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With multiple successes at the highest levels of competitive cooking behind him, Simon Hulstone is now achieving in the restaurant arena, holding a Michelin star at his Torquay eatery since 2004. His beautiful, seasonal plates feature the best of West Country produce, most of which is grown at his remarkable dedicated farm.
Simon Hulstone's career has been greatly influenced by his father Roger, who was executive chef at the luxury Imperial Hotel in Torquay when he was growing up. From the age of 14 he was working alongside his father in the kitchen, accompanying him to Ecole Lenôtre (a professional French culinary school in Paris) when he took chefs there to train. He told us: 'Life was always a bit different in that my dad was always at work. I actually became a chef because of that, as it was easy to get a job because he always had ones going … So it was my first job, but also gave me an opportunity to see more of dad I suppose. I just enjoyed the camaraderie and the fun of it all.'
He apprenticed at Selsdon Park Hotel in Croydon, working under Freddy Jones – a top competition chef who often competed against Simon Hulstone's father. Inspired and encouraged to enter himself – now battling against his dad – from the age of 16 he was cooking competitively, a pastime which helped propel Simon Hulstone forward in his professional development and cheffing career.
After his apprenticeship, he moved to Hanbury Manor Hotel in Hertfordshire, then onto Ston Easton Park Hotel in Somerset. After achieving success at the European Culinary Championships, he was encouraged to compete in the Youth Skill Olympics in France, which necessitated considerable training and backing from a more senior chef. Michael Kitts of the Swallow Royal Hotel in Bristol, a competitor himself, stepped in and alongside working full time in Kitts' kitchen, Simon Hulstone prepared in whatever free time he had. Competing in 1995, he achieved Gold and left the competition with job offers from 14 of the 19 competition judges.
Not feeling quite ready for the positions he was being offered, he spent a year in New Zealand while his partner studied, interspersing travel with work at the Stamford Plaza Hotel in Auckland, New Zealand. Still keeping his hand in with the competitions, he won New Zealand Young Chef of the Year and his success in this arena bloomed. He went on to achieve wins in South Africa, Luxemburg, Malta, Canada, South Korea and Australia. He has represented the UK twice at the Bocuse d'Or – the world's most prestigious and demanding culinary competition – and is the captain of the British team for the Culinary Olympics. He was also captain of the English team at the Culinary World Cup in 2010 and 2012. He says of this time: 'Over the years I've met a lot of people and travelled the world and have got great contacts and great friends. So the winning just went by the by a little bit, it was just about the whole experience of it all, cooking in different countries, meeting new people and for me now I judge rather than compete.'
On his return to England he started work at the Bailiffscourt Hotel in Sussex, before moving onto Cheltenham's Bacchanalian. He says of his time at Bacchanalian: 'What I learnt from it was that it was all about flavour. Customers were more concerned with flavour than presentation. It made my food a lot more mature; I stopped following trends and started to cook what I wanted to and what the customers wanted me to cook. It was quite bizarre – that was when I started winning food awards rather than competition awards. That really woke me up because I didn't really know anything about Michelin or AA awards at that point really. It wasn't something that I chased because I had never worked at those restaurants, so the first award I got was three AA rosettes, which was amazing.' After this came Cotswold House, where he attracted even more attention from the guides.
In 2003, Simon Hulstone won the coveted Roux Scholarship. He told us: 'Without a doubt it is the best competition I have ever won and it continues to give back to me as well.' The prize was a stage in any three Michelin star restaurant in the world and he was the first Roux Scholar to choose Spain, opting to train with Martín Berasategui at his eponymous restaurant in the Basque Country. Keen to build further on the restaurant experiences he was now gaining, he also found time to eat at 17 other Michelin-starred restaurants during his three months there.
After the stage, Simon Hulstone and his wife moved to Devon to establish their own restaurant, The Elephant, with a relaxed Brasserie on the ground floor and The Room, the restaurant's the more formal offering, situated above. In 2004, The Room – with its tasting menus and wine flights – won a Michelin star which the couple (his wife Katy runs front of house) have retained ever since. He says of this award: 'It was a bolt out of the blue really. When we reached Torquay and got our Michelin star, really I thought it was the last place in the world that you would get one. To be honest with you, I never thought I was a Michelin-star chef, but we've had it now for 11 years. I think it was because I had never worked in a Michelin-star restaurant, I didn't really know how Michelin worked; I just didn't think that I was on their radar.'
Reflecting on whether the Michelin award has changed his cooking style, he says: 'What it has done is to make me respect the ingredients a lot more. It has made me analyse what I was doing and how I was doing it. It has really matured me, sometimes it has pulled me back and sometimes it has pushed me forward. More than anything it has made me listen to gut instincts rather than doing something to impress people. I'm not cooking to impress but to make my customers happy. So when I get to "happy zone" with my cooking I think that the dish is finished and I don't need to add anything. When I was a lot younger I would have just added more and more elements and one of those elements could ruin a dish, whereas now it is two or three really good elements that taste really good.'
This new respect for ingredients, in part, motivated Simon Hulstone and his business partner to create their own dedicated farm in south Devon. With almost 100 acres now in operation, they raise free-range pigs, hoggets, turkeys, chickens, geese, sheep and alpacas (for guard duties apparently), along with growing the fruit, vegetables, herbs and flowers that supply the restaurant. As well as instilling a huge sense of reverence for the fresh ingredients they are now producing – not just cooking – Simon Hulstone estimates that last year the farm saved them £45,000. He told us: 'It has really woken us up to the quality of ingredients and to seasonality and to utilising products at their best natural state, as early as possible. We will get everything picked in the morning, we'll have it prepared and hopefully we'll sell it that evening – so from field to plate it is 12 hours, it's amazing. It has given me a love for the quality of ingredients, for how we grow then and how we look after them. When I see the chefs overcooking a vegetable now it is so annoying because we have grown that from scratch, we have been there on the journey with it and we want it really respected.'
With their own West Country farm supplying their produce, the menus at The Elephant very much revolve around the seasons; and being so close to the sea, the fish dishes are held in particularly high regard. The Soy and beetroot marinated salmon with fennel pollen cream makes for an unusual starter, and the Pan-fried sea bass with butter spinach, clams, poached cod cheeks and fish sauce, or the Halibut fillet glazed with lardo, parsnip purée and a verjus and spring onion sauce are examples of beautifully balanced mains. As a restaurant that raises their own meat, The Elephant's dishes, such as New season lamb with a pine nut and wild garlic crust and tarragon gnocchi, are a celebration of their carefully produced local bounty. Locally shot game, such as Loin of venison with soy glazed baby beets and roasted turnip purée, also makes an appearance.
With three children all named after unusual herbs – Tansy, Cicely and Betony – it is perhaps unsurprising that a bright, colourful range of delicate plants and flowers both flavour and decorate Simon Hulstone's dishes. However he is keen to stress that 'everything is on the plate for a reason'. Take his Sweet pea panna cotta with crab and cicely, mango-dashi sorbet and brown crab toast, for example – summery and unusual with a touch of creative whimsy. This dish is a prime illustration of Simon Hulstone's style, which displays a deep understanding of the different elements of flavour that make a dish work, but finds those elements in unexpected places.
In 2015 he also took over the running of Burridge's Café Tearooms in partnership with his father, serving beautifully executed, traditional English afternoon teas and ploughman's lunches. He also has plans for a pop-up hot-dog café in the works, which will be located near the tearooms on Torquay's beautiful harbourside. He says of his pop-up: 'It's about doing something cool and different and about me really just dipping my fingers into something new. It will also give me the freedom to try something different that I don't have at The Elephant, because I can't stick a hot dog on the menu here. I do enjoy eating them and going out and doing those sorts of things and I don't think I should hold back my ideas and my enthusiasm for other styles of food just because I've got a Michelin star.'
Simon Hulstone has gone from a child who wouldn't eat ketchup because it contained a vegetable to a Michelin-starred chef with one of the best kitchen gardens in Britain. He has achieved amazing success the highest levels of international competitive cooking and is now transforming Torquay into a top culinary destination. His beautiful, colourful plates celebrate the very best of south-western produce – from the freshest fish to the wild flowers of the hedgerows. Although his days as an event competitor are now over, he's still pushing forward. He says: 'Now we're only competing against ourselves, because we're striving to be better. Every dish that goes out has to be better than the last one you send.' We're excited to see where that leads.


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WALKERTON - Marian M. (Compton) Fouts, 91, of Thorn Road, Walkerton, Ind., passed away Monday, October 16, 2006, at 2:50 a.m. in the Saint Joseph Regional Medical Center, Plymouth Campus. She had resided the last few years with her daughters and sons-in-law.
Mrs. Fouts was born January 26, 1915, to Charles O. and Catherine B. (Monesmith) Compton in Bourbon, IN, and was a 1933 graduate of Bourbon High School. On April 21, 1925, in the Bourbon home of her parents, she was united in marriage to Clell D. Fouts, who preceded her in death on January 30, 1995.
Survivors include two daughters and sons-in-law, Arlene A. and Roger D. McCan, Carolyn M. and Roger C. Kelly, all of Plymouth; three grandchildren, Donald D. McCan of Plymouth, Jane A. Kelley of South Bend and Michael Fouts Kelly of Plymouth; two great-grandsons, Matthew McCan of Kokomo and Sean McCan of Lafayette; nephew, Harry Smith and family of Houston, Texas; great-niece, Stephanie and William Eble of Estero, Fla.; great-nephew, Charles Bradley Fordyce of Hillsboro, Ohio; and great-great-niece, Brandi Fordyce of Estero, Fla.


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I put together a teleprescence robot using a Broostone rover 2.0.It stands 39 inches high and has a 7inch android tablet.I am currently using the rover app on android tablet for remote operation.I am using two round teflon slider as anti tipping device.I am anxiously waiting for Rover 2.0 support so that I can use Ezb for programming it.I plan to use two servos for stopping tiping while stopping motion.Tablet is very light and does not cause a balance issue.
I love this, you have done, a great job!how did you make the tablet holder?j
Truly impressive. I love this idea and the way that you have gone about accomplishing this. Thank you for sharing.
More Pix! More Pix! More Pix!how does the two teflon sliders keep it from tilting? Or are you just meaning they are easy to adjust on the rod?
I think its in the second and third pic just under the camera on the brookstone.
Very cool! So the table controls the rover and you remote into the tablet? What software are using to remote into the tablet? I also like the tablet stand. Where did you buy it or how did you make it?
rb550f,Excellent build! Last screen picture view, split screen from control unit and rover is cool. Thanks for sharing your latest project.Steve S
The teflon sliders are mounter with a flat bar underneath rover.They stick out front and back just a couple of inchesand just clear the floor.The rover is currently running via android tablet app via wifi.Rover has its own camera with video and audio sent back to controlling tablet.The tablet that i installed on mast uses Paltalk app for video chat between rover tablet and any connected Palktalk user you choose to set up..(for Free)..The rover app lets you see what the rover camera sees and is able to tilt up and down with zoom features as well. The plan is to install EZB 4 to rover and add additional features and sensors control by EZB.I will do this when Rover 2.0 is released for EZB. Currenlty only Rover 1.0 supported..
The tablet holder is made from a holder from Ebay and is mounted on 1 inch pvc T with a slot cut out longways from top.


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Breckenridge Ski Resort Announces Schedule for Annual Spring Fever Festival
March 17- April 15, 2012
- Biggest Spring Celebration in Rocky Mountain Region
- Last Chance to Celebrate Snow & Sun Before End of Ski Season
- Breck Boasts Best Snow Quality in Spring
- Month-Long Series of Events for All Ages On Mountain and In Town
BRECKENRIDGE, Colo. – Feb. 6, 2012– Breckenridge Ski Resort announced today the schedule of events planned for this year's Breck "Spring Fever" month-long festival, which will feature a series of events taking place from March 17 to closing day, April 15, 2012, both on the mountain and in town.
Spring Fever, presented by Cadillac, will take place throughout Breck as the town and mountain welcome visitors to one of the best times of the year for skiing and riding. Spring in Breck is widely known for having the best snow in Colorado, along with sunny bluebird days, special events, and great deals for guests from around the world. There's no better way to send off the season than with Breck's Spring Fever festival.
"We're very excited to announce this year's lineup of Spring Fever festivities," said Kieran Cain, Breck's director of marketing. "Last year's inaugural season of the festival set the bar high for providing the best spring party in the Rocky Mountains for our guests, and we're looking forward to taking our month-long celebration to an entirely new level this year to coincide with this historic Breck 50th Anniversary Season."
Breckenridge Ski Resort launched Spring Fever last year to celebrate and embrace the biological change which occurs in humans as the seasons switch from winter to spring. Wikipedia defines spring fever as: "A term applied to several sets of physical and psychological symptoms associated with the arrival of spring, and an increase in energy and vitality."
The Bud Light Live Concert Series brings the party to Breck with 6 total days of big-name acts on Saturday and Sunday afternoons on a specially-constructed stage at the base of Peak 8. 2012 music lineup with be announced soon; last year's acts included Ozomatli, The Wailers, moe., DeVotchKa and the Flobots.
Spring Fever 2012 Signature Events will include:
– A town-wide St. Patrick's Day celebration
-5 till 5 Terrain Park Happy Hour Thursday nights off of the 5 Chair lift
-The inaugural "Then & Now" Halfpipe Competition
-The "Breck Ascent Series" uphill races on Wednesday nights
-Park and Pipe Breck Ski and Ride School Camps
-Ripperoo's Mascot Olympics
–The Breck 5 Peaks Mountaineering Race, North America's longest ski mountaineering race
-The KSMT Spring Beer Festival
-The 16th Annual Imperial Challenge bike & ski race
-Easter Egg Hunts & Easter weekend activities on the mountain
-Many more events for guests of all ages!
*Schedule of events is subject to change
Events continued to be added in town and on the mountain throughout Spring Fever; for the full schedule of Spring Fever events, visit www.BreckSpringFever.com.
Breck Spring Fever is presented by Cadillac. The weekend concert series is presented by Bud Light, and associate partners for the event are Helly Hansen, Sobe LifeWaterand Maui Jim.


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POMPANO BEACH — Cabana Bay Village, a low-profile beach area colony north of the exclusive Sea Ranch Lakes single-family home community, is expected to get its first occupancies in December or early January.
The first two buildings, one with three fully furnished models, have been completed. Two other residential buildings are in various stages of construction.
The first four buildings, two stories in height, contain 24 homes -- all with private enclosed garages.
Each residence is on a single level, and there are three different designs to satisfy individual needs.
Homes at Cabana Bay Village are of Spanish-Mediterranean architecture, and are priced from $109,900 to $139,900.
Cabana Bay Village, under development on a 2.5-acre tract just west of State Road A1A adjacent to the Assumption Catholic Church, will have only 48 condominium residences when completed, providing it with a much lower density than normal for new beach area projects.
In addition to the buildings under construction, work is under way on the colony manager`s apartment, along with a recreation center for residents of the complex.
A private tree-lined access road leads into the colony, where the apartment buildings are distinguished by terra cotta colored roofs, white stucco exteriors, and extensive landscaping. Cabana Bay Village has an easement to the beach, just north of the Sea Watch restaurant.
The community features all two-bedroom, two-bath residences. Luxury features include such things as cathedral ceilings, clerestory windows, custom-door entries, courtyards, masonry archways and private screened-in patios along with the traditional Spanish Mediterranean tile roofing.
The atmosphere of Florida living is enhanced by the open-air design of the individual residences, with sliding glass doors opening to tropical landscaped gardens and sunlit terraces.
Homes include fully equipped all-electric kitchens with self-cleaning double ovens and optional microwaves, zoned air conditioning, washer and dryer outlets, and master bedroom suites with cultured marble tubs and showers, walk-in closets with mirrored doors, and recessed lighting.


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Description Usage Arguments Value Note See Also Examples
xGR2nGenes is supposed to define nearby genes given a list of
genomic regions (GR) within certain distance window. The distance
weight is calcualted as a decaying function of the gene-to-GR distance.
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xGR2nGenes(data, format = c("chr:start-end", "data.frame", "bed",
build.conversion = c(NA, "hg38.to.hg19", "hg18.to.hg19"),
distance.max = 50000, decay.kernel = c("rapid", "slow", "linear",
"constant"), decay.exponent = 2, GR.Gene = c("UCSC_knownGene",
"UCSC_knownCanonical"), scoring = F, scoring.scheme = c("max", "sum",
"sequential"), scoring.rescale = F, verbose = T,
RData.location = "http://galahad.well.ox.ac.uk/bigdata")
input genomic regions (GR). If formatted as "chr:start-end" (see the next parameter 'format' below), GR should be provided as a vector in the format of 'chrN:start-end', where N is either 1-22 or X, start (or end) is genomic positional number; for example, 'chr1:13-20'. If formatted as a 'data.frame', the first three columns correspond to the chromosome (1st column), the starting chromosome position (2nd column), and the ending chromosome position (3rd column). If the format is indicated as 'bed' (browser extensible data), the same as 'data.frame' format but the position is 0-based offset from chromomose position. If the genomic regions provided are not ranged but only the single position, the ending chromosome position (3rd column) is allowed not to be provided. The data could also be an object of 'GRanges' (in this case, formatted as 'GRanges')
the format of the input data. It can be one of "data.frame", "chr:start-end", "bed" or "GRanges"
the conversion from one genome build to another. The conversions supported are "hg38.to.hg19" and "hg18.to.hg19". By default it is NA (no need to do so)
the maximum distance between genes and GR. Only those genes no far way from this distance will be considered as seed genes. This parameter will influence the distance-component weights calculated for nearby GR per gene
a character specifying a decay kernel function. It can be one of 'slow' for slow decay, 'linear' for linear decay, and 'rapid' for rapid decay. If no distance weight is used, please select 'constant'
a numeric specifying a decay exponent. By default, it sets to 2
the genomic regions of genes. By default, it is 'UCSC_knownGene', that is, UCSC known genes (together with genomic locations) based on human genome assembly hg19. It can be 'UCSC_knownCanonical', that is, UCSC known canonical genes (together with genomic locations) based on human genome assembly hg19. Alternatively, the user can specify the customised input. To do so, first save your RData file (containing an GR object) into your local computer, and make sure the GR object content names refer to Gene Symbols. Then, tell "GR.Gene" with your RData file name (with or without extension), plus specify your file RData path in "RData.location". Note: you can also load your customised GR object directly
logical to indicate whether gene-level scoring will be further calculated. By default, it sets to false
the method used to calculate seed gene scores under a set of GR. It can be one of "sum" for adding up, "max" for the maximum, and "sequential" for the sequential weighting. The sequential weighting is done via: ∑_{i=1}{\frac{R_{i}}{i}}, where R_{i} is the i^{th} rank (in a descreasing order)
logical to indicate whether gene scores will be further rescaled into the [0,1] range. By default, it sets to false
logical to indicate whether the messages will be displayed in the screen. By default, it sets to true for display
the characters to tell the location of built-in
RData files. See
If scoring sets to false, a data frame with following columns:
Gene: nearby genes
GR: genomic regions
Dist: the genomic distance between the gene and the GR
Weight: the distance weight based on the genomic distance
If scoring sets to true, a data frame with following columns:
Gene: nearby genes
Score: gene score taking into account the distance weight
based on the genomic distance
For details on the decay kernels, please refer to
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# Load the XGR package and specify the location of built-in data
RData.location <- "http://galahad.well.ox.ac.uk/bigdata_dev"
# a) provide the genomic regions
## load ImmunoBase
ImmunoBase <- xRDataLoader(RData.customised='ImmunoBase',
## get lead SNPs reported in AS GWAS and their significance info (p-values)
gr <- ImmunoBase$AS$variant
df <- as.data.frame(gr, row.names=NULL)
chr <- df$seqnames
start <- df$start
end <- df$end
data <- paste(chr,':',start,'-',end, sep='')
# b) define nearby genes taking into acount distance weight
# without gene scoring
df_nGenes <- xGR2nGenes(data=data, format="chr:start-end",
distance.max=10000, decay.kernel="slow", decay.exponent=2,
# with their scores
df_nGenes <- xGR2nGenes(data=data, format="chr:start-end",
distance.max=10000, decay.kernel="slow", decay.exponent=2, scoring=T,
scoring.scheme="max", RData.location=RData.location)
# c) define nearby genes without taking into acount distance weight
# without gene scoring
df_nGenes <- xGR2nGenes(data=data, format="chr:start-end",
distance.max=10000, decay.kernel="constant",
# with their scores
df_nGenes <- xGR2nGenes(data=data, format="chr:start-end",
distance.max=10000, decay.kernel="constant", scoring=T,
scoring.scheme="max", RData.location=RData.location)
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- In case of a withdrawal before five years, the amount becomes taxable in the same financial year. Thus, the amount has to be shown in your tax return for the next assessment year.
- The employer's contribution to PF and interest earned on it is added to one's income and taxed accordingly.
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the middle of the night and helped themselves to fresh horses for the distance that lay before them. On Thursday night, the 7th, they had reached Holbeach House in Staffordshire, and then it was determined to make a stand and sell their lives as dearly as they could. Next morning Digby deserted his companions; he says his object was to make a diversion elsewhere, and to attempt to bring up some assistance to prop, if possible, the falling cause. Shortly after he had gone the terrible explosion of gunpowder occurred, and the fight which ended in the death or apprehension of the whole band. Meanwhile Digby soon found that it was impossible to escape the notice of his pursuers, who were speedily upon his track, and thinking it best to dismiss his attendants, he told his servants they might keep the horses they were riding, and distributed among them the money they were carrying—let each man shift for himself. Two of them refused to leave him, one being his page, William Ellis by name, who eventually became a lay brother of the Society of Jesus. The three struck into a wood where there was a dry pit, in which they hoped to conceal themselves and their horses. They were soon discovered, and a cry was raised, 'Here he is! here he is!' Digby, altogether undaunted, answered, 'Here he is indeed, what then?' and advanced his horse in the manner of curvetting, which he was expert in, and thought to have borne them over, and so to break from them. Seeing, however, that resistance was useless, he gave himself up, and before many days found himself a prisoner in the Tower. Two miserable months passed before the prisoners were brought to trial. At last, on 27 Jan. 1606, Digby, with eight others who had been caught red-handed, was brought to Westminster Hall. He behaved with some dignity during the trial, but there could be no doubt about the verdict, and on Thursday, the 30th, he was drawn upon a hurdle, with three of his accomplices, to St. Paul's Churchyard, and there hanged and slaughtered with the usual ghastly barbarities. On the scaffold he had confessed his guilt with a manly shame for his infatuation, and a solemn protest that Father Gerard had never known of the plot, adding, 'I never durst tell him of it, for fear he would have drawn me out of it.' It is impossible for any candid reader of all the evidence that has come down to us to doubt the truth of this protest. Garnett's complicity cannot be questioned, and his subsequent equivocation was as impolitic as it was discreditable. Father Gerard was a very different man. If the plot had been revealed to him, it would never have been permitted to go as far as it did.
Digby left two sons behind him; the younger, Sir John Digby, was knighted in 1635 and became a major-general on the king's side during the civil war. He is said to have been slain 9 July 1645. The elder son was the much more famous Sir Kenelm Digby, of whom an account will be found sub nomine. Digby's wife survived him many years, as did his mother, and neither appears to have married again.
[Chancery Inquisitiones post mortem, 34th Eliz. pt. i. No. 64 (Rutland), in the Record Office; Books of the Court of Wards and Liveries, No. 158, u. s.; Harl. MS. 1364; Cal. State Papers, Domestic, 1603–10; Hist. MSS. Comm. 8th Rep. 434; Foley's Records of the English Province S. J., vol. ii.; John Morris's Condition of Catholics under James I., 1872, vol. ii., and the same writer's Life of Father John Gerard, 3rd edit. 1881; Bishop Robert Abbot's Antilogia, 1613; Cooper's Athenæ Cantab. ii. 146; Jardine's Narrative of the Gunpowder Plot, 1857; Gardiner's Hist. of England, vol. i. Digby's mother is called Maria in the usual pedigrees of the family, but in the Inq. post mort. she is called Mary Ann, probably by a clerical error.]
DIGBY, GEORGE, second Earl of Bristol (1612–1677), was the eldest son of John Digby, first earl of Bristol [q. v.], by his wife Beatrix, daughter of Charles Walcot of Walcot, Shropshire, and widow of Sir John Dyve of Bromham, Bedfordshire. He was born at Madrid in October 1612, during his father's first embassy to Spain. When only twelve years old he appeared at the bar of the House of Commons with a petition on behalf of his father, who, through the instrumentality of the Duke of Buckingham, had been committed to the Tower. His self-possession and fluency of speech on that occasion attracted the attention of the members, and gave great promise of a brilliant career in the future. He was admitted to Magdalen College, Oxford, on 15 Aug. 1626, where he distinguished himself by his remarkable abilities, and became intimately acquainted with Peter Heylin, the well-known historian and divine, who was a fellow of that college. After travelling in France, at the conclusion of his university career, he lived for some years with his father at Sherborne Castle, where he applied himself to the study of philosophy and literature. On 31 Aug. 1636 he was created a master of arts. It was during this period of retirement in the country that the 'Letters between the Lord George Digby and Sir Kenelm Digby, Knt., concerning Religion' were written. The first letter is dated from 'Sherburn, November 2, 1638,' and the last from 'Sherborn, March 30, 1639.' These letters, in which the Roman catholic church is attacked by Lord


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I have accessed my router configuration page and I have noticed that there are 3 devices on my network when I only have 2. I wanna know how would I disconnect this additional device that has invaded my network. I attempted to change my password needed to log into my router(paraphrase key) but I ran into some complications after doing that and now I am looking for a different way of doing it.
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Ilonen shoots record 64 to lead Irish Open
CORK, Ireland (AP) — Mikko Ilonen of Finland carded a course-record 7-under-par 64 while crowd favorite Rory McIlroy finished 10 shots behind in the first round of the Irish Open on Thursday.
Ilonen birdied five of his closing seven holes in superb scoring conditions to end the day with a two-shot lead on the Fota Island course.
Ilonen had just 26 putts on the occasion of his 300th European Tour event. It added up to a record on a course made over since the last Irish Open at Fota Island in 2002.
The Finn, a three-time winner on tour, wasn't surprised at the fifth course record in his career.
"I lost out in a playoff to Sergio (Garcia) in the Qatar Masters this year, and recently in the Nordea Masters I felt my game was good despite finishing 32nd, which is still a mystery how I finished 32nd that week as I was hitting my best shots of the week there," Ilonen said. "Maybe the good golf is there but then we still have a long way to go."
Tied for second on 5 under were Germany's Marcel Siem and the Swedish pair of Robert Karlsson and Magnus Carlsson.
McIlroy hit just eight of the 14 fairways and took 30 putts in a round of 3-over 74. He's in a lowly share of 125th place in the 156-player field.
"I've still got a little bit of jet lag, for sure, coming from the U.S. Open," he said. "I wasn't able to do much the Monday, Tuesday, because the clubs didn't arrive until yesterday, as well, so that was a little bit frustrating more than anything else.
"But I did a really good practice session on the range last night after the pro-am, and was feeling good going out this morning. However, I just couldn't really put it together as I was very sloppy with the scoring clubs, wedges, the short game, the putting. All that was just a little off.
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Tesla Motors said it expects to sell more than 35,000 Model S vehicles in 2014, a 55 percent jump over 2013, and improve its gross margin to 28 percent by the end of the year.
The company warned of higher operating costs and capital expenditures, however, as it invests in long-term growth. "We plan to expand production capacity for Model S and Model X, invest in our store, service and Supercharger infrastructure, complete the development of Model X and start early design work on our third generation car," Chairman and CEO Elon Musk wrote in a letter to shareholders announcing fourth-quarter operating results.
The company had $615 million in revenue on a GAAP basis, up 43 percent from the third quarter ($761 million in non-GAAP revenue), which included $15 million of revenue from regulatory credits, but no revenue from the sale of zero emission vehicle (ZEV) credits. The net loss for the quarter was $16 million ($46 million net profit on a non-GAAP basis), both of which included a $4.6 million net gain from a favorable currency impact. The results included $40 million in operating cash (after capital expenditures), boosting Tesla's cash on hand to $846 million as of December.
The biggest thing holding Tesla back, it seems, is battery production capacity, which should improve significantly in the second half of 2014, the company said. Musk said "very shortly" he will soon reveal plans for a new "gigafactory" which will integrate all elements of battery production — from precursor material, to cell, module and battery packs — in one facility. "This will allow us to achieve a major reduction in the cost of our battery packs and accelerate the pace of battery innovation," Musk said.
That's important as Tesla begins working on a less expensive, high-volume electric car for the masses. Musk said Tesla is confident it will be able to create "a compelling and affordable electric car in approximately three years."
Musk, who is also chairman of Solar City, said that new battery factory would also address the solar power industry's need for a massive volume of stationary battery packs.
Tesla shares are up 13 percent in after-hours trading. A conference call with investors will follow shortly.
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ESPN networks have added eight Giants games since Bonds hit his 754th homer to pull within one of Hank Aaron's record.
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Morrissey: 'I see no difference between eating animals and paedophilia'
MORRISSEY has sparked outrage online when he compared eating animals to paedophilia in an internet Q&A session, saying they are "both rape, violence, murder".
The controversial artist was answering questions from fans on True-To-You.net. when the online community were alerted to the outrageous comment.
The Smiths frontman was asked by a fan what motivated him to stop eating meat - to which he replied: "I see no difference between eating animals and paedophilia.
"They are both rape, violence, murder. If I'm introduced to anyone who eats beings, I walk away."
He then used an example of introducing yourself to someone in a club as someone that enjoys "throat-slitting".
He said: "If you were in a nightclub and someone said to you 'Hello, I enjoy bloodshed, throat-slitting and the destruction of life,' well, I doubt if you'd want to exchange phone numbers."
The rock star, who has been a huge supporter of animal rights campaign PETA, also took the time to lay into other celebrities on the website.
He went on to label former Blind Date host Cilla Black a baby eater and questioned why TV chef Jamie Oliver "doesn't stick one of his children in the microwave".
"They are both rape, violence, murder. If I'm introduced to anyone who eats beings, I walk away."Morrissey
After explaining Cilla Black had appeared on a cooking show making a lamb dish, he slammed the idea that eating a baby of any species was wrong.
He said: "Since a lamb is a baby, I wondered what kind of mind Cilla Black could possibly have that would convince her that eating a baby is OK."
The singer-songwriter went on to say the Government should ban any 'flesh-food' adverts and meat-eating on the TV.
Morrissey has never been one to hold his tongue.
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But it is not just the subject of animal rights that gets the loud-mouth going.
In 1984, he caused controversy when slating Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, saying: "She is only one person. She can be destroyed. It is the only remedy for this country at the moment."
And earlier this year, he called David Beckham and Victoria Beckham - "The Peckhams"- saying they should be "dragged to the edge of the village and flogged".


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As I read your post two thoughts and a suggestion came to mind:
1. Perhaps the stress of keeping your secret is partly to blame for how bad your anxiety is. I know that before I told people close to me the fear of them finding out was causing me greater stress.
2. In my experience every time I assume that my friends are too busy with their own lives to bother with me, I am completely wrong. They understand how much we need each other. Let them be there for you. Someday it will be your turn to be there for them.
Suggestion - If you are in college you must be located somewhere near a medical center. Check and see if that medical center has a support group for people with anxiety. If they do, and you go to it, it will give you a ready made group of people who understand what you are going through. We here all understand but sometimes you just need to hear an understanding voice out loud.
PupLove - I am really proud of you for reaching out and getting help. You may feel like you can't handle what is going on right now but you already are handling it by being here and seeing your doctor. So what if you, or any of us lose control and bawl our eyes out and so what if we have good days and bad days. The entire world needs to have a good cry everyonce in a while and the entire world has good days and bad days, just like we do. I always look at forgiveness as a key to getting started. Forgiveness isn't about the person who wronged you, it is about you. Forgiveness doesn't mean that you approve of what happened. It simply means that you will no longer let it control you and you will no longer let that kind of anger be in charge of you. Maybe you could begin by forgiving yourself a little bit at a time. You are strong and you are smart and you are going to get better.
Georgia5 - I respectfully disagree about the boyfriend. Perhaps leaving her at the time that he did was poor timing but he does have a right to take care of himself and what he needs. All of us understand the unique kind of pressure that dealing with anxiety can put on our loved ones. Hopefully those loved ones will be able to stand by us but if they can't I think it is better to know that and be able to face what we have to face with honesty.


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Ms. Katherine J. Dickerson, age 69, of Newark, DE, passed away on Wednesday, June 16, 2010, at her home.
Born in Pocahontas, VA, on March 20, 1941, Ms. Dickerson was a daughter of the late Henderson J. Edmondson and Martha Virginia Smith Edmondson. She was employed in the human resources department of General Motors for 10 years and later accepted a position as the sales manager for the H.L. Yoh Company, where she retired after 12 years.
In her leisure hours, Ms. Dickerson greatly enjoyed gardening around her home and decorating.
She is survived by her daughter, Laura D. Rowe (Michael) of Newark, DE; son, Raymond E. Hodge, Jr. of Newark, DE; sisters, Martha A. Farmer of Marion, VA, and Wanda J. Vance (Steve) of New Castle, DE; grandchildren, Samantha A. Rowe and Morgan E. Rowe; and nieces and nephews.
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Joseph JaJa holds a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, and the University of Maryland Institute for Advanced Computer Studies (UMIACS). He received his Ph.D. in Applied Mathematics from Harvard University in 1977. Dr. JaJa has published extensively in a number of areas including parallel and distributed computing, combinatorial optimization, algebraic complexity, VLSI architectures, and data-intensive computing. He has received numerous awards including the IEEE Fellow Award in 1996, the 1997 R&D Award for the development of software for tuning parallel programs, and the ACM Fellow Award in 2000. He served on several editorial boards, and is currently serving as a subject area editor for the Journal of Parallel and Distributed Computing and as editor for the International Journal of Foundations of Computer Science.
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Dr. Andrew Chesnut joined me on NBC12 First at 4 Wednesday to discuss the selection of Pope Francis as TIME's "Person of the Year".
Dr. Chesnut is the Bishop Walter Sullivan Chair in Catholic Studies at VCU.
He is has written extensively about the Vatican and was our guest back in the spring when Catholic Bishop's gathered in a Conclave to select Francis as the next Pontiff.
Chesnut told us that the new Pope's impact on the Church has been incredibly significant in the short time he has held the pontificate. But that impact has been one of a change in approach, not doctrine.
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Many of us currently experiencing the Mandela Effect — aka ME experiencers are not much different from those on the brink of what the healthcare industry would term simply madness/schizophrenic. (According to Wikipedia, schizophrenia is a mental disorder characterized by abnormalsocial behavior and failure to understand what is real.Common symptoms include false beliefs, unclear or confused thinking, hearing voices, reduced social engagement and emotional expression, and a lack of motivation.)
A good portion of individuals diagnosed with schizophrenia are simply made to appear as if they have gone bat shi* crazy. Please, don't believe the hype!
According to Fiona Broome, The "Mandela Effect" is what happens when someone has a clear memory of something that never happened in this reality. Many of us — mostly total strangers — remember the exact same events with the exact same details. However, our memories are different from what's in history books, newspaper archives, and so on.This isn't a conspiracy, and we're not talking about "false memories." Many of us speculate that parallel realities exist, and we've been "sliding" between them without realizing it.
ME experiencers, want so desperately to conform, to be normal, to belong, to fit in with society, to be as we once were. We experience things that are uncomfortable for us and we desperately would like to quietly sweep it all under a rug. We try and try but there is always that excitability, that sound, innate feeling…. deep within us that constantly pushes us, letting us know that there is something more to this life, something real….here. We want to believe, I guess this is the child in us that refuses to accept the No, or shut up — for an answer. They just want to know the Whats and the Whys. ME experiencer's are discovering things that matter to their existence and quite possibly ours/yours as well. They are going against the grain, attentive to whats happening in the present moment — and this cannot be a bad thing! If I was to theorize, summarize this phenomenon, it seems at least to me on the outside looking in, that these Rebels, Wanderers, ME Advocates, Universal beings are working towards their own upliftment and that of the planet — in ways that can not be understood or seen by the masses at this time.
Could there be something to these anomalies that are perforating realities? Something worth fighting for…??!? Leave your thoughts in the comments section.
In the video below the author breaks down research recently completed on the topic.
"There is no miserable place waiting for you, no hell realm, sitting and waiting like Alaska—waiting to turn you into ice cream. But whatever you call it—hell or the suffering realms—it is something that you enter by creating a world of neurotic fantasy and believing it to be real. It sounds simple, but that's exactly what happens." ― Lama Thubten Yeshe, Becoming Vajrasattva
- Take the Mandela Effect Experiencer Quiz @ www.quiz-maker.com/QRVR3A
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Wonder Woman is not usually mentioned in the same breath as a caveman or a tiny Kelly green plastic soldier, but in Luke Geddes' freshly published book, "I Am a Magical Teenage Princess," comic book characters are juxtaposed with astronauts, 50-year-old toys and 21st-century culture.
On Monday at Watermark Books and Cafe, Geddes will entertain, read from and maybe explain some of the short stories from his newly published work.
Wichita is befitting for Geddes' book release party. Chomu Press published the book July 18. Most of the more than one dozen short stories in the book were written in the Air Capital.
"I got very interested in the antique mall scene in Wichita," Geddes said. "You get the urge to accumulate things that have been discarded."
Like the vintage Archie comics and monster figurines he purchased at the stores, Geddes holds on to his memories of Wichita.
"As I grow older, I identify more and more with the Midwest," said Geddes, who recently finished a Master of Fine Arts at Wichita State University and is working toward his Ph.D. at the University of Cincinnati. Although he grew up in Wisconsin, Geddes avoided setting all the stories in the Midwest.
"The stories are a combination of innocence and adult smut," Geddes said. "The book has a lot to do with nostalgia. It's like looking at all sides of nostalgia — including the unhealthy side."
The humorous short stories also focus on pieces of pop culture and people that were overlooked.
"You appreciate the wit in it," said Darren DeFrain, English department chairman at WSU. "What sets Luke's work apart is how deep it goes. Typically his work is philosophically nuanced."
DeFrain said that the stories were smartly written, exciting and original.
"He's a good storyteller," DeFrain said.
In one story, Geddes delves into the mind of an educational-hygiene-film actor and discusses the social structures of her celluloid world — with humor.
Geddes said his book examines finding comfort in the past — as well as the past that never existed.
"It's literary but humorous; it's not overly dark," he said.
"I Am a Magical Teenage Princess" also delves into many of the characters' psychological profiles and their inner relationships.
"It's funny, but when you take it apart, you realize how well-constructed the language in it is," said DeFrain, author of "The Salt Palace." "The stories are very rich in popular culture, yet they're just so smartly done. It's rare to be able to do."
DeFrain said Geddes is a talented writer.
"This is just the tip of the iceberg as far as what we are going to see from Luke Geddes," DeFrain said. "He's off to a really big career."


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So, now that the "My word" and "Well, I do declare" reactions to the Nevada Host Committee's bid to land the 2016 Republican National Convention in Las Vegas have subsided a bit, it's a good time to take stock of how likely a Vegas-bound GOP might be. And according to All-Nevada Political Journalist Jon Ralston, it's quite a serious bid indeed.
"Is there so much fear and loathing of Sin City that this move by Nevada's GOP elite to secure the convention is more like the hallucinations of a Strip drunk at 3 AM than a sober proposition by a smart, committed group of people? I don't think so," Ralston wrote in a Ralston Reports post today.
Ralston points out that Vegas patriarchs such as Sheldon Adelson and Steve Wynn "will open their checkbooks for this" and the city's experience with conventions and its inventory of hotel rooms would help grease the skids.
And for the record: Even though Roll Call After Dark has cued the Sin City jokes about what such a locale could wrought, it's worth pointing out that same column extolled the virtues of having such a convention in a prime-time city like Vegas, as opposed to places like Denver, Colo., and Charlotte, N.C., where hotel rooms were sometimes more than hour away from the convention site and transportation systems were lacking. As for the adult entertainment angle, there's a reason prostitution is referred to as the world's oldest profession (because it's everywhere), and last time we were in Tampa, another convention site, there was no real shortage of strip clubs there, either.
And why shouldn't Vegas feel free to make a bid that places like Kansas City or Cleveland do? Ralston's headline sums it up well: "GOP 2016 in Las Vegas? Why not?" That harks to one of the best political slogans of all time, from Kinky Friedman's Texas gubernatorial bid: Why the hell not?


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Dear Carma friends,
I am not really sure this deserves a new topic, but whatever.
Kids opened some Kinder Surprises today and in one of them was...Red Eagle! I mean Turquoise Eagle or at least something very similar.
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Btw. shouldn't you sue them, Stainless?
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Top 5 Funny Moments in Music
With Russell Brand's return as loose-cannon rocker Aldous Snow in June's Get Him to the Greek, there'll be no shortage of music-related hilarity this summer. But there are plenty of laughs to be had in the real music world, too. Check out this list of the Top 5 Funny Moments in Music.
5) Milli Vanilli Flames Out in Concert: Confirming suspicions that these Grammy winners didn't actually sing, their vocal track malfunctioned during a 1990 "live" concert in Bristol, Connecticut. As the PA blared, "Girl you know it's…" over and over again, Rob and Fab desperately tried to cover up their fraudulence, to no avail. A bad day for dread-locked charlatans, but an awesome moment for music-related humor.
4) Joaquin Phoenix's "Rap Career": Ripping a page from Andy Kaufman's Big Book of Living Theater, the Walk the Line star announced his retirement from acting, fully embraced the Random Homeless Guy look, then fell off the stage during his big debut. Ouch!
3) Adam Sandler Debuts "The Chanukah Song" on Saturday Night Live: In 1994, then-newcomer Sandler graced the world with his rip-snorting retort to the oppressive ubiquity of Christmas songs. And the dreidel will rock, indeed.
2) Madonna Falls on Her Behind in Portugal: During a September 2008 concert in Lisbon, the Material Mom follows up a hip-gyrating display of faux guitar heroism by taking a tumble on her gym-hardened behind. Careful, Madge; at your age, a gal could break a hip that way.
1) "Hello, Cleveland!": In 1984, Michael McKean, Christopher Guest and Harry Shearer�"collectively known as heavy-metal buffoons Spinal Tap�"attempt to pump up the audience with this regional greeting. Unfortunately, they're performing in Chicago. And the crowd goes mild!
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While we would love to start this review out by extolling the virtues of the series and the hilarity of this week's episode, we just can't. That's not to say that "If You're So Smart, Then Why Are You Dead?" is a bad episode of television, because it isn't. What it is though is a sub par episode of Psych. Much like other disappointing episodes in the past however, "If You're So Smart, Then Why Are You Dead?" does drive home the fact that even when the series isn't at its best, it is still decent.
The case of the week this week is brought to Shawn and Gus by a couple of ¿ber smart teenagers who believe that one of their teachers is going to kill somebody in the next week. Shawn and Gus decide to take the case and infiltrate the kid's school as professors of the psychic arts - or Psychics as Shawn dubs it. The case itself is like any good episode of Psych as there are plenty of red herrings distracting you away from the real culprit. But, unfortunately this week's case just didn't seem to have the same flare and humorous outcome which most all of the other Psych episodes contain. In fact this week's case seemed to be more like a simple CSI case, with plenty of amusing situations and jokes helping it move along.
But as ho-hum as the plot of the episode was, the dialogue and acting was as sharp as ever. James Roday continually deserves praise as the smart-aleck "psychic" who doesn't know when he has gone too far. And while most episodes of Psych have Roday's character Shawn going way too far with his "psychic" predictions and vision, this week was without his normal theatrics. We have harped on the "psychic" visions in the past, as they just seem too hokey to be in any way believable, but this week without his normal fits, Shawn just seemed to be a perceptive guy who is out-smarting the police department. So what do we want to see then? Well, a little more theatrics than what this episode had, and a little less than last episode ("Meat is Murder, But Murder is Also Murder"). Still, kudos to Roday for keeping his character fresh and exciting after over twenty episodes.
While we are content with Shawn's role in the series, we are wondering when Lassiter is going to change a little. From the first episode, it has been established that Carlton Lassiter's role is to be the ever doubting detective whom Shawn and Gus can pick on, but work with to help solve each week's cases. The thing is that we are given little bits in nearly every episode that make us anxious to see Lassiter break out of his up-tight shell. Partnered with Juliet, who was given a promotion within her role this week, we believe that she may be what it takes to loosen Lassey up just a little.
With great comedy and characters that are constantly entertaining, this episode was a great diversion which will suffice until the next great episode. But we know with a show as constantly humorous and enjoyable as Psych that the show can do better than this decent outing. Still, those who enjoy the series or the casual nature of the program, do give "If You're So Smart, Then Why Are You Dead?" a viewing - it is still better than a lot of the average television out there.


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CONCORD, N.H. — A man who took hostages at a Hillary Rodham Clinton presidential campaign office in 2007 has been caught less than 24 hours after walking away from a minimum-security correctional facility, authorities said today.
Leeland Eisenberg was arrested on an escape charge without incident about 8:30 a.m. today in Manchester. He was found in the lobby of a community center.
Eisenberg, 52, was expected to be arraigned in court later today and brought back to the state prison in Concord. The escape charge is a felony punishable by 3 ½ to 7 years in prison, Department of Corrections spokesman Jeff Lyons said.
Eisenberg was missing from his room during a head count Sunday afternoon at the Calumet Transitional Housing Unit in Manchester.
He was sentenced in 2010 to 3 ½ to 7 years for probation violations. He would have been eligible for parole in August.
"We get about six or seven minimum security walkaways a year from our halfway houses," Lyons said.
Eisenberg spent about two years behind bars for the November 2007 siege at Clinton's Rochester campaign office in which he claimed to have a bomb. No one was hurt in a five-hour standoff and the bomb turned out to be road flares.
At his arraignment in that case, public defender Randy Hawkes portrayed Eisenberg as a man at the end of his rope emotionally after being repeatedly turned down when he sought psychiatric help.
Eisenberg "heard voices and saw a movie in his head telling him he had to sacrifice himself" to shine light on the flaws in the health care system, Hawkes said.
Eisenberg was released on probation in November 2009. His first violation occurred soon after his release, when he failed to charge his monitoring bracelet. He was incarcerated in January 2010 after failing to take mandatory alcohol breath tests.
In February 2010, he cut off his electronic monitoring bracelet and fled, a day after being given a last chance at freedom by a judge who released him despite multiple probation violations. He was found in his Dover apartment the next day.
He was sentenced to 10 years for rape in Worcester, Mass., in 1985 but escaped the next year and committed another rape, prosecutors said. He was sentenced to 11 to 20 years for that. He was released from prison in March 2005.
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Nostalgia: Queen Elizabeth II's Style Evolution
The first time Cecil Beaton photographed Queen Elizabeth II, she was a teenage princess in wartime. She had soft, little-girl curls and wore a pastel-pink taffeta dress that a long-forgotten dressmaker made with "lover's knots in blue, and cream pearls," according to the picture caption. At sixteen, she and her younger sister, Margaret Rose, were still dressed identically, just as they had been since the cradle, in matching kilts, bonnets, and coats with velvet collars. Princess Elizabeth leaned against a table in the Bow Room at Buckingham Palace with a painting of a baby Prince Leopold of the Belgians behind her; the set designer in Beaton was always present in his work. Inspired by Gainsborough and Winterhalter, Beaton's was a portrait of both innocence and grandeur.
In another picture on the same shoot, she wore her Grenadier Guard uniform. At fifteen she had become their Colonel. She looks like a child, but already there is a certainty that belies her slender frame and youth. The Palace was firmly aware of the importance of the image projected. This fresh, sweet future monarch was pictured just six years after the shocking abdication of her uncle Edward. The clothes were key to this positive, confidence-inspiring vision. Here, they were slightly austere. Three years later, in a shot released after the end of the war, the Princess wore a romantic gown, a butterfly-spangled crinoline by Norman Hartnell that belonged to her mother. This was a peacetime return to fairy-tale fantasy. Hartnell had devised the crinoline shape for her mother, the Queen, who wore it to great acclaim on tour in Paris in 1938, as part of her "white wardrobe"; Christian Dior later claimed it was one of his inspirations for the New Look.
At the time, it was the brittle Duchess of Windsor, Wallis Simpson, and the beautiful Princess Marina of Kent who were the leading Royal fashion plates. Wallis Simpson might have called the then Queen "cookie" and said she looked like a "grocer's daughter," but George VI had briefed Hartnell that he wanted his wife to be a counterpoint to Wallis: light, soft froth to her dark, hard angles. The royal family's job, the King felt, was to be regal and reassuring rather than sharp and fashionable. It was a message their eldest child would pick up fifteen years later when she became Queen—and now, 60 years later, as she celebrates her Diamond Jubilee, she has remained as luminous and yet as gentle as she was then.
We will never know if character or position propelled the young Elizabeth toward more modest necklines, in contrast to her sister Margaret's décolleté, starlet style. But although she could certainly do glamour—it was universally agreed that she outshone Marilyn Monroe at a film premiere in 1956, in a black velvet off-the-shoulder Hartnell gown—she never looked less than regal. The Queen has spent her whole life dressing for public consumption. Just as with the jewels, the dresses and the regalia had to be in keeping with her position, so they also had to be sensitive to time and place. They had to be practical, but also diplomatic. Never has a wardrobe had to work so hard.
In the forties, the influence of her mother, who favored diaphanous pastels and floaty dresses, is still evident. Elizabeth and Margaret were young women in their mother's shadow. Through that decade, the carefree future Queen wore dresses with padded shoulders and nipped in waists—the Forties silhouette. After the war, she was often dressed by Hartnell, who made so much clothing for her mother. Hartnell was a publican's son who had begun designing opera costumes while he was a student at Cambridge. Like Beaton, he had a theatrical streak that saw him through two of the most important commissions of the twentieth century: the wedding dress of 1947, and the Queen's coronation gown.
Princess Elizabeth's wedding dress was a communal effort, in a sense, with fabric bought by the public's clothing coupons. But the star was the embroidery. The dress and its train were encrusted with thousands of seed pearls and crystal beads in garlands of lilies and white York roses. But it was the coronation gown that was the apotheosis of Hartnell's career. The Queen wanted the same silhouette as her wedding dress, but with emblems of the United Kingdom and all her dominions included. "I thought of the sky, the earth, the sun, the moon, the stars, and everything heavenly that might be embroidered on a dress destined to be historic," wrote Hartnell in his autobiography. It also had to be a dress that wasn't totally eclipsed by the fact its wearer was sporting a crown, an orb, and a scepter; and it must outshine an abbey full of peeresses and other royals. Here was the ultimate statement dress. A young, slight English rose was transformed into a monarch.
Royalty have always understood the power of fashion. On a macro level, the wardrobe, like the jewels, spoke of history, status, wealth, and reach. But it was this Queen who introduced the idea of dressing as diplomacy. It has often been said that the Queen dresses for the practicalities of her role: Her hems are weighed down so they don't blow up; her skirts must be long enough for dignity sitting on a podium or descending airplane steps; her fabrics mustn't crease; her colors must stand out in a crowd; and her hats must show her face. And yet, the messages that accompany the outfits are much more interesting than that, and particularly so on state visits. On these occasions, there is an international relations mission to be accomplished. And here the wardrobe plays a vital part.
After the coronation, there was a shift from pastels to brights. Her first global tour as Queen was a lesson in the power of color and an antidote to the gloom of the Cold War. So began the habit of a lifetime: the radiant wardrobe.
The Queen dressed for the world—she was an astutely political dresser. Her outfits said: We respect your culture, your heritage, your terrain; we are flattered to be here; we make an effort to show we have thought about what that means. Hartnell embroidered French flowers and Napoleonic bees for France; maple leaves on green satin for Canada; bugle beads into lotus flowers for India. Hardy Amies's dresses were lighter, his silhouette narrower, but no less loaded with significance. In 1983, the Queen met Frank Sinatra in California, in an Amies gown embroidered with California poppies. And just last year, a century of ice dissolved when she wore a dress described by the local press as "shamrock green" to Ireland.
Today, the majority of the clothes are made by a Liverpudlian docker's daughter named Angela Kelly, who carries the title of "personal assistant and senior dresser." She is described by the Palace is a "no-nonsense" figure and is known for her resourcefulness: a "Snow Queen" silver dress worn in Slovenia in 2008 was made from of fabric from the Middle East that had been lying around the palace for more than 20 years. (They called it "credit-crunch couture.") London couturier Stewart Parvin received a visit from Kelly in 2000, not that he knew who she was. "She told me she had a client, in her 60s, in the public eye, that she must be elegant, classic, and very Jackie O, and that the designs must be completely unique to her." Soon he found himself suggesting fabrics and conducting fittings at Buckingham Palace. He says she has incredible posture and is fortunate in that she can wear any color. "She is exacting," he adds, "in a way that you can only be if you have a keen interest and enjoyment in dressing." Today, Kelly and her team make all the clothes in the Queen's private apartments at Buckingham Palace, including the primose-yellow dress and coat the Queen wore to **Prince William'**s wedding and, for this upcoming week, most of the Jubilee wardrobe, including any hats that are not made by the current milliner, Rachel Trevor-Morgan.
From touching pastel taffeta to the forthcoming Jubilee magnificence, never has one woman illustrated the power of fashion for so long. See the slideshow above for some of her most memorable looks.


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Early this morning the process that pulls yesterday's ranking data into the interface was delayed about five hours. Your account may look wonky, and be really slow, until this completes. It should be soon, but I just wanted to let everyone know what was going on. We do have your data, it just may not look like it at the moment. Everything will be back to normal in a few hours. Thanks for your patience.
Since we're talking backend things at the moment … might as well update everyone on what we're working on. For the last few weeks we've been updating the entire architecture to be much more reliable, flexible and scalable. Part of this process is getting everything on Amazon's cloud. We've been on Slicehost up until now, but are running into some issues with them, as you may have noticed today 🙁 Amazon will not only allow us to scale the way we aggregate and process your data, but they also provide us with quite a few utilities to take advantage of in the process.
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Bavarian storage facilities
DEA not only engages in natural gas exploration and production, but also stores it in porous underground storage facilities. The purpose of these is to balance out seasonal variations in consumption and ensure a constantly reliable supply of natural gas. In summer, the natural gas is kept in storage, and in winter – when demand for gas frequently exceeds supply – the natural gas is delivered to the supply network. In its capacity as an operator, DEA's Bavarian underground storage facility Speicherbetriebe Bayern is subject to the [German] Major Accidents Ordinance. To this end, in its role as a supervisory body the Mining Authority of Southern Bavaria carries out annual vehicle-based inspections. Neighbouring persons and entities are informed about hazard situations in writing on a regular basis.
DEA builds natural gas storage facilities for imported gas
To cover the overall demand, Germany imports natural gas from Russia, the Netherlands, Norway and Denmark. With a combined storage volume of just under 1.9 billion cubic metres, our gas storage facilities play an important role in supplying Germany with natural gas.
DEA assumes responsibility for the construction and technical operation of natural gas storage facilities for its partners, and these partners then perform the duties required of a storage facility operator in accordance with the German Energy Industry Act.
DEA's Bavarian storage facilities are sub-divided into
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- Breitbrunn/Eggstätt (on the Chiemsee)
- Wolfersberg (southeast of Munich)
Exhausted natural gas fields are used for natural gas storage
Our storage facilities are exhausted natural gas fields that developed many millions of years ago. The fact that natural gas was capable of collecting there in the first place proves that the cover layers above it seal off the rock holding the gas safely from above. Our porous storage facilities are therefore particularly suitable for storing large quantities of natural gas.
DEA possesses many years of experience in the field of underground gas storage. Wolfersberg gas storage facility has been in operation since 1973, the Inzenham-West facility since 1982, and the Breitbrunn/Eggstätt facility since 1996. With this operational experience and our well-trained employees, we have the expertise needed to ensure that the storage facilities are operated safely and reliably.
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DEA Speicher GmbH is the unbundled gas storage system operator (SSO) of DEA Deutsche Erdoel AG responsible for the gas storage facility Inzenham-West. Its field of activities includes the construction of new gas storages, operation, maintenance and the marketing of storage capacity. DEA Speicher GmbH is fully owned by DEA Deutsche Erdoel AG.
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I received my SJD degree from the University of Pennsylvania Law School (2015), where I also received my LLM (2001). I received my JD from University of Michigan Law School (1993), and my BA from Williams College (1986).
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. I've been playing this game for 5 months,
And everyone in the chat suggests that this game should have a search engin to search for your friends by username and to be able to follow them and play with them anytime you want, I myself and others on this app also suggest that there could be private messaging to only users you follow/friends,
I cannot express how MANY PEOPLE suggested this request, if this request can happen in the very soon future IT WOULD BE GREATLY APPRECIATED AND GREATLY PLEASEING TO ALL THE USERS. I highly highly recommend this request and many others.
If you have any ideas regarding improvements that can be done in the game, post them here! Developers read this section frequently.
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