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The Dead Poet
I dreamed of him last night, I saw his face
All radiant and unshadowed of distress,
And as of old, in music measureless,
I heard his golden voice and marked him trace
Under the common thing the hidden grace,
And conjure wonder out of emptiness
Till mean things put on beauty like a dress
And all the world was an enchanted place.
And then methought outside a fast locked gate
I mourned the loss of unrecorded words,
Forgotten tales and mysteries half said,
Wonders that might have been articulate,
And voiceless thoughts like murdered singing birds.
And so I woke and knew he was dead.
--Lord Alfred Douglas, Scottish poet (1870-1945)
(written about Oscar Wilde in 1901, the year after his death)
THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 4, 2004: I must get to this review, before too much time has passed away. This will be the fourth time I have reviewed a Jason Webley Halloween/Deathday concert; what can I say about it that I haven't said in the past three years' reviews? The concert's production was of a very high standard; the audience was loyal, passionate and enthusiastic; and the songs were varied and well arranged. This year, however, I write from the perspective of someone who participated in the performance, who saw the script beforehand, but who did not necessarily know how it would all play out in practice. I did not know in advance exactly what I would write about this end-of-season event, but I will sit down in front of the computer anyway, and let words and phrases occur to me.
Not long before the show, Jason sent me an email, recruiting me (already involved in posting flyers for the show) into the Balloon Army, one of four small brigades in charge of keeping the audience's energy high, passing out various gifts to the crowd, and releasing balloons over people's heads on cue. There were four "Armies" and four "Goddesses" in attendance, reflecting the manner of Jason's previous four deaths: by Balloon (2003), Feather (2002), Boat (2001) and Tomato (2000). As I remarked to Jason in an earlier email, he has been dispatched by each of the four elements over the years (air, earth, fire and water), and sometimes by more than one of these in combination: what, I wondered, would do the job this time?
As a Balloon Army member, I would have to arrive at Town Hall by 5:00 pm on Saturday, wearing red and black; my red Bumbershoot volunteer teeshirt and new blackish jeans seemed to fit the bill. I actually got there around 4:30, when a young man in a black hat and loose orange trousers (part of the Boat Army regalia) happened to come to the door in time to show me to the side room shielded from the outside by a long stretch of red curtain. In this room, balloon blowing and tying, and the bagging and boxing of tomatoes, were in full swing already by Army members, Army Captains and Goddesses alike. Identifying myself with the red-clad Balloon Army, I set right to work blowing up non-helium balloons and tying ribbons around those blown up from a helium tank. Before long, I felt like I had been doing it all day, but it was fun and felt good, working together with all these people. I didn't know where the Feather and Boat Army prep was taking place, but it must have been in some other room; our room was filled to capacity with balloons and tomato bags as it was. The nerves and energy were high already; I was getting a taste of all that goes into these concerts, and feeling, as often before, that it was truly a communal project that the principal artist himself needed much help to accomplish, one to which his volunteer assistants were just as committed as he was himself.
There was a Concert Plan/Script and two different versions of the Set List lying around for us to study. I got increasingly nervous as I read what the Balloon Army was supposed to do with the armbands, bags of non-helium balloons and bundles of helium balloons at various points in the concert (and ours was the first Army to appear!). I soon realized, while reading and rereading the Plan, that I was actually going to be performing at this event without much of a clue beforehand as to what I would be doing. Our Army Captain called several conferences to discuss who would be doing what in which side of our section, pointed out where our roped-off section would be, and went over the various balloon instructions more than once, but I was still nervous and expecting to forget everything as soon as I heard it. "I tend to learn best by doing", I pointed out to him, and just went back to work on the helium balloons, trying to remain calm and worry about each performance detail as it came along. I avoided taking on any extra responsibilities when folks came around recruiting people for various door duties; I was having a hard enough time concentrating on what I would have to do with the balloons and armbands. But did I mention that I was having a great time, anyway? Even picking up garbage around the room was fun when doing it with other people all committed to a shared purpose, as trite as that might sound.
My dear Seattle Cronies, for once I missed seeing you gathering outside the Hall as usual, before the doors opened for the show. I missed most of the delighted greetings and hugs between people, folks sharing food and making cell phone calls to friends and relatives to announce their arrival; possible jousting matches with foam swords; and comparing costumes, Counterpoint stencils and pirate paraphernalia. Alas, the building and other circumstances built a division between the crowd of Cronies having fun waiting outside, and the Cronies in costume blowing up balloons and assembling paper boats inside. Even when the doors finally opened, our two halves of community were artificially separated by red curtains and other barriers. But don't worry; we inside folks were having fun too, albeit with lots of work to be done; and we made sure that most of us got to see most of the show, all while showering you with balloons and leading sections with cheers and banners. We truly appreciated your being so willing and eager to participate in all the cheers, flag-waving, and especially the post-concert Procession that we were charged with leading: we would have felt really strange if you'd all just sat there looking confused.
The activity and energy kept picking up throughout the assembly of tomato bags, balloons and other items, through the last-minute band rehearsal and sound checks, through Jason walking in and out of our room in robe and matching trousers, and stuffing his regular clothes into a knapsack (to be stashed in the getaway car), through the bunch of us wondering how and when we would be able to get our coats out of the room during or after the show. We kept picking up copies of the Concert Plan over and over, attempted to memorize what we were supposed to do at which point in our particular segment of "Balloon Feather Boat Tomato" ("We're supposed to release the rest of the bagged balloons WHEN?!!"), and tried to avoid nervousness by obsessive attention to tying and bundling the rest of the helium balloons as if it was the whole purpose of our existence. Finally, the Balloon Army Captain called out, "We're deploying now!" and off we went with our red armbands toward our designated entrance, after giving Jason farewell hugs and wishing him luck.
I have yet to figure out who created the animated video; but thankfully the Balloon Army did, in fact, see the whole thing, just before descending on our section of the audience with our red Balloon Army armbands. Like the Shadow Puppet performance at the Day of the Dead concert in 2002, the film basically summarized Jason's past four lives and deaths in minimalist animated fashion, just before Jason himself appeared, in dark-raspberry robe and matching trousers, and acknowledged the exultant cheers of the crowd before literally roping them into sections corresponding to the Balloon, Feather, Boat and Tomato segments of the performance. I think that this is the first major concert Jason has done with printed programs and an intermission. The programs noted that this concert was performed in memory of Anthony Robinson (Joan's son), Sam Vernallis (Ishan's dad) and Adam Sexton (a longtime Webley fan who passed away in June).
Okay, here came my first mistake as a Balloon Army person. I passed out some red armbands to the wrong section. Oh, well, it calmed me down enough to realize that errors in the Balloon Army weren't necessarily a life or death issue. I don't think I erred too much the rest of the evening, aside from standing in somewhat the wrong spot (to begin with) as the post-concert procession was getting started. The concert's opening segment, dominated by the Balloon theme, was what truly made me aware of how a supporting performer's perspective on a show differs from that of an audience member. We of the Balloon Army couldn't simply sit like lumps and listen to the first set of songs; we had to watch and listen for cues in each song for something we had to do. For example, we each had to inflate and then release two balloons, without tying them, during what we'd been told was the "climax of 'am I letting go—'" in "Icarus". So we crouched down in the middle of our section's aisle all through the song, blowing up two or three balloons each, and trying to keep them from deflating too fast while waiting for what sounded like a "climax".
Fortunately, Jason had called a handful of people he termed the "Balloon Orchestra" onto the stage to do essentially the same thing with a balloon or two each, so we let our balloons fly (in a less-dramatic fashion than expected) at roughly the same time the "Orchestra" did. Even before then, we had collected our pre-bagged balloon collection at the foot of the stairs, along with a couple of giant ones, to be released during the "tra-la-la" parts of "Eleutheria." These were later stashed down in the central stair passage leading out of the hall. At several other intervals, we also had to lead our section in cheers of "Hip, hip—BALLOOOONNN!!" while doing some inane dance that we had hurriedly invented in our prep room beforehand, as two or three of us also waved the red banners planted in corners of the aisle. The other three sections had cheers, dances and banners of their own; but my involvement in the Balloon section kept me from noticing these other activities in great detail; the only other dance I recall now is the rather suggestive Boat Dance. Did you ever notice that rowing and sex involve similar movements?
In addition to the songs, both old favorites and highlights of the new CD, each of the four concert segments included a simulated political rally. This, of course, was a nod to the upcoming elections to be held in a few days--an interesting touch, considering that Jason is known to avoid political involvement. Near the end of each segment, he would pick up a bullhorn and deliver a rousing speech, in his best FDR impression, on the overweening importance and significance of the archetypes of Balloon, Feather, Boat or Tomato (depending on which section of the crowd he was speaking to). To round out each segment, he read an allegorical folk tale out of a book about the trials and adventures of characters actually named Balloon, Feather, Boat and Tomato. All the characters were beautiful women or girls in a complicated and conflicted relationship with their families, with a lover, or with the world at large. Each segment would then end with a favorite song more or less related to that segment's theme.
This concert was a representation and a summing-up of the four previous deaths, and a different take on each as well. The supporting performers were more involved in keeping the audience's energy up, and the supporting instrumental music was more streamlined and less overwhelming than in previous years. The first instrumentalists did not even enter until the beginning of the second (Feather) segment. Unlike previous Halloween concerts, there were no dancers or puppets, and only a brief appearance by simulated catfish, carried by members of the Boat Army. Jason himself was very much the center of the performance the entire time, as many fans have wished over the years.
"Those whom the gods love grow young."
--Oscar Wilde, Irish poet and playwright
There was another minor error on my part as the Procession began right after the last rousing chorus of "Last Song". We of the Balloon Army had gathered up the helium balloons into bundles, tied with garbage bag ties, before the concert began; and we ran out to fetch them shortly after the opening of the second half of the show. They were stowed carefully at the bottom of the Balloon section staircase; we had to be sure that these balloons didn't wander into the Hall itself, or Jason would be charged extra by Town Hall management. The only problem with studying the Concert Plan is that, even if you memorized this document, you didn't know exactly what each event would look like when it actually happened. In my case, I thought that I and one other person would be handing out the balloons to people at the bottom of the stairs, until I saw a mass of Cronies waiting for me expectantly at the top of the stairs, and the two of us were sent racing back up towards the crowd on order from the Balloon Captain. Things went more smoothly after that; we lost one balloon up to the ceiling, but it was eventually retrieved. Up to 250 helium balloons were inflated, but a good handful of them went unclaimed by the time we left the building after our crowd.
Having directed the remaining crowd out into Freeway Park (where, thankfully, it wasn't raining this time), we of the Balloon Army sort of volunteered to escort Jason through the four stations of his deaths, which looked for all the world like a reenactment of the Descent of Inanna in Sumerian mythology (wherein the Goddess Inanna must remove something, including her own skin, as she passes through each of seven gates on her way into the Underworld). At each station, the presiding Goddess waited until most of the crowd arrived before claiming and stripping Jason of a specific vestige of his performer's identity.
The red Balloon goddess fixed Jason with an imperious stare for half an eternity before removing his brown hat, kissing him on the forehead, and setting a small hot-air balloon aloft into the midnight sky with the hat resting comfortably in the basket. One year before, after the 2003 Deathday concert, we had been in this same park, tying bundles of helium balloons to a lifelike puppet of Jason, which eventually floated up through driving rain to peek at late-night workers near the top floor of a downtown high-rise. The Balloon Army then escorted both of them as they walked, hand-in-hand, what seemed like a long distance through the park until we arrived, at the head of a crowd of several hundred, at a large tree where a more genial Feather Goddess in yellow stood waiting. She beckoned Jason forward, embraced him, then pushed him against the tree and disemboweled his accordion (actually, a spare one stuffed with feathers) with a knife tied to a gigantic feather. Then the feather-belching accordion, not Jason himself this time, was tied to the tree, and Army members directed the Feather crowd to tie their feathers to the evergreen's branches. At the 2002 Day of the Dead show, Jason had been carried, nearly naked and tied to a slender beam, out to Cowan Park near midnight, and tied to a dying tree while cocooned in blankets, as a woman in white sat in the upper branches and showered him and the crowd with down feathers. I and a handful of fellow stalwart Cronies had sat vigil for him on the frozen ground until 2:00 am, as the temperature dropped to the upper 20's.
The one snag in the plans came when we approached the fountain, which was supposed to be turned on and filled with water. One of the technical supporters mentioned, before the show, that he had called someone in the City Government to be sure that the fountain would be turned on that night, allegedly for a "romantic setting" for his own wedding proposal (a "romantic setting for a ritual/theatrical sacrifice" probably wouldn't have made it through the necessary channels); but just before the show started, someone discovered that the fountain had been turned off again. There was a small bit of water handy for floating miniature boats, but not nearly enough of it. No matter; the Boat Cronies floated their gift boats as well as they could manage, as Jason was stripped down to a scant loincloth by the orange-robed Boat Goddess, who placed his robe and trousers in a four- or five-foot model ship, sprinkled them with lighter fluid, and handed Jason a lit torch to ignite them (also shades of the Tomato death of 2000). After the 2001 Halloween Concert at the old Paradox Theater, several hundred of us had marched, playing drums and horns, down the entire length of University Way to the Ship Canal, where a kimono-clad Sea Goddess spirited Jason away on an archaic wooden boat piloted by a shadowy, hooded figure in Butoh whiteface. I remembered Jason saying on the radio once that he liked the physicality of his own performance art; that is, he wants to BE, not merely to simulate being, cold, wet and nearly naked. The crowd was mostly silent during much of this exercise, aside from some low-pitched singing, and murmurs of "This is so sad...it's horrible..."
For the last station, we had to process out of the park, and across the street to the Four Columns mini-park, where the Tomato Goddess in white (not red; that was the Balloon color) stood waiting. She handed Jason a tomato to eat, and the members of the Tomato Crowd took out their gift bags with tomatoes inside to partake of the same. There was only one thing that could remain to be done: either to remove Jason's loincloth, or to remove his hair and/or beard. Thankfully, the latter was done, by the quorum of Goddesses with scissors and razors. It was not a professional shave and haircut; I remember thinking that Jason would have to see his friendly neighborhood barber later on for some serious fine-tuning--but this was performance art, after all. Jason's first experience of death, at Halloween 2000, was the one I had missed, to my everlasting regret. That one, according to those who documented it, had been a relatively modest affair staged at the late, lamented Pearl Café, where a papier-mâché Tomato Goddess had marshaled Jason and his followers out to the Sylvan Theatre on the UW campus, and a group of Tomato priestesses had removed all of Jason's clothes (draped on a pole and set on fire), cut off most of his hair, and shaved off his beard ("The saddest part was when the beard came off", a teenage witness told me later). He then had been placed in a black coffin decorated with a white painted carrot, and driven away in a makeshift hearse.
I missed the very last element of the performance, even after my stint as red-clad escort and short-term crowd control staffer (the Balloon Army made some effort to direct the procession and ensure that Jason and the Goddesses were not too crowded in). I saw the getaway car, a red machine decorated with cans rattling behind and a huge papier-mâché tomato stem on top, zip around the corner and pull up to the curb beside the Four Columns space; but the crowd closed in on the final exit, and I couldn't get close enough to see the four Goddesses and their newly-shorn Sacrificial Victim pile in and drive off. However, as I was wishing a Happy Winter to folks in the dispersing crowd (including Jason's mom), the car made one final curtain call from somewhere, and I saw the Goddesses waving and cheering, and one of Jason's legs hanging out a rear window.
...I think of you walking along a headland
Of green oats in June,
So full of repose, so rich with life--
And I see us meeting at the end of a town
On a fair day by accident, after
The bargains are all made and we can walk
Together through the shops and stalls and markets
Free in the oriental streets of thought.
O you are not lying in the wet clay,
For it is harvest evening now and we
Are piling up the ricks against the moonlight
And you smile up at us - eternally.
--from "In Memory of my Mother", by Patrick Kavanagh, Irish poet (1904-1967)
So Jason has dispatched himself and gone off to the Underworld yet again, in the culmination of a five-year cycle. Whatever he does in the future is likely to be different. The most striking thing about this shows, as with all of Jason's large concerts, is that its success depended on a large number of people: those of us who participated in its creation and promotion, and those of us who attended and filled Town Hall to near-capacity. All of us did so willingly, and out of great love and enthusiasm for the artist and his music. I fully realize now that, for my own musical and artistic work to succeed, I likewise cannot do it all on my own. I have often believed that I have to pull the whole thing along on my own, and that nobody would help me if I asked. But from watching Jason like a hawk for several years, I am beginning to see that I need to cultivate a sense of trust in this endeavor—to have the courage to ask for help when it's needed, and to trust that help will come along, and those helping me will do their work well. Meanwhile, it is the season of Samhain, Summer's end—the Irish Gaelic name of November and Halloween, a term related to the Irish word meaning "rest." Thus, it is time for artistic folks to cocoon themselves and allow the fallen leaves, fruits and seeds around us to decay, and re-fertilize our creative matrix for a season, the way plants and trees nourish themselves and keep the soil alive. So death and decay operate in the cycle of life, art and creation; without death, the wheel of life could not turn!
I close at last with one of my own stories, which may or may not relate to the longer tale above. It first appeared on my homepage a few months ago. Make of it what you will...
MONDAY, AUGUST 9, 2004: In a coastal city on the mainland, there were once many adventurers seeking the right place to go to realize their biggest goals, and make their dearest dreams come true. The most daring navigators set out to find the best places to go to make one's dreams a reality, and then came back to chart the way for other adventurers to set out in ships and seek their fortunes. One could not build one's ship alone, however; one needed much help from others with design plans, tools, timber, canvas for sails, and various navigational instruments.
One day, some navigators came sailing into the city port in a fever of excitement, announcing to the entire city that a far island to the east was the best of all places to achieve one's highest goals. Armed with copies of the navigational maps and charts, a small army of adventurers and entrepreneurs set to work building their ships and planning their voyages to this far island, with all the usual shipbuilding supporters in tow.
One young woman, however, could not seem to find anyone to help in the building of her ship. She had the plans on hand, but very little in the way of timber, tools or nails to build the ship; she had never done any serious building beyond a small canoe or two, and she knew that she could not possibly nail an entire seagoing ship together all by herself. But try as she would, she could not persuade any planners, carpenters, canvas tailors, riggers or navigational tool-fitters to help her build her ship. Anyone she approached for help or even advice told her that they were already occupied in helping others build their crafts, and all insisted that they knew of no one else who was able to help her, either. She set to work several times, trying to put a ship's frame together on her own from the plans she had obtained, only to see the whole thing fall apart each time because she had no one's help even in supporting the basic frame.
At the end of the day, she collapsed on her workbench in a state of despair and discouragement, looking at her thus-far failed efforts at shipbuilding through tears of frustration that she kept trying to hide. That is when she noticed the completed ship a few dry docks away from her own. The adventurer who had built this ship had had an immense crew of helpers behind him every step of the way; he had had no shortage of materials, tools and even decorative ornaments; and he had even put together a complete crew to help sail his ship to the far island. He was all ready to set sail the next day, on a beautiful ship, aided and abetted by the best carpenters, shipbuilders and sailors the city had produced in their time.
This simply isn't fair, she thought. He and I are both aiming to travel to the same far island at the same time; why must he have the best shipbuilding help and sailing crew that one can find in this city, while I am left alone to cobble together a ship with no help from anyone? After much thought and trouble in mind, she finally settled on a plan: since her goal, after all, was to arrive on the far island, ship or no ship, she made up her mind to stow away on the grand-looking craft that her fellow adventurer had just finished that day, decorations and all.
And so, when the adventurer with the completed ship set sail the next day, with great fanfare, away from his home port, he had a stowaway in an empty passenger's cabin, unbeknownst to himself. Before too long, however, she was discovered by the crew, and brought before the fellow adventurer, who demanded to know why she was stowing on board his ship, instead of building her own. "Funny you should ask", she retorted. "Your ship was completed in record time because you had the best shipbuilding team and sailing crew to be had in our city, while not a soul would so much as support my ship's frame or hammer a nail on my behalf. And since you and I are both heading to the far island to seek our fortunes, it only made sense that the adventurer whom no one would help would attempt passage with the adventurer who had every advantage on his side."
Her fellow adventurer saw her point; but insisted, nonetheless, that there couldn't be two adventurers on the same ship. Since they were already within sight of the far island, he directed that the young woman and her belongings be given the lifeboat, a dory-sized craft, and a set of oars to help her reach their intended destination. Before leaving on the lifeboat, she thanked him for his generosity in not simply booting her overboard; then, picking up her oars, she set off, and in fact reached the far island at about the same time as the adventurer with his own lovely ship. Thus it is with many of us, my friends; if no one will come to your aid in reaching your hoped-for destination, you must learn resourcefulness in getting there; and if all else fails, sneak a ride in the trunk of those who drive the biggest bandwagon.
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You're Never Too Young
1955, Comedy
When barber's assistant Wilbur (Jerry Lewis) unwittingly becomes involved in a heist, he tries to get away by train. He is unaware that gangster Noonan (Raymond Burr) has slipped a stolen diamond into his pocket. Unable to pay the fare, Wilbur dresses up as a young boy and sits with teacher Nancy (Diana Lynn). When one of Nancy's colleagues sees Wilbur, she concludes that Nancy is cheating on Bob (Dean Martin), her fiancé. Wilbur remains disguised to prove Nancy's innocence and evade Noonan.

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Yes We Have
Meanwhile, the brother moving into the White House inherited the kind of mortgage that even Wall Street executives might hesitate to call "subprime."
A devastated economy. Two wars, neither being fought with clear goals. Housing markets that resembled war zones. A health system crippled with costs. An auto industry cratering.
But surely, in a time of crisis, the country could pull together to fix this mess, right?
Can you help a brother on health care? No.
The economy? No.
Financial regulatory reform? No.
National security? No.
Now, some black folks can be forgiven for thinking, as they watched the political drama in Washington unfold over the past two years, that this was just another form of the same old thing they'd put up with in one way or another in this conflicted multiracial country.
But there is another explanation.


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Chocolate Smore's Gooey Bars
Ever since I made the White Chocolate Gooey Bars I knew I wanted to make a chocolate version! This recipe is so simple and so delicious! I couldn't stop picking at the pan-I secretly always pick at the pan and create another straight line so it's not obvious how much I have actually devoured! 🙂 Enjoy 🙂
1 Box Devils Food Chocolate Cake Mix
1 Stick Softened Unsalted Butter
1 Large Egg
2 1/2 Cups of Milk Chocolate Chips
1 Cup of Mini Marshmallows
1 Cup of Chocolate Marshmallows (I bought some at Target)
1/2 Can of Condensed Milk
Preheat oven to 350F & Grease a 8X8 Pan.
1. Place the cake mix, butter & egg in a large bowl and mix together until combined- you will be left with a thick dough.
2. Press half of the dough into the prepared pan. Layer the dough with graham crackers, chocolate chips and marshmallows.
3. Press the rest of the dough on top of marshmallows then drizzle with condensed milk.
4. Bake for 25-30 minutes. As tempting as it will look coming out of the oven do your best to let it cool as it will be super gooey! And you could easily burn yourself or make a huge mess!


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SEC tournament
When/where: Today-Sunday; Georgia Dome, Atlanta.
Outlook: It has been a tough season for the league, with only No. 1 Florida ranked in the final regular-season polls. There's a lot at stake for several teams on the NCAA Tournament bubble or trying for higher seeds, including Arkansas and Tennessee. The Razorbacks are coming off a bad loss to Alabama but have won seven of nine. The Vols have won five of six, including four straight. But don't sleep on Georgia, which was one of the most improved teams in the league in the second half.
Florida: The Gators (29-2, 18-0) stayed focused on one game at a time all season, Now they have to avoid looking past teams they have already seen and defeated. If seeds hold, the Gators will have to defeat Kentucky for a third time this season to win the title.
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UK: Woman scarred for life when niqab-wearing attacker throws acid in her face
The police will never find the assailant, of course. Everyone who wears a niqab looks exactly the same as everyone else wearing a niqab. But when debate rages in France and elsewhere over whether it is "racist" to ban the niqab and burqa, this story demonstrates that to do so is a simple matter of public safety.
Also, while the motive for this attack isn't known, many victims of acid attacks in Pakistan have been targeted for wearing Western dress, i.e., dressing "immodestly," and are thus subjected to this cruel Sharia enforcement. In Kashmir, Muslims threatened to throw acid in the faces of women who didn't wear the veil and used cellphones. Naomi Oni was doing both. If this was not a case of Sharia enforcement by means of terror, such cases are sure to come to Britain and other Western countries eventually.
This attack should lead to a serious public discussion of Sharia and its enforcement, and how much of it we can and should realistically accept in free societies. But it won't, because such a discussion would be "Islamophobic."
"Victoria's Secret worker scarred for life when niqab-wearing attacker threw acid in her face as she walked home from shop," by Chris Brooke in the Daily Mail, February 1 (thanks to all who sent this in):
A young woman suffered horrific facial burns after a woman wearing a Muslim veil threw acid in her face.Naomi Oni, 20, was walking home after finishing work at lingerie shop Victoria's Secret when the woman, wearing a niqab – which reveals only the eyes – appeared and launched the apparently random attack.
It is not known whether the attack was motivated by the victim's work for the store.
Initially, doctors feared the shop assistant had been blinded. But after a month's treatment in a specialist burns unit, Miss Oni has recovered sight in her left eye and partial vision in her right.
Miss Oni has only recently been discharged from hospital but has decided to speak out to help police catch her attacker.
She said: 'I look in the mirror and it just isn't me. I'll never look the same again.
'I've always been outgoing and confident – used to getting attention for the way I dress or my hair – but now I don't want anyone looking at me.
'I don't want people to see me in public. I don't want to get the Tube or the bus. If I have to go to the hospital I take a taxi.
'I don't know if I'll ever be able to go back to my job.
'I was planning to go to college in September to study media and fashion, but I don't even know if I'll be able to do that.'
On December 30, Miss Oni took the bus home to Dagenham, East London after finishing a late shift at Victoria's Secret in the Westfield shopping centre in nearby Stratford.
It was around 12.40am, and she was just five minutes from the council flat she shares with her disabled mother, when she saw the woman and felt a 'splash' on her face. She said: 'It burned and I screamed out.
'I started running and screaming, holding my face, all the way home. I didn't look back. I was hysterical. Luckily my godmother, who is a pharmacist, was at home with my mum and she helped me and kept dipping my face in water and trying to calm me down until the police and ambulance got there.'
Miss Oni has no idea why anyone would attack her.
She faces months, if not years, of skin grafts and further plastic surgery and even then is likely to be left with severe facial scarring.
Miss Oni is the sole carer for her 52-year-old mother. They are too afraid to go back to their flat and are currently sleeping on a friend's sofa-bed.
A Scotland Yard spokesman said acid attacks were 'extremely rare' and that detectives were keeping an 'open mind'.
They are going to get less and less rare.
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panasonic fz5
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kodak p850
Hi, these are all in the same price range 12x cameras lets see how the poll comes out with. I already picked mine (just have to buy it ).
Unfortunately, because I bought an S2 (and did my research to justify my decision), I am a bit biased. The S2 was my choice (for my needs) above all the others.
I did not get a chance to review/research the P850 before my purchase, due to the fact that it wasn't out yet. But, I don't think my decision would have been different (only more difficult).
I voted for the P850, as I just recently went through this same decision and ended up with the Kodak. I'm sure either of these cameras will produce excellent pictures, I just liked the higher ISO options, hot shoe mount and specs of the P850. Best bet is to give them all a try at your local camera store and see which one *you* like best!
I voted for the FZ5, which i recently bought. For me it was down to either the S2 or the FZ5, and I haven't had any regrets about my purchase.
The FZ-5 is a very nice camera indeed.
FZ5 for me (just by a nose). S2 IS comes next.
Why FZ5? Leica lens and traditional camera shape to me. S2 IS looks too funky for my taste. And I don't really care for swivel LCD (I use viewfinder) and neither care for video (I use camcorder).
There are complaints re. FZ noise but to me, as amateur, it's not a problem.
The FZ20 is in this price range, and my personal choice. The Leica lens is clearly the class in this field, and the FZ5 has a wimpy flash, no hot shoe, no ED lens, creeps up to f/3.3 (?) at long zooms instead of keeping that lovely 2.8 thoughout the range, and lacks manual focus or support for remote firing, all for a street price difference of about $50.
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What do you think? Will Fuji manage to miracles just like with the F10?
If the Fuji S-5200 does not perform better than the Fuji S-9000 at high ISO settings, as is borne out by Jeff Keller's most recent review of the S-9000, it will not be a challenge to the 12X optical zoom stars with IS.
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I chose other coz I'm inclined towards the KM A200.
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A special service in memory of those who fought in the First World War was held at the Conduit in Grantham on Sunday.
Father Norton Collard spoke of growing up in an era where the men folk were notably absent. He said so many had perished in the war and many who returned were wounded physically and mentally.
Special remembrance was given to Robert Southern, father of May Darbar and father-in-law to Kishor Darbar, the proprietors of The Conduit. He enlisted on August 4, 1914, his 21st birthday. He served for seven years, fought on three battle fronts and returned to his family but like so many of his fellow soldiers rarely spoke of his experiences.
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In the poem "Mother to Son" what is NOT being said as well as what is being said?
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In "Mother to Son" by Langston Hughes, what is not being said holds as much significance as what the mother does tell the son.
What the mother does say:
- Her own life has had its share of difficulties and rough times.
- She has kept going no matter the cost or hardship.
- She tells the son that he too must keep going.
What the mother does not say:
- She does not make up false platitudes. For example, she does not tell her son that 'everything will work out just fine.'
- She does not make excuses for why things have been so difficult for her.
- She does not tell her son 'I love you.'
At the core of this message from "Mother to Son" is the undeniable strength and perseverance of the mother. She does not try to sugar-coat any of the difficulties that she has experienced or the hardships that he may face in the future. She tells it like it is! She does not coddle him in the slightest. Even though the mother does not tell the son that she loves him in the the poem, her message to him clearly reveals that she cares about him deeply. She encourages him not to "turn back" or "sit down", but to keep going. If she can do it, he can too.


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I listen to a verity of music.
Casablanca, Halloween (1978), Transformers (1986), Bayformers films, ***rasier, Spiderman films, Thor movies, a bunch of horror flicks and Back To The Future Films and A LOT more
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The National Portrait Gallery complements "Echoes of Elvis" with a full schedule of programs. For more events from the the museum, please visit the National Portrait Gallery's calendar.
Face-to-Face is a series of thirty-minute conversations about a single work on view. January's presentations feature Elvis Presley, and his memorable associations with Richard Nixon and Muhammad Ali. Talks take place on Thursdays at 6:00 p.m.; meet at the F Street information desk. Free and open to the public.
January 7: "Echoes of Elvis" curator Warren Perry speaks about Muhammad Ali and Elvis, and Cat's Cradle by Henry C. Casselli, a portrait of Ali.
January 14: "Echoes of Elvis" curator Warren Perry speaks about Elvis Presley by Robert Arneson
January 21: Jason Schultz, archivist at the Richard Nixon Presidential Library and Museum, speaks about Richard Nixon and Elvis
January 28: Denise Wamaling of the Smithsonian American Art Museum speaks about Untitled (image of Elvis and Priscilla) from the portfolio Graceland by William Eggleston
Celebrate Elvis Presley's seventy-fifth birth anniversary with the National Portrait Gallery. More information on the NPG events calendar.
11:30 a.m.–3:00 p.m. Decorate an Elvis-inspired "guitar" - Education Center
Noon–12:30 p.m. Curator-led tour of Echoes of Elvis by Warren Perry , meet in F Street lobby
12:30–1:00 p.m. Will Debley's Reflections of the King Elvis tribute performance, Great Hall
1:00 p.m. Discussion and book signing by George Klein, author of Elvis: My Best Man, McEvoy Auditorium.
1:30–4:00 p.m. Elvis Costume Contest registration, F Street lobby
2:30–3:00 p.m. Will Debley's Reflections of the King Elvis tribute performance, Great Hall
4:00–4:30 p.m. Parade of Elvises costume contest and prize ceremony, Great Hall
5:00–7:00 p.m. Reel Portraits presents: Viva Las Vegas, starring Elvis Presley, McEvoy Auditorium
Echoes of Elvis, Edgar P. Richardson Symposium — Friday, March 26, 9am - 1pm
In conjunction with the exhibition "One Life: Echoes of Elvis," the National Portrait Gallery presents a symposium on American popular culture icon Elvis Presley. Scholars of history, art, and music will examine Elvis's postmortem career, which carries an increasing resonance more than thirty-two years after his death.
Speakers include Dr. Mark Russell, historian; Dr. Roy C. Brewer, professor of music, the University of Memphis; Dr. Tanya Jung, assistant dean, University of Pennsylvania; Dr. Stephen K. Wright, professor of English, the Catholic University of America; and Warren Perry, writer/researcher, National Portrait Gallery, and the exhibition's curator.
This event is free, but seating is limited. For reservations, please call 202-633-8299 or e-mail firstname.lastname@example.com.
Curator's Tour — Saturday, April 3, 2pm
Although Elvis Presley died more than thirty years ago, the world remains fascinated with his image and music. His records have continued to sell by the millions, and public interest in his music, career and life has yet to subside. During the last half century, Elvis became part of the country's artistic discourse as well.
Exhibition curator Warren Perry offers a tour of "One Life: Echoes of Elvis," at 2:00 p.m. Meet at the exhibition entrance. Free and open to the public.
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Like their mollusk colleagues the clams, oyster shells can keep climate records in the composition of their shells. Oysters recently informed scientists about a key moment in American history--
the settlement of the Jamestown colony
in Virginia in 1607, and its first few trying years.
The colonists' records suggested that they encountered a hostile environment; oyster shells confirmed that the colonists experienced a worst-in-a-millennium drought upon arrival, worsening an already tough situation. Archaeologists found the shells in a Jamestown trash dump where the colonists threw out their kitchen trash. The 400-year-old shells show that the James River was saltier back then, which shows that there was little rainfall to recharge the supply of fresh water.
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The Nebraska Cornhuskers men's basketball team goes all the way back to 1897. The program had success early on, having retroactively been awarded the Premo-Portta Championship for the 1900 season. The Cornhuskers were successful in the early days of the Missouri Valley Conference, winning six conference titles, four of them over the course of five years from 1912-1916.
Since the dawn of the NCAA Tournament, Nebraska hasn't been quite as successful, only making seven NCAA Tournament appearances. Nebraska made their first NCAA Tournament appearance in 1986. The Cornhuskers were a #9 seed and they lost to #8 seed Western Kentucky by a score of 67-59. The 1990's were the best decade for Nebraska since the 1910's, with the Cornhuskers making five NCAA Tournament appearances. Nebraska's best seeding was #3 in 1991 when they only had six losses heading into the NCAA Tournament. Nebraska played the #14 seed Xavier Musketeers in the first round and lost by a score of 89-84. The Nebraska Cornhuskers have still yet to win an NCAA Tournament game, but head coach Tim miles has helped the program do a better job of recruiting in recent years and many fans believe that NCAA Tournament success isn't too far in the future.
The Cornhuskers have had more postseason success in the NIT. Nebraska has 17 appearances and a winning record in the NIT. Nebraska beat Saint Joseph's by a score of 60-56 in the championship game to win the 1996 NIT.
In 2014, the Cornhuskers made their NCAA Tournament appearance since 1998. Nebraska was the #11 seed in the West Region and played against the #6 Baylor Bears. While the Cornhuskers were able to put together a strong second half with 44 points, they scored a mere 16 points in the first half and lost the game 74-60.


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Hi Tore, Thanks for your offer to help! I'm taking this back to the list for the benefit of others to join in. On Monday 17 November 2008 18:27, Tore Skogly wrote: > I would like to participate in translating, preferrably into norwegian, and > testing (if needed). Well, testing is needed so far as to check if all images are in the correct languages and if all documents are correct, etc., so yes :) The norwegian translation of the release manual will welcome your help, it currently has 566 translated messages, 153 fuzzy translations, 187 untranslated messages. How to translate is described in these two documents: http://wiki.debian.org/DebianEdu/Documentation/Etch/Translations http://maintainer.skolelinux.org/debian-edu-doc/README.release-manual-translations If you have questions, please dont hesitate to ask. regards, Holger
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Michael thanks, but if I do this <rss version="2.0" xmlns:job="http://schema.noviforum.si/job" job:schemaLocation="path/to/job.xsd" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance" xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="http://www.thearchitect.co.uk/schemas/rss-2_0.xsd"> then XMLSpy says: The file is not valid: Although matched by wildcard job:schemaLocation, no declaration can be found for attribute '(null'). -bb On 27.9.2005 9:56, Michael Kay wrote: >Because the wildcard uses processContents="lax", the validator will look for >schema declarations for your namespace and validate against them if found. >So you need to tell the validator where to find a schema for your namespace. >You could do this using xsi:schemaLocation. > >Michael Kay >http://www.saxonica.com/ > > > >>-----Original Message----- >>From: email@example.com >>[mailto:firstname.lastname@example.com] On Behalf Of Borut Bolcina >>Sent: 26 September 2005 15:16 >>To: firstname.lastname@example.com >>Subject: Extending RSS 2.0 >> >> >>Hello, >> >>if I extend RSS 2.0 with some additional <item> elements in >>my own job: >>namespace like this: >> >><item> >> <title>Job title</title> >> <link>http://link/to/some/job</link> >> <description>Job description.</description> >> <enclosure url="http://some.domain.com/img/logo.jpg" >>type="image/jpeg" length="34566"/> >> <pubDate>Mon, 26 Sep 2005 11:25:10 +0200</pubDate> >> <job:company>Acme ltd.</job:company> >> <job:work-area>Job work area</job:work-area> >> <job:type>type of job</job:type> >> <job:education>level of education</job:education> >> <job:location region="some region">town</job:location> >> <job:expires>Mon, 17 Oct 2005 11:25:10 +0200</job:expires> >></item> >> >>it validates perfectly ok with >>http://www.thearchitect.co.uk/schemas/rss-2_0.xsd. Understandably, as >> >><xs:any namespace="##other" processContents="lax" minOccurs="0" >>maxOccurs="unbounded"> >> <xs:annotation> >> <xs:documentation>Extensibility element.</xs:documentation> >> </xs:annotation> >></xs:any> >> >>is allowing this. Now, how do I enforce rules for my job: >>elements? The >>basis for validation would be the above xsd, which would >>allow inclusion >>of different new sets of elements and namespaces (one of them being >>job:, the other maybe commerce:). >> >>How to do this right? >> >>Regards, >>Borut >> >> >> >> >> > > > >Received on Tuesday, 27 September 2005 09:20:30 UTC
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A purple eyed girl (with a wild sense of humour, no seriousness at all) and her best friends start growing up from the beginning of 6th year to the eventful Halloween when history was made in Godric's Hollow. That girl is Caitlyn Nyx. Can she live through the murders of her bestest buddies, the betrayals that were guaranteed to throw the lives of the group upside down, and a maniac bunny rabbit?? This story is extremely snort-milk-out-your-nose funny in the first two years that this is about, but murders and the dark stuff comes up later, after they leave Hogwarts...but it's still funny! --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Chapter 2 is a work in process! *parties at thought of almost being finished with chapter 2*
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Life's a whole case of chocolates
Our tasters find many fine and economical reds
Published 5:30 am, Tuesday, August 26, 2008
Forrest Gump's mother told him that life is like a box of chocolates because you never know what you're going to get. Wine tastings can be the same.
My August session delivered a wonderful array of star bottlings, especially among the reds. So many, in fact, that there's not enough room here to give them all their due. The best of the widely available wines receive kudos here; for others that dazzled our taste buds, check out our Web site, chron.com/food.
Some of the highest overall scores went to "supermarket wines" with household names like J. Lohr, Sterling and Edna. It's a tribute to how much tasty, well-made, priced-to-sell juice is out there these days.
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• 2006 Edna Valley Paragon Chardonnay
Score: 18 (4, 6, 8)
My take: If the classic California style is your thing, it simply doesn't get any better in this price range.
Taster's comment: "Oaky and fruity with medium acid. Good balance, good finish."
Buy it: At Spec's for $9.47. Also at liquor stores and supermarkets, including Target and Walmart. Restaurants/wine bars include Amici, Aura, Capital Grille, Cava, Cellar 17, La Vista, Massa's, Pappas Bros. Steakhouse, Smith & Wollensky.
• 2006 J. Lohr Arroyo Vista Chardonnay
Score: 16.4 (3.9, 5, 7.5)
My take: From the Arroyo Vista vineyard in California's Monterey County, it's well-structured and very fruit-forward.
Taster's comment: "Toasty and rich."
Buy it: At Spec's for $16.76. Also at liquor stores and supermarkets, including Target and Walmart. Restaurants/wine bars include Baba Yega, Babin's Seafood House, Café Adobe, Candelari's Pizza, Mangia, Willie G's.
• 2005 Altamira "Brandal" Albariño
Score: 13 (4, 4, 5)
My take: It's a little pricey for the genre, but there's no questioning the quality of this fresh, harmonious wine from Spain's Galicia region.
Taster's comment: "Clean and crisp, with a hint of dried apricots."
Buy it: By special order only through fine wine stores (at Spec's for $26.71). Restaurants/wine bars include 13 Celsius, Brennan's, El Meson, Prego, Vino 100 in The Woodlands, 55 Degreez.
Red• 2005 Sterling Napa Valley Cabernet
Score: 18.1 (4.6, 6, 7.5)
My take: There's a lot going on in this wine, from the raspberry fruit to a hint of coffee and spices, capped by a satisfyingly long finish. Delicious.
Taster's comment: "Very ripe and balanced with roasted-meat flavors."
Buy it: At Spec's for $17.34. Also at liquor stores and supermarkets. Restaurants include La Griglia, Sullivan's, Tommy's Seafood Steakhouse and Vic & Anthony's.
• 2006 Edna Valley Paragon Pinot Noir
Score: 17.6 (4.6, 5, 8)
My take: From San Luis Obispo, Calif., it could be mistaken for a burgundy because of the pronounced spicy bouquet. Cherry flavors dominate. A beautiful wine for the price.
Taster's comment: "Great color. Smoky with a long finish."
Buy it: At Spec's for $21.26. Also Houston Wine Merchant, Richard's and other liquor and grocery stores. Restaurants/wine bars include Alden Hotel bar, Amici, Cellar 17, Crapitto's, Raven Grill.
• 2005 SterlingVintner's Cabernet
Score: 17.3 (3.8, 5.5, 8)
My take: Sterling, long an underachiever, has hit its stride with this well-made bargain cab from California's Central Coast. You can find it practically everywhere, too.
Taster's comment: Has "some surprisingly complex notes."
Buy it: At Spec's for $11.51. Also at liquor stores and supermarkets, including Walmart. Restaurants/wine bars include Cafe Chino, Japaneiro's Sushi Bistro, Maggiano's, Perry's Grille, Piatto de Santi, Palazzo's, Olive Garden, Rockfish Seafood Grill, Sorrento.
• 2005 Jim Barry "The Cover Drive"
Score: 17.2 (4.2, 5.5, 7.5)
My take: Most of Australia's cabernet grapes grow on the site of a famous old Coonawarra cricket ground — hence the name and the batsman featured so prominently on the label. It's a consistent winner, this one.
Taster's comment: "A showy wine ... ripe berries with cassis."
Buy it: At Spec's for $17.38. Also at Central Market, Costco, Richard's.
• 2006 John Duval "Entity"
Score: 16.7 (4.7, 5, 7)
My take: A robust, well-structured shiraz from Australia's Barossa Valley, it's ready to drink today but should age beautifully in the bottle. Winemaker John Duval was once the man behind Penfolds' famous Grange.
Taster's comment: "Massive fruit with low acid. Very full-bodied."
Buy it: At Spec's for $36.40. Restaurants/wine bars include Brenner's on the Bayou, Cru in The Woodlands, Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steakhouse, Reef, Tony's.
• 2005 Edna Valley Cabernet
Score: 16.4 (4.4, 6, 6)
My take: This Paso Robles bottling, tasting of ripe cherries and blackberries, drinks way beyond its price. That's never a bad thing.
Taster's comment: "Round and chewy ... medium body."
Buy it: At Spec's for $14.70. Also at liquor and grocery stores, although quantities could be limited with the vintage soon to change. Very limited restaurant distribution.
• 2005 Yalumba Shiraz-Viognier
Score: 15.9 (3.9, 5.5, 6.5)
My take: This Barossa Valley Côte-Rôtie clone tastes of dark fruit and pepper. It didn't work as well for me as it did for some of the other judges, but the majority rules.
Taster's comment: "Excellent body. Very well made."
Buy it: At Sam's for about $15. Also at Central Market, World Market. Restaurants/wine bars include 55 Degreez.
Watch listThese wines all scored well from a quality standpoint (number in parentheses), but their availability is extremely limited, or the previous vintage remains on the shelves.
• 2007 Voss Sauvignon Blanc (3.9): The 2006 is still at Spec's for $16.80. Randalls Flagships and restaurants such as Back Street Café, Le Mistral and McCormick & Schmick's might have the '07.
• 2006 Zaca Mesa Viognier (3.8): The '05 is still at Houston Wine Merchant for $29.99. Check also Brennan's, 17 Restaurant, Jasper's, Jimmy Wilson's, Kirby's, Reef and Smith & Wollensky.
• 2005 Stemmler Nugent Vineyard Pinot Noir (4.5): The 2004 is still at Spec's for $39.43. Check Central Market, Morton's of Chicago and Rickshaw.
• 2006 John Duval "Plexus" (4.6): A southern Rhône-style blend of grenache, syrah and mourvèdre from Barossa, the '05 is at Spec's for $33.80. Check Back Street Café, Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steakhouse, Gravitas, Ibiza and Pappas Bros. Steakhouse for the '06.
• 2005 Gargiulo Vineyards OVX G Major 7 Cabernet (4.6): Can be purchased from the winery at $125 per bottle (www.gargiulovineyards.com).
• 2005 Ehlers Estate Cabernet (4.3): The 2004 might still be at Spec's for $30.35 in very limited quantities. The '05 is available online for about $40.
• 2005 Duckhorn "Paraduxx" (4.7): A zinfandel-cab-merlot-cab franc blend that always drinks well. Spec's may have a few bottles left at $42.32.
• 2005 Tinto Figuero "4" (4.1): A tempranillo from Spain's Ribero del Duero that has spent four months in new oak, it's $19.59 through Spec's. Restaurants include El Meson.
• 2003 Tinto Figuero Tempranillo "12" (4.2): Twelve months in new oak, it's $29.99 through Spec's. Del Frisco's Double Eagle Steakhouse and El Meson also have it.
• 2003 Tinto Figuero "Noble" (5.5): The top-of-the-line wine from the family's estate, it's made only from grapes off vines more than 70 years old, then aged in oak for 21 months. $135.57 through Spec's.
These wines scored 3.5 or higher (in parentheses) and are also recommended by the Chronicle:
• Zonin Prosecco (3.6).
• Chardonnay 2006 Frei Brothers Russian River Reserve (3.6)
• 2006 J. Lohr "October Night" (3.5)
• 2006 Sebastiani Carneros (3.5)
• 2006 Chateau St. Michelle Indian Wells Vineyard (3.6) 2007 Yalumba "Wild Ferment" (3.5).
• Sauvignon Blanc 2007 J. Lohr Carol's Vineyard (3.5)
• 2007 Clayhouse Paso Robles (3.6)
• Pinot Grigio 2007 Swanson (3.5)
• Cabernet 2005 St. Francis Sonoma (3.8)
• Cabernet blends 2005 Gargiulo Vineyards "Aprile" (3.7)
• Merlot 2005 Ehlers Estate Napa (3.7) 2004 Gargiulo Money Road Ranch (3.6)
• Pinot Noir 2006 Fess Parker Pommard Clone Santa Barbara (3.7)
• 2006 Frei Brothers Russian River Riserve (3.6)
• Syrah-Shiraz/blends 2006 Frei Brothers Reserve Russian River (3.8)
• Malbec 2007 Gascon (3.5)
• Zinfandel 2006 Rutherford Napa (3.9).


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La Briza Snake Skin Textured Heels
Brand: La Briza
Price: Rs. 1399
A pair that will keep your feet comfy whilst making you look stylish. From Snake skin textured and contrast main strap to an open back, this pair ensures a stylish finish to your ensemble. The heels add the right amount of boost to your style. Wear yours with a long skirt and a tank top. Did you know? The oldest known sandals (and the oldest known footwear of any type) were discovered in Fort Rock Cave in the U.S. state of Oregon.


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I normally wouldn't post two snack recipes in a row but, I figured I should balance the decadence of last weeks Nutella cookie with the wholesome goodness of homemade Honey Graham Crackers. After all, it's always snack-time somewhere right?
When did parent participation in snack time at school start? I don't remember this at all from growing up. Don't get me wrong, I think it's great that parents are asked to participate, but it's a lot of pressure!! Like most parents, each week I struggle to find a snack that's healthy and delicious to bring to my son's toddler class. It's always a challenge to find something that's both nutritious and something the kids will eat. You don't want to be met by a crowd of angry pre-schoolers when you show up with baby carrots and raisins, yet you don't want to pump them full of sugar with a box of frosted donut holes either. Oh. The. Stress!
Enter: Graham Crackers.
I knew my son and his little friends were big fans of graham crackers because I watched them devour a package of the store bought kind last week. The sad thing is, the commercially prepared grahams are usually filled with High Fructose Corn Syrup and in my eyes are no better than the average donut hole. I love baking and I was certain I could come up with a healthier homemade version of the popular snack. Believe it or not, graham crackers are super simple to make which makes them the perfect recipe to get the kiddos involved.
These graham crackers are sweet but not too sweet and have a nice crunch thanks to the addition of super healthy wheat germ. Yes, my version does have sugar (only 1/3 cup) but their WAY healthier than the store bought grahams and a much better alternative to the average junky cookie or donut.
So next time you are on snack duty at school, give these a try. And get the kids involved. Honey Grahams are a snack you will love making for and with your kids. Win! Win! Enjoy!
Honey Grahams
Makes: 20 (2-inch cookies)
1 cup white flour
¾ cup wheat flour
½ cup wheat germ (un-toasted)
1/3 cup dark brown sugar
1 teaspoon cinnamon
1 teaspoon baking powder
½ teaspoon baking soda
½ teaspoon salt
1 1/4 sticks unsalted butter, cold
2 tablespoons honey
1 tablespoon ice water
1. Preheat oven to 350 degrees. Adjust your oven racks to the upper and lower positions. Line 2 baking sheets with parchment paper or a Silpat liner and set aside.
2.In the bowl of a food processor, combine flours, wheat germ, sugar, cinnamon, baking powder, baking soda and salt. Pulse the mixture until all ingredients are combined. Add in the butter and honey while continuing to pulse until mixture resembles a coarse meal. Continue to pulse while pouring the ice water through the feed tube at the top of the processor and continue to pulse until the dough barely comes together. Do not over process. Shape dough into a flat disk, wrap in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 10 minutes.
3. Place the dough onto a lightly floured surface. Roll out the dough into a rectangle, about 1/8-inch thick using a floured rolling pin. Using any type of cookie cutter you like, cut out shapes. Place crackers onto prepared baking sheets and bake for 15 minutes or until lightly golden around the edges but not dark brown, rotating the baking sheets halfway through cooking to ensure even browning.
Note: Baking times will vary depending on the size of the cookie cutter you use. A standard 2-inch cracker should bake up in about 12-15 minutes.
Cinnamon Sugar Grahams– Combine 2 tablespoons granulated sugar with 1 teaspoon cinnamon. Sprinkle cookies with mixture before baking.


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Altitude High Ropes Adventure
Our action-packed high ropes adventure course is a great attraction for people of all ages. Take each of the challenges head on as you work your way around the 34 obstacles including rope bridges, scramble nets, balance beams, swinging logs, a climbing wall before taking the plunge at the end with our exhilarating 30 foot leap of faith.
No experience or skill is required, just a willingness to have fun. Once connected by our instructors to an overhead safety line, that's it! You remain connected throughout the course allowing you to concentrate on having fun.


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Opposition of a proposed cell tower at the Ox Ridge Hunt Club grows louder as Darien moves closer to the deadline to make recommendations to the Connecticut Siting Council.
The Board of Selectmen and Planning and Zoning Commission conducted a joint meeting Monday to receive public input about the proposed 120-foot-high AT&T cell tower. The input will be considered when drafting a letter regarding the cell tower to the siting council.
"The beauty and uniqueness of the Ox Ridge Hunt Club has been widely recognized and needs to be preserved," said Kevin Schwartz, who lives across the street from the hunt club. He added that a 120-foot silo is "hardly conspicuous" and is not "aesthetically pleasing."
"The first 85 feet will be constructed with concrete," Schwartz said. "Quite frankly, it looks like an industrial smokestack or missile silo."
The Connecticut Siting Council will consider the tower, which needs no local government approval. State law requires AT&T to consult with the town prior to filing an application with the council.
As part of AT&T's report to the town, it did consider other locations, but for various reasons those locations could not be considered viable tower sites, according to its proposal.
The site at the Ox Ridge Hunt Club meets AT&T's technical criteria and where AT&T could "creatively design" a tower to look like a silo that belongs on the property, according to a letter to First Selectman Jayme Stevenson from Christopher Fisher, an attorney from Cuddy & Feder, representing AT&T.
Schwartz and other Darien residents told the selectmen and P&Z members that the installation of the tower would negatively impact properly values in the neighborhood.
"There is $43 million in property that will be impacted by the tower," said LeLe Klein, who lives less than 3 miles from the hunt club. "If all these properties decrease in value, it will impact our taxes and affect the mill rate."
Klein said the town needs to consider the development of a wireless technology plan and she provided recommendations of companies that have worked with towns such as Greenwich.
Schwartz suggested that the cell tower be installed in the same manner that applications before the Planning and Zoning Commission are approved: to the town's standards.
"You can put cell coverage in, but it has to be to our standards," Schwartz said.
Planning and Zoning Commission Vice Chairman Steve Olvany told the crowd of roughly 30 people in the Town Hall auditorium that the commission is listening to their comments and is trying to do all it can.
The Board of Selectmen publicly decided to oppose the cell tower at its June 2 meeting.
"We'll do everything within our legal right to not only research this proposal, but to oppose this proposal," First Selectman Jayme Stevenson said at the Monday, June 16, meeting.
Planning and Zoning Director Jeremy Ginsberg said there is no way of knowing what AT&T will do once it receives the letter from the Planning and Zoning Commission.Read Full Article
"It's hard to imagine a more unsightly location for this tower," said Kitty Lavin, who seemed on the verge of tears while speaking about the tower. She lives less than half a mile from the hunt club. "This is only the beginning of this problem. We urge you to take any and all actions to stop the construction of this utility tower."
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What does unctuous mean?
Definitions for unctuousˈʌŋk tʃu əs
Here are all the possible meanings and translations of the word unctuous.
Princeton's WordNet
buttery, fulsome, oily, oleaginous, smarmy, soapy, unctuous(adj)
unpleasantly and excessively suave or ingratiating in manner or speech
"buttery praise"; "gave him a fulsome introduction"; "an oily sycophantic press agent"; "oleaginous hypocrisy"; "smarmy self-importance"; "the unctuous Uriah Heep"; "soapy compliments"
Oily or greasy.
Rich, lush, intense, with layers of concentrated, soft, velvety flavor.
Profusely polite, especially unpleasantly so and insincerely earnest.
Webster Dictionary
of the nature or quality of an unguent or ointment; fatty; oily; greasy
having a smooth, greasy feel, as certain minerals
bland; suave; also, tender; fervid; as, an unctuous speech; sometimes, insincerely suave or fervid
Chaldean Numerology
The numerical value of unctuous in Chaldean Numerology is: 4
Pythagorean Numerology
The numerical value of unctuous in Pythagorean Numerology is: 8
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The American, if he has a spark of national feeling, will be humiliated by the very prospect of a foreigner's visit to Congress -- these, for the most part, illiterate hacks whose fancy vests are spotted with gravy, and whose speeches, hypocritical, unctuous, and slovenly, are spotted also with the gravy of political patronage, these persons are a reflection on the democratic process rather than of it; they expose it in its process rather than of it; they expose it in its underwear.
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Let's Talk About Sex, RJ Berger
The horny-meter was off the charts on last night's Hard Times of RJ Berger! RJ craves a "tug-job" from Claire, fails, and receives awkward advice from his parents, teachers, and bus driver.
Finally, Lily provides the obvious solution: just talk to her!
The thing that bothered me the most about this episode was that everyone's attitude towards RJ's inability to get some revolved around the idea that any dude not getting pleasure from a chick, at his age, is either a pussy, gay or gay-pussy.
[There was a video here]
But some redemption was found in this incredible Sex-ed video...
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Strain measurement of abdominal aortic aneurysm with 3D ultrasound speckle tracking
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|23. April 2012
Introduction: The main risk associated with abdominal aortic aneurysm is rupture caused by mechanical failure of the vascular tissue. Currently, available methods to assess biomechanical properties of aortic aneurysm tissue employ ex vivo material (tensile testing). However, to predict individual rupture risk it is necessary to determine biomechanical properties of the aneurysm in vivo, which until the present, have been limited to 2-dimensional analysis of the aorta (conventional sonography). Recently, 3-dimensional speckle tracking ultrasound has been introduced to measure biomechanical stress-strain parameters of the heart in vivo. The aim of this investigation was to establish and validate this 3D ultrasound method, applied to the abdominal aortic aneurysm.
Materials and methods: Wall motion of a silicone aorta aneurysm model, perfused in an artificial circulatory system, was measured simultaneously with a commercial real time 3D-echocardiography system (Artida, Toshiba Medical Systems, Tokyo, Japan) and by a laser-scan-micrometer. Data were analysed with MatLab Software and the results of the two methods were compared. Furthermore, 3D ultrasound data from the abdominal aorta from 10 healthy volunteers and 12 patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm were collected and the strain parameters were analysed.
Results: There was good correlation between strain parameters measured by 3D ultrasound and laser scan-micrometer (a highly accurate reference method). It was also possible to measure and analyse strain data obtained from the abdominal aorta of volunteers and from patients with abdominal aortic aneurysm.
Conclusion: The 3D ultrasound measurements correlated well with the laser scan-micrometer measurements of the silicone model. Furthermore, the 3D ultrasound speckle tracking method enabled the strain analysis of healthy and aneurysmic abdominal aorta in vivo.


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Following my discovery that some of the construction workers helping to build our new facility were in fact former ISSofBC refugee clients, I linked them to a Vancouver Sun reporter.
The results appeared June 22 on the front page of the Vancouver Sun. If you missed the article and accompanying video check it out below.
The short video that accompanies the article gives you a glimpse into the construction process in action by the 60 men working on site.
About the Author: Chris Friesen has been the ISSofBC Director of Settlement Services for over twenty years. He is currently leading the multi-year initiative to design and build a Metro Vancouver Regional Service Centre for Refugees. In spring 2016, this 58,000sf facility will become the first of its kind in the world, bringing together a variety of community and government services and organizations to meet the immediate needs of refugees and immigrants settling in BC. Learn more about the new Welcome House.
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On Thu, 24 Jan 2002, mpouchon wrote: > Sorry, the link was somehow cut in my last submit. > > I have made a much-advanced version of the document concerning the > perspective and taper transformation for SVG 4.0 whish list, please > find it under: > > www.geocities.com/mpouchon/SVG/PerspAndTaper/PerspAndTaperTrsf.html Hi Manuel, Thankyou for a great writeup of the concept. I promise that if I am still around for SVG 4.0 I will strongly support your proposal! In fact, the SVG 2.0 requirements [1] includes a section on extending transformations, possibly to include a full 3x3 matrix (perspective). One of the main concerns will be performance, but we will keep everyone informed when it comes up. [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/SVG2Reqs DeanReceived on Thursday, 24 January 2002 04:31:03 UTC
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£10,000 bet says England Test team are bankers!
One William Hill customers from North London obviously feels that the England cricket side are the bankers of the year, after he placed a wager of £10,000 that they will beat Pakistan in the series at 10/11. "The England Test side are looking very solid at present and they will be bankers for many cricket backers in 2012," said Hill's spokesman Rupert Adams.
England look a very settled unit and Hills are 1/2 that there are no more than two Test debutants in 2012. Hills also offer 8/1 that England do NOT lose a series until after the 2013 Ashes series.
First Test: 5/2 Pakistan, 13/8 England, 11/8 Draw
Series: 9/4 Pakistan, 10/11 England, 11/4 Draw
England Two Or Less Test Debutants: 1/2
England To Have Three Or More Test Debutants In 2012: 6/4
When Will England Next Lose A Test Series?: 9/4 Pakistan (Away 2011-12), 10/3 South Africa (Home 2012), 4/1 Sri Lanka (Away 2011-12), 4/1 India (Away 2012-13), 8/1 Not Lose A Series Until After Ashes 2013, 16/1 West Indies (Home 2012), 16/1 New Zealand (Away 2012-13), 25/1 Australia (Home 2013), 66/1 New Zealand (Home 2013)
2012 Specials:
2/5 England Batsman To Hit Double Century
7/4 England To Have The Same Wicket-keeper for every Test
6/1 England Player To Score A Triple Century
8/1 England Bowler To Take A Hat-trick
66/1 Any England bowler to take 10 Wickets in a Test Match Innings


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EMOTIONS AND TV Viewership
Canvs has conducted the biggest Twitter data viewership study ever to prove that emotions are correlated to program ratings. This study uses Canvs' patent-pending technology to classify viewers' Emotional Reactions to over 5,700 episodes across program genres to develop a predictive model identifying the core emotions that predict whether viewership increases week to week.
Ask anybody who's ever watched and loved a TV show why they continue to tune in week in and out and they'll inevitably answer with an emotion. "I love Jon Snow" or "The action scenes are crazy!" or "The plot twists are so intense!" We know that emotions are important to television and at Canvs, we've made it our mission to prove this so.
Canvs is the expert in emotional analysis, and proved we are 200% more accurate than sentiment analysis at parsing through how Millennials feel. Canvs is unmatched in understanding the slang, idioms, and misspellings that people use when communicating via social media — so much so that over 65% of emotions Canvs is tracking are not recognizable by a dictionary.
In fall 2015, Canvs took this understanding to the next level by proving that emotions expressed on social media are aligned with ad recall concluding once and for all that Tweeting during a show means an audience is more engaged, not less.
- 5,709 episodes of 431 TV series airing between January 1, 2014 - June 30, 2015
Adult 18-49 Viewership in Millions (Live+Same Day)
Episode number
Program genre: Reality, Comedy, Drama
Total number of episode tweets
- Canvs Emotion Rates (e.g. %Love, %Crazy, etc.)
Viewership source: Nielsen as reported by tvbythenumbers.com; Program Genre: Sourced from Gracenote; Tweet source: Twitter data from Nielsen, which measures program-related Twitter activity for linear episode airings and on a 24/7 basis; Episode number: Finales are flagged; Sample: Broadcast made up 40%; Cable made up 55%; Premium made up 5%. 29% of episodes were in first season.
Based on Canvs' measurement of the emotions expressed on Twitter, we have developed a well-calibrated probability that viewership will go up or down next week. The key emotions that drive viewership vary across comedy, reality, and drama genres, and vary in level of importance across the genres. The key emotions, their predictive power by genre, and sample Tweets are below:
Read as: In Comedy, for every 1% increase in beautiful, there is a .3% increase in viewership.
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Read as: In Reality, for every 1% increase in hate, there is a .7% increase in viewership.
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Crazy ( +.3%)
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Read as: In Drama, for every 1% increase in hate, there is a .7% increase in viewership.
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Funny (+.3%)
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Love (+.3%)
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The Canvs TV Viewership Study proves that Emotional Reactions expressed on social media can predict program tune-in. Canvs has leveraged the viewership study to create the Canvs Viewership Probability (or CVP), which uses a well-calibrated, statistically-derived percentage that viewership will go up or down for a reality, drama, or comedy TV show, available nearly one week in advance of next week's airing. To find out more, please complete the below form or watch this recent clip from Fox 5 NY. You can check out all relevant press hits to this study here or below.
Variety Data Science Proves We Love to Hate-Watch TV
AdWeek A Study of TV-Related Tweets Finds Hate More Than Love Drives Viewership
Multichannel News Study: 'Hate' Drives Viewers to Return to Dramas
Broadcasting & Cable Study: 'Hate' Drives Viewers to Return to Dramas
The Wrap Hate Drives TV Viewers to Return to Shows, New Study Finds
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1969 Golden Spike Centennial Limited
last rail is laid, the last spike driven, the Pacific railroad is
completed." With those words, the gap between east and
west was closed forever. A ribbon of rail now stretched from Atlantic
to Pacific, and nothing would ever be the same.
May 1969, the High Iron Company's 14-car Golden Spike Centennial
Limited took passengers on a two week adventure from the heart of
Manhattan to the rolling hills of Utah in celebration of the 100th
anniversary of the driving of the Golden Spike at Promontory Summit.
In the spring
of 1968, Ross Rowland, Jr., a successful Wall Street commodities
broker and railfan, approached the Association of American Railroads (AAR) to
see what the railroad industry had planned for next year's hundredth
anniversary of the linking of the continent by rail.
The answer was
'not much'.
The National
Park Service, on the other hand, planned a grand ceremony on May
10th at the newly created Golden
Spike National Historic Site. But outside of Utah, there
were no real plans for drawing attention to this monumental event.
Rowland and
his High Iron Company crew were already on course to spend thousands
of man-hours restoring a main-line steam locomotive -- NKP 759 --
to operating condition. What better way to celebrate the centennial
of the Golden Spike than with a cross-country excursion train pulled
by 759?
Ross and crew
got busy and submitted a plan to the AAR to organize and build a
special steam-powered display/excursion train to operate round-trip
from New York City to Salt Lake City.
It would be
called the Golden Spike Centennial Limited. The train would consist
of three display cars to be open for public viewing at thirteen
different stops. Inside these three converted baggage cars would
be displays highlighting the past, present, and future of railroading
in America.
Behind the display
cars would be several coach passenger cars for carrying all of the
fare-paying passengers -- including two diners to keep them all
fed and happy.
The AAR gave
its endorsement to the plan and things shifted into high gear.
By the spring
of 1969, the train was ready to go.
The train itself
was quite a sight. The entire train had been decorated in a special
AAR paint scheme -- light blue with gold trim and accents. Across
the side of the tender was proclaimed "AMERICAN RAILROADS".
The special paint scheme was also given to the Penn Central GG-1
electric locomotive that would pull the train on its final leg back
into NYC.
One hundred
passengers paid $995 for a roundtrip ticket on "The Blue Train",
as it came to be called. Dozens of other passengers paid lesser
amounts for shorter segments. Actor John Wayne rode the train the
last day of the trip into Salt Lake City. His film True Grit had its world premiere at the Capitol Theater in Salt Lake City
on Friday May 9. (He won an Oscar for his performance.) In a conversation
with Ross Rowland, The Duke wondered aloud if there couldn't be
a special train for the nation's upcoming Bicentennial...
In the end,
the train would be pulled by ten locomotives -- two steam, two electric
(counting the one pulling the train the first 32 miles out of Manhattan)
and six diesels -- including the first starring role for Union Pacific's
new Centennial diesel, the largest ever built.
The response
to the train at its 13 display stops was overwhelming. In three
of the cities, the train crew kept the train open all night for
visitors. Using portable stairs and ramps, it wasn't just the three
display cars that were open each night -- it was the entire train! Except for the crew car, the public could view everything from the
locomotive cab to the observation car at the tail.
The train was
an unqualified hit with the public. Thousands toured the train's
display cars and many thousands more came to watch the steam locomotive
pull the embodiment of America's railroads across the country.
As bold as the
GSCL had been, it was nothing like what was to follow for Ross and
The enthusiasm
with which the Golden Spike Centennial Ltd was received led directly
to America's greatest Bicentennial celebration just six years later
-- when over 7,000,000 turned out to visit the steam-powered 25-car
red, white, and blue American Freedom Train.


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By Miguel Rivera
WBC super bantamweight champion Leo Santa Cruz (27-0-1, 15KOs) has a lot of respect for Carl Frampton (18-0, 13KOs) and views him as one of his toughest adversaries at the weight. Frampton will challenge IBF super bantamweight champion Kiko Martinez (31-4, 23KOs) in a rematch on September 6th at the Titanic Quarter in Belfast, Northern Ireland. Frampton already knocked Martinez out last February and Santa Cruz is picking him to win again.
"It's a great fight. I think it's 50-50 but I think Frampton will win that one," Santa Cruz stated.
Comparing Frampton with his British counterpart, WBA 'regular' champion Scott Quigg (28-0-2, 21KOs), Santa Cruz sees Frampton as the better overall fighter.
"I think Frampton [is better than him]. I think he's stronger, comes forward more. Quigg is good too, but I think [Frampton] is a lot stronger," Santa Cruz said.
Both Frampton and Quiqq are interested in facing Santa Cruz. If Golden Boy Promotions and his manager Al Haymon are on board with having him travel, he will come over to the UK to face either of them.
"If my promoter and my manager think it's a great opportunity and they think we have to go, then I'll go. Whatever the promoter and my manager says, I'll do whatever they say," Santa Cruz said.


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Job: managing director, Condé Nast UK; vice-president, Condé Nast International
Age: 54
Industry: publishing, digital media
Staff: 630
2010 ranking: 59
As the chief of the UK arm of the Condé Nast publishing empire, Nicholas Coleridge oversees a stable of magazines including Glamour, GQ, Easy Living and Vanity Fair.
Its most recent launches were Love and a UK edition of Wired, but new titles have been put on hold for the moment as Coleridge embraces the iPad, with tablet editions of Condé Nast titles including Wired and Vogue.
Bullish about the future of the magazine market, Coleridge is even more excited by the iPad, predicting that as much as 40% of the publisher's sales will come from apps on the Apple tablet and similar devices.
Coleridge has been in charge of Condé Nast's UK business for more than 20 years, expanding its number of titles from five to 22. He is also vice-president of its international operations.
The Old Etonian bon viveur (he turned up to Tatler magazine's pyjama party – yes, it has such a thing – in a specially personalised velvet smoking jacket with his initials embroidered on the chest pocket), he is also a prolific author, memorably described as a "slightly less randy Jilly Cooper" or a "much more fun Joanna Trollope".
One of the fiercest battles of the next 12 months will be between Coleridge's GQ, edited by Dylan Jones, and the National Magazine Company's Esquire, now edited by Jones's former number two, Alex Bilmes.


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From Christian Icon:
A Prayer to your Guardian Angel
O Angel of Christ, holy guardian and protector of my soul and body, forgive me everything wherein I have offended you every day of my life, and protect me from all influence and temptation of the evil one. May l nevermore anger God by any sin. Pray for me to the Lord, that He may make me worthy of the grace of the All-holy Trinity, and of the Most Blessed Theotokos, and of all the Saints. Amen.
Ancient Faith Radio: Angels: Our Heavenly Guides and Guardians
November 25, 2012 Length: 91:58
Guest: Joel Miller, author of the recently published Lifted by Angels: The Presence and Power of Our Heavenly Guides and Guardians discusses with Kevin Allen and the callers the reality and role of angels within the Christian salvation context.
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I read it wrong on FB, it looked like WiFi, so in my vivid imagination i though, oh, nice internet gears with a wide range so i could control a team from the road side
Looks sweet, but the weight in g will probably be the price in £
Sram Apex has become the go-to groupset for many sportivistes, giving the option of a dinner-plate 32T sprocket on the back to make even the hardest hills doable by mortals. Let's not kid ourselves, either: even the pros will spec a lower gear on the toughest climbs of the WorldTour races if they think they'll ride faster by doing so.
Alberto Contador was one of a number of riders who specced a 32T cassette and an Apex rear mech for the tough, steep climbs of the 2011 Giro. Had he been able to spec a lighter, higher-end mech, no doubt he would have; the good news is that now – or, at least, when he's served his ban – he'll have the pick of the SRAM groupsets, as 11-32 is now an option on Sram Force and even SRAM Red.
That's right, WiFLi – that stands for Wider, Faster, Lighter, fact fans – is being rolled out across the range and will be an option on SRAM's top end groupset, Red. You need a longer cage to handle that range of gears; SRAM are calling it mid cage like they did with Apex but visually it's not far off the length of a mountain bike mech, especially now MTBs are moving over to 2x10 as well. As well as the new mechs there'll be a new Red Exogram 11-32 rear cassette; SRAM Force riders can use the existing PG-1070 cassette. The new Red mech weighs in at 167g with the Force unit 23g heavier at 190g.
So why WiFLi and not a triple? Well, SRAM will tell you that it's because the compact-and-wide-range setup is significantly lighter (about 250gm) than a triple. That's no doubt true, although we'd suggest that the psychological benefit of being able to spec a 2-chainring setup with some seriously low gears is also a real draw for many people. Shimano have been quietly extending the range of their mechs too; everything up to 105 will now handle a 30T sprocket at the rear. It's certainly a trend that's not going away, and if you're in the market for some top-end SRAM kit with easier low-end ratios then the new mechs and Red cassette will be landing some time in June.
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Is there any reason why one of these WiFLi mechs wouldn't work with a campag setup aside from campag not making a 10s cassette with a decent range
You cant run a SRAM mech with Campagnolo shifters, wrong actuation ratio.
And while were talking ratio's, does anyone know if you can run SRAMs MTB mechs with their Road shifters? pretty sure ive seen it done, if so then you could quite easilly fit a XX rear mech and 36t cassette for those days when you simply cannot get up hills