text:
Carrier took a moment out of his conference schedule to type a response to Ehrman. It is as efficient as his others, meaning that he thoroughly shows the hubris of Ehrman's latest foray (his book and his response to critics). And let us not beat around the bush here, there is either dishonesty at work or Ehrman just isn't doing his due diligence. Carrier starts off by stating what many of us have already picked up on (emphasis added):
Bart Ehrman has finally composed an extensive response to my critical review of his book. But before that came out, he composed two briefer responses, one to my review of his Huffington Post article and another to my subsequent review of his book. He also briefly punted to another blogger, R.J. Hoffman. In this post I'll address those latter items. Next I'll reply to the longer piece (I've nearly finished my reply to that, but as I'm now at the Madison Freethought Festival with tons of amazing speakers and excellent liquor, I won't be able to proof that and post until Sunday evening).
The strangest thing about those latter items is not the alarming-enough fact that they ignore nearly every substantive point in what they are responding to, and focus each on only a single issue, and that one of the least importance (the Hoffman piece likewise doesn't address anything I actually said). That is strange. But stranger still is that they do not look entirely honest to me. But I'll just present the evidence and you can decide.
First up is the bizarre deflection of the issues in Ehrman's response to Carrier's very real criticisms. These criticisms focused on the false claims made by Ehrman throughout his recent publicity articles and his book, all of which are completely bizarre and look like the claims made by rank amateurs :
- The incorrect attribution to Pliny's letters
- The false claim that a statue (Priapus Bronze) does not exist.
- The curios claim that Pilate was not a procurator, but only a governor (He was in fact both. In the past, I actually made this false claim–but this was before I became a student; we should not expect this from a veteran scholar).
- The outstandingly false claim that "we simply don't have birth notices, trial records, death certificates—or other kinds of records that one has today" (yes he said that!)
- The claim that no Classicist argues that the record of Christians and Jesus in Tacitus is an interpolation (there are at least six that Carrier lists)
- The claim that no other scholar has proposed a different period for the death of Jesus and the rise of Christianity
- Ehrman's apparent ignorance of the Innana death and resurrection story and that of Romulus' death and resurrection story.
- The very false claim that we have no evidence of baptism in any mystery religions
- The claim that no Jews thought the messiah would die or suffer
- The rather hyperbolic claims that Carrier is somehow unqualified–with his three graduate degrees in relevant fields–to speak on the New Testament and Jesus studies
- The claim that "not even … the most powerful and important figure of his day, Pontius Pilate" is "mentioned in any Roman sources of his day."
- That we have sources dated to within a year or two of Jesus' death
Those are the patently FALSE claims made by Ehrman. This doesn't account for all of his errors either, since there are plenty more (which I cover in my forthcoming paper due out next week, with any luck); it also doesn't account for Ehrman's many misleading statements or contradictory statements made throughout the book (where he says one thing at one point and then contradicts himself at a later point).
And to which argument in Carrier's arsenal of criticisms does Ehrman choose to respond? That's right–the Priapus statue (which oddly Ehrman thinks is the strongest one, which is just silly). He doesn't address any of the other more relevant and important matters of oversight or misstatements. You can read my reply to Ehrman's response here. Carrier writes the following (snippet):
In his second reply he addressed one single point in my review. And here I believe there is reason to suspect he is lying about the Priapus statue. In my review of his book I called him out for saying (certainly very clearly implying) that Murdock "made up" the statue at the Vatican that she presents a drawing of and says is a symbol of Peter. He clearly did not call the Vatican about it or research the claim at all. Because if he had, he would have said what any responsible scholar would have said, which is that yes, the statue she depicts is real and the drawing she provides is reasonably accurate, but her argument that it symbolizes Peter is not credible. It's just a pagan statue of the god Priapus.
Now in his reply on this point, in "Acharya S, Richard Carrier, and a Cocky Peter (Or: "A Cock and Bull Story")," he claims I misread him, that he never denied the statue existed nor implied that Murdock made it up. Now let's look at what he actually wrote in the book. You be the judge:
[Acharya says] "'Peter' is not only 'the rock' but also 'the cock', or penis, as the word is used as slang to this day." Here Acharya shows (her own?) hand drawing of a man with a rooster head but with a large erect penis instead of a nose, with this description: "bronze sculpture hidden in the Vatican treasure of the Cock, symbol of St. Peter" (295). There is no penis-nosed statue of Peter the cock in the Vatican or anywhere else except in books like this, which love to make things up.
That's the sum total of what he says about this. It is quite evident to me that when he wrote this, he doubted the drawing came from any source, and believed (and here implies to the reader) that she just made it up. There is no such statue. That is what he is saying. But you can judge that for yourself. Certainly, the one thing this paragraph doesn't say is that the statue she references does exist, is (or at one time was) at the Vatican, and looks essentially just as her drawing depicts it. It also does not say that she is merely wrong to interpret this statue as being of Peter. To the contrary, all it says is that there is no such statue, she made this up. Which is false. And betrays his failure to even check.
But he now claims he did check. Sort of–he says he saw her citations and assumed there were priapic statues; he did not actually say he checked her sources, or contacted the Vatican.
Indeed. Ehrman is basically saying "I was never wrong. I'm just such a phenomenally lousy writer that things I wrote appear to say what they don't, and everyone who reads this book will often be misled in result." Others have noted the problem entailed by his repeatedly careless and irresponsible wording of things, which can completely mislead lay readers of his book. Ophelia Benson (Butterflies & Wheels), for example, found many problems with the way Ehrman's choice of words misleads, as well as his questionable logic (see: What Ehrman Actually Says, The Unseen, A Small Town Guy).
But I fear it may be worse than that. Because I don't actually believe him when he says he didn't mean to say the statue didn't exist. I suspect that is a post-hoc rationalization that he cooked up in an attempt to save face, after his careless and irresponsible scholarship on this matter was exposed. I suspect this not only because his excuse is implausible on its face (read his original paragraph again, and ask yourself how likely it is that someone who wanted to say "the statue she depicts does exist, but it's not a statue of Peter" would say instead what he did), and not only because he still doesn't claim to have researched her sources or contacted the Vatican (in other words, to do what he should have done), but also because, as several people have since pointed out to me, he said in a podcast (before my review and before Murdock herself exposed him on this) that the statue did not in any sense exist.
That's right. On Homebrewed Christianity, April 3 (2012), "Bart Ehrman on Jesus' Existence, Apocalypticism & Holy Week," timestamp 20:30-21:10: at this point in that podcast, Ehrman says Acharya talks about Peter the cock and shows a drawing of a statue with a penis for a nose and claims this is in the Vatican museum, at which Ehrman declares, with laughter, "It's just made up! There is no such s[tatue]… It's just completely made up" (emphasis mine). In context it is certainly clear he is saying there is no such statue of any kind, that her drawing is not of any actual object. (Note that I put the word "statue" in partial brackets because he speaks so quickly he didn't complete the word but started saying what is obviously the word "statue"; he doesn't pause to correct himself, though, he just quickly segues to the next phrase in animated conversation.)
Now, I must leave it to you to decide what's going on here. From both his own wording in the book and this podcast, it certainly seems that Ehrman had no idea the statue actually existed, until Murdock and I hammered him on it. Notably, I had emailed him about this weeks before my review, asking what his response to Murdock was, because I was concerned it didn't look good. I had not yet read his book, so I didn't know the whole thing would be a travesty of these kinds of errors. Ehrman never answered me (even though he has in the past). Only after my review did he come out with the explanation that he meant to say the statue existed but wasn't connected to Peter. And on that point I suspect he is lying.
You'll have to go to his site to read the rest of his response on this. In fact go read the whole thing.
Filed under: Early Christianity, Jesus, Life, Minimalism, New Testament, Reviews, Scholarship | Tagged: Bart Ehrman, Did Jesus Exist, historical jesus, mythicism, Pliny, Richard Carrier, Tacitus | 18 Comments »


text:
A 66-year-old Florida woman lost $50,000 after a person she met on a dating site scammed her into sending funds for a supposed building project, officials said.
The Ocala woman developed an online relationship with the suspect via a popular dating site, said a news release from the Marion County Sheriff's Office.
According to authorities, the suspect's pitch was this: "I'm a contractor who is in the process of building a bridge in Malaysia and I need money to start the project."
Now, officials are reminding seniors to watch out for online scams. The sheriff's office is hosting a "Be Scam Smart" workshop as part of Operation S.A.F.E. (Stop Adult Financial Exploitation) at 10 a.m. on Oct. 16th. Registration begins at 9 a.m. at the Marion County Sheriff's Office at 3300 NW 10th Street in Ocala.
More Weird Stories:

subset: commoncrawl


text:
Mplus Home
Last Day
Last 3 Days
Last Week
Tree View
Edit Profile
Unbalanced multilevel data
Mplus Discussion
Multilevel Data/Complex Sample
posted on Thursday, April 14, 2005 - 7:50 am
I have done some multilevel latent growth curve models using familydata where spouses are nested within couples (another possibility would be, of course, to use multivariate LGM. However, beacuse MLGM seems to answer my research questions quite nicely, I ended up to use this particular method.).
Now, I have encountered one troublesome problem. There is some missing data, and due to this, in some of the clusters there is only one member (i.e., wife; Quasi-average cluster size is by this reason 1.635 rather than 2). I would like to predict different growth components with gender. If I use gender as a predictor both at the within- and between-levels, the fit of the model is quite good but, at the between-level, there is negative variance estimate for gender suggesting no between-level variation in this variable(?). However, if I use gender only as a within-level predictor, the fit of the model is poor. I am a little bit confused what to do in this kind of situation. Have I missed something important here? Would you have any advice how to proceed here?
Also, my warmest thanks to Bengt for such an inspiring workshop on multilevel modelling in Baltimore last month. That was really something enjoyable. Thank you!
posted on Friday, April 15, 2005 - 1:33 am
I think you need to declare gender and a within variable using the WITHIN option. If you don't do that, it will be on both levels and may cause misfit on the between level. If you are already declaring it as a within level variable, I do not know why you would see what you are seeing.
Zairul Nor Deana
posted on Monday, April 12, 2010 - 12:03 am
Hi Professor,
I'm working with MSEM using Mplus on student clustered between schools. My questions:
1- How can I tell Mplus to use MUML instead of ML because I've unbalanced clusters size?
2- If there are missing data, in order to use MUML, should I impute the data first? 3- Is it appropriate to use ML in unbalanced data and with missing data?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Monday, April 12, 2010 - 7:33 am
You should use ML which is appropriate for unbalanced and missing data. MUML is ML for balanced data but is not ML for unbalanced data.
posted on Tuesday, March 01, 2011 - 6:14 am
I want to ask two questions about multilevel data with the use of MPlus:
1. I want to estimate a two-level model which includes latent variables with categorical indicators. My MPlus syntax for the conventional SEM which I will then use on the two-level is as follows:
VARIABLES ARE u1 u2 u3 u4 u5 u6;
CATEGORICAL ARE u1-u6;
MODEL: f1 BY u1 u2 u3;
f2 BY u4 u5 u6;
f1 ON f2;
Before testing the two-level model for this syntax with categorical indicators should I estimate the within-level model on the pooled-within covariance matrix as it is the third step in Bengt's 1994 article? I am confused in that f1 and f2 are output as continuous latent variables; however they have categorical indicators and that this model may not be tested on a covariance matrix.
2. My sample is an unbalanced case so I think when I step into the two-level model MUML estimation is not appropriate. Because f1 and f2 have categorical indicators. Should I use WLSM estimation or the default of MPlus?
Thank you in advance.
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, March 01, 2011 - 9:26 am
1. The 1994 article deals with continuous outcomes. For categorical outcomes, you should explore the factor structure on between and within using TYPE=TWOLEVEL EFA.
2. You should use the WLSM estimator.
posted on Tuesday, March 01, 2011 - 3:11 pm
I have four follow up questions, sorry if they are so simple but I wanted to be sure of some details in order to apropriately use MPlus:
1. Does TWOLEVEL EFA in MPlus allow us to include the within and between level covariates to investigate their effects on latent variables?
2. If it doesn't allow the investigation of the covariates is it plausible to estimate a TWOLEVEL CFA with covariates to have information about the within and between structure?
3. Does TWOLEVEL EFA require a model syntax in the MODEL command?
4. If we are'nt able to test a model (e.g f1 ON f2) in TWOLEVEL EFA, at the last step before we test a TWOLEVEL model is it plausible to estimate a single level model to investigate the relationships among our latent variables? Or after conducting a TWOLEVEL EFA can we proceed directly to a whole TWOLEVEL model skipping the single level analysis?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Tuesday, March 01, 2011 - 5:36 pm
1. No.
2. Yes. Once you have determined the appropriate CFA model for each level, you can estimate a multilevel CFA model with covariates.
3. No.
4. Once you have determined the multilevel model using TWOLEVEL EFA, you should proceed to a multilevel EFA.
posted on Wednesday, March 02, 2011 - 1:36 am
Dear Linda,
I have some confusions about the terms. 1. Doesn't TWOLEVEL EFA have the same meaning with multilevel EFA? Because performing a TWOLEVEL EFA makes it already a multilevel one?
2. Does "multilevel EFA" mean "multilevel structural equation modeling (MSEM)"? Because I think multilevel EFA would not allow me to investigate the relationships of latent variables among each other simultaneously with the relationships among the latents and covariates but MSEM does?
3. For multilevel EFA should I type in the ANALYSIS command TYPE = TWOLEVEL or is this a specific command for MSEM including two levels (e.g. students within schools)?
4. If I din't get wrong this multilevel issue, in the guidance of MPlus output is it plausible to proceed as 1)TWOLEVEL EFA with latent factors, 2)TWOLEVEL CFA with covariates, 3)TWOLEVEL structural model?
Linda K. Muthen
posted on Wednesday, March 02, 2011 - 9:14 am
1. Multilevel and twolevel are the same.
2. No.
3. You need to specify TWOLEVEL EFA.
4. Yes.
Back to top
Add Your Message Here
Posting Information:
This is a private posting area. Only registered users and moderators may post messages here.
Enable HTML code in message
Automatically activate URLs in message
Tree View
Program Credits


text:
Snapchat hired Washington, D.C. lobbyists to protect their interests for the first time, according to reports.
Snapchat, which is an ephemeral photo-sharing app, signed Heather Podesta + Partners according to a Jan. 1 lobbying disclosure, The Hill reported.The lobbyists are expected to work on communications, computers and consumer protection issues for the startup and educating policymakers on the app's operation and practice.
The lobbyist hire comes on the heels of Snapchat's data leak that left millions of users' information exposed and some called for a Federal Trade Commission investigation. The hackers claimed it was done to expose Snapchat's vulnerability and get the startup to fix it. Snapchat said that it installed new measures to battle "spam and abuse," according to a blog post.
U.S. & World
The Electronic Privacy Information Center recently complained to the FTC about Snapchat's storing of user photos and videos, despite promises that the they would be deleted. It also called for an investigation of the app and its data security.
The recent federal interest in Snapchat is enough to warrant a group of Washington, D.C. lobbyists, especially from a company that Mark Zuckerberg allegedly offered $3 billion to buy, to keep lawmakers off of its back. A federal probe is not what the startup wants, especially if it's hoping to eventually go public.


text:
Resume,Songs, My new blog, NeX-6, My facebook page
Orgs I like
The EFF - keeping free speech in the world
Musical stuff I like
Jeff, Rick, Ardour, Jack
Prior Rants - The winter of my disconnect Now is the time for all good men... A primal feeling The Rolling Blackout Blues Tired of being a victim Portrait of the artist as a (very) young man Paul Vixie vs Verisign Get a grip on traffic conditions with Know Traffic The Ball and Chain On the invention of the Form
Best of the blog:
Uncle Bill's Helicopter - A speech I gave to ITT Tech - Chicken soup for engineers
Beating the Brand - A pathological exploration of how branding makes it hard to think straight
Inside the Internet Mind - trying to map the weather within the global supercomputer that consists of humans and google
Sex In Politics - If politicians spent more time pounding the flesh rather than pressing it, it would be a better world
Getting resources from space - An alternative to blowing money on mars using NEAs.
On the Columbia - Why I care about space
Authors I like:
Doc Searls
Where's Cherie?
Jerry Pournelle
The Cubic Dog
Evan Hunt
The Bay Area is talking
Zimnoiac Emanations
Eric Raymond
Unlocking The Air
Bob Mage
BroadBand & Me
Selenian Boondocks
My Pencil
Transterrestial Musings
Bear Waller Hollar


text:
Ronda Rousey to make historic UFC debut
Ronda Rousey has an Olympic judo medal, an undeniable personal magnetism and a merciless string of victories in her short mixed martial arts career.
Now she's finally got a showcase worthy of her talent.
Rousey and Liz Carmouche will make history Saturday night at Honda Center in Anaheim, Calif., when they meet in the first women's bout in UFC history. They're the main event at UFC 157, and Rousey is the star of the latest pay-per-view show put on by MMA's dominant promotion.
It's a scenario that was fairly unimaginable even a year ago in the UFC, which never had a women's division and showed scant interest in that version of the sport. Rousey and her fellow fighters have created believers at every level of MMA in the past few years, culminating in this breakthrough onto its biggest stage.
"I feel like the brighter the lights are, the better I can see," Rousey said.
"These are things that needed to be done for a very long time now, and I didn't think that waiting for somebody else to do it was the wisest thing to do," she added. "I feel like I'm the most capable person, and I should do whatever I can to make it happen."
It's all happening for Rousey, who has already graced magazine covers and national talk shows with a sparkling wit and charm that's in sharp contrast to her savage, joint-dislocating performances in the cage. After winning each of her first six professional MMA fights by painful armbar submissions in the first round, Rousey is a huge favorite to retain the UFC women's bantamweight belt handed to her by UFC President Dana White last year after she defended her title in the now-defunct Strikeforce promotion.
"It's very serendipitous, the way it's all come together," said Rousey, a Southern California native who lives beachside in Venice. "If I could have had everything exactly the way I wanted, this is how I would have written it down. Win all my fights in the first round, then go to the UFC and headline a show, and have it as a pay-per-view and at home. People's dreams don't come true like that. You think so when you're a kid, but then you get older and realize that's not the real world. I guess the real world is pretty cool sometimes, too."
As the anointed face of her sport, Rousey's profile is growing among casual sports fans, even overtaking the stature of Gina Carano, the former fighter who got an acting career when director Steven Soderbergh saw her fighting on CBS. On the heels of the wildly successful debut of women's boxing at the London Olympics, Rousey seems poised to take the so-called combat sports to greater exposure than ever before.
She already won over the most important skeptic of all: White, who initially wanted no part of women's MMA.
"After we met, she told me she had envisioned in her mind that she was going to make it so that I couldn't deny women, that I would have to bring her into the UFC," White said. "We've had some pretty crazy conversations about a lot of things, but she was right. She willed it so that there was no way I was not going to do it."
Rousey specializes in the armbar, a judo technique that bends an opponent's arm in grotesque fashion until she taps out or gets a dislocated elbow. Rousey has an equally spectacular way with words: During promotion for her final Strikeforce fight against Sarah Kaufman last August, Rousey vowed to rip off Kaufman's arm and throw it at her corner. She settled for her sixth straight armbar.
"Everybody calls her a one-trick pony, but she's fought a lot of women that are very good, who all know exactly what she's going to do, and they can't stop her," White said. "She goes right in and gets you down, goes for that arm, and they can't stop her from doing it. She doesn't want her arm raised in a decision. She wants to finish you, and that's what I like."
She's not talking any trash for her UFC debut, though: Rousey has a warm mutual respect with Carmouche, a Marine from San Diego.
Carmouche is the first openly gay fighter in UFC history, yet she's nearly a footnote in the UFC 157 hype compared to Rousey's rising star. Carmouche realizes Rousey is supremely gifted, but eagerly took this historic chance to be in the UFC's first women's fight.
Carmouche thinks she'll contribute to the growth of women's MMA, something she sees every day as an instructor for children.
"When I started the program two years ago, we had one girl that was involved just because her father also participated," Carmouche said. "Now we have multiple girls in the program, so I see it evolving every day."
Early last year, women's MMA resembled a minor-league novelty to White. He saw no depth of talent, no groundswell of support, and no compelling reason to muddle his carefully managed brand with one-sided fights featuring women getting beaten bloody.
Rousey changed his mind with her skill, presence, charisma and marketability. When she steps into the UFC octagon, it will complete a remarkable rise for a bronze medalist at the Beijing Olympics who swiftly picked up MMA before her pro debut in March 2011.
Rousey was a two-time Olympic judoka who won the U.S. team's first medal in the sport, but realized she had little to show for a career in the sport once dominated by her mother, Ann-Maria.
Adrift after growing disenchanted with the American judo establishment, she picked up grappling as a way to combat weight gain from "the Jameson diet" of whiskey shots while working at a bar. Her grappling teammates began encouraging her to try MMA, jokingly at first.
"After a while, I was saying, 'You know what, you're right, I would beat any of those women today,' " Rousey said with a laugh. "They said, 'No, I don't want to see you get punched!' You tell me not to? I'm totally going to do it now. When everybody was telling me, 'No,' I knew I'd found my new thing."
We're revamping our Comments section. Learn more and share your input.


text:
Rock Star Sport in Love Me Tender
Now taking the stage... Rock Star Sport, our beautiful new sportweight superwash merino base! Plump & springy and 100% made just for us in the USA, this awesome yarn is perfect for pretty much everything from beautiful textured hats and mittens to cozy, cuddly cardigans, & everything in between! There's a whopping 350 yards in each 100g skein!
This colorway is inspired by the song by Elvis. The last few photos here are a part of our Epic Swatching Project to give you an idea of how this color works up.


text:
Former teen idol Christian Slater has stepped back from the limelight and moved away from Hollywood. But, he's happier than ever, the newly-engaged actor tells Kate Whiting Working with Sylvester Stallone is full of surprises. One day he's holding a gun in your face, and the next, presenting you with cake and singing Happy Birthday.
This was what happened to Christian Slater on the set of Stallone's latest action showpiece, Bullet To The Head.
"He's certainly an intimidating force to deal with," says Slater, whose character is strapped to a chair and interrogated by Stallone's hitman alter ego.
"But when the cameras were off, he couldn't have been more of a gentleman. It was my birthday on set and he brought out a cake and sang Happy Birthday - it was a blast!"
Slater, who turned 43 during the summer shoot in New Orleans, had grown up watching Stallone's movies and missed out on the opportunity to work with him on 1995's Assassins due to a "scheduling conflict".
"He's always been one of my heroes. Some movie stars are so iconic that it's hard to see them as a person, you know? He's like an object almost, so it's fascinating to be around that kind of energy."
Back in the Nineties, the same could have been said for Slater. After roles in cult films Heathers, Pump Up The Volume and the Quentin Tarantino-penned True Romance, he was a bona fide teen heart-throb, chiselled good looks matched by bad boy appeal.
Up there with contemporaries Brad Pitt and Johnny Depp, the former child actor mixed up quirky romcoms like Untamed Heart, with big-budget action like John Woo's Broken Arrow.
When his friend River Phoenix died in 1993, Slater stepped into his role as the interviewer in the following year's Interview With The Vampire, which also starred Pitt and Tom Cruise, and donated his fee to Phoenix's favourite charities.
"There's no way to really prepare yourself for something that is unpredictable, and you never know how you're going to deal with some of those obstacles you're faced with," he says of those years, the twang of his voice instantly recognisable down the phone from his adopted home of Miami.
"A lot of doors are opened for you, you get treated in a particular way which is fun for a while, but you definitely feel a little weird and it can mess with your perspective on what's real. It can screw with you a little bit."
A few years ago, Slater made a concerted effort to distance himself from Hollywood, after falling in love with the Florida Keys. He also met "a very special girl", Brittany Lopez.
They got engaged at New Year, with a party for 200 family members.
"For the last few years I've just been living a quieter life, a happier life," says Slater. "It's nice to have some distance between me and Hollywood and showbusiness in general. I love it, I enjoy the work, I just don't think I necessarily enjoy the things that come along with it. It tends to create a little bit of chaos."
By chaos, he could be referring to the media furore following his brushes with the law.
In 1997, Slater was sentenced to three months in jail for assaulting his then girlfriend and a police officer while under the influence of drugs and alcohol.
In 2003, his wife of three years Ryan Haddon was arrested after hurling a glass bottle at him, gashing his neck. The pair, who have two children, Jaden, 13, and Eliana, 11, divorced a few years later.
Then, in 2005, Slater was filmed being arrested in New York for alleged sexual assault, a charge he denied.
Whether by choice or as a result of his perceived misdemeanours, Slater slid out of leading man territory. He now takes on character parts, in the likes of Bullet To The Head and Lars von Trier's latest film Nymphomaniac, which he recently returned from filming in Copenhagen.
He sounds humbled, grateful for these opportunities, and is extremely honest about his prospects.
"I was just in LA and did a few days on Undiscovered Gyrl. I think it's going to be an interesting movie, so I was grateful to get the opportunity to be a part of that," he says.
"But really right now, I have no idea... I'm kind of in a waiting period at the moment, I guess the year's just started and everybody's gearing back up, we'll see what happens. That may be the last movie I ever do, I have no idea."
Born in New York to a casting agent mum and an actor dad, Slater was destined to end up in showbiz. He made his Broadway debut aged 11, opposite Dick Van Dyke in The Music Man, and his first film was 1985's The Legend Of Billie Jean.
The following year, he starred opposite Sean Connery in the film adaptation of Umberto Eco's The Name Of The Rose.
It was 1988's Heathers, though, followed by his appearance as Will Scarlett in the 1991 blockbuster Robin Hood: Prince Of Thieves, that propelled him into the A-list.
He says acting is just like being a kid, really.
"I used to run around in my back yard and pretend to be an action hero," he recalls. "When I was flying back from Copenhagen there was a lady watching Expendables 2, and Stallone and Jean Claude Van Damme were shooting it out. It reminded me of what I used to do when I was seven. This [job] gives you the opportunity to just keep playing."
He certainly enjoyed being on the set of a Lars von Trier film. The controversial Danish director, known for pushing the boundaries, is according to Slater a "patient and compassionate director".
Slater plays the father of the nymphomaniac of the title, played by Charlotte Gainsbourg, who recounts her life story to a man who discovers her beaten in an alley.
Slater says being a dad helped with the role.
"It's certainly something I treasure and enjoy and it made playing a father that much easier."
His own children won't be seeing the movie anytime soon though, and he admits he worries about what they're watching online.
"Everything's so much more accessible than it was when I was growing up, so I do my best to look over their shoulder and make sure they're not watching something horrendously inappropriate. But you can't police them every second."
As for their thoughts on their dad, Slater says: "They hopefully appreciate the kind of person I am more than what I do for a living.
"But my daughter's certainly expressed an interest in entertaining. We had a band at our engagement party and she got up and sang a few tunes - she's certainly not shy.
"My agent was like, 'Oh my God, I gotta represent her'. I was like, 'Back off buddy!"' For now, wedding plans are on hold while Slater and his new fiancee settle down - and get more involved in the Miami community.
They recently rescued a dog from a shelter, who they've named Fish ("He's sort of my best friend at this point") and are both on the board of an organisation called Voices For Children, that helps children stuck in the court system.
He'd love to have children with Lopez.
"She'd be a great mother, we definitely talk about it. We're having a lot of fun together."


text:
36 mm - Watch with interchangeable strap
Code: FOW484QW5F0U9Z
Stainless steel case with 18 Kt yellow gold plated bezel. White dial with off-centered white mother-of-pearl small second subdial, yellow gold colored Roman numerals and indexes. Brown hand-stitched Fendi Cuoio Romano calfskin leather strap, stainless steel pin buckle.
- Product Code:FOW484QW5F0U9Z
- Dimensions:36 mm
- Composition:100%silk, embroidery: 85%pvc, 10%glass5%metal, calf leather
- Additional details:Sapphire crystal
White mother-of-pearl cabochon on the crown
Caseback opening to easily change the strap/bracelet
Swiss made quartz movement (hours, minutes, seconds)
Water resistance: 5 ATM/50 meters/165 feet
Warranty: 2 years
For User Manual and Warranty information please click here
More details
Instruction manual
May we help?
Our Customer Care is at your disposal for any information or assistance you may require. Call us at +39 0633450130 or send us an email.
We're available Monday to Friday, 10am to 7pm CET.
Buy online
Enjoy shopping online when and where you want, and have your order delivered at a personal address or pick it up at one of our stores.
You can also place your order by phone with our Customer Care.
Shipping and Returns
We offer free Standard shipping on all orders. The parcel will be delivered in 4 to 6 working days. Express shipping is available if you want to receive your order in 2 to 3 working days.
Returns are always free and can be requested within 14 days from delivery. Please note it is not possible to return personalised items..
Find in store
You can check if this item is available in a boutique near you, or visit our Store Locator for our full list of retail stores.


text:
Currency Displayed in
Pink & Brown with Pink Dots double tied bows
Sold by the dozen.
Approximately 4" wide.
Made out of layers of high quality grosgrain ribbon.
Attached to a single prong alligator clip.
All of our double tied hairbow styles are really popular and resell really well.
Affordable, bulk pricing everyday!
All prices are in USD


text: The Nike LunaRacer+ 3 running shoe features a new mesh upper including Engineered Mesh, that eliminates the need for overlays, and Dynamic Flywire that allows for a fit that changes along with the shape of the foot during the gait cycle. Lunarlon midsole provides a soft, yet responsive ride without adding much weight to the shoe. Carbon rubber in key areas of the outsole gives traction and durability. Wt. 5.1 oz.More>>


text:
County budget meets hard times
"What a difference a year makes," Albemarle County Exec Bob Tucker observed to local media before presenting his fiscal 2008/2009 budget today. A year ago, as Albemarle was giddy over annual property reassessments that were up 15 percent, Tucker presented an operating budget that increased 6.7 percent. This year, with the housing market tanking nationally and county residential assessments up a more modest 0.14 percent, Tucker's $268.7 million budget represents a 2.1 percent increase.
"It's really unprecedented," says Tucker. "I've been here 35 years, and I've never seen a reassessment that low."
The total $331.4 million budget focuses on maintaining essential services, Tucker says, and the $26 million increase over last year is mainly in capital expeditures, not operations, he emphasizes. The $20.1 million, 69.5 percent increase will pay for projects at Albemarle High School and Brownsville and Greer elementaries.
It's up to the Board of Supervisors to determine whether to cut, hike, or maintain the current
68 cent/$100 value tax rate, and the county school board has presented a budget that's short $1.3 million in revenue.
Tucker notes that 13 county positions have been frozen and four eliminated, but county employees are looking at a 3.35 percent raise.
34 comments
M, I don't own 4 but some families do. It was an example. If I own 4 BMW's then you are right it probably is no biggie. Not everyone does though so add that $52 to real estate and vehicle tax and it adds up. You are obviously a tax-hugger. I believe you can donate your extra money to the county's schools if you like. County meal tax, utilty tax, phone tax, decal tax, vehicle tax, real estate tax not to mention federal and state tax do add up.
Then it sounds like we may agree -- the Board of Supervisors is a bunch of hacks that don't take time to actually understand the issues they vote on.
Let's just agree that they on the information that their lives, their staff and their constituents provide them.
Oh, I'm sorry, I guess when Bush and others in the GOP use "compassionate" it is all peachy-keen, but god forbid a liberal use it. Go pinch your pennies while others suffer around you -- does that make you feel good?
Bush doesn't serve on the school board or the BoS.
Also, I wouldn't call rubber-stamping a budget request as being either liberal or conservative. I would call it foolish, however.
According to the Daily Progress http://dailyprogress.com/servlet/Satellite?pagename=CDP/MGArticle/CDP_Ba... the County school system is considering charging for students' school bus rides while Tucker is bemoaning not having enough money to start a transit authority (which will allow the same children to ride to the Mall for free in the summmer). What's the big picture here. The students are the clients here, not the staff. Forego the raises and let them enjoy just the step increases.
A few thoughts on this argument:
The tax rate shouldn't be played with. It costs the gov't more money for captital improvements and land acquisition when the marked goes up. If you then decrease the tax rate the government and the schools are put in a situation where they can't keep up with the market.
Students are not the clients of the educational system. The public is. It is the duty of the public to educate its students to the best of its ability for the future growth of this society. The number one predictor of student achievement is teacher quality. What do you think will happen to teacher quality when you don't give raises to stay competitive (The best UVA grads are leaving year after year to go to Norhtern VA where the pay is higher in relation to Cost of Living)?
In these times of budget tightening the school board and the BOS needs to do everything possible to make sure that teacher quality remains as high as possible. That means money for salary increases, money for school-based professional development, money for teachers to take classes and continue to learn. A GREAT teacher can teach more children in their room, and they can teach with less resources....but we have to make sure that we a. get GREAT teachers, and b. make our teachers GREAT, or the public is not serving its constituency (themselves). Don't be short sighted.
Actually there is a 50% tax increase which little is spoken about. When you get your decal tax it will now be $38.00 instead of the usual $25.00. Some will say its only $13 more but multiply that by the number of vehicles you own. So instead of $100 for 4 vehicles you will now pay $152. Guess that makes up for the lower assessment. They love to spend and will get it anyway they can! Oh yeah I heard the formula will also be changed so vehicle values will now be assessed higher. Cha-ching!
Way to tighten our belts Albemarle!
Should people whose primary residence is over their place of business get a tax break or pay the commercial rate? I don't see why these people who move in and out of Virginia in three years should be getting a tax break. They already get one on their income taxes and people who have paid for their homes can't. How fair is that?
This proposal will drive up rentals for the lower income such as those receiving Section 8 vouchers because the cost of their housing will go up.
a compassionate citizen, how much did you pay last year in real estate taxes? Cutting the rate when assessment go up is a part of State law for a reason. Why not learn to be compassionate with your money and not other people's?
It's not the school board's budget, it's part of the county's budget. That's why the BoS votes it up or down. It's not the school board's money either, before you argue that.
It's wonderful that you spend your money as you see fit, in a "compassionate" way. What a holier-than-thou term with a ridiculous implication that those who are not agreeing to ever-rising tax bills are some how not as compassionate as you are. That attitude doesn't go far with most people, I'll tell you.
As far as I can tell, the School Board decides their budget and are the ones considering charging for buses and athletics. Mr. Tucker does not appear to be part of that process. If you take issue with his concern on the regional transit system issue, you have every right. But do not try to tie it to the School Board's possible proposal to charge for busing.
I do not see what my specific tax amount has to do with anything. I have paid my taxes, they have gone up and down at the same rate as everyone in the county. My money goes into the system and I was willing to keep the rate as it was in the past. I also do what I can, within my means, to contribute to causes locally and keep my purchases within our community, where it benefits people and businesses in our area. Very little of my money flows outside this community.
When a family makes less one year then the one before they CUT BACK. They accept that they cannot have all of the "frills" they had before. The problem is that once the government starts a project they see it as a neccessity.
The county should NEVER purchase artwork. They should ask for donations or loans for their walls and lobbies. They should let the tree huggers donate trees for medians etc. They should stop having "celebrations" etc. until times get good again. The employees feel no obligation to save money because the leadership doesn't take a hit.
Somebody needs to look over the money they want to spend on schools and see why they pay SO MUCH FOR EVERYTHING.
One office they do need to create is a taxpayer advocate that has the right to review and call into question any purchase/contract at any time. Just KNOWING someone is going to report your bullshiat on the county website will save MILLIONS.
There will be no belt tighten at the county. There is no penalty for raising taxes unless it cost someone an office. There are a few Supervisor that can't wait to raise your taxes- they believe you aren't paying enough now!
4 vehicles? I own one. If you own four, then I'm guessing an extra $52 a year isn't going to hurt you too much.
Can you blame your elected officials for their tax and spend philosophy any more than you can blame the American people for their appetite for fast food? Would you expect for your leaders to save for a rainy day when most all Americans have no savings? You can't change human nature just like you can't control mother nature.
Therefore, I would like to see a grassroots campaign to force the general assembly and state legislature to pass a homestead exemption act that is mandatory and not left up to the local government. Furthermore, I want to see a cap placed on the yearly increase in property taxes for primary residences. Homeowners should be rewarded for being loyal to Virginia. Otherwise why doesn't everyone move to Florida where all these benefits are already law. Only by petition and by special referendum can we reel in these out of control money wasting "drunken sailors". Business leaders complain these changes would lead to a shift of the tax burden to them. Well I say if they would quit wasting so much money paying their lobbyist to wine and dine and send the legislators to Hawaii they would come out ahead in the end. The ordinary man does not have a chance except as a collective group. Stand up and be counted.
"Thank god they are giving the teachers and other employees a raise!And I mean that seriously¢Ã¢â??¬Šit allows the employees to receive a cost of living increase, because life isn't getting any cheaper." The tax payer is getting a raise, too. I wonder where would the employees go if they didn't get a raise, to Charlottesville, Fluvanna, Greene, Buckingham, Louisa, Nelson or Augusta.
"The tax payer is getting a raise, too."
Your right, because it seems to me we got two consecutive tax cuts which meant more money in the pockets of citizens and less money for the county to work with. So far, it doesn't seem like that will change. I'm a county resident and I think the tax cuts were irresponsible and shortsighted. And now the budget woes are reflecting that. The BOS needs to get off their sorry butts and realize that the tax rate shouldn't be played with. The market will go up and down and if we are constantly changing the rate to "keep up" with assessments, we are going to keep running into these types of situations.
College grads move to NOVA primarily for social reasons; there are far more eligibles there than here. The article didn't say anything about the money going into inservice training or continuing education scholarships, it said pay checks. It's so funny how people start bringing up stuff that isn't true to get a raise. We hear it every year. Even if what you say is true that teachers will all leave because they did't get a raise, why are the non-teachers also getting a raise? Do they make the teachers better teachers? It is the non-teachers who prepare the budget, not the teachers, and every year they get a raise behind the idea of improving teacher performance and competing more effectively for "the best teachers" who need more money to make them the "best" teachers. I wonder when teachers will get tired of others riding on their coat-tails. I'm surprised you didn't add the shop-worn "Teachers are going into their own pockets..."
Doctors provide services, they are not their clients. The public provides education, the students are the clients. Ridiculous verbosity really doesn't advance an argument. Don't worry, I'm sure you will get your raise. You always have.
Ahhh ideas....there are many. Let us start with excess. I saw those $30,000 planters and laughed. Does that "green roof" really serve a purpose other than to provide bragging rights? Wouldn't 3 extra inches of insulation given the same result? They can't even quantify any saving! Seems like a university project to me. Why a county spokesperson? Aren't the managers qualified to speak since they are the most knowledgable? How much admin is needed in the schools and where can one find a detailed budget on their website?
If you spend when times are great you also need to know how to throttle back when they are not not look for other sources to tax. Just think they are now talking gas tax so we can have empty buses!
Don't forget the sales tax. M, do you really think that anything that TheTruthInLies has suggested as cuts will be discussed by any official? Do you really think that TheTruthInLies has a chance of being elected? The voters have a "Don't cut mine, cut theirs" attitude."And you probably also receive at least a cost-of-living increase in your salary every year, so it's reasonable to expect that county employees will as well." I'm interested in knowing who, other than apparently government employees, get a cost-of-living adjustment in salary. Can somebody please answer?
¢Ã¢â??¬Ã?â??It's really unprecedented,¢Ã¢â??¬ says Tucker. ¢Ã¢â??¬Ã?â??I've been here 35 years, and I've never seen a reassessment that low.¢Ã¢â??¬ I find it hilarious Tucker wasn't as startled when assessments went through the roof as did our taxes and there was more money than he knew what to do with. Now our assessments have leveled off, at their peak, and he says its "unprecendeted". What will happen if the county actually lowered assessments? Raise the rate and spend more!
No, I'm not a tax hugger, and I'm not real eager to pay more, but I do acknowledge that things get more expensive every year - you've probably noticed that. It's costing me more to fill my car, for example, so it probably costs more to fill the school buses and cop cars as well. And you probably also receive at least a cost-of-living increase in your salary every year, so it's reasonable to expect that county employees will as well. So with all of that, you have to assume that if the county's population remains stable or increases, and if the level of services remains the same, the budget is going to have to be more. It's a fact of life. If you think the county needs to do some belt-tightening, then get yourself a copy of the budget, find the specific line items that you think could be decreased or eliminated completely, and go before the BOS and School Board with your ideas. Or better yet, run for the BOS or SB. Because people love to complain about their taxes increasing, but very rarely does anyone ever seem to have any specific ideas to stop that from happening.
"Please provide your sources..." If you go to mycaar.com you will see quite a few homes built after 2003 on the market. Also, a perusal of the local property transfers, checking out the sales in subdivisions less than ten years old so do the trick. Why do people buy and sell in so short of time? One reason is that when they move here, they have sold their former home and need to roll the money over into a new home or pay substantial capital gains taxes (especially if they sold it during the "bubble."). People who move here for grad school, temporary assignment to NGIC or GE or to work on a research project are members of this group. People who move to NOVA for political appointments or to Tidewater as part of the military or military-related businesses are others. Homeownership does not always equate to homesteading.
"...home values are going down in most parts of the country..." has very little to do with here where "down" is relative. A house just sold, after a price drop of $19,000, for $305,000, UP from the sales price in 2004 of $267,900.
"...more likely a renter..." I have never paid as much as one month's rent.
"Even before the mortgage crisis hit some studies showed it is more cost effective to rent than to own if it is only about the money." I'll prefer to take Judy Savage's, Carol Clarke's, Dave Phillip's, and Jim Duncan's word that now is the time first-time home buyers should stop paying rent.
" They should pay more than their fair share since they are in the business of making money." So are farmers. So is anybody else who works.
If the new owner of Seven Oaks homesteads, won't she be able to benefit from the homesteaders legislation that you've endorsed?
"I think you missed the entire point of my comment that we the people need to be able to place restraints on our ¢Ã¢â??¬Ã?â??elected¢Ã¢â??¬ representives to force them to practice fiscal responsibility because once in office they seem to spend like ¢Ã¢â??¬Ã?â??drunken sailors¢Ã¢â??¬." I missed that great point because you didn't make it. There is a town meeting Monday, February 25, 2008 at 7 PM at the Albemarle County Office Building that many will find very interesting. The fairness of the assessment process and the controls that should be placed on the tax rates will be discussed in open forum and you will not be limited to 3 minutes in order to express your ideas. It's non-partisan or multi-partisan. It will be very unwise for everybody's sake for the tax payers to fall for the divide-and-conquor tactics implicit in this new homesteader act. The problems of the implementation of the real estate taxing powers in VA is what needs fixing. Check out www.votors.org for an alternate idea that should be a great interest to family farmers.
"Do you really think farmers are getting rich farming?" I don't know what they're getting rich off of but I don't see them standing in the welfare lines. Our votes will not cancel each others because we don't get to vote. So, the homeowner gets a 20% deduction on his tax bill. What's to keep the County from raising the rate to a $1.00 per $100 and pass the $.80 per $100 on to the homeowner? Isn't that more than the $.68 per $100 he pays now? i know you're busy with farming but I think you and your like-minded friends would do well to understand the relationship between assessments and tax rates and the current Virginia law governing both.
Obviously you are not aware of the tax rules that govern the sale of a primary residence currently in place that allows a couple to "shelter" up to 500K of any profit from the sale. There is no longer rolling into another more expensive house. Why do you think all the developers build themselves a new house every two years or so in an up market. No capital gains.
There is nothing unusual about "here" only that the university drives the market and very wealthy individuals seem to like it here which taken together have driven up the price of housing forcing the trade folks and fixed income elderly people to be forced to move out of the county because they cannot afford the real estate taxes even if they own their house outright. My proposals would help these folks.
Do you really think farmers are getting rich farming? Give me a break. Their only positive outlook is the value of their property which is being diminished by the new ordinances that dictate what they can do with it.
The new owners of Seven Oaks as you know would be paying a princely sum ($86,250) of real estate taxes based on their purchase price of 12.5M. Only thereafter would their tax burden be kept in check as long as they own the place based on my proposals.
I think I have made my point very clearly to those of a like opinion about tax and spend policies and the only solace I take from your repeated comments in these forums is that my vote will cancel out yours.
Cville zzzzzEye your arguments are invalid as I am sure you are aware. Yes, all primary residences should get the same benefit. Please provide your sources of how many families move into Virginia buy a house then move away within three years relative to any other state in the union and of course this would be a negative financial move to do so now and for the immediate future. Also, relative to the maintenance and other costs of owning a home the tax write offs do not compensate especially considering home values are going down in most parts of the country and not up. I would guess you are neither an accountant or a homeowner; more likely a renter. Even before the mortgage crisis hit some studies showed it is more cost effective to rent than to own if it is only about the money. I believe that locally the 15% per year assessment increases that have occurred over the past 5 years is totally ridiculous and probably based on faulty and self serving data. Where did all that additional revenue go? Now that the cash cow is forced on a diet local government cannot( without a riot) trump up unfounded assessment increases to feed their spending. Too bad. They, like the state will have to reach in their coffers of millions of dollars from past over taxing to maintain their ever increasing budget. I wonder what would happen if a majority of property owners would obtain an appraisal and contest their assessment. Log jam I suspect. Peaceful protest.
It is not fair to the homeowner that corporations get all the breaks just because they can afford lobbyists. They should pay more than their fair share since they are in the business of making money. These are also the same folks that can afford the 12M Seven Oaks estate that if and when sold will be factored into next years assessment increase. BTW, it is assessed at 4M+; what is that all about? I wish the tax assessor had under assessed my property by two thirds.
I think you missed the entire point of my comment that we the people need to be able to place restraints on our "elected" representives to force them to practice fiscal responsibility because once in office they seem to spend like "drunken sailors".
If times were really hard, the staff wouldn't be getting a raise.
Here is a site that gives concise information about bills concerning taxes introduced in the House of Delegates this year. There are several that deal with controlling local real estate tax rates. http://www.richmondsunlight.com/bills/tags/tax/
Thank god they are giving the teachers and other employees a raise! And I mean that seriously...it allows the employees to receive a cost of living increase, because life isn't getting any cheaper. If the county cannot maintain competitive during these harder times, they will see people quit and services will fall even further than they have already.
Hey Rambo...do you realize all the fuel efficient vehicles they have purchased recently? As far as I can tell, there haven't been that many truck type purchases. And those that were purchased seem to do tasks that require towing and 4x4 capabilities. We live in a rural county. It is hard to get around when you are stuck in the mud, can't climb that hill, or can't tow your equipment to maintain the parks.
Step back into reality, because your la-la land is distorting your perception.
As I have said before, maybe they will have to cut back on the take-home gas guzzling 4x4 extended wheelbase trucks, Suburbans, Expeditions, Explorers, and Tahoes they have been buying so many of in the last few years. Spending was totally out of control just in vehicle purchases alone.
Who are the non-governmental workers who will receive a cost-of-living raise this year?
"One office they do need to create is a taxpayer advocate that has the right to review and call into question any purchase/contract at any time." I'm enjoying the Schilling Show on AM 1070 from 1 to 2 PM weekdays and 6 to 9 Am on Saturday mornings just before the Snow's Garden Center Show. I like hearing what the officials won't tell.


text:
Feb 28 2014
"Simple Goat Cheese and Tomato Lasagne Recipe"
By charlimblog and has no comments yet.
Dairy, Cheese & Eggs Artisan Cheese Cottage Cheese Cream Cheese Milk & Cream
With less than 30 minutes preparation time and 30 minutes to an hour cooking time, this recipe serves 6. An easy-to-make vegetarian lasagne. Serve with a simple salad and garlic bread.
portable keyboard
With less than 30 minutes preparation time and 30 minutes to an hour cooking time, this recipe serves 6. An easy-to-make vegetarian lasagne. Serve with a simple salad and garlic bread.
Ingredients for filling:
- 5fl oz. olive oil
- 3 garlic cloves, sliced
- 2lb 2oz. tomatoes, chopped
- handful fresh basil leaves, torn
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
Ingredients for Bechamel sauce:
- 4½ oz. unsalted butter
- 2¾ oz. plain flour
- 1¾ pint. goat milk, warmed
- pinch grated nutmeg
Ingredients for lasagne layers:
- 10 oz. mozzarella cheese, crumbled
- 1¾ oz. pecorina romano, grated
- 9 oz. fresh lasagne verdi sheets
- salt and freshly ground black pepper
- For the filling, heat the oil in a saucepan and fry the garlic for 3-4 minutes. Add the tomatoes and simmer for 30 minutes.
- Remove the mixture from the heat and purée in a blender until smooth. Season to taste with salt and freshly ground black pepper and set aside.
- Preheat the oven to 350 °F
- For the sauce, melt the butter, add the flour and stir over a medium heat for 1-2 minutes. Gradually add the milk and stir for 5-10 minutes. Once all the milk has been added, add the nutmeg and season with salt and freshly ground black pepper.
- Spoon some béchamel sauce onto the base of a 12in x 8in baking dish. Spoon over some of the tomato sauce, then top with some Mozzarella cheese . Complete the first layer of the dish with lasagne sheets.
- Repeat the layering process in point 5. Finish by sprinkling over with any remaining cheeses and bake in the oven for 30-35 minutes, or until the cheese on top is bubbling and golden brown.
Buttermilk Dairy Milk Eggnog Flavored Milk Heavy Cream Light Cream Whipping Cream Sour Cream Whipped Toppings Yogurt Packaged Cheese Feta Mozzarella Parmesan Provolone Ricotta Vegetarian Blue Cheese Cheddar Cheese Blends Almond Milk Soy Milk Milk Substitutes Butter & Margarine Cheese Assortments & Samplers
portable keyboard


text:
COVID 19 UPDATE: We are pleased to announce that all 15 PMT Stores across the UK are Covid Secure and are now open. MORE INFO.
M-Audio is one of the most highly respected manufacturers of musical performance equipment, computer interface & studio integration solutions, keyboards & controllers, as well as diverse range of essential hardware solutions including microphones and studio monitors.
Founded in 1988 under the name of Midiman, the company began trading as M-audio from 2000. In under 20 years in a highly competitive field M-audio have risen to become one of the world leaders in MIDI audio solutions, speaker technology, headphones and even effects pedal units.
If your looking for affordable industry standard equipment, M-Audio has a lot to offer. Check out the full range of products at PMT Online or in store today.


text:
Amphetamines are drugs that stimulate the nervous system. They may
be used in the treatment of attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD),
narcolepsy (a sleeping disorder), and other conditions.
Amphetamines produce increased alertness and a feeling of euphoria.
Common amphetamine medicines include dextroamphetamine (Dexedrine) and
methamphetamine (Desoxyn).
Amphetamines can be abused and are sometimes sold illegally with
names such as speed, ice, and lid poppers.
Last Revised:
October 13, 2011
Healthwise Staff
Medical Review:
William H. Blahd, Jr., MD, FACEP - Emergency Medicine & Peter Monti, PhD - Alcohol and Addiction
This information does not replace the advice of a doctor. Healthwise, Incorporated disclaims any warranty or liability for your use of this information. Your use of this information means that you agree to the Terms of Use. How this information was developed to help you make better health decisions.
To learn more visit Healthwise.org
© 1995-2012 Healthwise, Incorporated. Healthwise, Healthwise for every health decision, and the Healthwise logo are trademarks of Healthwise, Incorporated.


text:
February 7: Centennial Celebration at the Newmark featuring Li-Young Lee and Ted Kooser: SOLD OUT!
Friday, February 7, 7:30 pm at Newmark Theatre, 1111 SW Broadway, Portland. Tickets $19 - $57 at: http://www.portland5.com. Lewis & Clark College and Literary Arts present a celebration of the life of William Stafford with an evening filled with nationally recognized authors and poets. Li- Young Lee is the winner of the 2002 William Carlos Williams Award and the Delmore Schwartz Memorial Poetry Award. One of her works was also the 1990 Lamont Poetry Selection. Ted Kooser is one of the nation's most highly regarded poets and served as the United States Poet Laureate Consultant in Poetry to the Library of Congress from 2004 to 2006. During his second term he won the Pulitzer Prize for one of his books of poems. There will also be appearances by Kim Stafford and Paulann Peterson and the event will be hosted by Matthew Dickman.


text:
Herbert A. Caplan, whose Randallstown delicatessen kept hungry customers coming back for the Herbwood, Bubbie's Special and the Three Stooges, died June 26 of pancreatic cancer at his Pikesville home. He was 84.
The youngest of nine children of a wallpaper hanger and a homemaker, Herbert Allan Caplan was born in Baltimore and raised on Pulaski Street.
As a youth, he played in Easterwood Park and later became a member of the Easterwood Boys Club, family members said.
A 1946 graduate of Merganthaler Vocational-Technical High School, Mr. Caplan was drafted into the Army in 1951, serving in Korea with an infantry unit. He was awarded the Bronze Star for saving an injured soldier.
After being discharged in 1953, Mr. Caplan returned to Baltimore and married Roslyn Yaffee the next year. He worked for a short time as a printer for an uncle who owned and operated a printing company.
In the late 1950s, Mr. Caplan gave up his printing career and opened Mr. Chips, a sub shop at Caroline and Madison streets near Johns Hopkins Hospital.
In 1963, Mr. Caplan and his partner, Seymour Bridge, established the Caplan and Bridge Delly in the Liberty Court Shopping Center in Randallstown. After a year, Mr. Caplan became sole owner of the delicatessen, which he renamed Caplan's Delly.
"Caplan's started as a small neighborhood delicatessen with a few tables, but rapidly expanded into a full-service restaurant with catering services and a bakery," said a son, Jerry Caplan of Owings Mills, who with his two brothers worked in the business.
"The Delly quickly became a popular gathering place for people of all ages. On any Sunday morning, Caplan's was the place for families and friends to gather, eat and schmooze," said the son.
Caplan's was also known for its circus decor and the portraits of clowns lining its walls.
With the help of his sons, Mr. Caplan expanded the business with a delicatessen across the street from Woodlawn High School on Woodlawn Drive and another in the Rutherford Industrial Park.
"We grew up in the business. We started as dishwashers and then worked up to waiting on tables and then cooking in the kitchen," said Mr. Caplan.
Caplan's was known for its generous kosher-style sandwiches, most of which were ordered by numbers while others were ordered by name only.
"Especially No. 46, which was corned beef, coleslaw and Russian dressing," said his son.
Other specialties of the deli included the Rozianne Salad, which was named for Mr. Caplan's wife. The chef's salad featured ham, turkey, cheese and was topped with hard-boiled eggs.
The Herbwood (which was the elder Mr. Caplan's favorite sandwich) was composed of four pieces of rye bread, corned beef, pastrami, chopped liver, onions, coleslaw, lettuce, tomato and was finished off with a generous serving of Russian dressing.
Gloria's Tuna was bit more conservative and was made up of bread, tuna, tomatoes and cheese that was grilled.
"Bubbie's Special was half a sandwich that was served with a cup of soup. All of the soups were homemade," his son said.
In tribute to his three sons, Mr. Caplan named a sandwich after them: The Three Stooges.
"It was three half sandwiches, turkey, corned beef and brisket," said Mr. Caplan, whose own favorite was the No. 51. "That was a hot turkey sandwich that was served with gravy and french fries."
Mr. Caplan said one of his father's main goals was to "make people happy, and if you asked any customer of Caplan's, you would know that he succeeded."
He also attributed his father's success in business to an innate sense of kindness.
"Herb was always known as the man who built a successful business off of kindness rather than a business strategy. He put all of his energy into making people happy instead of making himself the most money," he said.
"He was also a great guy to work with. He was very, very funny, and a very optimistic and positive guy," his son said. "He loved talking to the customers when they came in, and he never expected you to do something he wouldn't do himself."
Caplan's Delly won recognition in 1996, when the Deli Project, which was directed by the Judah Magnes Museum of Berkeley, Calif., and the Jewish Historical Society of Maryland, conducted a national search into the "history and success of the Jewish food phenomenon once so central to many neighborhood shopping districts," wrote a Baltimore Sun reporter at the time.
L. John Harris, who was director of the Deli Project, told the newspaper that Caplan's chopped liver and whitefish were "among the best served at a traditional deli."
Mr. Caplan helped his sons establish Jel-Cap Vending, and in 1998, he closed the delicatessen.
"Jel-Cap Vending became the new family business," said his son.
Mr. Caplan said his father taught his children the "importance of being respectful and polite to their customers and to one another and knew that everything else would take care of itself."
Services were held June 28 at Sol Levinson & Bros.
In addition to his son, Mr. Caplan is survived by his wife of 59 years; two other sons, Elliott Caplan of Pikesville and Larry Caplan of Owings Mills; a brother, Bobby Caplan of Baltimore; eight grandchildren; four step-grandchildren; and two great-grandchildren.


text:
Gov. Andrew Cuomo wasted no time in reaching a conclusion about New York's property tax cap. Last September, only months after local governments and school districts had their first go-round with the cap, the governor issued a laudatory report.
"It is clear," he said at the time, "that the property tax cap has been a tremendous success, saving hard-earned money for New York families while ensuring that local governments learn to do more with less."
His report asserted that in the cap's first year, it held average property tax growth to 2 percent-40 percent less than the previous 10-year average.
Why, then, do so many people seem to take a dim view of the property tax cap? Here are a couple possible explanations:
First, some people failed to understand initially that the law contained a number of exclusions and allowances that result in tax levy limits considerably higher than the statutory base cap of 2 percent. The Empire Center for New York State Policy issued a report this week detailing how this affects school district limits. For the budgets that voters will consider in a few weeks, the average tax levy increase limit is 4.6 percent, up from 3 percent last year.
In Monroe County, the average school property tax levy increase cap will be 4.7 percent; elsewhere in the region, it's as high as 5.2 percent.
Second, many people thought the property tax cap should be tied to mandate reform. The governor and lawmakers acknowledged the important link between the two but left mandate reform for another day. That day has yet to come.
So there's reason to be disappointed with the property tax cap. But let's resist the temptation to write it off as a mistake or failure.
E.J. McMahon, who authored the Empire Center report, says that aside from the pension exclusion, the tax cap law is "well structured to balance tax restraint with flexibility for local voters in the long run." And there is no question the law has increased the pressure to limit local government and school spending.
Just as clearly, the cap is only a first step, and more needs to be done.
5/3/13 (c) 2013 Rochester Business Journal. To obtain permission to reprint this article, call 585-546-8303 or email email@example.com.


text:
EasiYo is so simple to make, just follow the three step process and you'll have fresh, delicious yogurt at home. It's that easy.
Half-fill your yogurt jar with room temperature, drinking water. Add the contents of a yogurt sachet, pop on the lid and give it a good shake. Fill the jar up with more water to about 5mm from the top... and shake again.
Push the plastic insert spacer down inside the Yogurt Maker as far as it can go. (Check the correct side is facing up). Pour boiling water into the Yogurt Maker to the top of the plastic insert spacer.
Put your jar into the Yogurt Maker so that it sits on top of the plastic insert. The boiling water will rise part-way up the sides of the jar. Put the Yogurt Maker lid on and leave it on your kitchen worktop for 8 to 12 hours (or overnight) to let the yogurt set... and the magic will happen!
Click below to view our product range today!


text:
Odd bloggery
And some Sherlockian stuff to set the mood.
When purple things are pulsating on your mind, I'm the one whose clock you want to clean. Aiding is Sparky, the Astral Plane Zen Pup Dog from his mountain stronghold on the Northernmost Island of the Happy Ninja Island chain, this blog will also act as a journal to my wacky antics at an entertainment company and the progress of my self published comic book, The Deposit Man which only appears when I damn well feel like it. Real Soon Now.
posted by ZenPupDog @ 9:01 PM 0 Comments
Subscribe to
Posts [Atom]


text:
Let's make sure that fitness-related activities you engage in are fun for you. That last part of the previous sentence, "for you", is very important. Playing tennis might be fun for me, but if you are not good at it or simply dislike this activity, you will do your best to simply not do it. You will go ways to avoid it, blaming either the lack of time, somewhat windy conditions, or the fact that you'd rather play singles or doubles, while the option which you prefer is not available right now and right here.
Making fitness fun will make it easier for you to work it into your daily routine. Create a list of three to five activities, which involve you moving around to an extent and which you relatively (or totally) enjoy. This way, you might, actually, start looking forward to your next fitness endeavor.
It does not need to be anything well-structured or anything what would involve locking you up in the steel-filled dungeon of a formal gym. Be open-minded and think along the lines: a fun bike ride, perhaps? Hating the traffic and not too cozy with the passing cars while on the bike? What about trail biking? Not that adventurous? What about taking your dog on a long walk or hike? Having a cat, not a dog? What about promising your four-legged furry friend to chase them around the house three times a day for five minutes? Doable, right? Your grandkid owning that lovely trampoline? Go for it and jump your heart off! Your cardio will get challenged and the impact of trampoline jumping is still a good impact, but safe enough and fun.
Weave motion-related activities into each and every day. One of my beloved clients simply walks and walks those aisles of the Safeway store – not that she has so much to buy there, but she enjoys to walk and the support of the cart gives her the reassurance she will not fall – what a great idea!
If we create negative associations with the act of exercising or moving around, they will only make it harder for us to do it. Think positively: how moving around can be fun, how you can make it fun specifically for you, which activities would be more doable than not and which ones you would stick to: both while you busy yourself with other daily tasks or do them purposefully. Exercising can be fun once we start thinking of it in the "fun" terms!
I cannot stress enough how important it is to be compassionate when you help others on their path to wellness, health and fitness. People come to you, oftentimes as a "last resort", after years of struggling with either some medical problems or weight issues or nutritional habits. It is extremely hard for them to book that first date with the fitness professional, come to the meeting, sit down, open up right away and pour out all the worries, problems and stress, as they see the person for the first time in their life.
I must admit that I get lots of comments about how "compassionate" I am, how helpful this quality is to my new clients, and how much easier it makes it for them to open up. I always truly appreciate these comments, because they mean I am right on the target. It is how I want to sound and appear to my new clients; compassionate and understanding.
On multiple occasions, what helps out is the moment when I can relate to their weight loss struggles, when I pull out one of the two "pictures-on –duty" I have in the drawer of my desk at the Studio. The pictures show yours truly at the age of 18 years old and at the weight of 181 pounds, solid. Before I lost all that (what took me a while, as well). This is the moment when my new clients instantly reconnect and know that I was there, too, and I know how it feels and I am very compassionate about the whole situation. Relating is so important, not only in the fitness business.
What most of my new clients do not realize is that feeling compassionate makes me feel way better, too. Feeling stressed? Ah, just help another soul! Tell them how nice their sweater is, how lovely a smile they sport, or help that elderly gentlemen with the walker to get over the curb. Instant gratification of feeling better! The person who was "helped out" also feels better and, most likely, contagiously continues with the 'feel-good" attitude through their day. Also, when you meet someone at the grocery shop, simply wish them to have a lovely day – you do not even have to spell that loud, just wish them the best silently, in your head. Believe me, little things like that make such a huge difference in the daily lives of all of us!
Last weekend, I was privileged to participate in the ultramarathon, organized in the Monument Valley.
I would like to share with you a few thoughts and observations, which came to my mind as I was running this wonderful event.
First of all, I had been feeling really blessed to be able to train to my full potential before that race. I realize that health, well-being and a relative lack of injuries is never granted. Yes, I had been stretching and cross-training and applying my due vigilance to the training methods over those months. Still, things always can go wrong, and, thanks God, they had not.
So, I felt very happy to be able to be where I was to do what I was about to do, run my 31 miles. Through the most remote parts of the Monument valley, normally out-of-reach for the tourists. Ankle-deep in sand. So what? Hard? Yes. Well, what does not kill us, makes us stronger, right? J Very true.
Second, I was thrilled to observe all ranges of age at the starting (and the finish) line: from teenagers to people in their late 60s. All smiling, eager to go, easy-going, flower child-like, relaxed and awaiting the great race day with thrill and anticipation. Positive and smiling people for whom some sand in the shoes is not a problem, who would remove their respective shoes at the finish line and who would with certain proudness compare the toe nail losses. Who would run into one of our Navajo guides on the horse thanking him for allowing us to run this sacred land, and then mumble to themselves: "Run or whatever we call THIS"! Who would be joyously spitting the inhaled sand until one week after the race…
Third: It all would have simply not be possible without the wonderful volunteers. This is why I always make a point to stop and thank every one of them during my races. We were blessed with the wonderful Three Sisters aid station. After every ten miles or so, we would all invariably land in that fabulous place, full of happy volunteers, greeting you like you just came from the moon or at least Pluto. Then, one of them would jump in front of you and ask what you need and help out with everything, from filling the water bladder to handing you SIMPLY THE BEST, steamy-hot Navajo taco! Not to say, there were many other goodies to pick up, but once I set my eyes on the Navajo taco, that was it. Plus some mouton stew, for a good measure. The Three Sisters (and other) volunteers had a long shift to work: we started our run at 7AM. I was, personally, done 8hrs and 10 minutes later, but there were folks running well into their thirteen tour…
Why? Ah, because we were blessed to be allowed to "run"/scramble on top of the Mitchell Mesa at the very end of the race. You know, at about Mile 23, you have to go all the way up onto that mesa (when you arrive into the Monument Valley, it is the huge one to your right, to the right from the View Hotel, as well). Then, we run one mile on top of it to a check point, staffed by yet another kind Navajo man-on-duty, then we run back and down (mostly on our tush…). Then, another 8 miles and we were home! So, it took forever…
So, the aid station volunteers, and the ones who "swiped" the course after the last runner, had a very long day at work.
Fourth: What about the effort of the race organizers? In our case, it was the Grand Circle Trail Series. They are a relatively young group, but very well organized. They descended on the Valley the day before the event and meticulously set it all in place: from the start line and the confidence ribbons to the medical tent and they even commissioned an artist to paint local Monument Valley landscape on their white truck for the duration of the event. The organizer met with all of us in person and was available both before and after the race, handing us our trophies – in this case, lovely Monument Valley mugs. Hand-painted and hand-made by the Navajo.
It was one of those weekends I will never forget. And it would not have been possible without my meticulous training, commitment to running even on the "ugly weather" or "I don't feel like it" days, without the volunteers and the organizers, and without the smiles and encouraging words of the other participants. Last but not least, it'd not have been possible and not the same without our daughter Amaya, who woke up with us at 5AM to cheer on us at the starting line and was right there at the finish line eight hours later, snapping pictures of yours truly and asking me if I want to lean on her on my way from the Finish line to the hotel…
A big thanks to all of you!
OK, so, you are growing inpatient because, despite the New Year's resolution, your weight seems not to bulge down much. Worry not, the weight gain did not happen overnight. It took you months and years, plus this past November and December (jointly and joyously referred to as "the Holiday Season"), to arrive at the starting line of this year's resolutions. Average American gains several pounds over the Holidays. Apart from overindulgence at various end-of-the-year parties, with family, friends and coworkers, many of us also run out of time to exercise. So, sensing the general lack of vigilance, the end-of-the-year pounds jumped on the occasion to land in our so-called "muffin tops".
Therefore, here we are, with our muffins of various sizes, worrying about the current state of affairs. Let's be patient, by the same giving ourselves a chance to succeed at our weight loss plot. Approach the challenge step by step and from different angles: be it the "clean" nutrition and eating, drinking lots of water, feeling satiated in a healthy way at all times, exercising and remembering to stretch and walk around a little every 45 minutes while at the computer. Most likely, it will take us months or even up to a year to get where we really want to be. Especially if we aim at losing the weight in a healthy way, which will result in a change of habits and no yo-yo effect. Changing habits takes time, lots of time. So, trust me, you will get there, but slowly. You know, I like very much the following quote: "If you think you cannot, you cannot, if you think you can, you can"! I believe in you.
Have you noticed how much time at the gym is lost on unnecessary small talk? Whenever I pass by any of the "big" gyms in the area, I observe, with horror, how some gym members come mostly to exercise their maxillofacial muscles while chatting with the other gym-goers. To me, exercising your facial muscles is not the primary goal of visiting a gym. Even today at one of the big gyms I kept glancing at quite a substantial group of people, formed by the regular members of that gym, as they congregated in the narrowest passage area of the room. One sat down, the other leaned against the wall and some others simply stood around, mindlessly shifting their weight from one leg onto the other. Some had coffee cups in their hands. One also had a snack (ah, you know, surely one of these fat-free, sugar-free and gluten-free chunks which do not end in our muffin top). And they chatted and chatted… for probably at least 40 minutes. I successfully run most of my abdominal workout, while they kept talking about some truly insignificant stuff. Then, only one remained in the workout room to train, while the rest of them left either to get more coffee or to the locker room – session accomplished! Yep. After all, they came to the gym. They changed into the workout clothes. They got into the training room. They spent "their time" in the workout room. They even met the fellow fitness aficionados and exchanged some words with them. Mission fulfilled?
Along the same note, I oftentimes observe how people have full-blown snack breaks between the fitness classes. I understand the exciting social aspect of these congregations, but I don't think they should be routinely done at any gym. There are better places to do it. I do not think, either, that eating at any gym should be a standard. We run the danger of eating more than we burn – the facial muscles are not the biggest, therefore, they do not burn much calories while being trained.
And, once I am at it, fiddling with the TV remote control(s) and your cell phones exercises only the small finger muscles. Not worth it. Do yourself and your body a favor and forget about all the media and social media for that hour or so. Train with intensity and with focus, not with the goal of "surviving this or that amount of minutes at the dreaded gym" by reading the FB posts.
What about going to your respective gym with the clearly-defined purpose of exercising your body? With a plan, what body part you are going to exercise and for how long? What about completing your training without losing time on anything else but… your workout? You even do not get the same effect on your muscles if you train them without thinking of the particular muscle at work and without the proper inhalation/exhalation as you work out. Do not lose your time on distracting yourself from the task at hand, i.e. your workout. By not engaging in the small talk or repeating the same old jokes, you also make a favor and make life easier for those of us who want to go to the gym to, actually… work out.
As to me, I truly appreciate no small talk while I am at it. To the point of, sometimes, contemplating creation of a T-shirt which I could wear and which would say: "Talk to you later!" or something similar.
See you (training your big muscles) at the gyms nearby!


text:
Sex, grading and external examiners
I have posted and reposted and probably posted too much on the Mark Bourrie's commentary on student professor sexual relationships. But just when the dankprofessor feels finished with Bourrie, something comes up. And what has come up is a commentary by Keith Reader on the Bourrie strand; here it is-
Keith Reader said…
UK policy – all but universally accepted and applied – is conflict-of-interest based and thus requires any faculty member involved in an intimate relationship to renounce *all* professional contact with the student concerned. The issue of favouritism in marking etc. seems to me paramount, and it may be worth noting that in UK universities all assessed work is seen by a second marker as well as in borderline cases by an external examiner. Work is also submitted anonymously (it bears the student's matriculation number and not his/her name). All very labour-intensive, but worth it in my judgement to obviate allegations of malpractice. I certainly do not criticise such relationships en bloc and in principle (I know many people who are in long-term partnerships with their former students), but share Dr Bourrie's concerns about their potential for abuse, and believe that a recusal/disclosure approach is the besy way of forestalling this. And I don't post anonymously …
And here is the dankprofessor's response-
Keith Reader states that he shares Dr. Bourrie's concern about the potential for abuse in regards to student prof sexual relationships. I suggest that Reader reread Bourrie's comments- for Bourrie there is something more than potential for abuse; Bourrie finds these relationships to be inherently damaging to the university and to be mind-boggling. In his terms and in the terms of most of those who vigorously advocate for the abolition of student professor sexual relationships, these relationships are not simply another example of conflict of interests; they are something more. They are condemned and
special policies are promoted because they are dealing with sexual matters and sexual outrage.
Mr. Reader feels that the UK way of handling these cases is good since
"UK policy – all but universally accepted and applied – is conflict-of-
interest based and thus requires any faculty member involved in an intimate relationship to renounce *all* professional contact with the student concerned."
Renouncing professional contact with the student seems quite medieval to me since the student appears to end up being of the genre of leper. Is such renouncing public? If not, why not? Does the renounced have any grounds for appeal? If the renouncing is private/confidential, just another personnel matter, how does the university monitor both the student and the professor as to their adhering to the renouncing. And since the policy allows personal interaction, but not professional, how is it possible for the university to know that in the context of an intimate relationship professional matters are not discussed. In the dankprofessor's opinion, the policy as outlined by Reader is patently absurd.
But then Reader goes on to state:
"The issue of favouritism in marking etc. seems to me paramount, and it may be worth noting that in UK universities all assessed work is seen by a second marker as well as in borderline cases by an external examiner."
If favouritism in marking is the paramount issue, then it should be paramount in all cases of professors marking students. But the reality as described by Reader is that it only becomes paramount in borderline cases. Of course, Reader makes no attempt to differentiate borderline from non-borderline cases. If all cases were treated the same, all cases would have an external examiner, then the problem is solved. No one is treated differentially, no need for a sexual investigation, no need for a renouncing, etc. Problem solved! Uniformity and fairness in grading becomes affirmed.
But I really doubt that Reader and Bourrie would go for this. For Bourrie, no moral outrage, everything uniform, just doesn't fit the Bourrie profile. I expect that Reader will elaborate on why having an external examiner for all would not be a good way to go.
Finally, the dankprofessor wishes to bring up the question as to who would occupy the position of external examiner, and what would be the qualifications of said examiners. Certainly said examiners would not be members of the faculty, too many prejudicial factors would then enter into the situation. And, of course, faculty do not like to have their grading judgments routinely questioned so said examiners may end up in rather tenuous situations. And presently, does one know who are the external examiners? Might Mr. Reader know? Might Mr. Reader be an external examiner? Might someone refer me to an external examiner so I can become more conversant as to the problems facing external examiners? Or is the reality that no one knows anything about external examiners, that no one knows any one who is or was an external examiner, that no ones knows how one can become an external examiner?
2 Comments »
Here's my response to Professor Dank for anybody interested in reading it:-
Tne external examiner role is a peculiarity of the UK system about which I clearly didn't go into enough detail. Each degree programme has one or two such examiners – invited senior academics from other institutions – who fulfil a quality-control role by having sight of exam questions, adjudicating in borderline cases, attending examiners' meetings at the host institution and so on. They are entitled to see all student work and exercise this right in special cases – mitigating circumstances, conflicts of interest, etc. I have myself exercised this role (in return for distinctly modest remuneration …) at a number of UK universities. It has formed part of the UK system – facilitated by the country's geographical compactness – throughout the thirty-five and more years I have been a professor. Sorry not to have made this more explicit in my previous post but I hope that this is sufficient clarification.
For the rest, renunciation is monitored by the simple fact of ensuring that the student is never enrolled in the relevant faculty member's class and thet s/he is never asked to look at or express an opinion on the student's work. This side of electronic tagging – and the UK is well on the way alas to becoming a surveillance society – that is all that can realistically be done.
Cordially to all readers (myself eponymously included …)
Keith Reader
Comment by Keith Reader | May 20, 2009 |
The aptly-named dankprofessor chooses to ignore my arguments and erect straw men. He is dishonest to a fault.
Comment by Mark Bourrie | July 3, 2009 |
Leave a Reply
- August 2017 (1)
- July 2015 (2)
- June 2015 (1)
- April 2011 (4)
- March 2011 (7)
- January 2011 (1)
- December 2010 (1)
- November 2010 (2)
- October 2010 (6)
- September 2010 (3)
- August 2010 (2)
- July 2010 (2)
- 2008
- abstinence
- academic freedom
- Anita Bryant
- anti-semitism
- art
- assassination
- attractive professors
- attractive students
- awards
- Barack Obama
- Barnard College
- bathrooms
- bicycling
- blog introduction
- blogs
- brain sex
- Brigham Young University
- Canada
- celebrities
- censorship
- Charlie Sheen
- child pornography
- civility
- Clemson University
- coercing women
- Colorado College
- con artists
- Concordia University
- conference sex
- consensual relationships
- corporate dating bans
- couples
- csu sacramento
- D'souza blog
- Dalhousie University
- Daphne Patai
- dating
- David Cass
- David Lettterman
- Debra Tate
- dental
- Duke University
- East Georgia College
- East Surrey College
- Emma Thompson
- ethics
- exhibitionism
- false rape charges
- fear
- feminism
- film
- flamenco
- Florida Gulf Coast University
- fobidden love
- Francine Prose
- fraternities
- fraternization
- futurist
- Gabrielle Giffords
- gay history
- gay marriage
- gay rights
- gender
- Gonzaga University
- grading
- Harvard University
- Heather Mac Donald
- hiatus
- higher education
- Hofstra University
- homosexual
- hooker
- hooking-up
- hugging
- Hugh Hefner
- Indiana University
- Iowa State University
- Islamic law
- Israel
- ivory tower romance
- Jared Loughner
- Jerzy Kosinski
- Jewish Journal
- John Bonnell
- John McCain
- Julian Assange
- just words
- Korea
- Larry Craig
- Laura Bush
- Laura Kipnis
- lesbian
- Lethbridge College
- lisa chavez
- litigation
- Louisiana Tech
- love
- Mark Bourrie
- Marquette University
- masturbation
- Michelle Obama
- Middlebury College
- Moscow State University
- Northwestern University
- nudity
- Oberlin College
- obituary
- office romance
- Ohio State University
- orgasm
- Otero University
- outing students
- Oxford College
- Pasadena City College
- passion
- Philip Roth
- poets
- political correctness
- political violence
- pornography
- Princeton University
- privacy
- Proposition 8
- prostitution
- public sex
- racism
- rape
- recusal
- reviews
- Rice University
- Roger Ebert
- Roman Polanski
- sadomasochism
- Sarah Palin
- Saudi Arabia
- Seattle university
- secrecy
- Senator Craig
- Senator McCain
- sex
- sex offenders
- sex toys
- sex work
- sex workers
- sexbots
- sexual harassment
- sexual identity
- sexual policing
- sexual politics
- sexual rights
- shame
- Sharon Tate
- Sharon Warner
- Smith College
- Southern Illinois University
- speech
- St. John's University
- student professor dating
- student slavery
- student-prof dating
- suicide
- Sweden
- Taiwan
- tenure
- the closet
- The Tenant
- theatre
- transmen
- trophy wives
- Tucson
- UC Berkeley
- UC Irvine
- UC San Diego
- UC Santa Barbara
- Uncategorized
- United Kingdom
- University of Bristol
- University of Calgary
- university of charleston
- University of Chicago
- University of Connecticut
- University of Georgia
- University of Hawaii
- University of Iowa
- University of Michigan
- University of Minnesota
- University of New Hampshire
- University of New Mexico
- university of pennsylvania
- University of Southern Maine
- University of Sussex
- University of Texas Houston
- University of the Philippines
- University of Toronto
- victimization
- violence
- voyeurism
- Warwick University
- Washington University
- William & Mary College
- William Buckley
- workplace
- Yale University
RSSEntries RSS
Comments RSS


text:
Acerola Berry Malpighia glabra
Acerola berries are harvested from small tropical trees, commonly known as Barbados Cherry trees with beautiful pink and white flowers. They are native to Southern and Central America and also Southern Mexico. The berries are usually harvested after three years and have a characteristically sour and bitter taste. On harvesting the berries are green, but once ripened they become a vibrant red.
Acerola berries are naturally high in herbal vitamin C and the necessary co-factors that help with vitamin C absorption.
Traditionally, the fruits have been made into Jellies, Jams and Syrups.
We use a special extract in Natural Vitamin C and the fruit in Elderberry & Echinacea tea.