#west manchester mall

[the-gone-ton]

The dead malls of York

Continuing on the theme from my last post about York Galleria, I'm going to talk more about the four now-closed malls in York that came before the Galleria.

The York Mall

The York Mall opened in 1968, developed by the famous Kravco Company of Philadelphia. It was a fairly large mall for its era (about 700,000 Square feet of retail space, I believe). It was primarily a single-level mall, though in this rare interior photo you can see stairs leading up to a small 2nd level that included a community room and some offices. The opening anchors were JCPenney, Montgomery Ward, and Maryland-based Hochschild-Kohn (seen in the above picture). The mall also featured a Trans-Lux Theater and a flagship location of McCrory's variety store. In fact, the McCrory's distribution center was located directly next door to the York Mall, and a concrete ramp led straight from the distribution center's parking lot right up to the back of McCrory's store around the rear side of the mall. The ramp still exists today as a relic of this bit of McCrory's history. The layout of the mall had Penney's at one end and Wards at the other, with Hochschild-Kohn right in the middle. You'd have to walk through the Kohn's department store to get from one end of the mall to the other.

Hochschild-Kohn's declined in the 70s, closing their York Mall store in 1975. York's own local department store, The Bon-Ton, opened in this spot that same year. The York Mall remained the largest mall in town for 21 years until George Zamias built the 2-story York Galleria practically next door in 1989. Both The Bon-Ton and JCPenney left the York Mall for the York Galleria when it opened, but it wasn't a total loss because The Bon-Ton kept their store open as a new discount concept called "Bon-Ton Express" on the ground floor and put their corporate offices on what had been the 2nd floor of the department store. Still, the new competition from the Galleria badly hurt the York Mall and forced it to go more downscale. Looking to replace JCPenney, the York Mall signed a lease with Arkansas-based discount store Walmart in 1990 - it was the first Walmart in the state of Pennsylvania and was then the largest in the country at 130,000 square feet. Walmart also built a new Sam's Club right next to Montgomery Ward. At the time, the destructive tendencies of Walmart were not as widely-known.

The York Mall still did alright for a few more years with its new configuration. But stores in the mall noticed a drop in business after The Bon-Ton Express closed in May of 1992. Bon-Ton executives attributed the closure to Walmart, whose cash registers only faced their parking lot entrance (in other words, you could enter Walmart from the mall, but you have to leave out towards your car). Burlington replaced Bon-Ton Express in 1993, but it didn't do much to help sales at the small shops. Around the turn of the century, the demise of Montgomery Ward and McCrory's left gaping vacancies in the north end of the mall while an expansion of Walmart into a 240,000 square foot supercenter swallowed up the entire south end of the mall. It didn't take long after that for the remainder of the mall to be demolished.

North Mall

The North Mall - "the first completely carpeted, enclosed shopping center in the East!" - opened in 1969, as the 2nd enclosed shopping mall in York, PA. It was a smaller mall that was sort of split level; the upper level was fully enclosed and anchored by The Bon-Ton and a G.C. Murphy's variety store. At the end opposite of Bon-Ton, an artistic ramp took you down to a lower level that turned into an open air strip mall. This section was anchored by a J.M. Fields discount store, which included a Pantry Pride discount grocery store inside. The whole mall was owned by Food Fair Properties, which shared the same parent company (Food Fair) as Pantry Pride and J.M. Fields.

Food Fair became a pretty large company in the 60s and early 70s, having expanded its subsidiaries Pantry Pride and J.M. Fields nationally. But the business then began to suffer, leading to bankruptcy and the closure of all J.M. Fields stores in 1978. The Pantry Pride at North Mall closed as well. The anchor building that had housed Fields and Pantry Pride was large and difficult to find a replacement tenant for. It housed women's apparel store Marianne's for a few years in the late 70s/early 80s.

1981 brought the opening of West Manchester Mall, a project of famous developer Crown American Corporation. Compared to the nearby North Mall, West Manchester was much newer and larger. The North Mall had never updated, and was still very much a fully-carpeted, flower-patterned product of 1969. The Bon-Ton closed at North Mall to open a new store at West Manchester when it opened. The Bon-Ton was quickly replaced by the 4th location of discount department store Mailman's. Ironically, Mailman's had a collaboration with The Bon-Ton wherein Bon-Ton would supply their own apparel merchandise at Mailman's stores, so Bon-Ton never totally left the North Mall after all. At that point, the North Mall felt pressured to go downscale, so the mall became known as the "North Mall Factory Outlet Center". Burlington opened in the former J.M. Fields location in 1983, and the mall kept afloat for a while. In 1984, G.C. Murphy's closed their store, apparently in violation of a 20 year lease they had signed which did not expire until 1989 (this prompted a lawsuit from the mall). In 1988, the collaboration between Mailman's and Bon-Ton ended, so the North Mall Mailman's lost its whole apparel department. By the end of that same year, Mailman's closed after failing to reach a lease deal with North Mall management. This was the last staw for North Mall, which by 1990 was slated for redevelopment into "Manchester Crossroads," a strip mall. It was the first mall in York to be de-malled.

Delco Plaza Mall

The Delco Plaza Mall was a small, discount-oriented mall opened in 1974 in west York, not far from the North Mall. It featured Hills and Grant City (both discount department stores) as anchors as well as a United Artists movie theater in the mall and a Pathmark grocery store in the parking lot. The UA theater was the first 3-screen cinema in York and drove a lot of traffic into the mall. The name of this mall has always confused me because "Delco" is common shorthand for Delaware County, PA, a county which York is very much not located in. The first issue for Delco Plaza was the bankruptcy of W.T. Grant Co., the parent company of Grant City. This resulted in what was then the largest retail bankruptcy liquidation in American history when all of the Grant's stores closed in 1976. Many former Grant Cities, including the one at Delco Plaza, were snatched up by Kmart for new stores.

In 1981, the West Manchester Mall opened, hurting smaller, older malls like Delco Plaza. At some indeterminate time after this, the UA cinema in the mall was downgraded to a cheaper, second-run theater, which had an adverse effect on mall traffic. The Pathmark also closed, and slowly the stores inside the mall began to go under as well. Though the addition of some new tenants like a post office branch and liquor store helped keep the mall open, it was not enough to save it. Hills, struggling in face of competition from Walmart in particular, was bought out by Ames discount department stores in 1999. Ames, in turn, went out of business in 2002. Kmart closed shortly thereafter. The mostly vacant mall faced demolition in 2005.

West Manchester Mall

The West Manchester Mall was developed by Crown American, one of the nation's largest privately-owned real estate developers, in 1981. It was located in west York, nearby the much smaller North Mall and Delco Plaza Mall. It was a modern, single-level mall, about the same size as the York Mall on the other side of town. It featured The Bon-Ton, Hess's department store of Allentown (which at the time was a subsidiary of Crown American itself), and Gee Bee discount store of Johnstown as its anchors. West Manchester had little drama in its early years as it enjoyed dominance in west York while being far enough from the York Mall on the east side of town to maintain a delicate balance. That balance was only really upset in 1989 by the opening of George Zamias' York Galleria. The Galleria was much larger than any other mall in York, and drew a lot of business away from the York Mall in particular.

In 1992, Gee Bee, which had just survived a bankruptcy filing, was bought by rival discount store Value City. Then, in 1993, Hess's department store was circling the drain after recklessly opening too many locations too far from its home base. It closed at West Manchester, and Crown American signed a lease with Walmart to fill the space. Crown also expanded the mall in 1995, adding a new wing leading to a new Hecht's department store of Maryland. A few years later, they renovated the mall again and added a 13 screen Regal Cinemas to occipy vacant store space and keep the West Manchester Mall competitive. But the decision to bring in Walmart turned out to be a long-term curse for the mall itself, as Walmart chose to expand into a supercenter in the early 2000s. Just as it did at the York Mall, the West Manchester Walmart took over what used to be a whole wing of the mall when it expanded. Hecht's became Macy's in 2005, and Value City went out of business in 2008, to be replaced by Kohl's. A big nail in the coffin came when in 2011 The Bon-Ton announced that their store at West Manchester was "not performing as well as it should" and would close at the end of their lease the following January. At this point, Regal was mostly the only thing keeping people coming into the mall. The mall was sold in 2012 to new owners who pledged a nearly $50 million renovation to transform it into the West Manchester Town Center, an open-air retail center. With this closure, the York Galleria became the only surviving mall out of five in York, PA.

[shopperwithattitude]

ShopperWithAttitude 10 jaar!

26.04.2024

De blog van ShopperWithAttitude (SWA) bestaat vandaag precies tien jaar! SWA heeft de blog al die tijd gevuld met nieuwtjes over retail land, aanbiedingen, fotoreportages van winkeluitjes, tips over delicatessenzaken, en consumententests. 

Om de tien jaar te markeren volgt hier een overzicht van alle fotoreportages van winkeluitjes van ShopperWithAttitude.

Plein ‘ 40 - ‘ 45, Amsterdam Nieuw West (juni 2014)

Hoogvliet supermarkt, Leiden (juni 2014)

Waterlandplein, Amsterdam Noord (juli 2014)

Buikslotermeerplein, Amsterdam Noord (augustus 2014)

Gekke Gerrit, Amsterdam (september 2014)

Markthal, Rotterdam (oktober 2014)

De Hallen, Amsterdam West (november 2014)

(Jumbo) FoodMarkt, Amsterdam Noord (november 2014)

Bos & Lommerplein, Amsterdam West (december 2014)

Winkelcentrum Zuidplein, Rotterdam Zuid (januari 2015)

Purmerend (februari 2015)

Brighton, Engeland (maart 2015)

Nieuwe Deen in Diemen (maart 2015)

Osdorpplein, Amsterdam Nieuw West (maart 2015)

Nieuwe Jumbo en LIDL op Baarsjesweg, Amsterdam West (mei 2015)

Nettorama, Huizen (augustus 2015)

Den Haag Zuid West (augustus 2015)

Dekamarkt en nieuwe ALDI, Heerhugowaard (augustus 2015)

Reykjavík, IJsland (september 2015)

Almere Centrum (november 2015)

LIDL en nieuwe Deen in Amsterdam Noord (november 2015)

Kranenburg, Duitsland (december 2015)

Rotterdam Lombardijen (februari 2016)

Gent, België (februari 2016)

Lekkernijen proeven in Gent, België (februari 2016)

Gelderlandplein, Amsterdam Buitenveldert (maart 2016)

Jutland, Denemarken (mei 2016)

Nieuwe Hoogvliet in Haagse Bezuidenhout (mei 2016)

Nieuw winkelcentrum Mosveld in Amsterdam Noord (juni 2016)

Nieuwe Jumbo op Amsterdamse Plein ‘40 - ‘45 (juli 2016)

Manchester, Engeland (juli 2016)

Nieuwe Vomar op Amsterdamse Cruquiuskade (augustus 2016)

Jumbo Foodmarkt en Emté in Veghel (september 2016)

Nieuwe duurzame Albert Heijn in Purmerend (november 2016)

Vernieuwde Albert Heijn in Amsterdamse Jodenbreestraat (november 2016)

Gran Canaria (december 2016)

Vernieuwde Beurspassage in Amsterdam (december 2016)

Nieuwe Deen in Amsterdam IJburg (december 2016)

Nieuwe Dirk in Amsterdamse Warmoesstraat (december 2016)

Leeds (december 2016)

World of Food (Dekamarkt) en winkeluitje in Beverwijk (februari 2017)

Amsterdam ZuidOost (februari 2017)

Brussel en Charleroi (februari 2017)

Markthal Madrid (maart 2017)

Lambertus Zijlplein, Amsterdam Nieuw West (april 2017)

Lissabon (april 2017)

Duka, Zweedse keuken winkel, Amsterdam Buitenveldert  (april 2017)

Albert Heijn XL, Amsterdam Buitenveldert (april 2017)

Mercado, Antwerpen (mei 2017)

Winkelcentrum Utrecht Overvecht (juni 2017)

Stockholm (juni 2017)

Madrid (augustus 2017)

Hudson’s Bay, Amsterdam (september 2017)

Hudson’s Bay en Leiden, Leiden (september 2017)

Hudson’s Bay, Almere (oktober 2017)

Hudson’s Bay, Rotterdam (oktober 2017)

Palermo (oktober 2017)

ALDI nieuwe stijl, Uithoorn (december 2017)

Grootste Nederlandse LIDL in Amsterdam Noord (december 2017)

Uitgebreide LIDL in Amsterdamse Indische buurt (december 2017)

Nieuwe Coop in Amsterdamse Rivierenbuurt (februari 2018)

Keulen (maart 2018) Nieuwe ALDI in Sevilla (april 2018)

LIDL in Antwerpen staakt (april 2018)

Hudson’s Bay in Haarlem (mei 2018)

Eerste Normal winkel in Nederland: Utrecht (mei 2018)

Winkelcentrum Alexandrium, Rotterdam (september 2018)

Nieuwe ALDI Postjesweg, Amsterdam (september 2018)

Parijs (januari 2019)

Winkelcentrum Rødovre Centrum, Kopenhagen (februari 2019)

Utrechtsestraat, Amsterdam (april 2019)

Winkeluitje in Hoofddorp (mei 2019)

Scandinavisch design (Bolia.com) in Amsterdamse Utrechtsestraat (mei 2019)

LIDL terug op Amsterdamse August Allebeplein (juli 2019)

Winkeluitje naar Mall of Scandinavia & Saluhall in Stockholm (juli 2019)

Winkeluitje in York (oktober 2019)

Street Food Market in Madrid (februari 2020)

Nieuwe Turkse supermarkt in Amsterdam (maart 2020)

Melly's Cookie Bar in Amsterdam verkoopt alfajores (mei 2020)

Sweet Bob - Braziliaanse lekkernijen in Amsterdam (mei 2020)

Historische Food Hall weer open in Stockholm (oktober 2020)

Voortgang Mall of the Netherlands (november 2020)

Poiesz supermarkt in Groningen (november 2020)

Noordse lekkernijen in Scandinavian Embassy (december 2020)

Heropende ALDI in Amsterdamse Pijnackerstraat (december 2020)

Basis E Markt in Den Haag (maart 2021)

Marktbeperkingen Amsterdamse Plein ‘40 - ‘45 wegens Corona (juni 2021)

Winkeluitje naar Palladium in Praag (november 2021)

SWA bezoekt Mall of the Netherlands (augustus 2022)

SWA bezoekt Markthal in Rotterdam opnieuw (oktober 2022)

SWA's heimelijke Duitse tripje tijdens Corona-lockdown (oktober 2022)

SWA bezoekt Kranenburg opnieuw (oktober 2022)

Winkeluitje naar Colombo winkelcentrum in Lissabon (januari 2023)

Winkeluitje naar Fisketorvert winkelcentrum in Kopenhagen (februari 2023)

Winkeluitje in Field's winkelcetrum in Kopenhagen (december 2023)

Winkeluitje naar Globen winkelcentrum in Stockholm (april 2024)

[mostlysignssomeportents]

This day in history

Next Saturday (May 20), I’ll be at the GAITHERSBURG Book Festival with my novel Red Team Blues; then on May 22, I’m keynoting Public Knowledge’s Emerging Tech conference in DC.

On May 23, I’ll be in TORONTO for a book launch that’s part of WEPFest, a benefit for the West End Phoenix, onstage with Dave Bidini (The Rheostatics), Ron Diebert (Citizen Lab) and the whistleblower Dr Nancy Olivieri.

#20yrsago Five perspectives on spectrum allocation https://memex.craphound.com/2003/05/14/five-perspectives-on-spectrum-allocation/

#20yrsago Vonnegut on “Shock and Awe” https://web.archive.org/web/20030512065845/https://inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=191_0_4_0_C

#15yrsago Universal Music: when we get hit with copyright damages, that’s “unconstitutionally excessive” https://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/2008/05/double-standard-umg-fights-excessive-infringement-damages/

#10yrsago Inside the world’s largest ghost mall, America finds schadenfreude and comfort for its fears of a Chinese century https://edition.cnn.com/videos/world/2013/05/07/watson-china-ghost-mall.cnn

#10yrsago Osaka’s fascist mayor defends WWII policy of sexual enslavement: “a comfort women system is necessary. Anyone can understand that.” https://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-22519384

#10yrsago Highest-paid state employees: usually a school sports coach, sometimes a med school dean https://deadspin.com/infographic-is-your-states-highest-paid-employee-a-co-489635228

#10yrsago Canadian govt turns the national science agenda over to incumbent big businesses https://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/politics/research-councils-makeover-leaves-canadian-industry-setting-the-agenda/article11745246/

#5yrsago Efail: researchers reveal worrying, unpatched vulnerabilities in encrypted email https://efail.de/#faq

#5yrsago UK government will deputise newsagents to collect and retain identity documents from the nation’s pornography viewers https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/porn-passes-newsagents-shops-online-pornography-website-id-uk-government-a8349281.html

#5yrsago London cops are using an unregulated, 98% inaccurate facial recognition tech https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home-news/met-police-facial-recognition-success-south-wales-trial-home-office-false-positive-a8345036.html

#5yrsago A vital guide to the Canadian encryption debate https://citizenlab.ca/wp-content/uploads/2018/05/Shining-A-Light-Encryption-CitLab-CIPPIC.pdf

#5yrsago Realtor claims Uber and Lyft erode the premium homebuyers pay for good public transit links https://www.businessinsider.com/uber-and-lyft-are-changing-where-rich-people-buy-homes-2018-5

#5yrsago The CIA is psyopsing America to help torturer Gina Haspel get the job of CIA boss https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/20/us/politics/gina-haspel-cia-director-influence-campaign.html

#5yrsago To understand the future sainthood of Donald J Trump, just look at George W Bush https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/donald-trump-may-be-the-best-thing-that-ever-happened-to-george-w-bush/2018/05/11/69ae6c7a-5319-11e8-9c91-7dab596e8252_story.html

#5yrsago Profiles of flat earthers: report from the front lines of weaponized media literacy https://www.vice.com/en/article/zm8b74/i-went-to-a-flat-earth-convention-to-meet-flat-earthers-like-my-mum

#5yrsago Exit West: beautifully wrought novel about refugees, mobility and borders https://memex.craphound.com/2018/05/14/exit-west-beautifully-wrought-novel-about-refugees-mobility-and-borders/

Catch me on tour with Red Team Blues in Toronto, DC, Gaithersburg, Oxford, Hay, Manchester, Nottingham, London, and Berlin!

[roomchailimited]

Your Ultimate Guide for Traveling from Dhaka to the UK

Embarking on a journey from Dhaka to the UK is an exciting adventure filled with historical landmarks, diverse cultures, and countless attractions. This guide will help you navigate every aspect of your trip, from visas to must-see destinations.

Visa Requirements

Types of Visas Travelers from Bangladesh need a visa to enter the UK. Common options include the Standard Visitor Visa and the Short-term Study Visa.

Application Process: Complete your application online via the UK government website.

Documents Needed: Passport, financial statements, travel itinerary, and possibly a letter of invitation.

Processing Time: Generally around 3 weeks, so plan ahead.

Best Time to Visit

Seasons and Weather

Spring (March-May): Mild and pleasant, perfect for sightseeing.

Summer (June-August): Warm with many festivals and outdoor events.

Autumn (September-November): Cooler temperatures and beautiful autumn leaves.

Winter (December-February): Cold, with festive Christmas markets and potential snow.

Flights and Transportation

Booking Your Flight Several airlines offer flights from Dhaka to UK cities like London and Manchester. Popular choices include British Airways, Emirates, and Qatar Airways. The flight typically takes around 12-14 hours including layovers.

Tips for Booking: Book early and use comparison sites to find the best deals.

Getting Around the UK

Trains: Efficient and fast for travel between major cities.

Buses and Coaches: Affordable options with extensive networks.

Car Rentals: Ideal for exploring rural areas and having more travel flexibility.

Top Attractions

Must-See Places

London: Big Ben, the British Museum, Buckingham Palace.

Edinburgh: Edinburgh Castle, Arthur’s Seat, Royal Mile.

Manchester: Science and Industry Museum, Manchester Cathedral.

Liverpool: The Beatles Story, Albert Dock, Liverpool Cathedral.

Cultural Experiences

Rich Heritage

Historical Sites: Stonehenge, Bath, and Tower of London are must-visit UNESCO sites.

Museums: Many are free, including the British Museum and the National Gallery.

Theatre and Music: Catch a West End show in London or enjoy music festivals like Glastonbury.

Dining and Culinary Experiences

Food to Try

Traditional: Fish and chips, Sunday roasts, and Cornish pasties.

Afternoon Tea: A quintessential British experience with scones, sandwiches, and tea.

Fine Dining: Michelin-starred restaurants like The Fat Duck offer world-class dining.

Shopping and Entertainment

Where to Shop

London: Oxford Street, Regent Street, Harrods.

Edinburgh: Princes Street for high-end shops and boutiques.

Outlet Malls: Bicester Village for designer deals.

Entertainment Options

Theatre: West End productions in London.

Sports: Premier League matches, Wimbledon, British Grand Prix.

Festivals: Notting Hill Carnival, Edinburgh Fringe Festival.

Travel Agencies and Tour Operators

Top Agencies

Roomchai Limited: Known for tailored travel packages and exceptional service.

Gozayaan: Comprehensive travel solutions with great customer service.

Obokash: Travel arrangements and visa assistance.

Sharetrip: Variety of travel packages and flight bookings.

FlyHub: Competitive pricing and extensive services.

Travelzoo Bangladesh: Deals on flights, hotels, and tour packages.

Travel Tips and Safety Precautions

Staying Safe

Laws and Customs: Respect local laws and cultural norms.

Health and Safety: Keep emergency contacts handy, and stay aware of your surroundings.

Transport Safety: Use reputable services and stay vigilant in crowded areas.

Conclusion

A trip from Dhaka to the UK offers an enriching blend of history, culture, and modern attractions. With careful planning and the support of reliable travel agencies like Roomchai Limited and Gozayaan, your journey will be seamless and memorable. From exploring London’s iconic landmarks to discovering Scotland’s natural beauty, the UK is a destination that promises a unique and unforgettable travel experience.

[centuryjm21]

Top 05 Jamaica Luxury Real Estate Listings for Sale

Jamaica, with its beautiful landscape, vibrant culture, and welcoming hospitality, is increasing in popularity as a luxury Jamaican real estate destination. Century 21 Jamaica is one of the region's best real estate agents in Jamaica, recognized by its commitment to excellence and unparalleled listings. In this piece, we will look at Century 21 Jamaica's top five luxury real estate listings, providing insight into the beautiful living experiences that await potential buyers.

Top 05 Jamaica Luxury Real Estate Listings

1. APARTMENT FOR RENT KINGSTON & ST. ANDREW

JMD $323,211

The Sovereign Centre Shopping Mall is easily accessible by foot from this relatively new apartment. With porcelain tiles throughout, contemporary bathroom fixtures and fittings, in-unit laundry, and a stunning view of a small section of the city, the unit has two bedrooms and 2.5 bathrooms. Quartz worktops and hardwood cabinets with views of the living room and dining area can be found in the kitchen. Additional features include underground parking, a swimming pool, elevators, water tanks, water heaters, ceiling fans in every room, and security. The rental apartment is not furnished. For discriminating locals or foreigners alike, this is the perfect house. Give us a call to schedule a viewing today!

2. HOUSE FOR SALE KINGSTON & ST. ANDREW

JMD $35,000,000

This place could almost be referred to as a "Old school classic." Bring back memories of Sunday afternoon family get-togethers when your uncle would set up big speakers and play classic music that, of course, only the elderly knew. Dominoes would be played under the mango tree, ludo would be played under the breadfruit! While mommy cooks three meats, the aunts fight over who makes the best rice and peas and who is incapable of baking. Although there is a strong sense of family, the history needs to be updated. Are you the one? Who is the visionary that can transform this two-family home with two bedrooms and one bathroom, with a kitchen on each side and a dining/living room combination on the larger side, along with a sizable verandah and a single car garage with additional space for parking outside? This house, with its perfect placement on the lot, allows you to park and drive in the back? This house has two bathrooms, two kitchens, four bedrooms, and a partially completed addition that could add two more bedrooms. 

3. HOUSE FOR SALE MANCHESTER

JMD $29,500,000

A beacon of beauty, practicality, modern sophistication, and secure apartments emerges in the fabled cool Mandeville hills. These apartments feature a really amazing floor plan, lots of windows, and a roof terrace with views of the hillside for entertainment. Belair, West Indies College Preparatory School, which has an outdoor pool and plenty of parking, is three minutes away from NCU. An engineer constructed the 2 bedroom, 2.5 bathroom apartment with great care and attention to detail, making it very durable. For those who prefer to live in a gated community and experience the charms of a centrally located mandeville, this is an excellent investment. It is near banks, eateries, and entertainment venues.

4. TOWNHOUSE FOR SALE KINGSTON & ST. ANDREW

JMD $35,000,000

IN HOLD...In an exclusive gated community in the heart of New Kingston, this well-kept townhouse is close to both commercial and recreational areas. The complex is family-friendly and prepared to give a small family, whose main source of income is the KSA metropolitan area, a place to live.

5. APARTMENT FOR RENT KINGSTON & ST. ANDREW

JMD $303,972

In a gated community in Kingston 6, an elegantly furnished two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment is available for rent. The complex features underground parking, a generator that powers all common areas and apartment units, a pool, a gym, elevators, and round-the-clock security. This unit is situated in the middle as well. Every room, including the living room, has air conditioning. Give your agent a call right now!

Conclusion

Century 21 Jamaica's collection of outstanding properties aims to change the luxury real estate landscape in Jamaica. Whether you're looking for an oceanfront retreat, an urban oasis, or a golfer's paradise, these top five properties represent the pinnacle of Jamaican luxury living. With Century 21 Jamaica, you can explore the luxury, appreciate the lifestyle, and make your goal of owning a piece of Jamaican paradise a reality.

[llminukmeridean]

Top 20 universities for LLM in the UK

You visit the mall in order to buy a new pair of pants for yourself. You enter the first store you come across and purchase the first pair of pants you see. When you wear the jeans at home, you discover that the fit, style, or colour are completely unflattering.

Now tell me, was it wise to make such a rash apparel purchase? This demonstrates the value of thoroughly considering all possibilities and factors before choosing anything, even something as straightforward and unimportant as what to wear.

What about the significant choices that directly affect your future? For instance, picking the appropriate university to pursue an LLM from can be very complex. However, there is nothing to worry about. We've got you!

To help you with the tedious work of selecting a university, this article presents the best 20 universities for llm in uk.

But hold on, you have to determine where to buy these jeans before deciding what kind of pants you want, right? Which retailer—Zara, H&M, or Forever 21—is it? Similar to this, it's critical to consider why one would ever consider attending a UK university before learning about the top LLM programmes there.

Due to advantages including receiving a specialised degree, gaining real-world experience overseas, expanding your international network, the chance to pursue a career in academia, and studying from a globally renowned university, pursuing an LLM abroad has the potential to advance your career. These factors emphasise how crucial it is to choose where to pursue an LLM.

LLM hopefuls who want to attend some of the oldest and most esteemed colleges in the world frequently travel to the United Kingdom. The UK is home to some of the biggest and most renowned legal firms in the world, like Clifford Chance LPP and DLA Piper, giving law students a huge opportunity to obtain work experience or possibly get hired by these companies. The variety of legal studies provided by these prestigious universities may both thrill and astound you! However, we are here to support you.

Here’s a list of the top universities to pursue llm university in uk:

University Of East London (UEL)

University of Birmingham

Birmingham City University (BCU)

University of West London (UWL) – Thames valley university

Buckingham university

University of Wales College of Cardiff

City university of London

University of Hertfordshire

Council for national Academic awards

University of Bristol

Hull university

University of Durham

Inns of courts school of Law

University of Lancaster

Leeds University

Leicester University

London University

University of Warwick

Oxford University

Cambridge University

University of Liverpool

East Anglia university

Nottingham university

University of Manchester

Bangor University

Kingston University, London

University of Wolver Hampton

School of law, University of Sheffield

University of Kent, Canterbury

Brunei university

University of South Hampton

NorthUmbria University

University of the West Minster

BPP University College, London

University of Central Lancashire

University of Exeter

Anglia Ruskin University

University of Reading

Sussex university

University of Northampton

Aberystwyth University, Wales

University of Bristol

Moorgate and Bloomsbury Centre

University of Glasgow

Newcastle University

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❤️ How to predict WHERE you're going to meet your future spouse through Astrology ❤️

hi guys! in today's post I'm going to show you how to find out where you'll meet your future spouse through your birth chart. this technique was discovered by the astrologer Kapiel Raaj, and it's based on vedic astrology. hence, you're going to need your sidereal birth chart to calculate this. if you already know how to do that, you can skip this part.

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first of all, go to astro.com > horoscope and then click on extended chart selection.

add your birth data by clicking on the 'add a new person' button. it's necessary to have your accurate birth time for this, as it's based on your ascendant.

then scroll down and click on options for zodiac and houses. choose the whole signs house system and then click on sidereal. after that, choose 'hindu/lahiri' on the ayanamsha button.

after you've calculated your chart, it will be something like this (this is angelina jolie's sidereal birth chart):

to calculate where you're going to meet your spouse, we need to first of all take a look at the 7th house lord, which is the planet that rules your 7th house. in this chart it is saturn, as she has capricorn in her 7th house. now that you know what is your 7th house lord, look at where it's placed in your chart. also, keep in mind that since this is a sidereal technique, we're only going to take in consideration traditional rulers, therefore aquarius is ruled by uranus, pisces by jupiter and scorpio by mars. angelina has her saturn in gemini in the 12th house. the opposite sign indicates the circumstances or directly the place where you're going to meet your spouse. in this chart, it is sagittarius. keep reading for an explanation of each sign!!

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♈️ aries opposite 7th house lord ♈️

you're going to meet your spouse when doing some sort of physical activity. you may meet them at the gym, or maybe at a sport event like a football match. you could even meet them just by taking a casual walk, and it could be love at first sight. you two may also meet in a place where there's lots of noise and action, maybe even danger, probably not in a quiet place. places that are ruled by aries are palestine, england, hong kong, germany, poland, syria, israel, lithuania, senegal, sierra leone and zimbabwe. as for cities, we have birmingham, cape town, leicester, florence, krakow, naples, utrecht, marseilles and georgia.

♉️ taurus opposite 7th house lord ♉️

taurus loves the finer things in life, so if you have this sign opposite your 7th house lord you may meet your spouse during your chill time. for instance, you may meet them at a spa, at the mall, at the beach... anything that symbolizes relax for you. in addition, taurus also rules finances, therefore you could meet them in a bank or in any place or circumstance where you have to deal with finances, even in a shop for example. also, since taurus rules over the throat and the voice, you may meet at a place where there's singing for instance, or at least there's music playing in the background. last but not least, being an earth sign, taurus opposing your 7th house lord may also indicate that you're going to meet your future spouse in a place where there's lots of green, maybe at the park or in a forest. places that are ruled by taurus are cyprus, tasmania, ireland, capri, rhodes, the greek iIslands, cuba, east timor, serbia, tanzania, south africa and yemen. as for cities, we have lucerne, eastbound, eastbourne, hastings, palermo, leipzig, st. louis and dublin.

♊️ gemini opposite 7th house lord ♊️

with gemini opposing your 7th house lord, you may meet your future spouse through socializing. you could meet them through your friends or through your siblings, maybe they're a sibling of a friend of yours. you could also meet them during short-distance trips, so maybe in a city near you or even on a train, on a bus, etc. communication is going to be involved, and hence you could even meet them at an event where there's the need to talk and / or write. possibly, you may as well meet him online or in school. places that are ruled by gemini include iceland, sardinia, morocco, belgium, wales, eritrea, guyana, kuwait, norway, montenegro, sweden and tonga. as for cities, we have nuremberg, tripoli, san francisco, london, melbourne, plymouth and cardiff.

♋️ cancer opposite 7th house lord ♋️

if cancer is opposing your 7th house lord, then you could have possibly known your future spouse since your childhood. you could have met a school, or to talk in a more general way you may be from the same city. possibly, you could as well meet in a place where there are children, or where there's food. in addition, since cancer is ruled by the moon, you could meet in a place where there's moon symbolism. maybe during a full or new moon. perhaps, you're going to meet near water as well, as cancer is a water sign. places that are ruled by cancer include usa, paraguay, scotland, holland, the bahamas bahrain belize, burundi, cape verde, columbia, comoros, democratic republic of the congo croatia djibouti, kiribati laos, liberia, madagascar, malawi mozambique, rwanda, slovenia solomon islands, algeria, somalia, and south korea. as for cities, we have manchester, new york, stockholm, tokyo, venice, york, amsterdam and milan.

♌️ leo opposite 7th house lord ♌️

with the sign of leo opposing your 7th house lord, you’re likely to meet your future spouse in a place where there’s fun. it could be at a party, during a vacation, at a bar, a restaurant... certainly not at work, that’s for sure. you’ll  meet your spouse in a situation of relax, not of stress. since leo also rules celebrities, you may even meet them in a place where there are famous people, like a concert for instance. countries ruled by leo are afghanistan, india, italy, macedonia, romania, sicily, ecuador, zanzibar, bhutan, bolivia, central african republic chad, the ivory coast, gabon, indonesia, north korea, south korea, kyrgyzstan, malaysia, maldives, nicaragua, pakistan, mongolia, seychelles, singapore, ukraine and madagascar. as for cities, we have bristol, bombay, chicago, madrid, los angeles, philadelphia, rome and bath.

♍️ virgo opposite 7th house lord ♍️

virgo rules over health, and hence you may meet your future spouse in a health-related place. it could be at the doctor’s, at the dentist’s, in a hospital, etc. virgo is also routine, so you may meet your future spouse in a typical day of yours. it could be at the supermarket, at work, while you’re walking your dog, at the gym, and so on. basically, it could be that your future spouse is going to casually approach you in the streets. countries ruled by virgo include crete, brazil, greece, switzerland, turkey, uruguay, west indies, armenia, azerbaijan, belarus, brazil, costa rica, el salvador estonia guatemala, honduras, mali, moldova, qatar and tajikistan. as for cities we have athens, paris, toulouse, corinth, lyons, boston and mexico city.

♎️ libra opposite 7th house lord ♎️

if you have libra opposing your 7th house lord, you may get to meet your spouse in a place that has to do with beauty, so maybe in a clothes shop or at a salon. you may also meet them in a place where there are many people, or even at some sort of event like a marriage. libra also rules over politics and justice, so maybe you could meet them at the courthouse or during election time. countries that are ruled by libra include france, tibet, argentina, austria, burma, canada, china, japan, siberia, botswana, equatorial guinea, fiji, iraq, israel, lesotho, nigeria, palau, saint lucia, saudi arabia, tuvalu and uganda. as for cities that are ruled by libra we have lisbon, frankfurt, copenhagen, johannesburg, nottingham and antwerp.

♏️ scorpio opposite 7th house lord ♐️

scorpio is the sign of darkness, hence if you have it opposing your 7th house lord you may get to meet your spouse during nighttime. scorpio is also about sex, so this relationship could start off as a one night stand, or maybe you may meet in a place where sex is involved. you could also meet them in a place that has to do with death or where there's death symbolism, such as a graveyard (I hope not tho lol💀). you two may also be transforming yourselves when you meet, you could be starting a new chapter of your life to leave toxicity behind your shoulders. you could also meet at a place where you need to be naked, such as a beach or at the spa, or again in a place related to finances and money. countries that are ruled by scorpio include angola, morocco, queensland, korea, syria, norway, the transvaal, bavaria, antigua, barbuda, cambodia, dominica, latvia, lebanon, micronesia, panama, turkey, turkmenistan and zambia. cities that are ruled by scorpio include cincinnati, liverpool, newcastle, washington, vienna, baltimore and new orleans.

♐️ sagittarius opposite 7th house lord ♐️

sagittarius rules over foreign lands, so if you have it opposite your 7th house lord you're most likely going to meet your future spouse abroad. or perhaps, they are foreign and they travel to your country. you may also meet them in a place related to foreign culture, so maybe in a place filled with tourists, or perhaps in an exotic restaurant, perhaps at a sushi bar if you're not japanese for example. it may also be time for you for new experiences, perhaps you're doing something for the first time, such as trying a new sport or taking a plane. you may also meet your future spouse in college or in university, or in general in a place where there's teaching of any kind. last but not least, sagittarius is also a very spiritual sign, so you could meet them in a church, or maybe at an event related to religion such as a marriage, a baptism, etc. countries that are ruled by sagittarius include spain, australia, chile, hungary, saudi arabia, bangladesh, barbados, cameroon, kazakhstan, kenya, libya and mauritania. cities that are ruled by sagittarius include budapest, johannesburg, naples, nottingham, sheffield, sunderland, stuttgart and toronto.

♑️ capricorn opposite 7th house lord ♑️

capricorn is ruled by saturn, the planet of responsibilities, therefore if you have this sign opposing your 7th house lord you'll most likely meet your spouse on your workplace. perhaps they're your boss or a co-worker of yours, or maybe they may even be a customer of yours. you'll surely meet them later in life, when you're at least 27/28 years old, or perhaps when you manage to accomplish something really big in your life, not necessarily career-related. countries that are ruled by capricorn include india, bulgaria, mexico, great britain, albania, afghanistan, lithuania, bosnia, brunei, czech republic, haiti, nauru, slovakia and sudan. as for cities that are ruled by capricorn we have brandenburg, brussel, delhi, mexico city, port said, oxford and ghent.

♒️ aquarius opposite 7th house lord ♒️

you may meet your spouse in any place that has to do with electricity, for instance at a movie theater, at a theme park, at an apparel store, and so on. perhaps even on a public transport, such as a train, a taxi or a plane. also, since we're talking about electricity we can also count on internet, therefore if you have aquarius opposing your 7th house lord you have high chances of meeting your future spouse on social media, such as twitter, instagram, etc. or even through dating apps, such as tinder. last but not least, you may also be introduced to your spouse by your friends, or perhaps they could be a part of your group of friends. you may be both best friends and lovers, you would have a very playful and youthful relationship. countries that are ruled by aquarius include iran, finland, new zealand, russia, sweden, syria, ethiopia, the holy vatican city and sri lanka. cities that are ruled by aquarius include brighton, hamburg, helsinki, moscow, salzburg, st. petersburg and bremen.

♓️ pisces opposite 7th house lord ♓️

if you have pisces opposite your 7th house lord, you may first of all meet your future spouse near water. therefore you could meet them at the beach, at an aquarium, at the lake, at the pool, etc. perhaps even at a restaurant that serves seafood and fish, such as a sushi bar. pisces is also about alcohol, therefore you may also meet them in a bar or at a party where there's alcohol. pisces also rules over art and images, therefore you could meet them in a place where there are lots of pictures and paintings, such as a museum, or perhaps even at the movie theater, at a concert, etc. the club would be an option too, as it combines both alcohol and dancing, two pisces related things. also, it could be very late at night, when you're supposed to be sleeping, or perhaps, you're just sleepy or even drunk. last but not least, this placement usually indicates a soulmate or twinflame connection, therefore you may even meet your spouse first in the 5D than in the 3D, perhaps you feel spiritually connected to them even if you haven't met them yet. you could very likely dream of them as well. lastly, pisces is also about healing, so your future spouse may either work in the medicine field or maybe they're some sort of spiritual healer. you could possibly also meet them at the church or in a temple. countries that are ruled by pisces include normandy, north africa, portugal, samoa, egypt, Scandinavia, mauritius, morocco, namibia and tunisia. cities that are ruled by pisces include warsaw, alexandria, grimsby, jerusalem, bournemouth, seville and cowes.

and this is it! let me know in the comments where you're going to meet your spouse, and if you've already met them feel free to say if this post resonated with your experience!

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Videos of SIX The Musical Songs

All are legally-obtained and of current/former cast members performing the songs in full (including soundtrack versions). I didn’t include any megasixes, ex-wives/six mashups, singalongs, or partial songs. If I missed something, send me the link and I’ll add it (and if I included anything I shouldn’t have, let me know that as well)!

Full performances (six queens + costumes + choreography) are listed at the top of each section followed by others. Organized by production opening date, cover order, chronologically, and then alphabetically.

Ex-Wives

Original Broadway Cast [Full Performance, 2021 First Show]

Original Aragon Tour Cast + Keirsten Hodgens [Full Performance, First Chicago Preview]

First UK Tour Cast [West End Live 2018]

Samantha Pauly

No Way

Jarneia Richard-Noel

Grace Mouat [The Theatre Café/International Women’s Day]

Vicki Manser [Acoustic]

Candace Furbert

Natalie Pilkington

Jade Marvin

Don’t Lose Ur Head

Original West End Cast [Full Performance, West End Live 2019 Day 2]

2019-2021 West End Cast + Natalie Pilkington [Full Performance, West End Live 2021 Day 1]

2019-2021 West End Cast + Natalie Pilkington and Harriet Watson [Full Performance, West End Live Day 2]

Shannen Alyce Quan

Heart of Stone

Holly Musgrave [Original Version]

Shannen Alyce Quan [Original Version]

Natalie Paris [Magic at the Musicals 2019 Sound Check]

Hana Stewart, Cherelle Jay, Zara Macintosh, Collette Guitart [Evening Standard Future Theatre Fund Ceremony 2021]

Collette Guitart [The Show Must Go On 2021]

Caitlin Tipping

Amy Bridges

Maddison Firth

Shannen Alyce Quan

Courtney Mack, Keirsten Hodgens, Mallory Maedke, Nicole Kyoung-Mi Lambert [Broadway in Bryant Park 2021 Sound Check]

Courtney Mack, Keirsten Hodgens, Mallory Maedke, Nicole Kyoung-Mi Lambert [Broadway in Bryant Park 2021]

Haus of Holbein

2019-2021 West End Cast [Full Performance, West End Live 2020]

Samantha Pauly

Get Down

Original West End Cast [Full Performance, West End Live 2019 Day 1]

Original Broadway Cast [Full Performance, Mall of America]

Original Broadway Cast [Full Performance, Broadway Launch Party]

Tilda Wickham [Original Version]

Shekinah McFarlane [Manchester Christmas Markets]

Courtney Mack

Lauren Drew

All You Wanna Do

Samantha Pauly

Alicia Corrales-Connor

Lauren Byrne

Lauren Drew

Elizabeth Walker

Maddison Firth

I Don’t Need Your Love

Maiya Quansah-Breed

Six

Original West End Cast [Full Performance, West End Live 2019 Day 1]

Original West End Cast [Full Performance, West End Live 2019 Day 2]

2019-2021 West End Cast + Natalie Pilkington and Harriet Watson [Full Performance, West End Life 2021 Day 2]

First UK Tour Cast [Dance Attic]

Grace Mouat, Vicki Manser, Courtney Stapleton [West End Musical Drive-In]

2019-2021 West End Cast [Musicals: The Greatest Show] 2019-2021 West End Cast [London Musical Theatre Orchestra]

Original Broadway Cast [Curtain Up Broadway 2021]

Samantha Pauly

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References in Salman Rushdie's "The Golden House"

Lady Chatterley's Lover- D.H. Lawrence

Le Fantôme de l'Opéra

Goodbye to Berlin

Moby-Dick

The Purple Rose of Cairo

Breakfast at Tiffany's

Mémoires d'Hadrien- Marguerite Yourcenar

Woodcarver Steiner- Werner Herzog

Pina- Wim Wenders

The Vagina Monologues - Eve Ensler

Two Philosophers Deep in Meditation - Rembrandt

The Longest Journey - Forster

Auto-da-Fé - Canetti

Wired

The satyricon - Mennipe

Cyclops - Euripides

The Net Fishers - Aeschylus

The trackers - Sophocles

The Trackers of Oxyrhynchus - Tony Harrison

The Golden Ass- Aesop

Rain Man

Sad- Eyed Lady of the Lowlands- Bob Dylan

La Belle Dame sans Merci

The Man who Was Thursday - GK Chesterton

Monty Pythons Flying Circus

Spamalot

Oklahoma!

West Side Story

Dr Mabuse The Gambler - Lang

One Thousand and One Nights

The Diamond as Big as the Ritz

The Privilege of Owning Yourself- Nietzsche

Tokyo Monogatari

Orfeu Negro

Le charme discret de la bourgeoisie

Water Lilies - Claude Monet

Adoration of the Magi - Peter Paul Ruben

Wild is The Wind - Bowie

Famous Blue Raincoat-Cohen

Under the Bridge-RHCP

Pierrot le fou

Arthur Schlesinger

Gayatri Spivak

Baba Yaga

Green Eggs and Ham- Dr Seuss

Twilight

The Silence of The Lambs

The Hunt for Red October

Metamorphosis- F Kafka

The Graduate

Mansoon Wedding

The Deer Hunter

Kill Bill: Vol. 2

The Princess Bride

Yellow Earth- Chen Kaige

The Godfather- the trilogy

Uncle Boonmee Who Can Recall His Past Lives- Apichat Pong

Rosemary's Baby

Fedorovskaya icon of the Mother of God

V for Vendetta -Wachowski

The Great Gatsby- FS Fitzgerald

Jeeves series-PG Woodehouse

Odyssey

Six Feet Under

The Seventh Seal- Ingmar Bergman

Hannah and Her Sisters

Flash Gordon

Invisible Cities- Italo Calvino

Closely Observed Trains- Jiri Menzel

Sanjuro- Kurosawa

Bonnie and Clyde - Arthur Penn

Amarcord- Fellini

L'argent de poche- Truffaut

The Hustles- Rossen

L'année derniere à Marienbad- Resnais

Knife in the Water- Polanski

La belle noiseuse

Breathless

Le mépris

The Jungle Book- R Kypling

Aguirre, the Wrath of God- Herzog

Funes the Memorious. L Borges

The Dignity of Man- Pico della Mirandola

2001: A space Odyssey- S Kubrick

Birdman

The Cabinet of Dr Caligari

Marx Brothers comedy

Reservoir Dogs- Q Tarantino

Within You Without You. Tomorrow Never knows. Norwegian Wood. Love to You- The Beatles

The Inheritors- Golding

Alexander Nevesky. The Battleship Potemkin- Sergei Eisenstein

Seinfeld

Le feu follet- Louis Malle

The Best Bits

La La Land

Arrival

Manchester by teh Sea

Oedipus the King

Sheppey- Somerset Maugham

Night Watch- Rembrandt

Madame Bovary- Flaubert

Beetlejuice

Age of Innocence- Edith Warton

Poetry & Aeroplanes

Mars Attacks!- Tim Burton

The Court Jester

The Golden House (the film)

Citizen Kane

Porky's XXII

Dumb FucksXIX

Titanic

Rear Window

I Confess- Montgomery Clift

Bombay Talkie

Kuch Nahin Kahin Nahin Kabhi Nahin Koi Nahin( Nothing Nowhere Never Nobody)- Maratha Mandir

Company- Raj Gopal Varma

Shootout at Lokhandwala- Sanjay Gupta

Once upon a Time in Mumbaai (1&2) - Milan Luthria

Shakspeare in Love

Psycho- Hitchcock

Ran-Akira Kurosawa

Pather Panchali-Satyajit Ray

The Outcasts of Providence Street/the Exterminating Angel- L Bunuel

Some works might have been missed.

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It took me a few days to get back to you, but hey hi hello again <3

Yep! I've craved for many years to extend the Fallout 4 map to include all of New England, not just Bar Harbor and about a third of Massachusetts. I've called the region between the Great Lakes and Maine "The Hinter," though I fluctuate whether that includes US-annexed Canada, or if that's its own entity. Vermont, New Hampshire, and Maine are the particular focus for my worldbuilding efforts for The Hinter. (I really need to put in the effort to flesh out what survived of Montréal in the Underground City. Montréal, Ottawa, and Canada in general are a blind spot in the project at present. I don’t really have much of anything for Northern New York yet, either.)

A lot of my focus has been on meteorological and geological features. Settlements are scattered and, as I mentioned in the post about August, many of those are nomadic and don't stay put in any one place for more than a few months. Let's see if I can sort my thoughts a bit better than last time. Starting with an incredibly messy mostly traced map. Let me know if Tumblr shrinks it too much to be legible, and I’ll repost this reply as an image post. Not sure what it does with inline images these days...

Edit: Tumblr done screwed up these inline pics. I made a separate photo post here.

Let’s discuss... The Hinter.

Hinter Settlements

The region called The Hinter starts at the Northern border of Massachusetts. I typically demarcate it somewhere West of Montréal, and out East some way into Nova Scotia. Settlements are few and far between, but it’s not unheard of for individuals and single families to occupy houses “in the middle of nowhere.” There’s a lot of mountain life abound. Vault-Tec only built two proper vaults in New England outside Massachusetts--one in New Hampshire, and one in Bar Harbor, Maine. Most settlements consolidated survivors in locations ripe with prewar amenities.

The warhead that struck Montréal permanently obstructed the flow of the St. Lawrence River. Lake Champlain subsequently dried up and became a valley, no longer able to collect sufficient water from the Richelieu. Its sediment is rich in nuclear deposits washed in from the inundation of the tributary being blasted off course, and its lime in particular a major facet of the glassblowers’ artistry in Burlington, VT.

The Underground City (Montréal, Québec): Based on the location by the same name, much like in the Capital Wastes with its extensive subway tunnels, Montréal’s population largely took shelter beneath it. I haven’t fleshed it out, but it’s definitely still the largest Canadian settlement. It’s not very well known to outsiders, and the primary travelers are Children of Atom pilgrims on Valence track. (Eternal thanks to @mayihavethisdanse for cluing me into details for this area. You’ve contributed some really great insight for this region in general.)

Burlington, VT: A Children of Atom settlement. The Grand Mother Skwodovska of the Hinter Children resides in the Five Sisters monastery here, a sect dedicated to archival of holy knowledge. Much of the settlement overall is monastic glassblowers, who craft with a mixture of lime from the now-dry Champlain Basin and trinitite silicates that washed ashore from the Montréal blast. They make non-radioactive glassware as well, but only for commerce.

Montpelier Galleria, VT: A settlement with both pockets of Children and a sizable secular population. The federal district provides housing for a diverse mercantile settlement structured much like Bunker Hill in the Commonwealth.

Manchester, NH: [Redacted] live here, unknown to a majority of the region. Not even Children at The Ledge tend to be aware of their misanthropic hidden neighbors.

Ant Lane (Nashua, NH): Once the Pheasant Lane Mall, Ant Lane was erected as an experiment in above-ground vault design. It held fast on Great War Day, and now stands as one of the largest settlements in the entire Hinter. Many of the inhabitants of both the mall and the satellite strip are descendants of those shopping on October 23, 2077, but it is a major travel hub on the border of the Hinter. Ant Lane’s Concourse is a significant Granitic Mass site, lined with holy Barre granite, but for reasons unknown to a majority of Children, it does not whisper. Children have thus nicknamed the mall “the Quiet Granite.” Burlington Glassworks is the Children’s home within Ant Lane, and while living at the mall on their Valence pilgrimages, they spend the season diligently maintaining the Armillary Bulbs which illuminate an otherwise entirely dark shopping mall. The Aldermen and the Mayor have a generational dynamic. Also there are literal ants.

Far Harbor, ME

also, included to bridge my worldbuilding, these two aren’t in the Hinter proper, but are still important-ish:

Worcester, MA: CIT Worcester is overrun with Super Mutant activity hostile to outsiders. There are human settlements in the outskirts.

Lowell, MA: Largely a ghost town. There’s still signs of life on base at the Deenwood Compound in Chelmsford, but the largest settlement is in Voire in Centralville. The Furriers are heavily mutated social chem addicts who do travel to do trade with their meat and leather craft. Their leather is the zenith of Rad-Resistant gear, for one intending to live in the Hinter for any duration.

The Hinter Children

Hinter Children’s religious history goes back well before the Megaton caravan brought Cromwell’s Children into New England, but the religion found its direction and unity in their arrival. Much of the area saw Joual-style modification of Quebecois, and Children are frequently fluent in a “Church French” version of Quebecois called Keb, complete with the bleed of Catholic imagery. Many Children are bilingual, but it’s far less common for them to speak English in locations where its inhabitants are residents not travelers, such as Five Sisters, the Rock of Ages, or the Singing Stone District. As a whole, the Hinter speaks Keb, regardless of whether their spirituality follows the Church of Children.

Armillary Bulbs: Glassblowing has become a religious practice for the children of Burlington, approximating the ideology of Holy Atom as a World-Vessel. Their primary commerce by caravan with other settlements is their rich glass artistry, most notably their alchemical lights, armillary bulbs. Klein bottles with necks flourished to intimate an atomic diagram, these bulbs are filled with a fluid which fluoresces in reaction to the radiation present in the glass. (They’re in essence reverse uranium glass: the contents glow, not the glass.) They provide a long-lasting light source free of electrical necessity, a crucial utility for anyone living in The Hinter.

The Far Harbor Children got along on neutral terms with the nomadic Hinter Children for years, until Tektus took on the mantle of High Confessor and shut out the slightest hints of heresy. The lighting in the Nucleus is the only thing that remains now of the time during which Hinter Children could make pilgrimage to the hangar, albeit disguised as or transferred to other vessels to mask their origins. When pressed on the matter, the High Confessor will insist that the chemistry of the light source is a gift found in Atom’s Kingdom and available for the pious and humble, NOT those heathen Fog-Lost.

Atom As a Woman: Burlington Children in particular believe Atom is a World-Mother.

Granitic Mass: The greatest source of Tektus branding them heretics, the Hinter Children regard not just nuclear sites as holy but large granite and marble quarries also. Granitic intrusions have a tendency to “imprint” resonance, especially upon adopting its crystalline structure. All Children believe in Division: just as atoms split and spill forth Atomic Light, so to does the soul. For the Hinter Children, these Granitic Masses are evidence of entire worlds that underwent Division, the cosmic dust of which forged our current world. Certain quarry sites are settlements for higher orders of Hinter Children, most notably the Rock of Ages, home to the Daughters of Radon.

In addition to the quarries themselves, granite hewn from specific quarries to erect architecture and monuments are of particular holy significance to Hinter Children. The Hope Cemetery, the Singing Stone District, and Saint Gaudens Park are notable examples. Traveling Route 89 from Ant Lane to Burlington, Children frequent any major cemeteries rich with statues and headstones. The Singing Stone District in the ruins of downtown Montréal is one of the largest concentrations of both Barre and Stanstead granite, used for federal and financial district structures such as the Sun Life Building. It is a harrowing site to traverse, however, and observing here is often reserved for Hierosacristans.

Valence Pilgrimage: Just as atomic particles follow an orbit drawn in by Atom’s nucleus, Hinter Children travel extensively from Granitic Mass to Granitic Mass. Typical travel takes them clockwise from site to site at the changing seasons or more frequent. Only Sacristans, tasked with curating a Granitic Mass, stay longer. Pilgrims travel in troupes by caravan, doing commerce with non-Children along the way and spreading the good will of the World-Mother. Not all Children travel the same orbit: some cut wide and far, while others visit only a couple of Granitic Masses.

Hierosacristans and the Daughters of Radon: Most Hinter Children follow set travel routes on their Valence orbits. Within Barre’s Daughters of Radon are two groups. The first remains behind to worship the granite and listen to its whispers. The other travels off the well-traveled orbit, in search of documenting other Granitic Masses. The latter, Hierosacristans, are in essence the Hinter Children’s Zealots. They are a rare example of the pacifistic faction taking up armor and defensive weaponry. Sacristans act as scribes, archivists, and religious leaders. Hierosacristans act as trailblazing cartographers. Prior to their exile from the Nucleus, Hierosacristans were afforded access to procuring Marine Armor, but they have since been denied even that. Their armor in recent years is frequently a mix of salvaged metal and the fur and leather of CaRadBou, the fur of which absorbs all Atomic Glow and shines a brilliant white. Due to their sheer size, hunting CaRadBou is also an activity left to Daughters, who can travel as a pack to collect one to feed a settlement as needed.

Stone Tape Sites (Children Holy Sites)

Hinter Children worship not just nuclear sites, but also granite and marble quarries and architectural remains which used stone hewn from them. As stated above, under Granitic Mass, the material’s tendency to record information in its crystalline structure presents itself to Hinter Children as proof of the Worlds Before. (Granite can be very radioactive as well, depending on its composition.)

(A wip of the Ant Lane Concourse.)

The Singing Stone District (Montréal, QC): The federal and financial district in the ruins of what once was downtown Montréal. Barre and Stanstead granite were both used extensively during the city’s deco revival. It’s incredibly hazardous to travel at ground zero in Montréal, both due to failing buildings and the various wildlife that’s reclaimed the involuntary park, so travel here is typically reserved for pilgrims equipped for it. The most highly revered of the structures is the still standing Sun Life Building. Children just love that company logo...

Burlington, VT: The Hinter Children’s mecca. Some study at the Five Sisters monastery as Sacristans. Others observe glassblowing practices, crafting Armillaries. Though not a granitic site, the entire Champlain Basin is of particular significance as a nuclear site, due to the geological sequelae of the Montréal bomb during the Great Division.

Stanstead Quarry (Stanstead, QC): Prewar, this quarry was bored by the same company that owned Rock of Ages. Its makeup is largely the same as Rock of Ages, but it lay deeper in the Fog, and can be a difficult travel location on the Valence orbit. It’s socially acceptable for Hinter Children to season here for long stretches, as most Children are not versed in combat and wildlife this deep North into the Hinter can be harrowing. The granite here typically does not produce audible playback, but often yields breathtaking boreal effects.

The Nucleus (Mt. Desert, Bar Harbor, ME): Nucleus Children call pilgrims the “Fog-Lost” after the High Confessor’s pejorative. They’re forbidden from entering the hangar, but are known to wander the wilderness directly surrounding it. Hinter Children insist that Atom’s Spring is for all Atom’s Children, not only those Tektus will call his own. Every season the Zealots will elect a single “Fog-Lost” to drink from the Spring and report back their experience. If the Zealots believe the individual’s vision indicates the good favor of the Fog Mother, the entire group of pilgrims may partake in a Fog sabbatical together. They are not allowed to season anywhere on the island past this test and ritual. Harbormen no longer trust any Children, regardless of their allegiances. (Mt. Desert is additionally a granitic site, but it is not from a granitic intrusion with strong imprints.)

Maine State Prison (Thomaston, ME): Originally a penitentiary quarry abandoned long before the Great Division, the warden used prison labor for recreational excavation. This location has only just recently been discovered by Hierosacristans, and is not populated. Grand Mother Skwodovska has yet to declare it safe for pilgrimage. Despite its original imprint of the Worlds Before, due to the nature of the labor which carved it out of the Earth, it’s also picked up the essence of repetitive manual labor.

The Ledge (Derryfield Park, Manchester, NH): This granite lights up in a brilliant boreal tapestry under the right conditions. Before the Great Division, prewar Manchesterites were drawn to the water that fills this quarry. Many swimmers were once compelled to jump from the top of the quarry walls down into the water below, often to their deaths. Hinter Children do not venture any deeper West into the ruins of Manchester, content with the forested region surrounding The Ledge and Vault 140. Second only to the Rock of Ages, Children regard wintering at The Ledge to be the height of their religious experience. They will ice skate on the pond well to dance with the lights.

Ant Lane (Pheasant Lane Mall, Nashua, NH): Its Concourse is lined with holy Barre granite, but for reasons unknown to Children it no longer whispers. The Children call the mall “the Quiet Granite.” Children usually only stay for one season at a time, to share the task of maintaining the Armillary Bulbs which illuminate the settlement, before handing the task over to the next caravan of pilgrims coming in from The Ledge.

Saint Gaudens Park: Monument to one of the greatest sculptors of the modern world, and the designer of countless bronze monuments throughout the country, the grounds are filled with examples of his granite, marble, and bronze work. The park lay just off Route 89 on one’s way Northwest through the White Mountains. Many Children pass through here. It still functions as a sculptural school, and here many hone their grasp of three-dimensional space to heighten their glassblowing skills upon returning up the interstate home to Five Sisters. It’s said the artistic medium whispers to the artist, begging to be freed.

Dunwich Borers (Salem, MA): A site chiefly reserved for Hierosacristans, as traversing such a deep mine shaft requires skill and purpose... It’s also necessary for Children entering the mine to be able to remind feral ghouls of what they are, as the deeper one goes, the more one will find. The granite in this location is especially radioactive.

Kingsport Lighthouse (Kingsport, MA): a splinter sect of Children who worship a Glowing One. An example of a denomination of Children who regard ghouls, feral or not, as touched by Atom. They likely once studied at the Church of Eternal Light before traveling with the Megaton caravan that brought the Capital Wastes’ Children into New England. (included as an afterthought cause I forgot)

Thicket Excavations (Bedford, MA): I can’t remember off the top of my head what I had planned out for this site. I can’t even remember if I think the Children would have determined a way to drain it, or if they’d leave it flooded. It’s there. I guess.

Quincy Quarries (Quincy, MA): An abandoned quarry picked as a site for widespread improper nuclear waste disposal. Not a Valence site, but Hierosacristans do make occasional visits to the location in an attempt to convert the rational ghouls who have taken up residence in the quarry. Despite these ghouls’ resistance thus far to listen to religious fanatics, Hinter Children still regard them utmost as Atom’s Undying.

Crater of Atom (Providence, RI): When the Children traveled from Megaton to make pilgrimage to the Nucleus, the caravans eventually split into three directions. The then-Sister Skwodovska took one North, and founded Five Sisters and the Singing Stone District. The Then-Confessors Martin and Tektus led a second Northeast, and founded the Nucleus. Sister Isolde took the third East, and founded the Crater of Atom amidst the Glowing Sea. Now Mother Isolde, she cares deeply for all Atom’s pilgrims. The settlement will accept any of Atom’s Children, regardless of whether they are simply visiting, so long as they will not hesitate to protect the holy site without hesitation. (included in sentiment only cause I cropped to where it isn’t shown on the map)

Retreat Trail (Retreat, Brattleboro, VT): In a similar way that Maine State Prison prescribed prison labor as a mode of rehabilitation, so too did Brattleboro Retreat, the nation’s first asylum committed to recovery. Many of the stone formations in the area Currently only known to a single immodestly heretical Hinter Child, August, though Hierosacristan Fresnel will eventually cross paths with him and seek to study the site. The tower was erected in rough-hewn local granite, but the whispering stone lays below ground in a cistern where digging had allegedly continued past the point the project required. The nature trail which encircles the Tower is of particular caliber for meditative strolls for Hinter Children, a personal solipsistic Valence track of sorts. The asylum itself is a strong candidate for Children housing, should the Grand Mother ever declare it appropriate for Children to make pilgrimage.

Norcross-West Quarry (Dorset, VT): The oldest marble quarry in the country. Though not granite, the metamorphic rock contains some of the most potent Worlds Before imagery. Many of its subterranean inhabitants observe a hybridized religion between their wilderness beliefs and the ideologies the Children have brought with them on their Valence. Sacristans remain on site year-round to study the visions the granite yields, though many inhabitants consider the phenomena ordinary by their everyday standards, they’re so commonplace.

Hope Cemetery (Barre, VT): Mausoleums, monuments, and headstones here are all carved from holy Barre granite. Sacristans curate the monuments here year round, often traveling only a two-site Valence between it and the Rock of Ages. Its imprints are fragmented and scattered, but frequent in the open air.

The Rock of Ages Quarry (Barre, VT): The holiest Granitic Mass to the Hinter Children. Only Hierosacristans are permitted in its deepest caverns, but the vast deep dimension rock face of the site whisper so loudly and so continuously that even Children who are not Daughters of Radon can hear it. Rock of Ages was regarded as a Stone Tape site even before the Great Division, and pursuit of its secrets has been ongoing for centuries. Its history is the most well documented of any of the Children’s holy sites.

Weather

Weather in the Hinter still includes events commonplace before the Great Division, but two types of weather have since developed.

The Fog: Not isolated to Mt. Desert Island, a dense radioactive fog blankets a high ratio of the Hinter. Unless settlers are able to tolerate mountain life above the Fog, they must adjust their living conditions accordingly. It can yield a weak magnetic field at times that can cause the simplest technology to malfunction. Even a seasoned internal compass can be led astray. Without extensive Wasteland homoeopathy or sufficient Rad Resistance, it’s impossible to survive in the Fog for any extended duration.

Nor’easters: Before the war, they posed the risks of both a blizzard and a hurricane, but now the highly radioactive seawater they carry ashore has mutated them into an entirely different, more potent hazard. Once a storm cell hits the Fog front, they magnify one another, generating deeply disorienting magneto-acoustic fields and scattering upwards of ten feet of radioactive snow at a time. These magneto-acoustic fields “activate” the granite imprints and trigger replay events of the sensory input contained therein. Children consider such experiences deeply entheogenic, as only Daughters can experience the granite whispers without a storm to bring out the Worlds Before.

Hinter Children are especially winter-ready, and even pilgrims mid-transit rarely struggle in the face of heavy winter weather. They have to be ready, if they’re to witness for themselves every event time the eldritch arcane seems to bleed from one reality into the next.

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I’ve probably forgotten things here and there... but here she is. Gonna put a lampshade on my Lovecraft-grade spoiler dodging and call it a night.

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The York Galleria is the only surviving one of five malls developed in York, PA, over the years. Prior to the Galleria, the east side of York had the York Mall, opened in 1968, with anchors JCPenney, Montgomery Ward, and York's own The Bon-Ton, as well as a flagship location of McCrory's variety store. The west side of town was dominated by the West Manchester Mall, a 1981 mall from major mall developer Crown American Corporation. This mall featured Hess's, The Bon-Ton, and Gee Bee as anchors. The two other malls, North Mall and Delco Plaza Mall, were smaller and both struggled to compete with the nearby West Manchester.

In the late 80s, another big mall developer, George Zamias, chose to build the York Galleria in east York - right next to the York Mall. He described the Galleria as the 21st century mall that York deserved. Upon opening in 1989, York Galleria featured Sears, Boscov's, JCPenney, and The Bon-Ton; the latter two stores had left the York Mall behind to join the Galleria.

This presented an opportunity for Arkansas-based Walmart to open at the wounded York Mall in its former JCPenney building in 1990. It was the first store in PA for the particularly ruthless Walmart, which would spend the next 30 years laying waste to rival northeastern discount stores. The West Manchester Mall wasn't hit as hard by the opening of the Galleria, but it too made the mistake of welcoming in Walmart to replace their closed Hess's store in 1993.

Walmart later expanded both stores into supercenters that swallowed up huge sections of the malls they were attached to, and a Sam's Club was added at the York Mall site next to Montgomery Ward. Far from keeping these two malls afloat, Walmart helped kill them from the inside out. The closure of Montgomery Ward in the late 90s was the final straw for York Mall; West Manchester was slated for redevelopment after The Bon-Ton left in 2011. Today, the York Galleria stands as the city's only mall, but it has faced its own struggles recently. At least part of this comes from the various former malls in York that the Galleria had previously helped to kill.

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CONTENTS: Enola Holmes (2020)

Screencap Analysis

Enola Holmes: Dragon Fireworks

THE DYNAMITE OUTRAGES AT THE WEST END OF LONDON

Enola Holmes: Eudora’s Clues

Enola Holmes Jujutsu

Enola Holmes: Jujutsu (pt 1)

Enola Holmes: Jujutsu (pt 2)

MANCHESTER

Enola Holmes: Pall Mall Gazette, Tuesday 17

Enola Holmes (2020): Pall Mall Gazette Vol XL

Enola Holmes: Tewkesbury Reward sign transcript

Enola Holmes: Revisiting the Tewkesbury Reward Sign Poster

Think I found an error!

Enola Holmes (2020): Women’s Suffrage Meeting Invitation transcript

Scenery Notes

Enola Holmes (2020): Railway Images 1

Enola Holmes (2020): Regent Street, London

Enola Holmes (2020): How high is the Stephens Viaduct?

Distances in Enola Holmes

Vehicles

Summary: Vehicle movement rates

Part I

Appendix A: Calculator Results

Distances in Enola Holmes: Ferndell to Basilwether: Preliminary Estimates

Enola Holmes: Revisiting the Tewkesbury Reward Sign Poster

Distances in Enola Holmes: Basilwether Hall and Station: Placename

Distances in Enola Holmes (2020): Ferndell Geography

Distances in Enola Holmes: Ferndell Etymology, plus more on Basilwether

Distances in Enola Holmes: If Trains Could Talk

Distances in Enola Holmes: Railway Route Analysis

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Sherlock Holmes Research Links - Sherlock Holmes, Victoriana, etc.

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Monday 28 August 1837

7 20

12 40

Slept with A- fine autumnal morning F46° at 8 35 and off with A- walked with her as far as the old bar-house on her way to Cliff Hill – then sometime at Hipperholme quarry – Booth there – he followed me to the wheel-race – I said the wheel must be covered over – better make the building so that it would contain 3 or 4 worsted frames – I had quite given up the idea of a corn-mill (1st time of my decidedly saying this to B- or anyone, I think, except A- or Messrs Harper and Gray – and said it afterwards today to Robert Mann) – the building should be 19 yards long to cover wheelrace and pentrough – say 20 yards long x 8 yards wide within, and 10ft. high up to the square of the roof – the quantity of walling would be according to the n° of windows – say 30 roods of walling at 20/. or 21/. because carting from Hipperholme quarry is gain – but good common walling 18in. thick had lately cost 23/. or 24/. per rood – then there would be the hewing work windows and doors – there would be about 18 ½ squares of roofing at 45/. per square tho’ Mallinson had 50/. or 2 ½ guineas per square for Stump X Inn new building – it would be better to board the floor and then flag it over – this often done now – Suppose

Listerwick wheel-race covering over

30 roods walling at 21/.    = 31.10.0

hewing work                          10.0.0

say 20 squares roofing at 45 =     45.0.0

floor barded and flagged      50.0.0

joiners work     20.0.0

glaziers ditto    10.0.0

Painting    5.0.0

171.10.0

 Staling at 8d. per yard finding laths and nails   7.10.0

slates     15.0.0

Plaster     10.0.0

204.0.0

Booth arrived soon after me set Edward Waddington and John Sharp and Gray the labourer to fill [pull] down the old saddle room – got the chimney down and window out and the slate off in the course of the day – James and Mark Sharp walling about doorways from the house into the west tower and 3 or 4 of B-‘s other men at the terrace steps near the draw well – Robert M- and c° at the rough dry walling against the turret passage – 2 or 3? of Mawson’s carts carting stuff from there the home gates are to be. to foot of embankment in the hall wood beyond the great sycamore – Parkinson and c° at the top terrace walls, and P- himself at finishing the coach house court cistern arches – Nelsons’ men at the turret – and full force of the Manns hired carts at the platform – the gardener and brick layers at the garden walls – came in to breakfast at 10 40 – Mr. Barber junior called about leave to shoot – sent word by George I was very particularly engaged and could not see him, but would send the written leave – out again at 11 ¼ - having first come upstairs for a few minutes and said my prayers with tears of gratitude trickling down and then wrote in pencil on a loose bit of paper ‘I think perpetually of A-‘s leaving me and wish it more and more how merciful providence has been to me given her to me to spirit me up in the beginning and now takes her away just when I see that she could not make me happy’….. out again at 11 ¼ - about – Day came between 12 and 1 and I gave him a bottle of cowslip wine to take back for Mrs. AW- she had had a good night and was much the same as yesterday according to A-‘s little written slip of paper – siding in the corn chamber till 4 ½ and then off to H-x down the old bank to Mr. Parker’s – nobody in the office – went for sometime to Whitley’s and ordered 50 copies of the advertisement and bought Pinnocks Taylors’ Greece (history of) and Curtis on the preservation of health - - then bought 2 very small locks (for the clock) at Ropes’ and returned to Mr. P-‘s office – he was returned from High roydes – had been to see how the people got on with the reparation of the roof – the dog that Mr. Sunderland gave my father at Holts’ (High roydes) under sentence to be shot, Marian not choosing to go on paying Mr. Parkinson (late Cordingley) 2/6 per week for his keep – Mr. Parker hesitated about shooting so fine a dog – I said he was not fit to shoot over and I should shoot him – enough – Marian’s order is to be executed – shewed P- my landtax papers received on Friday last and brought them back but signed the receipt for them on the printed form sent by Mr. Rance, and left it as a letter to be forwarded by Mr. P-  P- then witnessed my signing the power of attorney for Messrs. Hugh Hammersleys banker and Marmaduke Pybus gentlemen both of Pall mall to receive the dividends for me on the £424 = £461.10.0 stock in the 3 percent [?] invested the other day for the infant Graham – P- signed ‘Robert Parker solicitor H-x Yorkshire’ adding the designation and address at my suggestion and dated the power today, 28 August – Mr. Carr from home till Saturday when P- saw him, and was coming here (Shibden) this afternoon if I had not gone to H-x   would I see Mr. C-? no! I thought that would do no good – P- and Mr. Harper had best settle the matter – C- must be rid of the coaches by the 5th of October (to avoid the taxes) but would have no objection to land his name and keep them on for a month or 2 to convenience me – he to choose one valourer and I another, and if they did not agree, they to choose a 3rd. – I said this was fair – I desired P- to talk the matter over with Mr. Harper – said I had ordered a few copies of the advertisement which I meant to send to some people I knew, in London and Leamington – would it not be well to send one to Lacey of the Royal hotel Manchester? oh! said P- he would be a good person to value the coaches – made no answer but thought Mr. Harper’s man Kemplay of Leeds would do better for me – mentioned the field at Northgate let till Xmas by Messrs. Husband and Nelson – P- would impound the cattle and if the man made anything to do bring an action of trespass against him – mentioned also A-‘s public house at Hipperholme – P- should have  a plan shewing the relative situations of the Inn and Ely Taylors’ beer shop and it would be well to have one of the Stump X Inn and Mr. Stocks’s new house – P- against Thomas Greenwood having a workshop at Northgate – he (P-) should see SW. to prove the notice to quit to Standeven – returned up the old bank – about ½ hour at P-‘s office – home about 5 40 – sauntered about – saw the gardener and told him he must speak to Robert Mann about a cart to cart the manure and told him I had to have the top garden wall brick inside, as also the south wall, but this latter faced with stone outside – came in at 6 40 – to tell A- to write note to SW. for the plans, and send it tonight by little John Booth who happened to be here – come for milk – dinner at 7 ½ - coffee at 8 40 – A- came upstairs at 9 40 and I a few minutes after – the large oak hall table moved this afternoon from the drawing room into the oak room and the model of Switzerland also from ditto into ditto and placed (as before) on the large oak table – I intended my portable bookcase and books to remain where they are till my room in the west tower is ready for them? fine day F50° at 10 pm – sat 1/2 hour with [A] partly at her bedside saying at dinner that P- would want SW about Standeven put her out of sorts but I gave her cherry brandy for poorliness! and took no notice of the temper  Mr. Gray must see how the matter stands

the clock ½ hour too soon

stopt it that much tonight and then at 11 20 had just written all the above of today

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Kimico Heavenah Women's Wear

West Manchester Mall

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Trump again appears to back away from gun background checks

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COWARD 🤬🤬Trump again appears to back away from gun background checks

By Josh Dawsey and David Nakamura |

Published August 19 at 8:36 PM ET | Washington Post | Posted August 20, 2019 7:11 AM ET |

President Trump appears to be backing away from potential support for gun background check legislation, according to White House aides, congressional leaders and gun advocates, dimming prospects that Washington will approve significant new gun measures in the wake of mass shootings that left 31 dead.

Immediately after the carnage in El Paso and Dayton, Ohio, Trump said “there is a great appetite” for tightening background checks on people who buy firearms. But in recent days, Trump has focused in public remarks on the need to keep guns out of the hands of the mentally ill while emphasizing that the nation already has “very strong background checks right now” — positions that hew more closely to the views of the National Rifle Association.

Behind the scenes, Trump’s communication with key lawmakers, including Sen. Joe Manchin III, a moderate Democrat from West Virginia who has sought to develop bipartisan gun-control measures, has gone mostly cold, according to Capitol Hill aides, in part because Congress has left town for its summer recess.

Meanwhile, the president spent most of his time with advisers during his week-long vacation in Bedminster, N.J., focused on other matters, including the possibility of an economic downturn, contentious trade talks with China, his nascent 2020 reelection campaign and concerns about how the media portrayed the size of the crowd at his campaign rally Thursday in Manchester, N.H.

On Monday, Democratic leaders said they viewed Trump’s shifting posture as a sign that he was never serious about leading a push to tighten gun laws.

“We’ve seen this movie before: President Trump, feeling public pressure in the immediate aftermath of a horrible shooting, talks about doing something meaningful to address gun violence, but inevitably, he backtracks in response to pressure from the NRA and the hard-right,” Senate Minority Leader Charles E. Schumer (D-N.Y.) said in a statement. “These retreats from President Trump are not only disappointing but also heartbreaking, particularly for the families of the victims of gun violence.”

A White House official rejected the notion that Trump has shifted his stance, pointing to remarks the president made to reporters last week in which he stated support for “strong, meaningful background checks” that would help prevent “people that are insane, people that are mentally ill” from obtaining firearms.

“The president is not backing down,” said the official, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss the president’s position. “The White House continues to work through a policy process and is engaging with congressional staff on several fronts.”

The slaughter of 22 people in an El Paso shopping mall and nine in a Dayton nightlife district in less than 24 hours in early August marked the latest instances of mass violence amid increasingly frequent mass shootings and rising concern about domestic extremism.

But after each round of killings, the political debate has failed to produce a significant response by Congress, as Republicans have joined the powerful gun lobby in resisting fresh gun-control legislation.

On Monday, Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) called on Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) to let his chamber vote on a bill approved by the Democratic-led House that would mandate universal background checks for gun purchases, including private transfers. But McConnell has rebuffed calls to bring the Senate back to Washington to deal with the issue, and his advisers acknowledged that he is unlikely to act without Trump’s leadership.

McConnell has told advisers that he would push legislation only if the president were fully on board and it had widespread support among Republicans in the Senate.

One Democratic aide noted that Trump has signaled that he would seek reelection by rallying his conservative base and that it does not seem plausible that the president would buck his most ardent supporters by leading an effort to strengthen background checks, which is fiercely opposed by the NRA. This aide pointed to the “game of hot potato” between Trump and McConnell, with each insisting that the other should make the first move.

“Trump says it’s on Congress to lead,” said the aide, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to frankly address the political dynamics. “That’s an easy way for nothing to ever get done.”

White House officials said they are preparing a list of other ideas on gun and mental health issues for Trump to review and potentially pass on to Congress with his support.

But Trump’s campaign commissioned a poll on guns after this month’s shootings, and his political advisers warned him that there is little support for significant action among Republican voters, and even some Democrats, people familiar with the conversations said.

“He is going to be very careful,” said one person close to the president, who spoke on the condition of anonymity to discuss private conversations. “He isn’t inclined to do much right now.”

Trump has begun road-testing his talking points on guns. He noted to advisers that he got a roar of approval at the New Hampshire rally when he said: “It is not the gun that pulls the trigger; it is the person holding the gun.”

During an exchange with reporters Sunday as he prepared to return to Washington from Bedminster, Trump answered a question on gun control by talking first about mental illness. He then suddenly shifted topics to assert the need for stricter voting identification measures.

“A lot of people want to see something happen,” Trump said, after reporters pressed him on guns. “But just remember this: Big mental problem, and we do have a lot of background checks right now.”

Since the shootings, NRA officials have repeatedly told the president and senior White House officials that universal background checks won’t do much to prevent mass shootings, according to people familiar with the private conversations.

NRA officials also have lobbied Vice President Pence’s office and acting White House chief of staff Mick Mulvaney, as well as governors and lawmakers who face potentially difficult reelection races in 2020, officials said. White House aides and NRA officials have pointed out to Trump that many of the states he needs to win next year have strong contingents of NRA members who would be frustrated if Trump made any drastic moves on gun control.

Gun lobby representatives have argued that Trump should focus on prosecuting gun crimes instead, White House officials said.

Some Republicans noted that Trump has shown no inclination to lead an effort on any legislation opposed by the GOP base. Last year, he floated support for offering a path to citizenship for some undocumented immigrants in exchange for billions in funding for a border wall, but he quickly backed off in the face of a conservative backlash.

And Trump has vaguely suggested doing more on background checks in the wake of past mass shootings, only to drop the matter — most notably after 17 people were killed in a shooting at Marjory Stoneman Douglas High School in Parkland, Fla., in February 2018.

In February 2017, a week after taking office, Trump rolled back Obama-era regulations aimed at making it more difficult for mentally ill people to buy firearms.

“I can’t think of a single time he has really pushed Republicans to do something they weren’t going to be doing anyway,” said Brendan Buck, who served as a top aide to former House speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), who left Congress in January.

“I think he personally wants to do something, but I’m not sure how equipped he is to maintain his attention on it for the next two months — which this would require — in the face of pushback from people he cares about,” Buck said. “You have to come back to town, then everyone starts negotiating. Then it becomes a two-month exercise.”

Aides in both parties noted that the president already seems distracted by numerous other issues, including his desire for the United States to purchase Greenland — though officials there have ruled it out.

Late Monday, Trump tweeted an illustration of Greenland, with a new gold Trump tower rising over a bay. “I promise not to do this to Greenland!” he wrote.