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Naked Wines offers custom crush for $100 per ton to experienced winemakers
Builds on $5.5 million investment in American winemakers
Jul 24, 2012, 10:00 ET from NakedWines.com
NAPA, Calif., July 24, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Naked Wines, the fast growing online wine retailer, is helping talented winemakers to reduce costs by offering custom crush at the remarkable price of $100 per ton at the former Blackstone Winery.
Naked aims to support independent winemakers by removing their greatest costs. All the winemaking up to post malo, including crush and adds, can easily cost 10 times more than this offer, and crush facilities are often in a hurry to get as much volume through the winery as possible. Naked Wines is more interested in working professionally with the best winemakers than in turnover and volume.
"We're building a network of America's most serious winemakers," explains Robin Langton, Director of Winemaking who brings years of experience working for Patz & Hall, Calera Wine, Vignobles Andre Lurton, Oyster Bay, and many more. He continues, "This is an offer designed to grab the attention of experienced winemakers with impressive track records."
Veteran winemakers already applying
Most of the 100,000 case winery is already accounted for with industry veterans like Ken Deis who is finally making his own Napa wine after heading up the winemaking at Flora Springs, Joseph Phelps, and Heitz for nearly 40 years.
Naked Wines is accepting applicants until August 6th. Interested winemakers should email email@example.com with information about their experience as winemakers and the wine they would like to produce.
Website : http://www.nakedwines.com
Twitter: http://www.twitter.com/nakedwinesusa
Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/nakedwinesusa
Contact Details: email@example.com / 707 723 4762
What we're all about
Naked Wines was born in December 2008 when twelve friends quit their jobs in the middle of the recession to do things a little differently.
Our goal: Find the world's most talented, undiscovered winemakers and set them up in business.
How we go about it:
- 100,000 customers invest over $3 million dollars a month towards future orders (we call them 'Angels')
- Which we use to fund independent winemakers
- In return for exclusive wines at preferential prices
- Which we pass back to our customers
We call it the 'virtuous circle', as everybody gets more for less, without trampling on anyone along the way.
The hard and fast facts
If you're looking for something a little meatier, this should help:
- We've invested in 50 independent winemakers to date
- We ship an average of 10,000 bottles of wine every day
- We've seen over 100% growth year-on-year, with sales of $40 million in 2011
- We've recruited 200k customers, 100k of which invest over $3 million dollars a month towards future orders
- We were named the UK's most innovative wine company for two years on the trot, at the IWC
- We were named the UK's Online Business of the Year at the 2011 National Business Awards
- And we're probably the world's largest group of net wine investors
A truly social business
As well as the model itself, the website delivers a truly social experience.
- Customers can chat directly to one another and to the winemakers.
- Customers can vote with their feet on new initiatives and wines, to decide what makes the cut.
- And we can suggest to customers what to buy AND what not to buy, based on their preferences.
The team
The man at the top is Rowan Gormley, former Virgin Wines and Virgin Money CEO, and our non-executive director who keeps us in check is Ian West, former BSkyB MD. The rest of us are an assorted bunch of 20 wine and tech-loving employees based in Napa.
Media contact: Adam Reiter, 707-723-4762, firstname.lastname@example.com
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All iPhone 4 and 4S owners will know that there is a cool Apple logo on the back, but unlike the previous models this logo can be illuminated, it is not easy and it is going to take some expert know how. However, the result is something truly spectacular and cool, so are you up for it?
There is a kit around that helps the iPhone owner achieve this wonderful look, alternatively you are going to have to rely on someone else doing the technical work for you, it's going to cost a bit more but just take a look at it and you know that it is worth it in the end.
According to the suppliers of the Luminescent Logo Mod Kit for iPhone 4/4S;
This mod preserves the iPhone's original dimensions and thickness as the stock Apple rear panel.
Your iPhone will still perfectly fit all Bumpers and Cases designed for it.
We use a glass lens cover and flash diffuser of the same quality as an original from Apple.
Priced at around $43 in the US and £28 in the UK
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On JK Rowling's website:
A New Wizard of the month! that would make Neville Longbottom swoon.
Tilden Toots
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'The wizard with three green thumbs' Celebrity herbologist and radio personality'
Well, when my youngest child hears the name of that wizard, he will snicker for hours. (Anything that has the word "toot" is sure to send any five year old boy into a fit of hysterics.)
Also Happy Birthday to Ron Weasley.
Dan Radcliffe who has been getting rave reviews (read them here, here and here) for his role in Equus has recently been listed as one of the top earners of the under 21 age group. Dan sits at the number two spot with estimated earnings that top 13 million. According to the Forbes article, Dan made 17 million for this summer's Order of the Phoenix.
I expect that Dan will beat those pesky Olsen twins soon. With the media play Equus has received and two more movies to go, I give it two years. (And why don't they divide them up, really they should be listed at 20 million each.)


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Anthrax and Lawyers
Peter Huber 10.16.06, 12:00 AM ET
In 2004 the Federal Government sought bids for the development and delivery of a new anthrax vaccine. As FORBES reported soon afterward ( June 6, 2005), none of the big drug companies responded. The old anthrax vaccine continues to be supplied by a tiny privately held company. The $900 million contract for the new vaccine went to an equally tiny enterprise that has never successfully brought a drug to market. As the New York Times recently reported (in a front-page story remarkably similar to the earlier FORBES account), these two corporate midgets are now locked in a Lilliputian lobbying battle to see who gets to protect Americans against bacterial spores that could quite easily be used to kill millions of people.
Why didn't Big Pharma show up? Start at the end and work back. If a backpack releases anthrax in a subway tomorrow, your doctor won't be able to help you. Call Donald Rumsfeld instead. The feds have a stockpile of vaccine, but only the Pentagon has the authority to prescribe it. And it's a very unusual authority at that, the kind you get only from a government utterly clogged with bureaucrats, judges and lawyers.
Anthrax is a rare occupational hazard for people who work with animal hides and hair. It is also a perfect biological weapon, because the spores aren't contagious--they just kill people on the spot. The cold warriors who developed the first anthrax vaccines in the 1940s and 1950s were not worried about illness in the goat-shearing industry. But because natural anthrax kills so few people, no human trials of the vaccine could ever develop very robust statistics on human lives saved. The federal agency that used to oversee biologic pharmaceuticals licensed the vaccine anyway.
When the Food & Drug Administration took over in 1972, it began relicensing anthrax and other bacterial vaccines. An advisory panel took seven years to submit its favorable report. Six more years passed before the FDA sought public comment, and then the agency failed to finish the paperwork. Military personnel vaccinated during the first Gulf war blamed unexplained illnesses on the vaccine, and a handful then persuaded a federal judge that the vaccine lacked a valid ticket. The FDA immediately issued the new license, but the judge said it was no good, because too much time had passed since the public had been asked to comment.
More than three decades into this relicensing crawl the Pentagon declared a military emergency, and the FDA invoked a law passed in 2004 to issue its first-ever "emergency use" license. The anthrax vaccine may now be administered to any soldier or civilian--but only when and where the Pentagon discerns a "heightened risk" of exposure. In a further effort to vaccinate the vaccine against lawyers, the Department of Homeland Security has just qualified the old vaccine as an antiterrorism technology. This provides broad protection from lawsuits connected with any injuries arising in connection with an act of terrorism--but a lot less legal immunity if the attack never comes.
Vaccines, however, work by getting the antibody into the bloodstream ahead of the attacking body. And the more widely a vaccine gets used, the less likely an attack with the corresponding microbe becomes. If the terrorists fail to show up, the lawyers will. They always do when lots of healthy people get vaccinated against a threat that never materializes.
No drug company with real assets is going to mess with licensing and liability systems that require help from both the Pentagon and the terrorists to keep our own terrifying lawyers at bay. So the cutting edge of the antibody-building industry goes instead to tiny biodefense contractors operating under the oversight of the huge federal bureaucracies. We replace private capital with government funding, profit-driven innovation with fixed-price government contracts and personal choice with public procurement. We stock silos in Nebraska to fight bacteria that are going to pop up unexpectedly in Yankee Stadium.
The first anthrax vaccine was developed at a time when contagious diseases were killing millions of Americans a year, without the help of backpacks. Imperfect though they were, vaccine markets worked tolerably well back then. Multiple companies competed to offer reasonably safe, effective vaccines to willing buyers. When the microbes return, we will bitterly regret that we have lost manufacturing capacity, innovative flexibility, citizen involvement, private choice and physician experience where we need it the most. "Stockpiling antibodies in the body," a former director of the Centers for Disease Control has observed, "is preferable to stockpiling vaccines on warehouse shelves."
Peter Huber is a senior fellow of the Manhattan Institute and coauthor of The Bottomless Well (Basic Books, January 2005).
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Learning with George Auckland
George Auckland is an inspirational figure from the BBC. Last night, to celebrate 41 years at the Corporation, Manchester Metropolitan University hosted an evening to flag his achievements.
George retires as the head of the BBC's Learning Innovation Unit having started his career as a trainee assistant film editor in September 1969. In between, George has worked on various TV shows, most famously perhaps, Think of a Number and its successors with Johnny Ball. But it is, arguably his embrace of computing and the Internet for which George is most renowned.
It was George and his team that gave the world Teletubbies Online. Launched months before BBC News had a web presence, it was possibly the world's first multiuser website (it was aimed at parents and their young children to use simultaneously). The site transformed a misunderstood television programme for toddlers into a fabulously successful educational experience for the under 3s. He did the same thing for adults with WebWise, unlocking the treasures of the Net for millions of us.
Much of George's success comes from his insatiable curiosity and a personal desire to work from first principles: as a child in the 1950s himself built he a printing machine, later a television, in 1996 he taught himself HTML in 24 hours placing himself at the 'bleeding edge' of web development at the time. "Fortune favours the well prepared" he says.
The ongoing joy of discovery has enabled George to exploit technology for the sake of learning. He credits Disney's Bambi and a story-based encyclopaedia as childhood inspirations that have obviously shaped his approach to education. They vividly illustrated to him the value and effectiveness of beautifully crafted narratives that engage an audience on an emotional level.
Never let the facts get in the way of a good joke
This principle was reinforced to him by Johnny Ball who, on having had his script corrected by George about some scientific point, commented: "Never let the facts get in the way of a good joke"
The lesson is timeless – engage the audience, captured their imagination, then unpick it with the delight of learning.
As remarkable as George's technical achievements is the warmth in which he is held by all who have met him. His self-effacing and generous personality is legendary. I think there's a lot we can learn from George. I'll leave you with a quote that resonates loudly for me:
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theU.S. Rep. Jeff Flake of Arizona announced Monday he is a candidate for the Republican nomination for U.S. Senate in 2012.
Flake became the first announced candidate in the Senate race with an announcement at the same hotel where Republican Sen. Jon Kyl announced Thursday that he would not seek re-election.
Flake said his priorities include balancing the federal government's budget, securing the border and working on transportation and water policy issues.
"That's what motivates me as I make this campaign," Flake said. "I'm all in."
Broader action is needed on illegal immigration than just border security but that border security "needs to be the focus," Flake said.
On the budget, Flake said everything needs to be on the table, including possible changes to Social Security. But he said changes shouldn't apply to current beneficiaries.
"The federal government has kicked the can down the road so long that we no longer have any road left," Flake of red ink in the federal budget. "I can't stress enough how important it is right now to be bold."
Flake has represented the 6th Congressional District in the Phoenix area since 2001.
He previously considered challenging Republican Sen. John McCain but did not, concluding he would lose badly.
Flake declined Monday to speculate how he'd fare against two potential Democratic candidates — former Gov. Janet Napolitano and U.S. Rep. Gabrielle Giffords.
Napolitano resigned as governor in January 2009 to become U.S. Homeland Security secretary. Giffords, who won re-election to her House seat in November, is recovering from a head wound suffered the Jan. 8 Tucson shooting rampage.


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10.-14.9. 2012
International Engineering Fair
Facts & Figures:
The International Engineering
Fair is the most important
industrial fair in Central Europe, with annual participation of more than
1,500 exhibitors and 80,000 visitors. More than 35% of exhibitors and 10% of
visitors come from abroad.
Visitors are highly specialized, over seventy percent of visitors affect investment decisions, a third belong to top management.
All key areas of engineering and electrical industry are represented.
Industrial automation is the main theme of MSV 2012, presenting measuring, control, automation and control equipment, including all branches of the fair. Electronics, Automation and Measuring Technology is third most represented specialized MSV section after Mechanical Engineering Technology and Materials, and Components in Engineering.
Together with MSV 2012, an International Trade Fair of cutting and shaping technology IMT and technology fairs named Fond-ex, Welding, Plastex and Profintech take place, as well as Interprotec, personal protection, safety at work fair.
MSV traditionally boasts high media attention, over four hundred journalists are accredited. The fair includes a high-class expert accompanying programme of conferences, seminars and workshops on current technical, business and economic issues.
- Full name: International Engineering Fair
- Date: 10.-14.9. 2012
- Venue: Brno Exhibition Centre
- Organizer: BVV Trade Fairs Brno
- Position: No. 1. in Central and Eastern Europe
- Statistics: 2011
- Number of Visitors 79296
- Number of Companies: 1592
- Exhibition space: 41241 m2
MSV, IMT, FOND-EX, WELDING, PROFINTECH, PLASTEX 2012 in figures
In total 1,886 exhibiting companies from 32 countries
44,629 sqm net exhibition area
In total 75,849 visitors from 62 countries
Common statistical data MSV, IMT, FOND-EX, WELDING, PROFINTECH, PLASTEX
AUTOMATIZACE: 223 exhibiting companies from 13 countries
IMT: 534 exhibiting companies from 24 countries
WELDING: 82 exhibiting companies from 17 countries
FOND-EX: 92 exhibiting companies from 9 countries
PROFINTECH: 90 exhibiting companies from 12 countries
PLASTEX: 258 exhibiting companies from 19 countries
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What can be done if my father died during a divorce? 1 Answers as of May 27, 2011My dad had a stroke a couple months ago. When it happened, he was in the middle of a divorce. However, his wife got him to sign over POA to her. His condition has worsened and she has now gotten him to cancel his services with his divorce lawyer. This makes me think she is influencing his decision clearly in her favor, and further makes me thinks that he is incompetent to make his own decisions. He is very forgetful and I don't think knows exactly what is happening. Is there a way to get a court ordered POA to someone with his best interests in mind.
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Back in 2006, I released a mix CD called Heavy Session - one hour of psychedelic beats, rap remixes, rock breaks, scratching, all that fun stuff. One section of the mix included a remix I put together of Super Lover Cee & Casanova Rud's 1988 rap jam "I Gotta Good Thing." A few years later, I rebuilt the remix as its own extended standalone track. Here it is in all its glory with brand new artwork! Enjoy!
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Manitoba's Opposition says a plan to commemorate women's right to vote may violate provincial law.
The Manitoba Status of Women Council is planning to hold an event Jan. 28 to mark the 98th anniversary of women's suffrage in the province.
The Tories have obtained a memo in which the minister responsible for the council, Kerri Irvin-Ross, invited her cabinet colleagues to attend.
The ceremony is set for the same day that two provincial byelections will be held, and the Tories say the event may violate a ban on government advertising during election campaigns.
Tory deputy leader Heather Stefanson says holding an event at the legislature on that day goes against the democracy that women's rights activists such as Nellie McClung fought for.
Government spokeswoman Rachel Morgan says Irvin-Ross was asked by the legislature building protocol officer to send a memo to MLAs from all parties reminding them of the event.
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So Saturday I went shopping for running shoes. Quite frankly, I don't even know what that entails! I found myself overwhelmed with information and could't figure out what shoe to get. Soft? Light? Support? All I knew is that I wanted black and hot pink. Color should be the last thing I should look at right? Not. I want hot pink and black. Needless to say I did not find them. I wounder if Nike, Addidas, New Balance, or any other shoe company has a pair.
While shopping for shoes, I began realizing that there are also tons of different running outfits. The ones I liked were spandex and crop tops, but that all has to do with how much pounds I shed during my training. For now, I am thinking of something a little bit more like a t-shirt and some cute shorts.
The shoe hunting still continues… and now I have to find a cute outfit too!
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Garmonbozia is actually just regurgitated piePosted in art, television on 04/04/2010 04:17 pm by Zachary
Last Friday was the opening of The Black Dog Runs At Night, a Twin Peaks themed gallery show at Piranha Betty's Art Mart in Kensington. As you may know, faithful reader, I am a hardcore Twin Peaks fan… enough so that I was willing to travel to Kensington, which is not at all safe, just to check out this show. I took a few crappy cellphone pictures that I thought I'd share.
The main gallery area had been done up to resemble the Black Lodge, straight down to the zig-zag floor. There's a log hidden somewhere in the above picture… try and find it!
In addition to art, there was a pie tasting, because all people ever seem to associate Twin Peaks with is pie and coffee. I did not try any pie, because it did not look at all appetizing by the time I got to the show.
The art itself was fairly average. Nothing jumped out at me as being amazing, save for a couple dioramas I didn't get good pictures of. It was mostly fan art, and there's nothing wrong with that. I did ended up buying a few smaller drawings that I liked. The above picture shows how they were marked as sold. The gallery manager just plastered my name and phone number next to the work for some reason. So far I've had half a dozen unsolicited text messages, mostly Twin Peaks quotes. Thanks, Piranha Betty's!
Final Verdict: there is no reason to ever visit Kensington. Except I have to go back when the show closes to pick up the drawings that I bought. I will most likely just give my roommate five dollars to go pick them up. No one ever messes with him. He's got crazy eyes.


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CORVALLIS, Ore. - Jeff Comfort, executive director of principal and planned gifts at Georgetown University, has been named the vice president of principal gifts and gift planning at the Oregon State University Foundation, effective Jan. 1.
Comfort will provide strategic leadership to the OSU Foundation's gift planning program and oversee the staff that assists donors in making deferred, assets-based or complex gifts to the university, according to Shawn L. Scoville, senior vice president of development and campaign director.
"Oregon State is a great fit for me and my family," said Comfort. "OSU is so clearly an amazing place. My wife, Paula, and I could not be more excited about joining the OSU community and development team.
"Oregon State enjoys tremendous support from a generous donor community that understands the value of gift planning," Comfort added. "I am eager to help donors find their passion and assist them in developing meaningful and financially sound giving opportunities."
Comfort spent 17 years at Georgetown, where he oversaw university-wide gift planning efforts resulting in approximately $500 million of gift commitments and receipts in his tenure. Before arriving at Georgetown in 1995, he spent 11 years in Denver directing the gift planning program for the National Jewish Medical and Research Center.
Mike Goodwin, president and CEO of the OSU Foundation, stressed the significance of bringing someone of Comfort's experience to the foundation in the final years of the $1 billion Campaign for OSU.
"I couldn't be more pleased to have Jeff joining our team," said Goodwin, who, with Scoville, worked alongside Comfort at Georgetown eight years ago. "Jeff is an accomplished and dynamic leader who does a remarkable job of matching donor interests with an institution's greatest needs.
"As we prepare for the campaign's conclusion and the years that follow, Jeff's track record in securing high-value naming gifts will help us continue to build the momentum that is advancing Oregon State's research and teaching mission in ways that once seemed impossible."
As a volunteer leader of the National Committee on Planned Giving (now the Partnership for Philanthropic Planning), Comfort served as president and chair of the 10th National Conference on Planned Giving and was a member of the NCPG board of directors for five years. Additionally, he was a member of the ethics committee and chaired the task force on gift valuation.
Comfort is replacing Dan Peterson who recently, after more than four years of service, accepted a position as vice chancellor for Institutional Advancement at the University of Illinois. Comfort earned his bachelor's degree in non-profit development administration from Metropolitan State College of Denver.
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This weekend and throughout this fall and winter, hundreds of thousands of Texans will head outdoors as duck, deer, goose and quail seasons are in full swing from Stratford to San Antonio.
None of them has a constitutional right to do so. And they don't need one.
Nowhere in the U.S. Constitution does it articulate that you or I have a "right" to hunt any game animal nor does it say that fish and wildlife "belong" to us, but some states have taken it upon themselves to address the issue in their own constitutions. The overriding sentiment from legislation authors and those who have lobbied for the measures that already have or are attempting to sneak hunting and fishing protections into state constitutions is that the dwindling pursuits are under attack from interest groups and lawmakers with enough clout to somehow severely restrict or – gasp! – outlaw them.
Nothing could be farther from the truth.
There are states where the animal-rights credo has gained traction and is taken somewhat seriously by lawmakers, and where hunters have reason to worry, at least a little. However, I think most Texans certainly aren't shaking in their boots about whether their kids' kids will be allowed the same freedoms that fall squarely under "the pursuit of happiness" and have remained legal here and elsewhere as long as there has been game to pursue.
Generally, the hunting and fishing measures that manage to make it through the legislative process are aimed at expanding our opportunities – or at least making it easier to partake in what we've got – and most if not all are adopted only after those who enjoy outdoor pursuits either have sought the alterations or have been given plenty of occasion to let their remarks be known.
The Texas Parks & Wildlife Department already handles the duties of conducting scientific-based research to make wildlife management and conservation recommendations whenever there is a need to consider new approaches to laws, bag limits, seasons and more. If the data calls for any kind of modification to frameworks in place, the issue runs up the chain of command, not only to gauge the enforceability of revisions, but also to keep tabs on what independent outside stakeholders have to say about how changes would affect their interests.
Those are the guys and gals writing the big checks that help many of our politicians keep their offices. They bank on the status quo, and for the most part, what's good for them is good for you and me when it comes to our outdoor pursuits.
That will never change.
After all this, our wildlife management agency gathers public input from across the state – made easier since recommendations are accepted online – and then weighs the biological and future impacts of any changes. It then presents the issues to our state game commission, an independent nine-member panel appointed by the governor with Senate consent. There is even another public discourse period after all of this before the commission actually makes final regulation changes.
There are no knee-jerk reactions. There are no surprises.
The basis for Texas' wildlife laws and those of other states can trace their deep roots back to ancient Roman law, including the ideas that wild animals neither belong to nor are owned by anyone and that landowners have the right to exclude hunters or anglers from their private property. Roman leaders also had the power over harvests, essentially the ability to set seasons and bag limits, and once any game was harvested it was made clear that any bird, fish or animal then belonged to the person who captured, killed or caught it.
There's too much invested in hunting and fishing on a national level to worry that someday you and I will wake up and find these freedoms stripped away. Case in point: The last viable figures collected by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service in 2011 showed that hunting and fishing expenditures contributed almost $89 billion to our national economy, and you're still talking big bucks in this day and age that ultimately end up going back into conservation efforts and state wildlife agency budgets.
Similar protection debates in Texas ended up in the form of a House joint resolution back in 2001 that quickly died, probably because most legislators recognized that hunting and fishing pursuits simply need no further legal protections.
That's what I would like to think.
I also would like to think that the average voter and policymaker realizes the obvious: Adding hunting and fishing protections to constitutions doesn't change anything about the freedoms we currently enjoy, which no one seriously disputes. So why add clutter to an already bogged-down litany of amendments, which would open the door to a variety of lawsuits that ultimately could lead to changes?
Do you really think judges and lawyers have your best interest at heart?
Sounds risky. The kind we don't need to take.


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Experimental Pragmatics 2015 took place from July 16 to July 18, 2015, at the University of Chicago Gleacher Center in downtown Chicago, and was jointly hosted by Northwestern University and the University of Chicago. Thank you to everyone who made the conference a success: the presenters, the reviewers, and especially the sponsors!
Pdf versions of the posters and talks can be downloaded from the conference program pages.


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- 1 cup cream of chicken soup
- 1 cup plain Greek yogurt
- 32 oz package of frozen potatoes (ex: southern style hash browns), thawed
- 8 oz shredded cheddar cheese
- 1/4 cup bread crumbs
- 2 TBSP butter, melted
Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Grease a 9 x 13 baking dish.
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In the United States, a family may legally hire a U.S. citizen, an alien lawfully admitted for permanent residence, or an alien with a valid work permit. US employers are required to verify a candidate's employment eligibility using Form I-9. REPUTABLE agencies will not refer individuals to you for consideration who do not have valid work authorization. If you hire on your own or via an online job matching service, you are responsible to confirm that the candidate you wish to hire is legally eligible for work in the U.S.
November 24, 2014 Update: President Obama's recent executive order appears to make available temporary deferred action and authorization to work for undocumented immigrants who are parents of U.S. Citizens or Lawful Permanent Residents (LPRs) and have lived in the United States for five years or longer if they register, pass a background check and pay employment and income taxes.
The answer, unfortunately, is that it is almost impossible for a foreign nanny applicant residing abroad to obtain either an immigrant visa or a temporary work authorization in a timely manner. This process can take from many months to generally many years, longer than you or your children can wait.
Occasionally, a family locates a non-documented immigrant or foreign national without US work authorization and is willing to take the chance and hire them any way. Family's are encouraged to thoroughly evaluate this decision in advance. These individuals cannot obtain a US driver's license in many states. This is even more true in the wake of 9/11. Absent a valid driver's license, they can not legally drive your children or be added to your family automobile insurance. Additionally, most schools require government-issued proof of identity from adults before they will release a child to the adult, or even admit the adult to the school. These individuals often cannot legally authorize medical treatment for your children. This undocumented status can cause many headaches and some real dangers to the children.
In 2005 the US Department of Labor upgraded the category for live in domestic workers from unskilled to skilled workers. Under the US quota system, this places the foreign applicant in a position where visas may be available except for applicants from China, India and the Philippines. This DOES NOT apply to domestics already living and working in the US.
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I have always been a fan of coffee table books + decor. Growing up, my coffee table was full of National Geographic books and Smithsonian magazine. That was pretty cool and all, but I'm into clothes and jokes... not so much history or plants. Sigh, I know, I'm ridiculous. Since becoming an "adult" [term used loosely, there], I've thoroughly enjoyed diving into the world of decorating. What I love most about decorating the coffee table is that it can be arranged and rearranged as many times as you'd like. It is ever changing, much like my tastes and OCD habits. This is what is nesting on my coffee table these days.... all of my favorites.
While it is a nice showcasing of my style, it also is helpful if I have friends over. I'm often running inexplicably late and it is nice for them to have something to look at while I am doing who knows what. Are you a fan of using your coffee table for decor, or is yours strictly functional?


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Democrat Sen. Max Baucus on Obama's "Sequester Cuts": "The White House Recommended It, Frankly, Back in August 2011" – Video 2/20/13
Here's video of Democrat Sen. Max Baucus admitting that the planned "Sequester Cuts" Barack Obama is trying to demonize Republicans with are actually Obama's idea!
"The president's part of the sequester. The White House recommended it, frankly, back in August 2011. And so now we're feeling the effects of it."
Baucus joins CNN's Wolf Blitzer and Gloria Borger in telling the truth.


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Lack of large deal activity leads to sharp decline in overall deal value
Deal activity dropped significantly during first quarter 2009 in the global transportation and logistics (T&L) industry, according to a report released today by PricewaterhouseCoopers LLP: Intersections: First-quarter 2009 mergers and acquisitions analysis. During the first quarter, 18 deals were announced at a disclosed value of at least $50 million each, marking a serious slowdown from fourth quarter 2008, when 43 such deals were announced.'
Activity continued to increase among non-US parties during first quarter 2009. Foreign entities made up 94% of deal volume for T&L targets in the quarter, up from 71% in 2007 and 81% in 2008. Only one US entity announced a deal during first quarter 2009.
Average deal values declined significantly, from $513 million in 2008 to $159 million in the first quarter (for deals announced with a value of at least $50 million) because of the general absence of large deals. In place of large deals worth at least $1 billion were minority stake purchases, accounting for 39% of deals announced during first quarter 2009, up from 30% of the total deals announced in 2008.
'The continued slowdown of M&A activity for the transportation and logistics sector during the first quarter of 2009 presented interesting changes in behavior among deal participants,' said Kenneth H. Evans Jr., US transportation and logistics sector leader, PricewaterhouseCoopers. 'Most notable is the shift toward minority stake purchases, which can be attributed to tight credit and strategic buyers' aversion to risk. We expect these factors will lead to minority stake purchases continuing to make up a large percentage of deals announced during the rest of the year.'
Intersections reports that passenger air and logistics sectors saw the most deal activity in value during first quarter 2009, a change from past years when shipping took the lead. Passenger air accounted for 34% of M&A activity, compared with 17% in 2008 and 27% in 2007. Deal activity for logistics targets also increased over previous years, accounting for 32% of activity during first quarter 2009 compared with 13% in 2008 and 14% in 2007.
Strategic investors continued to account for the majority of deals for the T&L industry, as previously predicted by earlier editions of Intersections. Strategic investors accounted for more than 80% (15 deals) for first quarter 2009, up from approximately 60% of deals announced in 2007 and 2008. There was an overall absence of deals in the shipping sector by financial investors during the first quarter. In previous quarters, financial investors have shown more interest in shipping than other transportation modes.
The pace of deal activity, as measured by the number of deals announced for transportation and logistics targets, has declined significantly, with just 18 deals in first quarter 2009. Large deals (with a disclosed value of $1 billion or more) were nonexistent for the T&L sector during the first quarter. This marks a huge drop from the 22 large deals announced in 2008 and 17 in 2007. A focus on capital preservation by potential buyers contributed to the absence of large deal activity. The difficult financing environment witnessed in 2009 has caused the most well-capitalized strategic buyers to engage in smaller deals, including minority stakes, divested assets, and distressed targets. It is likely that this trend will continue, with a general lack of large deals being made in the T&L sector throughout 2009 and possibly beyond.
Regionally, T&L deals shifted tremendously during first quarter 2009, with acquirer and target parties focused heavily in the United Kingdom-Eurozone and Asia-Oceania regions. Deals in these regions were up to nearly 80%, in comparison with 55% in 2007. A decline in activity in South America was due to a reduction in deals for Brazilian targets, which had been a primary contributor to regional deals in past quarters. BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, and China) targets' deal activit


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Grace Awards Launch: Barbara Brink
Please welcome Barbara Brink, author of Entangled, to Roller Coaster Suspense. I hope you'll check out her blog post with information about this exciting novel. She can be found here.
One lost summer is time best left forgotten…
When Minneapolis attorney, Billie Fredrickson, inherits her uncle's small California winery, she has no intention of actually moving to the west coast and starting a new life. Her only thought is to get it off her hands as quickly as possible. But her return to the winery after an absence of twenty years opens up more than the reading of her uncle's will. Childhood memories, long-buried, begin to surface, prompting questions that no one is able or willing to answer.
A late night prowler, a break-in at the winery, and an unearthed box of shocking photographs is someone's way of pulling the welcome mat out from under Billie's feet, but it only makes her dig her heels in deeper.
Secrets lie buried beneath Fredrickson Winery's innocent façade and Billie intends to get to the root. But disturbing the past lays bare the skeletons of others, including her mother's. Can she live with the consequences of full disclosure or will she run home where everyone is Minnesota Nice.
Her books may be found here.
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Here's a list of all the other great book suggestions coming your way in this 'Grace Awards' book launch tour: (Or check out the post at the 'Grace Awards' for more details on each book)
Mon. July 29 – Suzanne D. Williams – THE LIFE AND TIMES OF LUCAS McGILLEY
Mon. Aug 5 – Barbara Brink, ENTANGLED
Mon, Aug 12 ~ Naomi Musch, PAINT ME ALTHENA
Mon, Aug 19 ~ Marcy Dyer, OUT FOR BLOOD
Mon, Aug 26 ~ Nike Chillemi, DARKEST HOUR
Mon, Sept 2 ~ DeEtteBeckstead, VICTORY
Mon, Sept 9 ~ JanalynVoight, DAWN SINGER
Mon, Sept 16 ~ Kenneth Winters, THE LOST CROWN OF COLONNADE
Mon, Sept 23 ~ BJ Robinson, LAST RESORT
Mon, Sept 30 ~ Laura J.Marshall , A HEART'S HOME
Mon. Oct 7 – Tammy Doherty, CELTIC KNOT


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Martin Caceres scored a magnificent brace to give Juventus the 2-1 away victory against Milan in the Coppa Italia semi-final first leg.
These two sides are battling for the Scudetto and also go head-to-head in the Coppa. Zlatan Ibrahimovic is suspended for three Serie A games, but that does not apply in other competitions, so he was able to start alongside Stephan El Shaarawy. Antonio Conte's Juve were still unbeaten and gave Caceres and Simone Padoin their first starts since joining in January, while Andrea Pirlo returned to San Siro as an opponent after 10 years.
El Shaarawy ran on to a long cross-field Daniele Bonera pass and flashed the shot across the face of goal. Marcelo Estigarribia had a couple of chances, but twice fired off target, the second time just wide of the far post after shaking off Philippe Mexes.
Emanuele Giaccherini's shot took a deflection off Mexes that looped it up, but Marco Amelia did well to fingertip it out from under the crossbar.
Alessandro Del Piero took advantage of a Mark Van Bommel error only to be forced out for a corner.
After the restart, Juventus confirmed their strong performance by taking the lead. Amelia was at full stretch to palm away a Borriello angled drive, but could do nothing on the Caceres follow-up in front of an open goal. As this is the Coppa Italia and a two-legged affair, it could well count as an away goal.
Milan fought back with Storari palming away a fierce Ibrahimovic free kick, but Clarence Seedorf's set piece was well off target. Del Piero smashed an angled drive across the face of goal to skim the far post, but Milan equalised moments later.
Massimo Ambrosini knocked down a Luca Ambrosini cross for El Shaarawy to side-foot home from six yards.
Del Piero dribbled into the box and hesitated, eventually stopped short by Mexes. Conte changed both strikers simultaneously, introducing Fabio Quagliarella and Mirko Vucinic.
Ibrahimovic had the ball in the back of the net, but the whistle had already gone for a handling offence as he controlled the deflected Van Bommel shot from the edge of the box. Ibra then pounced on an Andrea Barzagli error and fought his way past Leonardo Bonucci, but Giorgio Chiellini threw himself at the finish from close range.
Juve also threatened a second, as the Vucinic shot was only parried by an uncertain Amelia and Ambrosini dived in to prevent Quagliarella completing the chance. Vucinic also turned between a crowd of defenders, but couldn't get the final touch.
Caceres made a spectacular return to the Juventus jersey, as he completed his brace with a wonderful strike. The Uruguayan pounced on a poor clearance and curled a magnificent finish into the top corner that left Amelia rooted to the spot.
El Shaarawy's attempt was deflected off target by teammate Robinho and after the final whistle there was a scuffle between players.
Milan 1-2 Juventus
Scorers: Caceres 52, 83 (J), El Shaarawy 62 (M)
Milan: Amelia; Bonera, Mexes, Thiago Silva, Antonini; Emanuelson (Robinho 61), Van Bommel (Maxi Lopez 86), Ambrosini; Seedorf; Ibrahimovic, El Shaarawy
Juventus: Storari; Caceres, Bonucci, Barzagli; Chiellini, Giaccherini, Pirlo, Padoin (Marrone 69), Estigarribia; Del Piero (Quagliarella 67), Borriello (Vucinic 67)
Ref: Mazzoleni
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GIMENEZ, José Antonio. LA DIALÉCTICA PLATÓNICA COMO MODELO DE LA EXPERIENCIA HERMENÉUTICA EN LA FILOSOFÍA DE GADAMER. Rev. filos. [online]. 2010, vol.66, pp.63-77. ISSN 0718-4360. http://dx.doi.org/10.4067/S0718-43602010000100004.
Gadamer 's evolutionary and unitary interpretation of Plato s writings assumes a rather particular understanding of the 'question-and-answer form' (characteristic of Plato's dialogues). This work intends to show the radicalism of Gadamer's views about the Platonic dialectic, as well as the essential connection between that structure and the central phenomenon ofhermeneutics, i.e. the phenomenon of comprehending (Verste-hen). In this way, both elements are shown to depend on each other, as Hermeneutic philosophy recognizes itself through the realization of the Platonic dialogue.
Keywords : hermeneutics; understanding; experience; dialogue; question and answer form; self-awareness.


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Before I accept this offer, I want to make sure my long time loyal readers and my new ones too are cool with me doing that.
"Why would we not be cool with that?" I hear you ask. Well only because sometimes people think that once sites gets monetised or sponsors and start offering prizes they will change and not be the same site as they were before.
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UNESCO is also in the process of identifying seven new natural Wonders of the World. To that end, Halong Bay has been put on the nomination list. Halong Bay is situated in the Gulf of Tonkin. You may dimly recall that name; it was the location where the USS Maddox warship was supposedly the victim of an unprovoked attacked by the Vietnamese in the early 60's. In response the US Senate passed a resolution, cleverly entitled the Tonkin Resolution, which permitted the introduction of direct US military force into Vietnam. The vote in the House of Representatives was 417-1; the senate was 98-2, proving that there was a modicum of sanity in the government at the time. A very small modicum, but a modicum none the less. The entire story surrounding the attack, however,was fabricated to justify intervention. On top of that, US soldiers had been fighting illegally in Vietnam since 1960 or so. They were assigned to bases in Korea, but were given false ID tags and bivouacked in Laos and Cambodia, participating regularly on missions into 'Nam. This was not propaganda fed to us by one of the museums in Hanoi. A few months earlier some golf buddies and I were in Orlando and had a few minutes of a backlog to get to the first tee. The starter , a Vietnam vet,was a retiree in his 70's. During the wait, it was he, as one of those first illegally posted US Army Rangers, who recounted the story to us.
I digress. Halong Bay is a magnificent archipelago consisting of 2,000 limestone peaks protruding from the Gulf.
They are situated quite close to Haiphong Harbour, another famous waterway mined by the US during the war. I digress. The water is a shimmering shade of greenish-blue. Well, I would imagine it to shimmer should it ever have the opportunity to reflect the sunlight. It doesn't shimmer cloud cover and mist so well, and that is what we were exposed to for the 24 hours or so that we were there. Weather aside (and it was cold too), the setting is idyllic. Lori and I found ourselves on a two level junk
sharing living quarters with three other families and two other couples. All told we were 16 together, almost all Australians, and we again had a delightful guide on board with us. The cabin was more than adequate, the food delicious and there was a bar open all day. What could be bad?
The boat cruised between the various Pinnacles; the crew was Top Flight, never more than a Call Away. For exercise, we docked at a small islet known as Titov Island, named in 1962 when Marshall Titov of the USSR accompanied Ho Chi Minh on a tour of the region. The renaming was supposedly an act of friendship, but I interpret as either a giant suck up to the Russkies by Ho or a calculated swipe at the Americans. Likely both. There is also a sandy beach at the base of the mountain. Usually people opt to swim rather than climb, but climatic conditions dictated unanimous upward adventure. 461 steps later we arrived at the summit. There were a few trinket sellers on the way up, offering the usual supply of carvings, cigarettes, fans, key chains and the like. I'm ready to open up my own stand but I'd be selling oxygen and insurance policies.
The view from the top was spectacular, offering a panoramic vista of junks and a sprinkling of islands of all differing sizes. It was splendid. I suggest you go on line to check it out. My wife's talents, as great as they are with her Nikon, was not able to capture the full glory that I'm sure is issued forth courtesy of a sunny sky. I would suggest a visit to Halong Bay, actually, but check the weather conditions prior to booking. If you're not that adventurous, at least go to the UNESCO site and ring in a vote for the Bay, even if it is only based on our say so.
Once back on board, we set off in a different direction. The afternoon session was divided in two options. One could either visit a floating village
or kayak into a Bat Cave. All but 3 opted for the village people. I chose to Go West. My reasoning was solid – better exercise, no chance of being harassed to buy more souvenirs, and I was hoping to finally meet Bruce Wayne and Robin. The kayaks were 2 seaters.
On the first one sat Joey and his father Graham. They represented 40% of a delightful Ozzie family that we became friendly with quite quickly. One of their daughters was celebrating her 17th birthday that day and her mother, Amanda, was tall, beautiful with an engaging smile and a twinkle in her eye. The whole family was a delight to watch interact. The other Ozzie family was a husband and wife with 2 kids, also delightful. The only problem, Lori and I realized, reviewing the events of the day as we got into bed, was that we were a good decade older than the parents of the families. We felt totally connected to them and their offspring as well, but the reality of the situation drove itself home unmistakably. It's tickin' and it's tickin' LOUD.
I kayaked with the guide for about a kilometer until we reached the cave. The cave was actually an opening through one of the peaks.
It led into a small lagoon that was surrounded by mountains and was alarmingly still and silent. When we stopped and raised paddles, the silence was palpable and engulfing. There were sea urchins and coral in the shallows and I also spotted a red starfish. It looked strikingly in line with all other political symbols we've seen since we've arrived in this country and my hat goes off to the breeders who have managed to extend the party vision to sub-marine life forms. There was nary a bat to be seen going through the cave, although mercifully, one had the good manners to fly in and cling to some dark surface as we returned back through the cavern heading to the ship.
Lori and the rest had a chance to be exposed to the village, which may house the largest known floating crap game in existence. There was a school, a market, a family structure and all of the other accouterments normally associated with building a village on terra firma. Basements excepted, of course.
Evening consisted of another meal, another demonstration of decorating food and some general small talk that is the focus of so many a pleasant holiday. I had the chance for some one on one time with the guide as we sat on the deck discussing life and again I feel lucky to hear of ambition and desire to move ahead. Quon became a tour guide after leaving a job at the nearby casino where he had started off as a dealer and graduated to pit boss. The Chinese owners raked millions out of the establishment but seriously underpaid their local staff. Quon was also a trainer of new dealers. When they arrived from the Philippines or Thailand or Laos looking for work, Quon taught them their jobs. Within a few months, they were earning 10 times the pay of the Vietnamese. It was demoralizing working in that environment so Quon chucked the job and began a career on the tour boats. He was not making much more money but had more time off to spend with his wife and baby son. Again, I was witnessing the seismic generational shift. Twenty years ago opting for family time over work was unheard of. This is the start of a value shift which is only one element leading to a social change the likes of which Ho could never imagine in his wildest dreams. Another manifestation of the change in generational values is seen in the clothing worn by the post-starvation generation. Today it's all about style. Whereas a dozen years ago, a child received a shirt, or if very fortunate, a pair of pants as a gift to usher in the Tet New Year. The garment was the only gift of the year and was expected to last well beyond the upcoming 12 month period. Now the 50 and below generation prefers a cheaply made flash garment, disposable at the end of the current fashion season. Where as once an article of clothing was valued for durability, today's vestments have the lifespan reflecting the sartorial equivalent of a fruit fly. One season and out.
Our last Halong Bay activity was a geological eye opener. A cave had been discovered a decade ago by a couple of French women who were touring the region. A quick boat ride, up a hundred steps and we were staring into a yawning crevasse that yielded natural wonders at every juncture. A subterranean cathedral, built by millions of years of water dripping through limestone; each drop containing a microscopic deposit of residue which resulted in hundreds of stalagmites and stalactites spread out over acres of underground plains. They soared twenty or more meters in height. Mostly in earth tones of yellow, brown and ochre, the cleverly arranged lighting produced hues of red, green, yellow and other tones that added to the magic of the environment.
I had never been inside a real cave and the firsthand viewing of petrified giant icicles was a true add-on to my life experience.
I had never been inside a real cave and the firsthand viewing of petrified giant icicles was a true add-on to my life experience.
As we headed back to Hanoi for our final evening, I casually mentioned to Duoc that I had seen this magnificent piece of antique pottery that had been dredged up from the bed of the South China Sea. It was part of a private collection in Hoi An. Duoc, showing off his knowledge of the local area, suggested that the piece originated from this little town called Bat Trang, situated just outside of Hanoi. He explained that families had been there for generations and supplied emperors with finely crafted ceramics for over a millennium. Getting there would not be a problem, I was assured and since the afternoon was wide open, I said what the heck, or whatever the Vietnamese equivalent of that is.
We arrive in Bat Trang, a sleepy little town with numerous emporiums. By this time I was becoming fixated with antique Vietnamese pottery. I breezed through the customary row upon row of ceramics hankering for a look at the good stuff. The tea pots, intricately decorated plates, and planters were lined up nose to tail on the shelves. Each one was perfect and identical to the other. The display called to mind numerous visits to Davis Air Force Base in Tucson, Arizona, where hundreds if not thousands of military planes are positioned so precisely that a row of 50 planes looks like one plane if you are standing dead center in front of the first aircraft. I was going to mention the likeness to Duoc but remembering what Charlie had done to the US airbases in 'Nam a few decades back, I felt that the US has enough of their own problems without a bunch of guys in black PJs sneaking onto the base and destroying more jets, just for old time's sake.
It turns out that these cranked out tea sets and plates are actually tossed on the wheel, trimmed, glazed and painted one at a time and each by hand. What seemed like an indictment of modern assembly line automation was actually a celebration of individual talent, skill, perseverance and a steady hand and good eyesight.
Eventually, Duoc got me into the inner sanctum. The owner showed us the locked cabinet which contained pieces that traced their origin back from 200 to 800 years. As is often unfortunately the situation, one piece called out to me. I heard my name clearly spoken with an ancient Vietnamese accent. Two jars and a tea cup and saucer later,
the owner, her husband, the store manager and I are hard at work negotiating the best price. After an hour of haggling, I explained that my infatuation began with a viewing of relics in Hoi An. I went on and on about this shell encrusted one of a kind magnificent vase that I saw there. Apparently, the grandfather of the store owner, unsurprisingly, was a bit of a collector himself. The girls excused themselves and within 15 minutes had brought samples of Grandaddy's loot to the store.
Included in the collection was the brother of the piece that we had seen the previous week in Hoi An. The only difference was where the crustaceans had chosen to affix themselves. So much for one of a kind. Maybe coincidence, maybe they were given away in cereal boxes (puffed rice?) way back when, but it didn't matter. Seeing these pieces rekindled the same sense in me and I was grateful to relive the moment. While Grandpa's collection was not for sale at any price, within 20 minutes, I was offered the famous jar for a measly $5,000. If I were made out of money, I'd have bought it, but having seen 2 such pieces within a week, I felt that my next visit to any of the myriad antique shops on Notre Dame Street back home would likely turn up a couple of dozen of them to choose from.
the owner, her husband, the store manager and I are hard at work negotiating the best price. After an hour of haggling, I explained that my infatuation began with a viewing of relics in Hoi An. I went on and on about this shell encrusted one of a kind magnificent vase that I saw there. Apparently, the grandfather of the store owner, unsurprisingly, was a bit of a collector himself. The girls excused themselves and within 15 minutes had brought samples of Grandaddy's loot to the store.
Included in the collection was the brother of the piece that we had seen the previous week in Hoi An. The only difference was where the crustaceans had chosen to affix themselves. So much for one of a kind. Maybe coincidence, maybe they were given away in cereal boxes (puffed rice?) way back when, but it didn't matter. Seeing these pieces rekindled the same sense in me and I was grateful to relive the moment. While Grandpa's collection was not for sale at any price, within 20 minutes, I was offered the famous jar for a measly $5,000. If I were made out of money, I'd have bought it, but having seen 2 such pieces within a week, I felt that my next visit to any of the myriad antique shops on Notre Dame Street back home would likely turn up a couple of dozen of them to choose from.
In the mean time, the final chapter on the antiques is not yet written. I've paid for them plus $103 for air shipping. They were to be here in a week and that was last week. I hope to have a better souvenir of our side trip to Bat Trang than being ripped off by a lovely family who may have been in the tourist fleecing business since Marco Polo showed up.


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'Britain's Atlantis' Found at Bottom of North Sea – A Huge Undersea World Swallowed by the Sea in 6500Bc
27th February 2013
'Britain's Atlantis' – a hidden underwater world swallowed by the North Sea – has been discovered by divers working with science teams from the University of St Andrews.
Doggerland, a huge area of dry land that stretched from Scotland to Denmark was slowly submerged by water between 18,000 BC and 5,500 BC.
Cue hordes of Global Warming lemming running around and screaming about how we're all gonna die when the sea levels rise.


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