#Jemima pence

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Little Amos had grown into a child, still lacking in social skills like he did as a toddler but confident with the assistance of his elder sister. Amos began to brace himself for the dreading school that lay ahead.

Claudia had since broken the news of her pregnancy and the whole family was excited. For Jemima's 10th birthday, Elmer and Claudia gifted her a violin in the hopes of distracting her from causing any more mischief to her family and peers.

It'd worked - but the scratchy notes the thin walls echoed weren't much of an improvement either.

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Happy New Year! (hopefully, cuz... whew!)

Ugh! Let's get this year over with; what do you say?? I don't even want to rehash the year like I normally would around this time of year.

Pre-COVID seems like so long ago: We were out at bars, games, concerts, and parties of strangers. We were dancing all up on each other, we were passing the bottle around, we were grabbing all kinds of doorknobs with no concerns. Kids were planning to soon graduate and step into their hopeful, bright futures. Adults were planning vacations around the world to escape a once hopeful present.

Times were good! Look at this groundhog eating pizza. 

Not a care in the world.

And then, Thanos snapped his fingers, the world turned into shit, and we all realized how much we cared about Tom Hanks.

Can you imagine if that were literal? I think someone should get another gauntlet and turn planets into literal piles of crap. A new villain - "Poopfingers"

Ew... I know. I'm sorry.

Like I said, I don't want to talk about that stuff. I'd rather focus on entertainment instead. Join me for a few awards that I like to call "The Praphies"

MOVIE OF THE YEAR -

"WAP"

I know what you're thinking - "That's not a movie." Meh, it's movie-ish.

It's got two protagonists, whom are trapped in a mansion. It kinda reminds me of Willy Wonka's chocolate factory, but instead of chocolate being manufactured, we'd got... pleasure. Who doesn't want more pleasure after the year we've had??

There's a lot of weird things happening in the mansion, so that’s good for the plot. Plus, these ladies are all about... empowerment? - I guess?

Sure.

Kylie Jenner shows up for some reason, so I'm sure she's up to something; maybe she's the villain. And according to the lyrics "there's some whores in this house". Will they get rid of the "whores"? Will they embrace the whores? Perhaps this word will be taken back, and used as a term of endearment.

As mama looks at her daughter, walking bravely back into schools some day "That's my lil whore." Maybe we're all whores - what a twist.

It's a good picture. One of Scorsese's best. He did direct it right? I think so.

BEST ACTOR -

This one was a close race for me:

Jeanise Jones (Borat 2 - on the right) 

This woman, who was not in on the joke, deserves a medal. She's the star.

Joe Exotic (The Tiger King)

Anyone standing behind Trump during those Rona briefings, who can hold a straight face.

Technically, Joe and Jeanise aren't actors, and Trump's people are... you know, TRUMP'S people, so I give the award to Mario Lopez for his role as Sexy Colonel Sanders.

Did y'all watch "A Recipe for Seduction?" It's entertaining. It was my runner-up for MOY.

SHOW OF THE YEAR -

Easy - "The Tiger King" for keeping us all together in the beginning of this 2020 corona mess.

Which leads me to MY person of the year (cuz let's be honest, Uncle Joe and Kamala... no)

The POY is -

Carole Baskin - 

We all know that she murdered her husband, and yet she took over Joe's zoo property, continues her animal rights activism while being openly weird as hell, and was last seen being applauded on "Dancing with the Stars".

Only in America.

Animated action of the year - “Soul” for bringing us this negro, 

played by Tina Fey :)

I’m just joking ( I love Tina Fey)... well, she does play him, but it’s not like that; still makes me laugh though. At least she didn’t have to worry about blackface.

I like my action flicks. They all can't be tear-jerkers like "WAP".

Which leads us to ACTION HERO OF THE YEAR --- Kiera Allen

If you saw the movie "Run" then you know this actress. She is the acrobatic, wheelchair-bound star of the movie. She is in a wheelchair in real life. In this movie she breaks through one window, climbs across a rooftop, breaks through another window, all with water in her mouth for a special finishing trick to end the scene. And she throws herself down a couple of flights of stairs. Let's see Liam Neeson try to do that!

I'm serious when I say - I expect to see her in the next "Fast & Furious" film.

Award for LEAST FUX GIVEN - Ricky Gervais, for lighting Hollywood on fire.

Athlete - TEAM JLo and Shakira

 --- sidelined me (I attempted to dance like Shakira at work) and sent souls to hell 

(that's some powerful booty shaking... and or just another example of white people being mad at brown people for existing)

SONG OF THE YEAR - 

Vin Diesel’s "Feels like I do" - not up for debate. 

Name another action star in 2020 with a single.

Album of the Year - "The Lion King: The Gift / Black is King" - by Beyonce

We didn't feel much like royalty, but at least we were being heard... well, for a lil bit; a lot more than I ever remember us being heard.

Remember when white people in Hollywood felt so much shame that they did this?

We had corporations like the NFL tryna pretend to be woke. Aunt Jemima and that Native American woman on the butter were freed

 (though they did keep the land).

White people were afraid, and thought that perhaps this album was going to spark the second coming of Black Jesus.

It's interesting -  black people protested (mostly peacefully); wanting justice, and white people got anxious.   People started rioting and looting because of injustices rooted to this country's original sin, and white people, who's ancestors committed this sin, shook their heads at us in shame. Black people and anyone (of any color) standing with them were treated as hostiles, while white people with guns, shooting at black people were hailed as heroes.

What a time. 

I wish Black Jesus really did come back to these Beyonce tunes.

Oh, and this stuff happened too

Toobin (Ha! This guy )

ASSHOLE OF THE YEAR (4 years straight)- 

Trump

It's not even close. I was going to suggest that the dude from "The Vow" being a strong runner up, but even that would be disrespectful to Trump's assholery.

The world was on fire (metaphorically and literally), and Trump as our leader, threw gasoline on it. "BLM" came along to be heard and get justice for George Floyd, and Trump convinced his worshippers that BLM is a terrorist group. He shot away protesters, so he could pose awkwardly with a bible (doing God's work - this “work” included telling us to do the opposite of what physicians around the world plead with us to do during a pandemic, pushing drugs on us that these same physicians say no to, and telling us to inject ourselves with bleach. Hallelujah!). He accused Biden of corruption (pot calling kettle black). He loses to Biden, but fights the results with zero evidence, and at the sore loser rallies, there were stabbings and arrests, to which Trump praises their efforts.

A round of applause for the Michael Jordan of Assholes.

Donald J. Trump!

RESPECT!

Lastly, The Praphie (most coveted of awards)

The nominees are -

Kaylen Ward - raised over one million dollars for the Australia fires relief, by passing out nude photos of herself... yep. Seriously, look it up. Well, maybe don’t do that:)

Michael Jordan -  "The Last Dance" was the only sports content for a sports addict like myself. MJ was the drug we needed.

Dr. Fauci - Really for putting up with us. 

Dave Chappelle - a hell of a year for him. Plus, he was dropping N-Bombs and smoking on SNL

The Fly on Mike Pence's head. 

Kamala Harris

Cardi B - just because

The winner is - Dave Chappelle

Not only for his great year in comedy (in this bleeped up year), but he has evolved into a modern day prophet. Who would have thought that the guy who made "Half Baked"

would be the one we'd seek out when racial tensions got to the highest levels this year??

Kaylen Ward would have won it, if she had continued her efforts. She could have raised some funds for Greta Thunberg. She could have used her nudity along-side protesters, or even joined doctors around the world, raising money for a vaccine. Smh. That's a shame.

In thinking about Chappelle's evolution, I'm reminded that we're all processing and changing as a result of this year. Some will change for the better, and others for the worse. Some will go to the depths only to rise up again. Regardless, of how you handle it, it's important to know who your true peeps are. Who loves you? Who’s got your back? Who do you love?  We're all going to need true peeps to help us endure. Which leads me to my slogan for next year.

"If you love something let it go, if it doesn't return to you. Hunt it down and kill it." Idk about you, but that touches my heart.

Enjoy yourselves as much as you can tonight, and by that I mean safely :) Some of you might want to consider going to bed early, just to end this year faster.

Happy New Year, everyone!

[glenn7lhy]

I just made this, it took way too long and it’s a little rough around the edges, but overall I’m quite pleased with it

[youngandhungryent]

Racist Virginia Mayor Compares Joe Biden’s Potential VP Pick To Aunt Jemima

Source: Justin Sullivan / Getty

The town of Luray, Va. is best known for its caverns and as the headquarters of the sprawling Shenandoah National Park. However, the mayor of the small town is being asked to step down in the midst of a racist post comparing Joe Biden’s potential vice president pick to Aunt Jemima.

As reported by WTOP, a Washington area station, Mayor Barry Presgraves took to Facebook to make the racist job, writing, “Joe Biden has just announced Aunt Jemima as his VP pick.”

Presgraves, who has served as mayor of the predominately-white town of just under 5,000, has seemingly deleted the post after the chatter around wording began to gain traction online.

It has been long presumed that Biden, the former vice president, will select a woman as his running mate in the race for the White House later this year. Among the names has been Rep. Karen Bass, Susan Rice, and popular pick Sen. Kamala Harris.

A Luray Town Council member who is in the midst of a reelection bid has called for Presgraves to resign.

“I am writing to strongly urge you to resign over a racist comment you made on Facebook,” Pence said. “The comment you posted has a type of humor that has not been appropriate or funny in my lifetime or yours.”

While Pregraves has been largely mum in the wake of his post, the Facebook page for Luray posted a message that stands opposite of the mayor.

“The Town of Luray rejects racism and is committed to working together with the community through understanding, compassion, and opportunity. The Town Council will discuss the events leading to this statement at their August 10th meeting,” rea the message.

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Photo: Getty

source https://hiphopwired.com/894271/racist-virginia-mayor-compares-joe-bidens-potential-vp-pick-to-aunt-jemima/

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President Donald J. Trump should use Saturday’s rally in Tulsa, Oklahoma — his first since March 2 — to unveil a new campaign slogan:

Make America Great Again, Again.

These words should be emblazoned on banners and hats and expressed by the president, his surrogates, and supporters.

The existing slogan, Keep America Great (KAG), is irrelevant, if not flippant and callous, given this nation’s current condition. Plenty remains great about America. But everybody knows she’s wounded in many ways.

Keep America Great was a thoroughly dreadful slogan, even when things sparkled, as late as early March. Rather than an optimistic call to build a more perfect union, KAG was a self-congratulatory celebration of stasis. Message: "This is as great as America ever will be. So, let’s stay right here and tread water together."

The inherently defective KAG is now Marie Antoinette-level detached from today’s painful realities.

America has been tempest-tossed by COVID-19, three-months of national house arrest, and an economic implosion. Just as these storms abated, fresh tornadoes roared in: George Floyd’s atrocious death beneath former Officer Derek Chauvin’s knee, mass protests, riots, looting, arson, and a national nervous breakdown over race.

This has involved attacks on churches, Confederate statues, monuments to Lincoln and other abolitionists, and the assassination of Aunt Jemima — which surely will send black test scores and graduation rates skyward.

Thus, it’s tragic, but hardly shocking, that only 63 percent of adults now feel extremely/very proud to be American — the lowest such response since Gallup first asked in 2001.

So, starting Saturday, Trump-Pence 2020 should fight to reverse all of this, with the battle cry: Make America Great Again, Again!

MAGAA recognizes that 2020’s skull-splitting migraines have left many things worse than when Trump arrived to cure eight years of Obama-Biden’s domestic stagnation, racial tension, and global humiliation (e.g. Benghazi, ISIS, atomic bombs exploding beneath North Korea, Chinese trade cheating, and much more).

Stocks, employment, retail sales, and home-building permits are escaping the dungeons in which they quarantined.

But ample work remains.

How will Trump and Republicans make American great again, again? Through their policies that thrived until the Chinese-Communist virus invaded on January 22.

Before the COVID catastrophe, Americans savored the best economy in 50 years, thanks to personal and business tax relief, robust deregulation, an energy renaissance, modernized trade deals, constitutionalist jurisprudence, and a pro-enterprise tone in Washington. Today, as with low interest rates and cheaper energy, the existing Trump/GOP reforms will help.

Better yet, bolster them: The temporary Republican tax reductions, such as full, immediate expensing of commercial-equipment purchases, should become permanent. Why not a retroactive payroll-tax holiday for 2020? Making business meals tax-deductible again will fill empty restaurants.

Lower taxes yield faster growth. Keep cutting.

Conversely, Bidenism will re-crater the economy. Biden’s mumbled demands for higher taxes, brighter-red tape, weaker borders, and stricter socialized medicine will stuff a My Pillow over the face of a recovering Uncle Sam.

MAGAA also must unify the country around improved, more effective, increasingly respectful law enforcement: Fight serious crime. Don’t send SWAT teams and frogmen to stage flamboyant white-collar arrests, a la Roger Stone. No more reckless no-knock warrants, as when three Louisville policemen used a battering ram to enter the apartment of EMT Breonna Taylor, 26. Her boyfriend mistook cops for criminals and opened fire. The officers shot back, killing Taylor. Maddeningly, the drug dealers whom police sought lived 10 miles away. Oops.)

Repealing stupid laws that, for instance, prohibit single-cigarette sales or orderly, outdoor alcohol consumption (quintessential to New Orleans; new to New York) also will reduce police-civilian interactions that could go haywire.

Trump’s school-choice reforms, permanent funding of Historically Black Colleges and Universities, creation of 8,760 Opportunity Zones to energize low-income communities, and stronger incentives for minority entrepreneurship all will address the nation’s hunger for black advancement and brighter days in America’s most underserved neighborhoods.

In short, re-electing President Donald J. Trump will Make America Great Again, Again.

Bucknell University’s Michael Malarkey contributed research to this opinion piece.

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How rare are the Beatrix Potter 50ps? All you need to know in our Q&A...

How rare are the Beatrix Potter 50ps? All you need to know in our Q&A…

When it comes to coin series’, very few are as popular as the Beatrix Potter 50ps.

Since they were issued back in 2016, each release has continued to be incredibly sought-after by collectors.

And understandably, collectors have A LOT of questions about this hugely popular series.

Questions that we wanted to answer.

So in our latest video Rachel and I do just that.

Whether…

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Circulation finds spotlighted in Britain

British pocket change coins are hot. While in the United States collectors typically bemoan the fact that there is nothing to be found in change worth collecting, the same can’t be said for that of Great Britain.

It is unintentional on the part of the British Royal Mint, but the mint is creating interest in its circulating coins, likely impacting the number of active coin collectors and encouraging a secondary market for modern issues.

Leading the way is the 2018 Wrong Planchet £1 coin. One of these errors recently sold on eBay for £205 (about $287 U.S.). Ebay coins expert Luke Hearn was quoted in the Feb. 1 issue of The Sun newspaper as saying, “We’ve received a number of inquiries regarding the coin. From the images we’ve been sent, it would appear that a 12-sided £1 coin die has been struck on an old round £1 blank – if this is the case, then that would make this a genuine error coin.”

Hearn continued, “But, it’s important to get any abnormal coins verified by the Royal Mint to ensure a coin is 100 percent genuine. This coin is yet to be verified, people are still awaiting a response from the mint, so it’s worth keeping an open mind for the time being. Either way, it’s a very interesting coin that has clearly stirred up interest amongst collectors.”

Another potentially rare coin that has recently appeared is the 2018 Sir Isaac Newton 50 pence, a coin only available to people visiting the Royal Mint. The total number struck was not yet determined at the time this article was being written.

Another coin drawing the attention of the general public is the 2009 Kew Gardens 50 pence. The coin, which was released into circulation, has a total mintage of only 210,000 pieces.

Perhaps it isn’t quite as rare, but the 2011 Olympic Triathlon 50 pence has a modest mintage of 2,179,000 coins, according to the BRM. These coins were also released into circulation. This is one of several scarcer Olympic-related issues sought by collectors. Among other scarce Olympic issues are those on which judo, wrestling, tennis, shooting, hockey, or handball have been featured.

The 2016 Jemima Puddle-Duck 50-pence coin from the Peter Rabbit series honoring author Beatrix Potter is another issue of interest due to its lower mintage. Although 2.1 million of these coins were issued, this was the lowest-mintage coin in the series. Due to speculation, one example was offered on eBay for £5,995 (about $8,400 U.S.) soon after the release of the coin. There is no indication the coin on eBay sold.

According to a July 18, 2017, INews.co.uk online posting addressing the Jemima Puddle-Duck coin, “The rarity and value is all just a perception – and it depends on how long that perception lasts. The coins are rare, but only comparatively so.”

The wrong planchet £1 coin isn’t the only error coin now being sought in circulation. There are several error varieties of the 2007 £2 Abolition of The Slave Trade coin. This includes mis-stampings, missing letters, missing design elements, and color problems (the coin is a ringed bimetal issue).

Adding some confusion to the mix are the 2015 trial coins created to test the 12-sided design for the new £1 coin. These patterns were shared with businesses, some of them slipping into circulation where the public has since scoffed them up.

Modern British coin scarcities are of sufficient interest that The Sun newspaper recently published a “£1 scarcity index” through which some of these coins can be tracked.

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[wamtorical]

A new century had arrived but no such fuss was made and Jemima's utterly boring routine of school was to be continued. This time was different however; A boy had caught her attention and he seemed to be on her mind 24/7 - she couldn't even concentrate in class!

His name was Edward Corrigan. Jemima knew his sister and brother, Emma & Samuel, decently well but she hadn't dared approach Edward - what if he thought she was dull? Or worse, what if he commented on her skin?

Cedric, whom she loved dearly, and a friend of his were always in Edward's sphere; so was Leonard, though he wasn't as involved. Jemima would've offered him company if the lot hadn't been advised to stick to their own gender outside. Though Jemima couldn't see it, Leonard looked between Jemima and Edward with a sort of melancholy jealousy one couldn't put a label upon.

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Fragments of Childhood – Then and Now

by Jemima Jarman, Assistant Curator

The Jewish Museum London recently received a generous donation of 14 charming oil paintings, depicting East Ham, Ilford in the 1930s. The artist, A. David Crown, M.D., (1924-2016), created these paintings after retiring from a medical career in Rochester, New York; drawing upon memories of his early childhood and the neighbourhood he grew up in. Each painting is accompanied with written memories of the place he depicts.  

The subjects of his paintings include street scenes, shop fronts, cinemas, synagogues and London buses. Each painting is full of warmth and character in which Crown’s childhood memories are depicted in bright colours and where each scene bursts with nostalgic detail. Dr. Crown wrote in his opening statement: “The paintings do not exactly depict the places, nor are they to scale…but they show what cannot be said. And the accompanying brief recollections have said what cannot be shown.”

Both the series of paintings and the written memoirs were entrusted to the Jewish Museum London by Dr. David Crown’s widow, Deborah Cohen-Crown; who has enabled these stories and images of a Jewish childhood in 1930’s Britain to be shared with future generations.

Of the 14 oils, 6 have been selected to feature in this blog post with Crown’s own (edited) text accompanying them.

King’s Dairy

��King's Dairy was across High Street North, beside a short road to the Salisbury Elementary School. It was, I was told, the last actual dairy with cows in Greater London. Indeed, there were cows behind the store front - I went past them and smelled them every school day till I was nearly eleven.  

Behind it was my school (not that colour of course). The stairs are where Ivor Good, Saul Cohen, David Miller, Dennis Morris and I nightly fought Gerald Cox and his Jew hating friends many many nights when we came out from classes to go home. Ivor was not Jewish but as we were outnumbered and he adored ideas of chivalry and was taller than us and a good fighter, he was very welcome.

My memories of that school are prolific - of Miss Lindsell who encouraged me to write and in whose classroom at my suggestion we created a lending library which failed dismally - the books were stolen. She's the one who, when I used words like "ichthyology" and "Jewfish" denied they existed. Also that darned anti-Semitic Mr. James who caned me and threatened me with his Luger on the last day before Christmas vacation, when I was ten, because of my response to Dennis William Davis's crude note depicting a "wandering Jew." My drawing was better! So was my reply but James intercepted it, caned me, and as a result the four Jews in the class were segregated in the far back corner and told to be silent throughout the festivities or he would shoot us.”

Fire Engine Fanny

“The bridge over the railway where the Manor Park Station was located was ideal for roller skating. The game required that you waddled up the hill like a person wearing skis and then come whizzing down, turning the corner at the bottom or else you would shoot off the curb and into the road, possibly into the path of oncoming vehicles - potentially dangerous. In the painting there are only two of us whereas usually there were many more, even 5 or 6.

The first house round the corner, with its hinged gate and gravel path, led to the door of Fire Engine Fanny, so named for her bright red nose. At night, usually frosty and cold, we would silently (except for suppressed giggles) unlatch the gate and shuffle with our skates on to the front door...then we would bang loudly on her door, yell insults through her letter box and flee.

In the painting the coalman's dray horse is coming over the crest with his sacks of coal. But on the way up the other side the horses would often slip slide and stumble to their knees. Their steel shoes on the cobbles would throw up comet-like showers of sparks. I was fascinated when these horses would urinate, a torrent of steaming splashing yellow pee. And I would watch when they lifted their tails to deposit mounds of steaming straw-filled poop on the road. The sparrows loved it. I have left some of it on the road in the picture!”

Cheder

“Carlisle Street was a very ordinary street, gray with rowhouses on both sides. About two hundred yards down on the south side was the synagogue. The rabbi, actually a chazen, was Mr. Miller. The front cement yard was quite small and on religious holidays it was packed with men taking a breather. It was enclosed by 6 foot walls except for the entrance. Then came the huge double wooden doors and once inside it was suddenly dark till ones eyes adjusted.

There was a room off to the side with rows of desks for our cheder. The teacher, a short man with an agitated shiny bald head and a few strands of greasy hair, mustard-coloured stains down his front and smelling of stale sweat and pickled herring, would stride up and down the aisles very excited. He carried a black ruler and if he came up behind you and found you were inattentive (like having your book open at the wrong page) he would crack you across your knuckles with that ruler. I did not like him. I did not like being pent in. I played truant, cricket or soccer or street games being preferable. I missed class as often as I could but I had to attend one day each month. That was the day dad gave me 2/6 to pay for my lessons. I knew that if I did not show up that day with the money, questions would be asked, and the truth would come out.

The last time I saw the synagogue a few years ago, it was disused, locked up, derelict with barbed wire along the walls.”

Barber’s Bakery

“The bakery was a family run affair - rather "low life" types. The toy miniature loaves of Hovis, 1d (1 penny each) were my favourite. I would have it all to myself. I spent a lot of time in the back room where the ovens were, swatting numerous flies for Mr. Barber. But I stopped helping him this way when I encountered a corpse in my slice of raisin bread!

The bakery was very 2nd rate, 3rd, 4th even. Behind the shop the family of 6 or 7 lived and they bought their potatoes by the sack - I'd never seen that before or for that matter, since. One Christmas when we had all of our family and friends for dinner, dad bought a 30+lb turkey which wouldn't fit our oven but he arranged with Mr. Barber to cook it in his bread oven- along with some neighbour’s turkeys. I went with him on that cold day, to carry it home on a wooden board from the bakery...very slowly along the slippery alley and home by the back gate.”

Spare a Copper

“I go to the movies almost every Saturday afternoon. The Coronation Cinema was probably opened at the beginning of the reign of George V and Mary.  For 3 pence you saw two features, assorted shorts (Pathe Gazette, a couple of gay fellows in tennis togs or evening dress, one playing the piano while the other leans languorously against it and sings daft stuff, and several animated cartoons). And there's an interval when the lights come on for a while and the theatre organ mysteriously rises from profound depths for a recital. All organists seem to be named Reginald. All for three pence. Of course, when the lights are down and the scant audience's cigarette smoke curls up through the flickering beams of the movie, I sneak down to the front sixpenny seats. I might stay on to see the movie, or part of it twice, moving to a different seat believing the usher won't catch me- he doesn't care. The biggest problem was getting into the theatre because sometimes the film was Adult rated. Kids not allowed in except accompanied by an adult. So you hung around the entrance and kept running up to people who were going in and asked them to take you in with them. It never failed. "I've got me thruppence mister...will you take me in?" “The last time I saw the Coronation it was a bingo hall.”

Eels

“The fishmonger was about 8 houses north of 484. The shop was an add-on in front of a rather singular row house. The proprietor was a very friendly man and I would go into his shop and ask him for some oil-paper which was a heavy tracing paper. The fish was wrapped in this and then the package was wrapped in newspaper. I wanted the tracing paper to trace magazine pictures which I would subsequently show to my mother, “Chops”, and claim they were original drawings. No one was fooled. But I developed many variations such as placing the drawing face down on a white piece of paper and rubbing the back to create a reverse image. And I discovered how to enlarge pictures to scale, portraits too, by drawing a grid and transferring it another piece of paper larger than the original. I loved to draw and water colour. When I stated I wanted to grow up to be an artist Leon (my brother) told me it was forbidden for Jews to make a graven image, especially a Cohen. Till my mid-teens I believed there were no Jewish artists! ”

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Sterling surges above $1.38 for first time since Brexit vote

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Sterling surges above $1.38 for first time since Brexit vote

© Reuters. Illustration photo of a British Pound Sterling note

By Jemima Kelly and Saikat Chatterjee

LONDON (Reuters) – Sterling surged above $1.38 for the first time since the results of Britain’s vote to leave the European Union on Monday, as the dollar weakened broadly and on hopes that other EU members would seek a relatively “soft” Brexit.

The pound posted its biggest jump in four months against the dollar on Friday, on a media report that the Netherlands and Spain were open to a deal for Britain to remain as close as possible to the trading bloc crushed short positions.

Officials from those countries later denied the report. But market-watchers say the dialogue around Britain’s exit from the bloc has in general turned more positive for Britain.

“Up to now the remaining EU countries have presented a fairly uniform front of trying to make things as hard as possible for Britain,” said ACLS Global chief strategist Marshall Gittler.

“If it turns out that they do try to negotiate a ‘win-win’ solution for Britain, it could help the pound a lot,” he said, highlighting a report by Bloomberg that Luxembourg’s prime minister had called for “pragmatism” and wanted “to limit the negative impact for both sides”.

Some analysts said German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s breakthrough last week in talks to form a grand coalition in government had helped the pound, as Merkel is seen by markets as an ally of Britain’s and someone who would pursue a mutually beneficial trade deal.

Sterling traded as high as $1.3819 on Monday, up 0.6 percent on the day and marking a climb of almost 4 U.S. cents since Thursday.

The pound was 0.1 percent down against a euro that was trading at three-year highs, with the pound changing hands at 88.89 pence per euro ().

After slumping in 2016, the pound last year had its best performance in a decade as Britain made some progress on negotiating its exit from the European Union and economic data came in better than expected.

The latest positioning data shows long sterling bets have become bigger in recent days, with net sterling long bets rising to their biggest since mid-September 2014.

“We see the case for Cable (sterling/dollar) to continue in a bullish mood, however in a more relaxed manner,” wrote IronFX strategists in a note to clients.

Tuesday will offer a stern test for sterling bulls with consumer price inflation data. Expectations are for a 3 percent rise in prices for December according to Reuters forecasts; any undershoot would kick sterling lower.

Graphic: sterling and gilt yields

Graphic: World FX rates in 2017 http://tmsnrt.rs/2egbfVh

Graphic: Trade-weighted sterling since Brexit vote http://tmsnrt.rs/2hwV9Hv

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Your Beatrix Potter Jemima Puddleduck 50p coin could be worth a...

The launch of a series of coins dedicated to the works children's author Beatrix Potter last year sent collectors into a frenzy.The coins proved so popular that the Royal Mint website actually crashed from the high volume of traffic.Collectors even queued for hours just so they could get their hands on a 50 pence piece inscribed with a depiction of Peter Rabbit.But a lesser sought after coin from the series has suddenly become the most desired of all, as reported by The Mirror.The Jemima...

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What Does Every State Search For the Most on Cinco de Mayo?

Today is Cinco de Mayo, which is a holiday that commemorates a battle victory by Mexico over France in 1862.  Oddly enough, it’s way more popular in America than it is in Mexico.

Anyway, a website called CableTV.com just analyzed Google searches from last year’s Cinco de Mayo to find out what holiday-related search was the most popular in every state.  Here are some highlights . . .

1.  In 13 states, the most common search was, “What is Cinco de Mayo?”  We can’t blast anyone who wants some education.

2.  We CAN blast the four states where the top search was “When is Cinco de Mayo?” though.  Not a good look, Arizona, Nebraska, Iowa, and Indiana.

3.  Tequila or tequila sunrise was the top search in eight states.

4.  Searches for different Mexican restaurants were popular in 15 states, but only one of them searched for TACO BELL:  Utah.

5.  And finally, there were three states that Googled something about Mexican culture that isn’t food.  Wyoming and Rhode Island’s top search was for the Mexican flag . . . and Louisiana’s was for sombreros.

(CableTV) 

  Here’s some stupid one-liners about Cinco de Mayo.

Some people mistakenly think it’s Mexican Independence Day. The rest don’t care as long as the bartender keeps refilling their margaritas.

It’s the only day of the year your liver says, “No mas.”

There’s a movie in the works about Mexican General Ignacio Zaragoza’s victory over the French . . . starring Tom Cruise.

It’s the one time a year Americans get to let loose and have a few drinks.

By some crazy coincidence, it always happens to fall on the 5th of May.

People think it celebrates Mexico’s independence from Spain. But it actually celebrates Mexico’s independence from sobriety.

Once you drink your tenth beer, it’s traditional to yell “GOAAAAAALLLL!!!”

It’s one of about five million holidays around the world that all commemorate a military victory against France.

Millions of Americans will pack Mexican restaurants today . . . and others will go to Taco Bell.

In Spanish it means “Fifth of May”. And in English it means “I’m going to dress in offensive stereotypical costumes as an excuse to get drunk”.

Mike Pence wants to replace it with a day celebrating white people called Cinco de Mayonnaise.

It’s racist. But in a harmless way. Like Aunt Jemima.

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Sterling seesaws as PM May triggers Brexit

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Sterling seesaws as PM May triggers Brexit

© Reuters. Sample polymer five and ten GB pound banknotes are seen on display at the Bank of England in London

By Jemima Kelly

LONDON (Reuters) – Sterling slipped against the dollar after a choppy day of trading on Wednesday, receiving no clear direction from Britain’s formal triggering of its exit from the European Union.

Prime Minister Theresa May began Britain’s divorce procedure from the EU earlier in the day, declaring there was no turning back and ushering in a tortuous process that will test the bloc’s cohesion and pitch her country into the unknown.

The pound had touched an eight-day low of $1.2377 in Asian trading, before bouncing back to trade as high as $1.2478 after the confirmation that the EU’s Article 50 – which kickstarts two years of negotiations between Britain and the bloc – had been triggered.

By 1550 GMT (11:50 a.m. ET), though, sterling had slipped back to $1.2403 , leaving it down a third of a percent on the day and in the middle of the $1.20-$1.28 range it has broadly traded in over the past six months.

“I think we’ll continue to trade sideways until we get greater clarity on the European Union’s negotiating stance,” said Societe Generale (PA:) currency strategist Alvin Tan.

May’s six-page Brexit letter to European Council President Donald Tusk set a positive tone for the approaching talks, though it admitted that reaching a comprehensive Brexit agreement within two years would be a challenge.

Within 48 hours, Tusk will send the 27 other EU member states draft negotiating guidelines and they will later meet in Brussels to discuss the situation.

Tusk told reporters on Wednesday that the EU’s goal was to minimize the costs for EU citizens, businesses and member states, whose leaders should adopt the negotiating proposals on April 29.

“The triggering of Article 50 was well anticipated, but the fact negotiations are now live means financial markets may become more vulnerable to commentary from European and/or UK officials as to how well – or poorly – the initial discussions are going,” said Michael Metcalfe, global head of macro strategy for State Street Global Markets.

“Headline risk is back, if it ever really went away.”

NEGOTIATIONS EYED

Britain’s blue-chip FTSE 100 () stock index – most of whose components get their earnings in foreign currencies – gained 0.4 percent as sterling fell.

Most analysts said the key driver for sterling over the coming months would be how negotiations with the EU play out, and the health of the British economy going forward.

The head of global bonds at the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, said on Wednesday that he remains invested in the British pound, though he has concerns over the timeline for Brexit negotiations.

Sterling had hit an eight-week high at the start of this week as investors unwound record-high short positions against the currency, and brought forward their expectations for when the Bank of England might begin to tighten monetary policy amid rapidly accelerating inflation in Britain. “Given the positioning, our bias would still be toward a stronger pound over the coming weeks,” said Derek Halpenny, MUFG’s European head of global markets research in London.

Against a weaker euro, the pound rose 0.3 percent to 86.60 pence (), having earlier hit a 12-day low of 87.35 pence. The euro dropped sharply after sources told Reuters that European Central Bank policymakers are wary of making any new change to their policy message in April.

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[wamtorical]

The funeral of Ethel Pence took place on a suitably rainy day in the midst of October, 2 months after Elmer initially came to visit. As soon as she'd passed, he notified Denise and immediately set off home; the emotions were overwhelming and he couldn't bear to be around the shell of what was once his mother for any longer.

Everyone was there, including a few faces Elmer didn't recognise. However, to the side and hidden away from the crowd an old friend to both himself and his mother stood in solemn silence, bearing the stare of another more unwelcome figure only a few inches away. J.C

Naturally, the children were there too. Jemima was now introduced to the inevitability that followed each of them, but whilst Amos remained clueless throughout the ceremony, Leroy just couldn’t understand why or where his grandmother had gone.

Elmer couldn't bring himself to explain.

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Sterling seesaws as PM May triggers Brexit

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Sterling seesaws as PM May triggers Brexit

© Reuters. Sample polymer five and ten GB pound banknotes are seen on display at the Bank of England in London

By Jemima Kelly

LONDON (Reuters) – Sterling slipped against the dollar after a choppy day of trading on Wednesday, receiving no clear direction from Britain’s formal triggering of its exit from the European Union.

Prime Minister Theresa May began Britain’s divorce procedure from the EU earlier in the day, declaring there was no turning back and ushering in a tortuous process that will test the bloc’s cohesion and pitch her country into the unknown.

The pound had touched an eight-day low of $1.2377 in Asian trading, before bouncing back to trade as high as $1.2478 after the confirmation that the EU’s Article 50 – which kickstarts two years of negotiations between Britain and the bloc – had been triggered.

By 1550 GMT (11:50 a.m. ET), though, sterling had slipped back to $1.2403 , leaving it down a third of a percent on the day and in the middle of the $1.20-$1.28 range it has broadly traded in over the past six months.

“I think we’ll continue to trade sideways until we get greater clarity on the European Union’s negotiating stance,” said Societe Generale (PA:) currency strategist Alvin Tan.

May’s six-page Brexit letter to European Council President Donald Tusk set a positive tone for the approaching talks, though it admitted that reaching a comprehensive Brexit agreement within two years would be a challenge.

Within 48 hours, Tusk will send the 27 other EU member states draft negotiating guidelines and they will later meet in Brussels to discuss the situation.

Tusk told reporters on Wednesday that the EU’s goal was to minimize the costs for EU citizens, businesses and member states, whose leaders should adopt the negotiating proposals on April 29.

“The triggering of Article 50 was well anticipated, but the fact negotiations are now live means financial markets may become more vulnerable to commentary from European and/or UK officials as to how well – or poorly – the initial discussions are going,” said Michael Metcalfe, global head of macro strategy for State Street Global Markets.

“Headline risk is back, if it ever really went away.”

NEGOTIATIONS EYED

Britain’s blue-chip FTSE 100 () stock index – most of whose components get their earnings in foreign currencies – gained 0.4 percent as sterling fell.

Most analysts said the key driver for sterling over the coming months would be how negotiations with the EU play out, and the health of the British economy going forward.

The head of global bonds at the world’s largest asset manager, BlackRock, said on Wednesday that he remains invested in the British pound, though he has concerns over the timeline for Brexit negotiations.

Sterling had hit an eight-week high at the start of this week as investors unwound record-high short positions against the currency, and brought forward their expectations for when the Bank of England might begin to tighten monetary policy amid rapidly accelerating inflation in Britain. “Given the positioning, our bias would still be toward a stronger pound over the coming weeks,” said Derek Halpenny, MUFG’s European head of global markets research in London.

Against a weaker euro, the pound rose 0.3 percent to 86.60 pence (), having earlier hit a 12-day low of 87.35 pence. The euro dropped sharply after sources told Reuters that European Central Bank policymakers are wary of making any new change to their policy message in April.

Disclaimer: Fusion Media would like to remind you that the data contained in this website is not necessarily real-time nor accurate. All CFDs (stocks, indexes, futures) and Forex prices are not provided by exchanges but rather by market makers, and so prices may not be accurate and may differ from the actual market price, meaning prices are indicative and not appropriate for trading purposes. Therefore Fusion Media doesn`t bear any responsibility for any trading losses you might incur as a result of using this data.

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Sterling surges above $1.38 for first time since Brexit vote

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Sterling surges above $1.38 for first time since Brexit vote

© Reuters. Illustration photo of a British Pound Sterling note

By Jemima Kelly and Saikat Chatterjee

LONDON (Reuters) – Sterling surged above $1.38 for the first time since the results of Britain’s vote to leave the European Union on Monday, as the dollar weakened broadly and on hopes that other EU members would seek a relatively “soft” Brexit.

The pound posted its biggest jump in four months against the dollar on Friday, on a media report that the Netherlands and Spain were open to a deal for Britain to remain as close as possible to the trading bloc crushed short positions.

Officials from those countries later denied the report. But market-watchers say the dialogue around Britain’s exit from the bloc has in general turned more positive for Britain.

“Up to now the remaining EU countries have presented a fairly uniform front of trying to make things as hard as possible for Britain,” said ACLS Global chief strategist Marshall Gittler.

“If it turns out that they do try to negotiate a ‘win-win’ solution for Britain, it could help the pound a lot,” he said, highlighting a report by Bloomberg that Luxembourg’s prime minister had called for “pragmatism” and wanted “to limit the negative impact for both sides”.

Some analysts said German Chancellor Angela Merkel’s breakthrough last week in talks to form a grand coalition in government had helped the pound, as Merkel is seen by markets as an ally of Britain’s and someone who would pursue a mutually beneficial trade deal.

Sterling traded as high as $1.3819 on Monday, up 0.6 percent on the day and marking a climb of almost 4 U.S. cents since Thursday.

The pound was 0.1 percent down against a euro that was trading at three-year highs, with the pound changing hands at 88.89 pence per euro ().

After slumping in 2016, the pound last year had its best performance in a decade as Britain made some progress on negotiating its exit from the European Union and economic data came in better than expected.

The latest positioning data shows long sterling bets have become bigger in recent days, with net sterling long bets rising to their biggest since mid-September 2014.

“We see the case for Cable (sterling/dollar) to continue in a bullish mood, however in a more relaxed manner,” wrote IronFX strategists in a note to clients.

Tuesday will offer a stern test for sterling bulls with consumer price inflation data. Expectations are for a 3 percent rise in prices for December according to Reuters forecasts; any undershoot would kick sterling lower.

Graphic: sterling and gilt yields

Graphic: World FX rates in 2017 http://tmsnrt.rs/2egbfVh

Graphic: Trade-weighted sterling since Brexit vote http://tmsnrt.rs/2hwV9Hv

Disclaimer: Fusion Media would like to remind you that the data contained in this website is not necessarily real-time nor accurate. All CFDs (stocks, indexes, futures) and Forex prices are not provided by exchanges but rather by market makers, and so prices may not be accurate and may differ from the actual market price, meaning prices are indicative and not appropriate for trading purposes. Therefore Fusion Media doesn`t bear any responsibility for any trading losses you might incur as a result of using this data.

Fusion Media or anyone involved with Fusion Media will not accept any liability for loss or damage as a result of reliance on the information including data, quotes, charts and buy/sell signals contained within this website. Please be fully informed regarding the risks and costs associated with trading the financial markets, it is one of the riskiest investment forms possible.

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