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After watching the tape, obviously it was a really good division win at home. Definitely, I thought we played well. We had some returns, special teams, Dalvin [Cook] had a big run. Had a lot of good things going. We have to keep it up and keep pushing and see where this all takes us.
Q: Do you have certain things that you are going to focus on during the bye week?
Q: What are some of the things that you want to see?
A: Just some of the things we weren't very good statistically at, just certain areas.
Q: Is that one of the better games you've seen from Tom Johnson in the four and a half years he's been here?
A: Tom has had some good games in the past. But he played well yesterday, yes.
Q: What do you want to emphasize in the run game with the three of the last seven games being outdoors coming out of the bye?
A: That is a good question because I usually look at one game at a time, not seven. We just have to continue to be effective running the football. I do think with some of these games as it starts to get colder, it is going to be more of a factor. I think we are getting better at a lot of the areas in the running game. We have to continue searching for more ways to pound the ball. We have to look for ways when we get down inside the 15-yard line in order to run the ball. It's just harder to throw the ball in there. So in order for us to get better in the red zone touchdowns, we have to run the ball better in there.
Q: Did Dalvin Cook's run show a little bit more of what he brings with his ability to open things up?
A: Yes and actually there was one other run that I thought he was going to pop that he just got tripped on. He has got a chance to hit home runs. I think it was really good for him to get out there and get some game time action. When you haven't played in six weeks and you haven't practiced all that much I think he will continue to get better. See some of the cuts a little bit better as he gets going.
Q: What does that do for Dalvin Cook's confidence to test his hamstring on the long run?
A: Dalvin is a pretty confident guy. But I do think him being able to go through there and come in today feeling great, I think that is all good for going forward.
Q: Is it harder to get red zone sacks?
A: Sacks are hard to get anyways. A guy who leads the league in sacks is somewhere 15-16 that's one a game if he's lucky. A lot of teams get in a lot more no backs or they get five guys out in the routes. Typically, there is a little less protection down there. Those are big when you can get sacks in the red zone, is big.
Q: How many sacks were due to good coverage and the line getting through?
A: It was probably 50-50. A lot of them were really good coverage. We got [Matthew Stafford] to hold the ball a few times, which was good. There were some other times we just beat people. The game where Tom [Johnson] and Sheldon [Richardson] was a good one. I'm trying to think, Danielle [Hunter] had a good one. He beat the guy quick. It always usually goes hand-in-hand, I think. But we made him pull the ball down a few times.
Q: Does having eight of ten sacks coming on a pass rush of four or fewer guys say more about the defensive linemen themselves or is that 50-50 split between that and scheme?
A: I think it's both. They had an offensive lineman that went out during the game so that helps. I think we made him pull the ball down some in coverage. Really, it all goes hand-in-hand. If you can do it with four guys, that is pretty good. But that means they're holding the ball and we're covering in the back end.
Q: Is the continued teaching from Andre Patterson and the veteran players helping the younger players something you preach here?
A: That's what we try to do. And I've heard that before, it's just not how we do it. We stay on them to continue to work on their technique, rush angles, hand placement, all kinds of things. Andre does a great job, and the veteran guys do a great job as far as helping out the younger guys. Stephen Weatherly has come a long way in a short among of time, really. A year ago I wouldn't have guessed that he would be playing this much or doing the things that he is doing. He had a nice rush and sacked Stafford one time, he had a couple of nice rushes where he hit the quarterback right after he threw it. There were things that he was doing that were not allowing him to rush as well as he's doing now, but Andre has been on him about working on different things to get better. They all go down there to pass rush, and as soon as one of them gets done Danielle will come over or Griff [Everson Griffen] will come over and say, "Hey, here's what you did, and here's what you have to do." I do think a lot of it, when you have success and guys see themselves getting better, I think it leads to more listening to the coaching and things like that.
Q: Has the first half of the season felt more draining to you or is that just how it goes?
A: Probably feels more draining because it's this year. The NFL season is such a grind because you're doing it since July and you're sitting up there studying tape every day. If you get to go home when the sun is out you feel like a normal person. But it is what it is.
Q: How much of the scheme changing will you look at during the bye week?
A: Not too much really that way. I mean are self-scouting us a little bit, like I said some of the areas that we haven't been as good in. Every Monday we come in we start on the other team after we're done all this stuff and then we'll sit down and we'll look at plays that hurt us. We'll go back through the season and look at plays that hurt us and kind of see if there's a pattern going on. We're kind of constantly doing that. Same thing offensively so we can figure out what we have to change or adjust the coverage or make different calls or game plan things so we don't get hurt. For instance they tried to run two of those roll out screens yesterday and we got hurt with them earlier in the year – I think San Francisco had one and probably the Rams had one and there was someone else, so we've had to make adjustments on how we're playing that. Yesterday I think they lost yards on both of them.
Q: Was there a Monday you remember where you realized something has to change?
A: It's pretty much every week. I guess the best way to say it is when you're watching these other teams, the offenses you're getting ready to play and the week before you watch their offense and they're all attacking with basically the same combination, route combination and things and you see it's versus that particular style of coverage, that's when it really shows up. You see everybody game planning the same coverage every single week. That's why we've had to change.
Q: Was there a time when you noticed teams starting to implement your double A scheme?
A: It always starts out slow. One of our coverages when I first went to Dallas, not first but when I was in Dallas, we had Deion Sanders. I didn't want him playing a certain style of defense, so we were trying to allow him to be man-to-man and so what we had to do was to figure out a way where he could still be man-to-man, but we could still get extra guys and play man within the zone combinations. Well, we were pretty good at it and then next thing I know I see Philadelphia playing it. They're in our division and watch us all the time, so they're playing it. Next time you see Buffalo, I don't know who it was but you just see a gradual thing and I've had many coaches say they watch our blitz tape every week to see what we're doing. That's kind of how it starts and then they try and copy it. Quite honestly I don't think we've run hardly any double A blitzes this year, because everybody is practicing them so we do something else.
Q: Of the guys that injured who do you think is going to benefit the most with the time off?
A: Probably the guys that missed the game. I think most those guys I'm hopeful that they're all back.
Q: A lot of the college offensive innovation has trickled into the NFL. Have you noticed if the defensive innovations have kept pace?
A: Yeah, but it's different. There is a lot of college coming into the NFL and it's always kind of been like that. The rocket sweeps and the zone reads and the RPOs and all that stuff. The difference is most of those quarterbacks and I'm not trying to discredit anybody, they can't throw like NFL quarterbacks. The NFL quarterbacks are always those that have thrown the best throughout the entire time, so that part is a little bit different defensively. They can get away with more things, but everything is cyclical. It's the double As, Tampa-two, the RPOs, all the things it all goes round-and-around and guys study it and study it and they try to figure out ways to stop it. Once they do they have to go to something else.
Q: Are you still learning things about what this club can do?
A: Yeah. I think so. It's been a process this year. We've had a new offensive coordinator, new quarterback, we've been missing some guys there, and defensively we didn't start out well. Every year is a new year, but I do feel like we're starting to look a lot more like I kind of expect us to and I hope we continue to do that. But yeah, I do think it's still kind of a learning process.
Q: Is there something about the way your team approaches third down that is different than other teams?
A: I don't know what other teams do. I know we spend a lot of time with it. We look at them on Mondays. No, we look at them on Tuesdays as a defensive staff. We used to spend a little more time on it now, but since we're giving up a lot of big plays on first and second down we spend a lot more time doing that on Tuesdays and then we go back to third downs on Wednesdays. I probably look at the third down tape four or five times during the week. Honestly, our players are executing. We changed some of the calls yesterday that we haven't called, but you go to execute anyway so whatever you do you have to execute and they've been doing a good job.
Q: The league flexed your game to Sunday night against the Bears. Does that effect anything?
A: Not really. I mean they just tell us when to play, we show up. Try to get a win somehow.


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This desi bride & firang groom's destination wedding in Mussoorie has the most fun & quirky photos!
Kurt had chosen Isha to be his life-partner long before marriage was even on the cards. From the first moment he saw her, he was intrigued and wanted to be around the strong energy she exuded. For Isha, Kurt was the calming presence in her life. Being with each other felt natural to them; like it was meant to be.
Their love brought two Indian and Australian families together in a three-day music-and-dance gala. The entire wedding was like a beautiful dream planned and executed by Ckeventstylists by charu kataria. The bride stepped in the wedding ceremony looking like a princess in a make-up done by Sakshi Sagar .
They had a crazy fun sangeet night with performances from artists Hari and Sukhmani, and DJ Sumit Sethi. Isha was a total 'bridechilla' who knew how to have fun! Her friends described her as the quintessential carefree spirit in the movies brought to life! We saw the most fun and quirky pictures of the wedding featured by their photographer Twogether Studios.
Kurt and Isha became one team and had one of the most fun wedding. Their ceremony took place at the beautiful Jaypee Residency Manor amongst the lovely mountains of Mussoorie. And to make it even more special, Kurt made vows to her in Hindi during the wedding rituals, that made everyone teary-eyed. Do check the video od the wedding ceremony for that.
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MANKATO, Minn. — The public is invited to attend an open house on Monday, June 11, to learn about upcoming construction on Hwy 60 from St. James to Hwy 15 in Watonwan County.
The open house is scheduled from 4:30 p.m. to 6:30 p.m. on Monday, June 11, in the St. James Community Room at the Princess Theater located at 505 1st Avenue South, St. James. The Minnesota Department of Transportation will provide project information, details about traffic impacts, construction staging maps, and staff on-site to answer questions. No formal presentation is planned.
Construction on Hwy 60 in Watonwan County is part of a two-year project, starting June 18 through fall of 2019. Thirteen miles of Highway 60 from St. James to Hwy 15 will be resurfaced, and bridges and guardrails will be upgraded.
For more project information, visit the project website at www.mndot.gov/d7/projects/hwy60.


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Hotel Chain Extended Stay America Looks to Raise $500 Million in U.S. IPO
Neil Callanan, Bloomberg
October 8th, 2013 at 8:20 AM EDT
Extended Stay America is just one of Blackstone's hotel assets that it's planning to take public. Blackstone's recent boom in activity is considered a sign of a rebounding hotel market.
Samantha Shankman
Extended Stay America Inc., the mid- price lodging chain owned by Blackstone Group LP, Centerbridge Partners LP and Paulson & Co., plans to raise as much as $500 million in a U.S. initial public offering.
Deutsche Bank AG, Goldman Sachs Group Inc. and JPMorgan Chase & Co. will underwrite the sale, Extended Stay said in a regulatory filing today. The largest owner-operator of company- branded hotels in North America had earlier had a placeholder amount of $100 million.
Extended Stay is valued at about $3 billion to $4 billion, excluding debt, a person with knowledge of the matter said in July. Extended Stay's owners, which hold equal parts in the company, are taking the chain public three years after buying it out of bankruptcy.
The lodging company owns and operates almost 700 hotels in the U.S. and Canada, with about 75,900 rooms. The company, led by former Starbucks Corp. Chief Executive Officer Jim Donald, had revenue of $1 billion last year and net income of $22.3 million, according to the filing.
Editors: Andrew Blackman and Jeffrey St.Onge.
To contact the reporter on this story: Neil Callanan in London at [email protected] To contact the editor responsible for this story: Andrew Blackman at [email protected]
Tags: blackstone, extended stay america, ipo
Essential industry news for hospitality and lodging executives in North America and Asia-Pacific.

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Russell Working, a winner in Narrative's 2017 Fall Story Contest, is the Pushcart Prize–winning author of two story collections: The Irish Martyr, which won the University of Notre Dame's Richard Sullivan Prize in Short Fiction, and Resurrectionists, winner of the Iowa Short Fiction Award. He holds an MFA in creative writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and as a former newspaper reporter, he has filed stories from throughout the former Soviet Union, Asia, the Middle East, and aboard the USS Theodore Roosevelt. He and his wife, a Russian journalist, have two sons.


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The Largest Bottles Of Champagne Are Called?
Melchizedeks
Rehoboams
Answer: Melchizedeks
If you live the same kind of low-glamour pedestrian life we lead, then we will absolutely forgive you for not knowing that champagne came in anything but "the bottle" size. There is, however, a long history of wineries bottling champagne in ever bigger and more dramatically sized bottles. These bottles have been, historically, named after Biblical kings and figures.
To start our journey into the land of fabulously sized and incredibly expensive bottles of champagne, we'll begin with the regular old bottle we're all familiar with as a frame of reference. The most common sized bottle of champagne is 750 ml (0.75 L) and is formally called a "Standard"—though outside of the industry, people simply call it a "bottle of champagne" as the size is so ubiquitous. Some restaurants carry "Magnum" size bottles, which are 1.5 L and equivalent to two standard bottles.
Beyond the Magnum bottle, we begin our adventure into the land of Biblical names. A Jeroboam is 3.0 L (4 bottles) and is named after the first king of the Northern Kingdom. A Methuselah is 6.0 L (8 bottles) and named after the oldest man in the Bible. A Balthazar is 12 L (16 bottles) and named after one of the three wise men who presented gifts at Jesus' nativity. The naming scheme continues all the way up to the largest bottle produced, the Melchizedek, King of Salem, whose name is attached to a 30 L bottle which contains the equivalent of a staggering 40 standard size bottles.
Now, if you're contemplating such volumes of champagne and asking yourself if it's worth getting your hands on such a monstrous bottle, we're here to tell you, definitively: no. Aside from the bragging rights purchasing such a bottle brings, the product itself tends to be noticeably inferior to a smaller bottle. The reason for this is that most wineries are not sufficiently outfitted to carry out secondary fermentation of the champagne in the larger bottles.
Once you get beyond the Magnum size, it becomes increasingly difficult and expensive to riddle the bottles. Riddling is a traditional process in which the bottles are stored neck down at a 45 degree angle and gently and routinely agitated, with the angle being gradually increased during the process. With that in mind, to fill the larger bottles, the wineries are forced to mix the contents of smaller bottles into a larger bottle, a process that exposes the champagne to open air (which can cause oxidation of the wine) and reduces the carbonation and pressure levels in the resulting mixture. Now that you know there are giant bottles of champagne out there that cost more than a small car, you also know that popping the cork on a regular old standard bottle is just as solid of an (albeit less dramatic) experience.
Back To The Future's Marty McFly Was Originally Played By?
Emilio Estevez Charlie Sheen
Eric Stoltz Anthony Michael Hall
The First Commercial Coin-Operated Video Game Was?
Computer Space Pong
Spacewar! Pac-Man
Scientists Can Reconstruct The Path Lewis and Clark Followed By Searching For?
Buried Pemmican Traces Of Mercury
Tree Notches Ration Cans
The Only Person To Be Interred On The Moon Is?
Neil Armstrong Eugene Shoemaker
Sally Ride Buzz Aldrin
Alcoholic Cocktails Were Popularized In The United States During?
The Prohibition World War II
The Civil War The Great Depression
Which Company Did Steve Jobs Ask To Build OSX-based Laptops?
IBM Dell
Sony Hewlett-Packard
The Color Changing Structures Found In Chameleons, Squids, And Other Creatures Are Called?
Spectracones Pigmentation Cysts
Chromatophores Melanocytes
The Belief Electric Fans Cause "Fan Death" Is A Persistent Urban Legend In?
Mongolia South Korea
Chile Senegal
The Japanese Word For Bad Is Incorporated Into Which Video Game Character's Name?
Wario Ganondorf
Zoroark Yoshice
Which Creature's Fingerprints Are Virtually Indistinguishable From A Human's?
Gorillas Koalas
Chimpanzees Lemurs
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package com.mindcandy.waterfall.actor

import java.util.UUID

import akka.actor.{ Actor, ActorLogging, ActorRef, Props }
import com.github.nscala_time.time.Imports._
import com.mindcandy.waterfall.WaterfallDropFactory
import com.mindcandy.waterfall.actor.JobDatabaseManager._
import com.mindcandy.waterfall.actor.Protocol.{ DropJob, JobID, RunUID }
import com.mindcandy.waterfall.actor.TimeFrame._
import org.joda.time.chrono.ISOChronology
import org.joda.time.format.PeriodFormat

import scala.language.postfixOps
import scala.util.{ Failure, Success, Try }

object DropSupervisor {
  case class StartJob(jobID: JobID, job: DropJob, runDate: Option[LocalDate] = None)
  case class JobResult(runUID: RunUID, runDate: LocalDate, result: Try[Unit])
  case class RunJobImmediately(jobID: JobID, runDate: Option[LocalDate], completionFunction: Option[DropJob] => Unit)

  def calculateDropDate(timeFrame: TimeFrame, runDate: LocalDate) = {
    (timeFrame match {
      case DAY_TODAY => runDate
      case DAY_YESTERDAY => runDate - 1.day
      case DAY_TWO_DAYS_AGO => runDate - 2.days
      case DAY_THREE_DAYS_AGO => runDate - 3.days
    }).toDateTimeAtStartOfDay
  }

  def props(jobDatabaseManager: ActorRef, dropFactory: WaterfallDropFactory, dropWorkerFactory: ActorFactory = DropWorker): Props =
    Props(new DropSupervisor(jobDatabaseManager, dropFactory, dropWorkerFactory))
}

class DropSupervisor(val jobDatabaseManager: ActorRef, val dropFactory: WaterfallDropFactory, dropWorkerFactory: ActorFactory) extends Actor with ActorLogging {
  import com.mindcandy.waterfall.actor.DropSupervisor._

  private[this] var runningJobs = Map[RunUID, (ActorRef, DateTime, JobID)]()

  def receive = {
    case StartJob(jobID, job, runDate) => runJob(jobID, job, runDate.getOrElse(LocalDate.now(ISOChronology.getInstanceUTC)))
    case JobResult(runUID, runDate, result) => processResult(runUID, runDate, result)
    case RunJobImmediately(jobID, runDate, completion) => {
      log.debug(s"Got Run job:$jobID immediately request")
      jobDatabaseManager ! GetJobForCompletion(
        jobID,
        startJob(runDate, completion)
      )
    }
  }

  def startJob(runDate: Option[LocalDate], completion: Option[DropJob] => Unit): Option[DropJob] => Unit = (maybeJob: Option[DropJob]) => {
    maybeJob.foreach { job =>
      self ! StartJob(job.jobID.getOrElse(-1), job, runDate)
    }
    completion(maybeJob)
  }

  def processResult(runUID: RunUID, runDate: LocalDate, result: Try[Unit]) = {
    val endTime = DateTime.now(ISOChronology.getInstanceUTC)
    runningJobs.get(runUID) match {
      case Some((worker, startTime, jobID)) => {
        val runtime = PeriodFormat.getDefault().print(new Period((startTime to endTime)))
        result match {
          case Success(_) => {
            log.info(s"success for run $runUID with job $jobID after $runtime")
            jobDatabaseManager ! FinishDropLog(runUID, endTime, None, None)
            runChildren(jobID, runDate)
          }
          case Failure(exception) => {
            log.error(s"failure for run $runUID with job $jobID after $runtime", exception)
            jobDatabaseManager ! FinishDropLog(runUID, endTime, None, Some(exception))
          }
        }
        runningJobs -= runUID
      }
      case None => {
        val error = s"job result from runUID $runUID but not present in running jobs list"
        log.error(error)
        jobDatabaseManager ! FinishDropLog(runUID, endTime, None, Some(new IllegalArgumentException(error)))
      }
    }
  }

  def runJob(jobID: JobID, job: DropJob, runDate: LocalDate) = {
    val runUID = UUID.randomUUID()
    val startTime = DateTime.now(ISOChronology.getInstanceUTC)
    (job.parallel, runningJobs.values.map(_._3).toSet.contains(jobID)) match {
      case (false, true) => {
        val error = s"job $jobID with drop uid ${job.dropUID} and name ${job.name} has already been running, run $runUID cancelled"
        log.error(error)
        jobDatabaseManager ! StartAndFinishDropLog(runUID, jobID, startTime, startTime, None, Some(new IllegalArgumentException(error)))
      }
      case (_, _) => {
        val dropDate = calculateDropDate(job.timeFrame, runDate)
        dropFactory.getDropByUID(job.dropUID, Some(dropDate), job.configuration) match {
          case Some(drop) => {
            val worker = dropWorkerFactory.createActor
            runningJobs += (runUID -> (worker, startTime, jobID))
            worker ! DropWorker.RunDrop(runUID, runDate, drop)
            jobDatabaseManager ! StartDropLog(runUID, jobID, startTime)
            log.info(s"starting run $runUID with job $jobID for dropUID ${job.dropUID} and name ${job.name}")
          }
          case None => {
            val error = s"factory has no drop for job $jobID with drop uid ${job.dropUID} and name ${job.name}"
            log.error(error)
            jobDatabaseManager ! StartAndFinishDropLog(runUID, jobID, startTime, startTime, None, Some(new IllegalArgumentException(error)))
          }
        }
      }
    }
  }

  def runChildren(jobID: JobID, runDate: LocalDate) = {
    jobDatabaseManager ! GetChildrenWithJobIDForCompletion(
      jobID,
      jobList => {
        jobList.jobs.map { job =>
          self ! StartJob(job.jobID.getOrElse(-1), job, Some(runDate))
        }
      }
    )
  }

  override def preStart() = {
    log.info(s"DropSupervisor starting with factory $dropFactory")
  }
}


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*We build STRENGTH using poles and bands and by holding poses in increasing intervals over time.
*We improve MOBILITY by integrating Flexaware (derived from Feldenkrais work) into our yoga. Flexaware helps free up the body to enhance breathing, coordination, and movement in daily activities, from walking to dancing to sports.
*BALANCE is an integral part of every class. As we build strength, mobility, and focus, balance improves over time.


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Emergency services called to remove man from boat
Greta Levy
An ambulance was called to the scene. Picture: Archant - Credit: Archant
Emergency services rushed to the scene to extract a man from a boat in Lowestoft on Tuesday morning, September 24.
Firefighters from Lowestoft South were called to School Road, in Lowestoft to reports a man was stuck in the boat following a medical emergency.
A spokesperson from the Suffolk Fire and Rescue Service said firefighters helped the man from the boat by using evacuation chairs.
They said: "We were called by the ambulance service at 9am, two appliances went along and we had a stop time of 10.50am."
A spokesperson for the East of England Ambulance Service, said: "We were called at 7.58am with reports of a medical incident in School Road, Lowestoft.
"We sent a rapid response vehicle, an ambulance and our hazardous area response team (HART) to assist on scene. One man was taken to James Paget Hospital for further treatment by ambulance," they said.


The earliest known and proven ancestor was Thomas Mason, born in Hanover County, Virginia in 1722. Family history says that somehow we are tied to George Mason I who emigrated through Norfolk, Virginia in 1652. He was the great grandfather of George Mason IV, a revolutionary period statesman whose home, Gunston Hall is a preserved museum south of Washington DC, on land known as Mason's Neck. Because of the Civil War destruction of the courthouse in Virginia, especially Stafford and Hanover Counties which saw some of the fiercest battles, very few documents remain. For this reason it is extremely difficult to research early ancestors from this period of colonial America.
According to The Georgians: Genealogies of Pioneer Settlers (Baltimore MD: Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc, 1986), Thomas Mason of Halifax Co NC was the progenitor of the many Mason families of Emanuel Co GA.
Thomas Mason was born 3/7/1722 in Hanover Co VA. Little is known on Thomas' early life in Virginia. The first record for Thomas is on 3/21/1742 where Thomas patented land in Edgecombe Co NC.
Thomas Mason was married in about 1750, probably in Edgecombe Co NC to Elizabeth Turner b. 1/10/1733 Bertie Co NC. Thomas and Elizabeth lived in the northern portion of Edgecombe County which was split off to form Halifax County in 1758.
Reportedly, Thomas died 1768 in Halifax Co NC.
Thomas Mason patented land from a Royal land grant of 400 acres of land [vic Roanoke Rapids] in Edgecombe (now Halifax) Co NC.
17 May 1749 Thomas Williams to Joel Jones, 35pds, 200a on s side Fishing Creek adj Thomas Pollock as by pat to Thomas Mason 21 Mar 1742. Wit: JAMES CANE, Charles Cavenah.
. . .this 29th Day of September Anno Dom 1764 The mark of D Thomas Davis Sealed published pronounced & Delivered in presence of Samuel Davis, Abraham Green, Jno Green, Thomas Mason.
George Turner left will naming wife Eleanor and sons James and Nelson and daughter Elizabeth Mason with her children Turner Mason, Thomas Mason, Susanne Lawrence , George Turner, son of Nathan, Lucy Turner, daughter in law. He gives looking glass to Lucy from her father's estate.
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The torch has passed: Obama takes over "War on Poverty" from LBJ
The anniversary could not have been more fitting: As the Obama administration is struggling to push an extension of unemployment benefits through a reluctant US Congress, the country commemorates the 50th anniversary of President Lyndon Johnson's "War on Poverty" speech on January 8, 1964.
Just two months after the bullet that killed John F. Kennedy had propelled the Texan into office, a deeply humbled and sad-looking Johnson addressed Congress for the first time as president. In an effort to stress political continuity, LBJ picked up issues most important to Kennedy's heart.
But Johnson aggressively – and surprisingly for many – went a step further: Singling out social issues as the most important domestic topics on his presidential agenda, Johnson declared an "unconditional War on Poverty" whose objective he summed up in two words: "total victory".
That "War" created a number of important federal and state initiatives that remain in place today – from Head Start to nutrition assistance to Medicare and Medicaid.
These initiatives, coupled with the civil rights advances of the era and the overall strong economy in the 1960s, led to a reduction in the number of people living in poverty from around 19 percent of the population to a historic low of 11.1 percent by the early 1970s. Until then, the poverty rate has ticked up again to around 15 percent, according to official data.
President Barack Obama on Wednesday praised Johnson's crusade as an "economic and moral mission" that helped "each and every American fulfill his or her basic hopes". Through jobs and education, new opportunities were created, and access to health care for seniors, the poor, and people with disabilities were expanded, Obama said in a written statement.
But today's Democrat in the White House also warned the nation that Johnson's "War on Poverty" was not something merely for history books. "As every American knows, our works is far from over", Obama said.
"In the richest nation on Earth, far too many children are still born into poverty, far too few have a fair shot to escape it, and Americans of all races and backgrounds experience wages and incomes that aren't rising, making it harder to share in the opportunities a growing economy provides", Obama said.
Instead, the President said, America must redouble the efforts to make sure the US economy works for every working citizen. "It means helping our businesses create new jobs with stronger wages and benefits, expanding access to education and health care, rebuilding those communities on the outskirts of hope, and constructing new ladders of opportunity for our people to climb."
Not an easy task. Obama's efforts to raise minimum wage, provide health care to all Americans and lobby for better public education are routinely torpedoed by Republicans. The latest battle in Obama's "War on Poverty" is fought over unemployment.
At the end of December, the emergency laws that extended jobless benefits beyond the traditional 26 weeks expired, forcing about 1.3 million people off the program. More unemployed Americans will lose their benefits as the year progresses and they surpass their states' normal timelines.
In a rare, if modest legislative victory for Obama, the Senate on Tuesday advanced a measure that would extend unemployment benefits. After intense lobbying by the White House, six Republican senators voted with the Democratic majority. This victory may be temporary, because the measure still faces big hurdles in the Senate and is expected to be dead on arrival in the Republican-controlled House of Representatives.
Nevertheless, poverty and economic opportunity seem to be emerging as key issues in the rapidly upcoming Congressional election campaigns. With unemployment rates higher than the national average of 7 percent in many conservative districts, Republicans members of Congress may want to think twice about their opposition to extended benefits. For many families, these benefits represent the only economic lifeline.
In an effort to take the debate from the politically dysfunctional capital to the real life – all politics is local! – Obama on Thursday designates troubled neighborhoods in five cities and areas as "Promise Zones", eligible for tax breaks and other forms of assistance designed to create jobs and improve education, housing and public safety.
These "Promise Zones" are located in San Antonio, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, Southeastern Kentucky, and in the territory of the native Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma.
In this election year, the "War on Poverty" has just begun.
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The Commons transport select committee has urged the government to revive three electrification projects which were scrapped last year.
The public scrutiny body is calling for the Midland Mainline, Great Western Mainline and Lakes Line electrification schemes, which were cancelled in July 2017, to be "recategorised as pending, and placed in the enhancements pipeline for further development and design work".
While it said it fully supported the development of emerging train traction technologies – such as new battery and hydrogen technology – the committee said that comparative cost/benefit analysis should be carried out first.
Campaign to Electrify Britain's Railway spokesperson Noel Dolphin said: ''We have campaigned against electrification cancellations by the government, as the worst type of short-termism.
The findings were published in its Rail Infrastructure Investment report which covers all aspects of rail funding including the earlier, scrapped, electrification schemes, new third-party funding initiatives and the prospective pipeline for enhancement projects.
A report published by the committee welcomes Network Rail's new Control Period 6 (CP6 2019 to 2024) funding strategy, saying the greater focus on maintenance and renewals is "necessary and welcome".
But, as a consequence of splitting out enhancement projects from the five year cycle, it calls on the government to mitigate the risk of a "severe slowdown in strategically necessary rail enhancements".
It warns that a lack of detail about projects available for investment and concerns in the sector about the process itself appear likely to dissuade third parties from submitting proposals.
"The Department is relying heavily on market-led proposals (MLPs) to deliver new enhancement projects," says the report. "It does not appear to have a 'plan B' should MLPs not materialise as hoped.
It says this would particularly disadvantage regions which had suffered from underinvestment and further damage confidence within the supply chain.
The committee said it wants to see full transparency of enhancement projects for each stage of the enhancement pipeline and it wants the government to publish its guidance on MLPs before the end of 2018.
The report also calls for the government to be more specific about how it intends to rebalance the disparity in spending across the regions.
It said regions such as the North East and South West had experienced relative underfunding and needed a "clear sense" of what the government is trying to achieve and ways it could judge its success.
How to save £10 billion and bring forward economic benefits by 10 years? Start Midland Mainline electrification from North to South with Leeds to Sheffield first. Halt HS2 at Sheffield and don't build HS2 leg to to Leeds, which does not meet economic business case.


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Suresh Raina, Guru Randhawa, 32 Others Booked in A Nightclub Raid; Badshah Allegedly Managed to Escape
In a raid conducted in Dragonfly club situated in Hotel JW Marriot in Andheri at around 2.30 am on Tuesday, Mumbai Police has booked 34 people under relevant sections of Indian Penal Code, Bombay Police Act, and Epidemic Disease Act for flouting Covid-19 guidelines.
Mumbai police booked 34 people which reportedly includes cricketer Suresh Raina, singer Guru Randhawa, Sussane Khan, and others under Section 188 (Disobedience to order duly promulgated by public servant), Section 269 (whoever unlawfully or negligently does any act which is, and which he knows or has reason to believe to be, likely to spread the infection of any disease dangerous to life), Section 34 (Acts done by several persons in furtherance of common intention) of Indian Penal Code and provisions of NMDA.
"An offence has been registered u/s 188, 269, 34 IPC and u/s 51 NDMA against 34 persons at Sahar police station after raid was conducted at 2.50 AM at Dragonfly pub, for keeping establishment open beyond permissible time limit, not following Covid norms such as social distancing, not wearing face mask," said an official statement from the Mumbai police.
It was also speculated that rapper Badshah was also there at the party but managed to escape from the backdoor of the nightclub. All of them have been released on bail on the notice of CrPC 41(a)(1).
Earlier on Monday, the Maharashtra government announced a night curfew between 11 pm and 6 am in the different municipal areas from December 22, 2020, to January 5, 2021, in order to curb the increasing cases of Covid-19.
"A curfew between 11 pm and 6 am will be enforced in the financial capital till January 5, Brihanmumbai Municipal Corporation (BMC) commissioner I S Chahal said at a press conference. Chahal said essential services like vegetable and milk supply will remain unaffected during the night curfew but more than five people can not assemble at a place during the seven- hour-long period," said a government directive.
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11/5/14: The One With the Pulp
Adam Brody, adult children, adult friendships, Alia Shawkat, Allison Janney, Catherine Keener, cinema, co-writers, dramas, dramedy, estranged family, film reviews, films, friends, Hugh Laurie, Ian Helfer, infidelity, Jay Reiss, Julian Farino, Leighton Meester, male friendships, middle age, midlife crisis, Movies, Oliver Platt, romance, Sam Rosen, set during the holidays, suburban homes, The Oranges, troubled marriages, voice-over narration
While the "May-October" relationship between twenty-something-year old Nina (Leighton Meester) and fifty-something-year old David (Hugh Laurie) may be at the center of director Julian Farino's The Oranges (2011), the "bromance" between David and next-door-neighbor/Nina's father, Terry (Oliver Platt) is really the heart of the film. David and Terry, along with their respective families, are the kinds of neighbors that only seem to exist in cinematic versions of the real worlds, life-long friends who are close as kin and connected at the hip. This sense of unity is shattered as David's family tries to come to terms with his infidelity and Nina's family tries to come to terms with the fact that their beloved, if wayward, daughter is romantically involved with their middle-aged best friend. Bonds will be tested, relationships will fray and lots of life lessons will be learned: welcome to the "dramedy" as filtered through an after-school special.
Named after West Orange, New Jersey, The Oranges is anchored by the nearly constant voice-over presence of Vanessa (Alia Shawkat), David and Paige's (Catherine Keener) daughter. Vanessa and Nina used to be as inseparable as their respective parents until Nina left Vanessa behind for the "cool kids" in high school, wedging a divide between the two that continues into the present. Vanessa is a rather aimless individual: she always wanted to be a designer but ends up working at Ikea, which is "close enough."
Vanessa and her family's lives are thrown into turmoil when Nina suddenly reappears after five years away from home. She's just walked in on her fiancée, Ethan (Sam Rosen), with his tongue down someone else's throat and has come back home to pull herself back together. Once home, Nina's pushy mother, Cathy (Allison Janney), "encourages" her to go out with David and Paige's son, Toby (Adam Brody), home for the holidays before heading to China for his job. When Toby has a little too much Christmas cheer, however, Nina ends up hanging out with David in his "man-cave" and watching TV. Turns out that David and Paige are kind of on the rocks right now: he's been sleeping on the couch and she's been throwing herself into her choir group with the kind of zeal normally reserved for hoarding animals. Before you can say, "Uh oh," David and Nina have shared an illicit kiss, which blossoms into a full-blown love affair.
Once the affair hits the bright light of public opinion, however, things start to go rapidly downhill: Terry takes a swing at David, Vanessa calls her former friend a "slut" and blames her for breaking up her parents and Cathy pointedly asks her daughter if she enjoys "sucking on David's old balls." David and Nina are determined to make their relationship work, however, regardless of how it affects those around them. Just when Terry seems to be thawing a little, however, Ethan shows up on their doorstep, bound and determined to win Nina back: looks like everybody, especially the "adults," are going to have a lot of growing up to do.
For the most part, The Oranges is a pretty by-the-book, formulaic "family in crisis" film, albeit one that hedges more on the side of the serious rather than the humorous: this is a "dramedy" where the comedy aspect is more ironic than anything else. With that being said, the film is blessed with a truly great cast doing great work: at times, this is enough to elevate the rather tired material, although there's always an unfortunate "been there, done that" feel to everything. Keener, as always, is a master of the slow burn and her eventual breakdown is a textbook example of how to lash out while still keeping the audience firmly on one's side. Shawkat, such a stand-out in Arrested Development, shows a serious side to her performance that's rather bracing: there's real pain and anger in her interactions with her father that are almost difficult to watch, at times. Janney gives another sturdy performance, with the highlight being the scene where she, literally, bumps into David and Nina at a no-tell motel. Meester, for her part, plays Nina as a flighty, impetuous and eminently selfish creature, so wrapped up in her own needs and wants that she doesn't take any time whatsoever to consider those around her. It's a rather unpleasant character, to be honest, and the filmmakers do nothing particular to sand off her rough edges: by the time Nina has completed her character arc, she's the furthest thing from a sympathetic character but she certainly feels like a real person.
Without a doubt, however, The Oranges belongs to Hugh Laurie and Oliver Platt: their relationship is the true center of the film and provides the movies with the majority of its big emotional beats. In fact, the scene where the former friends finally stop and say hi to each other, in passing, is so impossibly sad and lovely that it handily eclipses any of the similar scenes between Nina and David or Nina and Ethan: this is a romance, true, but it's not the one that folks might be expecting. There's a breezy quality to Laurie and Platt's interactions that feels 100% genuine, even in the more awkward, uncomfortable moments: this feels like how real people might handle this situation, warts and all.
Ultimately, The Oranges is a well-made, if exceedingly familiar, production: while the film breaks no new ground and feels remarkably free of real tension and conflict, the acting is superb and the movie is quick-paced and a pleasant-enough watch. More than anything, however, watching The Oranges brings up a very important question: why the hell hasn't Hugh Laurie done more work like this? He brings a real sense of nuance and subtlety to his performance that's light-years from anything he did on either Jeeves and Wooster or House. We need more Hugh Laurie, no two ways about it: The Oranges might not blow anyone away but it gives us that fix and that's going to have to be good enough for the time being.


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Motorists angry at state of roads
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Up to 90% of drivers are unhappy with the condition of roads in their area, and the effect it has on their car insurance premiums.
The RAC poll found only 5% think that motoring taxes are appropriately used, while 21% said road pricing was a good way of dealing with congestion.
Meanwhile 77% said jams would ease if public transport was improved, according to the survey of nearly 2,700 RAC members.
Only 2% believe that roads in their area were adequately maintained, while 89% said they were frustrated at the state of local roads.
In contrast, 65% of 18 to 35-year-olds said they were happy with the standard of motorways and dual carriageways.
However, satisfaction levels dropped to just 33% for those aged over 65.
Dr Tim Leunig, from the London School of Economics, said: "When motorists are paying more than £1,000 a year in specific motoring taxes, they have the right to expect roads to be properly maintained.
"RAC members are in line with expert opinion in preferring that motoring taxes are spent on small local schemes rather than grandiose visions that all too often fail to deliver the promised benefits."
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New motorcycle registrations are up for the seventh consecutive month this year, leading to a revised forecast for 2014.
14.5% more bikes were registered in July, compared to July 2013, which represents an overall increase of 11.4% (year to date).
Naked bikes were once again the style which saw the biggest increase. New registrations for these rose 37.7% year to date, up 38.2% when comparing July 2014 with July 2013.
You can read a more detailed breakdown of the latest statistics here.


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A Retired Army General Trashes His Portrait of Robert E. Lee
Here is Stanley A. McChrystal:
On a Sunday morning in 2017 I took down his picture, and by afternoon it was in the alley with other rubbish awaiting transport to the local landfill for final burial. Hardly a hero's end.
The painting had no monetary value; it was really just a print of an original overlaid with brushstrokes to appear authentic. But 40 years earlier it had been a gift from a young Army wife to her lieutenant husband when the $25 price (framed) required juggling other needs in our budget.
The dignified likeness of General Robert E. Lee in his Confederate Army uniform had been a prized possession of mine. I'd grown up not far from the Custis-Lee Mansion, and at West Point, Lee, the near-perfect cadet, Mexican War hero, academy superintendent, and, finally, the commander of the Confederacy's Army of Northern Virginia, cast a long, ever-present shadow. Later, in Army quarters from Fort Benning, Georgia, to Fort Lewis, Washington, the painting reflected my fascination with leadership, and it spoke of duty and selfless service.
Although it was a portrait of a man, to many it evoked wider ideas and emotions. For like an object bathed in the light of the setting sun, Robert E. Lee's shadow took on exaggerated size and grew steadily as America's Civil War retreated ever further into the softer glow of history.
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If right after WWII fascism and nationalism grew anew and to the point that government sanctioned statues of glorifying Hitler and his best generals were erected I think we would understand an outcry against them. And support efforts to tear them down. Tearing them down would not be hiding or changing history.
Now razing the remains of the camps that now serve as memorials to the victims, and denying the holocaust would be changing or erasing history.
We don't need statues glorifying people who fought, however bravely, to oppress a people and keep them in involuntary slavery.
The nazis committed mass murder over a relatively short period of time.
The institution of slavery held people in often terrible conditions for generation after generation after generation. Even in the case of a supposedly kind owner there was a psychological force to bear in looking at another man and knowing he owns you.
All these memorials belong to people. In some cases, as in this story, private citizens. Others belong to people by way of their community and government.
First, it's a matter of choice and conscience for any individual as to what they do with their own painting or statue.
Statues in parks or other public property also belong to people.
They always should have a say as a community because we have a government of, by, and for the people.
Statues in Baltimore City, (my closest city), were taken down last year or so. Those statues of Lee and Jackson were installed after WWII for the most part in reaction to African-Americans expecting more equally after doing their part in the war. They were a message to that part of the community that the Jim Crow era was alive and still in effect.
The area where the statues were located had become a predominantly African-American community and that community was rightfully insulted by the presence of memorials to men who fault to maintain an institution that was cruel to them as a people. They were justified to demand their removal.
Doing so did not erase or change history. What changed history for many Americans was the concerted effort that began practically immediately following the Civil War to rewrite the history regarding the purposes of the Confederate States in the rebellion, and turn those into something more honorable than they were.
Individuals can do what they want with their property with few exceptions.
Communities should have a say likewise, but with sensitivity to the fact that just as there is diversity in any community there is a diverse opinion to issues.
Communities alone or through their representative government can work it out and make their choices. Their choices may be informed by the makeup of the community, where a particular memorial is located, it's intended message and perhaps even it's perceived message.
Tony Lucido
A culture which increasingly demands that anything — statue, book, building, painting, Halloween costume, Heinous Appropriating Dessert Recipe, etc. — the existence of which displeases some group or person, must be abolished, is not only dangerously infantile but also opposed to genuine pluralism.
Can people do what they want with their own stuff? Sure. As a matter of state and local governance, can communities decide if certain public monuments should come down? Absolutely. If someone wants to smash their Winston Churchill bobble head because they've realized, after reading a think piece in Slate, that it reeks of white colonialism (has that poor astronaut stopped apologizing yet to the Twitter mob for daring to quote the imperfect man who did the most to defeat the Nazis?), have at it.
But this is not a positive trend.
History is complex. People are, too. A healthy civil society requires a level of mutual, historical tolerance. Look hard enough — actually, it usually only takes a passing glance — and one can and will find fault with any person. Yes, even Joan of Arc. And Martin Luther King, Jr. Why, even Gandhi. Every historical figure is controversial. We should be able to say, for example, that Robert E. Lee was a great general, and a courageous man, who was fighting for a wicked cause. Once we go down the road of scrubbing the public square of all people who were not saints, there is no stopping point. All. Must. Go. (Yes, even the comfy Che t-shirt. It makes me upset.)
I would argue that this instinct to shovel down the memory hole all which causes offense to some constituency is terribly misguided. Why, dare I say — un-American, even. Not in the HUAC sense, but because it is fundamentally incompatible with classical liberalism, tolerance, humility and all those bumper stickers which call for us to Coexist. I can think of many other places where the systematic eradication of the past, the making of unpersons, was mandated and pervasive. We don't want to emulate those places.
Jim Dick
You are conveniently ignoring the purpose of the statues in question. They were erected not to commemorate Lee so much as they were erected to celebrate the rule of White Supremacy. Why do so many monuments to traitors exist? Why do statues commemorating men who did their best to destroy the United States of America exist in the public eye? Where are the statues of Grant, Sherman, and the USCT in the same communities?
This is not the eradication of the past. This is about correcting the past. Lee was a traitor. The Civil War was caused by slavery. White Supremacy is evil. This is about getting rid of monuments that lie to us. If you want to keep them, then tell me what history they portray to the people who see them. If you want to say Lee was a great man, then explain why he stabbed his nation in the back when it needed him. Lee was a traitor. Those statues do not explain that or even mention it.
You have unwittingly made my point. It's easy to say: Nathan Bedford Forrest: bad and begone! But there are many people who despise Washington, Jefferson, pick-your-founding-slaver, as they would say. Others — as referenced above — loathe Churchill for a litany of perceived sins. Surely you've heard about the efforts to remove that evil Columbus fellow. The grievances against him are varied and sundry. And on and on it goes. Thus, the universe of "statues at issue" is not limited to icky Confederate generals, it is exponentially expanding.
And the vandals will say: who are you to define what is traitorous and what is not? Princeton students have demanded Woodrow Wilson's name be removed from academic buildings. (I'm no fan of Wilson, but that seems … absurd.) Stanford students and other agitators want Junipero Serra — a Franciscan priest who was apparently unkind to Native Americans — cast into outer darkness. Harvard's law school seal must be removed, because the endowing Royall family once owned slaves.
There is no end to this.
Jimmy Dick
Thank you for proving my point. You are perfectly willing and complicit in supporting a lie instead of factual history. You don't really care about history itself. What you do not want is change. You would rather see a traitor commemorated along with white supremacy supported than to see those Lee and lost cause statues removed.
Destroy all the Bad Things! Now, where's that Stonewall Jackson print in the study? Into the burn barrel. (We'll decide the fate of the Christopher Columbus coffee table book — maybe we can get away with ripping out select pages — after lunch.)
Removing statues of traitors that were erected by people who opposed freedom and equality is a good thing. Why should any community be forced to display a statue that does not reflect the values and beliefs they wish to project to the world? Retaining the statues has often reflected a desire by some to present a false history to the world. If anything, removing the statues and relocating them so they can be repurposed to explain actual history based upon facts, such as how those statues were used to perpetuate the lost cause myth/lies would be the right thing to do.


Barclays Bank has announced the creation of its new Board, in anticipation of new ring-fencing legislation.
The new legislation will see the Barclays UK business transfer from Barclays Bank PLC to a separate legal entity, Barclays Bank UK PLC.
The transfer is expected to take place in April 2018, subject to Court approval and after the split, the Board will take on responsibility for the Barclays UK business.
The search for Board members was led by Sir Ian Cheshire, Chairman of the Barclays Bank UK PLC Board and non-executive director of Barclays PLC.
The non-executive director appointments will take effect from 1 January 2018, subject to regulatory approval. In addition to Sir Ian, the Board will be made up of Ashok Vaswani as Chief Executive Officer and Anna Cross as Chief Financial Officer.
Independent non-executive directors of the board will be: Andrew Ratcliffe, Michael Jary, Avid Larizadeh Duggan, Kathryn Matthews and Sir John Timpson CBE. There two more appointments are planned for early next year.
Ratcliffe is a former President of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales (ICAEW) and was an audit partner with PwC for 29 years as well as serving as chairman of the PwC network's Global Board.
Jary is Chairman of Duchy Originals and senior partner and co-founder of OC&C Strategy Consultants. He previously served on the board of Nationwide Building Society, and is Chair of the Board of Trustees for Fairtrade Foundation and Chair of Itad, the leading advisory firm in international development.
Duggan is a venture capitalist and a general partner at GV, the venture arm of Alphabet. She has spent her career in technology and also serves on the Harvard Business School European Advisory Board as a Non-Executive Director on Wonderbly and is on the Board of Trustees for Founders4Schools, a foundation for promoting entrepreneurship in education.
Matthews spent her career in investment management, most recently as chief investment officer, Asia Pacific, for Fidelity International. She previously held senior appointments with William M Mercer, AXA Investment Managers, Santander Global Advisers and Baring Asset Management. She is on the boards of BT Investment Management PLC, APERAM, Rathbones and JP Morgan Chinese Investment Trust. She also sits on the board trustees for the Nuffield Trust and is a Council Member of the Duchy of Lancaster.
Sir Timpson is Chairman of the Timpson retail chain and pioneered a programme that successfully employs ex-offenders.
The Barclays UK business comprises retail banking (including Premier and Mortgages), business banking, Wealth and Investment Management UK and Barclaycard UK. Ring-fencing of day-to-day banking services is one of the reforms brought in by the government to strengthen the financial system, following the financial crisis.
Barclays has responded by setting up a new ring-fenced bank that will be separate from Barclays Bank PLC. The two entities will operate alongside, but independently from, one another as part of the Barclays Group under the listed entity, Barclays PLC. Barclays' ring-fenced bank and its subsidiaries will provide day-to-day products and services to individuals and businesses with a turnover less than £6.5 million in the UK.
Products and services designed for larger corporate, wholesale and investment banking clients will continue to be offered by Barclays Bank PLC and its subsidiaries.
Barclays is currently awaiting approval from the Prudential Regulation Authority and the High Court of England and Wales, to complete the restructure. If approved, the restructure is expected to take place in the first half of 2018.
Announcing the Board, Sir Ian Cheshire said:"Barclays UK has a financial relationship with 24 million customers and clients in every community in the UK. It is therefore crucial that we have a Board not only of the highest calibre, but of diverse perspectives and broad experience.
"This is a Board who will speak their minds as leaders from a range of different backgrounds. It brings together people with a strong entrepreneurial mindset, real knowledge of the impact of digital transformation in business, and a deep understanding of the needs of consumers and of consumer-centric businesses.


What a wonderful day of enthused study, conversation, brainstorming, and general loveliness. Bath is, as one might expect, beautiful, and the corsetry kept at the museum was gorgeously intricate, unusual and interesting, as all antique corsetry generally proves to be. Of course, we also studied the 1997 Mr Pearl, which was lovely.
I am completely exhausted now, of course, so I'll write more tomorrow or over the weekend. For now, I shall just say that it was lovely to see everyone and that I feel renewed in terms of ideas and possibilities. The wonderful thing about antique corsets is that they often achieve certain details that you *cannot* achieve well without breaking some of the typical "rules" of contemporary corsetry. I try to bend and break rules quite frequently anyway, so a couple of the pieces I saw today really inspired me to return to one of two ideas in particular and push that a bit further.
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