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- n. A layabout or loiterer; Someone who tarries.
- n. A Roman Catholic of Northern Ireland or Scotland
- adj. comparative form of tarry: more tarry
- n. Obsolete form of terrier.
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- n. One who, or that which, tarries.
- n. A kind of dig; a terrier.
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. One who or that which tarries or delays.
- n. One who hinders, or causes tarrying.
- n. Same as terrier.
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The next thing he had a holt o 'my coat-collar an' shuck me like a tarrier-dog shakes a rat.
Which the child's no more like one of ourn than a pug's like a tarrier-pup.
When doggy men beyond ocean talk about a terrier, they usually pronounce it _tarrier_, and not _terrier_, as we mostly call him on this bank of the Atlantic.
But in giving me a message a little while after he flew the track, and I instantly opened up and said, "Whistle, you tarrier, whistle!"
Danger Signals Remarkable, Exciting and Unique Examples of the Bravery, Daring and Stoicism in the Midst of Danger of Train Dispatchers and Railroad Engineers
An 'beside him on the splashboard sat a brindled tarrier pup,
The cliverest lad of his hands and the best of his feet for twenty mile around -- as full o 'pluck as a tarrier an' as kindly-hearted as a wench.
You see, the old tarrier was crossing Saint Nicholas Avenue, with a big market basket full of provisions -- the family dinner, I suppose.
'Now, would a tarrier do that -- a well-trained tarrier?
He heerd th 'noise, an' woke up an 'set his bull tarrier Lydia Pinkham on her.
As this is a very tarrier of time, and he mocketh us and our gods, he deserveth to be brought to the most cruel death that we can for him imagine.


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No point in beating around the bush:
My goals for the month of September were much too ambitious, and I didn't even come close to accomplishing them.
Too many things happened this month. We sold our house (well, conditionally – we just have to do a million small things and a few big ones first), we bought a new house, we cared for – and said good-bye – to our beloved dog. It's been crazy.
Next month will no less crazy. We're moving halfway across the country, where I'll have to find a new job. Oh, and we have to decide: do we want to spend the next few years travelling, or do we want another puppy? Tough call, guys. Seriously.
Even if it hadn't been a crazy month, my September goals for languages – and for Tagalog in particular – were just too stinking big.
Lesson learned: my goals for the month of October will be much, much smaller.
Spanish Update for the Month of September:
Goals for September:
- Read Los juegos del hambre (The Hunger Games) – DONE! I finished The Hunger Games and I'm currently halfway through the second book in the trilogy.
- Watch at least eight TV show episodes – almost, but not quite. I watched seven TV show episodes in September.
- Take a class in Spanish on coursera: Innovación educativa con recursos abiertos – Errrr…half done? Sort of? I audited the first two weeks of lectures, then realized that I wasn't really enjoying it. I decided that RTVE podcasts were both more interesting and more challenging, so I'll stick with those for now.
Super Challenge Update
I'm still working on the Super Challenge, a massive-input challenge with a goal of reading 100 50-page "books" and watching 100 90-minute "films" in Spanish by December 31st 2015.
reading – 38.1 "books" completed
This month I read Los juegos del hambre, by Suzanne Collins. I absolutely loved it! I got my hands on the other two books in the series and immediately started on En llamas, the second book. The book count doesn't include the reading that I've done in En llamas, since I only log a book when I've finished reading it.
Reading this series has been a great experience so far! It's the first time that reading in Spanish feels as good as reading in English. I'm no longer using a timer to keep myself on track. I just read…and read…and read. I feel liked I've really levelled up – I'm now at a point where reading a young adult novel in Spanish is as enjoyable (if not as quick) as reading the same book in English.
watching – 19.9 "films" completed
I watched two more episodes of El Tiempo Entre Costuras on DramaFever. It's a period drama about a seamstress who secretly sews coded messages into the seams of dresses during the Spanish Civil War. The costumes and the setting are fantastic!
I also watched five more episodes of Aqui No Hay Quien Viva ("No One Could Live Here") on YouTube. I'm really loving this show! I'm comfortable with the characters and actors, and each episode is easier to understand than the last.
Other Spanish this month:
Honestly? Not much.
As I mentioned earlier, I audited two weeks' worth of lessons in a coursera course. While the lectures were easy to understand, I just didn't feel that I was getting much out of them, so I stopped after week two.
During the month of September, I only spent three hours talking on Skype with Spanish tutors.
I listened to Buenos Días América two or three days per week. I also listened to a few other interesting podcasts, in particular:
- Hawái, perdidos en en Pacífico (Nómadas) – travel to Hawaii, complete with traditional music and songs by Elvis Presley
- Los antidisturbios y el derecho del reunión (Futuro Abierto) – a discussion about whether or not the riot police in Spain are overly zealous
- Un munro ideal (Radio Ambulante) – the story of a deported man fighting to regain custody of his American-born sons
Goals for October:
- Read at least five days per week
- Watch at least six TV show episodes
Tagalog Update for the Month of September:
Yikes. Tagalog didn't go well this month. I'm slowing way down in October, focusing more on review and less on new material.
Goals for September:
- Finish lessons 10 and 11 of Elementary Tagalog – almost. I have a few exercises left in lesson 11.
- Finish units 9 and 10 of Teach Yourself Filipino – DONE!
- Learn to sing two new Tagalog songs – no. I did listen to Freddie Aguilar's Anak a few times.
- Transcribe two more short Tagalog cartoons – no.
- Translate four more Napoleon easy readers – no. I translated only one easy reader this month, and have yet to have my translation corrected.
Courses: Elementary Tagalog and Teach Yourself
I'm still chipping away at my two courses. Elementary Tagalog jumped several levels in difficulty in lesson 11. For the first time, I found myself reading paragraphs and having absolutely no idea what I was reading! It's very frustrating to understand every single word, but not be able to make sense out of the sentences.
This month, I'm going to slow down. I know that I have less time to spend on Tagalog, and I also want to spend more time reviewing.
Other Tagalog this month:
- Spoke on Skype for three and a half hours with two italki tutors
- Listened several times to Freddie Aguilar's famous song Anak
- Kept up with my anki and memrise decks
Goals for October:
- Keep up with anki and memrise decks every day
- Spend at least 15 minutes five times a week reviewing past learning
- Finish lessons 11 and 12 of Elementary Tagalog


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Introducing the IBM Grid Access Manager
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Authors: Alex Osuna, George Miller, Ben Poston, Jason Auvenshine
This IBM® Redbooks® publication gives an introduction to archiving and IBM System Storage™ Multilevel Grid Access Manager (GAM) software. It also covers Multilevel Grid Access Manager product and service offerings. IBM System Storage Multilevel (GAM) software is designed to enable new solutions for geographically dispersed customer sites with reference data storage requirements, through an enterprise-wide, fault-tolerant storage grid that includes disaster recovery capabilities. This storage grid can extend access to remotely created reference data on heterogeneous distributed storage devices and computing resources, and can help support data integrity by digital signature validation of managed data. GAM software can scale to meet a wide range of performance, cost, management, and security requirements. This book introduces the need for a robust archiving solution, presents GAM, and focuses on General Medical Archive Solution (GMAS) offerings, ordering, and services.
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l want to ceate a web service with connection for a data base . my web service containt 1 request for update . i use oracle 10g and netbeans 6.9
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There are certain dishes that every good Texan knows and loves. But do you really know how to grill a flawless ribeye? Season that cast-iron skillet in your cupboard? Make sure your dough rises? We asked experts around the state to share some how-tos and a few recipes that will sharpen your culinary cred beyond question.
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The Dish They are, simply put, an addiction. First, there's the frequency with which we consume them, which, if we're honest, is at least weekly. Then there's their powerful nostalgia—of long Saturdays cooking with your welita, of Sunday lunches out with family, of Christmas Eve dinners. And finally there's their curative power, which salves everything …
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This only provokes me to ask (perhaps unfairly) why Naaman was told to
LOUSAI in the Jordan seven times (wash) by Elisha rather than BAPTIZW in the
Jordan seven times? Any clues? Does BAPTIZW only take on religious / ritual
language in later times? Is it intentionally not a relgious / ritual act
because Naaman is (AS)Syrian? Yet, isn't it an act of obedience resulting in
new life (free from leprosy)? I have no answers, just questions. Any takers?
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The sun shone brightly on a gorgeous June weekday afternoon in Central Park. A sudden chill surprised Victoria Keane and her sons enjoying their time at a park playground, as the sky darkened. A passing cloud? An approaching storm? Nope, just the long shadow cast by One57, a new megatower on West 57th Street.
One57 recently broke the record for the highest price paid for a NYC residence: More than $100 million. The 1,004-foot skyscraper will be joined in 2018 by the Nordstrom Tower at 217 W. 57th. Other mega high-rises on what is being called "billionaires row" are also under construction. Many of these new luxury palaces are being purchased by rich foreign investors.
Many New Yorkers look up at this rapidly developing, haphazard new skyline and see red. Manhattan's Community Board 5 recently asked for a moratorium on construction of all buildings 600 feet or higher without them first undergoing a public review, giving city officials time to study the impact of these new skyscrapers.
Meanwhile, the race to the sky continues. According to the board's Sunshine Task Force (desperate times call for desperate names), "seven new supertall buildings are underway along the 57th Street corridor," with more skyscrapers in the planning stages.
The board recently held a packed meeting to air grievances. Manhattan Borough President Gale Brewer demanded more transparency regarding air-rights transfers to developers, and expressed concern about the shadows cast by these gargantuan structures.
But Gary Barnett, president of Extell Development Co., the developer of One57, has said "the shadows cast by these tall, slender buildings . . . are very brief" and that the structures are creating many permanent jobs.
Back in Central Park, Keane's older son said the shadow on the playground reminded him of an episode of "The Simpsons" in which evil gazillionaire Monty Burns plunged the town of Springfield into darkness just because he could.
So, are the new skyscrapers a blight or a jobs-creating tribute to progress and prosperity? I guess that depends on your perspective -- whether you're high up in the gleaming towers, or down on the shaded ground with Keane, her sons and the rest of us.


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Under Armour at Roland Garros: Andy Murray, Dustin Brown
Under Armour's choices for pro endorsers really seem to be on the mark. Think about it- top pro football QB (Tom Brady), the most popular NBA star (Steph Curry), probably the biggest MLB baseball stars (Bryce Harper, Clayton Kershaw) and, one of golf's top pros in Jordan Spieth.
And then there's Andy Murray. He started out in Fred Perry, moved over to adidas, and now he's UA's flagship performer in men's pro tennis. Here's Andy's look for the French clay:
The men's UA apparel line can be found here. Murray appears to be wearing a variant of the Summer Raid Crew. In an apparent weak moment, they even created a collared shirt.
Finding Murray's UA shoe is still a mystery, though. They're not even on the UA website, which offers shoes designed for training on their new tennis section.
Murray's not the only UA player on the men's side; he's joined by Dustin Brown who also made the main draw and got a win today. He usually wears sleeveless shirts.
There's a distinct anti-pretty, all business attitude in these looks.
UA gear photo from UA FB. Second/third Murray photos from his FB. Feature photo of Dustin by Cedric Lecocq/FFt as seen on FB.


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The 2016 Paris Motor Show saw the grand reveal of the Volkswagen ID concept, ushering in the German manufacturer's take on an alternatively fuelled future.
Dr Herbert Diess, the Chairman of the Board of Management of the Volkswagen Passenger Cars Brand, pointed out: "In 2020, we will begin to introduce an entire family of electric vehicles on the market. All of them will be based on a new vehicle architecture which was specially and exclusively developed for all-electric vehicles, not for combustion engine or plug-in hybrid vehicles."
There's plenty to be excited about when it comes to the Volkswagen ID concept, including the fact that this will be the first compact car created by the German vehicle brand based on its MEB Modular Electric Drive Kit.
As a result, the car will have a 125kW/170PS electric motor made up of lithium-ion batteries, enabling it to achieve a 360-mile range on a single charge.
Focusing on this particular element, Ulrich Eichhorn, the Research Director at Volkswagen, said: "The major work will be in the batteries. This will be at the far-end of lithium-ion technology, not just a development of what we've got already and we are already working on it in research and advanced engineering."
As well as an intriguing drivetrain, the Volkswagen ID concept is attention-grabbing. The vehicle's exterior features a front end that is completely blanked off with digital headlamps that are wrapped in LED daytime running lights.
In regards to the interior of the Volkswagen ID concept, Dr Diess summed it up by stating that there are "no buttons, no switches, no sticks, just screens". Therefore, drivers can enjoy an LED dashboard, rear cameras in place of mirrors and a retractable steering wheel whenever the car's autonomous driving mode is switched on.
Unfortunately, the Volkswagen ID concept is not set to arrive on roads until 2020. However, motorists can pass the time by experiencing other Volkswagen electric vehicles, like the Driver Assistance technology-heavy e-up! and the practical, refined and advanced e-Golf.


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Oregon voters Tuesday in Hood River County delivered a stunning defeat to Nestlé.
Submitted by DavidDelk on Mon, 05/23/2016 - 22:45
In the epic battle between Nestlé and people around the world to protect their access to water, little Hood River County in Oregon just achieved a major and unique victory. It's a win for the public water commons and the protection of water for nature. And Oregon Progressive Party was part of this victory having supported the initiative campaign.
Nestlé had proposed building a bottled water plant in the Columbia River gorge town of Cascade Locks, using over 100 million gallons of publicly-owned water a year, and creating more than 1.6 billion plastic water bottles each year. Cascade Locks, hoping to develop its tourist industry, would have suffered over 200 daily truck trips on their roads. Cascade Locks is located at the western edge of the nationally renowned and protected Columbia River Gorge. Opponents to Nestlé's plans also stressed the detrimental effects extracting this pure cold spring water would have on salmon, considered a bellwether species by Native Americans.
Nestlé promised up to 50 low-tech jobs and an increase in the town's tax base.
But a coalition of residents, farmers and Native Americans organized in opposition and on Tuesday were successful in saying "No to Nestlé, the water belongs to the people, not a water privateer."
On an initiative question, Hood River county voters were asked to approve a novel measure to ban the commercial bottling and transport of water in quantities greater than 1000 gallons daily. And today they voted 69-31% to approve the initiative measure.
"Today victory at the ballot shows that when the people organize to stop corporate domination, we can win," said David Delk, President of the Alliance for Democracy, Portland, OR and co-chair of the national Alliance for Democracy.
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We at Bronson Hill Cheesery strive to produce premium quality cheese, handcrafted from locally produced milk, offering great taste and value to the consumer while supporting a family farm.
We are located midway between Watkins Glen and Ithaca, in the heart of New York's Finger Lakes Region. We are just two miles west of the hamlet of Mecklenburg on State Route 79. We are about 5 hrs from NYC and Toronto; 6.5 hrs west of Boston and north of Washington, DC.
At Bronson Hill Cheesery, we make European style farmstead cheeses using fresh, raw milk from our family farm. Our cows graze from early spring to late fall: grazing keeps our herd happy and healthy, and is known for its positive effect on cheese flavor. We currently produce a traditional Dutch-type cheese named "Schuyler," and a French-style red-washed cheese called "Red Meck."
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The train is moving slowly. 11-year-old Dan and 14-year-old Amy are studying the currently meaningless clue that they have acquired in the catacombs of Paris. Little do they know that the Holts are hot on their trail. One False Note is the second installment of the 39 Clues Series. Gordan Korman, who certainly believes that action is like division, has written this book. 39 clues, without its unique action, would become very hard to understand.
An awesome train ride is not what they were thinking of when they were trying to decipher the clue in Mozart's sheet music. Unfortunately for them they were interrupted by the Holts who are not some people you want to be interrupted by when you have something that they are longing for. This forced them to run fast, causing total chaos and pandemonium. But you can't run off the train. This must have caused an unplanned plan B as Saladin swallowed the clue then and there. This caused a planned plan B between the Holts as they jumped off the train like they do it every day (which they probably do considering that they're the Holts).
Luckily Dan had a photographic memory and was able to rewrite the sheet music. As they reached Vienna they realized that Mozart had a younger sister called Maria Anna 'Nannerl' Mozart. They went to a library and asked for her diary. But who should have found it and stolen it? None other than Jonah Wizard. With great trouble they stole it from him and had it translated. They discovered that 3 pages were missing. They even discovered that there was something else to Mozart's music.
There is so much suspense and danger in this book. I feel that it will really interest children around 11-12 years of age. Rest assured that you'll be drawn into this suspenseful tale.
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College Baseball Daily continues our countdown to the start of the 2012 College Baseball season by checking in on the Top 100 Players in the country. We will be providing one player per day until we reach number 1.
We continue the countdown today at number 40 with East Carolina first baseman Chase McDonald. The 6'4 250 pound first baseman hails from Greenville, North Carolina and attended J.H. Rose High School. He was a four-year letterwinner for head coach Ronald Vincent. His senior season saw him hit 12 home runs and batting .510 for the Rampants on his way to team MVP and All-State honors. Heading into his senior season, he was named a Under Armour Preseason All-American.
McDonald had a strong freshman season for the East Carolina Pirates hitting .314 with four homers and 31 RBI.
He spent the summer of 2011 in the Coastal Plains League playing for the Morehead City Marlins. He finished the season leading the league in batting average (.403), RBIs (51), slugging percentage (.663) and on-base percentage (.469). McDonald was second in the league in home runs (13) and total bases (120), while his 73 hits was the third-best mark in the CPL during 2011. He also had eight doubles, scored 36 runs and was walked 22 times. He was named to the CPL All-Star game while honored as the top offensive player in the league.
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For those of you that are looking to take holidays to Mexico, a world of adventure awaits. There are so many places to go and things to do that you will definitely want to make a few more repeat visits.
My first experience with the Caribbean was on the shores of Mexico. I fell in love with the soft white sand beaches and the gorgeous blue of the Caribbean Sea. We have been to this region a few times now and each time we go back there is still so much more to discover. With that in mind, here are a few of my favorite things to experience on the Caribbean side of Mexico.
See the World's Largest Fish
Swimming with sharks may not be high on your bucket list. But you have probably never seen a shark like the ones found here. Known as the whale shark, these animals can measure as much as 12 meters in total length. As such, they are the largest fish in the world. However, you can put your fears away as these gentle giants only feast on plankton. The really cool part about the entire experience is that you get to swim right up to them. If you love sea life this excursion would be the chance of a lifetime.
Ruin Your Day
That's right, Mexico is home to one of the New Seven Wonders of the World. Chichen Itza is one of the gems of the peninsula. This ancient Mayan capital is home to the temple of the Jaguars as well as the Tzompantli bench. That last mention is a bit morbid because that's where they commonly placed the heads of human sacrifice victims. No worries though, you should be more than safe as they have been gone for a few centuries now. There is so much culture here and its best to use a guide so you can hear all the fascinating stories behind the Mayan culture.
Beaches Anyone?
Mexico is home to some of the world's most beautiful beaches. The beaches of Tulum (nestled next to it's ruins), the hip scene on the beaches of Playa del Carmen, and the tourist's favorite and ever popular Cancun are all waiting with their fair share of sand and sun. The beaches here are picturesque with white sand and crystal clear ocean water; all that is missing is you with your umbrella drink of choice in hand!
Mexico is one of the few places where you can experience authentic local cuisine. Most places around the world that have Mexican restaurants are really not all that authentic. While you are visiting the country, make sure you take advantage of some of the pop up taco stands and authentic food vendor carts as well as their eat in establishments. Mexico is home to everything from five start dining to street side fare. You'll be surprised at the prices, and your appetite will definitely be satisfied. What could be better then sipping a margarita or two while you enjoy authentic Mexican food, right? Well, maybe hitting the beach later to watch the sunset with another drink in hand.
This is of course just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to this region of Mexico. A few other things to mention when planning your stay there. Make sure you know where the best places are to exchange currency. Some places offer lower rates than others. Sunscreen is a must for those long visits to the beach; it gets and stays hot in Mexico during the day. Hats and sunglasses make great accessories while you stroll through one of their shopping markets or open air malls, looking for souvenirs. Add that to all of the diving, beach combing, and natural wonders and you have a fantastic holiday to Mexico!
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Williams and Farmer defend Farmer's state expenses and begin bus tour
By Jack Brammer
LOUISVILLE – Republican gubernatorial candidate David Williams and his running mate, Richie Farmer, defended Farmer's controversial state expenses Thursday before boarding a big blue-and-white bus to start their "Lead, Follow, or Get Out of the Way" campaign tour of the state.
Williams, president of the state Senate, and Farmer, state agriculture commissioner, appeared together at a news conference in Louisville before leaving on their bus tour that will run every day except Sundays through May 16.
Williams, in his comments to a crowd of about 50 at the Jefferson County GOP headquarters, noted recent news reports about Farmer's travel expenses and Farmer's popularity as a basketball star at the University of Kentucky in the 1990s.
"When we started, I thought you were shooting three-pointers and I was taking charges," Williams said to Farmer. "You are taking some charges yourself. When they are talking about you, they are leaving me alone."
Williams went on to praise Farmer as "a great star and example for Kentucky's young people."
Farmer was peppered with questions by reporters after the news conferences about media reports of Farmer's state-paid expenses.
They have included a $359-per-night Lexington hotel suite for four nights last month during the Sweet 16 basketball tournament, an educational trip to a Caribbean resort, a new sports utility vehicle for his use and an about-face to participate in the state's six furlough days.
Farmer first refused to participate in furloughs but agreed this week to donate six days of his $110,346-a-year salary to charities.
Farmer said the Sweet 16 trip was to promote his department's "Kentucky Proud" program to urge Kentuckians to buy local food products and his job required him to be there.
"I don't have any regrets about it. We get a lot of bang for our bucks there," he said.
He said the suite was the only lodging place his staff could find at a late date.
Concerning the Caribbean trip, Farmer said he does not pick where the educational conference is held. He said he has attended it every year in "exotic locations" such as Tulsa, Birmingham and Nashville.
The SUV was not bought for him, Farmer said. He claimed his department's fleet is "the most efficiently run fleet in state government."
Farmer said his department last year spent about $237,000 on travel expenses, compared to more than $650,000 spent in the last year of his predecessor, Democrat Billy Ray Smith.
"We're doing the things that are necessary to take care of business with agriculture," said Farmer. "There seems to be a story about me everyday. It's aggravating but they don't print all the facts."
Williams offered a reason for news reports about Farmer's expenses.
"This is an example of the Kentucky Democratic Party and the knee-jerk reaction of some newspapers and editorial boards in the state of trying to treat Richie Farmer badly because they know how popular and effective he is."
Williams said he would be glad to compare how Farmer has spent taxpayer dollars to how Jerry Abramson, running mate for Democratic Gov. Steve Beshear, spent them during his time as mayor of Louisville.
Williams said much of the media are "trying to do a death of a thousand cuts" on Farmer.
"When this (primary) campaign is over, we will be the ones doing the Open Records requests on the governor?" he said.
Meanwhile, several unions Thursday endorse Jefferson County Clerk Bobbie Holsclaw in the GOP primary for governor.
They included the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, the Jefferson County Teachers Association and the United Food & Commercial Workers Union of Louisville.
The unions said that they were endorsing Holsclaw because she has a long history of supporting working class people and unions.
They said she is the clear choice in the Republican primary because Williams is anti-union and candidate Phil Moffett, a Louisville businessman, is anti-government
"We have endorsed Bobbie Holsclaw several times in the past," said Bill Allison, the political liaison for the Jefferson County Teachers Association. "She is not anti-union and she is very pro-teacher."
Williams dismissed the union endorsements and said Holsclaw is "not a true conservative."
Holsclaw also said state Auditor Crit Luallen should "conduct a full audit of Richie Farmer and Farmer's office."
"The recent abuses reported in the Kentucky media raise serious questions about Richie Farmer," she said. "There appears to be a clear pattern of wasteful and unnecessary expenditures of taxpayers' money by Farmer for his personal benefit and to possibly help promote the Williams-Farmer ticket for governor and lieutenant governor by using the Kentucky Proud program and his office as his personal piggy bank."
Also, the Registry of Election Finance warned Moffett Thursday about his campaign's association with Western Representation PAC, a federal political committee chaired by Republican Joe Miller, who ran unsuccessfully last year for the U.S. Senate in Alaska.
The registry noted a Courier-Journal report that a representative of Moffett's campaign was touting a $100,000 pledge from the PAC.
A $100,000 pledge from the political action committee, "if made in concert with or at the request or suggestion of any candidate, slate of candidates or any authorized person acting on behalf of the slate," would violate state law that limits such contributions to $1,000, the registry said in a letter to Moffett.
Moffett campaign manager David Adams, said, "Not only did we do nothing wrong, it's absurd that state government is burning up precious resources to intimidate citizens exercising our God-given rights to challenge the establishment.
"I'd love to have a real fight over this on the merits or on the basis of our free speech rights. We won't be scared off by this nonsense."
(Herald-Leader staff writer Beth Musgrave contributed to this article.)
Filed Under: 2015 Statewide Races • David Williams • Elections • Governor • Jerry Abramson • Richie Farmer • Steve Beshear


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Are you a Compulsive Traveler?
If a picture is worth a thousand words, then is a video worth a million? It's an interesting question to ask the people who make the wheels go round in the travel world. Tourism has become the world's largest and most lucrative industry, and as a result, many forms of media have jumped on board. There are countless magazines, websites, books, and photo galleries on travel. And then there are the travel shows and documentaries, the Travel Channels and Globetrekkers; the legions of shaky clips shot on digital cameras by regular folks touting themselves as 'travel experts'. But in the beginning, there was The Compulsive Traveler.
Okay, maybe not the very beginning. People have been catching their various vacations on tape since film was first invented. But for the past 15 years, travel filmmaker Roberto Mitrotti has built a library of over 2,500 hours documenting 65 different countries. The Compulsive Traveler aired as a television show for six years on both CBS and The Travel Channel. As a filmmaker, Mitrotti has developed an engaging style of storytelling within the travel video world, and in real life, he's a bona fide 'compulsive traveler'.
This past year, Mitrotti decided to take his travel video library to the web with Compulsive Traveler, and the site quickly expanded to feature the work of over 100 filmmakers and their nearly 1,000 videos highlighting dozens of countries.
As the network of filmmakers has grown and internet video has become more pervasive, Mitrotti and his team are working to promote themselves as a travel video content resource for travel industry sites to further engage their viewers in the destinations they are promoting.
And with their in-house stock library of videos from around the world, Compulsive Traveler is able to make quality, cost-effective videos tailored to the specific needs of hotels, tour operators, and travel websites. Because the site is a network of independent travel filmmakers who are already traveling the world, it often works out that when Mitrotti is called and asked about producing a travel video, he can arrange for a filmmaker who's already in the area to do the shoot, thus eliminating costly travel arrangements.
Interested? To become a Compulsive Traveler filmmaker, just go to the site and start uploading your videos. You just might become part of a new wave in the travel industry. EG


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By Simon Evans
Feb 28 (Reuters) - The Los Angeles Galaxy kick off their campaign for a third straight Major League Soccer title without David Beckham but with the promise of a new star and rivals desperate to end their domination.
By Simon Evans
Feb 28 (Reuters) - The Los Angeles Galaxy kick off their campaign for a third straight Major League Soccer title without David Beckham but with the promise of a new star and rivals desperate to end their domination.
The New York Red Bulls have overhauled their coaching and playing staff in the off-season as they seek to end their 18 year wait for a first MLS title and the Seattle Sounders large fanbase also crave a first championship.
But the challenge to the Galaxy could well come from one of the more modestly assembled but astutely coached teams such as Sporting Kansas City, D.C. United or recent challengers Houston and Real Salt Lake.
The departure of Beckham is likely to impact the Galaxy box office more than their performance on the field with Robbie Keane taking on the leadership role.
Landon Donovan, the U.S's all-time top scorer, will miss the first two months of the season while he takes a brief sabbatical from the game, but he and Irish international Keane will likely be joined by a well-known international player, according to team owner Tim Leiweke.
"I promise that we're not done, the best one is coming, well, don't tell Robbie that the best one is coming, the second best one to Robbie is coming," Leiweke told the teams' website.
A new signing might not arrive until the end of the European season in May - Leiweke named Brazilian Kaka, currently with Real Madrid as his prime target when Beckham departed in December and the club has also been linked with Chelsea and England midfielder Frank Lampard.
The Galaxy will have a new goalkeeper in Italian Carlo Cudicini, signed from Keane's old club Tottenham Hotspur, but the team, coached by ex-U.S. national coach Bruce Arena are not shy about splashing the cash.
"As long as these guys stay committed to wanting to have that target on their back and wanting to create a legacy and wanting to step up to the pressure of being part of the LA Galaxy, I always tell Bruce, we've got your back and we'll get you the resources that we need," he said.
The Red Bulls have also invested in foreign talent - former France and Arsenal striker Thierry Henry is supported by Australia's ex-Everton midfielder Tim Cahill and former Brazil international Juninho Pernambucano, previously with Lyon in France and a spectacular free-kick specialist.
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The Red Bulls will have to fight hard in the Eastern Conference though - Sporting Kansas City and D.C United finished as the top two last year and look likely to be in the frame again this time around.
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Management By Buns
The simplest behaviors can make a manager. Sometimes those behaviors don't even need to be regular; they are allowed to be inconsistently regular in fact.
Take the experience of buns. Once in a while, even the most senior – or junior – of managers, can do something that to them seems so ordinary, yet to their people it signifies in a small, yet profound way, an extraordinary respect that it is hugely important in how they lead their team.
The unexpectedness of something can show how much a manager cares for their people.
In was a quiet afternoon in the business when he brought the buns. They weren't expensive, but they were unexpected. Not that he'd never done it before, he had. Yet it was almost as if today was a great 'nothing much happening' sort of day that he recognized the opportunity to do a little more.
Now whilst some managers might have had their people screaming down the phones for more business; or wanted to chivvy their people along on a flat day catching up with the boring stuff that so often got left, this guy was different.
Reflecting on the successes of a good couple of weeks (bun reward has to have a context; be for a reason), he took a time-out to share a few minutes to thank the team with the buns. Buns that cost a couple of pounds.
He also took time to accept the offered cup of tea and to chew the fat about well, anything. It was being what he was good at. Taking the time to listen to his people be passionate and share their lives a little bit, for a few minutes on a flat day.
A small thing? Sure. And it's the sum of small actions that create a relationship that employees value.
Just a few buns and a few minutes.


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You can't give a child booze!
Until the age of four, I don't think I had ever tasted neat lemonade. My parents weren't keen on giving me and my younger brother fizzy drinks, but on Sunday mornings, when relatives visited us – or we visited them – we could receive a small tumbler of R Whites with ice, lemon and a slug of Cinzano Bianco. We would try not to guzzle it and, more often than not, have it topped up before lunchtime. Then, of course, we would be given red wine with our meal.
My dad is Italian and my brother and I grew up during the 70s. Spiking your children's pop with something stronger was, in our family, not just acceptable but perfectly normal. There is Super-8 film evidence of everyone at my third birthday being served paper cups of prosecco. At about the same age, I knew the contents of my parents' cocktail cabinet well enough to mix them a mean negroni, something I did often enough for the recipe – one and a half measures of gin, half a measure each of sweet and dry vermouth, topped with two measures of Campari – to have stayed with me despite my not having made one for 30 years.
Being allowed to drink regularly is one of my strongest childhood memories perhaps because, once I started school and began socialising with children who weren't from Italian families, I realised how rare it was. My friends not only didn't drink at home but, extraordinarily, their parents went to special places specifically to do it themselves. That struck me as strange, and even odder was my parents' insistence that English people drank tea with their evening meals. What, I wanted to know, did their children drink? My parents shrugged. Tea as well? Squash? Definitely not a finger of wine.
My parents' decision to allow us alcohol might have raised eyebrows, but it would not have attracted the attention of the authorities. But now England's chief medical officer, Sir Liam Donaldson, is urging the government to raise the legal age at which children can try alcohol to 15 (it is already illegal to give alcohol to under-fives). Giving it to children before their mid-teens opens them up to "serious risks" to their health and development, he says. Subsequent newspaper reports have inevitably linked early alcohol consumption to binge-drinking and long-term drink problems. "The danger of any misguided attempt to ply children with alcohol is that they get the taste for drinking," Donaldson warned.
Except that it had the opposite effect on me and, as far as I can tell, the
people who grew up around me. My early drinking habit is not the only reason I drink very little now but, perhaps misguidedly, I definitely feel it is one of the strongest reasons. I've never been a heavy drinker: I can count the times I have been properly drunk on the fingers of one hand and I have never had a hangover. I only drink in company, generally with food, and happily go for weeks without so much as a shandy.
Dad unwittingly removed all the mystique and much of the allure from
alcohol but, if I were willing to follow his example with my children, is it more or less likely that they would develop their own healthy relationships with alcohol? And, if I think that it is fine to serve them drinks, why am I appalled at the idea of giving them drugs or even cigarettes in the same spirit of sensible moderation? Why do I view my own childhood quaffing as a positive experience?
A rosy glow of nostalgia may account for some of it but, ultimately, I suppose that in my own deluded way I think of alcohol as a slightly risky but acceptable treat, like chocolate or crisps: not something that I want my children to have lots of, but not something that I would feel comfortable banning.
I am far too anxious about the social stigma, however, to encourage them to drink – I'm aware that it is not just Donaldson who would brand me a bad mother. I have a mental image from one or other of my children's christenings of my dad dipping his finger in a glass for the baby to suck – he was laughing heartily; the English guests looked uncomfortable. The problem of when to introduce my children to alcohol appears, for the time being, not to be an urgent one. My oldest child has just turned five. She is unimpressed by her nonno's –attempts to entice her with wine. "Yuck, disgusting," she declares, holding her nose when his glass is within sipping distance. "I don't understand it," my dad grumbles. "You loved wine."
I'm relieved in a way that she doesn't want it but, nonetheless, I hope he persists. I want her to learn to savour a glass of wine with a meal rather than glug vodka in the park with her mates. I want her to learn, just as I did from the people around me, that you don't have to get drunk to enjoy alcohol.


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Given Europe's bloody history of conflict, Switzerland can perhaps be proud that it arouses no particularly intense emotions. Certainly no one hates it with the passion generally reserved for the Americans or the Jews—but then again, no one really adores it, either. For the most part, criticism of Switzerland goes no further than noting that its contribution to humanity has been fairly modest and that the country is, well, rather boring. Even the sharpest tongues have found little in Switzerland to infuriate: "I don't like Switzerland," declared Oscar Wilde. "It has produced nothing but theologians and waiters." Dorothy Parker, the wisecracking poet and journalist, once wrote that "the Swiss are a neat and industrious people, none of whom is under seventy-five years of age. They make cheeses, milk chocolate, and watches, all of which, when you come right down to it, are fairly unnecessary." And who can forget the words of the great film director Orson Welles in The Third Man? "In Italy, for thirty years under the Borgias, they had warfare, terror, murder, bloodshed, but they produced Michelangelo, Leonardo da Vinci, and the Renaissance. In Switzerland they had brotherly love. They had five hundred years of democracy and peace, and what did that produce? The cuckoo clock."
The Swiss have earned their reputation for blandness: For centuries, they distanced themselves from the turmoil of world politics, as well as from the wars that tore neighboring European countries to pieces. With few exceptions, they refrained from joining any league or alliance that might obligate them to take a political, military, or economic stand. And although Switzerland is home to numerous international organizations, it held off joining the United Nations until 2002 and is still not a member of the European Union. Yet this calculated aloofness, far from exasperating the world, seems instead to have played to its advantage: Even now, after the echoes of Europe's most recent wars have died down, Switzerland is still viewed by many as an island of calm, stability, and sanity.
What a pity, then, that Switzerland's pastoral image has come at the price of ignoring many of the basic values that any enlightened nation is duty-bound to uphold. In recent months, a series of controversial diplomatic moves have reflected a disturbing eagerness on the part of the Swiss government to appease some of the world's greatest despots and terrorists, casting doubt (and not for the first time) on the public integrity and political insight of those who advocate a policy of neutrality. Indeed, these actions illustrate the vast moral chasm facing those who may be tempted to follow the Swiss example—a temptation with dangerous implications both for the future of the West and for freedom-loving peoples everywhere.


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Meet Payton
Above: Payton in the ICU after vaccine injury
[This story was used by permission from Payton's mom. To read the original post please see: NatureMoms]
My journey really began on day two of my son's life. His birth was pretty easy and when I had finished laboring I had a perfect little boy in my arms. He was calm and curious right from the start. He had many guests that day and all marveled at how serious he looked and how he didn't cry at all. He slept in a bassinet next to my bed in perfect peace and he breastfed immediately and without trouble.
Then on day two the nurses came to get him and give him a Hepatitis B shot. At the time I had no reason to think I should not give consent. I knew nothing about vaccines except the fact that Doctors tell you need them and schools require them. Had I known he was being vaccinated against a sexually transmitted disease I might have questioned it but I am not sure. 🙁
The baby they brought back to me was not the same baby they left with. This was not my calm, serene baby. This baby cried furiously, refused to fall asleep in the bassinet, or even be put down. I joked several times that we had a baby mix-up going on here but I tried to dismiss all thoughts that maybe…just maybe the vaccine did this. One day wasn't really enough time to know if there had been a REAL change in his behavior right?
When I brought him home he had to sleep in the crook of my arm to be able to go to sleep. You could not put him down for even a moment or he would scream. Family members had to help with the constant holding and since I rarely got a break…or any decent sleep…I gave up on breastfeeding after only 4 months…a decision I regretted.
He went in for more shots at 2 months and 4 months old. Each time he would become sick for an extended period of time but his Doctors assured me that I did not need to worry. He was sick so often that I decided to delay his six month vaccinations until he was 10 months old…at which time he got a DTP shot. This shot changed our lives forever. 🙁
He became very ill after the shot with a high fever that lasted for days. The doctors kept telling me it was normal. When his fever jumped to 104 degrees I got in the car with him and went to the emergency room. In the triage they confirmed his fever and sent us out to the waiting room. I sat and held my son and began to notice something strange. I can't explain it other than to say that I felt that he was leaving me. He was gradually loosing eye contact and alertness and his eyes and arms were ever so slightly twitching. When I started snapping my fingers in front of him and he didn't respond I freaked out. I ran into the triage and told them something was terribly wrong and described what I was seeing. A young nurse scooped him up and took him into a nearby room and began examining him. He also tried to get my son's attention and when it didn't work I could see panic on his face. Then my son's twitches turned into a full blown, violent seizure. The nurse got on the intercom and called for immediate assistance. Two other people came and they wheeled him into another room. I stood just outside trying to see what was going on and I recall that they told me they were going to give him an anti-seizure medication and then one of them ran outside and yelled to all the medical staff, "we need to bag him!" He had gone into respiratory arrest. His room filled with about 10 people and they ushered me away.
Fearing the worst I called my husband at the nurse's station but I couldn't even get the words out…I could only cry into the phone. A nurse had to give him the details because I couldn't. After he got there they explained to both of us that our son was being air-lifted to a hospital that could handle this type of situation. We had to follow in our car and over the next week he stayed in the hospital with the first days being in ICU on a ventilator.
I knew in my heart what had caused this and when I asked the treating neurologist about it…he would only say that I should trust my instincts. He wouldn't give absolute confirmation but he wanted me to know that I was right. At a later time he would tell me that my son was not a good candidate for any further vaccinations. I also found out that my son most likely had an immune disorder at the time he got that last vaccination and really should have never received it. But medical professionals do not currently check things like that. Vaccines are one size fits all.
Unfortunately for my son this information was too late. He had many more violent seizures and he ended up with mild brain damage and since his seizures would not stop they decided to start medicating him for epilepsy at age 5 after he almost fell down a flight of stairs during a seizure. I was not happy about medicating him but I did take comfort in the fact they said it didn't have to be permanent and that I could evaluate alternative therapies in the mean time.
In between these two events though I became pregnant again and the issue of vaccines came up on a discussion board. I was horrified to find that I still wasn't committed to denying all vaccines for my new baby….perhaps rationalizing that my son's case had been unique. Another mom suggested that I retrain myself and start researching vaccine injuries. I did and I found that my son's case was not unusual. There are thousands upon thousands of children that have been harmed by vaccines. And alarmingly I found even more confirmation that vaccines had caused my son's injury when I found hundreds of stories just like his.
By the time my second child was born I was confident in my choice to decline all vaccines. Of course that is only half the battle. Sticking to your guns on the issue can be challenging because I met with many moms and doctors that were down right militant when I expressed my opinion on the issue. They act as though they know what is best for your child and they hope to shake some sense into you so you can be the good, vaccinating parent your child deserves. They dismiss all protests that vaccines can injure children by talking about how the statistics show that the number adversely affected is so small it barely matters…..yeah right…unless you are the parent of one of those insignificant statistics. And of course they talk about all the good that vaccines do, ignoring the fact that many other factors besides vaccinations have contributed to a decline in these diseases. But if you stick you your guns…it gets easier to deal with these people.
Contrary to what others might say I do not write about these things to convince other parents that vaccines are bad and that they need to deny them. I just want other parents to know that there is risk involved. I would "think" that most parents would want to know about that. I believe in informed consent. Tell all parents both sides of the issue….the good, the bad, and the ugly, and allow them to choose for themselves. Right now most parents are only getting one half of the whole story and they are basing their decision to vaccinate on that incomplete data. Tell them that there are risks!!!
If they still decide to vaccinate that is fine…at least they know the whole story and they made a conscious decision. I will not fault them for their decision at all. I just hope that they can see why I and many other parents decided that the risk was too great and respect our decision as we respect theirs. Meanwhile I share my son's story to help other moms see that there is another side to this issue that many don't want you to know about. It is your right as a parent to know the whole truth.
So how is my son doing today? Much better! We have made a lot of changes in our lifestyle to eliminate further chemical exposure, we have made many dietary changes, and we have learned to adjust. I am happy to say that I after the changes we made I was confident that he could function without the epilepsy medication. Call it mother's intuition. 🙂 I was right. He has been off meds for 6 months and he has had no seizures. His weight loss has reversed itself and he is at a much healthier weight now and he no longer scratches his arms until they are a mass of bleeding wounds. It has been a long road but we are seeing a light at the end of the tunnel. I now realize that we were not one of the unlucky ones. We were one of the lucky ones.


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NYCLA will hold a workshop on Wednesday, December 22, looking at the U.S. Bankruptcy Court Electronic Case Filing System and is located at the NYCLA center at 14 Vesey Street in Manhattan. It begins at 10:00 a.m. and ends at 12:30 p.m.
The faculty will review the judiciary-developed Electronic Case Filing System (ECFS). The ECFS enables attorneys and litigants to submit pleadings and corresponding docket entries to the court via the Internet, thereby eliminating paper handling and processing time. The system also permits any interested party instantaneous access to the entire official case docket and documents on select civil and bankruptcy cases within certain jurisdictions.The training class is designed to enable attorneys to use ECFS effectively. The course includes instruction in all of the system's online, document-scanning and other software requirements. Additionally, it will cover new procedures for motions and online payments.
For information about available CLE credits and fees, visit CLE Events on The Metropolitan Corporate Counsel website at www.metrocorpcounsel.com.
To register for the NYCLA program, visit www.nycla.org.


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About the performer
David Portillo
Praised by Opera News for "high notes with ease, singing with a luxuriant warm glow that seduced the ear as he bounded about the stage with abandon," American tenor David Portillo has established himself as one of the leading artists of his generation.
In the 2015/16 season, David Portillo will make his Metropolitan Opera debut as Count Almaviva in Il barbiere di Siviglia, opposite Isabel Leonard. He will also return to Lyric Opera of Chicago as Andres in Wozzeck in a new production by Sir David McVicar, conducted by Sir Andrew Davis and Palm Beach Opera in a role debut as Ernesto in Don Pasquale. European engagements include debuts at the Théâtre des Champs-Élysées and Bremen Festival as Pedrillo Die Entführung aus dem Serail, and the tenor soloist in Schumann's Das Paradies und die Peri with the Netherlands Radio Orchestra. Finally, Mr. Portillo will return to the Glyndebourne Festival to sing David in Die Meistersinger.
The 2014/15 season saw Mr. Portillo return to Houston Grand Opera as Tamino in The Magic Flute, conducted by Robert Spano, a house debut as Don Ramiro in La Cenerentola at Washington National Opera and returns to Aix-en-Provence as Pedrillo and Arizona Opera for his critically acclaimed portrayal of Tonio in La fille du régiment. Orchestral engagements included Handel's Messiah with St. Paul Chamber Orchestra, Kansas City Symphony, and Richmond Symphony, and Berlioz' rarely performed Lélio, with the Dayton Philharmonic.
A native of Texas, David Portillo is the recipient of many prizes, including a 2009 Sullivan Foundation Encouragement Award, 2009 American Opera Society of Chicago Award, 2009 Shoshana Foundation Grant, the 2009 Winner of the Bel Canto Scholarship Foundation Competition, and the 2008 Winner of the Men's Prize of the Union League of Chicago Young Adult's Music Competition.


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Zach Nash and the guys at Nash Pest Control have been eliminating pests their whole lives. Nash Pest Control is a locally owned business with over 20 years of experience and they've been making people in the Reno/Sparks happy with their knowledge and services since they started.
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Roland Allnach
Biographical Info
Roland Allnach has been writing since his teens, but did not actively seek publication until 2007. He has numerous published short stories to his credit, one of which was a 2010 Pushcart Prize nominee. His published books include: 'Remnant' (2010), 'Oddities & Entities' (2012), and 'Prism' (2014). In 2015 he saw publication of two titles, 'The Digital Now' and 'The Writer's Primer'.
Together, his books have been recognized with over a dozen literary awards, including National Indie Excellence Awards, Foreword Reviews Book of the Year, Readers' Favorite Book Awards, Pacific Book Review Book Awards, and Feathered Quill Book Awards.
His literary inspirations arise from classic literature, history, and mythology, and his aim is to invest his stories and characters with a complexity and depth that continue to reward upon repeated readings. Writing aside, his joy in life is the time he spends with his family.


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The Singing Waiters: An Amazing Experience
If you have never seen the singing waiters in action you're definitely missing out on something. Let me tell you that I had one of the best experiences of my life two weeks ago when I was invited to a wedding and had the fortune to see them.
The singing waiters are what some call "surprise singers" or "secret singers" and this is what makes them so unique. They can be hired for the musical entertainment for events like wedding receptions but they also do other types of events. Just ask them. They will mingle amongst your guests and at first appear just like your waiters or service staff so no-one knows they're actually present at the reception.
When it's the right time (and you can talk this over with them in advance what the best time is, such as right after or before dinner) they will start with their amazing performance. They will often combine this with some act too so as to draw anyone's attention.
At the reception two weeks ago, I was very impressed with their musical skills. One of the guys had a voice which was nothing short of world-class opera level. I was then told that those guys all have trained at renowned music schools which would certainly explain their incredible skills.
You can book the singing waiters either for your entire evening's entertainment or for their normal surprise music performance. In my opinion they beat any other type of event entertainment such as hiring a DJ but of course you can book them both. But definitely have the singing waiters perform if you want to do something really creative and unique for your guests! Highly recommended!


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'We need one party running the country, not 10'
Deepak Parekh, the head of Housing Development Finance Corporation, who has been vocal about the ill-effects of drift in country's leadership talks about the issue and what needs to be done with Karan Thapar on television channel CNN-IBN's Devil's Advocate programme.
Edited excerpts:
Many people say 2011 was one of the worst years faced by any government for a long time. Others say the country has ended up depressed, some even say disillusioned.
I agree. 2011 is a year to forget, for India and the whole world. We should now think positively and look at options and opportunities.
In the open letter you wrote on January 17 (2011), you spoke of the collapse in the self-confidence and self-belief of Indians in themselves and in the state. Twelve months later, has that collapse of self-confidence got worse?
It is at a low end. The more you criticise the government, the more negative you are about the government, the confidence around you, the confidence among the people of the country, also takes a dip.
A self-fulfilling, vicious spiral?
Absolutely. We have to be more positive. It's a new year. Let's look at how we can get back to eight per cent GDP growth.
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Image: Deepak Parekh.
Photographs: Reuters
'We need one party running the country, not 10'
After a succession of scandals and scams, has the government's authority and credibility also been damaged?
It has been. Part of it is the way politics works in our country. We have a coalition government and partners with minor seats, the tail wagging the dog.
Then, the Opposition has also not played a positive role. Disagreement is part of democracy but not distortion, not breaking up Parliament every day.
What we saw in Parliament this year gives you a negative feeling on democracy. No decisions can be taken if for every policy issue the ruling party puts up, the Opposition opposes by disrupting Parliament.
We need a better system. You must have one party running the country and not 10 different parties joining hands. It doesn't work, it doesn't do good for progress.
One key issue in both the open letters you wrote last year was what you called the widespread governance deficit. One of your colleagues, Azim Premji, said, 'The biggest concerns now are government issues and the complete absence of decision making in the government.' What does this mean for industrialists, for investment and the economy?
When we talk of governance deficit, we do so at two levels. One is the petty corruption everyone in India faces.
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Image: Azim Premji says there is complete absence of decision making.
Photographs: Reuters
'We need one party running the country, not 10'
The other is the corruption at the senior level - large amounts like the Commonwealth Games or the telecom scandals or the Aadarsh building in Bombay.
The common man in the country can't get anything done without paying a bribe. I, myself, had to pay for a death certificate. Birth certificates, passports, driving licences... this is corruption at low levels. The salary levels of people are abysmally low.
How do you expect a policeman on the street to keep law and order, to protect the citizens, when he lives in slums or slum-like conditions?
He doesn't have enough money to feed his children. We said we need some redressal mechanism for the common man and particularly we need police reform, judicial reform and electoral reform.
You also wrote about what you called policy paralysis, that the government talks about critical reforms but is unable to deliver these. In that context, how damaging was the debacle over FDI in retail, where the Prime Minister endorsed the policy but Sonia Gandhi was silent, the allies opposed and the government couldn't go ahead?
It was a bad day for Indian democracy and a sad day for Indian business. FDI in retail will help the farming community. We need to invest in farming.
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Image: Parekh says he had to pay a bribe for a death certificate.
Photographs: Reuters
'We need one party running the country, not 10'
We need much more research and development, and technology and we need to upgrade our farmers. FDI in retail will do that to some extent.
When you and your fellow business colleagues met the Prime Minister on December 22, he pointedly bristled at some of the critical comments you had made. In fact, the PM's office issued a formal statement that, 'It is little disappointing to hear negative comments emanating from our business leadership that government policy is causing slowdown and pessimism in the industrial sector.'
The PM's point was that if all of you have negativism and are totally pessimistic about growth, about the future, then what will happen to the country?
All of us who were present had stakes and are concerned. This is the right time for Indians to outshine others and we have not taken that advantage.
Harsh Mariwala, the president of Ficci, said shortly afterwards, 'There is a problem of trust between the government and the corporate sector.'
In 2011, that trust, that association one must have to succeed in a country is diminished. For a variety of reasons. Both parties have to reach out.
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Image: He says FDI in retail will help farmers.
Photographs: Reuters
'We need one party running the country, not 10'
Mariwala has also said business confidence today is lower than in 2008, and that was when Lehman Brothers and the recession hit us.
He is right. If you look around, fresh investments are not happening. We need massive investments in India, both from the public and the private sector, and neither are investing.
They feel the risk of investment, because the approvals take a long time. If the project doesn't take off and they lose a lot of money, they will be pointed at and blamed.
What are the top three things you want the government to do?
You need more than three things but the first is investment - new industries in infrastructure, roads, airports, ports, power - by both the private and public sector.
The implementation process, the approval process, has to be streamlined much more than what it is today. We don't know what the project cost will be, we don't know when it will complete and start production, because of all the uncertainties of different approvers.
Remove the uncertainties, give us a timetable by when we can get our approvals and permissions, whether it is coal or environment or water.
Second, interest rates have to come down to spur growth. Third, there are dozens of projects stuck halfway, particularly in the power sector.
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Image: Infrastructure needs focus, says Parekh.
Photographs: Reuters
'We need one party running the country, not 10'
We suggested when we met the PM, why don't you have someone in the PM's Office look at 10 marquee projects and let them analyse what are the decisions necessary and let's push these.
How important is the need to push through critical reforms the government has spoken about but which are stalled either in Parliament or caught up in party politics - DTC, GST, pension, banking, insurance?
All very critical, maybe not for me but for my kids. If they start putting these Acts in place, then it will help in the future. The other thing is, the government must reduce their expenditure.
Also, we have a large number of social development projects, rural programmes. We must push them: 600 million or so live in rural India. How do we make them put more money in their pockets, so they do more consumption?
Can we hope to return to eight per cent growth, leave aside 10 per cent, if these areas of concern are not tackled and if the policy paralysis continues?
We will then have to be satisfied with seven per cent. The monsoons have been good for the last two years, we have had agricultural growth of 3-4, 4.5 per cent, which ensures at least seven per cent. If policy paralysis continues and agricultural growth doesn't happen, you could slip below seven.
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Image: We need to push social programmes in India, he says.
Photographs: Reuters
'We need one party running the country, not 10'
More and more Indians are looking at investing abroad. But the market is in India. Everyone knows the desire of Indian businessmen is first to invest here.
Huge market, huge population, large middle class, urbanisation happening. All factors are positive. Only if we can get our act together.
So, the budget is your big hope?
The big hope.
Are you disappointed with the Prime Minister?
He has to take a much broader, quicker decision-making effort. And, he has to push reforms. He's been a blessing for India...
But needs to do more?
He wants to. I am convinced he will. His hands are tied because his coalition partners don't support him, the Opposition doesn't support him.
I am confident he will. You will see a different set of guidelines and difference in speed at which decisions are taken after February.
I am very hopeful that the PM and his team have taken a decision that, 'We will not let 2011 continue'.
Are you really hopeful today that Manmohan Singh will live up to your expectations or to the promises he has made to you?
I am confident he will. You will see a different set of guidelines and difference in speed at which decisions are taken after February. I am very hopeful that the PM and his team have taken a decision that, 'We will not let 2011 continue'.
Image: Parekh says Manmohan Singh has been a blessing for India.
Photographs: Reuters


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I keep seeing things all over the interwebs about the end of summer. Um…I'm not buying it. This happens to me pretty much every year. People are busting out the pumpkin and I'm still sweating it out here is Dallas. This year, we've really been sweating it out because our AC has been intermittent at best for the past week. In fact, I had a giant food fail last week while attempting to make scones in my non-airconditioned kitchen. The dough was literally melting as I rolled it out, so I figured ice cream was a better option, at least while it was 100 degrees in my house.
I've been experimenting with non-dairy chocolate ice creams all summer long, but none have been good enough to share. The coconut milk versions had strong coconut overtones, and while I'm a fan of coconut, I wanted it to taste like chocolate. Other non-dairy milks gave the ice cream a weird icy texture, so you can imagine my surprise when I came across a decadent looking chocolate sorbet.
I'm always skeptical of water based "ice cream," but this stuff was so good, I made it twice in one week. It was so creamy, my friends didm;t believe it was sorbet. The first time, I made David Lebovitz's original recipe. The second time, I replaced some of the chocolate with creamy peanut butter and liked it even better. The peanut butter version is what I'm sharing with you today, but if you're not a fan, you can replace the peanut butter with an extra ounce of chocolate.
- 1 1/2 cups water, divided
- 2/3 cup granulated sugar
- 1/2 cup (75 g) unsweetened Dutch-process cocoa powder (I used Valrhona)
- Pinch of salt (if your peanut butter is unsalted)
- 3 ounces bittersweet or semisweet chocolate, finely chopped
- 2 tablespoons creamy peanut butter
- 1/2 teaspoon vanilla extract
- In a large saucepan, whisk together the 1 cup of water, sugar, cocoa powder, and salt over medium heat until the mixture begins to boil.
- Continue to let the mixture boil for about 45 seconds, whisking constantly.
- Remove the saucepan from the heat and mix in the chocolate and stir until it has melted.
- Whisk in the peanut butter until smooth.
- Add the vanilla and the remaining 1/2 cup of water and mix until smooth.
- Transfer the mixture into a blender and blend for about 15 seconds.
- Pour the mixture into a heat proof bowl and let it chill thoroughly in the fridge for at least 4 hours.
- Freeze the mixture in your ice cream maker according to the unit's instructions.
- Transfer the ice cream into a container and let harden in the freezer for at least one hour before serving.
- If the ice cream is too hard to scoop, let it thaw for 5-10 minutes before serving.
Recipe adapted from The Perfect Scoop


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In a large country as Ukraine, trains are most of all composed by sleeping cars. They usually travel during the night taking in average about 10 hours to reach the final destination.
The train depart usually in the late afternoon ad arrive at destination the next morning. This happen on routes as Kiev – Donetsk, Kiev – Ivano – Frankovsk. On other routes as Donetsk – Lvov, the trip last even more than 1 day.
The locomotives
Some are electrical and other are Diesel. We are not expert so we just public some photos of them.
Electrical Ukrainian locomotive
The sleeping cars
The carriages are characterized by their typical light blue color with yellow stripe. There anyway wagons with different colors as the one of the train Uzgorod – Kiev.
Several trains also have a specific name ex. Donbass for the Donetsk – Kiev, Dnipro for the Dnepropetrovsk – Kiev etc…
Sleeping car "Donbass" Donetsk – Kiev
Train "Zakarpattia", Uzgorod – Kiev
The name and the destination are written on a plate on both sides of the wagon.
"Prikarpattia", Ivano-Frankisvsk – Kyiv
Apart from the "traditional" wagons, there are also renewed carriages which especially inside are much better than the previous ones.
Renewed wagon, train "Donbass"
Renewed wagon of the train Lviv – Kyiv
A part of the normal sleeping cars exist also a restaurant wagon.
Restaurant wagon, train "Donbass"
Interior of the sleeping cars
Mainly the wagons are possible to be divided in these 3 typologies:
–First class: Lyuks (Люкс) compartments with only 2 beds (and extra comforts)
–Second class: Kupe (Купе) compartment with 4 beds, 2 up and 2 down
–Third class: Platskart (Плацкарт) there is not division in compartments. You have more than 3 neighbors…
In some trains exist also a forth class Zahal'nyi (Загальний), where there are only sits and not beds.
A big difference consist in the age of the carriage and if the wagon was renewed or not.
Kupe class "traditional" wagons
These wagons can be quite good (even if not renewed) as the ones of the "Donbass" (see photo) or to be rather old as the ones of the Donetsk – Sevastopol or the ones of the "Prikarpattia".
In general, the standard comfort are:
– "Clean" bed linen (at least they are given in a sealed package)
– Radio and lights for the whole compartment
– A personal light next to every bed.
– Clotheshorses
– Boxes where to put the luggage (over the door and under the two down beds)
– Power plugs, usually only inside and next to the toilet (often they don't work)
– Heating system and conditioned air (not always working property and sometimes not even available)
There are 2 toilets for every wagon.
Entrance wagon Kupe, "Prikarpattia"
Train Donbass, Donetsk – Kiev
Entrance of the corridor, train "Donbass"
Compartment Kupe, train Donetsk – Kiev
Stair to the upper bed, train Donetsk – Kiev
Control panel, train "Donbass"
Train Lviv – Donetsk
Corridor of the wagon, train Lviv – Donetsk
Train Donestk – Sevastopol
Small table, train Donetsk – Sevastopol
Upper bed with light, train Donetsk – Sevastopol
Between all these trains the most comfortable was the "Donbass". The worst was the Sevastopol also because when we tried it was winter and the radiators were extremely hot and the air inside the compartment was very heavy.
Renewed wagons
These carriages are completely renewed. They look clean and modern. In general they don't have anything to envy to the western ones.
Inside the compartments there is a special control panel which also tell if the WC are busy or not. On it there is also a power plug every useful for to reach PC or mobile phones.
The toilets are much, much better than the previous ones.
Train Donbass, Donetsk – Kiev
Entrance train "Donbass", renewed wagon
Corridor renewed wagon, train "Donbass"
Compartment, train Donetsk – Kiev
Kupe, "Donbass" Donetsk – Kiev
Control panel of the compartment
Train "Lviv", Lviv – Kyiv
Bed and mattress, train Lviv – Kyiv
The toilets
They are usually not hygienic and essential. Especially before the arrival (so after the night) they are dirty and the floor is often wet.
Much better are the ones of the renewed wagons.
"Normal" wagons
Renewed wagons
The prices of the tickets change according to the distance, the class and the kind of the wagon. The renewed wagons cost a bit more (but the difference of price is truly worthy).
First class: about 500 uah (100 usd)
Second class: about 125 uah (25 usd)
Third class: about 80 uah (16 usd)
The best one is the Kupe (quality/price).
The first class can costs even more than to take the plane.
Remember to book as soon as you can or you risk to don't find any ticket left.
Keep your ticket in a place where you can easily reach it. The woman of the carriage will ask it two times:
1 before you to come inside her wagon
2 when the train depart and in this occasion she will not give it back (when you are close to your destination, you can ask her to give it back to you).
-As rule, the down beds are considered to be the best, since you can also sit there and not only to lie down… and for this reason are also the first that are sold out.
Grannies and grandpa will aspect you to give them such place even if you own a ticket for such place.
-Before to lay down on your bed, you need to "make the bed"
you will find there a kind of mattress, a pillow, several "clean" shits and an heavy blanket.
Prior to your arrival, you have to put everything as it was before and give all those "clean" shits to the woman of the train.
For to know how to read Ukrainian tickets:
Videos of Ukrainian trains
Train "Zakarpattia" departing from Kiev:
Other types of Ukrainian trains
Elektrichka (Электричка) o Elektropoezd:
Freight train in Donetsk:
Ukrainian train timetable
http://www.uz.gov.ua (only in Russian and Ukrainian)


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Customers may benefit from dealers' depreciation woes
Changes to registration are sure to introduce complexity and ambiguity that should work in the buyers' favour
Second-hand Peugeot cars on display
Next month's registration change will be a learning curve for the motor industry, especially when trying to assess the second-hand value of a car bought in the first six months of the year, as distinct from the value of a car bought in the second six-month period. In the fleet sector, for example, the change will have virtually no impact. Fleet companies do not buy in the last quarter of the year, anyway, preferring to wait for new-year registrations.
"We have done some initial analysis and we don't think it will make any real difference. We are not as dependent on the first quarter of the year for business as garages are, and we change through the year, but we don't take in cars in the last three months of the year. If we did, we would have a four year-old car in three years and three months, as distinct from a three-year-old car," says David Wilkinson of Merrion Fleet.
Things are a lot less certain in the retail sector. "Personally, I don't think a few weeks between the first part of the year and the second should have a big impact on the second-hand value of a car if it's in good condition and has the right mileage," one dealer says ruefully. "The chances are, though, I am going to have to give way on the price because customers will drive the demand. It could mean having to give maybe €500 discount on a car registered in the first six months. Customers are focused and not easily parted from their money."
One area in which customers may well benefit in picking up better value on second-hand cars is that of pre-registration models. Officially, these cars are known as demonstration models, and the industry does not admit to pre-registering cars to artificially support the market. As a result, garage forecourts are populated by cars that have been registered and had small mileage clocked up. There are lots of them around and they now account for between 10 and 15 per cent of all new cars registered.
From next month, they will be joined on the forecourt by even more cars – this time with 132 registrations – and that glut may represent a good opportunity for customers to press for a better deal where they can. A car dealer may argue that there is little difference in the value, but the customer could use the industry's own desire for the dual registration system to their advantage. On the other hand, dealers may try to add a premium to the value of a 132 registered car to make up any difference lost on a 131 registration. In a seriously depressed market, however, it is unlikely that customers will not have the upper hand in many deals.
Another factor that may make a difference in second-hand values is the return of rental cars that garages take back in September. Many distributors have been heavily involved in hire-drive to boost registrations, and will be filtering these cars back into the system after the main tourist season.
Second-hand car sales have been strong this year and demand is being driven by a shortage of good-quality cars. In 2008 and 2009 the new market was beginning a serious decline and the effects of this are being seen today. It is interesting to note the high level of second-hand imports that reflect this shortage: last month 5,937 new cars were sold while 5,035 second-hand cars were imported into the State.
Some industry analysts, such as Aidan Timmons, the research analyst for Motor Trade Publishers, speculate that the difference in value between 131 and 132 cars may have a "neglible long-term effect" on residual values because of this continuing shortage of good-quality used cars. He points out that the difference in value between the two plates may exist, but "only to an extent that the mileage on the car affects the value."
So, when dealers presumably take delivery of more demonstration (pre-registered) cars next month to get them up to the 132 profile, they may have a difficulty in trying to shift cars with the older registration. How they manage their valuations on both remains to be seen.
It would appear that September might see market values a little more settled and of more advantage to buyers, as the hire-drive cars come back. There will certainly be plenty of choice available compared to this part of the year.


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DIY Craft – Make It Ruby's Button Up Retro Bag
Hey GirlMoguls, our friend Ruby, over at www.makeitruby.com just sent us this totally cool new diy craft project – a perfect redo for any old handbag lying around. You can even head over to a second hand store and pick up a cool bag on the cheap, if you don't have something at home lying around to re-purpose – oh and that's another reason why we love this project – giving something old a totally new life…so green (and so ready for Earth Day).
Button Up Retro Bag
Ruby's Tool Kit: fabric glue, marker, buttons
1. Renew a bag from a second hand store or from your own closet and
make it scream RETRO 🙂
2. Apply different color buttons to the bag with a fabric glue.
3. Glue a broach to the front of the bag to add some extra bling.
xoxo Ruby – be sure to head on over to www.makeitruby.com for more great DIY Craft Projects


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YOU NEED A C0AGULANT, Something to hold it together. Usually egg whites or an egg will do it. Depends on the recipe of what you are masking and if you object to eggs, you can use some
soft tofu, some cornstartch and water mix, some flax seed and water, chia seeds, arrowroot, there are several things that will work.look up binders in recipes or coagulants.
First and last attempt at sweet potato tots
Not every recipe I try is a success and I rarely post my failed recipes on Pretty Tasty Things, but this time I felt inclined to showcase my effort in my first and last attempt at sweet potato tots. I love, love tots in general, and I think sweet potato tots are harder to come by so I followed this particular recipe because I was craving some. But sadly, it was a big disappointment. The steps seemed simple enough, but trust me, it wasn't simple to make them. The tots turned out incredibly oily and undercooked, mainly because they were falling apart while frying. Maybe someone out there has a better recipe to try or tips to help, but honestly, I don't even want to attempt to make them again. Some things are best store-bought and sweet potato tots are definitely one of them.
So I started off with peeling my sweet potato. Easiest step done!
I diced them into relatively small chunks to help them along in the food processor.
Next, in several batches, I processed the sweet potato into fine bits and pieces. Small enough to hold together, but not enough to make it into mush.
I added the processed sweet potato into a medium-size bowl. I added 1/4 cup of flour with some salt and pepper and mixed with a fork to combine.
Now, forming these little suckers. The recipe failed to mention that forming these dainty little tots are seriously not fun. There was no easy way to make these tots so perfectly uniform. I used my hands, I used a mini-scooper, but they felt too loose when I tried to form them. I've never felt so frustrated while cooking before. They seemed as if they were going to fall apart on me every time. But I forged ahead and made the rest—ugly and all.
I placed several tots in a hot pan of oil. I didn't move them around, I left them alone for a minute or so to crisp up. But slowly, you can see them just fall apart. I DON'T KNOW WHAT I DID WRONG?! Little bits of the sweet potato started floating to the top. Even the touch of a tong, crumbled them. I just gave up after that first round of frying. I turned off the stove, threw everything away and thought to myself what a freakin' waste of time.
In the end, it's not worth it for me. Maybe I tried the wrong recipe. But either way, this just took too long for something so deliciously simple. I even made Jared taste the first and only batch, and he who rarely finds fault with my food, couldn't stomach it. Trust me when I say, I will enjoy you, sweet potato tot, in a store-bought form or at a favorite restaurant around town called Toast. But this will be my last attempt at making them at home.
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YOU NEED A C0AGULANT, Something to hold it together. Usually egg whites or an egg will do it. Depends on the recipe of what you are masking and if you object to eggs, you can use some