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Vulnerable vs incapacitous: Vulnerable parties and witnesses - supporting and protecting clients in litigation
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The Mishcon Academy Digital Sessions.
Conversations on the legal topics affecting businesses and individuals today.
Antonia Felix
Hello and welcome to the Mishcon Academy Digital Sessions Podcast. I'm Antonia Felix, a Legal Director in the Family Department at Mishcon de Reya and I'm joined by my colleague, Mariel Stringer-Fehlow, an Associate in the Private Wealth Disputes Team.
This is the second podcast in our series focussing on vulnerable clients and mental capacity. In this episode, we're focusing on vulnerable parties and witnesses. What do we mean by vulnerable? What happens if a vulnerable person is a party to litigation? And how are vulnerable parties and witnesses supported during litigation and what can the system do better?
Mariel Stringer-Fehlow
So, moving into the Family Court and who is vulnerable? Before I start talking about who is vulnerable in the Court, I would say that as family solicitors, when we have a client who we believe is vulnerable, whether or not there'll be litigation, we put measures in place to protect them as our client and then obviously if there's litigation, how the Court view vulnerable clients is not specifically defined, but it can include those with a learning difficulty, a person suffering from mental ill-health or a person with physical disability which impacts on their ability to communicate effectively. This also includes those parties who don't speak English as a first language or someone who has suffered domestic abuse.
So Practice Direction 3 of the Family Procedure Rules sets out the factors the Court has to consider when looking at vulnerability and it is very broad. This is really because it can be drastically different for each case and each person and Practice Direction 3 is being reconsidered so that it falls in line with the Domestic Abuse Act 2021.
The Family Procedure Rule states that the Court must deal with cases justly, having regard to any welfare issues involved and I think the important thing for family practitioners is to very early on, recognise and identify when there may be a vulnerable party in litigation so that the Court can be notified and adjustments can be made so that all parties receive a fair hearing and feel that their being supported.
Children are always considered as vulnerable because of their age and guidance in case law governs when a child should attend Court or give evidence in proceedings and if so, how they'll be supported. There has been a huge increase in number of litigants-in-person in private family proceedings and because of that, even more support is required by the Court and that has been difficult actually, because there is just not enough staff at Court and there is a lot of pressure on the system. But this is an issue that is being addressed because of the numbers increasing.
That's really interesting, so is everyone with a disability 'automatically' labelled as vulnerable?
No, they won't be and it's case-by-case and also some people don't want to be regarded as vulnerable, so you have to be very careful how you deal with that and someone who might look like they aren't vulnerable actually could be lacking in confidence and may require assistance and some clients we find for example, in Children Act cases, if they are a parent and they've got a history of mental illness or anything else that might crop up, well, their first fear is they might have their child taken away from them if they just simply honest about their history, so it is very key to kind of get an understanding of the history and how to deal with it, so that people aren't embarrassed or ashamed of their vulnerabilities.
What happens in family proceedings if there is a vulnerable party?
So, the Court will appoint an Intermediary, who do a detailed assessment of what's required on behalf of the Court and they look at other expert reports such as medical assessments. The report makes recommendations to the Court for the special measures to be used during the hearing and also advise how the Judge and the legal teams should communicate with the individual to ensure that the vulnerable person is able to give the best evidence to the Family Court that they can and obviously on a practical level, as well as family lawyers, we support our clients in addition to how the Court do.
For example, some clients obviously find Court quite overwhelming and there is a loud tannoy that goes off all day introducing other cases, so we sometimes sit in café's round the corner from the Court.
We've drawn diagrams for clients so they know where they are going to be sitting, we've done long lists of what to expect and who talks. We've helped them have witness training so they know how to act in a Court environment and there's also other things available, say if a client is dyslexic, there's tools available where the text can be put in such a way that they find it easier to read.
I've also had a client who has dyscalculia, so she can't read numbers in number form, so we had to make sure they were always in word form and we had to notify the Court of that. I've also had clients with therapists, either on the phone or up the road in a café just waiting in case they were needed, even if they weren't, just to provide that extra level of support and the other thing that I tend to do is try to pre-book a room at Court, because then you can sit in that room and come and go during the day rather than being in the public waiting area, which is, you know, not confidential and actually puts pressure on vulnerable clients and it's just not appropriate at all. And for lawyers there's also a toolkit by the Advocates Gateway Service which has recently been updated, which is very helpful and the Court also with their special measures may put some of these things in place, like looking in to the timing and management of breaks, helping with how written information is provided to the Court and from the clients and the legal teams.
Screens are used a lot in cases where there's been domestic abuse and often they're given the option of obviously turning their camera off to make them feel safer. And another step which if there's alleged abuse and there is a litigant-in-person, there is obviously a difficulty with a litigant-in-person being cross examined and so the Judge requires the questions to be given to him or her a week in advance and then the Judge will ask the questions on behalf of the litigant-in-person. Which is obviously good because it protects that person, but actually makes the Judge the questioner and the arbiter of facts so that's going to have to something that's looked into which it is, at the moment and the Court are looking into directing that an Advocate be appointed to do the cross examination.
So the Court will look, very broadly at what is required and there's obviously always going to have to be improvements but it is definitely getting better.
Yeah that sounds incredibly practical as well, which, which is just not the case in the Civil Court. I think it's fair to say that we are light years behind the Family Courts and the Criminal Courts who have had to deal with these issues for, well probably, we've all had to the deal with them for the same amount of time, but at least they've been a lot more alive to them. So, the Civil Court, there is a real difference in the sort of sophistication, I suppose, of what guidance there is available. In fact, we do complain a bit about the difference and the slightly slow approach there has been but in the last year, there has been huge progress from our perspective.
The Civil Justice Council issued a report last February, which came up with a number of recommendations to facilitate the reform of the Civil Courts and their approach to vulnerable parties and witnesses and these led to an amendment to the overriding objective in the Civil Procedure Rules, which those who aren't legally qualified, it's kind of like the guiding principal really of the Court system and sets out in very high level terms what we should all be focussing on which is about proportionality and just administration of justice and being fair and cooperation. But the difference now is that it has been amended to reflect that this requires a focus on parties being enabled to participate fully with witnesses being able to give their best evidence, which is all very much geared towards engaging with issues around vulnerability and as you've said Antonia, there are so many ways that you can help parties to actually engage properly regardless of their type of vulnerability or perhaps disability that has not been a priority for the Civil Courts before now.
Which is quite surprising really.
Well it is 2021 I mean, yes. It's definitely been very slow, but at least there has been some progress with this amendment. So the amendments just to the overriding objective, it's also reflected in a lot more detail in a new Practice Direction, '1A' which sets out in again, still quite high level terms but at least in some more detail the factors that should be taken into account, the variety of ways in which a party or a witness could be considered to be vulnerable, which do seem to be broadly consistent with the Family Courts approach as well. But the key shift I think, is that it puts the onus on the Court and the parties to consider at an early stage, the earliest possible stage really, how best to facilitate someone's participation which, as I said, we haven't had that guidance before, it very much used to be the case that you could raise it as an issue with the Court and it was totally down to whichever Judge or Master was hearing a matter to put into practice what you were asking of them and that was quite often the case where they didn't have the resources to actually do that. So this is really useful guidance, it's probably a bit late and I hope that in years to come we will see a much more practical reality, such as you've just outlined in the Family Courts with these measures and the tools that you've mentioned but that's the biggest progress that we've made in years.
So it feels like there is common ground between us but also there is a difference between vulnerable parties and not having the mental capacity to litigate.
Yeah, I think that's true. The vulnerable parties as you've just described, can be all manner of vulnerabilities whereas just because you are considered vulnerable, does not mean that you do not have capacity of any kind and especially capacity to litigate is specific. As I know was talked about earlier in the series of podcasts, capacity is a specific test, based on the Mental Capacity Act with case law there to nuance and assist and capacity to litigate is again a specific sort of sub-set of that test. So just because someone is vulnerable, does not mean that they do not have mental capacity. Picking up on a point, I think made in the first podcast, we as solicitors, always have to ensure that our clients have capacity to instruct us. So that's for legal work in general and when it comes to litigation this means the client has to have capacity to litigate so it can be very specific. So with all of these decisions, the level of capacity required, will be determined by the complexity of the litigation itself. As I mentioned, the Mental Capacity Act test applies here where assisted by the common law. So someone could have capacity to litigate a simple dispute but not a complex one and whilst they could have subject matter capacity so they can make specific decisions during the course of the litigation, they need to be able to make decisions for the entirety of the litigation in order to have capacity to litigate.
So, what are the consequences of if we, as solicitors, are informed that our client has capacity issues?
Well it's very difficult for us. We effectively have to stop taking instructions until the issue has been bottomed out. So the priority at that stage would then be to obtain the client's consent for medical evidence to be obtained as to their capacity. The consent can be quite awkward; it's a difficult conversation to have with anyone to discuss whether or not they have mental capacity. I think the best way that we can approach it is to say well, if the report comes back and confirms that you do have capacity, it's always helpful to have that kind of medical evidence. If it comes back and reveals there are some issues, then we need to know that in order to protect you and act in your best interests and also, as we'll come on to, that evidence is needed for proceedings. So we would really be pushing quickly to get a medical report and it's really important for that report that the expert you instruct has incredibly clear instructions as to the test that they need to apply. As we've discussed and I know the previous podcast went in to capacity is quite a broad spectrum and a lot of experts are experts in testamentary capacity or a different kind of mental capacity. Whereas the test here is capacity to litigate, which means you need to be also explaining, in simple terms, but enough that the expert understands what the dispute is actually about. So can the client make the decision that they need to make in the context of this specific dispute. So it is quite specific, it does require careful instructions, which I think is something we've definitely learned over the years.
We often find in our litigation that our client will say that the other party to litigation is, their word, 'nuts' or 'you shouldn't believe anything they say' and there's obviously then confusion between them thinking that but with actually that persons capacity to litigate so there's a bit of advice that often needs to be given there. But if there's litigation already proceeding and then you think that your client's lost capacity to litigate, what do you do then?
Yep, well, it does happen, it's thankfully quite rare. But if someone has started litigation and then loses their capacity to litigate, they will need a Litigation Friend appointed pretty quickly. Effectively once someone lacks capacity to continue to conduct proceedings, none of the parties to those proceedings can take a further step without permission of the Court and the Court is not going to give their permission until the protected party, which is what we call the person who's lost capacity, has a Litigation Friend. So it really brings everything to a standstill until the Litigation Friend is in place, or at least until the medical evidence is obtained, ruling out the need for one.
And what is the test for capacity to litigate?
As mentioned it is really virtually the same as a test for any other transaction. Fundamentally it comes down to looking at the Mental Capacity Act. The person has to be capable of understanding information relevant to the litigation. They have to be capable of retaining the information, evaluating it and communicating a decision and naturally that's sometimes a lot harder depending on how complicated the litigation is and the decision is. There is a lot of case law on this that sort of sets out key issues and factors for the Court to be aware of, for the parties to be aware of. There is a presumption that someone of adult age has the mental capacity to manage their affairs and you know in the scenario you've mentioned of the other side alleging that someone has lost capacity however they put it, the burden is on the party alleging that the other side does not have capacity to prove it which is quite difficult where you require consent to get the medical report but it does happen. So the test I sort of mentioned is really issue specific. It depends on the complexity of what decision needs to be made and I think it's important to note that just because someone doesn't have capacity in respect of a particular transaction, so say it's accepted that they don't have capacity to make financial investment decisions, it does not mean they do not have capacity to conduct this litigation so it is really carefully considered and the Court is not quick to decide someone does not have capacity to litigate. It is your right to conduct litigation as an adult in England and Wales so they are very careful about taking that away.
So what do parties have to be able to understand to have capacity to litigate?
It's a really good question. We are not saying that people have to be lawyers you know, and I am sure there are client's that we advise that do not fully understand the legal aspects of everything we say, that is our job to assist them so they don't have to understand all the details of the law. They have to be able to understand with a proper explanation from their legal advisors or from experts the matters on which their consent or decision is necessary in the course of the proceedings. So that's really the crux of it and that test applies to the proceedings as a whole so not just to a particular step.
And I know that some clients think that because they've got a Power of Attorney in place that that is a way of addressing this but that's not always the case is it?
No that's right unfortunately not and we do see this often and often of course by the time the Power of Attorney is actually in use it means that the donor of that Power has lost capacity so it means that you can't go back and change the terms of that Power of Attorney, it's too late to do that. So it is important for people to be aware of the difference between a Power of Attorney and a Litigation Friend. A Power of Attorney the biggest issue is that you cannot delegate actions of a personal nature by a Power of Attorney so the case law to date sort of sets out in detail that something like, for instance, filing an Affidavit verifying a list of documents, so one of the cases on this subject the Affidavit was sworn by the Defendant's wife to whom he had granted a Power of Attorney but it was held that a party cannot do by an Attorney some lack the competency to which arises by virtue of a duty of a personal nature. So I think the key bit to remember in that context is that an Affidavit and especially an Affidavit in context of disclosure requires a personal statement of truth. You cannot delegate that by way of an Attorney. So when we are looking at Lasting Powers of Attorney which is the sort of current form of Powers of Attorney, they used to be called Enduring but now you've got two types; you've Health and Welfare LPA's and Property and Affairs LPA's. So an Attorney acting under an LPA or a Deputy who has generally been appointed by the Court has no automatic right to act as a Litigation Friend which is again really important for people to be aware of. If there is nothing expressly written in the LPA that prevents the Attorney from acting as the donor's Litigation Friend, they can in principle apply to be appointed as such. But just because you have an LPA does not mean you know you suddenly get these, these rights to act as a Litigation Friend. Appointment of anyone as a Litigation Friend can be done by Order of the Court or by following the usual procedure outside of the Court rules. But I think the take away really about the Powers of Attorney is that if you have one in place or you sort of have written one and executed it, you need to be carefully reviewing it to see what powers it actually gives and whether it does say anything about conducting litigation.
So do you need to go to Court to get a Litigation Friend appointed?
Not necessarily. There are certain circumstances where you do and there is a very specific procedure outline in Civil Procedural Rule 21. So generally where a party to the proceedings other than the protected party, so the person, who is alleged to have lost capacity, seeks to have a Litigation Friend appointed, they need to apply to Court or if an existing Litigation Friend is to be replaced. So the application is sort of very procedural, it's needs to be supported by evidence, it has to be filed as soon as possible in the proceedings, as I mentioned everything kind of grinds to a halt until there is a Litigation Friend or especially if you make allegations that the other party has lost capacity, you need to be acting quite quickly to try and prove it so the key aspect that the Court and all of the parties will be looking at is whether or not the person being proposed as a Litigation Friend has an adverse interest to that of the protected party. You don't have to be a lawyer to be a Litigation Friend; you just can't have any sort of real conflict of interests between you and the protected party you are acting on behalf of. Another key issue for someone to consider if they are considering being a litigation friend is that if the protected party is a claimant, the Litigation Friend has to undertake to pay any costs which the party might be ordered to pay in relation to the proceedings. Now this is subject to a bunch of caveats but that is a pretty big exposure for them so, so something really important to bear in mind. So if you don't go to Court you can go through another process whereby you serve a certificate of suitability. Again this is a very specific process; you have to file evidence of the protected party not having capacity to conduct proceedings as discussed. You again have to confirm that you don't have any adverse interest to the protected party and you have to also confirm that you can fairly and competently conduct the proceedings. Again it doesn't mean you have to be a lawyer, you can instruct lawyers but it can get very complicated in terms of who is paying the costs of all of this especially if the person you are representing has lost capacity. So you can do that without Court but again I would always say that for considering either process, really legal advice is needed. It can be complicated, it can be drawn out, there are different interests at play that will need to be considered so we do, we do advise often on Litigation Friend appointments and really if no one is able to step forward to be a Litigation Friend which can happen then the Official Solicitor has to step in but that's really the sort of last case scenario.
Yeah because you'd probably have the same issues that we have in the Family Court which is it's buckling under the pressure and just the waiting lists are just so long.
Exactly and especially if there is any question over their costs being paid which there is, especially if there is no one else to step forward as Litigation Friend, generally you have a situation where there's no money unfortunately that does seem to go hand-in-hand and so the Official Solicitor will not agree to act if they can see there is no chance of them being reimbursed.
So I think the key for us before we finish is to take advice on all aspects of litigation when it comes to vulnerable parties and capacity to litigate and we thought before we finish we'd just reflect on the last year, well eighteen months of Covid 19 and in many ways its delayed anything that the Court can do because there's lack of funding and less people working but in many other ways its accelerated people's thinking of how to get around issues such as vulnerability and one thing the Ministry of Justice has done which is a positive thing, is to make £200,000 available for the purchase of screens for use in family proceedings this year. So that's positive. There are also negatives, one of them being that vulnerable witnesses have had to be in Court at home and in Children Act Proceedings that's not ideal if they are vulnerable and their children are at home because they were home schooling and/or the other party is there as well and so it has created huge difficulties for people in litigation.
Yeah, it's definitely been an interesting eighteen months and I think as you said, the success of remote technology can be mixed but we've definitely seen the Civil Court has been really pushed to be creative and I think that's actually made so much more progress in the eighteen months than the last sort of ten years in some ways and remote hearings have been helpful to a lot of those who would otherwise find travelling in and physically attending them more challenging. Similarly I know both teams have had a lot of remote mediations which has been quite interesting to see, it sort of… even if you don't consider yourself vulnerable, mediation and Court of course can be extremely stressful and very triggering for people to be in the same place physically so I think the emergence of e-mediations, remoted mediations, we're doing a hybrid mediation at the moment you know with some people in an office, some people at home, has really opened up lots of different ways of people feeling perhaps more comfortable in that space.
Yeah that's exactly the same for us.
Great well I think we can definitely say as is apparent from this and I am sure from the rest of the series, there is no one size fits all on the issues of capacity or vulnerability so for now I think we will wrap up there. I would like to say thank you to Antonia for joining me for this Mishcon Academy Digital Sessions podcast, I am Mariel and I hope you found ours series on vulnerable clients and mental capacity interesting.
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Berkeley spends more than $8 million a year on homeless services, yet despite this, the number of homeless people on our streets grows. While shelters and soup kitchens provide for people's basic needs, they are not long-term solutions to homelessness. That is why the City of Berkeley is proud to announce the opening of Pathways, the city's first navigation center that will offer not only housing and meals, but wrap around services such as addiction treatment, mental health and job assistance to help people get their lives on track. For those who are unable to work, counselors from Bay Area Community Services (BACS) will assist with finding affordable permanent housing options around the Bay Area.
Pathways is unique in many ways: it allows homeless people to bring their partners, personal items and even pets, things that have often prevented people from accessing services. The center will be open 24 hours a day, have security onsite and be staffed by case managers. At the start, Pathways will offer space for 45 individuals and allow stays for up to 6 months. Homelessness is a complex social problem impacting everyone in our community. Yet while it can't be solved overnight, giving people relief from the streets while connecting them to supportive services to help them secure permanent housing is the way toward lasting change.
Please join us in celebrating this important milestone on Tuesday, June 26.
WHY: California is in the midst of a homeless crisis, with close to 25 percent of the nation's homeless now living in our state. As encampments pop up all over our cities and often have unsanitary and dangerous conditions, we must think about long-term solutions. Pathways uses national best practices by offering the homeless secure housing – regardless of sobriety – and works to address the underlying causes of individuals' homelessness.


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import json
import subprocess

def command_output(cmd):
    if (cmd):
        p = subprocess.run(cmd, shell=True, stdout=subprocess.PIPE, stderr=subprocess.STDOUT)
    return json.loads(p.stdout)

def find_windows(tree_dict, window_list):
    if ("nodes" in tree_dict and len(tree_dict["nodes"]) > 0):
        for node in tree_dict["nodes"]:
            find_windows(node, window_list)
    else:
        if (tree_dict["layout"] != "dockarea" and not tree_dict["name"].startswith("i3bar for output") and not tree_dict["window"] is None):
            window_list.append(tree_dict)

    return window_list

def main():
    tree = command_output("i3-msg -t get_tree")
    window_list = find_windows(tree, [])

    next_index = -1
    for i in range(len(window_list)):
        if (window_list[i]["focused"]):
            next_index = i + 1
            break

    next_id = 0
    if next_index == -1 or next_index == len(window_list):
        next_id = window_list[0]["window"]
    else:
        next_id = window_list[next_index]["window"]

    print(next_id)

main()


Turn on my notebook few days ago and don't heard any sound from speakers.
Headphones work fine - speakers not. Try to reinstall driver / windows troubleshot / Dell support assist. Nothing help.
All Dell support give me just one answer "call us". I'm not in US now, so this is problem for me.


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"But no one's gonna come down on me for this, right?"
"Don't worry about a thing. The agency will cover your back legally, we'll assign a pseudonym, you'll be absolutely fine."
"Yeah. I just need to be sure there's absolutely no…"
"Mr. Sitsui. Remember what we talked about."
"I know, I know." The young man tugged absently at the dark tin figure-eight woven through both nostrils. The sight of his skin stretching made her nauseous.
"Okay," she said, with more finality than she felt. She fixed her gaze on the table between them. "Whenever you're ready, go ahead and start from the beginning. If you want to reword something, just stop and say 'I'd like to reword, please.' If you aren't sure you're remembering something correctly, it's very important that you mention that, even though you're going to give us the events as they transpired to the best of your recollection. All clear?"
She leaned back in her chair and briefly thought about lighting a cigarette, then decided against it. Better to let them ease into it on their own. Wait until they find their feet in the story, then light the torch as a sign that everyone's at ease.
"Okay. So we're sitting there, there's about four of us..."
"Wait. Start by telling me a bit about who you are. Sorry."
"Oh. Okay. I'm Orin Sitsui. I'm, uh, I'm a materials tech for Caldari Constructions, here under service contract with Kaalakiota Second Command, currently on eighth year of service."
"All right, that's good. Thanks."
"Sure. So, yeah. Four of us, I think maybe five, but I'm pretty sure four."
"This was where?"
"In my section. The east ridge, level 55. My hab was in a real sweet spot, right next to the Syntact galleries and a row of restaurants. A small group of us who'd been in training together, we used to always hang out there. And this time that I'm talking about – we're all pretty new, you know, and most of us have never been exposed to how strict the regulations really are up here. I mean, we were told in training but I guess they didn't do a good enough job of hammering it in or something, because almost everyone I knew would have a story within like a week. One guy got trapped in the laundry room after hours and had to be rescued by maintenance drones. One guy wore a wristpiece that covered up a part of his ID derm and got zapped by his own doorway. Everybody was adjusting, you know?"
She nodded, bunching up her toes inside her shoes. That cigarette was calling her.
"So, right. We're sitting in one of the places near my hab on a Wednesday afternoon, and we've just finished a long bout of shifts so we're looking at four days off. We're drinking, you know, getting fast on cheap stimstickers – yeah, legal ones, of course – and just having a good time, and then there's a commotion. Turns out there's a capsuleer coming through. Now, this was before the big boom, so eggers were ultra-rare. None of us had ever laid eyes on one.
"Turned out there wasn't much to see. He was really short. Dark hair, nondescript face. Civire, I'm pretty sure. He had a contingent of Home Guard guys with him, real nasty pieces of work. You constantly heard about the Home Guard guys on the station. Infantry grunts, right? Signed up for war. Getting put on space station guard duty, for these guys, was like being told to cook and eat your own face. One of the guys in our section had a brother who was a Home Guard recruiter, and he said the guys who got assigned to the space stations were all being punished for insubordination, even if they did end up leading squadrons of the contract grunts. He said they joked that being a Station Sergeant was a demotion from Private.
"I really should have known better, I guess. Should have, I don't know, I should have put two and two together. But whatever."
She took the cigarette case from her pocket and nimbly fished one out, then placed it between her lips and lit it. Distantly he stared at the cherry of her flame for a few seconds.
"Would you like to take a break?" she said. "There's no rush. If this is hard for you to tell, we can wait a bit." She blew a column of smoke into the air-conditioned swirl above them.
"Nah," he said, leaning back in the chair and putting his hands on his knees. "Nah, I'm fine." He resumed his story.
"So I'm quite lifted, you know? I got four days off, I'm getting pretty loose off the stim-alcohol mix, and Janeira's on the other side of the table giving me all the right signals. And at one point I look over, and I make eye contact with one of the Home Guard guys.
"This guy had the weirdest look. He was staring right at me when I looked over, but still it felt like he couldn't see me somehow. At first I thought it was 'cause of my skin, since there aren't many halfbreeds like me running around on the upper decks. But then I realized it was because of the way I was sitting. I was sitting on the back of my chair with my feet on the seat, and station regs frown upon that, you see. I felt ridiculous suddenly, like a kid in a lunchroom who was about to catch a whack from the minder. And, I don't know, maybe that was exactly what made me do it, but out of nowhere I looked back at him and then pursed my lips in a little kiss.
"And just as I do it his eyes sort of widen a little bit, and Janeira notices me doing it and looks back, and when she sees who I just did it to she goes into this barely-subdued fit of laughter, and then the other people at the table catch on, and all the while the guy's just standing there, glaring back at me with the meanest god damn expression you ever saw. I felt this weird combination of fear and elation, like I was playing this danger game and it could go either way, you know, and I think I acted it too. But it was all for show, really. As soon as I made that air-kiss, something deep inside of me just went 'oh man, you did it now,' and this creeping sense of dread set in.
"So after staring at me for a few more seconds the guy breaks his gaze and goes back to looking around, guarding the egger guy, and the egger by this point is talking with another guy who's arrived at the table. Things are quiet for a few minutes, and I kind of stop worrying about that glare and start thinking I lucked out, you know, got away with it. And then suddenly there's this mad shuffle of movement, and the egger stands up and kind of stumbles back, and the guy he was talking to is just kind of sitting in his chair shaking, and something black and round falls from his hand, under the table.
"Took me a while to notice that the grunt who'd been staring at me was holding out a little pistol-shaped thing in the guy's direction. He had this intense look of concentration on his face, but hateful too, like he was gonna end this guy right then and there. A couple of seconds pass and the guy's just sitting there, jiggling and foaming at the mouth, and all the grunts are just kind of staring, and I mean, us too, everybody in there is just staring at this guy get slowly roasted.
"Then all of a sudden the soldier stops and the guy just slumps forward on the table. The Home Guard guys go into this big huffing kind of secure-the-perimeter dance and one of them leads the egger away. We're just sitting there slack-jawed, looking at the whole thing unfold, right? And then I notice that, sure enough, the one who'd been staring at me is making a beeline for our table, and my feeling of dread just comes powering back. We're all kind of rattled by the scene, so as he approaches we're sort of half-standing up. My friend was about to say something to him, but he just walks right up to me and grabs my arm. He's pretty flustered, like he doesn't know himself exactly what he's gonna do next, but there's this anger in his eyes, this absolute insane rage, you know?
"So he grabs my arm and I instinctively resist, right? I don't know what he wants with me, so I kinda pull my arm back and it makes him lose his balance momentarily. I start to say something, but just as I'm starting the sentence he whirls around and just smacks – he's carrying this compact bullpup piece with a chromed handle-end , right, and he just smacks it right into the bridge of my nose.
"Now, I'm no fighter. I grew up in a KK creche, never been in a scrap in my life, never had much interest in any of the fighting sports. So I guess up until that moment I had a pretty dim idea of what could happen and how bad it could be. Man, it was bad. First thing, my eyes just open up. I mean a full force torrent. I couldn't see anything. There was this disgusting crack, and I fell back down on the chair with this slick heat spreading all over my mouth and down my neck. I wanted to say or do something, but I was way too shocked to do anything but sit there and blink and sputter.
"Jaseira told me later that the guy took another look at everyone around the table, just sort of coldly took stock of the situation and then decided it was well within bounds to do it again, so he did. Twice. The second one made me black out, thankfully."
She regarded him with what she hoped was a compassionate look. He was tugging at his nose contraption again.
"I was too scared to register a complaint but I found out a couple days later that Jaseira had gone and done it anyway, behind my back. She was way more angry about the whole thing than I was. I guess maybe she felt partly responsible because she'd laughed at the guy too.
"Anyway, we never saw him again. I got some kind of standardized letter of apology from their station commander a couple weeks later, but it didn't say anything about what they'd done with him or whether they'd even done anything at all."
"You're positive it was him?" she asked.
"Yeah. I wouldn't have called you guys otherwise. I'm not stupid. I know things have a way of getting out despite best intentions, and I know this isn't gonna make me very popular with the guy or his cronies. I just need the money. I'm splitting."
"A few of you are, huh?"
"Yeah. Just doesn't feel right around here anymore. I mean, we worked for the glory of the State before there was a big man at the top. We worked for the State because of what it represents. And there's one guy up there now with everything under his heel. What happened to the needs of the many outweighing the gains of the one? I mean, I like what he's doing, some of it anyway. The mood here is more optimstic than I've ever seen it, and there's this really strong sense of purpose, but I just, I don't know. I guess I got my reservations about what kind of foundation it's all built on."
"Where are you gonna go?"
"I'd rather not talk about that, if it's all the same." He looked at her for a few seconds, then gave a rueful little half-smile.
"Okay," she said, giving the signal for the recorder to be shut off. "Okay, well, I think we have everything we need. Your compensation should be in your account already. Thanks for your candor, Mr. Sitsui."
It was evening in the office-box of Executive Editor Harben Mullar, and outside its two small windows the studio assistants were busily disassembling the day's sets, tools whizzing and clicking under the artificial light. She was standing in front of his desk. Her finished piece was lying upon it.
"The story was corroborated by three of the four other witnesses. The girl has been relocated to a different part of the region. I wasn't able to get a hold of her."
Mullar didn't look at her. He drummed his fingers on the table. "Okay," he said.
"Sitsui himself says he doesn't think the attack was racially motivated, but I think the story will speak for itself."
"Uh-huh."
"It's funny. He has this ancient reconstructive wire-mesh thing in his nose. Vherokior tech from hundreds of years back. I asked him why he didn't just get it regrown. Said he needed the reminder to not do stupid things. All very dramatic."
Mullar nodded. Bi-di-dim,bi-di-dim, went his fingers on the table.
"Everything checks out. Heth was with the Home Guard at the time, and he'd been assigned to the station in question just three weeks earlier. He was dismissed four months after the incident. The official reason was budget cuts, but this wasn't an isolated incident and I doubt his superiors could ignore that type of thing for very long."
Mullar ceased his tapping and leaned back in his chair. He sighed. "I know it all checks out," he said. "It's a good piece, Rekka."
His tone had a terribly familiar ring to it. She looked at him for a long while.
"No way, Harb," she began.
"Yup. Just got a call from Agency Central. They're redlighting the piece."
"No way, Harb," she said.
"Yup. Indefinite standby. Directive came from right up top."
"But it's a good piece. It's inbounds. It's not a bullet." Her voice was rising. "I thought we agreed, we're just illustrating… "
"We agreed, Rekka, but you know as well as I do that if AC decides we can't run it, then we can't run it. It's out of my hands."
"Did they give a reason, at least? Or is it the usual need-to-know bullshit?"
Mullar fished a cigarette out of his case. "Take tomorrow off," he said, screwing it between his lips. "There'll be time to talk after the weekend."
She stood there, staring at him. For a while she stared, as he clicked open a small lighter and briefly bathed the end of his cigarette in blue flame. He looked at her with resigned firmness and blew a plume of smoke into the space between them.
She turned on her heel and walked out.
The door shut on the office of Harben Mullar, and as it did the studio's lights winked out, one by one by one.


We are looking at space through our sensory system (the five senses), but this is not what space is. We look at it in a simplistic way and it's like a beginner's course in observation. The five senses are like a beginner's set of tools to observe what surrounds our existence. We use these five senses to define space and also to navigate it and therefore what we perceive is reinforced to be true. But it isn't always accurate. Moving into our breath takes us beyond time and space and into our mastery. Spend enough time there and space as we experience it expands and softens.


PLEASE, CLICK ON PIX TO ENLARGE!
Affordable Care Act will be history.
THE ELDERLY WILL BE DYING IN THE STREETS!
The republican party, is not the party, you grew up with.
a. Limit corporate donations to political candidates.
they may participate in, balancing the budget.
Eliminate, the teaching of Evolution, in our schools.
tightening "life begins at conception," laws.
will die in child birth.
Restrict voting, so only republicans can vote.
Cut taxes for the rich and the corporations.
hospitals, police and election stations.
more people they arrest, the more money they make.


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Q: Opening a file in downloads folder Android N(API 24+) All I wanted was to open a pdf file in my External Downloads Directory.

I used this code to open the file, and it used to work fine.
File file = new File(Environment.getExternalStoragePublicDirectory(Environment.DIRECTORY_DOWNLOADS).getPath()
            + File.separator + filename);
    Uri path = Uri.fromFile(file);
    Intent pdfOpenintent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
    pdfOpenintent.setDataAndType(path, "application/" + getExtension(filename));
    pdfOpenintent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
    try {
        CourseModulesActivity.this.startActivity(pdfOpenintent);
    } catch (ActivityNotFoundException e) {
        pdfOpenintent.setType("application/*");
        startActivity(Intent.createChooser(pdfOpenintent, "No Application found to open File - " + filename));
    }

Now in android N(API 24+), it crashes saying android.os.FileUriExposedException
I followed the link - https://stackoverflow.com/a/38858040/4788557 and https://developer.android.com/training/secure-file-sharing/share-file.html#ShareFile to convert my code to this -
File file = new File(Environment.getExternalStoragePublicDirectory(Environment.DIRECTORY_DOWNLOADS).getPath()
            + File.separator + filename);
    Uri path = FileProvider.getUriForFile(this, BuildConfig.APPLICATION_ID + ".provider", file);
    Intent pdfOpenintent = new Intent(Intent.ACTION_VIEW);
    pdfOpenintent.setData(path);
    pdfOpenintent.setType("application/" + getExtension(filename));
    pdfOpenintent.setFlags(Intent.FLAG_ACTIVITY_CLEAR_TOP);
    pdfOpenintent.addFlags(Intent.FLAG_GRANT_READ_URI_PERMISSION);
    try {
       CourseModulesActivity.this.startActivity(pdfOpenintent);
    } catch (ActivityNotFoundException e) {
        pdfOpenintent.setType("application/*");
        startActivity(Intent.createChooser(pdfOpenintent, "No Application found to open File - " + filename));
    }

and added provider xml as -
<paths xmlns:android="http://schemas.android.com/apk/res/android">
<external-path name="external_files" path="."/>
</paths>

and manifest as -
<manifest...>
....
<application...>
....
    <provider
        android:name="android.support.v4.content.FileProvider"
        android:authorities="${applicationId}.provider"
        android:exported="false"
        android:grantUriPermissions="true">
        <meta-data
            android:name="android.support.FILE_PROVIDER_PATHS"
            android:resource="@xml/provider_paths"/>
    </provider>
....
</application>

So, now the app doesn't crash on N, but the pdf applications are unable to open the file. Any help in this direction?

A:
I used this code to open the file, and it used to work fine.

There are at least two bugs in that code:

*

*"application/" + getExtension(filename) is not an appropriate algorithm for finding the MIME type for a file, as not all MIME types begin with application/ (e.g., image/jpeg, text/plain). Use MimeTypeMap.

*setType() clears the data previously set on the Intent, so your Intent has no Uri.
Plus, do not use concatenation to build a file path, as your code does not handle the case where somebody decided to have DIRECTORY_DOWNLOADS end in a /. Replace:
File file = new File(Environment.getExternalStoragePublicDirectory(Environment.DIRECTORY_DOWNLOADS).getPath()
        + File.separator + filename);

with:
File file = new File(Environment.getExternalStoragePublicDirectory(Environment.DIRECTORY_DOWNLOADS), fiename);

but the pdf applications are unable to open the file

There is no Uri in your Intent, as your second code snippet contains the same bug as does the first code snippet. Use setDataAndType() to set both the Uri and the MIME type at one time. Or, just use setData() and get rid of setType(), as FileProvider will use MimeTypeMap to determine a MIME type.
FWIW, this sample app demonstrates using FileProvider to serve a PDF file to PDF viewers.

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Jason Isaacs
Jason Isaacs is an English actor born in Liverpool, who is most well known for his performance as the villain Lucius Malfoy in the Harry Potter films, the brutal Colonel William Tavington in The Patriot and as lifelong criminal Michael Caffee in the internationally-broadcast American television series Brotherhood.
Jason Isaacs was born on 6 June 1963, in Liverpool, England, to Jewish parents who later emigrated to Israel. He spent his earliest childhood years in an "insular" and "closely-knit" Jewish community of Liverpudlians, of which his Eastern European great-grandparents were founder-members.
When he was 11, he moved with his family to Northwest London. He describes his childhood as "preparation" for portraying the "unattractive", villainous characters whom he has most often played.... More. Less.
The Death of Stalin (2017)
Based on the graphic novel by Fabien Nury and Thierry Robin, the drama is set in the days following the Russian leader's stroke in 1953 as his...
Fury (2014)
Last months of World War II in April 1945. As the Allies make their final push in the European Theater, a battle-hardened U.S. Army sergeant...
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows: Part II (2011)
The end begins as Harry, Ron, and Hermione go back to Hogwarts to find and destroy Voldemorts final horcruxes, but when Voldemort finds out about...
Racing star Lightning McQueen teams up with his best friend Mater for an international adventure as they go up against the world's fastest cars.
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The first installment of the two-film adaptation of Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows follows Harry (Daniel Radcliffe), Ron (Rupert Grint),...
This was the film which caused total outrage on its release, coming shortly after the furore over U-571 and the Americans thinking they captured...
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package org.apereo.cas.configuration.model.support.pac4j;

import org.apereo.cas.configuration.model.core.web.flow.WebflowAutoConfigurationProperties;
import org.apereo.cas.configuration.model.support.pac4j.cas.Pac4jCasClientProperties;
import org.apereo.cas.configuration.model.support.pac4j.oauth.Pac4jOAuth20ClientProperties;
import org.apereo.cas.configuration.model.support.pac4j.oidc.Pac4jOidcClientProperties;
import org.apereo.cas.configuration.model.support.pac4j.saml.Pac4jSamlClientProperties;
import org.apereo.cas.configuration.model.support.saml.idp.SamlIdPDiscoveryProperties;
import org.apereo.cas.configuration.support.RequiresModule;

import com.fasterxml.jackson.annotation.JsonFilter;
import lombok.Getter;
import lombok.Setter;
import lombok.experimental.Accessors;
import org.springframework.boot.context.properties.NestedConfigurationProperty;

import java.io.Serial;
import java.io.Serializable;
import java.util.ArrayList;
import java.util.List;

/**
 * This is {@link Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationProperties}.
 *
 * @author Misagh Moayyed
 * @since 5.0.0
 */
@RequiresModule(name = "cas-server-support-pac4j-webflow")
@Getter
@Setter
@Accessors(chain = true)
@JsonFilter("Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationProperties")
public class Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationProperties implements Serializable {

    @Serial
    private static final long serialVersionUID = 4388567744591488495L;

    /**
     * Pac4j core authentication engine settings.
     */
    @NestedConfigurationProperty
    private Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationCoreProperties core = new Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationCoreProperties();

    /**
     * Handle provisioning ops when establishing profiles
     * from external identity providers.
     */
    @NestedConfigurationProperty
    private Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationProvisioningProperties provisioning = new Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationProvisioningProperties();

    /**
     * Handle profile selection ops when checking for multiple profiles
     * from external identity providers.
     */
    @NestedConfigurationProperty
    private Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationProfileSelectionProperties profileSelection = new Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationProfileSelectionProperties();

    /**
     * Settings that deal with having Facebook as an external delegated-to authentication provider.
     */
    @NestedConfigurationProperty
    private Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationFacebookProperties facebook = new Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationFacebookProperties();

    /**
     * Settings that deal with having Twitter as an external delegated-to authentication provider.
     */
    @NestedConfigurationProperty
    private Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationTwitterProperties twitter = new Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationTwitterProperties();

    /**
     * Settings that deal with having SAML2 IdPs as an external delegated-to authentication provider.
     */
    private List<Pac4jSamlClientProperties> saml = new ArrayList<>(0);

    /**
     * Settings that deal with having OpenID Connect Providers as an external delegated-to authentication provider.
     */
    private List<Pac4jOidcClientProperties> oidc = new ArrayList<>(0);

    /**
     * Settings that deal with having OAuth2-capable providers as an external delegated-to authentication provider.
     */
    private List<Pac4jOAuth20ClientProperties> oauth2 = new ArrayList<>(0);

    /**
     * Settings that deal with having CAS Servers as an external delegated-to authentication provider.
     */
    private List<Pac4jCasClientProperties> cas = new ArrayList<>(0);

    /**
     * Settings that deal with having LinkedIn as an external delegated-to authentication provider.
     */
    @NestedConfigurationProperty
    private Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationLinkedInProperties linkedIn = new Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationLinkedInProperties();

    /**
     * Settings that deal with having Dropbox as an external delegated-to authentication provider.
     */
    @NestedConfigurationProperty
    private Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationDropboxProperties dropbox = new Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationDropboxProperties();

    /**
     * Settings that deal with having Github as an external delegated-to authentication provider.
     */
    @NestedConfigurationProperty
    private Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationGitHubProperties github = new Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationGitHubProperties();

    /**
     * Settings that deal with having Google as an external delegated-to authentication provider.
     */
    @NestedConfigurationProperty
    private Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationGoogleProperties google = new Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationGoogleProperties();

    /**
     * Settings that deal with having Yahoo as an external delegated-to authentication provider.
     */
    @NestedConfigurationProperty
    private Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationYahooProperties yahoo = new Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationYahooProperties();

    /**
     * Settings that deal with having FourSquare as an external delegated-to authentication provider.
     */
    @NestedConfigurationProperty
    private Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationFoursquareProperties foursquare = new Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationFoursquareProperties();

    /**
     * Settings that deal with having WindowsLive as an external delegated-to authentication provider.
     */
    @NestedConfigurationProperty
    private Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationWindowsLiveProperties windowsLive = new Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationWindowsLiveProperties();

    /**
     * Settings that deal with having Paypal as an external delegated-to authentication provider.
     */
    @NestedConfigurationProperty
    private Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationPayPalProperties paypal = new Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationPayPalProperties();

    /**
     * Settings that deal with having WordPress as an external delegated-to authentication provider.
     */
    @NestedConfigurationProperty
    private Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationWordpressProperties wordpress = new Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationWordpressProperties();

    /**
     * Settings that deal with having BitBucket as an external delegated-to authentication provider.
     */
    @NestedConfigurationProperty
    private Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationBitBucketProperties bitbucket = new Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationBitBucketProperties();

    /**
     * Settings that deal with having HiOrg-Server as an external delegated-to
     * authentication provider.
     */
    @NestedConfigurationProperty
    private Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationHiOrgServerProperties hiOrgServer = new Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationHiOrgServerProperties();

    /**
     * Settings related to handling saml2 discovery of IdPs.
     */
    @NestedConfigurationProperty
    private SamlIdPDiscoveryProperties samlDiscovery = new SamlIdPDiscoveryProperties();

    /**
     * Settings that allow CAS to fetch and build clients
     * over a REST endpoint rather than built-in properties.
     */
    @NestedConfigurationProperty
    private Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationRestfulProperties rest = new Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationRestfulProperties();

    /**
     * Cookie settings to be used with delegated authentication
     * to store user preferences.
     */
    @NestedConfigurationProperty
    private Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationCookieProperties cookie = new Pac4jDelegatedAuthenticationCookieProperties();

    /**
     * Webflow auto-configuration settings.
     */
    @NestedConfigurationProperty
    private WebflowAutoConfigurationProperties webflow = new WebflowAutoConfigurationProperties();
}


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Johann Hartmann (* 3. März 1537 in Mehlis; † 20. Mai 1607 in Frankfurt (Oder)) war ein deutscher Buchdrucker und Verleger.

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Johann Hartmann kam als Buchbinder nach Frankfurt (Oder) und heiratete ca. 1562 dort eine Tochter des Buchhändlers Johannes von Ingolstadt. Um 1585 gründete er mit Unterstützung von Dozenten der dortigen Universität einen Buchverlag. Zusammen mit seinem Sohn Friedrich (* 1563) gelang es ihm das landesherrliche Druckprivileg der Offizin von Johann Eichorn zu durchbrechen, so dass er 1595/1596 in eigener Druckerei eine hebräische Bibel herausgeben konnte, die sich gut verkaufte. 1599 begann Hartmanns eigener Musikdruck, der seinen Verlag allmählich zur Hauptdruckerei der Kantorenmusik des deutschen Nordostens machte.

Das Druck- und Verlagshaus "Hartmann Vater und Sohn" kam jedoch bereits Ende 1631 infolge der Stadtverwüstungen durch die Schweden wieder zum Erliegen.

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Portals of the day
This is Our Lady of La Salette, a traditionalist, independent Roman Catholic church that celebrates the Mass in Latin. (Zoom out to see the whole building in Street View; zoom in to see a couple of items stranded atop the left gatepost.) A sign inside the gate reads:
Ladies, young ladies, and girls It is unequivocally prohibited, for all women to enter the church for any Liturgical act in pants, immodest, low neckline dresses or tops. Moreover it is mandatory that all women shall cover their heads with a veil.
NOTE: Women who visit the church for the first time shall be given a skirt.
Attention: Men, young men and boys, it is prohibited during springtime and summertime to enter the church in shorts, undershirts and tank tops. Tradition means to respect and honor God.
Awesome mailbox #103
SIT A SPELL
at 215-19 38th Avenue
US CONGRESS 6
This is presumably the car of Grace Meng, who represents this part of Queens — the 6th District — in Congress.
Ms. Meng is New York State's first Asian-American member of Congress. Her father, former Assemblyman Jimmy Meng, became the first Asian-American elected to the State Legislature, in 2004. (He was later convicted on bribery charges.)
Ms. Meng won her seat in the House of Representatives in 2012, prevailing over Dan Halloran. At the time of his election to the City Council in 2009, Mr. Halloran was reported to be the first openly practicing Pagan to win office in the US, but it turns out there was at least one before him: Jessica Orsini, who was also among the first transgender elected officials in the nation. (Mr. Halloran was later convicted on bribery charges.)
A cobblestone mansion
35-34 Bell Boulevard, built in 1905-06. The pillar at the corner of the yard, along with another one across the street to the south, preserves the former names of the bordering streets: Bell Avenue (now Bell Boulevard) and Lamartine Avenue (now 36th Avenue). These two signposts are the only ones remaining from the old residential development of Bellcourt.
Quite a collection!
I talked to a renter who lives in the adjacent light blue house, but he didn't know anything about — or even seem remotely interested in — the dozen antique vehicles crammed into his side yard.
We've come across one of these trucks before, by the way, parked just around the corner. It had some rather peculiar occupants at the time.
The building at the rear appears to be an old stable. You can see the hayloft door and a beam above it that would have been used to hoist the hay. And, if you zoom in, you can spot a horseshoe hanging between the two upper-story windows.
The earth is stirring
After a brutal winter, spring appears to be on its way.
Some serious castellation
35-55 223rd Street, which I've apparently already photographed
35-25 223rd Street
W.C. Fields reportedly resided at this address from 1919 to 1921, although I don't know if he lived in the present house or an earlier one. This view from the other side of the house shows the structure to be much larger than it appears from the street, and also makes it seem like this brick section might be a newer addition to the original house.
Peering through a fence
at the LIRR's Port Washington Branch
Another chance encounter
with the majestic Peptomobile
The first crocuses I've seen this year, about to open
A merger of fence and tree
Backyard retaining wall mural
This massive concrete wall, lurking in the backyard of a house in Bayside (Street View), has been livened up with what looks like a scene from the Greek island of Santorini.
When I looked up the owners of this property, I was not too shocked to discover that they have very Greek-sounding names: Efthymia and Dimitrios Petridis. I was surprised, however, to learn that they're also the owners of Gyro World.
Joe Michaels Mile
The Joe Michaels Mile is a mile-long section of the recreational path that runs along the western shore of Little Neck Bay, paralleling the Cross Island Parkway, and is one of the northernmost pieces of the Brooklyn-Queens Greenway. The man for whom it is named was a local fitness advocate who started running as a way to get into shape after suffering several heart attacks, his first at age 27. He went on to complete numerous marathons and ultramarathons — including some Sri Chinmoy races! (Sri Chinmoy was the guru behind the Self-Transcendence 3100 Mile Race.) But even as he was able to transform his body and lifestyle through exercise, Mr. Michaels nonetheless died young of a heart attack, at the age of 45, in 1987.
According to the Parks Department sign above, Mr. Michaels was also once the drummer for Jay and the Americans. I'm not sure if that's true, however. An internet search for evidence of Mr. Michaels's role in the band only turns up articles about the Joe Michaels Mile, which are probably all just based on information from the Parks Department.
Musta spent months
fine-tuning that map.
The receding tide in Little Neck Bay
24-25 Little Neck Boulevard
Good news: it's for sale! Here's a photographic tour of this Bayside Gables abode, presumably decked out to appear most desirable to potential buyers — I count what appear to be three cowhides: two as rugs and one as upholstery. Also, that's a frosted glass version of Michelangelo's The Creation of Adam in the window above the front door. Take a closer look.
JFK amid the ornamental cabbage
The plaque reads:
DEDICATED MEMORIAL DAY, MAY 30, 1964
THE BAYSIDE GABLES CIVIC ASSOCIATION
Another large Bayside Gables dwelling. You can take a bird's-eye tour of the neighborhood here.
I HATE dog poop
This page offers a little information about the house. More intriguingly, it also notes that a different house in the neighborhood was once home to the daughter of "Henry Clay Weeks . . . the Secretary of the American Society for the Extermination of Mosquitoes".
According to his obituary in the July 2, 1910 Boston Evening Transcript, Mr. Weeks was "said to have been the first man in this country to start the crusade against mosquitoes". And his obit in the Medical Record says he "was the first secretary of the American Society for the Extermination of Mosquitos, and was an active experimenter in carrying on the fight, the present general public interest being largely due to his efforts."
This would make him, I suppose, a grandfather of NYC's ubiquitous sewer dots!
The Christian Advocate adds a little more color to the picture:
It is said that Mr. Weeks and his kerosene oil can at Bayside were the advance guard of the army of mosquito-exterminators which is now abroad in the land. He was largely instrumental in the formation of the American Society for the Extermination of Mosquitoes, and as its secretary was active in its successful campaign of education. Those who laughed at his zeal lived to see State after State appropriate thousands of dollars annually to abate the buzzing pest.
His kerosene oil can? That's a reference to one of Mr. Weeks's mosquito-fighting tactics. A 1903 NY Times article explains that his approach involved "destroying the homes and breeding places of the pests by filling and draining and by 'petrolizing.' This latter method consists in covering the stagnant pools and ponds with petroleum, which forms a film over the water, through which the newly hatched [larvae] cannot penetrate."
But why stop there? According to an NY Times piece from 1902, "Mr. Weeks had a greater idea in his mind than the mere abolishing of mosquitos. His plan has been nothing less than the turning of the vast extent of salt and fresh meadow land along the Atlantic Coast, now useless and a blot upon the landscape, to practical account." As explained in the article, he wanted to drain the wetlands and transform them into productive farmland. Of course, from a 21st-century perspective, coastal wetlands are no longer seen as useless or as a blot upon the landscape, but rather as highly valuable ecosystems in need of protection.
Mr. Weeks's NY Times obituary describes him as "an ardent friend of the shade tree and an implacable enemy of the mosquito and all telegraph and telephone companies that string wires above ground". We know all about his hatred of mosquitoes by now, but what does the rest of that quote mean?
The Christian Advocate once again fills us in:
Henry Clay Weeks, of Bayside, L.I., died last Friday at the age of sixty-six. He was a native of this city and long known as a successful builder here. A man of rugged independence of character and intense personal force, he set himself powerfully against certain tendencies of the time in a way that on several occasions placed him before the public. He could not believe that public service corporations had the right to run wires and set poles wherever they pleased in defiance of private ownership, and he resisted the companies with boundless vigor and undiscourageable persistency. He loved natural beauty and was instrumental in the planting of many trees, whose shade will be a blessing to future generations. It outraged his feelings to see the roadside trees maimed and killed by cross-country trolley-lines and the stringing of high-power feed wires through their limbs. Against this he protested through every channel of publicity that he could penetrate. His own means were unselfishly lavished in printer's ink, photographs and postage to tell the people how their possessions were being despoiled by these barbarous improvements in the name of serving the public.
(The passage above specifically mentions trolley lines, but a 1908 NY Times article says Mr. Weeks was widely known as "the unrelenting opponent of telephone, telegraph, and electric light companies whose men place their poles and string their wires and cables regardless of choice trees or the likes or dislikes of owners of country places".)
Let's give the man himself the final word here, as he waxes philosophical about his arboreal advocacy. In an address to the American Civic Federation in Cleveland in 1905, Mr. Weeks instructed his audience not just to fight for their own trees, but to
teach thoughtless people of the beauty and value they are allowing to be sacrificed for corporate greed. Arouse them to the importance of the moral issues where companies manipulate pliant public officials. Tell them truly that such courses carried to their ultimate end, will drag our country to ruin. Our contest is against the tree butcher—and to make it effective it is against overhead wires where possible and against the threatening evil of the corporate control of public officials by unworthy means in this contest.
One former resident of this house was Captain Francis Pope, a TWA pilot who was awarded a patent in 1940 for an advanced aircraft radio beacon system. (A Francis Pope of Bayside, NY — presumably the same man — also received a patent for a "selective turbopropeller jet power plant for aircraft", in 1952.)
In 1941, Capt. Pope was interviewed by a sports writer for the Pittsburgh Post-Gazette:
On a recent flight we asked Captain Francis Pope, clean cut pilot on the TWA, what was the chief requirement of a transport pilot. He seemed to be more interested in what was going to happen to Conn in the event he fought Louis, but he took time out to discuss his distinctive work.
"Emotional stability," he said.
"And by that," your Socrates asked him, "you mean just what?"
"The ability to control your emotions under all circumstances—to act the same under stress as under normal conditions."
"Do you find a trace of fatalism among the pilots?" we pursued.
"Quite the contrary," he said. "As I understand a fatalist—he resigns himself to circumstances he thinks are beyond his control. On the other hand, a pilot is trained to play out his string—to refuse to concede the circumstances are beyond his best effort to overcome them."
"In the event of war for this country what job would you probably draw?"
"About the same one as I'm doing now, I imagine. There would be greater need for transport men than now. To younger men would go the jobs of handling the dive bombers and the pursuit planes, calling for quick maneuverability. They would be on the order of, let us say, basketball players."
At 32, Captain Pope has eight years of service in as a pilot. He is a Leland Stanford grad. To this yokel, he and his colleagues represent the perfect type of homo sapiens. You admire them more, too, at 3,000 feet of altitude.
216-23 28th Road
This appears to be an old carriage house (more photos), and the way it's set back from the surrounding houses on an oddly shaped lot (Lot 71) suggests that it predates the other dwellings on the block. Also, if you compare an aerial image from 1924 with one from 2012, you'll see a building of the same dimensions in the same location in 1924, but without all the newer houses around it.
John Golden Park
As we learned a couple of years ago, Mr. Golden was a prominent Broadway producer, and, according to the Parks Department:
He and his wife Margaret moved to Bayside in 1920 and subsequently made their estate available to the community. The well-maintained grounds were often used by neighborhood residents, including golf caddies practicing their swings, little leaguers playing baseball, and Sunday picnickers walking among the gardens. Some Bayside residents remember seeing Golden strolling in his white suit, broad-rimmed hat, and spats, carrying a silver-handled cane.
Upon his death on June 17, 1955, Golden's will bequeathed his Bayside estate to the City of New York as a park "for the use and enjoyment by the young people of the community of all races and creeds in a manner similar to that in which I made this property available for recreation and community acts during my lifetime."
214-05 33rd Avenue
This house, with an unusual curved eave on one side of the roof, was, like the house from a few photos ago, formerly home to an inventor. In this case, the man's name was Edward S. Roberts, and he seems to have been a chemical engineer or something similar. There are at least three patents that were awarded to him at this address, as well as 17 more that I found granted to a New Yorker of the same name — likely the same man, as far as I can tell — but with a different (older) address or no address listed. You can see all 20 patents here.
Uncle Jack's Steakhouse
I took this photo of Uncle Jack's because the three-dimensional sign (close-up) caught my eye. I read about the restaurant's history on its website, and I assumed my post would just offer a brief summary of what I learned — something like this: "Opened in 1996, this steakhouse takes its name from the owner's godfather, who ran a famous Prohibition-era restaurant called Jack's on the Upper West Side."
The website's description of Jack's sounded a little overblown, however:
In the early 1930's, with prohibition still in effect, "Jack's" on the Upper Westside of Manhattan became the premiere location for celebrities, socialites and aristocrats yearning to celebrate the finer things in life. Aside from serving New York's finest steaks, seafood and vegetables, "Jack's" was just as well known for its proprietor and his dedication to quality and high standards – qualities that still define Uncle Jack's today.
While world famous for his celebrity clientele, "Jack" would greet every guest as if they were family. Everyone who walked through his doors expected the absolute best - and received nothing less. "Jack" handpicked every item his restaurant served. While praised for his delicious steaks and unique menu, "Jack's" special sauce was arguably the main attraction. Legend has it; the sauce – hand crafted in small quantities once a week and stored in an iron vault – was watched more closely than the weekly shipment of whisky barrels from the South!
"Jack's" flourished for years, catering to New York's finest, and became the place to go for the best steak in New York – a title that was proudly passed on to "Uncle Jack's".
If Jack's was really "world famous for [its] celebrity clientele" and known as "the place to go for the best steak in New York", surely I would find it mentioned in old books and newspaper articles.
It turns out there was a famous Prohibition-era restaurant named Jack's with a well-liked owner, but it doesn't otherwise match the description above. It was located in Midtown (6th Avenue and 43rd Street), not the Upper West Side. It wasn't known for its steaks. It was no longer in existence in the early 1930s, as it closed in 1925. And the owner, John Dunstan, certainly wasn't the godfather of Willie Degel, Uncle Jack's owner: Mr. Dunstan died in 1927 and Mr. Degel wasn't born until 1967 (or possibly 1968?).
(Another Jack who ran a famous Midtown speakeasy — Jack Kriendler of Jack and Charlie's 21 — also died well before Mr. Degel's birth.)
After a bit of searching, I found an NY Times article in which Mr. Degel says Jack was both his uncle (his mother's brother) and his godfather, and from 1925 to 1930 "ran a speakeasy near Columbus Circle with his father, who was also named Jack." I can't find any mention of this establishment on the internet, however. While that doesn't mean it didn't exist, it's pretty compelling evidence that it wasn't the world-famous celebrity hangout described on Uncle Jack's website.
Another article in the Daily News quotes Mr. Degel saying his uncle was named Jack Foley and was the "former boss of the longshoreman's union on the West Side of Manhattan, whose father ran a speakeasy on Columbus Circle". So it was not his uncle (and godfather) who ran the place, but rather his uncle's father. That makes more sense, because his uncle would have had to have been pretty young in 1925.
Additionally, knowing the uncle's family's last name (Foley) should make it even easier to uncover some evidence of the existence of Jack's, but I'm still coming up empty.
So it would seem that the famous Jack's restaurant that "proudly passed on" the title of New York's best steakhouse to Uncle Jack's was, assuming it existed at all, a little-known speakeasy, not the world-renowned steak joint described on Uncle Jack's website.
While fruitlessly searching for information about Jack's, I did discover a few things about Mr. Degel. He has opened two additional Uncle Jack's locations, in Manhattan, and owns an "organic" eatery in Nassau County called Jack's Shack, which is "more than a restaurant — it's a laid-back lifestyle that Mother Earth would be proud of." He was also the host of Restaurant Stakeout, the highly staged "reality" show that aired on the Food Network for five seasons.
Moving on to legal matters, I learned that Mr. Degel was convicted of credit card fraud in 1994. The charges stemmed from his relationship with Lou Ferrante, the former mafia associate turned Orthodox-ish Jew/author of books about mob life and "how the dreaming brain can see the future"/host of the Discovery Channel's Inside the Gangsters' Code.
Mr. Degel also has a third-degree assault conviction on his record for his part in a 1991 incident that reportedly began with him and another man harassing employees at a White Castle in the early morning hours. When an off-duty police officer stepped in, Mr. Degel held back a security guard while his companion beat the officer in the face.
But that's not all! In 1996, the Daily News said Mr. Degel was "awaiting sentencing in another federal hijacking and robbery indictment last year. Sources said Degel is cooperating with federal prosecutors in the case, which has resulted in five guilty pleas."
And while we're on the subject, let's move over to the civil cases. Mr. Degel recently agreed to pay $900,000 to settle a lawsuit in which his employees accused him of "failing to pay . . . minimum wages, overtime wages, spread of hours pay, uniform allowances and . . . misappropriating tips at three restaurants." He has also been sued by his former housekeeper, who claims he didn't pay her overtime wages.
On a final note, Mr. Degel once paid $10,000 for a 1,000-pound cast-iron bull statue that he had installed without a permit in front of Uncle Jack's here in Bayside in 2002. Just over a week after it was put up, the bull was torn down by vandals who severed its horns, tail, and hind legs. Mr. Degel vowed to repair and reinstall the bull, this time atop a sturdy granite pedestal, but I don't know if that ever happened. From 2007 on, the bull is absent from all Street View photos of the restaurant.
Day 21: Martin Luther King Jr Place


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From the Vancouver Province:
A Surrey pharmacist has signed an exclusive deal with the Philippines government to sell prescription drugs in that nation on the Net.
Bob Rai is president of Pharma-Canada Inc., which he said signed the five-year deal in March and hopes to be operating early in August. "The federal government of the Philippines wants to reduce medication costs by about 50 per cent by the year 2010," Rai said yesterday.
He has business contacts in the Philippines after travelling there regularly for several years to facilitate his dealings in herbal medications and generic drugs. To reduce costs, government-run pharmacies have been set up to offer an alternative to the more expensive, private pharmacies. ...more
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