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Step out in Designer Langa Voni for your Wedding
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Whenever I think of traditional dresses for young unmarried girls from southern India, the stereotypical image that comes to mind is the half-saree or the langa voni. Not having dwelt much on it except in passing, this exceedingly versatile dress comes back to mind in its 'celebrity avatar' given the recent slew of Bollywood outings by way of Deepika Padukone and Sonakshi Sinha.
So what is this traditional half saree that the country is agog about?
The Biography of the Pattu Langa Voni
Traditionally, a dress for the young maidens of the southern states of Andhra Pradesh, the newly instated Telengana, Tamil Nadu and Karnataka, the half saree is known as the langa voni or pavadai daavani in Tamil and langa davani in Kannada. The advent of western influence, this traditional dress was being shunned over the past few years for the convenience of modern outfits. However, thanks mainly to the tireless efforts of designers and recently some vastly popular Hindi movies, this traditional attire seems to be back in the favour! Needless to say, the North Indian cousin of this dress is the lehenga (langa) – Choli.
This vibrant and versatile dress is first worn by a girl in the southern states of India at her langa voni or 'coming of age' ceremony at puberty. For special occasions, the pattu (the traditional name for silk) langa voni is much sought after. She, traditionally, continues to wear this all through her maiden years up until her wedding.
So what better way to step onto the next stage of your life, marriage, than by wearing an awesome langa voni on your wedding day!
Be Your Own Wedding Stylist
Who says you have to be a southern belle to carry off the 'langa voni look' for your wedding?
Mark a place in your plans for the half saree for either your mehendi or engagement or even your sangeet ceremony. Sure, the elders will 'tut-tut', but believe you me the cousins and friends will remember your choice and may even be inspired to go for it for themselves.
Search for the perfect colour for you from the vibrant pinks and blues and oranges and greens to the dull gold and pale beige creams. Get a stylish choli designed be it spaghetti strapped or halter or even backless. Team them with the matching jewellery that sets your heart racing.
Mehendi, Engagement or Sangeet – the Light Langa Voni will Do it for You!
Since the fabrics used for this traditional ensemble is no longer limited to silk and cotton but are now designed in georgette, chiffon and crepe, it brings to your wedding trousseau the much needed light and yet dressy wearable.
Beige and Brown Elegance
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Team this rich brown bordered beige cream crepe creation, edged with golden zari and a matching red gold-speckled 'voni' or dupatta with a matching tassle and a stone embellished 'kamar-band' to enhance the grace of that petit waist. You really would not need much more than simple jewellery to complete the look, your langa voni does it for you!
Fuscia Pink and Brocade Choli
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Let this fuchsia pink chiffon splendour dazzle your sangeet ceremony! Adding sass to your style will be the Swarovsky edgings and the designer brocade blouse in a blend of pink and orange. Let your hair down in waves and there is no room for more!
Stylish Border Patterns
Or these striking bordered wonders will surely steal your heart. Striking in black (okay so black may not be recommended for your own wedding ceremonies, but surely you can sashay in style for your friend's) with gold embroidery on the edges and either hot neon pink or brocade red border. The pista green broad embroidered net langa-voni set teamed with a hot pink gold thread work embellished choli and a peachy red voni is a head-turner! Adding oodles of attitude to the blood red blue and dull gold floral bordered langa voni is the matching blue and dull gold tassle!
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Ash and Pink Net Langa Voni
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This ash-blue and baby pink swarovksy studded net and silk langa voni dsesign is bound to draw attention on your sangeet. Not to say the spaghetti strapped designer brocade blouse in gold with dull gold heavy jhumkas and a light choker on your neck to match, nothing can really go wrong with this look.
How About a Beautiful Langa Voni for your Best Friend's Wedding!
When every one else is dressed in their lehenga-cholis and dressy salwar kameezes, woulod you dare to step out in the dressy latest langa voni designs? Try these netted heavily embroidered creations in vibrant colours of orange, red or blue. The heavy embroidery in itself has its own beauty and add to it the light make up and the confidence of being dressed traditionally, is a sure shot winner in terms of 'the look'. Accessorize with traditional jewellery from your mum's or grandmother's collection.
Of course, if you can plan it together, let the 'girl power' rule the day.
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Orange Brocade Net Langa
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A vision in orange brocade and net with heavy motifs embroidered, this langa voni saree is made all the more svelte with purple net voni and a lavender-orange blend brocade choli! A heavy neckpiece to match and letting your hair down will come so easy !
Black and Gold Classic
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The oomph of this black frilled langa voni saree with gold net dupatta and a brocade blouse with three quarter net sleeves is bound to be a showstopper. Add to that the high french hairdo and a black and crystal floral neckpiece. The beauty of this ensemble is the matching red and gold embroidered edging on the langa as well as the gold net voni.
Parrot green and pink with halter blouse
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Rock the celeb look with the parrot green langa voni saree with a floral embroidery white, purple, green and pink border. Pink and purple dupatta with a green halter neck blouse.
Panelled Design
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For the love of purple and green hues … if you can carry off these colours, do give this a shot!
This panelled langa voni design is as unique as it is beautiful. The borders are beautifully embroidered in pinks and greens and lavender too, all a blend to the final look. The sparingly studded with small swarovsky crystals net dupatta in the regal purple makes a princess of you, complete with the retro brocade puff sleeved choli.
For the day ceremonies at your sister's wedding
The Indian wedding extravaganza is not just about the evening functions. There are those integral day time ceremonies that need dressing-up too! The all important havan or the chooda and kalire ceremony for the Punjabi bride or maybe the haldi ceremony in other part of the country. These day ceremonies are certainly special occasions that you can plan your Langa voni for. Being day ceremonies, you do not really need much jewellery, maybe even flowers in your hair to bring out the earthiness of your choice of attire and light day make-up and you will surely look like the pampered sister of the bride.
Hues of Blue, Green, White, Orange and Gold Shades
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The combination of the milk white design with blue and green with gold bordered dupatta in this traditional pattu langa voni makes for a day time goddess. Add to that the orange blouse with blue floral border, flowers in your hair, jhumkas in your ears and smile on your face! Completely mesmerizing.
Yellow and Coral Colours
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For the fair complexioned young maiden how about this yellow and coral combo trendy langa voni? With the gold thread work on the border and crystals on the bright yellow net langa, it is bound to draw attention.
Sequined Blouse Pink and Green Langa Voni
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Rock the shocking pink and green langa voni saree with heavy gold zari and sequined retro border with an equally shocking low back choli in glitter gold. The border on this entire voni hinges on the slight accents of pink and green woven into the zari, which makes it even more stunning.
Try these Stunning Designs for the Pheras
As you ready for the most important ceremony of all during the wedding, the saat-pheras or the seven vows made while walking around the sacred fire, it is imperative that just as these pheras bind the two souls together in an eternal bond of matrimony, so is the importance of the choice of wedding dress.
Some communities follow the ritual of changing multiple outfits during the course of the wedding ceremony itself – one for the jaimala or the exchanging of the wedding garlands, one for the tying of the mangalsutra and yet another for the actual pheras. If you have to choose the perfect attire for each, surely one of them would be the enigmatic latest design langa voni if only to make a style statement.
Maroona and Blue Rare Combination
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Don't know what is more stunning on this heavily embellished wedding langa voni? The langa in an unusual design combination of summer sky blue on top with the panelled red and blue bottom or the heavy, heavy, really heavy embroidery with silver thread and kundan work. Especially the blue panels! Instead of the typical border that the langa vonis are known for these panels suffice to that task of making this an outstanding design. Teamed off with a red similarly embroidered dupatta, all you need to complete the look is a silver threaded blouse and a heavy neckpiece in diamond setting on platinum or silver to compliment the embroidery. Lovely baalis and a maang-tikka in similar setting and the bride is ready to conquer the hearts of one and all.
Traditional Colors
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Look a vision in cream and red, the traditional choice of colours for the wedding day all over the country. Highlighted with demure gold and flecks of red embroidery all over and langa, bordered with red and gold with light embroidery and a matching red voni, it is a truly beautiful design to carry off with utter confidence and million-watt smile. A gold blouse and wear this piece with jhumkas and a lovely neck piece and look your stunning best!
Bright Orange and Blue Langa Voni
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Maybe this royal blue and orange trendy designer langa voni is what you would go for. A broad border in dull gold for the net langa with full body embellishments all over, it is the Über classy edging of the dupatta, the gold zari thread work that makes this a true heirloom to cherish. The same embroidery carries over onto the blouse and complete with the baaju-band and long dangling gold earrings is all the jewellery you will need to complete the look! Yes, for the bride, this minimalistic look will indeed be stunning and fresh.
Velvet and Net Combination
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Admittedly, the most regal of them all is an outfit in velvet. Something about that fabric spells regality, surely. This stunning midnight blue velvet langa with red embroidered zari border and kundan-work peacocks gracing the bottom, has a stunning pitch green net dupatta with red and gold border. Team it with a stunning red brocade blouse to complete the blue and the green. Keep your hair high in an updo, with gold pendant earrings and you will be the gorgeous bride everyone will remember for a long time to come.
So, which of these is it going to be!!! Stun away, my girl!


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Vascular Removal
Some lesions are present from birth, while others develop with age, or as the result of environmental damage (such as sun exposure). Regardless of the size of the lesion, they can cause psychological trauma so severe that patients seek professional help to remove them. Historically, they have been covered with makeup, while surgery has been limited to the larger vessels on the legs. Sclerotherapy has also been used successfully to treat vascular lesions on the legs.
Novalis offers a clinically proven and effective treatment to remove many vascular lesions, either on its own or as a follow up treatment to sclerotherapy.
The Novalis IPL treatment works by directing well controlled pulses of light into the upper skin. The light is absorbed by one of the body's own natural chemicals – hemoglobin – contained in the red blood cells.
Hemoglobin converts the light energy into heat. This heat is transferred to the wall of the blood vessels, which are permanently damaged and removed by the body´s own defense mechanism. The method of converting light to heat and using it to destroy the target without damaging the surrounding tissues is called Selective Photothermolysis.
The visible light produced by the Novalis system is carefully controlled to produce the correct pulse length and right amount of energy to destroy the vessel. Best results are obtained on patients who have light to medium skin.


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The last time MTV filmed Amber Portwood, it was 2012 and she was wearing a prison uniform. In "Amber Behind Bars," the former "Teen Mom" cast member sat down with Dr. Drew to talk about her addiction to opiates and what led to her jail sentencing. She appeared hopeless and alone, desperately missing her daughter Leah and still having difficulties communicating with her ex, Gary. Without the necessary support, would she be able to stay sober and learn from her mistakes?
Well, after watching last night's "Being Amber," the answer seems to be a yes! MTV captured the young mom on film the day she was released from jail, and it was as if viewers were looking at a totally different person. Amber couldn't stop smiling through her first post-prison meal -- a cheeseburger and chocolate shake -- and her reunion with Leah was absolutely touching.
Amber credited much of her newfound serenity to a chant she learned in rehab: "Be calm, be true, be quiet. Accept criticism, as well as accept praise. Be true to your highest ideal." And what she learned in anger management classes also helped to keep her temper in check, which came in handy when she and Gary clashed over how to celebrate Leah's 5th birthday.
By the end of the special, things truly looked to be on the upswing for Amber. While in prison, she got her G.E.D., and now that she's out, she'll continue to work on her sobriety and hopefully help others avoid getting into her same situation. She and Gary seem to be officially off again, and that's probably best for them both.
"Gary and I may be through, but my new life has just begun," said Amber, optimistically. "Every day brings new challenges and I have so much I plan to do with my life. I will no longer be defined by my past. All I know is, if I can keep taking the next right steps, anything's possible."
+ Do you think Amber will stay out of trouble? Watch the special, and let us know your thoughts.


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Warren Montgomery, who surged to second place in the Nov. 4 primary to succeed the embattled 22nd Judicial District Attorney Walter Reed, may be repeating that feat as he continues to lead Brian Trainor with 52 percent of the vote and 104 of the 199 precincts reporting.
Trainor was the top vote-getter in Washington Parish, where he captured 6,601 votes to Montgomery's 4,819 with all 41 precincts in.
But the much larger portion of the district, St. Tammany Parish, continued to go Montgomery's way, with 24,243 votes to Trainor's 19,834 votes with nearly half the precincts counted.
Trainor, who worked for the District Attorney's Office for eight years and who is currently on leave of absence from the St. Tammany Parish Sheriff's Office, raised more money and racked up more official endorsements. His boss, St. Tammany Parish Sheriff Jack Strain, and Washington Parish Sheriff Randy Seal, both endorsed him. So did Alan Black, the third-place finisher who carried Washington Parish in the primary.
Montgomery criticized Trainor as too cozy with Strain, arguing that he would not be independent.
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Solange - 'Weary' + 'Rise' ('The Tonight Show')
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Labels: Performances , Promo , Solange
Solange visited 'The Tonight Show' with Jimmy Fallon last night to perform a medley of 'Weary' and 'Rise'.
She served angelic vocals, while executing that human centipede aesthetic. She started the song flat, but then picked it up. Overall, nice performance. Both tracks are lifted off her critically acclaimed new album, 'A Seat at the Table,' which scored the singer her first Grammy nomination! She received a Best R&B Performance nod for 'Cranes In The Sky,' and will go on to headline next year's Essence Festival in New Orleans.


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Manage employee suspensions
Under the Public Service Act 2008 employees can be suspended from the workplace in certain circumstances:
- the proper and efficient management of a department could be adversely affected if a public service officer stayed in the workplace (Section 137)
- a public service employee is liable for discipline (Section 189).
The Chief Executive or delegated officer must examine alternative options prior to making the decision to suspend an employee.
Before a suspension happens, the decision makers must consider whether an employee can be assigned alternative duties at their home or at an alternative work location.
Employee suspensions should be used carefully, as they can:
- result in significant costs to agencies
- affect an agency's capacity to deliver services on-time and on-budget.
Management process
Planning is important throughout the process so that you have strategies in place to manage the situation, and a clear plan of how you're going to bring the matter to its conclusion.
Record keeping is essential to documenting why a certain decision was made. Creating and maintaining a clear document trail detailing your decision making process will help to explain your decision and assist future decision making across the agency.
1 Issue identified
The conduct or performance issue is identified, and initial information gathered.
2 Decision point
Will the employee:
- remain in role
- be assigned to alternative duties
- be suspended.
See Clause l.11.8 of the Discipline Guideline. When making this decision, you should consider:
- who is the appropriate decision maker for this matter?
- is the information gathered reliable, relevant, and sufficient to make an informed decision on the appropriate course of action to be taken?
- if suspended – is this paid or unpaid?
3 Review decision
Reviewing the decision regularly is important to ensure the decision taken is still appropriate. Consider if there is new information that may affect or change the previous decisions.
4 Final outcome
The final outcome will be either:
- employee returns to normal duties
- management or discipline action is taken
- employee separates by resignation or termination.
Suspension without pay
Suspensions without pay should only be used when it is reasonably believed that:
- the employee is liable for disciplinary action
- the employee is unable to be placed on suitable alternative duties as per Clause 11.8 b of the Discipline Guideline
- there is a risk to customer or worker health and safety, financial risk, or the public interest if the employee remains in the workplace.
The Public Service Act 2008 does not prescribe the conditions which may lead a decision maker to suspend an employee without pay.
Relevant factors may include:
- How serious is the alleged issue? Is this a single occasion or is there a pattern of behaviour?
- If the allegations are proven, what discipline action is reasonably open? Is the employment relationship likely to continue in its current form?
- If suspended without pay, what impact will this have on the employee's welfare or financial situation?
- How long will it take to make a decision on the matter? What factors are influencing the timeframe?
- Are there concurrent processes occurring? Has the employee been convicted of a crime or remanded in custody?
- The public interest, including in the use of public funds.
- Can paid leave be used instead of suspension without pay?
The principles of "natural justice" must be observed where it is proposed to suspend an employee without pay.
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The 2014 budget of the Niger Delta Affairs, NDA, is geared towards addressing the goals of the consolidation phase of the Niger Delta Regional Development Master Plan, which is now in its 7th year. This was part of the highlights of the presentation made by the commission's Managing Director, Sir (Barr) Bassey Dan-Abia, to members of the House of Representative's Committee on NDA at the National Assembly complex in Abuja.
The NDA Chief Executive Officer who was represented by the Executive Director Finance and Administration, Dr Henry Itotenaan Ogiri said that the thrust of the 2014 budget would be to consolidate the commission's efforts in "employment generation, wealth creation and poverty alleviation" which were the focus of previous budgets. He said that the budget, tagged "Budget of Recovery and Restoration" would leverage on human capital development, job creation and partnerships, in line with Mr. President's Transformation Agenda.
He said: "This year marks another milestone in our effort to offer a lasting solution to the socio-economic challenges of the region, with the relatively early presentation of the 2014 budget. We now need to build on the mandate given to us to uplift the standards of living of the people of the region through stronger developmental and economic reforms to deliver sustainable growth and create jobs."
Sir Dan-Abia said that the commission had already introduced some human capital development programmes that would have great impact in the Niger Delta in the years ahead. According to him, "some of them include the entrepreneurship development and empowerment programme; NDA post-graduate scholarship scheme, women training etc. The strategic aim is to create necessary interface with the industry that will engender effective engagement of these youths and women after their training. Our belief is that we need to continuously build the capacity of our people in line with the recommendations of the Niger Delta Regional Development Master Plan."
The NDA boss reviewed the achievements of the commission in the 2013 budget year. In the year under review, he said that skills acquisition programme empowered 500 youths in welding and fabrication, as well as driving entrepreneurship development. He further said that 500 farmers received subsidized inputs while over 2,000 young men and women across the region were trained in agricultural methods and provided them with starter kits for fishery, snail keeping and animal rearing.
Sir Dan-Abia said that the commission also constructed about 550 kilometres of roads; completed over 50 water schemes, in addition to providing electricity to about 70 communities. In education, he said that the commission delivered 4 new 500-bed hostels to 4 universities in the region. "The commission has also undertaken the construction and repairs of specialist hospitals and cardiovascular hospital in partnership with private sector service providers. 89 patients benefitted from our foreign medical aids on life-threatening ailments and 5000 benefitted from our free medical service programme," he said.


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We are delighted that Dan Abnett and Nik Abnett are joining us for Octocon 2017.
Dan Abnett is a seven-times New York Times bestselling author and an award-winning comic book writer. He has written over fifty novels, including the acclaimed Gaunt's Ghosts series, the Eisenhorn and Ravenor trilogies, volumes of the million-selling Horus Heresy series, The Silent Stars Go By (Doctor Who), Rocket Raccoon and Groot: Steal the Galaxy, The Avengers: Everybody Wants To Rule The World, The Wield, Triumff: Her Majesty's Hero, and Embedded. In comics, he is known for his work on The Legion of Super-Heroes, Hercules, Earth 2, Nova, Wild's End, and The New Deadwardians.
His 2008 run on The Guardians of the Galaxy for Marvel formed the inspiration for the blockbuster movie.
A regular contributor to the UK's long-running 2000AD, he is the creator of series including Brink, Grey Area, Lawless, Kingdom and the classic Sinister Dexter. He has also written extensively for the games industry, including Shadow of Mordor and Alien:Isolation.
His is currently the writer on Aquaman and The Titans for DC Comics, and has written a massive Aliens, Predator and Prometheus crossover called Life and Death for Dark Horse.
Dan lives and works in the UK.
Nik Vincent began working as a freelance editor, but has published work in a number of mediums, including advertising, training manuals, comics and short stories.
She has worked as a ghost writer, and regularly collaborates with her partner, Dan Abnett, writing novels, and in the games industry.
Nik's first solo, independent novel, Savant, is available now.
She lives and works in Maidstone, Kent, where she cooks and decorates.
Follow Dan and Nic's Social Media:
Twitter: http://twitter.com/VincentAbnett
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I lit up my horno yesterday afternoon, in front of the boys, knowing full-well I would get advice on making a fire. What man can resist the pull of a great fire-starting adventure! And sure enough, Jose almost made me jump out of my skin when I discovered him at my shoulder, nodding his head and saying, "Yeah, great fire. Push it all the way to the back like that so you'll have plenty of room for the food." I do it the way he taught me, not by taking the fire out, as some do, after four hours, but leaving the fire in, pushing it all the way to the back, or separating it into two sides after 1 1/2 hours, then putting your food up front or in the middle. He made the horno,(the oven, so he should know how it works!
"It's too hot, yet," he said. As I knew. Playing with a fire and cooking your food over it is a great art. Super fun and comforting, lighting up your skin and warming your hands and face. I kept the door on all night, then put the cookies from last night in to warm this morning. I handed them the plate this morning and smiles all around!
Recipe of the Day – Oatmeal Cookies
Using the Peruvian Oatmeal from yesterday's post:
2 c. Peruvian oatmeal
2 c. platano flour
2 smashed bananas
1/2 c. applesauce
1/4 c. coconut oil
1 T. chia seeds soaked in 3 T. water (0r you could use an egg)
1 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 tsp. baking powder
dash salt
dash vanilla powder (or 1 tsp. vanilla extract)
More sweetener if needed: 1/4 c. honey, 3 drops liquid Stevia, 1/4 c. coconut crystals to sprinkle on top.
Stir all together and place in rounded spoonfuls on cookie sheet. Sprinkle with coconut crystals/sugar or panela. Bake 350 degrees for 7-9 minutes.
Word of the Day – harina de avena – oatmeal
Tip of the Day – Oats are plentiful and economical here. Use them in cookies, oatmeal, bread, doggy cookies, and more!
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Instead of getting distracted by social media, the internet can also help you to save precious time.
This is where browser extensions come into play. They can give your productivity a boost by assisting you getting organized, store your to-do lists, reduce tab clutter, block ads, schedule social media posts, save and manage passwords and much more.
The following info graphic lists 11 extensions you might have never heard of or not considered at all.
Sometimes we ignore something we hear until that one day when we are ready for it.
Extensions I like
- OneTab extension to reduce the clutter of open tabs
- I finally settled on Dashlane as my password manager. The extension automatically installs once you install Dashlane on your system.
- Google URL Shortener
Please leave a comment below and let me know
about your favorite extensions and why.


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The Kurt Hahn Foundation
Leaving a Legacy – The Gift of a Lifetime
Deciding to leave a gift to the School in your will is a very important step. For most people, a legacy is the greatest gift that they can make – it is not only the gift of an education, but a gift of a lifetime.
"What you leave behind is not what is engraved in stone monuments, but what is woven into the lives of others." Pericles.
Every Gift Makes a Difference and Every Choice is Personal
Legacy gifts, irrespective of amount, can provide support to the School as a whole through:
• The continued provision of excellent standards of teaching and facilities for future pupils
• The provision of bursaries to bright and talented to pupils, who without financial assistance would not otherwise be able to attend the School.
'We make a living by what we get; we make a life by what we give.'
Sir Winston Churchill
We recognise that you may wish to specify how your legacy will be used. You may choose to support a specific area of School life which reflects what has been important to you through your own life be that sport, music or any area of academic study.
The choice to give, be it a legacy or by other means, must come from within us. Thought and discussion must take place and the right decision for each individual reached. We have all undoubtedly benefitted from the generosity of previous benefactors and I know that OG's I meet are keen to see that the School flourishes and continues to be a world leader in education.
Benefaction is, and should be, a continuing process. It will come as no surprise that schools such as ours are reliant upon the support of endowments. Gordonstoun, however, does not have the endowment cushion necessary to achieve all our aspirations.
By leaving a legacy to Gordonstoun, you will be helping to ensure that our Founder's vision can continue to benefit future generations of Gordonstoun students.
There can be few other schools, if any, that offer the unique education that we do in such beautiful surroundings, and Gordonstoun remains fully committed to the ethos driven education that so many of you have enjoyed and benefitted from.
The School recognises its gratitude to those who leave Gordonstoun a gift by inviting them to join The Kurt Hahn Foundation. Members of this legacy society and their partners are invited as VIP guests to prominent School events and exclusive annual lunches.
If you would like to consider leaving a gift in your will to the School, we would be pleased to discuss your plans with you. We would like to assure you that this does not commit you in any way and that all discussions, of course, are completely confidential.
Please contact;
Andrew Lyall, Duffus 1988
Development Co-ordinator
01343 837827
'There is more to us than we know. If we can be made to see it, perhaps for the rest of our lives we will be unwilling to settle for less.'
Kurt Hahn CBE, 1886-1974


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Thursday, October 13, 5:30pm-7pm, Lamorinda Music, 81 Lafayette CircleFor our final installment of this quarterly program we are proud to present "Pitfalls to Avoid as You Grow Your Business". Dino Riggio (Dino Riggio & Associates) will facilitate a distinguished panel through Q&A. This is an interactive event, so come loaded with questions. The Big Room at Lamorinda Music is located at 81 Lafayette Circle. This event is presented by the Orinda, Moraga and Lafayette Chambers. A great place to network and meet your peers from the other chambers. Learn more here: http://www.lafayettechamber.org/events/lamorinda-business-forum/
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Saturday 28th November: Come & join us in supporting local artists, crafters & makers; bring the kids & for some festive activities; sample the homemade cake & tea in the cafe & join in with our Penny Social Raffle!
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This is a rush transcript from "Special Report," May 28, 2014. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA: Al Qaeda's leadership on the border region between Pakistan and Afghanistan has been decimated and Usama bin Laden is no more. Today's principle threat no longer comes from a centralized Al Qaeda leadership. Instead it comes from decentralized Al Qaeda affiliates and extremists. Many with agendas focused in countries where they operate, and this lessens the possibility of large scale 9/11-style attack against the homeland, but it heightens the danger of U.S. personnel overseas being attacked, as we saw in Benghazi.
BRET BAIER, ANCHOR: President again at West Point today. We're back with the panel. Steve, what about this assessment of Al Qaeda and what intelligence officials are privately telling us is a growing effort by these affiliates that proves to be just as dangerous as Al Qaeda ever was.
HAYES: I think this is yet another case of the president seeing the world as he wishes it were rather than the world as it is. There's no question that Al Qaeda has dispersed from Afghanistan and Pakistan. But the question is have they done so with purpose, and what are they doing now? Is core Al Qaeda -- to use the president's distinction that he makes all the time -- still active? Is it still helping to run things? There are certainly connections between core Al Qaeda and what is happening in Syria. There is no question that there are connections between core Al Qaeda and the replenished core Al Qaeda and a variety of affiliates.
The same thing that the president just said about these affiliates, that they are focused locally, that the threat is diminished, was also said about Al Qaeda back in the 1990s. You know, this group, the Egyptian Islamic Jihad is focused only on Egypt, only on Egyptian politics. They are always focused on what is in front of them until they are not, until they turn their eyes towards the United States. I think it's false comfort that the president is taking, but it's not the first time we've heard this. Back in April of 2012, John Brennan, the president's counterterrorism adviser, predicted that Al Qaeda would be in effect eliminated by the end of this decade. That certainly doesn't look like it's a prediction that's likely to come true.
Congressman Pompeo, a Republican congressman, said he believes Al Qaeda is greater, stronger, the threat from Al Qaeda today is stronger than it was when President Obama took office. And there are these other assessments that are starting to bubble up, Mara.
MARA LIASSON, NATIONAL PUBLIC RADIO: You mean in terms of able to it launch an attack on the homeland or just -- what are the criteria?
BAIER: Across the board.
LIASSON: Because there is no doubt that it's metastasized. But whether it's in any position to do what Usama bin Laden did and launch an attack on the United States I think is debated. But there is no doubt that the Al Qaeda threat is there. It's serious, and it's in a lot of places, and, in particular, in Syria where we have a pretty unpalatable choice there between Assad and Al Qaeda.
BAIER: Is there a disconnect between what, for example, Senator Dianne Feinstein says about Al Qaeda and what this administration is publicly saying?
LIASSON: Well, this was a very positive speech about all of the accomplishments across the board. And this is a really dangerous world, and the president hasn't really gotten a handle on it. And one of the things he talked about was beefing up the capacity, the antiterrorist capacity of our allies and other countries, which is, I think, a really good idea. He proposed $5 billion to do that. That's pretty small. We will see if the Republicans kind of meet him and raise him a little on that.
BAIER: Charles?
CHARLES KRAUTHAMMER, SYNDICATED COLUMNIST: Look, I think this is rose colored glasses. Here's a president trying to justify his foreign policy by pretending these successes. I don't know anybody who believes that when a cancer metastasizes you are better off. I don't think anybody thinks, as he was saying, that America stood tough on Ukraine and isolated Russia. Russia just completed the biggest energy deal in the history of the galaxy with China that's going it to supply it with a customer for 30 years. This is isolation? I mean, he didn't even mention that Russia swallowed Crimea and has essentially reduced Ukraine to a vassal state.
He looks around the world and sees what he wants to see. I think that's rather alarming. And I do think that what Steve about retroactively creating a theory of what he did is true, because what was the last doctrine, the duty to protect. That was the theme of the great speech he gave on television on the eve of the Libya intervention. This is what America does. America does not stand by when cities are reduced like Benghazi. Of course, he stood by now for three years while 160,000 are slaughtered in Syria. So he adopts a theory retroactively, a way to fit what are a series of completely unconnected ad hoc decisions. And that's the Obama doctrine, ad hoc, every day a new idea.
BAIER: So, grade the speech.
KRAUTHAMMER: The speech, I would grade like the policy, C minus.
LIASSON: No. I give him a B.
STEVE HAYES, SENIOR WRITER, "THE WEEKLY STANDARD": C minus? No. It was an F. It was borderline delusional. He is seeing the world that he pretends exists. It doesn't exist in the minds of so many other people.
HAYES: Soft again, Charles.
BAIER: Here we go. Final thing, we'll get reaction from the panel about the latest from the V.A. when we come back.
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Location: Western Africa, bordering the North Atlantic Ocean, between Guinea-Bissau and Mauritania
Geographic coordinates: 14 00 N, 14 00 W
Map references: Africa
Areacomparative: slightly smaller than South Dakota
Land boundaries:
Coastline: 531 km
Maritime claims:
Climate: tropical; hot, humid; rainy season (May to November) has strong southeast winds; dry season (December to April) dominated by hot, dry, harmattan wind
Terrain: generally low, rolling, plains rising to foothills in southeast
Elevation extremes:
Natural resources: fish, phosphates, iron ore
Land use:
Irrigated land: 710 sq km (1993 est.)
Natural hazards: lowlands seasonally flooded; periodic droughts
Environmentcurrent issues: wildlife populations threatened by poaching; deforestation; overgrazing; soil erosion; desertification; overfishing
Environmentinternational agreements:
Geographynote: The Gambia is almost an enclave of Senegal
Population: 9,723,149 (July 1998 est.)
Age structure:
Population growth rate: 3.33% (1998 est.)
Birth rate: 44.38 births/1,000 population (1998 est.)
Death rate: 11.05 deaths/1,000 population (1998 est.)
Net migration rate: 0 migrant(s)/1,000 population (1998 est.)
Sex ratio:
Infant mortality rate: 61.2 deaths/1,000 live births (1998 est.)
Life expectancy at birth:
Total fertility rate: 6.18 children born/woman (1998 est.)
Ethnic groups: Wolof 36%, Fulani 17%, Serer 17%, Toucouleur 9%, Diola 9%, Mandingo 9%, European and Lebanese 1%, other 2%
Religions: Muslim 92%, indigenous beliefs 6%, Christian 2% (mostly Roman Catholic)
Languages: French (official), Wolof, Pulaar, Diola, Mandingo
Country name:
Data code: SG
Government type: republic under multiparty democratic rule
National capital: Dakar
Administrative divisions: 10 regions (regions, singularregion); Dakar, Diourbel, Fatick, Kaolack, Kolda, Louga, Saint-Louis, Tambacounda, Thies, Ziguinchor
Independence: 4 April 1960 from France; complete independence was achieved upon dissolution of federation with Mali on 20 August 1960 (The Gambia and Senegal signed an agreement on 12 December 1981 that called for the creation of a loose confederation to be known as Senegambia, but the agreement was dissolved on 30 September 1989)
National holiday: Independence Day, 4 April (1960)
Constitution: 3 March 1963, revised 1991
Legal system: based on French civil law system; judicial review of legislative acts in Constitutional Court; the Council of State audits the government's accounting office; Senegal has not accepted compulsory ICJ jurisdiction
Suffrage: 18 years of age; universal
Executive branch:
Legislative branch: unicameral National Assembly or Assemblee Nationale (140 seats; members
are elected by direct popular vote to serve five-year terms)
Judicial branch: under the terms of a reform of the judicial system implemented in 1992, the principal organs of the judiciary are as follows; Constitutional Court; Council of State; Court of Final Appeals or Cour de Cassation; Court of Appeals
Political parties and leaders: African Party for Democracy and Socialism or And-Jef/PADS (also PADS/AJ) [Landing SAVANE, secretary-general]; Democratic League-Labor Party Movement or LD-MPT [Dr. Abdoulaye BATHILY]; Democratic and Patriotic Convention or CDP Garab-Gi [Dr. Iba Der THIAM]; Independent Labor Party or PIT [Amath DANSOKHO]; National Democratic Rally or RND [Madier DIOUF]; Senegalese Democratic Party or PDS [Abdoulaye WADE]; Senegalese Democratic Party-Renewal or PDS-R [Serigne Lamine DIOP, Secretary General]; Senegalese Democratic Union-Renewal or UDS-R [Mamadou Puritain FALL]; Socialist Party or PS [President Abdou DIOUF]; other small parties
Political pressure groups and leaders: students; teachers; labor; Muslim Brotherhoods
International organization participation: ACCT, ACP, AfDB, CCC, ECA, ECOWAS, FAO, FZ, G-15, G-77, IAEA, IBRD, ICAO, ICC, ICFTU, ICRM, IDA, IDB, IFAD, IFC, IFRCS, ILO, IMF, IMO, Inmarsat, Intelsat, Interpol, IOC, IOM, ITU, MIPONUH, NAM, OAU, OIC, PCA, UN, UNAVEM III, UNCTAD, UNESCO, UNIDO, UNIKOM, UNMIBH, UPU, WADB, WAEMU, WCL, WFTU, WHO, WIPO, WMO, WToO, WTrO
Diplomatic representation in the US:
Diplomatic representation from the US:
Flag description: three equal vertical bands of green (hoist side), yellow, and red with a small green five-pointed star centered in the yellow band; uses the popular pan-African colors of Ethiopia
Economyoverview: In January 1994, Senegal undertook a bold and ambitious economic reform program with the support of the international donor community. This reform began with a 50% devaluation of Senegal's currency, the CFA franc, which is linked at a fixed rate to the French franc. Government price controls and subsidies have been steadily dismantled. After seeing its economy contract by 2.1% in 1993, Senegal made an important turnaround, thanks to the reform program, with real growth in GDP of 5.6% in 1996 and 4.7% in 1997. Annual inflation has been pushed below 3% and the fiscal deficit has been cut to less than 1.5% of GDP. Investment has been steadily rising from 13.8% of GDP in 1993 to 16.5% in 1997. As a member of the West African Economic and Monetary Union (UEMOA), Senegal is working toward greater regional integration with a unified external tariff. Senegal also realized full Internet connectivity in 1996, creating a miniboom in information technology-based services. Private activity now accounts for 82% of GDP. On the negative side, Senegal faces deep-seated urban problems of chronic unemployment, juvenile delinquency, and drug addiction.
GDP: purchasing power parity$15.6 billion (1997 est.)
GDPreal growth rate: 4.7% (1997 est.)
GDPper capita: purchasing power parity$1,850 (1997 est.)
GDPcomposition by sector:
Inflation rateconsumer price index: 2.5% (1997 est.)
Labor force: NA
Unemployment rate: NA%; urban youth 40%
Industries: agricultural and fish processing, phosphate mining, fertilizer production, petroleum refining, construction materials
Industrial production growth rate: 7.4% (1996 est.)
Electricitycapacity: 303,440 kW (1997)
Electricityproduction: 1.027 billion kWh (1997 est.)
Electricityconsumption per capita: 109 kWh (1997 est.)
Agricultureproducts: peanuts, millet, corn, sorghum, rice, cotton, tomatoes, green vegetables; cattle, poultry, pigs; fish
Debtexternal: $3.7 billion (1996)
Economic aid:
Currency: 1 Communaute Financiere Africaine franc (CFAF) = 100 centimes
Exchange rates: CFA francs (CFAF) per US$1608.36 (January 1998), 583.67 (1997), 511.55
(1966), 499.15 (1995), 555.20 (1994), 283.16 (1993)
Fiscal year: calendar year
Telephones: 81,988 (1995 est.)
Telephone system:
Radio broadcast stations: AM 8, FM 6, shortwave 1
Radios: 850,000 (1993 est.)
Television broadcast stations: 1
Televisions: 61,000 (1993 est.)
Waterways: 897 km total; 785 km on the Senegal river, and 112 km on the Saloum river
Ports and harbors: Dakar, Kaolack, Matam, Podor, Richard-Toll, Saint-Louis, Ziguinchor
Merchant marine:
Airports: 20 (1997 est.)
Airportswith paved runways:
Airportswith unpaved runways:
Military branches: Army, Navy, Air Force, National Gendarmerie, National Police (Surete Nationale)
Military manpowermilitary age: 18 years of age
Military manpoweravailability:
Military manpowerfit for military service:
Military manpowerreaching military age annually:
Military expendituresdollar figure: $81 million (1996 est.)
Military expenditurespercent of GDP: 2.1% (1996 est.)
Disputesinternational: short section of boundary with The Gambia is indefinite
Illicit drugs: transshipment point for Southwest and Southeast Asian heroin moving to Europe and North America; illicit cultivator of cannabis


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ESPN Experiencing the Slippery Slopes at Augusta
Tuesday, April 8, 2008; 1:02 PM
Over the last 15 years, every time I hear a CBS executive insist that it was the network's decision alone to forever remove irreverent golf commentator Gary McCord from its Masters telecast after his "body bags" and "bikini wax" comments during the 1994 tournament, I go back and read the statement put out at the time by then Masters chairman Jack Stephens.
"In prior years, we had expressed concern to CBS about the appropriateness of some of Mr. McCord's commentary," read Stephens' statement. "In spite of CBS's assurances to the contrary, Mr. McCord's remarks in 1994 were even more distasteful and conflicted directly with our goals. We therefore felt compelled to seek a change for 1995."
Last week, ESPN executive vice president John Wildhack said during a conference call that it was the worldwide leader's decision alone not to send Chris "Bluster" Berman, a fixture on its U.S. Open golf coverage, to Augusta for the cable network's debut as the carrier of Thursday and Friday coverage of the 2008 Masters. But please pardon me for being just a tad skeptical in thinking the club had no input in keeping Berman off ESPN's Masters team this week.
Wildhack insisted it was "100 percent our decision" not to have Berman involved. "As we do with all our partners, we discussed it (with the club) and Mike (Tirico's) participation was enthusiastically embraced." Wildhack also said Berman was too busy preparing for ESPN's NFL draft coverage April 26-27, as if Boomer was back home in Connecticut locked in a dark room watching tape with Mel Kiper -- surely a fate worse than water boarding.
In other words, you can bet your green blazer that the Lords of The Masters probably wanted no part of Berman's boisterous, often blowhard, look-at-me approach to broadcasting. Then again, that seems quite understandable and actually something of a relief. After all, could you imagine Berman talking about Tiger "Knock On" Woods, the "toasty tundra" of Augusta National's fairways or describing an errant shot as going "back, back, back, back, back over the green and into Rae's Creek!!!!"
The good news is that Tirico will be the one and only ESPN broadcaster actually involved in the early-round coverage. He's a veteran multi-talented, low-key and all-purpose broadcaster and also was the lead man for ABC's golf package before the network chose not to spend the money on rights fees for the PGA Tour two years ago. Unlike Berman, he knows the game and most of the people in and out of the the game know him to be thoroughly informed and meticulously prepared for any big-time assignment he's ever handled.
Tirico will not be calling any golf shots over the first two rounds. He'll be positioned in Butler cabin, where he'll serve in a host role Thursday and Friday, leading viewers into the telecast, providing re-set updates, the storylines of the day and handle the player interviews.
The heavy lifting of tournament shot-by-shot coverage and analysis will come from the CBS golf division, orchestrated entirely by longtime production maestro Lance Barrow, with Jim Nantz and Nick Faldo anchoring the telecast. The usual cast of regular CBS golf voices -- Peter Kostis, Verne Lundquist, Ian Baker-Finch, Peter Oosterhuis -- will man towers all around the golf course, with the possible exception of wickedly witty David Feherty, listed as questionable for action this week. Poor David can't laugh much these days recovering from three don't-even-sneeze broken ribs and a punctured lung suffered when a truck knocked him off his bicycle last month.
Tirico will do the shot-by-shot coverage of the annual Par 3 tournament contested on Augusta National's gorgeous little mini-course from 3-5 p.m. tomorrow. They've held the low-key, high-fun Par 3 event since 1960, but this year marks the first time any network will be permitted to show it live.
Andy North, a two-time U.S. Open champion and regular ESPN golf analyst, will join Tirico only for the Par 3 coverage, then will bow out Thursday and Friday. ESPN anchor Scott Van Pelt and reporter Tom Rinaldi will be on the grounds all week as well, but only to provide news and feature coverage for SportsCenter and ESPNews. Best of all, Berman literally is totally out of the picture.
"At the end of the day, it's a CBS show airing on ESPN," Tirico said in a telephone interview last week. "For the viewer, it will not be drastically different from what they've seen in the past, with the exception of the Par 3, which will be the heaviest lifting I'll be doing.
"Everything Augusta National has always been about is to show as much golf as possible. We won't be changing that formula in any way on Thursday and Friday. We'd be silly to do that. I think people anticipate that Thursday coverage as much as any golf broadcast of the year, along with Sunday. The main idea is pretty much to just stay out of the way."


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Saturday, October 31, 2015
Game Day Ball State--October 31st, 2015
If we are going to make a run at the end of this season, the time is here. UMass has played a string of good teams in 2015. However, the Minutemen have looked less formidable than I had hoped. Our pass-only offense has stumbled at times. Probably because of injuries, the Minutmen defense has not improved this year.
However, UMass has showed flashes that it can do better. The offense scored on Notre Dame and Toledo. The defense played tough against FIU and Kent State.
Ball State is not a good team. Let's play both haves of the game and with both offense and defense and get a second win of the season.
Go UMass!!!!
The game will be available on ESPN3.
Matty Vautour says UMass seeks second half success at Ball State.
Dan Malone reports the Minutemen seek to halt a growing losing streak.
Dan has five keys to the game.
He scouts UMass VS Ball State by the numbers.
The Boston Herald says Tajae Sharpe continues to lead the country in receptions.
The Ball State Daily says the Cardinals look for a win against Sharpe and the Minutemen.
The Muncie Star Press reports Ball State eyes bowl eligibility against UMass.
CBS Sports has Ball State as its "lock-of-the-week" to beat UMass.
UConn ran over East Carolina last night.
Temple-Notre Dame is the college game of the week.
FIU wants to be known as "Tight end U".
BC, which has lost four in a row, meets Virginia Tech who has lost four of their five.
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Not sure what is worse-no pressure on QB- or poor corner coverage? Help!!
- October 31, 2015 3:14 PM
Listening to the game on the radio instead of watching in person or on tv gives you a different perspective.
Listening today I realize we have little or no pressure on the opponent's QB, we have little or no run blocking from our O-line, our kicking/punting game is pathetic and our players lack discipline.
Too many penalties, too many missed FG's and poor punts, too many three-and-outs. This team will be lucky to win three games, let alone six.
- October 31, 2015 3:17 PM
Comis would have run for over a hundred yards in 1st half alone. UMASS has one receiver, makes Fro highly predictable, and easy for the defense. Mixed it up, it is not a demotion to play both QB's. The offense is inconsistent anyway.
- October 31, 2015 3:23 PM


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Department of Geology
500 Geology Physics Building
P.O. Box 210013
Cincinnati, OH 45221-0013
Phone: 513-556-3732
Fax: 513-556-6931
Geology of Cincinnati
Professor J Barry Maynard
Link to webpage: http://homepages.uc.edu/~maynarjb/
Course number: 15-GEOL-362
Welcome to the website for my course on Cincinnati geology. This website is a gateway to other pages and sites that provide abundant detail on the fascinating diversity of geology of the Tri-state area, including much information on geologic hazards. The section entitled "Papers" has some longer, more formal presentations on local geology. "Data" has some useful databases. "Illustrations" is a photo collection of important features. Each index page has a group of thumbnail images. Click on the thumbnail to bring up the full-scale image. Finally there is a collection of links to other sites that contain useful information about geology, architecture, and hazards.
Landslide and Flood Data
Roebling Bridge 1937
(Courtesy: Library of Greater Cincinnati of Hamilton County)
Cincinnati flood data from USGS
Cincinnati Landslides: 1974-1993
Total Cost to City: Property 59.6 miilion $
Mt Adams slide (1982) 44.5 million $
Yearly cost = 2.9 million $
(All in 2005 dollars)
Cincinnati vs California Landslides: 1973-1978 Per Capita Cost to City
- Hamilton County - 5.80 $
- San Francisco - 1.30 $
- Los Angeles (private property) - 1.60 $
- Los Angeles (public & private) - 3.50 $
Paper on Cincinnati Geology
- The Cincinnati Subway: Past Geological Failure or Hope of Future Transportation?
- Cincinnati Hillsides
- Glacial maps of Cincinnati
- Landslide Gallery
- Flood Gallery
- Spring Grove Cemetery
Useful Websites
- Ordovician rocks and fossils
- Cincinnatian Stratigraphy (Steve Holland's website)
- Library photo collection
- www.cincinnati-transit.net
- enquirer.com
- www.kypost.com
- http://www.cincinnatiparks.com/( e.g. Caldwell)
- Ohio Geological Survey
- Landslides in Ohio and other geologic hazards
- St Peter-in-Chains Cathedral (and other Roman Catholic churches in Cincinnati)
- Ohio Canals


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Eminence Capital Nominates Two Retail Industry Veterans As Independent Directors To Jos. A. Bank Board
Jan 21, 2014, 07:00 EST
NEW YORK, Jan. 21, 2014 /PRNewswire/ -- Eminence Capital, LLC, which owns 4.9% of the common stock of Jos. A. Bank Clothiers, Inc. (JOSB), today announced that it has nominated two industry veterans for election as directors to the Board at Jos. A. Bank's annual meeting. The nominees include:
- Bruce J. Klatsky, former Chairman of Phillips-Van Heusen Corporation (PVH), a position he held from 1994 until June 2007, and
- Norman S. Matthews, former President of Federated Department Stores and active and former board member of other retail and consumer companies.
"We are very pleased that these two highly experienced retail executives have agreed to stand for election as independent directors at the 2014 meeting of Jos. A. Bank shareholders. Their knowledge and success in the retail industry as well as their commitment to maximizing shareholder value have been clearly evident throughout their long and distinguished careers," said Ricky C. Sandler, Chief Executive Officer of Eminence Capital.
"We want to reiterate that we intend to support Men's Wearhouse's nominees and will withdraw our nominees if those proposed by Men's Wearhouse are still in the running at the time of the Jos. A. Bank annual meeting," Sandler said.
Additional Information on Eminence Capital Nominees
Bruce Klatsky stepped down as Chairman of PVH in 2007. During his 13 years as CEO, he led the transformation of a 120 year-old shirt company into one of the largest apparel and footwear companies in the world. He oversaw the operations and strategic development of the multi-division NYSE-traded public company with approximately 20,000 employees, annual sales in excess of $2 billion, and brand revenues of approximately $6 billion. In 2002, he led the successful acquisition and integration of Calvin Klein, a transaction that added a great brand to a roster of companies that produce and distribute men's dress shirts, footwear and sportswear. These brands include Van Heusen, G.H. Bass & Co., Geoffrey Beene, Izod, Arrow, and dress shirt labels such as Kenneth Cole, Arrow, BCBG Max Azria, Chaps, Sean Jean, Michael Kors, and Donald Trump.
Klatsky also serves as the Lead Independent Director of Gazal Corporation, one of the largest publicly traded Australian retail and apparel companies, and was on the board of Charming Shoppes, a multi-billion dollar specialty retail company, until it was acquired in 2012.
Norman Matthews spent more than 10 years at Federated Department Stores, retiring in 1988 as President. He served for three years as Vice Chairman of Federated and four years as Chairman of the Gold Circles Stores Division. Matthews also serves on the boards of Henry Schein, Inc. and Spectrum Brands Holdings, Inc., and is the Chairman of the Board of Directors of The Children's Place Retail Stores, Inc. He previously served on the boards of Sunoco, Toys 'R' Us, Federated Department Stores, and Galyan's.
About Eminence Capital, LLC
Eminence Capital, LLC is an asset management firm founded in 1998 that currently manages approximately $4.9 billion on behalf of institutions and individuals. The firm employs a bottom-up, research-driven investment strategy that utilizes a combination of industry research, rigorous financial analysis and dialog with company management to execute its investment process.
Additional Information Regarding the Proxy Solicitation
In connection with its solicitation of proxies for the 2014 Annual Meeting of Jos. A. Bank Clothiers, Inc. ("JOSB"), Eminence Capital, LLC intends to file a proxy statement on Schedule 14A and other relevant documents with the SEC. Investors and security holders are urged to read the preliminary proxy statement in its entirety and the definitive proxy statement and other relevant documents when they become available, because they will contain important information regarding the proxy solicitation. The preliminary and definitive proxy statement and all other relevant documents will be available, free of charge, on the SEC's website at www.sec.gov.
The following persons are participants in any such proxy solicitation: Eminence Capital, LLC, Eminence GP, LLC, Ricky C. Sandler, Bruce J. Klatsky and Norman S. Matthews. Investors and security holders of JOSB can obtain additional information regarding the direct and indirect interests of the participants by reading the materials to be filed today under cover of Schedule 14A with the SEC.
Forward Looking Statements
This press release may include forward looking statements that reflect our current views with respect to future events. Statements that include the words "expect," "intend," "plan," "believe," "project," "anticipate," "will," "may," "would" or similar words are often used to identify forward looking statements. All forward looking statements address matters that involve risks and uncertainties, many of which are beyond our control. Accordingly, there are or will be important factors that could cause actual results to differ materially from those indicated in such statements and, therefore, you should not place undue reliance on any such statements. Any forward looking statements made in this press release are qualified in their entirety by these cautionary statements, and there can be no assurance that the actual results or developments anticipated by us will be realized or, even if substantially realized, that they will have the expected consequences to, or effects on, JOSB or its business, operations or financial condition. Except to the extent required by applicable law, we undertake no obligation to update publicly or revise any forward looking statement, whether as a result of new information, future developments or otherwise.
Investors Contact:
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(212) 269-5550
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Want to enjoy everything that Steamboat Springs has to offer? You're going to need gear for that. Ski gear, cycling gear, hiking and hydration, team sports and camping. Local sporting goods stores offer everything from daily rentals – complete with door-to-door services - and purchases that will last you a lifetime of adventure.


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Just 5km from the Brisbane CBD, this open, two-level property presents a wonderful opportunity to renovate, or rebuild, near the end of a quiet cul-de-sac in a bushland setting at the base of Mt Coot-tha.
The three bedroom, two bathroom home, loved for many years for its peaceful, leafy surrounds, is spacious and welcoming. Upstairs you'll find ducted air-conditioning, two generous bedrooms plus a large study/optional bedroom, a large open-plan living/dining area and a roomy kitchen with plenty of bench space. A large internal laundry, rear deck and enclosed front balcony round out the upper level.
Downstairs is a large master bedroom, which could easily be used as a rumpus or media room, with an ensuite and kitchenette, as well as an automatic double garage which opens directly into the home. Both levels feature high ceilings and are light and bright thanks to the northerly orientation of the home.
The home presents a wonderful opportunity to update, or start afresh in an idyllic location. Don't miss your opportunity at the auction, on-site on Saturday October 28 at 12noon.
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|King Hussein of Jordan lights Rabin's fag, in the vestibule in the Jordanian immigration office at the Sheikh Hussein bridge. It's so odd these days to see pictures of people smoking, even in Arabia, that I imagined it was a health campaign for a moment. It was King Hussein who said of Dr. David Owen, 'Do you think he's any good as a doctor?' But I digress.
I actually remembered AND charged my camera (actually my colleague at work did) and REMEMBERED TO BRING IT WITH ME AND TO USE IT but now there seems something wrong with it. "What a world, what a world" as the Wicked Witch says at the end of the Wizard of Oz while she is melting. Still I do not really believe in taking pictures. A word is worth a thousand of them, if it is the right word.
I did no research or planning, got to the bus stop at Nazareth at 8.00 and have just arrived at Petra now at five as it is about to get dark. With a taxi from Amman. I negotiated a price for the taxi of JD 150 coming today returning tomorrow night to Amman (leaving Petra after sunset) thinking the JD was US $0.60 when in fact the US dollar is JD 0.60, but it is still a very good price in my opinion.
I found this on the net:
Taxi fare from downtown Amman to Petra is around 80 JD.
So I am paying almost the going rate - which is a fraction of what it would cost in Israel. Plus I have the driver, Ali, for over 32 hours. Not a bad deal. The bus costs only JD 19 return but I had missed the buses for today.
Put up in the Cleopetra (thus spelt) Hotel, a comfortable place that costs JD 27 or somewhat over $40. The plump, kindly Filipino manageress is the only Christian in the little town and is sending money home to her mum and dad. Muslim men, she says, think women are below men and the Arab Christians think the same. She will turn up her nose at them and marry a Christian in some other country. She spent Christmas in Manila where there is a Catholic church.
I knew nothing whatsoever about Petra and told myself to mug up before bed but my Blue Guide and its lists of monuments and kings and unfamiliar deities completely defeated me. How much cleverer I was at eleven.
Woken an hour early because, it turns out, Jordan gave the world three days notice this autumn that she would stay on summer time all through the winter. This is national sovereignty, lest we forget. How recently we in my country could have done the same but we English are less spontaneous. (In fact we did, one year, while I was at school, beofre the last Ice Age.)It reminds me though of the USSR, which fell 4 hours behind GMT for forty years because one autumn in Stalin's time no-one gave the order to put the clocks back an hour.
Nine and Ali the driver and i reach the entrance to the remains. My entrance ticket costs me JL 50 and Ali JL 1 because I am a foreigner. it is bitterly cold and i regret very much not having a coat. jacket and pullover are not enough but then the beauty of the Siq gorge makes me forget the cold, then the famous Treasury, which you have seen in pictures and then the sun came out.
|A picture taken on my telephone, when my camera ran out of battery. The other pictures all seem to be films and then the telephone battery ran out.
The books say you need two or three days. Ali thinks three hours is enough. I gave Petra six and a half hours and do not feel I merely skimmed it, though I should certainly have preferred another day (it was impossible, if i am to have one last free day in Jerusalem). I took a donkey and my fear of heights made this seem like a very bad idea but then my sloth and stinginess persuaded me to stay on my mule. I was it seems committed to pay the JL 25 in any case and 900 steps upward seemed too many. It was fun, though not as much fun as it looked to observers. Petra feels exactly like a nineteenth-century lithograph and on a donkey you enter the lithograph. I wore my Ede and Ravenscroft suit jacket, a pair of khaki slacks and a Lewin shirt and was a reasonable simulacrum of the milord anglais, though I had deliberately abandoned my black umbrella (a cheap and shiny Nazarene one) in Jerusalem.
The Jordanians are much less pushy and practice the soft not hard sell, unlike Arabs in Israel. The man who provided my donkey ride told me he grew up in a cave and his mother still lived in one. The old lady gave me tea en route but did not insist on attempting to sell her handmade jewellery. She and her son both smoked Western cigarettes.
Petra really is quite astonishing and since you only see places for the first time once I advise everyone to give it two whole days, especially considering how remote it is and how much the admission ticket costs. The famous treasury is only one of dozens of tombs equally imposing. I strongly advise mounting a donkey too.
Why did Petra, which was a bishopric in Byzantine times and still existed in crusader times completely disappear and be forgotten until discovered by Burckhardt in 1812? Many other cities died or went tints severe decline under Muslim rule. This article suggests a possible combination of causes though I have no idea whether the theory would fit the specifics of Petra.


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Asif Ali Zardari backs Manmohan Singh on KashmirJune 28th, 2008 - 3:20 am ICT by IANS
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London, June 27 (IANS) Pledging to dismantle terrorist cells, Pakistan Peoples Party (PPP) leader Asif Ali Zardari Friday told Indians gathered at a conference here that he agreed "with the statement of your prime minister supporting an autonomous Kashmir running much of its own affairs." "A commission can be established between the two countries and leaders of Kashmir themselves to world out what should be done in foreign and defence affairs," he said in a statement read out at a confernce on India and Pakistan, organised by the Tehelka media group.
In the dramatic statement - his first outlining the ruling party's India policy - Zardari also promised not to allow slow progress on Kashmir to impede work in "other cooperative matters".
Zardari said Pakistanis "agree that a very serious danger to the (India-Pakistan) peace process comes from militants and terrorists."
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"Trade instead of conflict, ladies and gentlemen!" declared the widow of slain former premier Benazir Bhutto.
"The PPP has made trade, not conflict with India, a top priority of its relations with India…. Sixty years of freedom is a long enough period to mature us to change our direction dramatically," he added.


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The frenzy of morning commute may be a dreaded routine until you're out of work.
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Tuesday, November 03, 2009
It's a Firkin Shame
The reason for this article is to remind people that a local brewery did indeed benefit from the demise of Firkin, when Andy Moorhouse, erstwhile landlord of the Rat & Ratchet in Chapel Hill decided to try his hand at brewing.
He, with a couple of other regulars, tripped off to Surrey one day and returned with the brewing kit from the Firkin in Crawley - and if I can't remember the name of the local Firkin I am unlikely to to remember the name of one 200 miles away am I!
He managed to cram the brewing kit into the cellar at the Rat and started brewing in late 1994. He would be offended if I called the brewery a 'Heath Robinson' affair, so I will say that it was a tribute to his engineering and skill that he managed to fit all the gear into such a small area and before long beers with rodent names were appearing on the bar (below). Usually light and hoppy, they were a tribute to his ability and it was always a pleasure to walk down Chapel Hill and smell the brewing process wafting up the hill towards you.
Andy not only used his ingenuity in the brewery, his search for rodent names provided some of the most memorable beer names ever. 'Silver Shrew' and 'Rattus Rattus' were easy to explain, 'Lord Derby's Flying Squirrel' and 'Splinter' less so. Nevertheless, the brewery went from strength to strength and I recall his pleasure, or maybe amazement at being awarded the 'Beer of the Festival' at Woking one year. (Suppose, light hoppy beer was a shock to Southerners!!).
Anyway all good things must end, and Andy decided to turn his hand elsewhere and the brewery was sold on. Firstly to the Fantasy Brewery in Nuneaton, which was a fairly short lived affair and then on again. I believe it was the basis for the Ashover Brewery in Derbyshire but I could be wrong. They are still brewing, so if you come across their beers it is entirely possible that they have come from the original Rat plant.
Andy did brew again, using Golcar's plant, where he produced a handful of beers under the 'Sidecar' name. However, his real success came at the Rat with beers that attracted attention from far and wide. Who can forget 'Infestation', a beer that is still talked about to this day. It just shows what a good brewing pedigree Huddersfield has, and is a tribute to Firkin that their kit has lasted the test of time to still produce good beers over 20 years on.
8 comments:
- Udders Orchard said...
Hi Tim
The Feast and Firkin was the Huddersfield one. Don't forget that there was brewing going on at the Old Court Brewhouse as well, with classic beers like M'Lud and 1842(?).
- 3 November 2009 at 09:16
Wikipedia says that the Huddersfield one was the Fabricant and Firkin which is now the scream owned Warehouse. The one in Crawley was called the Firecracker and Firkin now called the Railway.
Sam, Rat and Ratchet.
- 3 November 2009 at 17:06
Will mentions back in June that Richard Sutton of Pictish Brewery in Rochdale was a former brewer for firkin too!
Sam, Rat and Ratchet
- 3 November 2009 at 17:15
- ashover said...
The "Rat & Ratchet" brewery made for the Rocket at Crawley - renamed to the "Firecracker & Firkin" was produced by Buntingford brewery design services. I retrieved said beast from Scotland where Bob from Fantasy brewery had taken it for a non-brewing holiday. It is now installed at the back of the "old Poets Corner" in Ashover and producing award winning beers. See www.ashoverbrewery.co.uk
Roy Shorrock - Partner & brewer Ashover brewery.
- 4 November 2009 at 00:44
- Timbo said...
Thanks Dave and Sam...think sam is right and it was the Fabricant..have also been reminded that the Firkin plant was a replacement for Andy's original brewery, not his first attempt..my memory must be failing
- 4 November 2009 at 07:17
- Will said...
Thanks very much for that update Roy, I like a story with a happy ending!
- 4 November 2009 at 07:53
- Tandleman said...
Not only is Suttie a former Firkin brewer, but his kit came from the Dundee Firkin I believe.
- 5 November 2009 at 13:21
- Timbo said...
If my memory serves me well, think that's why he named the brewery Pictish...
- 6 November 2009 at 08:51