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The Roots and John Legend - Wake Up - Arcade Fire Cover

chris on December 05 2010

Here is a great spin on an undeniable favorite. Love the break down at the end. You better look out for love.

30 Rock Soundtrack - Werewolf Bar Mitzvah (RAC Remix)

alex on December 04 2010

I know, I know what youre saying "WTF ALEX YOU ALREADY POSTED THIS SONG!!11!one!11!"(for some reason youre saying numbers out loud between exclamation points, its not my fault you talk like a computer(goto a speech therapist)) Yes wise listeners, I did in fact post this about 30 days ago BUT this is the REC remix and who can resist an REC remix, amirite?

White Denim - Some Wild Going Outward

alex on December 02 2010

oh hey sexy song, whats up? if you were a person you'd be a pretty blonde girl with denim shorts and a cut up 80s metal band shirt on. we'd hang out for a bit until i realized that youre going to get me arrested cause youre too wild, then i'd stop returning your calls. a week later I'd call you at 2am and tell you to come over in that Iron Maiden shirt and cuddle. You'll bitch me out and hang up on me then I'd wallow in my own self pity. God damn this song is depressing WTF.

Future Islands - Old Friend

chris on December 01 2010

I before E except after C. Ahhh, now i am starting to get it. What? It only took me twenty eight years.

Daniel Johnston - Desperate Man Blues

chris on December 01 2010

This is one of the saddest songs I have ever heard by the truly extroidinary and troubled Daniel Johnston.

The Get Up Kids - Regent's Court

alex on November 30 2010

Oh happy day, a new Get Up Kids single, I thought for sure all the dudes from The Get Up Kids worked at gas stations now. Just for the record I did NOT puke last week, I am, in fact, slightly dissapointed and may drink syrup of ipecac to recreate the experience.

The National - Wake Up Your Saints

alex on November 23 2010

Welp... turkey day is fast approaching and you know what that means. I'm bound to throw up this week from over eating and drinking too much. Like clock work every year, this week, I puke out my guts from raging too hard. I, for one, welcome the vomit this year, bring on the cranberry sauce mixed with cheap dessert wine and the ocassional stuffing bit coming out my nose and mouth! I thank with my puke.

Cults - Go Outside

chris on November 22 2010

So the word of the day today kiddies is normality. Let's try it in a sentence. Chris' life has finally returned to normality after two straight months of hell on earth. Great job!

Band of Horses - Georgia (Cee lo Cover)

alex on November 19 2010

UGA redcoat marching band kills it. Over the years posting catchy tunes to LAR i've noticed a couple things... what does make an incredible song, alex? well I'll tell you... more than one drummer, be it a percussionist, a drum machine overlaid on top the drums, or a homeless guy flapping his buttcheeks together simulating a clapping sound.

Mew - Comforting Sounds

chris on November 18 2010

Listen to this while alone and sad. Then come to my mag release tomorrow at Rouge58 in BK.


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Three Questions with Elaine Pivinski – Franklin Hill Vineyards

Elaine headshot1. Franklin Hill has recently become known for its fun events like painting classes and yoga in the vineyard. How do you think these events enhance customers’ experience when visiting your winery?

At Franklin Hill Vineyards, we want our guests to really experience our wines, and what better way than to pair wine with events? Whether it’s yoga and brunch in our beautiful vineyard, hikes in the vineyard, food trucks and wine in the pavilion, or an evening of painting and wine in the cellar, visitors feel welcome and relaxed. We are always coming up with great ways experience our wines.

2. FHV recently introduced wine in a can and also hard cider in a can. Why did you think putting these beverages in cans would be popular with your customers?

We embrace and drive change in our industry. Not only is Franklin Hill innovative and creative, but our customers are too. They are loving the newly released Hopped Hard Cider (with a crisp citra hop flavor) Midnight Rush (sparkling plum wine in a can) and the newest, Beach Bum (coconut wine in a 1.5 litre pouch). We are already working on another great addition to our list…  so stay tuned; you’re not gonna want to miss it!

3. Wine festival season is upon us and we know that FHV LOVES festivals. Which festivals does the winery attend each year? Does FHV have a dedicated festivals staff that goes to these events?

The only thing we love as much as having our customers visit us, is visiting our customers. Our festival crew is on the road again and super excited to bring our wines and ciders all over PA. Look for us at York Flavorfest, Wine Me Up, PA Ciderfest, 275th Bethlehem Anniversary, Great Tastes of Pennsylvania, Hard Pressed, Wine on the Mountain, Buy Fresh Buy Local’s Taste event, Martin on Main, Slate Belt Wine Festival, Bethlehem VegFest, Seven Springs, Gettysburg, and Forks Community Days. Whew! We’re not tired yet, so watch for us to show up at even more festivals!


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hearty vegetable chili ... from scratch!

This morning it snowed for the first time this year! While the first snow is always pretty and exciting, and pretty exciting, it means winter is coming and winter is a long, long time in the Northeast.
But, there's chili. What would winter be without it? It's darn near perfect. It's hearty. It's spicy (if you want). It's warm. It's versatile. It's delicious.

I take the same approach to making chili that I do for everything else. I wing it. Always. Chili is easy to do that with.

Here's what I put in this chili:

1 yellow onion, chopped
3 garlic cloves, chopped
1 red peppers, chopped
2 green peppers, chopped
2 jalapenos, chopped (optional, to taste)
1 small white potato, chopped (optional)
1 portobello mushroom, chopped (optional)
5 smallish vine-rippened tomatoes, chopped (could sub 1 28oz can of crushed tomatoes)
1 15oz can dark red kidney beans
1 15oz can black beans
2-4 Tbsp chili powder
1 good shake cayenne (optional, to taste)
1/4-1/2 Tbsp dried cilantro (optional, or you could use fresh)
2-3 good shakes of smokey chipotle Tabasco (optional)
1 small drizzle of agave (because I thought it might be getting to spicy, this is definitely optional)
1 cup beef broth (made from water and Better Than Bouillon beef base, optional ... if not for this, this chili would've been vegan. You could use a vegetable broth or just go with some plain old free water)

I also threw in some celery because I had it to use up. You could add any color pepper. I've put corn in there before. You could use different beans. Ground beef, ground turkey, bison, moose. TVP. Rice. Basically, as long as you have beans of some kind, peppers, onion, garlic, and tomato, you can throw in chili powder and have chili. The rest is up to you. I've also put in cocoa powder in, in the past. I'm not sure if it really had a big affect, but it's an idea to play with.

At any rate, I sauteed the onion and garlic in olive oil over medium-high heat until the onion had become transparent (stir regularly, leave the lid on). Then I added the peppers, mushroom and potato. I let that basically heat through, stirring occasionally (lid on), while I chopped the tomatoes. I added the tomatoes and let this whole mixture sit over high heat (lid off), stirring regularly until the vegetables released all their juices and reduced their size by about 1/3 (when your pot is 1/3 less full than when you started, in other words). Then I threw in my beans, spices/seasonings and the broth mixture and cooked over high heat, lid on, but cocked to the side, allowing steam out, until the potatoes were soft (if you can stick a fork in 'em, they're done).

That's all. That's chili for you.

Feel free to share your special chili renditions in the comments!

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Saturday, 13 June 2009

If Only All Men Dressed Like This

This is a really brilliant shot that doesn't look out of place. I just love how you are immediately drawn to the subject first then slowly to the lovely vintage car. The whole setting certainly does make his outfit even better looking. His immaculate and sharp dress sense with that nonchalant look exudes charm. So 1920s Shanghai! I love how fashion does that to people, make you look extraordnary even when you are just an ordinary kid.

- Sue

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Lemms and Hems said...

Those shoes are awesome!

- Zen


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Martin Marauder in Action

The Martin B-26 Marauder was an American World War II twin-engine medium bomber built by the Glenn L. Martin Company.

The first medium bomber in the Pacific theater and Aleutian Islands in early 1942, it was also used in the Mediterranean Theater of Operations and the European Theater of Operations. The plane distinguished itself as "the chief bombardment weapon on the Western Front" according to an US Army Air Forces dispatch from 1946, and later variants maintained the lowest loss record of any combat aircraft during World War II. Its late-war loss record stands in sharp contrast to its unofficial nickname "The Widowmaker" -- earned due to early models' high rate of accidental crashes during takeoff.

A total of 5,288 were produced between February 1941 and March 1945; 522 of these were flown by the Royal Air Force and the South African Air Force.

In 1939, the United States Army Air Corps issued a specification for a twin-engined medium bomber, Circular Proposal 39-640. Six months later, Glenn L. Martin Company presented a design to the US Army Air Corps. Peyton M. Magruder led the design team for this aircraft after Martin won the contract. This design, Martin Model 179, was accepted for production before a prototype even flew, due to the desperate need for medium bombers following the intensification of World War II in Europe.

Once the first aircraft came off the production line in November 1940, Martin conducted tests, the results of which were promising. The first B-26, with Martin test pilot William K. "Ken" Ebel at the controls, flew on 25 November 1940 and was effectively the prototype. Soon after, it was turned over to the Army Air Corps to be service tested. It went from paper concept to working plane in less than two years.

While the B-26 was a fast plane with better performance than the contemporary B-25 Mitchell, its relatively small wing area and resulting high wing loading (the highest of any aircraft used at that time) led to tricky high-speed landings (approach at 140 mph (225 km/h) and stall at 130 mph (210 km/h) indicated airspeed). The R-2800 engines were reliable, but the electric pitch change mechanism in the propellers required impeccable maintenance and was prone to failure. Failure of the mechanism placed the propeller blades in flat pitch with instant total loss of power. Due to the rotund fuselage, the B-26 engines were placed far outboard, and loss of power on one side resulted in a violent snap roll flipping the aircraft on its back. This led to a high number of accidents during takeoff, thus earning B-26 the nickname "Widowmaker" by its pilots. Other colorful nicknames included "Martin Murderer," "The Flying Coffin," "B-Dash-Crash," "The Flying Prostitute," (because it had no visible means of support, referring to the small wings), and "The Baltimore Whore" (a reference to the city where Martin was based).

The toll eventually led to a halt in production. During this time a commission of inquiry (led by then-Senator Harry Truman) was appointed to look into the problem. When Truman and the other commission members arrived at the Avon Park Bombing Range, they were greeted by the still-burning wreckage of two crashed Marauders. Indeed, the regularity of crashes by pilots training at MacDill Field ? up to fifteen in one thirty day period ? led to the only mildly exaggerated catchphrase, "One a day in Tampa Bay."

The resulting aircraft (designated B-26B) had a 6 ft (1.8 m) increase in wingspan, and other changes, some of which reduced the aircraft's speed. The newer version had reduced landing and stall speeds. The safety of the B-26B was an immense improvement: it had the lowest attrition rate of any aircraft used during the war. Nevertheless, it remained a challenging plane to fly and continued to be unpopular with potential crews throughout its life.

General characteristics
Crew: 7: 2 pilots, bombardier, navigator/radio operator, 3 gunners
Length: 58 ft 3 in (17.8 m)
Wingspan: 71 ft 0 in (21.65 m)
Height: 21 ft 6 in (6.55 m)
Wing area: 658 ft² (61.1 m²)
Empty weight: 24,000 lb (11,000 kg)
Loaded weight: 37,000 lb (17,000 kg)
Powerplant: 2× Pratt & Whitney R-2800-43 radial engines, 1,900 hp (1,400 kW) each
Zero-lift drag coefficient: 0.0314
Drag area: 20.66 ft² (1.92 m²)
Aspect ratio: 7.66
Maximum speed: 287 mph (250 knots, 460 km/h) at 5,000 ft (1,500 m)
Cruise speed: 216 mph (188 knots, 358 km/h)
Landing speed: 104 mph (90 knots, 167 km/h))
Combat radius: 999 nm (1,150 mi, 1,850 km)
Ferry range: 2,480 nm (2,850 mi, 4,590 km)
Service ceiling: 21,000 ft (6,400 m)
Wing loading: 46.4 lb/ft² (228 kg/m²)
Power/mass: 0.10 hp/lb (170 W/kg)
Lift-to-drag ratio: 12.0
Guns: 12× .50 in (12.7 mm) Colt-Browning machine guns
Bombs: 4,000 lb (1,800 kg)

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Friday, March 17, 2017

More fun shops...

One of our favorite shops in Santa Clara is Bodega which is completely Southerwestern decor. I never tire of window shopping because the prices are hefty but lots of color and ideas to be used. Didn't buy anything but loved looking!

Great paintings, pots and artifacts that say MEXICO!
Desert living and decor at it's best.
Fun plastic realistic looking flowers to decorate with
More plastic flowers made in China for Americans!
Even succulents look real...
cool flower and horse sculpture in back
decorative mirror in back is fancy
love these 3 D plaques on the wall
perfect color matches with pots, runner & basket
Some of these pots are huge and such fun colors
Yard art-clever wire and stone snakes-click to enlarge

Linda Reeder said...

I love the colors too. Fun little rock art.

Kay said...

Oh gracious! It would make me smile everytime I saw that toilet when I go to the bathroom.

Jean said...

Love those rich colors!


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12 Greatest Phone Apps That Everyone Should Have

greatest phone apps

On average I spend 65 minutes on my phone and I unlock it 70 times a day. That’s about 5% of my day spent on my phone.

But I’ll tell you right now – that hour does not go to waste.

Unlike most people who “invest” nearly a $1,000 on a phone, I treat my phone as an asset. It’s something meant to advance my life, not occupy or inhibit it.

(If you don’t believe your wasting your life on your phone, download the Quality Time app to see for yourself)

Here are the 12 excellent apps everyone should have for increased productivity, convenience and daily ass-kicking:

Gmail (+Productivity)

This app is best used for two things:

  • Checking and Replying to emails
  • Emailing yourself notes and reminders

It’s smooth, easy to use, and easily accessible and functional on desktop and other devices.

Fitbit (+Physique)

This is a fitness app. Without your own Fitbit you can use:

  • Huge food database to scan and track your calories
  • If you have common meals, you can save them to track you caloric intake
  • You can input and track your weight

With a Fitbit, it will:

  • Count your steps
  • Track your sleep activity (very useful)
  • Track the distance you walk/run
  • Utilize a custom silent alarm
  • Determine the calories you burn
  • Graph your caloric intake and outtake side-by-side (incredibly useful)
  • And more (go on the site to see your macronutrient intake & bonus stuff)

If you want to lose weight check out my posts A Step-By-Step Guide On How To Lose Weight and 4 Ways You Can Lose Fat & Become Lean.

Each post is based off of my own personal experience and shows you the only things you need to know to accomplish your weight loss goal. The best part: it’s free.

Messenger (+Social)

I use Messenger far more than I use regular texting. You will have those few one-on-one conversations with people who you care to keep up with. But if you have any of the following:

  • a group of friends you go out with
  • family you keep in touch with
  • buddies you go to the gym with

Then do yourself a favor and make a group chat. Not only will they keep each other entertained when you’re off living life outside of them. But they also won’t be offended that you sparsely talk to them, because the group chats promote gathering.

The biggest point is to make sure every group has a purpose. Specifically those that fit into your goals or fall into your social support.

Regardless if you use Messenger – make sure to utilize group chats.

Bank of America (+Money)

Or whatever bank you use.

This is purely to keep track of your money.

Simplest Checklist (+Productivity)

It’s the best no-nonsense to-do list app out there. No discussion. Here’s the link to it.

It’s stupid easy to use:

  1. Input your tasks
  2. Check off what you complete
  3. At the end of the day, trash the completes
  4. Repeat

Here is a post on why the To-Do List is The #1 Tool For Being Productive.

WordPress (+Brand)

If you have a website that uses WordPress, this is a must.

You want this app installed because the exact moment you have an idea is the exact moment you have to drop everything and write everything that flows through your mind.

Then edit and refine later. When you’re done, publish.

Bam! Building your brand straight from your phone.

Fitocracy (+Physique)

“Fitocracy is an online game and social network that aims to use gamification to help users improve their fitness.” (wiki)

There are three reasons why this app is the greatest game on mobile:

You can log and track all of your workouts. So you can go back and check out your personal records.

You gain experience points after every workout. There are even Quests and Achievements you can take on for extra points

You Level Up. Because who doesn’t like to kick-ass?

It’s also a lot more easier to use and access than a notebook where you log all of your information.

Clock (+Productivity)

Simple, yet underutilized. Here are the 3 main uses for the Clock app:

  1. An alarm to wake up or as a reminder
  2. A countdown for rest periods between sets
  3. The Greatest No-Nonsense Productivity Trick Of All Time

Amazon Kindle (+Mindset)

There isn’t a single problem that we have, that someone hasn’t already written about in a book.

If you’re not a reader, then become one. Specifically, you should only read what pertains to your goals and what looks genuinely interesting to you.

Here are the 5 Books I Recommend that will Guide You To Greatness. If you read these five books, you will be far ahead of everyone else for a long time.

There’s no shame in leaving a book unfinished either. If you’re able to apply one idea from it into your life, it’s considered a positive investment.

Voice Recorder (+Productivity)

There are 3 reasons to have this app handy:

  1. You have an idea in the car and you need to let it out
  2. To talk out loud; you’d be surprised how often rambling leads to something
  3. Someone is giving you free value/content (ie. seminar, experienced advice)
  4. Legal reasons

Calculator (+Money)

Count your money. This will help you track your income and expenses.

Camera (+Brand)

Every picture you take and video you record is yours. That’s your content. You can choose to share it or choose to hold onto it.

But so many people underestimate the power of a camera. Because while there are so many people giving out content for free (think Snapchat), there are geniuses making assloads of money on the internet using a simple camera. You can find just about all of them on this site.

It pains me to see people waste their time trying to look cool on their content. When outside of those 20 seconds where they set up their camera op, they’re just regular people who do boring things.

Check out my post on how to maximize any purchase you make and build yourself an asset.

Final Checkpoint

In conclusion, your phone should be used as an asset to make you a better asskicker in real life. Not some phony who doesn’t do anything meaningful. Despite holding a device that could be used to progress your life any so many ways.

Let go of all of those unproductive apps and actually measure yourself and build something that will mean something some day. Because life isn’t meant to be lived and wasted on a screen. It’s meant to live out there – in the real world.

Stop Wasting Time On Your Phone

greatest phone apps

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IPACS Electronic library

Inducing oscillations in a gas-lift bioreactor via anaerobic/aerobic switching

Luis Fernando Calderón Soto, Alejandro Ricardo Femat Flores, Gerardo Lara-Cisneros
Bio-photolysis yields diatomic molecules from the breaking of water molecules; this takes place in the thylakoid membrane of some species of algae or cyanobacteria under anaerobic conditions. In anaerobic conditions, there is a consumption of the microorganism intracellular starch pools; thus aerobic conditions are induced to recover the intracellular starch pools and to sustain the bio-photolysis. Under aerobic conditions these microorganisms produce carbohydrates, through CO\2 fixation via the Calvin cycle, that are accumulated as starch. In order to carry out both anaerobic/aerobic steps into a process, a gas-lift continuous photobioreactor is supposed such that a mechanism is used to switch between them. As a consequence of the switching, the alternation consumption/accumulation of the intracellular starch pools lead us to investigate oscillatory behavior for a constant dilution rate. Thus, the aim of this work is to determine conditions on switching, with a constant dilution rate, such that the oscillatory behavior occurs into a photobioreactor gas-lift continuous. The equilibria stability analysis was conducted and then the switching effect is studied. Hence, a simple switching rules are proposed to induce oscillatory behavior.
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Crisis of family and friends: Working class experiences from west London

Crisis of family and friends: Working class experiences from west London

In warehouses, factories and other low-paid workplaces in west London we’ve had various conversations with fellow workers about how they live. We've also had experiences at home, where we flat-share with other workers from different countries. Facing the breakdown of the family and various forms of personal crisis we thought of writing an article about it for our paper, WorkersWildWest. Please feel free to criticise and contribute!

The crisis of the family as a way to live together and bring up kids is nothing new. Working class families have always been portrayed as chaotic (missing dads, single/teenage mums, feral kids), but with the housing crisis and austerity things have become harder and workers are forced into new, and often more difficult, living arrangements. We present some thoughts below.

It is no coincidence that most of the women we work with are either under 30 years of age or above 40. Many young, working class mothers still temporarily drop out of waged work. Therefore this article lacks deeper insight into the working conditions within local reproductive work: the situation of local nurseries or other childcare facilities, the problems of migrant workers in getting access to child-related benefits. We merely watch mums from Poland, Pakistan and Somalia sharing the playground in our local park, but we know little about their actual interactions. We will focus more on this question in future…

*** These are some common experiences of our colleagues’ personal or family lives:

Female worker: She and her husband live in a small double room in Southall. She works day shifts in a distribution centre, he works 12-hour night-shifts in a vegetable warehouse, cash in hand because he is here ‘illegally’. Their five-year-old daughter is with her grandparents in Punjab, India. They haven’t seen her in three years. Their visa application is pending. Even though they would have a quite middle class life in India if they went back, the woman does not want to go back because she has 'more freedom' here. They have recently had another baby, now the three of them share their 9 square-metre room. She cannot claim maternity leave because her visa status means that she shouldn’t really be working.

Female worker: She works in a warehouse, her husband works, too. Their four-year-old son spent a year or two with his grandparents in Poland. They decided to bring him here to the UK, but due to lack of childcare the grandmother also came over. She does not speak English and the daughter-in-law is unhappy about ‘living too close together’.

Male worker: After splitting up with his wife he had to sell the house and moved back in with his parents, who are both over 70 years old. He says that private rents are too high for a minimum wage sweeper job and his parents need help every now and then.

Female worker: “We advertised a room for rent in our flat in Greenford. Every second call came from parents with a young child or baby who were looking for single-room/shared flat accommodation. Our flatmates didn’t want a screaming baby keeping them awake when they do shift-work so we had to say no to them…”

Male worker: He and his partner share a room in a flat with five, six other people. She works day shifts in a food factory, he works night shifts in a warehouse. After work he smokes weed to wind down. This and the lack of sleep leads to a psychotic breakdown. They go to A&E, but all they are given are sleeping pills. He doesn’t get sick pay, so the partner continues working, although he needs care and cannot leave the room. After a week his father comes from Hungary and stays with them for two weeks to take his son out for walks and to the gym.

Male worker: “For two months I worked in refuse collection and street-sweeping teams in Ealing. As a temp you are frequently switched from one team to the other, so you speak to many people. Out of the 40 or so men I worked with, aged 20 to 60, all but three or four of them had split up with the mother of their children and around a quarter of them had lost touch with their children. Some blokes mentioned injunctions against them and isolated incidences of violence, although they always say they were never really to blame.”

Male worker: He and his partner came from Hungary, they have a daughter. After two years in England she wanted to split up with him for reasons he didn’t want to disclose - he said that she found “an English bloke”. He continued texting her, going to her place, harassing her. Her brother wanted to stop him and in the argument he beat up her brother. The ex-partner filed a case for harassment and domestic violence. He is not allowed to see her or the daughter.

Male worker: He said his ex-wife changed after they they had an arranged marriage in India and she had moved over to England. She has turned his whole family, including his mother against him, telling them he had been abusive towards her. He can't see his kid and it's all because she is secretly having an affair with a family friend. When I asked him whether he had any proof, he mumbled something about seeing them talking. He said he's been depressed for two years, “the bitch” ruined his life, he's doing a shit job, his life has been “a living hell”.

Female worker: “I live in a shared flat. There are three couples living in three rooms, but we keep to ourselves. Most of us are not on the rent contract, so we wouldn't be able to claim housing benefit if we lost our jobs. The lack of space can be annoying, in particular in the small kitchen and waiting in front of an occupied bathroom. So you try and give each other some space. That goes so far that the boundary between ‘giving each other space’ and ‘ignoring each other’ becomes blurry. So when I hear arguments coming from the room next door I am not sure how best to intervene. The guy seems to bully his partner, I once heard him shouting and hitting her. I asked her about it afterwards, but she said that everything was fine. Her English and job prospects are worse than his. She also stays in her room a lot, alone, waiting for him to come home. So she seems pretty dependent on him, financially and emotionally. Having to share a room and the isolation from others (even in a shared flat) means that it would take a major leap on her part to escape."

Male worker: When the crisis hit Spain he left to work in Holland, where he lived on his own for three years. When the job in an airport warehouse ended he came to live with his (Spanish) mother and (Pakistani) stepfather in London. The minimum wage job does not allow him to rent his own flat. Shortly after his arrival his step-dad's younger brother, wife and two children moved in. Both the step-dad and his brother work as cab drivers, their wives do the house work and childcare. Initially they stayed as family guests, but then they didn’t find an affordable flat to move out to. Since then arguments are in the air about 'who works how much', 'who uses how much gas and electricity', 'who pays for the bills'. The expectations and obligations around helping out your family are put under strain with the low-wage London life.

Male worker: "I worked with S., a white-British guy in the street-cleansing depot. He is in his 50s and shares a room with a friend; they both used to work as plumbers in the Dominican Republic tourism sector. At work he made friends with M., a worker from Somalia, who was looking for a place to stay. When a room became available at S.'s flat he arranged a meeting between M. and the landlord. When the landlord met 'the African Muslim man', the room was suddenly "already taken".

Female worker: Four of us in our flat work on different shifts and days in the week. It was a hassle to go shopping individually, to store stuff individually, to cook your little meals for yourself. We found an arrangement where everyone pays £20 per week into a food kitty. We now share the cooking and tend to eat together more often. Instead of every day, you now only have to cook every third or fourth day. We also save money like this. It took some time to find out what each of us likes to eat and so on, but that was no big deal.

*** These are some general thoughts and figures regarding the ‘crisis’ of working class families:

Fifteen, twenty years ago, (migrant) manual workers in this area could earn enough to get on the housing ladder or at the very least, save money whilst not living in too shitty and overpriced a room. This is no longer possible, although the dream is still alive and kicking. At least initially. Younger people now coming over are stuck in the trap of no benefit entitlements, minimum wages, no career ‘advancement’, and nothing better to go back to. Family life has to continue within this context - whether that is being stuck in crap relationships (it is easier as a couple to save money on rent etc.), having children in single bedrooms or finding new living and childcare arrangements.

* Although for many people the ‘couple relationship’ or marriage is the most important relationship, it is increasingly unstable

Jobs are stressful and time consuming, we change our jobs more frequently and have to move house more often. All this puts an enormous strain on friendships in general. People have fewer close friends today than they had 15, 20 years ago. In a recent study one in eight questioned men said that they have no close friends at all, which equates to 2.5 million men in the UK. Strikingly, married men are twice as likely to have no friends than unmarried men. For them the family becomes the main arena of emotional life. At the same time the family and marriages themselves become more fragile. According to figures from the Office of National Statistics from 2013 around 42% of marriages in the UK end in divorce. This figure is considerably higher for working class families. Compared to previous decades divorce rates have increased: 22% of marriages in 1970 had ended in divorce by the 15th wedding anniversary, whereas 33% of marriages in 1995 had ended after the same period of time. The average length of a marriage in Britain is now 11.3 years. Divorce rates have fallen slightly since the economic crisis, which indicates that more people ‘stick it out’ under, we assume 'economic imperatives', but even the re-introduction of Marriage Allowance (a way to save taxes for couples) by the Conservative government hasn’t changed the general picture much. Families and couple relationships are overburdened both economically (lack of space, financial tension) and emotionally - men (more than women) expect that the partner alone takes care of all emotional needs.

* For many women the family is a dangerous battlefield

In a world where people have less and less time for friendships and the general social environment is cold and anonymous, 'romantic love' and family are seen as a 'safe haven'. It is impossible for any 'love relationship' to bear all the emotional pressure and needs, nevertheless, if needs are not met it is seen as a personal failure. People blame each other. Family and romantic partnerships are also one of the few places where working class men can feel that they are not the lowest of the low – they have at least one person ‘below them’. The crisis of working class confidence and community (the destruction of big industry, trade unions, solidarity) has been privatised as a ‘masculinity crisis’ within the working class (depression, more drug-related problems, violence). The social tension escalates at home.

The home is still the most likely place for women to get raped, injured or murdered. While the media largely still focuses on the 'violent stranger in the dark alleyway' (even better if they are from a migrant background like the case at new years in Cologne), in most cases the aggressor is a partner, 'friend' or relative: only 7% of reported rapes in London are carried out by strangers. A report from 2015 notes a 31% increase in "domestic abuse related crimes" recorded by police - from 269,700 in the year to August 2013, to 353,100 in the year to March 2015 - although whether this is because of increased prevalence or increased reporting is debatable. In the UK around 1/3 of women have experienced domestic abuse since the age of 16. This amounts to 5 million women. Every week two women in England and Wales die as a result of domestic violence. Cases of violence often increase during pregnancy or after childbirth, indicating a relationship between an increase of (economic, personal) stress and violent acts. It also supports the idea of men's uni-focus on their partner for their emotional needs, as this is undermined when the woman's attention now has to be shared with another (small) person. This jealousy is an important factor in violent relationships.

Overcrowding and low incomes means that in a personal crisis working class couples can't just 'give each other some space', which means that things can escalate more easily and chances for escape become more difficult. Also there is no space in refuges because of the funding crisis so there might literally be nowhere for women to go. In England there are around 10,000 migration journeys a year, across local authority boundaries to access domestic abuse services. A study by a women’s refuge organisation of 140 refuges stated that on just one day in 2014, 112 women and their 84 children were turned away from refuge services because of lack of space.

The other victims of the family battle are children. Local authorities in England looked after 68,110 children (at the end of March 2013), the highest level for 20 years. This is partly because of a rapid rise in the number of children being taken into care following the widely reported abuse and death of ‘Baby P’ in 2007. And partly perhaps because of an increase in cases of abuse or neglect, which account for nearly two thirds of children in care (62%).

We are in a fix. In many situations, the only force that would intervene in an abusive situation - in case of violence against women or children - is the state, the cops, social services. We cannot preach ‘right to privacy’ in situations where this ‘privacy’ becomes a hiding screen for shit going on. At the same time the state and its institutions are brutal abusers towards working class people: look at the lives in prisons, detentions centres, kids’ homes etc.! It is up to us - neighbours, co-workers- friends - to intervene!

* We're not crying about the ‘family crisis’…

The ‘crisis of the family’ is not only a sign of general external pressure on relationships. It is also an expression of working class women having a) gained some economic independence and b) the confidence, resources and alternatives to leave a partnership. A recent study states that in 2015 around 1/3 of all employed women in the UK were the main breadwinner in their family - this includes single parent households. Between 1971 and 2008 women’s employment rate in the UK increased from 59% to 70% (whilst men’s fell from 95% to 79%). Since the onset of the recent crisis in 2008 women’s employment rate increased further, while men’s declined - mainly because the share of part-time work increased compared to full-time and women are more likely to work part-time. Also, many male colleagues insinuate that women leave marriages ‘in order to get the house’ or gain materially otherwise. This is generally untrue. While 66% of divorces were on petition of the wife, women lose out economically after splitting up: in 2009 the decrease in available income following divorce was 7.32% for men and 23.66% for women.

…but being alone is no alternative

For both men and women ‘breaking up’ or leaving a partnership is less stigmatised today than 30 years ago. We are not forced to stay in a relationship because society would morally exclude us - although there are still considerable differences within the working class in the UK today when it comes to this issue. The family cannot compensate for social loneliness, in fact it often aggravates social isolation: “let’s stay in and watch Netflix, instead of going out, meeting others”. The pubs are too expensive anyway. Personal tension can hide behind the walls of the 'private home', which makes it more difficult for working class women to resist abuse. This is why we're not crying over the crisis of family. But then, being alone or bringing kids up alone is hard, and more and more of us struggle through life alone – this is no alternative. The proportion of adults living alone almost doubled between 1973 and 2011 (9% and 16%), with the increase occurring in the first thirty years (between 1973 and 1998). The increase in single adult households has been amongst adults aged 25-44; adults in this age group were five times more likely to live alone in 2011 (10%) than in 1973 (2%). At the same time, since 2008 we've seen an increase of working adults living with their parents - see below.

* Household patterns diverge within the working class: living with grandparents is largely a family structure of more established migrant workers families, often compensating for difficulties in finding adequate childcare.

In 2009, more than one quarter of Indian families lived with their children’s paternal grandparents, and over 30% of Indian grandparents live in a multi-generational household. One in ten black Caribbean families live with their maternal grandparents. Overall, adult working class women are twice as likely to be active grandmothers (taking over childcare etc.) compared to their middle class counterparts. In turn, having grandmothers around often becomes a precondition for being able to juggle work and childcare: 20% of mothers with children aged under four who have mothers to help with childcare work full-time compared with 6% of those without mothers.

* The most prevalent form in which the crisis of the family expresses itself in the UK is an increase of lone parents, who are predominantly working class women:

As a result of the family crisis, many working class people in the UK don’t grow up in ‘traditional families’. In 2010-11, one third of all children aged 16 and under were not living with both of their birth parents. In a study from 2013, 29% of resident parents said that their child never sees their other parent, and 20% of all resident parents said that their child has not seen their other parent since separation. In 2013 almost 25% of families in the UK were lone, single-parent families. The proportion of single parents who were fathers has stayed at 9% for over ten years. Similarly to the phenomena of married men having less friends than unmarried men, single-parenting women often actually have a better support network than married women: the necessity to rely on others means they can actually be less isolated.

When working class parents split up the whole household is put under economic strain. The state tried to avoid having to support lone single parents by encouraging ‘private arrangements’ in terms of maintenance payments, meaning, raising money from ex-partners.This failed and the responsibility was handed over to the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP). In the end it is mainly working class women as the main carers who lose out. Currently, less than half (38%) of single parents receive child maintenance. In 1991, the Child Support Agency (CSA) was introduced in order to increase the maintenance collected from non-resident parents and, in turn, reduce the amount of benefits paid to lone single parents. But the levels of maintenance payments raised from ex-partners remained low. Thus, from November 2013 the CSA ceased to exist. The state now tries to intertwine the issue of child maintenance payments with the DWP, hoping that the DWP has more authority over working class people to enforce payments and push stressed mothers to look for low-paid jobs. In 2016, the main responsibility for child maintenance is with the DWP. It is estimated that the DWP spent approximately 56 pence for each £1 collected on behalf of parents to keep the system running: a bureaucracy that serves itself.

* If women were not working class before becoming single parents, the lack of childcare opportunities and the pressure to take low-paid jobs will most likely push them into poverty

Amongst our colleagues you still hear some – mostly older, if not demented – voices saying that the best way for working class women to have an easy life in benefit paradise is to become a single parent. Statistics show that these colleagues must live on a different planet. Over two-thirds of single parents enter the three lowest-paid occupation groups. Although 64.4% of single parents are in work, nearly half of children in single parent families live in relative poverty, around twice the risk of relative poverty faced by children in couple families (24%). Approximately 75% of single parents in work with younger children (under 6 years old) work part-time - mainly due to lack of adequate childcare.

As part of the general austerity measures against the working class there have been special measures targeting single parents – often accompanied by media propaganda against “prole teenage mums”. The upper classes have always portrayed us as sexually driven, irresponsible, lazy – in order to explain why we are poor and have to accept their disciplinary measures! The number of single parent income support claimants has been falling steadily for over a decade, though this accelerated since 2009 after the introduction of Lone Parent Obligations. Since then numbers have fallen by a third. There have been various other changes affecting single parents recently: since September 2011 it is more difficult for single parents to get into further education, as they are not eligible for fee remissions. Since May 2012 single parents of kids over five years of age don’t get income support (IS), but have to go to the job centre and claim JSA – with all the hassle and harassment attached. Single parents can claim 70% of childcare costs up to £175 per week for one child and up to £300 per week for two or more children if they are working 16 or more hours. Prior to April 2011, it was possible to claim up to 80% via working tax credits. This was reduced to the current level of 70%. Nurseries are closing and after-school clubs get more expensive: in London over the last Parliament prices have increased by almost 33%.A family paying for this type of care now spends £1,533 more this year than they did in 2010, while wages have remained largely static. On average it costs £283.66 for full-time (50 hours) childcare in London. Full time, weekly, minimum waged work in London is £288 (before tax). Under these conditions the individual's decision to have kids becomes an enormous ‘calculating’ business and pressure.

* While the family is overstretched by economic and social pressures, the economic crisis and the state’s austerity measures push more people back into the family: the result are personal tragedies

We all know what’s happening: Many adults cannot move out of their parental home because of rental and housing prices: 3.3 million working adults aged 20 to 34 were living with their parents in 2013, an all-time record. The state is scrapping housing benefit for people under 25 as an austerity measure. The government is discussing limiting child tax benefit to two kids, pushing families with more children into destitution. The state cuts funds for shelters for victims of domestic violence, making it more difficult to get away from a family crisis. The bedroom tax makes it more difficult for adult children to stay with their elderly parents in case of temporary care need or in case of an emergency. Increasing care home prices mean that more old people are cared for at home, putting an extra burden on an already overstretched family structure. We all know the stories of ‘family tragedies’: the mass deaths of elderly people as a result of neglect or the increase in violence against children.

* The state cuts our social wage (nursery places, elderly care homes etc.) and wants social peace: for the state, the family is a guarantee that working class people fend for themselves or kill themselves, instead of attacking the rich and powerful

After the London riots in 2011 all the politicians cried out that the angry youth was lacking parental authority and therefore hit out. They might have a point - often working class parents disciplined their kids to become ‘good workers’ and not cause trouble, being dependent on their future contribution to the family income. The ruling class lament the lack of parental control, but they have no alternative. Their system destroys the fundament of the family, while preaching family values at the same time. Some advise us to just re-discover traditional family values and stick it out, ignoring all material reasons for why things are shit. Some say that ‘a modern woman’ can easily juggle childcare and work on her own and the state puts more pressure on single mums to get into (over-) work. Some propose ‘patch-work’ solutions (get a nanny, ask your new partner to work part-time), which are only viable for middle-class families with more time, space and money. We have to develop our own alternatives!

*** These are our modest ideas on alternatives:

If ‘romantic love’ doesn’t last and usually ends in ‘break-up’ which destroys the friendship; if the family increasingly becomes a bad version of ‘big brother’; if we are often forced to share flats with friends or strangers; if many of our neighbours or work-mates have similar problems in their families… then we can raise the ‘family crisis’ as a general problem all of us are facing.

One of the main dividing lines within the working class is between men and women. All the talk about ‘romantic love’ is prone to fail and end up in becoming each other’s control-freaks. Men and women have to learn to become friends first of all, on equal terms. We – in particular men – also have to learn to trust other people with our emotional shit. Male colleagues often pretend that everything is cool, that they're tough dudes, while at home they cry into their bottle or take it out on family members.

Another indicator for the crisis of the family is the rise of the ‘community’: people look for material and emotional support in religious groups, nationalist organisations and so on. Most of these communities are based on clear hierarchies: you will only get support unless you accept and work for the leaders. If you don’t obey their rules, you will get punished or ousted. This is no alternative for freedom-seeking working class people!

If you share a flat and hear domestic violence or abuse going on, if your work-mate tells you about trouble at home, get involved. We know that this is easier said than done, but we - as exploited and oppressed people - have to learn to trust each other. We cannot delegate our problems to anyone else.

Here in west London we often live in flat-share situations. Many working class people rip off other working class people by making extra money by sub-letting. They get 30 or 40 quid per month out of it, but the relationships between flatmates are spoilt. Those who ‘pay more’ will treat the others as those who ‘have to provide or do more’. Open the books and organise the household together!

The only alternative to the family and repressive ‘communities’ are wider friendship circles in which we support each other and share daily house and care work as equals. Friendships need time and space, we have to fight for both: lower rents, (less over-) time at work, more communal spaces to meet, cook, eat, be jolly! Joining up in a solidarity network can be a first step.

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Apr 3 2016 11:57

  • We advertised a room for rent in our flat in Greenford. Every second call came from parents with a young child or baby who were looking for single-room/shared flat accommodation. Our flatmates didn’t want a screaming baby keeping them awake when they do shift-work so we had to say no to them…

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Apr 3 2016 17:04

Mostly an accurate, if depressing summary of conditions generally and perhaps even more so in London. The conclusions are correct but no different to those made by many of us in the radical milieu in easier and more hopeful times around the late 60's. Some experiments around then worked others didn't and I can't say I've witnessed any progressive evolution from those times so it seems we're pretty much starting over again in these more desperate times.

Apr 14 2016 09:50

"Since May 2012 single parents of kids over five years of age don’t get income support (IS), but have to go to the job centre and claim JSA ... Single parents can claim 70% of childcare costs ..." - Yes, force all parents of young children back to work, children into day care for 12 hours a day, and then hand-wring about the lack of family structure. And it's not just the working class/single parents. I think we are the only country in Europe that deems it acceptable for 6 month old babies to be forced away from their mothers (paid mat leave runs out at 6 months) into the care of strangers which is what happens when you need two salaries to pay a ridiculous mortgage.


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In 1893, a business was begun known as the Consumers'
Brewing Company.  Incorporated in West Virginia to take
advantage of the limited regulations in that state, Consumers'
set up shop in Lowell, Massachusetts.  The men who organized
the company were from around the region.  Lowellian John H.
Coffey, one of the primary organizers, owned a provisions
shop in the city's Acre neighborhood with his two brothers.
Another important organizer was John J. Joyce of Lawrence
who ran an important bottling establishment in that city with
Maurice J. Curran.  The stockholders of the brewery hailed
from all parts of New England and New York and elected
Joyce as company president and Coffey as secretary and
general manager.

     The site chosen for brewing operations was well suited
for the company's needs.  A 12 acre parcel was purchased
from the estate of Sylvanus Bartlett along Plain and Payton
Streets in the Ayer's City section of Lowell.  The land was not
only adjacent to the main line of the New York, New Haven
and Hartford Railroad, it was also, more importantly, the
location of an excellent fresh water well field.  The brewing
plant included a lager production and storage house, a similar
ale house, a bottling department, an office building, a boiler
house, horse stables, a cooper shop and other structures.

     Over $250,000 was expended to build the plant including
the purchase of the best brewing equipment available.  The
company also paid high salaries to recruit top brewery experts.
Consumers' first brewmaster was Louis Wentzler who
previously worked for the Pabst Company of Milwaukee,
Wisconsin, at that time the second largest brewery in the nation.
The first batch of Consumers' brew was made in April of 1894
and, after aging, was ready for the market in June.  When
Consumers' was finally prepared to start business, the
company's employees and stockholders held a formal opening
with entertainment provided by Hibbard's Orchestra, lots of
German and American food and, of course, complimentary lager beer.
Although the brewery sent out 3,500 invitations, over
8,000 people showed up to Payton Street on the hot day of the
event.  One spectator to the opening related that, "Something
like 100 kegs of lager were consumed during the afternoon.  In
the early part of the afternoon the respectable invitees could
get up to the drinks but despite the efforts of the police under
Sergeant Webster the bum element crept in and secured
prime positions up front where they drank till they couldn't
stand up.  In the brewery are iron stairs.  These soon got
slippery and all gents with unsteady legs went down various
flights with their legs in the air.  After a while the bums became
so obnoxious and jaggy that the police made a final effort and
cleared them out quite effectively about 5 o'clock.  When the
bums were kicked out they lined Ayer City highways in all
directions, straggled across fields, sang, fought and blessed the

     During the brewery's early years, a majority of the workers
were German immigrants who created a small but thriving
community in Ayer's City.  The Germans, carrying over
European traditions, organized in 1896 and formed the United
Brewery Workmen of the U.S.A.  The union was one of the
first in the nation to win an eight hour workday and helped
maintain excellent working conditions and benefits for its
members.  Some time later, the German workers built their
own community meeting place, Der Deutsche Halle (the
German Hall), in Plain Street across from the brewery, which
was used for union gatherings, cultural activities and company

In January of 1898, a stockholders meeting was held where
New York interests who recently gained control of a
majority in shares were represented.  One of the decisions
made at the meeting was to change the brewery's name to the
Harvard Brewing Company in order to distinguish the concern
from other Consumers' Brewing Companies in Chicopee,
Massachusetts and in New York state.  Another change was in
personnel, with the addition to the office leadership of
Ward B. Holloway who previously worked for the
Rochester Brewing Company.  Later in the year, Holloway
took over the position of secretary and general manager from
John Coffey while within a few years, John Joyce was
dropped down to vice president.

     While Consumers' had focused on the local market, the
new management's efforts were geared toward making
Harvard a regional "heavy-hitter."  An expanded product line
up was introduced with ten labels including $1000 Pure Beer
Crimson Label, Dark Special, Brown Autumn Ale, Old Stock
Porter, Sparkling Pale Ale and Present Use Porter.
Manufacturing capacity was increased from 200,00 barrels
per year to 300,000 and, to finance the expansion, the
brewery's capital stock was increased from $300,000 to

  Harvard's pre-prohibition years were marked by a building
boom as the company continually modernized the plant.
 Although the brewery was struck by a major fire at the lager
house in 1900 which caused a $75,000 loss, production and
improvements barely skipped a beat.  An 1,100 foot tunnel was
dug in 1901 connecting the lager and ale houses with a walkway
and pipes for direct beer storage at the bottling department.  A
new wagon shed and a larger warehouse were constructed in
1907 with a new boiler house, condenser building and grain
storage tank built in 1910.  An extensive addition was also made
to the bottling house in 1914 creating one of the largest breweries
in New England.

     In order to further its business status during this era, the
Harvard Brewery became profoundly involved in Lowell's
governmental scene.  While this involvement helped the company
to smoothly navigate the increasing regulations imposed on large
businesses it also established itself as a major target for political
criticism.  Alderman George H. Brown won the mayoralty
election of 1908 on a platform mainly based on breaking up "the
brewery's complete control of the politics of Lowell."  Allegations
that Harvard dominated the licensing of liquor dealers in Spindle
City came to a head when Holloway, Joyce and other managers
were arrested with members of the license commission on charges
of conspiracy.  Despite the submission of much incriminating
evidence, the death of a key witness led to charges being dropped
against the brewery officials.

Survival of local political critics did not help the company
stave off a more serious threat to its existence - the temperance
movement.  The passage of the Eighteenth Amendment
in 1919, declaring the sale of alcoholic drinks to be illegal, sent
the brewery scurrying to recast itself as a viable business.  With
the expertise of the new brewmaster, Doctor Richard H. P.
Juerst, and a name change to the Harvard Company, the
brewery began offering non-intoxicating beverages such as
root beer, ginger ale, grape juice and "near-beer."  Initially
sales were reasonable but when the federal government imposed
embargoes on freight shipped around the region, Harvard soon
found it difficult to obtain adequate supplies as well as market
their non-alcoholic labels.  An attempt at diversification was the
leasing of unused operations space for storage and warehousing
but this amounted to little revenue.

     In order to offset the dire financial situation, company
executives, including Director Frederick Quinn and Treasurer
Bartholomew Scannell, decided to have Harvard make their
"near-beer" a little nearer than federal law permitted.
Although profits naturally jumped, the illegal endeavor was
short lived when a truck filled with 100 barrels of Harvard
beer was hijacked in Lowell during August of 1925.  As the
hijackers were transferring the kegs of brew to their own
private cars, their movements were noticed by most of the

     An article in the Lowell Courier-Citizen reported that
"As soon as it became known in the locality what was going
on, hundreds appeared and surrounded the truck.  They all
clamored for a chance to secure a barrel of the beer.  Men
came to blows and bedlam reigned.  Besides the men involved,
it is known that several women even procured barrels and
rolled them along the sidewalks or in the streets to homes
thereabouts."  Naturally, the police became aware of the
disturbance and upon showing up to the scene, the mob
dispersed in all directions.  When the liquor squad inspected the
back of the truck, they discovered only two dozen kegs still
remaining.  Tracing the truck to the Harvard Company, the
Lowell police called in federal agents from Boston.

     When the agents tried to gain entrance to the brewery,
Scannell refused them admittance for lack of a search warrant.
Upon hearing workers smashing barrels inside, the officers
forced a door at the side of the building and found their shoes
immersed in four to five inches of spilled beer. It was reported
that laborers were casting full kegs of the Harvard product into
nearby River Meadow Brook so as to escape their seizure.
The raid was the largest in New England's prohibition history
with  over 100,000 gallons of full strength brew confiscated by the
government.  An extended trial led to the charges being dropped
against most of the company officials.  However, Director Quinn
and two of the owners were given fines ranging from $150 to $500.
By this time, the brewery was unable to pay its mortgage and was
auctioned off by Lowell real estate specialist Walter Guyette and
sold back to the bank.

The federal elections of 1932 produced a slate of winners,
including Franklin D. Roosevelt, who were seriously dedicated
to repealing prohibition.  As the political climate looked very
promising towards the resumption of legal brewing, a group of
New York investors began searching for a brewery to purchase
and reopen.  The investors were led by Erwin Lange, who had previous experience managing breweries, and Walter Blumenthal,
a senior partner in a New York City banking firm. The syndicate's
search brought them to Lowell, where Walter Guyette convinced
Lange and Blumenthal to buy the dormant Harvard plant in
December of 1932.  The Harvard Brewing Company was reborn
with Lange as president, Blumenthal as treasurer and Guyette
named as a director.

     When word spread that the brewery was to resume operations,
over 500 men showed up to Payton Street looking for work.
Although the job seekers could not be employed immediately,
President Lange instructed the watchman to take everyone's
name promising that former Harvard workers would be rehired
when the refurbishing of the brewery started. From March through
September of 1933 the Harvard plant underwent a complete
modernization at a cost well over $200,000.  Besides providing
jobs to brewery workers, the return of Harvard created a small
economic boom for local businesses who received the building
contracts and for the city which collected substantial taxes and
licensing fees.

    The company's large investment provided Harvard with the most
advanced brewing machinery available including a complete
bottling production line which mechanically washed the bottles,
filled them with brew, capped them off, pasteurized the product
and labeled the containers automatically.  When, in September of
1933, Harvard officially opened the bottling house, the brewery's
capacity reached 1,000 barrels of beer a day.  The return of Doctor
Juerst as brewmaster ensured that the product was of the same
consistency and flavor as before prohibition and contributed to the
success of sales.

     Harvard's only brand at first was the Green Label lager
which was widely advertised and distributed throughout the region.
The summer and fall of 1933 saw a backlog of orders
for the Green Label beer being built up, keeping the brewery
at maximum production.  To meet the large demand for Harvard's
product other labels such as Harvard Full Stock Ale,
Export Beer and Porter were marketed.  As a sign of loyalty
and good business sense, Harvard maintained a policy of
filling orders for Lowell clubs and distributors before others. Although sales were excellent for several years after
prohibition, by 1937 the Harvard Brewing Company was
headed for bankruptcy.  Another change in ownership, with
Fritz Von Opel as the primary investor, led to a change in the
company's leadership when, in 1938, Walter Guyette assumed
the position of general manager.  Through the efforts of Guyette,
Doctor Juerst and Treasurer Henry Protzmann and with  the
continual hard work put forth by the brewery laborers, the
company returned to its former position as a prosperous
concern by the time the United States entered the Second
World War in 1941.

In the midst of Harvard's prosperity, the federal government
stepped in again to take control of the company.  In February
of 1942, Von Opel was arrested in Palm Beach, Florida and
interned as a "potentially dangerous alien" despite being a citizen
of the neutral European nation of Liechten-stein.  The brewery,
which Von Opel owned 97 percent of the shares and his father, Wilhelm, the other 3 percent, was seized under the Alien
Property Custodian Act.  Heading up the Office of Alien
Property were Custodian Leo Crowley, a former Navy
admiral, and Assistant Custodian James Markham, a Lowell
lawyer whose brothers worked at the brewery.

     When Von Opel was released, he fought an extended
legal battle to regain his assets from the government.  At the
heart of the legal cases was $3,700,000 worth of stocks
which Von Opel unsuccessfully sought at the Federal District
Court and Court of Appeals in Washington, D.C. In 195 1,
Von Opel won a review to the United States Supreme Court.
In a unanimous decision, the justices again refused the return
of Fritz's stock holdings stating that Wilhelm Von Opel's three
percent interest was "paramount and controlling" while his son's
was "wholly subordinate."

     The government held the brewery for several more years
through the 1950's, long after the threat of Nazi Germany had
passed.  By 1956, sales of Harvard beer had declined
considerably and political pressure on President Dwight
Eisenhower's administration led the government to finally release
the brewery.  After competitive bids were taken, Washington
sold off Harvard for $800,000 to a Miami, Florida real estate
concern called the Fort Knox Construction Company.  The Harris
brothers of Fort Knox appeared to be more interested in
obtaining a seat on the New York Stock Exchange and in
profiteering on the real estate value of the Harvard site than in
brewing beer.

     In December of 1956, the Fort Knox Company sold the
Harvard Brewery to Peter Doelger, Inc. of New York for the
sum of $2 million.  The Doelger concern, realizing the poor
financial situation of Harvard, shut down the Lowell brewery
and moved production of Harvard beer to their own Hampden
Brewing Company in Willimanset, Massachusetts.  Doelger, Inc.
stripped the brewery of all its stores, machinery and equipment
and sold it off to companies as far away as South America.
Although the corporation had promised to set up a major
distribution center in Lowell and keep all former Harvard workers
employed, only a few people were kept on the payroll and offered
permanent positions out in Willimanset.
As for the buildings, the lager house was heavily damaged in a
fire during 1957 and razed in 1961 with most of the other
structures to make room for the Sears shopping center built
during the early 1960's.

     One contemporary critic noted the major culprit in the closing
of the Harvard Brewery; "The real difficulties came in the period
after December, 1941, when the property was seized by the
government.  Thereafter, in considerable degree, it became a
plaything in the hands of alert politicians. They used it
considerably as a patronage outlet, either in the assignment of
unnecessary positions, or in the purchase of goods that were
not needed.  Thus the brewery was stripped of much of its
stability as a going business."  Although the government effectively
ruined a great brewery, the memory of Harvard continues in the
company's paperwork and photographs, in the collections of
bottles, cans and advertising, and in the stories of the workers

Peter Alexis
Pierre Beaumier
Celeste Bernardo
Mark Bograd
Eva-Marie Chase
James Cryan
Michael Dabransky
Linda DeCiccio
Janet Dinsmore
Ella Donohoe
Ellen Donohoe
John Donohoe
Thomas Dubois
Violet Dubois
David Elias
Robert Fawcett
George Lane
Richard Leach
Guy LeFebvre
Cliff Martin
Ron Masse
Martha Mayo
Charles McCabe
George McNulty
Juliet Mofford
George Poirier
Agatha Riley
Pedro Rodriguez
Barbara Roth
Kim Sar
Manuel Silva
Janet Smith
Tina Smith
Sokunthy Thim
Somaly Touch
Mike Wurm

 "The Harvard Club"

Mehmed Ali, Douglas Crose, Linda DiCiccio, Paul Fanning,
Patrick Golden, Elsa Pombeiro, Gerry Roth, Peter Screpetis.

Pierre Beaumier

Mehmed Ali


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I was hoping it will resolve the issue but apparently not. Can you interrupt the boot process with a restore CD or a bootable thumb drive? kraken2109Member Since: January 26, 2009Posts: 13271kraken2109FollowForum Posts: 13271Followed by: 0Reviews: 0 Stacks: 0Forum Karma: 0#38 Posted by kraken2109 (13271 posts) - 3 years, 10 months ago[QUOTE="kraken2109"]So if it was my motherboard, And remember: Never, under any circumstances, restart or shut down the system while you're flashing yoru BIOS. Check This Out

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hehe.  I've started a new overclock with 1.255v @ 4.2GHz.  Prime95 is running smooth so far.  I'll do some intel burn test afterwards. so it wasn't just the backup freezing things. To learn more and to read the lawsuit, click here. Bsod Error Codes Windows 7 64 Bit Maybe this site will not freeze because it does not have flash: http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp-2k_archive.htmlAlso, you can attempt to access the Nvidia site using chrome.

Do'h! This has been driving me slightly mad for a while. It's 100% stable now after changing the LLC and thermal throttling. How can I fix this blasted laptop?

if running a specific program causes the freezes, try to update, uninstall, and reinstall the program. Blue Screen Error Code 0x0000007b The best way to troubleshoot hardware issues is to… physically clean your hardware, i.e. It came back this morning with a vengeance. If typing the event ID into Google and Microsoft's Knowledge Base ( http://support.microsoft.com ) doesn't help, head over to www.eventid.net .

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Sometimes while I'm using it.Usually, if I have an unstable CPU overclock, Prime95 will fail and stop.  Not this weird random freezes.  Elann2008 you dont have LLC enabled while itsset to his comment is here I just can't beleave this problem was so easily solved!! Reply Wwwparker December 31, 2010 at 6:37 pm Didn't learn a f'n thing. Apparently there are problems with nVidia's SATA drivers. How To Fix A Computer Blue Screen

I've prime95'ed different times with different voltages and Prime95 didn't crash. If you accept cookies from this site, you will only be shown this dialog once!You can press escape or click on the X to close this box. For example, if your videocard crashes, you may see a message saying "Display driver stopped responding and has recovered." In XP and previous OSes, this almost always would have resulted in this contact form Good Luck and Cheers.

I'd have to agree with Anna.

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Although I also agree with Elann, Asrock does have some pretty sweet overclocking features, even on their budget boards. It is normal to reinstall Windows every 6 months to 2 years. I couldn't do that with my MSI motherboard!

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He posts photos at In Photos and can also be found on Google+ and Twitter. If I reloaded a browser tab I was guaranteed to freeze my PC. when in win8/8.1 it not really locked, it just need you to boot on safe mode after change to ahci in bios that all you need to do. navigate here I made sure my SSD firmware was updated (it was) and updated the BIOS of my ASUS P8Z77-M motherboard for the first time to no avail.

If it does I'll enable AHCI again. Start by examining the blue screen to see if it lists a specific driver. These crashes seem to come up more when I'm doing system intensive stuff but it also happens when web browsing it has even happened while flipping through motherboard settings. Prev Page 8 of 9 Next Prev Page 8 of 9 Next All Aboard!This display was supposed to be showing people ads as they entered the subway.

I didn't have any profiles saved before and after the update. Reply dan says: February 14, 2014 at 12:50 pm I tried the Nvidia driver rollback did not help. sometimes things get stuck, don't update. Although I also agree with Elann, Asrock does have some pretty sweet overclocking features, even on their budget boards.

For example, the blue-screens may consistently implicate a particular driver file, such as your graphics hardware driver. We tested the power supply though. Reply Nenad says: December 13, 2015 at 7:25 pm I have freezing problem too with my old laptop when I bought Silicon Power SSD (I was using HDD before, it was It has been stable for the past 24 hours.

what are you offset/turbo?darksusperiaI have overclocked it using offset and fixed modes, but right now I have it at Fixed Mode. or read our Welcome Guide to learn how to use this site. Prelude: Make a Backup The very first thing you need to do when your computer starts acting up is to create a backup of your personal data. Do you have a different video card that you could try in it's place?

Everything works great now. Updated the BIOS. However, in the Asus BIOS for the P6X58D-E there are TWO settings for AHCI and as soon as I used a combination of IDE and AHCI rather than just AHCI, the no BSOD, no clue as to what went wrong.


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Thursday, July 30, 2015

Ringing In The Ears Miracle: A Review

If you’re reading this short article about tinnitus treatment, I presume that you or an enjoyed one is struggling with that continuous ringing in the ears and you’re searching for tinnitus treatment. Hearing a ringing sound constantly makes you outrageous and mad. You feel like banging your head against the wall to stop that sound. I understand. I’ve been there. And finally, I’m out of there. So, this short article will go over ringing in the ears treatment.

Standard medical thinking has actually revealed that by rewiring the dorsal nucleus, an area present in the brainstem, can help to treat ringing in the ears. This theory has paved method for efficient treatments for tinnitus relief in the last few years.

Many individuals experience the buzzing. Others might experience clicking, hissing or buzzing sounds. Sometimes cracks and clicks can really be heard by other individuals who happen to be nearby. This is called unbiased ringing in the ears. Subjective tinnitus is far more common and a bit much easier to deal with. Nevertheless, both types are notorious for sticking around for quite a long time.

You should first attempt clearing out the earwax from your ears. Ear wax can cause all sorts of unusual sounds to occur in your ears. The method to obtain a tinnitus treatment is to get rid of all the possibilities of the important things you can do something about.

It’s also a great idea to relax and lower your stress level. Exercise deep breathing such as yoga or meditation. Take breaks typically throughout the day and attempt to keep your stress levels low.

When your hearing is impacted other things start to how to become an issue too. There is dizziness, mild pain and the discomfort that you need to tolerate can begin to give you a continuous headache. Not to mention the truth that your balance will never be the same and you might feel as though you simply want to hide. The tinnitus band is going to assist you get all of that back and more with a natural method to the situation instead of medications that just do not work.

I saw every medical professional and audiologist I might find who I believed may understand anything about ringing in the ears signs and treatment. Absolutely nothing. I took drops – even dropped some into my ears. I try out noise gadgets that were supposed to negate the internal sound. Nothing. I thought about surgery and swiftly threw that idea right out. I looked at discovered university papers and scoured every area of the library and Amazon. I tried deep relaxation which assisted quieten things down a bit however I likewise discovered that I appeared to be going a bit deaf.

Well the most simplistic techniques would involve doing away with the important things that triggered them in the first location. Then do away with those, if it were your prescriptions. , if it were dirty ears than you should take much better care to clean them.. But the most efficient method to cure ringing in the ears is by taking a holistic non chemical technique, due to the fact that the outcome are incredible and there aren’t any negative effects that are associated with chemical tinnitus treatment.

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Well, it’s here.

The plague of triple digit days in South Carolina.

We know it’s going to happen; it happens every year. However, every single year, it seems worse than the year before. Getting stuck to the car seat, melted makeup, frizzy hair, and a sweaty back are just a few of the lovely characteristics of a summer day in South Carolina. But, there is one characteristic that makes every single person cringe.

Opening that July SCE&G or MCEC bill.

Gosh, you might as well have sucker-punched me in the gut when I opened that email at the beginning of the month. They want how much of my hard-earned money? Do they want my first born child too?

When you get the paper bill in the mail, at the bottom is always a section that says something along the lines of “Energy Saving Tips and Projects”.

Yeah right! By the time I get to that point in the bill, my eyes are full of tears and I can’t even read the energy saving tips and projects. (that may be just a little exaggerated…but not much)

So, one of these tips is something called “Weather-stripping”.

Now, if you’re thinking what I’m thinking, the first thing that comes to a South Carolina girl’s mind when I hear weather-stripping, is stripping down to the bare necessities on a 103 degree day in July.

But, according to lowes.com, that’s not exactly the definition.

“The doors and windows in your home can allow air leaks even when they are closed. Weather stripping your doors is easy and it can keep energy costs down. It’ll also help you stay cozy in winter. Seal cracks around your door with weather stripping to winterize your home and keep out drafts.”

It makes a lot of sense. You go around and check out the places in your home where the expensive, good, cold air is escaping (for free) out into the hotness. The idea works in the winter too, so that your high dollar heat isn’t escaping for free out into the coldness.

I couldn’t help but think about this in relation to our own spiritual homes or temples-our body, our mind.

Where are the places in your life where you may have leaks? Where there are cracks? Where is the good stuff slowly leaking out?

The thing about those cracks, is that just as easily as the good stuff can leak out, the bad stuff can make its way in.

Those holes where we aren’t strong and weather-proofed, where we aren’t sealed all the way… those places are the same places that evil can creep in, that the enemy can use as his own personal VIP entrance into your life, your body, your relationships, your marriage, your children’s lives, your business, your church, and even worse- your relationship with God.

When you stop and think about the cracks in your life, are they easy to identify? Or are they hard?

I hope they are hard.

But, if you’re anything like me, they are easy to realize. Often, it seems, the reason the cracks are there to begin with is because they are the hard to reach places of our heart. The places where we’d rather let a little draft in or out, because its easier that way. We are comfortable that way.

Just as we were enlightened by lowes.com, we learn that sealing the cracks and winterizing or weather-stripping our hearts, we save ourselves on energy costs. We keep the use of our energy down, and it costs our hearts less!

The best part of this deal is that He has already invested in the weather-stripping for each and every one of us, making it essentially free!

Now it is God who makes both us and you stand firm in Christ. He anointed us, set his seal of ownership on us, and put his Spirit in our hearts as a deposit, guaranteeing what is to come. ” – 2 Corinthians 1:21-22

Not only did He seal us, He put down a deposit on our behalf, guaranteeing that He has even more good things in store for us.

We have to keep the good stuff from slowly leaking out of our souls. In doing this, you are in turn putting up the seal to keep the enemy out of those vulnerable places in your heart.

Where do you need to weather-strip in your life? I encourage you to evaluate your energy usage, and find those holes and cracks. Ask God to help you cut down on your energy usage. He will continually fix up your heart’s weather-stripping, and even help with the on-going labor and maintenance.

That’s the best energy saving help you will ever receive.

 Finally, be strong in the Lord and in his mighty power. Put on the full armor of God, so that you can take your stand against the devil’s schemes.” – Ephesians 6:10-11

Anna Smith is the Director of Community Relations at LICS, and joined our family in January of 2014. Anna lives in West Columbia and in her free time, she enjoys being outside with her 2 labs, traveling, cooking, reading, and spending time with friends and family. Her favorite parts of working at LICS? The ability to pray and talk with clients, and connecting individuals in need with resources.


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I have two passions; one is building my Miniature House and the other one is painting and drawing. Today I thought; "let's combine both  worlds; I'll paint something for my minihouse".  The pictures beneath show my working process.

As you can see I can almost completely change the picture while working on it....I let myself be surprised :D
Finally, I chose the picture in the middle above to make a frame around it  and put it in the attic of my Miniature House.


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Treatment and recovery of waste equipment

Raising awareness about proper management of waste electrical and electronic equipment influences the proper collection of waste equipment, which consequently allows further treatment and recovery.

All collected WEEE is treated and recycled in accordance with existing regulations and available permits. Treatment is provided for those WEEE groups for which appropriate technology is available in Slovenia, i.e. technology for the removal of housings, cables, glass, plastics, toners, batteries, electric motors, condensers, printed circuit boards, etc.

For picture tubes removed from TV sets and monitors and for refrigerating and freezing appliances, cross-border transfer is provided, as Slovenia does not have the appropriate facilities for treatment of these WEEE groups. By doing so, we ensure that such waste is treated and recycled in an effective and proper way.


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Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Quinn is ONE! She's been one for a couple weeks now, but we have been seriously busy since. By busy I mostly mean sick. We are back in action this week and today, Election Day, I finally have a day off! So year one blogpost is on the agenda. At the official one year weigh in Quinn came in at 19 pounds, 11 ounces. She's 30 inches long. She's keeping it consistent in the 50th and 75th percentiles. She has 15 teeth...just waiting on one top molar to come through and then hopefully we will be done with teeth until the 2 year molars (which she will probably get tomorrow at the rate we are going).

We celebrated Quinn's first birthday with our family and some good friends at our house. We had her favorite food (PASTA!) for lunch. After her pasta she had her first cake...vanilla cake with vanilla icing. After being hesitant, she got a little more into it, but never really went too crazy. Quinn (and her parents) have been very lucky for the help of our families and our Virginia family this past year.

We are still blessed with a very funny, curious, smart, and independent girl. She becomes more and more strong willed by the day. She has learned a lot the past month. She is better at sharing attention and becoming more independent in playing. She still loves reading. She often will pick out books and bring them to us, or even pick out books and "read" to herself. She is pretty much full on walking at this point, that's probably happened within the last week. She is also really great with signs. She signs for dog, baby, milk, thank you, more, all done, bath, etc. She is also understanding more and more that we tell her and will follow our directions..."go get...," "where is...," "come here...," etc. She is not the best at following NO :). Quinn has a lot to say, but we don't really understand her yet. Hopefully soon!

Our daily schedule is still pretty consistent. Quinn wakes up at about 6:30 everyday and goes to bed about 8. She takes an hour long morning nap and about a 2 hour afternoon one. We did drop a midday milk feeding, but sometimes takes milk in a cup at that time. She does not like cow's milk! She eats everything we eat and a lot of it. We went out to lunch today and she finished her own pizza. She still loves pasta, most fruits and veggies, she's getting better with meat, likes cheese, falafel, and really most things we give her. Her independence is alive at meal times as well when she likes to try to feed herself using a fork and spoon, and she's really pretty good at it.

This past year has gone by so fast and all three of us has learned so much! Quinn has brought so much fun to our family and we are so excited to see what she will do each day. We are looking forward to all the new things this next year will bring! We love you, Q!

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Friday, September 19, 2014

Cameron’s 10 birthday party

On Friday night, September 19th, we celebrated Cameron’s birthday with some of his closest friends.  The cake and goodies were a golf theme since he’s been playing golf with PawPaw lately.  While waiting for other friends to arrive, they played some football in the yard.  After supper and cake, we headed to Celebration Station to play mini golf.  After mini golf, some played arcade games.  Some of his friend were able to spend the night so we watched “Rio 2” before heading to bed.

Thursday, September 18, 2014

Governor's Office of Homeland Security field trip

On Thursday, September 18th, we visited the Governor's Office of Homeland Security. First we watched a movie on "Getting A Game Plan" for the family in case of a disaster. Then they explained what GOHSEP was and how it all the different local, state, and federal agenices work together when a natural disaster occurs. Some of the kids got to act out an example of how different departments/agencies are called when a disaster happens. Finally, they got to see where the governor meets with the heads of the different departments.