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This article appeared in Gawker on August 11, 2015.
At a recent staff meeting at the Southeast Division station of the Los Angeles Police Department, Ryan Whiteman, a tall, barrel-chested sergeant, ran down the mid-year crime stats for Jordan Downs, a public housing development in the Watts neighborhood of South L.A.. Jordan Downs is home to some of the most destitute families in Los Angeles County. "Five generations of abject poverty," is how civil rights attorney Connie Rice described the 700-unit complex, which looks like a cross between a tenement and a dilapidated army barracks. "It's Third World America."
At the height of the crack trade in the 1980s and 1990s, Jordan Downs was controlled by the Grape Street Crips, one of the most notorious street gangs in the country. In that era, gang-related homicides at Jordan Downs and at two nearby projects, Nickerson Gardens and Imperial Courts, were so common that parents sometimes had their children sleep in bathtubs to protect them from stray bullets flying in the night. Those who weren't murdered by the Bloods or the Crips were often victims of the LAPD, which, in South L.A., relied almost exclusively on a set of ruthless, and constitutionally questionable, repression tactics. "Ever since the fugitive slave laws of the 1840s a key mission of American policing has been to put the fear of God into African Americans," Joe Domanick, a journalist and historian at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice and author of a new book on the LAPD, told me. "From 1950 through 2000, the LAPD did that by being a racist, repressive army of occupation in LA's ghettos."
In the late 1980s, then-LAPD Chief Daryl Gates declared war on the gangs. In practice, that meant war on the mostly black and Latino teenagers of Los Angeles' poorest neighborhoods. His vehicle for carrying it out was C.R.A.S.H. — Community Resources Against Street Hoodlums — an elite gang suppression unit whose flamboyantly aggressive paramilitary campaign, Operation Hammer, generated 50,000 arrests in three years, as well as more than 2,000 allegations of excessive force. "They did not see people as people," said Nina Revoyr, COO of the Children's Institute, which operates out of Watts. "They saw them as problems to be contained."
In those days, if you were young and black in Watts — or worse, if you dared to venture out of your neighborhood to the affluent Westside —you could expect to find yourself at any given moment spread-eagled on the front of a squad car for wearing the wrong colored shoes. You could count yourself lucky to get away without being beaten or arrested. "We had times where guys was framed with drugs; drugs was put on people," recalled Donny Joubert, an ex-Blood who grew up in Nickerson Gardens, and now works as a gang intervention worker. "We had officers that came here and took money from people." The open contempt LAPD gang cops routinely showed for the civil rights of Watts residents was the accelerant for the community's violent explosion in 1992 following the acquittal of the officers who beat Rodney King, just as it had been for the 1965 Watts Riots, 50 years ago today. "Hate" was not too strong a word for how many Watts residents felt about the police in those days — even those who reviled the gangs with equal fervor.
This year, crime is once again on the rise in Los Angeles, for the first time in a decade. But at the staff meeting at Southeast, Sergeant Whiteman reported to his colleagues that in the first six months of 2015, Jordan Downs had seen a 44 percent drop in violent crime compared to the same time period last year, and a 36 percent reduction in property crime. Lately, the most pressing issue the officers under his supervision were hearing about from Jordan Downs residents was illegal parking. There had also been some complaints about teenagers loitering. Sergeant Whiteman's report from one of the most notorious gang zones in the world had all the blood and adrenaline of a suburban crime blotter.
Jordan Downs has experienced just one homicide in the last four years. Between 2011 and 2013, violent crime there dropped by 70 percent. In the same time period, Nickerson Gardens and Imperial Courts also saw their violent crime rates halved. The decline in violence in what were once the garrisons of L.A.'s most murderous gangs has been accompanied by a steep rise in public trust in the police officers that patrol the three communities. At a time when police shootings are a daily occurrence in the United States, and police relations with poor communities of color across the country are as bitter as they have been in decades, in the three Watts housing projects that were at the center of two massive uprisings against LAPD repression, officers are greeted with nods and waves from people who know them by their first names, and by kids running up to say hi.
Cops pulling up onto schoolyards near the three projects today are more likely there to tutor teenagers than to frisk them. Officers help organize backpack giveaways, neighborhood cleanups, and health fairs. Some have even adopted children from the projects to keep them out of the foster system after losing both of their parents to violence or incarceration. "You got hard core gang members shaking the police's hand, in the corner, talking to them, having conversations, and talking sports — chilling with them," said Joubert, describing a common scene at Nickerson Gardens. "These cops don't go in like they're afraid of people," explained Revoyr. "They don't go in like they think that all folks are out to get them. They see and respond to people like people." Just a few years ago, parents wouldn't let their children even talk to the officers; they didn't want them mixed up with the police in any way. "If you go through there now," Joubert said, "you see the officers toting them on their shoulders, carrying them on their back."
The synchronous trends in the three projects of reduced crime and increased public trust in the police are not a coincidence. They're the outcome of a new mode of policing, conceived of by Connie Rice and developed jointly by the LAPD and the Watts community, which is beginning to spread, tentatively, from a small, experimental unit in Southeast Division to the rest of the third largest municipal police force in the country. If its successes can be repeated throughout the rest of the LAPD, then it may provide an actionable vision for reform that could be applied in New York, Baltimore, Ferguson, and every other American city with a dysfunctional relationship between its police force and its most embattled communities.
When Connie Rice first began frequenting the projects in Watts in the early 1990s, she was helping to broker a truce between the Bloods and the Crips. At that time, her relationship with the LAPD was strictly litigious. Along with her colleagues at the NAACP Legal Defense Fund, Rice had filed a litany of lawsuits against the department for brutality, discrimination in promotions against women and minority officers, and every other LAPD misdeed that came across her desk, which was many.
The truce, which began just days before the 1992 riot, held down the murder rate in Watts for years. But at the end of 2005, seven gang-related homicides occurred within a two-month period. Fearing a revival of the gang wars of the 1980s, the ex-gang members who had organized the truce, Donny Joubert among them, asked then-City Councilmember Janice Hahn to convene a meeting of Watts community leaders to find a way to stem the violence.
Hahn brought Phil Tingirides, the new captain of the LAPD's Southeast Division, to the meeting. For many of the Watts residents in the room, that was a first. They had never before had a way to safely engage in a two-way conversation with the department.
Tingirides was the sixth captain of Southeast Division in five years, a fact that irked the community; the rapid turnover made it impossible to build any meaningful understanding between ordinary Watts residents and the station's leadership. Fortunately for Watts, Tingirides wasn't going anywhere anytime soon. When he accepted his new post, LAPD's current chief, Charlie Beck, had reminded him that there were only three ways out of his position: die, retire, or be promoted. Dying wasn't in Tingirides' plans, and with six kids to look after as a result of his recent marriage to Sergeant Emada Tingirides, an African-American officer who grew up near Nickerson Gardens, retirement was out of the question, too. And as Beck knew, Captain Tingirides couldn't be promoted any further up the chain of command because he didn't yet have a college degree. Watts would finally have some stability in the Southeast Division leadership.
At the meeting at Hahn's office, Watts residents lit into the new captain. They voiced their long pent-up list of grievances with Southeast officers and their tactics. They pressed Tingirides relentlessly on what he was going to do about it. "I was getting my ass handed to me," Tingirides said. "We had some real hard sit-downs in that room," Joubert acknowledged. "He had to hear us out. And then, we had to hear him out."
The group began to meet regularly, and Tingirides soon had his turn to recite his own complaints back to Watts residents: he believed many neighbors were too willing to ignore criminal activity happening next door. Eventually, the meetings became formalized as the Watts Gang Task Force, which convenes weekly to this day. Another regular meeting took place at Southeast station. Residents of the projects, including current and former Crips and Bloods, and LAPD officers would discuss their grievances with one another, and do their best to hammer them out. The conversations were not easy. They required careful diplomacy on both sides with their respective constituencies. "Everybody ain't with peace," Joubert remembered telling Captain Tingirides about the residents of the projects. "Everybody ain't with the fact that we even trying to have a sit-down with the police department. But you going to have the same problem in your police station."
Outside of the tense meetings in cramped conference rooms, residents of the Watts projects started organizing softball and basketball games against the LAPD. After decades of animosity, gang members, police officers, and ordinary Watts neighbors were getting to know each other, and talking frankly about their relationships with one another, every week. "He stood there and listened," Joubert recalled of Tingirides. "And he started understanding."
Tingirides grew up in South L.A., not far from Watts. His grandparents, who emigrated from Greece during World War I, ran a neighborhood butcher shop. His father joined the LAPD in 1956; Tingirides followed in his footsteps 24 years later.
For a time, Tingirides' senior lead officer was a man named Randy Cochran. Cochran, like Tingirides, was a white cop operating in a black neighborhood. But unlike many white officers in Watts, he was neither fearful of the community nor physically aggressive. He routinely wandered through Nickerson Gardens by himself in search of suspects, at a time when officers rarely did so. Tingirides can remember only a single occasion in which Cochran used force, and afterwards, "he patted him off and said, 'we didn't have to do that.'" Cochran "made phenomenal arrests," Tingirides recalled, because he was kind and respectful to members of the community he patrolled.
During a period in the 1980s, Tingirides was assigned to Metro Division, the elite paramilitary unit of the LAPD. Tingirides' experience with Metro's strong-arm tactics convinced him that they were ineffective in the long term, though he insists that at the time, it was the only tool they had. "We were not getting anywhere with just going out and arresting people, and we had to try something different," Tingirides told me. "And I wanted to try that relationship-based policing that I saw Randy Cochran do on a different level."
In 2008, the principal of 99th St. Elementary School launched an outreach program called Donuts with Dads, in which fathers from the neighborhood were invited to read to kids. But only about a quarter of the households in Watts had fathers in them, and the dads that were around were not easily able to take time off of work. So the school had firefighters and cops come in to take the place of the fathers. "It was a dog and pony show," Tingirides said of the program's kick-off. "The mayor was there, the chief was there, TV was there." But he noticed something: these weren't the kids that cops would see on a radio call, while they were angry or in the midst of a crisis. They were the same kids, but in a normal environment — "like my kids, except they had gold and silver in their teeth instead of porcelain."
Tingirides had an epiphany. Here was a chance to begin to change the perceptions that neighborhood kids and Southeast officers had of one another. Officers could come to the school and see the kids in a different context than what they see on radio calls. The kids could see the officers as people other than the ones putting dad in handcuffs.
With his wife, Emada, Captain Tingirides began recruiting street cops to do readings at the school on a weekly basis. Slowly, perceptions began to change. When officers first started showing up at the school, the kids ran away, screaming, "He's going to arrest us!" Within a year, the kids were running toward the officers instead.
Emada suggested to the principal that they start setting some goals. If the kids read a certain number of books, she said, officers would put on a pep rally at the end of the year, and Tingirides would jump out of a SWAT van in a chicken suit. The kids did their part, and Tingirides soon found himself doing a chicken dance in front of a bunch of screaming children. The next year, he found himself in front of the same kids, getting his hair dyed pink and then shaved off.
Back at the station, channeling the conversations he'd had at the Watts Gang Task Force, Tingirides pressed officers to start exercising their empathy. "Stop being so offended by a guy standing on a corner selling weed," he told them. "If you didn't have any food to put in your baby's mouth, what would you do? How far would you go? What's acceptable to you to feed your child, because you have no money, because you can't get a job, because you don't have an education, because you grew up in a dysfunctional family, because you couldn't get to school without getting beat up, and so you couldn't concentrate because you're worried about how you're going to get home safely?"
Southeast station is a mammoth concrete fortress that might fare well against an armed insurrection, or an alien invasion. It was built in 1978, the same year that Daryl Gates became the LAPD's Chief of Police. Its brutalist architecture was congruous with its relationship with the surrounding community during Gates' 14-year tenure: disparate, aloof, braced for attack.
Inside of its grim exterior, however, the Southeast Division was beginning to leave that past behind. Chief Beck and Connie Rice were paying attention to the changes underway, both within the division and among the residents of the three Watts projects. Then, in 2010, a group of P.J. Watts Crips at Imperial Courts attempted to gang rape the women in a Korean-American family during a home invasion. Rice went ballistic. She was afraid for the families in the projects, and she was afraid that the psychopaths who had perpetrated the crime might unravel all the progress that was being made in Watts. She met with Chief Beck and demanded that a new community policing unit be funded and built to keep Watts from spiraling once again out of control.
In the 1980s and 1990s, when the war between the Bloods and the Crips was at its peak, Beck was a sergeant in the C.R.A.S.H. unit. Rice had deposed, cross-examined, and sued him on a number of occasions. But by the time Beck became chief, Rice's relationship with the department had been transformed. After the Rampart Scandal in the late '90s and the federal oversight of the LAPD that emerged from it, Rice worked hand-in-hand with then-Chief Bill Bratton to write and implement reforms aimed at transforming not only the behavior, but the entire culture of the police department. When Rice first heard that Bratton had made Beck the new head of the Rampart Division, she was disappointed. "Old wine in old bottles," she thought. "He was ruthless, and he was aggressive, just like SWAT and gang units are," Rice remembers of Beck's days as a gang cop. But she soon discovered that he had changed. His old gang cop swagger was gone. When she asked Beck what had happened to him, he told her that he had realized that search-and-destroy policing was no longer working.
Now, as chief, Beck gave the green light to Rice's proposal to build what became the Community Safety Partnership program. The twin goals of CSP were to avoid unnecessary arrests and to build public trust, and then put that trust to work in making the community safer. "We wanted to see if the populations that hate the police the most could learn to bond with them," is how Rice explained the vision behind the program. "It's community policing on steroids," is how Sergeant Whiteman put it.
CSP officers — there are about 50 — are assigned to each of four housing projects: Jordan Downs, Nickerson Gardens, and Imperial Courts, in Watts, and Ramona Gardens, which is in the Latino majority neighborhood of Boyle Heights, on the east side of the city (the program is currently expanding to two more projects, Avalon Gardens and Gonzaque Village). By design, the CSP unit commands some of the highest salaries in the department, allowing it to attract the best candidates, and those who are tapped to join it are automatically promoted. It is made up largely of veteran officers. "Some of them are old SWAT and gang guys who want to make atonement for what they did," said Rice. It is also disproportionately female (Rice insists, only half-jokingly, that women make better police officers than men).
When an officer starts with CSP, she is retrained by Rice's organization, the Urban Peace Institute, in the fundamentals of "community trust policing." That means un-learning years of standard LAPD procedure. "My concept was, these cops would not be promoted based on how many arrests they made," Rice said. "In fact, if you made an arrest, you'd have to explain it, and it would not count in your favor." Instead, CSP officers' performance is evaluated on how theyavoid making arrests, as well as on what programs they develop to keep kids safe when walking to school through gang territory, or how many kids in their jurisdictions stay in school, or how much trust residents say they have in individual officers. That means a significant amount of their time is spent mentoring children, hanging out at after-school events in parks and playgrounds, and participating in planning meetings with local community groups. It's a jarring transition for some. "I come from a historically enforcement background," said Whiteman, who joined the force in 1998 and came to CSP just eight months ago. "So I'm taking time to shift my thought process. I need to be reconditioned from how I've been trained for the last 17 years."
When Rice first approached residents of the Watts projects with the idea of CSP, some of them jumped down her throat, accusing her of trying to bring a police state into their backyards. Those perceptions began to change as officers cleaned up a Jordan Downs alleyway that had been an open air drug market for years. Then, they brought in medical teams to screen people for diabetes and hypertension. Next, they distributed hundreds of pairs of bifocals to elderly residents. After that, they brought computers to school classrooms. In Ramona Gardens, CSP officers organized a farmer's market. These were not the cops people in the projects had known all too well for decades.
Joubert remembered the first time he saw a CSP officer at a pickup basketball game at the Nickerson Gardens recreation center, around the time the program began. The players were mostly young men, including a lot of gang members. Joubert watched as the officer took off his holster, his vest, and the rest of his gear, put it in the trunk of his car, and joined the game. It was something he had never seen before. Soon, Chief Tingirides and other officers started bringing their families to the rec center when the community organized toy giveaways and other events.
Those relationships between CSP officers and community members are part of what accounts for the staggering drop in violent crime in Jordan Downs, Nickerson Gardens and Imperial Courts. As a gang intervention worker, Joubert's job is to squash personal conflicts before they turn into gang violence and trigger the ever-escalating cycle of reprisals. He described a hypothetical scenario this way: a boy from Nickerson Gardens, which is associated with the Bounty Hunter Bloods, sleeps with a girl from Jordan Downs, which is Grape Street Crip turf. The girl has a boyfriend, who finds out about the affair. He gathers his friends to confront the boy, but he doesn't want to admit to them that his girlfriend cheated on him. So instead of telling them the truth, he turns it into a gang thing. The gang intervention workers, who are respected former gang members themselves, start hearing rumors of a squabble brewing between the Bloods and the Crips. They then do two things: they contact the CSP officers at each of the two projects and loop them in, and they start interviewing all of the parties involved. The CSP officers and the gang intervention workers share information and work together to squelch the rumors, while the gang intervention workers get to the bottom of the real cause of the conflict. Then they separate the beefing parties until cooler heads prevail. If a hit does occur, Tingirides told me, the department will also put a heavy police presence on the streets, taking their cues about when and where from the gang intervention workers.
In addition to navigating potential gang flare-ups, gang intervention workers also act as liaisons between CSP officers and neighbors who don't respond well to instructions from uniformed cops. The respect, Joubert said, must be mutual. "When officers say, 'well you got these guys over here, they disrespecting, we cannot take this no more.' So we step up. We tell the guys, 'you can't do this. You can't smoke. You have to respect the officers.'"
Controlling crime, violence, truancy, and everyday quality-of-life issues has become a joint project of the police and residents of the projects, instead of a catalyst for hostility between them. The byproduct has been an environment that people want to be a part of, rather than a nihilistic world that invites only anger, violence, and disorder. "People feel like change is here," said Rice. "And so they invest in it. They've been given the room to rise to the occasion."
CSP is a small unit, which is radically different from the rest of the LAPD. Rice is somewhat skeptical as to whether the success of the program can be brought to the rest of the department; the old school mindset is so baked into its culture. Joe Domanick pointed out to me that because of Bratton, stop-and-frisk policing is at an all time high. And he warned that when crime rates rise, as they currently are in Los Angeles, chiefs feel pressure to revert to the old ways. He said community policing throughout Los Angeles is already beginning to teeter.
Still, Domanick believes that with the right leadership, the CSP model can be brought to other cities — though it will take a very long time. "It takes a long time to build up community trust through community policing," he cautioned. And it takes a generation, he said, for a culture shift to take place within a department.
After the staff meeting at Southeast Division, Captain Tingirides — now Commander Tingirides — took me out in a black LAPD Dodge Charger on a drive through the projects. Most of the people we passed waved at Tingirides, or cocked their chins at him in salutation. "That would have never happened a while ago," he told me. "People would have been mad dogging." As we passed Jordan Downs, he pointed to a young man walking down the sidewalk. "That is something you would have never seen a while back — a guy walking through there with a bright red shirt. This is purple land."
The Grape Street Crips still exist at Jordan Downs, just like the Bounty Hunter Bloods still exist at Nickerson Gardens, the PJ Watts Crips at Imperial Courts, and the Big Hazard gang at Ramona Gardens. But nowadays, Tingirides told me, people in the Watts projects don't really see them as gangs anymore — they're just the identities of each of their communities. People still sport their colors from time to time, on t-shirts and shoelaces, though the handkerchiefs and bandanas are gone. But it's more in the spirit of wearing a Clippers hat to claim your team and your city. It's no longer an invitation to get shot at.
That morning, a homicide occurred in Watts, though not in any of the three housing developments. We happened to roll past the brother of the victim standing outside of a church; Tingirides waved to him, and he nodded back. The Metro Division police, who were recently deployed to Watts in part to learn from CSP's successes, were out looking for suspects.
I asked Tingirides whether the suppression-trained Metro cops looked down on CSP's pacifist approach. "It doesn't matter," he told me. "That's the direction the department is going in." CSP's crime reduction figures are so unmistakable that Beck has been able to say to the rest of the force, "Look what they've done in Southeast."
On the way back to the station, we encountered the aftermath of a minor head-on collision. Commander Tingirides got out to make sure everybody was ok. We ended up waylaid for 40 minutes, waiting for another squad car to arrive. While we were standing around, Tingirides chatted with the tow truck driver, who he knows from the neighborhood. He asked him about the homicide. The driver told Tingirides that there was a carful of men rolling around the area in a silver Monte Carlo, armed with AK-47s, in case of retaliation.
When we finally left the scene, Tingirides called the tip in to the department. After hanging up, he allowed himself a moment of self-satisfaction. "That's what happens when you know everybody in the neighborhood," he said.
Outside of the Watts projects, the rest of the LAPD is still catching up with Southeast. It has a long way to go. Last year, a young black Angeleno named Ezell Ford joined the list of victims of lethal police violence whose names have become familiar to households everywhere: Michael Brown, Eric Garner, Freddie Gray, Walter Scott, Samuel DuBose. The cops who killed Ford, Rice said, were doing the old style, search-and-destroy policing. I asked Donny Joubert whether the same situation could have unfolded at Nickerson Gardens, with a CSP officer. He doubted it. But even if it did, he wouldn't expect the community to explode, as it did in Ferguson, and as it has twice in Watts' past.
"We're able to work it out," he said. "We're able to talk it out to where you're not going to see this community blow up, or burn up stores. They believe in the system. They trust the system now."
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Cheers! To Arthur!
I was asked to come with my friend Angie to the launch of Guinness Arthur's Day celebration back in August. Held at KL Live, the line-up for the annual celebration was announced that night accompanied by cover version of their hits by our very own homegrown band-The Morning Glory.
This year Arthur's Day celebration will take place on the 27 September at Sepang International Circuit. The celebration promised to be a joyous occasion with energetic performances by some of the hottest international acts namely Five For Fighting, The All-American Rejects and The Wanted.
Personally not a huge fan of The Wanted but I will definitely be part of this just to catch The All-American Rejects in action. Their song, "It Ends Tonight" was my ultimate jam back then when I was still a uni student. Can't believe it has been that long.
Guinness has also planned one whole month of excitement leading to the actual celebration. You can find out all about the fab offers and exciting give-away by following Guinness Malaysia on Facebook and stalking their updates like a manic. Just kidding!
And as for the ticketing info, (The Wanted fans or not) you can log on to arthursday.com.my now!
See you there maybe?!
Song playing inside my head: The All-American Rejects' It Ends Tonight
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Malaysia's very own streetwear brand, Pestle & Mortar unveiled its first ever SouthEast Asian collaboration, linking up with Ageless Galaxy from Indonesia. Hoping to bring closer the borders between the two lands through the medium of streetwear, the special collection was unveiled at an event held at Fauxspace in Bangsar.
It was definitely the kind of event that all 20-something are dying to go and be seen at. Complimentary Tiger Beer, DJ spinning Soundcloud mumble-rap tunes and a flock of cool kids in their best streetwear looks (mostly Pestle & Mortar of course). I was in my old DKNY graffiti hoodie and Timbs so I didn't really feel out of place despite being among the older few in the room. My plus one Puteri was just too occupied testing out her new iPhone XS camera.
So the collection features 11 styles. Each and every piece designed with elements of Malaysia and Indonesia entwined together in harmony. From the integration of the Garuda and Harimau on the Autrone…
The Ever Consistent KLFW Kuala Lumpur Fashion Week 2019
My lewks for #KLFW2019. The pouch bags are TAS KL (collaboration with RL Menswear) of course.
Kuala Lumpur Fashion Week 2019 (KLFW 2019) took place at the exact same venue where it was first held 6 years ago. I used to get all-access media pass to attend all the shows but now that I am no longer attached to any publications, the invitations come mostly from the designers, those that I have been lucky enough to call my friends while the rest of them are just people that I used to dance with at parties but ignored me completely on Facebook and Instagram.
KLFW has managed to remain consistent after all these years. Even though, I am not in the position to write a full length review (I only went for three shows) but I could say that it felt like stepping into a time capsule.
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Great news for all the foodies out there! foodpanda has further proved its ex-panda-bility across six cities - Ipoh, Malacca, Seremban, Kuching, Miri and Kota Kinabalu. To-date, foodpanda has made its mark in over 80 cities in eight countries across Asia Pacific. Part of Berlin's Delivery Hero, foodpanda holds up their mission of bringing good food to Malaysians everyday with this expansion, which is the largest to date for the food delivery brand.
In the past year, Delivery Hero delivered more than 125 million orders globally, a 55% increase from 2017. To date, foodpanda has increased its restaurant partners across Malaysia. Customers nationwide can enjoy a wide variety of food from their favourite restaurants including KFC, Pizza Hut, OLD TOWN White Coffee and Gong Cha.
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All federal and state litigation involving sudden, unintended acceleration in Toyota vehicles has been stayed after the automaker agreed to enter into an intensive settlement process that could resolve hundreds of personal injury and wrongful death cases it faces.
Toyota has spent about $2 billion in legal costs since 2009 disputing hundreds of claims that its cars and trucks sped out of control unexpectedly, causing numerous crashes, injuries, and deaths. It has also spend millions more in efforts to restore its image and reputation as a high-quality, safety-oriented auto manufacturer as sudden-acceleration complaints continued to mount against it.
But despite a couple of early court victories, Toyota suffered a major blow October 24 when an Oklahoma jury agreed that electronic defects were to blame in a 2007 sudden-acceleration crash that killed two women in a 2005 Camry. That jury found Toyota had acted with "reckless disregard" for the women's' safety and returned a $3-million verdict for the plaintiffs.
Beasley Allen attorney Cole Portis, who was one of the lead attorneys representing the plaintiffs in the Oklahoma case, told the Los Angeles Times that evidence against Toyota in the case was "very, very strong." Mr. Portis said Toyota would have a difficult time defending its computer system in the affected vehicles and predicted that without a settlement, more verdicts against the carmaker would be inevitable.
Toyota faces more than 300 other lawsuits in state and federal courts. Most of the cases, filed in federal courts nationwide, have been consolidated for multidistrict litigation (MDL) in U.S. District Court in Santa Ana, Calif. Cases filed in state courts have been combined in Los Angeles County Superior Court.
The two judges overseeing the consolidated cases issued orders on Thursday staying the pending cases as Toyota and plaintiffs' lawyers entered into settlement talks. The intensive process will begin in February and pending cases will be examined on a case-by-case basis.
If the negotiations fail, the lawsuits will go before a mediator. The cases would go back to trial only if they go unresolved out of court.
The Oklahoma case was the first case to allege that faulty electronic throttle control systems (ETCS) caused Toyota and Lexus vehicles to speed out of control. Toyota has adamantly denied the allegations, blaming the problem instead on driver error or interference of the driver's side floor mat with the accelerator.
In addition to the federal and state cases, Toyota will likely also negotiate a settlement on a few pending cases that haven't been consolidated.


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The Western Standard: 'Railway lobbyists were granted the perpetual tax holiday under the 1881 Canadian Pacific Railway Act and subsequent bills as a concession for the building of the nation's first transcontinental line. The act also awarded the CPR 25 million acres of free land, $25 million in cash grants and a 20-year monopoly on Prairie rail service.
'Parliament repealed the tax holiday to pre-empt any outcome in favour of a CPR tax claim pending in Saskatchewan Court of Queen's Bench. Any court ruling in favour of the railway would have cost Saskatchewan $341 million, by official estimate. The railway has paid since the introduction of corporate income tax in the Second World War, but sued for a partial refund.'
Russia cuts off gas to Latvia
MSN: 'Russian energy giant Gazprom says it has suspended gas supplies to Latvia - the latest EU country to experience such action amid tensions over Ukraine. Gazprom accused Latvia of violating condit
Hearing for Ontario clot-shot passports postponed
JCCF: 'The Justice Centre regrets to announce that the Ontario Superior Court of Justice has postponed the constitutional challenge to the Ontario government's now-cancelled vaccine passport mandates.
Support for abortion lower in younger Canadians: poll
TPM: 'Compared to respondents over 55 where 63 percent said that they believe in abortion whenever wanted, just 50 percent in the lowest age group polled believed the same.'


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Listen: Paul Thomas Anderson Discusses His Life and Career In Two-Hour Interview With Marc Maron
Jordan Raup○ January 5, 2015
The release of Inherent Vice (one of our top 50 films of 2014) has afforded us a great many opportunities to gain insight on the career of Paul Thomas Anderson, but what's easily the most personal and extensive talk has arrived today. Fort the latest episode of WTF with Marc Maron, the director sat down for a nearly two-hour interview to discuss Los Angeles, growing up in the entertainment business, his life-changing experience seeing Robert Downey, Sr.'s Putney Swope, "bluffing his way" through directing Hard Eight, what attracted him to Boogie Nights, and much more.
He also discusses how his dad's death was the catalyst for Magnolia and he admits he'd cut it down now if he could, saying "it's way too fucking long" and "it's unmerciful how long it is." Moving to Punch-Drunk Love, he talks about Adam Sandler's trepidation joining the film and being inspired by Fred Astaire. When it comes to There Will Be Blood, Anderson discusses the Oscar ceremony, saying "I'll tell you, man. It is hard to keep a fucking phony smile on for three hours when they get that camera on you." On the comparisons to No Country For Old Men that year, he adds, "It's fucking nuts" and "it's a drag when it gets turned into sport."
Jumping to The Master, they discuss the relationship between Joaquin Phoenix and Philip Seymour Hoffman's characters and the producers' hesitation to use 70mm cameras. As for his latest project, Inherent Vice, Anderson once again plays coy when it comes to his relationship with Thomas Pynchon and his "secret agreement" to not reveal anything about the author. He also talks about capturing the loss of innocence with the project and putting together his incredible ensemble, including how Josh Brolin is the last of a dying breed.
Stream it below or on Maron's site, and check out a recent video essay on his career as it relates to his latest film:
Inherent Vice opens nationwide this Friday, January 9th.
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The Greenland Group in Australia has been buying up essential medical supplies necessary to combat the CCP coronavirus and shipping them to China. (Image: Screenshot / YouTube)
The Greenland Group is a real estate company operating in Australia. Majority-owned by the Chinese government, the business has sold over a billion dollars worth of residential apartments since it launched in the country in 2013.
However, the company was recently engaged in an activity not at all in line with its business — buying up essential medical supplies necessary to combat the coronavirus and shipping them to China.
Stockpiling supplies
"Basically all employees, the majority of whom are Chinese, were asked to source whatever medical supplies they could… There were numerous requests from the HR manager and even our direct reporting line [which] prioritised the assisting of the company in gathering these supplies over other work activities," a whistleblower from the company said to The Sydney Morning Herald.
Thousands of face masks, hand sanitizers, antibacterial wipes, thermometers, Panadol (a brand of acetaminophen), and gloves were collected from all across Australia.
The company even posted about this effort on their social media page with pictures showing people packing the supplies. In total, about 3 million protective masks, 500,000 pairs of protective gloves, and 700,000 hazmat suits were purchased from countries like Australia, Turkey, Canada, etc., and sent to China. The entire collection and shipment process was conducted in January and February.
Some parts of Australia are currently experiencing a shortage of face masks and other supplies. If the government had been proactive, they could have prevented Greenland from shipping out such large quantities of medical supplies from the country. On February 14, Australia only had 15 cases of CCP coronavirus infection.
But now, more than 5,400 Australians have contracted the virus. The administration is now in talks with the private sector to make up the shortage in face mask supplies.
Some parts of Australia are currently experiencing a shortage of face masks and other supplies. (Image: Screenshot / YouTube)
Chris Freeman, National President of the Pharmaceutical Society of Australia, has called on businesses to keep the prices of face masks fair and not take advantage of the scarcity by charging a higher price.
"While they might be able to turn a quick profit in the short term, what we may end up with is a situation where people who genuinely do need the masks then have not got access to them… Typically, they're less than 50 cents in most cases for an individual supply, with the higher-level mask — the P2 mask and the N95… a little bit more expensive. Four or five dollars, typically," he said to 9Now.
Chinese face masks
China seems to have turned even the CCP coronavirus into a business opportunity by securing massive supply orders. France has ordered 1 billion face masks from China. The French production capacity is 8 million masks per week. However, the country urgently needs 40 million to deal with the COVID-19 outbreak.
China seems to have turned even the CCP coronavirus into a business opportunity by securing massive supply orders. (Image: Screenshot / YouTube)
On the flipside, the government of the Netherlands recently recalled about 600,000 face masks manufactured in China as the items did not meet its standards. "When they were delivered to our hospital, I immediately rejected those masks… If those masks do not close properly, the virus particles can simply pass. We do not use them… That is unsafe for our people," a hospital worker stated, as reported by Business Insider.
Meanwhile, researchers from the University of Oxford have started enrolling people in clinical trials for their potential coronavirus vaccine. Almost 500 volunteers will participate in the first phase of the tests. The trial has been approved by ethical reviewers and UK regulators.
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Logos Panic GO.A.I.SA.TU. (which shall henceforth be referred to as "Logos Panic GO.A.I.SA.TU. (BS)" to disambiguate it from the standard release of the same name) is a downloadable Satellaview demo to promote the Super Famicom cartridge release of the same name.
While many Satellaview demos were simple final retail releases with DRM locks, Logos Panic GO.A.I.SA.TU. (BS) is modified from the original game for demonstration purposes. It features a single mode of play with a vs. CPU opponent, and while multiple playable characters are shown in character select, it is only possible to choose one (the others are locked out).


This song was written as counterbalance to narcissism inherent in today's me generation. You can either worship your higher power or you can worship yourself and your own ideas. When you get to the end of yourself and realize your own insignificance, you get to the beginning of God and the start of a life no longer belonging to you if you are opening to being a vessel or an instrument of a purpose higher than you can ever imagine.


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The objective of this study was to document the initiation of insulin therapy in patients with type 2 diabetes mellitus (T2DM) and its maintenance as a function of time after initiation in a French nationwide representative cohort.
A retrospective cohort study was conducted on a random sample of ~600,000 beneficiaries registered in the French national health insurance database. Newly insulin treated T2DM patients were selected. Persistence was defined as remaining on insulin without discontinuation (defined over a 6 or a 12-month period).
Among 1909 initiations identified in 2012/2013 (basal scheme: 61.8%, basal/rapid: 15%, other schemes: 23.2%) the average age (standard deviation) at initiation was, respectively, 67.5 (14.2), 61.8 (18.1) and 63.2 (18.4) years. Insulin was initiated by general practitioners in 39.3% and prescribed without other antidiabetic drugs in 32.0%. Persistence was studied in 1969 patients initiating insulin in 2011/2012. Among survivors, nearly 25% stopped insulin during the first year (18.4% for basal scheme). Patients discontinuing insulin were younger [64.7 years (18.5) vs 67.3 years (14.3) p = 0.0003] and less often male (45.8% vs 55.7%, p < 0.0001). A proportion of 20.2% did not receive any antidiabetic drug over 12 months after discontinuation. These high percentages were only partly explained by transient intensive insulin regimens in acutely ill patients identifiable in the database.
We observed a high rate of early discontinuation of insulin in T2DM patients (but lower with basal insulin scheme). Further real world studies are warranted to identify factors associated with this poor persistence.
This study was supported by Sanofi-France.
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NEW YORK (AP) — The NBA is expanding its international academies to include developmental camps for top female prospects.
The league announced Wednesday that the first camp will be held in Mexico City from March 9-11 and will bring in the top 20-25 players ages 17 and under from the Carribean, Mexico, Central America and South America.
The camp will be overseen by Ruth Riley, Jennifer Azzi and former college coach Blair Hardiek. Besides playing basketball, the participants in the camp will also take part in a panel that will focus on personal and professional development, making the most of opportunities and goal setting. That will take place on March 9 as part of International Women's Day.
Other camps are planned in Australia, China, India and Senegal by the end of the year.


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London Attack: Survivor Recounts Near-Miss, Horror as Car Rammed Civilians on Westminster Bridge
By Jack Moore On 3/22/17 at 3:27 PM EDT
An air ambulance lands in Parliament Square during an incident on Westminster Bridge in London, Britain March 22. Stefan Wermuth/REUTERS
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Rob Lyon, a 34-year-old marketing director, isn't a London native. On Wednesday, he had traveled to the U.K.'s capital city from Rugby, in central England, with two colleagues for a work trip. But he found himself on the scene in a series of events that police are calling terrorism. Lyon narrowly survived a deadly car-ramming in Westminster, the heart of British democracy, in an attack that left at least five people dead and many wounded, several with life-threatening injuries.
Lyon and his colleagues had just left an interview with Britain's ITV and were headed back to their hotel, a 15-minute walk, less than a mile along and across the River Thames. They began to travel across the bridge to get to their hotel—the Park Plaza Westminster Bridge—and passed a group of tourists taking selfies. They were talking about what they had planned for their next two days in London.
"Then we heard a big crunch," Lyon says, standing amid crowds of police and media huddled opposite St. Thomas' Hospital, where emergency services rushed those maimed in the attack.
The thud "sounded like a car crash" but it was the wheel of a vehicle hitting the curb, he says.
"I saw the vehicle mount the curb. We just saw a grey, black car just…we saw it coming along the pavement towards us." The car, now mounted on the pavement, accelerated from 20 miles per hour to 40 miles per hour, he estimates.
Petrified, Lyon's friend James shouted: "Get out of the way!"
"I jumped to the left, into the road," he says. The car had narrowly missed him: "I was probably…I dread to think I was probably a meter [from the car]." But it did not miss others.
"I saw people hit in front of me. It happened so quickly. The car just carried on up the bridge," he says, estimating five injured people lying around him.
Read more: Police confirm multiple deaths in attacks near British parliament, investigating as terrorism
Lyon stood in shock, watching scenes of terror unfold before him. "[I saw] people being hit by a car at speed, it was harrowing. I didn't necessarily run and help people. I just stood and looked. I was kind of numb, I felt like I was in a Hollywood movie." He snapped out of his shock, giving an injured lady his coat as a pillow.
A member of the public is treated by emergency services near Westminster Bridge and the Houses of Parliament on March 22, 2017 in London, England. Carl Court/Getty
The marketing director proceeded to call his family, reassuring them he was safe. "I could feel my voice wobbling, I said 'I don't know if you've seen the news but I am OK,'" he recounts. His first thought was to return home, but he says he will "carry on" with the work trip regardless.
He did not see the driver of the vehicle as it sped towards him but bodies were left sprawled across the ground, blood marking the pavement. The police believe the attacker is the same one that stabbed a policeman, who later died of his injuries. Armed police shot the assailant dead.
Armed officers attend to the scene of a car-ramming and knife attack outside the Houses of Parliament on March 22, 2017 in London, England. Jack Taylor/Getty
The methods used, a car-ramming and a stabbing, are the typical modus operandi of jihadist attackers in the West. The attack is reminiscent of the hit-and-run and machete assault that killed Lee Rigby, a British soldier, in southeast London on May 22, 2013. But no extremist group has yet claimed responsibility for the car-ramming and knife attack in the British capital.
All that Lyon knows for sure right now is that he is fortunate to be alive. This tactic, designed to incur maximum damage to as many people as possible, does not select its targets. If Lyon had not jumped out of the way in that moment, if James had not shouted, he could have been another victim, killed or maimed, in what is the deadliest attack on British soil since the 7/7 bombings in 2005.
"It almost definitely would have [killed me]," he says, with a look of both exasperation and relief. "I just feel very lucky that I'm not one of those."
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What I think about when I hear "Shake It Off" by Taylor Swift
Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off" is a fun track but when I hear it, I don't think about her original music video. Instead, I think about this fun dashcam video of this Dover Police officer, Jeff Davis, lipsyncing Swift's hit song. If you haven't seen it, do yourself a favour and watch it:
I think my favourite parts of the video are what he does when he comes across other motorists or pedestrians.
The original music video is also a fun video:
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Definitely one of my favourites. 🙂
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Dover Police officer Jeff Davis' dashcam performance of Taylor Swift's "Shake It Off" is the first one that comes to mind when I hear her fun track. If you haven't watched the video, you really should. It's awesome.


The Coalition's new Member for Goulburn Wendy Tuckerman at prepoll on Friday. Photos: Maryann Weston.
For newly minted Member for Goulburn Wendy Tuckerman, the real work begins now, following her hard-fought 75-day campaign that began with the surprise resignation of sitting Member Pru Goward late last year.
The new local MP aims to get straight down to business with a priority on ensuring the pre-election funding promises from the NSW Government are delivered to the electorate.
Meanwhile, two pressing lessons have emerged in the wash-up from Saturday's election: the ALP candidate Dr Ursula Stephens campaigned strongly enough to reduce the Coalition's margin to around 2.1 per cent (at this stage); and the minor parties polled extremely strongly, meaning Mrs Tuckerman will need to work consistently and effectively during her time as the Member for Goulburn – something she has committed to doing.
Speaking to Region Media, Mrs Tuckerman said the electorate could 'not be taken for granted'.
"I'm ready to get fired up. It's very exciting. I knew it would be very close and I'm heartened by this win. Obviously, I worked very hard and my goal was to meet as many of the constituents as I could. I worked extremely hard over 75 days," Mrs Tuckerman said.
Although experienced in Local Government, Mrs Tuckerman will be new to the Parliament. "I'll be like a sponge and taking everything I can in and pushing for my electorate." As promised, she'll be establishing her electorate office in Goulburn.
The ALP candidate for Goulburn Dr Ursula Stephens at prepoll on Friday. There has been a swing to the ALP in Goulburn, and also very strong polling from the minor parties.
For Dr Stephens, there will be little time to rest as she takes on the position of Campaign Manager for Federal ALP candidate for Hume Aoife Champion. While there'll be analysis, most likely before Easter, there is also a recognition of the strong performance of the ALP campaign.
"Of course I'm disappointed but there was a swing to the ALP and the seat is now marginal and that means no one can take it for granted. We needed to get a 6.6 per cent swing to win and we got 4.5 per cent swing bringing it down to a 2.1 per cent margin," she said.
At present, and with postal votes still to be counted, Dr Stephens trails Mrs Tuckerman by around 1600 votes.
The rise of the minor parties and their strong polling will prompt reflection and 'soul searching' not just for the ALP but the Coalition. In Goulburn, there was a swing away from both major parties, particularly to Shooters, Fishers and Farmers candidate Andrew Wood, and to the One Nation candidate Richard Orchard. The Greens recorded a minor swing against them.
For a breakdown of election results, seat by seat including Goulburn, you can visit the ABC's election site.


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Thomas Wills Burgess (26 September 1888 – 26 May 1974) was a New Zealand cricket umpire. He stood in one Test match, New Zealand against England in 1933.

He umpired 20 first-class matches in Christchurch and one in Wellington between 1928 and 1947. His son Alan played first-class cricket for Canterbury from 1940 to 1952.

See also
 List of Test cricket umpires
 English cricket team in New Zealand in 1932–33

References

1888 births
1974 deaths
Sportspeople from Blackburn
New Zealand Test cricket umpires
English emigrants to New Zealand

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Hold the Wheat – CeliaC Bakery
Tysons Corner-based property manager Are Andresen loves the fresh-baked aroma of cinnamon rolls, but until recently he could not indulge. After a series of unexplained illnesses, he was diagnosed with gluten intolerance in 2010. "I would go crazy when I went by Cinnabon," he says. "That smell. My mouth watered and I was depressed."
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That's what prompted Andresen's wife, Liezel D'souza, to found her baking business, CeliaC (celiacbakery.com), which produces gluten-free cinnamon swirl pastries and breads for people with celiac disease. Baking headquarters is the spacious, state-approved kitchen in the couple's townhouse, which they share with their 3-year-old son in the Idlewood neighborhood of Falls Church.
"I saw the isolation that people fall into. Eating is one of the few things that brings people together, so to be excluded from it is very hard," says D'souza, a native of Mumbai, India, who also serves as a firefighter with the Great Falls Volunteer Fire Department. "I want to make a difference for people."
"Still wetting my feet," she says, her current output is three dozen cinnamon swirls per week, which she delivers to The Local Market (246 West Broad St., Falls Church, 703-536-6123, www.localmarketva.com). Each pastry is rolled out and cut by hand in a labor-intensive process, before it is baked and topped with a cream cheese-based icing. With the exception of egg whites, all ingredients are certified gluten-free. Her long-term plan is to open a small bakery and increase production to 1,000 swirls per week, supplying food stores, restaurants and special-needs schools. "My goal," she says, "is to deliver fun food that makes people feel well."


It's been 15 years since Tina and the B-Sides' last album, and the rootsy rock & roll band --one of the hardest-working Midwestern acts of the '90s -- is eager to make up for lost time. On April 22, 2014 the group will release Barricade, a reunion album that revitalizes the band's bluesy, barroom stomp for a new decade.
Formed in the 1980s, during the height of the New Wave scene in Minneapolis, Tina and the B-Sides bucked convention by focusing on roadhouse rock & roll instead of synthesized pop.
They built an audience the old-fashioned way in the early 90's -- by playing any bar that would book them -- and eventually sold more than 40,000 CDs from the back of their tour van without the help of a record label. By the time Sire Records offered them a contract in the mid-'90s, Tina and the B-Sides were at the top of the Midwest music scene- opening for artists like Lenny Kravitz, Soul Asylum, the Wallflowers, Blues Traveler and Etta James. They remained there until the end of the decade, when the band decided to take a long break.
A reunion gig at the Minneapolis Zoo in 2009 brought the B-Sides back together with their '90s lineup intact -- including vocalists Tina and Laura Schlieske, bassist Jeremy Plumb, lead guitarist Troy Norton and drummer Ron Caron. The group soon decided to book a recording session at Terrarium Studios, where they recorded "Barricade" in 10 days. Tina co-produced the album with her former bandmate Patrik Tanner, and reached out to Andrija Tokic (producer of the Alabama Shakes' debut, Boys and Girls) to mix the songs. The result is a ripened version of the B-Sides- filled to the brim with guitar, grit, gusto and the maturity of a band that's done it all before... and can't wait to do it all again.


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Average retail gasoline prices in Tennessee have risen 11.4 cents per gallon in the past week, averaging $3.37/g Sunday.
This compares with the national average that has increased 12.6 cents per gallon in the last week to $3.47/g, according to gasoline price website TennesseeGasPrices.com.
Including the change in gas prices in Tennessee during the past week, prices yesterday were 75.4 cents per gallon higher than the same day one year ago and are 41.7 cents per gallon higher than a month ago.
The national average has increased 36.0 cents per gallon during the last month and stands 73.6 cents per gallon higher than this day one year ago.
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Voted 'Best Family Attraction in Dorset', Abbotsbury Swannery is an ancient and special site providing protection for hundreds of nesting swans and their broods. The nearby Subtropical Gardens are sheltered from the northerly winds and the temperate climate created by the nearby sea makes it ideal for the flowers and shrubs that grow there.
Athelhampton is a magnificent Tudor house set in a beautiful 19th century garden. Here you will see the world famous topiary pyramids!
This is an Edwardian-style estate featuring a Tudor house and kitchen garden - which also supplies their restaurant.
Bath is a unique city; its hot springs, Roman Baths, splendid abbey and Georgian stone crescents have attracted visitors for centuries. Set in rolling Somerset countryside, it is a beautiful and unforgettable place to visit.
Here you will find what is probably the best and certainly the largest international collection of armoured vehicles in the world, featuring exhibits from the First World War up to the Gulf War.
The Iron Age Hill Fort at Cadbury, has long been associated with Camelot, the famed citadel of Arthur where the Round Table was housed and from where the Fellowship of Knights rode forth in search of adventure.
For fairly obvious reasons, also known as the rude man, this ancient chalk carving is the largest in Britain at 180 feet tall.
Apart from the Gorge, Cheddar also has a spectacular cave system - and of course the village is home to the original, world-famous cheese! At nearby Wookey Hole, there are also mysterious caves where you can see the petrified remains of the infamous Witch of Wookey. Also featured is a 19th century paper mill and various childrens entertainments.
This is a tiny isolated cottage, formerly owned by Lawrence of Arabia. It is now preserved as a museum about his life and work.
This is the cottage where the poet Samuel Taylor Coleridge wrote The Rime of the Ancient Mariner.
The County Town of Dorchester is full of history; Judge Jeffries (The Hanging Judge) held court here in 1685 and the largest Iron Age hill fort in England, Maiden Castle, lies two miles south of the town. Hardy's Cottage where Thomas Hardy was born is at Bockhampton, near Dorchester. Hardy was also schooled and worked in Dorchester and, while living at his Victorain house, Max Gate, wrote, among others, Tess of the d'Urbervilles.
This is an outstanding military aviation museum, exhibiting aircraft used throughout the Navy's flying history. There are also many other interesting things to see including Concorde.
Founded in 1140 as a Cistercian monastery, Forde Abbey survived Henry VIII's dissolution of the monasteries to become one of the oldest homes in England open to the public.
The attractions here include Glastonbury Abbey, Glastonbury Tor and Glastonbury Lake Village. The many myths and legends associated with the town concern Joseph of Arimathea, the Holy Grail and also King Arthur.
This excellent museum features over 300 historic cars and motorcycles, including a $1.5million Duesenberg and an entire hall of red cars!
'The Jurassic Coast' is a world heritage site, covering ninety-five miles of magnificent coastal scenery stretching from Dorset to Devon. The centre of the Jurassic coast is at Lyme Regis.
This is a 17th century house with fine art and Egyptian artefacts. There are also lovely gardens, woodlands extending to 250 acres and the restored 18th century corn mill on the River Stour.
Lacock is a little known picturesque village dating back to Saxon times. Its attractions include a medieval cloistered abbey converted into a fine country house, newly-restored botanic gardens and a fascinating museum dedicated to William Henry Fox-Talbot, the 'Father of Modern Photography'. Uniquely preserved by the National Trust, Lacock has provided the setting for Pride & Prejudice, scenes from the Harry Potter films and many other period film and television productions.
Longleat House is regarded as one of the finest examples of Elizabethan architecture in Britain, while the safari park is one of the UK's most popular family attractions. Be sure to visit the maze!
Lytes Cary is a beautiful medieval manor house featuring a 14th century chapel. The gardens are also very attractive.
Mompesson is an elegant 18th century house where the movie Sense and Sensibility was filmed. The house features magnificent plasterwork and a collection of 18th century Turnball drinking glasses.
Set amongst the woodland of Dorset lies 65 acres of sanctuary for over 240 primates. Monkey World was set up in 1987 by Jim Cronin to provide abused Spanish beach chimps with a permanent, stable home. Today Monkey World works in conjunction with foreign governments from all over the world to stop the illegal smuggling of apes out of Africa and Asia. At the park visitors can see more than 240 primates of 15 different species.
Montacute is an Elizabethan house with elegant chimneys and carved parapets. Inside there are magnificent tapestries, heraldic glass and portraits from the National Portrait Gallery.
A short walk around the village of Oborne is a rewarding experience. You might like to begin by looking at the file in The Grange Guide To Wessex, 'The Grange and the Local Area'. The beautiful houses built from local stone include an ancient school house and a splendid Victorian rectory. The houses are centred around the church of St. Cuthberts, built in 1862. Although much older, the original church fell into disrepair and was demolished; the chancel survives and can be found on the A30 near the turning into Oborne. The stream which meanders through the village is the River Yeo which rises at Poyntington; after passing through Yeovil, the Yeo eventually joins the River Parret at Langport.
Perry's is a working business which also features an excellent cider museum. Here cider is still made in the 16th century thatched barn, which also houses many farming antiques.
With its magnificent 13th century cathedral, Salisbury has plenty of ancient buildings - some dating back to the 13th century. There is also a wide range of pubs, restaurants and tea rooms. A choice of arts and culture venues complement individual shops and regular street markets.
Steeped in history and tradition, Shaftesbury offers visitors breathtaking views. Gold Hill, with its steep cobbles and picturesque cottages, made famous by the Hovis bread advertisement, is the epitome of rural charm from a bygone age.
The town is one-and-a-half miles to the west of Oborne. The origins of the town can be traced back to Roman times. Perhaps the most attractive town in Dorset and even in England, Sherborne is a delightfully sleepy place, famous for its old-world charm. You will find many individual and interesting shops along Cheap Street. We will supply a suggested walking route around Sherborne together with a fact sheet about the various places you will see.
The Abbey is the centre piece of Sherborne. Consecrated more than twelve hundred years ago, it was formerly a cathedral and later, the church of a Benedictine monastery. Two Saxon kings, Ethelbald and Ethelbert are interred in the Abbey. Take a 20p coin to light up the magnificent fan-vaulted ceiling.
There is an excellent museum in Sherborne which has a wealth of information about the history of the town. The building is located on Church Lane which connects the Conduit at the bottom of Cheap Street with the Abbey. In fact the premises, now a Grade ll listed building, were formerly the Almonry belonging to the Abbey.
As well as a mummified cat and a smoker's pipe with seven bowls, the museum has a wealth of photographs and other artefacts connected with the town. A top exhibit is a touch screen version of the world famous Sherborne Missal. Although the original is now housed at the British Library, modern technology enables visitors to turn the pages as if they were viewing it in person.
The museum is a registered charity having independent status. It was the first volunteer-run museum in Dorset to be awarded full Accreditation.
During the summer the museum is open Tuesdays to Saturdays from 10.30 am until 4.30 pm. On Sundays it is open from 10 am until 1.00 pm. Out of hours opening can also be arranged by telephoning 01935 812252. Winter opening - from the middle of December until the middle of March - is more restricted, the museum being open on Tuesday and Thursday mornings only.
Built by Sir Walter Raleigh in 1594, Sherborne Castle has been home of the Digby family since 1617. Set in 40 acres of glorious 'Capability' Brown landscaped gardens and grounds around the 50 acre lake, the Castle contains a splendid collection of art, furniture and porcelain.
Built by Bishop Roger of Salisbury in the 12th century as a strongly defended palace, Sherborne Old Castle became a powerful Royalist base during the Civil War. Described as 'malicious and mischievous' by Cromwell, it fell in 1645 after a fierce eleven-day siege.
Stonehenge is without question the most famous prehistoric monument in the world. You will marvel at this mysterious feat of ancient engineering and design.
A longer ride to get there - but worth it for enthusiasts and those involved in the helicopter business! The museum has the world's largest international collection of Rotorcraft.
Here is a formal garden which has been created around a 17th century manor house. The estate features small pools, varied borders, a kitchen garden and secluded lawns.
There are many stunning walks in Dorset, which has nearly 3000 miles of rights of way, much of it well way marked and signposted. To improve the state of this network, Dorset County Council has embarked on an ambitious refurbishment program. So far 4000 new signposts have been erected, 1500 stiles and gates repaired or installed, and many miles of paths cleared of obstructions. We have local OS maps and several books and guides in the hotel reception.
There are five ranges of hills giving magnificent views across the county and on the Somerset Levels and Moors walkers can see the wildlife of the Wetlands, Whether you want a short gentle ramble or a long hike, a walk in the countryside or by the coast, the county of Somerset has it all!
Wilton House is the 450 year-old home of the Earl of Pembroke. The house contains many splendid state rooms and a world famous art collection.


We are beyond excited that Tiger Aspect has snapped up TV rights to Caroline Hulse's observant and witty debut The Adults. The deal was made by Emily Hayward-Whitlock at The Artists Partnership on behalf of Caroline Hardman.
The Adults was published in the UK in August 2018 by Orion and by Random House in the US in November 2018. It has been sold in 13 territories to date.
Claire and Matt are divorced but decide what's best for their daughter Scarlett is to have a 'normal' family Christmas with them all together.
Caroline Hulse spends most of her days writing, having fulfilled her dream of having a job she could do in pyjamas. She also works in Human Resources sometimes. She is openly competitive and loves playing board and card games. She can often be found in casino poker rooms, and wishes other people would want to play Cluedo for money. She lives with her husband in Manchester, where the two are captive to the whims of a small, controlling dog.


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Uta Hagen's centennial
September 26, 2019 · 4:00 PM EDT
By Jeff Lunden
June marked the centennial of actress, activist and teacher Uta Hagen's birth. Her stage performances were legendary — she created the role of Martha in Edward Albee's "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?" and starred in "Othello" with Paul Robeson, which featured the first interracial kiss on Broadway. But because of her activism, she was blacklisted by Hollywood, so there are relatively few examples of her work in film.
Beyond her acting, her greatest legacy may be how she influenced generations of actors, teaching at HB Studio and writing two books that are popular with acting students across the globe. Reporter Jeff Lunden speaks with some of those former students and colleagues, including F. Murray Abraham, Mercedes Ruehl and David Hyde Pierce, about what made Hagen such an important figure in the history of American theater.
The goal, Hagen said, was to learn "how to be a human being on stage. And that never stops. You never stop learning about that. And not look like an actor, but look like a human being onstage and still have total communication with that audience. That's the real craft and that's bottomless."
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Are the two shots from the Snap Shot ability on the same game tick?
However, when using Soul Split, only one "soul" is returned back to the player for healing. This has me wondering - are the two shots from the Snap Shot ability on the same game tick and combined into one soul to heal the player? Or is only one of the shots counted towards Soul Split?
This is before I casted snapshot (seen on my ability bar with the shortcut A).
And this is after. 3648 damage was dealt in the same tick, and my health increased by 354.
While it's not exactly 10%, it's clear that it's not healing you based off one arrow, but both. So, to answer your question, the two shots from the ability are combined into the one soul that heal the player.