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Cities like London have decades worth of history to boast about, including narratives of war, art, economy and politics. However, due to the massive wealth of stories about it and the fact that the Big Smoke is a huge expanse of land there are also plenty of myths circulating through the facts.
This is the same in just about any big city in the world, if it’s old enough and there are enough tales, some of them will pass into legend and become privy to healthy debate.
However, the difficulty with rumours is that they can sound completely plausible as facts and some events can often be thought of as being too ridiculous to be true and become falsehoods. So, you can see how easily myths can be to distribute, particularly if they reference real people or refer to events that actually happened.
There are so many facts and fictions in London that it’s hard to know where to start, but there are ten myths about the city that we can dispel for you right away.
Some of these might sound obvious but we’re hoping that a couple might surprise you, after all, we’re telling the truth… aren’t we?
Hitler used Senate House for one of his headquarters
Senate House stands as the central library and admin hub for the University of London and it’s believed that this massive building was overlooked by German bombers during the war because Hitler wanted to use it.
It’s said that he picked it out to use as a base during a Nazi invasion where they could operate from safely.
As exciting as this sounds, there is no concrete proof that Hitler ever had plans to use this building or that he was ever in it. As most of the raids happened during the night, it’s likely that Senate House was accidentally missed, rather than spared.
La Infanta de Castilla
La Infanta de Castilla refers to any amount of Spanish princesses who may have been connected to English history and it’s also where the district of Elephant and Castle got its name. Except that this is complete nonsense, which probably doesn’t shock you, seeing as this is one of London’s least glamourous intersections.
We can however tell you that Elephant and Castle got its name from a coaching inn that stood where the station now is in the 17th century. As the tale goes, a blacksmith and cutler stood on the site before this who was part of the Worshipful Company of Cutlers, the crest of which featured an elephant and a castle.
This is one of those crazy statistics that people believe, such as ‘You eat eight spiders every year or during your life in your sleep’. When it comes to London, it’s said that you’re always only within six feet of a rat, which is delightful.
It’s likely that this harks back to medieval London and 1665, when the plague had infested the city thanks in no small part to rats. Being set against a river, it’s little wonder that London is known for having an abundance of rats, but we would be surprised if you saw any while you were in the city.
According to Time Out, it’s more likely that you’re about 164 feet away from a rat on average when you’re in London. To put that into perspective, it’s about half the height of Big Ben’s clock tower – so you should be okay.
London Bridge was bought by mistake
No it wasn’t. Fake blame for accidentally buying London Bridge lies with American Robert P McCullock, who actually bought the bridge entirely on purpose.
As the fiction goes, he supposed that he was purchasing the famous Tower Bridge in 1968 and although he and many others have insisted this isn’t the case, for many he seems to be protesting too much.
If the ravens leave the Tower of London, England will fall
This is more like a children’s story that you might hear when you’re young and remember affectionately as an adult, rather than something you actually think is true. The Tower of London was founded in 1066, as part of the Norman Conquest, but the ravens weren’t introduced to the tower until the 19th century.
There were eight centuries during which these black-feathered birds had absolutely nothing to do with the tower, so if they decide to leave again England should be just fine.
Chanel’s logo adorns the lampposts of Westminster
Although Gabrielle “Coco” Chanel was famous for her risque love affairs – including a scandalous one with the Duke of Westminster during the rip-roaring 20s and 30s – her signature isn’t on the lampposts in this district.
There are interlocking Cs on the lampposts and although it looks like a loving and slightly sad tribute from the duke to Chanel, the letters actually stand for the City Council of Westminster.
Many have suggested that upscale districts like Mayfair would be much better suited to Chanel lampposts, but we couldn’t say as to whether this would happen or not.
When the flag is flying the Queen is home
Contrary to very popular belief – we had to laboriously check this ourselves – when the Union Flag is flying at Buckingham Palace it doesn’t mean that she’s in residence.
You heard it here, the flag is flown at the residence that she is currently absent from, including Windsor Castle, Sandringham House and Buckingham Palace.
Basically, if the flag is flying, she isn’t in the palace so we wouldn’t bother waving – unless you’re more interested in the other royals in residence!
A pregnant woman is legally allowed to urinate in a police officer’s helmet
This is a misappropriation of an obscure by-law, which states that if a public toilet isn’t nearby then a woman who is pregnant will be showed leniency in urinating in public.
Somehow, this odd law got transformed over time to involve a police officer’s hat for no apparent reason. This is an ancient and extremely obscure law and we wouldn’t be surprised if someone was fined by public indecency regardless of the by-law, so we heavily advise that you avoid doing this. At all costs.
The fire of London wiped out the plague
Although this does in fact sound possible – a massive fire destroys all the rats and such that were responsible for the Great Plague – it’s completely untrue.
The fire did in fact destroy a lot of the slums that facilitated the spreading of the plague, which resulted in great loss. There were fewer outbreaks concerning this disease after the fire, but this is likely to be because it ran its course, rather than due to the fire burning it out.
Nylon is a combination of London and New York
Etymology is a fascinating look at the origin of words and for many, it’s a big part of their profession.
However, the word ‘nylon’, did not originate by combining the names of London and New York. How do we know? Quite simply because the original name for Nylon was No-Run, but when the reality of this proved to the contrary the manufacturer changed the name to nylon.
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multifarious whip? i’d like to learn more. ;D
I’ve saw one or two, I’d have to do a bit of research.
It’s a pretty easy move to improvise from, I’d work on making my own. Just a suggestion.
I have made my own trick from it, which im quite proud of btw. I just dont know any moves from it that dont involve going to a sideways split bottom or trapeze. everything else just looks like a mess.
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And the cancellations begin! As much as I've been enjoying weecapping My Own Worst Enemy for all you nice people, not to mention watching Christian Slater do some sexy kung fu movies every week, quite often shirtless, after the way the show dropped off in entertainment value since the pilot, I'm fine with it being canceled. At this point, it's unclear whether Monday's episode will be pulled from the schedule, or if NBC will decide to show the remaining five that have been shot. Either way, the series has wrapped for good after shooting only nine episodes, due to crap ratings. Sigh, I will miss seeing Christian Slater every week. Can we work on getting him a better series, Hollywood? Now, on to Lipstick Jungle.
When it rains it pours, cancellation-wise. After 14 seasons, Fox has pulled the plug on MADtv. The remainder of this season will air, and then that's it for MADtv on Fox, though the show's creator is working on bringing it to another network. I'm kind of loathe to admit that I'm one of those people who looked down on the show in favor of SNL, even though SNL is weak and inconsistent and many comedy buffs have urged me to give MADtv a chance, so aside from Stuart and Ms. Swan, I'm not terribly knowledgeable about the show. I did find the sketch below on Hulu this morning and laughed out loud several times (despite it containing the worst Goldie Hawn impression in the history of celebrity impressions), so now that it's canceled I of course wish I'd watched it more. Hindsight, right? Any MADtv supporters out there who are going to miss the show?


REDD BARRON soon to release New Album
Heaven and Hell Records will soon be releasing Chicago’s power metallers REDD BARRON’s much anticipated new album.”Sands of Time” The album consist of 11-tracks written back in the late 1980s/early 90s and would finally be properly recorded over 2019.
REDD BARRON formed in February of 1987, in Romeoville, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago; Brian Lee (vocals) and Pete Alvarez (guitars), friends since their school days, formed the band with the intent of writing and performing the music they loved, classic metal. Rod Gardner (drums) and Rick Tampier (bass) rounded out the original lineup. After establishing themselves as a top Chicago live act, they added guitarist Greg Eichelberger. Later bassist Frank Masterson would join the band.
In 2018 Heaven and Hell Records would release a limited compilation CD consisting of all the band’s previously released material all remastered. That same year REDD BARRON would make their triumphant return to the stage performing at the annual ‘Legions of Metal Festival’ in Chicago.
Now REDD BARRON flies once again with a brand new album.
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By Ashley G. Blake, a cyber law attorney at Davenport, Evans, Hurwitz & Smith LLP
Online marketing is growing in importance for many businesses in Sioux Falls and around the country. However, your digital marketing may be putting your company at legal risk. Here are five issues to look out for and discuss with a cyber law attorney to help protect your business:
- You don’t have terms on your website. Website terms and conditions provide an opportunity for business owners to get out in front of potential liability for their websites and to minimize risk. In many ways, website terms function like a prenuptial agreement — they guide what happens when something goes wrong in your interactions with your website user. Businesses should have well-drafted and robust terms on their website to help protect their website content, set governing law and venue, protect them from future liability, and limit and define permissible and impermissible website use, among other provisions. Most digital marketing drives users back to your company’s website, so your website should be legally equipped for such traffic. Website terms and conditions are the most basic legal tool that every business doing digital marketing should have in its arsenal.
- Your sweepstakes is an illegal lottery or is lacking attorney-drafted official rules. Businesses should be very careful to ensure any offered sweepstakes is compliant with the laws of the states in which it is offered and that it is not considered an illegal lottery. Without well-drafted official rules, businesses may be taking on substantial liability with their sweepstakes. An attorney can help ensure that you are appropriately limiting who can participate in your sweepstakes — for example, some states have licensing and bond requirements if you offer your sweepstakes to residents of those states — and can help ensure that your sweepstakes rules adequately protect your business from future liability. For any business running a sweepstakes, a well-drafted set of rules is vital to help minimize your legal risk.
- You aren’t following CAN-SPAM requirements for your commercial email messages. Email marketing is one of the most used tools in digital marketing and can be an immensely effective tool for businesses, but it does come with some specific legal risks. The Controlling the Assault of Non-Solicited Pornography and Marketing Act, or CAN-SPAM, of 2003 limits sending commercial emails unless the requirements of CAN-SPAM are met. Even if users opt-in to receive emails, each of CAN-SPAM’s requirements must still be met, with the exception of labeling the email as an advertisement. This means businesses must still comply with opt-out or unsubscribe options, subject and heading requirements, and contact information requirements. Businesses should be watchful for email addresses that may have made it onto their email list without valid consent. Violations of CAN-SPAM can cost your business over $40,000 per violation for each email that fails to meet CAN-SPAM requirements. A cyber law attorney can help you create proper CAN-SPAM disclosures for your commercial emails to ensure that you meet all of CAN-SPAM’s requirements, even for cases where consent was not validly obtained from the consumer to be on your company’s email list.
- You aren’t providing the proper TCPA disclosures on your website. One area that poses a particularly large risk for businesses is text messaging or calling customers on their mobile phones using an automatic dialing system or prerecorded message. The Telephone Consumer Protection Act, or TCPA, limits the ability of businesses to text or call a consumer’s mobile phone using an automatic dialing system or prerecorded message, unless prior express consent has been obtained from that consumer. If the text or call involves an advertisement or solicitation, consumer consent must be in writing. Thus, if you are obtaining customers’ telephone numbers through your website and intend to text message or call a customer’s mobile phone using an autodialer or prerecorded message, you should be making appropriate TCPA disclosures on your website and in your website’s terms and conditions. TCPA violations are common, as are class-action cases in this area, and the penalties, fees and judgments are substantial. With some foresight and assistance from a cyber law attorney who can draft appropriate disclosures to protect your business from TCPA violations, you can minimize the risk of finding yourself part of a class-action lawsuit because of a mobile phone marketing campaign.
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The yellow-blazed Little Pond Loop travels between Little Pond off SR 54 and ascends approximately 1,900 feet to the summit of Touchmenot Mountain, elevation 2,700 feet. The trail begins in the day use area alongside the bathhouse traveling the shoreline of Little Pond. The walk offers wonderful sights of mixed hardwood and conifer forest topped with mountain laurel and azalea at the higher elevations. The forest understory is dotted with a variety of wildflowers including jack-in-the-pulpit, trillium, violets, clintonia and Mayflower. The woodland breaks open onto several meadows allowing a broken view of the surrounding mountains and your destination, Touchmenot Mountain. At 1.7 miles, the trail offers a red-blazed spur left to Cabot Mountain, elevation 2,970 feet. This slender rock ridge offers more spectacular views of the Catskill area. After returning to the junction, continue on the red-blazed trail. At 3.8 miles, bear right onto the blue-blazed trail to climb Touchmenot Mountain. The red-blazed trail leads to Big Pond. After enjoying limited ledge views, travel the blue trail for a rapid descent over the next 4.3 miles, closing the loop back at the bathhouse.
Directions: From Livingston Manor, NY, The campground is located in Delaware County off SR 54 approximately 14 miles north of Livingston Manor. From SR 54 turn north onto Barkaboom Road which carries you to the entrance. The trail begins adjacent to the day use bathhouse.
Elevation: 800 feet
Elevation Gain: 1,900 feet
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Theater Review: [title of show]
Richmond Triangle Players’ 2010-2011 season comes to a hilarious close with their latest production, [title of show]. For those who follow YouTube sitcoms – such as Jack In A Box, or The Battery’s Down – you’ll feverishly want to watch the [title of show] series after seeing RTP’s highly comical take on Jeff Bowen and Hunter Bell’s Broadway musical comedy for an extra helping of laughs.
Bowen and Bell add to the list of playwrights and lyricists who have transformed unconventional subject matter into popular Broadway material. This show is about these two writing a musical about themselves writing a musical. Frantically trying to come up with an entry into a musical festival, Jeff and Hunter rummage through old playbills to find the inspiration that will make their script successful on the Great White Way. Will it be the 1951 Broadway flop Bagels and Yok or 1954’s The Golden Apple that ultimately helps them to overcome their writer’s block?
None of these provide what they are looking for, so instead they recruit their two friends Heidi and Susan to brainstorm ideas for their show. Even when the latter half of the script makes satiric jibes at Broadway’s commercial norms and proceeds more like a structured, modern day musical, Director Justin Amellio’s ability to punch the nonsensical, improvisational humor out the first few musical numbers makes this production feel more at home at Chicago’s The Second City.
A cast of four actors accompanies his directorial interpretation with unflinching fun and entertaining chemistry. Hunter (portrayed by VCU student Daniel Cimo) pushes Jeff (played skillfully by Chris Hester) to think outside of the box for an original musical in “An Original Musical” with funny, urban sassiness while Jeff grapples with his creative self-doubt in “Monkeys and Playbills.” (Hester gets a moment to show his talents at improv when the lights went out on opening night and his witty response along the lines of “That’s what you get for being in a low rent theater” was hysterical.)
Lanaya Burnette’s (previously seen in RTP’s This Beautiful City) characterization as an insecure corporate whore seemed at first incongruous among her trio of laid-back friends, but you grow to sympathize with her character – Susan – after Burnette shines in the more introspective moments of “What Kind Of Girl Is She?” when she sizes up fellow female secondary character, Heidi. The musical star of this production is Georgia Rogers Farmer as Heidi with out a doubt, and, boy, she is a hoot too! She mostly gets understudy gigs but her casting directors haven’t heard her “A Way Back To Then” because her vocal prowess left me pleasantly stunned.
Musical Director Timothy Brewster injects the script’s humor effortlessly into this ensemble’s impressive vocals song after song. Set Designer David Allan Ballas creates a functional apartment one would expect to see a “part-time-actor-need-to-work-full-time-as-a-waiter” sublet. With the unexpected power outage, Stage Manager Dexter Ramey knows the true meaning of the show must go on and I’m glad he did cause I wasn’t ready to leave my seat at curtain call.
“[title of show]” runs through June 4, 2011 at Richmond Triangle Players. For more information or to purchase tickets, please visit http://www.rtriangle.org. Photo by John Maclellan.
Matthew Miller is the former arts editor and chief theater critic for GAYRVA.com. A Chicago native, he holds a B.A. from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. He currently resides in Richmond, VA and is a member of the Richmond Theatre Critics Circle. He can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org. Follow Matthew Miller on Twitter twitter.com/matthewkmiller
RTP & TheatreLAB partner with Virginia Anti-Violence Project to revive ‘NERVE: Stories of Queer Resilience’
In an effort to help combat violence and tell the stories of individuals within the LGBTQ community, TheatreLAB and Richmond Triangle Players have once again partnered with the Virginia Anti-Violence Project (VAVP) on the piece, “NERVE: Stories of Queer Resilience.” Led in concept by director Melissa Rayford, the piece brings real-life stories of resilience and [...]January 11, 2017
- ‘After Orlando’ gave a local voice to one of the worst single-night tragedies in LGBTQ history, December 13, 2016
- ‘After Orlando’ unites theatre companies around the country (and here in RVA) to honor lives lost in the nation’s largest mass shooting, December 7, 2016
- RTP’s ‘Scrooge in Rouge’ is delightful, bawdy Dickens, November 29, 2016
- Strangeways Brewing hosting Cheers 4 Charity event to benefit Diversity Richmond 1/25
- ANONHI (Formerly Antony) and Cocorosie team up for “Smoke´em Out” ahead of Trump inauguration
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- First same-sex marriage related bill dies in VA Senate committee (expectedly)
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Rising Bread Company
Rising Bread Company is a locally owned fast-casual restaurant serving classic grilled sandwiches and wraps, homemade original soups and crisp delicious salads. We use premium ingredients to deliver superior tasting food. Our crew will work hard to make your experience a memorable one. We hope you enjoy the food!!

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We produce our aluminium bifold doors in West Yorkshire, and they are built to withstand all kinds of turbulent weather. You can count on our doors to keep an Eastleigh property safe even in the worst weather.
Our aluminium bifold doors’ sturdy construction and top-notch glazing can help keep unwanted draughts and rainwater out of any Eastleigh house. Additionally, EPDM rubber gaskets and weather brushes are available to help with weather protection. Improve a home’s weather resistance with our bespoke aluminium bifold doors.
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Available in double or triple glazing options. While the glazing retains the heat from the sun, it could also cut down on the amount of surplus solar gain, keeping your house from overheating. Get better insulation for an Eastleigh home by investing in our aluminium bifold doors.
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Available in our woodgrain foils range or standard colours such as white, grey, and black, it's easy to customise the product's look. You can also upgrade to custom colours depending on the application. Our bifolding door colours are waterproof and long-lasting, keeping their fresh new sheen for decades.
Use our various hardware choices to make the finishing touches you require. Our bifold doors come in a variety of handle options and complementing colour finishes. We offer strong multi-point locking mechanisms and magnetic catches to enhance security and daily use.
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We provide a ten-year manufacturing guarantee after installation to give our customers peace of mind. Even though our aluminium bifold doors are built to last, we want you to be at ease. In the unlikely event that something were to go wrong during that time, you contact your installer, and they will be available to assist you with your doors.
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Engineering drafting companies can provide a number of services to companies that are trying to design new products as well as construction companies engaged in new building projects. They work with architects, mechanical engineers and electrical engineers to develop solutions for design problems at the inception of product development. To help you understand how they can be beneficial, here's what you can expect from an engineering drafting company.
Mechanical Engineering Services -- Mechanical engineers work on a number of different projects, including heating and cooling systems, plumbing systems and development of products for offshore oil drilling and natural gas pipelines. Mechanical engineers can come in at the beginning of a product's development and work through to completion, or they can come in when you already have blueprints and need further refinement. They employ computer-aided design (CAD) to help you visualise your product in a more complete way, but they are also trained in mechanical drawing, which is a very precise way of creating a blueprint by hand. Mechanical drafting also involves the use of 3D models, plastic injection and mould creation.
Architectural Drafting & Design Services -- Engineer drafting companies also provide architectural services, including drafting and 3D rendering services and building energy modelling, which is a more recent drafting trend that focuses on 'green' friendly construction. Energy modelling is a process that is created with the use of a computer and predicts the amount of energy a building will consume annually. It allows you to allocate your resources into erecting more energy-efficient buildings at the inception stage instead of having to retrofit post-construction. Engineer drafting companies can also create drawings for fixtures, cabinets, doors, frames and all other elements of a construction, including glass.
Structural Design -- Structural design is all about ensuring that your construction is built with the strongest and most durable materials necessary to ensure a long lifespan. Engineer drafting companies can create drawings of all kinds of structural components such as steel trusses, rebar and bent bar steelwork. In addition to these designs, drafting engineers can also provide analysis on how well your proposed construction will hold up in adverse conditions. This analysis typically includes an evaluation of buckling tendencies, high-impact analysis, potential damage analysis and long-term outlook for wear and tear. Engineering drafting companies utilise computer aided design, 3D computerised models and other technology to create accurate renderings of what a construction will look like and how to shore up any weak spots.


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Washington vs Buffalo prediction, game preview, how to watch: Sunday, September 26
Washington vs Buffalo How To Watch
Date: Sunday, September 26
Game Time: 1:00 ET
Venue: Highmark Stadium, Orchard Park, NY
How To Watch: FOX
Record: Washington (1-1), Buffalo (1-1)
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Washington vs Buffalo Game Preview
Why Washington Will Win
Does the Football Team have something in Taylor Heinicke?
He might be a bit raw, and he almost got the team beat against the Giants with a bad interception, but he’s a baller who will keep on pressing and pushing the passing game.
The Buffalo defense has been fantastic so far – it’s going to take something funky to get the O moving against this group. Washington will have to mix it up, Heineke has to use his legs, and the defensive side has to crank up the pressure that much more to help win the field position battle.
The sacks are going to be there. However …
Why Buffalo Will Win
Yeah, the Buffalo defense.
Pittsburgh was able to work its way to 23 points and a win in the opener, but the O only generated 252 yards. Miami wasn’t able to do a thing last week, especially after Tua Tagovailoa got knocked out.
The defensive front was living in the Dolphin backfield after the offense got the team up early. Give this group any sort of a league in this, and it’s over.
Don’t expect the Football Team to get the running game going, and …
What’s Going To Happen
Heineke will make just enough mistakes to matter. However, Washington’s defense will show it can play, too.
The Buffalo running game will get one big dash, just like it did in the win over the Dolphins, Josh Allen will do everything possible to not take any big chances, and the D will do the rest with third down stop after third down stop.
Don’t expect high-powered offensive fun, but enjoy the defensive fronts.
Washington vs Buffalo Prediction, Line
Buffalo 26, Washington 16
Line: Buffalo -7, o/u: 45.5
ATS Confidence out of 5: 3
Must See Rating: 3
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On the 700 Club today, 81 year old televangelist Pat Robertson weighed in on the earthquake that hit the Eastern states. In the past, he told his viewers that gay marriage will bring the Wrath of God upon America; which proves old habits are hard to break and a catastrophe is always good publicity.
In the past, Robertson also linked Hurricane Katrina and terrorist attacks to legalized abortion, so why let another earthquake slip through his radar.
The earthquake caused a four foot crack in the Washington monument and was apparently an act of God, according to Robertson.
From Right wing watch:
Robertson: Ladies and gentlemen I don’t want to get weird on this so please take it for what it’s worth. But it seems to me the Washington Monument is a symbol of America’s power, it has been the symbol of our great nation, we look at that monument and say this is one nation under God. Now there’s a crack in it, there’s a crack in it and it’s closed up. Is that a sign from the Lord? Is that something that has significance or is it just result of an earthquake? You judge, but I just want to bring that to your attention. It seems to me symbolic. When Jesus was crucified and when he died the curtain in the Temple was rent from top to bottom and there was a tear and it was extremely symbolic, is this symbolic? You judge.
I judged as per his request. No, it’s an earthquake. They happen.
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Mercedes-Benz commercial historical vehicles and archive transfered to Wörth, Germany.
Due to the split of Daimler into two independent companies on 1 December, Daimler Truck transferred the first batch of historical Mercedes-Benz commercial vehicles and parts of its truck and bus archive to the location in Wörth at the end of November. For this purpose a convoy of low-loaders and historical trucks and buses travelled from the Stuttgart area to the Application Information Centre (BIC) of the Mercedes-Benz truck plant in Wörth am Rhein.
The historical trucks included a Mercedes-Benz LP 333 from 1960 (known as a “millipede” due to its two steerable front axles) and a Mercedes-Benz LP 608 which was the first truck produced at the recently opened Wörth plant in 1965. In future, Daimler Truck will mainly house its collection of historical exhibits near its truck and bus locations. Additional archival material and exhibits will be relocated in the weeks ahead.
Daimler Truck’s collection encompasses around 130 vehicles, of which about 30 were previously located in Stuttgart and the surrounding area.
This collection also includes powertrains, parts and accessories from the company’s 125-year truck history. The archives of Daimler Truck were previously distributed on more than 160 square metres of storage space. The documents filled more than 2,000 metres of shelves on several levels. The archival material includes 2,600 rolls of film and 600 magnetic tapes that contain over 1,000 hours of historical moving images.
Until now, the classic vehicles and the archive of Daimler AG have been centrally managed in Stuttgart. After the corporate split, the Group analogue archive for overarching, company-wide topics prior to the separation will remain in Stuttgart along with the archive for cars and vans. The Mercedes-Benz Museum in Stuttgart-Untertürkheim will continue to be the main publicly accessible location for the shared company history including trucks and buses.
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Diary Queen Black Friday Hours 2022 – Dairy-Queen-Holiday-Hours– Soft-serve ice cream and fast food are the mainstays of the Dairy Queen brand in the United States. D.Q., as Dairy Queen is commonly referred as, is an American fast food chain. Ice cream, hamburgers, fries, salad, and soft drinks are all part of the menu at this restaurant. All Dairy Queen locations are open on all federal holidays. In this article, we share Dairy-Queen-Holiday-Hours in 2022.
Dairy Queen is a well-known soft serve ice cream parlor in the United States. Fast food and a large selection of frozen goods are the company’s most well-known offerings. Having been operating for over 81 years, they’ve been able to develop tremendously since their founding in 1940.
Dairy Queen maintains a regular schedule despite having more than 6,800 locations. Their hours can fluctuate based on the store. However, you can reliably expect the hours mentioned below to be accurate to any Dairy Queen near you.
What Days of the Week Is Dairy Queen Open?
For anyone asking how long Dairy Queen is open during the week, Monday through Friday, they are open for roughly 11 hours a day. This could fluctuate from store to store. In certain places, the hours are more or less flexible.
There will be a slew of fast food restaurants open, including the vast majority of IHOP, Denny’s, and Waffle House locations countrywide. It’s generally a franchise decision whether a restaurant opens on holidays, so check with your closest location before venturing out.
In addition to marking the unofficial start of summer, Black Friday is a popular day for cookouts in honor of those who gave their lives while serving their country.
On-demand services including Postmates, Grubhub, UberEats and DoorDash will deliver orders Monday for partner local and national businesses.
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Target is open Black Friday 2022:Target is restoring fitting rooms after keeping them shuttered more than a year amid COVID
According to a recent survey by Numerator, a data and digital business, 44 percent of customers expect to return to usual holiday celebrations by Black Friday. By the Black Friday, that number climbs to 59 percent , the survey found.
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Where Can I Find Dairy Queen Operating Hours?
Anyone wishing to find Dairy Queen’s hours for neighboring stores can utilize their store locator on their website. Alternatively, you can also use Google Maps to discover the nearest location to you.
In countries like the United States, you can find a Dairy Queen in a variety of locations. You may find this business in cities such as; Minneapolis, Houston, and San Antonio.
Time and Places to Find the Nearest Dairy Queen
Nowadays, it’s not difficult to find a restaurant near you. All you need to do is utilize the map shown below to identify the nearest location of Dairy Queen restaurants as per your present location.
Despite our best efforts to provide all relevant information, we encourage you to let us know if you have any additional questions or concerns in the comment box. Please share your thoughts with us. Keep monitoring our site for more important information such as holiday hours, near me locations of your favourite restaurants, stores, retailers etc.


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Your Kid’s Mental Health
Join us as we discuss how we as parents and guardians can best support our kids in these times. On top of growing concerns about social media, mass violence, natural disasters, and political polarization—not to mention the normal ups and downs of childhood and adolescence—it can feel insurmountable for those with a child in their life. Join us as we discuss parenting strategies that can help our kids navigate in a healthy way these challenges.

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However, today I got a very nice treat! This hummingbird buzzed overhead and landed in the brambles right beside me. I stopped and watched... lovely. A 'Anna's Hummingbird' and a very tame one! And! I had my camera! I sloooowly get my camera out of my pocket thinking the birdie will shoot off at any moment. But nope, the birdie was still there, so I took a piccie.
Then, I hedged my bets and flicked the switch to 'video'... and OMG! The birdie is still there! So I filmed this:
I get sore arms holding my camera at a weird angle and so stop the David Attenborough impression. I say thanks to the birdie and walk on. As I do, I tell a couple walking towards, that there's a hummingbird there. They stop and watch it... cos it's still there!
Then I wait some more and see that they've told another couple... it's still there!
Aww. It's lovely to see the pleasure of a wee, teeny, widdle bird can bring.
I wish the pics and video could have captured the hummingbird better. Especially the red iridescent throat and forehead. Alas, it's an old cheap point and shoot that I had... it has it's limits, as do I! But here's a wonderful video another local got out his kitchen window of the same species building a nest over ten days last spring. It's gorgeous.
When I lived in Britain, I was so surprised to learn that there were no hummingbirds there. I shall pack and release some when I next visit. ;-)

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It's all there. You've seen the movie. Most of us have seen it several times. Some people see it several times in a row during the annual 24-hour airing marathon on cable! So we know the scenes, and it's a lot of fun to see them played out in person at the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.
Maybe the best-known moment is the triple-dog-dare...put your tongue on the frozen flagpole scene, and there it is. That's Micah Wilborn as a stuck Flick. Jack English is Schwartz (R) looking on. Both boys are a lot of fun in their respective roles.
Yes, there is a Leg Lamp! Here it is with Tom Auclair who plays Raphie's dad, "The Old Man"..the winner of the Major Award! He brings the expected grumpiness to the role but he also creates the likeable "Everydad" the story needs to work this well.
His comic counterbalance is Eryn Carman as Ralphie's mother. She's very funny when she's frustrated with her husband and very sweet to her kids. Eryn will make you laugh.
There's the moment below when Evan Lennon as Ralphie yells, "Fuuuudge"..except (according to the narrator)...it's not really "fudge" he said. That leads naturally into Ralphie's soap-in-mouth moment. In the background below you see little brother Randy. Finn Dufford plays him with just the right mix of whiny and cute. He snorts into his oatmeal bowl, he can't get up when he falls down in his winter weather gear (remember?) and he has a bladder with bad timing. It's all there.
There are the classroom scenes and the theme-writing assignment..with a teacher (Jen Lennon) who absolutely lives for grammar and proper use of margins.
London Lyle and Elizabeth Pond are funny and smart and engaging in their roles as the girls who alternately amuse and annoy the boys in the class.
Not part ot this classroom is the other kid in A Christmas Story...the notorious Scut Farkus! He's the neighborhood bully. Mark Autry brings just the right amount of menace to the role as the tormentor of pre-teens.
Yes, there is the moment when Ralphie explodes and takes out all his frustrations on the unfortunate Farkus. It's all there.
The recurring theme of course is the Red Ryder BB gun. It's all Ralphie wants for Christmas. He plans and plots about how to get it. He daydreams about why he needs it - to protect his family and friends from bad guys and raccoons and Indiana Pythons. We all know Ralphie gets the gun in the end no matter how many people warn him, "You'll shoot your eye out!"
The whole story is woven together by Jason Lythgoe. (right, below) He narrates all the action as the grown-up version of Ralphie.
Under the clever direction of Joye Cook-Levy, he sometimes even wanders in and out of scenes like Thornton Wilder's "Stage Manger" in "Our Town". The difference is that he's the central character of the story and not an anonymous voice. Jason does a fine job of transporting us all back to our own childhoods, when the Christmas presents we got and gave were the focus of the kid world for a few weeks every year.
Full disclosure: Jen Lennon, who plays the teacher Miss Shields, is my sister. Even Lennon, who plays Ralphie, is my nephew.
Jen makes some clever comedic choices, especially during some of Ralphie's daydream scenes..when she goes from astounded paper-grader to wicked witch. Evan has been in several productions at the Fine Arts Center but never before in a role this big. He carries it off beautifully. He is a very experienced and talented performer, at 12!
Yeah, I'm a proud uncle and a proud brother but I would say these two did a great job even if I'd never met them.
The whole cast comes together to make this a really entertaining experience. The show has more kids in it than adults but they're all up to the task. It's not the same as seeing the movie, it's wonderful in its own way...and it's all there.
The sets and costumes and lighting are all top-notch, just as we've come to expect from the Fine Arts Center Theatre Company!
Go see it if you can. It works if you know the movie, and it works if you don't!
We'll talk again soon.
"A Christmas Story" runs Thursday- Sunday every weekend through December 23rd. Ticket info is available here. http://www.csfineartscenter.org/silverseason/christmas-story.html
All photos are courtesy of the Colorado Springs Fine Arts Center.
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The Triple-A baseball team formally known as the Gwinnett Braves (International League) threw fans a curveball Friday morning. Its new name isn’t one of the six finalists fans voted on earlier this year. Read more here.
It’s the ‘Gwinnett Stripers’
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|OSP checkpoint in Wood County tonight|
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The Ohio State Highway Patrol along with the Bowling Green Police Division and the Wood County Sheriff's Office will hold an OVI checkpoint this evening from 11 p.m. until 2:30 a.m. on Ohio 105 (Wooster Street).
The OVI checkpoint, funded by federal grant funds, is planned to deter and intercept impaired drivers.
The checkpoint will also be held in conjunction with nearby saturation patrols to aggressively combat alcohol-related injury and fatal crashes.
Those planning to consume alcohol are being told to designate a driver or make other travel arrangements before they drink.
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CAMPAIGNERS trying to curb dog control orders have urged supporters to respond to a public consultation by Thursday, March 10. They had believed that there was an extension until next month but Conwy Council has confirmed that the closing date for responses has always been March 10. Some objectors believe that banning pooches from seven stretches of beach and other areas is harsh for responsible dogowners.
But the local authority wants to provide a safer environment for residents and visitors. Send comments to Leanne Martin, Regulatory Services, Civic Centre, Abergele Road, Colwyn Bay.


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Effects of biochar and crop residues application on chemical properties of a degraded soil of South Malang, and P uptake by maize
Keywords:biochar, calcareous soil, maize, organic matter
Low productivity of food crops on marginal dry lands of South Malang, East Java occurs due to low levels of soil fertility in the region due to low soil organic matter content and low content of available P. The purpose of this study was to evaluate the effect of the combination of biochar and plant litter on chemical properties of a degraded soil of South Malang, and P uptake by maize. The treatments tested in this study was a combination of types of biochar (sugarcane litter biochar and maize litter biochar), and the type of fresh litter (sugarcane and maize). Biochar doses applied were 0, 20 and 40 t biochar / ha, whereas the doses of fresh litters applied were 0, 40, and 80 t litter / ha. Three maize seed of BISI 2 variety was grown in each pot (treatment) for 49 days. Nine treatments were arranged in a completely randomized design with three replications. The results showed that application of litter and biochar tended to lower pH, CEC, exchangeable Ca, and total P the soil studied. The interaction of litter and biochar did not significantly increase P availability in the soil. However, application of litter and biochar also increased P uptake by maize. The best treatment for maximum increase of P availability and uptake of P was application 80 t sugarcane fresh litter / ha and 40 t maize litter biochar / ha.
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Cheng, C.H., Lehmann, J., Thies, J.E., Burton, S.D. and Engelhard, M.H. 2006. Oxidation of black carbon through biotic and abiotic processes. Organic Geochemistry 37 : 1477 â€“ 1488.
DeLuca, T. H., MacKenzie, M.D. and Gundale, M.J. 2009. Biochar Effects on Soil Nutrient Transformation. Earthscan Publisher, London, UK. pp. 251-270.
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The key to a maintaining a beautiful garden is starting early and planning ahead. Now that spring is finally upon us, it’s time to get started!
The spring melt can leave an array of odds and ends in your yard, such as forgotten leaves from last fall, twigs, branches, pinecones, etc. Clearing this debris away not only makes your yard look better, it also allows for new growth. Grass and gardens thrive when they are clear of clutter and able to soak up as much sun and water as possible.
Once your grass is clear, aeration will maximize its potential to soak up nutrients. Right now is a great time to aerate your lawn. Aerating involves putting small holes into the soil, allowing air, water, and nutrients to penetrate deep underground. Tools for aerating are available at hardware stores and the process is quite simple. Ideally, your lawn should be aerated during the growing season, when temperatures aren’t too hot. Since the GTA got off to quite a late start this year, now’s the time to do it.
This time of year is also ideal to start preparing your gardenbeds. Certain flowers/plants grow at certain times of the year, but a great time to get your garden started is before temperatures rise. Do some research on when flowers are in bloom, and plan accordingly. This way, your garden will be flowering constantly, all summer long.
To maintain a pristine lawn and garden throughout the summer, it is important to pull weeds when they are still small. This is much easier to do than when weeds are large, because their roots are shallower and therefore easier to pull out. Pulling them before they flower also prevents them from spreading their seeds and infiltrating the rest of your garden.
Whether you start outside in the yard or inside your home, the time for spring cleaning is upon us. These simple tips are a good place to start when looking to upgrade your home’s exterior.

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Section 8 Program provides families with a "Housing Choice Voucher", to provide very-low income families affordable housing choices. The housing choice voucher program is the federal government's program for assisting very low-income families, the elderly, and the disabled to afford decent, safe, and sanitary housing in the private market. Since housing assistance is provided on behalf of the family or individual, participants are able to find their own housing, including single-family homes, townhouses and apartments. Unlike public housing assistance apartments which have specific locations, the family who has a housing voucher is free to take that voucher anywhere in the country to lease private housing; as long as the housing meets the requirements of the program: safe, decent, and affordable.
NBHA is currently managing a housing choice voucher assistance program of approximately 905 vouchers.


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National Pet Day in 2022
National Pet Day seeks to show appreciation for all the pets in the world. This day encourages people to love their pets and if possible, adopt those pets in need of a home.
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Thus, painting all the walls and the ceiling with a dark color, you feel more
“embraced” in the room.
Now, if the intention is to lengthen the room, the ideal is to choose to keep the
ceiling light and the walls in a dark tone. This increases the horizontal line and
offers an idea of expanding the space.
Finally, to widen the room, you can paint the back wall and the ceiling with a
darker tone, while keeping the floor and side walls in a lighter tone. Is your goal
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So, know that the best colors for small rooms,
in this case, are the color palettes in light tones! However, nothing to be
restricted to beige or white! There are an incredible variety of shades that can –
and should – be explored. For example, greyish greens, quartz pinks, blues …
Using tone on tone is also a nice tip to expand the space and innovate in the
choice. If you choose a darker color in the room, try placing objects with the
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Reprogramming the Political Spectrum
Ben Garves breaks down the political spectrum, its history, and why we're using it wrong.
The Second Civil Rights Movement in America
Ben discusses racism, social justice, and the role that silent or implied racism plays in swaying the electorate and deciding our elections.
Where Are Our Democrats?
We take you behind the scenes to witness one of Ben's rants, as he asks where our Democratic leadership and representation is in our time of need.
Ben on Politics Ep. 5: Immigration
Ben delves into the statistics behind immigration in the United States and how it helps the economy.
Christmas Trivia - S.1 Ep. 4
Happy holidays from the Ben on Politics team!
Silent Racism and the Republican Party S.1 Ep. 3
Ben discusses the racial divide in the republican party and the concept of "Dog Whistle Racism" - the idea that you can imply racist beliefs without actually saying a single racial slur.
What patriotism REALLY is S.1 Ep.2
Ben discusses the failures of thanksgiving to deliver on its message of a strong relationship with natives, along with breaking down the superficial ideals that have become American "patriotism".
The "-ISMS" S.1 Ep.1
This week, Ben discusses the "isms" that have been pushed by a conservative agenda over the election season - social conservativism, protectionism, constitutionalism, classism, racism, etc.


Chapter five of the “Health of Massachusetts” looks at the health and well-being of the mothers, infants, and children of the Commonwealth. Specifically, we present information on the changing demographics of those being born in Massachusetts, statewide maternal and infant health characteristics, and the use of services such as prenatal care, fertility treatments, and the Women Infants and Children (WIC) Nutrition program.
All of the data on birth, fetal deaths, and infant deaths in Massachusetts is collected by the Registry of Vital Records and Statistics. This information, along with data from statewide maternal and child health programs and surveillance systems, is essential for surveillance, research, and creating public health programs, policies, and interventions.
We can see from this data that health outcomes for women, infants, and children in Massachusetts compares quite favorably with those of the rest of the country. Massachusetts has infant mortality and teen birth rates that are among the lowest in the country. However, certain health issues have not seen improvement and substantial differences still exist in many areas.
Learn more on our website at: www.mass.gov/dph/healthofmassachusetts.
FOOD DAY? ISN’T EVERY DAY FOOD DAY? posted on Oct 24
If you’re like me, and most other people, you celebrate food day each and every day. So, it’s natural to ask, “What’s the deal with Food Day?” It’s not a reminder to eat (yours truly has never needed a reminder!), but a chance to appreciate …Continue Reading FOOD DAY? ISN’T EVERY DAY FOOD DAY?
October 24th is Food Day! posted on Oct 21
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Million Hearts — Working to Prevent Heart Attack and Stroke posted on Oct 20
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Blueberry Chipotle Baby Back Ribs
- 6 lbs Pork Baby Back Ribs (3 racks)
- 1 jar Jolly Trading Company Blueberry Chipotle BBQ Sauce
- Jolly Trading Company Capital Coffee Rub
- Salt and peper to taste
1. Heat grill to medium, wash and pat dry ribs and remove membrane on underside of ribs.
2. Apply Capital Coffee Rub seasoning on ribs liberally to coat.
3. Place on grill bone side down for 15 minutes (watch for flare ups).
4. Flip and cook other side for 10 minutes on medium heat, then turn to low heat and cook for another 10 minutes.
5. Flip ribs again and baste liberally with Jolly Trading Company Blueberry Chipotle Barbeque Sauce and cook on low heat for an additional 5 minutes, for a total of 40 minutes cooking time.
6. Remove and let stand for 5 minutes, serve with Elevation Ten Cabernet Franc.


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Microarray ana lysis was performed at the Center for Medical Genomics Vorinostat clinical at the Indiana University School Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries of Medicine. Labeling and hybridization to Affymetrix Mouse Genome 430A GeneChips were carried out following the manufacturers suggested procedure. Fragmented biotinylated RNA from each embryo was separately hybridized to its own GeneChip for 17 hours at 42 C. The microarray analysis revealed striking differ ences among the 4 alcohol treated samples, which segre gated as two separate pairs rather than one set of four, subsequently, it was noted that one pair of embryos had an open neural tube and the other pair had the neural tube closed. All 4 control embryos had closed neural tubes. Experiment 2 was designed to follow up these initial results and provide an independent test of the gene expres sion correlations with the two neural tube phenotypes.
Total RNA was isolated from individual embryos. raction and microarray analysis was as described above, except that Affymetrix Mouse Genome 430 2. 0 GeneChips were used. The Mouse Genome 430A chip contains over 22,600 probe sets representing transcripts and variants Inhibitors,Modulators,Libraries from over 14,000 well characterized mouse genes. The newer Mouse Genome 430 2. 0 Array contains all of the probe sets present on the earlier 430A chip plus additional probe sets for a total of approximately 45,000 probe sets that analyze the expression of over 39,000 transcripts and variants from over 34,000 well characterized mouse genes. The differences in feature size and probe set con tent make direct comparisons inappropriate, due to scanning and scaling issues, but because the probe sets on the 430A are present on the 430 2.
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The authorities are investigating a few strong leads following the destruction of a Central Florida mosque by an unknown vandal, WTSP-TV reports. Muslim leaders want federal authorities to investigate the incident—in which the vandal wrecked the mosque with a machete before leaving bacon near the front door—as a hate crime.
Surveillance footage show someone breaking into the mosque in Titusville and shattering the lights, windows and cameras with a machete. The vandal then put the bacon by the front door, apparently as a taunt, since Muslims are forbidden from eating pork.
This is just the latest in a series of attacks against mosques across the nation. Just last week, in California, a Molotov cocktail exploded at a mosque, while a similar bacon incident occurred at a Nevada mosque. Since November, the news station notes, at least four incidents have been reported at or near mosques in Florida alone.
The Council on American-Islamic Relations called 2015 the year with a record number of attacks and threats against Muslim places of worship, WTSP-TV notes.
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NEW HAZELTON, B.C. -- A 16-year-old boy is believed to have drowned while swimming with friends at Seeley Lake Provincial Park near New Hazelton, B.C.
RCMP Const. Lesley Smith says police received a report about two young males yelling for help on an island about 30 metres from shore around 5 p.m. on Sunday.
The 16- and 17-year-old boys told police the trio swam across the lake toward the island but halfway across, their friend panicked and went under the water.
Smith says police and conservation officers went out in their boats and that a search and rescue crew and an ambulance were also deployed.
The boy's body was recovered soon afterwards.
His friends were treated for shock and non-life threatening injuries, and the coroner's service is investigating the tragic incident.


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The Christmas Song
December 24, 2017
Christmas seems to come earlier and earlier. Already before Thanksgiving had arrived this year, the holiday lights were strung and the usual Yuletide songs had invaded every conceivable public space. Perhaps because I’m a musician, a shudder runs through me when I once again have to hear after a blissful year’s absence, the inane Winter Wonderland or Jingle Bells or Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer. I have to wonder whether Jesus would have been happy to hear these songs blaring incessantly from seemingly every corner of America in celebration of His birthday.
As I mounted the subway stairs at New York City’s Penn Station the other day, I unexpectedly heard a flute amidst the jarring noise of rush hour trains. Accompanied by some kind of boom box, a young man was playing an instantly recognizable Christmas song. Oh no, I said to myself. Not even in the subterranean depths of the subway system can one escape this holiday hell. And yet, I could not help but stop to listen as the flutist began his next selection. Without the lush accompanying harmonies, the melody, with a rising octave followed by a simple downward scale, might have been the opening of a Bach Cello Suite.
With those few notes, a rush of pleasurable recognition followed. I was listening to “Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire,” otherwise known as the “Christmas Song,” written by Mel Tormé with lyrics by Tormé and Bob Wells.
Mel Tormé, the son of Russian Jewish immigrants, was a musical child prodigy who played the drums, the piano, and eventually became a singer/songwriter. Tormé’s smooth, mellow tenor voice earned him the sobriquet “The Velvet Fog” from his admiring colleagues. He wrote over two hundred and fifty songs during his lifetime—including many that have become standards.
As I boarded the uptown #2 train, the song stuck with me. There was a kind of inevitable quality to its gentle twists and turns, a feeling of rightness to every note and phrase. And then the songs message: Roasting chestnuts over an open fire. What a nice idea.
As Tormé tells it, he arrived at the Los Angeles home of Bob Wells, his lyricist partner, for a work session on a sweltering hot day in 1945. Finding Wells not yet at home, Tormé wandered over to the piano and found a pad of paper resting on the music rack with four lines on it.
Chestnuts roasting on an open fire
Jack Frost nipping at your nose
Yuletide carols being sung by a choir
And folks dressed up like Eskimos
When Wells showed up, he offered Tormé the following explanation: “It’s so damned hot today. I thought I’d write something to cool myself off. All I could think of was Christmas and cool weather.” The opening line was a memory of Wells’s childhood in Boston where street vendors sold roasted chestnuts on street corners at Christmas time.
“I think you might have something there,” Tormé said to Wells.
The two of then sat down to work, and forty-five minutes later they had completed “The Christmas Song.”
I was wrong about Christmas songs, or at least about this one. There is something lovely and comforting about “Chestnuts Roasting on an Open Fire,” especially amidst the usual commercial holiday juggernaut. And it has endured over the years—possibly the most performed Christmas song ever.
“My annuity,” Tormé once jokingly called it.
None other than Nat King Cole fell in love with the song and was the first one to record it in 1946. His mellifluous voice gives added meaning to the song’s closing lines:
And so, I’m offering this simple phrase
To kids from one to ninety-two
Although it’s been said many times, many ways
Merry Christmas to you.
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I love this beautiful song and the way you wove tyhe song into the story. Happy holiday to you Mr. Steinhardt.
This piece has made our Christmas Eve morning something special. Your story, Mel Torme, and that mellifluous velvet voice of Nat King Cole.
Merry Christmas and thank you.
Margo and Tony
The way you told this was so beautiful. This is my first Christmas without my husband, as he passed away on Easter morning this year. I’m a professional musician, too, and playing all kinds of Christmas music, but somehow this story touched me more than anything. The nostalgia, looking back on what used to be…And the real Reason we celebrate – your observations were wonderful. Thank you for brightening my day!
Thanks, Arnold, for the lovely story. It remains one of my favorite Christmas tunes and always will. Happy Holidays to you and yours. Tom
Thank you, Mr. S. for this beautiful story.
All of us in Albuquerque who loved your performances over so many years, miss you.
Best wishes for the holiday and New Year!
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Oh how right you are Arnold! It is a gorgeous song I always adored but never knew who wrote it or the story behind it! Thank you for this Christmas present as we prepare Christmas lunch in my new London abode. Menahem and I wish you and Dodo the happiest
Christmas and hope to see you in February after his concerts with Philadelphia.
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I remember you and the Guarneri String Quartet from my college days (1966-70) at Harpur College (SUNY Binghamton/Binghamton University) and thank you and your colleagues for producing beautiful music then and now through recordings. Brahms Piano Quintet in F minor still plays in my head. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8jKYa2Y6BaQ
Lovely. comforting. Arnold’s Magic.
Though I still love Silent Night.
visceral nostalgia of chestnuts roasting on street corner vendor carts when in NY first year Juilliard – holiday shopping – preparing to go home for holidays – feeling very grown up – this song is embedded with that memory – thank you for kindling it in your story -Happy New Year!!!
You never fail me!Love the story and the song!
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Ore Ships Gain Most in a Month as China Buys Australian SuppliesIsaac Arnsdorf
Rates to carry iron ore on the biggest ships climbed the most in a month as China, the largest importer, bought cargoes of the commodity used to make steel from Australia.
Daily earnings for Capesizes hauling 160,000 metric tons rose 2.6 percent, the most since March 12, to $4,701, according to the Baltic Exchange, the London-based published of shipping costs. The weekly increase of 10 percent was the biggest since January. Today’s gain led the Baltic Dry Index, a broader gauge of commodities freight rates, up 1.2 percent to 875.
Futures for steel reinforcement bars used in construction gained this week for the first time in three weeks amid a seasonal increase in Chinese demand. Imported iron ore at the port of Tianjin rose for a fifth day to $141 a dry ton, according to The Steel Index Ltd. Stockpiles at the country’s ports fell 6.9 percent this year to 67.96 million tons, within 3 percent of an almost four-year low, according to Beijing Antaike Information Development Co.
“Higher steel prices and modest iron-ore inventories in China have supported iron-ore buying from Australia this week,” Frode Moerkedal, an Oslo-based analyst at RS Platou Markets AS, the investment-banking unit of Norway’s largest shipbroker, said in an e-mailed report today.
Gains extended across the three smaller ship types tracked by the index. Rates for Panamaxes carrying about half as much cargo as Capesizes rose 1.6 percent to $8,892 a day, according to the exchange. The vessels are benefiting from South American exports of grains and soybeans, Moerkedal said.
Supramaxes were little changed at $9,426 a day, and Handysizes, the smallest vessels in the index, gained 1 percent to $7,823.


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WASHINGTON — A conservative watchdog group on Tuesday released 296 pages of emails from former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton’s personal server, including many exchanges that weren’t handed over to the government as part of the Democratic nominee’s archive.
The new emails, released by the group Judicial Watch, offer fresh examples of how top Clinton Foundation officials sought access to the State Department during Clinton’s tenure. The documents were obtained through a Freedom of Information Act lawsuit filed by Judicial Watch against the State Department.
A spokesman for the Clinton Foundation, a nonprofit organization established by former President Bill Clinton, didn’t immediately return requests for comment. Hillary Clinton had attached her name to the foundation after she left the U.S. government and subsequently removed it when she started her presidential campaign.
In an exchange from April 2009, a longtime aide to Bill Clinton told three of Hillary Clinton’s top advisers that it was “important to take care of” a particular person, whose name has been redacted from the document. That person had written the aide, Doug Band, under the subject line “A favor…” to thank him for the “opportunity to go on the Haiti trip,” which the person called “eye-opening.” Band was a chief adviser in helping Bill Clinton launch the Clinton Foundation after leaving the White House.
Huma Abedin, a longtime confidante of Clinton who is now working for her campaign, replied to Band: “We have all had him on our radar. Personnel has been sending him options.” Band responded: “Great.” Band was an important figure in helping Bill Clinton set up his postpresidential career and has since co-founded a New York company called Teneo Holdings.
While at the State Department, Abedin received a special designation that allowed her to work at the agency while also doing outside work. During that period, she held two other positions, at the Clinton Foundation and at Teneo.
The latest emails provided further fodder for Republicans who have been critical of Hillary Clinton’s ties to her family’s foundation during her time at the State Department. While Clinton is no longer involved with the foundation, her husband and daughter, Chelsea, continue to attend the foundation’s events. Bill Clinton said in June that he would have to rethink his role at the foundation and its fundraising if his wife is elected president in November.
“That the Clinton Foundation was calling in favors barely 3 months into Hillary Clinton’s tenure at the State Department is deeply troubling, and it is yet another reminder of the conflicts of interest and unethical wheeling and dealing she’d bring to the White House,” said Michael Short, a spokesman for the Republican National Committee, in a statement Tuesday.