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Trump Admin to Ban All Flavored E-Cigarettes
— FDA expected to finalize compliance policy in coming weeks
by Salynn Boyles, Contributing Writer September 11, 2019
The Trump administration announced plans Wednesday to ban all flavored e-cigarette products in response to an "epidemic" rise in e-cigarette use among youth and increasing reports of vaping-related illness and death.
Within the next few weeks, FDA officials will finalize a compliance policy that would result in the withdrawal of non-tobacco flavored e-cigarette products, including mint and menthol products, from the market pending approval through the premarket authorization process, according to Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Alex Azar.
"The Trump Administration is making it clear that we intend to clear the market of flavored c-cigarettes to reverse the deeply concerning epidemic of youth e-cigarette use that is impacting children, families, schools and communities. We will not stand idly by as these products become an on-ramp to combustible cigarettes or nicotine addiction for a generation of youth," Azar said in a statement.
An earlier plan to ban most flavored e-cigarette liquids was put in place last March by then-FDA Commissioner Scott Gottlieb, MD, with great fanfare. But that prohibition wouldn't go into effect until August 2021, and it excepted mint and menthol flavorings pending more study by the agency.
Administration officials didn't say when the more comprehensive ban would take effect. "The FDA plans to share more on the specific details of the plan and its implementation soon," the HHS statement said.
The policy change comes as new preliminary data from a national survey of youth tobacco use shows that e-cigarette use among middle-school and high-school students continued to skyrocket for the second straight year. Data from the 2018 National Youth Tobacco Survey (NYTS) showed a roughly 80% increase in e-cigarette use among high-school students nationwide and a 48% rise among middle schoolers. New NYTS survey data are expected to become public in the coming weeks.
President Trump and first lady Melania Trump met with Azar and FDA Acting Commissioner Ned Sharpless, MD, on Wednesday to discuss efforts to curb youth e-cigarette use.
Trump told reporters gathered in the Oval Office that the government can't allow the nation's youth to be affected.
"A lot of people think vaping is wonderful, it's great. It's really not wonderful," Trump said. "I think we can say definitely it's not a wonderful thing. It has big problems and we have to find out the extent of the problem."
Last week, Michigan became the first state in the country to ban flavored e-cigarettes. New York governor Andrew Cuomo called for a statewide ban on flavored e-cigarettes earlier in the week amid growing health concerns, and bans are also under consideration in other states, including Massachusetts and California.
Health groups applauded the Trump administration's announcement of a possible ban on flavored cigarettes Wednesday afternoon, and they also called out the nation's leading e-cigarette seller, JUUL Labs.
"JUUL and other e-cigarette companies have preyed upon youth and adolescents with million-dollar marketing campaigns and thousands of appealing flavors that are proven to attract kids," American Heart Association CEO Nancy Brown said in a statement. "These companies did this knowing that nicotine is an addictive drug that rewires the developing brain and poses significant health risks to e-cigarette users."
Campaign for Tobacco Free Kids president Matthew Myers called the Trump administration's announcement "a necessary and long-overdue step to address the epidemic of youth e-cigarette use" in the U.S.
"It has taken far too long to stop JUUL and other e-cigarette companies from targeting our nation's kids with sweet-flavored, nicotine-loaded products that are addicting a new generation and threaten decades of progress in reducing youth tobacco use," Myers said in a statement.
JUUL Labs did not respond to MedPage Today's request for comment on the Trump administration announcement.
As of this week, six deaths and around 500 cases of respiratory illness believed to be related to vaping have been reported in the U.S. Most cases reported vaping products containing tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), either acquired legally or illegally, but some cases reported vaping only nicotine products.
No cases of illness have been specifically linked to JUUL or any other commercially available e-cigarettes containing nicotine only.
But these products also remain largely unregulated, and many new products have entered the market illegally.
As of early August 2016, all electronic nicotine delivery systems (ENDS) products were required to file premarket tobacco product applications within two years to the FDA.
"ENDS products currently on the market are not being legally marketed and are subject to government action," the HHS said in a press statement released Wednesday afternoon. "The compliance policy the FDA anticipates announcing in the coming weeks will outline enforcement policy addressing non-tobacco-flavored e-cigarette products that lack premarket authorization moving forward."

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Home Sports How Klopp's glasses, Shankly's typewriter connect Liverpool to club's history
How Klopp's glasses, Shankly's typewriter connect Liverpool to club's history
Liverpool's coaching staff wanted Bill Shankly's typewriter put on display at the club's new training ground. Liverpool FC
At every top club there is the internal conflict between the need to modernise and expand — reaching out to new global fans and recruiting the world's best talent — and maintaining their identity through a shared sense of history and culture, and Liverpool are no different.
Stephen Done has seen many changes at the club, both in his lifetime as a supporter and a quarter of a century as their historian and chief curator of the Anfield museum. Few changes have been as significant as the recent departure after more than 70 years from Melwood, the beloved training ground that was revolutionised by club's great manager Bill Shankly and became a part of club folklore, to a new state-of-the-art complex a few miles up the road in Kirkby.
A key part of the job for Done and his counterparts at other clubs is to bridge the divide between the future and the past. No single item does that better for Liverpool's staff than the one which takes pride of place just outside the manager's office at the new training ground.
"Just outside the area where the senior management all work, there's an area with a couple of chairs and a lovely glass-topped table, and inside that is Bill Shankly's typewriter," Done tells ESPN. "It's the typewriter he used all the time at home, to write all of his wonderful letters and correspondence with Liverpool fans."
An excerpt from a letter which sits in the feed roller of the typewriter, dated Sept. 11, 1970, reads:
"I am glad you have enjoyed seeing the team play and have derived pleasure from it. I have certainly enjoyed working for the "Reds" public. Mind you, it is hard work and of course very demanding. I realise that only the best will do, and that nobody can kid them. I don't try to kid them."
"There's something so prosaic and humble about it, and the modern management team wanted it as a connection to the past," Done adds. "It's what we at the LFC museum try to do — re-use our club history in a meaningful way that still has resonance today."
This week the club auctioned off around 400 lots of Melwood memorabilia, with a proportion of the proceeds raised being donated to the LFC Foundation.
The auction raised a total of £373,000 ($521,000) thanks to the sale of unique items such as the "Champions Wall" (£30,000), two couches from manager Jurgen Klopp's office (£3,200 and £1,600) and even more basic pieces such as the name plate on Divock Origi's parking space (£500). The auction offered fans a rare chance to own a genuine piece of Liverpool history that could not fit in the club's own extensive collection.
Liverpool's 'Wall of Champions' was the most expensive item sold at an auction of memorabilia from Melwood. John Powell/Liverpool FC via Getty Images
Done was recruited to set up the museum in the mid-1990s. A mark of how seriously the club took the project was Roy Evans, the club's first-team manager at the time, being on the interview panel. "Last time I saw Roy, he said it was the worst decision he ever made!"
Since opening the museum at Anfield in 1997, millions of fans have passed through its doors to see exhibitions that Done has curated. In 2019, 328,000 visitors came to learn about the club's rich past, from their humble beginnings in the 1890s right through to the present day.
The museum is already full of the trophies and medals won by the Liverpool teams of yesteryear, containing around 600 items in total, but this new era of success has added a fresh influx of modern pieces added to the collection.
Liverpool's club museum at Anfield has an exhibition about their recent success called the 'Boom Room'. Liverpool FC
In September the Liverpool museum has opened an exhibition called (borrowing a turn of phrase from Klopp) the "Boom Room," which picks up the club story from the point the Reds lifted the 2018-19 Champions League trophy in Madrid and takes in their subsequent Premier League and FIFA Club World Cup successes.
The exhibition includes the jersey Trent Alexander-Arnold wore in the Champions League final win, donated by the right-back ("he's a bright lad because he knows that his shirt will probably never go off display, so he'll always know exactly where it is!") as well as the shirts worn by Mohamed Salah and Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain during the Merseyside derby in June 2020 — Liverpool's first game after the league restart following the first national COVID-19 lockdown. That day, all players in the Premier League wore the "Black Lives Matter" message above the numbers on their shirts instead of their names, and also wore badges in tribute to the NHS.
"This was a really big moment with all that was going on in the world at the time so those match-worn shirts, with those two gestures, are a piece of history," Done said. "They're part of a national and international story, and they're ours. I know for a fact that the National Football Museum were desperate to get them."
Liverpool manager Jurgen Klopp has donated three pairs of glasses to the club for posterity. Liverpool FC
The Boom Room also contains the very pair of glasses that Klopp wore as Liverpool beat Tottenham to lift the Champions League trophy (which sustained some damage in the ensuing revelry), as well as to keep the confetti from falling in his eyes on the subsequent bus parade.
It turns out that Klopp has donated a total of three pairs of his trademark spectacles ("all really expensive, all authentic, all worn at significant moments") to the club for posterity: he also gave up the pair he wore during the Premier League celebrations, while a further pair have been buried at Kirkby as part of a time capsule. "The ones in the capsule are obviously important too, but perhaps the pair we could most afford to bury underground for the next 50 years!"
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While you would expect to find match-worn memorabilia on a visit to any club museum, Done also had the foresight to retrieve some seemingly commonplace, insignificant items that help to fill out the incredible story.
"On the open-top bus tour for the 2019 Champions League, I actually scooped up a lot of the confetti that landed on the bus and so we have some of that displayed," Done said. "We've got a whopping great bag of the ticker tape from the Premier League trophy celebrations [behind closed doors on a platform specially built at Anfield]. These are all just little moments, captured forever.
"It's just an attempt to bottle a moment that so many of us fans had to watch remotely. In fact. we've also got a special bottle of beer that was actually signed by all the staff and players who were there on the evening — one of the only bottles they didn't open and spray everywhere!"
Liverpool included lots of links to the club's history within Anfield's redeveloped main stand. Barrington Coombs/Getty Images
When it comes to the most valuable item in the Liverpool museum collection, an obvious pick might be former Liverpool and England striker Roger Hunt's 1966 World Cup winners' medal, one of only two from that tournament on public display in the world. However, there is another piece that has soared in value in recent years, thanks largely to UEFA and their administrative policies.
"Our Champions League trophy from 2005 [Liverpool's fifth triumph in the competition] is the last real genuine trophy that UEFA allowed the winning club to keep before they changed the rules," Done explained. "Now, winners have to hand the real trophy back after the ceremony. Ours is the one that all those previous teams held up, drank from, dropped, dented — and it's in the LFC museum forever. What price can you put on that?"
Liverpool played in blue-and-white when they embarked on their first season in the 1890s. Liverpool FC
Speaking of priceless, every museum curator has a "Holy Grail" piece that they dream of adding to their collection, and Done is no different.
"It'll never happen and I'm sure nobody will ever find it, but I would love to have a Liverpool shirt from 1892-93, our first ever shirt from our first ever season," Done said.
"They were blue-and-white halved shirts and I'm absolutely certain none will have survived, but I'd love to be proven wrong. I live in hope. That would be at the very top of my list, and these things do happen from time to time…"
When setting Liverpool's achievements of the last few years against the club's great golden eras of the past, Done was unequivocal.
"It's certainly not going to fade away!" he replied. "People still talk about Istanbul. It was one of the greatest European finals of all time, but at some point you start to realise that 2005 was a long time ago, a generation in fact.
"Then you realise we not only won the Champions League in 2019, but three titles in total — titles that we'd been desperately chasing. That's when you realise that incredible year is going to live on in the memory for a long, long time."
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PH Groups Wotton House Hotel
De Vere Wotton House hotel near Dorking, has completed its £6 million renovation programme, with The 79group providing full MEP services to totally refurbish existing rooms and service new builds.
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Wotton House Hotel to undergo a £6 million renovation programme, which is part of a wider £50 million investment project in the De Vere country estate hotels portfolio.
The hotel is to carry out full bedroom renovations, and has seen 16 new junior suites added to its inventory, all of which are located in the mansion house, bringing the total number of bedrooms to 127.
The hotel's restaurant will also undergo a full refurbishment, as well as the reception and public areas, which completed on 6th February, along with the hotel's bar which has also undergone a refresh.
To collaborate with the principal contractor and client to interpret their renovation brief into an efficient, energy saving, high spec MEP scheme. The hotel had to remain operational at all times and disruption to guests and staff kept to an absolute minimum.
The sympathetic renovation at the 17th century Dorking estate has been designed to place the historic Wotton House mansion back at the very heart of the venue, where traditional values combine seamlessly with modern day luxury.
The transformation is to also included a full restoration of Wotton's principal event space, The Evelyn Suite, to be returned to grandeur with a fresh new look and sophisticated detailing inspired by the building's rich architecture.
As with all live environments, the first process is to ensure temporary power and water supplies to the buildings. Alongside renovation of the bedrooms and new junior suites, the transformation also included a full restoration of Wotton's principal event space, The Evelyn Suite. The investment has seen the installation of high speed outdoor Wi-Fi, Data, CCTV, Audio and a new Fire Alarm system all installed by 79 Group.
Full MEP services installed throughout the hotel included;
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sanitary ware for bedrooms and public toilets.
To achieve all of the above it was imperative to build open, honest and fluid communication with the main contractor, client, onsite staff and other contractors. We all had the same aim, to deliver the ambitious renovation plans as smoothly as possible.
The 79group have now worked with us to consistently deliver full MEP installation on six projects for our client PH Hotels. The scope has covered leisure facilities, restaurants, meeting rooms and over 200 bedrooms, including luxury suites. Working with a proactive and reactive company who offer the combined package of work helps us ensure that each project progresses smoothly, is fully coordinated & delivered on time. Always ensuring the highest standards are achieved. Most recent project we have worked on together covered full MEP services to 45 bedrooms, including luxury suites, a training centre and Executive Centre. They rose to the challenge of designing and supplying bespoke lighting for the bar area. The 79group are consistent in their delivery and professional approach. A highly recommended and sought after subcontractor.
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Did Microsoft play Yahoo! like a violin?
While we stopped writing about the day to day exploits of Microsoft and Yahoo! a bit ago, now that it appears to be coming to an end we can't help but make a few observations. When Microsoft first approached Yahoo! about some kind of deal, back in January 2007, the idea of a rapid advance in search share seemed obvious and advantageous. Since then, Microsoft both wearied of dealing with Yahoo! and probably learned quite a bit about the motivations, and the weaknesses of the company it pursued. From the moment Microsoft made a public offer for Yahoo!, on February 1 of this year, nothing about the way that Yahoo! responded could have come as much of a surprise to Microsoft. They'd been witnessing the same kind of action for more than a year behind closed doors.
Make no mistake, finding weaknesses, and then going for the throat, is what Microsoft does best. As an evil empire, they're damn good at what they do.
So take a look at what's transpired since February. Yahoo! is a shambles. Microsoft has begun to fire the first volleys in its assault on "the ten blue lines", with a stated purpose of "disrupting" in search. Google finds itself, while decidedly in a strengthened position, all of a sudden with the eyes of the Department of Justice upon them.
Jerry Yang and David Filo were shocked when Microsoft pulled back from the table, but was it an admission of defeat by Microsoft, or a calculated move to "disrupt" in a lot more ways than just rolling out a cashback program? Did Microsoft lead Yahoo! up to the precipice and then give them a swift kick in the behind? Microsoft walked away from the deal, and truthfully if anything it was a relief to shareholders, partners, and employees. They came out of it with no damage done. If they could have pulled off a deal that made sense, at a price that made sense, they would have done so. By pulling out, they may have dealt a fatal blow to Yahoo!, set Google up for a monopoly battle that might, with any luck, get ugly quickly, and certainly have left the search game with more uncertainty (and more opportunity for Microsoft) than there was before the offer was made.
Over and over, word from within Microsoft is that "we're in search for the long haul", and "this game is just beginning". Microsoft isn't going to win in search this year, or next. Beating Yahoo! down isn't going to guarantee Microsoft anything, and may indeed make Google even more powerful than before. But it's a shot, an opening that wasn't there before. Will the disruption they've caused by pursuing, and then spurning Yahoo! reveal some chinks in the Google armor? Will Google be ready to withstand an assault by the DOJ, with Microsoft pulling every string they have available behind the scenes to spur them on? Expect Microsoft to be more than ready to exploit every weakness, to get down and dirty, to pull out its formidable bag of tricks. Microsoft didn't lose much by not buying Yahoo!, but what did they gain? Time will tell.


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Chelsea make a decision over boss Frank Lampard's future… for now
Date: 5th January 2021 at 9:43am
Written by: Dermot Turner
Football is a funny old game and Chelsea boss Frank Lampard is finding that out right now.
The Blues boss led his side on a 17-game unbeaten run which had many touting the Blues as title contenders.
However, starting with a 1-0 defeat at Everton last month, the London side are now on a run of just one win in six Premier League games.
Despite leading the club to a fourth placed finish and FA Cup final lats term, this has piled the pressure on Lampard following the club's £200million-plus spending-spree.
But, according to The Guardian, the Chelsea legend is reportedly set to be given time to turn the team's form around.
It's claimed that former Paris Saint-Germain manager, Thomas Tuchel, who was sacked by the French champions last month, has been pinpointed as a possible candidate.
Tuchel was sacked despite leading PSG to the Champions League final last season.
However, the report states that Lampard will keep his job for now, despite the club's hierarchy becoming 'increasingly concerned' with the lack of progress made this term.
The 42-year-old was appointed as boss at Stamford Bridge in the summer of 2019, penning a four-year deal.
Despite his achievements under transfer restrictions last season, Lampard has the lowest points return in the Premier League of any Chelsea boss under Roman Abramovich's ownership.
So although he is a club legend, there have been managers in the past with better records that have lost their place in the hotseat.


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NFL betting: Double-digit underdogs in the playoffs have not fared well lately
By the time you get to the NFL playoffs there shouldn't be any double-digit point spreads. These teams are the best of the best.
But it happens. Sometimes a mediocre team sneaks in. Other times, a team that built a strong record early in the season is fading hard by playoff time. Injuries factor in.
This season we have two double-digit underdogs at BetMGM on wild-card weekend. The Seattle Seahawks are 10-point underdogs at the San Francisco 49ers. The Miami Dolphins, with their quarterback injury questions, are 10.5-point underdogs at the Buffalo Bills.
Double-digit underdogs have done fairly well through the past couple decades, though a lot of that positive history happened a while ago. Big dogs haven't been such a good bet lately.
How have big favorites done in the NFL playoffs?
Since 2000, there have been 25 double-digit spreads in NFL playoff games according to Stathead. The largest spread was New England Patriots at -16 over the Houston Texans in the 2016 playoffs. The Patriots won 34-16, covering the spread.
But the rest of those teams that oddsmakers give little chance to win have actually done fairly well. Teams that are double-digit underdogs since 2000 have pulled seven straight-up upsets. That's not too bad. Consider how big of a shock it would be if the Seahawks or Dolphins won this weekend.
2001 AFC championship: New England (+10) beat Pittsburgh 24-17
2001 Super Bowl XXXVI: New England (+14) beats St. Louis 20-17
2007 AFC divisional: San Diego (+11) beats Indianapolis 28-24
2007 Super Bowl XLII: N.Y. Giants (+12.5) beat New England 17-14
2008 NFC divisional: Arizona (+10) beats Carolina 33-13
2010 NFC wild card: Seattle (+10) beats New Orleans 41-36
2019 AFC divisional: Tennessee (+10) beats Baltimore 28-12
The one thing that stands out about that list is the double-digit upsets haven't happened much often. Since that 2010 Seahawks win in the famous "Beast Quake" game, double-digit underdogs are just 1-12 straight up. Still, most bettors just want to know if the Dolphins and Seahawks can cover.
Xavien Howard and the Miami Dolphins are big underdogs against the Bills on wild-card weekend. (Photo by Kevin Sabitus/Getty Images)
Rough road for big playoff underdogs
Again using the "Beast Quake" game as a cutoff point, that's when big underdogs started struggling to even cover the spread.
Starting in the 2010 divisional round, there have been 13 double-digit underdogs. Those teams are 2-11 against the spread. Only the Titans at the end of the 2019 season pulled off a win. In the 12 other games the average margin of victory is 17.4 points for the favorites. The only time a double-digit underdog has covered and not won since the 2011 wild-card round was Washington, losing 31-23 as a 10-point underdog against the Tampa Bay Buccaneers in the wild-card round at the end of the 2020 season. Taylor Heinicke was pressed into starting for Washington due to injuries and helped keep his team in the game.
If there's a reason for the shift with double-digit underdogs' success, it could be that oddsmakers are a little more careful with the biggest point spreads. They only save it for lopsided matchups that truly deserve those huge spreads, and therefore we won't see a lot of lively double-digit underdogs.
Or perhaps it's just a small sample of 13 games and we'll see a shift starting this week. Just know that if you're taking the Dolphins or Seahawks this week, recent history isn't on your side.


Today, Jude picked up a wooden ring, then tossed it back on the table.
Funny how those little moments are what become stamped in our memory. For Jude, those moments add up and ultimately shape his early life. Every responsive smile, touch, and embrace make a difference in who he is becoming. I watch Krista and how she cares for Jude, and I realize that her interaction with him matters. We are shaping him.
After reading Mary's song in Luke 1 yesterday, I began thinking about Mary and Joseph's role in Jesus' life. Isn't it right to assume that the way she raised him through infancy and childhood had an impact on how his personality developed? It seems strange to talk about Jesus, God in the flesh, "developing" a personality, but if he was truly human, then he experienced all the change and growth that every person experiences in their early years.
Mary and Joseph were chosen for a reason. God knew the kind of woman she was and the kind of man Joseph was. Their parenting would help establish the kind of man Jesus would be.
Part of the miracle of the Advent of Christ is that God put himself in a position of dependence on his creation. Baby Jesus was completely dependent on Mary to feed him, change his disgusting diapers, and to protect him from disease and danger. As much as it would make us feel better to believe it, Jesus did not come out of the womb as a 12-year old, ready to teach in the temple. He came, in a position of need and frailty, then died in a position of weakness and pain.
And Mary was in on the whole thing, more than anyone else. There would be no doubting her son. As she was there at the beginning, she was there in the end, loving him in ways that would strengthen him to accomplish his mission.


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Meeting the Challenges of Our Most Challenging Year
A message from Charles Birnbaum and The Cultural Landscape Foundation:
It's perhaps appropriate that as TCLF celebrates its twentieth anniversary, we're being asked more than ever before to advocate for threatened cultural landscapes throughout the nation. If you've been following our regular e-newsletters and visiting our website, you may know that in 2018 we have been called upon to help save more than 30 landscapes in nearly as many states. From the works of Frederick Law Olmsted, Sr., to the Modernist masterpieces of Lawrence Halprin and M. Paul Friedberg, to historic sites and even national parks, we always answer the call.
Throughout the course of the year, we have brought attention to endangered landscapes with headlines in more than twenty major newspapers across the country, including the New York Times, the Washington Post, the Chicago Sun-Times, the Chicago Tribune, the Minneapolis Star Tribune, the Philadelphia Enquirer, Politico, the Providence Journal, and the Savannah Morning News. We've also been featured on local and national television news outlets and frequently covered in myriad specialty publications, including Curbed, the Architect's Newspaper, Crain's Chicago, Dezeen, the Art Newspaper, and a host of others.
I'm pleased to tell you that all the hard work and media attention are paying dividends. So far in 2018, we've helped achieve landmark agreements to safeguard George Washington's Mount Vernon in Virginia, Fort Negley Park in Nashville, Tennessee, Princeton Battlefield in New Jersey, Freeway Park in Seattle, Washington, and Carousel Park in Santa Monica, California. We've intervened to effect real, measurable change at Minnesota's Peavey Plaza, Washington, D.C.'s, Pershing Park, and Chicago's Jackson Park and Midway Plaisance, and we also moved quickly to stop plans that would have permanently harmed Isamu Noguchi's iconic plaza at 140 Broadway and the Frick's Russell Page-designed viewing garden, both in New York City. Positive outcomes for many other threatened sites are now well within reach, and our recently launched Landslide 2018: Grounds for Democracy initiative has presented even more opportunities to work on behalf of our shared landscape legacy.
And yet advocacy is just part of what we do. As a non-profit educational foundation that documents cultural landscapes and their designers, we also offer free tours, host major conferences and symposia, create award-winning exhibitions, produce video oral histories, provide technical assistance, and publish books and guidebooks—all managed by a small staff whose dedication allows us to punch above our weight. But doing all of this requires resources, which is why I'm now asking for your support to help us meet the challenges of our most challenging year. Your tax-free donation will allow TCLF to continue to increase its work in advocacy and education, which, I think you'll agree, is needed now more than ever.
If you'd like specific information about any of our programs or how you can support them, please get in touch with me directly. We can't do what we do without you!
Charles A. Birnbaum, FASLA, FAAR, President + CEO
202-483-0553 / charles@tclf.org
"Fort Negley Park is a Civil War monument in the South that celebrates the preservation of the United States of America. The question of what will happen to it has roiled Nashville for more than a year…In its annual Open Season on Open Spaces report, the Cultural Landscape Foundation in Washington recognized Fort Negley as one of 13 nationally significant landscapes in need of protection."
-Margaret Renkl, New York Times, January 29, 2018
"We are greatly appreciative of the Cultural Landscape Foundation's voice in the Save Princeton Coalition, which helped make this moment a reality."
-Lindsey Morrison, National Battlefield Trust, May 31, 2018
"Charles Birnbaum, a former National Park Service staffer who is now president of the nonprofit Cultural Landscape Foundation, said projects that approach the regulatory process in a collaborative manner tend to fare better—"It's such an incredible gift to our built city, the thoroughness that happens on these [review] committees," Birnbaum said.
-Peggy McGlone, Washington Post, June 29, 2018
"For all the talk of transparency, the Obama Foundation has never answered one essential question: Why must National Register-designated public parkland be taken for the OPC when other options exist?" said Charles A. Birnbaum, head of the Cultural Landscape Foundation.
-Lolly Bowean, Chicago Tribune, May 23, 2018
"The federal government has invited comments on "adverse effects" the Obama Presidential Center may have on Jackson Park and a leading landscape advocacy group has three big ones. Olmsted's design "was intended to lead visitors on a choreographed journey through passages of landscape scenery. Neither the location nor the disposition of the roads were accidental," wrote Charles Birnbaum, the president and CEO of the nonprofit Cultural Landscape Foundation in a submission for the federal review.
-Lynn Sweet, Chicago Sun-Times, January 3, 2018
"Some green space should never be built upon...Indeed, the [Rhode Island] State House lawn was cited in 2017 by the Cultural Landscape Foundation, a national organization dedicated to preserving landscapes around the country, as a threatened landscape because of a proposal to build a transit center on it.
-Deming Sherman / Brent Runyon, Providence Journal, April 19, 2018
"Work began Monday on a $10 million renovation of Peavey Plaza, the sunken park next to Orchestra Hall and across the street from Brit's Pub on Nicollet Mall…The Preservation Alliance of Minnesota and the Cultural Landscape Foundation sued the city over the plans, and in a 2013 settlement, the council gave up the idea of filling in the plaza."
-Adam Belz, Minneapolis Star Tribune, May 14, 2018


We usually get there early and eat dinner.
As usual I plan to be there, feels liek it's been forever since I missed the BBQ.
You can pick up your BJ press.
Sure. I can drive this time since you drove last time.
If Max can get them to me I can bring them out there.
I was planning on making the meeting, but it has been a long day. Still might show up, we'll see.
Hope to see you there Dean.
C'mon folks, we really need to show up at these meetings. They're important and you learn good information here. I find it kind of sad that the same four or five people show up every time, lets see some new blood there!
Yup. We're one of the larger clubs in the system, it's time we started showing it.
If you're a frequent no-show please tell me why. What can we do to get you motivated. The meetings are quarterly, just four times a year. I make it from Downtown just about every time, Max hauls in all the way from WeHo, Julio's made it from the ghetto (but don't let that stop you from showing up). Carpools can be set up, consider it a meet and greet, just show up!
Historically I try to schedule an Orange County day for meeting nights, we'll be moving out of there at some point in 2012 though, I'm sure we can come to an arrangement, but you'll have to clock the hours for NAXJA!
Ill make the next one for sure.


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Caesarstone Announces Date for Third Quarter 2022 Results
By: Caesarstone Ltd. via Business Wire
Caesarstone Ltd. (NASDAQ: CSTE), a leading developer and manufacturer of high-quality engineered surfaces, today announced that it will release its earnings results for the third quarter ended September 30, 2022 on Wednesday, November 9, 2022 before the market opens.
The Company will host a webcast and conference call on the same day at 8:30 a.m. ET to discuss the results, followed by a question and answer session for the investment community. The live webcast can be accessed through the Investor Relations section of the Company's website at ir.caesarstone.com. For those unable to access the webcast, the conference call will be accessible domestically or internationally, by dialing 1-855-327-6837 and 1-631-891-4304, respectively. The toll-free Israeli number is 1 80 945 8327. Upon dialing in, please request to join the Caesarstone Third Quarter 2022 Earnings Conference Call.
To listen to a telephonic replay of the conference call, dial toll-free 1-844-512-2921 or + 1-412-317-6671 (international) and enter pass code 10020291. The replay will be available beginning at 11:30 a.m. ET on Wednesday, November 9, 2022 and will last through 11:59 p.m. ET on Wednesday, November 16, 2022.
About Caesarstone
Caesarstone is a global leader of premium surfaces, specializing in countertops that create dynamic spaces of inspiration in the heart of the home. Established in 1987, its multi-material portfolio of over 100 colors combines the company's innovative technology with its powerful design passion. Spearheading high-quality, sustainable surfaces, Caesarstone delivers functional resilience with timeless beauty, for a vast range of applications, including kitchen countertops, bathroom vanities, and more, for indoor and outdoor spaces.
Since it pioneered quartz countertops over thirty years ago, the brand has expanded into porcelain and natural stone and is on the ground in more than 50 countries worldwide while enhancing customer experience through the expansion of groundbreaking digital platforms & services. More information on Caesarstone: caesarstoneus.com, Facebook, Twitter, YouTube, Pinterest, and Instagram
Information provided in this press release may contain statements relating to current expectations, estimates, forecasts and projections about future events that are "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the "safe harbor" provisions of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Forward-looking statements may be identified by the use of words such as "goals," "intend," "seek," "anticipate," "believe," "could," "continue," "expect," "estimate," "may," "plan," "outlook," "future" and "project" and other similar expressions that predict, project or indicate future events or trends or that are not statements of historical matters. Such forward looking statements include statements regarding the Company's sustainability goals and plans, intentions, expectations, assumptions, goals and beliefs regarding the Company's business and sustainability vision. These forward-looking statements also may relate to the Company's plans, objectives and expectations for future operations, including estimations relating to the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic and mitigation measures in connection thereto, and expectations of the results of the Company's business optimization initiatives. These forward-looking statements are based upon management's current estimates and projections of future results or trends. Actual results may differ materially from those projected as a result of certain risks and uncertainties, both known or unknown. These factors include, but are not limited to: the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic on end-consumers, the effects of global economy and geo-politics on the Company's business and operations; managing constraints in the global supply chain, raw material shortages, increased prices and effects of challenges in global shipping and transportation; Company's ability to pass all or some of these increases to its customers; the strength of the home renovation and construction sectors; intense competitive pressures; disruptions to our information technology systems globally, including by deliberate cyber-attacks; the degree of the Company's ability to develop, produce and deliver high quality and safe products; fluctuations in currency exchange rates against the U.S. Dollar; Company's ability to raise funds to finance our current and future capital needs; Company's ability to build-out and expand into certain markets and successfully integrate our acquisitions; the Company's ability to effective manage its relationship with key suppliers; the outcome of silicosis and other bodily injury claims; regulatory requirements relating to hazards associated with our operations and products; efficiently manufacturing our products and managing changes in production and supply chain; economic conditions within any of our key existing markets; the success of our expansion efforts in the United States; the extent of the Company's ability to meet its ESG goals and targets, management of GHG and other emissions; the impacts of conditions in Israel, such as negative economic, labor or geopolitical events; the unpredictability of seasonal fluctuations in revenues; disturbances to the Company's operations or the operations of its suppliers, distributors, customers or other third parties and other factors, risks and uncertainties discussed under the sections "Risk Factors" and "Special Note Regarding Forward-Looking Statements and Risk Factor Summary" in our most recent annual report on Form 20-F filed with the Securities and Exchange Commission (the "SEC") on March 15, 2022, and in other documents filed by Caesarstone with the SEC, which are available free of charge at www.sec.gov. These forward-looking statements are made only as of the date hereof, and the Company undertakes no obligation to update or revise the forward-looking statements, whether as a result of new information, future events or otherwise.
ICR, Inc. - Rodny Nacier
CSTE@icrinc.com


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Racial audit of church leadership seen as step toward ensuring Episcopal culture of welcome
By David Paulsen
Posted Sep 9, 2019
The Episcopal Church's membership is mostly white, but it is taking steps to diversify its leadership to better reflect the communities it serves. A racial diversity survey of church leadership is underway. Photo: Mary Frances Schjonberg/Episcopal News Service
[Episcopal News Service] The Episcopal Church is one of the whitest Christian denominations in America. White Episcopalians make up 90 percent of church membership, according to the Pew Research Center, compared to a U.S. population that is 62 percent white.
Those are sobering numbers for a church committed to dismantling racism and segregation, said the Rev. Stephanie Spellers, the presiding bishop's canon for evangelism, reconciliation and creation care. "What that shows is, we as a church are grossly out of sync with the communities where God has placed us."
The Rev. Stephanie Spellers is canon to the presiding bishop for evangelism, reconciliation and creation care. Photo: David Paulsen/Episcopal News Service
If the church is out of sync, it isn't out of hope. Spellers' staff distributed a survey to members of Executive Council and the House of Bishops last month, a first step toward painting a clearer picture of the racial makeup and culture of The Episcopal Church's leadership. The pool of respondents will broaden in the coming months to include churchwide staff members, the House of Deputies, and a sampling of leaders from three dioceses in each of the church's nine provinces.
Executive Council members' version of the survey starts by collecting basic demographic info before shifting to subjective questions about church processes, discrimination and racism, as well as whether respondents have felt welcomed, supported and respected in their roles. A preface to the survey states the results will provide insight into "experienced or observed inequities that might be connected to racism."
The Boston-based Mission Institute, which works in the Episcopal tradition to help churches and communities confront racism, will compile the survey data, along with interviews with selected respondents, for a final report that will be presented to General Convention in 2021. Spellers and other church leaders are counting on this audit to guide The Episcopal Church as it seeks to become more inclusive and bridge racial divides in an increasingly diverse America.
"We have a history as a segregated church," Spellers said in interview with Episcopal News Service. "That story has not changed nearly as much as we wish."
The audit is the latest component of the church's ongoing work toward racial reconciliation, which General Convention in 2015 identified as one of the church's top priorities. In 2017, the church launched the Becoming Beloved Community framework as a resource for deepening conversations about the church's historic complicity with slavery, segregation and racism, and it aimed to enlist all Episcopalians in the work of racial healing.
The labyrinth diagram showing the four parts of the Episcopal Church's Becoming Beloved Community is colored for an Advent mailing.
The framework is broken into four parts that are illustrated as a labyrinth: telling the truth about our churches and race, proclaiming the dream of Beloved Community, practicing the way of love in the pattern of Jesus and repairing the breach in society. A report introducing the framework identified a need for "a census of The Episcopal Church" under "Telling the Truth."
"If we seek reconciliation, healing, and new life, it begins with telling the truth about The Episcopal Church's racial composition, especially given the Church's relationship to the complex history of race in the 17 nations our Church calls home," the Becoming Beloved Community framework says.
A comprehensive census of the church, however, was too expensive to be feasible, Spellers said. Pursuing a more modest audit based on existing data also proved problematic because neither the Church Pension Group nor congregational parochial reports collect racial data. One of the few recent attempts at quantifying diversity involved manually checking diocesan websites for staff photos and counting the number of people of color.
Despite those limitations, Spellers expects the Mission Institute's audit will produce a foundation of insight, identify recurring themes and assist with making recommendations for change.
"We have anecdotes, but you cannot engage deep transformation work based on anecdotes," she said. "Even as we tell our stories, even as we learn to listen to the other, we need to bring more data into the conversation so that we can dream and strategize more concretely about a future as Beloved Community."
For the churchwide audit, the Mission Institute will draw on its experience helping the Diocese of Massachusetts develop a more inclusive clergy formation process, and its subsequent interviews with bishops and clergy of color last year at General Convention.
Its Diocese of Massachusetts work stemmed from a particular case, in which an African American woman who was on the path to ordination into the priesthood withdrew from the process, saying she did not feel welcomed. The diocese's Commission on Ministry asked the Mission Institute to study the process and make recommendations.
Diocesan leaders "were generally unaware how much things like racial bias and also issues of class and continuing issues around gender impact and really shift people's experience in the ordination process," the Rev. Edwin Johnson told ENS. He is rector at St. Mary's Episcopal Church, a largely Afro-Caribbean congregation in Dorchester, and serves as chair of the Presiding Officers' Advisory Group on Beloved Community Implementation.
The Mission Institute interviewed Episcopalians going through the discernment process in the Diocese of Massachusetts and produced a report the that identified six themes that suggested ways the diocese could become more welcoming, such as encouraging people of color to be themselves and understanding how a dominant white culture can blind leaders to the importance of race.
"White people … tend to be unaware that they too are racialized. There is little attention given to helping white people move past this dis-consciousness, and to seeing that the ordination process forms people in and for anti-racist, multicultural ministry," the Ministry Institute said in one of its highlights.
That work in Massachusetts caught the attention of members of the presiding bishop's racial reconciliation team, and they invited the Mission Institute to ask similar questions in a churchwide context when General Convention convened in July 2018 in Austin, Texas. There, the Mission Institute spoke with 18 ordained people of color, whose stories, experiences and perspectives were compiled anonymously in a report submitted to the racial reconciliation team last fall.
The report puts the words of its interview subjects front and center and encourages church leaders to learn from the observations and then act in ways that go further than adding more diverse members to committees or updating websites to show more people of color.
"These changes can be important, but they tend to operate at a surface level. They rarely catalyze a deep, institutional shift because they do not engage the larger norms and practices of the institution," the report said. "It is our searching and honest reflection on core values and norms, and how they are embodied in formal routines and procedures, that strengthens our quest for enduring change."
The racial audit of church leadership, then, is the church's next step toward that enduring change, and for change to take hold, the Rev. Katie Ernst, interim executive director of the Mission Institute, suggested the church will need to approach the audit as a starting point.
"The big question for me is, What's next? So what?" she said. How the church responds will determine whether it makes progress in dismantling racism.
"I'm excited about keeping that question in our pocket as we're doing this work," Ernst said, because the "insidious effects of white supremacy" continue to deny many people a full place in the Beloved Community.
"That is not of God, and that is happening all the time for folks of color," she said. "And unfortunately, it continues to happen in the church."
– David Paulsen is an editor and reporter for Episcopal News Service. He can be reached at dpaulsen@episcopalchurch.org.
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Q: How to set different height for different rows of UITableView how can i set different height for different rows of custom ui table view cell in ios?
I am trying to change the height depending upon the how much lines there are in my uitextview which is inside my custom uitableview cell.
I tried setting height like this inside my heightForRowAtIndexPath method but it crashes:
PostStreamCell *cell = [tableView cellForRowAtIndexPath:indexPath];
int lines = cell.txtViewMessage.contentSize.height / cell.txtViewMessage.font.lineHeight;

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A: You can't use cellForRowAtIndexPath in heightForRowAtIndexPath because the cell does not exist. You must retrieve the text by another way without use the cell.

A: Try by using the text boundingRectWithSize.. for calculating the size for cell itself .
Something like this :
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A: I suggest you to count
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{
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A: You are setting the height correctly--however, you probably shouldn't retrieve a cell within heightForRowAtIndexPath by calling cellForRowAtIndexPath, that is unless your cells are already statically created. A bare-bones implementation of heightForRowAtIndexPath (below) doesn't crash, so the problem probably lies elsewhere in your view controller implementation, or elsewhere.

Also noticed that you are dividing by a dynamic value to get the height. Check your PostStreamCell--if the cell object, txtViewMessage, or its font property is nil, then you will be dividing by 0, and that could be causing the crash.

    //Very simple implementation to demo changes in height
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    {
        if (indexPath.row % 2) {
            return 60;
        } else {
            return 44;
        }
    }

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Intel Unveils the 'Sunny Cove' Processors, Meant to Boost Performance in 2019
Posted by Evan Selleck on Dec 12, 2018 in Intel, News
Intel is back at it again, with the company announcing another processor for future computers coming down the line.
The company has officially announced its next-generation processor, what it's calling "Sunny Cove". Intel says this microarchitecture design is meant to boost performance and power efficiency. The Sunny Cove is built on the 10nm process, and it will be the architecture that the company's next-gen Core and Xeon processors will be based upon. Those are set to launch sometime later next year, but no definitive dates were provided just yet.
Details are remarkably light at the moment, as Intel is simply unveiling the name and bare minimum in regards to specs for the Sunny Cove processors. It's likely that when these processors end up out in the market, Intel will be calling them Ice Lake processors. They will also be paired with the Gen11 integrated graphics, which Intel says is double the performance of Gen9 integrated graphics.
The new Gen11 graphics will support 4K video streaming and much more.
Apple may come in in late-2019, depending on its own upgrade process for iMacs and MacBooks. Or we might not see an upgrade to Ice Lake later next year, either. Looking beyond that, though, there are plenty of rumors that Apple is going to switch to an ARM-based processor soon, which could see the light of day as early as 2020.
We will have to wait and see how this all pans out. It would be nice to see another upgrade for the Mac lineup before the company switches to an ARM-based design, if for no other reason that 2020 is a ways away and the Mac lineup doesn't need another period where it languishes in the background, waiting for an upgrade.
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SKY LAUNCHES THE EXPECTED FINANCIAL THRILLER "DEVILS" IN ITALY
After its global presentation at MIPCOM 2019, the 10-episode series will air from April 17 with Patrick Dempsey, Alessandro Borghi and Kasia Smutniak as the main protagonists.
SKY will finally release the long-awaited financial thriller "Devils" starring Patrick Dempsey ("Grey's Anatomy"), Alessandro Borghi ("Suburra") and Kasia Smutniak ("Loro") on April 17 in Italy. The series is a co-production between SKY Italia and Lux Vide, in association with Orange Studio, with the participation of OCS and funded by Sky Studios.
The series was presented to global buyers during the last MIPCOM, where a screening of the first chapter was made and the main talents spoke about the international appeal of the series. "Devils" international sales are handled by NBCUniversal Global Distribution.
Based on Guido María Brera's novel, "Devils", the ten-episode series filmed in english language takes place in the London office of a major American bank, where we get to know the ruthless chief operating officer, Massimo Ruggero (Borghi) of Italy, and his mentor in the world of financ, Dominic Morgan (Dempsey), the bank's CEO. When Ruggero ends up involved in an intercontinental financial war that rocks all of Europe, he must decide either to ally with his boss or to confront him. The book was inspired partly by the financial crisis that swept global markets in 2008.
THE TESTIMONY OF TALENTS
"'Devils' is a product generated in Italy but it has become a European, international and global series due to the collaboration of international talent in writing, directing, actoring and also in costumes and set design managing to mix Italy, Europe and the United States, but always with an Italian touch," asserted Matilde Bernabei, President of LUX Vide when Señal News interviewed all the talents at the international premiere of "Devils" at MIPCOM. "The conspiracy thriller tells a very complicated story, one of the great financial battles between the United States and Europe, but we have tried to make it as accessible as possible to the public by giving it instruments so that they understand a little of what happened in 2012 and I think there is an Italian touch and a LUX Vide touch," she added.
According to Luca Bernabei, LUX Vide CEO and producer of the series, with "Devils" finally the public can understand something of what happened in 2012 and previous years, when the big American funds attacked the public debts of the countries. "It was happened in Greece, in Argentina and in the series we tell that this type of finance can change people's lives in concrete ways. The crisis has brought about a new Europe, the one we see now, a Europe of nationalism, and I think that is why it may be interesting for international audiences. But this is just the ledge, inside are the fascinating stories," described.
On the other hand, Nils Hartmann, director of Original Productions at SKY Italia indicated that 'Devils' has a global appeal because the financial crisis has hit all over the world. "It was a war between the USA and Europe but has struck also to Latin American countries".
In the same line, Nick Hurran, one of the directors of "Devils" said: "We all lived through this financial crisis in 2018 but when I read the book it made me angry, I didn't know what really happened. I think it is a very interesting story to tell in a television series format".
"It was interesting to structure a series that is very contemporary, that it talks about current real things and to narrate it, we decided to use part of the true repertoire of the news because the story tells the period from 2008 to 2011, of a great crisis when a certain group of people from high level decided to attack Europe through finance," explained Jan Michelini, director of the conspiracy thriller.
In opinion of Guido María Brera, author of "Il Diavoli" novel, the series is very interesting because describes how the finances become a political instrument. "When you buy a country's public debt, it interferes with that country's elections and decisions," said.
For the main protagonists, Patrick Dempsey and Alessandro Borghi, "Devils" gave them the opportunity to play characters that they had never played before.
Watch the full interview with Patrick Dempsey and Alessandro Borghi in our YouTube channel.
By Romina Rodríguez
'Devils' is a product generated in Italy but it has become a European, international and global series due to the collaboration of international talent " Matilde Bernabei President of LUX Vide
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Matti Wiking Leino, född 1976, är agronom och docent i genetik. Han disputerade i växtförädling vid Sveriges lantbruksuniversitet 2005. Idag är han verksam som forskare vid Stockholms universitet.

Leino har bland annat forskat på äldre fröer i Nordiska museets samlingar och lyckades 2008 få ett 151 år gammalt akaciafrö att gro på Julita gård. Tillsammans med forskare vid Linköpings universitet har han bland annat undersökt DNA i historiskt frömaterial av ärt och spannmål både i Sverige och på Kanarieöarna. År 2017 utkom han med en bok om svenska lantsorter av spannmål.

Bibliografi i urval
 Leino, Matti Wiking (2005). Mitochondrial genetics of alloplasmic male-sterile Brassica napus lines. Diss. (sammanfattning). Uppsala : Sveriges lantbruksuniv.
 Leino, Matti Wiking (2011). Den egyptiska akacians långa dvala: om vetenskapsmannen Oskar Sandahl och hans resa till Egypten 1856. Stockholm: Nordiska museets förlag.
 Nygårds, Lena & Leino, Matti Wiking (2013). Klint Karins kålrot och mor Kristins böna: om fröuppropets kulturarv. Alnarp: SLU, Programmet för odlad mångfald.
 Leino, Matti Wiking (2017). Spannmål: svenska lantsorter. Stockholm: Nordiska museets förlag.

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Chartreuse Evenings
An uncle goes green.
Judith Moore
Greg High
UNCLE CARL hunkers over his four-burner gas stove. The thermometer nailed to the scrawny poplar tree outside, were anyone to read it, might say that it's already 100 degrees. And it's only early morning, a summer Saturday morning in central Oklahoma. Uncle Carl wears red-plaid boxer shorts. Wrapped around Uncle Carl's big head is a cotton tea towel. The tea towel, I am sorry to say, features a smiling Aunt Jemima in repeat print. Thus, many many Aunt Jemimas wreathe Uncle Carl's head, and sweat soaks all the Aunt Jemimas. The time is 1954 and we do not yet speak of racism or sexism.
What Uncle Carl is doing, standing by his gas stove, is cooking. In one hand he holds a yellow yardstick. He sticks the yellow yardstick into the huge canning kettle and stirs and stirs and looks perturbed. The water bubbles in the kettle.
I am sitting at the kitchen table. I am young enough and short enough that my feet don't even think of touching the floor. I ask Uncle Carl how it's going. I probably wipe with the back of my wrist the milk moustache that dries above my upper lip. I probably think how great it is that my mother isn't here and that nobody's going to snap at me about using my napkin. I don't even have a napkin.
Uncle Carl stirs and says that he hopes it works. He says that Jon is coming this afternoon (which I already know) and he says he wants to get this bedspread dyed chartreuse and out on the clothesline and dry before Jon gets here. Jon is coming from Tulsa to help Uncle Carl redecorate. Everything in his bedroom is going to be chartreuse. The walls, he and Jon have already painted chartreuse. Jon is an interior decorator. He is bringing with him from Tulsa fabric for the drapes. They are going to hang the drapes, and that night they are going to give a dinner party that Uncle Carl calls "The Chartreuse Gala." Everybody's coming: Max, Len, Dan, Alfred, Knox, Terry, Boris, Bob. All the food except for T-bones is going to be green and even the T-bones will have green basil butter. Jon is bringing the basil from Tulsa. They have everything in Tulsa.
What's in Uncle Carl's kettle isn't dinner; it's his white chenille bedspread. Uncle Carl has used four boxes of Rit dye, one green and three yellow, and he is telling me that he hopes to God — whom, by the way, he does not believe in — that green and yellow make chartreuse. One reason Uncle Carl is sure there is no God, he says, is that nobody who created the world in seven days would ever create that depressing First Methodist Church where Uncle Carl plays the organ. He needs the money.
But Uncle Carl is not talking about God or money or his full-time job teaching organ and 18th-century counterpoint at the Agricultural & Mechanical College. He's wiping sweat with the Aunt Jemima towel, and he's saying it's hotter than Hades and I am agreeing, because my shortie nightie is damp from sweat on the panties part and even though I'm usually hungry, I am not hungry. Why I am not hungry is that I am so hot. So Uncle Carl, who sees I'm dawdling with my Cheerios, says "Maybe, Toots, we should have root beer floats." Which is something I love about Uncle Carl, that you don't have to eat the right food.
Almost the minute my mother deposited me at his house for the summer, he took me to Piggly Wiggly. Well, he did wait until Mama drove off for Missouri to take care of their mother, who was dying. But as soon as Mama hit the road, Uncle Carl and I were at the store. He said, "Get what you want, Toots." I couldn't believe he meant this because my mother was strict about food and always watching my weight and watching her weight because she was a singer and very vain and beautiful and because, as she said about me, I "ran to fat." She sometimes added that I ran to fat like my "useless father," from whom she'd long been divorced.
Uncle Carl didn't do squat when I started piling into the cart everything I liked to eat and some things I wanted to eat and never had tasted — cherry ice cream, for instance, and a TV dinner with a picture of a fried-chicken leg on the box. I heaped in Grapette and Royal Crown cola and Nehi orange and sacks of Planter's peanuts with Mr. Peanut printed on the see-through sack, which, back then, I think was cellophane. I was Mr. Peanut's fan, because in Manhattan, where I lived, you could see Mr. Peanut dance on a bright-lit sign in Times Square.
That hot summer morning, though, while Uncle Carl boiled his bedspread, he let me put down my Cheerios for his obese yellow tomcat, "Tom," at whom Uncle Carl often yelled because Tom got into the urn where Uncle Carl grew an avocado tree and did what Uncle Carl called his "business," which was shitting. While the yellow-green water bubbled, Uncle Carl and I sat at the table and sipped cold root beer and spooned out with long iced-tea spoons from the fussy brown root beer froth, the cold vanilla ice cream. Uncle Carl said, "Mmmm" and licked his ice cream lips. He sighed, "A busy, busy day ahead!" His eyes were huge and brown. "Bedroom eyes," my mother said they were. He had long thick lashes like horses have, and he opened his eyes wide when he looked at you. He said we were going to clean house, we were going to get this bedspread on the line whether it turned chartreuse or not, and he was going to Piggly Wiggly.
He unwrapped his sopped Aunt Jemima rag from his head and started writing on his lined pad: T-bone steaks, garlic, lettuce, Spanish onions, tomatoes, butter, celery, green bell peppers, Idaho potatoes, grapefruit, vanilla ice cream, and many limes, because Jon, he said, and he smiled when he said it, was going to make daiquiris. We had liquor because even though Oklahoma was a dry state, everybody bought liquor from a bootlegger, and you bought lots of liquor at once. Uncle Carl had a closet of liquor. Uncle Carl's sweat fell on his list and smeared his writing and he said, "Hells bells." Then he calmed down and said that we had so much to do before Jon showed up from Tulsa, and that after we got the housework done he would drop me off at the swimming pool, which was six blocks from his house.
First, Uncle Carl had to get the bedspread on the line, and he told me to hold wide open the screen door that led from kitchen to backyard, and I hopped up and unstuck my sweaty self from the chair and did that and flies swooped in past me and poor Uncle Carl grunted as he carried the heavy, steaming pot out to the grass. This was a big mess, which I won't go into here except to say that Uncle Carl scalded his hands trying to wring out the spread, and he got chartreuse water on his feet and hands and legs, and he was screaming and worst of all, green spots splotched the spread, and Uncle Carl said "Hells God damn bells" and turned the garden hose on himself to cool off and finally got the spread hitched on the clothesline and wrung it more and then started laughing his deep-laugh.
I also won't go into how we cleaned house like banshees for two hours or how Uncle Carl kept going to stare through the screen door at his ruined bedspread, which, decades before tie-dyed, looked tie-dyed, and how he scrubbed green spots off the stove and how we got ourselves dressed and Uncle Carl let me off at the pool after saying thank you, Toots, for the help. I won't bore you with how I changed into my suit, which had a flowered skirt, and how I floated on my back in among every other floating and splashing body, and I looked up into the blue blue cloudless sky and thought my ten-year-old's thoughts.
Even before it was three o'clock, when I was supposed to start home, my skin had
withered and I was lonesome because I didn't know any kids. I got out of my suit and slipped back on my shorts and walked home fast and dripped sweat and hurried in the back door determined to drink Grapette and eat a sack of Mr. Peanut. Nobody was in the kitchen, which was a bake oven, and I didn't hear a sound except fans whirring. I saw lettuce heaped up on the cutting board and garlic cloves mashed into a mushy heap and already-baked potatoes for the twice-baked potatoes and chopped parsley and basil and lime halves. I smelled lime juice and garlic. I smelled baked potato.
Then I heard a cat sound. Up on the counter was fat Tom; He'd torn off the white butcher paper and was ripping like a jungle animal at raw T-bone. I tried to snatch him off the T-bones. He scratched at me. He hissed. I grabbed the broom. I swatted him. With steak in his mouth he jumped off the counter and streaked out through the kitchen screen door, which I hadn't shut. I was worried. I hurried through the dining room where the big table already was set with china and wine glasses and through the living room. I walked into the hall and saw into Uncle Carl's bedroom and he and Jon were stretched across the ugly chartreuse bedspread and they were naked except for boxer shorts, and they were kissing, I guess, and didn't see or hear me. By the bed on the chartreuse scatter rug, I saw four empty Grapette bottles and I knew, then, there wouldn't be Grapette for me.
I didn't know what to think about the kissing, I really didn't. I didn't mind. And, in fact, I lied up above. They actually were naked and I put them into boxer shorts so that you wouldn't be shocked or disgusted or whatever. I truly didn't mind. I'd seen butts before. I'd seen kissing, too.
What I hadn't seen was a cat eating T-bone. I went back to the kitchen and started screaming, "Uncle Carl, Uncle Carl, come quick," and next thing Jon and Uncle Carl were right there, dressed in shirts and seersucker slacks, which was what men wore then in summer, and I was telling how I got home and was thirsty and went to get Grapette and Tom was on the counter tearing at T-bone. I showed where he scratched me, which was all down my arm and bleeding, and told the truth about how I'd left the screen door open, and Tom streaked out with one whole steak in his mouth. Jon, who was as old as Uncle Carl was then, which was 50-something, shook his head and looked sad. Jon had a long, narrow head and skin that always looked tanned because he used a sun lamp. I thought he looked like what, back then, I thought of as "a foreigner," maybe an Egyptian like Egyptians I saw in the Metropolitan Museum mummy section. Uncle Carl laughed and Jon shrugged and said he guessed that "Que sera, sera" and that company would be here at five and we'd better rub garlic onto the steaks and into the wooden salad bowl.
Uncle Carl rustled in the refrigerator and got me out what he said was the last Grapette, and I stood right there and drank it down. He and Jon tied on aprons, and Jon went to the living room and plopped on the record player his Edith Piaf 78 that he'd brought from Tulsa. It was Edith Piaf singing "La Vie En Rose." I said I hated garlic smell and Uncle Carl said, "Well, then, Toots, why don't you cut the grapefruits in half for me and tip out the seeds?" I knew how to do that and I did. I stood by the counter and cut grapefruits in half and tipped out seeds until I felt like a grapefruit-factory worker.
I didn't say a word about the cat hair on the counter, which would have made my mother go mad. I didn't ask if they knew where Tom was with that T-bone because I could tell they didn't care. While Uncle Carl carried on with his garlic smearing onto steaks and French bread and the salad bowl, Jon cut limes and squeezed lime juice and sang with Edith Piaf, and the singing made poor Uncle Carl wince because Jon was off-pitch. They talked about their menu and in what order to do things. They listed the menu aloud — the crackers with cream cheese and chives, the Green Goddess dressing for the green salad, the green beans, the Chartreuse to pour over the ice cream, and so on and so on. Jon had already scooped out the baked potatoes and mashed the potato with parsley and butter and put mashed-up potato back in the skins. Once I got the grapefruit done, Uncle Carl asked me to line up the halves on the cookie sheet, which I did, and he opened the creme de menthe bottle and poured syrupy green liqueur onto the grapefruit halves until the fruit turned green for the chartreuse evening. Uncle Carl told me they were going to broil the grapefruit and serve them for appetizers. Jon, in the middle of "La Vie En Rose," said to no one in particular, that people were going to love the grapefruit. I didn't say I wasn't so sure. I wasn't.
Uncle Carl asked if I'd seen the drapes and I hadn't, so I went to look and they were in a print that now that I am old I realize was Miro, with the background dyed chartreuse. They were very ugly and very modern and a breeze billowed them out from the window. I stood in the cool bedroom. My feet were bare and the floor felt good. I wondered where Tom went with the steak. I didn't think about the kissing I saw. Many years passed before I thought about it again. I thought about the green splotches on the bedspread.
I picked up the empty Grapette bottles and carried them to the kitchen, and Uncle Carl, who was so polite, thanked me and suggested that I wash up and put on my pink dress because any minute our company would arrive, and we would serve the daiquiris and crackers and cream cheese, and Jon was already crushing ice in the Waring blender and the hot kitchen smelled lime, and I went into the bathroom, which was the darkest, coolest place in the house, and I washed the cat-scratch blood off my arm and changed into my dress and white sandals, and next thing I knew the doorbell rang and I was excited to see Max, Len, Dan, Alfred, Knox, Terry, Boris, and Bob, and they said I looked pretty and the smell was aftershave and rum and the sounds were laughter and Edith Piaf and the Waring blender turning out more crushed ice and Uncle Carl rushed into the kitchen to stick the green grapefruit under the broiler and then he rushed back into the living room and took into his arms the bouquet of flowers that Dan brought and said, "Welcome to our chartreuse evening," and everyone laughed and laughed, and I knew this was a joke that was beyond me. I knew right then and there that I would think about this evening for many years and I did and I have.
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* Heroic acts: Shaya, a crime-fighting dog trained to track illegal poachers, hurt his leg chasing an injured rhino. The leg had to be amputated, but Shaya goes right back to work protecting animals.
* True devotion: As he was participating in China's Four Deserts Gobi March, a six-day foot race, Dion Leonard met a dedicated pup who accompanied him for about 120 miles. Afterward, he decides to adopt the dog.
Anyone who knows me knows that I LOVE dogs! As soon as I saw this book I knew I wanted to read it.
This is a book of 35 inspirational dog stories. They all touched me deeply and I loved every one. Hooch's story though, was the first one that actually made me tear up. Hooch is a French Mastiff Mix who lives in California. He was at a Bakersfield shelter and threw his food and water bowls across the kennel because he couldn't eat or drink. His tongue had been cut out, and his ears had been clipped, he was emaciated, and on top of all that he caught pneumonia.
Thankfully the shelter called Zack Skow who is the founder of Marley's Mutts Dog Rescue who took Hooch to the vet and over time Hooch got better. Zack decided to adopt the dog himself and Hooch had been happy, healthy, and loved since.
The book also includes the story of Tuna (Tuna Melts My Heart), a dog I've been following on FB for years. Tuna is an adorable Chiweenie who also lives in California. Tuna is adorable and makes me smile every time I see a photo of him. He has an overbite, shrivel neck, and many many outfits.
Other stories include dogs that keep animals company in the exam room to the recovery room, assist people with disabilities, educate children about the environment, and so many more amazing dogs!
If you love dogs or inspirational stories, get a copy of this book. I loved every dog and their story and will pick this book up from time to time to revisit these special dogs.
This looks like a book that would make me feel good!
It's definitely a feel good book and I think you'd really like it!
I just read about Gobi recently and it was a great story. Hooch would be tough, making me outright cry. I hate when animals are abused. Poor thing.
Yes, this book had some stories that will definitely get your tears flowing, but they are all very uplifting. I have Gobi on hold at the library and can't wait to read it.
This sounds like a book I'd also enjoy a great deal. Wonderful review, Vicki!
Thanks! I think you'd like the book.
I want to get this book and just spent some time reading about chiweenies. Never heard about this breed before but they sure are cute.
Tuna is adorable, I ♥ him!
Oh this sounds like one I need! I adore dogs and could always use some heartwarming stories!
It sure is heartwarming, gave me all kinds of feels.
You're welcome, and thanks for including me, I can't imagine anyone not loving this book!
I like the title and the cover very much.
Oh, this sounds like a good uplifting book — maybe a story a day.
It's very uplifting. Especially if you love dogs.


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