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Terms & Conditions
Terms of Sale
Hugh Rice Jewellers is a family business and was established in 1971 by Mr Hugh Rice.
"Hugh Rice Jewellers" and "Hugh Rice the Jewellers" are trading names of Hugh Rice Limited, a company registered in England (company number 02065159).
Hugh Rice Limited Address:
Unit 5&6, St. Stephens Shopping Centre,
110 Ferensway, Hull,
East Yorkshire, HU2 8LN
United Kingdom
VAT number 168 6054 43
Hugh Rice Jewellers is a member of the National Association of Goldsmiths and The Gemmological Association of Great Britain.
These Terms and Conditions apply to all orders for products placed with us via our website, over the telephone or by fax, post or email. Please read them carefully before ordering products from us.
Nothing in these Terms and Conditions affects the statutory rights of consumers.
If you place your order using our website you will receive an email from our payment provider, Sage Pay, using the email address you provided when placing your order. Please click here to visit the Sage Pay website to find out more about Sage Pay. We will also send you an email acknowledging your order. Both of these emails are sent automatically and do not mean that we have accepted your order. We will notify acceptance of your order by sending an email to you stating that your order has been accepted and despatched. Otherwise, our acceptance of your order takes place upon delivery of the products. Only when we have accepted your order is a binding contract created between us.
Our prices are available over the telephone and are set out in our website ( www.hughrice.co.uk) and other literature. Prices are set out on our website in Pounds Sterling and are inclusive of United Kingdom-rated VAT at the prevailing rate where applicable. Please note that all discounted products may not come with outer packaging sleeves and sleeves, these will be subject to availability.
Prices remain in force until we publish new prices on our website. Delivery charges may apply and, if applicable, will be displayed during the order process.
Whilst we try to ensure that all prices on our website, in our literature and given over the telephone are accurate, mistakes can sometimes occur. If we discover an error in the price of products you have ordered we will contact you as soon as possible and give you the option of either reconfirming your order at the correct price or cancelling it. If we are unable to contact you we will treat the order as being cancelled. If the order is cancelled, we will refund any money which we have taken from you.
All images and descriptive matter contained in our website or other literature are for the sole purpose of giving an approximate idea of the appearance and characteristics of the products described and should not be used or relied upon for any other purpose.
The product dimensions supplied are intended to give an approximate indication of the size of individual products. The images of products may not show their actual size. If you wish to inspect a product before purchasing it, please contact us so that we can make arrangements at one of our stores.
All orders are subject to availability of products. If we are unable to deliver products ordered by you we will notify you (where practicable) and, if we have received the price and the delivery charges of the unavailable products, we will refund them to you within 30 days unless you agree to a longer period.
Orders are delivered to UK postal addresses only. We aim to process and dispatch orders within two working days. In exceptional circumstances and when an order needs to be specially ordered from a supplier, please allow up to 2-6 weeks for delivery, however in these instances we will be in contact to provide you with all information and will keep you updated with the progress of your order.
Orders under £75 - £ 2.95 – Royal Mail Tracked 24 (1-3 Working Days)
Orders £75 and over – FREE - Royal Mail Tracked 24 (1-3 Working Days)
Orders under £200 - £5.95 – Royal Mail Next Day Special Delivery (Next Working Day if order is placed before 12pm)
Orders £200 and over - FREE – Royal Mail Next Day Special Delivery (Next Working Day if order is placed before 12pm)
We are not able to follow special instructions e.g. 'Leave in Porch'.
Orders can be delivered to addresses other than the bill payers at our discretion. You will be provided with the opportunity to enter a different shipping address during the checkout process. Orders £250 and over will only be shipped to the bill payer's address.
We will always try our best to fulfil all of our customers' needs and meet the quoted time scales above, however during bank holidays and extremely busy times for ourselves and the Royal Mail this may occasionally result in a slight delay.
We will deliver products ordered by you to the shipping address stated on your order form. Once we have dispatched your item this then becomes your responsibility to track your item using the dispatch number sent via email from the Royal Mail.
The United Kingdom's Consumer Protection (Distance Selling) Regulations 2000 provide you with a right to cancel your order for products at any time up to the end of the seventh working day following the day after the day on which you received the products. You do not need to give us any reason for cancellation. Here at Hugh Rice you have up to 30 days to return your unwanted items for an exchange or refund.
For reasons of hygiene and public health, you may not cancel your order for any jewellery which passes through the skin (such as earrings) if we have already dispatched those products to you. Nothing in this condition 6 is intended to affect any statutory rights you may have as a consumer.
If you wish to cancel your order please write to us at Hugh Rice Limited Unit 6 St Stephen's Shopping Centre, Ferensway, Hull, HU2 8LN, United Kingdom or fax us on +44 (0)1482 212489 or email us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Until you have returned the product to us, you must keep it in your possession and take reasonable care of it. We will credit the price of the product to your credit/debit card. Please note this may take 2-5 working days for your bank to process this refund.
All products bought from us are guaranteed against defects in materials and workmanship for 12 months from the date of purchase. If within that period, after having opportunity to inspect a product and are satisfied (acting reasonably) that it is faulty as a result of a defect in materials or workmanship you may return the product to us for a replacement, exchange or refund of the price you paid for the product. You must provide us with the original invoice, despatch note or other proof of purchase.
If we supply a replacement product this warranty shall apply to the replacement product for the balance of the warranty period for the original product.
Nothing in this condition 7 affects your statutory rights as a consumer.
This warranty does not apply where the defect is due to the product not being cared for in an appropriate manner or the product has been modified, misused, neglected or wilfully or accidentally damaged. This warranty is not transferable to a new owner of the product.
Pre-owned products are products which have previously been sold by us or somebody else to another person and shall be as described on our website, in our literature, or by our customer services representatives over the telephone.
As pre-owned products have previously been owned and/or used by somebody else, they may contain markings and surface damage resulting from wear and tear consistent with their age and use. In the case of pre-owned watches, such markings and surface damage will not impair the performance of the watches unless otherwise stated.
The warranty in condition 7 applies to the extent that defects which have been notified to you before buying the product, in this condition 8 or otherwise are not deemed to be defects for the purpose of the warranty.
All complaints should be addressed to Customer Services, Hugh Rice Limited, Unit 5&6 St Stephen's Shopping Centre, 110 Ferensway, Hull, HU2 8LN, United Kingdom.
If products that we deliver to you are not as described or are damaged, defective or of incorrect quantity then please contact the Internet Department as soon as possible within 30 days of delivery on 01482 211233. We will replace the incorrect, damaged or defective products or make good the shortfall in quantity or, at our option, credit the price and delivery charges of those products to your credit/debit card or send you a cheque for the amount to be refunded.
If you do not receive the products you have ordered you should notify us within 42 days of the date of your order (please remember to allow at least 30 days from the date of your order for delivery). We will deliver the products ordered or, at our option, credit the price and delivery charges of the non-delivered products to your credit/debit card or if we have not accepted your order and have been unable to contact you, we will notify you of the reason for non-acceptance upon request.
Our aggregate liability (whether in contract, tort or otherwise) for loss or damage shall in any event be limited to a sum equal to the amount paid or payable by you for the products the subject of the claim.
This condition does not include or limit in any way our liability for any of the following: death or personal injury caused by our negligence; fraud or fraudulent misrepresentation; any breach of the obligations implied by section 12 of the Sale of Goods Act 1979 or section 2 of the Supply of Goods and Services Act 1982; losses for which it is prohibited by section 7 of the Consumer Protection Act 1987 to limit liability; or any other matter for which it would be illegal or unlawful for us to exclude or attempt to exclude our liability.
Subject to the exclusions listed in the immediately preceding paragraph of this condition, if either of us fails to comply with these Terms and Conditions, neither of us shall be responsible for any losses that the other suffers as a result, except for those losses which are a foreseeable consequence of the failure to comply with these Terms and Conditions.
Neither of us shall be responsible for losses that result from our failure to comply with these Terms and Conditions including, but not limited to, losses that fall into the following categories:
Loss of income or revenue;
Loss of business;
Loss of anticipated savings;
Loss of data;
Or any waste of time.
However, this paragraph shall not prevent claims for foreseeable loss of, or damage to, your physical property.
We shall be under no liability for any delay or failure to deliver products or otherwise perform any obligation as specified in these terms and conditions if the same is wholly or partly caused by circumstances beyond our reasonable control.
To provide feedback or to make a complaint, please email email@example.com
If any of these Terms and Conditions are unenforceable it shall not affect the enforceability of the rest of these Terms and Conditions.
Other than as provided in these Terms and Conditions, nothing said by our sales personnel shall amount to a variation of these Terms and Conditions or a representation about the nature or quality of our products.
Nothing in these Terms and Conditions shall give any person who is not a party to the contract any benefit or any right to enforce any of the terms of the contract.
The contract shall be deemed to have been formed under and shall be governed and interpreted in accordance with English law. The English Courts shall have jurisdiction to hear disputes between us.
Hugh Rice Jewellers online gift vouchers must be redeemed on the Hugh Rice Limited website www.hughrice.co.uk, towards the purchase of eligible products listed in our online catalogue. You will be emailed your online gift voucher; this will not come through the post. Email gift vouchers cannot be redeemed in our high street shops or stores.
Gift vouchers cannot be used to pay for gift vouchers.
Gift vouchers have no cash redemption value and are not transferable or assignable. Hugh Rice Limited may provide gift voucher purchasers with information about the redemption status of gift vouchers that they purchase.
If the order exceeds the amount of the gift certificate, the balance must be paid by credit or debit card over the phone.
Any unused balance will be recorded and redeemable against future purchases however gift vouchers and gift cards expire one year from the date of issue, where permissible under applicable law.
The gift certificate can be applied to an open order by visiting the relevant Order Summary page in the "Shopping Bag" section of our website.
Normal Hugh Rice Limited terms and conditions of purchase and use of the hughrice.co.uk website apply.
One or more gift vouchers can be redeemed against an order. Also gift vouchers can be combined with one Hugh Rice Limited promotional gift certificate.
Hugh Rice Limited is not responsible if a gift certificate is lost, stolen, destroyed or used without permission.
Any products purchase from the 31st October 2016 can be returned and exchanged up to and including 15th January 2017, after which the policy shall revert back to the usual terms of 30 days. **Please note this excludes any items placed on deposit, bespoke or specially ordered pieces**
You can return your order within 30 days from date of purchase for a full refund or exchange. Items must be returned in their original condition using the Royal Mail Tracked Returns service. Please include a copy of your invoice and a reason for return within the parcel. You should receive a pre-paid label with your delivery, however if this is something you need to replace please visit the Royal Mail website where you will be able to create a new label
For reasons of hygiene and public health, you may not return or cancel your order for any jewellery which passes through the skin (such as earrings) once they have been dispatched. Nothing in this term and condition is intended to affect any statutory rights you may have as a consumer.
Once we receive the item back with us we will credit the price of the product to your credit/debit card. Please allow up to 2-5 working days for your bank to process this refund and the money to appear in your account.
All products bought from us are guaranteed against defects in materials and workmanship for 12 months from the date of purchase. If within that period, after having opportunity to inspect a product and we are satisfied that it is faulty as a result of a defect in materials or workmanship, you may return the product to us for an exchange or refund of the price you originally paid for the product. You must provide us with the original invoice, despatch note or other proof of purchase.
Smartwatch & Activity Tracker Returns
Please note our smartwatch and activity tracker range will arrive in a sealed cellophane wrapper, once the seal is broken your watch is no longer eligible for a refund, unless faulty. The smartwatch requires you to digitally download your personal data, meaning that your watch can no longer be refunded once the smartwatch's services have begun. Once the cellophane wrapper has been broken you lose all rights to cancel your order and will not be able to request a refund.
We endeavour to protect our users' information in respect of their use of this website. When users submit sensitive information via the website, their information is protected both online and off-line.
When our registration/order form asks users to enter sensitive information (such as credit card numbers), that information is encrypted and is protected with industry standard encryption software. All card details are taken via SagePay (www.sagepay.com).
For the final stage of ordering, where you give us your credit card details, you will have already been transferred to a secure server. We use Secure Socket Layer (SSL) encryption to "scramble" your details and so the payment system used by Hugh Rice is very secure. All payments are handled by Sage Pay.
If users have any questions about the security of our website, users can send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com.
We, Hugh Rice Limited, operate this website, the home page of which can be found at http://www.hughrice.co.uk. Your access to and use of this website is subject to your compliance with all applicable laws and these terms of use, which incorporate the paragraphs below, the Privacy Policy and the Terms and Conditions of Sale, all of which can be accessed from this page "("together referred to as Terms of Use")". Your use of this website constitutes your unqualified agreement to accept and comply with the Terms of Use.
This website is operated by Hugh Rice Limited, a company registered in England (number 02065159) whose registered office and address for correspondence is Unit 6 St Stephen's Shopping Centre, Ferensway, Hull, HU2 8LN, United Kingdom. Our VAT number is 168 605 443.
This website is offered as a service and facility for purchasing our products and is directed solely at those who access this website from within the European Union.
Whilst we use reasonable efforts to include accurate and up to date information on this website, errors may occur. We cannot give any warranty or representation as to the accuracy of the information, and do not accept responsibility for errors or omissions or for any action or decisions based on the information.
Your use of this website is at your risk. If you have any specific queries, please contact us by email at firstname.lastname@example.com or by telephone on + 44 (0) 1482 329449. The information and materials provided on this website are of a general nature only and cannot be regarded as constituting advice or recommendations (professional or otherwise). We do not accept any liability for any direct, indirect, special or consequential losses or damages of whatever nature, including, but not limited to loss of anticipated savings, revenues, information, goodwill or contracts arising out of this website, its availability or lack of availability or your use of any information contained in this website.
We exclude all warranties, express or implied, relating to the information and materials on this website to the fullest extent permitted by law.
Nothing in the Terms of Use shall be construed to exclude or limit (1) our liability for death or personal injury or fraudulent misrepresentation or (2) any rights you may have as a consumer to the extent that such liability and rights may not be excluded or limited under applicable statute or law.
Hypertext links are links by which visitors can move from one website to another or from one page to another within the same website.
This website contains hypertext links to third parties' websites. Any hypertext links between our website and any third party website are provided for your convenience only and we accept no liability whatsoever for the contents of any such third party website. We exclude to the fullest extent permitted by law all liability that may arise in connection with or as a result of third party website material or your accessing of third party websites causing any damage, costs, injury or loss of any kind.
You agree that if you wish to create any links between this website and any other website you will do so only in accordance with these Terms of Use or as we otherwise agree in writing.
This section of the Terms of Use applies to any use of our "share" facility. For the avoidance of doubt all of the other provisions of the Terms of Use shall also apply to your use the share facility. Our Privacy Policy contains information about how this facility works and restrictions which apply to your use of this facility.
The share facility also incorporates an email function. Your use of the share email facility is subject to the same obligations and restrictions as set out in this Privacy Policy.
Links to our Facebook and Twitter facilities
We offer our Facebook and Twitter pages as facilities for your convenience and are not responsible for any financial or other liability associated directly or indirectly with a public or private posting made using them.
You acknowledge that any information that you post using our Facebook or Twitter facilities may be viewable by any person and you undertake:
To accept full responsibility for the contents of any messages you post using the facilities;
To use the facilities only for lawful purposes;
Not to post in any messages material which is inaccurate, defamatory, abusive, offensive, pornographic, racist, sexist, threatening, vulgar, obscene, hateful or otherwise inappropriate or which will constitute a criminal offence or give rise to civil liability or which may cause offence in relation to sexual orientation, age, marital status, disability or working status;
Not to harass or upset third parties through your use of the facilities;
Not to include in messages any material which refers to a third party or is protected by confidentiality, copyright, trade mark or other propriety right without the express permission of the third party owner (and for the avoidance of doubt you have our permission to send details of our own products to third parties using the facilities in accordance with our Terms of Use).
Not to send personal information about any third party using the facilities;
Not to insert material into messages which contains viruses, files or programs that are designed to disrupt, damage or limit the functioning of any software or hardware equipment;
Not to use the facilities for any commercial purpose or to send advertisements, chain letters, surveys, pyramid schemes or requests for money; and
Not to use the facilities in order to obtain unauthorised access to data or other information belonging to us or any third party.
You acknowledge and agree that we may at our discretion remove any messages from the facilities, that we may (but are not obliged to) monitor the contents of messages sent using the facilities and that we do not accept any liability arising from use or the content of any message in your use of the facilities.
You acknowledge that we will cooperate with any person, law enforcement authority or court order requesting or directing us to disclose the identity of anyone sending material using the facility in breach of the Terms of Use, any law (whether civil or criminal) or the legal rights of any party.
For the avoidance of doubt all of the other provisions of the Terms of Use, and any other terms of the operators of the Facebook and Twitter websites shall also apply to your use of our Facebook and Twitter facilities.
These Terms of Use do not deal with the terms upon which we may supply products to you. If you purchase any products from us you will be bound by our Terms and Conditions of Sale (click here to see a copy), which form part of the Terms of Use.
We provide a ring size guide for your convenience, which is available for download here. Please be aware that the guide is designed to operate as an approximate guide and we would recommend that you visit one of our stores if you wish to have a more accurate measurement taken by a member of our staff. We do not accept any liability for the accuracy of the ring size guide or your reliance upon it.
The trade marks, logos and service marks (collectively "the Trade Marks") displayed on this website (whether registered or unregistered) are and shall remain the property of their respective owners. Nothing contained in this website shall be construed as granting any licence or right to use any Trade Mark displayed on this website without the prior written consent of the relevant Trade Mark owner other than as expressly set out in these Terms of Use. Your misuse or infringement of any of the Trade Marks displayed on this website is strictly prohibited.
The copyright in each aspect of this website is owned by Hugh Rice Limited or its content or technology providers. All content is protected by copyright and may not be used except as expressly provided in the Terms of Use without our prior written consent. We do not warrant or represent that your use of materials displayed on this website will not infringe the rights of third parties.
Except where otherwise stated expressly, you must not copy, adapt, download, exploit or otherwise use the information contained in this website in any way, other than for the purpose of enquiring about or requesting information relating to the type of goods and services we are able to offer or downloading and temporarily storing one or more of the pages of this website for the purpose of viewing, for your personal use only, on a personal computer or terminal. For the avoidance of doubt you shall not be entitled to reproduce, permanently store, or retransmit any of the contents of this website without our prior written consent.
Whilst we try to keep our anti-virus software up-to-date we do not warrant that this website, its servers, downloadable files or e-mails which may be sent by us, are free from viruses or other harmful components.
You must not:
Introduce or attempt to introduce any virus or other contaminant to the website or any of its software or systems;
In any way attempt to access, alter, de-compile, reverse engineer, destroy or otherwise tamper with or interfere with the operation of any part of this website, its software or systems.
Any queries, feedback or comments you may have about this website should be submitted by emailing us at email@example.com or writing to Hugh Rice Limited, Unit 6 St Stephen's Shopping Centre, Ferensway, Hull, HU2 8LN, United Kingdom.
To provide feedback or to make a complaint, please email firstname.lastname@example.com
Any personal information we collect from you shall only be used in accordance with our Privacy Policy (a copy of which can be viewed by clicking here), which forms part of the Terms of Use.
You are responsible for obtaining an appropriate connection with a telecommunications provider in order to access this website and for paying the costs of all charges you incur in accessing and using this website.
We may amend these Terms of Use from time to time. You are bound by any changes we make to these Terms of Use with effect from the date of the change. You can view the current version of these Terms of Use at any time by clicking on the Terms of Use link on the home page of this website.
If any of the Terms of Use are unenforceable it shall not affect the enforceability of the rest of them.
The Terms of Use shall be governed by and construed in accordance with English law and the English Courts shall have jurisdiction to hear disputes between us.


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NHL favorites, the New York Rangers, have announced that they will be having fresh, new additions to their coaching line-up to power up their play. Glen Slather, the President and General Manager of New York Rangers welcomed Scott Arniel onboard as the associate coach. Two former New York Rangers, Daniel Lacroix and Ulf Samuelsson, are slated to be assistant coaches for the coming season.
Scott Arniel is expected to fire up the performance as he has coached the Columbus Blue Jackets through 123 games as head coach. In addition to this, he has also served as head coach for the American Hockey League (AHL) where he was the coach for the Chicago Wolves. Scott Arniel also mentored the Manitoba Moose all the way to the finals of the Calder Cup that firmly placed the team on top of the AHL rankings. Arniel was also the proud winner of the Louis Pieri Memorial Award in the year 2008-2009.
The New York Rangers look forward to Scott working his coaching magic for the coming NHL season. The Rangers have undergone several major changes since the season in 2012 including star forwards Ryan Clowe as well as Rick Nash. Fans are looking forward to Glen Slather's moves that could include the trade-off of several eligible prospects before Sunday's game.
Ex-coach John Tortorilla's strategies included hard, aggressive blocking plays did not always help the Rangers to win their games. Right now, if the Rangers want to win their next game, they need to have some well-defined offensive and defensive lines in place. They certainly have plenty of talented players in the team; it only remains for the new coaching line-up to put together effective pairings for both offence as well as defense.
The New York Rangers require a tough, big, burly player to power up their defense; the team is fervently hoping that Dylan Mcllrath is the chosen man.
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Meera Syal today led tributes to Casino Royale and EastEnders actor Paul Bhattacharjee after his body was found a week after he went missing.
Police identified the body of 53-year-old early yesterday after he was found at the foot of cliffs in East Sussex.
The EastEnders star, who also appeared in Casino Royale, had not been seen since leaving the Royal Court Theatre in Sloane Square where he had been rehearsing for a new play last Wednesday.
Syal, who played opposite him at the Royal Shakespeare Company and in the West End last year, said:"Paul was a consummate actor and relished every opportunity and challenge. He brought a freshness to each role.
"I will miss him and always regret very much that we have been robbed of his wonderful talent and the great work he still had to produce in his career.
"I gave him a lift home a few weeks ago and he was extremely happy and in good spirits and his death is such a shock and my thoughts are with his family."
His disappearance prompted heartfelt appeals from family and friends, with Bend It Like Beckham actress Parminder Nagra, Sex in the City star Kim Cattrall and Stephen Fry all taking to Twitter to ask for help in finding the actor.
His son Rahul Bhattacharjee-Prashar, 24, had also made a desperate plea for his father to get in contact, telling the Standard his disappearance was "completely out of character".
He said: "Dad, wherever you are please, please get in contact. We want to know that you are okay and if anyone has seen or heard from him in the last few days please get in contact.
"Please, we are just worried sick.
"It's completely out of character. He was doing well in his career and everything seemed to be going okay. I just don't know what has happened."
But it emerged that on Friday, officers from Sussex found the body at Splash Point in Seaford, East Sussex, and yesterday contacted the Metropolitan Police.
Mr Bhattacharjee, from Redbridge, north-east London, was formally identified and his next of kin told. His death is not being treated as suspicious.
Today Kulvinder Ghir, 47, who appeared alongside Mr Bhattacharjee in Much Ado about Nothing and had known him for more than 25 years, spoke of his distress at the news.
He said: "Paul's death is shocking. There is a sense of disbelief because he had so much energy in him.
"Paul really spoke through the tremendous body of his work. He really tried to take on roles that he could work with and develop a message about.
"I remember talking to him about a play he did on Guantanamo Bay and he said it was one of best he had ever done. Even when he hurt his knee during rehearsals he never missed a performance."
The actor had recently moved into a flat with his girlfriend Emma McKie, 23, whom he met while on stage in the West End.
Mr Ghir said: "They were a very loving couple and they seemed to have a great relationship."
It is believed that Mr Bhattacharjee travelled to Sussex to see his mother shortly before his death.
He texted his girlfriend at 9pm the night he went missing and was not heard from since.
Tributes today poured in for the star, who began his career at Earlsfield-based theatre Tara Arts in the 1980s.
Former EastEnders actress Brooke Kinsella tweeted: "Thoughts, prayers, heart goes out to Paul Bhattacharjee and his family xxxx" while Coronation Street actress Shobna Gulati wrote: "Just got the news, deeply saddened by Paul's death. He will be truly missed and my respects and thoughts to his family and dear friends."
Musician Nitin Sawhney said: "They found Paul. Devastated. My inspiring, insightful, gifted and kind friend. I'm in shock."
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Design Out Crime
Published October 17th, 2007
It's part of a new program called "Design Out Crime".
"Now for the first time we're actively participating in changing the environment. We're making the environment less conducive for a criminal to hang out," said Gainesville Police Sergeant Art Adkins.
Police say bushes and grass should be kept short and homes should be well-lit.
If you call, officers will come out to your home to tweak your environment to deter crime.
Anne Imanuel, WCJB TV20 News
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Obama Was Marching With Civil Rights Icon In Selma, Not With New Black Panthers
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Yesterday, Andrew Breitbart, Sean Hannity, and National Review Online's Andrew McCarthy claimed that, in Sean Hannity's words, then-Senator Barack Obama was "hanging out" with a group of New Black Panther Party members during a 2007 event in Selma, Alabama. The charge was totally false, as it was based on cropped photos and dishonest descriptions.
In reality, the event was the 42nd anniversary of the 1965 march from Selma, a pivotal event in the civil rights movement that ended when the marchers were attacked by law enforcement at Edmund Pettus Bridge.
During the commemoration, Obama was in the company of people like the Rev. Fred Shuttlesworth, who Martin Luther King Jr. once described as "the most courageous civil rights fighter in the South." Shuttlesworth died today at the age of 89.
Here's a picture from Reuters of Obama pushing Shuttlesworth in a wheelchair across the Edmund Pettus Bridge during the event mentioned by Breitbart, Hannity, and McCarthy:
This closes the book on the latest shameful attempt at race-baiting by Breitbart, McCarthy, and Hannity.
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Is This Battlestar Galactica T-Shirt Too Nerdy To Wear?
My birthday was last week and it was a great one. I got some pretty cool gifts, and my wife likes to surprise me with nerdy stuff that I like. For example she bought me this Jedi Starfighter lego set. (It was something me and our son could build together.) She also got me a new t-shirt.


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BENTON - William Vincent LaPass, 83, of Benton died Wednesday, January 1, 2014, at his home.
He was a retired benefit administrator for the Social Security Administration. He served as a seaman apprentice in the U.S. Navy from 1948 until 1955.
He is survived by one sister, Mary Theresa Vollmer of South Holland, Ill.; two nephews, Jeffery Louis Vollmer of Schererville, Ind., and Stephen Taylor of Chicago; and one niece, Nancy Taylor of Chicago.
He was preceded in death by one brother and one sister. His parents were Louis William LaPass and Mary Winters LaPass.
Graveside services will be at 11 a.m. Wednesday, January 8, 2014, in the St. Henry's Catholic Cemetery in Aurora.
There will be no visitation.
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The Strokes have performed on late night television in the United States, the UK and France.
So obviously, the next step is the Ellen DeGeneres Show.
The Strokes will play Ellen on May 31st and hopefully Julian breaks out those wonderfully awkward 2006 dance moves. (Confirmation. Thank you Cider11 for the tip.)
I was going to write something about vomiting uncontrollably and discuss my mother's viewing habits, but then a rather simple thought came upon me: The Strokes refuse to play a proper tour, but they're willing to play Ellen.


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One of Missoula's few contemporary art galleries is located in a charred building with no roof. The entrance is a chain-link gate with a "No Trespassing" sign. The halls are littered with empty spray paint cans. There is no curator. New work appears regularly.
Street art isn't about conforming to the formalities of a traditional gallery, but its urban workspaces often serve the same purpose: showcasing new work from emerging artists. And while Missoula is fortunate to be home to a public street art and graffiti outlet at the south end of the California Street footbridge, it also boasts hidden "galleries," like the one described above, with walls covered by edgy illustrations and large-scale murals from floor to where the ceiling should be.
"These are canvases," says local artist and teacher Patricia Thornton, standing at one of the "secret sites" she and colleague Karen Slobod discovered in preparation for their workshop on street and public art, which began Tuesday, June 11. "A lot of artists I knew in San Francisco, it was hard for them to show. Galleries can be tough. But you can always get it up on walls. It's a place for people to be seen, to have an audience, to get their work on display."
Street art—also known as guerilla art or neo-graffiti—is an overarching term that encompasses multiple areas of specialization. Included in the definition are straight aerosol spray art (such as logo-style tagging, where an artist leaves his or her name on the wall); stencil art (Missoula has recently seen an influx of "Dick Cheney is Watching You" stencils throughout downtown); stickers (always prevalent on newspaper racks and parking meters); and multimedia designs that include combinations of the above. Often the work includes sociopolitical messaging; the DIY approach and lawbreaking aspect is part of the artist's expression. Thornton and Slobod are less interested in promoting illegal art, however (their workshop includes a discussion on etiquette), and more focused on how responsible work enhances its surroundings.
"A lot of people see tagging as just a way of saying, 'I was here,' but I think a lot of it goes beyond just a name," Slobod says. "The best street art is sociologically motivated and aesthetically thought-out. It becomes a way of speaking to and for the community."
In spite of its alternative roots, the medium has received increasingly widespread recognition in the mainstream art community. The late New York graffiti artist Jean-Michel Basquiat is well-known for transitioning from street art to international critical acclaim in the 1980s. Thornton was first introduced to street artists at a San Francisco opening in a traditional gallery two years ago. And Thornton and Slobod's workshop is being presented by the Missoula Art Museum.
"The non-elitism of it, the fact that any artist can find their space, is what's so appealing to me," says Kerri Rosenstein, director of Gallery Saintonge and a longtime fan of local street art. "It's not a bunch of kids just fucking around. It's a craft. It's a legitimate craft, just like traditional painting or anything else, and there's a range. Some of it is really beautiful and has a clear message. It's exciting how everyone wants to be heard and understood, and how they can be regardless of who or where they are. It's exciting to see it, especially coming back to the white walls in my gallery."
At one "secret spot" in Missoula, rows of concrete walls are covered with elaborate aerosol taggings and what look like unfinished experimental doodles. The artists represented in the space go by "GAS 134," "The Prude" and "Iamagicnation." The latter spells out the beginning of his handle—"Iamagic"—in graffiti letters, followed by each remaining letter on the chests of six dancing characters who look like punked-out rejects from Where the Wild Things Are. The piece stretches approximately 40 feet.
"My buddies and I were the first to start painting there," says "GAS 134," who recently moved from Missoula and prefers to be identified by his handle. "It was the sort of place where you could get out there and hone your skills after class or after work when I had the urge to paint."
Sure enough, "GAS 134's" work refining his style—including one large-scale tag that took him two weeks to complete—led to bigger things. He was commissioned to paint two murals at Edge of the World skate shop in early 2005.
"When we started painting there I always envisioned it being a mega-secret spot, something folks just heard about word-of-mouth from other artists, and coming back years later to see who'd found it," he says. "It'd be like a collection, from our crew [the Zoo Town Artists] to…whomever."
Almost like a collection in a gallery.
The Missoula Art Museum's "Street Art/Public Art Workshop" continues Thursday, July 13, at 7 PM, and Saturday, July 15, at 11 AM, at MAM's Temporary Contemporary in the Florence Building. Patricia Thornton and Karen Slobod will discuss and present examples of local street art and, on Saturday, participants will have the chance to create their own artwork. $10 per class. Call 728-0447.


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" Brand: Kenco. Instant Coffee / Type: Instant Coffee "
A cappuccino is a frothy milky coffee which retains a lot of its strength, even with the assortment of creams, sprinkles and marshmallows you decide to let loose upon the frothy summit. A treat such as this is best purchased at a coffee shop where it will have been created with fine ingredients to give it the sweet and strong taste I've come to love of cappuccinos. That isn't always an option so 'make it yourself' powdered cappuccinos with their enticing delicious looking cappuccino on the box catches you eye and wallet during the supermarket search. Kenco's cappuccino gives presents a wonderfully frothy and tasty looking cappuccino which is a huge step above the actual result. Coming in boxes of 8, the cappuccino can be purchased in regular and unsweetened varieties for those who just want a frothy coffee and nothing quite as tooth impairing. Each box boasts 8 sachets of the coffee and 1 sachet of chocolate topping. The sachets give you a little deja vu if you happen to have tried their latte flavour considering the packaging is exactly the same that I couldn't tell which I was consuming due to the sachets being thrown together in a box. They are easily opened with a tear to the top end of the sachet and the powder flows out with ease creating some powder dust clouds on its way so be sure not to breath heavily. The sachet of topping is very inconvenient unless you happen to have all the cappuccino in one go! It cannot be resealed so you end up with chocolate powder in the box before long. It is also difficult to take out a controlled amount so transferring into a sprinkle box or using a simple spoon is necessary.
The directions one the side of the box state that you should use warm but not boiling water, stir thoroughly then finish it off with a touch of topping. So what does that mean exactly? Once you boil the kettle, it doesn't stay at boiling point, so does that mean it is okay to instantly put the water in after the kettle has come to the boil? It is misleading but I've assumed the vague words mean that the water should cool down a little before cascading into the mug of powdered cappuccino. This can be quite tedious unless you have a kettle which can heat to a specific temperature. Mixing the water into the powder can take a good couple of minutes but releases quite a nice smell which makes the coffee seem promising. You mix and mix to no avail, for clusters of dry powder emerge which is both unsightly and not so tasty. Leaving the cappuccino to sit for a few seconds after the initial stir can help check for such pieces, or alternatively you could stir furiously in both direction as if you are one with a hand mixer. It has to be said that there is a little froth but really not what is presented on the box art. The froth is not white either, it is the colour of the cappuccino so possibly some spraying cream may do well for presentation. It can look quite bubbly, but this depends on the temperature of the water, the hotter it is the more bubbles. The chocolate topping is to be added to the top which makes it look less appealing since you cannot really make pretty patterns with the sachet and the topping just seems to sit, go darker and generally make you feel that you should have just gone with it. This is Kenco's method of preparation which I've strayed from to produce my own method. If it is as morning treat I personally hate waiting for the kettle water to cool, by that time I'm so awake that I no longer want the coffee. Instead, I start off with the powder in the mug and add a centimetre or so of shaked milk to the mug (amount is based on preference) and begin stirring the thick paste. Next, I add the water which has just been boiled and continue as normal. I feel this gives a tastier cappuccino which is slightly more frothy and is at a nice temperature straight away. Marshmallows do sit on top compared to the other coffees as you can test yourself by putting some sugar on top and seeing how long it take them to go under the frothy surface.
Taking a sip may lead to some disappointment. The coffee itself is pretty weak and although it is the sweetened variety, it still isn't all that sweet. I find a small dash of sugar is often necessary to enjoy this cappuccino. It does taste better than having a regular coffee, but is definitely no substitute for a well made bought coffee from the likes of costa or starbucks. In fact, cappuccinos from the Dolce Gusto machine (see my review) fair a lot better in taste and texture to this one. The price of a box of this cappuccino is around £2.30 containing the 8 sachets. For an extra £1 you could enjoy a much tastier Dolce Gusto machine equivalent providing you have one that is. A cappuccino is an occasional treat to be enjoyed so opting for the best is probably a good idea unless you happen to want a cappuccino daily.
~~~ Introduction ~~~
Firstly, before you start to read this review I would like to point out that I do not consider myself in any way to be a "coffee conisseur". I'm just an ordinary guy who loves coffee (especially Cappuccino) !!!
~~~ My love affair with Cappuccino begins ~~~
I first discovered Cappuccinno years ago whilst on holiday and instantly fell in love with it's delightful blend of bitter espresso coffee and creamy foam and, from that day onwards, it became my favourite drink. Spending much of my time commuting to and from work I also became a coffee shop addict. I even invested in a coffee machine for home ... a little indulgent luxury for the weekends !!!
~~~ Flirting with a dark stranger at the supermarket ~~~
Recently (whilst late night shopping at the local ASDA store) I noticed a product that I had never seen before ... "Kenco Cappio Cappuccino". It was an instant Cappuccino drink from a trusted coffee company and as I regularly drink (and enjoy) Kenco products I was intrigued enough to place a box (with eight sachets of instant Cappuccino) in my trolley. There were two varieties to choose from, sweetened and unsweetened so being a sweet tooth I opted for the sweetened version.
~~~ A match made in heaven ? ~~~
On arriving home I left the shopping in the car and ran into the house to make a cup (I did warn you I was a Cappuccino addict). On closer inspection the product itself was beautifully packaged with a hint of luxury about it and of course it was complete with an image of a damn near perfect looking Cappuccino on the box. I was also delighted to read that it came complete with Suchard chocolate topping. Kenco coffee and Suchard chocolate ??? This was surely a match made in heaven !!!
~~~ Things get steamy in the kitchen ! ~~~
I carefully read the instructions even though my instincts wanted to be eagerly tearing open one of the golden sachets. I clicked on the kettle and caressed the box while I waited. But, I couldn't wait any longer and my hand trembled as I emptied the contents into my favourite mug. By now it was getting pretty steamy in the kitchen (am sure my kettle knows exactly what I mean). Meanwhile, I noticed that my coffee machine was strangely silent ... clearly sulking having being so casually replaced by this cheap and cheerful Cappuccino that had flirted with me at the supermarket. But I didn't care ... I wanted Kenco Cappio Cappuccino more than I had ever wanted anything in my life !!!
~~~ Making Cappuccino ! ~~~
After what seemed like an hour, the kettle had boiled and the moment of truth had arrived. As my boiling water merged with Kenco's dusty powder things started to get a little foamy. The seductive aroma of Kenco's finest coffee beans drifted accross the work-top whilst the creamy foam bubbled away around the rim of my cup. I lovingly stirred this magical mixture and my hand trembled as I added a generous sprinkle of Suchard's finest chocolate to the top. Making Cappuccino had never felt so good ... I was head over heals in love !!!
~~~ Betrayal leaves a bitter taste ! ~~~
Despite it's wonderful aroma and beauty my cup of Cappuccino was a massive disppointment. It was full of lumps of gritty powder that resisted all attempts at being disolved. It also tasted grainy (like so many of those horrible lukewarm drinks you buy from vending machines). Despite smelling like a delicious cup of Kenco's finest blend of coffee beans it hardly had any distinctive taste at all. What it did have, however, was a nasty, bitter after-taste. And finally, despite being a sweet tooth myself ... it was far too sweet to be enjoyable. I was extremely disappointed, I had spent just under £2 on eight sachets and after my first cup was left with nothing more than a bitter taste in my mouth !!!
~~~ Please forgive me !!! ~~~
I had flirted with an instant Cappuccino drink and had had my fingers (and tongue) well and truly burnt. I felt ashamed that I had been so easily seduced by it's promise of being the perfect Cappuccino drink and I also felt guilty that I had so casually dismissed my own trusty Coffee Machine that had so loyally produced cup after cup of Cappuccino without ever letting me down !!!
Will my Coffeee Machine ever forgive me ... ???
~~~ The moral of the story ~~~
The promise of something new and exciting can do strange things to the mind. And similarly, expectation often leads to disappointment. This was certainly the case with Kenco Cappio Cappuccino !!! A wise man once said to me that "the grass isn't always greener on the other side" ... maybe I should have paid more attention ???
As a result of my own experience I have created an up to date version of this age old saying ...
"the Cappuccino isn't always tastier if it's out of a sachet"
I bought these sachets as i dont have a fridge at work but still want a coffee mid morning. I love cappuccino, well all coffee really. The pack i had is the sweetened version though you can get unsweetened which i would recomend as the pack i currently have are tooooo sweet.
The sackets are rather long and the box seems rather large for only eight sachets. Kenco could easily reduce the packaging size this may also help with cost!!
It cost £1.65 in my local morrisons which is a little expensive for only eight cappuccinos but compared to buying it at the local coffee shop its far cheaper.
So on to the product itself its quite pale and very sweet smelling when you pour it into the mug. Once you pour boiling water on it it fizzles and the froth of the cappunccino forms. It looks like it may over flow but keep filling with water as the froth soon dies down. But stir like mad to avoid dreaded lumps of powder. Yuck! A little froth remains for a good while and there is a sachet of topping to put on top. (although i havent used this yet as its doenst appear to reseal, not ideal in my office but i may try one at home to test)
Its actually very good for an instant, strong coffee but with the milky smoothness of a cappunccio. But as formentioned the sweetend version is, in my opinion, too sweet. I normally have one sugar in coffee but to me it tastes like two sugars, which if you have too sugars is great.
per serving
76 calories (doesnt state whether this is with or without the chocolate topping!!) (4%RDA)
8.6g sugar (10% RDA)
2.1g fat (3%) RDA
1.8g Saturates (9% RDA)
0.10g Salt (2%RDA)
Over all a very good product although i think the unsweetned version may prove better, taste and calorie wise!!!
I am normally a Nescafe Cappucino kind of a girl, but recently got turned off them by having a packet that just refused to blend, and if there's one thing I cant stand its having the feeling of bits in my mouth when its supposed to be a drink! (i have the same problem with orange juice with juicy bits!) Anyway, I like an instant cappucino in a morning, I like to make it, have my shower and have it ready to drink before I leave for work. (i know I could have ordinary coffee...but I deserve better...I am after all going to work!!!) Anyway after the last Nescafe experience I decided to switch brands and opted for the Kenco Cappio. It cost £1.87 for 8 sachets and is 84 cals per sachet. Included in the box is a sachet of Suchard chocolate topping. I boiled the kettle in a fever of excitement (this maybe a slight exaggeration) emptied the sachet into my favourite mug and added the water, a little bit first to mix into a paste, then the rest, stirring all the time to avoid lumpage! The powder mixed together really well and frothed up nicely. I went to have my shower and then began to drink my coffee. One thing I noticed straight away was that there was still the same amount in my cup as when I went upstairs, other brands tend to decrease as the bubbles pop. The coffee smell had permeated the kitchen and was tantalising my taste buds (or my caffeine addiction). I don't add the chocolate topping by the way.
I took a good slug of the coffee and found it really smooth and creamy. It isn't the strongest tasting coffee I have ever had, but was really pleasant. The froth was really creamy and lasted right until the end of the drink. Most importantly, the contents had mixed together really well and I was able to drink the whole lot! If it's a hard core caffeine kick you need, this may not be for you, but if you want a smooth, creamy, non-lumpy pleasant cup of coffee, this could be the one for you!
I love coffee, always have and always will. First thing in the morning I always opt for a shot of expresso and that gets me going for the day, and certainly wakes me up. Over the years I have tasted many varieties of coffee, and my theory is you have to pay for a good tasting coffee. If I had no money I would still never ever buy Tesco's own brand coffee and even some of the branded ones to be honest because they just do not taste nice.
I tend to use bean's most of the time, grind them myself and make a decent pot in my coffee machine, however sometimes that is too much trouble and I always some instant hidden away in my cupboards for when I just want to add boiling water. Kenco Cappio Cappuccino's are also something else that I had hidden in my cupboard too, I actually remember buying them on a buy one get one free and putting them in the cupboard, however forgot about them.
Kenco, I would consider to be a good brand. I occasionally buy the Really Rich coffee and also the Colombian and Costa Rican blends are also very tasty too and one of those instants that has a place in my cupboard, amongst other variants that I have purchased.
The Kenco Cappio Cappuccino's come in a box of 8 foil sachets, quite longs sachets to be honest with quite a lot of powder in them. On the front of the box, it displays a picture of a cappuccino and also their claim "Our creamiest ever cappuccino" Lush. Inside the box you also have one sachet of Suchards Chocolate Powder. Yes one big sachet, obviously they are trying to economise by providing you with one, however my cappuccino sachets have an expiry on them of May 2009, surely one opened sachet of chocolate sprinkles will not keep till 2009, I'm not even going to try. In other brands I have tried before they have included several singles sachets so they are fresh when you use them, I think this would have been the better option for them.
To make the beverage, you pour the contents of the sachet into a mug and add hot water, not boiing water as this burns the contents and you can hear it do so, however even hot water makes the same hissing noise as you pout it over. I have also found that you need to gage you mug size quite accurately too, a standard sized mug to be honest I find is too small for the contenst of the sachet and leave lumps of the product at the top even when stirring so I opt for an oversized mug which prevents this from happening. You can also prevent this by how fast you also pour the water into the mug, slowly makes a better brew.
Looking at it it does look like the perfect cappuccino, the ones I have are unsweetened so if you have a sweet tooth better to add a sweetener or a teaspoon of sugar to sweeten it up a little. On the top of the cappuccino are mounds of froth, which is what we like to see, as I love spooned the chocolatey froth from the top until there is minimal left and then give it another good stir.
The taste of the product is disappointing, that is my opinion anyway because I can appreciate a great tasting coffee when I have one, and this by far no where near that scale, in fact I think it may have reversed off the scale. It does taste very bitter in a strange way, you cannot actually taste coffee as such and you cannot taste milk either, it tastes like dish water to be honest and I struggle to actually finish one as with a decent cappuccino you can at least taste the coffee content in it. To be frankly honest it doesn't taste any more than a slighlty nasty flavoured hot water.
The smell is also disappointing. I love the aroma of coffee and instant coffee doesn't give off that aroma nowhere near as much as beans do however you can smell the contents and know what it is. If someone blindfolded me and put a Kenco Cappio Cappuccino underneath my nose, I would not believe that their was any coffee in it. All you can smell is the chocolate sprinkles and even when they disappeared into the drink, that is the only particular smell that remains.
Creamiest ever?? I cannot comment on this as I have not tasted any of the other, however on my experience with what is meant to be the most creamiest ever, then it fails. The only justice that it has when it comes to cream is the amount of froth that it creates. It doesn't taste like cream, it tastes like coffee mate which is a substitute for cream however does not give that flavour, texture and consistency of the product that cream actually does. So I would say that this claim is misleading and inaccurate.
I'm not a coffee conisseur at all but I would when I taste a god quality coffee and can appreciate it. My advice on this is to stick with the instant, whip up a bit cream and add that and you would get a much better, great tasting beverage.
Thanks for reading.
Smooth and frothy cappuccino. Suchard topping - chocolatier depuis 1826.


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World Cup soccer's psychic octopus dies
By Michelle Martin
BERLIN (Reuters) - Paul, the oracle octopus who shot to fame in the World Cup this summer for his uncanny ability to predict the results of Germany's soccer matches, has died at his home in Oberhausen at the age of two.
English-born Paul made headlines across the globe after he correctly forecast how Germany would fare in seven matches, before his psychic powers were tested again for the final.
After Germany's semi-final defeat, Paul tipped Spain to beat the Netherlands in the final, which prompted one news agency to report he had spurred a jump in demand for Spanish government bonds. Paul's prediction duly came to pass: Spain won.
Staff at the Oberhausen Sea Life Center in western Germany said in a statement they were "devastated" to learn of Paul's death when they returned to work on Tuesday.
"He appears to have passed away peacefully during the night, of natural causes, and we are consoled by the knowledge that he enjoyed a good life," said the centre's manager Stefan Porwoll.
Before matches, two containers of food were placed in the eight-legged creature's tank, each one bearing the flag of one of the teams about to compete for their chance to become world champions. The container Paul picked first was seen as his pick.
Following the World Cup, a Spanish zoo made a transfer bid for Paul but his German keepers refused to sell.
Paul will be kept in cold storage until the center decides how to mark the mollusc's extraordinary life, Porwoll added. Continued...


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Took the girls shooting this afternoon. There is nothing that is as much fun as taking my kids to the range. This was first time that they have shot the new AR. They posed for some pics after we were done. I think the smiles say it all.
FYI: They posed for these pics after we were done shoot, hence no ear or eye protection.
Take a kid shooting... they'll have a great time, and so will you!


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If you missed it, too bad for you. The latest Chamber After Hours event was held at Huntington Bank, where the food was fantastic and the remodeled space was beautiful. There were also a dozen or so wonderful door prizes awarded, from golf gift certificates, a $75 restaurant gift card and more.
Manager Paul Chimienti said his vision for the company was to become very involved with the community, and that led to the bank's sponsorship of Huntington Rogue River Blues series, which has been a huge success for Rockford.
Chimienti said the institution's success is also due to the development of essential partners to better serve the needs of the banks clients.
The next Chamber event is a luncheon at Timbers (see article on page 3) and the next After Hours will be Monday, November 2, at John Decker Chevrolet. For more information on these events, contact the Rockford Chamber of Commerce at (616) 866-2000.


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KANDAHAR AIRFIELD, Afghanistan – Command Sgt. Maj. Stephan Frennier, Third Army/ARCENT senior enlisted advisor and Whitehouse, Texas, native, attended the Combined Joint Operations Area Afghanistan Sergeant Audie Murphy Club induction ceremony here Dec. 9.
During the ceremony, six non-commissioned officers were inducted into the elite club after exemplifying leadership characterized by personal concern for the needs, training, development, and welfare of soldiers and their families.
"The Sergeant Audie Murphy Club induction ceremony culminates an arduous selection process and recognizes these outstanding NCOs as official members of the program," said Command Sgt. Maj. Frennier.
The induction was led by guest speaker Lt. Gen. Mark P. Hertling, U.S. Army Europe and Seventh Army commanding general. The St. Louis native spoke on the importance of leadership and said being inducted into the SAMC highlights an non-commissioned officers professionalism and ability to provide outstanding mentorship.
"Soldiers look to their NCOs for leadership," Lt. Gen. Hertling said. "It's imperative for NCOs to provide the guidance soldiers need. The NCOs being inducted today have demonstrated that they are fully capable of leading soldiers from the front."
One of those inducted was Sgt. Anthony W. Black, a multiple launch rocket systems crew member with B Battery, 2nd Battalion, 4th Field Artillery Regiment and Saxe, Va., native. Black said making it into the SAMC was no small feat.
"It took an extreme amount of courage and support from my fellow brothers in arms, as well as my family," explained Black. "It's an honor and a long time goal I finally achieved thanks to my family and soldiers."
Sgt. 1st Class Stephanie L. Carl, a public affairs specialist with the 159th Combat Aviation Brigade, 101st Airborne Division and Spring Hill, Fla., native, was also inducted into the organization. Carl said finally being inducted into the SAMC culminated years of hard work and determination.
"This is awesome," exclaimed Carl. "This is something I've wanted since I was a private first class. This achievement means a lot to me, my family, and my soldiers."
After the ceremony, Command Sgt. Maj. Frennier had the opportunity to meet four Third Army soldiers stationed here. After awarding them with coins of excellence, Command Sgt. Maj. Frennier said their hard work day-in and day-out does not go unnoticed.
"You guys are the ones behind the scene getting the job done," explained Command Sgt. Maj. Frennier. "The work you are doing here is very important. Thanks for everything you do."
Sgt. 1st Class Sheryl Hussein, Third Army/ARCENT communications and Berkeley, Calif., native, said meeting Command Sgt. Maj. Frennier helped build esprit de corps among her and her fellow soldiers.
"We're here in an ulterior environment working as liaisons to the Warfighter," Hussein said. "It's definitely a morale booster to see our senior leadership and get to speak with him."
Third Army remains committed to providing soldiers outstanding leadership. By attending the SAMC induction ceremony and visiting Third Army soldiers stationed here, Command Sgt. Maj. Frennier is helping to motivate, guide, and inspire soldiers, the strength of our nation.
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Sun Opens a Door, Sells Windows
It can now be stated plainly: Sun Microsystems (JAVA) has officially lost its old-time religion. Thanks to an expansion of its three-year-old alliance with one-time nemesis Microsoft (MSFT), Sun will now resell and install Windows on its x86-based servers. In other words, the company that was famous for its scrappy David vs. Goliath war with the forces of Wintel will sell servers built around Intel chips and Windows software. That's a long way from the days when former Sun Chief Executive Scott McNealy proclaimed: "It's mankind against Microsoft."
But that doesn't mean the company has become agnostic. Rather, the Sept. 12 move was the ultimate expression of Sun's new religion—one that in some ways is just as risky. If Sun was once defined largely by who its rivals were, it's now partnering with many of them in an effort to ensure as many customers as possible have the option of buying its technologies.
The new Microsoft deal follows alliances with IBM (IBM) and Intel (INTC), which Sun is trusting to resell its Solaris server software for customers who want it. It's another aspect of Chief Executive Jonathan Schwartz's plan to drive adoption of Sun technologies as broadly as possible. The linchpin of the scheme: The 2005 plan to give away the battle-tested Solaris, Sun's crown jewel, for free. As a result of these efforts, "We can do business with 100% of the marketplace now. That's not something we could have said a few years ago," Schwartz told BusinessWeek in a recent interview.
Expanded Alliance, Not Sales
By itself, the expanded alliance with Microsoft is no huge leap from the landmark deal the companies struck in 2004. Since then, the companies have quietly collaborated on a number of fronts—such as creating ways for Web services built on Microsoft's .Net Framework to work with those built around Sun's Java technology. Also, Sun has let customers run Windows on its servers that use x86 chips from Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD). While Windows still won't run on Sun servers built on SPARC chips—the source of most of Sun's sales—Sun will now preinstall Windows Server 2003 itself. The current deal does not give Sun rights to resell Microsoft's upcoming version of the software, Windows Server 2008, but sources say that such an agreement is likely in the future.
Very likely, none of this will amount to much in new sales for Microsoft. After all, every corporate technology buyer already uses Windows and knows how to buy Wintel machines from Dell (DELL), Hewlett-Packard (HPQ), and others. But executives from Sun and Microsoft say the new deal will let them more effectively serve the many customers that use both Solaris and Windows—typically with Solaris running the huge databases and complex programs that undergird corporate IT and e-commerce operations and Windows for less mission-critical jobs.
The Pros and Cons of Interoperability
In particular, the companies say they'll focus on customers who are trying to take advantage of virtualization technology, which lets companies boost the utilization rates of their servers by letting a single machine handle a variety of applications that in past years might have been assigned to dedicated machines. By melding their own flavors of virtualization, one server could handle both Windows and Solaris-based programs using this approach. "One hundred percent of Sun's customers use both Solaris and Windows," says Sun Executive Vice-President John Fowler. "We have an opportunity to extend our technology leadership in this critical area with customers that we share."
But such interoperability also has its risks. For example, it could make it easier for customers to migrate jobs now done on Sun gear to cheaper Windows alternatives. And Sun's server rivals will surely try to convince customers that Sun, one of tech's proudest innovators since it was founded in 1982, must no longer be creating much of value from its $2 billion per annum research-and-development budget. If Sun has fallen so low that it must rely on distributing outside technologies to maintain sales, why not go with a company with more efficient distribution capability?
Sun's Sunny Day?
So what's in it for Sun? For one thing, volume. That's critical right about now. Having hit profit goals laid out earlier in the year, the main concern of many investors now is whether Sun can pump up its revenue growth. Fowler notes that Sun's sales of x86 machines have risen for seven straight quarters. Reselling Windows could only help maintain that momentum, especially after Sun brings out new versions of its Galaxy line of servers.
Analysts say selling Wintel PCs will do little for Sun's bottom line. While volume enables Sun to spread fixed costs over greater revenue, the margins on each Windows PC will likely be minimal, says Roger Kay of Endpoint Technologies Associates. "Margins aren't what they used to be in the server business," he says, and Sun lacks the economies of scale to take on the likes of Dell and HP at their own game.
But the real win could be farther out in the future. Schwartz's reason for hooking up with Microsoft, Intel, IBM, and others is to remove incompatibility as a reason for existing customers to drop Sun—and to make it easier for prospective customers to give Sun a try.
New Products on the Horizon
Increasingly, that will include new kinds of Sun products. In a recent interview, Schwartz said that a major focus for the company will be creating new products on top of Solaris—not just servers. The first example is Thumper, a large-scale storage device that's built around Solaris and ZFS, another open-source program for managing files.
The product, which sells for $50,000 and carries 65% gross margins, is being used by AT&T (T), eBay (EBAY), and others to help store the never-ending tide of Internet traffic. Schwartz says the product is on track to hit $100 million in sales this year. "If it were a private company, we'd be preparing to go public right now," says Schwartz. And he hints that the company may soon unveil a Solaris-based networking product as well.
Over time, Schwartz is betting that Sun can pull all these products together to provide a Solaris-based underpinning for entire data centers, expanding on Sun's role in recent years as primarily a server specialist. Rather than cobble together cheaper alternatives for the various components of these operations, Schwartz is betting such Solaris-based operations will be more capable, and more cost-effective, than those built on Windows or any other kind of software.
If the company can make that vision a reality, today's move to be more in sync with the current standard can only help Sun expand its opportunities. But if Sun doesn't deliver the technical goods, it will make it all the easier for loyal customers to jump ship should they finally lose faith.


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I just recently started to use my Delta shaper again. This is a must have accessory if you want to use your shaper as a high end router table. It is an easy operation to switch from a ½ or ¾ inch spindle to this 1/2" to 1/2" router bit adapter. It takes longer to set the bit height correctly and that can be faster than setting it on a router. I place my shaper fence, with dust collection port, up close to the bit. In this way I can avoid the face spray associated with my router by staying farther away from the blade. Much safer as I'm not blinded (even with glasses) while the blade is spinning. I have not seen any adverse cutting do to the 10,000 RPM of the shaper verses the faster router speed.
Definitely consider getting this if you have or plan to get a Delta shaper that offers this accessory. I decided against a router table as it looked like I would spend a lot of time changing bits and taking the router on and off its table. I couldn't justify a second router to avoid this because I didn't anticipate using the router all that often. I also didn't want to take up more bench space because I already have a lot of bench top tools that I have to move around all the time. The shaper solves this as it doubles as another bench for more junk to sit.


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Definition of spirit
1 : an animating or vital principle held to give life to physical organisms
2 : a supernatural being or essence: such asa capitalized : holy spiritb : soul 2ac : an often malevolent being that is bodiless but can become visible; specifically : ghost 2d : a malevolent being that enters and possesses a human being
3 : temper or disposition of mind or outlook especially when vigorous or animated in high spirits
4 : the immaterial intelligent or sentient part of a person
5a : the activating or essential principle influencing a person acted in a spirit of helpfulnessb : an inclination, impulse, or tendency of a specified kind : mood
6a : a special attitude or frame of mind the money-making spirit was for a time driven back — J. A. Froudeb : the feeling, quality, or disposition characterizing something undertaken in a spirit of fun
7 : a lively or brisk quality in a person or a person's actions
8 : a person having a character or disposition of a specified nature
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the spirits of my ancestors
Some religions believe that the same spirit is reincarnated many times in different bodies.
Yoga is very healthy for both body and spirit.
We will all miss her generous spirit.
My father was a proud spirit.
Origin and Etymology of spirit
Middle English, from Anglo-French or Latin; Anglo-French, espirit, spirit, from Latin spiritus, literally, breath, from spirare to blow, breathe
First Known Use: 13th century
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Definition of spirit
transitive verb
1 : to infuse with spirit; especially : animate hope and apprehension of feasibleness spirits all industry — John Goodman
2 : to carry off usually secretly or mysteriously was hustled into a … motorcar and spirited off to the country — W. L. Shirer
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The singer was spirited away in a limousine after the show.
Some of the funds had been spirited away to other accounts.
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Definition of spirit for English Language Learners
: the force within a person that is believed to give the body life, energy, and power
: the inner quality or nature of a person
: a person
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: to carry (someone or something) away secretly
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Definition of spirit for Students
1 : 1mood I'm in good spirits today.
2 : a being (as a ghost) whose existence cannot be explained
3 : a lively or brisk quality They sang with spirit.
4 : a force within a human being thought to give the body life, energy, and power : soul
5 : an attitude or feeling It was said in a spirit of fun.
6 : person 1 She was a bold spirit.
7 : an alcoholic liquor —usually used in pl.
8 cap : God in the form of a spirit in Christianity
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: to carry off secretly or mysteriously The jewels were spirited out of the country.
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Medical Definition of spirit
1a: distillate; especially : the liquid containing ethyl alcohol and water that is distilled from an alcoholic liquid or mash—often used in pluralb: a usually volatile organic solvent (as an alcohol, ester, or hydrocarbon)
2: an alcoholic solution of a volatile substance spirit of camphor
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It was an excellent hospitality from day one to last day,very cooperate managment , flexible and doing there best to serve the customer in the fancy way . I realy highly recommend this luxury hotel to every body
good service, fast check in, fast check out.
I liked the atmosphere also the luxury . -I could hear the other room flush the toilet.walls are paper thing .- It took 20 min to get my car.-too expensive for poor service.
large rooms, clean and good service
location the way they deal with custmers when check in , its baaaaaaaaaaaaad u have to pay first full amount then u get ur key , is it 5 or7 star ??????????
When I booked my room I mentioned that I was coming for my honeymoon and they didnt decorate the room till I came. They requested that I vacat the room for an hour so they can decorate it. Their romantic decoration wasn't very good.
The service Internet connection is expensive.
The room in the hotel is an excellent room with a lot of accessories and automated which make your staying comfortable and relax. the hotel is located in a very busy area which case you stress to reach to the hotel from the traffic.
High life standard and quiet sleeping . Room services and cleaning shouldn't done during the guest sleeping .
it's one of the famous hotels in Riyadh, with good shopping mall, and the restaurant is great (entercote) the staff, not helping at all. the receptionist keep asking for silly things till the manager came and helped. although the safety box in this 5 stars hotel wasn't working. and took more an hour to find out who is going to fix it. and then it took another 30 mins to fix it. and after that the technician said i can't fix this part i need the duty manager to attend :s .... really disappointed.
It is nice and quite hotel , very good location > when I booking the price per night was 495 SAR when Iwant to cheek out they toled me price is 569 SAR that was the only theproplem >
Friendly & efficient staff, wonderful atmosphere, good location. The breakfast was very good; unfortunately we never tried the other restaurants... The possibility that it might be demolished soon to make way for a highrise building...the scale of the existing building fits the surrounding environment perfectly, another tall building will detract from all!
Location, Friendly staffs, Quitness Room not Isolated well. This issue aplies to many hotels
location, service and price painted wall and smoking people at the lobby
it is verey goog verey clean but there is no windows view becouse there is grill you can not see throuw it
the location was the best thing in this hotel there is no offer fot breakfast with the room charge
Service was good.
the rooms are very small & old
The hotel is centrally located in Riyadh. It's close to Olaya which is the business district. It's very clean and decent, however they need to upgrade the hotel since it's the only hotel that still uses metal key for the rooms.
Location: In a very advanced area with ones of the best shopping places, restaurants and food courts. Although the rooms and bathrooms very normal and not luxurious, however, they are well organised and clean. The lobby is spacious for meetings and always busy. The garden restaurant is also spacious, well located and good. The safety Barrier at the entrance to the hotel. It needs to be re-designed and made simpler. We first thought that the entrance is closed and had to make few turns all around to understand that the bulky barrier is movable.


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American small businesses are outsourcing tech support to larger corporations like Apple and Best Buy.
As Sarah Needleman puts it in The Wall Street Journal, "the small-business help desk is going corporate".
So, what's it mean? For starters, larger corporations are "bringing new competition to independent consultants who typically handle the IT needs of U.S. start-ups and small companies".
Why? Well, that's fairly obvious: as business becomes more centered on technology (think of all the business opportunities in mobile and social media that weren't there 5 years ago), small businesses are finding a greater and greater need to provide information-technology services to their customers.
They also need to provide more tech support internally, whether that's setting up new computers for employees, upgrading company software, or protecting against malware and viruses
"U.S. businesses with less than 500 employees spent roughly $23.5 billion on IT services last year, and are projected to spend $27.2 billion on IT services by 2015," Needleman writes, citing estimates from IDC.
Best Buy sees "significant, untapped potential" in providing IT services to small businesses. Apple last year, specifically entered into a new partnership with a company called OnForce Services Inc. for the sole purpose of providing small businesses with in-house IT assistance.
"Everyone's talking small business right now. There's a huge opportunity," says Peter Cannone, chief executive of OnForce.
"While many small businesses and start-ups are still reluctant to hire new employees, spending on technology and IT services is seen generally as smart if it can help a company operate more efficiently, or make it possible for an owner who travels to manage his or her business from a remote location," Needleman writes.
"Spending on IT services by U.S. companies of all sizes has been growing at a rate of about 3.2% annually over the past five years, and reached $304 billion last year."
"About 71% of small and midsize U.S. companies said they planned to increase their IT budgets by an average of 5.2% over the next 12 months."
That's just the tip of the iceberg; the Wall Street Journal article goes into much more detail.
What do you think? Do you plan to use a larger corporate IT support provider like Apple, or are you sticking to the independent contractor or in-house support route?
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DAYTONA BEACH, FL. — Tom Britten, president of Britten Management Services (Tampa Bay, FL) will deliver an address on successful administration of foodservice and beverage vending contracts at the Florida Region annual conference of the National Association of Educational Procurement. The event is set for the Plaza Resort & Spa here from March 1 through 4; Britten will speak at 4:00 PM on Thursday, March 3.
NAEP is a professional association for purchasing officers of educational institutions in the United States and Canada. At present, its membership represents more than 1,500 colleges and universities.
Britten's presentation will address questions that frequently arise when requesting and evaluating proposals for contract service. These include types of contract and which type is best under specific circumstances; understanding a contractor's financial statements "and how far to stick your nose in," the relationship between commission levels and quality, the measurement of operational performance, and overseeing contractor accountabilities.
Britten is a veteran of the vending and foodservice industry, having held executive positions at The Macke Co., Service America and the Canteen unit of Compass Group North America. He has been active in the National Automatic Merchandising Association, receiving its Chairman's Award for legislative action, and has served on the boards of state vending associations in Florida, Pennsylvania, Ohio and Washington. He founded Britten Management Services LLC in 2003.
NAEP is headquartered in Baltimore, MD, and is online at www.naepnet.org.


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How to make your own BMW special cooling system & drive belt counterhold tools
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Q: But what is that welded-on nut for in the BMW special purpose tool?"
A: Isn't that what receives your 3/8" drive torque wrench?
Hmmmm.... oh .... ok. ummmmm... I guess.
I've always used my 3/8" drive torque wrench on sockets!
The socket is in the same line as the 3/8ths inch square on the torque wrench which is inline with the center of the nut or bolt to be removed.
This "hole" is neither a socket nor inline with the bolt to be removed.
So, it never occurred to me that that hole was for the torque wrench.
I guess that's why they have the multiplication force stamped on the handle ... because the lever action (I'm guessing) is additive to the torque wrench.
Is that what is happening?
I learn something new everyday from you guys!
(I'm curious ... based on the decidedly not curious comments from the football guy...)
Did everyone here already know those two things about that wrench?
a) What the hole was for
b) What the multiplication factor was all about
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