The constant surprise of Hilton Head Island is the sheer number of remarkable discoveries tucked into so many corners. It seems that just off the beaten path is something simply wonderful.
Teague's Fine Men's Clothing is that kind of surprising and wonderful place. Located in the Village at Wexford, Teague's is squeezed up against a Subway restaurant, but inside it's a completely different world. If you want to feel like a real guy with some class, Teague's is the place to go. It's a place where you can feel good as a guy's guy, talking the stock market, what's new (or wrong) with Tiger's swing or even confess that you watched the royal wedding in real time, with no fear of recrimination.
As soon as you walk through the door, you're in the thick environment of manliness—only the very best fragrantly starched fabrics, the finest soaps, the richest leathers. It's what you might imagine it's like to be all gussied up, in the driver's seat of the most expensive Ferrari or Lamborghini, surrounded by shiny wood accents and an oh-so-fine leather interior.
Do you think you'd be wearing beat up shorts and a ratty old T-shirt and smell like you just finished mowing the lawn? Of course not. You would look and smell like you just walked out of Teague's.
Gary Reavis, Hilton Head Island resident since 1971, is proprietor of Teague's and has been since it opened 19 years ago. Only classy stores like Teague's have proprietors. Never stuffy or pretentious, Reavis is welcoming, attentive, knowledgeable and helpful to his customers. He seems to know instinctively that his specialty men's store needs to feel right, look right and smell right for what it is. It's all about guys. Women shop there, yes, but they shop for their guys.
A men's specialty store is one of the few real guy sanctuaries left, and it's not for everyone. Reavis clearly understands that. He's been in this business since right after college, coming here with a couple of buddies to set up a store similar to Brittons on Devine in Columbia, where he learned the men's specialty store craft. They helped to create Knickers, which has had a presence on the island for 40 years.
Knickers was tourist focused—busiest in the late spring, summer and early fall. When Ron Teague arrived from Knoxville in 1992, his intention was to create a store that catered to island residents. It would do the bulk of its business in the late fall, winter and early spring. He was looking for a manager who knew the business and the island. Reavis, who by then had extensive buying experience in high-end menswear, having bought for affiliated Knickers stores at the Greenbrier in White Sulfur Springs, in Boca Raton, Sawgrass and Charleston, was the perfect guy for the job.
In fact, it didn't take long for Teague, an international buyer for Siemens Corporation, to realize that Reavis knew far more than he did about the business of menswear, and the logical next step was to put Reavis in charge.
Reavis eventually purchased Teauge's, and has found a niche for Teague's which appeals typically to a guy who has retired, perhaps even retired early, probably plays a lot of golf and probably has the wherewithal to buy better quality clothing. And there's also a younger generation version: the fraternity guys who wear colorful sport coats, quality Polos and madras shorts—the Carolina Cup crowd.
Lou Zeller, from Philadelphia, retired and a resident of Moss Creek, is fairly typical. On a lovely day in May, Zeller walked into Teague's, mostly just to hang around and take in some of the ambiance. He's a regular customer, formerly in the hat business, who knows quality.
Setting Teague's apart from the competition is not Reavis' primary focus. He's mostly content with his unique slice of the market. He acknowledges that the clothing business, in general, has changed to accommodate a higher concentration of the buying public that increasingly cares more about price than quality. His, however, is a completely different selling scenario.
Getting the word out on new styles and new lines is a bit of a throwback to the way clothing was sold years ago. So is the store's subdued music playing in the background, which trends to easy listening, '60s style (Linda Ronstadt, Bob Dylan, etc.—all part of the mood).
Teague's hosts two or three trunk shows each year, when representative from various lines bring in their current merchandise as well as all the items for next season. Reavis typically provides a discount during a show, and the customer doesn't have to pay for what he selects until the items come in.
It's a clubby way of doing business. Trunk shows are open to the public, of course, but Reavis communicates news to his best customers in e-mails, letters and even phone calls, letting them know that lines they are partial to are going to be shown and that it would be a good time to come in.
Still, some guys refuse to come in the store, no matter what. They prefer to buy their clothing at Teague's but send their wives in to do the detail work.
For those guys and more, Teague's is the perfect retreat.


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More than 44 million immigrants live in the United States, comprising about 13% of the population. Immigration to the U.S. has long been a topic of debate: who can come, under what conditions and when? These questions mirror the country's discussion concerning how it sees itself and how it views racial and ethnic groups and various nationalities. Immigrating here is not merely entering into the American dream. It is entering into a classist and racist structure that significantly determines a foreign-born person's socioeconomic future. Stereotypes regarding different nationalities' socioeconomic status reflect the story the nation tells itself about why some are "successful" and others are not.
The United States has more immigrants than any country in the world. Although immigration has always played a vital role in the history and the making of the United States, from the colonial era to the California gold rush and Ellis island, the country recently saw immigration slow down during the Great Recession. In 2008, the Census Bureau released data from its American Community Survey that reported immigrant numbers were leveling off after years of steadily climbing.
It was only 55 years ago that the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 passed, which removed the race-based immigration system that discriminated against non-Northwestern European groups. It was replaced with a preference system based on prioritizing refugees, attracting people with special skills and reuniting family members. Born out of the civil rights movement, the Immigration and Nationality Act of 1965 worked to desegregate our nation's borders and advance racial equality. This was one of the last major pieces of legislation of the mid-20th Century Black freedom struggle. The act continues to undergird the current immigration system and actively shapes the United States' racial and ethnic makeup.
Immigrants come to this country through various pathways: visitation, permanent residency, employment, education, as a refugee, or they enter undocumented. Certain nationalities have a history of obtaining a specific visa. For example, in 2018, Chinese nationals received nearly half of the EB-5 investor green cards. In the fiscal year 2016, India was the leading country in obtaining H-1B visas, a type of classification obtained by foreign workers who perform specialized services in their occupation. Nationals from Mexico led in obtaining H-2B visas, which allows foreign workers to come temporarily to the United States to perform nonagricultural labor and services on a one-time, seasonal basis.
A person entering into the U.S. with specific educational or skill levels shapes the migrant's socioeconomic status and well-being, affecting the way that nationality is looked at as a whole. "Model minorities" are groups of people who come to the U.S. documented with high education levels or specialized skills. The selective immigration of highly educated nationalities from Asia has broadly put Asian Americans into the "model minority" myth. But among Asian immigrants, there are huge discrepancies and variances to how and why people migrate. For example, 52% of Chinese immigrants who come to the United States have at least a bachelor's degree (only 35% of Americans have a college degree) and many enter via H-1B visas. In contrast, only 17% of Hmong immigrants, who have historically migrated to the U.S. as refugees, have a bachelor's degree.
As we have noted, immigrants' socioeconomic characteristics create income, education and employment averages that vary compared to native-born groups. Pew Research Center reported that in 2013, the median household income for Black immigrants was $43,800, approximately $8,000 less than Americans overall, but roughly $10,000 more than U.S.-born Blacks ($33,500). A similar trend is also true regarding education — 26% of Black immigrants hold a college degree, 4% below that of the overall U.S. population. However, more Black immigrants have a college degree than U.S.-born Blacks (19%). Black immigrant education varies significantly by birth region. About 35% of Black African immigrants over the age of 25 have at least a bachelor's degree. Black South American immigrants follow in second with 25% college degree holders. Caribbean immigrants and Central American immigrants follow, with 20% and 17% of college degree holders respectively.
Asian immigrants are reported to have a significantly higher median household income than overall immigrant households and U.S.-born households. In 2014, the median household income of Asian immigrants was $70,000, compared to the immigrant household income of $49,000, and the U.S.-born median income of $55,000. The household median income of foreign-born Hispanics in 2017 was $42,200, about $7,000 less than U.S.-born Hispanics whose household median income was $53,000. Canadian and European immigrants tend to have significantly higher incomes than the native-born and overall foreign-born. In 2016, Canadian immigrant median household income was $77,000, and European immigrant median household income was $64,000.
In terms of income, immigrants mirror racial inequality that already exists in the United States. As previously stated, immigrants are entering into a racial socioeconomic hierarchy reflected in how they are allowed or, in the case of undocumented, not permitted to be in the country. Racial economic inequality is a frame necessary to understand immigration into this country and how it often replicates the racial inequality that is native to the United States. To better understand immigration and the socioeconomic status of immigrants, the National Community Reinvestment Coalition has published a new racial wealth snapshot.
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Стокгольм-Бромма ( ) — міжнародний аеропорт у Стокгольмі, Швеція. Розташований за 7,4 км, WNW від центру Стокгольма і є найближчим до центру міста порівняно з іншими комерційними пасажирськими аеропортами в районі Стокгольма. Бромма є третім за пасажирообігом та авіатрафіком аеропортом Швеції на 2015 рік.

Історія
В 1930-і з'явилася термінова необхідність будівництва великого аеропорту в Стокгольмі, столиці Швеції. Аеропорт був відкритий в 1936 королем Густавом V, він став першим аеропортом Європи, спочатку побудованим з дорожнім покриттям. Під час Другої світової війни шведські та британські літаки здійснювали рейси до Великої Британії з аеропорту Бромма. Так як ці рейси перевозили норвезьких та данських біженців, аеропорт викликав інтерес у німецьких шпигунів і два літаки, які злетіли з аеропорту Бромма під час війни, були збиті німцями. Після війни аеропорт став розвиватися швидкими темпами, в аеропорту функціонували дві регулярні авіакомпанії: Aktiebolaget Aerotransport (ABA), яка згодом стала шведським партнером в Scandinavian Airlines System (SAS), та Linjeflyg  (головна шведська регіональна авіакомпанія, яка згодом була придбана SAS). Однак злітно-посадкова смуга Бромма стала занадто короткою для нових літаків, використовуваних для трансконтинентальних рейсів в 1950-і (наприклад DC-8), крім того була зрозуміла межа пропускної здатності Бромма, тому був побудований аеропорт Стокгольм-Арланда.

З відкриттям аеропорту Стокгольм-Арланда в 1960—1962 всі міжнародні рейси були переорієнтовані туди, внутрішні рейси були переведені в 1983. Бромма став центром ділової авіації, авіації загального призначення і льотної підготовки, також аеропорт використовувався для урядових потреб. Кілька старих ангарів було відокремлено від області аеропорту і перероблено в торговий центр, суміжний з аеропортом. З початком роботи Malmö Aviation, що відкрила рейси до Гетеборг-Ландветтер, Мальме та Лондон, аеропорт Бромма став відроджуватися. В 2002 почав функціонувати новий контрольно-диспетчерський пункт, а термінал, був повністю відремонтований. Аеропорт був модернізований в 2005 і на кінець 2010-х може приймати пасажирів, які прибувають до/з шенгенської зони.

Розвиток
Розширенню аеропорту перешкоджає проблема шумового забруднення, нестача місця та проблема збереження культурної спадщини (будівлі аеропорту). Із завершенням будівництва третьої злітно-посадкової смуги в аеропорту Стокгольм-Арланда в ньому утворився великий резерв пропускної здатності, крім того існує широка підтримка пропозиції використання землі аеропорту для житлової та комерційної забудови.

Головною перевагою Бромма перед набагато більшим Стокгольм-Арланда є його близькість до центру Стокгольма (приблизно 8 км). Однак після завершення будівництва залізниці до Арланда в 1999 ця конкурентна перевага Бромма була втрачена. Автомобільна дорога з Бромма в центр Стокгольма часто перевантажена, що робить час їзди по ній нестабільним.

Проте аеропорт Бромма, як і раніше, має популярність серед авіакомпаній і пасажирів.

Екологічні проблеми
Коли аеропорт відкрився в 1936, навколишня місцевість була головним чином сільською, проте місто розросталося, і шум літаків став серйозною проблемою. Тому було накладено ряд обмежень, в тому числі за часом роботи аеропорту, обмеження за типами комерційних літаків і звукоізоляція житлових будинків біля аеропорту. Також було запропоновано відмовитися від обслуговування авіації загального призначення та навчання польотам, щоб зменшити екологічне навантаження.

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Оренда автомобілів
В аеропорту працюють такі компанії, що надають автомобілі в оренду:
  Avis
 Europcar
  Hertz

Автобус
 Автобусні маршрути 110 і 152 сполучають аеропорт з центром міста. Час в дорозі 30 хвилин.
 Від аеропорту Стокгольм-Бромма відходять автобуси до міського терміналу (близько 20 хвилин), звідки швидкий поїзд (Arlanda Express) відправляється до аеропорту Стокгольм-Арланда. Існує також автобусне сполучення зі Стокгольм-Скавста.

Таксі
 В аеропорту є стоянка таксі.

Паркінг
 У аеропорту розташовані короткочасна та довготривала автостоянки.

Інфраструктура
Години роботи аеропорту:
 Понеділок — п'ятниця 7:00 — 22:00, субота 09:00 — 17:00, неділя 10:00 — 20:00.

Години роботи терміналу:
 Понеділок — п'ятниця 5:30 — 22:00, субота 08:00 — 17:00, неділя 09:00 — 20:00.

Сервіси:
 Крамниці:
 Pressbyrån (газети тощо)
 Flying Veterans Flight Shop (магазин авіалюбителів).
 Air Freight (Jetpak)
 GA Handling (Grafair Jet Center)
 Lost and Found (Luftfartsverket)
 Готелі (розташовані за межами аеропорту):
 Flyghotellet
 Mornington Hotel
 Scandic Hotel
 Ulfsunda slott
 Ресторани:
 Forno Romano (італійський)

Примітки

Посилання

Аеропорти Стокгольма

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"Con Man: The Game" Officially Releases on iTunes & Google Play (Video)
August 25, 2016 @ 1:55 pm By Samantha Hurst
On Thursday, Con Man: The Game officially made its debut on iTunes and Google Play. The new smartphone app game is part of the hit series Con-Man, which was funded last year on Indiegogo.
The game's description reads:
"Have you ever tried to run your own comic book convention? We'll, it's not easy. There are toilets to clean, garbage cans to empty and naked grannies running loose who need to be covered up. Join Alan Tudyk, Nathan Fillion and friends as they help you reach for the greatest con ever: Shock-A-Con! But watch out for the aliens of cancelled-to-soon sci-fi show, Spectrum as they try and destroy what you've built. Based on their hit show, Con Man – now airing on Comic Con HQ, the game brings together the cast of season 1 while you take on the role of Convention Manager."
Con Man: The Game is currently available on both app stores for free. The series stars Firefly alums, Alan Tudyk and Nathan Fillion.
"Wray Nerely (Tudyk) was a co-star on Spectrum, a sci-fi series which was canceled -Too Soon- yet became a cult classic. Wray's good friend, Jack Moore (Fillion) starred in the series and has gone on to become a major movie star. While Jack enjoys the life of an A-lister, Wray tours the sci-fi circuit as a guest of conventions, comic book stores, and lots of pop culture events. The show will feature all the weird and crazy things that happen to Wray along the way to these events."
Check out the trailer below.
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Dropbox Is About to Make Office Work Much Smoother
Source: Dropboxatwork.com
Cloud storage provider Dropbox is making a surprising move that will end up making its service more useful for businesses and teams that use Microsoft (NASDAQ:MSFT) Office.
On its Dropbox for Business blog, the company announced several features related to Microsoft Office, including full-text search of Word, Excel, PowerPoint, and other documents saved in DropBox, and the ability for multiple users to simultaneously edit Office documents in Dropbox. Added along with those features are new security and permissions settings, and the post notes that all of the changes are aimed at "making collaboration in Dropbox even better."
Wired's Marcus Wohlsen notes that while Microsoft Office isn't an innovative new service, it's ubiquitous, and integrating with Office can help Dropbox distinguish itself from its competitors: "While Office itself stopped being synonymous with 'cutting edge' sometime before the turn of the century, Dropbox's attention to Microsoft's flagship productivity software speaks to a deeper truth: People still use Office. Lots of people. And that reality, in turn, speaks to Dropbox's strategy for distinguishing itself in the (over)crowded field of cloud-based file storage, syncing, and sharing. While some competitors are banking on providing the most gigabytes for the least dollars, Dropbox is devoting itself to services that make those files more useful."
The new tools will make Dropbox more useful for just about any business that uses Office files within Dropbox, as Business customers have traditionally been the heaviest users of collaboration tools on Dropbox. (However, a moderator on Dropbox's blog replied to users asking whether the features would be rolled out to all users, not just Dropbox for Business users, with a message reading, "We're starting with Dropbox for Business for now, but stay tuned!"
The full-text search will enable users to type a word contained within a file and find the document that way, instead of opening folders and files to look for the specific one that they need. Additionally, a feature Dropbox calls Project Harmony enables team members to see who else is in a Microsoft Office file and collaborate with them in real time. And improved document previews make viewing Office files on the web, even on mobile devices, faster and easier, since users can access high-quality previews instead of waiting for a file to download.
The move comes as the competition among cloud storage providers heats up, and Dropbox is looking for a way to differentiate itself — other than by offering the lowest prices on the market. Google Drive offers business customers one terabyte of storage for $9.99 per month, while Dropox for Business charges $15 per month per user for a minimum of five users to split a terabyte among them. Wired notes that the company has said it raise the limit to "whatever users need" if they exceed their storage limit, and every additional user gets an extra 200 gigabytes to start.
Dropbox has built up its user base — it announced that Dropbox for Business has been adopted by 80,000 companies — by focusing on the usability and utility of its services. Almost everyone uses Microsoft Office in the workplace, and while Google wants customers to shift away from Office to Google Drive, Dropbox isn't trying to effect that kind of ecosystem change. Instead, it's looking to become a part of businesses' Office-based ecosystem and provide an easy extension of their current workflow, demonstrating that it's ready and willing to implement the features that large numbers of businesses and employees will find useful without having to change the entire way that they work.
That seems like a smart business model. Dropbox also announced two new ways for developers to build apps on top of Dropbox, announcing a Shared Folder API and a Document Preview API that enable developers to create third-party apps that foster collaboration. That spirit of enabling collaboration, while letting customers retain the programs and workflows with which they're familiar, stands to set Dropbox apart as a capable, easy-to-use cloud storage service. That's a differentiation that Dropbox would do well to make, as an increasing number of providers look to rival or replace Microsoft Office, rather than working with the software that's practically everywhere — and isn't likely to leave anytime soon.
However, it's worth noting that customers who want to use Microsoft Office have several options from Microsoft itself — like Office365 and OneDrive — which combine to offer access to Office applications and files anywhere. The key for Dropbox will be to differentiate itself from cloud service competitors on one side and Microsoft on the other with reliable and useful collaboration tools. And perhaps most importantly, Dropbox is positioning itself to work with users already have and already do — which may prove key to gaining more customers as businesses weigh which cloud storage platform will work best for them.
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Police find weapons as gas leak forces evacuation of several properties in Strood
The A228 Frindsbury Road is currently closed in both directions
Lauren MacDougall
Police attending a gas leak in Strood have found weapons and have been forced into evacuating a number of properties.
Drivers claim the town is at a standstill after police shut off a road and evacuated residents following a gas leak .
The A228 Frindsbury Road is currently closed in both directions, and has been since just after 12.35pm today (January 15).
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Police were called to the leak which reportedly stemmed from a home in the road and had sparked evacuation of a "number of properties."
On arrival, police discovered a number of weapons inside.
Officers say they are now working with Explosive Ordnance Disposal teams to find out whether the weapons have been decomissioned.
A statement from Kent Police said: "A gas leak was reported at the property and a number of weapons were located inside.
"Officers are working with EOD (Explosive Ordnance Disposal) to establish if the weapons have been decommissioned.
"A number of properties have been evacuated and the road has been closed while the gas leak is repaired and the matter is investigated."
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from __future__ import unicode_literals

from django.db import migrations, models

class Migration(migrations.Migration):

    dependencies = [
        ('lexicon', '306_0129_import_source_citation_forms'),
    ]

    operations = [
        migrations.AlterModelOptions(
            name='source',
            options={'ordering': ['shorthand']},
        ),
        migrations.AddField(
            model_name='source',
            name='TRS',
            field=models.BooleanField(
                default=False,
                help_text=b'Traditional reference source (dated).'),
        ),
        migrations.AddField(
            model_name='source',
            name='respect',
            field=models.TextField(
                help_text=b'A brief summary of the nature '
                          b'of the source its utility.',
                blank=True),
        ),
    ]

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Recently appointed Assistant Manager at Stenhousemuir, Kevin McGoldrick, is determined to make as much as possible of his coaching and management career after being left with a sense of frustration over how his playing career turned out.
McGoldrick, promoted from the club's youth department to work alongside new boss David Irons at the end of last year, said: "I was a Scottish internationalist as a youth player and was signed by Dundee. I should have done better than I did and I feel that I have the chance to do that now.
McGoldrick picked up further silverware at Hampden all the same as he explained: "I did not quite fully listen to the advice I was given and played on in amateur leagues for a couple of years.
After he finally stopped playing, McGoldrick started taking the Queen's Park Under 14 side and worked his way up to managing their Under 17 side.
McGoldrick added: "That initial spell whetted my appetite for that side of the game and I was working with some good young players. Steven Saunders, who is now at Motherwell, was there and he has also gone on to play for Scotland.
"Jonathan Tiffoney down at Ayr was another Hampden boy at that time and he played with Scotland Under 21s in a bounce game recently.
Despite their ability, The Spiders' youngsters blew a big chance for silverware with McGoldrick lamenting: "It was a really good side and we suffered only two defeats in the League all season but we let ourselves down badly in the SFL Youth League Cup Final at Cowdenbeath. We had beaten them comprehensively in the League but never got going in that game and lost 1-0 at Tayport Juniors ground.
After Queen's Park, Campbell Money took McGoldrick to Stenhousemuir to look after the Warriors Under 17 team and then their Under 19 side and he remains glad of the move.
It was a step he was not expecting with McGoldrick saying: "It was sad that John Coughlin resigned as I feel he was disadvantaged because of strikers missing through injury and illness.
"Simon Lynch never kicked a ball, Alex Williams was floored by a mystery virus and Scott Dalziel had a damaged knee.
"Under John, Stenhousemuir had the second best defensive record in the division but couldn't score goals.
"Graeme Robertson and I took over to hold the fort and based on what we had seen during our couple of weeks in charge, I applied for the job and was interviewed for it.
The 38-year-old will not be sitting quietly learning as he explained: "One good thing is that I am not scared to ask for opinions. I also have a diverse background as not only did I have my youth work, I also did some work for the Daily Record in covering the Junior scene.
Stenhousemuir may just benefit from a really motivated management team with McGoldrick saying: "David has been great so far for the team and he may just feel that Stenhousemuir is an opportunity to prove something to people in football after his experiences at Gretna and Morton.
"He has never said anything but I get the sense that he really wants to prove a point.
"Our first game in charge was just after New Year and we lost 3-2 to Alloa but we picked ourselves up quickly from that.
"We won the next two matches in the League before having a disappointing run that saw us knocked out of the Scottish Cup and lose four games in a row.
McGoldrick uses the form of striker Scott Dalziel and his contribution to the Ochilview side's two wins in a row against Peterhead and Ayr United as an example.
He said: "If you look at a lot of the sides in this division, they benefit from having a big striker playing for them. Livingston have Kenny Deuchar, Forfar utilise Chris Templeman and East Fife have started using Jim Hamilton as well and Scott does that for us and does it well.
"He has been great in our last few games and given real leading line performances and been rewarded with a couple of goals.
The Warriors have two tough games in the space of three days coming up as they travel to Brechin City on Saturday before facing Livingston next Tuesday with McGoldrick saying: "The games are coming thick and fast but I am really enjoying it.
"I believe that David and I have settled in well and the initial three weeks I had in charge with Robbo has certainly helped. I got to know the players then but unfortunately, we never got to take them in a game situation.
Despite the short time in his new position, McGoldrick has moved up his learning curve saying: "The relationship with the Manager is key and you only need to look at what happened last week at Port Vale to see what happens when that relationship does not work out.
"The other lesson is getting beat hits you harder. At youth level, it is not all about winning but at first team level it is.
"You take it home with you but again David is teaching me ways to cope with disappointments better.


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State and federal parity laws aim to create fairness in insurance coverage for mental health and addiction treatment by requiring that coverage is equal to physical health coverage. The federal and state laws provide different levels of protection and different rights. For plans that are covered by both laws, any stronger protections in Maryland Law supersede the Federal Law.
In order to fully understand your rights, it is important to know what type of insurance plan you have. Not all plans are covered by parity laws and some plans are covered by only the state or only the federal law. Read more about your Insurance Plan.
The Federal Parity Law does NOT require that insurers offer mental health or addiction coverage. Instead it requires that if an insurer offers ANY mental health or addiction benefits, the coverage must be equal to medical/surgical benefits.
If a health plan has mental health or addiction benefits in ANY of the six areas, it must offer benefits in ALL of the areas where medical or surgical benefits are offered.
The law does NOT ALLOW limits for your mental health or addiction treatment benefits that are separate from your medical or surgical treatment. It also does NOT ALLOW any limits on mental health/addiction treatment that are more restrictive than for medical/surgical treatment.
Plans often have other ways they may limit access to care that aren't as simple as limits on visits or co-payments. How a plan determines if your treatment was medically necessary; if this review is done before, during, or after treatment; the amount of money the plan pays its network providers for specific services; and the number of providers on its in-network panels are examples of these other types of limits.
The Federal Parity Law addresses these complicated limits by requiring that they be comparable to the medical/surgical limits and no more strictly applied to mental health/addiction benefits.
The Federal Parity Law also grants consumers and providers rights not related to limits on treatment. These rights require that insurers provide you with certain information when treatment is denied or coverage changes are made.
Insurers must disclose the criteria used for medically necessary determinations to consumers and providers upon request and provide an explanation for how it is applied. This is important because many treatment denials are based on this determination.
Insurers must provide the reason for any denial of treatment in writing and free of charge. The insurer must send this upon denial but also upon request by a provider or consumer.
If a plan decides to no longer offer mental health or addiction benefits, they must notify members immediately.
These include overnight or longer stays at a hospital or other facility that is part of your plan network.
These include visits to a mental health/addiction provider that is a member of your insurance plan.
These include overnight or longer stays at a hospital or other facility that isn't part of your network.
These include visits to a provider who is not a member of your insurance plan.
These include visits and any treatment you receive in the emergency department at a hospital.
This includes coverage for medications prescribed by your provider. Insurance plans often create a preferred drug list, which includes generic medicines as the cheapest and most preferred type of prescription.
If a plan covers outpatient visits to your family doctor for depression medication management (plans has a mental health benefit in one of the six areas) and covers hospital stays for surgery, then it must also provide inpatient stays for mental health and addiction. If the plan provides out of network, outpatient coverage for a physical therapist, then it must provide out-of-network, outpatient coverage for visits to your mental health provider.
You can't be made to pay a higher copay for visits to your mental health or addiction provider than for your medical provider or be allowed to visit your mental health provider fewer times than your medical/surgical provider.
Parity regulations clarify this as, If a restriction is applied to substantially all the benefits and it is the predominate standard it can be applied no more restrictively to the mental health or addiction benefits than the medical/surgical benefits. For example, A plan may not make a determination that no mental health inpatient treatment is covered due to lack of medically necessity, but provide panel review to determine the medical necessity of inpatient treatment for medical/surgical benefits.
The parity regulations define "substantially all" as 2/3 of the benefits in one of the six categories of benefits. If 2/3 of the inpatient, in-network medical/surgical benefits are subject to a 20% co-insurance requirement, then inpatient, in-network mental health/addiction benefits cannot be subject to more than 20%.
The regulations set up a specific formula that must be used to determine if a quantifiable treatment limitation (visit limits, copayments, etc.) is allowed. It states that in order to have a specific limit for mental health/addiction, such as limits on visits, this limit must be applied to 2/3 of medical benefits in the category. If it isn't, then it is not allowed. If it is, then in order to determine how strict the limit can be, another number is used. The level applied to mental health/addiction treatment must be no stricter than what is applied to 50% of the medical/surgical benefits in that category.
Plans cannot require that all mental health outpatient treatment be approved BEFORE the visits if they do not require the same thing for outpatient medical/surgical care. This practice is often called prior or pre authorization.


As a child I obsessively pored over maps and charts, any atlas or globe I could get my hands on, long before I could really read or understand all those mesmeric names and places. It was the beauty of them as objects in their own right and what they represented – the imagining of dreams made real.
When it comes to fantasy, you can imagine what I'm like when I see a map inside! I grew up enthralled by the maps of Tolkien, tracing Bilbo's journey in The Hobbit and later, Frodo's adventures in The Lord of The Rings. E.H.Shepard's wonderful 'Hundred Acre Wood' map from A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh books, the maps in G.R.R.Martin's novels etc etc. Just sheer bliss and wonderment!
Yes, maps in fantasy books have become another cliche…but you know what? I don't care, I LOVE them!
So when writing and illustrating my first novel, epic fantasy adventure, White Mountain – Book 1 of The Darkling Chronicles, it was a no brainer to include a map.
Afterall, creating fantasy worlds is about the most fun you can have with or without your clothes on. Exploring the subtleties of character, the twists of plot, the deepening of a storyline, the embellishment of a rich history and back story and mixing all those elements and more into one sumptuous thrilling world. Yes…it really is one of the most exhilarating endeavours.
So to encapsulate a part of that rich world in a visual way, to draw the reader in as I was drawn in, was an opportunity I couldn't miss.
Also for me, as a lover of fantasy especially epic fantasy, to be able to construct a believable world, grounded in reality and embody that world in a map…was just the best.
With that love of maps also came a love of names, etymology – the meaning and derivation of words. For my map 'The Lay of Fendellin', Fendellin literally means 'in a dell or hollow and by a fen/water source' – very appropriate for the land I invented. My Fendellin itself was inspired by the Tibetan and Buddhist beliefs in Shambhala, a mythical and legendary land still hidden within the Himalayas and untouched by the outside world. A very potent idea. Many people still believe in Shambhala, I wish it existed too. It has inspired stories down through the ages, not least James Hilton's 'Lost Horizon' where he turned the Shambhala legend into his utopian paradise Shangri-La. My Fendellin is wondrous indeed, but could never be described as utopian. Amongst the soft plains of blue mountain poppy and frolicking tarpans (ancient horses), there is always the omnipresent malice of Kavok's Peak in the distance, birthplace of Morreck the book's arch villan. Yes, my Fendellin is beautiful indeed but has become a gilded prison for many who live within its Encircling Mountains, unable to esscape.
Mund'harr, the capital of Fendellin, a towering mountain on the Mund'harr plateau with its small city and hanging gardens clinging in winding tiers about its pinnacles, literally means 'High Mound' in various Old Norse, Frissan, Germanic and English languages.
Shudras, the 'silent marshes' of Fendellin, is an Indian word derived from ancient Sanskrit which refers to the lowest of the traditional varnas or social classes, oppressed people many of whom worked and lived in swamp areas. Also refers to any of several species of dark serpents inhabiting the swamps and jungles of South India.
Fendellin's largest water course, the great Varuna River, is again derived from Indian Sanskrit. In the ancient Vedic religion, Varuna is the god of the sky and water, ruler of the celestial ocean. Again, in Hindu mythology and post-Vedic texts, Varuna was the god of all the water elements, keeper of the oceans and rivers and god of the dead who could grant immortality. As the inhabitants of Fendellin are all dworlls, with hugely expanded life cycles to our own, all of this seemed a perfect fit.
I could go on…but I'd bore you all silly. Suffice to say, that maps and names hold a special power for me and weaving them into a mixture of actual ancient myth, my own invented mythology and reality is such a heady thrill!
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I rather suppose I'm a map junkie as well. A quick count on my bookcase has revealed 85 maps….
Lol! I knew I could rely on you! Yeap, a couple of map freaks. One of my favourites is the replica 1610 map of Gloucestershire I have…really lovely!
Absolutely with you on this. My maps are not really of publishable quality but they are in my head, always, when I write.
There's a new book out all about maps that I think you would love – my mum's getting it for my husband (also a map fanatic) for Xmas so I'm looking forward to reading it too! http://www.amazon.co.uk/On-The-Map-world-looks/dp/1846685095/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1355824150&sr=8-1 His book about typography, "Just My Type", was a brilliant read too. Gosh, I must suggest map books as a new idea to encourage reluctant readers to read – will nip over to Readathon Facebook page and do that now! Thanks for the inspiration, Sophie!
Oh thank you Debbie! That's so sweet of you. Yes, I absolutely adore maps and map books. Found myself buying a couple when I was over in Hay for the festival. I'll check out your recommendation, cheers.
Yes, the children in my class LOVE maps and so does my little 4yr old goddaughter.When I was little I used to love the maps in Winnie-The-Pooh and other books, they are such wonderful visual references for children.
Well, I absolutely love your artwork. That map at the top is truly excellent!
An interesting article on creating maps for fantasy novels, as well as choosing place names by using your knowledge of ancient and foreign languages, something I have also done with many of the place names (and some character names) in m own work.
You're welcome, Sophie. 🙂 I think there's a certain subconscious element to strategically choosing names; I think the reader, whether they know their languages or not, will 'pick up' on certain references, or at least get a dim sense of what we as writers are conveying with the names we've chosen for our places, characters and all other things in our worlds.
I might not know what 'Bwana' means, but I might get a sense of fatherly wisdom and authority from the way the author conveys a particular character to me. I might not grasp the meaning behind 'Mount Eviga' (That's one of mine; you can't have it!) but from the way it's described I might get a sense of how this mountain has been prominent in a certain culture's history, appearing not only in their oldest legends, but also in their most ancient mythologies.
We as writers know why we've chosen the names, and by doing so we're not only adding more depth to our worlds or giving them a bit more of a sense of authenticity, but in a subliminal way we're also educating our readers without patronising them.
Loved the art! Currently looking where I can find a good software that can help me with the map for my novel.
Thanks mate. Ah, when it comes to software I'm a complete novice I'm afraid, all my art is hand drawn and painted, my IT computer skills are pretty crap. Try contacting Ben Galley, a self-published fantasy writer, lovely guy too and good writer, anyway he may know some software programs to use as I think he uses them for his own fantasy maps?
Well, I'm definitely no expert, but my advice is to blog regularly, once a week if you can. I'm only blogging once a month at the moment as I'm in the middle of a large project so don't have the time I'd like. But if you can blog regularly on a variety of subjects you'll attract a good following. Some of my friends blog every day, I personally wouldn't recommend that as, unless you have something to say, it becomes too much. Very best of luck!


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Security expert offers advice after robberies, shootings reported Christmas weekend
Crime didn't seem to take a break Christmas weekend with several reports of shootings, carjackings and armed robberies in New Orleans.On Christmas Day, a 26-year-old man was found dead in his car, and another four people were shot. Another man was killed Saturday evening.Seven armed robberies were reported in New Orleans between noon Saturday and 3 a.m. Sunday, some involving carjackings, officials said.Here's a breakdown of the crimes:- 3 p.m. Friday: Woman, 31, reports being shot. New Orleans police said the location of the shooting is unclear.- 9 p.m. Friday: Man, 33, shot in his car in the 4000 block of Tulane Avenue.- 9:50 p.m. Friday: Man, 26, killed. He was shot multiple times in his car, which was found parked on a sidewalk in the 300 block of North Broad Street.- 9:50 p.m. Friday: Man, 37, shot on Airline Highway at Cherry Street. The shooter then shot at a moving car, hitting a 60-year-old man inside.- 12:13 p.m. Saturday: 40-year-old man, 39-year-old woman and 2-year-old girl were followed to their car and robbed at gunpoint on Marr Avenue.- 6:39 p.m. Saturday: Man, 43, shot in the 2600 block of Ursuline. He died at the hospital.- 7:17 p.m. Saturday: Man, 79, robbed at gun point while sitting in his car in the 2000 block of Lowerline Street. The robber then left in the man's car.- 9:33 p.m. Saturday: Man, 24, shot and robbed on Interstate 10 Service Road.- 10 p.m. Saturday: A 36-year-old man and 34-year-old woman were robbed by two armed men, one with a gun and the other with a knife.- 10:05 p.m. Saturday: A 49-year-old woman was getting into her car in the 2400 block of Jonquil Street, when a man pointed a gun at her face. The robber took her car and purse.- 2:12 a.m. Sunday: Man, 33, was held up at gunpoint and searched by two men. The robbers took his pack of cigarettes.- 2:45 a.m. Sunday: A 31-year-old man and 25-year-old woman were robbed at gunpoint by two men. Both gave back the victims' cellphones before taking $30.Mike Cahn, retired NOPD SWAT commander and security expert, said gunmen target people who are not paying attention."The biggest thing is being aware of your surroundings," Cahn said. "Most of the time when you've interviewed people who are out there doing these types of robberies, and we've spoken with them, they didn't approach the people that were looking right at them or paying attention to them. They were looking for the person whose head was down. They were looking in their purse, or they were on the phone, and they weren't really paying attention, so they could sneak up on them."To avoid being a target, Cahn said to keep your head up and keys in hand when walking to your car. Once inside, lock your doors and drive away immediately. Don't let your guard down on the road, either. He said to allow room between your car and the one in front of you, in case you need to drive away quickly."If you get into an accident or someone hits you, leave the area and drive to a well-lit area where you feel safe or if you're not comfortable where that accident happened," Cahn said.Cahn said not to hesitate to call police if you feel unsafe or see anything suspicious. Anyone with information about the weekend crimes is asked to call Crimestoppers at 504-822-1111.
Crime didn't seem to take a break Christmas weekend with several reports of shootings, carjackings and armed robberies in New Orleans.
On Christmas Day, a 26-year-old man was found dead in his car, and another four people were shot. Another man was killed Saturday evening.
NOPD: Man, 79, carjacked at gunpoint by two men in Uptown
Five people shot in 4 separate shootings Christmas Day in New Orleans
Seven armed robberies were reported in New Orleans between noon Saturday and 3 a.m. Sunday, some involving carjackings, officials said.
Here's a breakdown of the crimes:
- 3 p.m. Friday: Woman, 31, reports being shot. New Orleans police said the location of the shooting is unclear.
- 9 p.m. Friday: Man, 33, shot in his car in the 4000 block of Tulane Avenue.
- 9:50 p.m. Friday: Man, 26, killed. He was shot multiple times in his car, which was found parked on a sidewalk in the 300 block of North Broad Street.
- 9:50 p.m. Friday: Man, 37, shot on Airline Highway at Cherry Street. The shooter then shot at a moving car, hitting a 60-year-old man inside.
- 12:13 p.m. Saturday: 40-year-old man, 39-year-old woman and 2-year-old girl were followed to their car and robbed at gunpoint on Marr Avenue.
- 6:39 p.m. Saturday: Man, 43, shot in the 2600 block of Ursuline. He died at the hospital.
- 7:17 p.m. Saturday: Man, 79, robbed at gun point while sitting in his car in the 2000 block of Lowerline Street. The robber then left in the man's car.
- 9:33 p.m. Saturday: Man, 24, shot and robbed on Interstate 10 Service Road.
- 10 p.m. Saturday: A 36-year-old man and 34-year-old woman were robbed by two armed men, one with a gun and the other with a knife.
- 10:05 p.m. Saturday: A 49-year-old woman was getting into her car in the 2400 block of Jonquil Street, when a man pointed a gun at her face. The robber took her car and purse.
- 2:12 a.m. Sunday: Man, 33, was held up at gunpoint and searched by two men. The robbers took his pack of cigarettes.
- 2:45 a.m. Sunday: A 31-year-old man and 25-year-old woman were robbed at gunpoint by two men. Both gave back the victims' cellphones before taking $30.
Mike Cahn, retired NOPD SWAT commander and security expert, said gunmen target people who are not paying attention.
"The biggest thing is being aware of your surroundings," Cahn said. "Most of the time when you've interviewed people who are out there doing these types of robberies, and we've spoken with them, they didn't approach the people that were looking right at them or paying attention to them. They were looking for the person whose head was down. They were looking in their purse, or they were on the phone, and they weren't really paying attention, so they could sneak up on them."
To avoid being a target, Cahn said to keep your head up and keys in hand when walking to your car. Once inside, lock your doors and drive away immediately. Don't let your guard down on the road, either. He said to allow room between your car and the one in front of you, in case you need to drive away quickly.
"If you get into an accident or someone hits you, leave the area and drive to a well-lit area where you feel safe or if you're not comfortable where that accident happened," Cahn said.
Cahn said not to hesitate to call police if you feel unsafe or see anything suspicious. Anyone with information about the weekend crimes is asked to call Crimestoppers at 504-822-1111.


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Michel Nassiet est un historien français, professeur d'histoire moderne à Angers.

Agrégé d'histoire et titulaire d'un doctorat d'université en histoire moderne (Paris 4, 1988). - Maître de conférences d'histoire moderne à l'université de Rennes 2 (en 1993).

Publications
 Noblesse et pauvreté : La petite noblesse en Bretagne , Éditions Ste d'histoire et d'archéologie de Bretagne, 1993.
 La France du second  (1661-1715), Éditions Belin, 2000.
 L'union de la Bretagne à la France, codirigé avec Dominique Le Page, Éditions Skol Vreizh, 2003.
 La Renaissance (vers 1470-vers 1560), Éditions Belin de Patrick Gilli, Michel Nassiet et Hugues Daussy, 2003.
 Le , Éditions Belin. 2006.
 La violence, une histoire sociale - De la Renaissance aux Lumières, Éditions Champ Vallon, 2011.
 Noblesse et pauvreté, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2012
 La violence et le judiciaire, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2008
 Valeurs et justice, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2011

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Historien français du XXIe siècle
Enseignant à l'université d'Angers
Naissance en 1952


"St. Laurent, Zweigelt and also especially Blauer Portugieser reach a power and concentration here with a simultaneous smoothness and fruit seldom found."
Next to the warm sulphur water, winegrowing has always been one of the most important source of income for Baden. Roman legionaries improved the rather elemental, local vines with southern varieties and introduced a more refined processing technology. The Römerberg and the Probusgasse are reminiscent of Italy's contribution to winegrowing in Baden to this day. Baden's winegrowing was authenticated for the first time with a donation from Babenberg's margrave Leopold III, which allowed Klosterneuburg Abbey to acquire five Baden vineyards in 1113.
About 100 Baden families are currently growing wine. The location on the edge of the Pannonian Plain provides an ideal climate. Outstanding quality wines are thriving in Baden's vineyards. The 340 ha of vineyard acreage produce about 12,000 hl of wine per year. Half of the harvest is pressed by the Baden winemaking cooperative, founded in 1918, the other half is for the most part sold in "Buschenschank", taverns that is.
Roughly 70 percent of the wines cultivated are white. Especially Grüner Veltliner, Pinot Blanc, Neuburger and the rare types typical of the thermal region - Rotgipfler, Zierfandler, Muskat and Traminer. Among the red wines Pinot noir, Zweigelt and Blauer Portugieser achieve the best quality.
A Baden speciality is the "Badener Lumpentürl", a Neuburger type cabinet wine as well as a red wine cuvée of the Baden Hauercollegium. Baden wines are known and loved for their richness, subtle flavour and fruity acidity.


The Google Pixel 3 XL has been leaking like crazy over the last couple of weeks, and a new major leak has just surfaced, as someone left the Pixel 3 XL in the back of a Lyft car by accident. The Google Pixel 3 XL's design leaked a ton of times thus far, while we've also seen pretty detailed spec leaks, and even camera samples, as a batch of Pixel 3 XL's gone missing recently.
In any case, if you take a look at the gallery down below, you will be able to see a new batch of the Pixel 3 XL units, as someone, presumably a Google employee, forgot to take his Pixel 3 XL after he was getting out of a Lyft car, or perhaps it slipped out of his pocket, it doesn't really matter at this point. The driver of said Lyft car took several pictures of the phone before he returned it to its owner, and as you can see, this device is completely identical to the ones that leaked previously. The Pixel 3 XL will be made out of metal once again, while a small glass plate will be included on the back of the device, as was the case with its predecessor. The Pixel 3 XL will sport a single camera on the back, below which you will notice a fingerprint scanner, while the phone will sport a not-so-small notch at the top of its display. A thin 'chin' will be included below the display, while the phone will include two front-facing speakers.
The Google Pixel 3 XL, and its Pixel 3 siblings, are expected to arrive in October, and both devices will be fueled by the Snapdragon 845 64-bit octa-core processor, though the smaller Pixel 3 will not sport a display notch. The Google Pixel 3 XL is expected to sport 4GB of RAM, at least based on recently-leaked benchmarks, while the device will ship with a large 6.71-inch QHD+ display. Android 9 Pie will come pre-installed on the device, while the phone will sport some sort of IP rating for water and dust resistance.


 Properties of High temperature levelling agent - HT Fine Chemical Co., Ltd.
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High temperature and high pressure dyeing is an important dyeing method of polyester fiber. On the one hand, because of dyeing properties of polyester fiber, it has basic requirements for high temperature levelling agent. On the other hand, due to the differences between polyester fiber semi-finished products, it has corresponding personalized requirements for high temperature levelling agent.
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Flying with Gordie Howe
Gordie Howe was my childhood idol , Creative Commons photo
Gordie Howe will soon turn 86. The man called Mr. Hockey was born into a poor family near Saskatoon, Saskatchewan in 1928. I idolized him when I was a boy and wanted desperately to play professional hockey one day. When, as an adult, I finally encountered Gordie back in 1994, I was pretty well tongue tied.
It was early March and minus 30 degrees in Regina, Saskatchewan. The prairies had endured a two-month deep freeze. I was awakened in my hotel room that Saturday morning by the growling sound of car motors turning over slowly, then dying, and the distinctive crunch that tires make on snow when it is that cold. Later, at the airport terminal, I learned that my flight to Edmonton was delayed so I half-heartedly turned to reading a newspaper.
When I looked across the small waiting room, I noticed a slope-shouldered man leaning against the wall. Big, but not bulky, he was perhaps 60 years old, with deep lines in his tanned face and thinning grey hair. He was dressed casually in a pair of beige cotton twill pants and he wore a dark blue sweatshirt over a white turtleneck. He squinted at the clock across the room and blinked several times in quick succession. There was something about him which was familiar.
The next time I looked up, he was being approached by a stout woman in a bright red coat. She offered him a writing pad and a pen, blushing robustly as she did so. He took the pen, signed deliberately and handed the autographed page back with a slight smile which brought an even brighter flush to her face.
The seat beside mine
Then he surveyed the room and spotting an empty seat he walked over and dropped into the seat beside mine. He began to shuffle with some papers, removed a stocky felt pen from his pocket and laboriously made some thick-nibbed notes.
I had been an amused spectator but now I had a dilemma. Should I tell him how as a child I loved winter, no matter how cold it became, because I could play hockey? Every day after school I went to the outdoor rink in our little Saskatchewan town until supper time, playing pickup with anybody who was willing. Immediately after supper I ran all the way back to the rink, before the other kids came for night skating. In that half hour I would spread shovels and scrapers the length of the ice, then I would take a puck and stick handle my way through the maze, up, around and back, again and again, believing completely all the while that one day I would play in the NHL.
Should I greet him? Say his name? Shake his hand? Ask for his autograph?
"I met your dad once," I found myself saying, "when I was a kid."
He looked at me with a steady hazel-eyed gaze, giving away nothing, as though I was a goalie and he was waiting for me to move first.
"It was out behind the Barry Hotel in Saskatoon. My father went in for a beer and left me sitting in the car with the motor running and the heater on. A little while later he came out with an old guy and he said, `I want you to meet Gordie Howe's dad.'"
A slow smile lit Gordie's face. "Yeah, that'd be like the old man," he said in a soft drawl. And that was all. He went back to making felt pen notes, and I to my Saturday paper.
My dad's loyalty
My father did not like to travel alone and often took me along for company. He could rarely pass a hotel without stopping, and when he did he gave me a dollar to buy soft drinks, chips and chocolate bars to eat while I waited for him. He had a habit of striking up conversations with strangers and so he began to talk to the older man seated near him in the Barry. It must have been loyalty to me that led my dad to invite Gordie's dad, Abe Howe, out to the car to meet a skinny 12-year-old. My dad knew that for me hockey was life and that I would discuss no other future.
On our way home that evening, as the moon bathed the snow-covered fields in blue light, my father said that I should write a letter to Gordie Howe. I should tell him that I had met his father. I should tell him how much I loved hockey and wanted to play in the NHL.
Letter to Gordie
I wrote the letter and sent it to Gordie Howe, care of the Detroit Olympia. I hoped against hope for an answer but did not really expect one. Then one morning during the Christmas holidays when I was still in bed, my father came home from the post office. "For you," he said and he flipped something into the air which landed on my blanket. It was a postcard, a black and white shot of Gordie Howe. He was on the ice, in his dark Red Wings uniform. He must have been doing stops and starts for the camera, because the ice chips sprayed up toward the lens from where he had come to a halt. He was leaning away from the camera, looking at me over his left shoulder. I turned the card over, and there across from my name and address he had written, "Best regards, Gordie Howe."
I cherished that card but lost it somewhere along the way. I never did make the NHL although I did have a few pretty good years in the Potash League in central Saskatchewan. I had never met my childhood idol, until now.
Flying with Gordie
When the ticket agent called the flight to Edmonton, I was in for a surprise. To get there from Regina, I had to fly north to Saskatoon, then south to Calgary, only to fly north again to Edmonton. "Dammit," I said to no one in particular. "I didn't know I was going to Saskatoon."
"I didn't know I was comin' to Regina," Gordie said. "I sat on the runway in Chicago for an hour and I watched my plane leave for Calgary without me. Now I'm in Regina and my luggage isn't."
I preceded him onto the plane, a small Fokker jet, only to find that we were sitting in the same row, me on the aisle and he scrunched into the window seat. Once we were airborne, Gordie shut out the surrounding noise just as he had in the airport and tended to his own matters. He pulled out a hardcover book and opened it carefully, his place marked by a thick elastic band wrapped around the cover and the pages he had finished. It was a book about the rise and fall of hockey czar Allan Eagleson, whose career had been riddled with conflicts of interest and practices that cost hockey players millions of dollars.
Gordie read slowly, wearing a pair of gray-rimmed glasses, his thick index finger moving slowly across the page as he parsed each line. Above the sturdy hands his wrists looked the size of juice cans, and seeing them I remembered how he could shoot a hockey puck from either the right or left side with equal force and accuracy. I noticed, too, that both of his wrists had arthritic lumps on them, each covered by a scar, probably from surgery. It was his painful wrists, not the failure of his legs or lungs, that led to his retirement from the Detroit Red Wings after 25 seasons in the NHL. The wrists must have continued to hurt him during the additional eight seasons he played after coming out of retirement, before he finally quit for good at age 51.
When we put down in Calgary I stood, took Gordie's coat from the luggage rack, and handed it to him. He looked up and smiled. "Nice to make your acquaintance," I said, the words sounding formal and banal. In fact, I hadn't even introduced myself.
"Sure," he said. "And now if I can just get re-acquainted with my luggage."
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5 thoughts on "Flying with Gordie Howe"
Bert Lobe says:
Superb piece Dennis! Evocative. I too was a little prairie boy but never got to meet a guy like Gordie Howe But I did meet Amartya Sen a month ago!
We'll be in Ottawa in the next few weeks…maybe we can have a beer?
Hi Bert: Amartya Sen! No disrespect to Gordie but I don't think you could do better than that. Re your suggestion for Ottawa, I would like that. Martha too. Please contact us.
Lionel Lumb says:
I grew up playing field hockey in India, and like Dennis I had my idols, like the great Dhyan Chand and Leslie Claudius. Claudius won three golds and one silver medal in a formidable career of four Olympics. I never met him although I, too, lived in Calcutta. But I did have the pleasure of meeting Gordie after a game in Toronto, and know what a spellbinder he is. Any wonder Dennis was tongue-tied meeting his boyhood hero. We did a profile of Gordie for W5 back in the '70s. He was generous as ever with his time and wit. The line I remember best from Mr. Hockey was his modest description of himself as "poetry in slow motion."
Colleen Gerwing says:
Love this story!!
Thanks Colleen. My brief meeting with Gordie Howe occurred back in 1994 and I wrote the piece shortly after the event. But when recently I heard of his upcoming birthday, I brushed the story off, revised it, and enjoyed it all over again.


The Headies award 2013 has come and gone with surprising and not too surprising winners grabbing the Gold busts. Olamide, however, stole the night winning the Best Street Hop artist, Best rap album, and Album of the year awards.
Other winners include, Banky W, Sean Tizzle, Davido, 2face and others.
This entry was posted in EVENTS and tagged 2013, Brymo, BURNA BOY, EMI, Funmi Iyanda, HEADIES, Rhythm and blues, Waje.


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Q: Fix for a broken Vim/Syntastic/Vundle? [Vim 8.1 - Syntastic 3.9.0 - Vundle 0.5 on Arch linux]
This morning I started getting error:

syntastic: warning: checker vim/vint: unrecognized error format
  (crashed checker?)

The message appears every time I write buffer to disk, i.e. everytime Syntastic is invoked (?). Have been trying to unravel the mystery ever since.
The vundle doc is available in buffer with :h vundle and :Plugin<Tab> does propose completion with the usual choice of possibilities (PluginInstall, PluginClean, PluginList, etc..) but none are functional.  This had me thinking that I had a Vundle problem.
The corresponding runtime path in ~/.vimrc is correctly set to rtp+=~/.vim/bundle/vundle, the which correspond to my clone git repo for Vundle. The local repo clone is up to date.
:SyntasticInfo vim does show vint as linter So things seem to work there.
I am stumped. Any suggestion anyone ?

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With one week left in Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke's first term, a sense of unease rattled the stock markets yesterday as several Democratic Senators (Boxer & Feingold) announced that they would not support President Obamas nomination of Chairman Bernanke for a second term. I wrote "A Second Term for Ben" (see below) in late August and shortly thereafter the president nominated him for a second term. I stand by my original position: Chairman Bernanke has earned a second term. We would be better served without the revisionist history that is taking place in Congress and with a forward look to the ongoing recovery from the Great Recession.
Now I am not ready for a steady diet of point counterpoint with Cringe, but our exchange lead me to the question: Should President Obama appoint Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke to a second term when his current term ends on January 31, 2010? I am confident that Cringe and I will arrive at very different conclusions.
Alan Greenspan's long tenure as Chairman of the Board of Governors of the United States Federal Reserve began when President Reagan appointed him in August of 1987. He was appointed to successive 4-year terms by President George H.W. Bush, President Bill Clinton and President George W. Bush until he retired on January 31st, 2006 and Ben Bernanke was appointed to succeed him. Today, historians are re-evaluating Greenspan's tenure, particularly in light of the sub-prime crisis that shook the foundations of the financial systems around the globe. Prior to this, though, he was heralded for maintaining stability and continuity in the global markets and for keeping down inflationary pressures. (We should never forget the inflation of the Carter years.) When faced with the option of reappointing a Republican appointee or replacing him, President Clinton twice decided that the country was better with Greenspan at the helm. During this period, the country experienced unprecedented growth and actually ran large surpluses.
President Obama is faced with a similar choice: should he reappoint Ben Bernanke or go to his own bench for Larry Summers? Chairman Bernanke has studied and written extensively about the causes of the Great Depression and understands that one of the underlying causes was the lack of credit. When he saw the credit markets freeze after Lehman Brothers filed for bankruptcy, he immediately worked to pull us back from the abyss with then Treasury Secretary Paulson and Tim Geithner, who was then head of the New York Federal Reserve and is the current Treasury Secretary. I sense that as confidence is slowly restored in our financial institutions globally, we would be best served, as would President Obama's own interests, by his reappointment of Ben Bernanke to a second term.
Cringe, your turn at bat.
On a very long flight west last evening, I started Pat Conroy's latest novel, South of Broad, which takes place as all of his novels do in Charleston, that charming, historic, southern city. This is his first novel since Beach Music, which was published over 14 years ago. I am finding it to be a very special way to end August, with Leo King narrating and bringing us back to the South Carolina coast.


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Classical Music | Piano works
Sunday, March 3, 2019, 5:00 pm
Victoria Mushkatkol, piano.
The Russian pianist, Victoria Mushkatkol, made her concert debut with the Kiev Philharmonic Orchestra at the age of ten. After graduating from Kiev Music School for Gifted Children, she went on to study at the St Petersburg Conservatory with Professor Vladimir Nielsen, one of Russia's most eminent piano teachers, graduating from the Conservatory with the highest honours. Victoria Mushkatkol established herself as an international performer, appearing in recitals and chamber music concerts throughout the United States, Europe and Pacific Asia. Equally at home performing for the Royal Family of Thailand in Bangkok or in Communist China, her travels have taken her to Japan, Taiwan, Singapore, Korea, Thailand and Brunei as well as to Spain, Czech Republic and Holland.
Victoria Mushkatkol has collaborated with eminent musicians such as the violinist Evgeny Bushkov, the cellists Karen Buranskas and André Emelianoff, the Leontovich, Veronika, and Amernet String Quartets. Public radio stations in California, Illinois and Michigan have broadcast her performances.


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import React from 'react'
import {connect} from 'cerebral/react'
import {state, signal} from 'cerebral/tags'
import counts from '../../computed/counts'
import classnames from 'classnames'

const filters = ['All', 'Active', 'Completed']

export default connect({
  filter: state`filter`,
  counts,
  filterClicked: signal`filterClicked`,
  clearCompletedClicked: signal`clearCompletedClicked`
},
  function Footer ({filter, counts, filterClicked, clearCompletedClicked}) {
    return (

          {counts.remaining} {counts.remaining === 1 ? 'item' : 'items'} left

          {filters.map((filterName) => (

               filterClicked({ filter: filterName.toLowerCase() })}
                className={classnames({ selected: filter === filterName.toLowerCase() })}
              >
                {filterName}

          ))}

        {
          !!counts.completed && (
            <button className='clear-completed' onClick={() => clearCompletedClicked()}>
              Clear completed ({counts.completed})
            </button>
          )
        }

    )
  }
)