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Volunteer signup for Bounty
Volunteer signup for the annual Bounty of Bethlehem Christmas dinner will be held from 8 a.m. to noon today in the Immaculata Catholic School gym at 711 N. Buncombe St., Hendersonville. The Bounty volunteer call-in line is 828-693-5115 and is operational through Dec. 20. The number is for volunteers who do not come to the volunteer signup day to find available jobs during the week of Bounty.
Girl Scouts holiday project
A holiday community service event for all Girl scouts will be held from 2-4 p.m. Sunday at the Girl Scout Hut in Hendersonville. The price is $3 for girl scouts, and $5 for non-girl scouts.
Join the Scouts to bring some life into the lives of elderly in the community. The girls will make ornaments and then with the help of troop leaders, deliver them to assisted living and nursing homes. Call 828-989-5006 for more information.
State internships available
Up to 65 paid state government internship opportunities for summer 2014 are available for North Carolina residents attending a college, university, technical institute or community college. The deadline to apply is Dec. 16.
All internships will begin May 27 and conclude Aug. 1. The 2014 State Government Internship Program Booklet describing all available rules and opportunities is online at the Department of Administration's Youth Advocacy and Involvement Office website or by calling 919-807-4400. Information is also available in campus career services or cooperative education offices.
Interns will earn a stipend of $8.25 per hour and work 40 hours per week for 10 weeks in the summer. More than 3,600 students have participated since the program was established in 1970.
The paid summer internships are available across the state. Opportunities exist in numerous fields of study, from accounting to zoology, and interns will also participate in seminars, tours or other activities designed to broaden their perspective of public service and state government.
To be eligible, a student must be a permanent North Carolina resident with an overall GPA of 2.5 or better on a 4.0 scale, and have graduated from high school and subsequently completed their sophomore year of college before beginning the internship. Community college students must complete their first year before beginning the internship. Applicants must be continuing their education in the fall following their participation in the program.
To qualify for a position designated for law interns, a student must have completed at least one year of law school before the beginning of the internship. Students having previously held paid internships at the Youth Advocacy and Involvement Office are not eligible to apply.
The Henderson County Early College High School Improvement Team meets at 3 p.m. Monday in room 121 of the school, 120 Alumni Way, Flat Rock.
The Atkinson Elementary School Improvement Team meets at 3:30 p.m. Monday in the media center, 2510 Old Kanuga Road, Hendersonville.
Henderson County Board of Elections meets at 5 p.m. Monday at 75 E. Central St., Hendersonville.
Henderson County Board of Public Education meets at 6:30 p.m. Monday in the Administrative Office, 414 Fourth Ave. West, Hendersonville.
Flat Rock's Tailgate Market's annual Holiday Market is from 2 to 5 p.m. Dec. 14 in the courtyard in front of Hubba Hubba Smokehouse, downtown Flat Rock along Highway 225 South. Free. Info: 828-698-8775.
Community Briefs: Dec. 7
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ORLANDO, Fla. (AP) � Thirteen people were charged Wednesday for their roles in the hazing death of Florida A&M university drum major who was severely beaten during a ritual, a prosecutor said.
The charges were announced more than five months after 26-year-old Robert Champion died aboard a chartered bus parked outside an Orlando hotel following a performance against a rival school. The case has exposed a harsh tradition among marching bands at some colleges around the U.S.
Champion was severely beaten by band members in November and had with bruises on his chest, arms, shoulder and back, authorities said. Witnesses told emergency dispatchers Champion was vomiting before he was found unresponsive aboard the bus.
State Attorney Lawson Lamar said 11 of the 13 people will face a hazing resulting death charge, a third-degree felony. If convicted, they could face up to nearly six years in prison. The other two people will face a misdemeanor charges.
The names of those charged will not be released until they are all arrested, Lamar said. It was also not immediately clear whether they were all band members.
Legal experts had predicted prosecutors may file more serious charges like manslaughter and second-degree murder.
"The testimony obtained to date does not support a charge of murder, in that it does not contain the elements of murder," Lamar said. "We can prove participation in hazing and a death. We do not have a blow or a shot or a knife thrust that killed Mr. Champion. It is an aggregation of things which exactly fit the Florida statute as written by the Legislature."
Florida's hazing law was passed in 2005 following the death of University of Miami student Chad Meredith four years earlier. Meredith was drunk and died trying to swim across a lake at the behest of fraternity brothers. No criminal charges were filed in his case, but a civil jury ordered the fraternity Kappa Sigma to pay Meredith's parents $12 million.

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You know, it's hard enough to finish a triathlon. We think we could handle the biking, and as long as we were allowed to occasionally walk, or even stop and lie down for a while, we could handle the running. We'd almost certainly drown, however. Anyway, imagine going through all the trouble of being in a triathlon, all the physical and mental exhaustion it inspires, and right in the middle of it ... you run into a damned bear.
Sabrina B. Oei received a bad case of road rash, but wasn't seriously injured and was able to complete the triathalon. The bear also survived the crash and scampered back into the woods. Oei was racing downhill at nearly 40 miles per hour when the collision occurred.
We kind of think there isn't a sporting event that couldn't be made more fun to watch by random throwing in the obstacle of a bear. We think it could do wonders for the World Series of Darts.
Triathlete Survives Bear Crash [Denver Post]


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300 meters down and the Nixon 51-30 Watch is still ticking.
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One of my all time favorites!
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
- Fit: True to size
- Height: 6'1"
- Weight: 145lbs
I'm a Nixon fanboy, so I may be a bit biased. I have 15 Nixon's in total and 5 51-30's. If you're looking for a watch with a big face this is a must have. If you haven't had a watch with this size of face be warned they are big, and fairly heavy. I've worn mine at least 4-5 times a week for the last 7ish years and I don't even notice the weight. Anyone that doesn't wear a watch, or that wears PU or leather band puts it on and the weight and size are definitely noticeable. Great quality though and a super clean look that most big faced watch's don't have.
Junk. Don't buy
2nd 51-30 now broke, 2 months after the 2 year warranty ended. Nixon wants $300 to fix it, yea right. Don't buy these watches, it's like theft. I'll buy a $10 watch from now on
Great watch!!! Wearing it right now.
- Familiarity: I've put it through the wringer
- Fit: True to size
- Size Bought: 5130
- Height: 6'0"
- Weight: 230lbs
Nixon watches are great. I think I have about 8 or 9 of them. Great for work and any type of physical activity. Tough, durable watches that can take a beating and still look good.
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
the title says it all!
Great watch!
This watch is awesome! My husband loves it and his friends want one. My only complaint is that when I went I pick it up at the post office, there was shipping due. Maybe DogFunk's shipping department needs to double check that they're paying the right postage.
- Familiarity: I've used it several times
Best watch out there !! 51-30 is my fav!!!
this is watch is money
BIG in yo face awesomeness. blind people will see this on your wrist. and think "golly that young gentleman must be balling so hard, I'm sure its cray!" I have 2 and love them! all black on black and gold
Does the watch come in a nixon box?
Gave as a gift
- Familiarity: I gave it as a gift but have feedback to share
I got this for my Brother for his Anniversary, he was super stoked on it. The watch looks nice, just wish it had the date on it.
Nixon 51-30 with Nathan Fletcher
Nixon 51-30 with Nathan Fletcher
Great style
I have multiple Nixons and never had any issues. Great quality and style. This one is great if you have big arms or wrists.
Big, tough, flashy - love it!
I've got the silver one with the black face, killer watch - its got a 300-meter waterproof rating, making it awsome for diving, surfing, and pretty much any water-based activity. I took this watch all over south america, was surfing with it, had it in the heat, camping, snowboarding, and it still looks mint. Only complaint is the metal strap pulls the hair on my wrists sometimes :P
Btw, check out:
you can get it cheaper ($350 instead of $399).
Great Watch
I've worn my black Nixon 51-30 (PU band) for let's see, about 28 straight months. Never a hiccup, still looks and runs great. I put an Invisible Shield plastic film cover on the face to avoid scratches and it's worked great! Lots of compliments too!
got this in gold and black .. amazing and huge .. i can't even count how many people have stopped me to look at it .. i thought i was getting in to a watch phase where i'd buy a bunch of Nixon's .. got a Private and Quattro .. then a 51-30 .. stopped buying them because it's by far the sickest watch i've seen yet .. i don't even want to wear anything else .. get this watch!
I am obsessed with this watch. It's really freakin' cool looking and works great. Tons of compliments are gotten when this is strapped to my wrist.
the tick tok don't stop
this watch is sick looks good feels good works good i have no complant about this watch it is well worth the money
the tick tok don't stop
this watch is sick looks good feels good works good i have no complant about this watch it is well worth the money
the tick tok don't stop
this watch is sick looks good feels good works good i have no complant about this watch it is well worth the money
I bought this watch for my husband & he loves it! It is a large watch- so if you are looking for something sleek and small this isn't the right watch for you. However, if you like big, chunky type jewelry, than this watch is the best; haven't seen one yet that is more stellar!
Lost your owners manual.
this might help you out.
One more thing if you cant open the link you may need to get the latest adobe reader.
thanks bro.
the compass
my friends call it the compass because its so big. i love this thing
What are the measurements?
Case Height: 51.25 mm
Case Width: 51.25 mm
Case Depth: 15 mm
Band Width: 25 in
Does this item ship in a nixon box?
Does this item ship in a nixon box?
This ships in the original Nixon packaging but will then be boxed in a standard shipping package around that.
Where can I get a user manual?
Where can I get a user manual?
Right here:
This is the 51-30 tide.
Is the gold real?
Is the gold real?
I have the White and Gold one and its not real gold...can't speak for the all gold one but my guess would be if it is real its just plated because these watches heavy as balls and that would be like 1000 bucks worth of gooooooooold
What is the band length of the 51-30 tidal?...
What is the band length of the 51-30 tidal? I need a 9 inch watch, do the provide additional links?
Hows the dark wood and black combo? Nixon's...
Hows the dark wood and black combo? Nixon's website has it looking hella tight while it seems pretty lame elsewhere.
Frank, the watch looks great in person. Its hard to capture the actual wood face in photos and each photo will look different. I will say it looks just as rich as it does on Nixon's site.
is this watch brand new in the box with...
is this watch brand new in the box with all manuals and papers?
It is
where can i get links for a gold 42-20?
where can i get links for a gold 42-20?
If you just bought it, the watch should have shipped with a few extra links in the foam slot inside the box. If not, get ahold of Nixon here: http://www.nixonnow.com/service/contact-nixon.html
where can i get links for a gold 42-20?
where can i get links for a gold 42-20?
Is this different then the tide gold
Is this different then the tide gold
does anybody know why nixon uses two logos?...
does anybody know why nixon uses two logos? while looking thru the sample pictures i noticed on some that there is a "nixon" brand while others have a capitalized "NIXON" logo
Older stock photos are of the lowercase lettering, but all our current stock, and Nixon's current branding reflect the NIXON capitalization.
The new produced watches have the capitalized "NIXON". The older ones have the lower case "nixon".
The curvy font is the older font, the newer is the straight font, Nixon started to use the new in 2010 I believe :)
What type of battery does this watch...
What type of battery does this watch need?
From "Nixon": Most of our watches can be taken to a certified jeweler for battery replacement. All models can be sent directly to us for battery replacement. You will incur a reasonable service charge for watches sent to us for battery replacement. This service also includes a pressure test to ensure proper re-sealing and water resistance. Please keep all receipts for battery and repair service made at certified jewelers. There are some specific models we suggest sending to us directly for battery replacement due to their materials or construction. Please call us for details at 888-455-9200.
I bought the Nixon 51-30 and it needs a...
I bought the Nixon 51-30 and it needs a new battery, I am wondering what type to buy.
Take it to a watch store or the watch counter at a department store. They'll replace it for you.
I know it states that there isn't a backlight...
I know it states that there isn't a backlight but is there any illumination on the dial and/or markers? (I'm interested in the gunmetal with black dial).
It glows in the dark, but there's no light.
In the picture the band links have a gold...
In the picture the band links have a gold hue or are they all black and the face is the only gold on the watch? Wanna buy one today some help outmasap please
The all gold one has a gold face and all gold links.
I have been looking for a Nixon for a long...
I have been looking for a Nixon for a long time and was wondering what the difference is between the swiss and japenese version can any one help out with a diffusion I want the black and gold 52-30
Yo Anthony, the 51-30 above has Swiss Movement, and the 51-30 Chrono (the version with the stopwatch/chronograph) has Japanese movement. No performance or quality issue for you to worry about, it's just the movement choice by Nixon. Just choose the colorway that you like the most!
Check the Black/Raw Gold colorway on the 51-30 Leather (http://www.dogfunk.com/nixon-51-30-chrono-leather-watch).
Hi everyone, anyone has any suggestions...
Hi everyone,
anyone has any suggestions where to get a nixon stainless steel band from?
i've got a 51-30 Chrono Leather (gunmetal) watch
nixon won't sell just a band.. which IMHO is the dumbest thing i've ever heard from a watch co... i have a 51-30 and the battery just went dead :( i've had a scout for a few years and it has been flawless as has my wife's... and my sister's. i get tons of compliments on both watches..
i am looking for extra watch links for a...
i am looking for extra watch links for a nixon gold or antique tone cougar bait the graduate watch where can i find them or is there such a watch?
for extra links visit www.nixonnow.com they'll hook it up for free.
Is the Black/Purple too dark to see the...
Is the Black/Purple too dark to see the numbers? Or does it have to glow-in-the-dark effect?
The Black/Purple colorway isn't quite as dark as our photo in person. While the purple is dark, it's not totally murdered out, so you won't have trouble making out the time. Also, there's a little bit of luminescence in the hands, and around the face, although this glow doesn't last too long in total darkness, without a periodic sunlight recharge.
Why is the adjustments on the left side
Why is the adjustments on the left side
its just how the watch is made, doesn't effect anything at all really, but i will say it can be nice when woren on the left arm so you don't have it scratching you on the wrist which can get a little annoying so think of it as a good thing


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marcsam necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 49 diseños de 11 diseñadores freelance.
We are a brand new online travel site. We are based in sunny South Africa. The site is http://www.comparetravel.co.za
On the site people can quickly and easily compare flights (from all the carriers), compare car hire (from all the car hire companies), find accommodation (and book live online), and compare holiday packages from the various travel agents. We are a 1 stop online travel site, and we want to teach people that they can be the travel agent.
People looking to make a travel booking (flight, car hire, accommodation, package holiday etc) online. They are looking for information, convenience and a cheap deal.
90% of our visitors are from South Africa. Some have booked online before, however some would be booking online for the first time. The use of booking for travel online is growing fast in South Africa.
-It needs to have the full url in the logo (comparetravel.co.za)
-We do not want it to be too techy, but want to keep the logo fun and light-hearted. However we do not want it to be childish. I want the logo to look professional, but that we are still approachable and easy to understand/work with/book through. It must have clean lines, not be too complicated and must be easy to recognise and remember.
-The logo should be suitable for use on our website, as well as business cards, letterhead and merchandise (t-shirts, coffee cups, etc).
-Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo
-The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
Also, the logo will soon be used in a rpint campaign and the requirements for that are – at least 300dpi and a decent file size (A6 or A5)
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Firdous summer lawn collection volume 2 is in market now for ongoing summer season of 2012. After the spectacular popularity of Firdous summer lawn collection 2012 Firdous has recently launched their summer/spring lawn collection 2012 volume 2 with feature model Rabia Butt. The volume 2 includes more bright and dark tones with stylish and good looking print. With stylish enrichment and affordable range Firdous brings classy and chic collection of lawn prints in the market. All the prints are tantalizing and carry unique and fabulous color schemes. We have already uploaded video of firdous lawn but Below is the complete Firdous summer lawn collection 2012 volume 2.
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turbowebs needed a new logo design and created a contest on 99designs.
A winner was selected from 61 designs submitted by 22 freelance designers.
We are a start-up company specializing in offering products to revive the appearance of vehicles. We will be offering a complete product line to tackle the needs of keeping a vehicles appearance as sharp as possible, or to even "revive" the appearance of older vehicles that haven't been cleaned as often as they should.
Our target audience will be automotive dealerships. The plan is to offer the products necessary for cleaning that they don't have access to now, that will allow them to bring certain services in house which they normally outsource to reconditioning experts.
We need a logo for our company AutoRevive
We would like to incorporate a car or vehicle into the logo in some manner, but with the following conditions in mind:
1. No Cartoons - a professional appearance will be very important
2. Nothing too elegant - we do not want to come across as being fancy. They are simple products solving a simple problem.
3. The typeface should be clear, simple and bold. We want something that stands out. Again being careful not to be too fancy.
4. The end result should be a modern, simple, easy to recognize logo.
An example of a logo we like is:
Naturally, the logo must be different a few notes:
1. While the logo is simple and modern, it appears to be difficult to recognize as a car at first glance.
2. After recognized as a car, it's easily recognizable at a glance in the future.
3. Meets all the requirements of being simple, modern, although recognition at first glance might be improved, it is still a recognizable logo.
Please feel free to experiment with colors!
The files we will require are:
Print file format - .ai / .eps (CMYK)
Web file format - .jpg and layered .psd (RGB)
Please do not use any stock images or clip art in the logo
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VANCOUVER, B.C. – Coming to Vancouver in the offseason, Daigo Kobayashi didn't quite know what to expect from the Whitecaps or from Major League Soccer.
After a career predominantly played in Japan, apart from seasons played in Norway and Greece in 2009 and 2010, the once-capped Japanese international anticipated making an immediate impact.
With a high level of technical skill, and the ability to run with the ball apparently glued to his feet, the Whitecaps had that feeling, too.
After a 2012 campaign in which the club scored just 35 goals – the lowest of any team that qualified for last season's playoffs – more creativity was required.
Kobayashi was supposed to be a big piece of solving that creativity deficit – and was the first real playmaker brought in since the 'Caps sold Davide Chiumiento to FC Zürich midway through the 2012 season.
But apart from a few flashes here and there – notably in the club's two opening matches of this season where he picked up a goal and an assist in his only two points to date – Kobayashi has not delivered as he or the club had hoped for.
"It's probably been a little bit slower than he would have liked and we would have liked," head coach Martin Rennie told reporters this week after a training session at the University of British Columbia. "It's quite different between MLS and the Japanese league...the J-League, it's possession orientated, there's lot of technical players.
"There's not that physical element that you get in MLS, and I think it's taken him a bit to get used to that."
The player echoed his coach's evaluation of his struggles, and said his biggest issues of adaptation this year have revolved around the athletic, fast-paced nature of the league.
"I feel that Major League [Soccer] is not as easy as I thought," Kobayashi told MLSsoccer.com in his ever-improving English after a training session. "Major League [Soccer] is more physical. [Opponents] have good speed, so I have to play simple more and faster more."
Also dealing with a language gap from all but one of his teammates – Japanese-American midfielder Jun Marques Davidson – and the intense MLS travel schedule have also acted to slow Kobayashi's settling-in period.
- Get more Vancouver Whitecaps news at WhitecapsFC.com
But Rennie – who insisted we'd have to wait a while to see the best of Kenny Miller after his slow start to MLS life last season, a point he was spot on about – suggests Kobayashi will come good in time.
"The settling-in period has been quite long and so far he hasn't quite settled in to MLS the way that I'm sure he would have liked to," Rennie said. "But that's not to say he's not a really good player and that we think he can really help us.
"It's just that it takes some players longer than others to adapt to the league and I think that's been proven with a lot of players over the years. We do believe he's got a lot of talent and that he can help us."
Martin MacMahon covers the Vancouver Whitecaps for MLSsoccer.com.


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mxr449 wrote:mxsrider96 wrote:Can we expect to see another Shiman track this season?
I'm doing 4 total this year with 2 already done. Atlanta, Indianapolis, St. Louis and East Rutherford. Hope you guys are enjoying the tracks!
Atlanta and Indianapolis were 2 of my favs so far. Keep up the good work, can't wait for St. Louis!


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Gay marriage is now supported by the Quakers, the Episcopalian Church and unitarians. The Church of Scotland has opened the door for gay marriage by accepting in principle the presence of openly gay and lesbian ministers. It would surely be inconceivable for the Kirk to allow homosexuals to speak God's word from the pulpit and yet not allow them to marry each other. Why is it that the Roman Catholic hierarchy seem to want to make this a political issue rather than a moral one?
Sunday, October 16, 2011
If David Cameron can support gay marriage - so can Alex Salmond.
Gay marriage is now supported by the Quakers, the Episcopalian Church and unitarians. The Church of Scotland has opened the door for gay marriage by accepting in principle the presence of openly gay and lesbian ministers. It would surely be inconceivable for the Kirk to allow homosexuals to speak God's word from the pulpit and yet not allow them to marry each other. Why is it that the Roman Catholic hierarchy seem to want to make this a political issue rather than a moral one?
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when the Bishops request the excommunication of the mass murderer Tony Blair then I might listen to what they have to say.
- Sunday, October 16, 2011
- Nikostratos said...
Oh Dearie me ! what shall we do listen Iain Macwhirter pen for hire Journo.
Or the revealed word of God given to us through his chosen Representative on Earth our revered HOLY FATHER.
- Sunday, October 16, 2011
Nikostratus' post is a good illustration of why religion should have absolutely no place in politics. He is free to believe whatever nonsense he likes but he is not free to control other peoples' personal lives.
The bishops are doing nothing but harm to their religion by preaching hate and discrimination. Perhaps someone should remind them that, unlike elected politicians, they have absolutely no mandate whatsoever.
- Sunday, October 16, 2011
Who gave these unelected dinosaurs a free pass to interfere in other peoples' personal lives?
Do these bigots actually think of themselves as moral leaders?
Politicians of all parties should state, in no uncertain terms, that they are there to serve the electorate, not a bunch of old throwbacks to the dark ages who seem intent on making Scotland an international laughing stock.
- Sunday, October 16, 2011
- Craig Gallagher said...
The opinions of the church - whatever denomination - are only ever consultative and should never be considered binding. Politicians should not take religious doctrine into account when legislating - that way lies Saudi Arabia.
The most ridiculous part is that Scottish Catholics are not some large homogenous group who vote at the whim of the bishopry. If anything, I would think most Scots Catholics would be prepared to vote in favour of social justice and equality before they would defend the doctrine of the Catholic Church, which rather a lot regard as cluttered and anachronistic.
- Sunday, October 16, 2011
It's worthwhile repeating the language used by a senior clergyman (and again, why are so many elderly celibate clergymen so often so prurient and obsessing with homosexuality?):
"We now have a straight fight between faith and atheism, morality and amorality, a culture of life and a culture of death," ... "The institution of marriage should not be corrupted by the transient fashions of society or by malevolent forces seeking to undermine the place of religious faith in society."
- Monday, October 17, 2011
Let no man or woman come between any other man or woman and his or her God.
Bishops of the Roman Catholic faith please take note.
- Monday, October 17, 2011
Have you seen what our feral bankers are up to?
Under the guise of lending to SME's, the newly printed QE money is instead going directly into housing via RBS
Shawbrook Bank, a new British lender backed by Royal Bank of Scotland Group plc opens for business today challenging the other big Lenders, Lloyds Banking Group plc, Barclays plc and HSBC Holdings plc. The bank joins new British banks such as Aldermore and Metro Bank and will offer lending and savings products to small and medium–sized businesses, and individuals.
Shawbrook combines three financial businesses; Whiteaway Laidlaw Bank, Link Loans and the lending platform of Commercial First, and is 100 per cent financed by RBS Equity Finance. It will be chaired by Sir George Mathewson, who ran Royal Bank of Scotland up until 2006.
Link Loans are loans for homeowners, presumably for BTL
Commercial first are business mortgages presumably for BTL
"Shawbrook has no legacy lending from the financial crisis, so we're free of toxic debt" - so presumably free to create some!
- Monday, October 17, 2011
- Lazarus said...
Not much argument from Iain as usual. Just the normal assumption that what's been dreamed up in the last 15 minutes as a good way of organizing society has to outweigh +2000 years of Judaeo-Christian thought.
- Tuesday, October 18, 2011
- topher said...
If two people love each other and want to make a public commitment to support each other for the rest of their lives then good for them.
The Catholic objection that procreation must be involved is so absurd (will Charles and Camilla have kids?) that one sees it more as a fig leaf for revulsion against same sex relationships.
I'm heterosexual but why should we discriminate against people who are different from us?
- Tuesday, October 18, 2011
LAZARUS overlooked the other major Abrahamic religion, namely Islam.
I wonder Why?
- Wednesday, October 19, 2011
- Lazarus said...
You complain that I omit Islam as an argument against same sex marriage and ask why.
Well, because as a Catholic, I am not relying on Islamic teachings in a way that I am on Christian (after Christ) and Jewish (before Christ). The Old and New Testaments demonstrate a continuous tradition of disapproval of homosexual behaviour, a tradition currently articulated by the Church.
But if you wish to point out that Islamic teachings also embody a correct understanding of natural law on this point, I'm very happy to agree with you!
- Wednesday, October 19, 2011
The Abrahamic religious family believe in the same God. Am I right?
If I am then Lazarus is simply indulging in sectarianism.
And we all know in Scotland where that can lead to.
- Wednesday, October 19, 2011
- Lazarus said...
Slightly bizarre, Anon!
Not relying on Islam to make my case doesn't make me a sectarian, any more than not relying on Confucianism, Animism or the Wit and Wisdom of Richard Dawkins.
I'm a Catholic -clearly I don't agree with all aspects of Islam. But I bet I agree with and respect a lot more of it (monotheism, seriousness about worship, sexual self discipline etc) than you do. And certainly, I'd welcome a more self confident and articulate Islamic contribution in debates on social issues in Scotland: I'm sure this would help in breaking down the rather cosy liberal consensus that this blog posting represents.
On the specific question you ask: yes, Muslims do worship the same God. But they have some different (and in the eyes of the Church erroneous) understandings of him.
- Wednesday, October 19, 2011
Anon and others; no point in debating with the believers like Lazarus when they intrude on sane discussion (what Lazarus despises as cosy liberal consensus). As Richard Dawkins said, 'faith will always trump rationality and reason' - because if you demonstrate the illogicality and the contradictions of their endless reiterating of the dogmas they have learned from others, they will always reply "well anyway that's what I believe".
They will readily sacrifice common decencies and tolerance between individual human beings on the alter of learned dogma, supposedly 'revealed' by some fictional deity or other. Indeed, whenever major religions are allowed unswayed power they have readily sacrificed 'unbelievers (and even quite a few 'believers') in preference to practising tolerance and the possibility that their 'revealed truths' are perhaps just the confections of human thought and imagination gone wrong.
Some of the religionists now point to the evils perpetrated by 'secular' governments as some sort of excuse or mitigation of what 'their side' has done in history - bizarre indeed; but there gain there is that old adage that opposite extremes often end up meeting in the middle.
It's all down to the rest of us to keep the humanity show on the road - onwards and upwards!
- Friday, October 21, 2011
- Jo G said...
Alex Salmond already supports gay marriage Iain. Where have you been? What he also supports however is for churches (of whatever faith) not to be forced to conduct such ceremonies if they cannot do so. I think that's fair.
- Friday, October 21, 2011
- Jo G said...
"no point in debating with the believers"
Ted, and why would that be? Because you can't hack the debate?
Rumour has it that more churches than the Catholic Church are deeply unhappy with the gay marriage issue except some are keeping mighty quiet on the subject. Interesting that eh?
And on the numbers affected, do you have statistics at all? Because the furore generated by this issue seems to me to be out of step with the number of people affected by the legislation. But, hey, I forgot, its a "trendy" issue.
If only the poor in Scotland had this much clout perhaps they would not be so hungry or so cold. If only they were gay!
- Friday, October 21, 2011
- Jo G said...
Oh and Iain,
"Archbishop Devine ....."
Joseph Devine is a Bishop, not an Archbishop. That journalists of your calibre can get such things wrong explains why so many of us out here now no longer take you seriously.
- Friday, October 21, 2011
- Jo G said...
"by preaching hate and discrimination."
Actually, they don't. They merely preach the word of God which is that marriage is something shared by a man and a woman. That is their job after all. If God is the MD in the boardroom who is going to go before Him and say, "We changed because people were bullying us." Would Sugar have to put up with such rubbish? I think not. Why should God?
- Friday, October 21, 2011
Rumour has it that the Vatican reopened the case against Gallileo but concluded that under the inquisition he still stands guilty of heresy
- Friday, October 21, 2011
"Ted, and why would that be? Because you can't hack the debate?"
I see Joe, you didn't even read my posting that explained why the above - but it wouldn't have made any difference anyhow.
Other rational folks here will doubtless see this as further illustration of my points already made; with pontifications about something called 'the word of God' that somehow gets mysteriously conveyed in ways that generate intolerance and unyielding dogma..
- Saturday, October 22, 2011
"Ted, and why would that be? Because you can't hack the debate?"
I see Joe, you didn't even read my posting that explained why the above - but it wouldn't have made any difference anyhow.
Other rational folks here will doubtless see this as further illustration of my points already made; with pontifications about something called 'the word of God' that somehow gets mysteriously conveyed in ways that generate intolerance and unyielding dogma..
- Saturday, October 22, 2011
The SNP is going through an evolution with its UK counterparts. I read this here http://lettertoscotland.blogspot.com/2011/10/recasting-snp.html
- Sunday, October 23, 2011
- JinglyJangly said...
My understanding is that
Consummation of a marriage is still required to make a marriage legal.
How is this defined in a Gay Marriage
is it Husband A having Sex with Husband B or Husband B having Sex with Husband A that officialy consumates the Marriage and what
happens with Lesbians?
- Sunday, October 23, 2011
Jingly Jangly,
Consummation of a marriage is NOT required to make the marriage legal. Whether a marriage is consummated or not is the business of the two people in the marriage and no one else.
You may be confusing the practice of annulment of a marriage on the grounds that the marriage had not been consummated. This used to be about the only route by which Roman Catholics could end their marriage but it required the Pope to grant the annulment and it was a pretty long drawn out, expensive and distressing process.
- Sunday, October 23, 2011
I am beginning to see the parallel between what is going on at St Paul's Cathedral and the usurers who occupied the synagogue back in Jesus's days.
The usurers got their revenge - they helped crucify Jesus.
The Holy people of St Paul's see their revenue stream dry up, the landlord has come knocking, some of them Bankers. They have however reluctantly asked the protestors camped at their door to move on.
- Monday, October 24, 2011
"If David Cameron can support gay marriage - so can Alex Salmond."
- But he does Iain?
- Monday, October 24, 2011
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- Saturday, November 12, 2011


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Wanting to be Blake
I don't mean Jessica Biel...
Wonk, wonk...
I know. I'm sorry. I couldn't resist! It's Friday!
Ok so here's Keith Urban on the carpet and on stage at the CMAs last night. He is such a smarmy cheese on the carpet. Up on stage though, without the shirt buttoned down to his man-trail, and not worrying about his hair, I can see the sex appeal, sure. Why the disconnect between the two?
Being the country neophyte, this is what I learned watching the Country Music Awards:
Keith Urban wants to be Blake Shelton.
Oh I get it now.
And thus American Idol.
From the limited exposure I've had to Blake Shelton though, one of the keys here, I think, is accessibility. He and Miranda Lambert both seem...willing to reveal, and honestly, genuinely, even if it might look ugly underneath. (Obviously I have been completely possessed by these two and by the weekend I hope to be over it...but still.) There doesn't seem to be any clenching happening at the Lambert-Sheltons. And... well...
Keith Urban is married to one of the most famously controlled actresses in the business.
I'd care more if he could actually let go...
But I don't know if that's part of their overall game plan, you know?
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Citing recent evidence that HIV infections are best managed when treated early, an influential panel of medical experts has finalized its recommendation that all people ages 15 to 65 be screened for the virus that causes AIDS.
The recommendation from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force seeks to address one of the key challenges in the fight against HIV/AIDS: The window during which patients respond best to treatment is also the time when symptoms of the disease are least noticeable.
"HIV is a critical public health problem, and there are still 50,000 new infections per year," said Dr. Doug Owens, a task force member and professor of medicine at Stanford University. "There's very good evidence that treatment is effective when given earlier, at a time when people are often asymptomatic. So the only way they would know that they had HIV, or that they needed treatment, is to be screened."
The guideline is being released after a number of well-publicized cases in which early treatment with a combination of powerful antiretroviral drugs has greatly improved patient survival rates. In one of those instances, doctors reported in March that an infant in Mississippi who began aggressive drug treatment immediately after birth had been "functionally cured" of HIV.


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Disaster Relief in Nepal – Fleurine Tideman
Going to Nepal was one of the scariest experiences of my life. I had been extremely excited when planning it, getting the necessary vaccinations and kit. But as soon as I boarded that plane to Kathmandu I was filled with terror. But I am so thankful that I overcame that fear and went, as this trip turned out to be one of the best of my life. This trip pushed me far out of my comfort zone and gave me the best experiences that will stay with me.
Disaster Relief project
In Nepal I took part in the Disaster Relief project, which aimed to repair the intense damage done by the 2015 earthquake. The earthquake was followed by numerous aftershocks and its effects were devastating. I was working at the Sunrise Boarding School, which had been heavily damaged by the earthquake. I was assigned numerous tasks in my four weeks there, such as digging, laying bricks, passing buckets and bricks. The work was tough, but the fun and relaxed atmosphere on site made it so enjoyable.
Within an hour of my first day I felt instantly welcome, as my fellow volunteers were quick to introduce themselves. It was interesting how instead of asking age, people would only ask your name and where you're from. But of course, social time was mainly kept for after 3pm, site time was for making a difference and it was wonderful to see this difference, to leave after four weeks and know that you've left a mark. The children at the school were wonderful, eager to practise their English with us and even teach us a few Nepalese words.
Staying at a host family
I am so glad we stayed with a host family as this allowed us to be truly immersed in the culture and to experience Nepal the way tourists never could. The meals they provided us were delicious and filling, always different every night! They managed to give us true Nepalese food whilst making it suitable for our Western taste buds. The rooms were spacious and clean, giving us a nice space to relax after a hard day. But most evenings we all sat in the living room, playing card games and getting to know each other.
I met people that I will not forget and that I am already arranging to see again! It was different than people you meet in your daily life as these people are so similar to you; they are all there for the same purpose, the same wish to make a difference. Their age, experience and background does not matter, in these kinds of trips all that matters is who you are right then.
Although many feared for the danger of the country, given the recent aftershocks, Projects Abroad always kept in close contact and made me feel safe. We were given the coordinators personal numbers and told we could call if we ever had any issues. We were given a lot of guidance on a range of topics, from as simple as the address to tell a taxi driver to what to do in case of another earthquake. It really helped to put me at ease and insure I felt safe.
Weekends in Nepal
The weekends were great. We had no work and had the opportunity to go on trips to Chitwan and Pokara. I was lucky enough to go on both and got to experience both these amazing places. The wildlife in Chitwan was incredible, once you got over the intense heat! We got to canoe with crocodiles and take a jungle trek. It showed us the quieter side of Nepal, and getting to see such untouched beauty was a rare treat.
Pokara was equally great, but for different reasons. Its intense views were breath-taking and we were provided with the opportunity to paraglide or bungee jump. If you are to go Nepal, I strongly recommend partaking in these trips! The bus rides may be long, but it gives you a chance to relax and recover, whilst also bonding with your fellow volunteers. There are numerous temples and markets full of Nepalese culture and new sights.
Four weeks in Nepal may sound like a lot, but it was nowhere near long enough for me to enjoy that amazing country and all it has to offer. I initially went intending to only stay three, but was lucky enough to be able to extend my trip by a week to enjoy it even more. The time flew by, but the countless memories made there will stay with me. What will also stay are the schools being built, as they will provide shelter and a place of learning to the children of Kathmandu for many years to come. Projects Abroad gave me the chance to give back to those in need, whilst also having the trip of my life.
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Today Is Deadline For Tendering Offers To Restricted Free Agents
Today is a big day for the Cowboys as they must tender offers to their 13 restricted free agents by the 11:00 pm CST deadline tonight.
You can be sure that both wide receiver Miles Austin and safety Gerald Sensabaugh will both receive high tenders from the Cowboys and that neither will be going anywhere.
Clarence E. Hill of the Star-Telegram speculates that Austin will receive the highest tender possible — a one-year salary of $3.168 million and compensation of a first- and third-round pick if he signs with another team.
Sensabaugh will likely be tagged with the first-round tender of $2.62 million. If he signs with another team, the Cowboys would get a first-round pick in return.
The other Cowboys restricted free agents include:
DT Stephen Bowen
G Cory Procter
G Duke Preston
DE Jason Hatcher
NT Junior Siavii
WR Sam Hurd
S Pat Watkins
OT Pat McQuistan
DE Marcus Spears
PK Shaun Suisham
CB Cletis Gordon
Of those eleven, I suspect that 3-4 of them may not be returning next season including Suisham and Gordon.
I was very surprised when the Cowboys decided not to place the franchise tag on Miles Austin last week which would have paid him a guaranteed one-year, $9.52 million deal that would've required another team to give up two first-round picks as compensation for signing him to a non-matching offer sheet.
I was a little worried that we might be exposing Miles Austin to a slight risk of employment elsewhere if another team should beat the Cowboys tender, but felt more at ease after reading this in the Dallas Morning News.
Not many teams in league history have been willing to relinquish a first- and third-round pick for a restricted free agent. Almost none, in fact. In 1998, Bill Parcells brought restricted running back Curtis Martin with him from the Patriots to the Jets. The Patriots were unwilling to match the Jets' six-year, $36 million offer sheet and took a first- and third-rounder in return. Eighteen players received the high tender over the next 10 years. None were pried away by a rival's offer sheet.
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European nations are begging the United States to send them natural gas to blunt dependence on Russia, but a lack of infrastructure and market realities are calling into question America's ability to flex its new muscles as the world's leading energy power.
The crisis in Ukraine is deepening European alarm over reliance on Russian energy, a weapon that Russian President Vladimir Putin uses to wield economic and political power. Western nations have begun imposing minor sanctions on Russia but aren't hitting Putin where it really hurts, the energy trade, because Europe relies on Russia for some 30 percent of its natural gas and needs the energy.
Some congressional Republicans claim the key to countering Putin lies beneath Americans' feet. The United States is in the midst of an oil and gas boom fueled by "fracking" _ a mining process called hydraulic fracturing _ and has overtaken Russia as the world's top natural gas producer. But little of that American natural gas is sent abroad.
Rep. Cory Gardner, R-Colo., is pushing a bill to accelerate federal approval of export terminals, saying it would unlock U.S. natural gas supplies "to help free Ukraine and other European nations from Russia's influence." House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, argues that Putin is happily exploiting the lack of U.S. natural gas exports in order to finance his geopolitical ambitions.
But while calls for such a Berlin-airlift-style approach to rush American natural gas to Europe and liberate it from the Russians makes for a good political sound bite, such a move isn't practical and vastly oversimplifies the issue. It would take years to build the necessary facilities on both sides of the Atlantic for shipping and receiving the liquefied natural gas. The countries most reliant on Russian energy, including Ukraine, have no terminals for receiving LNG tankers. They get their natural gas from pipelines.
"The potential in the short term is nothing," said Edward Chow, an energy and security analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
There are also the realities of the free market. The U.S. Department of Energy has so far approved six applications for natural gas export terminals, but most of that gas is destined for Asia, where prices are far higher and companies can make more money than selling it in Europe.
Longer term, it's not clear how price-competitive U.S. liquefied natural gas would be in Europe after the cost of transport is factored in, said Tim Boersma, an energy expert at the Brookings Institution in Washington. The American natural gas in Europe would have to compete against supplies from places such as Russia, Norway, Algeria, even the Netherlands and the United Kingdom.
"There's no assurance the natural gas would go that way anyway given how high (natural gas) prices are in Asia," said John Kilduff, a veteran analyst at energy trader Again Capital in New York. "That's not a well-supplied global market, either."
American natural gas exports still could diminish Russian power, however, even if those exports go to Asia and not Europe, according to Elizabeth Rosenberg, director of the energy security program at the Center for a New American Security.
That's because it could lead other countries that would otherwise ship to Asia to send natural gas to Europe instead. For example, it could make sense for Middle Eastern and African nations to get more involved in the European market in the face of competition from U.S. energy exports to Asia. Any non-Russian natural gas that goes to Europe lessens Russia's ability to dictate the price.
The crisis in Ukraine is already accelerating European efforts to get away from Russian natural gas, Rosenberg said. Poland is especially pushing to develop its own shale gas through fracking, and last week it offered six-year tax breaks to speed exploration and reduce its reliance on Russia.
Ukraine also is home to substantial shale gas reserves and has deals with Chevron and Shell in an effort to develop them.
Coal, much of it from America, also is growing in favor in Europe. European power plants could upgrade their technology and install dual-use boilers that would allow them to generate electricity from imported coal as well as natural gas. That would be attractive to coal exporters in both the United States and its rival coal-mining nation, Australia.
"It's a much more polluting product, and it will make the Europeans nervous, but that is the only readily available alternative over the next few years," said Patrick Clawson, a sanctions and energy expert at the Washington Institute for Near East Peace.
Exports of U.S. bituminous coal totaled 117 million tons last year, after rising to 125 million tons in 2012. Both years were well above historical averages, and Europe is the top destination for U.S. coal exports, much of it going to the Netherlands and Italy.
Russia has the advantage of a well-established pipeline network into Europe, but it stands to suffer greatly if Europeans do manage to come up with alternative energy sources.
Russia depends on Europe for 90 percent of the natural gas export revenues that it badly needs, said Chow, the analyst at the Center for Strategic and International Studies.
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Release date:October 13, 2006
Science faculty seeking to honor longtime member with scholarship
PLAINVIEW – In the past few months, several new endowed scholarships have been completed or established, with dedication of those coming soon. Now, another endowment is in the works as the faculty and friends of Wayland's Science Department seek to honor one of their own as he prepares to retire.
Dr. Harold Temple, professor of chemistry, will retire at the end of the 2006-07 school year. His wife, Audrey, a former elementary classroom teacher, has been a partner in his mentoring of students throughout the years and has served with him in leading Sunday school classes for students.
For this reason, the faculty and graduates seek to honor the couple with the Harold and Audrey Temple Endowed Scholarship. Specifically, Dr. Joel Boyd, assistant professor of chemistry at WBU and a 1997 graduate who studied under Temple while a student, is heading the charge to get the scholarship endowed.
"Dr. Temple has been the heart and soul of the chemistry program at Wayland for many years. For many of those years, he was the chemistry program!," said Boyd. "It is very difficult to envision Wayland Chemistry without Dr. Temple. Mrs. Temple has also been actively involved in ministering to Wayland students through the years, and our students will be the poorer as her presence on campus decreases. I see this endowed scholarship as a way for those of us influenced by the Temples during his career to ensure that their legacy at Wayland Baptist University is never forgotten."
Dr. Temple has taught chemistry at Wayland since 1976, with a brief hiatus as dean of the Graduate Program from 1983-88. He has taught every course in the chemistry curriculum since coming to Wayland. More than 50 percent of his students went on to attain post-graduate or professional degrees.
Audrey Temple taught for 18 years at Edgemere Elementary in Plainview. She has remained involved in the lives of Wayland students, serving with her husband both on and off campus. They led various college Sunday school classes at College Heights Baptist Church and have been both friend and mentor to many students.
The scholarship will be awarded to a declared chemistry major selected as the outstanding student in chemistry at the end of the student's sophomore year. The student will then receive the scholarship for the next two years provided he or she makes suitable progress toward the bachelor's degree in chemistry.
While respect for Temple among WBU faculty is evident, some like Boyd have a more personal take on the situation.
"As a Wayland chemistry alumnus and a colleague for the past five years, I have benefited more than I can say from Dr. Temple's mentorship," Boyd added. "He is a primary reason that I am a chemist and a huge reason that I am back at Wayland as a teacher. I can hardly imagine a post-Temple chemistry department at Wayland, but I am excited to continue to grow and build on his legacy."
The science faculty hopes to raise the $25,000 in time to be able to dedicate the plaque for the scholarship at the close of the year. Donations to the scholarship may be sent to the Office of Advancement, 1900 W. 7th St., CMB 621, Plainview, Texas 79072. For more information, contact advancement at (806) 291-3425.


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Letter, A. H. Reeder to Dear Doctor [Charles Robinson]
Author: Reeder, Andrew H. (Andrew Horatio), 1807-1864
Date: February 16, 1856
From "Washington City" on February 16, 1856, former K.T. governor Andrew Reeder wrote Charles Robinson regarding his (Reeder's) efforts to influence Kansas policy in the nation's capital. Reeder was working through friends, since he no longer had personal influence with President Pierce, and he was not pleased with the president's February 11 proclamation, which he called "the low contemptible trickstering affair which might expected from Pierce, and is like the Special Message [of January 24] a slander on the Free State Party." Nevertheless, Reeder thought it could have been worse and insisted that Robinson and the other free-state leaders "should not organize the State Govt." Pierce would just use that action to justify aggressive moves to suppress the movement.
Location of Original: KSHS Call Number: Charles & Sara Robinson Collection, #488, Box 1, Folder 2
Item Number: 101092 Number of images: 4
Keywords: Free State Party; Free state movement (see also Topeka Movement); Pierce administration; Pierce, Franklin, 1804-1869; Reeder, Andrew H. (Andrew Horatio), 1807-1864; Robinson, Charles, 1818-1894; Topeka Movement (see also Free state movement); Washington, D.C.
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Glee Gone Wild
How the hell did a show about high school theater geeks come to be the biggest TV show in America? Well, T&A helps. (That's talent and ambition, you pervs.) But so does a generous helping of pot-laced brownies, girl-on-girl subtext, and choreographed dry-humping. Gleeksters Lea Michele, Dianna Agron, and Cory Monteith pull Alex Pappademas into the vortex
The Kids Are All Right
Thursday afternoon in the auditorium at Juan Rodriguez Cabrillo High School in Long Beach, California, and if the twelve relatably attractive young people who play the irrepressible William McKinley High School show choir on TV's Glee are tired—if the pressure of following up a debut season that spawned hit soundtrack albums, a sold-out concert tour, and a crazy-passionate fan base of self-professed "Gleeks" is getting to them, if they feel like they're singing and dancing as fast as they can—it doesn't show.
They're onstage making serious faces while mouthing along to a Glee'd-up rendition of Joan Osborne's God-rides-public-transit hit, "One of Us," which means this is probably the end of an episode in which everybody learns a Very Important Lesson.
But whenever the director calls "cut," a slumber party erupts. Kevin McHale (Artie) and Amber Riley (Mercedes) and Naya Rivera (Santana) break into dueling Michael Jackson impressions. Everybody takes turns pushing each other in Artie's wheelchair. At one point, the sound guy pipes in Cali Swag District's novelty-rap jam "Teach Me How to Dougie," and the whole cast does the limb-flapping "Teach Me How to Dougie" dance.
The whole cast, that is, except for Lea Michele. On Glee, she plays the hyperdriven Rachel Berry, a Tracy Flick with pipes, forever scolding her choirmates for their lack of commitment; when everyone starts to Dougie, she whips around and glares at them.
"We're singing for God today, you guys."
For a second, it seems like she's serious. I write down Possible diva moment? Investigate further. Then the giggling resumes.
Baby, I'm a Star
Metaphorically, Glee is about to graduate from Cabrillo. They've been shooting here for two years, but after this week they won't be back. A replica of Cabrillo's auditorium has been built on the Paramount lot, in what Cory Monteith, who plays the dim-sweet jock Finn Hudson, describes as "a testament to the juggernaut that Glee has become."
It's not the only one. There's also the tour, a four-city victory lap for the show, and those soundtracks—to date, the cast has lodged more singles on the Billboard Hot 100 than any other group except the Beatles—and the Emmy Ryan Murphy won for the Glee pilot. The show's also won a Golden Globe, a SAG award, a Peabody, a GLAAD award, and a Worst TV Show of the Week condemnation from the Parents Television Council, which cited "[a] veiled reference to fellatio, a speech denouncing abstinence, simulated sex during a musical dance number, and premature ejaculation." Apparently they missed the episode in which Puck (Mark Salling) laces the bake-sale cupcakes with medical marijuana (and gets away with it).
"I didn't want to do a family show," says Murphy. "I wanted to do my version of a family show. But we try to be as responsible as we can, because we know some young people watch. Some of the humor goes over their head, hopefully."
Meanwhile, on the Internet, where the teenage dream life of the culture really unfolds, _Glee_k ardor runs hot. Wild and wishful blog-speculation about on- and offscreen couplings. The YouTube tribute videos starring kids in their bedrooms, British hairstylists, and Ben 10 action figures. The self-explanatory Tumblr shrines like Fuck Yeah Cory Monteith. And—inevitably—the reams of NSFW slash fiction in which everybody gets it on with everyone else.
In the wake of last season's episodes devoted to Lady Gaga and Madonna (the first Material Girl–related cultural event in a decade that didn't feel like an extended dungeon session with Madge's titanic ego wielding the whip), rock icons with catalogs to exploit are lining up for the Glee treatment. Paul McCartney sent Murphy a mixtape full of tracks he thought would work well on a Sir Paul episode, which means there's a possibility that at some point in the future, Glee will turn a generation of tweens on to "Temporary Secretary" and "Uncle Albert/Admiral Halsey."
In short, Glee's got a choke hold on the Zeitgeist, from kids too young to sext to senior citizens who used to play in Wings, which is impressive for a show that's technically in the same genre as Cop Rock. (None of the cast members I talked to had seen Cop Rock. The young: always so ignorant of history's greatest atrocities.) But maybe it's not that surprising—Glee reaches multitudes because it contains them.
Much like Britney Spears—who's getting an episode devoted to her catalog this season—Glee is somehow both baby-deer naive and not-that-innocent. It portrays Christians as hypocrites while subtly pushing values that are pretty Christian, when you get down to it—tolerance, self-sacrifice, giving your baby mama your pool-cleaning money, respecting the songwriting genius of Gary Puckett and the Union Gap. It's as anachronistically sweet as Bye, Bye Birdie but gayer than Hedwig. It's a show where Agron, as the conniving cheerleader Quinn, convinces her boyfriend that she's pregnant with his child (it's someone else's), but it's also a show in which Monteith sings a soaring soft-rock rendition of the Pretenders' "I'll Stand By You" to a sonogram of that baby.
Look at it this way. For about a decade, TV's most popular singing-and-dancing show was Glee's Tuesday-night Fox lead-in, American Idol, in which young people lined up to have their dreams flayed by Simon Cowell, an English millionaire with an $8 haircut and a bottomless reserve of spittle-flecked disdain for weakness and eccentricity. Cowell clearly despised this country, and he felt the same way about the Idol contenders' hopeful little hearts as Jack Bauer did about terrorists' kneecaps, but we put up with him and his show's ruthless winner-take-all competitive-sport pop music paradigm for ten long seasons.
At first, Glee—another show about kids channeling a yearning for specialness into full-throated renditions of pop schlock—looked like a fictionalized Idol, the way Lost was a scripted Survivor (with polar bears). Really, though, Glee refutes Idol's whole ethos. Asked what the difference between the two shows was, Lea Michele tactfully replied that they were too different to compare. "One is about being judged, and one is not," she said—which is actually a pretty elegant comparison and gets at the sea change the Idol-Glee transition seems to represent. Maybe the success of a show like this—gay-positive, anti-gender-stereotyping, as anti-looksist as a show full of good-looking TV actors can be—suggests that America is becoming less judgmental. Or maybe a show that loves losers this much is the perfect American Idol successor for the Obama era because we're all finding out, as a country, how it feels to be the underdog.
Glee is not exactly at its best when it's being deliberately "progressive." It's as unafraid of teachable-moment overkill as it is of having somebody really go for it on the corniest trucker-gearshift crescendo of a Journey song. There's a rst-season episode called "Wheels" in which Mr. Schuester decides that the kids need to learn how hard it is to be poor paraplegic Artie and sentences them all to spend three hours a day in a wheelchair and Sue Sylvester turning out to have a sister who has Down syndrome and a subplot about the fabulously gay Kurt Hummel (Chris Colfer, who has brought subtlety and grace to what began as a pretty stock bitchy-comic-relief role). The wheelchair stuff is funny, then cringey; Colfer's plot is something else. He's competing with Rachel for a solo on "Defying Gravity," from Wicked; at one point, we see Kurt struggling to hit one of the song's impossibly high F notes while his grease-monkey dad (who's portrayed as being totally accepting of his son's being "queer as a $3 bill") slowly walks to answer a ringing phone. The person on the other end says, "Your son's a fag," and hangs up.
At his tryout, Kurt deliberately blows the high note, and his chance at a star turn, to save his dad from further harassment but tells him, "I'm proud of who I am." Then there's a performance of "Proud Mary" in which everyone's in wheelchairs. But that scene with the piano and the phone call is what this show's really about. The drama on Glee happens in the gap between the people these kids can be when they're singing, in the bursts of orchestrated, choreographed fantasy that bust out of the narrative of the show, and the people they have to be the rest of the time. It's about how a pop song has the power to bowl over the contradictions and indignities of the real world, offering a glimpse of freedom and transcendence, and about what it's like to go back to being yourself when the music stops. If that thesis tips over into cheese on occasion, so be it—sometimes our yearnings are super-uncool. As Rachel Berry put it: "There is nothing ironic about show choir."
You Must Love Me
A month or so earlier, over kale and organic red wine at a restaurant in the East Village, Lea Michele—who is tiny in person, and tornado-energetic, and seems so determined to have you like her that it's basically impossible not to—pondered the Lea/Rachel dichotomy in detail.
Michele (whose most high-prole pre-Glee credit was onstage in Spring Awakening) auditioned for Glee twice. The audition you hear about more often is the second one, because she showed up with glass in her hair after getting into a car accident on the way over. But the story of the rst one may say more about how much Rachel there is in Lea, or vice versa.
The accompanist in the audition room made a mistake, and everybody laughed, except Michele.
"I was like, 'I'll go slap him in the face,' " Michele says. She did. "I thought, 'What did I just do?' But they loved it."
There's video of the audition on the Internet; Michele seems utterly serious and utterly Rachel already.
"I didn't know how much I was Rachel until I saw the video," she says. "I love Rachel. She's awesome."
Born in the Bronx, Michele grew up in Tenay, New Jersey. She loved Natalie Wood and Gilda Radner—"like, Roseanne Roseannadanna," she says, "because that was the only character I felt was spastic or gawky or funny like me"—and decided to devote her life to theater after seeing Funny Girl, starring Barbra Streisand. (There is talk of Michele playing the Streisand part in Funny Girl on-screen someday, but she doesn't mention it tonight.)
"Barbra's character is a funny-looking girl with a ridiculous voice who becomes a famous Ziegfeld girl. But she can never do anything serious. She's like, 'I can't sing about how beautiful I am, because I'm not beautiful. So I'll make it funny.' I was like, That's me. I look like her. I understand her."
When she started acting, people told her she needed a nose job.
"I was one of the only girls in my high school that didn't get one," Michele says. "And if anybody needed it, I probably did. But my mom always told me, growing up, 'Barbra Streisand didn't get a nose job. You're not getting a nose job.' And I didn't. Fuck those people.
"That's why I'm proud," she says, "to be on a positive show and to be a voice for girls and say, 'You don't need to look like everybody else. Love who you are.' "
We've established a no-judgment rule here at this table, Michele and I; we're going to eat kale and pick our teeth in front of each other, and it's going to be okay. Emboldened by this climate of openness, I decide to sh for gossip. Is it true, I ask Michele, that Ryan Murphy made all of you promise not to have sex in your trailers between scenes? (I'd read this on the Internet, which is full of truth.)
"He's never said that to me," Michele says. "Because he knows I'm not hooking up with anybody in my trailer."
Cool. So who had the most groupies on the Glee tour?
"That's tough," Michele says. "Kevin was in a boy band, so he had a lot of fans. Mark and Cory, for sure—I mean, every night, after the show, they would go say hi to all the fans."
Either she'd misunderstood what we meant by "groupies" or she'd misunderstood it deliberately or this wasn't working. I ask her what it was like to perform at the White House Easter-egg hunt.
"Rolling down the hills on the lawn, looking up at the snipers on the rooftops. Feeling like, at any moment, you could get shot. It was amazing. Using the bathroom was weird. The toilet paper had, like, the White House seal on it. I mean, we watched Amber sing the national anthem in front of Obama. We were crying."
Is there a lot of crying on the set?
"Oh yeah," Michele says. "A lot. And if anything's going on in our lives, we have each other. One time, I was having a bad day, and I called Chris Colfer. He came over with a pint of ice cream and Madea Goes to Jail, and it was, like, the best night of my life."
This is how everybody involved with the show talks about Glee—it's been an incredible ride, the cast is like family. I gently suggest that this camaraderie can't possibly last—that they'll be at one another's throats, Grey's Anatomy–style, by season three.
"Someone from [another] television show came up to us at an event and said that," Michele says, "and I got offended. Our show won't still be running in season three if we're not feeling that way, because then we won't be real, and people will see it. So let's hope that everything stays that way. Because I need this. I need this family!"
What's the Rachel quote? "I'm like Tinker Bell—I need applause to live!"
"That is the best quote ever," Michele says. "I understood that line."
The Cheerleader
On Glee, Dianna Agron plays Quinn Fabray, who joins show choir after getting pregnant and losing her place as McKinley High's queen-bee cheerleader and Celibacy Club president. Rachel's the one who quotes Tinker Bell; Quinn, who gets some of the best mean-girl lines this side of Heathers, calls Rachel names like "treasure trail." They're Glee's Alexis and Krystle Carrington, which makes Agron and Michele its Joan Collins and Linda Evans, which means everyone wants to believe one of two things about them—that they're bitter rivals, perpetually on the verge of a catght, or (because this is Glee) that they're lovers in real life.
When we talk to Michele, she talks about how much she misses living with Agron, whom she roomed with for six months after Glee was picked up, and when we meet with Agron at the Little Next Door restaurant, she's equally effusive about Michele.
She's heard what people say about them. It doesn't bother her—she thinks it's funny, although sometimes she worries. She says that during the photo shoot for this article, "when it was just Lea and me, I was like, 'We're in skimpy clothes, we're up against each other. This is feeding those rumors.' I've never been shot in so little clothing."
This is as close as we get to a scandalous line of inquiry; Agron is blonde, pretty, and polite, in a way that sort of inspires reciprocal politeness. We do not speak of trailer sex.
She tries to order lamb couscous without the lamb, because she's a vegetarian. She settles for salmon. We talk about the Glee tour, the screaming fans chasing their tour bus away from every venue, the mothers shoving their children through the crowd so they could touch the hem of Agron's garment. We talk about what it's like to clink SAG trophies at an awards-show afterparty with Meryl Streep and Quentin Tarantino. And we talk about what it's like to fall off a four-story building, something Agron does in her new movie, the Steven Spielberg–produced sci- thriller I Am Number Four, based on a young-adult novel written pseudonymously by tough-guy fabulist James Frey.
"I selshly wanted to be higher, because by the time your body registers that you're falling, you're already slowing down."
Agron grew up in Burlingame, California, just outside San Francisco. Her dad was a general manager for Hyatt; when she was 8 years old, they visited Los Angeles, staying in the Hyatt overlooking the Fox lot. Her parents couldn't tear her away from the window; she looked down, thinking to herself, "One day I'm going to be down there."
At her Glee audition, she sang "Fly Me to the Moon," because she'd sung it a year earlier, on her twenty-rst birthday, when her friends prodded her to get onstage at the Dresden in Los Feliz. When she landed the role, it was her second time being cast as a cheerleader—she'd played Hayden Panettiere's rival on a few episodes of Heroes. But it quickly turned into a very different assignment.
"I remember Ryan saying, 'You're about to get pregnant,' " she says. "And I thought, 'Bring it on.' When they put the pregnancy pad under my cheerleading outt, I was walking around the set, and people were like, 'Only on Glee!' "
Agron's own tastes are remarkably uncheerleaderish; she might be Glee's in-house hipster. Most days she pulls up to the set blasting something like Bat for Lashes. She's directed a video for indie rock band Thao with the Get Down Stay Down. She's already sold a screenplay—for a romantic comedy about a guy with mother issues. She'd like to be an actress-director like Soa Coppola when she grows up, and whenever anyone asks her whom she'd like to see do a cameo on a future Glee episode, she always nominates Christopher Walken. "I don't think people are too fond of that suggestion," she says. "I think they just want me to say Justin Timberlake or something."
Simple Man
Cory Monteith is very tall, very Canadian, and—because he's 27—kind of a wizened sage by Glee-cast standards.
And though he plays a dumb guy on TV, he's actually a great interview—funny, candid, reective, and willing to discuss the asstastic SyFy Channel original movies he appeared in pre-Glee. Which is good, because I wasn't about to not ask him about his work in Kraken: Tentacles of the Deep.
"I'm the happy-go-lucky deckhand," he says, "who sells out the scientic expedition to the bad guys, and then a whole bunch of people get shot at, and the ship blows up, and I die. I've died a bunch of times."
What about Hybrid, in which you played a man-wolf, opposite Justine Bateman as, um, a man-wolf-ologist?
"I'm wearing wolf-eye contacts. Watch it for longer than thirty seconds—you can see that one is off-balance. I had the lazy wolf eye."
It's early Wednesday morning at the Sunset Marquis in West Hollywood. Renowned character actor J. K. Simmons is across the patio, reading the paper, looking disconcertingly tan and vital. Monteith's in jeans and a V-neck T-shirt, eating eggs, drinking coffee.
When I ask Monteith what he was like in high school, he says he had trouble tting in, that he probably had ADHD, that he was drawn to "this whole world of excitement and danger outside the doors of high school—this kind of renegade teenage lifestyle." He dropped out in ninth grade.
"You have to really look to get into trouble in Victoria," Monteith says, "but I was industrious. Skipping school. Drinking. All that kind of crap. Things started off innocent like that. I denitely found myself in some places that I'm very fortunate I came back from."
We ask him if he's being vague about what "that kind of crap" entails, because he's worried about his behavior being role modeled.
"Hugely," Monteith says. "Hugely. The last thing I want to do is kind of imply to readers in high school that you too can drop out and be an actor and get on a big show and be famous and make a shitload of money."
It's all so strange. Aside from a stint with a modestly successful local alt-rock band called Porch Life ("Think Creed. I had a little earring, y'know?" he says), Monteith had no performance experience. After leaving school, he was a roofer, he was a telemarketer, he washed cars, he greeted Walmart patrons, he did customer-service spot checks as a 7-Eleven "secret shopper."
But there was this acting teacher who came over every Wednesday from Vancouver. Monteith knew a guy who knew that guy, went to a class. The teacher told him he had natural ability—and more important, informed Monteith that actors get paid, something Monteith swears had not occurred to him, and literally two weeks later he was on the boat to Vancouver with his clothes in a couple of plastic bags, bound for a pallet on the acting teacher's oor and a restaurant job.
And then came a bunch of auditions—he and the same ten other guys from Vancouver who got called in every time, all "reading for the 'Nice Guy' part or whatever"—and Kraken, and then Glee, and now, every week, here's Monteith on TV, playing Johnny Football. He grasps how funny this is.
"Wait—I'm playing the quarterback? I mean, how did that happen? I'm Joe Canada, who never went to high school. I've never even been to a football game."
"A lot of the kids who came in had been in boy bands and sang like they were in boy bands," Ryan Murphy says. "Cory was playing the drums on Tupperware on his audition tape. I thought, Oh, that's right. That's the way to go."
He couldn't sing, not at rst. The producers leaned hard on digital trickery to x his vocals, and Monteith acknowledges that in the early episodes, "you could hear the Auto-Tune." But being out of his element turned out to be an asset—Monteith may never have been a jock, but he's utterly believable as a dude discovering his emotional vocabulary for the rst time, reaching for those where-eagles-dare high notes in "Don't Stop Believin' " and nding himself in the process.
All that happens in the course of season one; Monteith's not sure where the character's going to go in season two.
"Maybe he'll get a little smarter, ngers crossed, so that I could show depth," he says. "Maybe if I talk about that in interviews, it'll happen. Because I'm constantly being written stuff that's like—" he taps out a ba-dump-bump! on the table—"convenient, dumb-guy writing. I think the stasis of Finn gives characters like Rachel and Kurt room to maneuver—it just requires patience to not say, 'When's mine? When's my breakdown scene?' So it'll be interesting to see how the writers push Finn. Or if they do at all."
He laughs. "Maybe it'll be like The Simpsons, and everybody will remain unchanged. Maybe that's what Glee's about. Maybe this is kind of a stasis show. I don't know."
Sometimes it was hard to shake the feeling, watching the rst season, that nobody knew where Glee was going, not even co-creators Murphy, Ian Brennan, and Brad Falchuk. Things got weird around the second half of that rst year; even hard-core _Glee_ks complained that those episodes seemed to be sacricing story in favor of stunt-casting pseudo-coups (Olivia Newton-John!), gratuitous musical numbers, and shoehorned-in hey-kids-share-this-viral-video-with-your-social-network moments, like the Madonna episode's cringey remake of the "Vogue" video starring Jane Lynch's Sue Sylvester.
(It's not that Lynch isn't a national treasure—she totally is. But her character is a deranged cartoon who works best as an antagonist, lobbing cruel one-liners into scenes like a grenadier; that "Vogue" scene felt like an attempt to suck up to Sue-maniacs, which is the kind of thing that derails shows. See also: Kramer, Cosmo; Urkel, Steve.)
It's clear the creators are paying attention to the buzz. The rst episode of season two opened with a montage of Jewfroed school-paper reporter-blogger Jacob badgering the gang about how they spent their summer vacations; his questions poked meta-fun at both the online sniping about the show (to Mr. Schuester: "Did you know there's a forum on my blog that's begging you to stop rapping?") and its stars' newfound tabloid-bait status (to Rachel: "How do you respond to rumors you're incredibly dicult to work with?"). But it remains to be seen whether self-awareness alone can ensure long-term viability. Even Glee's biggest defenders remember how Ryan Murphy's last TV show, Nip/Tuck, spiraled off into craziness, with story lines whose escalating sick-fuckitude—auto-mastectomies, serial killers, sex scenes involving Rosie O'Donnell—suggested that the writers were sucking down Joker gas during meetings.
Monteith, for one, thinks it's entirely possible that this show will go to some crazy Ryan Murphyish places before it's over—and he's ready to go there with it.
"I wouldn't put it past [Murphy] for Finn to go to military school at the end of season three," Monteith says, "or for him to turn into the creepy janitor who gave up on his football dreams and stalks freshmen."
After all, Monteith is 27 playing 16, closer every day to the point where it'll look weird for him to be hanging around a high school. Recall those late Happy Days episodes in which the Fonz looks 47. Or That '70s Show, toward the end. Ashton Kutcher—grown-man-sized, still playing Kelso, still smoking dope in that basement, straining credulity.
Kelso, Monteith points out, "is Finn, basically." And there are worse things than a Kutcheresque arc. "Big ups to the guy," Monteith says. "He's diversied, and that came from playing a pretty one-dimensional dumb-ass."
Monteith's already laying the groundwork for a post-dumb-ass career. At the end of the Glee tour, he got on a plane to Budapest to shoot a romantic-comedy-caper movie called Monte Carlo. Selena Gomez is in it, and Leighton Meester, and Katie Cassidy from Melrose Place; Monteith plays Cassidy's confused Texan boyfriend.
He shot his scenes in ve weeks. I ask how he found the time, given that tight schedule, to make love to all his female co-stars.
Monteith laughs. "I appreciate that people make that assumption about me. But—no. They were all hot. They all had boyfriends. What can I say?"
He says he spent his downtime seeing the world. On the weekends, he'd throw clean underwear and a toothbrush in his bag, pick a place in Europe off the departure board at the airport, and go.
Okay, great. Did Ryan Murphy really make a no-trailer-sex rule?
"The rst I heard about that was in the media," Monteith says. "I was like, 'Oh, really? Dammit!' "
Because you'd already broken that rule?
"No comment," Monteith says.
That's a yes, I say.
"But I get it. I get what Ryan was saying, when he said that."
So there's some truth to it? Is it that he doesn't want you to all have sex with one another and then deal with the fallout that comes with that, for the unity of the cast?
"Yeah," Monteith says, "that's implied. There's a beautiful chemistry to this show, and messing with that would be dangerous."
What really goes on in those trailers, Monteith says: They all, like, hang out.
"This sounds really cliché, but it's true—it's the high school experience I always wanted. Where we're all growing into this new life together and guring it all out as we go. I remember I'd come home from fth, sixth grade, and I'd watch Saved by the Bell and be like, 'I hope my high school experience is like that.' And it totally wasn't. It sucked."
Be True to Your School Dusk settles on Cabrillo High; the "One of Us" number is in the can. Monteith is outside, digging for dehydrated peaches in a basket of trail mix. He's holding a box containing one of those electronic-cigarette nicotine-delivery systems, although he swears it's not his. (Also, stay in school, kids!)
I run into Michele; she talks about how weird the photo shoot was for this story. "I don't know how they got me to do half the stuff I did," she says, wide-eyed. "But I was in really good shape this summer, so…"
She asks me what I'm doing here. I tell her I'm checking up on all of them, like the person who visits the set to verify that no animals are being abused. I'm worried that Fox is pushing you guys too hard, I say. You're their cash cow. They're going to burn you out until there's nothing left.
"Oh yeah, they already are," Michele says, smiling. "I have lashes on my butt." Then she gets on a pink beach-cruiser bicycle and rides off to her trailer, where she will presumably not have sex.


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B is for my collection of Bees and for the bumbling buffoon that is moi. Barring that I've bequeathed the wrong name for the wrong sister in the last post, I've managed to sneak on the 'B'logosphere and share this Amazing, Accessory for Vanessa's Inventory Game! Not familiar with it? Buzz on over here! And to both sisters, my apologies, forgive me, and spare not the rod of correction, I most welcome it.
Alas! Bumble can begin this blazing journey into the depths of an apocryphal mess of a virtual closet, deemed 'beautiful' disaster by many, but favored by only a few. Because of boxes. Boxes that lay all around me, aloft and abounding. Bounding! Over and under my bountiful bre…nvm.
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Everybody is talking about being healthy lately. Me....yeah worry to get FAT! Ha ha! But i love food so much...so just eat larr..heehee!...;p, and i'm lucky enough to have good friends around who love to bake and cook. There are at least 2 days in a week that my friend will let us try her new recipe...SOOOO LUCKY right?!
Okay, today's menu is Oat muffins. Nothing much special here, but eat HEALTHY!
Got this recipe from a magazine, and i've made some changes....here it goes.....
1 cup Self-raising flour
1/2 tsp Baking powder
1 cup Rolled oats
1/2 cup Ground almonds
1/2 cup Dried apricots (Finely chopped)
1/2 cup Black raisins
3/4 cup Milk
1/4 cup Honey
60g Butter (melted)
1 egg
~ Preheat oven to moderate, 180'C. Line muffin pan with muffin paper cups or spray with oil.
~ Sift flour and baking powder into a large bowl, mix in oats, ground almonds, chopped apricots and raisins.
~ In a jug, whisk together milk, honey, melted butter and egg.
~ Make a well in the centre of the dry ingredients, add in the egg mixture, mixing lightly until just combined.
~ Spoon mixture into muffin cups until two-thirds full. Sprinkle with some oats.
~ Bake for 20-25 minutes, until cooked when tested with a skewer.
~ Cool in pan for 5 minutes, transfer to a wire rack to coll completely.
Notice that there is no sugar used?! Yeah....very healthy. So go ahead and try it out, its a very good and yummy breakfast to start a day...:)...Cheers!


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