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WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center
Bank of America Corporation v. Yan Wei
Case No. D2010-2079
1. The Parties
The Complainant is Bank of America Corporation of Charlotte, North Carolina, the United States of America, represented by Kilpatrick Stockton, LLP, the United States of America.
The Respondent is Yan Wei of Shanghai, the People's Republic of China.
2. The Domain Name and Registrar
The disputed domain name <merilledge.com> (the "Disputed Domain Name") is registered with Guangzhou Ming Yang Information Technology Co., Ltd. (the "Registrar").
3. Procedural History
The Complaint was filed with the WIPO Arbitration and Mediation Center (the "Center") on December 3, 2010. On December 3, 2010, the Center transmitted by email to the Registrar a request for registrar verification in connection with the Disputed Domain Name. On December 8, 2010, the Registrar transmitted by email to the Center its verification response confirming that the Respondent is listed as the registrant and providing the contact details. On December 8, 2010, the Center transmitted an email to the parties in both Chinese and English language regarding the language of proceedings. On December 11, 2010, the Complainant confirmed its request that English be the language of proceeding. The Respondent did not comment on the language of proceeding by the specified due date.
The Center verified that the Complaint satisfied the formal requirements of the Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Policy" or "UDRP"), the Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Rules"), and the WIPO Supplemental Rules for Uniform Domain Name Dispute Resolution Policy (the "Supplemental Rules").
In accordance with the Rules, paragraphs 2(a) and 4(a), the Center formally notified the Respondent of the Complaint, and the proceedings commenced on December 15, 2010. In accordance with the Rules, paragraph 5(a), the due date for Response was January 4, 2011. The Respondent did not submit any response. Accordingly, the Center notified the Respondent's default on January 5, 2011.
The Center appointed Kar Liang Soh as the sole panelist in this matter on January 14, 2011. The Panel finds that it was properly constituted. The Panel has submitted the Statement of Acceptance and Declaration of Impartiality and Independence, as required by the Center to ensure compliance with the Rules, paragraph 7.
4. Factual Background
The Complainant is one of the world's largest financial institutions and was ranked the largest American corporation by Fortune magazine in 2010. It is the fifth in terms of revenue on the list of Fortune 500 companies in the United States. The Complainant was also listed as the most admired company in the world in the megabanks industry.
In 2009, the Complainant acquired Merrill Lynch & Co, Inc, which is a leading wealth management, capital markets and advisory company with offices worldwide. The MERRILL LYNCH trade mark was first used in 1915. The MERRILL LYNCH trade mark and its short form MERRILL has been used for over 90 years. The Merrill Lynch brand was estimated at over USD 14 billion in 2007 by Business Week and Interbrand, and remained among the top 100 worldwide brands in terms of value. The Complainant continues to use the MERRILL LYNCH trade mark after the acquisition.
The Complainant owns registrations for trade marks incorporating MERRILL including the following:
Jurisdiction Trade Mark Trade Mark No Registration Date
United States MERRILL LYNCH 1,272,653 April 3, 1984
United States MERRILL POINTS 3,401,096 March 25, 2008
United States MERRILL INVEST 3,490,012 August 19, 2008
United States MERRILL+ 2,993,782 September 13, 2005
United States (800) MERRILL 3,524,162 October 28, 2008
European Union MERRILL LYNCH 000029280 February 2, 1998
European Union MERRILL 007028392 May 11, 2009
P.R. China MERRILL LYNCH 4618706 January 7, 2009
P.R. China MERRILL 6816077 May 7, 2010
Hong Kong, MERRILL LYNCH 199806702 March 2, 1992
SAR of P.R. China
Hong Kong, MERRILL 301151883 July 2, 2008
SAP of P.R. China
The Complainant publicly announced around February 2010 its plans to operate online brokerage services under the name Merrill Edge and would do so at a website under the domain name <merrilledge.com>. The announcement was widely publicized. The Complainant also applied to register MERRILL EDGE as a trade mark in the United States on January 27, 2010, and obtained such registration on October 12, 2010. Similar trade mark applications in other countries were filed within the same period some of which have matured to registration.
The Complainant, through its subsidiary, also owns domain name registrations incorporating the trade marks MERRILY LYNCH and/or MERRILL, including <merrilledge.com>, <totalmerrill.com>, <askmerrill.com>, <mymerrill.com>, <merrilllynchonline.com> and <merrilllynchdirect.com>. The Complainant, though its subsidiary, has also registered domain names which are typographical misspellings of <merrilledge.com>, including <meredge.com>, <merriledge.org>, <meriledge.org> which redirect to <merrilledge.com>.
The Disputed Domain Name was registered on June 15, 2010 and resolves to a parking webpage which offers links to competitors of the Complainant. The parking webpage contains a header stating that the disputed domain name may be for sale, and contains a statement "This page is provided to the domain name owner by Sedo's Domain Parking". Little else is known about the Respondent beyond the WhoIs record of the Disputed Domain Name although it is noted that according to the information provided by the Complainant the Respondent's name was associated with 668 other domain names and the Respondent's email address was associated with 4,966 other domain names at the time the Complaint was filed.
5. Parties' Contentions
A. Complainant
The Complainant contends that:
1) The Disputed Domain Name is confusingly similar to the Complainant's trade marks MERRILL EDGE, MERRILL and MERRILL LYNCH. The Disputed Domain Name differs from the trade mark MERRILL EDGE by the omission of one "r" and incorporates a common misspelling of the Complainant's well-known MERRILL trade mark. The omission of the "r" is an insignificant distinction that does not remove the confusing similarity;
2) The Respondent has no legitimate interest in the Disputed Domain Name. There is no relationship between the Complainant and the Respondent giving rise to any license, permission or other right by which the Respondent could own or use any domain name incorporating the MERRILL EDGE or MERRILL trade marks. The Complainant did not authorize the use of the MERRILL EDGE mark by the Respondent. The Respondent is not commonly known by the Disputed Domain Name. The Respondent has never made any legitimate, noncommercial or fair use of the Disputed Domain Name; and
3) The Respondent registered and is using the Disputed Domain Name in bad faith for commercial gain via Sedo's domain parking programme and to profit from consumer confusion that the Disputed Domain Name is connected with the Complainant. The Respondent registered the Disputed Domain Name after the Complainant's announcement of the launch of its Merrill Edge online brokerage service.
B. Respondent
The Respondent did not reply to the Complainant's contentions.
6. Discussion and Findings
6.1 Language of the Proceeding
Since the language of the registration agreement of the Disputed Domain Name is Chinese, the default language of the proceeding is Chinese. However, taking into account the following circumstances and exercising the prerogatives given pursuant to paragraph 11 of the Policy, the Panel determines that English should be the language of the proceeding:
1) The Complaint was submitted in English and the Complainant requested English to be the language of the proceeding;
2) The website resolved from the Disputed Domain Name is entirely in English. The websites resolved from other domain names that appear to be registered by the Respondent (e.g., <blutiques.com>, <kuonichina.com>, cerberuscapital.net>, <ingersoll-rand.net>) are also entirely in English or contain English content;
3) The Respondent appears to have registered other domain names through registrars whose registration agreements are in English (e.g., <towersperrin.net>);
4) The Complainant has indicated that requiring the Complainant to proceed in Chinese would be burdensome and would unduly delay the proceeding; and
5) The Respondent has chosen not to participate in the proceedings and not to contest the language request of the Complainant; and
6) Forcing the Complainant to use Chinese would serve no discernible purpose.
6.2 Decision
To succeed in the proceeding, the following limbs of paragraph 4(a) of the Policy must be established:
1) The Disputed Domain Name is identical or confusingly similar to a trademark in which the Complainant has rights;
2) The Respondent has no rights or legitimate interests in respect of the Disputed Domain Name; and
3) The Disputed Domain Name was registered and is being used in bad faith.
A. Identical or Confusingly Similar
The Complainant clearly has trade mark rights in the MERRIL LYNCH, MERRILL and MERRILL EDGE trade marks. Although the MERRILL EDGE trade mark was registered on October 12, 2010 after the registration of the Disputed Domain Name, applications for the MERRILL EDGE trade mark filed on January 27, 2010 pre-date the registration of the Disputed Domain Name.
The MERRILL and MERRILL EDGE trade marks are incorporated almost in their entirety in the Disputed Domain Name. The only difference is the omission of a letter "r" in the Disputed Domain Name. The Panel agrees with the Complainant that omission of the letter "r" is insignificant and does to distinguish the Disputed Domain Name from the MERRILL and MERRILL EDGE trade marks.
Therefore, the Panel holds that the Disputed Domain Name is confusingly similar to the MERRILL and MERRILL EDGE trade marks and the first limb of paragraph 4(a) of the Policy is established.
B. Rights or Legitimate Interests
The Complainant has denied any relationship with or authorization of the Respondent which could give rise to any rights or legitimate interests in the Disputed Domain Name. The Respondent has declined to provide any explanation or demonstrate any circumstances which may suggest that rights or legitimate interests nevertheless exists.
In the circumstances, in accordance with established principles, the Panel is of the opinion that the Respondent does not have any rights or legitimate interests in the Disputed Domain Name and the second limb of paragraph 4(a) of the Policy is also established.
C. Registered and Used in Bad Faith
Paragraph 4(b)(iv) of the Policy highlights an example of bad faith registration and use:
"… by using the domain name, you have intentionally attempted to attract, for commercial gain, Internet users to your web site or other on-line location, by creating a likelihood of confusion with the complainant's mark as to the source, sponsorship, affiliation, or endorsement of your web site or location or of a product or service on your web site or location."
The evidence also shows that MERRIL LYNCH trade mark (and by association the MERRILL trade marks) is a well-known mark for the purposes of the proceedings. In the Panel's view, the Respondent was undoubtedly familiar with the Complainant's trade mark rights. The Respondent must have known that use of the Disputed Domain Name would create confusion with the Complainant's trade marks as to source, sponsorship, affiliation or endorsement of the website resolved from the Disputed Domain Name.
The parking page resolved from the Disputed Domain Name is held out as a parking webpage provided by Sedo. The evidence also shows that Sedo's domain parking service is associated with achieving commercial gains for domain name registrants through click-based commissions. The Panel accepts that the Complainant has established that the Disputed Domain Name is intended for commercial gain. In the circumstances, it is inconceivable that the use of the Disputed Domain Name is other than that highlighted in paragraph 4(b)(iv) of the Policy.
Further, the timing of the registration of the Disputed Domain Name is highly suspicious. The announcement of the Complainant's online brokerage services under the MERRILL EDGE trade mark was made barely a few months earlier. Most of the links on the website resolved from the Disputed Domain Name lead to finance-related websites and competitors of the Complainant. The Respondent must have reasonable knowledge of the Complainant's industry and would in all likelihood have been aware of the announcement. Such opportunistic registration and use of the Disputed Domain Name is highly suggestive of bad faith.
The Complainant has also highlighted that the website resolved from the Disputed Domain Name offers the Disputed Domain Name for sale. However, there is insufficient evidence to allow the Panel to determine if the offer for sale is subject to a price which exceeds documented out of pocket costs.
Also, the Complainant pointed out that the Respondent has been found to have registered and used other domain names in bad faith. In view of the above findings, it is not necessary for the Panel to comment on this issue.
In the circumstances, the Panel is satisfied that bad faith registration and use under the third limb of paragraph 4(a) of the Policy is established in this case.
7. Decision
For all the foregoing reasons, in accordance with paragraphs 4(i) of the Policy and 15 of the Rules, the Panel orders that the domain name <merilledge.com> be transferred to the Complainant.
Soh Kar Liang
Sole Panelist
Dated: January 28, 2011


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Seen from 28,000 miles away, Earth is beautiful. But its beauty is deceptive. We don't see the five billion tons of surplus carbon we pump into the atmosphere every year, our toxic waterways or our sprawling megacities and the vast fossil-fueled monocultures of cattle and corn that feed them. Most importantly, we don't see the global archipelago of protected areas into which the world's genetic biodiversity is now huddled. On the eve of Earth Day 2017 we launched a new atlas dedicated to examining this archipelago in detail. It's called the Atlas for the End of the World.
The first atlas, the Theatrum Orbis Terrarum (The Theater of the World), was published in 1570 by the famous book collector and engraver from Antwerp, Abraham Ortelius. With his maps Ortelius laid bare a world of healthy—we can now say "Holocene"—eco-regions ripe for colonization and exploitation. Lauded for its accuracy, the Theatrum quickly became a best seller.
Despite its apocalyptic title, our new Atlas is not about the end of the world per se; it is about the end of Ortelius's world, the end of the world as a God-given and unlimited resource for human exploitation and its concomitant myths of progress. On this, even the Catholic Church is now clear: "We have no such right," Pope Francis says.
At face value, atlases are just books of maps. The maps in the Atlas for the End of the World are, however, quite specific. They specifically show the difference between the United Nations Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) targets for achieving 17 percent (global terrestrial) protected area by 2020 and what is actually today protected in the 398 eco-regions that comprise the world's 36 biodiversity hotspots.
The so-called hotspots are regions agreed on by the scientific and conservation communities as the most important and the most threatened biological places on Earth. They are also places of exceptional linguistic diversity, much of which is also predicted to disappear by century's end—suggesting, perhaps, that the fates of nature and culture are one and the same. Many of the hotspots are also bedeviled by poverty, violence and corruption.
When my research assistants and I began this mapping project in 2013, the world's total terrestrial protected area was hovering at 13.5 percent. Recent figures (2015 data) suggest a total of 15.4 percent. That's 20.6 million square kilometers of land distributed across more than 209,000 sites in 235 different countries. So, with 15.4 percent already secured, only an additional 1.6 percent protected area is needed to satisfy the Convention's 2020 target. This amount might seem paltry, but 1.6 percent of Earth's terrestrial surface is 2.3 million square kilometers, the equivalent of nearly 700,000 Central Parks. That's a Central Park stretching 70 times around the world! The research question we asked was where exactly should this additional protected land be?
According to the CBD, we can't just fence off 1.6 percent of Siberia or some other place and then say we're done! The crucial words in the small print of the CBD are that the global protected estate must be "representative" and "connected." In theory, this means 17 percent of each of the world's 867 eco-regions should be protected and connected.
The Atlantic Forests hotspot serves as an example. Currently, it has only 8 percent of its territory under protection. Furthermore, when we break the hotspot down into its 15 constituent eco-regions, we find that nine fall short of reaching 17 percent representation.
In total 21 of 35 hotspots currently fall short of reaching the 17 percent protected area target. More specifically, 201 of their 391 eco-regions fall short. With the new Atlas, any nation can know how much land needs to be protected and where if it wants to meet its obligations under the CBD. This is not to say that blanket targets are always appropriate on the ground, but it's a start. In addition to identifying these protected area shortfalls, the critical nexus this research addresses is the global tension between food production, urbanization and biodiversity. On the world map (below) are three squares.
The first and smallest is the world's current cropland. The second, in the middle, is current cropland plus current grazing land, plus what is thought to be the world's further potential supply of arable land—a total of 50 percent of Earth's ice-free surface area. These leave 50 percent of the planet's land for other uses, exactly what E. O. Wilson has called for in his book Half-Earth: Our Planet's Fight for Life. Fifty percent seems like a lot, but remember that 33 percent of this land is desert, which, by definition, is not suited to either biodiversity or agriculture. Subtracting the world's deserts leaves 17 percent for biodiversity, precisely the amount demanded by the CBD.
The bigger cause for concern, however, is the large square on the right: the land area necessary to feed 10 billion people. The U.N. is now forecasting a global population of anywhere between 9.5 billion and 13.3 billion by 2100, so 10 billion is a conservative estimate. But these projected consumers are not "average" global citizens; let us suppose they are people like us; who shop in supermarkets and eat more or less whatever they want, whenever they want. They are average Americans; people with a food footprint of 1.4 hectares each.
Ten billion people consuming at this level would require a whopping 93 percent of Earth's ice-free terrestrial surface. In this scenario, not only would all the world's arable land be used for agriculture but so too would the world's deserts, plus some. After we've finished our burgers, a mere 7 percent of Earth's terrestrial surface would be left for biodiversity—for all practical purposes, a mountainous zoo in the midst of a global monoculture of corn and cattle, hooked up to desalination plants.
These proportions of land use will likely change when global population drops, as it probably will in the 22nd century due to socioeconomic influences associated with urbanization. The other mitigating factor would be if the bulk of food production shifted to the oceans and/or if meat could be produced independently of ruminants entirely. Then, ecological restoration could take place on a scale commensurate with that which is needed to partially correct the Earth system's current imbalances. The challenge will be to get through this century's incredibly tight ecological bottlenecks and come out the other end with some ecosystems, preferably the hotspots, partially intact.
The second major area of this research concerns 422 cities in the world's hotspots. We zoomed into each city of 300,000 people or more and superimposed their 2030 growth trajectory (as per Karen Seto's work at Yale University). We then plotted remnant habitat and threatened (mammal) species from the International Union for Conservation of Nature's Red List of Threatened Species. What emerge are the flash points between future urban growth and biodiversity.
In the circular images of the cities in the Atlantic Forests hotspot, orange indicates zones of imminent conflict between urban growth and biodiversity. Alarmingly, 383 of the 422 cities in the world's hotspots are on a collision course with unique and irreplaceable biodiversity. And we are not just talking about a little bit of sprawl. If an extra three billion people move into cities by 2100, as is entirely likely, it means we need to build 357 New York Cities in the next 84 years—that is, 4.25 New Yorks per year. Much of that growth will occur as both formal and informal sprawl in Africa, India and South and Central America, much of it up against biodiversity and much of it unregulated.
As documented in the Atlas, our analysis suggests that most of these 383 cities that are encroaching on valuable habitat don't have any semblance of as whole-of-city urban planning. This lack of planning at the city scale is also evident at the national scale: almost all the nations in whose jurisdiction the world's hotspots lie don't, insofar as we can tell, have national land-use plans incorporating biodiversity.
Under the CBD each nation must develop a National Biodiversity Strategy and Action Plan. In practice, these tend to be platitudinous reports and most don't take into account the 17 percent target for protected area. Most of the nations who are signatories to the CBD are also signatories to the Paris agreement on climate change, which demands that they prepare national climate change plans.
The Atlas for the End of the World lays the groundwork for the 142 nations who preside over the world's biodiversity hotspots to now view climate change, biodiversity and urbanization as interrelated phenomena and plan for the future. To do so would be a new beginning.
Paul Binding, Imagined Corners: Exploring the World's First Atlas (London: Headline Book Publishing, 2003).
Pope Francis, Laudato Si: On Care for Our Common Home (Vatican Press, 2015), 33.
Convention on Biological Diversity, "List of Parties,"
D. Juffe-Bignoli, et al., "Protected Planet Report 2014," International Union for Conservation of Nature (June 1, 2016).
United Nations, Department of Economic and Social Affairs, Population Division, World Population Prospects: The 2015 Revision, Key Findings and Advance Tables (2015).
An Ecomodernist Manifesto, "Manifesto."
Karen C. Seto, Burak Güneralp, & Lucy R. Hutyra, "Global Forecasts of Urban Expansion to 2030 and Direct Impacts on Biodiversity and Carbon Pools," Proceedings of the National Academy of Science of the United States 109, no. 40 (2012): 16083-16088.
The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species.

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The 15th annual Norwegian Festival will take place on Saturday Oct. 3 in beautiful Central Park.
The Norwegian Festival is a great day for kids and families. Last year, over 7,000 runners took part in the 1.7M Norway Run and the 13.7M half marathon Grete's Great Gallop, while thousands more enjoyed Norwegian music, food and entertainment in the festival area by the Bandshell, just south of the Bethesda Terrace.
The event starts at 8 am until 12 noon.
Children aged 2-12 will run in the Troll Stroll and everyone can enjoy Isbre water from Norwegian sub-glaciers, free Vafler (waffles) from the Norwegian Seamen's Church and Norwegian salmon tastings, while listening to Norway's indigenous people talking, dancing and telling stories about living in the far north.
How about a photo of yourself and a polar bear on the front cover of National Geographic Adventure? Childrens and adults alike are welcome to try Sons of Norway's Arctic quiz, learn more about Norwegian-American explorers and pioneers and meet some Norwegian fashion designers at the Design Stand.
The Norwegian Festival, Grethe's Great Gallop and Norway Run are great ways to qualify for the New York Marathon and experience Central Park while enjoying the best of Norwegian music, food and culture.
One lucky winner of the Norwegian Festival Sweepstakes will receive a trip for two to Tromsø with Continental Airlines, run the Midnight Sun Marathon June 19, 2010, and stay three nights at the Clarion Bryggen Hotel (from June 17-20, 2010), the newest hotel in Tromsø – with an top roof jacuzzi with splendid view to mainland, Tromsø Bridge, The Arctic Cathedral and Mount Tromsdalstinden.
Runners also have a chance to win a trip to Norway courtesy of Kon-Tiki Travel, dinner at one of the Smorgaschef restaurants in NYC or gift packs from Appaman street cred kids clothing and Moods of Norway.
The winner of Grete's Great Gallop will win a trip to Norway with SAS Scandinavian Airlines.
To sign up to run visit: Nyrr.org (NY Road Runners website)
The fun event is organized by the New York Road Runners and the Royal Norwegian Consulate General.
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It takes commitment to create a signature look. Ariana Grande has a signature look: oversized sweatshirt, over-the-knee boots, and a high very long ponytail. Last week she told Camila Cabello the cost of that ponytail – a lot of pain. It's true. I have long hair too. And every time I have it styled in a topknot or a high ponytail, I pop a few Advil early in the day, because you cannot avoid the low-grade headache that happens from all the pulling and from the weight of all of it on top of your head. By the end of the day, when I take out the ponytail or the topknot, there's a raw spot on my scalp that feels like a bruise. I end up massaging it all night.
Here's how Ariana described it:
well u actually have hair so that prolly makes it a lil more painful ..... nah jk i'm in constant pain always and don't care at all— Ariana Grande (@ArianaGrande) November 4, 2018
There is no way that ponytail was all her own hair, which is what she's acknowledging here. And it appears that Ariana has taken out her extensions. Or replaced them with new, shorter ones?
This is what they call a lob – a long bob. It's also what they call a classic breakup move: you change your hair. Is it the official hair of her "thank u, next" era though?
She followed that shorter hair post up with another one:
Not sure if that means the lob is just temporary or if there's something to the "Chihiro" reference. Perhaps the main character in Spirited Away? I'm too old and tired to try to decipher this riddle. The rest of the internet will do it for me. And there's something else to talk about that requires no investigation – "thank u, next" keeps breaking records. This is the latest one and now the biggest song of her career.
Paula Mejia wrote in The New Yorker that it's the "breakup song for the social media age", singling out that great lyric ("I'm so f-ckin' grateful for my ex") and the "breezy" way Ariana sings it, which makes the words that much more effective. When you know people are going to talk anyway, you might as well give them something to meme that came directly from you. When's the last time a breakup song was this much fun?


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The health benefits of rosemary essential oil made it a favorite of Paracelsus, a renowned physician, who made significant contribution to herbal medicine during the sixteenth century. Paracelsus valued rosemary oil due to its ability to strengthen the entire body. He (rightly) believed that rosemary oil had the ability to heal delicate organs such as liver, brain as well as heart.
Rosemary was well known to ancient practitioners. It was an herb known for strengthening the memory and helping the brain. Eventually, it also became associated with the fidelity of lovers, and was presented to wedding guests as a gift. In 1607, Roger Hacket said, "Speaking of the powers of rosemary, it overtoppeth all the flowers in the garden, boasting man's rule. It helpeth the brain, strengtheneth the memorie, and is very medicinable for the head. Another property of the rosemary is, it affects the heart."
Rosemary was often cultivated in kitchen gardens, and was said to represent the dominance of the lady of the house. One would assume that more than one "master" sabotaged his wife's garden to assert his own authority! This woody plant was also known to provide delicious flavoring for game and poultry. Later, it was used in wine and cordials, and even as a Christmas decoration.
Roman priests used rosemary as incense in religious ceremonies, and many cultures considered it a herb to use as protection from evil spirits and witches. In England, it was burned in the homes of those who had died from illness, and placed on coffins before the grave was filled with dirt.
For magical use, burn rosemary to rid a home of negative energy, or as an incense while you meditate. Hang bundles on your front door to keep harmful people, like burglars, from entering. Stuff a healing poppet with dried rosemary to take advantage of its medicinal properties, or mix with juniper berries and burn in a sickroom to promote healthy recovery. In spellwork, rosemary can be used as a substitute for other herbs such as frankincense.
As an essential oil
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Therapeutic properties
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|Weather "Bitterly cold"
Dates 19 Apr 1902 – 26 Apr 1902
Attendance 76,914
|Champion Sheffield United F.C.
Referee Tom Kirkham
Event 1901–02 FA Cup
|Venue Crystal Palace National Sports Centre
Similar 1903 FA Cup Final, 1890 FA Cup Final, 1906 FA Cup Final, 1900 FA Cup Final, 1905 FA Cup Final
The 1902 FA Cup Final was contested by Sheffield United and Southampton at Crystal Palace. Southampton became the last team from outside The Football League to reach the final of the FA Cup. The match finished 1–1 after extra time, with the goals scored by Alf Common for Sheffield United and Harry Wood for Southampton.
In the replay, which also took place at Crystal Palace, Sheffield United won 2–1, with goals from George Hedley and Billy Barnes. Albert Brown scored Southampton's goal.
Route to the final
First match
The first match was played at Crystal Palace on 19 April 1902 in front of a crowd of 76,914.
Sheffield United opened the scoring early in the second half with a goal from Alf Common. United appeared to be on the way to victory when, with two minutes to play, Saints' captain Harry Wood equalised. Wood was in an offside position tying up his bootlaces when the ball reached him. After consultation between the referee and his linesman, the officials decided that the ball had struck a United defender thus playing Wood onside.
Foulke's protest
At the end of the game United's goalkeeper, William "Fatty" Foulke, protested to the officials that the equalizing goal should not have been allowed. Foulke, who was reputed to weigh more than 20 stone, left his dressing room unclothed and angrily pursued the referee, Mr. T. Kirkham, who took refuge in a broom cupboard. Foulke had to be stopped by a group of F.A. officials from wrenching the cupboard door from its hinges to reach the hapless referee.
The replay took place a week later on 26 April 1902, again at Crystal Palace, in front of a crowd of 33,068, less than half the number who had watched the first match.
The weather for the replay was bitterly cold, and two minutes into the game, Saints' goalkeeper Jack Robinson slipped to allow George Hedley to score. Saints pressed for an equaliser and Foulke was kept busy throughout the rest of the first half. The pressure continued after half-time and Albert Brown equalised on the 70th minute with a shot from distance following a pass from Joe Turner.
After drawing level Saints continued on the attack and Foulke was required to make saves from Chadwick, Wood and Lee. It looked as though the match was going into extra-time, when, with ten minutes remaining, Robinson failed to cut out a cross and Billy Barnes only had to "walk" the ball into the unguarded net to score the winner for United.


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Folio (so-and-so), in mercantile books, means page so-and-so, and sometimes the two pages which lie exposed at the same time, one containing the credit and the other the debit of one and the same account. So called because ledgers, etc., are made in folio. The paging is called the folio also. Printers call a page of MS. or printed matter a folio regardless of size.


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Is Archie getting edgy? According to TVLine, CW's live-action Archie series Riverdale will feature a "darker take" on the classic comic book characters.
Greg Berlanti, executive producer for CW's Arrow, The Flash, and Legends of Tomorrow, is developing the project.
Speaking at the winter TCA press tour, CW president Mark Pedowitz said he trusts Berlanti's vision of a darker Riverdale, saying that with someone as successful as Berlanti, "you give them that leeway."
TVLine says the live-action series will feature "a buff, secret-harboring Archie" and "an Aderall-popping Betty."
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Integrity and passion
W.L. Minckley, who stands out in Craig Childs' lead essay as a three-dimensional figure of integrity and passion, died June 22 in a Mesa, Ariz., hospital from complications associated with treatment for cancer. Dr. Minckley, 65, had mentored graduate students at Arizona State University in Tempe from 1963 until his illness in June. While he received teaching and research honors both within the university and without, he cared most for the doing: researching, writing and teaching others about the imperiled fishes and aquatic habitats of the arid inland, in the U.S. and Mexico. Minckley's opinions often ran counter to those of agencies and developers. He came by his renowned courage naturally: As a 10-year-old downed by polio, he confounded medical opinion by learning to walk again; just after high school graduation, a home accident caused severe burns on his lower body. Nonetheless, he went off to college, brought home Big 8 medals for gymnastics in the flying rings and side horse at Kansas State, and went on to earn his master's degree in zoology and his Ph.D. in biology. Called "Mink" by friends and colleagues, he was curmudgeonly on the outside only. Friends remember his campfire stories, his boundless curiosity and appreciation, his delight in camping, hunting and dogs, and his respect and love for family and friends. He is survived by his wife, Pat, and seven children.


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SoME THING NewThere's an old adage in the concertmusic business that says a baddress rehearsal brings a good concert.This certainly held true forContinuum Contemporary Music's"401 East" programme,which hit several bumps in itsToronto trial run, but by all accountswas a success at the MontrealNew Music Festival. Plaguedby the banging pipes, sticky doorsand leaky acoustics of RCM'sConcert Hall, the intrepid ensembledid their best on March 4th toignore a hostile environment toperform a collection of delicate andrhythmically challenging works.To add insult to injury, a significantnumber of Continuum's audienceended up at the wrong venuedue to an information mix-up(in this very magazine). Montrealoffered a much more inviting halland larger audience, where the Continuumensemble delivered a muchcleaner performance of the sameprogramme on March 7th to muchmore positive effect.Continuum's venue-related tribulationsserve to highlight how theMusic Gallery, Toronto's home forcreative music, is still one of thebetter venues in the city to showcasecontemporary music. ThePenderecki Quartet concert heldthere on March 10th, presented byNew Music Concerts for a packedhouse, came off much moresmoothly despite minor imbalancesbetween the ensemble and someof the live electronics. Of all theworks on the programme thatevening, the world premiere ofVeronika Krausas' Midaregami(Tangled Hair) for string quartet,mezzo-soprano and experimentalvideo was particularly engaging.This multi-disciplinary song cyclewas clearly focused on reflectingall human senses - visual, aural,olfactory, and even psychological- with strong effect.BY } ASON V AN E YKMulti-disciplinary projects seemto be the particular flavour of themonth in this April's new musiccalendar, with the Music Galleryserving as the venue of choice.On April 12th CONT ACTContemporary Music will presentcomposer John Burke's Opera lnterna.CONTACT regularly seeksout opportunities to collaboratewith artists in order to develop andpresent live events that challengethe boundaries of concert music.Burke's Opera lnterna , a fulllengthenvironmental work createdexpressly for the CONT ACT ensemble,seeks to do just that. Theaudience will be led on a labyrinthinejourney (most literally, as theconcert involves the installation ofa labyrinth) reflecting upon thenature of consciousness throughmusic . As Burke describes it:"Opera Interna is a play on words.A literal translation conjures upC.G. Jung's notion of "innerwork. " At the same time the titlepoints to the fact that we deriveour sense of self from the ' inneropera' that is constantly beingplayed out in our own minds . Our'story,' with its fixation on pastand future, is as arbitrary as theillusory story that plays itself outon the operatic stage. Using thecontemplative practice of walkingthe labyrinth, in which the audienceis invited to participate, thelistener will be guided throughambient music to a new relationshipto 'story,' and to the radicalpossibility that the imperative forthe 21st century is the transcendenceof story." For more info visitwww .contactcontemporarymusic.ca.For tickets call 416-204-1080 orvisit www .ticketweb.ca.The next day, the Music Gallerypartners with PleasureDomeand the Goethe lnstitut to presentQuasar by German artists JiirgenReble and Thomas Koner. This liveaudio-visual performance builds onthe duo's interest in synthesizingsound colour and moving imagevia an army of modified 16mmprojectors and a quadraphonicsound system. Using five projectorspositioned around the space,Reble's hand-processed and chemicallyaltered film beams lightthrough the quiet fog that floatsabove the audience. Koner buildsa symbiotic aural space transformingthe mechanical hums, whirs,and chatter of the projectors themselves.The end result is an environmentof pulsating light andsound that envelops the audience.Quasar is presented as part of boththe Gallery's Inter Avant series andthe Images Festival. For more infoand tickets call 416-204-1080 orvisit www.musicgallery.org.The following week, the MusicGallery continues its Inter Avantseries with guest artist MonicaGermino. The American-trained,Amsterdam-based violinist Germinois highly regarded as a devoteeof contemporary music onboth sides of the Atlantic.She has premiered worksby some of the world' smost accomplished contemporarycomposers intop international festivalsand venues such as theConcertgebouw and LincolnCenter. For her MusicGallery event on April19th, titled Plugged &Unplugged, Ms . GerminoMonica Germinowill perform a solo programme Keep Those Ears Open!blending a multi-disciplinary mixof violin, voice, soundtrack, effects,movement and film in a rangeof works by composers Jacob terVeldhuis, Michael Gordon, LouisAndriessen, Phillip Glass, HeinerGoebbels and even J.S. Bach . Formore info and tickets contact theMusic Gallery (as above).A few days later, Continuumcloses out its 2006-07 season withCURV, featuring the Vancouverbasedcomposing collective of thesame name (Marci Rabe, KristyFarkas, and Jennifer Butler) in coproductionwith the Music Gallery.At its root, CURV challenges thesolitary paradigm of classical com-For the more exploratory listeneror those simply curious to take anew path into their musicalexperience there is always thebiennial Open Ears Festival ofMusic and Sound, which returnsto Kitchener - Waterloo fromApril 24th to 29th. At its heart,Open Ears encourages just whatits title suggests - an openapproach to the act of listeningvia a huge variety of invitingprogramming. That being said ,this festival is widely recognizedas one of Canada's mostadventurous musical events,position. The collective's work never afraid to cross thegrows out of a process of exchange boundaries between genres andand collaboration through letters, disciplines to explore newpostcards, emails, sound record- musical territories. For the 2007ings, photos, scores , and conversations.By incorporating sound, from traditional concertfestival such explorations rangetext, images, and movement presentations to soundwalks,through a process that reuses and performance art, sound poetry,recycles each composer' s materialmusic for new spaces and sitespecificsound installations.freely, the lines of creative ownershipare erased. Expanding on thisprocess, CURV's recent project 20Silent Words has been realised in Special highlights include a precollaborationwith Continuum's festival collaborative concertmusicians. The results of this un- between master improvisers Fredusual creative process will be pre- Firth and Malcolm Goldstein onsented on April 21st. For more info April 21st, an appearance fromvisit www .continuummusic.org or legendary composer I pianistcall 416-924-4945. For tickets call Fred Rzewski, a multi-media416-204-1080. opera by San Francisco's PamelaSo come out and celebrate new z and the reinvention of Jeancreativeconnections. Discover mu- Luc Godard's classic 1965 sci-fisic's multiple dimensions through film noir Alphaville by veteransome thing new·British sound artist Scanner.(Jason van Eyk is the CanadianMusic Centre's Ontario RegionalDirector. He can be reached at416-961-6601 x. 207 email@example.com) .For complete details and ticketsvisit www.openeas.ca or call1.888.363.3591The Coalition of New Music Presenters of Toronto presentsNEW MUSIC QUICK PICKS -- all the NEW MUSIC thats fit toprint, excerpted from WholeNote s listings;just a couple of clicks gives you all the concerts you wantwith a whole lot less wading!Just go to www.thewholenote.com and follow the QUICK P /CK link.24 WWW.THEWHOLENOTE.COM APR IL 1 - M AY 7 2007
Jazz Notesby Jim GallowayApril FullLast month I wrote about Wynton Marsalis and The Jazz At LincolnCentre Orchestra and their appearance at Massey Hall. I have heard theorchestra several times, but never better than they sounded that night.Just how much was due to the band "being on", and how much wasdue to Massey Hall is a matter of conjecture, but there is no denyingthat there is something special about that building, designed by anarchitect called Sidney Badgley and erected in 1894. In its day it hashosted Weddings, Movies, Boxing Matches, Beauty Contests, Religiousand Political Rallies, Typing Contests and Chess Tournaments,but in the jazz world it is legendary for the 1953 Jazz At Massey Hallconcert.Winston Churchill once said, "We shape our buildings and afterwardsour buildings shape us ." - or, in the case of Massey Hall , perhapsinfluence a performer. (Churchill himself, as you may know, wouldhave known whereof he spoke, in regard to Massey . He strode theboards there twice, in late 1900 and early 1901, at age 26 newlyelected to the House of Commons, and famous already for his BoerWar exploits, and four other military campaigns.By the way, is there anyone out there who can cast some light on therumour that an apparition of a man has sometimes been seen in thebackstage area of the hall? He appears to be in old fashioned dress andseems interested in the stage area. It's not true, however, that he issinging "I Don't Stand A Ghost Of A Chance With You ".April Show(er)sBy the time you read this the sixthannual National Jazz Awards willbe about to take place, (April10th.at Toronto's Palais Royale),or will have already happened,depending on how quickly yourush out for your copy ofWholeNote.The multi-talented BillKing , who manages to roll half-adozencareers into one, is the inspirationbehind the event whichstarted out as the Jazz ReportAwards and acknowledges contributionsto jazz excellence in Canada. Nominations are submitted byprofessionals in the music industry,working in radio and television,recording, jazz festivals, journalismand publicity. Winners arechosen online by jazz fans acrossthe country.In this Canadian Jazz GrandPrix there are close to 30 categoriesand 162 nominations for "poll"positions.The wheel of fortune - roundand round it goes, where it stops,nobody knows. They say thatabout a roulette wheel, but it is notaltogether out of place in the contextof "best of' awards."Best", of course, is always arisky, sometimes illusory label ,especially when you are dealingwith the arts and I'm not a hugefan of the word . Congratulations,then, to all the nominees, becauseyou represent the values that musiciansstrive for.In addition, the event does focussome attention on the music,and Lord knows , we can use that.However, rather than focus onlyon the nominees, worthy thoughthey might be, I would like you tospare a thought also for the unsungheroes, often overlooked andunderrated, who don't make theheadlines, but we have all beentouched by them, often withouttheir knowing it.Here's an example at the highestlevel. The name of Duke Ellingtonis known throughout theworld. His theme song "Take The"A" Train" is probably played hundredsof times on a daily basis.Written by the Duke? No - writtenby Billy Strayhorn, revered withinthe jazz community, but relativelyunknown in the world at large.Boo-dah, U.M.M.G., Day-dream,Lotus Blossom, Rain Check andBlood Count are all associated withthe music of Duke Ellington, allaccepted as superior jazz compositionsand all written by Strayhorn.It begs the question - withoutStrayhorn in his life, would Ellingtonbe the Colossus he is?Duke Ellington and Billy StrayhornAn extreme example perhaps,but valid. So here's to the writersand musicians who don't necessarilyreceive the kudos, but deliverthe goods.Jack LongFor six years at the National JazzAwards, The Ken Page MemorialTrust has given an award for lifetimeachievement and speaking ofpeople who stay out of the limelight,this time by choice, the awardthis year went to Jack Long.Every musician knows aboutLong & McQuade, but the founder,Jack Long, tends to hide hislight under a bushel. The historyof the store began in 1956 whenJack set up business in a small storeon the second floor of an old houseon Carlton Street in Toronto. Jackgave trumpet lessons on the sideand acquired a partner, drummerJack McQuade. A year later theymoved to a storefront location atYonge and Yorkville. That locationsaw the beginnings ofYorkville Sound, manufacturingamplifiers and PA systems. After16 years th e main storemoved to its current locationon Bloor Street West. Thereare now 27 stores acrossCanada, the most recent ofwhich was opened inMarkham. But this is not justa story of a successful businessenterprise; they beganincorporating Education Centresinto their stores offeringlessons and workshops inaddition to all the otherprojects in which they get involvedin support of the industryand musicians.Last year they celebratedtheir 50th anniversary - sothis is a good time to acknowledgea man who still puts ina full week's work - because hebelieves in what he does.Happy listening to all of you.Make some of it live in a club. Withthe plethora of opportunity in ourclub listings (pages 58,59) there'sless excuse than ever if you don't.THE CANADIANJAZZ QUARTETFRANK WRIGHT - VibesGARY BENSON - GuitarDON VICKERY - DrumsROB MCBRIDE - BassSun. 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Envy is the worst and most corrosive emotion in the world. And in the history of the world, for that matter.
Probably the best-known myth in the Western world is that of the Garden of Eden. And one of the things it is about is envy. Adam blames the woman for his transgression and Eve blames the serpent, which is a symbol of envy, hate, anger and revenge. The lesson is that they often blame their problems on other people out of envy.
Worse, envy brings murder in the world, as shown in the story of Cain and Abel -- Adam and Eve's children. They are the original dysfunctional family.
Cain murders Abel because he feels humiliated when God accepts Abel's sacrifice and rejects Cain's. That feeling of humiliation is based on his envy of Abel.
So, then, envy is apparently ubiquitous. Unfortunately, it may be ubiqitous in romantic relationships. And, just as unfortunatly, one of the defenses against envy is devaluation.
Here is an example: some months ago I watched on TV as three college girls, in their early 20s, were denigrating college men. One said they showed up on dates in dirty t-shirts "holding a bag of condoms."
Another said most wanted to take over their father's business (and what exactly is wrong with that?).
Not one of the three had one good thing to say about the men. They were denigrating and devaluing them. (As an aside, not one of them had a clue they're weren't marriage-material.)
Devaluing someone is one of the main defenses against envy. These girls envied men and therefore devalued them. And why did they devalue them?
Because the men weren't giving them wanted they wanted. I'm sure they wanted the men to be tall, good-looking, ambitious, make a lot of money, be loyal, etc. Because so few of the men were those things, they believe men had all the power to make them happy, and since they weren't making them happy, they devalued them.
So course, none of these girls had the self-awareness to ask themselves, "What do I have to offer in a relationship?"
I once knew a woman, 49 years old, unmarried, no children, no home -- just an apartment and a cat. She told me "men are responsible for all the problems in the world," that they all had baggage from past relationships, and they wouldn't accept her career.
Because men did not give her the things she wanted, and therefore envied what she perceived as their power to make her happy (which she thought they were withholding from her) she envied and therefore devalued them.
None of these women have any gratitude towards men, ignoring the fact men (specifically white men) have invented almost 100% of everything in the world. As Camile Paglia once so famously noted, without men, women would still be living in grass huts.
You cannot be happy unless you have gratitude. And certainly, when you envy and blame your problems on everyone else, you are never going to be happy. Those college girls who envy and blame their romantic problems on men are never going to be happy, and they are going to be shocked when all their relationships don't work out.
For that matter, no man in his right mind is going to get involved with a envious, ungrateful woman who tries to shame him and make him feel guilty and to disrepect and try to humiliate him. Not that any of these girls know they are ungrateful and envious and devalued men. If they were told what they are, they certainly wouldn't believe it.
Many men are mystified. They shouldn't be. As Helmet Schoeck write in his magisterial book, Envy, "It is astounding that countless benefactors allow themselves to be persuaded over and over that ingratitude with the resulting hatred is a rare and special case."
The defenses against men and women's envy of each other in romantic relationships have pretty much collapsed. It looks as if the defenses of women's envy of men are collapsed the worst, which is there is so much devaluation of men by women (the reverse is just a fraction).
I am as always curious as to how this will play out. There is one thing I do know: the psychiatrist James Gilligan, who studied violent inmates for 35 years, found humiliation and shame were the causes of violence and murder (again, the story of Cain and Abel).
I suspect things are going to get a worse before they get better. After all, as things stand now, 49% of the people in the U.S. are not married. And as bad as that is for men and women, the real losers are going to be the children, who are going to end up with single women as parents -- and there is no good to that at all.


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Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit
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- For other Wallace and Gromit films, see Wallace and Gromit.
Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit is a 2005 film about Wallace, a good-natured eccentric cheese-loving British inventor, and Gromit, his faithful dog whose humane anti-pest business is employed to capture a giant rabbit which is wreaking havoc in their village.
Something wicked this way hops.(taglines)
- [to Gromit, while holding a carrot and wearing giant rabbit ears] Er, what's up, dog?
- It's a veritable... vegetable... paradise!
- Just a bit of harmless brain alteration, that's all.
- Lovely food, for rabbits, that is.
- Still got me on the diet, eh, Gromit? Watching me shape. Ha Ha, there's a good dog.
- I'm just crackers about cheese!
- [at the Academy Awards of his and Gromit's movie, presented by Reese Witherspoon] Ooh! I do like a bit of Gorgonzola.
- Veg bad...veg bad...veg bad. Say no to carrots, cabbage, and cauliflower.
Lady Campanula Tottington[edit]
- Please, Wallace, call me "Totty".
- Run, rabbit, run!
- [to Victor after knocking him out with a giant carrot] Is that so? Consider yourself dumped! Humph!
Lord Victor Quartermaine[edit]
- There's No nonsense with Victor Quartermaine. What you see is what you get. [his toupee is sucked into a rabbit hole and Lady Tottington screams]
- [Complaining of Wallace's job] How do you intended to finish these vermin off? Crush them? [Kicks the BunnyVac 6000] Liquidize them?
- I Want. [Silence] To. [groans quietly] To pay, please.
- [Growls] Out of my way fool.
- [After firing a shot to get the crowd's attention] A were-rabbit? Oh come, come now! I do believe the Vicar's been at the communion wine again.
- [taunting Wallace in attack] C'mon! Queensberry rules! Put 'em up you little pipsqueak. [Wallace starts shaking] Hahahaha! You're shaking! Don't tell me you're a scaredy-cat as well as a scoundrel. And don't think acting like a big girl's blouse will get you out of it. There's no mercy with Victor Quartermaine!
- [Seeing Lady Tottington crying] That's right, my lovely. You can say goodbye to your fluffy lover boy.
- [Stopping Gromit from saving Wallace] Your loyalty is moving. Sadly, you won't be.
- [Sees Were-Rabbit with Tottington] Get your hairy mits off my future wife you big brute.
- [Shoves a pitchfork in Lady Tottington's hair] Hmmmm, I rather like your hair pinned back...
- [Watching the were-rabbit hop away] You can hop, but you can't hide, Pesto!
- [Wallace falls to his death] No one beats Victor Quartermaine!
PC Mackintosh[edit]
- [The Were-Rabbit is teetering on the roof of Tottington Hall, above a group of terrified villagers] Stand back! There may be a large rabbit dropping!
- Hey! Give over!
- If you ask me, this was arson! Aye, somebody "arson" [arsin'] around!
Hutch the Rabbit[edit]
- Cheeeeeeese!
- Ooh, I do like a bit of gorgonzola!
- Ah, the bounce has gone from his bungee.
- Hey, Presto! Rabbit rehabilitation!
- Cheddar.
- I'm inventing, mostly.
- Charming. I'm Wallace.
- Geronimo!
- Your Lordship!
- Good night, Gromit.
- Cracking toast, Gromit.
- I'm just crackers about cheese.
- Monterey Jack! Wow!
- Smashing Wensleydale!
- Job well done, lad.
- Lovely food. For rabbits, that is.
- Cheese, Gromit!
- Heehee! Lovely cheese, Gromit!
- Don't forget the crackers.
- [final line] Cheeeeeeese!
Reverend Clement Hedges[edit]
- [praying] Protect and nourish the frail and the weak, O Lord. Let them grow big and strong under Thy loving care. [camera pulls back, revealing that he is talking about his vegetables] In fact, let them grow bigger and stronger than anyone else's, so that the first prize might be mine! [applies a drop of holy water] Aaaaaaa-men!
- [holding up a pair of cucumbers like a cross] MERRRRCYYYYYYYYYY!
- By tampering with nature, forcing vegetables to swell far beyond their natural size, we have brought a terrible judgement upon ourselves! And for our sins, a hideous creature has been sent to punish us all! Repent! Repent! Lest you, too, taste the wrath of... THE WERE-RABBIT!
- My poor sensitive child, allow us all to share in your moment of sorrow. [begins to walk away] YEEEEEEEEAAAAAHHH! [fireworks begin to go off and jolly music plays] ON WITH THE SHOW!
- [witnessing Victor Quartermaine caught on a weather-vane by his trousers, showing his rear end to all below] Beware the moon!
- Destroy! Drive out the monstrosity!
Mr. Growbag[edit]
- I never saw such cauliflower carnage! Worse than the Great Slug Blight of '32. When there were slugs the size of pigs.
- [On the history of the Giant Vegetable Competition] That's right! Not even the Great Duck Plague of '53 stopped it.
- Lady Tottington: [over the phone] I have the most terrible rabbit problem. The competition is only days away. You simply have to do something.
- Wallace: Certainly, M'am [to Gromit] I think we're about to go up in the world, lad. [back to the phone] Just stay right where you are, Your Ladyship, and we'll be there in an- [hits the control panel and gets dragged up through the ceiling] Ahhhh!
- Tottington: In an hour? I can't wait an hour. I have a major infestation.
- Tottington: Victor, hadn't we agreed: no more thoughtless killing.
- Victor: Quite right, my dear. So I've thought this through very carefully. [aims gun at a rabbit, who puts his paws up] It's off to bunny heaven for you, big-ears!
- [Quartermaine's hairpiece has been sucked up into the Bun-Vac 6000.]
- Lord Victor Quartermaine: I want... [lowers voice] toupeé, please.
- Wallace: Oh, Grand. We take check or cash.
- Victor: TOUPEÉ, you idiot! My hair is in in your machine!
- Wallace: Oh, no, it's only rabbits in there. The hare, I think you'll find, is a much larger mammal.
- Victor: Oh, out of my way, you! [retrieves his toupeé; to Lady Tottington] I'm sorry, my dear. [the toupeé is actually a black bunny] But I refuse to suffer any more humiliation at the hands of these blundering nitwits. I therefore bid you good day!
- Reverend Clement Hedges: Hello? Is anybody there?
- [The Were-Rabbit lets out an enormous belch.]
- Rev. Hedges: Mrs. Mulch?
- Mr. Growbag: I never saw such cauliflower carnage! Worse than the Great Slug Blight of '32. When there were slugs the size of pigs.
- Mrs. Mulch: Growbag's right! The slugs are back!
- PC Macintosh: [surveying the damage left by the Were-Rabbit] Look, this flippin' vegetable competition causes nothing but trouble every year.
- Man 1: Here we go.
- Macintosh: [surveying the damage left by the Were-Rabbit] If you ask me-
- Man 2: Get on with you!
- Macintosh: No, I'll tell ya. If you ask me, this was arson.
- [The townspeople gasp.]
- Man 3: Arson?
- Macintosh: Aye. Someone arsin' around! That's right! One of you lot! A man!
- Victor: [in the forest] I know your little secret, Pesto! I know exactly what's going on!
- Wallace: Your Lordship?
- Victor: Oh, yes. You think you can pilfer my filly, don't you? You think you can con an innocent woman out of her fortune?
- Wallace: Who, me?
- Victor: Well, I got here first! I've spent a lot of time reeling in that fluffy-headed bunny-lover, and I'm not about to let some puddle-headed peasant poach her from me! Comprendez?
- Clement Hedges: The beast lurks within all of us, my child. [thunderclap] The side of us that emerges at night as the moon rises into the sky! The side that savagely rips the leaves off any innocent cabbage...!
- Victor: Oh, spare me the sermon, Vicar! Just tell me how I kill him! Er, I mean 'it'.
- Clement: To kill such a creature would require nerves of steel, and...[pause]... a bullet. [thunderclap]
- Victor: A bullet? [thunderclap]
- Hedges: A bullet! [thunderclap]
- Victor: A bull-? [louder thunderclap] Ooh! [closes window to blot out noise] What KIND of bullet?
- Hedges: A bullet... of pure... gold! [opens his cabinet to show the gold bullets]
- Victor: [amused] Gold?
- Hedges: Yes... 24 'karot'! [giggles]
- Victor: [unamused] Oh. Get out of my way. [takes the bullets] Silly old fool.
- Hedges: [as Victor walks out the door] Beware! Beware the beast within!
- Wallace: Oh, it's hopeless! I'll never fix this flippin' machine. Me mind's just a rabbit-y mush. Oh, Gromit! I don't wanna be a giant rabbit! [sobbing]
- Hutch the Rabbit: Aww, the bounce is gone from his bungee.
- Reverend Clement Hedges: [at the fair] Ah, Mr. Growbag. I have a hunch this will be a night to remember.
- Mr Growbag: [looks at his back] I just have a hunch.
- [Everyone thinks Victor's a hero]
- Civilian 1: Please, sir... [holds up vegetable] kiss my baby!
- Victor: Another time, perhaps.
- Civilian 2: [holds up vegetable] Kiss my potato!
- Victor: Not now.
- Mr. Growbag: Kiss my artichoke! [holds up his vegetable]
- Victor: Look, just-
- Tottington: Victor.
- Victor: Campanula!
- Tottington: Victor, I have to know. Did it suffer?
- Victor: Of course not, my dear. [sotto] Not yet, anyway.
- Victor: [whispering] Listen, I don't want to cause any panic, but the beast isn't actually dead yet.
- Mactinosh: [speaking through megaphone] THE BEAST ISN'T ACTUALLY DEAD YET?! [everyone turns around and hear what he said, all shocked] Oops!
- Something wicked this way hops.
- Something bunny is going on.
- [near Wallace] "Master", [near Gromit] "Mind"
- Cracking cheese, Gromit!
- Peter Sallis — Wallace / Hutch
- Helena Bonham Carter — Lady Campanula Tottington
- Ralph Fiennes — Lord Victor Quartermaine
- Peter Kay — PC McIntosh
- Nicholas Smith — Reverend Clement Hedges
- Edward Kelsey - Mr. Growbag
External links[edit]
- Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit quotes at the Internet Movie Database
- The official Wallace & Gromit in The Curse of the Were-Rabbit site


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What is an on-line retail store? Silly question. It's a place where people can buy things on the Internet, you say. But what is it? A deliberately created environment which causes a customer to want to purchase. Shopping relates a great deal to environment, and the intricate experience of desiring, deciding, and taking action. Think of shopping as a customer experience rather than a transaction and you begin get the picture.
When I walk into a local store what do I see? What do I feel? What do I touch? What do I hear? The cushiness of the carpet has something to do with my perception of quality and value. The way aisles are arranged, the lighting, the gentle music, the friendly clerk who asks if I need some help. It all flows together to create an impression, and a desire to either linger and look, or to leave as fast as possible.
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On the Internet, Web pages are the store, the entire interface between customer and shop owner. Do the graphics make you feel good about being there or jumpy? Does the balance of color and photos, text and white space look clean and inviting, like a floor that is mopped and buffed every night, and shelves, which are dusted and restocked after hours? Does the interface invite you to explore, or are you mystified to the point you do not have a clue where to go? What is the whole effect? How does it make you feel? If you have ever studied the psychology of advertising and purchasing, you know that feelings have a great deal to do with the whole process.
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Your customers can't ask a clerk questions about using the product ' not in real-time, at least ' but they can find lots of applications information posted in your Web store which gives them confidence to buy from you rather than from the corresponding "real" store in their city, where they are used to asking for an explanation before purchasing.
How about end-caps, those retail display marvels that help move products arrayed there? On-line you can include small rotating banner ads that attract people to your specials ' that's how Wal-Mart does it.
A feeling of safety and confidence is important, too. That is one of the reasons you include an "About Our Company" Web page that tells about your business, your experience in the field, your membership in various organizations, and perhaps a photo or two. Part of feeling secure is feeling like you know the people with whom you are doing business. A physical shop might display a Chamber of Commerce plaque or a symbol of the Better Business Bureau. Your Web store shows the logo of organizations you belong to for the same reason -- to inspire the trust and confidence so essential to wanting to purchase in your store.
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Convenience and selection are the main reasons people have entered your store, after all. Use the Web technology of shopping cart ordering and sales systems to make your site ultra convenient for your customers. The software notes their selections, collects shipping and credit information, calculates tax and shipping, issues a receipt, and is fast. Sure, it costs something, but you would need a cash register if you set up shop in the local strip mall, would you not? While Web stores are probably closer to catalog shopping than physical store shopping, they can be more convenient than either ' if you plan it that way.
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The yum grouplist command can identify available package groups from the configured repositories. However, through a terminal window, the list is considerable when the language support is factored into the equation. For a Linux CentOS 6.4 x86_64 install, there are 206 package groups. Here are a few commands that may help.
To determine the number of package groups that exist. Piping the result of yum grouplist through the wc ("word count") command, results in 206. If the space is not accounted for, then the number will be 214, which includes the descriptions of the groups as well as done.
yum grouplist | grep '^[[:space:]]' | wc -l
Modifying the above command so that only the lines that include a "]" will be counted, result in 123. The groups that contain a "]" are all language groups.
yum grouplist | grep '^[[:space:]]' | grep ']' | wc -l
Modifying the previous command so that only the lines that do NOT include a "]" will be counted, result in 83. The groups that do NOT contain a "]" are should not be language groups.
yum grouplist | grep '^[[:space:]]' | grep -v ']' | wc -l
The logic is confirmed that only packages that contain a "]" are language packages by the numbers determined above. 206 (total groups) = 123 (language groups) + 83 (other groups)
To list group packages that do NOT contain language groups, a command from above without piping through the wc command will do the trick.
yum grouplist | grep '^[[:space:]]' | grep -v ']'
The purpose of the above commands was to get an accurate count of packages, as well as, display the list. There is an easier command to list group packages that are not language groups, however, including lines such as "Available Groups:"
yum grouplist | grep -v ']'
The result of this command may look like this
Loaded plugins: fastestmirror, security
Setting up Group Process
Loading mirror speeds from cached hostfile
Installed Groups:
Additional Development
Console internet tools
Debugging Tools
Desktop Debugging and Performance Tools
Desktop Platform
Directory Client
E-mail server
General Purpose Desktop
Graphical Administration Tools
Hardware monitoring utilities
Java Platform
Large Systems Performance
Legacy UNIX compatibility
Legacy X Window System compatibility
NFS file server
Network Infrastructure Server
Network file system client
Networking Tools
Performance Tools
Perl Support
Scientific support
Server Platform
Web Server
X Window System
Installed Language Groups:
Available Groups:
Backup Client
Backup Server
CIFS file server
Client management tools
Compatibility libraries
Desktop Platform Development
Development tools
Dial-up Networking Support
Directory Server
FCoE Storage Client
FTP server
Graphics Creation Tools
High Availability
High Availability Management
Identity Management Server
Infiniband Support
Input Methods
Internet Applications
Internet Browser
KDE Desktop
Load Balancer
Mainframe Access
Messaging Client Support
MySQL Database client
MySQL Database server
Network Storage Server
Office Suite and Productivity
PHP Support
PostgreSQL Database client
PostgreSQL Database server
Print Server
Printing client
Remote Desktop Clients
Resilient Storage
Ruby Support
SNMP Support
Scalable Filesystems
Security Tools
Server Platform Development
Smart card support
Storage Availability Tools
System Management
System administration tools
Systems Management Messaging Server support
TeX support
Technical Writing
TurboGears application framework
Virtualization Client
Virtualization Platform
Virtualization Tools
Web Servlet Engine
Web-Based Enterprise Management
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Tastes like pencil eraser. That's what chef Rich Landau thought the first time he tried tofu at a bad Chinese restaurant. Landau and his wife, Kate Jacoby, own and operate Horizons, Philadelphia's first all-vegan restaurant. Such was Landau's distaste for tofu (which is made from soybeans; three ounces has as much protein as an egg), he didn't put it on the menu when he first opened 15 years ago. "I thought tofu would be like the evil icon of vegetarianism," he said. He wanted to elevate vegetarian cooking from its healthy and boring reputation to fine gourmet dining. "We didn't want to be these '70s hippies: pot smoking, listening to the Grateful Dead, parting the beads and [inviting you to] come try my vegan chili."
In November, Landau proved he's achieved that goal: he's the first vegan chef to be invited to cook an all-vegan dinner at the illustrious James Beard House in Manhattan, joining the ranks of chefs like Daniel Boulud, Nobu Matsuhisa, and Charlie Trotter. For the main course, Landau prepared "peppercorn-seared tofu with creamed leek and truffled parsnip purée, salt-roasted golden beets, hazelnuts, and apple cider vinegar reduction." "It was the highlight of the evening!" Landau's wife wrote in an email to Maclean's. "We just kept working with it and working with it and now tofu is probably my favourite thing in the world," Landau said on the phone, explaining his change of heart. "As anyone who cooks meat will tell you, you can't just boil it and make it taste good. The same goes for tofu."
To prepare the tofu, which is Horizons' signature dish, Landau lets it rest on a plate for 20 minutes. "It will release some of its water. That's all I really do. I don't press it." Next, he marinates it in a brine of water, lemon, rosemary, garlic, peppercorns, olive oil and sherry vinegar. The tofu is then coated in a spice blend of "salt and pepper and garlic flakes, and lots of seeds like caraway, fennel and coriander. But the real key is searing the tofu in neutral oil on high heat," he says. "You get a beautiful golden crust. There's not a lot of fat you're taking on by pan-searing it like this. It's just a beautiful texture and it eats beautifully, too."
Bestselling cookbook author Mollie Katzen doesn't press her tofu either, she tells Maclean's. She suspects the pressing may be the discouraging step that deters many home cooks from eating it. "The main method given in most cookbooks is to literally put a brick on it overnight. There's something about that pressing step that has people thinking, 'Oh my God, that's too much work.' " Her method for getting water out of tofu "is simply to boil it first," she says. "When you're done simmering it, it's firmer. I have a recipe in my new cookbook [Get Cooking] that is my absolute favourite go-to way of making tofu. I use za'atar, a Middle Eastern spice, and then cook it in a Louisiana-blackening style which is very high-heat but no oil to get it really crisp on the outside. I'm using a cheap old cast iron skillet. I give specific instructions in my cookbook that I want everybody to get themselves a short, metal-bladed spatula, a thin metal blade. You assertively get under that tofu and you go for separating everything that's food from everything that's pan. No oil. But you've got to get the pan hot enough. Heat is going to be your key. Usually texture is the big sacrifice with tofu but in this case, it's the banner. It's very crispy."
In Toronto, restaurateur Ruth Tal of the Fresh chain of vegan restaurants knows how popular crispy tofu can be. Two months ago when the restaurant changed its menu and removed the "ninja bowl," a dish featuring the restaurant's beloved "crispy tofu cubes," uprising ensued: "We had a huge backlash."
The crispy tofu is "kind of KFC-ish," says Tal. It's coated in a dry blend of nutritional yeast, wheat germ and garlic powder and then deep-fried like French fries. "We couldn't reprint all the menus but we've had to bring it back as a daily special," she says. "We had an onslaught of emails. Some of the customers were downright pissed, saying, 'How could you? If you don't put it back on the menu, I'm not coming and neither is my mother!' "
Tal says the chain has "always set out to battle the stereotype that vegetarian food is bland and boring and people who like it are alternative. We want to seduce people with really good-tasting stuff but it's not like we went to KFC and said we've got to copy this flavour. I think it's the nutritional yeast. It has a very pungent, savoury flavour. It's really, really tasty. People write and say, 'Oh my God, you changed my life. I had the crispy tofu.' "


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Friday, December 19, 2008
I Got The Second Interview!
Boyfriend and I had already started our Friday celebration early in light of the huge snowstorm so I missed a call on my cell phone. But guess what the happy message left for me said? I have been called in to a second interview on Tuesday with the Big Big Boss. I think (cross fingers) this means I am the final candidate for the position. I should have known my new power suit would bring me luck. Back to celebrating my good fortune!
10 comments:
- laughing808 said...
congrats, on landing the second interview.......hope you get the job!
- December 19, 2008 at 4:59 PM
- Miss M said...
Congratulations, definitely good news. A new outfit always gives you confidence. I hope you get the job.
- December 19, 2008 at 6:37 PM
Word up! Just walk in, ask them for a pen, and then where you should sign ;) it's all YOU baby.
- December 19, 2008 at 8:48 PM
- Shtinkykat said...
Hurray for the second interview. And good for you for getting a nice haircut and outfit for yourself just in time with your windfall money. All is well in Sallie's world for Christmas. :-D
- December 20, 2008 at 11:24 AM
- paisley penguin said...
Congratulations and good luck!
- December 21, 2008 at 11:23 AM
- Unknown said...
Yeah! Congrats on the 2nd interview! Can't wait to hear about the closing and accepting handshake!
- December 21, 2008 at 8:10 PM
wheeeee! nice job.
- December 22, 2008 at 10:14 AM
- Anny said...
Oooh! Good luck!!!
- December 23, 2008 at 3:53 PM
How did your second interview go?
- December 24, 2008 at 11:12 AM
- Sallie's Niece said...
I think it went well. I don't know. I was a little over confident thinking this interview was just a formality but now I think maybe there's a 50/50 chance I got it. It's a little stressful!
- December 26, 2008 at 10:28 AM


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As expected, Journey has released a brand-new single called "The Way We Used to Be," along with a companion animated video.
The song is available now as a digital download and via streaming services, and you can check out the video now at the band's official YouTube channel.
"The Way We Used to Be" is the first new song Journey has released since 2011, and the first made with the band's recently revamped lineup, which includes new members Narada Michael Walden on drums and Jason Derlatka on keyboards and backing vocals, as well as bassist Randy Jackson, who previously played with the group during the mid-1980s.
Founding guitarist Neal Schon says the idea for the new song began as one of the jams he'd been coming up with and posting online during the COVID-19 pandemic.
"I laid down the keyboard loop with over-dubbed rhythm and a little blues lead guitar and sent to [longtime Journey keyboardist] Jonathan [Cain]," Schon explains. "He sent it back very shortly after with demo vocals and lyrics and I said to myself with a smile — we've still got it!"
Neal adds, "I felt Jonathan nailed the lyrics and melody with haunting chorus 'got to get back' — 'to the way we used to be.' So this was the complete new beginning chapter for Journey — many more follow the same sequence with all of us collectively writing and working together."
Schon also reveals that the band's written "over 26 songs" that they plan to whittle down "to 10 or 12" for a new album they're recording.
The video for "The Way We Used to Be" follows a young couple who are forced to be apart because of the pandemic, but reunite when the health crisis ends and attend a celebratory Journey stadium concert.
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I want to draw attention to Aaron Sibarium's superb Washington Free Beacon column "How Critical Race Theory Led to Kendi." It actually illuminates the phenomenon of CRT as we find it manifested everywhere in our institutions. Christopher Rufo has doggedly documented the metastasis of this cancer (the link is to Rufo's City Journal columns).
Sibarium's column struck a personal chord with me. He links to and quotes from Alan Freeman's 1978 Minnesota Law Review article "Legitimizing Racial Discrimination through Antidiscrimination law: A Critical Review of Supreme Court Doctrine." My last semester in law school I was a student in Professor Freeman's Civil Rights course.
I had been hired to clerk for Eighth Circuit Judge Myron Bright after graduation. Judge Bright asked me to take the course in federal civil rights law because civil rights cases were to be among my primary responsibility in my work for him.
Professor Freeman was an early proponent of Critical Legal Studies and its CRT variant. He was a frank Marxist and persistent critic of Supreme Court jurisprudence that he asserted gave with one hand what it took away with the other. He taught all the leading cases interpreting 42 U.S.C section 1983 and the related Eleventh Amendment jurisprudence — the Supreme Court had just decided the Monell case — but this was perhaps the leading theme of the course.
His remarks in class prompted my interest in his utopia. One morning after class I asked him if he would join me for coffee in the Riverbend Cafeteria then adjacent to the law school. In the course of our somewhat stilted conversation I asked him what country he would hold out as his real-world model. He said with only slight hesitation: "North Korea."
That was memorable. I certainly had no answer to it. I've thought about it a lot since CRT has emerged into national controversy. Professor Freeman, by the way, moved on to Buffalo Law School and died way too young at the age of 51.