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Schnalle Method: Paradiddle Tap Orchestrations
Paradiddle Tap Orchestrations
By Wally Schnalle Originally published in DRUM! Magazine's February 2008 Issue
In this lesson I continue my exploration of “odd-adiddles,” I put the paradiddle tap in a jazz context. I’ve taken that same five-note wonder (shown in its raw form in Ex. 1) and orchestrated it around the kit. This vocabulary can be used for soloing or for tension-filled fills. Ex. 2 shows the orchestration I’m using for this right lead pattern. The right hand plays the floor tom; the left hand plays the snare; and the double right is replaced with a double stroke on the bass drum. Ex. 3 and 4 put the odd-adiddle in an eighth-note-triplet context, while Ex. 5 and 6 show them played as sixteenths. Each of the rhythmic environments has a one- and two-measure example, as the five-note pattern does not resolve itself for five measures. These examples will help you to feel the odd-adiddles in shorter, more usable phrases. Also, be sure to keep time with the hi-hat as shown so you’re actually feeling the tension and resolution of the phrase.


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On the final night of the Knockout Rounds on “the Voice” only Kelly has not used her save but only Alicia has used her steal. Alicia and Blake each have four artists on their team, Adam has three artists, and Kelly only has two artists on her team.
First up is team Alicia with her two youngest artists, Britton Buchanan and Dallas Caroline. Britton chose the Billy Joel song “New York State of Mind” and Dallas chose “Bless the Broken Road” for their performances. Adam said that they broke his heart; adding that saw progress in them both. Blake liked both singers but said that he liked Dallas. Kelly referred Britton to the Rat Pack; adding that Dallas was a bit Dolly like. Saying that she was proud of both singers, Alicia chose Britton as the winner of the battle.
Kelly paired D.R. King and Tish Haynes Keys for a battle. D.R. chose “(I Know) I’m Losing You” and Tish chose “Lady Marmalade” for their performances. A speechless Alicia said that D.R. took the song to a whole new level, and Tish had sass. Adam said that Tish messed it up for everybody; adding that both are beyond phenomenal. Blake called it world class talent. Kelly said that both singers killed it equally; adding that the winner was D.R. King. Kelly pushed to save Tish and Adam pushed to steal Tish back for his team. Tish decided to stay with Kelly.
Blake paired Dylan Hartigan and Wilkes together for a battle. Wilkes chose the Miley Cyrus song “The Climb” and Dylan chose “You Are the Best Thing” for their performances. An excited Kelly said that Wilkes was awesome; adding that she loved Dylan. Alicia called Dylan super dynamic and with Wilkes the music takes him over. Adam said that both guys were ridiculous. Blake noted that both guys did everything that they could do. Blake chose Wilkes as the winner of the battle. As Dylan was walking off the stage Kelly pushed to steal him back.
Adam paired Gary Edwards and Rayshun LaMarr for a battle noting that the guys are similar. Gary chose “Many Rivers to Cross” by Jimmy Cliff and Rayshun chose Alicia Keys song “Fallin’” for their performances and brought Adam and Alicia to their feet. Kelly said that Rayshun was full of it and Blake agreed. Alicia said that Gary did a beautiful job. She wondered if Rayshun could hit the notes…and he did. Adam was glad that Rayshun went for it; adding that it was like a transformation for Gary. Adam chose Rayshun as the winner of the battle. As host Carson Daly was thanking Gary, Blake pushed his button to steal Gary. Blake’s team is now full and ready for the live playoff rounds.
For her final pairing, Kelly put Alexa Cappelli and Jorge Eduardo together for a battle. Alexa chose the Elton John song “Goodbye Yellow Brick Road” and Jorge chose the Miguel song “Adorn”. Alicia noted that Jorge gave it all his energy; adding that Alexa continues to surprise. Adam said that it was a good song choice for Jorge; adding that Alexa has the potential to be a great singer. Blake called Alexa one of the best singers in the competition but it undeniable to hear the reaction of the audience when Jorge sang. Kelly noted that Alexa chose a song with a crazy hard melody; adding that she loves Jorge. Saying that the winner keeps shocking her, Kelly chose Alexa as the winner of the battle.
In a clip Adam chose Reid Umstatd as the winner of the battle.
For the final pairing Alicia put Kelsea Johnson and Sharane Callister for a battle. Kelsea chose “Rise Up” by Andra Day and Sharane chose the Etta James song “All I Could Do Was Cry”. Adam said that Sharane was so connected to what she was singing; adding that there were two amazing up there. Kelly said that Kelsey nailed it and Sharane is one of the most emotional singers on the show. Blake said WTF to Sharane over her pipes and liked how Kelsea’s voice broke up. Alicia noted that Sharane felt there was power in her stillness and always rose to the occasion; adding that Kelsea had been in her head but was breaking through. Alicia chose Kelsea as the winner of the battle. Adam pushed his button to steal Sharane.
Austin Giorgio – save
D. R. King
Tish Haynes Keys – save
Drew Cole – save
Jackie Foster – steal
Christiana Danielle – save

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William Gordon Mills was born on 8 August 1914 in Fitzroy, Victoria, Australia to parents Ernest Gordon Mills (1884-1955) and Eliza Asenath Hutton (1888-1965).
He was one of four children born to the couple – Harold (1913-1978), William (1914-1991), Clara (1920-1920) and Marie (1928-1928). His baby sister Clara was buried in the Coburg Cemetery.
Gordon, as he was known all his life, lived in many different locations over his lifetime.
As a young child he lived in Upper Diamond Creek (aged 2), Woodleigh (aged 4), 29 Bendigo Street, Collingwood (aged 6), and then on to a dairy farm in Cardinia, Victoria.
He attended Cardinia Primary School from age 7 to 8.
The family then moved back to the city to Carlton for a couple of years, and then down to Wonthaggi where his father Ernest first worked as a miner in the Wonthaggi Coal mine, and then started delivering fruit in the town in 1929 when Gordon was 15.
Gordon’s older brother Harry worked at the Wonthaggi Coal mine from February 1942 until March 1943.
The family attended the Wonthaggi Methodist Church and Gordon enjoyed playing football and cricket.
Gordon also played cornet in the town band. Gordon left school at the age of 15 and started employment on 3 March 1930 at the National Bank in Wonthaggi.
Gordon’s father Ernest got the family’s first car in 1932, an Oakland, and Gordon learned to drive, and then obtain his license when he was 18 in this car.
He worked in Wonthaggi for four years before being transferred to –
- 1934 Melbourne – tellers clerk
- 1935 Tocomwal – ledger keeper
- 1936 Seymour – ledger keeper
- 1937 Kerang – ledger keeper
- 1939 Wonthaggi – ledger keeper
- 1940 Kew – ledger keeper
- 1941 Prahran – ledger keeper
- 1941 Cranbourne – ledger keeper
- 1945 Bridgewater – teller
- 1947 Yallourn – accountant
- 1952 Benalla – accountant
- 1957 Apsley – manager
- 1959 Violet Town – manager
- 1960 Seymour – manager
- 1961 Learmonth – manager
- 1965 Natiumuk – manager
- 1968 Port Fairy – manager
- 1970 Winchelsea – manager
- 1976 retired to Mornington
In 1932 Gordon was playing football for Wonthaggi when a visiting Melbourne VFL player, commented on Gordon’s football abilities which were reported in the local Wonthaggi paper.
Gordon loved his sport, and when he shifted to Melbourne for work several VFL clubs wrote him letters asking him to play for their teams, and in February 1935 a man from the Hawthorn Club approached him personally with a formal invitation, and he started training with them.
But unfortunately when the Bank heard about this, they were not amused. The State Manager came and told Gordon if he didn’t play for only the bank team, he would lose his job, so he transferred to Seymour, and played in the bank team as directed.
On 8 April 1939, the Rev Howard Kettle married 24 year old Gordon to 28 year old Olive May Gray at the Methodist church in High Street, Northcote. Gordon’s brother Harry and Olive’s sister Lilian were the marriage witnesses.
Gordon had met Olive while she was working as Secretary and Treasurer at the Shire Offices in Wonthaggi.
She was often at the Wonthaggi National Bank doing the banking. They both attended the Wonthaggi Methodist Guild and church and had quite a few friends in common.
The couple honeymooned in Lorne and Apollo Bay and then lived with Gordon’s parents in Wonthaggi for a year.
Then, with rumours of war on the horizon they moved in with Olive’s parents at 117 St George’s Road, Northcote in 1940. Later two children were born to the couple – Val and Darryl.
While living in St Georges Road Northcote, on 1 September 1939 England declared war on Germany. The government started rationalising the banks and foreclosed many to release more men for the war effort. At this time Gordon was working in Cranbourne and the bank was closed and shifted its business to Dandenong.
Gordon enlisted in the Royal Australian Air Force at the recruiting centre in Melbourne on 10 Sept 1942 as a trainee radio operator. He was assigned the Service No of 118495.
He was first sent to Shepparton (nicknamed The Bull Ring) for 4 weeks of drilling sessions and training, and then to Richmond NSW Radio School for a month. He was then posted to Birdum, Northern Territory for further military training in the use of radio signals.
Birdum is 493 kms south of Darwin on the Stuart Highway, near the Daly Waters pub/roadhouse of today, and was the terminus of the North Australia Railway from 1929 until the outbreak of World War II.
After the bombing of Darwin on 19 February 1942, the Darwin civilian population was evacuated and the evacuees were transported by rail to Birdum siding where they were transferred to an army convoy to take them to Alice Springs.
An evacuation hospital was constructed at Birdum by the U.S. Army 135th Medical Regiment in September 1942. Gordon arrived at the No 55 Operational Base in Birdum in December 1942.
The Royal Australian Air Force constructed a Base Personnel Staff Officer and Telecommunications Camp including No. 11 Signals Unit RAAF, which was part of No. 55 Operational Base Unit based at Birdum.
The unit would be on aircraft listening watch and have to listen for a word which would indicate the air raid against enemy forces or bases had been successful or not.
The equipment used was Kingsley AR7 receivers.
Gordon was responsible for monitoring the radar equipment, and watching for the Japanese bombers. The radar covered about 150 miles and he witnessed about 30 attacks by the Japanese in his 20 month stay at Birdum, Adelaide River and Darwin.
He was promoted to Leading Aircraftman on 3rd September 1943 and assigned to the 44th Radar Wing of the RAAF. In May 1943 he was hospitalised with a bad dose of malaria.
He was finally allowed home on 8 July 1944 for 6 weeks leave after 19 months in northern Australia mostly in Darwin.
Finally he could meet his two year old daughter and spend some time together with his wife and child as a family.
Gordon was then sent to Wilson’s Promontory in August 1944 for further warfare training.
Then after time in Townsville, he was sent to Aitope in New Guinea in March 1945 to the 340 Radar Station, Detection Unit, where he served until the end of the war. Gordon remembered that there were strong rumours that the war would finish before Christmas, but it was over in a week after the atom bombs were dropped.
Gordon considered himself very fortunate, as unlike others he was discharged only a fortnight after peace was declared. The main concern where he was, was getting out the wounded when the war ended. He caught a plane to Lae, then after a ten day delay he flew to Port Moresby. While he was staying in Port Moresby he caught up with his brother in law Harry Gray who was stationed there in the Medical section.
Gordon was given a powder compact by the RAAF to give to his wife.
From there he caught a flying boat to Cairns, Queensland and then a long train ride back down to Melbourne. He was the first man out of his unit to be discharged from New Guinea and sent home. After a brief hello to Olive and family he made his way to the MCG to get his discharge papers. He was discharged from the RAAF on 27 September 1945.
Gordon received the 1939-1945 Star, Defence Medal, War Medal 1939-45, Australian Service Medal 1939-45, Pacific Star, and the Returned From Active Service Badge.
On his discharge, like other soldiers and airmen serving in the Australian forces, he was given a voucher to buy a hat and suit, and sent on his way back into civilian life. He would carry with him the scars of war, including malaria which he suffered bouts of for many years after.
The bank had continued to part pay his salary to his wife while he served in the war, so he was able to save up and buy a small second hand car on his return to civilian life.
Because of the war there were no tyres available to buy, so he cut up old bicycle tyres and placed them around the old worn out car tyres.
Many items were still in short supply for some years after the war, so ration coupons continued for tea, sugar, meat and petrol. The banks were responsible for issuing the coupons, and it continued like this for five years after peace was declared.
Gordon and Olive lived with her parents for a while, until Gordon was transferred to Bridgewater in the bank as a teller.
It was while he was living in Bridgewater that Gordon was selected to play cricket with the Victorian Country Eleven against England.
The match was played in Bendigo on 30 December 1946 and was reported in the local newspapers.
The match was part of the 1946/47 English Tour and the English team was led by Wally Hammond.
Sadly, England lost only four wickets while passing Victoria’s total of 156 with 4 for 200. The teams included Gordon (W Mills) who scored 20 before he was caught and bowled. Or as he fondly told me, “I was second top scorer that day!”.
In 1947 the family moved to 29 Broadway West, Yallourn where they lived for a couple of years and their son Darryl was born in Regent (Preston) in 1946.
By 1952 they were living in Thomas Street, Benalla, where the children attended school.
Then they moved briefly to Apsley in 1957 where Gordon was made Bank Manager, and then they moved again to Violet Town in 1959.
This was followed by another move to Seymour in 1960, then the small Victorian town of Learmonth in 1961.
While Gordon was manager of the Learmonth Branch, his daughter Val was working as a clerk and teller at the Ballarat branch of the National Bank, and they appeared together in the National bank newsletter.
After Learmonth, Gordon and the family were sent to work in Natiumuk in 1965.
In 1968 Gordon was transferred to the National Bank at Port Fairy, and then they moved to Winchelsea in 1970 until his retirement in August 1976.
I can still remember going to stay with them at the bank house in Winchelsea, and going into Geelong for a day trip, and the big excitement of the day was the opening of the new K- Mart store. The first K-Mart had opened previously in Burwood in 1969.
After 46 years service with the bank, Gordon and Olive retired to 57 Mitchell Street, Mornington.
Gordon was very active in the Uniting Church, spending many years as treasurer, and enjoyed fishing from the Mornington Pier, and playing lawn bowls.
He enjoyed pottering around his vegetable garden and spending time with his family.
I have lots of very happy memories of my grandfather driving my sister and I around the country on ‘reconnaissance missions’ as he like to call them, and many fishing trips to the Mornington Pier, Tooradin, and surrounding areas.
I was fortunate to spend a lot of school holidays in Mornington with my grandparents, and from a young age was always interested in how other people had lived their lives, so spent many hours listening to my grandfather Gordon telling me stories about the war years.
Like a lot of men of his time, he loved to tell a good story (especially if it involved fishing!), and how he used to spend many happy trips camping and fishing on Lake Eucumbene in the NSW Snowy Mountains over the years.
He continued to follow the cricket, and his beloved Collingwood Football Club right up to the end.
Gordon passed away on 29 March 1991 (Easter Good Friday) from colon cancer in the Mornington Hospital, aged 76 years.
He is remembered at the Mornington Uniting Church in the Remembrance Garden where he enjoying attending for many years, and with a plaque at the Violet Town Cemetery.
Some of this information was taken from an interview I did with my grandfather Gordon on 4th April 1988 at his home in Mornington. I also completed research in the National Bank archives and National Archives of Australia (RAAF records).

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Location: 1140 NC Hwy 705, Seagrove NC 27341
Shop Hours: Tuesday – Friday 10AM-4PM and Saturdays 10AM to 5PM
Contact Info: firstname.lastname@example.org, 336-267-1545
October 2nd, 10AM to 5PM | Gourd Garden Event
Opening weekend of our Gourd Garden Event there will be an outside garden patch of beautiful ceramic gourds. From 10AM to Noon we will have demonstrations by Erin Younge and she will show how she makes her elaborate gourd stems. Enjoy the fall themed refreshments included.
October 9th, 10AM to 5PM | Gourd Garden Event
For those able to come to Seagrove we will have another weekend of demonstrations by Erin Younge from 10AM to NOON. Erin will throw on the wheel and show how the gourds are made from start to finish. Fall themed refreshments will be provided.
October 16th, 10AM | Gourds Go Online!
If you’re not able to come to Seagrove gourds go online starting at 9AM. View a selection of our signature wood-fired and crystalline glazed gourds and new baking casseroles and storage jars by Kate Waltman starting Saturday when they go live!
October 23rd, 10AM to 5PM | Fungi and Friends
October seems like a great month to celebrate everything woodland. In that spirit, one of our studio members, Margaret Larson, is making a new series of pilsner-style cups. In an effort to learn the beauty of new varieties and capture their uniqueness, each of her nearly 100 pint cups will portray mushrooms of various types, cacti, cowboys and some other fun motifs. Come share in her love of these fungi creations and celebrate the Fall in all its facets.
October 30th, 10AM to 5PM | Tricks and Treats!
This is the final weekend of the Potters’ Pumpkin Patch event. Stock up on your holiday decorations just in time for Halloween! Erin Younge will show more tips and tricks on how she makes and decorates her gourds from 10AM to NOON. Halloween candy and treats will be available for early trick-or-treaters.
About The Triangle Studio
This shop will be hosting their first ever Gourd Garden Event during the weekends of October. Crystalline and wood-fired gourds made by both artists will be available for purchase.
The Triangle Studio features pottery by the co-founders, Kate Waltman and Erin Younge, as well as guest ceramic artists Bill Jones, Andrew Dutcher, and Margaret Larson. All of our members have shared studio space and fired wood kilns together for several years making us a collaborative group created by fire. Our artists make a wide variety of work including dinnerware, bakeware, storage vessels, decorative vases, sculptures, big pots, and a new line of jewelry.

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I am not sure how many times I have heard the story about how my great grandmother would mix herself a quart of manhattans in anticipation of a family dinner party. How much truth is there to that? I’m not sure nor do I really care, but I always get a slight nostalgic feeling when I drink one just imagining her doing the same.
The manhattan was the first cocktail I ever sipped and the first I learned how to make so I thought it appropriate that this be the very first article. A manhattan has a a touch of sweetness, and a nice kick from the rye, while the vermouth and bitters really round everything out.
Like with many classic cocktails, it is not known exactly who created this beauty but it has been around since the 19th century and it is here to stay. There are a few different variations but this is the simplest and most straightforward, and and is also my favorite.
Since there are only a few ingredients I encourage you not to skimp on the quality. That being said, you certainly don’t need to break the bank on some top shelf whiskey here either.
The cocktail can be made with any whiskey you prefer but my favorite here (and the classic choice) is a simple rye. A profile with a little pepperiness, warm baking spices, vanilla and a slight fruitiness will work great and can be found easily.
A nice mixing rye that can found almost everywhere is Old Overholt, it is used in bars and restaurants all over and is also what I use for cocktails.
As for vermouth, there are many solid options out there with a good bit of variance between them. They all have different strong points and you will only be able to tell what your favorite is by slowly trying as many as you can. Please stay away from anything you can buy a gallon bottle of for $10 as you will probably be pretty disappointed.
- Carpano Antica is typically the benchmark and noted for its’ intricate complexity and balance of sweet and bitter. ($30)
- Dolin Rouge is a slightly drier, lighter bodied french sweet vermouth with a nice spiciness that can pair nicely with a rye whiskey. ($15)
- Cocchi Vermouth di Torino has been my choice as of late for its warming sweetness and nice light herbal and baking spice notes. ($22)
- Punt e Mes makes a very nicely balanced manhattan with its’ two parts sweet to one part bitter composition. ($20)
- Boissierre If you’re looking for a bargain bottle this is it. Solid full bodied vermouth with nice dark fruit flavors that fade off into a slightly bitter finish. ($9)
- 2 oz Rye Whiskey
- 1 oz Sweet Vermouth
- 3 dashes Angosutra Bitters
- Orange Peel
- 1 Maraschino Cherry - (optional garnish)
- Add the angostura, vermouth and rye to a mixing glass.
- Add ice and stir until desired chill and dilution is reached.
- Strain into a chilled cocktail glass or a rocks glass with ice.
- Express oils from the orange peel, either drop it in as a garnish or discard.
- If you feel like it drop in a nice maraschino cherry.


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Filed under: Indigenous, Mexico, Political Prisoners
Translated and Submitted to It’s Going Down
San Cristóbal de Las Casas, November 24th, 2016
To the Zapatista Army of National Liberation
To the Councils of Good Government
To the National Indigenous Congress
To the Sexta,
To the Free, Alternative, and Autonomous Media
To Those that Struggle From Below and to the Left
Today, our hearts are filled with joy and we want to share the happiness of receiving our compañero Roberto Paciencia Cruz in liberty. It has been three years and four months of struggle and resistance inside and outside the prison walls. Moments like this demonstrate that walking and planting the seeds of social and collective justice will end giving a harvest of the fruits of liberty.
Roberto, ex-prisoner and adherent of the Sixth Declaration of the Lacandona Jungle of the EZLN, is one of those people that will not remain silent, that will not legitimize barbarism, and who is willing to assume the consequences of his scream of consciousness and rebellion. Through his voice, Roberto has denounced the violations of human rights that the incarcerated population suffers at the hands of the prison authorities and he has inspired the awakening of other prisoners inside the prison walls.
This was another case of the racist and classist state justice system for which being poor and indigenous is a crime sufficient to be incarcerated. But also, it is an example of how the prison can be another trench of struggle, where one can continue the work of those who have struggled before, and set an example for those that continue struggling for their freedom.
This week various events have taken place to diffuse information and accompany the case of Roberto. This was particularly important, as tomorrow was the deadline for the judge to give his sentence of conviction or acquittal. Yesterday an event was held where families and compañerxs of Roberto gave testimonies, inviting the people that move below and to the left to maintain alert to the impending judicial resolution. Today, since 9am, a concentration of people was maintained in front of the cathedral in San Cristóbal de Las Casas to visibilize the case. Simultaneously, a commission was sent to the Central Estatal de Reinerción Social de Sentenciados (CERSS) No. 5 to accompany Roberto in person, and to provide pressure before the resolution of the judicial process. At one in the afternoon, the judge acquitted our compañero and at 5:30 they opened the doors for him to leave the prison behind, and to newly recover his freedom.
Amongst screams of “Freedom, freedom to the prisoners in struggle”, tears of excitement, happiness, and the sound of the Zapatista hymn, Roberto Paciencia arrived at the Plaza of Resistance at 6pm to reunite with his family, compañerxs, and friends. Today we managed to overcome a serious obstacle, but still, we reaffirm our commitment to struggle until everyone obtains their freedom.
Until all the walls are torn down!
For freedom to all!
Down with the prison walls!
Work group “No Estamos Todxs”

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Los Angeles spent $200,000 on La Sombrita (‘“in the shade”), a bus stop shade/light structure that provides little shade or light. It has been almost too easy to criticize its design, the token DEI framing given to the project, how most of the funds went to a global junket for the designers, or the fact that city officials held a tone deaf celebratory press conference for its unveiling. Would this “make waiting for the bus at night [feel] safer” to you?
But La Sombrita isn’t really the problem. Rather, its failures are symptoms of its designers trying to work around deeper, structural problems with the governance of infrastructure in Los Angeles. Others have focused on how the shelter‐on‐a‐stick reveals the flaws of governance via non‐profit, the kludgery of excessive permitting, or “Blue America’s” systemic failures. There is plenty of blame to spread around, but I want to focus on what I believe is a more fundamental flaw that separates Los Angeles’s failures with transit infrastructure from those of even other progressive city governments.
But let’s start with the basics. Cities are paved heat sinks that get unbearably hot in the summers, especially for the poor bus riders waiting and baking for an average of 40 minutes (!) per day. They need shade from the sun, but only about 25% of bus stops in Los Angeles have shelters. Riders are left to squeeze themselves into the narrow shadows cast by utility poles.
Riders want LA to build more shelters. And the LA Metro wants to build more shelters. But most municipal bus systems already hemorrhage money — LA is on track to lose $1 billion a year by 2026 — and there’s no political will for raising fares to cover operating costs, let alone to fund new capital expenditures. And non‐bus riders don’t like being taxed to pay for stuff for bus riders. So how to pay for thousands of new bus shelters?
Well, what if I told you that don’t have to pay…anything? In 2000, someone offered to build and maintain thousands of bus shelters for Los Angeles for no upfront cost, even offering to return ~$6 million a year to the city for the privilege of doing so. Sounds too good to be true, eh? Hold that thought.
Yet that’s precisely what JCDecaux, a French company specializing in designing street furniture, promised to do. Over the next twenty years, JCDecaux promised to build 1,285 new shelters to join a few hundred already existing shelters. However, as the contract expired, they had built only a little over half of the promised shelters, just 660. The overwhelming majority of LA’s 8,100+ bus stops remain shelterless.
It’d be easy to blame JCDecaux for the failure, although the firm actually has a decent global track record of building street infrastructure. Still, the firm suffered from a malincentive problem. You see, JCDecaux offered to pay the upfront cost of the bus shelters because it would then have the exclusive right to sell advertising space on those shelters, splitting a share of that revenue with the city.
But that means JCDecaux’s goal is not to erect bus shelters that function as bus shelters per se. They are incentivized to put up bus shelters that maximize advertising revenue. And maximizing ad revenue means putting new shelters in wealthy neighborhoods rather than in the poor, underserved neighborhoods where more people actually ride the bus. That means that shelters are clustered in wealthy West LA.
In fact, having *people* in your bus shelter is actually a problem because they get in the way of the ads that are facing out at the cars driving by. As one urban planning professor put it, “The advertising company may be interested in putting their shelters on high‐traffic streets where there are relatively few people waiting for buses.” In other words, these are billboards first, bus shelters second. And Los Angeles banned most new billboards in 2002, which meant that the value of the bus shelter advertising substitute has since soared.
But the advertising malincentive explains suboptimal distribution of shelters, not why JCDecaux failed to build the stipulated total number of shelters. That is in large part a function of the byzantine tangle that is the shelter permitting process. To build each bus shelter, the company must get sign‐offs from eight discrete city agencies, an alphabet soup of bureaus and departments. That’s for every. single. shelter.
Each permission can take months or years to acquire, adding time and cost to each shelter. Furthermore, that process looks a little bit different — but just as cumbersome — in each of the other 88 cities and 20 smaller transit agencies in Los Angeles County. Contrast that with the fact that each shelter takes just two hours to install once approved.
In this regard, Los Angeles’ failure to build bus shelters resembles California’s (and the US’s) larger inability to build any kind of infrastructure in either a reasonable timeframe or at a sustainable cost. For example, anti‐development activists have gotten really good at weaponizing both federal and state environmental review laws to stymie infrastructure projects, even those that are environmentally beneficial like transmission lines for renewable energy. My favorite example is how the town of Woodside, California — median home price $5.5 million — declared itself a mountain lion habitat to avoid zoning reform that would’ve allowed denser housing to be built. The good news is that there is growing support on both sides of the partisan divide to reform some of the worst of those permitting delays.
But even as onerous as LA’s permitting system is, it mostly slowed down the progress of installing bus shelters rather than stopping construction altogether. There’s another factor that prevented many of the desired bus stops from being built at all.
Los Angeles is unique among major US cities for giving absolute veto power over bus shelters to city council members. And that veto doesn’t merely reside with the city council as a whole, but with every individual councilperson. Thus, if you’re JCDecaux, and you’ve spent years jumping through all the permitting hurdles for a shelter, and you’ve finally obtained the requisite eight sign‐offs, there’s one more boss battle to confront. You have to ask the councilperson whose district encompasses that bus shelter to give a gladiatoral thumb up or thumb down.
This is a shooting fish in a barrel scenario for NIMBYs, those who don’t want to see any new development built in their backyards. You see, only 9% of Los Angelenos commute via any form of mass transit, let alone via bus. Bus riders presumably want more bus shelters, but they can easily be out shouted by the other 91% of Angelenos who are worried that bus shelters are a visual blight, impair pedestrians, provide havens for the homeless, and so.
What happens is that Los Angeles council people express their theoretical desire for new bus shelters while blocking actually proposed bus shelters in their districts under pressure from store owners, anti‐development activists, and the like. I’m pro‐bus shelter but just not in my backyard.
That’s utterly bizarre. We don’t do other infrastructure projects like that. Imagine if every time a new traffic sign was proposed, your individual, local councilperson could veto it. People would lobby to stop these visual blights from being in front of their residences or places of business. Signs would cluster in poorer neighborhoods that have less political pull. It would be a mess.
Yet that’s why Los Angeles did. The reason why is even more bizarre. When JCDecaux was given its bus shelter contract, it also agreed to build 150 public toilets. But public toilets suck. They are exponentially more expensive to build and maintain, they aren’t worth much as advertising venues, and they’re even more wildly unpopular with their immediate neighbors. But building 150 toilets was the bitter pill that JCDecaux would swallow in exchange for getting up to 2,000 bus shelters/billboard substitutes.
However, JCDecaux’s contract only stipulated penalties if they built fewer than 15 toilets, so JCDecaux built precisely 15 new toilets and stopped. And that was a‑okay with anti‐development Los Angelenos, who didn’t want 150 public toilets in the first place. At the last second, they slipped the veto power into the bill so that they could win the fight block by block, toilet by toilet. Thus, the entire Los Angeles bus shelter program is in the proverbial shitter because local NIMBY activists created a NIMBY‐friendly council veto to block new toilets from being constructed. It was, to quote a retrospective, “a case study in how not to structure a contract for implementing bus shelters.” Indeed.
And that veto is the key difference between what happened with Los Angeles’ bus shelter program and similar programs in other cities. For instance, New York City also decided it needed more bus shelters. They also contracted with the same company to provide the shelters, JCDecaux. It’s also notoriously hard and expensive to build infrastructure in New York City, a place which spent $11 billion and took 50 years to build a single new train station.
Yet New York managed to build 3,500 new bus shelters in just 5 years. That compares to LA building 660 in 20 years, which means NYC built bus shelters at TWENTY-ONE TIMES the pace that LA did. LA deserves infinitely far more shade for that failure than even a thousand La Sombritas could ever provide!
To return to La Sombrita, the sum of money spent on the shade‐for‐nowhere project is a rounding error in the city budget. It isn’t the real problem, but it is a dead end. It only exists because it allowed the LA Metro to bypass the onerous permitting and veto regime by being relatively slim and pole‐mounted. But after having a short chuckle at La Sombrita, go ahead and fuhgettaboutit.
What should we do with what we’ve learned? In order of importance:
Don’t give individual veto power over infrastructure projects to local politicians.
Reform the permitting process to allow blanket approvals. For instance, New York stipulated that if the engineering bureau signed off on a structure design, its approval was good for all such structures. More, please.
Stop signing one‐size‐fits‐all, multi‐decade mega‐deals with big contractors. Auction off pole, parking, & right‐of‐way leases on something closer to an a la carte basis. Let a thousand flowers bloom when it comes to building and maintaining infrastructure.
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“During the gold rush its a good time to be in the pick and shovel business.” — Mark Twain
In the 1800’s when gold was found by James W. Marshall at Sutter’s Mill in California, it set off a nearly 20 year “Gold Rush” in California. Surprisingly, the first reported millionaire from that discovery was not one of the miners, yet one of the first publicists of the movement — Samuel Brennan.
The Gold Rush brought nearly 300,000 people to California by land and sea. Brennan and a local merchant set up shop near the mill and sold picks and shovels to those looking to hit pay dirt — Gold baby!
THE GREEN RUSH.
Some 100 plus years later the latest crop of prospectors are getting their picks and shovels ready for their stake in the emerging global cannabis industry. As many states begin decriminalizing and legalizing marijuana for varying degrees of adult medicinal and recreational use, there has been a boom in legal cannabis business. Arcview, a hub for legal cannabis data, estimates in the “The State of Legal Marijuana Markets” report that legal cannabis sales will grow 32 percent in 2015 to $3.5 billion and triple again by 2019.
States like Colorado will be the barometer for what’s to come in the future. One of the fastest growing areas for investment is the ancillary business segment; this includes businesses that do not handle the marijuana products, but provide services for those who do: Picks and shovels.
CELEBRITIES ARE CASHING IN.
At the grassroots level (yay pun!), cannabis has always been a part of pop culture — and is seemingly now becoming more socially acceptable. Technology advancements have made canna-consumerism more fashionable, while helping chip away at the stigma of cannabis culture. Celebs have noticed this trend, and are now cashing in. Snoop Dogg has created a $25 million dollar cannabis investment fund, and most recently invested in Eaze, a medicinal marijuana delivery service based in California. Tommy Chong has Smoke Swipe, a line of dry clothing wipes meant to eliminate the odor of marijuana or tobacco smoke from smokers’ clothes. Some celebrities have even been able to cash in on cannabis posthumously. The executors of the Marley Estate have partnered with cannabis focused VC firm Privateer Holdings to create Marley Natural, the world’s first global cannabis brand. Although, reggae legend Bob Marley has been deceased for over 30 years, his fondness for “the herb” and position as a household name is a promising partnership. Bethenny Frankel is rumored to be working on a boutique strain of marijuana that doesn’t give its users the “munchies,” and Melissa Etheridge, a long time medicinal advocate, has an infused wine in the works.
GREEN IS THE NEW BLACK.
Aside from the diverse celebrities who are using their social capital to win in the green economy, the legal marijuana industry is predominantly white and male. As a marketer/researcher in this space I’ve personally attended meet-ups for entrepreneurs, growers and advocacy groups where they are pleasantly surprised to see a Black person — and doubly so that I am a woman. Insiders within the cannabis industry widely acknowledge this. Which brings me to the following question: what are the opportunities for Black and Latino entrepreneurs in this space? At minimum, the cannabis industry should be compared to many existing industries in terms of employment needs. With respect to transferrable skills, a potential employee would need to be adaptable to what is currently a ‘wild west’ environment. This green economy is like a startup, regulations will be evolving for the next 5–10 years at least.
As with any agricultural industry, there is a vast array of jobs available: human resource and marketing professionals, sales, retail and customer service personnel, real estate professionals, drivers, and even more important for some — security professionals. That is just the tip of the iceberg. But taking a look at this from the perspective of a grassroots urban (neé: Black or Latino) entrepreneur, they could face many challenges entering into this space due to the history of marijuana prohibition on at a legislative level. Currently, Black and Latino youth have been systematically targeted, arrested and incarcerated due to the criminalization of marijuana, and now the landscape is largely White men who stand to profit from legal cannabis. Defy Ventures, a social organization which provides entrepreneurship, employment, and character training to people with criminal histories, is working to assist those who want to start or work in legitimate cannabis businesses — and to remove some of the associated stigma. Yet it currently stands that “White men get rich from legal pot, Black men stay in prison.” If Colorado, and potentially DC, will be the models for the legal cannabis industry going forward — we should all pay close attention.
WHO SHAPES THE STORY?
Historically the expression of cannabis culture has been associated with stoners, pot- or weed-heads, and other terms that place a stigma on those recreational users. A signifier in this space is the pervasive smell of the herb itself, whereas other consumers of their vice of choice can seemingly do so discretely. While the industry works towards advocacy and legalization across the states, marketers will play a major role in expanding the various expressions of cannabis culture. That is one portion of the commentary on the green economy that I feel is missing, especially within the Black and Latino entrepreneur opportunity. These organizations should, and could, serve as multicultural market leaders. The demographics that their advertisers serve have been negatively impacted by historically harsh marijuana laws, and now those same communities stand to be directly impacted by the changes in the legal cannabis industry.
Consider in the past how tobacco companies aggressively targeted cigarette advertising and promotion at African-American, Hispanic and other minority communities. The influence of advertising and promotion on tobacco use and prevalence are important criteria in assessing how this new green economy will be perceived on a consumer level. The impact of advertising and promotion on the behavior and media is important. Tobacco and alcohol advertising have been the economic mainstays of in African-American media for decades, with special targeted advertising often developed by non-Multicultural marketing firms. Not to mention the targeting at entertainment, sporting and cultural events — as well as political and literacy campaigns by those same entities. Who will speak up on behalf of the urban demographic with commentary that shapes stories to remove stigma, educate, and inform of the varied opportunities available. Looking at Black and Latino communities beyond their ability to consume? Marketers have direct access to the tools, the influencers and most importantly the budgets to create the story around cannabis in relation to the African-American community and prospective entrepreneurs.
SHOW UP, WHEN THE BEAMS GO UP.
Overall, the future of cannabis is in the hands of those who choose to flip their marketable skills and adapt them to this emerging industry. Simple analogy: if you’re unemployed and notice a new business going up in the neighborhood, you don’t ask for an application after the doors open — you show up when the beams go up and ask around to find out when they have the open house hire dates. Our community ultimately needs a lot of education, support, advocacy and information in order to be profitable with legal cannabis. Similar to the disparities in tech (don’t get me started), there are sectors within the green economy that could benefit from the innovation and creativity that a diverse group of entrepreneurs can bring. The urban community, will need to do the work to continue to shift from consumers and bystanders, to creators of the platforms and services that power this industry.
There are many resources available to help you navigate the legal cannabis industry. Here are just a few starting points to learn more about the cannabis botanical itself, as well as employment information.
Social help & training for previously convicted: Defy Ventures Defy Ventures
How create a cannabis social club or advocacy group: Cannabis Social Clubs Manual
Denitria is a senior media + marketing strategist who helps Fortune 500 companies speak to the right markets. Her goal is for marketers to increase their CulturalIQ, she has an affinity for #BrilliantMofos and the emerging cannabis market. Denitria is a featured moderator for online chats on tech, branding and entrepreneurship; Guest Speaker on various marketing podcasts + roundtables; and has been quoted in many publications regarding those same topics.
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Premiering September 9 on The Official Pokémon YouTube channel, Pokémon Evolutions is a new web-exclusive animated series that takes viewers to a different Pokémon region with every episode, from Kanto to Galar. Or should we say from Galar to Kanto, as the series explores the various Pokémon regions in reverse chronological order.
Another element of the seemingly endless celebration of the series’ 25th anniversary, Pokémon Evolutions is an oddly named trip back through time, exploring the major regions from each of the series’ eight generations. That means the first episode, September 9’s “The Champion,” takes place in the Galar region of Sword and Shield, telling a story of everyone’s favourite purple-haired hero, Leon, brother of Hop.
And we work our way backwards from there, from Alola to Kalos, Unova to Sinnoh, Hoenn to Johto, until we make it all the way back to Pokémon Red and Green’s Kanto region. Expect each episode to tell familiar stories of the different regions from a fresh perspective. The show is being produced by The Pokémon Company International in collaboration with OLM Studios, who you might know from their work on Yo-Kai Watch, Zoids, or just about all of the Pokémon movies.
Here’s a schedule, so you know which region’s episode is airing when.
- Thursday, Sept. 9: “The Champion” featuring the Galar region
- Thursday, Sept. 23: “The Eclipse” featuring the Alola region
- Thursday, Oct. 7: “The Visionary” featuring the Kalos region
- Thursday, Oct. 21: “The Plan” featuring the Unova region
- Thursday, Dec. 2: “The Rival” featuring the Sinnoh region
- Thursday, Dec. 9: “The Wish” featuring the Hoenn region
- Thursday, Dec. 16: “The Show” featuring the Johto region
- Thursday, Dec. 23: “The Discovery” featuring the Kanto region
“Pokémon Evolutions is both an exciting new collection of animation for the brand and a thank-you to the millions of fans around the world who have joined us on this journey over the past 25 years,” said Colin Palmer, vice president of marketing for The Pokémon Company International via official announcement. “Each region has been a touchstone for new generations of Pokémon Trainers as the brand has grown, and we wanted Pokémon Evolutions to pay homage to that legacy while also being innovative and contemporary. It’s a new adventure and familiar all at once. And, with the last episode set in Kanto, Pokémon Evolutions is a meaningful way to end our anniversary celebrations in the place where it all began for Pokémon 25 years ago.”
And that should mark the end of the celebration of the series’ 25th anniversary and the beginning of its 26th. May the Pokémon anniversary celebrations never end.


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So………..once upon a time in a Kingdom far, far away, I didn’t like it,….. I loved it! Shrek the Musical was a very interesting play that I’m sure you and your kids would love because of the singing and the funny, funny, funny jokes! One of the jokes were “If you don’t mind, I have to save my ass”- Shrek. Shrek was talking about his pet donkey, whose name is Donkey, which is why it was more funny cause it sounds like he actually means his own! There are also more jokes like this one as well and because so, it made the play more enjoyable.
But it’s not all about the humor, it’s also about the music which is why its a MUSICAL. All throughout the play (basically) there was fun musical singing that told a part of the story. Some of the songs were happy heart pumping but some were also very emotional.
The sounds and lighting was something I didn’t really make a big deal about but it’s not like it was bad.
The acting was exceptional as well. Donkey and Lord Farquaad were especially exceptional as they fought their way to perfection! I think that the whole play was trying to do the same because It pleased me and I’m very picky, especially with musicals!
Hey! Are you looking for a musical that isn’t a waste of time because the acting is HORRIBLE? Than come on down and see the best actors in town! Of course they’re not THE BEST but they’re pretty good because their from a High Shcool. I’ve seen many musicals in my life. Lets just say they are one of my most favourite things to do. Most of them have been from and I must say, this one was the best and like I said, I’m very picky.
Really glad I watched this show because the singing was really great! Singing and listening to singing is another one of my “good” habits. I know good singing and bad singing as I’m sure everyone does and I heard some great singing when I heard the Musical. If you need proof then I’ll give you some! A musical is about A LOT OF SINGING and so if it was bad and torchered me, I don’t think I would even dare to say it was good.
Everyone! Everyone! I know your excited and can’t wait to see it but theres more I have to tell you !! think that the sounds and lightings are good. There not bad but I just don’t know what could be the BEST. I really don’t think it matters anyway but still, these effects added on to the play can make it way better although I don’t think it needs anymore work! Like I said earlier, there are some sounds effects that cannot be achieved by humans so having sound effects are needed. The lights on the other hand I don’t think the same. The lights can really only make pretty colours and let us see the actors so theres nothing really special about the lights.
Killing yourself before or during this play would be madness because you would be missing out on a really awesome play! The music was great!, The acting was great!, and the sounds and lighting were good. Shrek the Musical was a good play! It was better than last years performance, thats for sure! In this wonderful play, you can look at an actor and say “Shouldn’t that person be in Hollywood acting like a boss the way she/he is now?”. It’s true!
As you all know, Shrek is a ogre so he’s very strong and can roar really loud and so in the musical, loud sounds are needed and loud sounds you get! You actually feel like you’re watching a real ogre.
Don’t even get me started on the music! Well actually let me because then I can tell you how amazing it was! In a play they is real people playing the music and I couldn’t hear any flaws at all! In the end, i think that Shrek the Musical was a great musical!

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We explored the relationship between personality and recognition of self-referent/other-referent information with a Chinese indigenous personality construct of personal self-support. We administered a referential processing task (RPT) and an incidental recognition task to 69 undergraduate students. The results revealed that personal independence and personal initiative (2 components of personal self-support) were associated with positive self-reference and other-reference effects. These findings suggest that people who have greater personal independence or personal initiative than others do, have positive self- and other schemas. To our knowledge, in no previous study has it been found that personality is associated with processing other-referent information. Therefore, we believe that in our study we have made a contribution to furthering understanding of the relationship between personality traits and positive other-referent information.

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Aries: Fiery, passionate, and adventurous. Opt for a customizable cookie cake to match your direct approach and love for trying new things.
Taurus: Impeccable taste, grounded, and reliable. Indulge in a traditional pound cake with powdered sugar, glaze, or icing. Add a touch of luxury with fresh raspberries or strawberries.
Gemini: Open-minded and flexible. Opt for a rich devil's food cake to match your deep and thoughtful nature. Embrace your mischievous side with this sinful treat.
Cancer: Sweet, sentimental, and loyal. Indulge in a classic ice cream cake, a nostalgic treat that brings together your favorite flavors in one delightful bite.
Leo: Energetic, extroverted, and big-hearted. Delight in a light and fluffy strawberry sponge cake. Add a touch of wildness with lemon zest in the cream for added zing.
Virgo: Detail-oriented and practical. Choose a resilient marble cake, symbolizing balance and strength. Perfect for this choosy and industrious sign.
Libra: Balanced, charming, and people-pleasers. Opt for angel food cake, a perfect combination of tastes and flavors. Delight your elevated taste buds and keep the peace among friends and family.
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Free-spirited and rebellious. Embrace the unexpected with sticky toffee spice cake. Sweet and spicy flavors with cinnamon, ginger, nutmeg, and cloves
Resourceful, persistent, and creative. Indulge in homemade cheesecake, satisfying your sentimental nature. Treat yourself as you treat others

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Deek's Lake, 1100 m altitude. ................................. Giant cedar tree trunk, cut 100 years ago.
Guess how old she is? Ian, asked me when going down again from Deek's Lake after ascending 1100 m on a steep rough trail in a rain forest. Before I could react, see aNswered, “My mother is from the Austrian - Hongarian Empire and I was born in Budapest in 1926”. I looked at her, 1.53 m, 43 kg, and thought: “you do have an advantage”.
One of the highest mountain treks you can do close to Vancouver is Deek's Lake, in the North part of the Cypress Provincial Park .
The route starts about 30 km North of Vancouver along the highway to Whistler Mountain.
There are two options, the 6 hour trek up and down Deek's Lake at 1100 m or continue to Brunswick Lake (xx m) cross hat Pass (xx m) and go down to Lions Bay at the highway, a 10 h trip. We took the shorter 6 hour trip.
A trail starts just past Deeks Creek on the East side of the high, 200 m North of a parking lot. The start is not easy to find and it is small and rough. At one point there is a long rubber rope to scale a small, grade 3 canyon.
Past this point, you the trail splits in two, we took the shorter route.
Another option is to take the easier trail starting South of Betrand Creek.
After one hour we hit a lumber road and followed this for half hour. From here there is a trail up signposted on the lumber road and it takes 2 hours going up steadily to reach the lake with occasional viewpoints at the sea below.
View at the sea, more than half way up to Deek Lake.
On the way back we took the longer detour to have bettter views at the ocean. Sign posts are fairly clear. Here our 80 year old lady suddenly slipped and rolled over her back but luckily was not injured. Close to the coast and only a few hundred meter above the main highway we saw the typical naked trees that only grow near the sea in moist salty air.
Naked tree, near the coast.
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The time has finally come. After a year of delays, Rihanna is finally rolling out her 8th album, Anti. The first sing, Work, sees Rih tapping into her island roots for a likely hit.
The single features Drake who shows up at the end to pour out his love for the global superstar once again. Work is fun and a bit of a departure from the three singles the Bajan beauty dropped last year.
The single drop is just in time for the kickoff of Rihanna's world tour in February, and we'll reportedly get a full album in the coming days.
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Introduction: The Silent Predator – Throat Cancer
Among the legion of diseases that afflict mankind, throat cancer emerges as a silent predator. In the shadows, it quietly manifests and evolves, often mistaken for common ailments before it reveals its true nature. This is a malady that doesn’t discriminate, targeting men with alarming frequency. The key to combatting throat cancer lies in the recognition of its signs. The sooner it is identified, the more effectively it can be managed or even defeated.
The journey towards understanding begins here, as we delve into the world of throat cancer, its manifestations, its impacts, and, importantly, the tell-tale signs that could hint at its presence. This article is intended to aid in early detection, empowering men to take control of their health and seek necessary medical attention promptly.
Throat Cancer: A Closer Look
Throat cancer refers to cancerous tumors that develop in the throat (pharynx), voice box (larynx), or tonsils. While it predominantly affects individuals above 50, it doesn’t spare younger men either. Factors such as tobacco use, excessive alcohol consumption, a diet lacking in fruits and vegetables, and certain strains of viruses like human papillomavirus (HPV) can increase the risk of developing throat cancer.
The term ‘throat cancer’ encompasses several different types of cancer, such as laryngeal and pharyngeal cancer. These cancers are classified based on the specific part of the throat they affect. Regardless of type, they all share similar early signs and symptoms.
The Importance of Early Detection
Cancer, in general, is a daunting adversary. However, like most enemies, it’s weakest at its inception. As such, early detection drastically improves the chances of successful treatment and survival. However, the challenge lies in recognizing the signs. With throat cancer, the symptoms often mirror those of common ailments like a cold or tonsillitis, leading to misdiagnosis or late diagnosis.
This article aims to spotlight the top ten signs of throat cancer in men, dispelling the shadows of uncertainty, and empowering you to take proactive steps towards maintaining your health. Remember, your body communicates with you continually. Learning its language could very well save your life.
Sign 1: Persistent Sore Throat
A persistent sore throat often represents the frontline symptom of throat cancer. It’s a lingering discomfort that refuses to yield, extending beyond the expected timeline of a typical sore throat caused by a cold or flu. This persistent soreness can stay for weeks, maintaining its grip even in the absence of other cold or flu symptoms.
While everyone experiences a sore throat now and then, it’s the chronic nature of this symptom that’s concerning. If you find yourself battling a sore throat for an extended period, without an apparent reason like a resolved cold or ongoing allergies, it may be a signal from your body that something more sinister is at play.
This persistent discomfort can manifest as a feeling of a lump or obstruction in the throat, causing frequent swallowing or throat-clearing. You might feel as though you can’t quite get rid of something stuck in your throat, even when there’s nothing there. This sensation, known as ‘globus sensation’, can be incredibly frustrating and can significantly impact daily activities like eating, drinking, and speaking.
So, if you notice a persistent sore throat that seems to stick around no matter what you do, it’s worth seeking medical advice. While it may turn out to be something less serious, it’s always better to rule out the possibility of throat cancer early on. (1)


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Shoppers are making more trips to supermarkets, but buying less to offset the soaring costs of food and other grocery items, according to a new study.
Kantar Worldpanel said grocery sales rose by 4.5% in the three months to 4 September compared with a year ago, but prices rose by 5.3% and indicating volumes fell for a third month in a row.
Martin Whittingham, a director at Kantar, said: “Consumers are managing their budgets by making more shopping trips, but buying fewer items on each outing. These changes are at the margin, but illustrate how shoppers are trying to cope with the increasing pressures on their household budget.”
Morrisons and Sainsbury’s were the best performers among the major multiple chains during the quarter, he added. Both grew sales faster than the market overall, at 5.3% and 4.8% respectively. Sainsbury’s now has 16.1% of the grocery market, up from 16% a year earlier, while Morrisons’ share is 11.5%, up from 11.4%.
Tesco’s share slipped down to 30.4% from 30.8%, as it only managed 3% growth, while Asda also saw its share dip from 17.8% to 17.4%.
Aldi sales were up by nearly 26% and its market share jumped from 2.9% to 3.5%, while rival Lidl saw sales climb by 12.6% to give it a 2.5% share.
Waitrose also continued to power ahead with growth of 8.9%, the fifth consecutive period it has grown by between 8% and 9%.


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Laurel And Hardyare considered to be one of the most iconic comedy duos in history. They starred in over 100 films together and their unique brand of physical comedy influenced generations of comedians. Despite their success, there were many secrets about Laurel And Hardy that were never revealed to the public. Here are the top 10 secrets about Laurel and Hardy:
1. Laurel And Hardy’s real names were not actually Laurel and Hardy
They were both born with different names, Laurel’s was Arthur Stanley Jefferson and Hardy’s was Oliver Norvell Hardy. It is unknown why or how they came to be known as Laurel and Hardy but it is believed that their stage names were given to them by a producer.
2. Laurel And Hardy were not originally a comedy team
They both started out in film separately and it wasn’t until they were both cast in the film The Lucky Dog in 1921 that they became a team. They soon found out that they had great comedic timing and chemistry together and went on to star in many films together.
3. Laurel And Hardy did not always get along
Despite being one of the most successful comedy teams, Laurel and Hardy did not always get along. They often argued and had different opinions on how their films should be made. However, they always managed to put their differences aside and continued to work together until Laurel’s retirement in 1950.
4. Hardy was once married to Mae Laurel
This may come as a surprise but before Laurel and Hardy became a team, Hardy was actually married to Mae Laurel! The marriage only lasted for a few months but it is still unknown why they got divorced.
5. Laurel And Hardy were both nominated for Oscars
Not many people know this but Laurel and Hardy were both nominated for Academy Awards! Laurel was nominated for Best Actor in 1931 for his role in The Champ and Hardy was nominated for Best Live Action Short Film in 1932 for The Music Box.
6. Laurel And Hardy once had their own television show
In 1955, Laurel and Hardy starred in their own television show called The Laurel And Hardy Show. The show only lasted for one season but it was a hit with fans.
7. Laurel wrote, directed, and produced some of their films
Laurel was not just an actor, he also wrote, directed, and produced some of their films. He was even nominated for an Oscar for his work on the film The Dancing Masters in 1943.
8. Hardy’s son appeared in a few of their films
Hardy’s son, Oliver Hardy Jr., made a few cameo appearances in his father’s films. He can be seen in the background of some scenes in The Flying Deuces and A Chump at Oxford.
9. Laurel And Hardy made a cameo appearance in It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
In 1963, Laurel and Hardy made a cameo appearance in the film It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World. They can be seen sitting on a bench eating peanuts while Ed Wynn talks to them.
10. There is a Laurel And Hardy museum in their hometown
Did you know that there is an entire museum dedicated to Laurel and Hardy? The Laurel And Hardy Museum is located in Ulverston, England which is where both Laurel and Hardy were born. The museum is full of memorabilia and artifacts from their films and careers.


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A close relative of the ocean perch, the rockfish is a large family of fish from the Pacific Ocean found from California to Alaska. There are over 69 varieties in the Pacific Ocean and about as many different colors. They rang from black to bright orange. In the Atlantic Ocean there are only 4 varieties. Their usually weight from 3 to 4 pounds and 18 inches in length however they have been known to grow to 28 pounds.
The Pacific rockfish is a very important fish commercially and they live in water up to 9800 feet deep. Some of the best eating varieties are the orange, the yellowtail, the boccacio the rasphead and the red rockfish, which is also called yellow eye. The yellow eye rockfish is sometimes mistakenly sold as red snapper. It is one of the most popular of the rockfish with both sport and commercial fishermen because of its size, taste and ease of filleting. They are one of the longest living fish in the sea, often lasting over 100 years. Many varieties of rockfish have been over fished, therefore tighter fishing restrictions have been placed on them.
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DEVILS LAKE, ND-A local entrepreneur says the name on the front of a store he bought just a few years ago has turned out bad for business.
What’s in a name?
Sears Holdings continues to grab the headlines, from store closings to the recent severance of ties to Whirlpool appliances.
Most of it is bad news.
A local man says that while he’s not technically in the business, most of his clients don’t know.
“Everything must go” is the motto of many Sears stores that are liquidating their stock.
But at Sears Hometown, it’s a whole different story.
“The main confusion with everyone is that you know the news from Sears Holding Company and their struggles. Now their latest is Whirlpool Products – Whirlpool terminating its contract with Sears Holding,” said Cory Rodacker.
But the bad news from Sears Holdings doesn’t impact Cory Rodacker’s Sears Hometown store, at least not directly.
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Rodacker says the answer is ‘no’ because as of 2012 the two stores are totally different companies.
“Trade the stock markets under different names. We also have shareholders, ”said Rodacker.
No matter what happens to the historic retailer …
“I think it scared a lot of people, or made them wonder and worry about what was going to happen to their local Sears Hometown store. We’re not going anywhere,” Rodacker said.
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Punjab Chief Minister Bhagwant Mann on Thursday announced that the first batch of the 36 school principals will visit Singapore on February 4, 2023, to attend a training programme. He further added that last year, the AAP government had given a guarantee to transform the state's education system in the run-up to last year's assembly elections.
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Forgiving student loans, as proposed by Pres. Biden, would cost taxpayers about $420 billion. A graduate with a four-year degree earns, on average, $1.4 million more over her career than someone with a high school diploma. Meanwhile, helping the poorest American families with $500 a month would cost one-tenth as much.
The other day the Supreme Court heard arguments in cases challenging Biden’s action to cancel student debt up to $20,000 per customer. This is a horrible idea on multiple levels, but the Court will most likely kill Biden’s plan on the basis of the argument that a president can’t spend a half trillion dollars of the public’s money without authorization from Congress. (Unless they can’t get over the standing question. Biden has set this up so that it’s hard to show specific damages to states or individuals.) If you’re a liberal and you like student loan forgiveness, consider what it would mean if Pres. DeSantis was able to spend a half trillion on anything he wanted. Like, I don’t know. shuffling migrants all over the country or building walls around Disney theme parks.
But there is another liberal idea out there that I don’t hate. I don’t necessarily love it either, but I think it’s worth considering. That idea is the guaranteed income. Madison and some other cities are experimenting with this using private money. Under the Madison program 160 families are getting $500 a month, no strings attached. These families will be “studied” to see how the free money is impacting their lives. I put “study” in quotes because those running the program freely admit that their goal is to provide data that would support making this a publicly funded program. When researchers start with a bias like that the results will be next to useless.
Nevertheless, I think guaranteed income might have some merit. While I am concerned about the cost, the numbers seem manageable. There are 7.4 million families in America under the poverty line. If we were to give all of them $6,000 a year that comes to around $42 billion or about 10% of Biden’s student loan giveaway. (It’s also a fraction of Donald Trump’s big tax cut for the rich.)
True, the price tag on loan forgiveness is supposed to be a one time event, while that’s $42 billion every year for guaranteed income. But what do you think will happen when a fresh group of grads demands that its loans be paid off by the taxpayers? Student loan forgiveness will become a permanent program and a whole lot more expensive than even $420 billion.
There are also likely to be cost-savings for reducing poverty under guaranteed income. You can bet that that “study” will include all kinds of numbers purporting to show that this will save us billions of dollars in the long-run through better performance for kids in school, lower incarceration rates, etc., etc. The specifics won’t be worth anything, but I buy the basic argument. Even a properly done study would produce projections that are just guesses, but it makes sense that this would result in lower financial stress which would in turn have positive societal benefits, even if they can’t be quantified.
Put simply, the student loan bailout is a huge transfer of wealth from the less well-off to the better-off, while the guaranteed income is a modest transfer of wealth to the poorest people, including children, in our society. And guaranteed income would have a much bigger bang for the buck in terms of broader benefits to society.
Despite its modest cost, I still have doubts about the guaranteed income. I want Democrats to win more elections, but the guaranteed income just reenforces the image of my party as wanting to give stuff away for free. Just when the party should be trying to reestablish an image as being for rewarding hard work, this cuts in the other direction. It’s money just for breathing.
And, of course, the Catch-22 here is that this idea will go nowhere until Democrats control the White House and both houses of Congress by significant margins. But they can’t get there as long as they have this give-stuff-away-to-everybody tag on their backs.
All of which is to say that I don’t have much confidence that the guaranteed income will become a reality anytime soon. And, it appears, nor will student debt forgiveness. But guaranteed income is not a half bad idea while I can’t find a single thing to like about loan forgiveness.
With both ideas not likely to move forward, the Democrats would be better off setting them aside and instead focussing on programs that assure that anyone working full-time can achieve a comfortable middle-class lifestyle.
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No giveaways! Everyone needs to have some skin in the game, even if it’s limited. Don’t guarantee income, substantially raise the minimum wage. Then employers and employees both have a meaningful stake in economic outcomes. Reward, incent and subsidize positive, constructive behavior for individuals and businesses. We end up with better community and economy. We would all be better off if the Uhlein family paid their workers more instead of wasting millions on trying to buy elected officials!
For loan forgiveness, Biden played the saps for votes. It worked. The move is blatantly unconstitutional and Biden knew it. Destruction of the Constitution seems to be one of the most important goals of the Democrats.
All reasonable people would agree that reducing poverty is critical for our society. How we go about it is the obvious question. I think it can be safely said that giving money away does not work. The Great Society we are not.
Biden has given away $113B to the black hole that is Ukraine, which includes paying Ukraine’s gov’t payroll. That’s more than double the annual cost of guaranteed income. No Democrat or Republican is questioning that move.
Comfortable middle class? The Democrats seem hell-bent on destroying it.
The irony of guaranteed basic income, if you’re a history and politics nerd like me, is that it is actually a conservative idea proposed by Milton Friedman, and Nixon was going to attempt to implement it via a negative income tax in his Family Assistance Plan.

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Measuring 38 mm in diameter, TitanBriteÂ High-Voltage, Low-Current LED comes in standard cool and warm white as well as custom colors.Â Built-in metal core PCB does not require additional heat sink components, resulting in real estate savings up to 50%. LED is suited for industrial, medical, commercial, and general purpose applications, such as inspection, backlighting, electronic signage, machine lighting, and parking garage fixtures.
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CAROL STREAM, IL – Lumex announces the global launch of its TitanBrite High-Voltage, Low-Current LED, the newest addition to the TitanBrite family of high-power LEDs. The TitanBrite High-Voltage, Low-Current LED can run at a higher voltage with a lower current than alternative technologies (such as a traditional10W LED) while providing up to 45% brighter light output and superior light distribution. This allows for up to 20% cost and 50% real estate savings for applications requiring low current, but high light output.
Though high-voltage, low-current LEDs provide key performance benefits for applications that use LED drivers that offer higher voltages to drive a high-power LED, few design engineers are aware that these technologies are available and can produce the comparable if not brighter light output.
TitanBrite High-Voltage, Low-Current LEDs are a good option for lighting and fixture designers for a number of applications across a wide range of industries including:
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