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Tamar And Towanda Braxton Share Insights From Ongoing Feud
February 03, 2014 02:00 PM by Stephanie Gustafson
Most of the drama on Braxton Family Values seems to revolve around Tamar and Towanda Braxton. According to Towanda, the sisters struggle with differing notions of boundaries. Can they work through their issues — or will this feud continue to annoy Braxton fans in 2014?
Many of Braxton Family Values' biggest fans have grown sick and tired of the ongoing tension between Tamar and Towanda Braxton. Some allege that Towanda is simply jealous of Tamar's recent professional success, while others believe that, in her quest to follow in Toni's famous footsteps, Tamar has mistreated her siblings.
During a recent appearance on Bethenny Frankel's talk show, the sisters spoke at length about their famous feud. Towanda told Bethenny that, in her opinion, the real problem involved a lack of boundaries. "We've allowed Tamar to say and do whatever…when you're in a relationship and you allow a person to do whatever they want for so many years and for so long, and then when you try to change it, they're like 'why you trying to change it?'"
Tamar, however, disagreed with Towanda's claims, explaining that, if her siblings really did allow the baby of the family to get away with whatever she wanted, there would be a lot less bickering. The youngest sister added that she really didn't understand the origins of the neverending argument. "I honestly don't know what the beef is between Towanda and I!"
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barbara Says:
February 3rd, 2014 at 2:41 pm
towanda is probably just as sick of tamar as the rest of us are! lol tamar is wrapped up in herself and as granny used to say a person wrapped up in themselves makes a very small package! and tamar is becoming smaller with every episode'jmo
arleen scott Says:
February 4th, 2014 at 12:24 pm
I used to wait for bfv to come on, it's like watching the Kardashians, it use to be so family originating, now they all throwing eggs against the wall, trying to make it somehow. Everyone either trying to make a hit record, write a book, be a therapist, etc., what happened when they first came on, it was like a family show, they did so much together, with their mother included, the dad came out of nowhere, the only one I see with being comfortable with their life is their brother Mike. Please go back to the old days, I don't even care to watch anymore, and that is my choice, you don't even see the children together anymore. I am speaking only for myself.
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February 4th, 2014 at 3:19 pm
I think Towanda is full of herself and jealous of all the sisters. It realy showed on the episode when she wouldn't go in the flee market with Traci. She is pathetic she need to get over herself. If they just take Towanda (tranny) off the show it might get better. She acts like she don't want to be there anyway.
Babs Says:
February 4th, 2014 at 5:49 pm
I've been watching since the show 1st aired & Tamar actually seems less vocal or involved with the sister's affairs not counting the slip about Traci's husband. But in all fairness Towanda was the one that went public with Traci's business. It appears Towanda is jealous. Last season she & Trina had much to say about Tamar & Vince being like velcro always together. What has Tamar done or said that has Towanda so upset cause i haven't seen it? Tamar hasn't done anything out of character that i see & appears to want her sister's company. Trina seems to be the sister that is being unbiased.
mzthang Says:
February 4th, 2014 at 11:50 pm
I think Tamar has gotten beside her self just cause she got a record deal.only cause her husband did it remember.everybody that worked with her before dropped her like a hot potato.n I like her but she can't sing.for real for real.ijs
Nyzhja tamar fan Says:
February 5th, 2014 at 6:57 am
I think tamar follow Vince to make sure he is ok so towanda stop saying and talking about tamar and Vince being Velcro. I think u can sing I watch your show Ervy day and your song so I think u are perfect the way you are I love u tamar I will come meet u in May 2014 call my number so I can meet u at 3024422575
Nyzhja tamar fan Says:
February 5th, 2014 at 7:23 am
Tamar you are a wonderful baby sister and u will be number 1 singer and people may not think that but I know u are wonderful and your sister Toni is a great singer. Towanda they say your jelish but I don't think so I just think u are trying to say tamar and Vince spend lots of time together. Tamar u are wonderful and if u want to spend time with your husband u can because it is your husband.
Nyzhja tamar fan Says:
February 5th, 2014 at 7:26 am
Trina if u Think that u got to break up with gabe u can
Nyzhja tamar fan Says:
February 5th, 2014 at 7:26 am
Trina if u Think that u got to break up with gabe u can
Nyzhja tamar fan Says:
February 5th, 2014 at 7:29 am
Traci u got a nice son and u lost a lots of pounds and u look good
Nyzhja tamar fan Says:
February 5th, 2014 at 7:32 am
Tamar i am your biggest fan and iam only 10
Sha Says:
February 13th, 2014 at 10:16 pm
Towanda is CLEARLY jealous. I think it bothers her that Tamar doesn't "need" her like Toni or the other do. I'm not the biggest fan of Tamar's, but I'm not feeling Towanda's attitude. Her new "boundaries" in life speech must only apply to Tamar because she obviously hasn't sent that memo to Andre.
Jay C Says:
February 21st, 2014 at 7:16 pm
Towanda needs to stop lying to herself-she is super jealous of Tamar's success. It's very ironic when she started talking to Tamar again. Is it me? or did Towanda start to get real nice to Tamar when Tamar did not win a Grammy? That's unbelievable! That was not support from Towanda- that was relief! She was so relieved that Tamar did not win a Grammy. It was so obvious that Towanda was very happy that Tamar lost. It was also ironic that Traci was too sick to go to the Grammy show, however, she recovered enough to go to Tamar's party to "console" her. I wonder if Traci would have gone to the party if Tamar had won. I understood why Tamar didn't want to go to the party, I would've stayed home and let 'em eat cake!!


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According to a new study by Ryerson University experts published in the December issue of Behavior Therapy, taking a sleeping pill or drinking alcohol may not be the most effective way to get a better night sleep in the long run for people suffering from insomnia .
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A poor sleeper or someone with insomnia may have many reasons for needing to do these things to help them sleep, but our study is questioning their beliefs if they are really helpful."
The research team also observed that poor sleepers felt dependent on certain tasks to help them sleep. Students that experienced no problems in falling asleep often didn't think of anything, they simply fell asleep.
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Shouldn't my probation officer have called me and let me know if i missed my appointment? I've left her messages and tried calling. Her phone has been off. She always has a sign on her door saying come back next week. I don't think that's right for her to not return my calls. She has all my numbers. How would I find out if I got violated?
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How to Apply : Application in the prescribed OMR application forms format should reach the Secretary. Advt. No. A-2/E-1/2012, Public Service Commission, U.P. Allahabad-211018 OMR Application forms will be available all the Head Post Officer/ designated Post Offices of all the districts from 05/02/2011 to 06/01/2011 in the state of UP. The cost of application of PREGENSeries (for General, OBC of U.P.) shall be Rs. 155/- (Exam Fee 100+ Postal Expenses 30 + Applicaton form 25) and of PRERES Series (for S.C. of U.P. and S.T. of U.P.) shall be Rs. 95/- (Exam Fee 40 + Postal Exp. 30 + Application Form 25) only.
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1. The candidates claiming the benefit of reservation must get the certificate regarding their category/Sub-category from the competentAuthority on the proforma published atAppendix-III and they should produce it to theCommissionwhen asked for. All the candidates of reserved category must mention their category/sub category inOMRapplication forms. The candidates claiming the benefit of more than one reservation shall be given only one concession whichever shall be more beneficial to them.
2. Scheduled Caste, Scheduled Tribe, Other Backward Class, Dependents of FreedomFighters candidate and women candidates who are not the domicile of U.P. shall not be given the benefit of reservation and they shall be treated as General Candidates such candidates must fill the form of PREGEN series only. Pay Scale: Rs. 27700-770-35090-920-40450-1080-44770
3. Academic Qualifications: (A) Till last date for submitting the application form the candidate must be a Bachelor of Laws of a University established by Law in U.P. or any other University of India recognised for this purposes by the Governor, or (B) Must be an Advocate enrolled under the provisions of the Advocate Act 1961 or a Barrister of England or Northern Ireland or a Member Faculty of Advocates in Scotland and is entitled to practice in the Court or Courts subordinate thereto; (C) Must possess thorough knowledge of Hindi in Devnagri Script.
4. Age Limits: The Candidates must have attained the age of 22 years and must not have attained the age of more than 35 Years on 1st July, 2013 i.e. they must have not born before 2nd July, 1978 and not later than 1st July 1991 but for Scheduled Caste of U.P. Scheduled Tribe of U.P. and Other Backward Class candidates of U.P. the age limit shall be five years more. In the same manner for Dependants of Freedom Fighters of U.P. & for Ex-Army Personnel of U.P. the age limit is five years more provided further that where a candidate was eligible in age to appear at the examination in the year 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010 & 2011 he shall be deemed eligible in age.
5. The skilled players ofNational or International standard of classified games shall also be given age relaxation of 5 years according to G.O. No. 22/21/1983-Ka-2, Dated 28-11-85 who is domicile of U.P. Provided also that the maximum number of chances a candidate is permitted to take will be four.
6. This relaxation shall not be admissible to thosewho (1) have been dismissed on the ground ofmisconduct or inefficiency,who have been discharged on the ground of such Physical disabilityorweaknessas is considered forany service. List of Post Offices: Agra, Aligarh, Allahabad H.O., Allahabad Kutchery, Allahabad (Cavalry Lines), Allahabad Daraganj, Allahabad City, Ambedkarnagar (Akbarpur), Auraiya, Azamgarh, Badaun, Baghpat, Bahraich, Balrampur, Ballia, Banda, Barabanki, Bareilly, Basti (Bansi), Bijnor, Bulandsahar, Chandauli, Chitrakoot (Karvi), Deoria, Etah, Etawah, Faizabad, Farrukhabad (Fetehgarh),Fatehpur,Firozabad,GautamBuddhaNagar (Noida),
7. The application complete in all respects must reach the Secretary. Advt. No. A-2/E-1/2012 Public Service Commission, U.P. Allahabad-211018 on or before 5:00P.M. on 1stMarch 2012 by Registered post or by hand. After the last date, the applications shall not be received at any cost.The receipt must be taken while submitting the application by hand on the counter of U.P.P.S.C.
8. If any candidate submits more than one application in one envelope in his name, his all applications shall be rejected. Applications through fax shall not be accepted. Incomplete application and application without signature even if within time shall be rejected summarily Emergency Commissioned/Short Service Commissioned Officers who have not been released from Army but whose period of Army Service have been extended for rehabilitation,
9. Applicants will have to submit a certificate in this respect from the competent authority of Army, Navy, Air Force, that their period of Service has been extended for rehabilitation and no disciplinary action is pending against them. Applicants will have to submit a written undertaking with their application that in case they are selected for the post applied for,
10. he gets permanentCommission in theArmy Has been released from the Army on tendering resignation Has been released from theArmy on grounds ofmisconduct. Character: The Character of a candidate for recruitment to the service must be such as to render him suitable in opinion of the Governor in all respects for employment in the service. Persons dismissed from the service by the Union Government or a State Govt.
11. Marital Status: A Male candidate who has more than one wife living or a female candidate who has married a man already having a wife living shall not be eligible for appointment to a post in the Service. Physical Fitness: No Candidate shall be appointed to a post in the service unless he be in good mental and bodily health and free from any physical defect likely to interfere with the efficient performance of his duties. Before a candidate is finally approved for appointment shall be required to pass an Examination by aMedical Board.
12. Only those candidates will be called for Main Examination (Written Examination) who obtain such minimum marks as may be fixed by the Commission for the purpose on the basis of preliminary exam. They will be required to fill up requisite forms etc. sent by the Commission for main examination and will have to deposit fees also for main exam.
13. Candidates will have to produce their all original certificates, two photographs attested by Gazetted Officer, one plain photograph and other required documents at the time of interview. The candidates working in Central or State Govt. will have to produce No Objection Certificate from their Employer.
14. The Commission do not give any advice to the candidates regarding their eligibility. Therefore they should go through the advertisement carefully and apply for the post only when they are satisfied that they are eligible according to the terms and conditions of advertisement. They should also go through the syllabus of the examination printed at Appendix-II of the advertisement. Fees is not refunded in case of candidates being overage, underage, ineligible or rejected due to violation of rules or procedure.
15. The Commission may allow any candidate provisionally on summary checking of application but in later stages if it is found that the candidates was not eligible or his application was not fit for admission or he should have been rejected at initial stage his candidature will be cancelled and his recommendation shall be withdrawn even if he has been recommended.
16. Malpractices i.e. copying in the Examination Hall, Indiscipline, Misbehaviour or canvassing is prohibited. Such candidate can be rejected by the Commission suo motto. The candidate who qualify in the written examination shall have to appear compulsorily in Personality Test (Viva-voce)
17. If there is any change in the address of the candidate, it should be communicated promptly by registered post to the Commission. In every correspondence with the Commission, the name of Examination, Advertisement No., Name of Candidate, Date of Birth & Roll No. (If communicated) Should be mentioned.
18. The candidates for the main examination shall be declared successful in the ratio of 1:10 according to Honble S.C. only and for interview in the ratio of 1:3.If a candidate gives such information which can not be substantiated by any certificate, hecan be debarred for the next five years.
19. No change is possible after receipt of application. If the photograph on the application do not resemble with that on attendance sheet, the candidature shall be cancelled. It shall be the duty of the Union and the State Public Service Commissions to conduct examinations, for appointments to the Services of the Union and the Services of the State respectively.
20. It shall also be the duty of the Union Public Service Commission, if requested by any two or more States so to do, to assist those States in framing and operating schemes of joint recruitment for any services for which candidates possessing special qualifications are required. The Union Public Service Commission or the State Public Service Commission, as the case may be, shall be consulted-
21. on all matters relating to methods of recruitment to civil services and for civil posts; on the principles to be followed in making appointments to Civil Services and posts and in making promotions and transfers from one service to another and on the suitability of candidates for such appointments, promotions or transfers;
22. on all disciplinary matters affecting a person serving under the Government of India or the Government of a State in a civil capacity, including memorials or petitions relating to such matters;
23. on any claim by or in respect of a person who is serving or has served under the Government of India or the Government of a State or under the Crown in India or under the Government of an Indian State, in a civil capacity, that any costs incurred by him in defending legal proceedings instituted against him in respect of acts done or purporting to be done in the execution of his duty should be paid out of the Consolidated Fund of India, or as the case may be, out of the Consolidated Fund of the State;
24. on any claim for the award of a pension in respect of injuries sustained by a person while serving under the Government of India or the Government of a State or under the Crown in India or under the Government of an Indian State, in a civil capacity, and any question as to the amount of any such award, and it shall be the duty of a Public Service Commission to advise on any matters so referred to them and on any other matter which the President, or, as the case may be the Governor of the State, may refer to them ;
25. Provided that the President as respects the all- India Services and also as respects other services and posts in connection with the affairs of the Union, and the Governor as respects other services and posts in connection with affairs of a State, may make regulations specifying the matters in which either generally, or in any particular class of case or in any particular circumstances, it shall not be necessary for a Public Service Commission to be consulted.
26. Nothing in clause (3) shall require a Public Service Commission to be consulted as respects the manner in which any provision referred to in clause (4) of Article 16 may be made or as respects the manner in which effect may b given to the provisions of Article 335. All regulations made under the proviso to clause
27. by the President or the Governor of a State shall be laid for not less than fourteen days before each house of parliament or the House or each House of the legislature of the State, as the case may be, as soon as possible after they are made, and shall be subject to such modifications, whether by way of repeal or amendment, as both houses of Parliament or the house or both houses of Legislature of the State may make during the session in which they are so laid.
Tentative Last Date: 01-03-2012
About the organization :
Indianisation of the superior Civil Services became one of the major demands of the political movement compelling the British Indian Government to consider setting up of a Public Service Commission for recruitment to its services in the territory. The first Public Service Commission was set up on October 1st, 1926. However, its limited advisory functions failed to satisfy the people's aspirations and the continued stress on this aspect by the leaders of our freedom movement resulted in the setting up of the Federal Public Service Commission under the Government of India Act, 1935. Under this Act, for the first time, provision was also made for the formation of Public Service Commissions at the provincial level. As a consequence the Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission was constituted on the 1st of April 1937 with its headquarters at Allahabad and has a glorious past of more than 60 years. At the time of its inception The UP Public Service Commission was situated in a few rooms in the then Secretariat, but now apart from a lavish campus at Allahabad, it has a Camp Office in the state capital Lucknow as well. In 1937 only 9,811 applications were disposed and over the years the quantum of work has increased manifold with the disposal of a few lakh applications every year now. he UP Public service Commission has modernised itself with the times and massive computerisation is being undertaken presently. The examination system has been partly computerised and the process is still under progress. It has two spacious Examination Centres in Allahabad and Lucknow and they can cater to the needs of 3000 candidates at the same time. he number of the members of the Commission has also increased gradually in keeping with the increase in the quantum of work of the Commission and now there are 8 members in it. The working of Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission is also regulated by Uttar Pradesh Public Service Commission Regulation, 1976.Subject to the provisions of this Article, there shall be a Public Service Commission for the Union and a Public Service Commission for each State. Two or more State may agree that there shall be one Public Service Commission for that group of States, and if a resolution to that effect is passed by the House or, where there are two Houses, by each House of the Legislature of each of those States, Parliament may by law provide for the appointment of a Joint State Public Service Commission (referred to in this Chapter as Joint Commission) to serve the needs of those States. Any such law as aforesaid may contain such incidental and consequential provisions as may be necessary or desirable for giving effect to the purposes of the law. The Public Service Commission for the Union, if requested so to do by the Governor of a State, may, with the approval of the president, agree to serve all or any of the needs of the States. References in this constitution to the Union Public Service Commission or a State Public Service Commission shall, unless the context otherwise requires, be construed as references to the Commission serving the needs of the Union or, as the case may be, the State as respects the particular matter in question. The Chairman and other Members of a Public Service Commission shall be appointed, in the case of the Union Commission or a Joint Commission, by the President, and in the case of a State Commission, by the Governor of the State: Provided that as nearly as may be one-half of the members of every Public Service Commission shall be persons who at the dates of their respective appointments have held office for at least ten years either under the Government of India or under the Government of State, and in computing the said period of ten years any period before the commencement of this constitution during which a person has held office under the Crown in India or under the Government of an Indian State shall be included. If the office of the Chairman of the Commission becomes vacant or if any such Chairman is by reason of absence or for any other reason unable to perform the duties of his office, those duties shall, until some person appointed under clause (1) of the vacant office has entered on the duties there of or, as the case may be, until the Chairman has resumed his duties, be performed by such one of the other members of the Commission as the President, in the case of the Union Commission or a joint Commission, and the Governor of the State in the case of a State Commission, may appoint for the purpose. A member of a Public Service Commission shall hold office for a term of six years from the date on which he enters upon his office or until he attains, in the case of the Union Commission, the age of sixty five years, and in the case of a State Commission
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Scenario: Large metric Century ride (over 2K riders). Cruising along at about 20mph (had a bit of a tailwind, or less headwind, or whatever) and in my mirror I noticed a large group.
Man! I thought we got away from that rest stop clean! I sure don't remember seeing a group like that.
They approach like a large freight train.
Someone at the head of this mass calls out "Large group" and they begin to pass at a decent pace, a couple of miles per hour faster than me and my riding partner.
I don't mind getting passed, but what happened next really pissed me off: they "amoeba-ed" around me and absorbed me into the group.
Folks would pass me a couple or three feet to my left, then drop into the group mere inches off my front wheel. As the bulk of the group (totaled about 50-60 riders) got to where I was, they were 3-5 abreast, brakes squealing, yelling "Slowing" "Left" and so forth, and here I am in the middle of this ambulance-ride-about-to-happen cluster thingy.
Guys (and gals), just ride past! Don't try to pick me up because I don't know you and have no desire to ride in your group. Scared the crap out of me when folks started grabbing handfulls of brakes....and I had only the ditch as an alternative. You don't want to ride into an Oregon farm country ditch if you can avoid it. You need a ladder to get out.
Glad the P******* V*** folks had a nice ride. Jerks.
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Chris Pine sci-fi action movie, this one delivers. So all Paramount can do at this point is make sure as many people as possible go see it.
To that end, another clip has dropped, this time with Simon Pegg's Scotty and Chris Pine's Captain Kirk on the run as the ship tries to stay stable on limited power. There will be jumping and hanging onto railings for dear life. It's pretty brief, so there's not much to say about it. If you need more stuff in your eye-sockets, some new posters have dropped as well, which you can look at below.
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Buying Counterfeit Merchandise
Posted By Jim On 09/21/2005 @ 3:07 am In Shopping | 12 Comments
One of the books I started reading recently is titled Hot Property : The Stealing of Ideas in an Age of Globalization [3], which is all about counterfeiting and how it affects… well, basically everything. The books starts off by throwing a bone to the fake Rolex's and Louis Vuitton bags, then delves into how it affects you (airplane part manufacturers selling parts not to spec, re-dated perishables like rubber, etc), how pervasive counterfeiting is, etc. Well, this brought me to thinking about Chinatown, NY and the sale of counterfeit products. Would you buy something that's fake?
Here's how it works if you want to buy a fake purse or shiny thing in Chinatown… you go down to Canal Street in Manhattan and nine times out of ten, someone will approach you and drop a brand's name (Tiffany? Louis? Prada?). If you're interested, you'll perk up and look at them. They'll flash out a catalog (or a large semi-glossy page) of products with prices listed underneath. If you say yes, you basically follow them down an alley to a back room where they'll have boxes full of this fake stuff.
The alternative is you walk to one of the storefronts, preferably one of those incredibly narrow and deep stores that already sells Proda, Lovis, and Tiffony's (Po1o is popular too) stuff anyway and is "not quite" counterfeit. Walk up to the guy running the show and ask him if he or she has other, better purses. They'll look at you and probably will take you back into a room. It'll be behind a pseudo false door (the walls are all slotted so you can hang stuff off them, the one in the back simply opens up to the storeroom) and the tiny room will be PACKED with cardboard boxes. He/she will show you a few purses, haggle briefly, and either you'll buy it or they'll shuttle you out.
I've actually never bought a fake purse (I don't carry a purse and its ridiculously bad form to give it as a gift to a girl when you're a guy, but somehow awesome if you're a girl giving it to a friend though, it's a horrible double standard!) but I've been on many a trip to the nebulous black market of high end accessories. I would say most people don't realize how easy it is to get counterfeit products in the States (everyone knows of the $1 DVD movies or $10 for Microsoft Office 2003 in Hong Kong, but that requires a trip to Hong Kong and some sweating in customs)… so would you buy a fake purse if it meant chopping 80-90% off the price?
Also, from what people tell me, quite often when you go to Asia and see products really cheap, it's not because the products are counterfeit but because they are stolen. With all the production in Asia, often times the workers steal a few to sell. Either way, it's still illegal stuff. Incidentally, I wrote this article because I thought people would find it an interesting read on how simple the infamous "NY Chinatown black market" is and this isn't meant as a guide or anything to help you buy illegal goods. Since it is illegal, you could get in serious trouble for buying stolen goods or counterfeit products.
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- 02 6260 8666
- Modern Australian
Aubergine restaurant at Griffith. Photo: Graham Tidy
Fine dining in Canberra these days is often good, always expensive, and sometimes just a bit dull. Everything looks and tastes lovely - the glasses gleam, tablecloths are crisp - but there can be a caution that holds whole experience back, making it all very nice but not very exciting. Not so at Aubergine.
Aubergine has long been a staple in ACT fine dining and now the rest of the nation knows it isn't just good, but great - after it took out two hats, regional restaurant of the year and regional wine list of the year in this year's Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide.
Chef and now co-owner Ben Willis took up the reins in July 2008, and has being going from strength to strength since. Let's hope the celebrity doesn't go to his head - but that just doesn't seem likely. Willis and his team are clearly more interested in food than fame. Aubergine has all the hallmarks of a place run by the people who own it, putting all they have into the enterprise. It is not just the food and wine that are impressive, but the assured, enthusiastic competence that sets the tone.
Loin of venison with venison scotch egg, braised red cabbage, celeriac and kohlrabi. Photo: Graham Tidy
Many of the dishes are clearly influenced by the availability of a particular ingredient, and this is to be loudly applauded. It is a relatively simple thing for a good home cook to discover an unusual or hard-to-get ingredient and use it to great effect, quite another to regularly incorporate this kind of spontaneity into menu planning. It is a sign of a chef who is really thinking, and whose vigour has not been dulled by serving customers night after night.
The evening we visit the options are three courses for $75, and five for $95, a top-value deal at this level. We start with prawns; and the pork belly and crab.
The menu descriptions are straightforward and refreshingly devoid of froth and bubble; you just get a description of what's on the plate and how it is prepared. Prawns are poached, and served with speck, chorizo, globe artichoke and garlic custard.
Braised lamb tongue with parsley puree and saltbush. Photo: Graham Tidy
The prawns are dotted about the plate, small and sweet, and spectacularly teamed with the salty speck and chorizo, with a lovely edge provided by the globe artichoke. The garlic custard is genius - slippery, like silken tofu - it sends the dish on to a different level, providing a sensational texture contrast.
This is a dish that works with a familiar combination of ingredients, and is elevated by the wonderful quality of the raw materials, but also by the real skill and wit used in combining them. There is no clutter of flavours, nothing obliterates other components, and all plays a part.
The pork belly is likewise a wonderful balance of confit pork, with lovely pieces of blue swimmer crab, tender and tasting of the sea, beautifully accompanied by warrigal greens.
Mulberries, yoghurt, fresh almonds, oat biscuit and rhubarb sorbet at Aubergine. Photo: Graham Tidy
If you are squeamish about tongue, don't let this put you of the braised lamb tongue, little pieces of wonderfully flavoured tongue, interrupted by a bunch of sparkling fresh little vegies and a beautiful parsley puree. This is a dish you should not miss.
The service is attentive, but not suffocating, and very well-informed. Clearly the staff here love what they do, and work as part of a tight-knit team. Peter Bell, the sommelier, is a stand out, making interesting recommendations through the meal, which all work as harmoniously as the food on the plate. Particular favourites are the Valerie riesling from the Hunter Valley, and the sweet French banyuls with dessert. His list is diverse, easy to read, and well selected. The restaurant is in a relatively small space. Don't expect statement architecture or a high-fashion fit-out; rather muted, comfortable furnishing and quality tableware.
In mains, the venison is a triumph, beautifully tender and flavoursome, with a wonderfully contrasting baton of celeriac, grilled on the outside, which worked wonderfully with the sweetness of the meat and braised red cabbage. A tiny venison scotch egg is a lovely treat.
Rainbow trout comes smoked and fresh, and teamed with some spectacular pickled and roasted cauliflower, as well as a little prosciutto. A clean and elegant dish, the cauliflower adding real excitement.
To finish, a dish of fresh mulberries and rhubarb is studded with fresh green almonds, a little oat biscuit and basil. Every mouthful of this wonderful, not-too-sweet dessert is worth savouring. This is the kind of thing you could eat every day, if you were lucky enough to be able to, and it offers a lovely alternative to other more traditional and rich options.
At Aubergine, every mouthful is an adventure, and the excitement doesn't wane as you move through the dish. There are no big-bang, cheap tricks. Rather, beautifully wrought balances and contrasts, with flavours and textures in magnificent harmony. This is food that makes you want to eat slowly, so you don't miss anything, but at the same time you are driven to get another bit on the fork. Wiping up last smears of sauce is impossible to resist. A great meal at a great Canberra restaurant.
Catriona Jackson is director of communications and external liaison at the Australian National University and a food writer.
Food: 4/4 stars
Wine: 4/4 stars
Style: 3/4 stars
Value: 4/4 stars
Service: 4/4 stars
Score: 16.5/20
11 something went wrong. 12 not so great tonight. 13 fine for a cheap and cheerful, not so for a place that aspires to the top end. 14 good. 15 really good. 16 great, when can we move in. 17-20 brilliant. The stars are a quick reference to the key highs or lows. They do not relate directly to the score out of 20.
- 02 6260 8666
- aubergine.com.au
- Cuisine - Modern Australian, European
- Prices - Three courses for $75, five for $95
- Features - BYO, Wheelchair access
- Chef(s) - Ben Willis
- Owners - Ben and Andrea Willis
- Cards accepted - AMEX, EFTPOS, Visa, Mastercard
- Opening Hours - Dinner Monday to Saturday from 6pm
- Awards - Canberra Times Restaurant of the Year 2011, Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide two hats, Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide Regional Restaurant of the Year 2012, Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide Regional Wine List of the Year 2012
- Seats - 55 inside
- Author - Catriona Jackson


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FOXhas officially announced American Idol season 9 auditions willbegin on Sunday, June 14 at Gillette Stadium in the Boston, MA area. Including Boston, there will also be auditionsheld insix other cities,with the same 16-28 age stipulation. Keep reading for full details on locations and dates…
All applicants must be between 16 and 28 years old as of June 12, 2009, andmust be eligible to work in the United States. The audition dates and locations are as follows:
Sunday, June 14
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Gillette Stadium
Thursday, June 18
Atlanta, GA
Georgia Dome
Monday, June 22
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Friday, June 26
Dallas, TX
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Wining and dining top-performing employees at big events is a fun way to say thanks for all the hard work. But what's the real payback for marketers?
It's a soggy Saturday night in Niagara Falls, Ont., but the weather isn't doing much to dampen this party. Inside the plush-carpeted, cavernous lower levels of the Fallsview Casino Hotel, Nissan Canada is doing some celebrating. Its annual Club Excellence event-a VIP gathering of its top salespeople from across the country-is in full corporate swing, and a bevy of awards are set to be handed out after dinner.
On stage, the band plays Sinatra, while event planners wearing headsets try to keep things running smoothly from the sidelines. "Are you enjoying yourself?" asks a congenial Cynthia Richards, president of Event Spectrum Inc., the Toronto-based agency looking after the festivities, just as the night's MC, Canadian actress Jessica Holmes, introduces herself to the crowd with an uncanny Celine Dion impression. "Hellooooo!"
For the 180 or so Nissan faithful, whose business performance earned them the right to be whisked away on the company tab, the thank-you's don't end with dinner. The three-day program includes the flight in and out, a winery tour and tasting, unexpected gifts, plenty of cocktails-even a close-up ride by the Horseshoe Falls on the Maid of the Mist. A simple pat on the back, this is not.
In fact, marketers like Nissan are spending big money-in many cases well over a million dollars with each event-to recognize their best and brightest. According to the U.S.-based Convention Industry Council's 2004 Economic Impact Study, incentive travel in the U.S. alone topped out at US$122 billion.
And while it may seem like an exercise in human resources management, smart businesses have learned that it also needs to be about marketing their brand to their most cherished resource: Their own employees.
But in an increasingly ROI-obsessed world, employee marketing at events like Nissan's have not escaped scrutiny. Richards says that today, more than at any other time in the 10 years ESI has been in business, cost-conscious companies are asking how exactly employee events contribute to profitability, instead of inhabiting the grey zone of simply providing a good time and a short morale boost.
"How we answer that is by going in and asking them questions about what they're looking for," she says. "What are their success factors?" Most often, Richards says, the answer is increased sales. Pegging performance to rewards like elaborate vacations, cash and carrots like the Club Excellence can work wonders for sales. "There's a direct correlation."
But there are a growing number of other success factors to take into account. "It's not always increased sales," Richards says. "Employee loyalty is becoming a very big thing." Especially, she adds, in cities like Calgary, where a booming job market means marketers are competing harder to retain staff.
What's more, says Kim Naylor, executive vice-president of channel marketing for Toronto's Pareto Corp., a below-the-line services company with an events division Naylor founded, marketers have come to see their internal events in a whole new light.
"Typically, what you used to see was that a lot of companies would include the meeting portion of it because you got the tax break. And, I would say now, companies are looking at it as an opportunity to get their message across. People are relaxed at these events. It's now being seen as a really solid educational opportunity."
Naylor says one point she often makes with clients planning events is that they should take a look not only at the people attending, but also at those who didn't make the cut, and then think about changing the rules.
"Often you'll find that it's the same people going. You can't exclude those overachievers, but what about the rest of the group? If there's not going to be some kind of attainability for them, they're either going to leave or they're not going to be working to their full capacity because they can't see that pot of gold at the end of the rainbow," she says.
"Someone who's only doing $100,000 in sales has a lot more bandwidth. But my overachiever who's already doing four or five million, how much more does he have to lift? We really want to focus on that middle group."
Influencing that middle group is exactly what cellphone maker Nokia USA has done with an events program that both rewards its top sales performers and motivates them to train everyone else. With the help of Mississauga, Ont.-based marketing services firm OneMethod Inc., Nokia hosts as many as 30 training events in major cities from Los Angeles to New York. Venues of choice are usually lounges or chic hotels, like the Delano in Miami's South Beach, where as few as 15 hand-picked sales staff learn about new Nokia products by watching movie-style trailers or interactive DVDs while DJs play in the background.
At night, they're wined and dined at exclusive clubs. All the while, says OneMethod president Amin Todai, they're seeded with new Nokia products, brought up to speed on features and benefits, and then they go back to work in the stores as well-trained brand ambassadors.
"We'll train those 15 to 20 people, who are then incentivized to train hundreds more once they get back to the store level," Todai says, adding an online dashboard allows Nokia to track the number of people engaged in training programs post-event. "If you're the guy who's trained 10 people, versus the guy who's trained 700 people, you'll feel like a bit of a moron," Todai says. "It turns into a competition."
Todai says during the three or four months it usually takes for the program to run its course, as many as 7,500 sales representatives are trained. The old training program cost just half of the new one, but it only trained about 300 reps over the same time frame, Todai adds. "They used to do these straight-up training events, classroom settings with subject-matter experts training them individually, in the hopes that they would spread that knowledge. Those were never really effective. And there was no way of tracking it."
But tracking things isn't always so cut and dried, according to C.B. Wismar, vice-president of events marketing at Minneapolis, Minn.-based Carlson Marketing, who makes the point in a white paper he wrote on the subject of ROE: Return on Event. "Clearly, event marketing is widely regarded as an extremely potent means of strengthening relationships. However, it's a simple truth: Value measurement for events cannot be reduced to a formula."
Ron Moore, CEO of the Sonar Group, a Toronto-based marketing services firm that has produced events for companies like Investors Group, FedEx and CIBC, says whether the goal is increasing sales, holding onto top performers, boosting morale or simply giving your team a break from the norm, the overriding thought marketers should live by is simple: "If you're doing an employee event and don't have hard expectations of what it should achieve, don't spend the money."
Let's get lavish!
What does a seven-figure budget for an employee event buy these days? The average cost, according to Cynthia Richards, president of Toronto's Event Spectrum Inc., ranges from $200,000 on the low end all the way to $1 million and up. "A million dollars will get you a really good-sized meeting or product launch for about 300 people, a great destination with a very large multimedia presentation and lots of staging," she says. Two million dollar-budgeted events, the days of which are all but over, Richards says, used to include exotic trips to places like South Africa, Australia and Asia. "And it would all be on business-class travel."
Still, the amount of money spent doesn't always yield a better return. Richards recounts an event her team planned for an unnamed marketer in 2003 that worked with considerably less money ($500,000) but managed to elicit a million-dollar response. "Instead of the usual Caribbean thing, we put together a fabulous pre-Christmas shopping program in New York." Employees who hit a predetermined sales target won a trip to the Big Apple, $10,000 in spending money, a stay at the Plaza Hotel and a chauffeured limousine. "We closed Barney's for a morning fashion show and we had breakfast at Tiffany's-it was just a dream." Richards says the program was so successful, her team replicated it in Toronto, Montreal and Vancouver. Sales volume, she says, increased 23% over the target increase. "People's wives were calling us constantly, asking if their husbands had hit the target yet."
Kim Naylor, executive vice-president of channel marketing at Pareto Corp., says big and lavish events haven't totally disappeared-they're just not happening every year. "Some companies are going to biennial (events) as opposed to annual, so they're able to spend more money and do bigger trips because they're running them every two years or 18 months. It's not as often, but we are seeing it with a few of our clients."


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Steven Raichlen understands men and how they tend to cook. He speaks the lingo.
So in his newest book, "Man Made Meals: The Essential Cookbook For Guys" (Workman Publishing, $24.95), he's articulate, helpful and funny. (Just check the chapter heads: "Hog," "Steer," "Birds and a Rabbit.")
He freely acknowledges that men "need to know how to drag the meat back to the cave" and cook it.
He recognizes that most men, while they enjoy cooking, will want to make a much bigger production of a meal than women. "Flames. Smoke. Sharp implements. Blowtorches. High-tech gear and power tools. We guys love this stuff," he said.
He reminds his readers to read the recipe start to finish, to assemble and prepare ingredients, to clean up as they go and to season incrementally, adding salt and pepper gradually along the process.
He offers good advice: "Taste, taste, taste." "Buy the best you can afford." "Use high heat to achieve a dark brown color just shy of burnt."
Yet he boils it down to the basics: "All the world's cooking can be accomplished using five basic processes: gathering, cutting, mixing, seasoning, and transforming by heat, cold or chemical reaction. Five — that's it. Master them, and you'll rule the kitchen."
Raichlen has provided more than 300 recipes, from the simple, such as scrambled eggs and hot dogs (never boil or simmer them, page 118), to show-stopping numbers such as "Finger-Burner Lamb Chops" (see accompanying recipe) and "Spice-Crusted Whole Beef Tenderloin."
And he's tossed in tips and hints as well as advice from more than a dozen celebrity "food dudes," such as actor Stanley Tucci, chef Thomas Keller and activists Michael Pollan and Jim Denovan.
"I tried to pick men who had something interesting to say about food. The activism theme is very important because as more and more families have two working parents, if the man doesn't shoulder some of the cooking, our kids may never eat home-cooked meals," he said.
Raichlen told the Deseret News that it used to be that men didn't cook in the kitchen. If they cooked, they cooked outdoors on the grill (or more often, burned the food on the grill).
"Guys didn't always realize there's a difference between grilling and burning. So guys needed to know it's OK — even cool — to cook," he said.
"Today, most guys are comfortable with the notion of men in the kitchen and cooking. So the challenge is more changing how men think."
For one thing, men like to be instant experts, Raichlen said. "In other words, we lack the patience for a slow climb up a learning curve," he said.
"That's why I start with the concept of culinary literacy in the first chapter — what every man needs to know in the kitchen. Not everything. Just the essentials. Killer chili. The perfect steak. How to cook a romantic dinner complete with a fail-proof seduction chocolate dessert," Raichlen said.
"That's also why I've tried to make the recipes super easy to use, outlining what you need to buy, what tools you need, what you need to know and how long it will take you."
Raichlen explained that men have a paradoxical relationship with simplicity and complication.
"We like food to be simple (think burgers, brats, nachos, steak) until we want it to be complicated. Then we want it really complicated, like an 18-ingredient chili or an everything-but-the-kitchen-sink beef stew," he said.


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The Broken Family Band were a British rock band from Cambridge and London. The band was formed in Cambridge, England by Steven Adams, Jay Williams, Micky Roman and Gavin Johnson in 2001, following the break-up of Adams and Williams' indie rock band Hofman. Their musical style has variously been referred to as alt. country, country rock, new wave, and indie-rock (the latter term being favoured by the band). The name of the band references (and makes light of) the fact that both Adams and Williams had experienced an extended period during which close family members had died. Originally formed "for fun" and to play irregular shows at their local pub and record one album, the band were en... Continue Bio >>
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After the Sept. 11 attacks, the security colossus constructed to protect the United States from al-Qaida and its ilk fueled growth in surveillance technology and lavish federal spending. The federal-budget crunch, a sense that major attacks on the United States are unlikely and bipartisan skepticism of the counterterrorism bureaucracy may end all that.
WASHINGTON — Last week, a Bangladeshi student was charged in an FBI sting operation with plotting to blow up the Federal Reserve Bank in New York. A Somali-American man admitted sending young recruits from Minneapolis to a terrorist group in Somalia. In Libya, extremists responsible for the killing of four Americans last month in Benghazi remained at large.
The drumbeat of terrorism news never quite stops. As a result, for 11 years since the Sept. 11 attacks, the security colossus constructed to protect the nation from al-Qaida and its ilk has continued to grow, propelled by public anxiety, stunning advances in surveillance technology and lavish federal spending.
Now that may be changing. The looming federal-budget crunch, a sense that major attacks on the United States are unlikely and new bipartisan criticism of the sprawling counterterrorism bureaucracy may mean the open-checkbook era is nearing an end.
While the presidential candidates have clashed over security for U.S. diplomats in Libya, their campaigns have scarcely mentioned homeland security. That is for a reason: Less than one-half of 1 percent of Americans, in a Gallup poll in September, said terrorism was the country's most important problem.
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But the next administration may face a decision: Has the time come to scale back security spending, eliminating the least productive programs? Or, with tumult in the Arab world and the United States still a prime target, would that be dangerous?
Many security experts believe a retrenchment is inevitable and justified.
"After 9/11, we had to respond with everything we had, not knowing what would work best," said Rick Nelson, a former Navy helicopter pilot who served in several counterterrorism positions and now works at the Center for Strategic and International Studies. "That's a model we can no longer afford, financially or politically."
Michael Hayden, who led both the National Security Agency and the CIA in the years after the Sept. 11 attacks, agrees that the time will come for security spending to be scaled back and believes that citizens need to decide when. Personally, he would wait .
"I would stand fast for now," said Hayden, an adviser to Mitt Romney.
In the view of most specialists, the danger to U.S. territory from al-Qaida and its allies is far less than in 2001. Al-Qaida's leaders have been relentlessly hunted, its ideology was rejected by most of the young Muslims who led the Arab revolts, and its U.S. recruits have been few. Of more than 160,000 homicides in the country since 9/11, just 14 — about 1 in 1,000 — were carried out by al-Qaida sympathizers in the name of jihad.
Some of the credit is no doubt due to homeland-security programs that cost taxpayers about $690 billion over the decade after 9/11, according to John Mueller, a political scientist at Ohio State University.
That money has paid for an alphabet soup of new agencies: the Homeland Security Department, the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, the National Counterterrorism Center, the Terrorist Screening Center and many others, each with a supporting cast of contractors. Old agencies like the CIA and the FBI have bulked up, and a record 4.8 million people hold security clearances.
For years, counterterrorism programs have been met mostly with cheerleading on Capitol Hill, despite billions spent on programs that turned out to be troubled or ineffective: "puffer" machines for airport screening that were warehoused, a high-tech surveillance program on the border with Mexico that was shut down, costly machines to sniff city air for biological weapons that produced too many false positives.
No previous congressional criticism of counterterrorism programs, however, has been quite so scathing as a bipartisan Senate subcommittee report this month on more than 70 "fusion centers" nationwide, created to help federal, state and local authorities share threat information.
The two-year investigation found that the centers had failed to help disrupt a single terrorist plot, even as they spent hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars and infringed on civil liberties.
But senior senators, Homeland Security and a half-dozen law-enforcement groups rushed to criticize the report and defend the centers, which, not coincidentally, provide jobs and spending in every state.
Like other intelligence officials after 2001, Hayden was whipsawed by public wrath: first, for failing to prevent the Sept. 11 attacks, and then, a few years later, for having permitted the National Security Agency to eavesdrop on terrorism suspects in the United States without court approval.
Perhaps, as a result, he often says that the American people need to instruct the government on where to draw the line. He told an audience at the University of Michigan last month, for instance, that while a plot on the scale of 9/11 was highly unlikely, smaller terrorist strikes, like the shootings by an Army psychiatrist at Fort Hood in Texas in 2009, could not always be stopped.
"I can actually work to make this less likely than it is today," Hayden said. "But the question I have for you is: What of your privacy, what of your convenience, what of your commerce do you want to give up?"
Ubiquitous new technology has made it far easier for agencies to keep watch on Americans, using cellphones that track location, Internet monitoring, video surveillance cameras, facial-recognition software and license-plate readers. And the government increasingly taps into the huge amounts of data that companies gather.
"I think the greatest threat to privacy these days is the enormous amount of data in the hands of private companies that could be misused — either by the government or by companies," said John Villasenor, an electrical engineer at the University of California, Los Angeles, who studies the social impact of technology.
"Today almost everything we do is recorded by default."


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So... I've been thinking about upgrading my daily commuting / road bike
I currently ride a miyata 110... and like it a lot...
I buy sell trade fix flip all things bike... and its not too often I find something I really have to have for my self.
Two of my other flipper friends have nice bikes I'm interested in... in my size
One is a miyata 912
other is a Bridgestone RB-2
all are in good shape and will need minor tunup and probably new tires, tubes, and chain.
Any votes one way or the other... also what would be a fair asking price on these being sold as is in a good bike market. Both these guys owe me as I hook them up with cheap wholesale bike stuff. I will post pictures if I can get them to send me some. I've seen the Bridgestone in person but have not seen the miyata yet.
I also have a trek 560 frame I can build up with shimano 600 that fits me.