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Does it seem to you that being "pet friendly" is becoming more and more common? Pet friendly hotels, dog parks and even restaurants where your pets are welcome are almost commonplace now. Why is this? A look at some key pet related statistics may help you understand.
In a recent study by the American Pet Products Association, researchers found that 62 percent of all U.S. households had a pet. Of those, the majority of the homes (46.3 million) had a dog, with cats coming in a close second at 38.9 million households. This shows that pets have become a mainstay in our society, and if you own one you know that they are certainly a vital part of your family.
Interestingly, even though more households owned dogs than cats, there were more total cats in the industry than dogs that same year. 86.4 million of America's pets were cats, while 78.2 million were dogs. Based on the sheer number of pets in homes, freshwater fish were the most common, with 151.1 million in the industry.
The pet industry also translates into a significant moneymaker. Over the years, this amount has gone up by about $2 billion annually due to an increased number of pets and inflation. In 2011 alone, pet owners spent $50.96 billion on pet related expenditures.
What do these statistics show us? They show us that being "pet friendly" is a good idea, because the majority of homes in the country have a pet that they love and take with them whenever they travel.
Based on pet travel research, pet owners choose not to travel at all if possible when the only option available is to leave their pet in a kennel. If pet owners can travel with their pet, they tend to stay on average an extra 2-3 nights per trip when they have their pet with them. With Fido in tow, they no longer feel the need to rush back home to get out of the boarding kennel.


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It's summer…and your hair knows it. Guest blogger Hayden of Pretty In My Pocket is back at it, telling us the best products to keep our hair as smooth as a Justin Timberlake tune when humidity is high (because that Friends episode still haunts us ladies who have potential for frizzy situations…)
Summer boosts several beauty benefits like a dewy glow (click HERE to make sure it's not a sweaty glow), natural highlights, and sun-kissed skin. But one fiasco many females face in the heat is an unwanted flyaway fro. While everyone's hair is different, we are all prone to full-on frizz or frustrating fuzz with amped up humidity in the air. Was there a flame near your head or did someone just rub a balloon on it? Let's avoid that question, shall we? Depending how curly, coarse, dry, damaged, or fine your hair is, there are some basic ways to tame that runaway renegade hair halo.
The Wash
It starts with a solid shower routine. A key ingredient to successful taming: Moisture. Sun, salt water, chlorine, and general rough summer play can suck the life out of your hair. Shampoo and condition with products like Alterna Bamboo Smooth Anti-Frizz Shampoo & Conditioner ($22). If you have fine hair, opt for a light moisturizing formula like Nexxus Hydra-Light Weightless Moisture Shampoo & Conditioner ($11). And don't be scerred to skip days between washes! Take a volumizing dry shampoo like Marc Anthony 2nd Day Clear Dry Shampoo ($10) to day-old hair to pump up texture and minimize stripping your hair of its natural oils.
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Make nice with your mane. Beat-up, over-styled, over-heated locks make frizz rear its ugly head…on your pretty head. Give your hair some drank and apply an anti-frizz serum or cream like Blow Pro Weather Girl Pure Anti-frizz Serum ($22) or Josie Maran Argan Oil hair serum ($30) before blowdrying. (And always squeeze and blot the hair dry, not rub.) For finer and/or oiler hair (Wassup, strand sisters!), be cautious with serums as they can make you greasy. Always select lightweight products like Living Proof's Weightless Styling Spray ($26) or John Frieda's new Frizz-Ease Sheer Solution ($10) and use a minimal amount. For curly cuties, opt for a product that'll enhance your natural texture but tame frizz like Aveda's Be Curly Curl Enhancer ($22) or Bumble and Bumble's Curl Conscious Calming Cream ($29). For natural, very curly/coarse, and/or unruly hair, turn to Carol's Daughter for your strand saviors. And always remember two things: 1) When it comes to serum/oil/cream, a little goes a long way, and 2) Go light on your roots or keep it away from that region altogether if you want to skip a day or two of shampooing/styling.
When brushing wet hair, go old school and use a wide-tooth comb. When blowdrying, don't forget all the knowledge W+P dropped on your regarding the actual dryer and boar bristle brushes. Using a concentrator on the nozzle will give you a smoother blowout, but just remember to keep the dryer moving at all times; holding it on one piece of hair for too long will fry it. If you use a lot of heating tools, try to skip a day between flat-ironing the shiz out of your tresses. As for the finishing touches, you can lightly smooth/spray on an anti-frizz shine spray like John Frieda's Frizz-Ease Shine Glossing Mist ($6) if you have normal or drier hair (it can weigh down finer or oilier strands). Hairspray can be loaded with alcohol leaving locks dry and frizz-prone, so steer clear or use sparingly.
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Once a week (no matter your hair type), apply a deep conditioning treatment like the indulgent Oribe Signature Moisture Masque ($59) or W+P's favorite Recitals Mud Masque ($36) and leave in for 10 minutes. If you're soaking up the sun a ton, use a mask like Fekkai Advanced After Sun Daily Mask ($25). This is also great for color-treated hair as it protects hair from UV rays and fading.
In short, there are several ways to tame frizz before, during, and after your wash and style sessions. Everyone's hair is different, so take it slow when figuring out what's best for you. Try one product at at time, and either add another step to your routine or switch it out for another product. Stay smooth, my friends.
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The 2013 National Spelling Bee in GIFs
Last night, ESPN aired one of its most competitive sporting events -- the Scripps National Spelling Bee. If you somehow missed the exciting event, have no fear. We have some amazing GIFs that will catch you up on all the action.
Introducing... Winner Arvind Mahankali!
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The French Pastry School (FPS) at City Colleges of Chicago honored the newest graduates of L'Art de la Pâtisserie, The Professional Pastry and Baking 24-week program with a ceremony on Dec. 18, 2009, at The Union League Club of Chicago. Carrie Nahabedian, executive chef and co-owner of Naha Restaurant and Deidra Lewis, interim chancellor of Colleges of Chicago addressed graduates during the ceremony.
"It's up to you to preserve the craft [of pastry]," Nahabedian told students. "Protect everything you have learned; be true to what you have learned, because you learned from the best."
Among the establishments that have hired FPS graduates are The Ritz-Carlton, Charlie Trotters and Per Se. Other graduates have plans to open their own businesses.
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Chapter Eight
Books on interviewing . . . experiments in teaching . . . video
interviews in threes . . . the famous house-fire story . . .
Proficiency Test trickery . . . the recurring faults . . . the
politician problem . . . reels of flickering history . . .
All the books about interviewing, piled up with great care, would tower above the average house. Some of the earliest formal guidance emanated from Alec Newman, the genial deputy director of the National Council for the Training of Journalists, and appeared in a 94-page booklet entitled 'Teaching Practical Journalism' in the early 1960s. In a crisp six-page chapter, Alec managed to say pretty well everything that could be said on the subject. And his brief treatise formed the basis of a two-and-a-half-hour session on a block-release course in Wolverhampton in 1965 - 'Interviewing techniques with demonstrations and practical work', said the programme.
The advice is detailed, cheerily down-to-earth and essentially wholesome. The average person, he says, perhaps interviewed only once or twice in a lifetime, will for ever remember the experience 'with, we hope, pleasure or at least without bitterness.' In a stern warning about putting words into the mouths of 'difficult or inarticulate interviewees,' he says: 'This style of reporting is unfair, inaccurate and dangerous. Don't do it'. And urging trainees to be 'sympathetic and understanding' when reporting tragic events, he writes: 'I've covered hundreds of deaths and several multiple tragedies and never yet felt I was intruding. People sometimes don't want to talk at first but a good reporter can usually win them over with no unpleasantness whatsoever'.
It obviously seemed a good idea at the time to produce the script of a mock interview during which some nitwit reporter bombarded a brand-new widow with heartless, clumsy questions. 'I just can't talk about it,' says Mrs Smith. But the reporter isn't easily put off. 'Surely the police have told you what happened to your husband?' he says. 'We don't know - the police won't tell us anything about it. The factory won't talk either. There must be something fishy about it if they want to keep quiet.' The interview ends, not surprisingly, with what Mr Newman would call unpleasantness. Mrs Smith: 'I've had enough, I tell you. Go away; please go away'. (Slams door). Note, incidentally, the carefully-placed semi-colon between 'Go away' and 'please go away'. That sort of detail mattered in the 60s. Mr Newman suggested that lecturers should record this dreadful duologue and play it back in the classroom so that the faults could be discussed. And there were, he added, a limited number of tapes available giving examples of badly-handled interviewees that could be borrowed on application to NCTJ headquarters in London.
It is easy to snigger today. Note, for example, that the Wolverhampton block-release syllabus had the lads doing an ambitious two-and-a-half hours of 'subbing, marking-up copy, intros, headlines and practical work' on Thursday afternoon while for the girls there was 'a fashion show at Wallis's.' But these, as I have said, were pioneering times and everything was experimental. Five years later, when I came on the scene, some of the barmiest of the experiments had no doubt already been abandoned, but there was still a long way to go in the quest for training techniques that actually worked.
Our early efforts on the interviewing front, I must confess, were barely an advance on Mr Newman's, except that I abandoned the idea of recording deliberately lousy interviews after a few lamentably unsuccessful sessions during which students simply fell about in merriment. Cries of ridicule and hoots of laughter greeted the blundering, offensive, cloth-eared reporter on the tape, and it was obvious that no-one was actually learning anything. Demonstrations by lecturers were not much better - the keenest of students nods off within a minute or two if required to sit silently and concentrate on the progress of a staged interview between two people in a classroom. Tape-recorders were unwieldy items in the 70s, but the arrival of a genuinely portable machine - about as big as a hefty hard-back book - led to a refinement in our interviewing sessions. With the machine on the table between them, and no-one else in the room, two students conducted an interview which was later assessed by a lecturer who could identify clumsy, misleading questions or notable omissions and present them - at a later session - for discussion. That got rid of the soporific sessions at the end of which students had to be shaken awake and reminded it was time to go home, but there remained one big weakness - it was difficult to stage a 'hard news' interview (unless, by some happy chance, one of the students had been caught up in a recent bank robbery) and the conversations were usually more along the lines of 'What did you do in the holidays?' or 'What started you off collecting butterflies?'
It suddenly occurred to me - belatedly, you might think, having read thus far - that the best way to run an exercise with measurable results would be to have three trainees tackle a complex interview separately, with the same well-briefed person answering the questions in each case. Comparison of the performances would reveal precisely why things went wrong - or, better still, why they went right. Errors, omissions and confusion would be easy to spot, as would the deft questioning that led the interviewee to reveal all. (Staged interviews of this sort have long been a key element of formal NCTJ tests, the difference being that the emphasis is on the written copy that results, not on how the questioning is carried out.) Three seemed the right number of participants. Results from two people, apart from being less than conclusive, could lead to ill-natured argument born of embarrassment, and the use of any more than three would lead to unnecessarily long-winded analysis.
Then came the real leap forward - the arrival of black-and-white closed-circuit television, in the form of a Sony reel-to-reel video recorder, one large TV set, one camera and one tripod. Such gear, in slimmer and slicker form, is everywhere nowadays, but this was such a novelty at the time that the Principal invited staff-members who thought it might be useful to assemble in the gym and see it demonstrated by a visiting salesman. A handful of lecturers turned up and we pointed the big bulky camera at one another and sniggered as our grinning faces appeared on the screen. Some thought 'Mmm, yes, it might be useful' - but I was thrilled beyond measure. This was the answer! To the salesman's obvious delight, I urged the Principal to write a cheque without delay. The study of interview techniques would be revolutionised, I told him. He said he would think about it, and I was left on pins as this magic gadgetry was loaded back into a van and disappeared. But it reappeared a few weeks later and there are countless working journalists today who remember plodding through fire, flood and fraud interviews under the glassy gaze of that big black camera.
Even then, this most fundamental teaching aid was not allocated to the journalism section. It was entrusted to the technicians and it had to be signed out and signed back in again. I had to book the cripplingly-heavy equipment in advance and, at the appointed hour, collect it and deliver it to the appropriate classroom. There were then no dedicated journalism areas so the destination depended on where a room was available, and occasionally two flights of stairs were involved. (I had a hernia operation in the 1980s - perhaps I should have sued). The arrival of a lift in 1974, as part of a major college extension, helped a lot. The technicians fixed the monitor and the recorder permanently to a trolley and I could roam the corridors proudly with our mobile hi-tec interviewing outfit. The success of the new equipment more than made up for the logistical hassle. For a start, the students enjoyed the work - video cameras are ten a penny nowadays, but in the 70s and 80s it was still a novelty to appear on-screen. I always launched the interview sessions with a little light-hearted panning around the room (technical expressions such as 'panning' were falling naturally from my lips within days) so that the class would feel at ease. When, after an explanatory preamble, I asked for three volunteers, there was usually an immediate show of hands.
A well-oiled procedure was soon established. With the rest of the group dismissed to the library (or sometimes to the pub down the road, I suspect) the volunteers came in one at a time to interview me in my capacity of local newsagent, police officer, pools winner or whatever character the situation demanded. It was essential that the circumstances were believable and that there was no make-it-up-on-the-spot waffle, so I devised eight or nine complicated tales and memorised them thoroughly. This little collection, used randomly as new groups of students came and went, lasted me for some years, and I can remember most of the details to this day. So can many of those who did the interviews - I used to get letters, months and years later, from former students who had just tackled stories that echoed my own set-piece 'scenarios' (that's what they call them nowadays). There was no preparation time. As the students sat down to face me they were briefed in about thirty seconds - there had been a fire, a flood or a crash and they had just arrived on the scene and were facing some appropriate spokesman. The three interviews occupied roughly an hour, and later that week, when the whole group assembled to watch the performances, there was a buzz of excitement.
The interview that sticks most clearly in my mind was the first I ever prepared. It was the story of a late-night house fire, based loosely on a real news item I had imaginatively embellished to give the questioners plenty to get their teeth into. I became Andrew Jackson for the occasion, and the reporter, who had found me poking disconsolately around among the embers, interviewed me as I sat on a low garden wall (which cleverly got round the fact that I was actually sitting in a chair in a classroom). This 'scenario', repeated many times with different students over the years, never failed to throw up striking variations in performance. Same circumstances, same interviewee, but almost always grave omissions and conflicting conclusions. It was entertaining stuff, certainly - but the serious bit was noting why Alice had become confused, why Jim had failed to find out something that Fred had discovered seemingly by chance, and why Fred had got himself hopelessly tangled up in a part of the story that had flowed smoothly for Alice and Jim.
Consider the facts: Having gone to bed at about 10.30pm, Andrew Jackson wakes up suddenly at 11.30pm when his 14-year-old son Simon bursts into the bedroom shouting 'Fire, fire!' . There is a smell of smoke and a crackling sound. Andrew hears Simon shouting 'Julie, Julie - fire!' to his 16-year-old sister. He springs out of bed and turns to shake his wife Anne, who is a heavy sleeper. Six-month-old daughter Jane is in a cot on his wife's side of the bed, and Andrew picks her up and wraps her in a blanket. His wife is still asleep and, with the baby in his arms, he has to jog her with his foot to arouse her. By this time there is a lot of smoke and a flicker of flame, and the wooden staircase is suddenly ablaze. The bedroom window is now the only means of escape. A few spectators are in the street by this time, and neighbour Alan Parker is on the lawn below. Seeing Andrew at the open window, he shouts 'Quick - throw Jane down to me'. Andrew leans out as far as possible and does so. The baby is safe. Anne leaves next, going backwards out of the window and resting her feet briefly on a ledge before dropping into the arms of two other rescuers. The fire has now swept into the bedroom and Andrew, who sleeps naked, has no time to lose. He wraps a blanket round himself in a token attempt to defend his modesty and drops safely to the lawn. As he lands he is aware of the arrival of a fire engine and he wonders vaguely who has raised the alarm. To his relief, he sees Simon and Julie among the crowd that has gathered. Flames have now burst through the roof and the whole house is soon ablaze. An ambulance arrives and the family are examined but pronounced unharmed. They spend the night at the Parkers' home, three doors away. They are still there this morning as Andrew pokes around in the still-smouldering ruins of his house.
I have here deliberately omitted a few of the prepared facts. Sessions such as these are worth doing only if they operate on an 'ask and it shall be given unto you' basis . . .and any experienced journalist reading these words will have two or three questions in mind already. (All will be revealed later in this chapter!) Not all the above details would necessarily find their way into the reporter's notebook, but even a crisp two-par account, if it is to be accurate, demands that there is a clear picture in the interviewer's head. I have heard many a reporter, engaged in this interview, say 'Did you all get out safely?' The answer, naturally, is along the lines of 'Yes, we were very lucky. No-one was hurt'. The result is a bland tale that opens with A family of five escaped unhurt from a blazing house last night, whereas the opposition paper, blessed with a young reporter of higher wattage, says A six-month-old baby girl was dropped to safety from the upstairs window of a blazing house last night . . . and carries a photograph of the hero of the hour. (The reader may scoff, but in the real-life incident that originally led to this exercise, the man who caught the baby was a local goalkeeper. I never dared to include this little gem even in my somewhat-embroidered 'scenario' for fear of the jeers that would certainly have erupted.)
I recently heard a radio item about a house fire and it ended with All five occupants of the house were rescued. Perhaps they were - but cynicism born of a thousand interviews causes me to have my doubts. Were they 'rescued', I wonder? All of them? Or did they simply get out in time? Were three rescued while two others escaped? This being radio, the item was necessarily sketchy. Perhaps if I'd later seen the story in a newspaper I'd have got a clearer picture. Or would I?
But back to that fire. Student A, hearing how Mr Jackson was jolted awake by his son's noisy arrival in the bedroom, says: 'I imagine you got out as quickly as you could, didn't you?'. That doesn't get him very far unless Mr Jackson happens to be the chatty sort who insists on describing his exit in minute detail without prompting. The bloke has narrowly escaped death and has had no sleep, and he's much more likely to say 'Yes, we bloody well did'. Student B gets a more helpful response, partly by chance, when he asks: 'Did you rush downstairs right away then?', because Mr Jackson naturally says something like: 'No, the stairs were blazing by this time' and Student B would be a complete nitwit, at that point, not to say: 'What did you do then?'
For the purposes of this illustration, it is Student C who hits the jackpot by asking: 'Tell me exactly what happened when you woke and found the place on fire'. Mr Jackson really has very little option but to describe how he leapt out of bed, attended to the baby, woke his wife and so on - provided that Student C gently prods him along and doesn't interrupt. In many a promising interview, at the dramatic point where Mrs Jackson is tumbling sleepily out of bed in panic, the reporter ruins everything by asking 'How old is your wife, by the way? Does she go out to work?' Momentum has been lost and the reporter, fumbling around for a further question, finds himself catapulted to the far end of the story with questions such as 'Are you insured?' and 'Where are you going to sleep tonight?' He returns to the office and is dismayed when the news editor says: 'Somebody says they all had to jump for their lives - is that right?' The reporter doesn't know. . . though he does know the woman is twenty-eight and used to work at Tesco.
All this illustrates both the importance of asking rather than guessing and the need to take the story chronologically, interrupting as little as possible. The 'guessing' bit is astonishingly common, considering that the reporter is there to ask what happened rather than suggest a script of his own and invite the interviewee's confirmation or denial. In the case of Andrew Jackson's fire, I have heard inventive reporters come up with every possible speculation as to what he did when he woke up - Did you phone the fire brigade? . . . Did you knot sheets together? . . . Did you think you were perhaps dreaming? . . . Did you bang on the wall to alert the neighbours? Some, making the story up as they go along, have asked Was there a ladder in the room, y'know, from decorating, that you used for your escape? And then, clearly with decorating still in mind - Was there anything particularly inflammable in the house, like cans of paint, that you were frightened might make it worse?
A simple 'What did you do then?' would have sufficed in all but the last of those examples - the 'cans of paint' enquiry could just possibly have paid off later, as loose ends were being tidied up. Note, incidentally, that all the questions above could have been answered by a 'yes' or a 'no', which in itself identifies them as weak. All the books about interviewing rightly advise against such questions. They rarely lead anywhere at all.
Some readers may think I'm exaggerating about the guessing game, but I'm not. The worst example that ever came my way was perpetrated by an excessively zealous young man while he was simply trying to establish my first name. I told him my initial was J (a lot of people simply give an initial) and expected him to ask 'What's the J for?' But he didn't have that sort of mind. 'John?' he asked. Two can play at that game, so I simply said no. 'Jim?' he said. I denied it. 'Er . . . Jeremy?' he suggested. Wrong again. He began to look flustered, and I half expected him to produce a book of common English names from his pocket. He took it on the chin, though, when everyone collapsed with laughter during the video playback. 'I should have just asked what the J stood for, shouldn't I?' he said, as if he had been vouchsafed a vision from on high. (The same young man, hearing that my fictional daughter had narrowly escaped being knocked down by a speeding car, said 'Really? Was she on her way to school - or was she coming home in the evening - does she come home for lunch . . ?' To his credit, he immediately saw, on playback, that his twenty-two-word triple-guess question should really have been 'When?')
The NCTJ Proficiency Test used to produce most enjoyable examples of this sort of thing. I say 'used to', because I have taken part in some recent test days and get the impression that today's candidates have much handed to them on a plate and that there are fewer planted clues that need to be spotted and followed up.
Some candidates, having heard mischievous claims that the NCTJ was out to trip them up, became quite paranoid in the early days. One test interview was with a newly-appointed soccer manager, and a widely-circulated rumour alleged that he had been sitting with one leg tucked beneath him. Candidates who had not glanced under the table and spotted that this sportsman had only one leg had definitely failed, said the rumour - to the dismay of those who had taken the test and noticed nothing amiss. But the architects of the test interviews did not stoop to actual deceit of this order. Candidates who found later that there were glaring holes in their stories invariably alleged that they were victims of trickery, but in most cases the explanation was that they had not been listening properly. In one NCTJ test, the interviewee was a vicar whose church hall had been vandalised and - luckily for visiting reporters - he was keen to get the details off his chest. The candidates' capacity for listening properly was deliberately tested by an apparently casual remark that the interviewees were instructed to use 'at an appropriate moment'. Thus it came to pass that, up and down the country at various test centres, a few dozen vicars were choosing their moment to sigh and say 'It wouldn't be so bad if the vandalism had been confined to the church hall'. The correct response to that fat hint (and I'm sure the reader will be ahead of me here) is something like 'Why, what else has happened?', 'How d'you mean, Vicar?' or, at the very least, a raising of the eyebrows and a questioning grunt. A distressing proportion of candidates simply muttered a sympathetic 'Mmm, yea' and then asked the vicar how old he was and if he happened to own a dog. Those who did respond to the parson's subtle prompt had bounty heaped upon them - the vandals had poured syrup in the font, smashed the legs off the organist's stool and committed other wickednesses that, though despicable, made a cracking good story. A colleague of mine sought to improve upon even this colourful tale by having the vicar wear campaign medals, the idea being that any candidate who failed to spot that this gentle cleric was actually a war hero would be heavily penalised. I thought that was going too far.
I had been a working journalist for nearly twenty years, but I learned a great deal myself from these video sessions. Most people, I noticed, asked two or three questions at once along the lines of 'What will you do next, Mr Smith - will you report the matter to the police or will you take the law into your own hands?' Those three are at least related, but sometimes shots seemed to be fired at random - 'How long have you lived round here, Mr Smith . . . how old are you by the way . . . are you married?' Spray someone with questions in that way and you usually get an answer to the last one - which means that you forget to return to the first one and never do find out how long Mr Smith has been around. I also learned that what we say is often not quite what we mean, in which case we get an answer to a question we don't even realise that we've asked and the seeds of confusion are sown. I remember a pools-winner interview during which it crossed the reporter's mind that the subject could possibly have won other competitions in the past, which would give the story an extra bite. But his question came out as 'Are you a lucky chap, Mr Johnson?'. . . and Mr Johnson, who carried his share of life's woes, said 'No, not really.' But another interviewer in the same session asked the question directly: 'Have you ever won anything before, Mr Johnson?', and was rewarded by: 'Only once - I won a car in a travel-magazine competition exactly three years ago.' The first questioner, annoyed at his failure to learn about the car, said 'I asked him about other wins - he should have told me.' But, as the video showed, he had not asked him about other wins. He had asked if he thought he was 'a lucky man' and had received an honest answer.
Our emphasis, as will be apparent from all this, was on news interviews during which facts had to be established - but interviewing politicians and others who grind axes of one sort or another is an infuriatingly different matter. Here, experience is the only teacher. As we all know, politicians on radio and television routinely avoid answering straight questions. I remember Jeremy Paxman, interviewing Tony Blair on the eve of the 2001 general election, asking: 'Is it possible, do you think, for one party to have too big a majority?' Mr Blair replied crossly that he refused to speculate on the election outcome. Paxman said he wasn't asking him to do so. He repeated his actual question, a discussion-point gem that deserved an answer, several times but it got him nowhere. Wary of snares that might await them in the simplest of questions, all politicians launch out instead into what they want to say. Some ex-journalists, indeed, have done a neat poacher-turned-gamekeeper trick and now teach this very skill to people in the public eye. No-one can blame them.
In a journalism-training environment, one great advantage of using video is that no-one can cheat. Reporters sometimes need to be cunning in their dealings with the public, but there's no conning your way out of it if you have just made a total pig's ear of an interview and the evidence is there on tape until the lecturer is kind enough to erase it. The swaggering fellow from a large evening paper who gets himself tied up in knots can be humbled by a seemingly timid chap from the Little Tissington Gazette who glides smoothly through a complicated tale and manages to pick up all the juicy bits along the way.
Speaking of juicy bits - I earlier withheld some of the detail about Andrew Jackson's fire, to give the reader the satisfaction of thinking up a few questions of his or her own. What caused the fire, for example? Answer - according to the fire brigade, a lump of coal fell from the open fire in the living room and smouldered on a rug, which soon burst into flames. Better still - how did young Simon, tucked up in bed, know there was a fire downstairs? Answer - his pet parrot was squawking loudly on its perch in the living room, as well it might. (No - it was not shouting 'Fire!'. The question has often been asked.) Several bright-spark interviewers have asked a final question clearly designed to uncover a flaw in the story. 'If you jumped out with only a blanket round you,' they say, 'how come you are fully dressed now?' Answer - the clothes have been borrowed from hero-of-the-hour Alan Parker (remember him?) with whom the Jacksons have spent the night. Those who did badly in these sessions would mutter something about not needing to know all that anyway, as they would only be writing two or three pars. But that wasn't the point, as I suspect they privately understood.
What became known far and wide as 'the parrot story' was only one of a collection of mini-dramas with which Richmond students tussled over the years. (A couple of years after leaving college, one young man sent me a story he had written about a pub fire at which the alarm was raised by a parrot that lived on the bar.) There was the flood caused not by a rising river but by a burst in a colossal water-main under a garden, the cinema that had to shut down in mid-film when vandalism got out of hand, the safari-park outing during which a monkey leapt into a car and attacked a baby, and three or four more in the same action-packed vein.
I can still remember all the details. Better still, I can see one or two of them again if I feel inclined - because when the giant Sony video-recorder became obsolete I rescued it from the rubbish-skip and staggered home with it. I took a pile of old reels as well. Some of the flickering black-and-white images have stood the test of time, and the audio output is as good as new. I shove the once-familiar heavy lever over to the right. 'Oh, hello, Mr Jackson,' says a voice from the past. 'I'm sorry to hear about the fire. Can you tell me what happened . . ?


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Music and art combine in an important element running throughout the second half of this year's Festival of Chichester.
A joint exhibition of paintings by Catherine Barnes and prints by Daphne Casdagli at the Oxmarket Gallery from July 2-14 will also see the two artists sponsoring a significant programme of recitals.
Having exhibited in London and Europe since the 1980s and in Chichester for the past decade, Catherine is well established in the area. She and Daphne found they had much in common and that their work was complementary.
This prompted a successful joint exhibition in London's Bankside Gallery in 2017.
Now comes the Chichester exhibition where Daphne's figurative and landscape prints will hang alongside Catherine's paintings of abstract landscapes, "shorescapes" and her "museum" series based on ancient Greek figures.
Both artists trained in the 1970s, Catherine at Camberwell School of Arts and Crafts and Goldsmiths' College, while Daphne studied at the Sorbonne and the Royal College of Art.
Both have taught in higher education while continuing to paint, print and exhibit,
For Chichester, they will bring in music – a series of recitals by professional musicians performing within the appropriately intimate venue of the converted 12th-century church with its excellent acoustics.
"Daphne and I have a large space, with the John Rank Gallery, the Wilson Studio and the lobby for our combined show.
"Paintings, drawings and prints will surround the 1910 Bechstein piano so audiences will be able to enjoy the concerts we are promoting, perhaps dwelling on the works exhibited, thus receiving a dual aesthetic experience."
Returning after sell-out recitals promoted by Catherine in 2014 and 2016 will be soprano Jacquelyn Fugelle with a programme of love songs, accompanied by Christopher Johnston, and the following week, Tom Bullard, baritone, will be performing Schubert's Die schöne Müllerin, accompanied by John Paul Ekins.
"We are delighted to welcome pianist, composer and broadcaster David Owen Norris to perform with cellist Joseph Spooner, considering England through the ears of familiar and less well-known composers, with exquisite song settings, folk melodies and a grandiose Romantic sonata."
Making full use of the Oxmarket's 1910 Bechstein will be Angela Zanders, international performer and lecturer at the University of Chichester, with a programme of 20th century and contemporary work inspired by the prints of Daphne Casdagli and the paintings of Catherine Barnes.
"In this festival within a festival we will be welcoming the astounding classical/jazz pianist John Law, presenting original compositions and new versions of tunes from the jazz repertoire, merging classical sensitivity and form with jazz harmonies and rhythm.
"Nicholas Gleed (piano) is joining the long-established chamber music partnership of Graham Elliott (cello) and Michael Sullivan (violin), performing piano trios by Haydn, Mozart and culminating in Beethoven's Archduke trio.
"Bringing her modern double manual harpsichord from her music room to the Oxmarket, Sylvia Ellison will be giving a lunchtime performance, comparing her instrument with the 1910 Bechstein in works including Bach, Scarlatti and Martinů."
Tickets for all the concerts are available from the Oxmarket 01243 779103 or from the Festival box office http://www.thenovium.org/boxoffice.
In a free concert, Christopher Johnston will be playing work by the Russian jazz composer Nikolai Kapustin and showcasing performances by his talented pupils.
Catherine added: "Music has always been an integral part of both Daphne's and my creative activity of respectively printmaking and painting.
"We have a great opportunity to sponsor this series of recitals and concerts in the Oxmarket with the piano in the centre of the hall and our works looking on.
"We hope it will add to the listeners' enjoyment and truly reflect the Oxmarket's role as the venue in the heart of the city that is a centre for all arts. With such good acoustics and spacious high ceilings it is made for music: this ancient church would have resounded to music and songs, hymns and the litany for centuries. I can imagine the colour on the walls and the choir.
"When we have put on recitals before I felt that the walls themselves come alive. The arts speak to us through the ages, touching our emotions."
The exhibition opens on Tuesday, July 2 and runs to Sunday, July 14 (closed on Monday 8) 10am-4.30pm with free entry and easy disabled access.
The recitals are on:
Wednesday, July 4, 12.30pm: Jacquelyn Fugelle and Christopher Johnston, £10.
Friday, July 5, 7.30pm: Angela Zanders, £12.
Saturday, July 6, 7.30pm: John Law, £12.
Sunday, July 7, 4pm: Christopher Johnston and pupils (free, suitable for children).
Wednesday, July 10, 7.30pm: Joseph Spooner and David Owen Norris, £15.
Thursday, July, 11, 12.30pm: Sylvia Ellison, £10.
Thursday July, 11, 7.30pm: Sullivan, Elliott, Gleed Piano Trio, £12.
Friday July, 12, 12.30pm: Tom Bullard and John Paul Ekins, £10.
Full details of each programme are on www.oxmarket.com.
Don't miss out on Matilda at the Mayflower!
Enjoy our photos of the Festival of Chichester 2019 launch
Fantastic line-up unveiled for 2019 Festival of Chichester
See who's coming to this year's Festival of Chichester - picture gallery


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Bad news for manga lovers today: DC Comics is closing CMX, its manga division, as of July 1.
CMX set up shop six years ago and got into hot water with fans a few months later, when they tried to publish Oh! Great's boobs-and-battles manga Tenjho Tenge with a teen rating by censoring it heavily. Fans reacted with indignation, but a CMX editor was heard to remark years later that TenTen was its best-selling title. The imprint also published a number of classic shoujo (teenage girls) manga series, including Swan and the comedy-adventure title From Eroica With Love.
Asako Suzuki took over as director of manga in 2006 and quickly shifted the tone. She and Editor Jim Chadwick went out of their way to establish rapport with fans, and a number of the series they licensed, including Emma, The Name of the Flower and Kiichi and the Magic Books, garnered good reviews. They also published a number of all-ages and kid-friendly series, such as The Palette of 12 Secret Colors. CMX books were hard to find in bookstores, however, and at conventions the imprint often seemed to be an afterthought, with little space allotted to the division in the DC booths and panels.
In addition to Japanese manga, which it licensed through a co-publishing agreement with the Japanese cell-phone publisher Flex Comics, CMX also published Fred Gallagher's Megatokyo. That series will continue under the DC banner.
The official statement can be found after the break:
Over the course of the last six years, CMX has brought a diverse list of titles to America and we value the books and creators that we helped introduce to a new audience. Given the challenges that manga is facing in the American marketplace, we have decided that CMX will cease publishing new titles as of July 1, 2010.
The shuttering of the CMX line does not affect the best-selling series Megatokyo which will continue publication, now as a DC Comics title with story and art by Megatokyo's award-winning creator Fred Gallagher.
We'd like to take a moment to acknowledge the efforts and dedication of the CMX staff and to thank our fans who have supported CMX.
- DC Comics Co-Publishers Jim Lee and Dan Didio


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While we always look forward to a three-day weekend, this one might go down in history as the best yet: Sunday, May 26 marks the return of one of the best shows of all time, Arrested Development.
If you're getting excited, too, let's spend this workday reviewing some of the important career lessons we've learned from Michael, Gob, Tobias, and company.
Besides the obvious one, of course: Never, ever go into a family business with relatives like these.
1. Don't be afraid to admit when you're wrong.
2. When making a big decision, don't be swayed by the critics.
3. Listen to your boss. No, really. Listen.
4. When you delegate an important task, double check to make sure it's been done.
5. If you don't know how to do your job, try buttering up your boss.
6. Choose your words carefully—you don't want them to be misconstrued.
7. Don't cut corners—you'll be found out eventually.
8. Don't let people see you when you're not at your best.
9. When all else fails, show them the money.
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Siberia. A place of exile. A forgotten land. A unique place which encompasses roughly 9 percent of Earth's dry land mass, bears no resemblance to these foreboding images. Instead, it is a place of great beauty. Visit Siberia and enjoy a warm summer day on the shores of Lake Baikal, one of the Central Asia's greatest natural wonders. Surrounded by mountains and evergreen forests, Baikal is the oldest and deepest lake in the world, and is protected within a vast national park. Freshwater seals swim the lake's waters, sable and lynx stalk the surrounding wilderness, and the legendary Trans-Siberian Railway runs past its shore.
Irkutsk, the largest city near the lake, was founded in the 1660s, and many historic buildings, including traditional wooden houses and Orthodox churches, survive from the days when it was known as the "Paris of Siberia." Listvyanka, a charming lakeside village founded by 17th-century pioneers, attracts visitors with its museum of wooden architecture, Baikal Limnological Museum, and the famous Saint Nicholas Church. One of the many historic villages to explore along the shores of Lake Baikal, Listvyanka is situated near the source of the beautiful Angara River, among Siberia's best kayaking destinations.


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Paint Market Automotive by Vehicle Type, Coat (Electrocoat, Primer, Basecoat, Clearcoat), Technology (Solvent & Waterborne, Powder Coating), Texture (Solid & Metallic), Content (Electrocoat, Solvent & Waterborne-Base & Clearcoats), & by Region – Global Forecast to 2020
Paint Market | by Vehicle Type | Technology | Content | Insights of Industry Experts | Key Trends 2018 | Global Forecast to 2020
Automotive paints Market are transforming in the market in terms of their technologies and have evolved according to the performance requirements of vehicle applications from traditional conventional (solvent-borne) paint to the latest waterborne and powder coatings. Based on the available technologies in the market, this report covers qualitative and quantitative market sizing and forecasting till 2020 for the paints marketplace for key countries in Asia-Oceania, Europe, North America, and Rest of the World (RoW). The marketplace has been projected till 2020 by automotive coat type, by content type, by texture type, and by region.
Browse 70 market data tables and 72 figures spread through 165 pages and in-depth TOC on "Paint Market by Vehicle Type, Coat (Electrocoat, Primer, Basecoat, Clearcoat), Technology (Solvent & Waterborne, Powder Coating), Texture (Solid & Metallic), Content (Electrocoat, Solvent & Waterborne-Base & Clearcoats), & by Region - Forecast to 2020"
New technologies such as waterborne coatings and powder coatings are slowly gaining preference over conventional solvent-borne paints. The major reasons for this shift in preference is the low VOC content of paints using these technologies and the growing environmental concerns in terms of emissions from these paints. OEMs are also adopting efficient technologies to comply with various regional emission norms in developed economies. Increasing vehicle production and growing demands for carbon footprint technologies have driven the growth of the global automotive paints marketplace. However, fluctuating raw material prices and low-adoption rates of eco-friendly coatings in high-volume markets have restrained the growth of the automotive paints market.
Manufacturers of paints are striving to offer cost-efficient explanations without compromising on the presentation of the paints through their product offerings. Suppliers are concentrating on globalization and developing products to comply with the emission norms and remain inexpensive in the market. For this purpose, Tier-1 suppliers and OEMs are partnering to develop new technologies to save development costs and offer efficient technologies in the paints market. The major players in the automotive paints market identified include PPG Industries, Inc. (U.S.), Axalta Coating Systems LLC (U.S.), Kansai Paint Co. Ltd. (Japan), BASF SE (Germany), Nippon Paint Holdings Co. Ltd. (Japan), Arkema SA (France), Bayer AG (Germany), and AkzoNobel N.V. (The Netherlands).
The paints market for metallic paints will see a steady growth in the coming years as the demand for metallic finish is on a steady rise given the attractive glossy finish offered by these paints. In developed regions such as Europe and North America, metallic paints are used widely even for heavy commercial vehicles along with passenger cars and light commercial vehicles; whereas, in the Asia-Oceania region, solid paints are preferred as heavy commercial paints.
The global paints market is dominated by many international as well as local players; some of them being PPG Industries, Inc. (U.S.), Axalta Coating Systems LLC (U.S.), Kansai Paint Co. Ltd. (Japan), Arkema SA (France), BASF SE (Germany), and Nippon Paint Holdings Co. Ltd. (Japan).


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Saturday, October 18, 2008
Pumpkins Everywhere!10/18/2008 Posted by danette
Labels: Halloween, pictures
We were going to take the whole family to the pumpkin patch today, but Bitty made it clear that he wasn't interested in going anywhere, and we didn't feel like turning something that's supposed to be fun into a battle. So, dh stayed home with him and I took Cuddlebug and Bearhug.
We had to wait for the dryer because Cuddlebug didn't want to go out without his bandana, but once it was dry we were good to go!
I took lots of pictures, here are a few of them :)
Cuddlebug especially liked the "ghost" pumpkins:
Waiting for the hayride:
Enjoying the scenery on the hayride:
The hayride stopped near a pond so everyone could feed the fish.
A little popcorn for the road, and a final picture with a huge pumpkin!
Once we got home, Little Bitty was excited to see the pumpkins :)
Making his "funny face," lol. He saw this on Yo Gabba Gabba.
I just really like this picture of him :)
After a little playtime, the boys took the pumpkins outside to leave on the porch. But when it started getting dark, they wanted to bring them in so they wouldn't get cold. Here's Bitty holding onto his pumpkin while he watches a little Yo Gabba Gabba before bedtime.
Not long after that, I found three pumpkins sitting on the couch... "watching tv" according to Bearhug and Cuddlebug. Dh came into the living room ready to watch the Texas game after the boys went to bed, only to find pumpkins in his seat, LOL.
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6 comments:
- The Farmer Files on October 19, 2008 at 3:14 AM said...
Beautiful pics! We have never had a white pumpkin before. This year I want one!! That hayride looks enviable...much better than the tractor flatbed at our patch! I like the pic of the boys in front of the green field.
- Anonymous said...
What great photos!!!!
- hellokittiemama on October 20, 2008 at 12:46 AM said...
Your boys are beautiful. I agree, what a great shot of Bitty!
I chuckled about the bandana in the dryer. My son is like that with his red hat - why we own 3 of them!
The funny face from Yo Gabba Gabba.... Yep, we've got that shot too!
- CrackerJacks on October 20, 2008 at 7:27 PM said...
Wow, those photos are great! I've said it a million times this week, but the pumpkin patch is the best time!!
So cute !
- My Three Sons on October 20, 2008 at 10:52 PM said...
I love the pumpkin patch pics. My little one had such a great time. They just get to have so much fun outside one more good time before winter comes around. I think that is precious that they brought the pumpkins in. Big hearts!
- Elizabeth Channel on October 23, 2008 at 12:16 AM said...
This is simply the cutest! We are going on a hayride tomorrow and I can only hope everyone smiles as much as your fellows did.
Looks like such a memorable day!


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Here's a short video of protests this week in Karnataka over Cauvery water.
So, what's going on?
The dispute relates to sharing of Cauvery river water among four southern states – Karnataka, Tamil Nadu, Kerala and Pondicherry. The river originates in Karnataka, and the state can regulate water flows to downstream states like Tamil Nadu.
The dispute has been there for more than a century. In 2007, the Cauvery Water Disputes Tribunal gave its final verdict determining how the water will be shared. This came 16 years after the tribunal was established and 570 days of sitting.
What did the order say?
The tribunal estimated quantum of water available for sharing as 740 thousand million cubic feet or TMC. (If you're stumped by what these units are, don't worry. We have a small note on what they mean). Then it determined how this water will be shared among the four states:
Tamil Nadu – 419 TMC
Karnataka – 270 TMC
Kerala – 30 TMC
Pondicherry – 7 TMC
Further it gave a month-wise release of water from Karnataka to Tamil Nadu, the two major states in the dispute.
If the order has clearly detailed how to share water, where is the problem?
The final order only defined 'normal year' when the total available water in the cauvery basin is 740 TMC. But there was no such estimate when the water availability falls due to poor monsoon. The verdict only states, "….in a distress year, the allocated shares shall be proportionately reduced among the states…."
Karnataka now claims it has very low level of water in the reservoir because of poor rains, and refused to release water.
Now Supreme Court asked Karnataka to release 15,000 cusecs of water for 10 days. How much is that?
Cusec is the short form for cubic foot per second or the flow of water per second. One cusec is 28.317 litres of water. TMC is thousand million cubic feet.
If 11,000 cusecs of water is released for a day, then the total quantum of water is 1 TMC. So for 15,000 cusec, it is equivalent to 1.36 TMC.
If 15,000 cusecs of water is released for next 10 days, the total quantum is 13.63 TMC of water. That's equivalent to filling 1.55 lakh olympic size swimming pools.
In comparison, Tamil Nadu is entitled to 40 TMC of water in September as per final order of the tribunal.


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Boneless, skinless chicken breast marinated in the traditional Greek flavors of lemon, garlic and oregano then threaded on skewers with a few veggies makes these grilled chicken kebabs an easy and healthy weeknight dinner winner.
Dinner on the grill makes up about 95% of our summer dinner cooking routine, and with so much variety to be had (pork, steak, shrimp, and even cheese!) cooking skewers and kebabs is an easy, all-in-one healthy dinner that take as little as 15 minutes to marinate only about 15 minutes for the chicken kebabs to cook on the grill.
I'm not sure when I dropped the shish in shish kebabs, but whether you spell them kebabs or kababs, or maybe call them skewers too, these small chunks of chicken threaded on wooden or metal skewers with vegetable chunks are incredibly versatile to make.
Nearly every cuisine has it's own ethnic flavor of chicken kebab (Indian, Turkish, Middle Eastern, Japanese and Thai) as a popular street food to eat on the go.
But today we're staying at home to make our own, and cure my summertime Mediterranean flavor-craving with grilled Greek chicken kebabs, all day, all the way, babe-ae.
How to Make the Greek Chicken Marinade
This greek marinade is my favorite go-to recipe for anything and everything chicken and it does double duty as a dressing for salads too.continue to the recipe… about Easy Greek Chicken Kebabs


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No Such Thing as Too Many Cats - Accessory pouch
A pouch is something that just about anyone needs. They can be of multiple uses as they can be makeup bags, pencil cases or travel bag. We all have, or should have, many of them as they are truly super useful. So, if you already have a lot of them, but you are ready to add a one to your collection, this pouch is the purrfect choice. Available in two sizes, it closes with a zipper and it's perfect to tuck it in your bag and large enough to hold all you need. The print comes with the perfect quote for a cat lover and has all these adorable kitties, all with their little unique personality and expressions, they are really impossible to resist! Even if you don't really know what to make of another pouch, believe me, once you'll have it you'll find something that needed to be stored, and it will be so satisfying to store it in the most purrfect pouch ever!


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Honey has long been a tasty, low-calorie sweetener for foods and beverages ranging from toast to tea. With three dozen skin-friendly vitamins, minerals and amino acids, it has been used in bath and beauty products as far back as ancient Egypt's Pharaoh Cleopatra. Applied directly to the face, honey promotes a clear and healthy complexion, making it skin-care's liquid gold.
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One of the best ways to provide deep moisture to the complexion is with a mask, which is a treatment that is applied to the entire face, left on for a specific time and then wiped or rinsed off. Honey is a natural humectant, meaning that it helps attract and bind moisture to the skin. Keeping skin adequately hydrated promotes a healthy, radiant complexion, and when you're suffering from dry, flaking skin, a honey mask can come to the rescue. Massage about a teaspoon of honey onto the face, let it sit for about 10 minutes, and then rinse it off with warm water or a cotton ball dipped in grapefruit juice, which acts as a mild astringent.
Fights Bacteria, Fungi
Acne, a frustrating skin condition, often is caused by bacteria and fungi that get trapped beneath the skin's surface, clogging pores and causing the formation of pimples, blackheads and whiteheads. Enter honey and its natural antibacterial and anti-fungal properties -- these make a honey mask good for preventing and treating acne. And, unlike some natural and synthetic skin-care ingredients that can be harsh and irritating, honey is soothing and can help reduce redness caused by inflammation.
Delays Signs Of Aging
The antioxidants in honey help it to delay visible signs of aging because of its hydrating and firming effects. Environmental pollutants cause bad skin, and honey acts to widen pores, allowing them to be cleansed and unclogged more easily. Skin loses collagen through sun exposure and natural aging, causing it to sag. Honey is a good firming mask by itself, and it has added benefits when teamed with potassium-rich banana. Combine a teaspoon of honey with half a mashed banana, smooth the mask over your face and allow it to dry completely. You may actually feel your skin tightening. Use a washcloth and warm water to remove the mask. For a quicker honey treatment, blend a tablespoon of honey with a small, peeled, cored and chopped apple, apply it to the complexion, and leave it on for about 15 minutes before washing off. Have less time but want a firming lift? Mix one egg white with a tablespoon of honey, apply and leave on for 10 minutes, and then rinse with warm water.
Tips and Cautions
Use organic, higher grades of honey as close to the natural state as possible, as additives can alter honey's naturally beneficial properties. Honey is easiest to use for masks when it has been stored at room temperature, rather than when it has been refrigerated or heated. Although honey is also beneficial for moisturizing dry or chapped lips, you generally want to keep a mask or any other skin-care treatment away from the mouth and eyes.
- SkinCareResourceCenter.com: Honey and Skin Care
- "Natural Beauty" Pamper Yourself With Salon Secrets At Home"; Laura DuPriest: 2002, page 83
- Honey.com: Nature's Skin Care
- "911 Beauty Secrets"; Diane Irons: 1999, page 20
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New Inductees Into the Rock Hall of Fame
By JON PARELES
Published: January 18, 1996
At the 11th annual induction ceremonies for the Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame last night, some performers insisted that hits aren't everything. Before an audience of music-business executives in formal dress who had paid up to $1,500 each for a seat in the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel's Grand Ballroom, John Cale of the Velvet Underground declared, "Sales are not the be-all and end-all of rock-and-roll." The Velvet Underground, which barely reached the charts in its four-year career, was inducted along with David Bowie, Gladys Knight and the Pips, the Jefferson Airplane, Little Willie John, Pink Floyd and the Shirelles.
Their signatures will be etched in glass and their faces will appear on video monitors in the hushed rotunda at the top level of the Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, which opened last Sept. 1 in Cleveland.
Pete Seeger, who provided folk-rockers with both inspiration and repertory, was inducted as an early influence; introducing him, Arlo Guthrie said that when Mr. Seeger's hit with the Weavers, "Goodnight, Irene," reached No. 1, "I can't think of a single event in Pete's life that is probably less important to him." Mr. Seeger made no acceptance speech, but he did lead the finale of the event's jam session. Joined by Stevie Wonder, Mr. Guthrie, David Byrne and members of the Jefferson Airplane, he performed a version of "Goodnight, Irene' that wandered from folk rock to psychedelia.
Tom Donahue, a San Francisco disk jockey who was a pioneer of progressive rock radio, was this year's choice in the nonperformer category. The new members were named by an 800-member panel of musicians, producers, recording-company executives, critics and other experts.
With Pink Floyd and Jefferson Airplane, psychedelia held a plurality at this year's ceremonies. The stage was decorated with lava lamps; light-show blobs pulsated behind the Airplane when it performed. Phil Lesh of the Grateful Dead, paying tribute to the Airplane, praised the group as "six people hellbent on the ride of their lives and resonating in perfect rhythm." When the Airplane performed "Volunteers," Marty Balin revived some late-1960's rebelliousness, shouting "Fight back!" and raising a fist.
Pink Floyd, after an acrimonious split, appeared without Roger Waters, the main songwriter of its most influential albums. Mr. Bowie, too, did not appear; his award was accepted by Madonna, who said the first rock concert she had ever seen was by Mr. Bowie. She sneaked out of her house to attend it, and her father grounded her for the rest of the summer, "but it was worth every minute."
Patti Smith praised the Velvet Underground, saying, "They opened wounds worth opening with brutal imagery, without apology." When they accepted their award, the Velvets' members were mourning the death of Sterling Morrison, the band's rhythm guitarist, who died last August. The three surviving members -- Lou Reed, Maureen Tucker and Mr. Cale -- played a song they had written for Mr. Morrison, "Last Night I Said Goodbye to My Friend."
Mariah Carey introduced Gladys Knight and the Pips, saying of Ms. Knight, "She's like a textbook to learn from. You hear her delivery and you wish you could communicate with as much honesty and emotion as she does." Ms. Knight cited some numbers: 43 years with the Pips and nine different record companies.
Shirley Alston of the Shirelles professed her gratitude for the award, then asked, "What took you so long?" Introducing the Shirelles, Marianne Faithfull said that their song "Tonight's the Night" "gave me my idea of what love was and what love could be."
Little Willie John, a rhythm-and-blues singer who was a major influence on performers from James Brown to Mr. Wonder, died in 1968; his award was accepted by his son, Keith, who joined Mr. Wonder to sing Willie John's biggest hit, "Fever."
The $92 million Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, designed by I. M. Pei, has drawn nearly 400,000 visitors since Labor Day; on the Wednesday after Christmas, it had 9,800 visitors. "The biggest suprise is the amount of time people are spending there," Jim Henke, the museum's chief curator, said yesterday. "We expected people to stay two-and-a-half to three hours. Instead, they're staying four or five. People are really spending time looking at things and reading about them. They're paying attention, and that's really heartening."
The museum is now open seven days a week instead of the originally planned six. Its store, selling clothing and other items with the museum's logo, has been a bonanza. "We can't keep things on the shelves," said Suzan Evans, the executive director of the Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame Foundation, which produces the induction ceremonies and raises money for the museum. Admission fees are expected to support daily operations, Ms. Evans said; fund raising continues for exhibitions and other programs.
The induction ceremonies remain in New York this year because the music business is centered here and in Los Angeles. Recording executives buy most of the tickets for the event. This year, the ceremony was broadcast on closed-circuit television to the museum, where about 1,000 people watched it.
"We're going to Cleveland next year," said Ahmet Ertegun, chairman of the Hall of Fame Foundation, yesterday, "and I think we'll do all right there and have a lot of community support, but we won't have that many music-business people."
To insure a historical perspective, only musicians who released their first recordings at least 25 years ago can be inducted into the Hall of Fame. The explosion of rock in the mid-1960's has meant that many important performers were not selected when they first became eligible. Jefferson Airplane released its first album in 1966 and the Velvet Underground, David Bowie and Pink Floyd in 1967; the Shirelles, Little Willie John and Gladys Knight and the Pips date back to the 1950's.
"We should have been inaugurated long ago," Paul Kantner of the Jefferson Airplane said in an interview before the ceremony. "It's sweet and cute, if not timely, and we appreciate it in our own crude way. But in San Francisco, if you take stuff like this seriously they just run you out of town on a rail or laugh at you."
Photo: Pete Seeger, left, Stevie Wonder and Keith John jamming near thefinale of the Rock-and-Roll Hall of Fame induction ceremonies last night. (Michelle V. Agins/The New York Times)


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The maximum dimensions of ships that can transit the Canal are: 32.3 meters in beam; draft -their depth reach- 12 meters in Tropical Fresh Water; and 294.1 meters long (depending on the type of ship).The water used to raise and lower vessels in each set of locks comes from Gatun Lake by gravity; it comes into the locks through a system of main culverts that extend under the lock chambers from the sidewalls and the center wall. The narrowest portion of the Canal is Culebra Cut, which extends from the north end of Pedro Miguel Locks to the south edge of Gatun Lake at Gamboa. This segment, approximately 13.7 kilometers long, is carved through the rock and shale of the Continental Divide. At this point of the canal, where the engineers cut their way through shale and bedrock to cross the Continental Divide. Its name ('Culebra' Cut), is from the Spanish word for 'snake'; the canal curved like one until it was widened.Ships from all parts of the world transit daily through the Panama Canal. Some 13 to 14 thousand vessels use the Canal every year. In fact, commercial transportation activities through the Canal represent approximately 5% of the world trade.The Canal has a work force of approximately 9 thousand employees and operates 24 hours a day, 365 days a year, providing transit service to vessels of all nations without discrimination.Electric-powered 'mules' cabled to the ships provide precise directional control, with clearances as low as six inches between the ships and the walls of the locks. A typical passage through the canal by a cargo ship takes around nine hours. 14,011 vessels passed through the canal in 2005, with a total capacity of 278.8 million tons, making an average of almost 40 vessels per day.LayoutPanama Canal SitesOperating since 1914 and considered one of the wonders of the world, this fifty-mile waterway transports ships by raising them from sea level to more than 85 feet via a series of gravity-powered locks.Miraflores Locks Visitor CenterDistance from Panama City Airport: 34.3km30 minutes from Panama City exhibition halls are open 9am to 5pm. The ticket office closes at 4pm. Admission Charged. Modern elevators and stairs are both available"The Panama Canal is a unique experience which can't be reproduced anywhere else in the world. See 5,000,000-ton vessels rise and drop more than 50 feet as they make their way over Panama from one ocean to another, and learn about the history and future of this marvel of modern engineering." 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CENGEM HARLEM Strikers advanced to the semi-final round of the Central Football Association (CFA) Ramsingh Sports World-sponsored FA Cup competition on Tuesday after overcoming Carapichaima Playmakers 2-1 in a Round Two contest at the Hugo Francis Recreation Ground, Chaguanas.
In Round One, Carapichaima took care of Enterprise Youths by a similar 2-1 margin, in the first of back-to-back matches at the Hugo Francis Recreation Ground on Saturday.
Trevorsen Calliste (15th) and Kevin Peters (54th) found the back of the net for Carapichaima while Taurean Sobers (70th) pulled one back for Enterprise.
Also on Saturday, Central Soccer World rallied from a goal down to whip Leeds FC 3-1.
Christopher Samlal put Leeds ahead in the 10th but Central fought back to claim victory courtesy of Jiron Francis (65th and 75th) and Dion Lewis (90th).
On Sunday, Perseverance United needed kicks from the penalty spot to oust Inter National Connection 6-5, after both teams battled to a 1-1 draw at the end of regulation time. Kareem Garcia scored for Perseverance United in the 15th before Inter- National Connection equalised in the 31st from Andre Grant.
And, on Monday, Fire Services eliminated Perseverance Ball Runners 3-0 in a penalty shootout after the scores were goalless after regulation time.
All the games in this competition are being staged at the Hugo Francis Recreation Ground.
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SEMI FINALS - October 1: Central Soccer World vs Fire Services FC; Perseverance United vs CENGEM Harlem Strikers, Hugo Francis Recreation Ground, Chaguanas, 6 pm & 8 pm.
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