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Q: Windows 10 remote desktop, switch between single and multiple monitors Is there a way to switch between the multiple monitor view and single monitor view using Microsoft's remote desktop application without disconnecting, switching the display setting and reconnecting?

A: Yes, I just tested this scenario on my setup.  The trick is to toggle between maximized (full screen) and windowed mode to change how many monitors are shown in the RDP app.  You can use the maximize button in the upper right corner or just double click on the title bar.  The details of my test went like this:

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*started in 2 monitor mode when first connecting RDP with the "use all monitors" ticked.

*disconnected 2nd monitor (tried both disabling second monitor in display settings and disconnecting second monitor physically by switching inputs on an HDMI switch I have my second monitor connected to, both worked)

*maximize the RDP window and you'll get 1 monitor on your RDP session

*reconnect second monitor

*toggle maximize/windowed and the second monitor will reconnect on the RDP session, all without disconnecting the RDP session.

Maximizing the RDP window seems to be the key to getting your RDP session monitor configuration to match your local monitor configuration.
EDIT: If you don't want to disconnect your local monitors, you can use RDP in Windowed mode using most of one screen and use the bottom scroll bar to slide between the remote monitors.


So. last night on CNN's anti-gun propaganda theater one of the stars was Broward County Sheriff and Hillary Clinton booster Scott Israel.
Israel had started burnishing his gun-grabbing credentials on Wednesday even as word was leaking out that his department had an extensive history of contacts with the shooter.
On Wednesday evening, as the country picked through the wreckage of another mass shooting, Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel, flanked by a Republican governor with an "A" rating from the National Rifle Association, made a pitch for gun control.
As mild as the proposal sounded, coming from a top law enforcement figure in one of the country's most gun-friendly states, the comments put Israel outside the norm. But this was not Israel's first time in the national spotlight after random violence. Nor was it the first time the sheriff had ventured into the stormy waters of the national gun debate.
Dana Loesch rips Sheriff Scott Israel during the CNN Town Hall for missing tons of red flags on the school shooter, including 39 calls to his home.
Isreal said she was wrong and asked where she got her facts.
Broward County Sheriff Scott Israel, when pressed by @DLoesch over his department's failure to Baker Act Cruz, or arrest him for threats during the 30+ visits from authorities over the past year, is that "Only the shooter is to blame."
In fact, on Thursday night, Israel was talking smack about the NRA and gun owners in general and finding no fault at all in the way his department had managed the situation.
Earlier today, CNN revealed that on one of the 911 calls his guardian had made, she said that the shooter had held a gun on another person.
A short while ago, the other shoe dropped. As it turned out, the Broward County Sheriff's Department had an ARMED school resource officer on site. And he did NOTHING.
The school resource officer at Marjory Stoneman Douglas did not enter the school during the shootings that left 17 people dead last week, said Broward Sheriff Scott Israel.
"Never went in," said Israel about the actions of Deputy Scot Peterson. The sheriff said Peterson remained outside for at least four minutes during the six minutes Nikolas Cruz opened fire inside the school.
Despite being armed, video showed Peterson taking up a position outside the west side of the freshman building where the shootings occurred and remained there during the incident.
Israel announced Thursday that Peterson resigned after being suspended without pay following an investigation.
"Devastated, sick to my stomach, there are no words." Israel said to describe his feelings when he learned Peterson did not enter the building.
Here is where it becomes interesting.
Peterson was placed on restricted administrative assignment and surrendered his BSO identification card and weapons on Feb. 22. He was also prohibited from entering any BSO facility.
Two other BSO resource officers, Edward Eason and Guntis Treijs, have been placed on administrative duties pending further investigation. Both officers were involved in 23 calls for service at Cruz's home and may not have followed protocol.
That's right. As he was crowing to the audience and television cameras about how he was looking after the students and slamming Dana Loesch for questioning police contacts with Nikolas Cruz, he KNEW that his armed officer on the scene refused to enter the building as Cruz was slaughtering students. He knew he'd already suspended two other officers for improperly handling their contacts with Cruz.
And because of that, my ability to own a firearm is the critical issue that has to be addressed?


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Minister of Education Akila Viraj Kariyawasam has directed that all government schools in the country would remain closed until Monday (April 29) since the term holiday has been extended for security reasons. They were initially scheduled to reopen for the second term on Monday (22).
llankai Tamil Arasu Katchi Leader Parliamentarian Mavai Senathyrasa visited the Batticaloa Teaching Hospital and met with the patients injured in the bomb blast at Zion Church. He expressed condolences to them and their family members.
Sri Lanka Freedom Party (SLFP) General Secretary, Parliamentarian Daysiri Jayasekara has stated that the organization called National Thowheed Jamath (NTJ) and other similar extremist organizations which are said to be behind the recent bomb attacks should be banned in the country.
The State Defence Minister Ruwan Wijewardene has given an assurance that no stone will be left unturned in the government's quest to apprehend and punish anyone involved in this heinous attack.
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremasinghe has stated that Sri Lanka was now a victim of global terrorism, which was different from experience gained from domestic terrorism.
Opposition Leader Mahinda Rajapaksa has assured that that the opposition will extend its fullest cooperation to the law enforcements authorities and the armed forces to ensure national security.
The prestigious Indian English daily The Hindu has in its Editorial urged the government of Sri Lanka to ensure that recurrence of attacks are prevented and that peace be restored.
President Maithripala Sirisena met with all the Ambassadors and High Commissioners based in Sri Lanka, Resident representatives of United Nations and affiliated organizations and Head of other international agencies and briefed them of the current political situation in the country. He assured that terrorism would be curtailed soon.
JVP on Monday paid their last respects to several persons who lost their lives at the suicide bomb attacks carried out at 8 places including hotels and Churches on Easter Sunday.
Prime Minister Ranil Wickremesinghe on Monday met with diplomats including high commissioners and ambassadors and briefed them of the current political situation in the island. The one hour meeting took place at Temple Trees.
Tamil National Alliance Parliamentarian M.A.Sumanthiran called on Eastern Province Governor Hisbulla and urged him to take steps to ensure unity among all ethnic communities.
The Catholic Bishops' Conference in Sri Lanka has urged their followers and all citizens to stay calm and act with prudence and restraint.
Tamil National Alliance Leader Parliamentarian R. Sampanthan has observed that the TNA is in complement agreement with the Joint Opposition in condemning the inordinate delay in holding provincial council polls.
Tamil National Alliance Parliamentarian Dr. S.Sivamohan has complained that there is a dearth of medical officers in ten hospitals in Kilinochchi, Mannar.
UPFA Parliamentarian Dullas Alahapperuma has charged that the silence of the Tamil National Alliance on the inordinate delay in holding the provincial council polls has caused serious concerns.
Minister of Foreign Affairs Tilak Marapana has stated that without legislation, we can't have foreign judges to sit in tribunals and adjudicate the culpability of our citizens.
Public Enterprise, Kandyan Heritage and Kandy Development Minister and Leader of the House Lakshman Kiriella has observed that if we start from devolution of powers, we can resolve all our other issues with the assistance of the international community. We did not agree on the presidential system and the electoral system, but almost everyone in the steering committee were agreeable to the devolution of power.
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← Consider Phlebas
One Man's Justice →
15 August, 2009 · 11:28 pm
I sat up, and the room was full of a man with a gun.
Somebody Owes Me Money, by Donald E Westlake
I love the pulps, pulp westerns, weird tales, adventure pulps, and definitely crime pulps. At their best, pulp novels are immediate, exciting, a ton of fun and sometimes surprisingly well written.
Until recently though, I'd never heard of Donald E. Westlake. I'd missed out. Fortunately, Guy Savage of the wonderfully titled blog His Futile Preoccupations wrote up the excellent Somebody Owes Me Money, here. That caught my interest, I bought myself a copy, and now I owe Guy Savage for the recommendation.
Somebody Owes Me Money was originally published in 1969 and is now reprinted by Hard Case Crime (an imprint I shall be looking out for a lot more going forward). By mischance, when I started it I mistakenly thought it a contemporary novel written in 2008, and was mystified by the lack of mobile phones and general period feel of the novel, eventually I realised it was contemporary, just not our contemporary. Ahem.
Anyway. Somebody Owes Me Money is the story of how Chet Conway, a New York city cabbie, a gambler, and an eloquent fellow, discovers the corpse of his bookie and ends up having to investigate the murder himself. Chet recounts the story himself, in the first person, almost the whole tale therefore being in the present tense (possibly a stylistic tip of the hat to Runyon).
Here, in the opening two paragraphs, Chet tells us a bit about himself:
I bet none of it would have happened if I wasn't so eloquent. That's always been my problem, eloquence, though some might claim my problem was something else again. But life's a gamble, is what I say, and not all the eloquent people in this world are in Congress.
Where I am is in a cab in New York City. Fares frequently ask me how it is somebody as eloquent as me is driving a cab, and I usually give them a brief friendly answer which doesn't really cover the territory. The truth is, my eloquence comes from reading rather than formal higher education, which limits the kind of job open to me. Besides, driving a cab gives me the chance to pick my own hours. Day shift when the track is closed, night shift when it's open. If there's a game somewhere I'm particularly interested in, I skip a night and nobody cares. And if I'm broke, I can work as many hours as I want till I make it up.
In his own writeup, Guy talks about how as soon as he read that section, he was hooked. I was the same, it's funny, breezy, tells you a lot about the character but also establishes him as an essentially reliable narrator. We're not in tricky literary territory here, we're metaphorically in the back of a cab or in a bar, being told a story by a likeable guy. We're being invited to sit back and enjoy the ride.
Chet's tale starts with him being given a tip on a horse race by a fare, he'd rather have had a cash tip, but you get what you get and the guy seemed a smart guy so Chet places the bet. Chet's been losing a lot lately, and needs a big win, so he bets big. The horse wins, but when Chet goes to collect, somebody's killed his bookie. Chet realises that the bookie would have been fronting for a syndicate, so somebody, somewhere, owes him that money.
The rest of the book unfolds from Chet's attempts to get his money, in the process popping up on the radar of the police, fueding mobsters, the dead guy's sister and assorted other characters most of whom assume that Chet is deeper into this thing than he is and most of whom at one point or another hold him at gunpoint trying to work out what his angle is. Chet, who despite all that still manages to make it to his twice weekly poker game, keeps pushing on, partly because once involved he needs to find out what really happened in order to get himself out of it, but just as much because he really, really needs his winnings. Here, Chet explains his philosophy when it comes to violence:
If you spend much time driving a cab around New York City, especially at night, sooner or later you'll find yourself thinking about anti-cabby violence, and what you would do if anybody ever pulled a gun or a knife on you to rob you in the cab. A long time ago I decided I was no hero, I wouldn't argue. Anybody with a knife or gun in his hand is boss as far as I'm concerned. It's like the old saying: The hand that cradles the rock rules the world.
Another likeable quality of this book, is the lack of bravado shown by its protagonist. Chet's full name is of course Chester, a name he hates. He wants people to call him Chet instead, but by and large nobody does, he's just not that impressive a guy and whatever he may want to be called Chester is what he gets. He's smart, but he's not ambitious or any kind of a go-getter. He's just a smarter than average average joe, with a nice line in dialogue but none of the tough guy nature of a Spade, Marlowe or Hammer.
Here, he's held at gunpoint (as he often is in this novel) and ordered up a flight of stairs in an apparently deserted garage:
I went up the stairs. Our six feet made complicated echoing dull rhythms on the rungs, and I thought of Robert Mitchum. What would Robert Mitchum do now, what would he do in a situation like this?
No question of it. Robert Mitchum, with the suddenness of the snake, would abruptly whirl, kick the nearest hood in the jaw, and vault over the railing and down to the garage floor. Meantime, the kicked hood would have fallen backward into the other one, and the two of them would go tumbling down the steps, out of the play long enough for Mitchum either to (a) make it to the door and out of the building and thus successfully make his escape, or (b) get into the hood's car, in which the keys would have been left, back it at top speed through the closed garage door, and take off with a grand grinding of gears, thus successfully making his escape and getting their car into the bargain.
But what if I spun around like that, and the guy with the gun was Robert Mitchum? What would he do then? Easy. He'd duck the kick and shoot me in the head.
I plodded up the stairs.
Part of the comedy comes from Chet being so plainly unsuited to the plot of the novel, at one point he's holed up recovering from a bullet wound, a series of different tough guys calling round to interrogate or threaten him, he spends much of a couple of chapters lying in bed literally hiding under the covers while the dead guy's sister (pictured on the cover of the novel) stands off the hoods and protects him.
Somebody Owes Me Money features a great protagonist, but that's far from its only strength. Westlake also shows a nice eye for characterisation, each of the crowd at the twice weekly poker game is brought quickly and easily to life, so that you feel like you're at the table with them. No small feat, given I don't play poker and have no understanding of the rules. Even minor characters, like Chet's father who spends his days analysing insurance policies in the ever vain hope of finding money-making loopholes or the investigating detective with his incredibly kitsch home bar with electric lights and porcelain drunks, are well drawn and sympathetic. Westlake's characters are a likeable crew, owing more to the criminals of Runyon's Broadway than the world of say Thompson's petty grifters.
Westlake is comfortable working within his genre, clearly knowing it backwards, and so it's no surprise that the dead bookie's sister is a beautiful blonde packing a pearl-handled automatic in her handbag. What does surprise is that Westlake's comfortable enough to have a bit of fun with genre expectations. Sure, the sister's a beautiful blonde, but she's also good in a fight, loyal and maybe not so bright – not the usual qualities one expects of a beautiful blonde in a hardboiled novel. There's a playful subversion here, a writer at home with his craft enjoying himself with it, something that shows up again near the end when the characters discuss the discovery of the real murderer in a way which echoes strongly the likely reactions of readers used to traditional mystery novel conceits – were the clues fair, was there a reasonable chance to solve the puzzle?
Like any good hardboiled writer, Westlake also has a gift for snappy dialogue. Characters come out with lines such as "… they'd fill you with so much lead we'd have to paint you yellow and call you a pencil." and "You're a nice guy and I like you, but I can get along without you. I can't get along without me for a minute." He also has a real feel for location, place, which I consider essential to good crime fiction. This is very much a New York novel, full of affection for the city and its unruffleable inhabitants.
Graham Greene used to refer to his novels as entertainments, that's what this is, it's not a serious novel – it's an entertainment. But, and it's no small but, it's a very good entertainment indeed. It's funny, well written, skilfully paced and somehow despite it's cast of low-lives, gangsters, gamblers and idiots, strangely cheering. It's a novel where the nice guys win, and where an ordinary joe turns into a sort of hero, even if not a very brave hero. Chet is an everyman, easy to relate to, and perhaps that too is part of the novel's charm, after all, as Chet says:
… there's a touch of Robert Mitchum in all of us, or anyway the desire to be Robert Mitchum in all of us.
Somebody Owes Me Money
By the way, check out the wonderfully pulp-styled cover for this edition, which can be seen at the above link. One of my pet hates is the trend to dress up fiction considered lowbrow in highbrow covers, to conceal what is really being read. Harry Potter being reprinted for adults with sombre themed covers, instead of the colourful and exciting covers on the editions aimed at children. There's absolutely nothing wrong with reading pulp, or SF, or or YA or fantasy or whatever, so there's no need to hide it. I love this style of cover, and Hard Case Crime win my admiration for using it.
On the topic of covers though, their choice for a new Sherlock Holmes imprint done "Hard Case Crime style" is clearly having fun with the whole concept, marvellous stuff.
Filed under Comic fiction, Crime, Westlake, Donald E.
Tagged as Donald E., Hard Case Crime, Westlake
26 responses to "I sat up, and the room was full of a man with a gun."
Guy A. Savage
Glad you liked it Max. When Westlake is good, he's very good. Hard Case Crime will publish Westlake's novel Memory in April 2010. This is Westlake's last novel (well unless someone finds another manuscript, and considering how prolific Westlake was, I wouldn't be surprised).
I particularly enjoy Westlake's sense of humour. Light and easy going. I have a few more Westlake titles over on my blog if you are interested.
andrewgirle
Excellent review. Now I have to track down a copy here in Australia!
walkerp
Now that you've had a taste of Westlake, it's time to step up to the hard stuff. Richard Stark, baby, Westlake's nom de plume when he had to get really tough. Start with The Hunter and don't look back.
Max: here's Westlake's website:
http://www.donaldwestlake.com
As WalkerP notes there are Richard Stark novels and there are also Dortmunder novels plus lots of stand-alones, of course.
Westlake also wrote under a number of pen names and you can see all of those on his site. As you already know, this is an author with a sense of humour. He admits on his website to writing a book with the name J. Morgan Cunningham with a blurp from Westlake on the cover saying "I wish I had written this book!"
Max Cairnduff
I'm sure I'll be reading more Westlake's, I'd noted you'd written up a couple of others Guy.
The Richard Stark is the nastier stuff yes? Darker in tone.
Richard Stark, Dortmunder, Cunningham, gosh, he sounds as prolific as Mickey Spillane or Ed McBain, perhaps more so. I'll definitely check out his site.
I'm not that fond of the Stark novels. I think Westlake is at his best when he's using humour. It's just a matter of taste.
In addition to Westlake's own site, you both might find this article about Westlake (and his many pseudonyms) in the Virginia Quarterly Review.
It's not really my genre, but I still found the article interesting. If you like crime noir, I am pretty sure you will enjoy it.
Thank you Kerry, I'm printing it now, along with the Vonnegut story you linked to in the Consider Phlebas comments.
I thought it was an excellent article. I hope that you, being more knowledgeable of the subject, will get (have gotten) even more out of it.
JRSM
What a great review! I'm actually reading a Westlake now, having got hooked on him through the Stark novels–now I'm on a Dortmunder book, 'Hot Rocks', which is probably the epitome of how to do comic crime well.
Hot Rocks eh, I'll keep an eye out.
Kerry, too busy at work to read the article yet, but I shall be this weekend. Thanks again.
I read the article, which was fascinating. Thanks very much for that, there was a lot there I wasn't aware of. It's a link well worth following.
Guy has listed what he considers some of the best HCC books here: http://swiftlytiltingplanet.wordpress.com/2009/09/16/kiss-her-goodbye-by-allan-guthrie/, which I thought I'd link to so that I didn't lose track of it.
Thanks Max for the recommendation : I really liked this book. I'm not going to review it on my own blogg, I think your review better than what I could do.
Westlake is very good at drawing small details, such as the name of the horse Chet bets on "Purple Pecunia". It made me think of "pecuniary", which is kind of an understatement for this horse. I wouldn't be surprised if you told me that "purple" has some sinister connotation in English or has a double meaning.
I also think Westlake has a real sense of theatrical effects : it's particularly powerful in the part of the book when members of enemy gangs come in and out of Tommy's apartment, in which Chet and Abbie took refuge. You can easily picture a stage of a mainstream popular theater, with doors slamming and comical misunderstandings. Very funny.
While reading, I could also imagine what movie it could be, with a witty voice over. I could hear a familiar voice, and I eventually found out what it reminded me of : Woody Allen's Scoop or Manhattan Murder Mystery. Chet Conway could be played by a young Woody Allen, especially because Westlake starts by writing about his eloquence. Chet is a sort of "hero-against-his-will" type, like in Woody Allen's universe. Can't you imagine Woody Allen in the following situation ?
"Five P.M. of a freezing windy Sunday in late January, the sky a solid mass of gray clouds seven miles thick, the thin vague daylight already fading toward twilight, the temperature somewhere in the teens, and where am I ? Standing on a fire escape four stories up in my shirt sleeves with gunmen shouting "Stop" at me. Not to mention the crease in the side of my head where I've already been laid low by one bullet"
But Westlake wrote Somebody Owes Me Money in 1969, before Woody Allen shot his movies. Maybe Westlake influenced him?
I have to admit I got lost during the descriptions of poker game. Maybe it would have been easier in French, I don't know.
I'd be grateful if someone could explain to me what a "shlemozzle" is. The word sounds like a Jewish dish but applied to a man ?? I sort of guessed but sometimes I guess wrong. I looked for the word in several dictionaries and couldn't find any translation.
1 June, 2010 at 10:20 pm
I'm really glad you enjoyed it. It's huge fun, and you're absolutely right that Westlake has a great eye for theatrical effects.
The voiceover does work in a very cinematic way, wry and slightly resigned.
I can imagine Allen in those scenes, after all he did direct Bullets over Broadway… That said, I can also imagine someone like a younger Walter Matthau.
As for schlemozzle, I had to look it up. Apparently a schlemiel is a chump or a bungler and a schlemozzle is a loser. To quote a definition I saw:
"If a schlemiel is someone who's always spilling soup on others, a schlemozzle is someone who's always the target of the soup."
I suspect it's meant with more humour than the words chump or loser would convey, it's Yiddish and that always seems to be a language rich in comic meaning.
Thanks for the help on "schlemozzle" : I see I wasn't so far off the mark when I thought of Jewish pastry. It sounded like Yiddish. So it's a loser who's a magnet for trouble.
Usually when there's a word I don't know and it's in a middle of a description, I let it go or I would spend too much time in the dictionary.
I look for words that are repeatedly used or have an importance to understand what's happening.
Most of the time, I can guess the meaning, either because the word is close to a French one or because, as English is a very "down-to-earth" language, the word speaks by itself.
French is more complicated and less flexible ; it seems a word must have a Latin or Greek origin to be trusted. In English, like in German, you can put two words together to create a new one, which is almost impossible in French. So to express a new notion, the French elite will create a new word coming from Latin or Greek (or both) and when you see it, nothing links the word to the reality it corresponds to. I'm happy French is my mother tongue, I don't know how foreigners can learn it !
That's why I like your language : it's more concise and more flexible.
I think I'll read other books from Westlake.
You may like Fred Vargas. She's a French writer of crime fiction, it's good entertainment too. You may also like the Malaussene Saga from Daniel Pennac, as the characters have a kind of craziness you seem to appreciate. I checked, they have been translated in English.
I've read the first Vargas, interesting and very different. I don't know Pennac so I'll look that up.
If you look up in the comments section there's some discussion of the Stark novels by Westlake too, which have a lot of fans though I wasn't initially attracted.
I think The Scape Goat is the English title of the first volume of the Malaussene Saga, if that can help.
I thought I'd edit this to add the cover. I'm doing that off and on for other older blog entries, but the cover on this one is so wonderful I thought it worth a comment so as to help people notice it.
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Well, this sounds like a whole heap of fun! Thanks for the recommendation, Max, it's going on the list. I love that first quote too, I really like Chet's voice and it feels authentic. As you've alluded to, this stuff appears effortless but it's hard to write a good crime novel like this.
The Hard Case Crime covers are wonderful, aren't they? Little works of art..
A whole heap of fun is a fair description. I think the Mitchum quote was my favourite, but Chet's voice generally is great.
Their covers are great, I really like them.
Just dropping back to have another read of your review now that I've finished the book. I'm sticking with my 'whole heap of fun' description as it turned out to be just that! Chet was great, such an engaging narrator, and his down-to-earth mentality really came through. I loved the bookie's sister too – she was pretty feisty (in a good way, if you know what I mean.) Even though the book was written it the late 1960s, I couldn't help but be reminded of some of those old screwball comedies from the 1930s and '40s. It had touches of that type of film for me.
Whole heap of fun is just spot on. And yes, I get the screwball comedy vibe too.
The cover on this one is great. Really suits the book.
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Cooking with the Seven Sister was an amazing experience - I signed up for a cooking class but got so much more. The work they undertake is amazing and was great to not only learn to cook some traditional Napoli food but know it was supporting such a great cause.
Participate in a traditional cooking class full of fun and flavour, as you visit with a unique social enterprise (Seven Women) that has changed the lives of more than 1,000 disadvantaged women in Nepal.
Dig into a meal prepared by you and new friends!
Inclusions: Local English-speaking guide, taxi ride to and from the Seven Women Centre, lunch, water.
Exclusions: Souvenirs from the shop and items of a personal nature.
Take a Kathmandu cooking class with heart on a tour that takes you into the office of a local social enterprise helping marginalised women.
The class will be run at the Seven Women headquarters in Kathmandu, where you will meet some of the women of Seven Women and hear the stories of how this social enterprise has made such a massive difference in Nepal through its literacy classes, skills training, and income generation programs. You'll learn how Seven Women began and has grown from seven women operating out of a tin shed to now assisting more than 1,000 women.
First up, you'll be taken on a tour through our local greenhouse, where you'll learn about Nepalese vegetables and other seasonal produce, and the practice of greenhouse farming.
Once you have a grasp on the local ingredients, you'll learn some delicious Nepalese recipes, all of which will be explained by local women who have passed them along through the generations. You will be guided through the recipe preparation and local methods while you learn to cook some of Nepal's most traditional and tasty dishes.
After the meal is made, we'll all sit down to dine together.
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It was an absolutely amazing day. Better than I could have expected. We spoke with a number of women who were either increasing g their own skills or supporting others. Anita taught us how to cook 6 different dishes, each amazing. At the end I was I retested in buying an apron and Anita arranged for one to be hand made by one of the ladies in a colour. That they had not used before and it was delivered to my hotel for my return from my trekking tour. An outstanding g day. Thank you Anita and all of the ladies at 7 women.
I truly enjoyed the cooking lessons, it was like cooking at home. It was hands on and easy to follow.
There could have been more interaction with the local workers.
Brilliant experience.Relaxed but well organised.
I think it is a really good thing to sustain organisations empowering women and would love to see more partnerships like this one. I had 3 girls for only myself as it was 24th december and I had such a great time! One of the highlights of my trip really. I hope I can go back one day to meet the women as they were all gone in their family that day. Staff at the hotel should inform clients of holidays and be aware of these things though. I would have gone anyway but would have liked to be told before I got there. I can't wait to cook Nepali food and send them the picture!
We received a warm and cheerful greeting by Anita, the President of Seven Women and several other wonderful women. They provided us a tour of the building, showed us their workshop, and discussed in more detail as to what the organization stands for. The Seven Women organization provides disabled and struggling women the opportunity to become more independent and self-sufficient by teaching them skills to make clothing and merchandize that can be sold overseas. The organization also promotes Fair Trade practices, puts a clean roof over many heads, provides English and grammar lessons, has an organic garden, and much more.
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ALFRED CRAMER was born on a farm in Blackwood in 1844. He remained on the farm till the age of sixteen, when he took a position selling books. The sales experience would prove invaluable in his later ventures.
In 1870 he married Priscilla Wright, whose father John had founded the village of Wrightsville in Stockton Township, present day East Camden. In the mid-1870s he ventured into real estate, and developed a program of selling building lots on a monthly installment plan. In this manner he purchased large tracts of land in Cramer Hill and East Camden and sold over 5000 building lots. His home and office were, in the late 1880s and early 1890s, on "Westfield Avenue near Cooper Avenue" in Stockton Township.
His younger brother, Joseph Cramer, came to Camden, settling at 27th Street and Westfield Avenues, and also became heavily involved in real estate and homebuilding in the area.
Alfred Cramer involved himself in politics, serving 16 years as a justice of the peace and at least two terms on city council. He was a Republican. He also served as postmaster in the section for fifteen years, running a "Cramer's Hill" post office from April 24, 1878 to Dec 12, 1893. When he resigned, Charles W. Scott too over as postmaster of "Cramer Hill" from December 12, 1893 to September 30, 1899. After that mail service was then done by Camden.
Alfred Cramer passed away at his home, 433 Penn Street, on December 15, 1912. Survived by his wife, Priscilla, he was buried at Evergreen Cemetery in Camden.
The Eastside Elementary School, built in 1913 at South 28th and Mickle Streets was renamed the Alfred Cramer Junior High School in his honor, and has been known as the Alfred Cramer Elementary school since 1957. Cramer Street, in East Camden, also was named for him. Of course, Alfred Cramer is forever remembered by the neighborhood which bears his name, Cramer Hill.
THE HISTORY OF CAMDEN COUNTY
George Reeser Prowell - 1886
Philadelphia Inquirer - January 3, 1895
Masonic Temple Association
George Pfeiffer Jr. - Cooper B. Hatch
William H. Fredericks - Thomas McDowell - J.R. Eastlack
Alfred Cramer - D.H. Gomersall - E.A. Austermuhl
Isaac Doughten - H.B. Anthony - William S. Casselman
P. Weatherby - Wilbur F. Rose - George W. Jessup
Philadelphia Inquirer - December 8, 1895
Rev. A.G. Lawson - North Baptist Church - S.W. Wheeler
J.J. Stewart - Charles Tushingham - A.J. Smith
Joseph Cramer - Charles Rudderow - D.F. Todd - Harry Barton
Dr. H.H. Sherk - Smith Townsend - William Frazier
Rev. J. Tushingham - B.C. Rudderow - E.C. Townsend
William Miller - James K. Asay - William Morton - Harry Wilson
Charles White - Lemuel D. Horner Sr. - Rev. George W. Ridout
H.L. Denlinger - John Manning - John Keen - Alfred Cramer
E. Hancock - W.J. Fox - A. Lapp
Philadelphia Inquirer - March 24, 1896
Samuel Jaquillard
Acquille Shimp
Alfred Cramer
Charles Beale
George Kirkbride
W.W. Mines Jr.
A.J. Smith
W. Oscar Buck
Thomas Jane
John Laming
John B. Davis
Mason Young
BIOGRAPHICAL REVIEW - 1897
Camden Daily Courier
Anthony Oberst
William V. Hoover - Josiah A. Freeman - Alfred Cramer - John W. Horton - Leonard Messner - Lewis F. Holl
Jacob Stone - Salinda Fisler - Samuel W. Parry - James Fletcher - William A. Potts - James Griffee
George Pfeiffer Jr. - Frederick H. Cornelius - Abraham B. Rulon - David Baird Sr.
F. Joseph Rouh - Wilhelmina Countiss
Camden Courier-Post * March 1949
Stockton Annexed Against Protest Of Democrats.
Fifty years ago, the old town of Stockton was annexed to the City of Camden over the protests of Democratic members of the town council.
But a Republican Legislature approved a bill introduced by former Justice Frank T. Lloyd on March 24, 1899. He was a member of the Assembly at the time. He resided then in the structure now occupied by the Sheltering Arms Home at Eighteenth street and River avenue.
The town of Stockton had been in existence five years when the annexation took place. Merchantville and Pennsauken township were part of the original Stockton Township with the present East Camden area. Merchantville received its charter as a borough 75 years ago this month. In 1892. Pennsauken township withdrew, from the. township to become a separate municipality.
For two years East Camden remained in the township. In 1894 Alfred Cramer, founder of Cramer Hill, launched a movement to create the town of Stockton and the first governing body was elected. Edward Dudley, then a leading lawyer, was elected councilman-at-large, which entitled him to preside as mayor. William S. Abbott, a lifelong resident, became became clerk.
The town was divided into three wards. Fred Voigt and Justice Lloyd also served with Cramer and Dudley in the town council. The town hall was on the triangle, at Twenty-seventh and Federal Streets.
Albert Plum and William C. Reeves were justices of the peace. Samuel M. Jaquillard served on the Board of Freeholders as did W.O. Buck and Joseph Funfer. Charles E. Allen was a member of the Board of Education.
After the annexation Abbott was elected to Camden City Council. Others elected were Dr. William H. Kensinger, now a resident of Florida; Frederick S. von Nieda, Frederick H. Finkeldey, president of the first Playground Commission; Arthur R, Gemberling, now of Woodstown.
Other active citizens were Lemuel D. Horner, undertaker; Dr. H. F. Hadley, Jacob Bendinger, proprietor of the Rosedale Inn, and Walter L. Tushingham, former vice-president and general manager of the Courier-Post Newspapers.
Philadelphia Inquirer - December 17, 1912
Alfred Cramer - Penn Street - Cramer Hill - East Camden - Grace Baptist Church - Camden Choral Society
William K. Hurff - Security Trust Company - Camden National Bank - West Jersey Horse Show


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Arapahoe County is a county located in the U.S. state of Colorado . As of 2000, the population is 487,967. The county seat is Littleton ; the largest city is Aurora . According to the U.S. Census Bureau, the county has a total area of 2,086 km² (805 mi²). 2,080 km² (803 mi²) of it is land and 6 km² (2 mi²) of it is water. The total area is 0.28% water.
As of the census2 of 2000, there are 487,967 people, 190,909 households, and 125,809 families residing in the county. The population density is 235/km² (608/mi²). There are 196,835 housing units at an average density of 95/km² (245/mi²). The racial makeup of the county is 79.93% White, 7.67% Black or African American, 0.66% Native American, 3.95% Asian, 0.12% Pacific Islander, 4.51% from other races, and 3.16% from two or more races. 11.81% of the population are Hispanic or Latino of any race.
The median income for a household in the county is $53,570, and the median income for a family is $63,875. Males have a median income of $41,601 versus $31,612 for females. The per capita income for the county is $28,147. 5.80% of the population and 4.20% of families are below the poverty line. Out of the total population, 7.00% of those under the age of 18 and 5.10% of those 65 and older are living below the poverty line.
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Locals woke up in a Winter Wonderland after a seaside town was covered in thick white foam that looked like snow.
The small seaside town of Westgate-on-Sea was covered in a fluffy smattering of white sea foam on Tuesday morning after heavy winds the night before whipped up the water.
Locals in the town, in Thanet, Kent, were left scratching their heads after the white stuff gave the appearance of heavy snowfall.
Kye Boughton said: "The sea foam is created by the agitation, usually when it contains higher concentrations of dissolved organic matter.
One resident who lives along the seafront, Jackie Scott, took a number of incredible pictures which transformed the stretch into a scene not to dissimilar from a Christmas card.
She said: "I have some extraordinary sea foam which was prevalent along the Westgate seafront and also slightly in my garden.
"I had to take the pictures on my phone to send to my husband who was in Stanmore at the time.
"I took the photos at the end of my road at about 11am.
Sea foam is caused when seawater is churned by breaking waves, and large amounts of organic matter, like algae, form the telltale white bubbles, which are blown together onto the shore.
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Shiocton Flyers Club
Contact: Brian Laedtke
The Shiocton Flyers Club own and manage the Shiocton Airport. The club as it is now, was incorporated in 1960 as what was then the New London Airport which was disbanded in 1983.
In 1984, 20 area people came together and saw the need for an airport in the Shiocton area. These 20 people formed a corporation called the Shiocton Airport Association, Inc., and the land that is now runway 18/36 (North/South runway) was purchased. This property became the core of which, after several subsequent land purchases, is now the Shiocton Airport, also known as Whiskey 34.
The Shiocton Flyers Club, Inc. was formed shortly afterwards as both our "official" flying club, and also to also operate and manage this airport. As time progressed and as both the airport and the Shiocton Flyers Club grew, the members of the Shiocton Flyers Club purchased the airport properties from the Airport Association, which was then disbanded. When this was completed, ALL members of the Shiocton Flyers Club became equal shareholders of this airport, and remain an equal shareholder as long as they remain a paid member of the Shiocton Flyers Club and contribute their time or talents to the upkeep of the airport. The Shiocton Flyers Club currently consists of approximately 45 members.
The Shiocton Airport is one of a very small handful of PRIVATELY OWNED, PUBLIC USE AIRPORTS in the State of Wisconsin. Because we are privately owned, we do not accept the use of Federal or State monies for airport purchases, operations or improvements. Instead of your tax dollars, we are funded with membership dues, membership contributions and with the funds we are able to raise by putting on our Annual Fly-in. Even though we are privately owned, we abide by all Federal Aviation Administration regulations and are periodically inspected by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation for compliance of all applicable airport construction, markings and signage, approaches, hazards, airspace and operations. Safety is taken seriously.
The Shiocton Airport currently consists of two intersecting runways. Runway 18/36 (North/South) and Runway 09/27 (East/West). Both runways are approximately 2,500 feet long by 150' wide. There is also a North/South taxi area immediately east of runway 18/36 which could also be used as runway 18L/36R.
There is also along the south side of runway 09/27, Hangar Row, which currently consists of 9 hangars, all of which currently enclose a total of 16 based aircraft. We also have an on-property maintenance facility for general airport maintenance and storage of grounds keeping equipment.
We have as a club, over the past several years, set up an Educational Endowment fund. We provide scholarships to area High School and Tech School students studying aviation programs. These scholarship applications are available at area High Schools and at Fox Valley Technical College and are due by May 1st every year. Our 2017 Scholarship recipient is currently enrolled at UA – Birmingham for Aviation Management.
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Call to Action – NRB President Speaking at Taking Back America's Children Summit
Franklin, Tennessee – Proclaiming Justice to The Nations has announced that Troy A. Miller, president & CEO of the National Religious Broadcasters (NRB) association, will be a featured speaker at the Taking Back America's Children Southeastern National Summit in Franklin, Tennessee on January 29.
The summit will be held at the Williamson County Enrichment Center, 110 Everbright Avenue in Franklin, Tennessee. To register, visit PJTN.org/TBAC.
The goal of the summit is to educate, motivate, and activate parents and concerned citizens with strategies to reclaim America's classrooms.
Miller was elected as President & CEO on July 12, 2022, after serving as the interim CEO of NRB since March 2019. NRB membership has grown under Miller's leadership, and he has championed the growth of the annual NRB International Christian Media Convention, one of the largest Christian media events in the United States and the world. Miller is also President & CEO of NRBTV, where he has served since June 2005.
"Taking back control of our country starts with taking back control of our children's education," said Laurie Cardoza Moore, founder and president of Proclaiming Justice to The Nations, which is organizing TBAC.
"We want to encourage and equip moms, dads, and everyday patriots to run for school board and to get involved in what's going on in our children's education," she added. "Only when we engage can we liberate America's classrooms from the anti-Judeo-Christian, anti-American, Marxist and antisemitic propaganda that's being peddled."
"This is how we win: changing our way of life, moving off the sofa, and getting involved in the schools," said Moore. "We are grateful for Troy's voice in helping us understand how to stand for truth in these troubling times."
Other speakers include Robert Arnakis, director of domestic and international programs for The Leadership Institute and a conservative political mobilizer; Tina Griffin, former Hollywood actress and host of the Counter Culture Mom show; and Stephanie Maier, education leadership expert, trainer and author of The Righteous Fight: Reclaiming the Soul of America.
To register for the January 29 event, visit PJTN.org/TBAC.
To schedule an interview with Laurie Cardoza Moore, president of Proclaiming Justice to The Nations, please contact Clem Boyd, Director of Public Relations at 724.930.4003.
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After teasing fans all week, Calvin Harris finally delivered the highly anticipated video for "This Is What You Came For" featuring Rihanna.
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Memories of Lagoon
Cross-posted to WordPress, 2-16-2019, updated
In the summer of 1969, when I came out to Utah from New York, my first job was working at Lagoon, Utah's No. 1 amusement park. As a child, I had visited Lagoon many times beginning in the 50s when I would come to Utah to visit my mother's family there.
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The Lagoon History Project
Still going strong, the park is small but homey, and although it gets more expensive every year, they do make improvements all the time, and it's got some really fun rides. I had a season pass in 2011 before I moved back East so I could go with the my granddaughters as often as opportunity allowed.
A post on another forum about Coney Island got me going down memory lane, especially when I saw this picture of Coney Island's "Human Roulette Wheel" from 1908.
I can't count the number of times I got flung off of Lagoon's Roulette Wheel, suffering skin burns along the way… and I don't think anyone ever sued lagoon for so much as a broken arm – people knew what risks were in those days, and lawyers were fewer.
Lagoon's Roulette Wheel by the Giant Slides
The Fun House and the Haunted Shack were, without question, my favorite locations. Both as a child, from the late 50's onward, and then as an employee one summer in 1969.
Fun house main entryway, top of the giant slides visible.
In the Fun House, the first challenge was getting in. The entrance was a mystery room, with several doors. One held a witch – not especially frightening, unless you're 7 – and I don't recall what was in the others, but the one you wanted, of course, was the broom closet – and you had to push the false back wall to get out.
Once inside, you would walk into the challenge area, which included the rotating barrels; I was so thrilled when I was finally big enough to pin myself in the barrel like Leonardo's "Vitruvian Man" and be carried all the way around. Other courses included boards that swung up and down like a wooden wave pattern… a meshed bridge… a set of boards that shimmied back and forth like a huge pair of skis, among others… and everywhere throughout the fun house were the air jets, operated by a human who sat in an observation booth above the front entrance, watching for cute girls in skirts to step over the airholes. Psshhhttt EEK!! A maze after these items would drop you off in the back of the fun house close to the giant slides.
The rotating drums
There, you'd pick up your canvas slide, with a pocket in front for your feet, and climb the stairs to the launch platforms – there was one midway up, and one all the way at the top. You were admonished to sit with your legs straight, and off you'd go. There was never any limit to how long you could stay.
The Giant Slides
Loading area at the top of the slides
At the bottom of the slide, you'd find the Roulette Wheel – a big pink disk with a yellow center, which is where you wanted to be if you didn't want to get flung off. I think there were more injuries from people rushing to get that center spot than ever happened while being ejected. People would sit on the wheel with their backs to the center, brace themselves with their feet, and wait for the ride to start. Invariably everyone was hurled off except one or two in the middle. The outside of the platter area was surrounded with a large, padded rim. (This was Lagoon's version of the "Roulette Wheel" shown above).
Then there was the "whirlpool". This was a large wooden drum – different from the washtub with the drop-out floor – that would effectively allow you to stand at about a 45-degree angle if you could fight the centripetal force. This ride was one of the first ones to go that I recall.
Lagoon's "Whirlpool"
Interestingly enough, there were probably countless chipped teeth, friction burns, broken arms, split lips, and a dozen other injuries on a regular basis… and for decades nobody sued, and the fun just kept on happening. We can thank the zeal of the legal eagles, hungry for billable hours, for litigating us out of such wholesome entertaintment today.
[Edit: An article in the Deseret News of May 4, 1957, describes the attractions in the Fun House thus:
"Opening of a new fun house, the first to be build in the United States in 28 years, will be one of the main attractions at the pre-season opening of Lagoon this weekend. Built at a cost of more than $100,000 to meet the requests of thousands for a fun house to replace the one that burned in the 1953 fire at the resort, it was designed by Ranch S. Kimball, president and general manager of Lagoon. Fifty-foot-high slides are among features of the modern building. There are slides of lesser heights for the more cautious. Another device of special interest is the Whirlpool, a new circular device which revolves at a terrific speed. Other of the 40 features within the fun house include: a skating floor, shuffleboard, crash bumper, lily pads in a tank of water, Sahara Desert, a rolling log, twisters, teeter boards, electric air valves, a moving floor, a whistle trap, roller inclines, a dog-house crawl-through, a jail, revolving barrels, the roulette wheel, tilted room, ocean waves, the camel back, and a new cage maze, which is a maze to amaze anyone. An eight-piece animated monkey band perched above the entrance will greet customers. A balcony, featuring special seating for spectators, has been built to permit a general view of the entire fun house.]
I was tickled that my memory of the Whirlpool was not faulty, and this article reminded me of a number of features that I had forgotten about – the rolling log, the roller incline, the twister floor, the lily pads, and several others.
The "Haunted Shack" has been described in other places, but I loved it. A walk-through "dark ride", it sat above a cotton candy shop, and the year I worked there, a buddy of mine who was responsible for that attraction took me up into the attic where you could watch the people go through the mazes. The haunted shack included a mirror maze, which, when it was kept clean, was pretty challenging to get out of.
The Haunted Shack was featured at the Lagoon History Project. It was one of my favorite attractions, and I was sad when it was finally removed to make room for the Carousel and other attractions.
The year I worked at lagoon, what was formerly the Penny Arcade had been converted into a skating rink. That's where I spent most of my break time and free time if I ever came back on a day off. It didn't last long, but it was a great place. I do recall seeing the first Pong game there. At that time, the rides were ticket-based… I recall you could get into the Lagoon Opera House for only two tickets, and watch silent movies in an air-conditioned environment. They were always making announcements over the PA system in this deep, growly voice that told people about the attractions they were trying to promote. That was also a popular place to take breaks on hot days.
At that time, the employee kitchen was this dingy little place on the back of the East side of the midway, but hey, that's where we could get lunch, and it seemed fine.
I worked the games. I was most often stationed in the Shooting Gallery (machine guns with bb's, and you had to shoot a red star completely out of a sheet of paper to win a prize). It was much, much harder than it looked – even the tiniest scrap of red would disqualify you from winning a prize – but again, not impossible. Located just south of the Fun House, that's where I was stationed when Neil Armstrong set foot on the moon – people were taking rotating shifts that day to watch the landing and EVA's, and there were TV's set up all over the park. I recall running to the Fascination room to watch the event during a break.
A Fascination Parlor
Parenthetically, Fascination was where I always spent the most time (and money) when I went to the park as a kid – when I wasn't on the rides, that is.
Basically a bingo game with rubber balls, the attraction for me was the fact that when you won, you'd get these coupons that were worth multiple tickets at the prize redemption center. And if the traveling red light lit up on your machine when you won, the prizes were doubled, I think. I recall winning quite often, and it was exciting to play. Oh, the thrill of winning with five reds…
Tip-em-over, where the point was to get 5 lead milk bottles completely tipped over, and yes, some of them were much heavier than others – we'd put a weighted one or two on the bottom if we were facing some Lou Ferrigno type, or put a heavy one on top if it was a cute girl that we wanted to win. You could say that that particular game was gaffed, but never in such a way that it made it impossible to win. We were instructed to keep our "payout" hovering at about 30% of what we took in, which are a lot better odds than you bet in Vegas or at your average traveling carny. Flukey ball – where you had to bounce a whiffle ball off a character's nose and into a bucket – was straightforward and just difficult to do, but not impossible – there were no gimmicks there – and the water pistol shooting gallery was a great attraction on hot days.
I recall we'd send annoying kids down to the other end of the park for a "sky hook" or a "counter stretcher". Everyone knew the gag, so the poor wights would be sent from one end of the park to the other until they got tired.
The redemption center was fun for kids. You pretty much had to have a zillion tickets to get anything worthwhile, but there was always something that you could get with just a few. And there were some very tempting things there, tempting enough to keep the kids playing Skee-Ball or Fascination until their (or their parents') money ran out.
The Terroride has always been a central attraction at Lagoon, it was located right next to the original Fun House (I have written about that ride elsewhere.)
Terroride exterior
The Terroride original mural
Lagoon was a marvelous place to visit, and a good place to work, for a teenager. After that summer I moved on to bigger and better things, but I won't forget my experiences there. Robert E. Freed and my mom went to school together, and I knew his family well – it was a tragic loss when he passed away far too early.
Ranch Kimball and Robert Freed inspect the "new" popcorn cart at Lagoon.
This newspaper ad would have been after 1969 when the Lagoon Opera House opened. More vintage Lagoon ads can be seen here.
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2 responses to "Memories of Lagoon"
Dan Gamble says:
I turned 8 years old the summer of 1966 when my family spent the summer in Logan as my father worked on his Masters degree at Utah State. We visited Lagoon several times that summer, and your photos brought back some great memories. Thanks!
The Old Wolf says:
Thanks for your comment, I'm glad the memories were happy!


If weekly meal prep feels like a giant challenge — you're not alone. In fact, finding time to create healthy, budget-friendly meals is such a common frustration, services like HelloFresh and Plated become more popular everyday! But the good news is, there are loads of clever, easy ideas all over the web just waiting to crack the code on meal planning — and we've compiled some of our favorites below!
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One of Vancouver's oldest and most cherished movie theatres is about to be gutted and turned into a private, for-profit fitness facility. Situated in the heart of Kitsilano, the Hollywood Theatre has been one of a shrinking list of independent movie houses. Its low admission has made it possible for students and other low income patrons to go to the movies.
Sadly, Vision Vancouver, the party of Developers, does not recognize any of the above. When the private developer sought approval from City Hall, it obtained the green light almost immediately.
COPE urges its members to attend the Rally to Save the Hollywood Theatre this Sunday, November 17th at 12:00pm at St. James Hall, West 10th and Trutch.


A new group of volunteers has begun to look after parts of the Chalk Pits Nature Reserve - but there is still time for more people to join the (working) party!
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The Government has awarded over ?8 million to Hampshire County Council to improve broadband access for rural communities. But Buriton will probably only get some of the money if we do something about it.
The latest guided walks in Buriton's Chalk Pits Nature Reserves discovered a rare fungus which appears on the Red Data List of threatened British fungi.
More information can be found on the web site: www.alegateachcorner.com.


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Zimbabwe: For New October Revolutions!
The following is reprinted from our comrades of the Revolutionary Workers Group of Zimbabwe (RWG-ZIM).
This leaflet was distributed at the "Marxism 2017 Conference,
Crisis in Zimbabwe and Global Capitalism One Solution – Revolution
Celebrating 100 years of the Great October 1917 Russian Revolution" held
November 4th in Zimbabwe organized by the International Socialist
Organization – Zimbabwe and other left and radical movements and unions:
For New October Revolutions!
World imperialism is facing its terminal crisis of falling profits and climate change. There is no way out for the human race other than the overthrow of global capitalism and creation of world socialism. For that reason workers and oppressed in every country have to subordinate their national struggles to the international workers' struggle.
For imperialism to survive it downloads its crisis onto the semi-colonies and the oppressed people of the earth. All of the hardships faced by the masses are caused by the degeneration of a rotten capitalist system that no longer develops, but rather destroys, the forces of production.
Africa demonstrates how the world is being re-partitioned between Chinese imperialists on the rise and the US/EU imperialists on the decline. China (and Russia) are not friends of Africa but the new colonial powers. They prop up the anti-worker regimes as their agents in pumping out raw materials and surplus value from Africa. They send capitalist enterprises to Africa to build
infrastructure projects primarily to support extraction of raw materials and staff these enterprises with expat construction workers, engineers, doctors and support staff. Promoted as 'win-win' deals and in Marxist terms "Use Value" exchanges the outcome perpetuates the stunted industrialisation and parasitic underdevelopment model western imperialism practices, with a smile.
Zimbabwe is one of the most oppressed semi-colonies. Its crisis is the downloading of China's crisis. It is investing in infrastructure, cancelling loans and bailing out the regime to hold down the people while it extracts minerals (diamonds), crops (tobacco) and cheap labour etc. "At present the only policy document is Zim-Asset, which covers all areas, but without specific
prioritisation. Zim-Asset requires an estimated US$28 billion, which is not available." (June 29 2016 The Herald) In contrast the $4b promise of Chinese FDI will not afford Zimbabwe a
breakthrough to a "modern development." It will afford a continuation of the current Chinese extraction model, building infrastructure to aid extraction of resources. The $4b for Agricultural development is intended to double tobacco exports and replicate the tobacco model to grow soy, cotton, and livestock products for export. Trading western imperialism for eastern imperialism leaves Africa undeveloped.
Workers and the oppressed must organise to fight back and refuse to pay the costs of the imperialists' crisis. Spontaneous fightbacks must be coordinated and organised by the rank and file in the unions, nationally and regionally, and on the streets and in the schools to defend the masses from economic exploitation and state repression. Workers and the poor masses should
not wait for elections to be held next year. The issues of factions in the ruling party and coalitions in the opposition are just machinations of imperialism in search of a better way of controlling the masses. For this a mass workers party, and other popular organisations such as
workers councils and workers self-defence squads are necessary.
A mass workers party has to be independent of the imperialists, the compradors and the middle class. It can only do this by building an internationalist revolutionary workers party on the Bolshevik model. 1917 and the lessons of October prove this. Unless workers defeat the class enemy within the workers organisations there can be no class independence. These lessons must be translated to the Southern African situation.
The Bolshevik party activates a transitional program that develops revolutionary consciousness by raising immediate demands necessary for living, food, housing, health, education, continuing to advance the struggle for maximum demands for the defeat of imperialism, its comprador client regime in Zimbabwe, and for the formation of a workers' and small farmers' Government, i.e. permanent revolution. True national independence can only be achieved by
the spread of workers revolution across the Southern cone and the formation of a federation of socialist workers states of Southern Africa taking the road of the October revolution.
A Workers' and small farmers' Government is necessary to socialise the means of production and create a socialist plan to rebuild the economy on the basis of workers democratic control in industry, agriculture, transport, finance etc. Only by this means can the working people take control of and develop the economy to meet their basic needs.
Zimbabwe cannot succeed as a socialist republic within one country and must join forces with all Southern African states and a wider union of African socialist republics to create a new division of labour for development. For that reason in every country international solidarity is forged by the formation of a revolutionary international party as the general staff to lead the
revolution and defeat all the imperialist general staffs.
A union of African socialist republics as part of a global federation of socialist republics is necessary to overcome national divisions, to unite and defend the world revolution, end mass poverty, oppression and the collapse of the ecosystem, and to save humanity and nature.
Revolutionary Workers Group of Zimbabwe (RWG-ZIM)
Website: www.rwgzimbabwe.wordpress.com
Email: rwg.zimbabwe@gmail.com
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Neuroptika Announces Enrollment Of First Patient In Phase...
Neuroptika Announces Enrollment Of First Patient In Phase 2 Clinical Trial For Dry Eye Disease
CAMBRIDGE, Mass., Jan. 16, 2020 /PRNewswire/ -- Neuroptika, a privately held biotechnology company focused on the development of novel regenerative treatments for ophthalmic diseases, today announced that the first patient was enrolled in a Phase 2 clinical trial of NRO-1 for the treatment of dry eye disease. NRO-1 is a novel therapeutic with the potential to protect and regenerate corneal nerves in ophthalmic diseases.
"Existing treatments for dry eye disease are focused on symptomatic therapy and are considered inadequate by many physicians and patients. Corneal nerve degeneration is often observed in patients diagnosed with dry eye and we believe that NRO-1 has the potential to become a disease modifying treatment. NRO-1 promotes the regeneration of damaged corneal sensory nerves thereby normalizing the ocular surface and improving the symptoms of dry eye," said Tim Min, Chief Executive Officer of Neuroptika. "Based on the positive results from the Phase 1 single and multiple ascending dose study, we are pleased to initiate the Phase 2 clinical trial and look forward to the continued development to bring a novel, regenerative treatment option to patients suffering from dry eye disease."
The Phase 2 clinical trial is a multicenter, randomized, double-masked, vehicle-controlled clinical trial that will evaluate the safety and efficacy of NRO-1 in patients with dry eye disease. The Phase 2 clinical trial will test two concentrations of NRO-1 against vehicle over 28 days of treatment in 120 patients with moderate-to-severe dry eye disease, including post-surgical patients. The endpoints will include standard signs and symptoms characteristic of dry eye disease and will also include nerve morphology imaging and biomarker analysis. Results from the Phase 2 study will be available in the second half of 2020.
About Neuroptika
Neuroptika is a clinical stage biotechnology company formed in December 2018 as a spin out of Senju Pharmaceutical Co., Ltd, a privately held pharmaceutical company based in Japan. Neuroptika is developing NRO-1, a novel therapeutic that protects and regenerates corneal nerves. NRO-1 has generated compelling data demonstrating accelerated nerve regeneration which led to the recovery of functional nerves and corneal sensitivity in animal studies. A successful Phase 1 SAD/MAD trial was completed and a Phase 2 trial for dry eye disease is currently enrolling patients. While most dry eye treatments are focused on treating signs and symptoms, NRO-1 has the potential to become the first disease modifying regenerative treatment. NRO-1's benefit is also being studied in other indications, including post-LASIK care, neurotrophic keratitis, glaucoma and Leber's hereditary optic neuropathy. Our mission is to improve patients' lives by developing novel regenerative treatments for ophthalmic diseases. For more information, please visit www.neuroptika.com.
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It's fair to say that Coach hasn't been cool in a long, long time. In fact, you could argue that Coach has never been cool - despite the fact that, at various times in history, misguided people (myself included) have thought it was cool. See also: what's happening with Michael Kors right now.
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Pics via Fashion Gone Rogue.


"Never a dull moment." For Linda Thorson, it's more than a life motto. It's an existential promise. The Toronto-born actor crafted a career via British stage and television after replacing Diana Rigg on The Avengers, but the life adventure just keeps going.
Thorson has a new boyfriend, and after five decades in the business, her first starring role in a feature film. Thorson plays Katherine, an uptight, opera-loving matron who finds love in a seniors' home in The Second Time Around, a new movie from Leon Marr that recently picked up the audience award at The Palm Beach film festival.
Currently on the Canadian art house circuit with stops in Vancouver and Montreal, The Second Time Around tells the story of Katherine and Isaac (Stuart Margolin), two apparent opposites who hear the song in each other's heart, and take a bold step toward love in life's later chapters.
Thorson says she understands why some people find it easier to shut down as they grow older. Life can overwhelming and the world can get a little crazy, but even as a terrorist attacked London on the day we spoke, Thorson says she won't stop living her life the way she sees fit.
Love Dance: Linda Thorson plays Katherine to Stuart Margolin's Isaac in Leon Marr's The Second Time Around.
The Ex-Press: What do you make of the world this morning?
Linda Thorson: I'm just watching the news and there's been an attack on London. People are down on the bridge. Gunshots. Apparently something happened in Parliament… it's all very confusing at the moment.
Ex-Press: Yes. Confusing in general. The world is changing so fast, it seems. Does it get any easier to process as one gets older?
Thorson: I don't know. My headline is never a dull moment. I just say it: Never a dull moment. Every time I turn around, I am flying somewhere. And you know I spend my time between three countries, the U.S., Britain and now Canada. So you personalize these things because I could have been on the bridge, you know. And that's the way it is these days.
Ex-Press: Does it change the way you live?
Thorson: No, not at all. You can't stop living your life. They did an interview with a man who survived the Belgian bombing, which was a year ago today in the airport in Brussels. This man was severely, severely injured, but he said the biggest change for him was that he no longer had any fear.
Ex-Press: Fear can be such a burden.
Thorson: Somehow, I came into the world being extremely fearless. I don't know why or where that came from. The only thing I have ever really been afraid of is something happening to my son. I wanted to live until he was 21. Now he's 31, so you realize that was just a maternal thing. Not wanting anything bad to happen, but now it's so liberating not to be afraid. Not afraid to be alone. Not afraid of dying. So it's a personal thing. You have to deal with fear or you won't do anything….
Somehow, I came into the world being extremely fearless. I don't know why or where that came from.
Ex-Press: And you do so much. How did you become involved with Second Time Around and Leon Marr?
Thorson: I first saw the script years ago. He had written it with me in mind. I had the right look of this woman he saw walking around in his mind. That was a long time ago, and it had been through so many different iterations, but they got back to me and … we did it. There was no money. We all did it for the love of the story.
Ex-Press: So it was a love-in?
Thorson: No. Leon and I fought every minute of every day. I fought him on so many things. He refused to listen to me about some of the things… like the wheelchair. No one uses wheelchairs for a broken hip anymore. He's infuriating, but the movie was in his head… Fortunately, the movie out of his head is wonderful! That's the thing with Leon: he hadn't made a movie in so many years. Something happened. It doesn't make much sense until you meet him. He's non-linear.
Ex-Press: Free-associating. Sounds very creative.
Ex-Press: For linear people, that can be tough though. Is there anything you've figured out about acting to make these dynamics easier from a professional perspective?
Thorson: I know. WTF? I had no idea what he meant. Then I thought about it. What he meant was I was elaborating. All I had to do was keep it where it was because that's where it was right. He didn't admonish me. So it's in the way you are handled.
Ex-Press: Any insights on how to be treated right?
Thorson: I have fought with a lot of directors. I had a great part in August Osage County, playing Violet. It was the best part of my life, but the director wasn't trusting me. He didn't believe that I could get there on my own. That's when I realized what directors really need: They need to be told they are amazing.
I have fought with a lot of directors. I had a great part in August Osage County, playing Violet. It was the best part of my life, but the director wasn't trusting me. He didn't believe that I could get there on my own. That's when I realized what directors really need: They need to be told they are amazing.
Thorson: It's one way to avoid disappointment. Always look on the bright side of life … [sings Monty Python's Bright Side of Life from the Life of Brian].
Thorson: I fight a lot and not everyone can handle it. I've had the worst fights with female directors. Sounds terribly sexist to say it. But I'm a fighter because I can't do it the way I think is wrong. A lot of great directors have wanted to use me again, so it hasn't been a liability. I simply demand to be treated like a grown-up.
I tell you the best advice I ever had from anyone about acting ever is: go through your whole day, the whole process, treating everyone the way you would a four-year old. It works like a charm….
Ex-Press: Can it be that condescending?
Thorson: Yes…. No one should ever say that to you. It's your job.
Ex-Press: Your job has taken you all over the place. Theatre in London and New York, and now back to Canada?
Thorson: I'm in New York now. I was just in London. And I have an apartment in Rosedale that I've had since my son was studying at U of T. I am probably going to sell my house in New York, because of taxes and it's an empty nest, but it's so funny because I left Toronto at what, 15? And now, in light of how we started this conversation, isn't Canada turning into the best place in the world. I love it.
Ex-Press: Me too! And it's one of those things that you don't truly appreciate until you've been away a lot.
…Isn't Canada turning into the best place in the world. I love it!
Thorson: So true. And at my age you can start to see around the corner. And what you see around the corner is a glimpse of life… And around that corner, Toronto looks like a great place to grow old… I can't stay in London too long. There's not enough sunshine. The dark is harder the older you get. I think that's why so many people go to Florida.
Ex-Press: you don't seem very Florida to me.
Thorson: Let's not put down Florida. We just won the audience award at Palm Beach… where the movie really resonated with people. There was a 97-year-old woman with white hair (they thought she was my mother), and she told me it was her story. She and her second husband met 25 years ago and were still having a great time….
Ex-Press: What did it feel like to be in that space in Hamilton? It was a real seniors residence. Where did your mind go?
Thorson: I lost my mother at 60 and my sister at 63, she also had cancer. When you watch your mother and sister as they die… I went in there with the sense that it was everyone's last home. I understood and respected that. And given the tight shooting schedule [14 days], I finally asked to stay there instead of being driven around all the time. So I lived there for the last five days. And you know what? It has a real charm. I went down for breakfast and everyone has their jokes, their story. It was warm, didn't smell bad and the people were lovely.
Ex-Press: Could you see yourself there?
Thorson: I decided a while ago that I am going to find a hut, wear a mumu, get some good marijuana and fade away on the beach.
I decided a while ago that I am going to find a hut, wear a mumu, get some good marijuana and fade away on the beach.
Ex-Press: Sounds ideal. You just have to get the timing right. Like acting, I guess. It's all about the timing.
Thorson: It is all about timing. Speaking of which…Who would think that after all these years of life I would meet the most amazing person? It's love. We're in love. So art is imitating life.
Thorson: Yes. And that after all these years, I should come back to my hometown starring in a feature film for the first time ever. I just wish my mother and sister, my biggest fans, were here to see it.
Ex-Press: Definitely life imitating art… How did you meet your current partner?
Thorson: We met last March. We were in a play in London, set in 1947, the year I was born. We were working together. And one of the things that is difficult as you get older is where do you meet people? For actors, it's one of the perks of the job. You're always working with other people. Granted, there are a lot of people my age who have no desire whatsoever to meet anybody, but for me, I just don't want it to be over…. There's no fat lady singing, I tell you that.
I just don't want it to be over…. There's no fat lady singing, I tell you that.
Ex-Press: Ha! Were you a fan of fat ladies singing – a fan of opera before this movie?
Thorson: I have my go-to: Kiri Takanawa. I listen to her in the dressing room. Listening to opera takes you into that other stratosphere. And I've always loved Callas. The music is a teacher. My husband used to pick up our son on the weekends, and instead of being sad, I had a big mirror in the living room, and I would take out a table, blare the music and dance on the table. And I would play opera or Beethoven with French horns, because I knew that music changes everything.
Thorson: When you're in love, and you hear love songs, it's like you've never heard those songs before. It's lovely, you know.
Thorson: Music is the mood changer. And also in this movie, of course, people talk about the opera. But what's interesting for Katherine is, here's this woman who has lived a certain kind of life, yet never would have fallen for someone like her husband, who passed away. She's interested in someone who makes her use her mind. And in this man [played by Margolin] who sings Yiddish songs, she's met her intellectual match. She realizes he has music in him, and so she puts her headphones on him, and plays him her opera. He is unlike anyone she has ever encountered. That's what turns her on. Music is the great common denominator.
Ex-Press: As far as your understanding of this woman, have you met a woman like her? Is she someone you recognize as a character?
Ex-Press: Ha Ha! I felt like I had seen this woman before, maybe spending the day at Holt Renfrew. She felt very, um, Toronto.
Thorson: Yes. She is very Toronto because that's where the old Brits are. And yes, Holt Renfrew – the hair, the clothes, the whole thing. I knew how she should look – not wanting to attract attention to herself. She keeps a lid on it. There's something fearful about her. She subsumes her dreams and goes to Arizona so her husband can play golf. But that's what was fun about her. She starts off as someone who doesn't smile. She is cold and rather unlikable. But she begins to blossom, and turns into someone quite lovely.
She is very Toronto because that's where the old Brits are. And yes, Holt Renfrew – the hair, the clothes, the whole thing. I knew how she should look – not wanting to attract attention to herself. She keeps a lid on it. There's something fearful about her. She subsumes her dreams and goes to Arizona so her husband can play golf.
Ex-Press: I agree, and it's such a sweet performance. Was it hard to be her?
Thorson: She was so unlike myself that it was actually easier than most. It's harder to play someone close to yourself than someone in the other yard. The same thing with Stuart. You know, when he sits out there in the yard smoking his cigar he looks like a movie star. Watching the movie you can see them bloom together…Stuart is such a marvelous actor. He made it all easy.
Ex-Press: You're both kind of iconic that way. I watched the Rockford Files, too. What was your rapport?
Ex-Press: Well you find an easy chemistry together. You find the beats of a couple falling in love. How did you manage that?
Thorson: Well, you know, Katherine, he smelled good. There were things that made everything easy. Just being around Stuart: His hands were always lovely, his skin is soft. He's a person who has been married for 50 years to a high court judge. She is the judge in all the photographs of LBJ being sworn in on Air Force One. She's this little woman with tremendous power as a judge and he loves her to death. That's the kind of human being Stuart is attracted to. That's the kind of man he is. How could you not fall in love with someone like that?
The Second Time Around is currently playing Vancouver (engagement ends Thursday), Toronto and Montreal.
Read Katherine Monk's Movie Reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, and right here in the Ex-Press archive.
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