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It's no secret I love neutral decor. One of my favorite spaces to add that neutral decor to is in the bedroom. I searched high and low for some of my favorite farmhouse bedding and chose this set from Ballard Designs. The ticking stripe had me from the first moment I saw it. It was a little higher price than I would normally pay for bedding but someone once told me, "You spend over half your life in bed". True Story!
If you will be spending so much time there, why not make it comforting and amazing?! The few places in my home that I don't mind spending a little more than normal is bedding, towels and cookware.
This picture below is one of my main re-pins on Pinterest and I love that so many of you also have a love of the ticking stripe!
Farmhouse Bedding
This duvet is very heavy and very well made. There's only a few areas in my home decor that I can easily justify spending a little more than I normally would. Bedding is one of those.
Ticking Stripe Bedding and Fern Prints
The colors are neutral enough for almost any color scheme currently in your bedroom and will last a very long time. I paired it with some white sheets. Mainly because I really love white bedding. However, having a few dog babies that think my bed is their bed…. I opt for slightly darker duvets for that reason. The color I chose was the navy ticking stripe in this set.
Should you decide to order this bedding, I want to let you know that this is for sure the best made bedding I have ever owned! That being said, when I wash this set, it takes over 4 rounds in the dryer to dry! I love the weight of heavy bedding but my husband tends to prefer lighter weight bedding.
You can also see this bedroom update after Shiplap was added here!
Being the frugal gal that I am, I also wanted to share some other really pretty bedding I've seen online.
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Thanks so much for stopping by today and I hope that you find some perfect bedding for your space!


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A Toronto man found with 3,600 PlayStation games and related equipment has been charged after two tractor trailers went missing last month.
The 39-year-old man was found with about $500,000 worth of products, police said.
It's half the amount that was reported missing in Brampton last month.
At the time of the theft, police warned shoppers in Peel that finding any cheap PlayStations and games for sale could turn out to be be stolen goods.
On Nov. 15, a truck containing just under $500,000 worth of games and consoles was parked on Eastern Ave. The next day, a second truck, containing more than $500,000 worth of products, was parked in the same area.
Later that week the trucks were reported missing.
Jason Meadus has been arrested and charged with three counts of possession of property by crime.
His next court date is set for January.


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Single-Payment Lease - A pay as you go lease is a new kind of lease which has made its foray into the market in recent times. In this lease, consumers forego the cycle of lease payments in the event that they make a big fee at the beginning of the lease.
There are two amounts in a standard lease that incur prices and determine your monthly lease payments. First, there is a depreciation charge which accounts for the worth the automotive loses during the lease term. Second is a residual quantity which is the projected value of the vehicle on the end of the lease. The sum of those two charges offers the monthly payments in your lease.The concept behind a pre-paid lease is to remove the finance fees for depreciation and only account for residual worth prices in a single, pre-paid payment originally of the lease.
Single-payment leases are devised with spendthrifts in mind: no cycle of month-to-month payments, a brand new car every two to 3 years and no interest in purchasing the car at the finish of the lease. You must solely take into account this sort of lease if you're concerned about not with the ability to make month-to-month payments and have quite a lot of money upfront.


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Mauro Carboni
© Francesco Pierantoni
Mauro worked with B. Baer, C. Wetenstein, J. Brown, V. Moissey, C. Zoppolato, S. Rizza, M. Ermini, F. Corazzo, G. Tessitore, E. Thery, H. Basile, F. Monteverde, J. Fontano, M. T. Dal Medico, R. Garrison, H. Moore, and in 2009 he graduated from the National Academy of Rome, obtaining the II level degree for the training of Teachers in Choreutic disciplines – Dance with honours. For 10 years, he worked with the Arte Balletto Dance Contemporary Company (directed by Milena Zullo) and performed in almost each production created by the roman choreographer and in various national and international well-known Festivals.
In 2001, Paola Leoni proposed him to work with the Company of the Balletto di Sardegna and, until 2005, he performed in works directed by Dino Verga, Gabriella Borni, Guido Tuveri, Milena Zullo, and Giovanna Summo.
In 2003 he founded the Trois Mouvements group with the guitarist Andrea Vettoretti and the piano player Corrado De Bernart and performed the show TRA LE CORDE, created by Milena Zullo. The Trois Mouvements group toured in important guitarist international Festivals in Mexico, Spain and France until 2005.
In 2010 he ended his career as a dancer in the Balletto Mimma Testa Company where he danced in various performances created by Stefanella Testa and Michele Pogliani and directed by Laura Saraceni. He worked as a teacher for the Arte Balletto Centre in Roma, directed by Milena Zullo from 1993 to 2013.
In 2012 and 2013 the Professor Elena Viti awarded the Propaedeutic dance Pedagogy Prize to him, during the Pierrot danza Contest. Mauro cultivates his passion for the dance-theatre collaborating with the online magazine gbopera.it directed by Giorgio Bagnoli, by writing some reviews about the most important dance events in Rome.
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Obama's words downplay wars
Yet presidential speechwriters say that the words spoken by a commander in chief offer a glimpse into the mind of the president, a snapshot of what he wants the public to think about his presidency at any given moment. Looking at the list of most frequently spoken words, Thiessen said, "It doesn't turn out that way by luck. These are conscious decisions."
In tabulating the totals, POLITICO set out to count every presidential word spoken this year, from Inauguration Day through Obama's July 22 news conference — a total of at least 670,000 — by compiling every public remark and address on the White House's website and adding in about 50 interviews not found on whitehouse.gov.
Legal word-counting software tallied the frequency, and POLITICO combined usages of different forms of a word into the total count — so, for instance, the count for "terrorism" includes mentions of "terror" "terrorist" and "terrorism."
One word spoken only a single time is a reminder that a misplaced word can trip up a presidency: "stupidly."
Obama said in the July 22 news conference that Cambridge police acted "stupidly" in arresting Harvard University professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. in his home. That set off a racial controversy that led the president to invite Gates and the officer who arrested him to the White House for a beer.
Obama may never say the word "stupidly" again, at least in public. "You can make a mistake with a word or a phrase or a sentence or a paragraph, and it's going to become memorable," said former Clinton press secretary Joe Lockhart.
That was off the cuff. But a typical presidential speech is vetted by as many as a dozen officials before it lands on the president's teleprompter for delivery. Any given word travels a circuitous path through the bureaucracy before it is cleared for use by the president in prepared speeches and remarks.
Every word is finely honed. In the Bush White House, it could take as long as four days for a speech to be vetted by all the relevant officials, said Ed Gillespie, a former counselor to Bush. A flurry of emails flies back and forth as officials weigh the nuance of each sentence. "Every word the president says is scrutinized, parsed and analyzed," said Gillespie. "Every word lives forever."
After distilling the messages so carefully, presidents tend to use them again and again. "You really have to hammer home a message," said former Bush spokesman Scott McClellan. "And that means repetition, repetition, repetition if you're going to get it to cut through and get it to sink in with the public."
It is word pairs, though, that show the Obama White House's rhetorical choices in action.
Obama has said the word "Israel" 219 times, and the word "Palestinian" 132 times.
He has said "Iran" 324 times, but "Korea" – whether North or South – only 117 times.
His election themes of "hope" (298) and "change" (641) came up less than might be expected.
And the trend plays out even in the much less serious realm of sports. The president has said "basketball" 33 times, but "hockey" only once.


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Looking through the Barcelona photos for today's blog reminded me that I walked up through the majestic green area of Montjuic park and around the cliff-face to the castle before returning to the Olympic Stadium and finding the entrance.
Barcelona Montjuic Park and Castle Photos
Outside the Olympic Stadium entrance I saw the bell tower and got a photo of it with the Telefonica tower in the background.
Then I thought I'd take one with the Telefonica within the bell tower's frame. After a few shots I took the feature photo for this blog, and the photo in full to end it.
As well as seeing the Telefonica clearly within the bell tower's frame the sun shines through the tower while merging with the cloud above, and a bird soars between foliage below.
Marc Latham's central site is the Greenygrey (http://www.greenygrey.co.uk), and he has books available on Smashwords and Amazon (http://www.amazon.com/author/marclatham).


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This page discusses the methodology for testing and evaluating IPOP. Visit the testing repository for the source of the test suite.
The objectives of the test suite are to provide the following:
- Automated and scalable deployment of IPOP instances
- Productivity
- Test and visualize the correctness of the IPOP source
- Performance evaluation
- The latency and throughput of the network
- Dependability evaluation
- The robustness of a dynamic network
The test-suite was designed using a two-level master-worker model, as shown in Figure 1. In the first level, a host computer (master) orchestrates a set of physical nodes (workers) via SSH/SFTP. In the second level, each physical node (master) commands a set of Linux containers (LXCs) (workers). Collectively, the host computer controls a large number of LXCs that scales with the number of physical nodes. Each LXC runs an instance of IPOP to collectively realize an IPOP network.
To eliminate dependencies that are external to this system, one physical node assumes the role of server and deploys ejabberd (for XMPP/STUN) and turnserver (for TURN) to service the IPOP instances.
The host computer is able to command specific IPOP instances for network stimulation. For example, an IPOP instance can be run or stopped to simulate nodes entering or leaving the network; IPOP instances can be instructed to interact with other instances to simulate inter-node communication. Additionally, the IPOP instances provide local information about the network to the host computer to interpret the state of the network. For example, each IPOP instance can provide a list of its neighbouring peers so that the host computer can visualize the network topology; individual IPOP instances can report details such as transmission latency, packet loss, or resource utilization for performance and dependability analysis.
Figure 1. IPOP scale-test architecture
To improve the dependability of IPOP GroupVPN, a recovery mechanism is implemented to restore the structured peer-to-peer topology after the network has been partitioned. Using the test suite, we are able to test the correctness of this mechanism, as shown in Figure 2. In (a), the network topology is well formed. In (b), four IPOP instances are stopped to simulate the partitioning of the network into two halves. In (c), after some time, the two network partitions have reunited and will eventually restore the network topology.
Figure 2. Simulation of the IPOP GroupVPN recovery mechanism


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José Luis Alvarez
Mr. Alvarez, a Mexican tree nurseryman in the state of Michoacán, Mexico, developed the La Cruz Habitat Protection Project from the ground up. He was already growing seedling trees for reforestation projects by the Mexican government and others and understood the desperate need for re-establishing forests on the mountain slopes around the monarch over-wintering sites. He also understood the financial needs of the subsistence farmers who owned these lands. He has spent over 20 years developing efficient methods of growing healthy tree seedlings that utilize readily available organic materials. Throughout this time, he worked with the communities in and around the monarch sanctuaries to demonstrate the environmental and economic value of planting trees on their depleted fields and eroded lands. By providing outstanding quality trees and giving valuable technical support, he has built a relationship of trust and respect among the community leaders and participants in this project.
Lincoln Brower, PhD
It is with great sadness that we share news of the passing of longtime partner, Advisory Board Member and fierce advocate for the Monarchs: Dr. Lincoln Brower (July 2018). Dr. Brower dedicated his life's work to the Monarch Butterfly, learning the intricate and complex characteristics and migration patterns of this beloved pollinator. Often times being called on as the go-to expert, Dr. Brower's work can be found among the science pages of the New York Times, National Geographic, BBC and many more, he was also a founding member of Forests for Monarch over 20 years ago. An advocate for the Monarch's survival until the end, his legacy will endure. To a great friend, leader and advocate, we at Forests for Monarchs, along with the communities impacted by his work in Michoacán, Mexico, will miss him. Your work has made a difference for generations to come.
Dr. Brower is a research Professor of Biology at Sweet Briar College and Distinguished Service Professor of Zoology, Emeritus at the University of Florida. Brower's passion for monarchs began when he was a graduate student at Yale in the 1950s, and his research interests include the overwintering and migration biology of the monarch butterfly, chemical defense, ecological chemistry, mimicry, scientific film making, and the conservation of endangered biological phenomena and ecosystems. He is recipient of the Gold Medal of Zoology from the Linnean Society of London and a Lifetime Achievement Award from the Animal Behavior Society. Brower has published over 200 scientific papers and edited two books. He has served as Presidents of the Society for the Study of Evolution, the Lepidopterists' Society, and the International Society of Chemical Ecology, and was a Board member of the Michoacán Rerforestation Fund for the full life of that organization.
Christopher Best, MA
State Botanist for U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, in Austin, Texas, where he is dedicated to the conservation of rare, threatened, and endangered plants and their habitats in Texas. He has a Bachelor of Science in Plant Biochemistry from the University of Illinois in 1981 and a Master of Arts in Botany from Southern Illinois University in 1985. His thesis research on vesicular mycorrhizae in revegetated strip mine spoil led to a career in restoration ecology. From 1985 to 1989 he served as an agroforestry extensionist with the U.S. Peace Corps/CARE/INAFOR in Guatemala. From 1990 until 2006, he directed an ecological restoration program at Lower Rio Grande Valley National Wildlife Refuge along the U.S. – Mexico border in south Texas. Chris Best has served on the Advisory Board since 2010.


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Heavy hung the canopy of blue
Shade my eyes and I can see you
White was the light
That shines through the dress that you wear
-- Green is the Color by Pink Floyd
Kendel led me to this secret little swath of lush forest greens and inspiration ran wild! She did her own hair (incredible plait, yes?) and made the lovely little floral adornment. We ended the session at Rocky River Park where this couple had their first date (prom!) a decade ago! Paul and Kendel brought along the scarf that he gave her when he proposed. See that gorgeous ring? It was custom made by the local and crazy talented Liza Michelle Jewelry.


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A Note to Readers
Below is the 40th column I have posted this year to RickardsRead.com
I do not have a fixed day of the week or frequency for posting my columns but generally they appear on this blog once or twice within a 7 day period.
To those readers who wish to be automatically notified when I post a column I suggest you make use of a free service offered by the search engine Google. It is called "Google Alert". It is easy to use (see below) and can send an email 'alert' to you whenever there is a new post to RickardsRead.com
How to create a Google alert:
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Since the appearance of my previous column (No.39) on RickardsRead.com "Sun & Manulife: dull perhaps but not dumb", several former colleagues wondered why I favoured Sun Life in my comments. To quote one: "I often describe Sun Life as "huge" but it is only half the company Mutual Life was." [Sun Life took over a demutualized Mutual Life of Canada, by then renamed Clarica Life.] The question was interesting. After all I had been a public critic of Sun Life for a great deal longer than the period I worked for it.
My response in part was that "my comments about Sun's current share value were prompted by what I regard as ridiculous comparisons with Manulife by the 'talking heads' of financial services as well as blindness for too long about Manulife and the management that ultimately made its financial status a public issue. They were not prompted because I consider Sun Life to be the model. As you say, Sun is not the old Mutual Life but then neither was Clarica Life which is why, even though I was an officer of Mutual Life, I refused to endorse or support Mutual's demutualization. "
I have written previously that for me, as a participant in the Canadian life insurance business, 'the day the music died' was Dec 8,1997 when the intended demutualization of the the Mutual Life of Canada was announced. It foreshadowed not only the unnecessary and (for its par policyholders, among others) undesirable end of Canada's first and finest mutual life insurance company but also guaranteed the demutualized company's eventual disappearance.
Mutual's board and senior management were uninterested in having Ottawa include Mutual Life under the feds' takeover protection, calibrated so that (among the big Canadian mutual companies) it protected only Sun Life and Manulife. So, as it turned out, once Mutual Life had demutualized the inevitable end of its 130 years of existence could be and was made real on Dec 17, 2001 when the acquisition of Clarica Life by Sun Life was announced.
During most of my years in the Canadian life insurance business, i.e., the years prior to the rush by the big life companies to demutualize and the subsequent financial aggrandizement of their senior managements, stock company rules and objectives had not yet made management by quarterly shareholder dividend the priority it has now so widely become. A desire to manage a large Canadian life insurance company in the long term interests of a company's par policyholder-owners had not yet disappeared -- as a potential reference point for senior management -- from the operations of many of the larger life companies in Canada and the U.S.
Looking to the future in those years could still be a hopeful process rather than a reflection of an ongoing search for repetitive novelty with which to impress the 'groupies' of company quarterly results among financial journalists, rating agencies and others. Most possess only a nodding acquaintance at most with the reality of the various sectors of the North American life insurance business as well as with the nature of the mutually beneficial long term relationships companies could have with both policyholders-owners and those by whom they were sold insurance.
It was once fairly common to have mutual insurance companies (i.e., companies owned by their policyholders rather than by shareholders) denigrated in the financial services world by the mindless 'free market' ideologues who considered anything other than a stock company to be inferior or defective. The meltdown in the financial services world was a crash brought about by the corporate class, too many of whose members espoused financial codswallop and whose greed masqueraded as financial sophistication and support for 'market efficiency'. I am not hopeful that the recent catastrophe will prompt within big financial institutions much more than the further manifestation of the sort of superficial and self-serving thinking which helped produce it.
I do not amend my comments in No.39 about Sun Life's under-appreciated share value and financial probity. While I continue to disagree with aspects of Sun's operations I think its senior management led by CEO Donald Stewart will continue to operate the company in a way that augurs well for its ability to meet its future obligations to clients, agents, staff and pensioners.
You may think: that is a modest sort of praise. It actually carries genuine substance. Indeed it is considerably more than I am prepared to say (all the more so given the 'post-meltdown' revelations) about any number of other financial services companies in the U.S. and in Canada.
God save us all from the malign consequences if the 'best and brightest' on Wall St. and Bay St. are able once again to hold so much sway in our financial system.
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Choosing the Best Running Jumpers
We won't do a huge amount of exercise in a warm running tops - but they are very useful for between reps and also for travelling around and waiting about at competitions.
As such, you don't need a hugely specialised top for it to perform the functions it needs to.
A top that is large enough that you can fit base layers underneath, but isn't so big it flops everywhere (or worse still - acts like a big sail!) is good - probably made of some kind of fleece / sweatshirt material which is relatively thick and warm.
You might want it to have an external waterproof layer - or buy a separate waterproof for rainy days.
One bug bear of may coaches is when athletes pull their jumpers over their hands when they run - this creates tension in the forearms which can transfer all the way up the arms and across the shoulders. So - either buy some gloves or the sort of top that has thumbholes to keep your hands warmer. Maybe elasticated wrists would be good to help you not do this too.
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Status of the Big Kernel Lock
Linus Torvalds posted a patch to undo a large change to the kernel's locking system. The big kernel lock (BKL) had been changed from a spinlock, with some latency issues, to a semaphore. This had been a big win for folks doing work supporting patient monitors in hospitals (or playing first-person shooters).
The semaphore solution caused huge performance problems under certain benchmarks, and the solutions to these performance issues still left lingering problems. So Linus decided that the simple way out was to go back to the way things had been before the change.
Linus also indicated that the only way around the spinlock approach would be to eliminate the BKL entirely. Ingo Molnar, a self-proclaimed "latency junkie," was not pleased with this, but he accepted Linus's premise that the solution was to pull out the BKL at the root. It turns out ditching the BKL is hard! It took people with the raw talent of Alan Cox (quoth Ingo) to wind their way through the maze of semantics in order to know what to change and how to change it. According to Ingo's calculations, even with folks like Alan already hard at work on the task, at the current pace, it would be more than 10 years before the BKL was gone. Ingo explained the problem, saying, "… its dependencies are largely unknown and invisible, and it is all lost in the haze of the past ~15 years of code changes. All this has built up to a kind of Fear, Uncertainty, and Doubt about the BKL: nobody really knows it, nobody really dares to touch it, and code can break silently and subtly if BKL locking is wrong."
Ingo's solution was to create a git tree specifically to rein in some of the more horrifying BKL oddities, with the goal of ultimately making the BKL easier to remove en masse. One of the main first steps was to extract it from the core kernel code and move all its ugliness into something that could one day theoretically be replaced on its own, changing the behavior throughout the kernel once an improved implementation could be designed. As Ingo put it, "Once this tree stabilizes, elimination of the BKL can be done the usual and well-known way of eliminating big locks – by pushing it down into subsystems and replacing it with subsystem locks, and splitting those locks and eliminating them. We've done this countless times in the past and there are lots of capable developers who can attack such problems."
Andi Kleen liked the plan, but figured why wait? Instead of having a separate git tree for all the changes, just do them in the official branch. Linus was also pleased to see Ingo working on this and had some suggestions about how to organize the git tree. A bunch of other high-powered hackers also turned their attention to the various technical issues involved.
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It took the British ruling class years to accept that the Astor family, into which David Cameron has married, were true aristocrats. They were American immigrants, doubly damned because they had made their fortune in "trade". The Astors soothed suspicions by entertaining in style at Cliveden, their Italianate mansion on the edge of the Chilterns. In the 1930s, Waldorf Astor, the second viscount, and his wife, Nancy, increased their prestige by making their home the social centre for the pro-appeasement wing of the Conservative party.
David Astor, a great editor of this newspaper, could not abide the portrayal of his parents as Hitler's stooges by the left of his day. Less partial observers did not deny that Nazi sympathisers were always welcome guests. Hatred of war, antisemitism and, above all, fear of communism drove the Astors on. They saw Nazism as a bulwark against a Bolshevism that might one day rob them of their wealth. Although the British Communist party was a tiny force, they believed Britain should not fight Germany for fear of bringing on revolution. A Tory from Churchill's camp encapsulated the Astors' paranoid delusions, when he cut them with the magnificent put-down: "I see you are prepared to put the supposed interests of your adopted class before the real interests of your adopted country."
Cliveden is now a hotel. The British upper class welcomes wealthy foreigners with greedy gusto. To cap it all, the barefaced producers of The King's Speech whitewash the history of aristocratic appeasement by pretending that George VI and the late Queen Mother were supporters of Churchill and opponents of bowing to Hitler's demands rather than the other way round. Nothing of the prewar atmosphere remains except the paranoia.
What is it with our upper class? Why the endless bellyaching? True, they face higher rates of income tax than at any time since the mid-1980s, but they have accountants on hand to help them avoid their liabilities. In other respects, Britain appears organised to suit their needs. After the Thatcherite insurgency, their kind is back in control of the Tory party. According to Country Life, 100 years of democracy and death duties have had remarkably little effect on their control of the countryside – 36,000 people still own about one-third of these islands. In the arts, media and, indeed, any trade or profession with money or status, it is a pleasant surprise to meet a new recruit who has not been to public school. The old ruling class is back and without grammar school Tories or a convincing Labour movement to challenge it.
Yet when William Waldorf Astor, the current viscount, argued against the new high-speed railway that will tear through the Chilterns, he could not confine himself to saying that it looks like another Whitehall vanity project. The line was a socialist plot, he wrote in the Spectator, supported by "northern Labour MPs who relish the thought of the beauty of the Chilterns being destroyed, particularly in Conservative-held seats".
His lordship ought to know that a Tory-led government rather than the Labour party authorised the railway, not least because his own son-in-law is its prime minister. (Surely someone has told him?) But the seduction of victimhood was too much for him to resist. Astor was no longer the beneficiary of inherited privilege but the target of a conspiracy of socialist Morlocks, whose politically correct envy pushed them into vile and destructive hatreds.
Victimhood is the national malaise and its upper-class variant is the most incoherent. Sufferers believe that their privilege marks them for punishment; that if they did not carry the burdens of wealth or position their lives would be sweeter. Logically, they ought to renounce their titles and give away their possessions, but somehow they never do. After engaging in one of his habitual celebrations of know-nothing obscurantism, Prince Charles uttered a heart-rending cry: "I battle so hard in this area despite the unbelievable abuse that is heaped on me every time I open my mouth. All I can hope is when I am dead it will be appreciated what I was trying to do."
In other words, "you'll be sorry when I die" – the scream of every drama queen and pouting teenager. The prince will become Britain's head of state, a role for which he is wholly unsuited, without submitting himself to anything so vulgar as a free and fair election. Instead of being grateful or wondering by what right he will assume power, he pictures Windsor Castle as Golgotha and himself as a new Christ dying so that ungrateful mockers can be saved.
Perhaps the Bible is the wrong text to turn to. The one book you can safely predict the wealthy in Britain and America will have read is Tom Wolfe's The Bonfire of the Vanities. Lord Black took it to prison with him. And one can see why Wolfe's story of an unjust legal system persecuting an innocent rich, white man solely because he was rich and white, appealed to him. Whatever his merits as a writer, Wolfe was the world's worst prophet. Conrad Black was the exception to the rule. After Wolfe published in 1987, America and Britain did not see a politically correct pogrom. Instead of pursuing "the politics of envy", the Clinton and Bush administrations in the US and Labour in Britain did not even bother to regulate financial capitalism. Before the 2008 crash, there was not one law for the rich and another for the rest of us, but no law for the rich and another for the rest of us.
Yet still the whines of the nabobs of sob assail us. According to Sonia Purnell's quietly devastating biography, when the Conservative party told Boris Johnson that he had to give a small part of the £250,000 a year he received from the Telegraph to charity while he served as London mayor, Johnson shouted in all seriousness: "It's outrageous! I've been raped! I've been raped!"
The time to worry will be when the same unwarranted self-pity assails Cameron, Clegg and Osborne. While we wait for their inevitable degeneration, we should try to maintain an even temper, although that is not always possible or even desirable. After Helena Bonham Carter, the great-granddaughter of Herbert Asquith, complained that for all her advantages and beauty directors would not hire her because she was not "trendily working class", an exasperated Kathy Burke found the effort of keeping a civil tongue in her head too much to bear. "As a lifelong member of the non-pretty working classes," she told Time Out, "I would like to say to Helena Bonham Carter: shut up you stupid cunt."
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Viscount Astor, you really are a class apart" (Comment) claimed: "A Tory from Churchill's camp encapsulated the Astors' paranoid delusions when he cut them with the magnificent put-down, 'I see you are prepared to put the supposed interests of your adopted class before the real interests of your adopted country.'" The put-down was from the travel writer Robert Byron, addressed not to the Astors, but to Henry "Chips" Channon, an American-born Conservative MP.


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Bodycote Receives GM Supplier Quality Excellence Award
Bodycote, a global provider of thermal-processing services with headquarters in the United Kingdom, has received General Motors' Global Supplier Quality Excellence Award for 2016.
The award recognizes Bodycote's Silao, Mexico, facility for exceeding GM's quality-performance criteria. The Silao facility provides low-pressure carburizing and nitriding services for GM transmission gears.
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ECB's Draghi and Germany's Merkel Emerge as Powers
WSJ's Matthew Karnitschnig reports on the expected impact of the ECB's lowering of its key lending rate. Also, a look at how ECB president Mario Draghi and German Chancellor Angela Merkel have struck deals with other Euro leaders. AP Photo.
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on ... the ... its benchmark interest rate another quarter percentage point ... I just didn't quite go that far starting ... momentarily ... doubt the new ECB President Mario Draghi will be getting his press conference as that comes out will update you with that Shikler comments that he and others about your spot by credit and whatnot ... but first let's bring that Matthew Karnitschnig ... in this conversation ... I from journey Mackey the morning ... Marty so ... what what's interesting in the Journal today is to look at this notion that well we'll talk about her cozy that is on the Web Merkel Nicolas Sarkozy the French and German leaders as ... kind of people to watch in this whole crisis ... he say look it's actually drive all its Mario Chartbeat and an ongoing Merkel Sosa Germany is in there but it's Germany and European side but not pronounces names that than to have to go together going again ... Yeh that's right ... we're going to be lower ... than in ... years ... when your view of the dynamic here I mean I think that it's true that ... the partnership between Germany and France have been ... important to get to the point where we are now but if you look at what's happening here this crucial they were in at the moment the really going to come down to what Germany decide to tackle this ties in with the DPP had attracted to ... it ... because French is really ... under immense pressure now it's worried about its rating it doesn't have the same kind of clout within the EU ... or in the market quite frankly that used to ... and so the entire ... project here that they're trying to cobble together of the weekend when really draft on what ... the ... ECB and then the interim leader The and that ... so we know already that European sentiment cut interest rates by a quarter percentage point that that that second cut it basically reverses the earlier rate hikes to approve so ... the fractious under John Fund to say so I think that way basically two one percent yes that can and do anything to really stand this crisis what are people out looking what else are they looking for out of the ECB ... with that and a little more than anything that you should be willing to do with it and it's not going to take ... the hard line approach on inflation ... given what's going on in the market and given all the concerns about the direction of the European economy at the moment ... and I think that ... the crucial point is going to be what happens on Monday that going to have this summit tomorrow night ... and ... on Monday people record and provided that they ... will lose the fiscal pact we've been writing about enduring so much about over the last few weeks ... the question then is what the PTPP you can be say OK ... the government that coming our direction ... the undertaking serious fiscal reforms ... were willing to do more ... to intervene in the market to take the pressure off some of these really weak countries ... Intel that the sense that Marijn try is trying to get to market rate now so again just it's an error that had a couple of headlines coming out of his press conference which is happening ... right now he's basically saying ... the European Central Bank will adopt for their non standard measures that's about as clear as you can get ... on it will conduct he's talking a little bit about some ... longer term refinancing operations are in improving liquidity in an access to funding for markets ... aam ... there is ... I don't want one expected to help the banks by ... extending the term loan facility typically cheap went to the bank to keep them going ... and the other one is the intervention the bond market which are often expected to continue with all of the increase that David ... you're certain to take out how this plays in the U S morning are what are all what if anything this is really going to change ... I think at this point you know and maybe a month ago this of this month and a bigger impact but there is this ... investors have been so disappointed ... that they've seen so many summits ... in the U K seen so many leaders talk about ... we have a plan were doing this for doing that ... on and it's all turned to dust and I think that's why this morning I believe future for will but more of these there were flat ... so as to just go ... it ... the that the expectations out of the US really globally ... are simply that ... will believe it when we see it I think at this point that's really the end if I had the edge until we got right in and talk about how the European Centre Bank will accept a broader range of securities as collateral some of these operations ... namely after backed securities with say an a rating which is a will that below it's really a top tier rating of except in the past ... um again liquidity being one of the best but certainly not too much and to address the underlying issue ... at his last thing before we go get expected that this is going to get after this weekend will get some server green isn't so many rumors lately ... I feel really that the Europeans have been coming out of the go ahead ... what did you put your finger under the rope pointed to the Youtube you come out on Monday because it's true that people wouldn't have investors have been when it for something happen in Europe the euro before and all these promises and then nothing happens and the real ... issue here ... is whether what the government side of the week and that that that the BPP to intervene in the market because the only thing that can really restore credit in the in the bond markets in Europe ... if the ECB content ... with ... that kind of Bazooka at least a small bazooka and start to ... start buying bonds ... well you know


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FINAL: Maryland 4, VCU 3 (Richmond, Va. – The Diamond at the HDL Inc. Athletic Village)
VCU STARTERS: Cullen (CF), Bunn (LF), Cujas (3B), Mikionis (1B), Machin (SS), Buran (RF), Weymouth (2B), Malan (DH) Octavi (C), Greene (P)
MARYLAND STARTERS: White (CF), Hagel (RF), Wade (1B), Martir (3B), Papio (RF), Olenski (DH), Cleary (C), Cuas (2B), Schmit (SS), Robinson (P)
THE BASICS: Maryland escaped a bases loaded jam in the bottom the ninth inning, hanging on for a 4-3 victory over VCU on Tuesday night.
- VCU (16-18) scored the game's first run in the bottom of the second inning. Sophomore Vimael Machin and senior Taylor Buran started the led off the inning with back-to-back singles. After a sacrifice bunt by senior Jordan Weymouth, junior Rob Malan grounded out, but the throw went home and Machin slid in safely, giving VCU a 1-0 lead. The next two batters juniors Nick Octavi and Bill Cullen singled giving the Rams a 3-0 advantage.
- Maryland (20-17) responded with a run in the top of the fourth inning. Charlie White led off the frame with a single into center field. A single from LaMonte Wade put runners on the corners with one out. The next batter, Kevin Martir sent a sacrifice fly to right field, plating the Terrapins' first run.
- The Terps scored three runs in the top of the eighth inning to take the lead. Greg Olenski walked and Jake Cleary followed with a single starting the Maryland rally, reaching to start the inning. A sacrifice bunt from Jose Cuas moved the runners to second and the third. The following batter Alex Schmit roped a double down the left field scoring both runners tying the score 3-3. The Terps scored the go-ahead run when Wade reached on an error.
- VCU loaded the bases in the ninth inning with two outs. Junior Joey Cujas doubled and back-to-back walks from junior Trevor Marino and Machin loaded the bases. However, Terrapins' closer Kevin Mooney recorded the game's final out, securing the 4-3 victory for Maryland.
- Junior starting pitcher Seth Greene went 7.1 innings allowing three runs on four hits. He didn't factor in the decision.
- Sophomore Matt Lees was charged with his fifth loss of the season, he did not allow an earned run.
- Weymouth finished 2-for-4 with a double for the Black and Gold.
- VCU out hit Maryland 8-6.
- The Rams left 12 runners on base, while the Terrapins only left three men on base.
"We just have to continue to work. The effort is outstanding, but obviously nothing is going our way right now. It is a game of inches, and we need to continue working on those inches. Tonight we left too many men on base, and we had opportunities to blow the game open in the early innings and we didn't capitalize. I told the team, it's one of those games that's a loss, but it will not factor in how we play this weekend or how we are going to play tomorrow and has nothing to do with kind of team we are. The team deserves better and we are going to get there."
-Coach Shawn Stiffler on the game
"Seth Greene was fabulous in the start for us tonight. He came out in a spot start and did great things for us."
- Coach Stiffler on Seth Greene's start
VCU concludes its five-game home stand tomorrow when VMI visits to The Diamond, part of the HDL Inc. Athletic Village. First pitch is set for 6 p.m.


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Learn how to create these beautiful holiday candle holders at Petite Planet using baby food jars. It's a great eco-friendly craft that reuses jars, fabric and old Christmas cards.
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"The system's rendering of "Mood Indigo"—the record's opener— had me believing. I've played that record all over the place. Some systems bring this performance close to life—expressing the mono record's intense three-dimensionality, textural generosity and harmonic accuracy. Some systems bury the piano in soft muck and soften the recording's sophisticated rendering of transients and some coarsen in the opposite direction."
"This system produced image-coherence, stability, focus and three-dimensionality as well as convincing instrumental harmonics, transients and microdynamics. I've heard that long opening track many times. At this point only the best renderings keep me from stopping part way through. What I heard kept me there the whole time—and this was Sunday afternoon shortly before I had to leave for the airport."
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Cold front blew our way, and today's highs were mid 40's, tonight down past freezing...throw in heavy rains, sleet, and possible snow tomorrow, and all the searchers knew that after the weekend our rescue search was going to turn...for the worse.
I am completely OVER THE MOON tonight, that I can say ROBERT WOOD, JR was found today, around 2 p.m....ALIVE!!! I swear, if I hadn't of been driving down the highway when I heard the breaking news, I would have hit my knees!!! He was taken by Med-Flight to MCV medical center where he was reunited with his family. Other than minor issues, he's going to be just fine! M.D.s haven't stated how long they will keep the little boy, but I'll try to update as I hear the latest news.
Over 6000 citizen volunteers came out over the past 6 days to search through densely thorned woods. I never heard a negative comment, and they covered 80+ square miles...grid style. The view was astonishing to see hundreds standing shoulder to shoulder on the edge of roads, clad in fluorescent vests...just waiting on orders to enter the woods.
This little boy will never know how many prayers, volunteers, love and concern we all had for him...and that's ok with me!
Today we all witnessed a miracle...Tonight...his mother's arms are NOT empty!!
You can read Robert's rescue HERE.


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If you're not a fan on beach holidays, how about a trip to the moon instead? The US company SpaceX recently announced that they will be flying two tourists into space for a week-long trip in 2018. The space rocket will fly around the moon, though not land. The cost of the trip has not been revealed though it was said to be "significant". The travellers shouldn't expect 5-star accommodation during their voyage among the stars. The capsule in which they will travel is only 3.5 metres across. Would you like to go on holiday to the moon?
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A professional boxer today told how he is still to receive an apology after being left with three shattered teeth after he was attacked by a woman in a bar.
Boxing star Adam "The Big Man" Little, who has won 12 successive fights in his bid for the English welterweight title was attacked by mother of one Kiah Kuzan.
The incident, which happened in the Stables Bar, Kirkham, on New Year's Eve, left Mr Little with one of his front teeth shattered, another broken in half and another pushed backwards.
Prosecutor Pam Smith told magistrates at Blackpool there had been a confrontation between some men in the pub toilets.
Little stepped in and stopped the altercation. One of the men was ejected by door staff.
The boxer went to speak to the door staff to tell them they had picked out the wrong man and that he had nothing to do with the dispute.
But before he could get to the door staff he was confronted by 22-year-old Kuzan – the ejected man's girlfriend. Kuzan screamed at the boxer and struck him in the face.
Today Mr Little, who called the attack "shocking" said Kuzan had yet to apologise.
He added: "I thought I did the right thing helping out.
"If I saw the same thing happen again I would react the same way. I think there is not enough people who help each other in life – I just wanted to help out.
"It was a bit shocking. I understand people can get the wrong end of the stick. To have tried to help someone and get my teeth knocked out I do not find right.
"There's been no apology. It is a bit easier to take if she says sorry. Sometimes an apology can go a long way. She thought I had beaten up her boyfriend in the toilet. But to show no remorse after finding I helped is disappointing."
Mr Little said the incident had left a lasting impression on him. He added: "In the local area I train hard and depend on people looking at that.
"The last thing I want is for people to think I behave like that.
"I had to have one of the teeth rebuilt, one taken out and one pushed back into place. I do not understand why she has not had the dignity to say sorry – that is wrong."
After the attack the boxer received a Facebook message containing a picture of Kuzan, who added the words:"Good luck in your career."
Kuzan of Stanley Street, Kirkham, admitted assaulting Little, who is currently in the Ricky Hatton stable of fighters and is due to fight for the English title later this year.
The shopworker was handed an eight-week jail term suspended for a year, put on a four week 9pm to 6am curfew and was ordered to pay £800 compensation for dental work to Mr Little's teeth.
Michael Ball, defending, said Kuzan mistakenly thought Little was to blame for her boyfriend being kicked out of the bar.
He said: "She had no intention of injuring him in this way."


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Larry Craig
Senate ethics committee to judge Idaho's Craig on vague standard
WASHINGTON — A guilty plea to a misdemeanor? The Senate's code of conduct is silent.
Handing an arresting officer your Senate business card? Nothing there.
Asked to investigate Sen. Larry Craig's conduct in an airport men's room and the aftermath, the Senate's ethics committee must judge him on an intentionally vague standard. Did he exhibit "improper conduct which may reflect upon the Senate?"
Craig was arrested June 11 in a Minneapolis airport bathroom after an undercover officer observed conduct that the officer said was "often used by persons communicating a desire to engage in sexual conduct."
A police report said Craig gave the arresting officer his Senate business card and asked, "What do you think about that?"
After the story of the arrest broke this week, Craig said he "overreacted and made a poor decision" to plead guilty — without an attorney — in hopes of making the incident go away quickly. He said he was not involved in inappropriate conduct and is not gay.
Senate Republican leaders, wary of fending off corruption allegations for the second straight election, immediately asked the Senate ethics committee to investigate.
One senator, whose conduct in a U.S. attorney firing is under ethics committee scrutiny, warned against a "rush to judgment" but backed his leaders.
"The action being taken by the Senate Republican leadership is a good first step toward getting the facts," said Sen. Pete Domenici, R-N.M.
In the mid-1960s, when the Senate approved the current language on improper conduct, the drafters "did not attempt to delineate all the types of conduct" that would be improper, the code explains.
The three Democrats and three Republicans on the current ethics committee will have to figure that out.
Craig could face a censure resolution or even expulsion, a decision for the full Senate.
The catchall Senate standard of conduct "is important and it's real," said Fred Wertheimer of Democracy 21, a group that tracks congressional conduct. "It has been used in a number of cases to find a member engaged in improper conduct."
For example, in 1954, the Senate censured Sen. Joseph McCarthy of Wisconsin for behavior "contrary to senatorial traditions," after he refused to cooperate with committees investigating his anti-communist witch hunts.
In 1991, in the Keating Five case involving interference with financial regulators, the committee concluded that Sen. Alan Cranston, D-Calif., engaged in improper conduct by linking fundraising and official activities.
In 1995, the committee found Sen. Bob Packwood, R-Ore., brought discredit upon the Senate by repeatedly committing sexual misconduct through 18 unwanted and unwelcome sexual advances.
"The language is written in ways that cover both institutional misconduct and personal misconduct," said Sarah Binder, a professor of political science at George Washington University and a senior fellow at the Brookings Institution think tank.
"For this particular case, it makes a lot of sense. Senators should have leeway on whether this rises to the level that someone should not be in the Senate."