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Personal data is processed in accordance with the provisions of the Regulation (EU) 2016/679 of the European Parliament and the Council of 27 April 2016 on the protection of natural persons with regard to the processing of personal data and on the free movement of such data, and repealing Directive 95/46/EC (herein: GDPR).
At the time of collecting your personal data we will inform you of the legal grounds for its processing, of whether you are obliged to pass your personal data and of the possible consequences if you refuse to consent. We can process your data based on your consent, in order to perform the contract but also with regard to our legitimate interest. If we collect your personal data based on your consent, it is always fully voluntary, however, the lack of such consent disables such options as registering at our webpage.
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We collect and process the following data (required to register the User and set up an Account): e-mail address, password, first name and surname, country of origin, the name of the company, Tax Identification Number and phone number.
We collect, process and use the personal data you submit to us voluntarily – and only when you agree to it.
The information you submit is processed particularly for the purpose of supplying our service properly. At the point of data collection you will always be informed of the grounds and purpose for which we collect your data.
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We only use the information you have provided in the way which is specified in this document, taking into account the type consent you have given. Before this information is used differently than specified in this document, we will inform you of the way and purpose for which it is to be used and in each case we will request your separate consent.
The User's personal date is primarily used for the purpose of the proper maintenance of this webpage and the provision of service by electronic means, in particular:
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Your personal data may be used for sending commercial information directly from the Service Provider and for sending the newsletter containing information on this service, new items and other information on the subject of this site – but only if you had expressed your consent during Registration.
We use Cookies in order to adapt the Service to your needs. You may refuse to give your consent to store the data you have entered and which you could use the next time you visit this website. Other website owners will not have access to data specified in this section. If you do not consent to personalise this website, you may disable Cookies by changing your browser settings. Details on Cookies are specified in our Cookies Policy, available here.
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Slow-roasted meats are hand-glazed and cooked on site in Brentwood throughout the day. UK sourced potatoes are scrubbed, chopped, ruffled and roasted to perfection, so we know that every bite will taste just right. Wonderful wonky Yorkies are cooked from scratch and crisped to perfection to tower above your plate. Seasonal fresh vegetables are prepared and cooked by our chefs for the best field to fork taste!
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Perfect before your roast or on the side.
Juicy prawns, crisp cos lettuce and seafood sauce, served with wholemeal bread.
Ask your server for today's soup flavour choice, served with ciabatta bread. Vegetarian option available (v).
Succulent sausages wrapped in tasty bacon.
Perfect to nibble on or as an accompaniment to the main event.
Two for 4.99.
With or without cheese.
Mushrooms in a cheesy sauce topped with Cheddar, served with garlic bread.
Topped with chopped bacon, melted mature Cheddar, yorkie pieces and drizzled with our famous gravy.
Topped with crispy onions and BBQ sauce.
Cherry tomatoes in a balsamic glaze topped with goats cheese, and served in puff pastry.
Topped with crispy onions and poppin' chicken.
Our carvery selection changes throughout the seasons. You can always enjoy a minimum of 3 premium roasted meats, then help yourself to freshly steamed & roasted vegetables, Yorkshire puddings, ruffled roasties and all the trimmings. Feel free to go back for more vegetables, it's unlimited!
As each and every carvery plate is different, calories information can be found at the carvery.
Succulent sausages wrapped in tasty bacon.
*Sunday pricing will apply throughout our Easter Celebration weekend and on Bank Holidays.
With all our vegetarian and fish dishes you can help yourself to vegetables from the carvery deck. For vegan dishes, simply ask your server for freshly steamed vegetables and vegan gravy.
Crisp cos lettuce, and cherry tomatoes, with ribbons of cucumber and carrot, served with reduced fat dressing.
Vegetable roast with a melt in the middle camembert centre.
Mushrooms and broccoli florets finished in a creamy sauce with melted brie, fully encased in puff pastry.
Crisp puff pastry with onion, wilted spinach and mushrooms.
Salmon & prawn en croute served with a rich creamy thermidor sauce.
*Sunday pricing will apply on Bank Holidays and selected special dates.
Gooey, delicious hot or cold. Served with your choice of freshly whipped cream, dairy ice cream or custard.
New York-style baked vanilla cheesecake. Served with freshly whipped cream.
Classic creamy rice pudding, topped with strawberry jam.
American style pancakes served with Cadbury® Flake, chocolate sauce, crispy chocolate pieces, dairy ice cream and freshly whipped cream.
Home-baked sticky toffee pudding drizzled with toffee sauce, served warm with custard.
Delicious hot or cold. Served with your choice of freshly whipped cream, dairy ice cream, or custard.
A warm, home-baked chocolate and cookie dough brownie, served with freshly whipped cream, strawberries, salted caramel sauce and a sprinkle of honeycomb.
Home Baked Seasonal fruits topped with a demerara crumble.
Served with your choice of freshly whipped cream, dairy ice cream or custard. Ask your server for today's flavour.
Home Baked Seasonal fruits topped with a demerara crumble.
Served with your choice of freshly whipped cream, dairy ice cream or custard. Ask your server for today's flavour.
Ask your server for the seasonal choice and calorie information. Served with your choice of freshly whipped cream, dairy ice cream or custard
Chocolate chip cookie dough chunks mixed in with dairy ice cream, drizzled with toffee and Belgian chocolate sauces, finished with a wafer.
Dairy ice cream and crunchy honeycomb pieces drizzled with toffee and Belgian chocolate sauces, topped with a Cadbury® Flake and a wafer.
Creamy dairy ice cream topped with a Cadbury Flake and your choice of Strawberry, Belgian chocolate, toffee or Sicilian-style lemon sauce.
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Our Satin Chiffon won the Second HighTex Award from Munich Fabric Start 2018. It is awarded because of it is softness, as well as its high-quality hand, feel, very similar to Silk Chiffon, but with added environmental touch as it is made with 100% Certified Recycled Polyester.
It is an ideal material to make dresses, bridal gowns, blouses, flowy pants, high-end long dresses, etc.
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What is a Tyre Rotation?
Tyre rotations are an often-forgotten component of tyre maintenance, and should be considered just as important as a wheel alignment.
A tyre rotation is the practice of moving your tyres from one position on your vehicle to another. This is done to help ensure that all of your tyres wear evenly and last as long as possible.
It is generally recommended to rotate your tyres every 8,000 to 10,000 kilometres, or every six months, whichever comes first.
A routine of tyre pressure checks, wheel alignments and tyre rotations is the best way to get the longest possible range from a set of tyres, regardless of what you drive.
Why are Rotations so Important?
Tyre rotations are important for a few reasons:
Even tyre wear: Tyre rotations help to ensure that all of your tyres wear evenly, which extends their lifespan. Many vehicles wear their front and rear tyres at different rates, with the front tyres typically wearing out faster thanks to the added weight of the engine and the additional duties they perform from braking and steering.
Improved performance: Uneven tyre wear can lead to reduced traction and handling, and increased road noise and vibrations. By rotating your tyres, you can distribute this wear evenly, which can help to improve the performance of your vehicle.
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How Does a Tyre Rotation Work?
A tyre rotation service involves removing the tyres from a vehicle and reinstalling them in a different position. Depending on your vehicle, a tyre might be rotated to a different position based on a pre-set pattern or based on your tyre wear patterns.
Vehicles that are front wheel drive or rear wheel drive often have different tyre rotation requirements to vehicles that are rear wheel drive.
Often, the rear tyres will be moved to the front of the vehicle, while the front tyres will be placed on the diagonally opposite corner of the car. This helps to counteract any extra wear from steering or cornering.
Some sports vehicles have different sized tyres front and rear, which means that a tyre rotation can only be performed side-to-side, as the difference between the front and rear tyres makes them unsuitable for swapping.
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It is absolutely not recommended to rotate directional tyres the same way as regular asymmetric tyres, as doing so can compromise their performance.
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Google Street View continues to add new sites to their already impressive list of historical locations you can explore online. Now that they use tricycles as well as cars to travel the world photographing what they see, they can follow paths that cars cannot, like for instance the inside of the Colosseum.
As of yesterday, Google Maps offers tricycle-captured Street Views of some of the most historically significant sites in Italy and France, with the promise of more to come. The Official Google Blog reports:
In few clicks you can navigate through centuries of history. Start at the birthplace of Rome, the Palatine Hill, where the mythical founders of the city, Romulus and Remus were found and saved by a she-wolf, and where the most ancient buildings of the city are located. Follow the Appian Way, a little path that became one of the most strategically important roads of ancient Rome. After the long walk, experience the splendor of Imperial Rome at the Thermae (Baths) of Diocletian—ancient wellness and cultural centers with 33 acres of pools, gymnasiums and public libraries.
After wandering around Rome, you can fast forward in time to witness the celebrated architectural wonders of the Italian Renaissance, including Giotto's Campanile (bell tower) and Brunelleschi's Cupola (dome) in Santa Maria del Fiore in Florence. While in Florence don't miss the opportunity to walk through Ponte Vecchio and shop at the famous artisan jewel stores built on top of it!
I checked (of course), and the pictures of the shop windows aren't high res enough to drool over the details of the jewelry on the Ponte Vecchio. It's still a fantastic stroll, as is the walk around the Piazza di San Giovanni, the square where you can see the Duomo of Florence in front of you, then turn around and see the Baptistry of San Giovanni behind you with the copies of its three sets of intricately carved bronze doors, the south doors by Andrea Pisano, the north and east doors by Lorenzo Ghiberti. The east doors are the famous "Gates of Paradise," so dubbed by none other than Michelangelo. (The ones you see in place now are reproductions. The originals were removed for preservation purposes in 1990 and are now in the Museo dell'Opera del Duomo.)
In France, you can visit the Palace of Fontainebleau, one of the largest and most beautiful of France's royal châteaux.
Also, if it's been a while since you checked Street View's gallery of UNESCO sites, they've added seven new ones all from Japan, including the Tenryuji temple and Himeji-jo castle.
I leave you with a stroll down the Via Appia Antica, which you will doubtless recognize from about a thousand movies if you haven't seen it in person yet, and which is one of the most unreservedly magical picnic spots in the universe.


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There is often confusion about the role of the Old Testament Law and how it relates to Christians today. Some say the Levitical laws were just for the Jewish people, while others say they apply to everyone who would worship God. Some think they teach a different way of salvation than the New Testament, and some even think they represent a different God than the loving, merciful one revealed in the New Testament. What is the Levitical Law, and what was its purpose?
First, let's clarify some terms. The Levites were the descendants of Levi, one of Jacob's twelve sons. Moses was of the tribe of Levi, and when God delivered the Law to him on Mount Sinai, He marked the Levites as the tribe responsible for the primary religious duties in the nation. They were made priests, singers, and caretakers in the worship of God. In calling it the Levitical Law, we acknowledge that God revealed the Law through Moses, a Levite, and that God appointed the Levites as the religious leaders of Israel. The same Law is sometimes called "Mosaic" because it was given through Moses, and it is also referred to as the "Old Covenant," because it is part of God's promise to Abraham and his descendants.
To discover God's purpose in the Law, we must first look at its inception, and the things God said to Moses about it. When Moses and the people arrived at Mount Sinai, God said, "Now if you obey me fully and keep my covenant, then out of all nations you will be my treasured possession. Although the whole earth is mine, you will be for me a kingdom of priests and a holy nation" (Exodus 19:5–6). The first mention of the Law to the nation was as a covenant—a legal agreement between God and the people He chose. The Israelites were required to obey it fully if they were to receive its benefits.
God began His introduction to the Law with the Ten Commandments, but the entire Law encompasses 613 commandments, as detailed in the rest of the books of Moses. Jesus summarized the Law as having two emphases: love for God and love for neighbors (Matthew 22:37–39). These emphases can be easily seen in the Ten Commandments: the first four commands focus on our relation to God, and the remainder focus on interpersonal relations. If we think that is the whole purpose of the Law, though, we miss an important element. Many of the individual commands give detailed instruction on how God was to be worshiped and how the people were to live their lives. As we will see, it is in those fine details that love was either shown or withheld.
For hundreds of years, the Israelites lived under the Levitical Law, sometimes obeying it but more often failing to follow God's commands. Much of Old Testament history deals with the punishments Israel received for their disobedience. When Jesus Christ came, He said that He did not "come to abolish the Law or the Prophets . . . but to fulfill them" (Matthew 5:17). In the Sermon on the Mount, Jesus took the Law to a higher level, applying it to the thoughts and intents of the heart. This perspective significantly diminishes our ability to keep the Law.
The apostle Paul gives us insight into God's purpose for the Law in his letter to the Galatians. In Galatians 3:10 he says, "All who rely on observing the law are under a curse, for it is written: 'Cursed is everyone who does not continue to do everything written in the Book of the Law.'" The fine details show up again—if we don't keep every command perfectly, we are condemned (see James 2:10). In Galatians 3:19, Paul asks, "What, then, was the purpose of the law? It was added because of transgressions until the Seed to whom the promise referred had come." What does that mean? Verse 24 clarifies: "The law was put in charge to lead us to Christ that we might be justified by faith." The Law pointed out our sinfulness, proved our inability to keep our end of the covenant, made us prisoners in our guilt, and showed our need of a Savior. The purpose of the Law is also revealed in Romans 3:19–20 as producing a consciousness of sin and holding the world "accountable to God." Paul even goes so far as to say he would not have known what sin was except by the Law (Romans 7:7).
The Levitical Law did its job well, pointing out the sinfulness of mankind and condemning us for it. But, as powerful as it was in that regard, it was powerless in another way. Hebrews 7:18–19 tells us that the old Law was set aside "because it was weak and useless (for the law made nothing perfect)." The Law had no way of changing our sinful nature. We needed something better to accomplish that. In fact, Hebrews goes on to say that the Law was "only a shadow of the good things that are coming—not the realities themselves. For this reason it can never . . . make perfect those who draw near to worship" (Hebrews 10:1).
God's desire has always been to have fellowship with mankind, but our sin prevented that. He gave the Law to set a standard of holiness—and, at the same time, to show that we could never meet that standard on our own. That's why Jesus Christ had to come—to fulfill all the righteous requirements of the Law on our behalf, and then to take the punishment of our violating that same Law. Paul wrote in Galatians 2:16 that we are not justified "by observing the law, but by faith in Jesus Christ." When we receive God's forgiveness through our confession of faith in Jesus' sacrificial death, the Law is fulfilled for us, and "there is no longer any sacrifice for sin" (Hebrews 10:18). The Law's condemnation does not fall on us, because "the law of the Spirit of life set me free from the law of sin and death" (Romans 8:2).


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We are excited to announce that the Windows Azure Service Bus is now part of the new Windows Azure portal. In addition to existing features that enable you to manage Service Bus entities, we are introducing new portal features with the October 2012 release of the Service Bus.
The new features include:
- Usage visualization of Service Bus queues topics and subscriptions,
- Entity status updates, and,
- Dashboards for monitoring queues and topics.
We revisited the overall portal experience and optimized it around the most common scenarios, enabling faster access to entity data and management operations.
Getting Started
Let's start with the most common scenarios. We optimized the portal's experience around scenarios that any new Service Bus user would go through; and creating new namespaces and entities is one of them.
Quick Create
The Quick Create experience is designed to help you create a new entity (queue, topic, or relay) in one easy step, even if you don't have a pre-created service namespace. You provide a name for the entity (e.g. name of the queue), select the region and the Windows Azure subscription (in the case of multiple subscriptions) to be used, and the namespace under which this entity is created. If you don't have an existing namespace, you are asked to provide a name for one. If you have a single pre-existing namespace, the entity is created under it. In the case of multiple namespaces, you can select one of them.
Your entity is ready to use once you get the "success" message at the bottom of the page. Your entity is created with the default parameters, such as the message's time-to-live (TTL) value, as specified in the Service Bus official documentation.
Generally, Quick Create allows you to create top level entities: queues, topics, and relays. An important point to note: the relays Quick Create does not create an actual relay endpoint. It creates a service namespace for you as a container of this relay endpoint. You must still create relays programmatically using our APIs. You can read more about that here.
Custom Create
Custom Create is the more detailed version that gives you knobs to change the default values of the properties of the entity (queue or topic) being created. You can still select a pre-created namespace or create a new one using the custom create scenario. We don't yet support updating the properties of messaging entities. So, once you create a queue or topic, you cannot change any of its properties. You can still change its status, which will be explained below.
Updating Entity Status
A new feature being introduced in the Windows Azure Service Bus is the ability to change the status of a messaging entity (queue, topic, or subscription) that enables the entity to send or receive messages. Now you can suspend a queue, topic, or a subscription. A sender cannot send messages to a suspended entity. Also, other applications and devices cannot receive messages from this entity. The new Windows Azure portal allows you to change the state of an entity to either Resume or Suspended.
Queue and Topic Dashboards
With the new portal, you get a comprehensive and timely view of the status your queues and topics. You can also monitor their usage. This is a major new feature we have introduced in the new Windows Azure portal. You can now see activities on queues, topics, subscriptions, or relays that you've created. You can view this information over multiple time windows: the last hour, the last 24 hours, 7 days, or the last 30 days. You can see data with a precision as low as 5-minute measurement points for the one hour window, 1 hour for the 24-hour window, and 1 day for the 7 and 30-day windows. For any queue, you can see charts of:
– Incoming Messages: number of messages queued during this time interval.
– Outgoing Messages: number of messages de-queued during this time interval.
– Length: number of messages in the entity at the end of this time interval.
– Size: storage space (in MB) being used by this entity at the end of this time interval.
Under "quick glance" on the dashboard, we reflect the current size of the queue as Queue Length amongst other pieces of information. This information is refreshed every 10 seconds. Another very useful piece of information is the View Connection String link. It provides the connection string to that entity's namespace, which you can then use in your code to create a queue or topic client.
A topic dashboard is fairly identical, except for the usage metrics. Outgoing messages and length are not present in the topic dashboard, as that information would be different for each of the subscriptions for a topic. The Monitor tab enables you to add usage metrics (number of outgoing messages and length), per topic subscription. To add these metrics, click on add metrics at the bottom of the page, and then choose from the subscriptions under the topic.
What's Next
Going forward, we will be enriching our story for better management, monitoring and diagnostics of Service Bus entities by adding more features. New features will include a namespace dashboard for aggregated views, a dashboard for subscriptions on every topic, additional metrics, the ability to update entity properties, and more. We are definitely interested in hearing from you what more should be done — so please leave comments with suggestions!
What About the Current Silverlight-based Portal?
The current portal will continue to work side-by-side with the new portal. It is now in maintenance mode, so we won't be adding any new features. However, any changes you make to your Service Bus entities will be reflected in both places.
Let us know what you think of our new portal. We will be more than glad to get your feedback for missing features and/or possible improvements.


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Oraspa™ is dedicated to eliminating the fear of dentistry. Dental anxiety, apprehension, phobias and fear of dental pain – are keeping dentistry from reaching its full potential. You have an opportunity to be a part of that change right now.
Oraspa™ embraces the 'softer side of dentistry'. At Oraspa™, we combine the science of holistic therapy with dentistry. This "whole-istic" philosophy focuses on the oral-systemic link while providing relaxation in the dental office.
At Oraspa™, we provide safe dental educational training along with natural holistic products.
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The power to increase productivity and protection with advanced, real-time content filtering controls for small and medium businesses.
Avast Business Content Filtering is a flexible and highly effective way to help boost productivity and increase security by controlling your employees' Internet usage. Be notified when a device visits sensitive websites with instant alerts via email. Set flexible policies for employees in the office, at home, or on the road while regulating access to specific sites.


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The DEA(e) is the upstream oil and gas association dedicated to the advancement of drilling engineering technology.
The primary objective of the DEA(e) is to enable drilling performance improvement by increasing awareness and uptake of drilling technology through networking and the sharing of knowledge and experience. Originally set up as an operations/research forum, the DEA(e) also continues to stimulate joint industry project (JIP) initiation and development at its meetings.
The DEA(e) meets four times a year to discuss a specific topic chosen by the members. The quarterly meetings are held at different locations (always in Europe) and hosted by different DEA(e) members, usually on the first Thursday and Friday of the quarter.


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So I have an old blade grinder, which seems to work well enough for me, except in one respect: The coffee grinds fall out of the bottom of the grinder. Now this is a cheapo grinder that I got as a gift, and I've never had another grinder. So I don't want to go buy another if they all do this. But on the other hand, if this just a function of a piece of cr*p grinder, I'd like to have a new one.
To clarify: I'm not talking about a static explosion of grind upon opening the cover after grinding. I'm talking about some of the grinds simply ending up on the counter while I'm grinding.
So, I have opened the bottom in the past, and when I did, the most enormous amount of old yucky coffee grinds spilled out. So I cleaned it out, and put it back together, and when I did, the problem continued to happen. So I, like any good ol' cheapskate would do, sealed the bottom with duct tape. This solved the problem until I realized that the design of the thing is to let moisture out the bottom of the machine, and that's the same path that the grind were coming out. So all my coffee grinds were ending up moist and sticky.
So in short, I should've bought a new one long ago, and to you future cheapskates reading this, do not even ACCEPT a "white-westinghouse" grinder as a freebie.


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Victoria and Michael Eden set up their first pottery at Multum-in-Parvo, Kendal, Cumbria in 1981 - the year they were married. Vicky was previously potter in residence at Wolf House Gallery, Silverdale. In 1987 they moved to their present premises at Hale near Milnthorpe in Cumbria.
They make slip decorated earthenware - both electric and wood fired. The decoration is innovative but not overstated and some of the forms are quite original. Their domestic ranges are usually electric fired and the larger one-off pieces are fired in the single-chamber down-draft wood kiln that Michael built.
Michael and Victoria run courses in ceramics and are kept busy with workshops and demonstrations. They have given demonstrations from Scotland to Budapest and their work is exhibited and retailed world-wide.
They are the co-authors of a book; Slipware: Contemporary Approaches - an essential reference. You can visit their web site at www.edenceramics.co.uk.
Further Reading: | Slipware by Victoria and Michael Eden |


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The IDMH is comprised of four centers that together represent a vital community for research, care and education in diabetes and related diseases.
The Center for Clinical Diabetes Care in the Perlman Medical Offices is comprised of pediatric and adult endocrine activities in diabetes treatment and education. Activities of clinicians, nurses, nutritionists and diabetes educators are coordinated, as is consultation with physicians caring for diabetes complications such as renal, cardiovascular, neurological, dermatological and eye disease.
The Center for Human Nutrition is comprised of active clinical researchers focused on clinical aspects of nutritional and dietary impact on energy homeostasis and healthy aging, as well as prevention or intervention in Type 1 and 2 diabetes and obesity. Activities include clinical trials of investigational drugs and devices, impact of diet and nutrients on metabolic health, and mechanistic studies on metabolism and energy balance.
The Type 1 Diabetes Research Center (T1DRC) is comprised of researchers across UC San Diego and related La Jolla institutions concentrated on the cure and prevention of Type 1 diabetes research. The focus includes stem cell biology, beta cell biology, immunology and genetics.
The Center for Integrative and Molecular Metabolism (CIMM) focuses on Type 2 diabetes and obesity. It is comprised of investigators across La Jolla who study hormone secretion and action, central nervous system control of feeding behavior and metabolism, the intestinal microbiome, mitochondrial metabolism, circadian biology, genetics and genomics.
The centers collaborate to recruit new faculty and trainees, enlist investigators from other areas to work on metabolic disease, organize symposia and workshops and other networking initiatives for faculty and trainees, enhance interactions and spur collaboration, and support economic development for the La Jolla region.


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The History of Arthur Murray
As America's second oldest franchise organization, Arthur Murray International, Inc. is known around the world as a prominent entertainment company with franchises located throughout the United States, Canada, Puerto Rico, Europe, the Middle East, Japan, Africa and Australia. With the beginning of a new millennium, social dancing is again a significant part of popular culture for all generations. Today, the Arthur Murray Franchised Dance Studios continue a tradition of more than 100 years in teaching the world to dance.
The history of the Arthur Murray Franchised Dance Studios began in 1912 with a man named Arthur Murray, an American symbol of entrepreneurial success and social dancing. Murray was among the first to use advertising techniques considered cutting edge at the time. His concept of selling dance lessons by mail, one step at a time, took the use of direct mail to a new level.
Murray's creative use of print advertising attracted national attention, as did his business acumen. In March of 1920, using students from Georgia Tech, Murray arranged to have music transmitted to a group of his dance students a few miles away. This was the world's first radio broadcast of live dance music for dancing.
Prior to World War II, Arthur Murray teachers were a regular part of every first-class steamship cruise and during the Thirties, the studios introduced such dances to the public as the "Lambeth Walk" and "The Big Apple." In fact it was "The Big Apple" that launched Mr. Murray's one studio into the largest chain of dance schools.
In 1942 singer Betty Hutton with the Jimmy Dorsey Orchestra recorded the big hit song "Arthur Murray Taught Me Dancing In A Hurry" for the movie "The Fleet's In" and by 1946 there were 72 Arthur Murray Dance Studios across America.
Arthur Murray was the first to realize the growing popularity of the Latin dances in America during the 1950′s. Many conventions were held in Cuba during that time to give Arthur Murray dance trainers first-hand knowledge of the hot new Latin styles and moves that were in vogue and becoming popular.
In July 1950, Mr. Murray purchased five fifteen minute television spots on CBS and persuaded his wife Kathryn to do the teaching. Before the third show, Arthur bought a half-hour summer series on ABC. The show was called the "Arthur Murray Dance Party." By May 1952, the Murray's had televised almost 100 programs. Their TV ratings climbed and in the summer of 1952 they signed with their first sponsor, General Foods. Millions of viewers all over the United States fell in love with the show and flocked to the Arthur Murray Studios throughout the country. This highly popular show ran for twelve years on national television.
When Arthur and Kathryn Murray retired in 1964, a group of franchisees purchased the company and brought a fresh new spirit and leadership to it. Under its new leadership, the Arthur Murray Franchised Dance Studios have kept pace with the rapidly changing "youth culture" and continue today to flourish as the world's largest dance instruction organization.
Arthur Murray dance teachers can be found not only in the studios, but on the movies sets in Hollywood; backstage on Broadway; and in partnership with major entertainers to promote the music that the world dances to. Whenever a movie involves dance, it's a good bet that AMII has been involved in some way, shape or form. Such movies as Dirty Dancing, Dirty Dancing II, Dance with Me, Beauty and the Beast, Flash Dance, An American President, True Lies, Saturday Night Fever and Scent of a Woman are some of the films which have used Arthur Murray instructors to either teach a dance to the stars and/or dance in the film.
The Arthur Murray Franchised Dance Studio's name appears regularly in major national magazines that include Vogue, Martha Stewart Wedding, Smithsonian, Sports Illustrated, Woman's Day and more. Wherever advertisers want to reach consumers with a message of romance, intimacy or just plain fun, you'll see dancing, from the Gap's now famous Khaki Swing commercials to dancing M&M's and gas pumps.
Arthur Murray International's commitment to dance goes even further, with senior management heavily involved in the world of professional and amateur competitive dance, known as Dance Sport. Many of Arthur Murray's officials have contributed to bringing competitive ballroom to the forefront as an Olympic Sport.
All Arthur Murray Franchised Dance Studios are independently owned and operated by individuals who started as dance instructors and worked their way up to the executive level. By the time they are qualified to purchase a franchise, they have experienced every phase of studio operations, from teaching and supervising to marketing and managing. It is possible for an ambitious person to advance to a top executive job and become eligible to be a franchisee within just a few years.
Building from within has kept the studio system strong, with franchisees that are committed to the Spirit of Excellence which is the hallmark of the entire Arthur Murray system. Currently there are approximately 250 Arthur Murray Franchised Dance Studios worldwide.


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12oz Strawberry Shake Scented Candle
Burn Time 35+ hours
100% Soy Wax
5.5" Height 3" Diameter
Made in Atlanta
Strawberry Shake
PriceFrom $20.00
- Remove all packaging before lighting.
- Place on a protected, heat-resistant, dry surface, away from anything that can catch fire, and out of reach of children and pets. Use holders designed for the particular candle style.
- Keep wick(s) trimmed to 1/4 inches at all times.
- If smoking occurs, blow candle out. Trim wick(s), remove trimmings, and relight.
- Keep the wax pool free of wick trimmings, matches, or any combustible material. Keep the wick centered.
- Avoid burning candles in drafts.
- Never leave burning candles unattended.
- Teach everyone in the family the rules of safe candle use.


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Noticias corporativas
Munich, 18 April 2012 – Today, the European Commission has granted its unconditional approval for Linde AG's acquisition of the Continental-European homecare business of the industrial gases company Air Products. Following this approval, Linde and Air Products expect the transaction to be closed by end of April 2012.
The transaction comprises Air Products' homecare operations in Belgium, France, Germany, Portugal and Spain with around 850 employees. This business, that is acquired by Linde at an enterprise value of EUR 590 m, achieved annual sales of EUR 210 m in 2011.
Homecare is the term applied to medical services relating to the treatment of patients in settings other than hospitals. It comprises respiratory services such as oxygen therapy, sleep therapy, and ventilation services. In the 2011 financial year, Linde achieved global sales of EUR 300 m in this product area. In the Healthcare segment as a whole, which comprises not only Homecare but also Hospital Care (the supply of medical gases and services to hospitals), Linde achieved sales in the 2011 financial year of around EUR 1.2 bn. Linde is the second largest supplier of medical gases and related services in the world.
About The Linde Group
The Linde Group is a world-leading gases and engineering company with around 50,500 employees in more than 100 countries worldwide. In the 2011 financial year, it achieved sales of EUR 13.787 bn. The strategy of The Linde Group is geared towards long-term profitable growth and focuses on the expansion of its international business with forward-looking products and services. Linde acts responsibly towards its shareholders, business partners, employees, society and the environment – in every one of its business areas, regions and locations across the globe. The Group is committed to technologies and products that unite the goals of customer value and sustainable development.
For more information, see The Linde Group online at http://www.linde.com
Further information:
Press Matthias Dachwald |
Investor Relations Lisa Tilmann |


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Would You Like To Erase Parts of Your Past?
When your past catches up with you, or you catch up with your past. Last month a woman was photographed after paying $53,000 to have puppies cloned from her former beloved pet. When her photo circulated around the world, several people came forward to accuse her of crimes dating back thirty years! She is facing a number of charges right now, although some of them have been dropped because of the statute of limitations.
You may also recall several cases in which people on 12 Step Recovery programs have contacted people to seek forgiveness and make amends (Step Nine) and been charged and tried for the crimes they committed. In one case the man admitted to a lesser crime but his victim claimed something more serious and he was found guilty of that crime.
In the first situation, the woman's past caught up with her and she is desperately trying to claim that it was not her. In the other situation, the people brought their pasts into the open in an effort to make things better–not always successfully. What they have in common with many of us is that they would like to erase the parts of their past that are now so humiliating or troubling, or that are creating trouble for them. One man who sought forgiveness for stealing money from his workplace thirty years ago said, "That was another me. The me I am now is ashamed, disgusted and repulsed by what I did."
Have you ever felt that way? Not about something criminal I hope, but about something you wish you had not done, or swear you would never do now? Have you ever remembered something you said, did or thought years ago–or only months, weeks or days ago–and wished you could erase it? You cannot, and neither can those who are aware of what you did. So, is there any way to make it better?
1. If you can apologize without causing emotional pain or embarassment, do so. If you had a bad relationship or did unkind or ill-judged things, or if someone else "knew you when", and you wish they had a better memory of you, perhaps you can discuss it with them and feel some forgiveness or at least understanding. That is not always a kind thing, however–and you may find it makes the other person feel bad while you are trying to feel good.
If you do not feel you can apologize or if you think it will create more hard feelings, consider re-contacting that person and focus on establishing a better relationship this time. They may think there are things they need to apologize about as well! Or, if it seems you can talk about it, mention your poor judgment and talk briefly about the old you and how you regret what you did. Sometimes one sincere sentence like that can bring resolution to both of you, without creating even more discomfort.
2. Commit to your new, better and more mature life. Perhaps you were wrong or used poor judgment back then. LIve your life now in the best way possible. Think of what you want to say about your life in another year. Will you be proud of your work and life this year or will you be wishing you could erase it?
3. Do not make excuses for yourself. It is true that you are probably no worse than many others. It is also true that no good comes from beating up on yourself mentally about relatively minor things from the past. However, do not fall into the trap of convincing yourself you really have no reason to feel remorse or regret. One way you know you have matured and improved is that you see what you did wrong and what was unwise, and you feel badly about it.
4. Be your own parent or counselor. If a friend or your child came to you with the situation you are thinking about, what would you suggest they do? You would probably tell them to try to make it right, and if that is not possible, to simply promise to do better in the future and live up to the promise. That is what you can do as well.
Whatever you did decades, years or months ago, you do not have to do it again. You can be a better person, and a person for whom you have more respect. If you do that steadily, consistently and whole-heartedly, you will be able to see yourself as different than that old version of you was, and others will see you differently as well. Now and then you may find someone who remembers the old you. Let them hear and see the new you, and stick with it. The new you–the best you–can be the real you!


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This Day in Rock History: October 23
On this day in rock history, the Beatles completed their second album – but in a manner that had very little in common with their debut.
Please Please Me, after all, had been a marathon session, concluding as the group nailed "Twist and Shout" in a single take. By contrast, sessions for the subsequent With the Beatles were held over a series of dates between the summer and fall of 1963. And they finished this time with a much less exciting overdub, adding tambourine onto "I Wanna Be Your Man."
Def Leppard later took the idea of a world tour to whole new level on this date, playing three concerts on three continents in a feat recognized by the Guinness Book of World Records. They did acoustic shows in Tangier, Morocco (where they were on stage as midnight struck) then London, England and finally – much later that evening – in Vancouver, Canada.
Genesis' sophomore release offered initial hints as to where the more-progressive-leaning band was headed – moving determinedly away from their debut's pop-oriented feel. Frank Zappa's very eclectic Chunga's Revenge also arrived.
Watch an exciting recap of many of the day's biggest rock anniversaries above, narrated by our radio host Zach Martin. And learn more about these important events by clicking the links below.
News Anniversaries:
The Beatles finish recording their second album (1963)
Def Leppard plays on three continents in one day (1995)
Album Anniversaries:
Frank Zappa - Chunga's Revenge (1970)
Genesis - Trespass (1970)
Def Leppard Albums, Ranked Worst to Best


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Updated at 7:22 a.m. ET
Michelle Obama didn't mince words Monday night. After mostly staying out of the political fray during President Trump's tenure in the White House, she used her prime-time Democratic National Convention slot to deliver a blistering indictment on his policies and ability to lead.
"Donald Trump is the wrong president for our country. He has had more than enough time to prove that he can do the job, but he is clearly in over his head. He cannot meet this moment. He simply cannot be who we need him to be for us. It is what it is."
The bestselling author and popular former first lady was the closer for Democrats on the first night of the convention. In a taped appearance sitting in what looked like a living room with a Biden sign behind her, Obama said she "hates politics," but she proceeded to give the most political and personal speech of the night.
She reprised her 2016 Democratic convention tag line, describing her strategy for responding to then-candidate Donald Trump: "When they go low, we go high."
Obama acknowledged that some weren't sure the Democratic Party should stick with that approach. But she defended staying true to it, saying, "Going high is the only thing that works, because when we go low, when we use those same tactics of degrading and dehumanizing others, we just become part of the ugly noise that's drowning out everything else. We degrade ourselves. We degrade the very causes for which we fight."
But for the 2020 version, Obama suggested there are times when hitting back is necessary, saying, "Going high does not mean putting on a smile and saying nice things when confronted by viciousness and cruelty."
Wearing a gold necklace with letters that spelled V-O-T-E, the former first lady made an urgent plea for Americans to show up in 2020.
"We've got to vote early, in person if we can. We've got to request our mail-in ballots right now, tonight, and send them back immediately and follow up to make sure they're received. And then, make sure our friends and families do the same. We have got to grab our comfortable shoes, put on our masks, pack a brown bag dinner and maybe breakfast too, because we've got to be willing to stand in line all night if we have to."
That message could be viewed as at odds with advice from public health experts who warn that Americans need to social distance during the coronavirus pandemic and avoid crowded places. Joe Biden, 77, has held few public events and has stuck to just a handful of low-key events with small numbers of voters in his home state of Delaware or neighboring Pennsylvania.
Obama warned against complacency and noted that people deciding their votes didn't matter led to Trump's victory in 2016. She also made it clear people who may not be completely sold on Biden needed to get behind the party's nominee.
In a reference that could include rapper Kanye West's lackluster candidacy for president, Obama said, "This is not the time to withhold our votes in protest or play games with candidates who have no chance of winning."
President Trump responded to the former first lady in a series of tweets on Tuesday morning, criticizing the record of the Obama-Biden administration and mocking the timing of Michelle Obama's endorsement of her husband's vice president.
Many of the speakers during Monday night's lineup focused on issues of racial injustice in an effort to build a case that Biden is the right candidate to heal a country still reeling from the aftermath of George Floyd's death while he was in the custody of Minneapolis police officers. Floyd's family members appeared for a moment of silence as part of the programming. But Obama's speech only briefly touched on that issue, when she mentioned Floyd and another African American, Breonna Taylor, who was shot and killed in Louisville, Ky., five months ago. Obama noted, "Stating the simple fact that a Black life matters is still met with derision from the nation's highest office."
The former first lady did discuss her personal experience getting to know Biden during her husband's presidency, outlining Biden's own struggles and ability to empathize with others.
"His life is a testament to getting back up, and he is going to channel that same grit and passion to pick us all up, to help us heal and guide us forward."
But a central message of her speech was focused on painting a dark picture of what she described as the state of the country and the current president's character and impact on children. At one point Obama said those in the next generation "see our leaders labeling fellow citizens enemies of the state while emboldening torch-bearing white supremacists. They watch in horror as children are torn from their families and thrown into cages, and pepper spray and rubber bullets are used on peaceful protesters for a photo op."
Former President Barack Obama is slated to speak on Wednesday night about his former vice president, and it's likely he will include more firsthand accounts of Biden's leadership and involvement in some of his administration's biggest accomplishments, such as enacting major health care reforms and addressing the 2008 financial crisis and its aftermath. On Twitter, he also echoed his wife's push for people to get out and vote.
As Michelle said, we've got to do everything we can to elect @JoeBiden and @KamalaHarris. So make sure you have a plan to vote. Vote early. And tell everybody you know to register to vote at https://t.co/XdZz4dh82T. https://t.co/rAUsWHusbV
— Barack Obama (@BarackObama) August 18, 2020
Michelle Obama referenced the divisions in the country, saying, "I am a Black woman speaking at the Democratic convention." But even as Biden announced the historic pick of Kamala Harris as his running mate — making her the first Black woman and the first person of Asian descent to be nominated as vice president by a major political party — she did not spend any time marking that dynamic in her speech.
Instead, she used the speech to paint a picture of what she believes is at stake for the country if the president is reelected.
Obama warned: "If you think things cannot possibly get worse, trust me, they can; and they will if we don't make a change in this election. If we have any hope of ending this chaos, we have got to vote for Joe Biden like our lives depend on it."
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The Saint Must Walk Alone
Most of the world's great souls have been lonely. Loneliness seems to be one price the saint must pay for his saintliness.
In the morning of the world (or should we say, in that strange darkness that came soon after the dawn of man's creation), that pious soul, Enoch, walked with God and was not, for God took him; and while it is not stated in so many words, a fair inference is that Enoch walked a path quite apart from his contemporaries.
Another lonely man was Noah who, of all the antediluvians, found grace in the sight of God; and every shred of evidence points to the aloneness of his life even while surrounded by his people.
Again, Abraham had Sarah and Lot, as well as many servants and herdsmen, but who can read his story and the apostolic comment upon it without sensing instantly that he was a man "whose soul was alike a star and dwelt apart"? As far as we know not one word did God ever speak to him in the company of men. Face down he communed with his God, and the innate dignity of the man forbade that he assume this posture in the presence of others. How sweet and solemn was the scene that night of the sacrifice when he saw the lamps of fire moving between the pieces of offering. There, alone with a horror of great darkness upon him, he heard the voice of God and knew that he was a man marked for divine favor.
Moses also was a man apart. While yet attached to the court of Pharaoh he took long walks alone, and during one of these walks while far removed from the crowds he saw an Egyptian and a Hebrew fighting and came to the rescue of his countryman. After the resultant break with Egypt he dwelt in almost complete seclusion in the desert. There, while he watched his sheep alone, the wonder of the burning bush appeared to him, and later on the peak of Sinai he crouched alone to gaze in fascinated awe at the Presence, partly hidden, partly disclosed, within the cloud and fire.
The prophets of pre-Christian times differed widely from each other, but one mark they bore in common was their enforced loneliness. They loved their people and gloried in the religion of the fathers, but their loyalty to the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob, and their zeal for the welfare of the nation of Israel drove them away from the crowd and into long periods of heaviness. "I am become a stranger unto my brethren, and an alien unto my mother's children," cried one and unwittingly spoke for all the rest.
Most revealing of all is the sight of that One of whom Moses and all the prophets did write, treading His lonely way to the cross. His deep loneliness was unrelieved by the presence of the multitudes.
He died alone in the darkness hidden from the sight of mortal man and no one saw Him when He arose triumphant and walked out of the tomb, though many saw Him afterward and bore witness to what they saw. There are some things too sacred for any eye but God's to look upon. The curiosity, the clamor, the well-meant but blundering effort to help can only hinder the waiting soul and make unlikely if not impossible the communication of the secret message of God to the worshiping heart.
Sometimes we react by a kind of religious reflex and repeat dutifully the proper words and phrases even though they fail to express our real feelings and lack the authenticity of personal experience. Right now is such a time. A certain conventional loyalty may lead some who hear this unfamiliar truth expressed for the first time to say brightly, "Oh, I am never lonely. Christ said, `I will never leave you nor forsake you,' and `Lo, I am with you alway.' How can I be lonely when Jesus is with me?"
Now I do not want to reflect on the sincerity of any Christian soul, but this stock testimony is too neat to be real. It is obviously what the speaker thinks should be true rather than what he has proved to be true by the test of experience. This cheerful denial of loneliness proves only that the speaker has never walked with God without the support and encouragement afforded him by society. The sense of companionship which he mistakenly attributes to the presence of Christ may and probably does arise from the presence of friendly people. Always remember: you cannot carry a cross in company. Though a man were surrounded by a vast crowd, his cross is his alone and his carrying of it marks him as a man apart. Society has turned against him; otherwise he would have no cross. No one is a friend to the man with a cross. "They all forsook Him, and fled."
The pain of loneliness arises from the constitution of our nature. God made us for each other. The desire for human companionship is completely natural and right. The loneliness of the Christian results from his walk with God in an ungodly world, a walk that must often take him away from the fellowship of good Christians as well as from that of the unregenerate world. His God-given instincts cry out for companionship with others of his kind, others who can understand his longings, his aspirations, his absorption in the love of Christ; and because within his circle of friends there are so few who share inner experiences, he is forced to walk alone. The unsatisfied longings of the prophets for human understanding caused them to cry out in their complaint, and even our Lord Himself suffered in the same way.
The man who has passed on into the divine Presence in actual inner experience will not find many who understand him. A certain amount of social fellowship will of course be his as he mingles with religious persons in the regular activities of the church, but true spiritual fellowship will be hard to find. But he should not expect things to be otherwise. After all he is a stranger and a pilgrim, and the journey he takes is not on his feet but in his heart. He walks with God in the garden of his own soul – and who but God can walk there with him? He is of another spirit from the multitudes that tread the courts of the Lord's house. He has seen that of which they have only heard, and he walks among them somewhat as Zacharias walked after his return from the altar when the people whispered, "He has seen a vision."
The truly spiritual man is indeed something of an oddity. He lives not for himself but to promote the interests of Another. He seeks to persuade people to give all to his Lord and asks no portion or share for himself. He delights not to be honored but to see his Savior glorified in the eyes of men. His joy is to see his Lord promoted and himself neglected. He finds few who care to talk about that which is the supreme object of his interest, so he is often silent and preoccupied in the midst of noisy religious shoptalk. For this he earns the reputation of being dull and overserious, so he is avoided and the gulf between him and society widens. He searches for friends upon whose garments he can detect the smell of myrrh and aloes and cassia out of the ivory palaces, and finding few or none, he, like Mary of old, keeps these things in his heart.
It is this very loneliness that throws him back upon God. "When my father and my mother forsake me, then the Lord will take me up." His inability to find human companionship drives him to seek in God what he can find nowhere else. He learns in inner solitude what he could not have learned in the crowd – that Christ is All in All, that He is made unto us wisdom, righteousness, sanctification and redemption, that in Him we have and possess life's summum bonum.
Two things remain to be said. One, that the lonely man of whom we speak is not a haughty man, nor is he the holier-than-thou, austere saint so bitterly satirized in popular literature. He is likely to feel that he is the least of all men and is sure to blame himself for his very loneliness. He wants to share his feelings with others and to open his heart to some like-minded soul who will understand him, but the spiritual climate around him does not encourage it, so he remains silent and tells his griefs to God alone.
The second thing is that the lonely saint is not the withdrawn man who hardens himself against human suffering and spends his days contemplating the heavens. Just the opposite is true. His loneliness makes him sympathetic to the approach of the brokenhearted and the fallen and the sin-bruised. Because he is detached from the world, he is all the more able to help it. Meister Eckhart taught his followers that if they should find themselves in prayer and happen to remember that a poor widow needed food, they should break off the prayer instantly and go care for the widow. "God will not suffer you to lose anything by it," he told them. "You can take up again in prayer where you left off and the Lord will make it up to you." This is typical of the great mystics and masters of the interior life from Paul to the present day.
The weakness of so many modern Christians is that they feel too much at home in the world. In their effort to achieve restful "adjustment" to unregenerate society they have lost their pilgrim character and become an essential part of the very moral order against which they are sent to protest. The world recognizes them and accepts them for what they are. And this is the saddest thing that can be said about them. They are not lonely, but neither are they saints.


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"The visa question has insidious ways of sowing the seeds of self-censorship," Dorinda Elliott, the global affairs editor at Condé Nast Traveler, wrote on ChinaFile last month. "I am ashamed to admit that I personally have worried about the risk of reporting on sensitive topics, such as human rights lawyers: what if they don't let me back in?" Elliott is a longtime China hand who worked as Newsweek's Beijing bureau chief in the late 1980s. "My decision to not write that story—at least not yet—proves that I am complicit in China's control games," she continued. "After all, there are plenty of other interesting subjects to pursue, right?"
The most shocking thing about Elliott's statement is its honesty. Western journalists are not supposed to make any concessions to China, and even when they do, they rarely admit it. Many people were thus horrified by recent reports that Matt Winkler, editor-in-chief of Bloomberg News, spiked an investigative piece about one of China's richest men out of fear of offending the government. (Winkler denied killing the piece and said it is still under consideration.)
People are understandably angry about the Bloomberg reports, but they shouldn't be surprised. This is all part of a larger story. China may force some two dozen correspondents from The New York Times and Bloomberg News to leave the country by the end of the year, apparently in response to their investigative reports on the familial wealth of the Chinese leadership. "Chinese officials have all but said that American reporters know what they need to do to get their visas renewed: tailor their coverage," The New York Times wrote. On Thursday, Vice President Joseph Biden, who was visiting Beijing, said he had "profound disagreements" with China's "treatment of U.S. journalists." As China more harshly intimidates foreign reporters, incidents of Western self-censorship will only increase. Bloomberg is not the first case, and it will not be the last.
These cases are often not as black-and-white as they appear to be in the Bloomberg incident, where an editor apparently took an existing story and shut it down. The story of self-censorship in China is a quieter tale of unwritten articles, avoided topics and careful phrasing. There is also a constant quest for "balance." "Any sophisticated reporter is always thinking about how to show things in their complexity," said The Atlantic's James Fallows, "and that inner process of balance, which is a healthy impulse, is inevitably affected by your knowledge of how thin-skinned the Chinese government might be about any isolated bad-news report."
The once-vague threat of expulsion has, for many foreign journalists in China, become a more tangible reality. Last year, Al Jazeera English's Melissa Chan was expelled. And just this fall, Paul Mooney, who had been reporting on China for 18 years, was denied a visa to be a China-based correspondent for Reuters. Neither journalist was given a reason for the punishment.
James McGregor, a journalist, author and businessman with more than two decades of China experience, told me that fear of visa refusals indeed does influence foreign reporting on China. "As the Chinese reaction gets more and more aggressive, foreign reporters in China get more and more wary. These are people with wives and husbands and children in school, and to not get your visa renewed can upset your whole life. It's in the back of people's minds."
A Beijing-based reporter for a major U.S. newspaper, who requested anonymity for fear that the Chinese government might cancel his visa (yes, that really was his reason), put it this way: "Sometimes you can feel that you have a limited amount of ammunition and you ask yourself: Do I want to spend it all on this one mission that might not yield anything and will leave me vulnerable, or on knocking out these other targets?"
"Topics like [ethnic and political unrest in the far western province of] Xinjiang, Tibet and Falun Gong are really low percentage stories for foreign correspondents," he added. "You might get a great story but then be expelled from China or suffer when the Ministry of Foreign Affairs decides to delay giving you a new visa until the very last day of the year. There are all sorts of ways they can make your life miserable and they increasingly do this—it's part of an increasingly assertive China."
"There's no way to know precisely where the line is, much less when you might go over it, except by means of delicately tuned antennae," said Orville Schell, who has written many books on China and is the director of Asia Society's Center on U.S.-China Relations (where I was formerly a fellow). "But once you've crossed over into the observation zone of the Party, you know it, and the question of denied access cannot help but come into your calculations about what you say and what you write."
Paul Mooney, the journalist who recently was denied a visa for Reuters, doesn't know when he crossed the line. It could have been his reporting on AIDS or Tibet, or the fact that he worked on the dissident Chen Guangcheng's English-language memoir. He told me that he didn't pull his punches in China, simply because he didn't see the point of being there if he couldn't write what he wanted. Other Americans advised him to be more pragmatic. "Even over the past year, waiting for my visa to come through, journalist friends, academics and China watchers said to me, stop posting critical things on Facebook," he said. Many foreign journalists do their Chinese visa applications in December, to get them in before the end of the year. Mooney told me that a European journalist approached him for an interview recently but did not plan to write a story until after his own visa had been renewed. "How many foreign journalists are doing the same thing every year at this time, or are now doing this throughout the year?" Mooney wondered.
Countless Chinese journalists do this all the time. Of course, for them the stakes are much higher: They could end up behind bars. "Self-censorship is in my blood," an outspoken Chinese Internet dissident once proudly told me. His years of carefully dancing around political land mines kept him out of exile or jail. Murong Xuecun, a writer and an increasingly bold critic, recently admitted: "I often remind myself: Don't engage in self-censorship, and I was confident I had succeeded in this, but so far I have not yet written a single article about Tibet issues, even though I lived in Llasa for three years; nor have I openly discussed Xinjiang issues, even though they are of great concern to me."
This is not to say that all Western reporters censor themselves in China. Over the past year or so, there has been startlingly bold reporting. Oft-cited examples include David Barboza's Pulitzer Prize winning reporting on the riches acquired by the family of Chinese premier Wen Jiabao, and somewhat ironically, Bloomberg's own investigation into the wealth of the relatives of President Xi Jinping. Those news organizations paid a price for their reporting, but others write on sensitive topics and emerge unscathed. In 2010, Evan Osnos, former Beijing correspondent for The New Yorker, did a profile of the Dalai Lama, and he didn't get the boot. Some writers are less fearful of expulsion because they are not career China hands, or perhaps because they are China hands who have just had enough. Jeremy Goldkorn, a Beijing-based blogger and the director of the research firm Danwei, told me, "Every time I apply for a visa or leave the country and come back in, the thought always passes through my mind that maybe this time it's not going to work. But I've been in China for so long, that I'm thinking it would be a good thing if they kicked me out."
These examples don't paint a complete picture of Western writing on China, however. Furthermore, writers who do calibrate their criticism are not necessarily moral cowards with Chinese business interests at heart. Some fear that if they are kicked out of China, they will lose touch with the ever-changing realities on the ground. This makes it harder to accurately convey those realities to the outside world, and to write prose that will resonate with Chinese readers. Today an article by the foreign press can be translated into Chinese and go viral on the mainland, something that was inconceivable ten years ago. A post with a Chinese translation of an article I wrote for this publication, on a sensitive attempted murder mystery no less, soared to #1 on Weibo, where it was retweeted over 125,000 times. Despite a strict censorship regime, the power of social media helps explain why Chinese authorities are so nervous about Western reporting.
Self-censorship reaches across various industries. Hollywood studios who want to show their films in China submit them to censors in advance. Authors will agree to cuts in order to get their books sold on the mainland. Some students at Princeton who are interested in China turn away from internships or dissertation topics related to Chinese democracy and human rights. Scholars whose institutions have Chinese partnerships may face additional pressures, says Elizabeth Economy, senior fellow and director for Asia Studies at The Council on Foreign Relations. For example, "an objective of promoting U.S.-China cooperation could rapidly become synonymous with avoiding sensitive political topics that might upset the Chinese side and thereby hinder cooperation."
It's unrealistic to expect journalists to be immune to the temptations of self-censorship, especially at a time when China is turning up the heat on both individual reporters and entire news organizations. Last week, Chinese authorities showed up at Bloomberg's bureaus in Shanghai and Beijing for unannounced "inspections." A Bloomberg reporter was also barred from a press event with Li Keqiang, China's prime minister. The New York Times website remains blocked in China, as does Bloomberg's, whose Chinese terminal sales have slowed.
There is no easy solution to self-censorship, but we can start by having an honest conversation about the fact that its arm reaches much farther than Bloomberg News. "I have a certain sympathy with Matt Winkler," Orville Schell said. "I understand his dilemma. I live his dilemma. Indeed, many of us who deal with China--whether journalists, scholars, diplomats, businessmen or film makers--live his dilemma, and it would be disingenuous to plead otherwise."
Emily Parker, a senior fellow at The New America Foundation, is the author of "Now I Know Who My Comrades Are: Voices From the Internet Underground," which will be published in 2014 by Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus & Giroux.


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25,000 people came to Macworld this past week and I feel like I talked to all of them!
The booth was packed most of the time with people watching Corliss Blakely paint for ArtStudio while I showed them the book.
Success can be measured here in a hundred ways. See you next year Macworld!


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