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Much like my fellow Buncher Vicky and her visit to Ho Modern Vietnamese, I too need to confess to cheating on the Boozy Bunch at a boozy brunch without them (*gasp*). I'd like to think of it as giving the place a test run though!
The place in question was one of the several interesting new openings on Broadgate Circle: The Botanist. I'd thought it was a gin bar from the name but it's actually part bar, mostly restaurant (and I'm told also a club downstairs?!). It looks fairly unappealing on a weekday, forcing you to wade through hordes of city-workers drinking outside, but on a sunny Saturday when the City's deserted it's far more welcoming.
It took me a while to find the door (you'll understand when you get there yourself) by which time I'd missed the 'SURPRISE!' part of the surprise birthday brunch my friend's husband had organised for her. Doh. Better than getting there at the same time as them and ruining it though, no?!
Inside it's a modern-looking brasserie decorated with lots of dark wooden furniture and quite dimly-lit (which is err the excuse for the lighting in my photos), with a large curved bar counter in the centre. I wouldn't say it has a very memorable identity, though the one decor item that does stick in my mind is the large stuffed swan(?) hanging over the staircase down to the toilets. Bizarre. We took a while to settle down given there was an extremely cute baby to be cooed over, before she was handed over to daddy and sent packing so mummy could enjoy her return to the alcohol scene for the first time since giving birth. Eventually the harassed-looking server managed to get us all to sit down and look at the menu, and the prosecco clock could start ticking!
The bottomless brunch menu struck me as very good value, particularly once I'd seen how generous the portions were. It's two courses for £20, three for £25, and an extra £15 for unlimited Prosecco, Mimosas or Bloody Mary's for two hours while you brunch. There are about 5 or 6 broadly British/European choices for each course. We started with some delicious warm sourdough bread, and most of us opted for the straight prosecco option on the drinks.
Starters were a good sign that they weren't going to skimp on the portion sizes; I went for the Eggs Florentine which still had a lovely oozy yolk that was a happy bright yellow. Others went for less breakfast-themed options such as Crispy Squid with Sriracha Mayo or Shrimp and Bacon Croquettes.
This was followed a pot of the biggest mussels I'd ever seen for my main course. They were delicious, tender and well-cooked, flavoured with garlic, white wine and cream. I don't think I found a single closed shell in the whole pot. I didn't get the chance to feel too smug as the other choices looked quite impressive too, judging the popular (and giant) salmon fishcake by its appearance.
Our happy ending came in the form of sticky toffee pudding, which was drowning in plenty of butterscotch sauce just how I like it, ensuring the sponge was nicely moist. The cornflake milk ice cream had sadly capsized as they put my plate down but otherwise the presentation was pretty, particularly the rhubarb cheesecake which arrived deconstructed (i.e. looking nothing like cheesecake). Sadly they'd run out of the dark chocolate torte that the birthday girl wanted but they did bring out a specially decorated treacle tart for her (which the rest of us got to eat).
And what about the bubbles, I hear you ask?! A crucial variable for any boozy brunch as the Bunch well know. Well the top-ups were sadly a little slow to begin with, but they soon picked up – as did the volume of the giggles around the table. Our lovely server also more than made up for the slow start at the end when he acknowledged that they hadn't started pouring right from our booking time – which was entirely our fault for all the hello hugs and faff time – and carried on pouring for another half hour to give us a full slot. What a star!
There were a couple of other nice service touches – they were attentive in offering mocktails to the non-drinker next to me with each round of bubbles. At the end of the slot our waiter also arranged a table on the other side of the bar where we could finish up our drinks (probably hoping we'd stay and order more!) but I liked that we could move here then each go up individually to pay our bills. Much better than everyone staying sat at the table for the interminable wait for the card machine to go round.
Overall this was a decent value prosecco-fuelled brunch in swish (if not particularly memorable) surroundings, that might just see the City getting a little bit more action on the weekends…
Food: ★★★★☆
Service: ★★★★★
Atmosphere: ★★★☆☆
Value: ★★★★☆
Overall: ★★★★☆
The Botanist
Broadgate Circle, London EC2M 2QS


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Reader, perhaps like me, you're an NPR fan.
In addition to being one of America's most trusted news sources, the network has rich, thoughtful entertainment programming for car enthusiasts, musicians, story lovers, comedy aficionados, cooks, and a multitude of other hobbyists. It's locally funded (mostly), objective, smart, and enjoys a fine tote bag. Being public radio, the vast majority of its capital is donated directly from listeners. NPR stations conduct pledge drives several times per year to finance their operations. We all love pledge drives.**
**We do not all love pledge drives.
In the Portland area, NPR content is provided by KOPB-FM, and unless I'm listening to a CD**, it's what I've got playing in my car most of the time. On programming breaks, a voice will say: "Support for OPB comes from our members–thank you–and from the (insert name of the program's sponsor and a little blurb explaining said sponsor's mission)." Depending on how long I spend driving, I can hear this announcement several times per day.
**Yes, a CD. I do have a digital library and own an iPod and all that jazz, but I still have a great deal of affection for physical media, and when I'm purchasing a full album, I'm almost guaranteed to buy the disc rather than the digital download.
Of course, I had an NPR station in my home city, Rochester. And the employees of that station are committed and hard-working, and I'm sure they're very grateful for the support they receive. But there's one difference I noticed right away: I like that OPB makes a point of thanking its members each and every time it even mentions them. It's a pocket-sized touch that continually reminds us that, especially in 2017, we're all in this together.
I leave you with this song, Reader, which I share frequently, and is one of my favorite things.

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The idea of moving out of the family home and into a smaller house or flat is not an easy one to embrace for many older people.
Of course they'll be glad to be shot of the worries and expense of maintenance, the draughts, the overgrown garden; but in many cases this home is the cradle of many decades of memories, familiarity and comfort. There's space for the family to visit, and old friends down the road.
My mum is a classic case. She took five years to come round to the idea of downsizing from her Cornish home of almost 30 years to a two-bedroom flat in a so-called 'retirement village' in Hertfordshire; she has never looked back since moving, but it was a huge, traumatic step to take.
Sizing up the downsizing dilemma
Now the government, as it has recently made clear in its white paper on the problems of the UK's housing market, is targeting greater willingness to downsize on the part of retirees as a key aspect of the longer-term solution to the shortage of homes.
At a macro level it certainly makes sense. Larger homes are desperately needed by younger families.
And they tend to be underutilised by their present occupants: new research by the think-tank International Longevity Centre UK (ILC-UK) has found that almost nine in 10 of the 65-79 age group live in homes they don't fully use, while half have two or more bedrooms empty.
In micro-economic terms, too, there's a valid argument. Many older people have far more wealth tied up in their properties than readily available in cash or investments; downsizing will give them easy access to the funds they need for a more comfortable retirement, and perhaps down the line for long-term care.
An action plan to fund long-term care
However, while the government's white paper acknowledged the 'many barriers to people moving out of family homes' and has committed to 'finding sustainable solutions to any problems that come to light', it didn't provide much in the way of flesh on the bones of the downsizing proposition.
It's a complex issue. With a potential retirement housing gap of 160,000 homes by 2030, according to the ILC-UK's findings, one strand is undoubtedly going to involve encouraging housebuilders to build more of the kinds of homes older people want to live in.
Another aspect should arguably involve making the process of downsizing less traumatic. As anyone who has ever been through the mill of property purchase will testify, moving home is a nightmarishly stressful experience, up there with divorce and bereavement.
Many elderly people are understandably reluctant to put themselves through that again without a very good reason.
Commentators have also suggested that older people might be more incentivised to sell up if they didn't have to fork out on stamp duty for the next purchase.
Of course, the big assumption underlying most commentary is that downsizing means buying another property. Why is that?
Home ownership is deeply engrained in the British psyche, and for many people the idea of going back to paying rent is absolute anathema after decades spent paying off the mortgage and is seen as 'pouring money down the drain'.
But the reality is that renting in retirement doesn't have to be insecure. It's possible for older homeowners to sell up and rent on an assured tenancy.
This gives them the right to stay in the property for as long as they wish (in contrast to an assured shorthand tenancy, which works on the basis of a fixed term, often as little as six months).
Girlings Retirement Rentals is one specialist in this area, with properties all over the country available on assured tenancies.
Moreover, renting brings certain big advantages under the umbrella of flexibility.
How much easier it would be, for example, to up sticks and move home if you wanted to relocate nearer to the grandchildren, or decided you fancied a different - maybe more urban - type of retirement in a different corner of the country, or wanted to see what it felt like to live beside the sea.
For many older people, particularly those without much in the way of additional investments, there is also the enormous benefit of access to a meaty lump sum.
If you rent, you don't have to plough it back into another illiquid property; instead you could reinvest it to provide an income that would at least partially cover your rent, and might supplement your pension too.
And if in due course you did need residential care, the money would be readily available to pay for it.
I'm well aware that the idea of renting in retirement will seem a pretty retrograde step to many Money Observer readers on first consideration, but maybe it should be more widely considered as one of the options on the downsizing menu. It could turn out to be a surprisingly appetising prospect.
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In the Media
Major Land Acquisition in Sierra Announced
Sunday, November 18, 2012, San Jose Mercury News
About 3,000 acres of scenic backcountry in the Sierra Nevada north of Truckee will be permanently protected under a deal announced by two conservation groups.
Sierra conservation groups complete $8M deal to protect Webber Lake, Lacey Meadows
Friday, November 16, 2012, Sierra Sun
The Truckee Donner Land Trust and The Trust for Public Land, working together as part of the Northern Sierra Partnership, announced today the permanent protection of Webber Lake and Lacey Meadows, an
Placer supes back Royal Gorge purchase plan with $300,000
Thursday, October 25, 2012, Auburn Journal
Placer County is pledging $300,000 to a Truckee Donner Land Trust purchase of the 2,891-acre Royal Gorge Cross Country Ski Resort property near Soda Springs.
MYSTERY MUSICAL EXPERIENCE | A fundraiser to benefit Royal Gorge acquisition
Sunday, September 23, 2012, Sierra Sun
A "mystery" location has been chosen for a very special concert to benefit the Truckee Donner Land Trust for the acquisition of Royal Gorge properties. On Sunday, Sept. 23, be prepared for a unique an
Done Deal - Almost
Friday, August 10, 2012, Moonshine Ink
The Truckee Donner Land Trust has agreed to buy a huge portion of Donner Summit and open it up for activities that could include not only skiing, but also mountain biking, backpacking, and perhaps eve
Donner Summit deal by Land Trusts
Monday, August 6, 2012, San Francisco Chronicle
The Trust for Public Land and Truckee Donner Land Trust reached an agreement last week with a court-appointed negotiator to purchase the 3,000-acre Royal Gorge property at Donner Summit after a propos
Conservation groups to buy Royal Gorge property for $11.25M
Monday, August 6, 2012, Sierra Sun
Conservation groups are hailing it as the most significant Sierra Nevada land acquisition "in our lifetimes."
Hundreds join Northern Sierra Partnership at Independence Lake Preserve for celebration
Tuesday, July 24, 2012, Sierra Sun
The Northern Sierra Partnership (NSP) welcomed more than 200 members of the public to Independence Lake Preserve on July 7 for the inaugural celebration of the Partnership's conservation work in the n
Trails and Vistas announces signature Tahoe Truckee art hikes on Sept. 8 and 9, 2012
Thursday, July 12, 2012, Sac Bee
Trails and Vistas announces "The Dreaming Tree" art hikes with views of the Sierra Nevada on Saturday, September 8 and Sunday, September 9, 2012 at Donner Ski Ranch, just ten minutes from Truckee
Lake Mary Cabin Dinners Return
Wednesday, June 20, 2012, Reno Gazette Journal
The Lake Mary Cabin Dinner Series returns to Donner Summit and Sugar Bowl this summer, starting July 22.


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It's hard to tell whether this beautiful moment is the calm before the storm, or the consolation after it. Colors melt and twist into thin air, becoming nothing, leaving only a searing mark in the back of your eyes for a millionth of a second. Everything has been flipped, and it is agonizing to come back down when our aim has been on the sky above. Even seeds accidentally planted leave a shadow once they are grown.
There aren't any words to define this feeling, so we combine pictures and poetry and music until it seems to make a tiny bit of sense. This time, we strive not to explain it to others, but to make sense to ourselves.


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Van's Aircraft has developed an Angle of Attack (AOA) installation kit for the RV-12. All owners of RV- 12s are strongly encouraged to purchase and install the kit (Order: RV-12 AOA RETRO KIT). The kit is inexpensive and simple, using a single open rivet strategically positioned on the wing leading edge to function as a pressure source for AOA computation and display. The kit will work to display AOA on the D-180, SkyView, and G3X EFIS systems. Kits or flying airplanes with the pre-2012 VA-262 Terminal Tab electrical connectors between the wing and fuselage will require an upgrade to the current connectors (Order: 12 WING WIRE CONNECT). Parts to install the AOA will be included in Finish kits shipped from February 1, 2017.
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I don't know about you guys, but I am having a great day today! Work went by really fast. It's the start of a new year. I get to see Morgan & exchange Christmas gifts in 2 days. I'm drinking a white chocolate mocha. & I'm about to start a new book.
I hope you guys started out the New Year on the right foot also! Do any of you have some New Year's resolutions? If so, I hope you work hard at them every day & achieve them at the end of the year.! If not, you're not alone. I don't have any resolutions. I always start out the year thinking I will have a list of things I want to accomplish, & then when I give up or forget a couple weeks into the year, I feel like a failure. Nobody wants to feel like that! So this year I wanted to start the year with a new idea in mind. Something that is different from the norm …
New Year's Improvements.
I have some things in my life that I want & need to improve. I like the sound of "improving" something because; if I miss a day I won't feel like a complete failure and think I have to wait til January 1 of next year to begin again, I can just work harder the next day at improving whatever I missed the day before.
So I want to share a couple of the things I plan to improve as this year begins:
1. My spiritual life. I think this is one of the most important things in your life to keep up with and it can improve each day – so I hope to be in the Word more and learning more about the things I don't know.
2. My workout routine. I have a hard time staying motivated when I just go to the gym and have to work out on my own. I enjoy workout classes but I haven't found a place that works with my work schedule. I went to a dance fitness studio for a long time and saw results in no time, but the class times don't work with my schedule. But, I just joined Planet Fitness last week {mainly because of the tanning hahaha…not kidding} so hopefully I will start improving! I also joined a fitness challenge group through Facebook that my cousin is doing & she got results and has really motivated me to get my booty going!
3. My eating habits. I am allergic to many foods and it's hard to stay away from them. I need to plan my meals better and eat healthier foods. I loooove sweets…like omg haha. I could live off of sweet foods. But I need to up my fruit & veggie intake. So if you have some good snack ideas with fruits & veggies – send them my way!
4. My savings account. {LOL}. This is definitely something that needs improvement. I think it is important to have money saved in case of a medical emergency, car problems, or when you wanna buy 100 things for your boyfriend for Christmas…lol. So yeah, this one will be top of the improvement list!
5. My blog. I love reading other people's blogs - I get so many good ideas and inspirations. You can also learn a lot about someone through their blog. I love to learn about someone and their background through their blog. So, I am hoping to improve my audience and the amount of people that I reach through my blog & hope to be an inspiration.
6. My health. Along with the working out and eating habits, I could also improve other things about my health. My sleep schedule is not good lol. I like to stay up late and then I either get up early & I'm exhausted, or I sleep in and waste half my day. So I need to work out getting a good amount of sleep each night. I also need to start taking vitamins. I don't take any vitamins right now - except maybe some vitamin C when I feel a cold coming on lol. So I have been doing some research on the best type of vitamins to take.
7. My anxiety. Anxiety is something that I have a major problem with and need to improve. I started out today, the new year, with no anxiety yet so I am hoping that means the rest of the year will be just as good! Now I know my anxiety isn't just going to go away & I'll never struggle again, but I am hoping to really understand my anxiety and prove to myself that I won't let it eat me away and make 2017 a miserable year.
So there is my short little list for now. There are many other things I could improve in my life but I think that is a good start for now so I don't overload myself. I am always open to suggestions or tips on these things and would love to hear them if you guys have any advice. I am super excited to get going on the fitness challenge tomorrow and see the results. I am going to Florida in March so I REALLY need to stay committed to this!
I hope you guys have some things that you are thinking about as the year is starting and whatever your goals may be that you go after them and just blow yourself away with the results that you get!
YOU GO GIRL! {or guy lol}.
Love ya'll & hope to hear tips & tricks for my improvements from you soon.!


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Actor Ian Somerhalder is set to make his directorial debut on an upcoming episode of his hit show The Vampire Diaries.
The TV star will take charge of the 16th episode in season six next year (15), according to TVLine.com.
Details surrounding the episode are under wraps, but Somerhalder is excited about his upcoming duties.
In a message on Instagram.com, the former Lost star writes, "Thank you to all involved in the decision-making process for giving me the opportunity to do this - I am so grateful. I'll do my very verry (sic) very best not to screw it up."


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Rug Cleaning Tech (RCT)
Professional cleaners are raving about it:
· "It's a whole new level of technical training. A complete rug cleaning plant!"
· "Never dreamed I could make so much money with so little investment!"
· "$3.00 per square foot for rug cleaning sure beats 20-30¢ per ft2 for carpet cleaning any day!"
· "Top-notch instructing made this the best IICRC-approved course ever."
· "It's the most practical, hands-on course I've ever attended; we cleaned and dried 22 rugs in class."
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Time to Diversify . . . or Die!
IICRC-approved Rug Cleaning Technician (RCT) certification. Why? Consumers are turning to more wood and tile flooring in living areas. But there's a saying in Dalton, GA: "Put down a hard floor and within 48 hours, there'll be a rug on top of it!" For this reason, as of 2007, area rugs have reached 26% of total carpet production, and it's still climbing.
Hey, don't know about you, but by far I'd rather clean a rug in my facility on my time schedule for $3.00-6.00 per ft2, than drive to a home or business, and set up and clean wall-to-wall carpet for 20-40¢ per ft2. That's $324-$648 to clean a single 9×12 rug in less than an hour!
RCT Features Not One But Two Top Industry Instructors
Clean Care Seminars' RCT course features the industry's leading columnist, author and instructor, Jeff Bishop. He has over 50 years experience in rug cleaning. If he can't answer your questions, no one can!
Rugs of every conceivable type and kind for practical rug ID
Clean Care's RCT course includes rugs of every conceivable type and kind for practical rug ID. Students learn to inspect and identify natural and synthetics, cotton, sisal, wool, alpaca, silk, nylon, olefin, polyester, acrylic rugs and samples – you name it!
RCT covers complete cleaning of natural (wool, silk, cotton, linen, coir, sisal) and synthetic (rayon, nylon, polyester, olefin) fibers, weaving, hand-knotting and tufting; dyeing; rug types and identification; cleaning techniques ranging from minimum-moisture to total-immersion; fringe cleaning, blocking and minor repairs. This is the industry's only hands-on rug cleaning course, which has featured demonstrations of hooked, Flokati, Dhurrie, Kelim, Oriental and designer rugs provided by students. We typically clean 20+ rugs in every course! *Prerequisites for RCT exam are CCT or CMT and UFT.
Rug Cleaning Problems Solved (with Live Demonstrations)!
Students also get to see demonstrations of color fastness testing, actual animal urine removal and 3 methods of fringe cleaning. You'll learn to identify all major types of oriental and specialty rugs. The course features 10 cleaning methods including complete immersion cleaning in a rug bath.
Dynamic PowerPoint and Wide-screen Videos!
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Everyone is welcome at this industry-exclusive course; in fact, we guarantee that you'll be a much better on-location cleaner after this course. But to take the IICRC-approved RCT certification exam* following the instruction, you must already have current IICRC certifications* in residential or commercial carpet cleaning (CCT or CMT) and Upholstery and Fabric Cleaning (UFT). Registration fee includes the entire three-day hands-on course, student manual, inspection forms, and lunches each day. The IICRC RCT $50 exam fee is separate and payable to IICRC at the end of the course.
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If you have a moment, say prayers for our friend Mike V. over at Columbus and the Valley magazine.
He writes here on his blog about a recurrence of cancer.
He is one tough dude--but still, most of us know what bad medical news looks like. Or at least uncertain news.
He's such a great writer, but I'm sad for the occasion that led to this post.
Hang in there, Mikey. We've got your back.


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so let me just say that as soon as i FINALLY put the finishing touches on the update i am for-real, i-swear wrapping up for 11.16, i'll put some kind of emergency "HOLY SHIT IT'S FINISHED" link at the top of the page. i mean, it's not going to be GOOD when all is said and done, but it will at least be finished and i'll be able to die unhappy. for right now, however, we'll have to settle for running with a moderately more current update in which we examine the creepy behavior of the Washington Post columnist Richard Cohen. he's talking about Skyfall… or Daniel Craig… or something vaguely related to it for some reason…
Richard Cohen: his creepy face is helping to take this article to a whole new level
so, to be honest, i really don't understand this concept based on the title alone, because a) i have always operated under the premise that James Bond was supposed to be a sex symbol and b) on first glance, there's nothing "new" about the current Bond's sex appeal: he's a good-looking secret agent who fucks all the ladies WELL and murders all the evil guys. this is pretty much the formula we've been running with since the beginning of James Bond, if i am not mistaken. but, okay, let's indulge this conceit and climb into the article:
"In the new James Bond movie, "Skyfall," Daniel Craig takes off his shirt and examines his wounds. There appear to be two of them — small holes on his skin from bullets fired at the beginning of the movie. He touches his wounds and winces. So do I. Bond is in pain from his wounds. I am in pain from all the hours he has spent in the gym."
so i am GUESSING this is going in the direction of "i find the good looks of Daniel Craig distressing for some reason," unless i am supposed to believe that Richard Cohen has some kind of weird Gamera-Asagi bond with Daniel Craig that results in him being injured whenever Craig is injured. in fact, that IS what i now choose to believe. throw that more reasonable assumption right out the damn window for this new train of pure ridiculousness!
"This Bond ripples with muscles. Craig is 44, but neither gravity nor age has done its evil work on him. Nothing about him looks natural, relaxed — a man in the prime of his life and enjoying it. Instead, I see a man chasing youth on a treadmill, performing sets and reps, a clean and press, a weighted knee raise, an incline pushup and, finally, something called an incline pec fly (don't ask). I take these terms from the Daniel Craig Workout, which you can do, too, if your agent and publicist so insist. Otherwise, I recommend a book."
at this point, i guess i have to go back to my "Richard Cohen's jealous rage" theory, which DOES make more sense than anything involving Gamera, but there appear to be two major flaws in Cohen's reasoning already:
01. that's there's something WRONG with a 44-year-old man running on a treadmill, lifting weights and doing other exercises to stay in shape. look, 44 years of age is NOT the prime of your life and you CAN enjoy keeping yourself fit. that's how you fight the gravity and age! i understand if the average guy doesn't have the means or time for that level of workout, but let's not act like it's INCONCEIVABLE;
02. that Daniel Craig's workout for the movies doesn't involve steroids in the way that the workout of every single actor who makes action movies where his shirt comes off does.
""Skyfall" is a lot of fun — don't get me wrong — but it still says something about our culture that, in the autumn of my years, I do not like."
you're right, Cohen, let's pause to briefly note whether or not the movie we're talking about is any good. that can't be of more than minimal importance.
"To appreciate what I mean, contrast this new Bond to Roger O. Thornhill, the charmingly hapless advertising man played by Cary Grant in "North by Northwest." Like Bond, Thornhill pulls off some amazing physical feats — his mad frantic escape from the crop duster, the traverse of Mount Rushmore — and like Bond he wears an expensive suit."
this is a WEIRD comparison for a couple of reasons:
01. North By Northwest is a 1959 film, whereas the first real James Bond film came out in 1962. so wouldn't a more accurate reflection of the difference between culture then and culture now be to, i don't know, COMPARE JAMES BONDS?
02. James Bond is an action star, first and foremost; i don't know what exactly you call Thornhill, but i know you don't call him an action star.
"Unlike Bond, though, when he takes it off we do not see some marbleized man, an ersatz creation of some trainer, but a fit man, effortlessly athletic and just as effortlessly sophisticated. Of course, he knows his martinis, but he also knows how to send out a suit for swift hotel cleaning. He is a man of the world. He is, in short, a man of a certain age — 55 at the time, to be more or less exact."
and using the COMPLETELY arbitrary age of 55 is important, you see, because Bond has never been 55. when they began to portray Bond, Connery was 32, Lazenby was 30, Moore was 46 (and remember, he was deemed TOO OLD to play Bond when Connery got the job), Dalton 41 or 43 (i don't know why Wikipedia thinks his age is considered debatable, but here we are) and Brosnan 42. so while they've been trending older with Bond (although more to chase long-wanted actors, i suspect).
i also don't understand the major distinction between "an ersatz creation of some trainer" and "a fit man, effortlessly athletic," since BOTH of these would seem to be the unreal example of manhood that Cohen is finding unfair, so the only thing i can think of is that he couldn't really argue Cary Grant wasn't good-looking and in shape, so he has to pretend that Cary Grant somehow has the looks and physique of an average man.
"In "North by Northwest" and other movies, Grant — for all his good looks — represented the triumph of the sexual meritocracy — a sex appeal won by experience and savoir-faire, not delts and pecs and other such things that any kid can have. He was not alone in this. Gary Cooper in "High Noon" wins Grace Kelly by strength of character, not muscles. He was about 50, and Kelly was a mere 23."
i suppose if it wasn't clear by now, Cohen's major complaint in this piece is that much younger women don't want to have sex with him, to which i can only say it sounds like much younger women are the wise ones in this whole discussion. he's right that Gary Cooper was about 51 when he was in High Noon, but somehow i suspect he's STILL not the spitting image of the average man, as well as having my doubts about Grace Kelly being all over him if there wasn't a paycheck involved. still, look at this level of delusion that finds someone continuing to argue that CARY FUCKING GRANT was a sexual icon because of his "savoir-faire" and not the dazzling looks. i have never heard my sibling remark on all the "experience" you can see on Cary Grant.
"Maybe the best example of the unmuscled hero is Humphrey Bogart in "Casablanca." Bogart was 15 years older than Ingrid Bergman and it did not matter at all."
because apparently what Bogart brings to the table is nothing more than "being old" and "having an unimpressive physique?"
"He had the experience, the confidence, the internal strength that can only come with age. As he did with Mary Astor in "The Maltese Falcon"— "I don't care who loves who, I won't play the sap for you" — he gives up the love of his life because age and wisdom have given him character. These older men seduce; they are not seduced. They make love. They do not score."
…jesus christ, Cohen, just buy one of those magazines where the girls ain't got no clothes on and take care of business, man.
seriously, though, here's the thing: Cohen is making a long-winded argument that he, not the robust muscles of Daniel Craig, possesses what used to make the loins of young women open freely. except if this is true, shouldn't he be sexually satisfied and thus NOT writing this bullshit in a major newspaper. and if he's not –and i presume this is the actual case– then doesn't that shoot his theory down? is the purpose of Hollywood to make movies that allow 50-plus-year-old men to more easily bang 20-year-olds? what about the ART, man?
"The new Bond is a zeitgeisty sort of character. "There has been a striking change in attitudes toward male body image in the past 30 years," Harrison Pope, a Harvard psychiatry professor, recently told the New York Times. He said the portrayal of men in what amounts to the Bond image is now "dramatically more prevalent in society than it was a generation ago.""
it is at this point that i will remind everyone that 50 years ago, a 32-year-old man with a trim physique played James Bond.
"That same Times story reported that 40 percent of middle and high school boys work out with the purpose of "increasing muscle mass." Many of them also use protein supplements."
but since we're talking about the change in the onscreen image of men in their 40s and 50s, what the hell does the fact that kids in middle-school want to increase their muscle mass have to do with that?
"This is all very sad news. Every rippling muscle is a book not read, a movie not seen or a conversation not held. That's why Sean Connery was my kind of Bond. He was 53 when he made his last Bond film, "Never Say Never Again." Women loved him because he was sophisticated and he could handle a maitre d' as well as a commie assassin. Western civilization was saved not on account of his pecs but on account of his cleverness and experience."
of course, as i JUST SAID, he was also 32 when he made his first Bond film and, let's be honest, he had pecs of note at the time. the "53 when he made his last Bond film" line is a scam, considering that Connery was essentially Bond for nine years –1962-1971, or ages 32-41– and then was lured out of retirement at age 53 to make that one non-Eon film Never Say Never Again at age 53. so you can see how a) ages 32-41 is clearly more indicative of what Connery brought to the table as Bond and b) Cohen's argument dwells entirely in a realm of bullshit.
at this point, i don't think he's every actually watched a Bond movie; instead, i suspect all he does is look at photos of actors with their shirts off and get FURIOUS.
"I know the movie market skews young and kids want action, and I take it as a good thing that Daniel Craig's Bond is older, world weary, and, in sports lingo, has slowed a step."
…which is weird because you've been arguing that Bond USED to be slowed a step, but now has this crazy unrealistic physique that's ruined everything you know about life, Cohen. i'll leave the fact that ACTION MOVIES tend to contain ACTION aside for now- wait, no, i won't! kids want action in their action movies; the realm of old men who look awful and do nothing is not action movies.
and i won't dignify the ending of this piece where Cohen compares himself to Bond by comparing their drinks by quoting it. i will not do this. in summation, Cohen, if you want to have sexual intercourse with some much-younger women, stop expecting Hollywood to do the legwork for you. instead, i recommend you use the method older, sadder men have used since the dawn of time: cash money.
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at this point, i don't think papercraft Travis Bickle is jealous as much as he is pleased to see that i am 50% of the way towards my collection of Taxi Driver guns. which is not creepy at all. not at all.


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Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump said of the 5 million illegal immigrants impacted under President Obama's recently struck down immigration plan are "going to have to go out, and they'll come back" at Tuesday's primetime GOP presidential debate on the Fox Business Network.
Trump, in response to a question on the part of President Obama's immigration plan that was struck down by an appeals court praised the decision as "terrific," and called for more border security and praised the decision.
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Regional features of Ukrainian embroideries
For many centuries Ukrainians have been decorating clothes with various embroidered patterns and ornaments.
Ukrainian national embroidery is known, popular and in demand far beyond Ukraine.
Male and female embroideries in different regions of the country significantly differ from each other both by the technique of the embroidery itself, and by the shape, color scheme and patterns.
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Some stitching techniques and patterns can be found only in a certain ethnographic part of Ukraine.
So, today we know more than 100 different stitching techniques.
Its individual-unique manner of embroidery is in every area.
People who are interested in the traditions of Ukrainian embroideries, at first glance at the shirt, will be able to determine in which region of Ukraine it was made.
In the Poltava region, towels and shirts are embroidered smoothly and with only white thread.
Only in very rare cases could girls use gray or red threads.
Embroidered patterns on the shirt manikins were surrounded by black, rarely colored stripes.
In Polissya, embroidery is distinguished by some strictness and simplicity.
Geometric figures are repeated several times, thereby creating one inseparable ornament.
Most often used red thread.
Quite simple, but at the same time, unique patterns are inherent in Volyn embroidery.
It was performed on a white or grayish linen cloth with a red thread.
Geometric patterns were the most popular, however, in the northern part of the region, vegetable patterns predominated - berries, flowers, leaves.
In southern Ukraine , vegetable ornament and cross-stitch technique are especially popular.
In this region use a wide color palette.
In the Kharkov region, embroidery was also performed with a coarse red thread using "cross" technique, as a result of which the patterns looked embossed.
However, it is in this region that one prevailing technique or ornament can not be determined.
Kharkov masters borrowed ornaments and patterns from different regions of Ukraine.
Therefore, the variety of techniques and drawings on Kharkov embroidered shirts can only be envied.
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The technique is that the stitches are made with very thin threads.
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As for the Kiev region , then there is an interlacing in one work of various ornaments (plant and geometric).
The most popular are the image of grapevines, cones, diamonds and squares.
The craftsmen use bright red and white threads.
In order to identify individual elements of the ornament, they are, as it were, surrounded by a black thread.
Podil craftsmen on the same shirt can use several different techniques and types of seams - a cross, smoothness, a hand seam.
Most embroideries are very bright and colorful, using a wide color palette.
Most often, the ornament is executed mainly in one color, however small details are embroidered with colorful threads.
Due to this Podolskie embroideries look very colorful and bright.
Ternopil patterns look quite convex due to dense stitches.
Ornaments completely adorn the sleeves of shirts.
Often use only one thread - red or black - however, the patterns must be covered with a thin thread of contrasting color.
Vinnytsia traditional embroidery united almost all the existing techniques and ornaments.
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"In my opinion, Taylor is the best punter in the country," said Buckley, who coaches the Bobcat special teams and running backs in addition to being the head coach. "He is coming off a tremendous freshman year. He worked hard this summer and he's worked hard in camp to build off of where he left off last year.
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Hamlet-Identity Crisis
An identity crisis can be defined as 'a psychosocial state or condition of disorientation and role confusion occurring especially in adolescents as a result of conflicting internal and external experiences, pressures, and expectations and often producing acute anxiety.' (www.dictionary.com) It was apparent that Hamlet did indeed have an identity crisis because of his conflicting internal and external experiences and the pressures and expectations from those in the Royal Court of Denmark. He endures conflicting internal and external experiences such as the ghost of his father requesting him to exact revenge on Claudius and in doing so contradict all of the morals he has formed. Pressures to accept the dubious marriage of his mother to his uncle, pressure to accept Claudius as the new king and expectations from the court to be emotionally strong in spite of his father's demise and from the ghost of his father to avenge his death by killing Claudius all challenge Hamlet's strength of self. His anxiety is caused as a result of these external pressures.
Hamlet lives in a country of different worlds. At the time, Denmark was in a state of transition between three metaphysical worlds; the heroic world, where a man's honour was foremost, killing was not accepted but expected, might was power, the Machiavellian world, an amoral world where politics and mind games were employed ruthlessly, the ends justified the means, and the Christian world of love and forgiveness. Hamlet was a Christian living in a dying Heroic world which was succumbing to the Machiavellian world. Hamlet's father, King Hamlet, belonged to the heroic world, and so for him revenge was of the utmost importance, shown by the fact that "but two months" (1:2, 136) after his death he returned to instruct Hamlet to avenge his murder. Hamlet's disgust at his mother's marriage to his uncle before "the salt of most unrighteous tears had left the flushing in her galled eyes" (1:2,154-155), and his uncle's speedy ascendancy to the throne clouds his judgement enough so that he accepts and vows to put into action his father's wishes. After he has had time to think, Hamlet realises what must be done, he must murder his uncle. He has no qualms about the target of the act but the fact that he belongs to the Christian world means that to appease his father's ghost he must move to the heroic world, thus contradicting the morals and teachings of his Christian upbringing.
Further, in order to discover the truth about Claudius' supposed crimes, Hamlet slips into the Machiavellian world and produces a play for the court. The play is a re-enactment of the murder of his father so that when Claudius saw the murder scene he would hopefully react to it in some way, and in doing so prove his implication in King Hamlet's death. Secondly, Hamlet had to fall again to the Machiavellian world by deceiving Guildenstern and Rozencrantz, which inevitably meant their demise so as to save himself from Claudius' plan.
Hamlet has been described as a barbarian by some scholars because of the way he treats women. His hatred for women was launched by his mother's incestuous and hasty marriage to his uncle, Claudius. His mother's behaviour is incomprehensible to Hamlet's belief system that ironically, she helped to create. Consequently, Hamlet lost all respect for women in general and felt alone in the world, for the one last thing he had to love, he now despised Ophelia.
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JACOB DISSTON: We now have made these top level kind of categories; equations, inequalities and expressions. Here's what I want you to do now, I want you to focus on just one category. And I'm going to ask you guys to start with equations, I'm going to ask you guys to start with inequalities, and you guys are going to start with expressions. So that's kind of your starting group. You are going to eventually look at all of them, but I want you to start at whatever your group is. And I want you to look at all the things in it, so you guys I need your attention pretty badly. Ok, so you guys are starting with equations. I want you to now sort the equations into different types. We've talked about all kinds of things while discussing this and it's going to help you sort these. I want you to pull these into "which equations are like equations and which are different; how would you make sub groups out of this?" You guys are working on what? I want you to look at the inequalities and I want you to say "these inequalities are like each other and these ones are like each other so what are the different groups of inequalities?" And you guys are working on...I want you to pull into different groups of expressions ok? So, you are going to start there. Once you get yours, call me over and tell me what are the different categories of your type and then we'll move on to the other ones. So you guys start with equations, inequalities, and expressions. So you can put the other cards aside. Just have your primary cards out right now. Pull those out in front of you and see if you can figure out how some of them are alike and how are some of them different.
STUDENT: Ok, well we can easily say that these are like because they have just the greater than or less than sign.
STUDENT: They both have the times and equal.
STUDENT: Yeah, they both have variable times a value and then equal another variable. Other ones have the same operations order. But this one has an operation; this one doesn't have any operation.
STUDENT: That one has an operation and that one has an equal.
STUDENT: But it shouldn't matter as long as one is a variable and one is...
STUDENT: This one is all alone and this one is all alone too.
STUDENT: They fit together because they're all alone.
STUDENT: 3a squared minus 2b plus 4...I don't know about that one (inaudible)
STUDENT: Yeah, but I don't know if this should be in this group because it has a property and these don't. Didn't they have a concept that you can't combine them? But this one is much different than these because it doesn't have property, so that one should be in a different pile. And the rest is okay.
STUDENT: Yeah, I think this is pretty good because you can always...yeah definitely. These you can combine them and you can't combine that because that one is just a property.
STUDENT: We all agree with this right?
STUDENT: Do you agree? Do you agree?
STUDENT: On?
STUDENT: That.
STUDENT: Um, yes.
STUDENT: You agree with this?
STUDENT: I don't know about this one.
STUDENT: Well you could combine it because 3a...no wait, hold on there's a problem. I don't think you can actually combine this because this has a variable and no number so that would be different. You can't combine that. You can't combine that right?
STUDENT: I don't know. I guess it's just an "a" so you can...
STUDENT: Oh, you can because you know it's an "a," it'll actually be one "a" but it's invisible.
STUDENT: How would it be one "a?"
STUDENT: It's just a variable and it's always going to be an invisible one in front of it. So actually you can combine that.
STUDENT: So that means you have to do 3 minus 1a and it's supposed to be an invisible 1 there right?
STUDENT: Ok, I see what you mean. I don't know.
STUDENT: I think you can just combine it. I think you would be able to do something with it; to get rid of it or combine it.
STUDENT: Yeah, probably for the 1 because it doesn't really matter. You just combine these two because it's more like the same right?
STUDENT: Probably would be 3a squared or just 3a and no more...
STUDENT: How did you get squared? Two of these...
STUDENT: Yeah, These 2 will be squared.
STUDENT: How about these two?
STUDENT: You can't combine those.
STUDENT: So you just combine the 3a and "a?"
STUDENT: Yeah.
STUDENT: I still don't get how that is...
STUDENT: That one.
STUDENT: That? That is different because that has a property which the others don't have.
STUDENT: I still don't get this one though.
STUDENT: It's like when you combine things it's like...
JACOB DISSTON: Alright, where are we?
STUDENT: I'm stuck.
STUDENT: It's like you combine those...
STUDENT: Can you combine this one?
JACOB DISSTON: Combine meaning what? What's that mean, combine?
STUDENT: Can you combine like terms like 3a and a? Can you combine those two?
JACOB DISSTON: So, if this was on a test and it said combine like terms could you rewrite it? What would it become?
STUDENT: I think it would be 3a squared minus 2b plus 4c.
JACOB DISSTON: Why 3a squared?
STUDENT: Well, I think you can combine that. You can combine "a" but...
JACOB DISSTON: How do you get "a" squared though? Where did "a" squared come from?
STUDENT: Because it's two "a."
JACOB DISSTON: If I gave you two "a's" and I said do something with these to get "a" squared, what operation do you need?
STUDENT: Multiply.
STUDENT: Addition.
JACOB DISSTON: a+a is "a" squared?
STUDENT: No, multiply.
JACOB DISSTON: Multiply, a*a. How can I multiply these in?
STUDENT: Oh no, so you can't combine that.
JACOB DISSTON: So let me say this, "what if was like this...3a-a?
STUDENT: Probably you would just take away the 3.
JACOB DISSTON: What's 3a minus "a"...3a take away "a?"
STUDENT: 3a
JACOB DISSTON: I got 3a's and I take away one "a"
STUDENT: It would be 3.
JACOB DISSTON: So the question I think what you guys ask is "can this be changed? Can it be combined?" And you are saying yes. Can this be combined?
STUDENT: Yes.
JACOB DISSTON: Can these be combined?
STUDENT: Yes.
JACOB DISSTON: Can this be?
STUDENT: Yes, definitely yes.
JACOB DISSTON: Can this be?
STUDENT: No.
JACOB DISSTON: Can this be?
STUDENT: No
JACOB DISSTON: Can this be?
STUDENT: No, that's a property.
STUDENT: That's a distributive property.
JACOB DISSTON: So, I think you guys have a great way of separating this. What I want you to do is get it on this thing. Describe the two categories and which ones fit within each and then you're going to pull out your equations and you're going to look at equations.
STUDENT: I have a question. Didn't you used to say that when there's a variable there's like an invisible one in front of it?
JACOB DISSTON: Yeah. So what's 3a take away 1a? 2a.
STUDENT: So how would that be much different then?
JACOB DISSTON: This would change, just like this would change. What's 4b+3b?
STUDENT: 5b
JACOB DISSTON: All together this is...5b. This is 3a, can't combine the b's, can't combine the c's take away 1a. What's 3a take away 1a?
STUDENT: 2a
JACOB DISSTON: So is 2a take 2b plus 4c, yeah you're right, that fits this one. So I want you to get that on your paper.
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Hi everybody, The Dark Knight here with a request. By now you all might already know that 914 had a major change when it comes to functionality, unless you are playing this mod from more recent updates, having 5 slots instead of 1. Well the way it works is that it has 5 different recipe files, one for each type (rough, course, 1:1, fine and very fine).
But this also means that it's harder for us to come up with recipes, since we don't always know what could result from a block/item in a specific slot. Having said that We want to ask the community to help us with the recipes. The code for adding recipes is extremely simple:
"addSmelting(Item.goldNugget.shiftedIndex, new ItemStack(Item.ingotGold));" Where the gold nugget is the item placed in a slot and the gold ingot the result. Now I on't start explaining you stuff, cuz we just need some kind of suggestions for the recipes written in the form of code, but not the exact code. Since nobody knows ALL the block and item names the way we want you to write the suggested recipes is the following way:
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addSmelting(Stone, new ItemStack(StoneBricks, 1));"
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What poem inspires you to craft and what will you make of it? Have a play and share with us this week at Tuesday Taggers
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This is a fabulous Poem - your gorgeous piece sets if off beautifully too!ReplyDelete
Cute hun - love the wee mousey!ReplyDelete
Teri x
What an awesome card, and what a great idea for the poetry challenge! Beautifully done!ReplyDelete
Beautiful card Zoe and I love the idea of using verse - you have created something so original.ReplyDelete
Luv B xxx
Beautiful card Zoe and great little verse. Can see you've been paying attention to Barbara's demos. Great job.ReplyDelete
Fabulous stuff, i have a couple of these stamps and wouldn't it be great to have the full collection Zoe,luv GeorginaxxReplyDelete
Fabulous work Zoe, love it. Annette xReplyDelete
Great theme, well done Michelle and fab inspiration Zoe,thanks xxxxReplyDelete
Wonderful work Zoe! Perfect Brayering!ReplyDelete
I see your getting a jump start on Christmas too! Oh you put me to shame, Its adorable!ReplyDelete
Lovely work as always hun - that poem fits the background perfectly.ReplyDelete
What a lovely card, and I like the method you used with the versamark and then brayering, thank you for the ideas and inspiration :-)ReplyDelete
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Craig Montgomerie is a professor emeritus of Instructional Technology in the Department of Educational Psychology at the University of Alberta, the president of Mentat Consulting Services Ltd. -- a firm of educational consultants, an instructor at Athabasca University and a Fellow of the Association for the Advancement of Computing in Education. He has been involved in the application of computer technology to education since the early 1970s, having worked in the use of computers in instruction since the early days of the IBM 1500 system.
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