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Is there an easy way to delete masses of emails in Gmail?
Is there an easy way of doing mass deletes in Gmail? I've rather let the inbox grow, and I would like to trim it. Manual deletion would take forever. Yes, I know I should have archived important, useful emails. Slapped wrists! Alan
You may be surprised at how easy it is to delete thousands of Gmail messages with just a couple of clicks. The tricky bit is deleting the emails you don't want while keeping the ones you do. Computers are stupid and do what you tell them to do, which may not be what you intended. This is why you should take a backup before embarking on an email delete-fest, but I'll discuss that later.
Otherwise, you don't say why you want to trim your inbox. Do you want to declare "email bankruptcy" and clear out everything received after a certain date? If so, you could turn over a new leaf on New Year's Day.
Or have you, like me, run out of storage space? If so, you'll have to keep deleting emails in order to keep using Gmail.
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Merlin Mann popularised the idea of Inbox Zero in a Google TechTalk in July 2007. Mann was a fan of David Allen's Getting Things Done, and created the 43Folders system. Both work well for many people, but not for me. Instead, I recommend Oliver Burkeman's Guardian story, Why time management is ruining our lives. As Mann told Burkemann: "Eventually, I realised something. Email is not a technical problem. It's a people problem. And you can't fix people."
Either way, you can certainly improve your Gmail inbox management, and move the clutter out of the way.
Taming Gmail
Start by turning off Google's "inbox for dummies" feature. (You can always turn it on later.) To do that, go to Settings, click Inbox, and set "Inbox type" to default. Next, in the Categories section, untick all Google's categories: primary, social, promotions, updates, and forums. Now you can see your real email …
Look through your emails to find the large categories, which may well be social updates, forum comments, newsletters and so on. Go through each in turn and decide how you want to treat it.
First, do you really want it? If not, turn it off at the source. Unsubscribe. Second, do you want to look at these emails later, or do you want to keep them as searchable records? If so, go to the "filters and blocked addresses" tab in settings and create a filter that labels them (Facebook, Twitter, Quora, etc) and puts them straight into a "folder" without them ever appearing in your inbox (skip inbox). Once you've created a filter, you can get Gmail to process all your old emails in the same way. In other words, Archive them so they disappear from your inbox.
Be particularly careful with things you really want to keep, such as records of orders, invoices, payment confirmations, and so on.
When you search for emails, you should use the "from:" command as well as the email address. For example, search for from:invoices@megacorp.com because otherwise you may get false positives where Megacorp's email address is mentioned in the text.
Finally, create a new label called Oldmail, or something similar, and move all the remaining mail from Inbox to Oldmail.
New year, new you? Tidying up your inbox can feel like a laborious task, but with the right commands it need not be. Photograph: PR
To do this, click the down arrow in the upper left, above your list of emails, and select All. (The other options include read, unread and starred.) You will then be offered the option to "Select all 105,392 conversations in Inbox" or whatever. Select them all, then go to "Move to" and select your label/folder name (Oldmail).
You have now achieved "fake inbox zero" and you can clear out any incoming emails, preferably at a set time every day.
Alternatively, you could keep all of this week's emails in your inbox, or this month's, or this year's, or whatever you like. To do this, use the search term before: with your chosen date, eg before:2017/12/01.
Other search commands include after:, older:, and newer:. You could find last year's emails using "after:2015/12/31 before:2017/01/01".
Saving space
After a couple of hours searching and filtering, you will probably have deleted thousands of emails, but you may still be short of storage space. Most text emails are small. If you want to have a real impact, delete the emails that have attachments. For example, I used to have more than 50 emails with 10MB or larger attachments. I still have 58 emails larger than 5MB, and 496 larger than 3MB. Deleting those would save me at least 2GB.
To find these large emails, use the size: command, and work your way down. Search for size:10m then try size:5m and size:2m depending on the sort of stuff you have stored in Gmail. (Google's version, via the down-arrow in the Search box, offers "has:attachment larger:3M".)
You can also target older attachments by using a search command such as "size:7m before:2012/01/01" or "size:10m older_than:1y" etc. Delete the emails you don't need.
Unfortunately, Gmail does not allow you to delete an attachment while keeping the email. You can forward it and keep the text, but then you lose the date and any threading, if the email was part of a conversation. Dittach, which offers a Gmail tool, tells me it's working on the problem.
Also note that you may not save any space if you save an attachment to Google Drive. Google has been subtracting your Google Drive and Google+ Photos from your email storage space since it last increased the allowance in 2013.
Google can lock you out of your email or delete your account at any time for any reason, and you can never be certain of getting it back. Worse, your Gmail account could be hacked. It's important to have one or more backups.
My first line of defence is a backup account at Microsoft's Outlook.com. When you have set one up, go to Gmail's Settings and click on "Forwarding and POP/IMAP". Set it to "Forward a copy of incoming mail to" your new account, and "keep Gmail's copy in the Inbox". Also, tell Outlook.com to fetch all your email from your Gmail account. (This can take some time.)
If I can't access Gmail, I can switch to Outlook.com, though I assume Gmail will start bouncing my emails once my inbox is full.
You can also keep copies of all your Gmails on your PC hard drive, using an email program such as Microsoft Outlook (the Office program) or Thunderbird. Select IMAP to download copies of your emails while leaving the originals on the Gmail server.
You can also use Google Takeout to download your Gmail in Mbox format, though it's not too much use outside of Thunderbird. However, you can use Mbox Viewerto view it.
There are lots of alternatives including Upsafe and MailStore Home 10, both of which are Windows only. You can also set up an automatic sync in open source Gmvault, which is available for Windows, MacOS and Linux. However, it's a command line program, which won't suit everyone.
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Few performances in history are as legendary or as controversial as Bob Dylan s 1965 appearance at the Newport Folk Festival. In a single, galvanizing instant, Dylan plugged an entire generation in, forever changing not only the way the music was made, but the way it was heard. By putting you in…
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I never saw or heard Bob Dylan before this documentary. What was I doing in the sixties when this film was made and Dylan was becoming a star: I was busy working to earn a living. Do/did I understand what this audience was feeling about themselves and the world: No, I was years over thirty and had already performed my military service in an earlier war than that which the young men in these audiences were so terrified over the possibility of being drafted to serve in. Does that mean I did not enjoy this documentary: not at all; while the sentiments expressed by Dylan and the folk singing tradition were both quite familiar to one who was a child in the thirties and a college student in the forties, Lerner, who is of the same vintage as I, was able to surmount time and place, by an admirable job of filming and editing, letting the performances speak for themselves.dI would certainly recommend the film for those too young or too old to have shared the experience, as well as those who can relive a part of their youth here.
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I've had an audio bootleg of the 1965 set for years but to see Bob Dylan with Mike Bloomfield from The Butterfield Blues Band at his early peak, the rhythm section from Howlin' Wolf's band, bassist Jerome Arnold (Billy Boy Arnold's brother) and the amazing Sam Lay (ever hear his double shuffle? the drums he played are at the Experience Music Project archives in Seattle WA — I saw them) and organists Barry Goldberg and Al Kooper is amazing. Only The Band could meet that high standard later that year when they joined Dylan at the Hollywood Bowl. Who ever thought that this footage existed? The hint was when some of it showed up when Festival and No Direction Home was released this past year. That still begs the question of the film of the English tour that next Fall which showed up only in clips in No Direction Home. The two World Tour releases are not the official films; Murray Lerner must have those. Apparently he shot the Fall 1965 electic/acoustic tour while D. A. Pennebaker shot the Don't Look Back Spring 1965 tour if I am right. The logical thing, now, is to release that footage with The Band minus Levon Helm plus Micky Waller on drums. Did someone film the Carnegie Hall Concert? Anyway, it's classic music that changed the world.
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New survey marks kickoff of 'North Portland In Motion' plan
Posted by Jonathan Maus (Publisher/Editor) on June 24th, 2021 at 11:25 am
Two-way bike lanes on North Lombard.
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A new survey and call for applications to an advisory committee mark the official launch of the North Portland in Motion planning process.
Similar to other "In Motion" plans that have been conducted in other parts of the city, the two-year effort will identify needs and priorities of people who bike, walk and take transit in an area that includes seven neighborhoods and is bound by I-5 to the east, the Overlook Neighborhood to the south, and the St. Johns peninsula and Columbia Blvd to the north (see map below).
PBOT's new survey asks people to share their top issues and barriers faced in the study area. Other input sought includes ideas on how PBOT could break down those barriers, where popular riding destinations are, and more. The survey will be open through the end of July.
PBOT also seeks 20 members of the public to serve on the NPIM Advisory Group that will guide the process and offer key input as it goes along. If you have a strong connection to the study area, please consider signing up via the online application.
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Well, PBOT found a new way to make a survey terrible. Individual responses/ideas have to be 100 characters max, with no additional spaces for general comments. I'm sympathetic to staffers having to read through long submissions (really!), but 100 characters is barely a sentence.
Does PBOT want our ideas or not? This is supposed to be an early, exploratory, neighborhood-listen-y phase but I can't even express a complete thought.
Imagine if public comments at city hearings were capped at 100 characters!
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Zef Wagner
Hi Ivan, we hear your concerns and take them to heart. We've increased the character limit to 300 characters, which should allow for a fuller response.
Mike Owens
Zef, like all the In Motion plans, the lack of protected bike paths render them too little, too late. I get that the expense appears to be an issue, at $250-500k/mile. But Portland is in the top 10-20 richest cities per capita in the WORLD. This isn't a funding issue, it's a priority issue. And alternative/cheaper and much faster option exist. The trade-offs such entail need to be weighed against the costs of ineffective and delayed ones. This matters because we do not have the time these plans will take to build. Why? First principles: the reasons we must have this infrastructure is to improve the health of those being harmed by emissions from vehicles and tires. If the cities choices for transportation cause this harm, there is a responsibility here. One that is BEYOND the opinions of fiefdoms and villages too. And in an era of rapidly destabilizing climate, where we know we must decarbonize as fast as possible, any plans that do not move us quickly towards reductions of emissions >50% by 2030 should be scrapped. I know this comes after decades of work by advocates and the city, and may sound unfair. But it is a reality we are all facing. Consider your role here, sit down with the Commissioners and think about how all this time/money/effort fails the first principle. We can do much, much better and have the data to show what would work. It's time to stop combing for opinions about options from an artificially limited budget.
That's a lot to expect from the bureau that thinks its bike plan isn't even worth mentioning to its leadership. I know there are plenty of committed and good people in PBOT, but as an agency, it is falling far far short of the mark.
Thanks Zef — I appreciate you listening!
Thanks for being responsive.
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This is all performative. Do the folks really not know that people want sidewalks, crosswalks, and protected bike lanes?
"How do we reduce barriers to walking, cycling, and transit use"
Uh gee, I don't know. Build better infrastructure for walking, cycling, and public transit? I just saved the city a couple million.
Mark in NoPo
If you live in North Portland, please overcome your cynicism and complete the survey—many in the cars-only crowd will surely do so.
The survey results give PBOT evidence that what they're doing is wanted. So when people question or criticize PBOT for going forward with sidewalks, crosswalks and protected bike lanes, PBOT can respond (assuming those things are popular with survey takers) that those are what the majority of people in the area want PBOT to build.
Right, so its performative. Portlands weird "community engagement" model of government is so broken. We pay planners and engineers to know what makes neighborhoods walkable and bikeable. They have the resources to study traffic and understand flow. What could they possibly gain from this? They know it. There is a reason the 100 character limit was only raised to 300. They aren't looking for any information (and what could they possibly get?).
PBOT frequently uses planning and engagement to give the illusion that they are working to make our streets safe and navigable, when their actual focus is on making them fast for private vehicles. Just take a look at the 2030 bike plan, so full of great ideas, the large majority will never be built. But wasn't it funny making the plan!? This is just more of the same. PBOT uses NIMBY feedback to make infrastructure less safe far more often than they use it to justify making a project safer.
I'm sure that the end result of this will be that the affluent gentrified neighborhoods will get some decent infrastructure, St. Johns will get some unprotected gutter lanes, and Portsmouth will get nothing.
Yes, engineers and planners do know GENERALLY what makes neighborhoods walkable and bikeable. But being one doesn't make them experts at the neighborhood level. They can't possibly know everything people who live and work there know, and ones who think they can are poor ones. When they don't communicate with people, projects don't turn out well. There are all kinds of examples of projects that have changed substantially due to public input. I agree it can be harder for poorer neighborhoods to do that, but it does happen regularly.
If you can't write your opinion in 300 words, write an email or call. Sometimes that doesn't work, sometimes it works very well.
They can't possibly know everything people who live and work there know, and ones who think they can are poor ones.
I'm curious what kind of of knowledge you are talking about here. The things that make it hard to get around Portsmouth and St. Johns are the same exact problems that exist in east Portland, Aloha, Boston, and Frankfurt. What "unique" problems could we possibly have that couldn't be solved by basic principles of traffic calming, improved pedestrian infrastructure, and improved better cycling infrastructure.
. There are all kinds of examples of projects that have changed substantially due to public input. I agree it can be harder for poorer neighborhoods to do that, but it does happen regularly.
Can you give some examples? The only ones I can think of that changed for the better are situations like the gutter lanes on Rosa Parks that were turned into semi-protected bike lanes. After the disaster rollout PBOT got enough complaints that they had to improve it. But that's just a case of the city cheaping out and building sub-standard infrastructure and then improving it when they got too many complaints. That's not an example of them actually learning something through community engagement. They know the gutter lanes are less preferable than the semi-protected lanes.
Do you have examples of PBOT learning something of actual substance rather than "learning" the community doesn't want sub-standard infrastructure?
I don't have nearly enough cash or home value for the city to care about an email or return a call.
"What kind of knowledge?"
Some examples, all real ones based on direct personal experience: Which streets or crossings are priorities for making improvements, unusual types of traffic (lots of skateboards, trucks where you wouldn't expect, etc.), streets that are used for cut-through traffic, crossings that have bad visibility at night, places where people park in dangerous locations, routes that don't work in snow or heavy rain, new buildings not yet built that will change traffic conditions, accessibility issues…anything that isn't evident to someone who isn't using the area's streets or sidewalks regularly.
Also, my experience is that the public often has technical knowledge and even credentials that outmatch project staff's. I've seen several times where projects that didn't listen when the public told them they were using the wrong codes, calculating turning radii wrong, etc. ended up tearing out hundreds of thousands of dollars of work they'd just built. On projects where the staff DOES listen, that's avoided.
They should be learning about this through traffic monitoring, not anecdotal stories. We literally pay experts to anticipate these things. I don't actually believe its happening as you say, but if it is, that's just examples of PBOTs total lack of understanding of of how people get around.
If a PBOT employee can't tell an intersection has bad visibility at night, they need to get a new profession.
Folks correcting PBOT on codes isn't a a good thing, it's a bad thing that shows how weak and incompetent the agency is.
For you other posts, you are just giving examples of public input stopping PBOT from doing something they knew was wrong, not them learning something that changed their mind.
Traffic monitoring only gives designers information about a small range of the issues they need to understand. Asking for public input is a much more efficient way of getting information than trying to do it all with monitoring or other types of studies.
I agree that PBOT staff and their consultants shouldn't be making mistakes on technical issues, but since they sometimes do, it's better that the public has a chance to catch them before they're built.
My comment after this gives several specific cases of PBOT learning something from public involvement that changed their minds.
I appreciate PBOT's asking for public input, and have had lots of good experiences with staff listening.
"Can you give some examples (of projects that have changed substantially due to public input)?
Just four I've been involved in personally, recently:
1. PBOT dropped a "done deal" plan to add 200 cars/day on my neighbors' dead end by connecting it to another street.
2. PBOT dropped a "done deal" plan to add sidewalks to my neighborhood when my neighbors and bike/walking advocates opposed it
3. PBOT and Parks dropped a plan to move the Willamette Greenway Trail away from the river
3. PBOT dropped a "done deal" plan to remove business parking on another street in my neighborhood
4. ODOT and PBOT dropped a plan to close highway driveways and reroute the traffic onto a PBOT street in my neighborhood
Why does this plan exclude Swan Island, the northern most sections of North Portland including Kelly Point, St Johns Prairie, Smith and Bybee Lakes, Rivergate industrial area, plus all of Hayden Island? The recreational and industrial uses are fundamental to a lot of North Portland traffic issues!
If everything is a priority, nothing is. "The basic idea [for the In Motion plans] is to take a deep dive into one section of the city," Jonathan recently wrote.
North Portland has been waiting in line for a decade. For the good of our current and future residents, we should stay focused.
If we aren't including Swan Island and Rivergate, then we are ignoring the impacts of Freight on our transportation network. If we exclude Swan Island, St Johns Prairie, Willamette Cove, and Kelly Point we exclude the biggest recreation trail opportunity in North Portland. Riverfront access should be a city-wide priority- it is an incredible missed opportunity. If we leave these things out of a conversation about how transportation in North Portland works, I fear that conversation is nearly meaningless. This is the time to some some holistic planning for North Portland, if we don't discuss these areas and get them into a plan, they will never be discussed or planned and will never get built. We need to prioritize important things like a better integration of freight and access to the river.
Biggest bang for the buck projects:
Bike lanes on the entire length of Lombard.
Bring back the bike lanes on Greeley and do away with whatever the freight lobby and Adidas did there.
Put bike lanes on the St Johns bridge.
Clear camps from the Peninsula Crossing Trail and make that area usable again.
why do away with what's been done on Greeley? Safe and useable, IMO (less so by the encampment down by the intersection with Interstate and current construction at Going not withstanding). FWIW, I'd like better connections over I-5, but I'm concerned that since thats the Eastern boundary it won't be considered.
The switch from one side of the road to the other adds an extra phase to the traffic light at the intersection of Greeley and going, causing delays for all where there were already huge backups during evening rush hour.
The camp is the other issue. How many vehicles are being driven on the path and parked in the area near the camp now? A dozen?
Before that facility was converted into its current alignment, I used Greeley when traveling southbound from North Portland, but I used interstate or another parallel route when going northbound. Now I wouldn't even consider using Greeley.
I just don't understand some folks who always make this sound much worse than it is. I ride here every now and again and, yes there are sometimes a car or two parked next to the Hazelwood Grove tiny home village, but I've never felt it was that big of a deal. I've even had people pull across the path to load something up… but big deal! They live there. I just slow down a bit and smile and then get on with my day. It's not dangerous in my experience and the people have always been accommodating and cool. This is just my experience. YMMV of course.
I have very different experiences: pickup trucks heading toward interstate while I head toward Greeley- with the fence on onside and cars parked o the other, there is nowhere to go. Plus, on a dark, rainy evening, you cannot see much with headlights in your face. It is scary and there is no good option except backtracking. This has happened twice in the 10 or so times I have tried to use Greeley heading north. I have also had people accessing the camps on Going trail me in their car ON THE MUP and verbally threaten me. I will no longer use those paths and I would not recommend them to anyone. Protected bike lanes are only useful if they are protected. Since the City allows them to be de facto driveways, they are traps and far more dangerous than bike lanes which are at least easier to leave if you need to avoid a threat.
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Not my experience there. Cars need to be kept OFF bike paths. Simple as that.
My expectation for a car exclusionary multi-use path is zero cars. I'm not blaming the folks at HG, but it's pretty absurd to expect people to not feel annoyed/endangered by a car driving towards them down the MUP. I experienced this just last week. This is just another example of the city have years to find a good solution and failing to do so at the expense of everyone who lives in the city.
Bike Grrrl
I do blame the car owners at HG. They are the ones after all who are driving on a bike path. Why do they get a pass on breaking the law? I can't ride my bike on I-5 right?
I consider it a "crime of survival" and I'm not someone who considers everything a crime of survival. Those cars are probably lifelines for some of those folks and the only way for them to get to work. At the end of the day, homelessness is a failure of city, county, and state. When I was riding down the MUP and had a car coming toward me, my anger was at Multnomah County and the CoP for it's complete failure to handle the increasing homelessness and squandering the hundreds of millions we've given them to work on the problem.
I take the same view of the cut in St. Johns. I'm disgusted by the trash, environmental degradation, and open hard drug use and would love if they could live in a manner that caused less problems for their neighbors, but at the end of the day they are living on the cut because Multnomah County decided that was better than re-purposing the Wapato facility.This is really the result of our tendency to vote in incompetent leadership that says nice things over competent leaders who are less good at being politicians.
The Wapato facility has been repurposed: https://www.bybeelakeshopecenter.com/
Yes, thankfully someone who far more sight than Deb Kafoury took a chance on it. Still wasted our money and isn't operating at the capacity it could have.
Speaking of "crimes of survival," I often wonder how many people experiencing homelessness choose to keep their vehicle insured. I'm guessing (pure speculation) that the number is zero, or very close. It's not legal to drive without insurance because of the economic hardship it imposes on anyone, regardless of their living situation, who is unfortunate enough to be involved in a crash with an uninsured driver.
Alain L.
While I agree JM wholeheartedly with your sentiment (or at least how I am reading your comments), the situation on Going is not good for everyone involved. I too have encountered cars driving on the path, and feel they should never be there. Our car was stolen last month. A very old Subaru that likely could have lasted another five years, were it not for the thieves who trashed it. We found the vehicle at the Hydro Park at Going and Concord. Talking to neighbors there, the park is a dumping ground for stolen vehicles, those doing the stealing are staying in the camps on Going, and many are mentally unstable, making loud noises sometimes late into night, and in one case I heard entering someone's house uninvited. While I do not support brute force policing, its a little too easy to suggest the neighborhood response is simple NIMBY-ism. There is certainly a lot of mutual aid occurring in these encampments. However, there is also a fair amount of appropriation going on.
Clem Fandango
Great idea! Get rid of the jersey barriers. If you can't do it with paint its not worth doing! Crossing the on ramp while triple trailers barrel at you at freeway speeds was much safer than passing close to homeless people!
What if they spent the money they had for signal and put a signal at the intersection of the ramp and Greeley. An instead of this being a slip lane, it could be a right turn. And the ramp from Going to Greeley south could have a stop sign for people driving. And the speed limit could be 30 mph.Now Greeley is functioning like a street and it is not so hard to imagine bikes sharing that space.
damiene
I share some of the frustration expressed here, particularly the sentiment that we have traffic engineers for their expertise – they know what needs to be done to achieve X, so once X has been defined (e.g., "update traffic infrastructure to cater to higher density transportation to accommodate urban growth and mitigate pollution and emissions"), they should just do it.
Keep in mind though that it'll take fighting even for paltry improvements – and I don't mean fighting PBOT, I mean fighting your own neighbors. My NA is so adamantly against some diverters in our "in Motion" plan they pretty much broke the NA over it. Long live automobile convenience.
Psmith
Everyone is in favor of "forget all this public process, just let the experts do what they know is right" when they agree with what the experts think is right. But of course the entire transportation system we have today was built by experts who actively ignored the impacts to the public. And everyone seems to suddenly be in favor of more public process when they don't agree with what the experts say. So maybe some amount of deliberation and public process is a good thing.
Uh, our current transportation system is the result of listening to the public too much. The "public" generally wants wider and faster roads and couldn't care less about pedestrians, transit, and cyclist.
This isn't an accurate representation of my point.
Public process and deliberation absolutely should be involved – in defining X, the goal. Once that's defined, let the engineers engineer (I'd argue this in any engineering domain – software, electrical, mechanical, etc).
Of course, I say this knowing full well the X your average public is going want isn't geometrically possible beyond a certain urban density: "I want to drive my personal automobile everywhere all the time with 1.8x average occupancy with little impediments or congestion". Or as I like to say, ponies and helicopter rides everywhere. People also generally want safer and more livable streets – from my own experience, a lot of people don't see the inherent contradiction in those two goals.
David Hampsten
"update traffic infrastructure to cater to higher density transportation to accommodate urban growth and mitigate pollution and emissions" = more freeways here in North Carolina and much of the rest of the country. When I was involved with EPIM in 2010-12, we had a lot of East Portland residents asking for more on-street parking and more freeways and expressways, I kid you not. Many folks are still convinced that an idling car causes more pollution than a moving car.
Of course idling vehicles emit more than moving ones; it takes an unmoving car an infinite amount of time to travel just one mile, and it can pollute quite a bit in that time.
This is a problem of definition: is the idling car polluting more particles-per-mile or particles-per-minute? To me, the particles-per-minute is pretty meaningless, because the point of a car is to move from A to B, and if it's not moving, the energy, carbon, and other pollution is just a complete waste. If the car is moving, at least there's some benefit to the cost!
King Cully
I wonder what's going to slow down progress, PBOT & its routinely bureaucratic processes or the NIMBYs that'll use that process to their advantage.
Joe Adamski
Not mentioned is the North Portland Willamette Greenway, aka NP Greenway. Connecting the Esplanade/Rose Quarter to the jobs at Swan Island, along the river to Cathedral Park and the adjoining neighborhoods, again to the jobs and recreational near Kelley Point park. When the Bike Master Plan for 2040 was adopted, it called for one signature trail, and npGreenway was the furthest along and the defacto choice. There have been some success, connecting Pier and Chimney Parks with a bridge,and a bridge over Columbia Blvd freight route linking the SJ Prairie ( the former landfill) to Pier Park.Incrementally pieces are falling into place, but at a very slow pace. Investment in vision would benefit the entire city, providing safe access off street for much of the alignment.
Joe, I agree 100% that NP Greenway should be one of the top priorities for the North Portland in Motion Plan, but if you look at the map of the area that is being reviewed, they greyed-out/excluded the entire route of the NP Greenway!
Isn't most of the remaining Greenway alignment on railroad right of way?
Until the railroad wants the trail to happen, it's not going to happen. And they don't seem interested. The sections both west and east of Swan Island are in railroad right-of-way. So what you're talking about is long-term at best, and may not happen in our lifetimes.
alternate alignment for Willamette Bluffs would be to put the trail on the side of the bluff connecting to Waud Bluff. Cement Road might be more frictious.
Lenny Anderson
Actually, there is a lot of progress on the N. Portland Willamette Greenway Trail.
On Swan Island, npGreenway and PBOT's Zef Wagner are working on a concept for a 12-14′ foot wide cycle track along N. Basin Avenue from the head of the Lagoon to the Waud Bluff Trail.
We are seeking buy in from important SI businesses such as adidas, Daimler and UPS.
University of Portland will construct a section of the Trail on their new River Campus with public access to the River via N. Van Houten, once Covid delays are overcome.
The Portland Harbor Community Coalition, a broad community based group that includes npGreenway, has successfully pressured Metro to accelerate a thorough clean up of Willamette Cove and construct of first class park, including the Trail.
Friends of Baltimore Woods and the 40 Mile Loop are working with npGreenway to get PBOT and Portland Parks to pursue Metro funding for the Trail segment between Cathedral Park and Pier Park. Baltimore Woods is an unknown treasure of old grow, mixed forest overlooking the River. Check it out via N. Decatur at Baltimore.
Last, Metro and Portland Parks are at 30% design for a key Trail bridge over N. Columbia Blvd to connect Chimney Park (already linked to Pier Park by the bridge that Joe Adamski noted) with the St Johns Prairie (former landfill). More funds are needed, so public advocacy for this segment is still critical, but the project is moving forward.
Still lots to do…the Ash Grove Cement Road is there for those willing to brave the occasional UPRR cop as it remains closed to public use, except during extreme weather events. Getting around Wauld Bluff will take a combined effort of the City, U of P, the UPRR, and that is probably off in the future somewhere as the "last link" in a continuous bike/ped multiuse Trail from the Esplanade to the Confluence at Kelley Point.
Lenny Anderson, npGreenway board
Is Zef and NP Greenway looking into retrofitting the stairs into a ramp on the Waud Bluff Bridge? Those stairs are an unfortunate and unnecessary barrier
Note that the all important, but unfunded segment of the Willamette Greenway Trail between Cathedral Park and Pier Park via the Baltimore Woods IS included in the project area. A chance for N. Portlanders to line up in favor of this key link between the two Rivers!
By the time the Waud Bluff Trail was constructed, its cost was about 10 times the original estimate, largely due to the fact that its not just a steep paved path down an old service road, but a complex, steel reinforced structure from top to bottom on an active piece of geology, designed to be there for a long time. Add to that the fact that between the US Coast Guard base (Homeland Security) and the Union Pacific Railroad, there was not physical space for ramps instead of stairs. Note that the WBT is not ADA compatible due to the old road grade; so it was acceptable to have stairs instead of a ramp.
That said, if the Greenway Trail around the Bluff is sited above the UPRR ROW on U of P owned slope…as suggested by a U of P engineering class a few years ago, then a ramp would be required up to the bridge and a way to build it would be found. Get involved!
Lenny, I realize it is expensive, but it is "acceptable" to have stairs instead of a ramp. The design team found a loophole that allowed them to build a path that excludes people who use mobility devices. The majority of mobility device users use motorized trails and the grades would not exclude them. The stairs do exclude them, as well as people pushing strollers, riding e-bikes, tandems, pulling trailers, etc, etc. Also, from the base of the bridge to the end of the road, there is a path that is approximately 590 feet long. That is plenty of length for a ramp and landings that is less than 5%. I am sure cost was an issue, this could have been a universally accessible path if access was prioritized.
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Balfour Beatty Secures £36 Million Contract Extension To Operate And Maintain The M1-A1 Link Road
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Balfour Beatty, the international infrastructure group, has been awarded a £36 million contract extension to its existing Managing Agent Contract (MAC) for the M1-A1 Link Road (Lofthouse to Bramham) on behalf of Connect Roads, for ultimate customer Highways England.
The extension sees Balfour Beatty continue its operations and maintenance services through to March 2026 on this 18-mile long strategic motorway between the M1 and M62 south and east of Leeds, and the A1 (M) south of Wetherby.
Highways England awarded the Design, Build, Finance and Operate (DBFO) contract to Connect Roads in 1996, alongside the operations of the A30/A35 and A50 DBFO contracts. Balfour Beatty acts as Connect Roads operator on each of these three DBFO concessions.
Works undertaken by Balfour Beatty include network management, technical inspections, routine and cyclical maintenance, asset management and lifecycle maintenance, including pavement, structures, geotechnical, highway lighting and signs, vehicle restraint and road markings.
Phil Clifton, Balfour Beatty's Highways Director, Major Projects said: 'I'm delighted that we have been chosen to continue to maintain this vital route on behalf of Connect Roads; it is testament to our dedication to providing and maintaining a safe road network across Britain for road users, on behalf of Highways England. This contract extension is another clear indication of the strength of Balfour Beatty's proven highways asset management capabilities.'
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Our main geographies are the UK, US and Far East. Over the last 100 years we have created iconic buildings and infrastructure all over the world including the London Olympics' Aquatic Centre, Hong Kong's first Zero Carbon building, the world's biggest shopping mall in Dubai, the National Museum of the Marine Corps in the US and the Channel Tunnel Rail Link.
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Established in 1996, Connect Roads is one of the largest private sector road operators in the UK, responsible for the operation and maintenance of over 380km of motorways, major trunk and principal roads. Its services include finance, design, construction, management, operations, maintenance and life-cycle planning.
The Connect Roads portfolio includes the M1-A1 Link Road, (a strategic motorway link between the M1 and M62 motorways), the A30/A35, (an important south coast route through Dorset and East Devon), the A50 (a strategic east to west connection between the M6 and M1), the Carlisle Northern Development Route (CNDR), (a network providing improved transport links between West Cumbria, Scotland and the North East of England), and the M77/Glasgow Southern Orbital. The Company also has a Design, Build, Finance and Operate contract for the Aberdeen Western Peripheral Route / Balmedie to Tipperty project, a major transport infrastructure project that will significantly improve travel in and around Aberdeen and the north east of Scotland. Connect Roads also manages the replacement, upgrading and maintenance of street-lighting in six counties and cities (Sunderland, South Tyneside, Derby City, Coventry City, Northamptonshire and Cambridgeshire).
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At least nine Yemeni civilians have been killed and 13 wounded by attacks in Hodeidah and Hajjah over the past week, according to the United Nations.
In Hodeidah, eight people were killed and 10 wounded on Tuesday when an artillery shell hit a market to the west of the Tuhayta district, according to a statement by the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs.
"These attacks are unconscionable," said the UN's humanitarian coordinator for Yemen, Lise Grande.
The statement said there had been 271 civilian casualties, including 96 fatalities, between 1 January and 14 February.
More than 24 million Yemenis, more than three-quarters of the country's population, are now dependent on some form of aid for survival, according to the UN.
Houthi rebels have since 2015 battled a pro-government military coalition, led by Saudi Arabia and the United Arab Emirates, for control of the impoverished country for four years.
Around 10,000 people - mostly civilians - have been killed and more than 60,000 wounded in the conflict, according to the World Health Organisation.


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RCOM refused extension for Ericsson payment; Aircel yet to receive payment
India's Supreme Court has dismissed a request from Reliance Communications (RCOM) for a further extension on its obligation to pay dues to Swedish equipment manufacturer Ericsson. The Economic Times writes that the debt-ridden telco is required to pay the vendor INR5.5 billion (USD76.8 million) by 15 December, failing which an insolvency order against the company will be revived. RCOM is attempting to complete the sale of its spectrum holdings to Reliance Jio Infocomm (Jio) to raise funds to repay Ericsson and clear other debts, but has been delayed from doing so by a feud with the Department of Telecommunications (DoT) of guarantees for spectrum fees. The company missed is previous deadline to repay Ericsson – 30 September – but late last month was given a reprieve when the apex court ruled in its favour against the DoT, granting the telco permission to use its real estate assets as a guarantee in lieu of a cash deposit, and potentially allowing it to go ahead with the transfer. However, the DoT is refusing to greenlight the sale, saying that it first needs to complete due diligence on the telco's guarantee, but gave no timeframe for how long the process would take.
In a similar development, bankrupt cellco Aircel has returned to the Supreme Court saying that Bharti Airtel and the DoT have not complied with a previous order to repay it INR7.51 billion related to the cellco's sale of spectrum rights to Airtel in 2016. The court had previously instructed Airtel and the DoT to return INR4.53 billion and INR2.98 billion, respectively, that had been submitted as guarantees to complete the spectrum sale.
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Trump supporter swamped with regret.
/r/Trumpgret04/17/2019 found today in North Carolina.
/r/TrumpgretIdiot to vote for you again or the first time?
/r/TrumpgretHell freezes over when a Trump voter finally gets sick and tired of talking about "damn walls."
/r/Trumpgret"Donald my wife left me because I voted for you!!!!"
/r/TrumpgretWhen some of your relatives are ignorant, this is what you see on Facebook.
/r/TrumpgretWhy the left wanna lie tho. What i don't get is why people are denying that the Obama administration spied on the Trump campaign? It's public documents...this whole identity politics is turning into some dogma, kinda like some religious stuff...its awful.
/r/TrumpgretSome Trumpgret from my dad, who had been a vocal and unwaivering supporter since 2015. This was a conversation we had after Howard Schultz did a town hall.
/r/TrumpgretI think person might be masterfully trolling Maga losers but I can't tell!
/r/TrumpgretThe back was covered in Trump stickers too, but I couldn't get a picture of that and still show that they're sleeping in their car on a patio furniture pad laid over the flattened passenger seats.
/r/TrumpgretThis is a good one! Whoops, wrong sub.


Over the years technology has taken over our lives in every way. So, it's not uncommon for many companies to use it for hiring purposes as well.
As applicants keep increasing, going through thousands of resumes manually, is somewhat a difficult job. That's why most companies use Applicant Tracking System or ATS system to simplify the overall hiring process.
This is where ZipJob.com comes into play. They claim to offer resumes that will pass through this ATS technology without any problems. Therefore increasing your chances of getting hired. The process comes into play when you'll send them your resume and their professionals will rewrite the whole thing as new.
But can they really provide what they claim? Let's see how they actually perform.
They usually offer three types of services for now. They include Resumes, Cover letters, and LinkedIn profile, although these services vary according to their packages. Their resumes are on point, but it seems that their cover letters or LinkedIn profiles are on the average side; not something quite extraordinary.
However, they do provide unlimited revisions and 1-on-1 conversation through their dashboard with every package.
But before you proceed, they'll need a previously written resume to help them write a new one, which is a bit of a letdown, as you have to spend extra hours on the prototype one.
How About the Quality of Their Services?
With this much price range you'd think they provide an exceptional quality of services, and that's true. Their resumes are quite good, as far as cover letters and LinkedIn profiles.
They have three pricing plans, which includes: Launch, Fast Track and premium. The Launch package is worth $119, and it'll only include resume writing and editing services. The Fast-track plan would cost you $179, and you'll get resume and cover letter services together.
Lastly, the Premium package contains all the services costing you about $299! According to the services they provide, the pricing seems to be high.
Considering everything their Fast Track plan is the way to go.
At present they don't offer any discounts, but they do provide installments for the payment of the packages.
Unfortunately, they don't offer any kind of discount. So, that's the biggest minus of the company we believe.
This is indeed a great offer. They also offer free future resume updates. So, if you need your resume updated later, you won't have to spend extra money for that. Also, every piece will get scanned by their tech to meet the requirements of ATS technology, which is one of their plus points.
You can reach them through various means. They offer live chats, emails, and even phone services. However, their hotline isn't open for 24/7, which is a bit of a letdown.
We tried contacting with their live chat support as a potential customer to see how fast they respond. We had to wait for some time to get their feedback. Also, they took way more time to answer all our queries.
We tried emailing them too! They seem to be much more responsive in this case. They replied within 3 hours. Overall, their customer service is of average quality.
We thought the quality was on the average side, with lots of room for improvement. The writing seems to vary from time to time. We did, however, got the resume within only 3 days of our order. So, they seem to excel at their delivery time for sure.
For all the packages they offer a solid 30-day money back guarantee to satisfy all your needs. If for some reason they are unable to deliver the promised quality, you can ask for your money back.
Judging all of their services along with their pricing we can say, ZipJob provides average quality resume services. Their resumes are good, that's for sure, but other than that, the cover letters or LinkedIn profiles need to be more polished.
The pricing is a bit high. However, they also offer installment services to back that up. Also, there's no type of extra hidden charge.
ZipJob is not a scammer, it's an excellent service. Overall, we'd like to give ZipJob a solid 9.7 out of 10 for their quality of service and pricing.
I love the Zipjob.com website and the dashboard I was given, from which I communicated with the writer that handled my job. She was very courteous and she reflected all my requests. The resume I received was exactly what I requested for.
I got a job with a resume written by zipjob.com and whie discussing with him, an HR personnel at the company happened to mention to me that I was called for an interview because my resume fits the keywords their ATS technology was looking for.
After paying a whopping sum of $179, I received a resume and cover letter that was less than standard. The cover letter was especially disappointing because it was way too general: I wanted a specified cover letter and resume for a particular job position.
They rewrote it after I asked for.
The resume I submitted needed four revisions before it became as impressive as I needed it to be. Regardless, I liked that the writer paired to me was one who listened to corrections and was ready to meet my needs by following my very specific instructions.


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David W. Downing
David W. Downing, MS, LMHC, CMHS joined YES as its Chief Operating Officer in 2006, and has been the Chief Executive Officer since May of 2020.
David is both a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Child Mental Health Specialist, with over 25 years of leadership in the non-profit sector. David holds a Certificate in Fundraising Management from the University of Washington, and a Master's degree in Psychology from Seattle Pacific University. David serves on several boards including the Alliance of Eastside Agencies, and the National Alliance of Mental Illness (NAMI) Washington State. In addition, he has been nationally recognized by the Child Welfare League of America for his work and advocacy for youth in the child welfare system (Outstanding Direct Service Worker Award for the Western United States).
Over the years, David has been instrumental in the advancement of YES. In response to the changes in our community and the needs of children and youth, David led YES' behavioral health services from a traditional supportive listening model to one grounded in evidence-based practices such as Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) and Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT). He has had a keen focus on removing barriers to behavioral health by developing strong partnerships with school districts, specifically increasing YES behavioral health support integration onsite in our schools, as well as working with his team to launch Open Access to provide walk-in treatment on demand.
Additionally, in response to a significant rise in the acuity of the psychiatric needs of youth, he also oversaw the development and integration of psychiatric services adding psychiatric evaluations, medication management, and MD level guidance on treatment.
Most recently, due to the COVID-19 health crisis, David led the transition of YES services, to a TeleHealth virtual platform, helping to assure continued access and continuity of care.
Jackie Bui
Jackie is YES' Director of Community Services and Inclusion. She holds a Master of Social Work from the University of Washington, where she concentrated in Children, Youth and Families. She is a certified Child Mental Health Specialist and Ethnic Minority Mental Health Specialist for Latino and Asian Pacific Islander populations. She speaks Vietnamese and has experience in school-based counseling as well as in community health center settings. Her therapeutic approaches are interactive, client-centered, strengths-based, and tailored to the individual client's needs, using techniques of Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT), mindfulness, and Motivational Interviewing. She is certified in Trauma-Focused Cognitive-Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and Eye Movement Desensitization and Reprocessing (EMDR) and is qualified in crisis and suicide risk assessment and intervention.
Debbi Halela
Debbi is YES' Director of Behavioral Health Services. Halela is a Licensed Mental Health Counselor and Child Mental Health Specialist with 25 years of experience. She has specialized in providing therapy for teen survivors of sexual abuse as well as clients who engage in self-injurious behavior. Halela is trained in Trauma-Focused Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (TF-CBT) and Dialectical Behavioral Therapy (DBT).
Lisa Hay
Lisa joined YES in 2020 as its Chief Advancement Officer. She has over 35 years of diverse business experience in both the non-profit and for-profit sectors. She has worked as a development professional for over 10 years and is passionate about helping some of the most at-risk children, youth, and their families in our community. Beginning in 2009 she worked as the Director of Development for Seattle Children's Home, and then the Director of Development and later Vice President of Development and Marketing at Navos. In the for-profit sector, Lisa was a real estate business owner, and worked at Nordstrom for over 20 years, working her way up the ranks in buying, merchandising, strategic planning, and global sourcing and manufacturing of private label brands. Lisa is a visionary and strategic executive, known for driving long-term, sustainable growth.
Kristie Neklason
Kristie was a clinical supervisor at YES for many years before becoming YES' Director of School-Based Behavioral Health. She earned her master's degree in counseling from Seattle University and is a Certified Chemical Dependency Professional. She has worked in the behavioral health field for more than 25 years, with a special focus on substance use and co-occurring disorders, and has specialized training in evidence-based practices such as Dialectical Behavior Therapy (DBT).
Ray Nelson
As the Chief Finance Officer, Ray is the administrator of YES' grant funds and oversees the organization's fiscal strategies, financial reporting, insurance contracting, bookkeeping, and information systems. Ray has more than 25 years of professional experience. Prior to joining YES in 2010, Ray was Chief Financial Officer for the Hearing, Speech & Deaf Center in Seattle.
Marian Tillman
Marian joined YES as its Chief Human Resources Officer in 2001. She has more than 25 years of human resource management experience in the nonprofit field. Her areas of expertise include labor relations and negotiations; risk management compliance; workers' compensation and safety; wage, salary, and benefits administration; and personnel law. She is a graduate of Hunter College in New York City. Prior to joining YES, Marian was the HR Director for Mentor Health Northwest (now Sound Mental Health).
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Celebs Over 50 That Don't Seem To Have Aged A Bit
Age is nothing more than a number. Literally! Particularly to certain people who, despite their age, look amazing!
Elle Macpherson, 56
Elle Macpherson is an Australian model, businesswoman, television host, and actress. Elle is well known for her record five cover appearances for the Sports Illustrated Swimsuit Issue beginning in the 1980s, leading to her nickname "The Body", coined by Time in 1989.
Elle has also appeared in supporting roles in the movies: The Mirror Has Two Faces (1996) and as Julie Madison in Batman and Robin (1997) as well as lead roles in The Edge (1997) and South Kensington (2001). She had a recurring role on Friends and hosted an episode of Saturday Night Live.
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Catherine Zeta-Jones, 50
Catherine Zeta-Jones is a very famous Welsh actress and is known for her versatility. Jones is also a recipient of various awards, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Tony Award.
Back in 2010, the actress was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire for her film and humanitarian work.
The Welsh-born actress who is well known for her versatility is most famous for her film the musical Chicago (2002), for which she won the Academy Award for best-supporting actress.
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Kylie Minogue, 52
Kylie Ann Minogue, well known as simply Kylie, is an Australian singer, songwriter, and actress.
Kylie is the highest-selling female Australian artist of all time, having sold over 80 million records worldwide.
She is well known for reinventing her music in the industry and her fashion sense is also quite famous, for which she is referred to by the European press as the "Princess of Pop" and a style icon.
Her awards include a Grammy Award, three Brit Awards and 17 ARIA Music Awards.
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Jennifer Aniston, 51
Jennifer Joanna Aniston is a very famous American actress and producer. She is the daughter of actors John Aniston and Nancy Dow and began working as an actress at an early age with an uncredited role in the 1988 film Mac and Me; her first major film role came in the 1993 horror-comedy Leprechaun.
Back in 1994, Aniston was asked to audition for the role of 'Monica,' however, she refused and auditioned for the role of 'Rachel Green,' the suburban princess turned coffee peddler.
After the huge success of Friends, Aniston has become famous and sought-after as she turns her fame into movie roles during the series hiatus.
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Courteney Cox, 56
Courteney Bass Cox is an American actress, director, and producer.
Cox became famous internationally for starring in the role of Monica Geller on the hit sitcom Friends, which aired from 1994 to 2004. For her remarkable performance in the series, she received seven Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, of which she won one.
Cox also owns the production company Coquette Productions, which was created by Cox and her then-husband David Arquette.
Apart from this she also worked as a director on her sitcom Cougar Town, the television drama film TalhotBlond (2012), and the black comedy-drama film Just Before I Go (2014).
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Julianne Moore, 59
Julie Anne Smith, known professionally as Julianne Moore, is a well-known American actress and author.
Well known in the industry since the early 1990s, she is particularly known for her portrayals of emotionally troubled women in independent films, as well as for her roles in blockbusters.
Apart from her successful stint in acting, Moore has written a series of children's books about a character named "Freckleface Strawberry". In 2015, Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2020, The New York Times named her one of the greatest actors of the 21st century.
She is married to director Bart Freundlich, with whom she has two children.
© juliannemoore / InstagramGoldie Hawn, 74
Goldie Jeanne Hawn is an American actress, dancer, producer, and singer.
Hawn rose to fame on the NBC sketch comedy program Rowan & Martin's Laugh-In, before going on to receive the Academy Award and Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in Cactus Flower.
Hawn is the mother of actors Oliver Hudson, Kate Hudson, and Wyatt Russell, and has been in a relationship with actor Kurt Russell since 1983.
Back in 2003, Hawn founded The Hawn Foundation, which educates underprivileged children.
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Mariska Hargitay, 56
Mariska Magdolna Hargitay is an American actress, director, and philanthropist.
She is the daughter of bodybuilder and actor Mickey Hargitay and actress Jayne Mansfield. Her awards include a Primetime Emmy Award and a Golden Globe Award.
Apart from being a remarkable actor, she also founded the Joyful Heart Foundation, which provides support to people who have been sexually abused.
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Vanessa Williams, 57
Vanessa Lynn Williams is an infamous American singer, actress, and fashion designer.
Vanessa gained fame as the first African-American woman to receive the Miss America title when she was crowned Miss America 1984 in 1983.
Apart from her television appearances, Vanessa is also known for her appearances in television, with her best-known role being Wilhelmina Slater on Ugly Betty (2006–2010), for which she was nominated three times for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series; and Renee Perry on Desperate Housewives (2010–2012).
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Demi Moore, 57
Demi Gene Moore is an American actress. She appeared in her film debut in 1981 and also appeared on the soap opera General Hospital and subsequently gained recognition as a member of the Brat Pack with roles in Blame It on Rio, St. Elmo's Fire, and About Last Night.
Moore has been married three times, to the musician Freddy Moore and the actor Bruce Willis and Ashton Kutcher. She has three children with Willis.
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Jane Lynch, 60
Jane Marie Lynch is a very famous American actress, author, and comedian, known for starring as Sue Sylvester in the musical comedy series Glee, which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award.
Back in 2013, Lynch received the 2,505th star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in the television category, located at 6640 Hollywood Blvd.
Her numerous awards include five Primetime Emmy Awards, two Screen Actors Guild Awards, and a Golden Globe Award.
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Angela Bassett, 62
Angela Evelyn Bassett is an American actress, director, and producer.
She has won numerous awards including; three Black Reel Awards, a Golden Globe Award, seven NAACP Image Awards, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to nominations for an Academy Award, and seven Primetime Emmy Awards.
Bassett began her acting career in the 1980s, after graduating from Yale University. Following a few minor roles, including as Reva Styles in Boyz n the Hood (1991).
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Jane Seymour, 69
Jane Seymour OBE is a famous British-American actress, author, and entrepreneur. After making her screen debut as an uncredited extra in the 1969 musical comedy Oh! What a Lovely War.
Seymour appeared in leading roles in film and television, including a leading role in the television series The Onedin Line (1972–1973) and the role of psychic Bond girl Solitaire in the James Bond film Live and Let Die (1973).
In 1993, Seymour was cast as Dr. Michaela Quinn in the television series Dr. Quinn, Medicine Woman, a medical drama set in the Wild West which ran for 6 seasons and resulted in a further two Emmy nominations and four Golden Globe nominations, including one win.
The actress was also given a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and, in 2000, was appointed an Officer of the Order of the British Empire.
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Madonna, 62
Madonna Louise Ciccone is an American singer, songwriter, and actress.
Madonna has successfully influenced many artists and is referred to as the 'Queen of Pop.' She is noted for her continual reinvention and versatility in music production, songwriting, and visual presentation.
Apart from her remarkable singing career, she is also known for her cultural impact throughout the 20th and 21st centuries.
She has her own academic subdiscipline devoted to her named Madonna studies. Scholarly reviews and literature work on her made Madonna one of the most "well-documented figures of the modern age".
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Salma Hayek, 54
Salma Hayek Pinault is a Mexican-American actress and producer.
The actress began her career in Mexico and starred in the infamous telenovela Teresa as well as the romantic drama El Callejón de los Milagros, for which she received an Ariel Award nomination. Wikipedia
Hayek is named as one of the most powerful and influential Latina actresses and is also named one of the world's most beautiful women by various media outlets. She is married to business magnate François-Henri Pinault, with whom she has a daughter.
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Celine Dion, 52
Céline Marie Claudette Dion CC OQ is a Canadian singer. Famous for her powerful singing notes, Dion is the best-selling Canadian recording artist and the best-selling French-language artist of all time.
Her music has incorporated genres such as pop, rock, R&B, gospel, and classical music.
Her recordings since have been mainly in English and French although she has also sung in Spanish, Italian, German, Latin, Japanese, and Chinese.
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Jennifer Lopez, 51
Jennifer Lynn Lopez, also known as J.Lo, is an American singer, actress, and dancer. In 1991.
Lopez began appearing as a Fly Girl dancer on In Living Color, where she remained a regular until she decided to pursue an acting career in 1993.
She had her first leading role in Selena (1997), and became the first Hispanic actress to earn over US$1 million for a film.
She went on to star in Anaconda (1997) and Out of Sight (1998), and established herself as the highest-paid Hispanic actress in Hollywood.
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Cindy Crawford, 54
Cynthia Ann Crawford is an American model, actress, and television personality.
Back in the 80s and 90s, Crawford was condisedered the most famous supermodel and a ubiquitous presence on magazine covers, runways, as well as fashion campaigns. She subsequently expanded into acting and business ventures.
Back in 2008 Crawford endorsed Barack Obama for President of the United States. Despite reports, Crawford denied endorsing Mitt Romney for the 2012 election.
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Nicole Kidman, 53
Nicole Mary Kidman AC is an American and Australian actress and producer.
Most famous for her work across various television and movie production from many genres. To date, she remains one of the highest-paid actresses in the world.
Back in 2010, Kidman found the production company Blossom Films.
In 2004 and 2018, Time magazine included her on its list of the 100 most influential people in the world, and in 2020, The New York Times named her one of the greatest actors of the 21st century.
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Halle Berry, 54
Halle Maria Berry is an American actress. The actor began her career as a model and appeared in several beauty pageants, finishing as the first runner-up in the Miss USA pageant and coming in sixth in the Miss World 1986.
Berry has been a Revlon spokesmodel since 1996 and was formerly married to baseball player David Justice, singer-songwriter Eric Benét, and actor Olivier Martinez.
She has two children, one with Martinez and another with model Gabriel Aubry.
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by Steven Doyle | June 17, 2019 · 11:04 am
As You Like It, Aug 16-18
2017 Regional Theatre Tony Award Recipient Dallas Theater Center, in collaboration with Southern Methodist University's Meadows School of the Arts and AT&T Performing Arts Center, presents Public Works Dallas' As You Like It, a groundbreaking community engagement and participatory theater project designed to deliberately blur the line between professional artists and Dallas community members. Directed and choreographed by Ann Yee, As You Like It will run for five performances from Friday, Aug. 16 to Sunday, Aug. 18 at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre. Performances are at 8 p.m. Friday and Saturday, 2:30 p.m. Saturday and Sunday, and 7:30 p.m. Sunday. Ticketing information will be released at a later date, but tickets will be free to the public and available at several community locations, by phone and online. Continue reading →
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by Steven Doyle | February 27, 2018 · 3:31 pm
Dallas Theater Center Presents The Great Society March 9-April 1
2017 Regional Theatre Tony Award Recipient Dallas Theater Center (DTC) presents The Great Society at the Dee and Charles Wyly Theatre. A co-production with the Alley Theatre and directed by DTC Enloe/Rose Artistic Director Kevin Moriarty, The Great Society begins on March 9 and runs through April 1. A Pay-What-You-Can performance will be Sunday, March 11 at 7:30 p.m., and Press Night will be Tuesday, March 13 at 7:30 p.m. Tickets to The Great Society are on sale now and by phone at (214) 880-0202. Continue reading →
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by Steven Doyle | September 22, 2014 · 11:11 am
Give Yourself Over To Absolute Pleasure: The Rocky Horror Show Comes To The DTC
by Andrew Chalk photos by by Karen Almond
"Part play, part rock show, part party" was how Director Joel Ferrell described The Rocky Horror Show to me last night after the showing at the Dallas Theater Center (DTC). His production certainly treats Richard O'Brien's masterpiece as such. There are first-rate musicians belting out the familiar but pleasurable numbers. A strong and enthusiastic cast animating the story. And an engaging and contrived stage design to build it all on. Little wonder that row upon row of the audience were on their feet when Time Warp came around and all the audience interjections familiar to attendees of the film version (The Rocky Horror Picture Show) peppered the dialog as well. Sometimes these were used to good effect, as when an interrupted Riff Raff improvised "as that lady said" to a Frank N. Furter cross examination. Continue reading →
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by Steven Doyle | July 7, 2014 · 10:30 am
Dallas Theater Center's Les Misérables Is a Must-See This Month
by Andrew Chalk
Les Misérables, affectionately known as 'les Miz' to millions of theatre goers, has arrived in Dallas just a scant 29 years after its first English language release and what an overwhelming and stylish performance it is by the Dallas Theater Center. Visiting director Liesl Tommy has produced a technically excellent production of this favorite, yet still found opportunities to introduce contemporary references that are fresh and relevant.
She must have found her task daunting. Les Misérables is the most watched musical in history. First performed (in the English language) in 1985 by the Royal Shakespeare Company at London's Barbican Center after a two-year development program led by director Cameron Mackintosh, it went on to be the longest-running musical ever in London and to a record run on Broadway. This spring, a Broadway revival began at the Imperial Theatre. Add in Canada, Australia, Japan, Korea and Spain as countries currently hosting major productions, and you have a show that 'everyone' in your audience has seen and already formed expectations. Continue reading →
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by Steven Doyle | April 21, 2014 · 2:01 pm
Mico Rodriguez To Headline Oral Fixation For Cinco de Mayo
Two weeks from tonight, on Cinco de Mayo, Dallas' live storytelling series Oral Fixation will complete its overwhelmingly popular 3rd season at AT&T Performing Arts Center's Wyly Theatre with a dynamic and diverse evening of outrageously juicy true tales on the theme "The Whole Enchilada." It's been an amazing season and they plan on going out with a bang.
The biggest catch of this cast is undoubtedly Mico Rodriguez of "Mr Mesero" (and of course founder of Mi Cocina) fame who will come out of the shadows to share his fascinating tale of success and struggle in the Tex Mex biz. Mico is this fantastic storyteller, who often conjures these intricate back stories for his restaurants. Also noteworthy are a Dallas Observer writer's raunchy play-by-play at a recent enchilada-eating contest and a woman's remarkable journey through evangelism and sexuality conversion therapy to accepting herself as she is.
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Oral Fixation Speaks This Monday, April 14
This Monday, April 14 at 8pm in the brand-new venue on Level 6 of the Wyly Theatre, Oral Fixation will bring you seven juicy true-life tales on the theme, "Ducks in a Row." Join Oral Fixation for an evening of stories including a woman exposing the intricacies of life with OCD, a lesbian's attempt to learn how to ride a bicycle at the advanced age of 22, and a new dad's attempt to reconcile with his wild little brother. Continue reading →
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Every year Americans suffer from about a 1 billion colds and up to 20 percent of them get the flu, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC). Fox News' Dr. Manny Alvarez sits down with nutritionist Frances Largeman-Roth to go over the best foods and dishes that can help fight off that nasty cold or flu this year.
You got your flu shot, washed your hands like crazy and tried to get enough sleep, but you still got sick. According to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), you are far from alone. An estimated 5 to 20 percent of the U.S. population will come down with the flu this year, with thousands requiring hospitalization.
Those who are lucky enough to avoid the flu may not be able to escape the common cold. The CDC said most people will recover from a cold within about 7-10 days, but it's still the main reason kids stay home from school and adults call out from work.
Feel better faster with my natural food remedies.
From Eastern European matzah ball soup to Portugese Caldo Verde, every culture has some version of chicken soup. And for good reason. Warm chicken broth helps break up mucous and reduces inflammation in the respiratory tract. Mexico's answer to this cold weather staple is tortilla chicken soup. It includes jalapeno peppers, which help open the sinuses, antioxidant-rich cilantro, and vitamin C-rich lime juice. You can try my easy version here.
Probiotics have been a big buzzword the last couple of years. A healthy balance of good bacteria in the body improves digestion and may help regulate weight and ward off a range of health issues.
When I'm feeling run down, or when I'm trying to bounce back after a cold, I make this Gut Health Grain Bowl. You can use brown rice, quinoa or another whole grain as the base. Then top it with kimchi, Brussels sprouts, pistachios, mushrooms and a fried egg.
Kimchi is fermented cabbage with onion, ginger and garlic and it's a great source of probiotics, beneficial bacteria, which help boost gut health. A healthy gut is your first line of defense against getting sick. The pistachios provide prebiotic fiber for those healthy bugs to thrive on. The mushrooms offer vitamin D, which is vital for a healthy immune system. I like adding a fried egg on top for a boost of protein, plus several other essential nutrients, but if you're not feeling up to it, you can always leave it off.
When all else fails and you're dealing with a nasty cold or the flu, a soothing hot toddy can help set you right. My recipe contains Manuka honey, which is higher in antibacterial compounds than regular honey. I brew a cup of puerh tea, which is fermented and contains higher levels of antioxidants than green tea. I also add fresh lemon juice and a splash of whiskey, which can temporarily numb a sore throat.
What else can I do to not get sick?
This antioxidant vitamin may not help prevent you from getting sick, but studies show that it may help shorten the length of your cold by about one day. That may not seem like a lot, but most of us want to get back to our normal activities after a few days of resting on the couch.
Citrus fruit is rich in vitamin C and also helps keep you hydrated. If you don't feel up to peeling and eating an orange or grapefruit, opt for 100% orange juice.
Bone broth options have proliferated in the last few years and you can find it pretty much anywhere. When you don't have the energy to make chicken soup, it's simple to heat up a bowl or mug of bone broth. It provides the same benefits as chicken broth, while also giving you a protein boost (about 9 grams per cup), which is great when you're sick and don't have much of an appetite.
Hydrating with warm fluids is extremely beneficial when you're ill. It's soothing and hydrating. Any herbal tea that doesn't contain caffeine will do. I particularly like peppermint, rooibos (red tea) and licorice tea.
Here's to a healthy winter, but at least you have some tools in your pocket when the sniffles inevitably hit.
Frances is a best-selling author, nutrition and wellness expert and a sought after spokesperson. She also provides private nutrition counseling through her HealthyHousecall program.


Though it seems like an odd denomination today, the quarter eagle, or two-and-one-half-dollar gold piece, was included among the earliest line-up of United States coins authorized in 1792. Examples were coined in small numbers almost every year from 1796 through 1808, when production was suspended until 1821. Minted more or less regularly after 1824, the quarter eagle was fitted with Christian Gobrecht's bust of Liberty in 1840. This was paired with the familiar heraldic eagle that had been used in one form or another since the beginning of quarter eagle coinage.
The Coronet Liberty quarter eagle was produced annually from 1840 through 1907, though not all the U. S. Mints participated in each year. From 1880 onward only the Philadelphia Mint continued to strike quarter eagles. While earlier issues had been used in general circulation and are thus often found quite worn, the coins of 1878-1907 were produced almost exclusively to meet the demand from collectors and from those presenting them as holiday and birthday gifts. Thus, the later dates are typically seen uncirculated or fairly close to it. So popular were quarter eagles of this type for presentation purposes that they carried a premium after the Indian Head type appeared in 1908. Bank tellers typically would furnish them only when provided with a little extra incentive.
With but a few exceptions all Coronet quarter eagles prior to 1878 are scarce to rare in mint state. (1878 was the year that federal paper money, introduced in 1861 as a wartime measure, finally achieved value parity with gold coin. This meant that gold pieces could once again be obtained at face value. Surprisingly, however, the public favored paper over gold, so long as it knew that gold was available when desired.) Among the few dates prior to 1878 encountered in mint state with some frequency, all are from the Philadelphia Mint. These include the large Gold Rush-era mintages of 1851-54 and 1856. The 1861(P) quarter eagle is likewise often found uncirculated, as this date was hoarded when both banks and the federal government suspended payment of gold coin that year. Another early date that one may encounter uncirculated is 1873(P), as the Mint made an abortive and premature attempt to force gold coins back into circulation. Even these relatively common issues are typically graded below MS-63, and gems of any date before 1878 are quite rare.
Also a problem with the earlier dates is that they are often found weakly struck, particularly at their centers. This is most true of coins from the southern mints (Charlotte, Dahlonega and New Orleans), but it is also a problem for many of the San Francisco Mint coins of the 1860s and '70s.
Fortunately for collectors this coin type experienced only very slight changes during its 68-year run, and those seeking just a single example for a type set can limit their search to the later dates. The coins from 1900 to 1907 offer the best opportunity for obtaining a choice or gem specimen. These issues were extremely well made and also were widely hoarded. Perhaps the extra care taken in the manufacture of quarter eagles from about 1880 to 1907 was acknowledgment by the Mint that these coins were more collectibles and keepsakes than actual circulating currency.
Gold coins, even when alloyed with copper as they were by the U. S. Mint, were highly vulnerable to contact marks. The number and severity of contact marks are thus the primary factors in determining a gold coin's grade. Luster is another element in grading these pieces. Most larger-size gold pieces of the 1800s have so many marks that they've lost some of their luster, except in the areas protected by raised design features, but this situation rarely exists with the diminutive and lighter-weight quarter eagle.
Also an issue with all alloyed gold coins is the occurrence of red or orange spots, which result from concentrations of copper near the coin's surface. While normal on U. S. gold coins, they can be aesthetically distracting to some. They do not, however, factor into lowering a coin's grade; experienced graders recognize their presence as being indicative of originality in a coin's surfaces.
The ideal specimen of the Coronet Head Liberty quarter eagle is sharply struck throughout and has minimal impairments to its luster. There are many such Coronet quarter eagles within the 1900-07 date range, and these coins provide the greatest opportunity for the type collector.