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text: Famous wartime photograph now on circulating $2 coin in Canada 'Wait for me, Daddy' scene also available in Proof silver collector versions By Jeff Starck , Coin World Published : 10/07/14 Print Text Size A A The Royal Canadian Mint's newest circulating commemorative $2 coin shows part of a famous wartime photograph titled "Wait for me, Daddy." Images courtesy of the Royal Canadian Mint. Two companion Proof .9999 fine silver collecter coins also recall the noted scene, including this $10 coin featuring selective coloring on the reverse. Images courtesy of the Royal Canadian Mint. Photographer Claude Detloff captured this scene on Oct. 1, 1940, as soldiers prepared to leave to train for World War II. The image, courtesy of the City of Vancouver Archives, soon was published around the world and used to generate support for the war. Image courtesy of the City of Vancouver Archives. One of the most famous and popular of images from Canada's World War II experience is now on a circulating $2 coin and two collector coins. Titled "Wait for me, Daddy," the photo captures a poignant moment of a soldier from British Columbia about to depart for war. The Royal Canadian Mint unveiled the 2014 circulating coin on Oct. 4 in New Westminster, British Columbia, not far from where the scene was photographed on Oct. 1, 1940. The coin was unveiled as part of a community celebration of the photograph come to life in sculpture in the suburban Vancouver city. The reverse of the coin focuses on part of the scene as captured by photographer Claude P. Dettloff (ofThe Province newspaper). The image shows then 5-year-old Warren "Whitey" Bernard running away from the grasp of his mother, Bernice, to his father, Pvt. Jack Bernard, who was in a formation of other soldiers about to board a train to an unknown destination as Canada continued mobilizing troops for the war effort. Detloff was positioned to photograph the British Columbia Regiment (Duke of Connaught's Own Rifles) marching down the hill on Eighth Street at the Columbia Avenue intersection in New Westminster, British Columbia, when he saw the boy break away. The image soon became used for war bond drives and was reprinted around the world. The $2 coin is ringed bimetallic, and the boy, young "Whitey" Bernard, appears in the center, with his mother at left and his father at right. The reverse includes the inscriptions REMEMBER, 2014 and SOUVENIR, as well as the denomination and issuing nation's name. Security features, also found on the reverse, include virtual images of a maple leaf, as well as two lasermark maple leafs. The obverse of all three coins in this program carries the familiar Susanna Blunt effigy of Queen Elizabeth II. The ringed bimetallic coin has a nickel ring and a center composed of copper, aluminum and nickel. The $2 coin measures 28.03 millimeters in diameter. Current coins of the same composition and denomination weigh 6.92 grams. In total 5 million of the $2 coins have been struck for circulation through normal coin circulation channels, the RCM's boutiques in Winnipeg, Vancouver and Ottawa, and through the RCM's website. Limited quantities of five-coin packs are available to Canadian residents (three packs per household) through an online coin exchange at a dedicated page at the RCM's website. In addition, the RCM issued two new silver coins sharing a larger scene of the event. A Proof .9999 fine silver $3 coin weighs 7.96 grams, measures 27 millimeters in diameter and has a mintage limit of 15,000 pieces. It retails for $44.95 Canadian. A Proof .9999 fine silver $10 coin weighs 15.87 grams, measures 34 millimeters in diameter and has a mintage limit of 10,000 pieces. It retails for $59.95 Canadian. The $10 coin shows parts of the scene selectively colored, with the blond young boy in blue reaching for his father, in green, while his mother, wearing a maroon coat, stretches to catch up with the boy. The coins are available for purchase only inside Canada. Interested collectors will have to search the secondary market. advertisement Subscribe to our Newsletters advertisement You are signed in as:null No comments yet

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Jury selected for Jackson lawsuit
A jury of six men and six women has been accepted by both sides for the trial of a wrongful death lawsuit filed by the mother of Michael Jackson against AEG concert promoters.
Lawyers immediately began questioning prospects to sit as stand-by jurors.
The jury was seated a week after a pool of more than 100 candidates was assembled. Many prospects were eliminated because they said serving on a three-month trial would be a hardship.
Others were excused when they said they had a bias against Jackson or disapproved of big-figure lawsuits. Others were rejected because they had business ties to AEG or the Jackson family.
Jackson's mother Katherine filed the case on behalf of herself and her son's three children. Their lawyers have put the potential damages at 40 billion US dollars (£26 billion) but jurors will have to determine any amount the family might receive.
The lawsuit claims AEG, the company that promoted the ill-fated This Is It concert, hired Conrad Murray as Jackson's physician without checking his credentials. Murray was convicted of involuntary manslaughter in the death of the superstar from an overdose of the anaesthetic propofol. Coincidentally, Murray's lawyer filed an appeal on Monday over his criminal conviction.
The lawsuit jury was selected ahead of time estimates. Lawyers were aided by a long questionnaire filled out by jury prospects that sought their views on Jackson and his famous family along with his life and death, and their feelings about multimillion-pound jury verdicts.
The civil case will focus on the pop singer's possible role in his own death. Witnesses will also testify about his troubled finances and whether AEG wielded too much influence over a cash-strapped Murray by offering him 150,000 dollars (£100,000) a month for his job as Jackson's doctor during the concert tour.
Neither AEG nor Jackson signed Murray's contract before the singer died.
Some evidence excluded from Murray's trial, including Jackson's financial and medical records, could be used in the civil case, possibly offering new insight into the singer's life before his death on June 25, 2009, at the age of 50.
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I am a fellow Tom Hanks fan and I wanted to let you know (if you don't already) about an amazing thing Tom has recently done for you to include in your website. Tom donated his SIGNED used hybrid to be auctioned off for charity. The proceeds will benefit the Welcome Back Veterans foundation that will help veterans returning from Iraq and Afghanistan. I found some links that I am including so that you can check it out. Definitely wanted to make sure that the viewers of your website get a chance to learn more about his donation and even possibly bid on it! Let me know if you have any questions! The auction closes July 19th, I think!
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After losing 12 of 15 games, the Blackhawks went on the offensive Monday, switching coaches and styles.
The Blackhawks fired defense-oriented coach Trent Yawney, replacing him with assistant Denis Savard.
"We want to be a pressure team," said Savard, who joined the Blackhawks in 1997 as an assistant coach and will be behind the bench Wednesday against Dallas. "We've got to score more than one or two goals to be able to win. ... We have to be a little more creative."


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In the six score and three years since it was built, the Dr. George E. Davis House has undergone a few changes. Built in 1890, the house was added to in the early 1900s and given a brick façade in the 1920s, according to the Mecklenburg County Historic Landmark Commission. Since then, the house near the campus of Johnson C. Smith University has fallen into disrepair.
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The HUB Spring Speaker Series kicks off Feb. 21 with Cynthia Doe
Cynthia Doe, principal with Ernst & Young's Information Technology Risk and Assurance Practice , will kick off The HUB 2011 Spring Speaker Series on Monday, Feb. 21.
Her presentation, "Corporate Social Responsibility: Using Our People Skills to Make a Difference in a Changing World," will begin at 5 p.m. in the Katzer Collaboratory, Room 347 of Hinds Hall, and is free and open to the public.
Doe will discuss what corporate social responsibility is; why it is important to business and its people; why businesses are engaged and how that integrates with strategy; how busy professionals and students balance their commitments; and the benefits of engagement for the community, school, company and individual.
Doe has more than 19 years of experience working in the financial services industry, specifically in asset management, banking and capital markets. She has significant experience working with major financial services clients on internal and external audits, third-party reporting exams, and risk management assessments and frameworks. Working closely with Ernst & Young's asset management practice, she coordinates financial audit-related ITRA work, including SAS 70 examinations; provides training on information technology (IT) concepts and IT audit principles; and coordinates with other advisory services to deliver effective and efficient recommendations for Ernst & Young's clients. She is a certified information systems auditor and received a bachelor's degree in finance from Boston College.
About the Collaboration
In 2007, JPMorgan Chase and Syracuse University founded a unique collaboration to transform the way students aspiring to technology careers in large global organizations are educated and trained. The two organizations have designed and launched a new Global Enterprise Technology (GET) curriculum, created the GET Immersion Experience Program and launched several applied research projects addressing the kinds of technology challenges faced by global organizations. In 2009, The HUB was launched to include other universities and industries. Through the collaboration, universities and industries share knowledge and experiences to better prepare students to work in complex technology environments and to develop creative and innovative solutions to global technology business problems. For more information about the collaboration, visit http://www.globaltechhub.org.
About JPMorgan Chase & Co.
JPMorgan Chase & Co. (NYSE: JPM) is a leading global financial services firm with assets of $2 trillion and operations in more than 60 countries. The firm is a leader in investment banking, financial services for consumers, small business and commercial banking, financial transaction processing, asset management and private equity. Information about JPMorgan Chase & Co. is available at http://www.jpmorganchase.com.


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In Act 1, Scene 3 of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, in the stanza beginning "Mark you this, Bassanio" to "what a goodly outside falsehood hath!," what light do the lines, "Is like a...
In Act 1, Scene 3 of William Shakespeare's The Merchant of Venice, in the stanza beginning "Mark you this, Bassanio" to "what a goodly outside falsehood hath!," what light do the lines, "Is like a villain with a smiling cheek/A goodly apple rotten at the heart;/O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!" throw upon the character of Shylock?
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Antonio is the character in The Merchant of Venice by William Shakespeare who speaks the lines you mention, and he speaks the lines about Shylock. The two men are anything but friends, and this speech shows Antonio's total disdain for Shylock, the Jewish moneylender.
Bassanio needs money to become a suitor to Portia, so of course he asks his friend Antonio, who often lends money to people without interest (a fact which infuriates Shylock, by the way). Unfortunately, Antonio's money is tied up at the moment, so he sends Bassanio to borrow it elsewhere, saying he will guarantee the loan. Unfortunately, Bassanio makes an agreement with Shylock, Antonio's hated enemy and a man Antonio has insulted publicly many times before, mostly because Shylock is a Jew and Antonio is a Christian and the hatred between the two religions runs deep.
Before Shylock will agree to the deal, he insists on speaking to Antonio, as well. The speech you mention in your question happens during this conversation. Shylock has just used Scripture (in the form of a story about Jacob found in the Bible) to accuse Antonio of taking his interest for the money he lends in devious ways. Antonio then speaks these lines in a kind of aside to Bassanio:
Mark you this, Bassanio,
The devil can cite Scripture for his purpose.
An evil soul producing holy witness
Is like a villain with a smiling cheek,
A goodly apple rotten at the heart:
O, what a goodly outside falsehood hath!
Antonio is accusing Shylock of being "the devil in disguise," so to speak, as Satan also used the Bible to try to trick Jesus. In the specific lines you mention, Antonio describes Shylock as a man who looks good on the outside ("smiling cheek" and "goodly apple") but who is evil on the inside ("villain" and "rotten at the heart"). The last line of the speech summarizes that contention: Shylock appears to be a good and pious man but is really a lying villain.


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No Blank Checks for FEMA
Heritage's Jim Carafano appeared on CBS's "Early Show" to discuss the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) wanting a blank check. FEMA says it has too… Read More
Heritage's Jim Carafano appeared on CBS's "Early Show" to discuss the Federal Emergency Management Agency's (FEMA) wanting a blank check. FEMA says it has too… Read More
Liberals are busy trying to drum up controversy over Representative Eric Cantor's (R–VA) calls for spending cuts in exchange for more aid to the Federal… Read More
On August 8, President Barack Obama's Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) issued a disaster declaration for flooding in Utah. With that declaration, FEMA hit 158… Read More
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Critics of state and local government action on immigration fail to keep in mind one simple but critical point: The states have these rights. It… Read More
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It was the legal equivalent of inviting an important guest to a dinner party only to have them head-butt the host.
Home Secretary and former barrister Jack Straw rolled up to the Annual Bar Conference on 27 September, opened his keynote speech with a few anti-solicitor jibes and then let fly with two sentences that re-ignited the fat-cat barristers' row.
His comments on barristers' fees dominated media coverage of the Bar's showcase event.
And there will be some at the Law Society who will be wondering if the Lord Chancellor, Lord Irvine, is travelling to the Solicitors' Annual Conference in Cardiff this weekend to deliver a similar "Glasgow kiss" to the profession.
Then again, the conference could probably do with all the publicity it can get. In 1988, when the conference was also in Cardiff, the then Lord Chancellor Lord Mackay turned up to deliver an anodyne speech. Two days later he announced the biggest shake-up of legal services this century.
So it is understandable that there was a frisson of excitement at the Law Society when it became apparent that Lord Irvine was planning to make a major announcement at the conference. That excitement reflected an ardent desire for the conference to make waves.
Over the years, the conference's organisers have struggled to convince the profession that it is relevant .
According to Andrew Lockley, former director of legal practice at the Law Society, of the 800 to 1,000 delegates who descend on Cardiff, many will either be speakers themselves, Law Society council members or local law society activists.
This inevitably gives the conference the feel of a convention of high street lawyers.
"The agenda is always prepared very carefully to be of interest to the whole profession, but it has always been very difficult to get that message across," said Lockley.
This year, senior Clifford Chance partner Tony Willis will be at the conference alongside Robert Ayling, chief executive of British Airways. But representatives from the large commercial firms will be as thin on the ground as ever.
Of the general issues facing the legal profession, Clifford Chance managing partner Geoffrey Howe was most concerned about the crisis affecting the Solicitors Indemnity Fund which does not appear on the conference agenda.
"By and large, it's not of great significance," said Howe. "A great majority of the issues, the middle ground, will not be particularly relevant. The business of the City firms is increasingly international – the UK issues are not top of the agenda."
Davies Arnold Cooper senior partner David McIntosh is one City solicitor who is attending the conference – but he is also a member of the Law Society council. He insists that Lord Irvine's expected announcements will be just as relevant to the City as to anybody else.
McIntosh believes powerful plaintiff clients will be attracted by the concept of conditional fees if, as expected, they are extended to commercial litigation.
He also predicts that companies face a flood of litigation from individuals and other companies who were not previously eligible for legal aid.
One City lawyer commented: "I may be wrong, but I have always viewed the conference as a club for the Law Society, somewhere where they can meet old friends over a glass of port."
And, said a young solicitor: "It doesn't seem to attract that much attention, other than from people from the Law Society."
A few choice words from Lord Irvine in Cardiff this weekend could rapidly change that – at least for a few days.
However, it will take more than that to turn the conference into a convention for the entire profession.


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Performing in front of rabid Texans fans on the sideline as an NFL cheerleader is a big demographic departure then dancing in front of fans for one of the most polarizing stars in pop music, Justin Bieber.
For ex-Texans cheerleader Lindsay Slott, she'll get the opportunity to try out for Bieber' s upcoming world tour at 6:30 Thursday at Planet Funk Academy in River Oaks. Slott will take part in an online audition as she will tape a routine with renowned choreographer Shawn Welling. The taping is open to the public and will feature members from the local dance community.
Most auditions take place in person and agencies require immediate residency in what dancers call the "Mecca" of dance, Los Angeles. Slott and other dancers not based in California now have the chance to show Bieber's camp what they got via social media campaigns and YouTube.
"It's really refreshing to see Justin Bieber's staff reaching out to the rest of the world, rather than just those who are only located in L.A, " Slott said. "This gives 'agent less' dancers like myself a shot at doing something they've always dreamed of because they are utilizing the technological advantages before them."
She is a trained hip-hop dancer who represented Houston on MTV's second season of "America's Next Best Dance Crew" and also danced in the "Monsters of Hip Hop" tour in 2006. Slott, who once performed in front of 70,000 people every Sunday with the Texans, will have a different approach going from the gridiron to the glitz and glam of pop tour.
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Automakers often talk about economies of scale – a moving target in an industry where industry giants like Toyota Motor Co., General Motors and Volkswagen AG are all shooting to reach 10 million annual sales during the next year or so.
By comparison, Fiat Chrysler Automobiles is little more than an also-ran, with a total worldwide sales volume of "just" 4.4 million vehicles last year, and a goal of 4.6 million in 2014. But with the company's formal merger of its U.S. and Italian operations now complete, CEO Sergio Marchionne has some big aspirations. He is targeting a nearly 25% increase in production over the next four years.
"By 2018, Fiat will be able to make more than 6 million cars," Marchionne said after a shareholders' meeting in Turin, where the Fiat side of the company is headquartered. "I don't want to give any details of the plan, but we are going in that direction."


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Happy (late) Easter!
I had the most busiest Easter ever! I could actually write an essay of 5000words of my holiday and I still have two days left before school starts again. (i.e. I still have 2 more days to study the anatomy of upper limb...) My grandma was admitted to a hospital, my car broke down, I tasted lamb for the first time and so on.
I don't what bit me, but suddenly I had this itch to make a teddy bear (and I still plan to do a few more). I haven't been a big fan of traditional teddy bears, so this is a first.
Tell me what you think? I had to modify the pattern (again), because I didn't have any furry fabric.
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>>I'm confused Jeremy - we saw ample examples of implementation of >>OWL tools at the f2f, and I'm still not sure what features of Lite >>you believe are unimplemented. I asked several times at the f2f >>for people to bring up things they think are as yet unimplemented >>but needed for moving to PR, and very few were mentioned - my lab >>took two actions to produce some of this. You brought up none and >>volunteered none. I have been drafting some starts at the >>implementation experience, and I don't see any major holes -- >>please identify any you have so we can start to fill them > > >Currently noone has a complete OWL Lite reasoner. >I have every reason to believe that NI will deliver one, but that's >one rather than two. > >If OWL Lite is meant to be easy, and a trustworthy basis for >interoperability then we should be looking at more than one complete >OWL Lite reasoner before exiting CR. do you mean only Lite? Does Euler fail any of the Lite tests at this point? I was under the impression from something Jos said that he handled virtually all the Lite tests - did I misunderstand? > >Also I am dubious that full tools that incompletely support lite >will give the sort of interoperability that wg members were looking >for. > >So to justify its existence Lite not only needs to be implemented, >but we should get the feeling that almost all OWL tools will migrate >to having complete OWL Lite capability. My colleagues are more >doubtful of this than I am. First - I understand that you have a tools focus, and will ask the following about tools: I don't understand the "...almost all OWL tools will might to having COMPLETE OWL Lite capability" -- I would expect almost all OWL tools to support the bulk of the Owl Lite functionality, but would be very surprised if very many of them are complete. This is because I expect OWL Lite to be the sublanguage of choice to be supported by NON-REASONING tools (like many of those we saw demoed at the f2f) - for example, almost all the tools converting from DAML do only some subset of Lite - but that is because they are for markup, crawling, parsing, querying, etc. etc -- and none of those promise to have a COMPLETE reasoner, since most only use simple reasoning to make the tools more powerful. I believe the above motivates LITE just as much, if not more, than the sort of migration you discuss. However, probably more importantly - I actually never thought OWL Lite was as important for tools as it is for Documents - most of the existing DAML ontologies are in or near the OWL Lite coverage -- and thus I expect most ontologies for the near future to be in Lite. Teaching students to build Lite ontologies is easier, for me, than teaching them the more complex DL constructions, and gives them access to a lot of power. Ian often stated that the only motivation for Lite was ease of implementation, but many of us never agreed with that motivation - and felt ease of exposition and learning to be important as well. So let's not be totally tool-centric, from a document-centric perspective (and what is the web if not document-centric?) there's a lot of evidence that people will use Owl Lite. (to confirm the above, [1] is a list of every OWL language construct and which ontologies use them. Playing with that you can find that most of them are only using stuff from Lite. The documents themselves may be missing some assertions needed to make them stickered Owl Lite documents, but those can be added in conversion - can't fault the DAML documents for not generating to an abstract syntax that didn't exist when they were written.) [1] http://www.daml.org/ontologies/features > >I volunteered no tools because within the time frame requested it is >unlikely that HP will be able to deliver any. That does not mean >that we are not working on OWL. If the wind blows in our favour we >just might have a version of Jena with OWL support in it, (i.e. a >programming environment which processes imports and allows RDF/XML >to be manipulated using the abstractions from OWL). that would be great, but I do understand that you may not be able to do this on time - I didn't mean to criticize you for not volunteering, I just meant that at the time you didn't pose that there were outstanding implementational items needed. > >If you can circulate a draft of the implementation report I would like >to ask my colleagues for their comments. it certainly won't be ready for circulation until after we go to LC. At this point I'm gathering data, but all my WG time is spent working documents, agendae, etc. until we get the LC documents out the door. > > >Jeremy -- Professor James Hendler firstname.lastname@example.com Director, Semantic Web and Agent Technologies 301-405-2696 Maryland Information and Network Dynamics Lab. 301-405-6707 (Fax) Univ of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 240-731-3822 (Cell) http://www.cs.umd.edu/users/hendlerReceived on Tuesday, 14 January 2003 17:01:52 UTC
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There is no way that Wolverine's mind won't end up back in the future (present) at the end of the movie. Think about it this way...
They want to use both sets of characters, present and past. If all they use the present characters for is to send Wolvie's mind back, what a waste. Won't happen. There will definitely be more present action and how can we be shown that things are "fixed" (like Jean is not dead) if Wolvie's mind doesn't come back?
Above, someone mentions how a younger, albeit bald Xavier was seen at the end of Origins. Totally forgot about that one. Hard for them to play with the timeline to make 1973 Wolvie have adamantium without totally forgetting about that one little thing!
Here's the problem...
Most of us would be ok with Wolvie having bone claws, but the general audience wants the metal! They will give the GA what they want. Again, no reason to give Wolvie back hi claws in the present, unless they just want to make the audience happy (possible), but story wise it is meaningless since most of this story will be in 1973.
So it will need to be 1973 Wolvie that had adamantium claws, and again that can only happen if they pretty much just ignore like 50% of Origins. As I said before, I would have no problem with them ignoring a big portion of Origins since that's what I do!
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Show home opening in Winsford
People looking for a new home in Mid-Cheshire should hot-foot it to St John's Wood, Winsford this weekend (November 19 & 20) when Redrow will be throwing open the doors to a beautiful new show home.
Featuring just 27 homes from Redrow's sought-after New Heritage Collection, St John's Wood is a welcome addition to the local housing stock, offering homebuyers the opportunity to enjoy a home that oozes character yet is practical and stylish
Anita Williams, sales director for Redrow Homes (NW), commented: "Situated off St John's Drive, this latest venture enjoys a sought-after location close to Winsford town centre with good local amenities amid the delightful surroundings of the Cheshire Plains. It's the perfect place to build our New Heritage Collection homes that combine traditional Arts and Crafts-inspired architecture with bright modern interiors designed to meet the demands of family living.
"We've already collated a database of people who are interested in the properties and are looking forward to opening the show home so that homebuyers can picture themselves living in one of our beautiful brand new homes."
The four-bedroom 'Windsor' show home opens this Saturday (November 19) and will enable house hunters to appreciate the layout and quality and finish offered as standard in Redrow's New Heritage Collection.
A convivial open plan layout puts the combined kitchen and dining room at the heart of the 'Windsor'.
"Kitchens aren't just where we cook and eat but are a real focal point of family homes and the 'Windsor' is a prime example of this. Its kitchen-diner is an inviting space that's flooded with lots of natural light thanks to French doors that lead out onto the rear garden," Anita explained.
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The new homes will transform two acres of wasteland off St. John's Drive. Redrow also plans to upgrade a nearby wildlife corridor.
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Simon's Town (often incorrectly spelt as "Simonstown") is located at the east side (False Bay side) of the Cape Peninsula near Cape Town, South Africa and is home to the South African Navy.
Get in
By car
Follow the Main Road (M4) south from Cape Town via Fish Hoek to the Cape of Good Hope along the east side of the peninsula.
By train
There is a regular MetroRail service from Simon's Town to Cape Town via Fish Hoek, Kalk Bay, Muizenberg, Wynberg and Claremont. Be sure to buy a first-class (metro plus) ticket ; these are not expensive. Although safety on trains has been an issue in the past, in recent times MetroRail has put a lot of effort into improving the situation and now the Cape Town-Simon's Town line is considered totally safe and reliable. The journey from Cape Town takes just over an hour.
The station is at the north end of Simon's Town, about a 10 minute walk to the centre of Simon's Town. Alternatively you can grab a ride on the back of a Riki Taxi (see "Getting Around" below).
By plane
The nearest airport is that of Cape Town, a good hour's drive away. You can also go on a trip with Civair from the V&A Waterfront in Cape Town along the Cape Peninsula.
Get around
While Simon's Town is small enough to get around by foot (It takes less than 30 minutes to walk from one side to the other) another option is to take a "Riki". A "Riki" is a small minibus which usually runs from the train station to Boulders. Unlike other minibus taxies, the Riki's do not hoot their horn constantly so you must keep an eye out for them. Their vehicles are unique in that they are obviously a minibus but much smaller in size and painted white (often with an advertisement on the back) and often flash their lights. Also, unlike most other minibus taxis, the Riki's are driven safely and considered safe for tourists. As of July 2006, the cost of taking the Riki's is around 50 cents (US)
Stop in Simon's Town and stroll around the harbour and the little shops along the main road. Then have something to eat, before you leave for Boulders, just outside the town (in the south).
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In the summer of 1988 the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London put on a two-week season of dance pieces by young choreographers. One of these was Spitfire, by the then unknown Matthew Bourne, which dressed its four male performers (one of them the 28-year-old choreographer) in Y-fronts and vests, and had them assume a series of heroic poses. The piece, in which the erotic fought a losing battle with the downright silly, drew on the imagery of the Littlewoods catalogue to create a tongue-in-cheek homage to the ballets of the Romantic era and their fragrant all-female groupings. Spitfire was a work in miniature, but it displayed all the important Bourne tropes: gender reversal, ballet-historical jokes and the ironic objectivisation of the male form.
Of course, Bourne has since become this country's most popular choreographer, and when the curtain rose on his feverishly-anticipated Dorian Gray in Edinburgh last week, my thoughts flew back to that evening at the ICA. The new piece, an updating of Oscar Wilde's 1891 Gothic novel, tells of the rise and fall of a beautiful, psychopathic male model. You see Dorian, in bed, and hear his alarm go off. It plays a tinny version of the overture to The Sleeping Beauty – a classic Bourne gag – and our anti hero rises dazedly to his feet in a pair of form-fitting white briefs.
They're there in the Dorian Gray poster, these briefs, lazily circling title role dancer Richard Winsor's hips beneath a pair of low-riding jeans. The show is nominally a moral cautionary tale, but that flash of peel-me-down-and-fuck-me elastic, the signature detail of the 21st-century metro-stud, tells us that Bourne's in a deeper groove. That he's still asking he same question that he asked in Spitfire, 20 years ago, and has returned to with varying degrees of insistence ever since: what does it mean, in this postmodern, post-heroic age, to be a man?
We follow Dorian to a job as a waiter servicing a function at some glossily vacant intersection of the art and fashion worlds. He's polite, but up for anything, and already looks overdressed in his suit. He's spotted by Basil Hallward (Aaron Sillis), a predatory photographer whose moves are based on David Hemmings's in Antonioni's Blow-Up (although, mysteriously, he's not allowed a motordrive camera), and the two are soon stalking each other like cats preparatory to a bout of narcissistic, Stolichnaya-fuelled sex. Set to a jagged score by Terry Davies, it's the first of many such liaisons. Wilde used the phrase 'feasting with panthers' to describe his exchanges with rent-boys, but in conjunction with Davies's music the loveless writhing often inclines more to the Raymond Revuebar end of the erotic spectrum. Over the evening this grinds us down, as it does Dorian himself.
His recompense, once he has been made over by Michela Meazza's Lady H, a vampiric manipulator in the mould of Nicky Hambleton-Jones of Channel 4's 10 Years Younger, is to see himself on a giant hoarding as the face of a fragrance called Immortal – Pour Homme. With his boot-camp haircut and sulkily suggestive gaze, Winsor strikes exactly the right note. But by now Dorian's a hopeless attention junkie, living only for the desire in others' eyes. He seduces a ballet dancer called Cyril Vane (Christopher Marney) but, discovering Vane to be as self-absorbed as he is himself, watches unmoved as he dies of a drug overdose. Other increasingly vicious killings follow, and Dorian's hubristic world begins to implode.
Overall, the narrative is tight and fast-moving, even if the Cyril Vane sequence is a little too self-referential for comfort. That the ballet star is introduced in a whirl of Prokofiev music and expires in the same attitude as Juliet in Kenneth MacMillan's Romeo and Juliet suggests that the passage may be an encrypted homage to the late choreographer. Certainly nothing is accidental in a Bourne work. The plaster- cast head of Nijinsky as The Faun which decorates Dorian's flat refers not only to the sexual voyeurism in the 1912 ballet L'après-midi d'un faune, but to Nijinsky's real-life schizophrenia – a pathology underlined when, in a classic Gothic story-twist, Dorian begins to be stalked by his own double.
The Nijinsky cast is one of designer Lez Brotherston's gentler decorative touches. As Dorian's life grows bloodier and more chaotic, his flat fills with increasingly dark artworks: a blinded photo-portrait of himself, paintings of screaming heads and flayed meat by Francis Bacon and dismemberment scenes by Goya. By the end, in a tableau reminiscent of Killing for Company, Brian Masters's evocation of the Dennis Nils en murders, the place is dominated by the bleeding, life-size corpses of the Chapman brothers' sculpture Great Deeds Against the Dead.
Early reviews of Dorian Gray have been equivocal, taking particular aim at the slightness of Bourne's choreography. For me, the shallowness and the clichés are the point . Vanity is an unrelenting and paranoid business, as Winsor's performance makes eloquently clear. Sillis's Basil is another finely poised creation, all smirk and leather trousers when the going's good but spineless when the wind changes. And Meazza's reptilian Lady H embodies an entire caste of glib, over groomed arbiters of taste and behaviours. The power of the piece is in its contempt for this glittering surface-film so relentlessly forced on us by the mass media. Of course Bourne's choreographic language is trashy and cheap – that's his point, and there will be no shortage of people ready to share and embrace it.
Dorian Gray takes us into very dark territory, but the spectacle is never less than theatrical, and I suspect that Bourne's huge and diverse audience will happily follow him to hell and back. Sitting next to me in Edinburgh was a writer from Tokyo, on the other side a voluble group from Glasgow, behind me a party including the colonel of the Irish Guards. The process of inquiry continues, and the results continue to fascinate.
· Dorian Gray runs from Tuesday to 14 Sept at Sadler's Wells, London EC1, then touring to Norwich and Newcastle
Vox pop:
Has Matthew Bourne given Dorian Gray a fresh lease on life? Your thoughts…
Becky Carter 36, British Council worker
I thought it was exhilarating. I see quite a lot of theatre and dance - I saw Matthew Bourne's The Car Man in Manchester - but this was just fantastic.
Jenny Peebles, 23, festival assistant
I prefer more dance and less dramatic scene-shifting - but that's not a criticism of the piece itself. The set was quite effective, but if you didn't know the story I'm not sure you would get the significance of quite a lot of it.
Hamish Mcbride, 62, retired doctor
I thought it was lovely; the music was excellent. The story is very apposite to our own times, when there is so much celebrity culture around us. I loved it.
Malize Mcbride, 61, artist
It was much better than I expected. I haven't seen any Matthew Bourne before but I thought it was very powerful and very slick. No momentum was lost and the staging was very clever.
Adrian Tutt, 27, student
The way they approached the story was really good but I thought the contemporary dance lacked oomph - the dancers were sometimes disconnected from the storyline. It just lacked a bit of life.
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When using Spring's JdbcTemplate inside a transactional-service with the JpaTransactionmanager and the HibernateJpaDialect an exception is thrown.
Using Hibernate-4.2.0.Final, JPA, Spring-3.2.2 and I get:
Caused by: java.sql.SQLException: PooledConnection has already been closed.
at org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.DisposableConnectionFacade.invoke(DisposableConnectionFacade.java:86)
at com.sun.proxy.$Proxy19.commit(Unknown Source)
at org.hibernate.engine.transaction.internal.jdbc.JdbcTransaction.doCommit(JdbcTransaction.java:112)
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This happens both with c3p0 and tomcat-pool that comes with tomcat7.
I've tested in two projects with the same results. This doesn't happen with Hibernate-4.1.x
I know i should provide a test-case but I only have a scala-project at hand and you probably want that out of the equation...
Issue Links
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SPR-6895 HibernateJpaDialect does not allow ConnectionManager to eagerly release Connection for long-running Session
- Closed
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- Work Log
- History
- Activity
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Attached example maven-project.
extract it and run "mvn install" and it fails.
Replacing the Hibernate-version with 4.1.9.Final works.
The problem here is that Hibernate 4.2 exposes the actual underlying Connection now - instead of the "borrowed connection" handle that it used to return, which was a proxy that interpreted a "close()" call as returning the borrowed connection to the Hibernate Session.
I've fixed this in the course of other JPA-related changes for 4.0 M1, with HibernateJpaDialect's HibernateConnectionHandle simply not calling "close()" on a Hibernate 4.x provided Connection anymore. In contrast to Hibernate 3.6 (see
SPR-6895), Hibernate 4.1 didn't do anything special when receiving a "close()" call on a borrowed connection handle, so it should be safe to not call "close()" against Hibernate 4.x in general.
To be backported to 3.2.3. Note that we need to make sure that we're not sacrificing HibernateJpaDialect's JPA 1.0 and Hibernate 3.2-3.5 compatibility there. I would also suggest to keep 3.2.3 compiling and testing against Hibernate 4.1 since that is the primary version that it has been designed for. 4.0 M1 compiles against Hibernate 4.2 now and needs to be tested against 4.2 as well as the upcoming 4.3 (with JPA 2.1 support).
I'm having the same exception with the Hibernate 4.1.9.Final and spring framework 3.1.3.RELEASE, Please help
Tomcat Version is 7.0.37
Connection has already been closed. (java.sql.SQLException) org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.ProxyConnection.invoke(ProxyConnection.java:117) org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.JdbcInterceptor.invoke(JdbcInterceptor.java:109) org.apache.tomcat.jdbc.pool.DisposableConnectionFacade.invoke(DisposableConnectionFacade.java:80) com.sun.proxy.$Proxy33.rollback(Unknown Source)


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You Have It Made: Delicious, Healthy, Do-Ahead Meals by Ellie Krieger
2016 | ISBN: 0544579305 | English | 352 pages | PDF | 14 MB
Make-ahead recipes from the longtime Food Network star and best-selling author
Ellie Krieger, New York Times best-selling and multi-award-winning author, has written a cookbook devoted to the kind of recipes that her fans have been waiting for—make-ahead meals. For those who are always short on time when it comes to cooking, Ellie is here to help. Her recipes—which include breakfast bakes, soups, salads, casseroles, and more—can all be prepared ahead of time, making putting food on the table that much easier. Each recipe includes instructions for refrigerating and/or freezing as well as storing and reheating directions. With exciting dishes like the Pumpkin Spice Overnight Oats in Jars and the Herbed Salmon Salad, you'll be able to have meals ready days in advance. As with her other books, all of Ellies recipes are healthy and come complete with nutrition information. But that doesn't mean they sound like diet food! Just look at the Creamy Tomato Soup, Chicken Enchilada Pie, and Smoky Smothered Pork Chops, to name a few. You Have It Made helps you turn your fridge and freezer into a treasure chest of satisfying, good-for-you meals.


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CelebHeights.com - people are debating how tall Robert Montgomery was. I kid you not. Check it out. Let me grab you a blurb from this *high-intensity* discussion:
"I see a 2 1/2" to 3" difference in height in that picture between Jimmy Stewart and Robert Montgomery, making Montgomery about 6' to 6'-0.5"
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Toxic Shock Syndrome & The Jade Egg
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Is everybody making stuffing from their home made bread this Thanksgiving? I wish I could, my wifes gluten allergy prevents that, and she makes a wonderful oatmeal meat stuffing anyway.
Is everybody making stuffing from their home made bread this Thanksgiving? I wish I could, my wifes gluten allergy prevents that, and she makes a wonderful oatmeal meat stuffing anyway.
Cornbread stuffing here. I try others every now and then, but cornbread's the favorite.
Being in the south, when I think of real cornbread, the sweet cakey stuff is not even considered. Not that the sweet stuff is never made in the south, it most certainly is. I even make the sweet cakey stuff from time to time, and like it. I just don't think of it as true cornbread.
Hi MrFrost
I'm curious to learn more about your type of cornbread. After Thanksgiving, if you have a moment, would you mind posting a link to one of the cornbreads on TFL (or elsewhere) which would be considered true cornbread in your area. I've visited the USA many times but I've never had cornbread there. Not surprised to hear there are different versions, but I have no knowledge basis to assess what is the 'real deal'.
I like to make the Jalapeno Corn Bread in Lee Bailey's Country Weekends, it contains oil, eggs, sour cream, creamed corn, onion, bellpeppers, jalapeno, cornmeal, baking powder, salt and cheese. It's delicious, and while not sweet, it is kind of cakey. I make it in a lodge cast iron skillet, pouring in half the batter, adding the grated cheese and topping that with the rest of the batter. With so many ingredients, I can't imagine it is the traditional version, although did I mention, it is delicious.:-))
I'd be really interested to try whatever you recommend.
Hope you enjoy a happy time sharing the Thanksgiving festival.
Cheers, Robyn
Here is a link to a thread all about cornbread. http://www.thefreshloaf.com/node/19191/corn-bread
There are many different recipes and many of them sound good. The difference between the southern and the northern cornbread is that the southern kind generally doesn't have any wheat flour in it and less (or no) sugar. This will make it less cakey and sweet but that is the way we have always made it. Also a few of the posters recommend scalding the cornmeal, this step is important because it par cooks the cormeal a bit resulting in a moister cornbread. If you like it more gritty then skip this step or go with a recipe that uses wheat flour. The recipe posted by kesserdina for southern cornbread looks the closest to what I grew up with but try the others too and see what you like best. Also, it is never a bad thing to add cheese, sour cream, jalapeno etc to cornbread. Even though it is not "traditional" historically speaking, if you served that kind of cornbread around here you would only get rave reviews. We love adding cheese and spicy stuff to cornbread (or anything for that matter!) The only thing I would change in your recipe would be to substitute butter or bacon fat for the oil.
Hello Jennifer,
I'm sorry I missed seeing your comment. I don't make cornbread often but was curious to know in more detail about something which appears to be understood amongst TFLers from the USA, to see which type the cornbread I make is and if it isn't southern, then to try a traditional recipe. Thank you for your explanation.
Having only 2 people who eat bread, I frequently have leftover ends of loaves that I throw in the freezer. I started gathering them last week and cutting into cubes and drying for stuffing. I actually use a bag of brownberry sage and onion and then my bread cubes.
How does your wife use oatmeal for stuffing? Recipe or description available? I know I don't really have a "recipe" for my stuffing whether I use the brownberry or make my own but I'm curious how the oatmeal stuffing consistency is.
Happy Holidays and many thanks to all for the delightfully delicious support!
It sounds delicious! I love uppuma (Spelling?) which is an Indian savory hot wheat cereal. And polenta is also good so why not oatmeal?
Thank you and Happy thanksgiving!
We had our Thanksgiving yesterday. My husband and son are leaving to go hunting today so we moved the meal up a day.
I'll be home alone until Sunday night so I have plenty of leftovers to keep me happy. :)
This year I made my own stuffing bread, using KAF's Turkey Stuffing Bread recipe. It was easy and delicious and would, I think, make a great base for a turkey sandwich.
For the past few Thanksgivings, my wife has made the "Three Onion Stuffing" from an old Gourmet Magazine. This year she made it with the Country Rye from "Tartine Bread." I had never had stuffing made with sourdough bread before. It was really delicious!
Maybe the best stuffing ever. Chad Robertson would be so proud!
A fabulous Thanksgiving dinner. And this morning, cinnamon pecan rolls!!!
Carbotarian Heaven!!
Bread stuffing is one of "Fine Cooking"s great master recipe formulas, where you can add those ingredients you like. My version contains bread, celery, leek, apple, cranberries, pecans and is seasoned with sage, thyme and lemon zest.
I always make bread stuffing from James Beard's "American Cookery." In addition to the bread, this recipe includes butter, shallots, pinenuts, tarragon, salt and pepper. This year I baked a batch of Hamelman's Vermont Sourdough: turned out really well, I must admit.
Oyster stuffing and dressing.
Sorry I'm late to the party on this thread. I recently learned my 27 YO daughter is allergic to all grains except corn and rice. She has been avoiding breads for some time due to the discomfort it puts her in.
So my daughter is hosting Christmas dinner this year and I offered to bring the Turkey and dressing, all done. Reading this thread suddenly became more interesting to me. My question is, I like the sound of the 3 onion stuffing and I'm wondering how it would work out with using corn bread? Is the corn bread crumbled or baked dry enough it stays in cubes? I've never made cornbread stuffing so I'm looking for help here.
for years. This year I made my usual savory cornbread stuffing and cornbread dressing made with added fruit, both are always delicious. I'm baking bread at moment buy will get back to you Eric. My mom said she never say bread stuffing until we moved out west...I quess it's a southern thing..cornbread stuffing.
Just bake your cornbread. Crumble it into a very large bowl and add your, broth and the rest of your ingredients...you don't want it to dry or wet...I also add eggs. If you like I can give you my MIL buttermilk cornbread recipe..I've used for years..there is no flour or sugar in it, cooked the old fashioned way in a hot iron skillet in the oven. I used the sweeter version cornbread with honey and flour for my fruit cornbread dressing with, dried, apricots, cherries, fresh apples!
Hi, Eric.
I've never made cornbread stuffing and can't say I've ever eaten it. It does sound great, though. You would have to look to others for advice on how to sub it for bread in a recipe.
@ Eric
Eric I wonder if a version of scrapple might work as a stuffing. The recipe in the link below uses only cornmeal and buckwheat flour, but you might be able to substitute rice flour for buckwheat if your daughters' allergic to buckwheat as well. If you lightly sauteed some scrapple , then used it in your 3 onion stuffing it might be a way to have a flavorful stuffing for the whole family. Just throwing out an idea to consider.
Sylvia: So the dressing IS crumbled. I wondered if it would hold any shape once it got wet with broth.
David: I am a big fan of onions and the three in that recipe are all very flavorful. I'd love to try that recipe, if not this time, the next.
Franko: I was just looking at some scrapple recipes. The sausage would make a nice combination I think, if it wasn't to spicy. My mother used to make scrapple and fry it up in butter. She added braunswieger (sorry if I hacked the spelling of that) to the corn mush and fried onions. I called my 86 YO father yesterday and we were remembering how she did that. Very tasty! Thanks for the thought.
Depending upon how moist you like your dressing, you can have it chunky or loose cornbread..both are very good..just don't overmix or wet for chunky..I don't care for a dry dressing at all..if baked separate, it can be nice and crunchy on top..just remove the foil last few minutes of baking and or even place under the broiler.
I think I like the savory idea for a turkey side dish, don't you? Load it up with roasted onions and maybe some mild sausage. I use buttermilk in biscuits and breads quite often. I'm not sure about corn meal. The scalding sounds like it would soften the crunch a little. I'm going to try a test batch as a serious scientist should.:>)
I think we are talking about two entirely different recipes..when you said scalding would soften the crunch.
Cornbread dressing is made with cooked cornbread. I always add ground sage and even poultry seasoning a little thyme, fresh parsley 'italian' and/or dried regular parsley, very easy and delicious..smash the thyme a little, celery and onion, leeks if have them, my SIL adds carrotts to his...sausage is very good, though I never use it...this dressing is great, my MIL made it with white corn meal and served with pork roast, mustard greens, too. Sometimes if doing a lot of cooking and baking for the holidays, I bake my cornbread ahead and freeze it broken up in very large pieces, place it into a zip lock until ready to thaw and use in dressing. I stuff inside the turkey and use the extra for outside. The giblet's are boiled with onion and the broth can be used for the giblet gravy and/or the dressing. Organic chicken stock is excellent moisture base for the stuffing. My veggies are lightly sauted in a whole stick of butter and added to the cornbread. Make it just like you would bread dressing..just use broken up cornbread instead...I do add a couple of eggs to help bind the ingredients. Be sure and make plenty..I double my cornbread recipe and make it in my extra large iron fry pan.
That all sounds delicious. Thank you so much for the details.
Food intolerance, generally due to the absence or an enzyme needed to digest one component, is commonly confused with food allergy. Allergies are due to an immune response to a food component and is chemically mediated by IgE, an immunoglobulin made by your body.
Gluten intolerance, also known as "Celiac Disease" and "Gluten-sensitive Enteropathy" is a reaction of the intestines to gluten. The exact cause is not known, and one possibility is that it is an autoimmune response. This is not an "allergy" in the common sense. It is more like your body developing a reaction to one of its own tissues as if it were foreign.
This may seem nit picking, but the difference is important for medical treatment approaches.
My oldest daughter has had asthma since she was in grade school. At that time she had the scratch test panel done and she showed positive for the trees and pollens but no food that I recall. Now, she is 27 and hasn't been able to eat a wide range of foods including all breads or anything with wheat in it. Even a small amount of wheat gives her great discomfort. Strawberries, pineapples, apples, celery, carrots to name a few. The last test was a starting point. Her doctor said she is allergic to so much that she doubts injections would be effective. You might be right about the other grains, I'm not sure at this point. She said she is positive for oat but she has some oat bran every day and that doesn't bother her.
So, I'm not sure where this is headed yet. The corn meal stuffing sounded interesting for obvious reasons.
Has your wife tried the gluten free AP flour sold in the GF shops? They claim it is an equal swap for the regular wheat flour and it is totally GF.
I would also like to see a gluten free section. My son is on the GFCF diet because of autism. I can make most anything now gluten free and dairy free and nobody can tell the difference. The only thing I have a problem with is the bread. Some times I make it and it is FABULOUS and other times it is dry and crumbly. I am pretty sure I know what I am doing wrong but it would still be nice to get to talk to others in the same situation. I still visit this site because I miss making regular bread and I love to look at all the pictures and recipes and live vicariously through other peoples experiences in baking. I bought the book "Gluten Free Baking Classics" on amazon and have LOVED it. The recipes are great and I can serve them to other people with rave reviews. Everyone is so surprised to find out that it is gluten free because it tastes so good. And the book doesn't use any bean flour BUT some of the flours needed are hard for me to find so I have to mail order them. Luckily I found a place in new york called Lori's Naturals and they have flat rate shipping (making it not so expensive in the long run) Usually the shipping costs more than the flour!
I was hoping you would respond to this. She was tested for Celiac and was negative just recently. The Doc that tested her said she was surprised at how many things she had a reaction to. It was the second scratch test, the first being for outdoor things and the common dust mites and such. This was a list she picked out from things she knows has bothered her in the past. The sensitivity to rye was as high as for wheat. It has been a long while since she has had a meal that didn't tear up her digestive system.
Hi, Eric.
That's just awful!
It does sound like your daughter really does have allergies, but it may not be to gluten.
My message was actually addressed to the member who seemed to be confusing Celiac Disease with allergies.


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Pope Francis to visit Egypt in April to improve Vatican–Muslim relations
The Vatican confirmed that Pope Francis will visit Egypt from April 28 to 29, signaling the start of improved dialogue between the parties that had strained relations during Pope Benedict XVI's time.
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi, the leader of the Coptic Orthodox church of Alexandria Pope Tawadros II, the grand imam of al-Azhar mosque Sheik Ahmed el-Tayyib, and the Roman Catholic Bishops of the country extended the invitation to the pontiff. The Vatican revealed that they have been deliberating the visit in early March.
Sheik Ahmed el-Tayyib visited the Vatican in May 2016 in an effort to rekindle the ties between the two nations. His visit is the first meeting between the Pope and an Islamic leader since dialogue were suspended six years ago.
The grand imam of al-Azhar mosque has garnered a reputation for being a diplomatic mediator. Sheik Ahmed el-Tayyib frequently engaged in meetings with Pope Tawadros II as well as the officials of the religious Egyptian denominations.
The dialogue between the two countries grew strained starting in 2006, following Pope Benedict XVI's public address in Regensburg Germany. Al-Azhar officials and Muslim communities protested the now-retired pontiff's statements as wrongful associations of terrorism and Islam.
Communication efforts between the Vatican and Egypt officially ceased in 2011 when Pope Benedict XVI appealed for greater protection measures for Christians living in Egypt. His demands were made in response to a New Year's Day bombing in a Catholic church in Alexandria which killed 23 people.
Sunni Muslims account for the majority of Egypt's population, with Christians — particularly Orthodox Copts — making up approximately 10 percent of country's inhabitants.
Since he assumed papacy in 2013, Pope Francis has repeatedly stressed the importance of cultivating interfaith relations. While he called for the end of "genocide" against Christians residing in the Middle East, the pontiff emphasized that equating terrorism with Islam is wrong.


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The first time I visited Spain was on an exchange program in high school. I stayed with a family in the small coastal town of Burriana in the state of Valencia, and after nearly three whirlwind weeks, I left thinking one thing: I have to go back. Fast forward four years, and I returned to Spain for study abroad in Barcelona. I was exploring, blissful and blogging.
My love affair with the country continues even on American soil, something my parents (as well as probably anyone I've ever met) know well, which is why they saved on DVR episodes from the PBS documentary series Spain…on the road again. Quick premise: Actress Gwenyth Paltrow, famed chef Mario Batali, New York Times food columnist Mark Bittman and Spanish actress Claudia Bassols criss-cross Spain on a road trip to eat, drink, sightsee and take in its culture. (Funny, sounds exactly like what Tara and I want to do!)
The other night I watched one of the Barcelona episodes, in which the crew visits Bar Inopia. The wife of Ferran Adria (of El Bulli/molecular gastronomy/one of the world's most renowned chefs acclaim) joins them for a traditional tapas dinner and essentially, the whole episode is a documentary of their meal. It's a simple episode, but it captures what I loved about eating in Spain. Meals are unrushed, shared experiences focused on appreciating good food and company, where sometimes all you can say in response to your last bite is "Oh my gosh, this is delicious. You have to try it!"
In between bites of tuna tapas slicked in olive oil and sips of full-bodied Spanish wine, someone at the table asked Mario Batali what he wanted to "take back from Barcelona." "Everything that's not nailed down!" was his response. Yes, Mario Batali, yes. I know exactly what you mean.
Oh, and, if you're reading this, Mario, I'd love to join you on the road in Spain…yet again. I'm sure you'll be back.
The series actually has a great multimedia site — which you know Tara and I appreciate — with galleries, blogs, videos and links. Above is a Barcelona teaser excerpt video, courtesy of the show.
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GODOI TRIGO, Luiz Gonzaga y ARENDIT, Ednilson José. Tourist Markets in Unstable Times: From the Perspective of a Brazilian Tourist Operator. Estud. perspect. tur. [online]. 2007, vol.16, n.3, pp. 323-340. ISSN 1851-1732.
This article analyzes the effects the lack of stability on both the international and domestic markets has on the travel and tourism sector in Brazil. Using a well known tourist operator as an example, the authors examine its evolution, its business strategy that made it possible to keep its leadership in the countries turbulent times and the present time policies that make it possible to stay in the market and widen its activities.
Palabras clave : Tourist operator; Brazilian tourism; Travel and tourism.


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By Alison Gopnik
Why do I exist?
This isn't a philosophical cri de coeur; it's an evolutionary riddle. At 58 I'm well past menopause, yet I'll soldier, on, with luck, for many years more. The riddle grows more vivid when you realize that human beings (and killer whales) are the only species where females outlive their fertility. Our closest primate relatives – chimpanzees, for example – usually die before their 50s, when they are still fertile.
This isn't just a miracle of modern medicine. Our human life expectancy is much longer than it used to be, but that's because far fewer children die in infancy. Anthropologists have looked at life spans in hunter-gatherer and forager societies, which are similar to the societies we evolved in. If you make it past childhood, you have a good chance of living into your 60s or 70s.
It turns out that my existence may actually be the key to human nature. This isn't a megalomaniacal boast, but a new biological theory: the "grandmother hypothesis." Twenty years ago, anthropologist Kristen Hawkes at the University of Utah went to study the Hadza, a forager group in Africa, thinking she would uncover the origins of hunting. But then she noticed the many wiry old women who dug roots and cooked dinners and took care of babies (much like me, though my root-digging skills are restricted to dividing the irises).
It turned out these old women, as much as the strapping young hunters, played a key role in providing nutrition for the group. What's more, the old women provided a crucial resource by taking care of their grandchildren.
There are many controversies about what happened in human evolution. But no one debates that there were two dramatic changes in what biologists call our "life-history": Besides living much longer than our primate relatives, our babies depend on adults for much longer.
Young chimps gather as much food as they eat by the time they are 7 or so. But even in forager societies, human children pull their weight only when they are teenagers.
Why would our babies be helpless for so long?
That long immaturity helps make us smart: It gives us a long protected time to grow large brains and to use those brains to learn about the world we live in. Human beings can learn to adapt to an exceptionally wide variety of environments, and those skills of learning and culture develop in the early years of life.
But that immaturity has a cost. It means that biological mothers can't keep babies going all by themselves: They need help. In forager societies, grandmothers provide a substantial amount of child care as well as nutrition. Barry Hewlett at Washington State University and his colleagues found, much to their surprise, that grandmothers even shared breast-feeding with mothers. Some grandmoms just served as big pacifiers, but some, even after menopause, could "relactate," actually producing milk. (For my part I think I'll stick to the 21st-century version of helping to feed my 5-month-old granddaughter with electric pumps, freezers and bottles.)
Hawkes's "grandmother hypothesis" proposes that grandmotherhood developed in tandem with our long childhood. In fact, she argues, the evolution of grandmothers was exactly what allowed our long childhood – and the learning and culture that go with it – to emerge. In mathematical models, you can see what happens if, at first, just a few women live past menopause and use that time to support their grandchildren (who, of course, share their genes). The "grandmother trait" can rapidly take hold and spread. And the more that grandmothers contribute, the longer the period of immaturity can be.
So on Father's Day this Sunday, as we celebrate dads across the nation over Bloody Marys and eggs Benedict, let's raise an additional toast to the gray-haired grandmoms behind the scenes.
Alison Gopnik is a psychology professor in California. Adapted from the Wall Street Journal by permission of the author.
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Christ Hospital's new Liberty Twp. facility to include birthing center
The Christ Hospital Health Network will bring a family birthing center to its medical center under construction in Liberty Twp., adding yet another Butler County option for expecting mothers.
Christ Hospital broke ground on The Christ Hospital Medical Center-Liberty Township in October 2015. It is slated to open in early 2018.
The Cincinnati-based health network's birthing center joins other maternity options in the Butler and Warren County medical building boom.
West Chester Hospital opened its maternity unit in 2015; Atrium Medical Center in Middletown recently unveiled its $1 million investment in a natural childbirth center; and Mercy Health-Fairfield Hospital's Family Birthing Center completed a $6 million renovation to mark the 20th anniversary of its birthing center.
"Butler County is one of the fastest growing counties in the state," said Kendall Herold, spokeswoman for The Christ Hospital Health Network. "Part of the The Christ Hospital mission is to provide high-quality, convenient services close to where our consumers live. This service will help fill a need for the families in the area to be cared for by the most preferred doctors in the region."
The new medical center will create approximately 300 new jobs, including nursing, imaging, and entry level opportunities. Hiring is scheduled to start in late summer.
More than 30 of those 300 jobs will be in the new birthing center, which will include nine labor, delivery, recovery, post-partum and nursing rooms, four private special care nursery rooms, and two dedicated cesarean section birthing rooms, Herold said.
Nine women's health physicians will also be practicing at the birthing center.
"Whether you are a new mom, or have had children before, the Family Birthing Center at The Christ Hospital Medical Center-Liberty Township is dedicated to providing the finest patient experiences for one of the most important moments of life," said Dr. Robert Stephens, executive director of women's health services at The Christ Hospital Health Network.
The plan for the center was developed and refined as part of the health network's strategic plan in 2013, Herold said.
"This is our first off-campus ob/gyn unit in the network," she said. "We believe the (labor, delivery, recovery, post-partum) model will meet the patient experience our patients expect and have received for more than 127 years.
The new medical center will be home to the only cesarean section birth viewing room in the region, allowing families to be in the room with the mother during a planned cesarean section birth with prior permission from the physician.
The birthing center will also offer natural childbirth amenities, including hydrotherapy and extra-large showers with seats in patient rooms. Inpatient and outpatient lactation services are also offered.


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I was driving on the highway last night on the way home and had my lights on, when all of a sudden the instrument dash lights cut off n drivers side tail light aswell and all trailer lights aswell?
Was a bit weird that all other lights worked on the car. Even on the drivers side that lost the tail light, the indicator worked, reverse light worked and brake light aswell just not tail light.
Checked fuses under dash and they looked ok.
also when got home swapped the drivers side and passenger side tail light bulbs over and it worked fine in passenger side, so I knew the bulb wasn't blown but the drivers side still did not work.
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DON'T MAKE A MOUNTAIN OUT OF A MOLEHILL! Religious people are very
skillful in doing that. Now, what are you really doing when you are smoking? Just taking
some smoke inside your lungs and letting it out. It is a kind of PRANAYAMA -- filthy,
dirty, but still a PRANAYAMA! You are doing yoga, in a stupid way. It is not sin. It may
be foolish but it is not a sin, certainly.
There is only one sin and that is unawareness, and only one virtue and that is awareness.
Do whatsoever you are doing, but remain a witness to it, and immediately the quality of
your doing is transformed. I will not tell you not to smoke; that you have tried. You must
have been told by many so-called saints not to smoke: "Because if you smoke you will
fall into hell." God is not so stupid as your saints are. Throwing somebody into hell just
because he was smoking cigarettes will be absolutely unnecessary.
One morning, Weintraub went to a restaurant and ordered bacon with his eggs. He was an
orthodox Jew and his wife kept a strictly kosher home, but Weintraub felt the need just
this once.
As Weintraub was about to leave the restaurant, he stopped in the door frozen with terror.
The sky was filled with black clouds, there was lightning, and the ground shook with the
rumble of thunder.
"Can you imagine!" he exclaimed. "All that fuss over a little piece of bacon!"
But that's what your so-called saints have been telling you down the ages, for centuries.
Smoking is unhealthy, unhygienic, but not a sin. It becomes a sin only if you are doing it
unconsciously -- it is not smoking that makes it a sin but unconsciousness.
Let me emphasize the fact. You can do your prayer every day unconsciously; then your
prayer is a sin. You can become addicted to your prayer. If you miss the prayer one day,
the whole day you will feel something is wrong, something is missing, some gap. It is the
same with smoking or with drinking; there is no difference in it. Your prayer has become
a mechanical habit; it has become a master over you. It bosses you; you are just a servant,
a slave to it. If you don't do it, it forces you to do it.
So it is not a question of smoking. You may be doing your Transcendental Meditation
every day regularly, and it may be just the same. If the quality of unconsciousness is
there, if mechanicalness is there, if it has become a fixed routine, if it has become a habit
and you are a victim of the habit and you cannot put it aside, you are no more a master of
yourself, then it is a sin. But its being a sin comes out of your unconsciousness, not out of
the act itself.
No act is virtuous, no act is a sin. What consciousness is behind the act -- everything
depends on that.
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Union: Make the refinery safer, or we'll walk
The United Steelworkers have threatened to strike at 69 oil refineries in the U.S. unless stricter safety procedures at plants and pipelines are adopted
If oil companies don't agree to stricter safety procedures at plants and pipelines, the union representing employees at 69 U.S. oil refineries said it will strike.
The United Steelworkers (USW), which failed during contract negotiations in 2009 to get companies to agree to have a union-trained safety specialist at each refinery, will make a similar demand during talks that begin in January for a new three-year pact, said Gary Beevers, a USW representative.
About 300 delegates to the union's annual oil bargaining conference in Dallas approved a bargaining policy for contract talks with the companies.
"We were not in a position to strike the last time because the recession told us we couldn't do that to the American public," Beevers said. "We're still not where we need to be economically, but the companies' margins are better. We're either going to get some changes in health and safety or we're going to have a strike."
Refinery and pipeline union members, which number about 30,000, haven't struck since 1980, when a work stoppage lasted three months. A strike would affect almost two-thirds of U.S. refining capacity, according to union research.
During the last contract talks in 2009, the union accepted higher wages while relenting on new safety provisions. The three-year agreement included 3 percent annual raises and $2,500 bonuses.
The union pointed out incidents that safety training could have prevented. One was the chemical explosion at Tesoro Corp.'s Anacortes, WA, refinery on April 2, 2010, that killed seven people, the deadliest accident at a U.S. plant since 2005.
Five percent of U.S. refineries had significant incidents in the previous two years, Robert Hall, the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board's lead Anacortes investigator, said on April 5, 2010.
"We always ask for better wages but we're tired of taking chances with people's lives," Beevers said.
The policy, agreed upon unanimously by the delegates to the bargaining conference, went out this week to local unions representing workers at refineries and pipeline units. Ratification by 75 percent of the locals must occur within 45 days for the policy to become the official position for negotiating a new three-year contract with employers.
Most of the local contracts expire Jan. 31 and the rest later in the year. Talks should begin in January with Royal Dutch Shell, which will bargain on behalf of companies including Exxon Mobil Corp., ConocoPhillips and Valero Energy Corp. If approved, a deal between Shell and the USW will become the pattern used to negotiate local contracts.
- Edited by Chris Vavra, Plant Engineering, www.plantengineering.com
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Numerical Methods and Constitutive Modelling in Geomechanics (Cism International Centre for Mechanical Sciences Courses & Lectures)
The solution of stress analysis problems through numerical, computer oriented techniques is becoming more and more popular in soil and rock engineering. This is due to the ability of these methods to handle geometrically complex problems even in the presence of highly nonlinear material behaviour, characterizing the majority of soils and rocks, and of media consisting of two or more phases, like saturated and partially saturated soils. Aim of this book is to present to researchers and engineers working in the various branches of geomechanics an updated state of the research on the development and application of numerical methods in geotechnical and foundation engineering. Particular attention is devoted to the formulation of nonlinear material models and to their use for the analysis of complex engineering problems. In addition to the constitutive modelling, other topics discussed concern the use of the finite element and boundary element methods in geomechanics; the dynamic analysis of inelastic and saturated soils; the solution of seepage, consolidation and coupled problems; the analysis of soil-structure interaction problems; the numerical procedures for the interpretation of field measurements; the analysis of tunnels and underground openings.
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