a year with the annual charges on property expected to be $36.
But early in the day, legal language returned by the City Attorney's Office for the measure included a provision that read:
"For any fiscal year, the City Council may by ordinance increase the tax rate by no more than the Consumer Price Index, or any such indicator of economic growth, for all urban consumers for the Los Angeles area ."
Jon Coupal of the Howard Jarvis Taxpayers Association, which opposes the entire measure, said the provision raised more concerns.
"Even though they say they will be using the Consumer Price Index, I'm not sure that's the best measure," Coupal said. "Our argument is the city has plenty of money and doesn't need this tax and this is a hidden feature that could raise it to levels no one anticipated."
Hahn said Wednesday she also has been trying to work with Zine and others to resolve concerns over the entire measure, particularly in funding levels to deal with San Fernando Valley gangs.
"I'm not sure it goes far enough," Zine said. "I have areas of my district where we have gang injunctions in place, but there is no guarantee money will be used to develop any intervention or prevention programs there."
Councilman Jose Huizar also said he was concerned over using funds from the parcel tax to pay for ongoing programs.
"I am not comfortable with having a parcel tax pay for programs," he said. "It's one thing to use these kind of taxes to build things, it's another to use it to fund what we should be paying for out of the general fund."
Huizar said the issue troubles him because his Eastside district has more gangs than any other part of the city.
"We have been having this debate over what we do with gang programs and how there has been a lack of accountability," he said. "I'm not sure we're ready to do something like this parcel tax until we have a better handle on what we're doing."
The council this year agreed with a report by Controller Laura Chick to transfer anti-gang prevention and intervention programs to Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa's Office.
The mayor officially received that authority July 1 and has been working to reshape the programs and develop new efforts to keep young people from joining gangs.
Hahn, however, has said she believes public awareness of the issue is high and it may be the best year in which to try to win voter approval.
The measure also contains a provision to allow annual audits by Chick. An aide to Chick said she has not yet taken a position on the tax proposal.
rick.orlov@dailynews.com
Rick Orlov


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Mr. Plumber Acquires Heffner Plumbing – Plumbing Perspective
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