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LEANN RIMES checked into a "treatment facility" after a cheating secret threatened to destroy her marriage!
The 30-year-old country singer sought treatment for stress and anxiety when she learned that her husband Eddie Cibrian was still in touch with a former lover, sources say.
Cibrian cheated on his first wife, "Real Housewives of Beverly Hills" star Brandi Glanville, with bit-part actress Scheana Marie – and the two women had an ugly confrontation on the Bravo series.
While the 39-year-old actor has cooled things with Scheana, 27, the former "CSI: Miami" star never lost contact with her, sources say.
"Their affair is definitely over, but Eddie still has feelings for Scheana, and she's tight with his good friends," revealed an insider. "Eddie is very careful when he communicates with her. He uses a member of their inner circle as an intermediary, or texts and calls from friends' phones.
"But someone told LeAnn, and she freaked out."
Another close source told The ENQUIRER: "I think LeAnn feels very threatened by this girl. She went so far as to block Scheana on Twitter."
The Grammy winner fell for Cibrian when they were both still married, and pals believe she's suspected him of cheating for awhile.
"LeAnn called a friend a few weeks ago sobbing hysterically about Eddie going out," divulged the insider.
"She was home for the weekend and he didn't stay in with her. She was crying, saying that she was so worried about what he was doing.
"I think Eddie feels trapped. He probably just married LeAnn for the money, and there are only so many vacations you can take before you get bored with someone."
Eddie's cheating ruined his first marriage to Brandi, and she had a chance to confront one of her rivals, Scheana, while at the West Hollywood restaurant SUR with her "Housewives" co-stars.
"Brandi recognized Scheana – who was working there as a waitress – and straight out said to her, 'You used to sleep with my ex-husband!'" recalled a pal of Brandi. "Amazingly, Scheana didn't even deny it.
"Later on, Brandi told her friends, 'I really do feel sorry for LeAnn. Eddie will never change – once a cheater, always a cheater.'"
Meanwhile, LeAnn's official story about going into the "treatment facility" is that she sought help after being "cyber-bullied" by two women on Twitter.
"She's even filed an invasion of privacy lawsuit against them, claiming they illegally recorded a phone conversation with her and posted snippets online," said the source.
"While LeAnn may have been upset over the Twitter postings, the truth is that she had a meltdown when she found out Eddie was still talking to his former mistress."


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Disclaimer: Although the following Shopify Affiliate Program review is comprised of my own thoughts and opinions, I am being compensated to write this post. Any earnings claims made do not depict typical results. Earnings results are dependent on the individual efforts of the program participant. I am not being compensated for any individual signups made using the links in this post.
A lot of affiliates I know personally only promote one type of offer and that is CPA offers. What they don't know or are ignorant to the fact of is that there is a massive amount of money to be made promoting solid CPS offers. Think about it – you have a much bigger margin to test your offers on since they payouts are generally much higher. In addition, a lot of times CPS offers actually get you a better EPC than CPA offers, which is awesome because you can scale that sucker out and generate huge amounts of revenue as an affiliate and you don't have to worry about quality because you already produced the sale! One of these CPS offers that I think a lot of affiliates are missing out on by not promoting is Shopify, the leader in eCommerce allowing small to medium size businesses around the world launch their online stores.
Shopify essentially allows anybody, even with basic computer knowledge, to set up their own Internet e-commerce quickly and easily. There are so many mom-and-pop businesses out there as well as larger retain business who just aren't selling online right now because they don't know how. Shopify makes this super easy by allowing business owners to quickly set up an online store (and we're not talking cookie cutter, drab online stores circa 1998 here either). These stores can be fully customized using an easy-to-use theme editor which is WYSIWYG so anybody can use it with ease. Business owners can also create their own website template and no HTML or CSS is off-limits. Furthermore, business owners can always hire Shopify Experts to create their online store for them and still take advantage of all the features it offers such as unlimited hosting, 24/7 customer support, SEO, and a free built-in mobile commerce shopping cart.
It's really a no-brainer to be honest. Think about the rate at which e-commerce (including mobile) is exploding. We are projected to go from $230 billion this year to $249 billion in 2014. That's billion with a "B!" Pretty soon, it won't be the mom-and-pop corner shops that are going to be the norm…it is going to be the mom-and-pop online stores selling very niche items that can easily be sold anywhere in the world using the power of the Internet and Shopify. So it makes sense to promote something that provides real value to the millions and millions of sellers that have yet to come on board to online selling or are looking for a way to. Business owners want a customized experience for their customers and control, which unlike Amazon, something like Shopify is able to do and do very well.
Here are just some of the reasons why Shopify's affiliate program kicks ass:
- It's an unsaturated affiliate program and market meaning there is a ton of opportunity here.
- Shopify is a very well known brand in the e-commerce space.
- All traffic sources are accepted.
- They provide two commission options: 20% lifetime revenue share on all customers or 200% of the customer's first bill. Per sale commission varies depending on which plan customer chooses but can be up to $358 per sale.
- Commissions can increase depending on volume.
- Affiliates are provided promotional resources such as banners, logos and blog content to make your affiliate marketing easy.
- Shopify keeps your business running smoothly with timely payouts.
- Your dashboard lets you easily see exactly how much money you're making, when your next payment is, and how many clicks you've generated. The dashboard also lets you manage all of your affiliate shops from one convenient page.
- Shopify affiliates have some of the highest conversion rates in our industry.
The most awesome part about the Shopify Affiliate Program is that business owners can sign up for a 14-day free trial of Shopify and you still get paid when they upgrade at the end of that 14 days. It's like promoting a rebill except the product actually works, it has a much higher payout, and the customer wants it! In addition, you won't have any problem promoting Shopify on Facebook Ads or Google AdWords (that's right – no cloaking necessary – how's that for something new?)
Here are some screenshots from inside the Affiliate Dashboard:
As you can see, everything is very seamless and easy to read with all the important details you want to know right there when you log in.
Below is the Affiliate tab of the Shopify Partner dashboard where you can keep track of any affiliate referrals you have sent to Shopify which allow you to earn even more.
Overall, the dashboard is extremely simple to use. All you have to do is grab your link, start promoting, and watch the numbers go up in your account.
All in all, as a serious affiliate you should seriously not be missing out on the opportunity to promote such a branded and quality offer. This isn't one of those offers that are just going to disappear like several of the fly-by-night CPA affiliates are used to. Shopify is global, here to stay, and serious about treating their affiliates well in an effort to further grow the business. As always, they only make money when you make money, and to be honest I haven't seen a lot of well-branded companies come forward and put as much effort into their affiliate program as Shopify has. I highly recommend you check them out if you're serious about running long-term campaigns for quality products as a professional affiliate marketer.
Some interesting facts about Shopify:
- Story: founded in 2005 as a snowboard company (https://www.snowdevil.ca/)
- Today Shopify supports 50,000+ active online shops (adding 2,000+ new customers a month)
- Customers in 108 countries
- In 2012 Shopify shops processed 9.9M orders (over $750M in Gross Merchandise Value) – http://www.shopify.com/
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- In 2013 Shopify's shops are projected to sell over $1.5B in Gross Merchandise Value (!)
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SAN ANTONIO -- The Archdiocese of San Antonio said Monday that Deacon Pat Rodgers has died at the age of 67.
Rodgers, a longtime communications director of the archdiocese and executive director of Catholic Television of San Antonio, passed away Monday at the Nix Medical Center after suffering a heart attack.
According to the Archdiocese of San Antonio, Rodgers got his first taste of being a communications representative for the Diocese when Archbishop Patrick F. Flores was held hostage in 2000.
Because of Rodgers' broadcast experience in radio and with the Catholic Television, he ended up talking with television and radio stations from around the country as the story unfolded.
Deacon Rodgers retired on in June 2015 after spending nearly two decades in the archdiocesan Department of Communication.
During his retirement, the Archdiocese said that Deacon Rodgers spent more time with his children and grandchildren. He and his wife, Kristine, were married for more than four-and-a-half decades.
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Goodbye, Hello,
Who Are You?
A Dance Dance Revolution Fanfiction
By: Azurite (but people call me Andi, Akachan, Mer, and Baka)
Well, if you've
gotten this far, then you are no doubt wondering one of these things:
(1) WHAAAT?! Andi wrote a DDR fic!? What about all her *other* unfinished fics? Well you know the story about the thing that never goes away? Ever? Yeah, this is like that. I'd never be able to watch/play (ha ha) DDR again if I didn't write this. So here it is.
(2) O.o How did I get here? What am I doing here? Well, if you clicked on "DDR" in my profile, then you either knew what it meant, and wondered what the heck a poor dancer such as myself was doing with those three letters, or you were like "huh? Dark Dark Rain? Double Dark Rocks?" and just clicked out of curiosity. Well, poor soul, you have found your way to a piece known as a FANFICTION! It's about DDR. Ha. Ha.
Notes and Schtuff:
(1) No, I can't DDR. I have terrible coordination. I can try, but I only embarass myself and my much-better-at-DDRing friends. My fingers are much faster than my feet anyway. -.- Of course, that doesn't help me when playing DanceManiaX any...
(2) No, I don't own DDR-- any aspect of it. Konami owns DDR, and the individual artists responsible for the songs therein own them. I'm not making a profit off this... if anything, I'm giving MORE money to those companies by buying their games, and dumping token after token into the arcade machines to try and play. Key word being try.
(3) Yes, I have written fanfiction before, but no, not DDR fanfiction. This is an original piece... it's fictional (duh. Hence the "fiction" part of fanfiction) and absolutely did NOT happen. I'm just sort of setting it where I am, since I know my area best. ^.~
(4) Yes, I know *some* Japanese. So unless you're a native or have studied Japanese for over 10 years (ooh goody, someone on par with me!) then don't correct me. I may not know kanji all that well, but I know names and phrases like I know the English alphabet. -.- Don't even comment on that last one.
Dedicates: (because
I'm a dork)
Will and Grace.
And NOW, on with the story...
It had started out an ordinary enough day. Alexa Dirson got up at the ungodly hour of 6:45, rummaged through the mountain of clothes on the right side of her too-small twin bed, and came up with some semblance of a normal outfit. She'd blindly selected her too-big jeans with the stretchy knees, that, if worn with the proper shirt, almost looked like raver pants. Regardless of what shoes she wore, they always covered her toes, though she was never unlucky enough to trip over her own two feet-- yet.
It wasn't that Alexa -Alex, for short- was a clutz, she was just... uncoordinated. She was often praised for her speedy speaking and typing skills, but when it came to anything physical-- dancing, to be sure-- she was as slow as snails. She tried, no mistake about that, but for some reason, her eyes didn't seem to coordinate as well with her feet, or her hands. Her fingers, fine-- she could type at over 120 words per minute. But she couldn't dance dance revolution past most three step songs.
The brunette 17-year-old never let this get her down though, and kept on going to the arcade near the pier every Friday with her friends, when she had the money to. Her Friday nights were unoccupied since the start of the school year, when her schedule allowed for her to leave the campus at 2:15-- and she could go home, then meet her friends at the pier for a night of gaming.
This was what she looked forward to, humming "If You Can Say Goodbye" as she finished off a crisp waffle drenched in table syrup, dumping the plate in the dish tray and heading back out to the dining room where her denim messenger bag rested on a chair.
She just had time to pull her leather jacket over her shrunk-in-the-wash long sleeved shirt and shimmery plaid blouse before she hopped out the door, stumbling slightly down the stairs and the slope that led from her hill to the bus stop a block and a half away. Halfway there, she stopped to tie her shoelace-- which she hadn't noticed was untied, and just as she was getting up, she noticed the only bus leaving that half hour pull away from the block.
"No wait! Come back!" Alexa got up and adjusted her bag, but by the time she reached the curb over a hundred meters away, she was winded-- and the bus was just disappearing over the crest in the horizons, many avenues away. Alexa sighed with disappointment. When she missed the bus that only meant one thing-- a long day.
"Just my luck." She kicked a loosened stone from the asphalt and marched to the bus stop, grumbling to herself the entire way. The sun was far too bright that morning, quite unusual for San Francisco weather, but tolerable all the same. It was because of this unusual coastal heat that she was being so light with her clothing, when she normally wore several layers of long-sleeved shirts and her wool coat. Well...
Alexa grinned to herself, flopping onto a ridged seat at the bus stop, not even paying attention to the the increasing number of cars blocking the street that her bus was supposed to come down. Cars flooded the boulevard lined with trees, angry drivers beeping at each other in odd intervals, yelling out their windows, then regretting it as the spray of sprinklers watering the grass splashed them cleanly on the face.
The teen was so absorbed in singing "Moonlight Shadow" for the umpteenth time since she'd gotten to the bus stop that she didn't even see the motorcycle come tearing down Park Presidio Boulevard, sidewinding a cherry red SUV, and then careening towards her spot at the bus stop.
Three thousand miles away, in the lower wards of Tokyo, Japan, a young man was being laid to rest. The pallbearers of his coffin were no older than eighteen years themselves, yet the situation made them appear much older. A tearful crowd of mourners was gathered around them, one a petit girl with long black hair and eyes hidden by a pair of oval-shaped sunglasses. Tears streamed from underneath them all the same, dark eyeliner dripping down the curve of her cheeks as her body trembled with sobs.
"Akio-kun... why?"
Her hands were trembling even as she laid a single white rose on his coffin, then stared, wide-eyed, through the tinted circle of her glasses, and dashed off into the fog. Not one of the mourners made to go after her-- poor Kumiko... to have lost her one true love the night after a simple argument... poor Akio, who had died because of something that he loved.
His trophies would rust in the world above him.
Alexa Dirson woke up groggily, and immediately slammed her arm on the table next to her, groping blindly for her glasses. When instead, her hand met the thick, rustling plastic of a bouquet, sending the flowers toppling to the floor, and then the clang of something attached to that bouqet slamming into an IV pole, she bolted upright.
What she didn't expect was to be barraged by sounds immediately-- the beeping of something to her side, a slow, dismal drip-drip of an IV, and the simultaneous yell of about twelve of her friends storming into her room, yelling "ALEX!!"
"Gwah? How ... what ... who?"
"You're awake!" And suddenly Alexa was very aware of her left arm getting squished to her side, and the IV tube protrusively sticking out of her right arm's elbow.
"H-hi Andrea..." Alexa mumbled out. The overjoyed 15-year-old at her side, with shocking pink hair, was a friend that she'd met at the Pier Side Arcade, and went to a school a few miles away from Alexa's own coastal high school. They'd both hit it off quite well, despite having only known each other for some weeks, and only knowing as much about each other as they related to one another on Friday nights or online.
"We got so worried about you when you didn't show up on Friday..." Andrea started, while smiling slightly at the crowd gathered around her bed. As it appeared, she was in a hospital room-- and had been, for quite some time, judging by the fact that her clothes were folded up on a nearby chair, and there was a good-sized pile of balloons and flowers littering the floor.
Upon noticing the flowers, Alexa immediately sneezed, her allergies coming back along with her awareness. Her friends laughed at the cute display of Alexa wrinkling her nose, while she adjusted herself in the bed appropriately and sat up, staring at each of her friends confusedly.
Besides Andrea, Alexa's friends Matthew, Jason, Scott, Jeremy, Vic, Gabrielle, and Whitney were there, their heights towering over the prone girl. She hadn't broken anything, since no part of her was in a cast, but she was sporting a bruised forehead covered with thick bandages. Alexa ran her fingers through her shorter bangs and grumbled slightly, feigning happiness over the situation by saying "Ah, it was about time I cut my bangs anyway."
"Hey, An, what day is it?" Alexa asked suddenly, remembering that Andrea had said they'd worried when she "hadn't shown up on Friday." Everything seemed awfully hazy to her, as if she wasn't supposed to be here. The hospital was a familiar place though, it was just that she'd never stayed more than few hours for regular checkups. This area was different than the usual rooms. And yet...
"Huh? Oh,
it's Sunday."
"SUNDAY!? I missed Bemani Night?"
Collective sweatdrops appeared on the brows of all her friends, who nodded solemnly.
"Don't you remember what happened, Al?" Matthew asked sitting on the side of the bed and taking Alexa's hand. Alexa stared at their joined fingers and grinned hugely at Andrea, while Jason behind Alexa was fuming.
"Uh..." Everyone stared at Alexa, waiting for her to shed some light on why she'd been caught in an accident that had very nearly taken her life-- but instead just left her incredibly lucky.
"...you don't
remember a thing, do you, Alexa?" Vic groaned, narrowing his almond-shaped
eyes behind his glasses.
"Nope!" Alexa responded brightly.
"But man, have I got one hell of a headache..."
"We should probably let you get some more rest. You've been out since Friday mornin', the doctors said, when you were brought in here. Some freak motorcycle accident... by all rights, you should have at least broken something, but..." Matthew explained, a combination perplexed and relieved expression on his handsome face.
"Thank God for small miracles." Andrea finished with a smile, helping to usher everyone out of the room. She winked as she shoved the last of the crew -Matthew- out the door.
"Psst! He stayed here the whole time, Al." She grinned like a Cheshire Cat, "I think he's going to be telling you something soon." Alexa and Andrea both grinned hugely and giggled, and the younger girl turned to go as Alexa started to readjust herself in the slender bed.
"Oh right... your mom should be coming soon... and Gabby, Whit, and I chipped in to get you this." Andrea grabbed something that looked like a foot-long poster tube from a tabletop, and marched back over to Alexa. When the confused girl peeked inside, three white roses looked back out at her, their buds held tightly closed by the shape of the cylinder.
Suddenly, Alexa's hands went slack, and if it hadn't been for her knees propping up the tube, the roses would have clattered to the floor.
Why did their scent smell so painfully familiar? Like dirt, rain, and the already faint smell of roses... mixed with tears?
Akio Kataoka rubbed his head groggily as he sat up, suddenly feeling the odd imbalance of the world around him. Despite rubbing his eyes frustratedly, there seemed to be no more light than there was a moment ago, and the air swirling around him was a chilling breeze that reminded him of the ocean at night.
"Where the heck am I?" Akio mused, trying to stand up. What happened was his knee gave in, and he plopped right back down to where he'd been sitting, suddenly aware of the fact that whatever he'd been passed out on was soft, and a bit wet. Grass?
Faintly, there was the sound of rushing water nearby, muffled as if he were in some enclosed space with thick walls, apart from the rest of the world.
Then the sound stopped, the blackness started to recede, and there was a faint haze. Akio stared at the white spot, trying to see if his vision was up to par. The speck became clearer and clearer, finally focusing into what looked like a wall with an unfamiliar poster on it. Then the whiteness splayed across his vision like a massive curtain, and everything turned white.
When Akio opened his eyes again, what felt like only a few moments later, he was in an unfamiliar place, and his head was throbbing, as if someone had knocked him clean across the head with something heavy. Once that knowledge settled in, Akio became frighteningly aware of something else-- he wasn't in his body at all-- but a GIRL'S!
Whee! What did you think of Part 1? It took me much longer than I wanted... and I may revise it. But this is just a first draft, and I want to get it out so I can satisfy my muse. Funny how she rules my life...
Please let me know what you think... I have most of this plotted out already, so expect to see more soon (weekly, if I'm lucky).
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Hornqvist, Nashville's leading goal scorer in two of the last three seasons, did not put up big numbers in his first appearance since he sustained a knee injury Jan. 26 at Anaheim. Plenty of others — on both teams — did.
Colin Wilson, Sergei Kostitsyn, Mike Fisher, Jonathon Blum and Shea Weber, all had a goal and an assist for the Predators but the Colorado Avalanche were even more prolific and Nashville fell 6-5 in an afternoon contest at Denver.
Weber got the final goal when he scored with 1:18 to play (Hornqvist had the secondary assist) and an extra attacker on the ice. It was the fourth time Nashville closed to within one goal in a game it never led. Several chances after that failed to produce a game-tying goal.
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Everyone has their story of how they "found" yoga and mine may sound like someone else's story but it's the truth. I was encouraged to go by two guys I knew, who said it'd be the hardest workout I'd ever done. I went to Baptiste Yoga in Cambridge and the wonderful Coeli Marsh was teaching. I looked at her and thought, "that woman is in AMAZING shape!" and then she proceeded to kick my butt with one of the hardest workouts I'd ever done. Over the next few weeks, as I sampled more classes, I was intrigued and at the same time opened up to a new way of moving physically and feeling emotionally. After a year of taking class, I went to my first Baptiste Teacher training and loved it. I came home and immediately started teaching some friends. That led to other teaching jobs and eventually, I was teaching at Baptiste Yoga and loving it. That all started in December of 1999 and I am grateful every day that I have found yoga.
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Orally transmitted by Yang Chengfu, Recorded by Chen Weiming, Translated by Jerry Karin
'Pushing up and energetic' means the posture of the head is upright and straight and the spirit is infused into its apex. You may not use strength. To do so makes the back of the neck stiff, whereupon the chi and blood cannot circulate freely. You must have an intention which is empty, lively (or free) and natural. Without an intention which is empty, lively, pushing up and energetic, you won't be able to raise your spirit.
The phrase 'hold in the chest' means the chest is slightly reserved inward, which causes the chi to sink to the cinnabar field (dan1 tian2). The chest must not be puffed out. If you do so then the chi is blocked in the chest region, the upper body becomes heavy and lower body light, and it will become easy for the heels to float upward. 'Pulling up the back' makes the chi stick to the back. If you are able to hold in the chest then you will naturally be able to pull up the back. If you can pull up the back, then you will be able to emit a strength from the spine which others cannot oppose.
The waist is the commander of the whole body. Only after you are able to relax the waist will the two legs have strength and the lower body be stable. The alternation of empty and full all derive from the turning of the waist. Hence the saying: 'The wellspring of destiny lies in the tiny interstice of the waist.' ** Whenever there is a lack of strength in your form, you must look for it in in the waist and legs.
In the art of Tai Chi Chuan, separating full and empty is the number one rule. If the whole body sits on the right leg, then the right leg is deemed 'full' and the left leg 'empty'. If the whole body sits on the left leg, then the left leg is deemed 'full' and the right leg 'empty'. Only after you are able to distinguish full and empty will turning movements be light, nimble and almost without effort; if you can't distinguish them then your steps will be heavy and sluggish, you won't be able to stand stably, and it will be easy for an opponent to control you.
Sinking the shoulders means the shoulders relax open and hang downward. If you can't relax them downward, the shoulders pop up and then the chi follows and goes upward, causing the whole body to lack strength. Drooping the elbows means the elbows are relaxed downward. If the elbows are elevated then the shoulders are unable to sink. When you use this to push someone they won't go far. It's like the 'cut off' energy of external martial arts. ***
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[*] This four-character phrase is probably the most difficult one in all of tai chi literature to translate. I have chosen to regard each of the four words as filling the function of a predicate or verb-phrase. Another fairly obvious approach would be to take the first two as adverbial and the last two as subject-predicate: "Empty and lively, the apex is energetic." Many other interpretations are possible.
[**] In Chinese thought the waist tends to be regarded as the space between two vertebrae, rather than a circle girdling the middle of the body.
[***] External martial arts such as Shaolin are thought to use energy from parts or sections of the body, as opposed to the 'whole-body' energy of tai chi.
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An Angel And A Violet - In The Garden - Poem by Sophia White
A small garden, lush with flowers
Pinks and whites and lavenders
Specked with candles in colored glass
Strolled two young and handsome lovers.
The moon was half a glass of wine,
The stars were shards of shattered glass.
The water tumbled through its bed
Where the gentleman walked beside his lass.
The grass wrapped around their ankles
As the candlelight dappled the stream
And the stones shone white in the moon
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Comments about An Angel And A Violet - In The Garden by Sophia White
purple moon (6/18/2007 8:45:00 AM)
what an enchanting poem, absolutely beautiful. i'm glad that there is still some romance left in the world. 'you old romantic'. i hope that you get your chance to be that girl in the garden. x (Report) Reply
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Very nice. The last stanza is the best-I think-for it frames the speaker's perspective. Well done. Context, context, and context..... (Report) Reply
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Outstanding imagery, you have a splendid talent.Well done
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Midland soon will be equipped to fill a gaping need, thanks to a $10,000 grant from United Way of Midland. We applaud the effort being called the 30 Degrees Project.
The 30 Degrees Project is a new shelter which will open on nights when the temperature dips below 30 degrees. The shelter will increase the capacity of the Salvation Army by about 60 percent and will open during cold nights after the start of the year. It is being run through the Midland Homeless Coalition.
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Last winter there were 22 days when temperatures fell below 30 degrees. When temperatures fall well below the freezing mark, the cold weather can be life-threatening. Now, there will be a place to go on those extremely cold nights.
Women and children will be moved from the main Salvation Army facility on Baird Street to the new shelter on cold nights. The women's portion of the main building then will be opened to men, bringing the Salvation Army's total capacity on cold nights up from about 27 to at least 63.
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Here they are: the much-awaited Vir Sanghvi Awards for the HT City Crystals, 2012! This year's awards come with the same qualifications as always. These are not the most popular restaurants in Delhi...brunch Updated: Dec 14, 2012 18:27 IST
Best Chinese (Hotel Restaurant): The China Kitchen, Hyatt Regency
Ever since it opened half a decade ago, China Kitchen has rewritten all the rules for Chinese restaurants in India. Created by global Hyatt chefs along the lines of the chain's successful restaurants in mainland China, the outlet broke with tradition by staffing its kitchen with a brigade of chefs from the People's Republic.
The menu (especially under the current chef) leans towards the spicy food of Hunan and Sichuan but the restaurant's stand-out dish remains the same: a killer Peking Duck, with skin and meat so good that you should really eat them on their own without bothering with the pancakes.Best Chinese (Standalone): Royal China, Nehru Place
The Royal China group in London is a loose federation of separately owned properties, some of which are very good and some of which are just so-so. It is the same in India. The two Bombay Royal Chinas opened well but have slid into dull mediocrity. The Delhi outpost, on the other hand, has different owners from the Bombay branches and standards remain high.
The restaurant's strengths remain the dim sum brunch and the quality of the cooking. Its weakness remains the location: an ugly office block in Nehru Place. But prices are reasonable for food of this quality and, so far at least, Royal China has successfully negotiated the fine line between serving authentic Chinese food and giving Delhi's Punjabis what they want.
Best Indian (Traditional): Bukhara, ITC Maurya
Is there anything left to say about Bukhara that Bill Clinton, Tony Blair, Bruce Springsteen and all of the restaurant's other celebrity guests have not already said? It is the most famous Indian restaurant in the world with a menu that has remained largely unchanged since 1978. Whenever a restaurant is this famous, there is bound to be a backlash and indeed it is fashionable to say that you know a little place (in GK /Chanakyapuri/ Gurgaon/ Noida etc.) which does much better kebabs at half the price. And perhaps you do. But it is hard to beat the Bukhara experience or the consistency in the quality of those famous kebabs.
The Oberoi group has no reputation for Indian cuisine. The old Mughal Rooms were Kwality-clones and the Kandahar menu consisted of dishes stolen from ITC. So it made sense for the chain to rethink its approach to Indian food and to refuse to open new Indian restaurants at some properties (the Delhi Oberoi, for instance). Instead, the Oberois are now experimenting with modern Indian, partnering with the likes of Vineet Bhatia in Bombay.
But the best Indian restaurant in the Oberoi group is easily Amaranta at the Gurgaon property. It has not had the success it deserves because a) 361, the hotel's main restaurant is such a hit and b) because Gurgaon is not exactly the capital of nouvelle Indian cuisine.
But the food can be exceptional. The restaurant is proudest of its fish, freshly flown in from the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal and the quality of its presentation. For me, however, its real success lies in the updating of South Indian flavours (especially the Syrian Christian food). Best Japanese: Wasabi, Taj Mahal Hotel
Though Digvijay Singh leaves the Taj Mansingh early next year, his place in the hotel's history is ensured: he is the guy who transformed the image of this 1970s-style business hotel (which the Taj, bizarrely enough, is fighting to hold on to) with his emphasis on faultless service and the re-invigoration of its F&B. Until the Taj opened Varq and Wasabi, the hotel was dead. Now, it seems contemporary again.
Wasabi came to Delhi after a sparkling debut in Bombay and expectations were high. There was already formidable competition from Sakura and then, the much-hyped Megu opened at the Leela. But Wasabi has managed the difficult job of living up to expectations and seeing off the competition. Some of this is due to the excellence of the menu, a collaboration between New York's Matsuhira Morimoto and the Taj's Hemant Oberoi.
But mainly it is because the restaurant's real star is the low-profile Vikramjit Roy, the single most innovative Japanese-cuisine chef cooking in India today.Best Brunch: Qube, The Leela Palace
The best brunch award is a difficult one to select. I'm still partial to the Machan brunch, brilliantly run by Tapash Bhattacharya, but the restaurant itself looks so dated and so much in need of a make-over that it is hard to give it an award.
These days, I end up going to Qube most often. I love the look and feel of the restaurant with its air of peace and tranquility, sunlight lazily streaming in through the windows and trees all around.
But mostly it is the food that keeps me going back, again and again. The buffet is superb but it is the specialty counters that are the most impressive: world class sushi and sashimi (from the Megu team), surprisingly authentic Thai, wonderful live desserts and the best steaks in India (not part of the brunch but worth paying extra for) from the Leela's super-chef Glenn Eastman.Best European: Tres, Lodhi Colony Market
I knew Tres would be good even before it opened: the chef Julia Carmen Desa, a Taj veteran, is talented and versatile and co-owner Fatima Lobo, also an old Taj hand, has a real feel for quality in the areas of food, wine and hospitality.
Even so, a part of me feared that this team would disappoint because my expectations were so high. Fortunately I was wrong, Julia's Spanish-accented European menu has been a great hit from the day the restaurant opened and Tres is packed out night after night.
The success is well-deserved. Tres is the kind of neighbourhood restaurant we so desperately need in India: small, friendly, run by the owners (one of whom slaves behind the stove) and with real character. It is not five-star so service can occasionally go wrong and Julia can, when she is distracted, overdo the saucing. But that's all part of the charm of Tres.
Best European (Hotel Restaurant): Le Cirque, Leela Palace
When Le Cirque opened, I was sceptical. I'm no fan of the New York original which saw its best days when Ronald Reagan was President, and where snobbery is the service policy. But against the odds, the Leela has pulled it off. This is an exceptional restaurant with high quality, no compromise food, outstanding service, and is easily the most elegant dining experience in India. It is a shame that you have to mortgage your house to eat here but look at this way: it is cheaper than the New York Le Cirque and the food is better.
Integral to Le Cirque's success are two men: Mickey Bhoite, an Indian chef who was raised in Italy and brings a lighter, more cerebral, approach to Le Cirque's traditional, stodgy global menu with a take-no-prisoners personal style and Prateek Swarup, who must be Delhi's best five-star restaurant manager.
The two – backed by a formidable kitchen and service team – ensure that diners have a superlative experience (right till the moment the bill arrives when it's high-blood-pressure time) and have raised standard for European restaurants in India by several notches.
I don't think there has ever been a European restaurant like Chez Nini in India before. The owner cooks every single meal, goes up to tables to check how guests are doing and sources her ingredients from organic local producers.
Obviously this approach has inherent problems: chiefly what happens when the chef-owner takes a well deserved break? (The answer: standards sometimes drop so consistency is a worry at Chez Nini.) But for the most part, the formula works brilliantly. The food is French-Canadian so it might seem a little unfamiliar. But standards are high and the love and attention lavished on each dish reflects in the flavours.Best All-Day Dining: 360, The Oberoi, Delhi
In my wilder moments I sometimes think of 360 as Augusto's Sushi Bar. Ever since the restaurant first opened, Augusto Cabrera has been the restaurant's sushi and sashimi chef and is, I guess, the man who introduced Japanese food to South Delhi's high society. Though Augusto is from the Philippines, I'll take his sushi over the stuff served up by many over-hyped Japanese masters.
Threesixty is a phenomenon. It is the most successful hotel coffee shop in India, still smart and sophisticated after all these years and still packed out every lunch-time. As is true of Jay Rathore's Oberoi as a whole, the service is perfect and the ambience coolly luxurious. Food standards had slipped some years ago but under the hotel's massively talented chef Soumya Goswami, 360 is back on top form.
A restaurant like this comes along once in a decade.
Best Multi-Cuisine: Setz, Emporio Mall, Vasant Kunj
I'll be honest with you: I never thought Prasanjit Singh could pull it off for so long. Though Prasanjit now does many other things, Setz, the restaurant he runs for Moscow's Keshav Bhagat and its ultimate owners, the DLF group, remains his flagship. And it is still full, still re-inventing itself, and still serving many different cuisines with great distinction. Its two offshoots, the excellent ChaShi and the Café, both on the ground floor of Emporio, continue to flourish.
I used to go to Setz for the European food but these days I prefer the Oriental. The Chinese food is reliable (they have finally got the Peking Duck right) and the Thai food is easily the best in Delhi. Desserts continue to be exceptional: great home-made ice-cream and the best Napoleon pastry in India.
Best Bakery/Deli: The Delicatessen, The Oberoi
If you need proof that India is changing, consider this: when the Oberoi closed down Kandahar, its Indian restaurant, and opened a deli in that vast space, who could have imagined that the Deli (which has very few tables) could beat Kandahar in revenues?
I'm guessing that Biki Oberoi, ahead of the curve as always, had sensed that this might happen. The deli is an astonishing success story, the quality of its pastries further elevated by Deep Bajaj's skills and a wider range of imported charcuterie than ever before.
Best for a Celebration: The Orient Express, The Taj Palace
I sometimes think that the one thing that makes the Taj group so special is the calibre of its middle-level managers and their dedication to the spirit of the Taj. Take The Orient Express. It has been going in basically the same form since 1982 and yet it still remains the only place I would ever think of going to for a celebration or a special evening.
This is almost entirely because of the people who run the restaurant: Ashutosh Kapoor (now assistant F&B manager) who knows the preferences of every one of his regular guests and chef DN Sharma whose love for his job and his restaurant are the finest expressions of what the Taj should be about. Sadly, the Taj has lost G Subbaraman, who knew the restaurant's exceptional wine list inside out. (The Taj's loss is the Leela's gain.)
In an age of expat managers, over-paid chefs and culinary hype, the Orient Express reminds us of what it is that makes the Indian hotel industry great: the skill, dedication and talent of exceptional but underpaid Indian professionals.
Best Restaurant Manager: Niju Varghese, Diva
It is hard for a manager to shine in a chef-driven restaurant. But if you ask me, the spirit of Diva, Ritu Dalmia's flagship Italian restaurant in GK II, is not Ritu herself but the quietly competent Niju Varghese, Delhi's best restaurant manager.
When I go to Diva now, I don't care if Ritu is around (her kitchen runs on auto-pilot) but the evening is never the same if Niju is off. He runs the dining room with a silent flair, never drawing attention to himself but never relaxing either, always keeping a watch on tables to ensure that no guest goes home disappointed.
This award is a no-brainer. Those of us who follow chefs always knew that Manish is a genius. But ever since he won Foodistan, became a public figure and featured in Indian and foreign media, Manish has finally broken through, winning the fame that is due to him. (For the record, I first gave him this award some years ago before he became famous).
Here's why I rate Manish's modern Indian food so highly: he does not rely on toning down the spices, reducing the gravies and Frenchifying the food. Instead, he approaches each dish with a fresh eye and some of his creations demonstrate real culinary genius. It helps also that he is a genuinely nice guy, one of the least egotistical, most humble chefs I know. And fame has not changed him one bit!
F&B Professional of the Year: Rajesh Namby, Leela Palace
Captain Nair will probably kill me for saying this but until the Leela Palace opened in Delhi, I never rated the group very highly in cuisine terms (except for the south Indian food), and certainly never for F&B service. That the new hotel should be such a breakthrough with some of Delhi's finest restaurants and the best F&B service in town is due to many factors (including the interest that the good Captain and his son Dinesh take in the food) but much of the credit goes to one man.
As F&B supremo at the Leela Palace, Rajesh Namby has transformed and overhauled the Leela group's image in the F&B world and introduced standards of service not previously associated with the Leela. Like all good professionals, Namby is a backroom boy and even other hoteliers in Delhi would not recognise him if they passed him in the street. But his record now speaks for itself.
There are loads of lifetime achievement awards for hoteliers. But restaurateurs get short shrift. So here's my attempt to redress the balance: a lifetime achievement award for the restaurant business.
Jayaram does not need my endorsement. Everyone accepts that Sagar has changed the way Delhi looks at South Indian snacks and that Swagath has transformed north India's view of coastal cuisine. What is probably less known is the extent to which Jayaram is self-made. He ran away from home in Mangalore when he was a boy, came to Bombay and got a job washing dishes in a canteen. From these humble origins has sprung up an empire worth hundreds of crores and restaurants that have become iconic.
Best F&B Hotel: Leela Palace
When the Leela Palace opened, none of us expected very much in F&B terms. We had experienced the Leela's brand of F&B before: at the Leela in Gurgaon. And it was fine, very good even, but hardly exceptional. Then the hotel's opening was completely overshadowed by the triumphant debut of the spectacular Oberoi in Gurgaon.
But the Leela has surprised us all. Despite a rocky start (the general manager went in the first week, which may have been a good thing because Tamir Kobrin then took over), the hotel has set new standards for hospitality. Megu is glamorous and glitzy. Le Cirque is elegant and classy. Jamavar has the best Malayali food among Delhi's hotels and Qube has a great menu and a tranquil ambience.
I don't usually make predictions about the hotel business – it is too risky – but I'm going to make one now: I would be very, very surprised if, within the next five years, Kapil Chopra does not become one of the leaders of India's hotel business.
As the success of the Trident, Gurgaon, demonstrated some years ago, Kapil is an exceptional general manager, focused on details, capable of extracting the best from his staff and with a strategic vision of the hotel business: who would have expected the Trident to get the highest room rates in the NCR?
But as the rise of the Gurgaon Oberoi and his record as vice president in charge of other properties has shown, he is much more than a general manager. He is a corporate visionary, a savvy marketer, a smart deal-maker and a man with a deep understanding of how the hotel business works.
My favourites
1. China Kitchen has rewritten all the rules for Chinese restaurants in India
2. Royal China's strengths remain the dim sum brunch and the quality of the cooking
3. Amaranta's food can be
4. Wasabi has managed the difficult job of living up to expectations and seeing off the competition
5. At Qube, in the Leela Palace, it is the food that keeps me going back, again and again
6. At Chez Nini, the love and
attention lavished on each dish reflects in the flavours
7. A restaurant like 360, The Oberoi, Delhi, comes along once in a decade
8. At Setz, the Chinese food is reliable and the Thai is easily the best in Delhi
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