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Donizetti, one of the big three Bel Canto composers, liked to write about technicolor, edgy, and dangerous women: Anne Boleyn, Walter Scott's tragic Bride of Lammermoor, and that purveyor of poison and daughter of a Pope, Lucretia Borgia.
Bel Cantos are the old-timey operas where plot and acting are secondary to the virtuosity of the singer, and they were tradionally written as star vehicles.
Reneé Fleming is a name people recognize even if they don't go to opera, and San Francisco Opera has the incredible fortune to present this star in Lucrezia Borgiaplaying for five more dates through October 11.
Ms. Fleming's trills, runs, dazzling control, and effortless precision left my mouth agape.
Add to this the sensuous presence of a young hunk with a tenor that washes over you and makes you glow. Michael Fabiano makes a stunning SF Opera debut as Gennaro with a shock of blond hair dressed as Phoebus Apollo with a bare chest and sculpted pectorals.
Gennaro has an instant connection with Lucrezia of the Ashton Kutcher/Demi Moore variety, but after a few more lines about his mother abandoning him and the look on her face, we all recognize she's his long-lost mom; if, of course, she just tells him, the opera is over. So her husband the Duke swears jealous revenge on him, he pines for her then curses her toying with his affections, his friends inveigh against her, all the while she's running around furiously trying to protect him while withholding this secret.
There are many great voices including the basso Duke played by Vitali Kowaljow and Daniel Montenegro as Rustighello. East Bay favorite Igor Viera plays Lucrezia's loyal henchman Gubetta, and is featured in a duet with Ms. Fleming. Viera recently appeared in Berkeley West Edge Opera's Don Giovanni, and played Mercutio under this critic's direction in Gounod's Romeo and Juliet for that company a few seasons ago.
The sets are fantastico as always at the SFO, and take us to Renaissance Venice. A muscular bull statue over the Borgia name plaque gives a priapic energy to the setting, and provides a plot foil via an act of vandalism and a pun. Light shines through the bricks of the structures; steam and up-light from a trapdoor with lots of side and back-light peek between the buildings like a De Chirico painting but with much nighttime chiaroscuro. Coupled with the looming pallazzi, they set the mood and paint an artistic scenic picture, but one which has the drawback of lulling us when paired with the sweet melodies. Oddly the music seems often at odds with the text and situation, being lighthearted when the moment is tense, etc. For about ten minutes late in the first act, even the snoring of the guy next to me didn't wake me up.
Director and production designer John Pascoe displays his artistry in the initial scene with masterful sweeping stage movement of the multitude, but then seems to abandon the staging of duets and smaller scenes to a "park and bark" stand-over-there-and-sing fashion. Often the chorus was late in entrances and exits on opening night. His costume designs are lovely and appropriate, but not particularly innovative, except for the provocative costumes lavished on Gennaro. I wondered if the grand orchestra's gorgeous sound, coaxed by the baton of Ricardo Frizza, had rehearsed much with the singers for they seemed to sometimes drown out their pianissimo, and once a duo lost their place.
Outstanding ovations were heard for lovely, cherubic-faced Elizabeth DeShong in the breeches role of Maffio Orsini, bosom buddy of Gennaro. She is believable as a diminutive, scrappy young man, and her mezzo is powerful and compelling with great access to the lower notes (the part is generally sung by a contralto). Her acting is superb in her scenes with Fabiano who is also an excellent actor, and they throw in a little gender-back-bending-switcheroo that had the audience gasping.
This is the first time I've seen Ms. Fleming sing; she seems to be of the old school as first a singer and very secondarily an actress, or maybe that's just the tradition of bel canto where the energy is put into the ornamentation rather than the histrionics. Sometimes it was as if June Cleaver was playing Lucrezia, but she cuts loose in the bloody finale and sends the audience home moved.
Noteworthy: Ms. Fleming was a Fulbright Scholar, trained at Eastman School of Music and Juillard, and had to choose between being a big band jazz singer or opera, singing jazz at night to pay for school.
It's a chance to see one of the Celestial Lyric Sopranos of Opera, and revel in the joy that is the San Francisco Opera. So if you have the price of admission, it's one you'll thank yourself for the memory.
Lucrezia Borgia by Gaetano Donizetti
Directed and designed by John Pascoe, conducted by Ricardo Frizza
San Francisco Opera
Sep 29, Oct 2, 5, 8, 11
www.sfopera.com (415) 864-3330
John A. McMullen II is a member of San Francisco Bay Area Theatre Critics Circle, American Theatre Critics Associations, and Stage Directors and Choreographers Society. EJ Dunne edits.

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Friday, September 25, 2009
I, Zechariah, raised my eyes and looked: there was a man with a
measuring line in his hand. I asked, "Where are you going?" He
answered, "To measure Jerusalem, to see how great is its width and how
great its length." Then the angel who spoke with me advanced, and
another angel came out to meet him and said to him, "Run, tell this to
that young man: People will live in Jerusalem as though in open
country, because of the multitude of men and beasts in her midst. But
I will be for her an encircling wall of fire, says the LORD, and I
will be the glory in her midst." Sing and rejoice, O daughter Zion!
See, I am coming to dwell among you, says the LORD. Many nations shall
join themselves to the LORD on that day, and they shall be his people
and he will dwell among you.
While they were all amazed at his every deed, Jesus said to his
disciples, "Pay attention to what I am telling you. The Son of Man is
to be handed over to men." But they did not understand this saying;
its meaning was hidden from them so that they should not understand
it, and they were afraid to ask him about this saying.
In today's Gospel reading, Jesus tries to convey to his disciples a
correct view of his mission, but they simply do not understand. The
notion of a suffering Messiah is just too much for them to grasp. They
even hesitate to inquire more deeply about it. They could understand
Jesus' miracles. They could understand the traditional Jewish concept
of a conquering Messiah. But the idea of a Messiah who would be killed
was totally foreign to them. It seemed like complete defeat.
After Pentecost, however, their eyes would be opened. With the
outpouring of the Holy Spirit, they would come "to understand fully
the mystery, the plan God was pleased to decree in Christ to reconcile
everything in his person both on earth and in the heavens, making
peace through the blood of his cross." With the Spirit they could see
beyond the externals of life and religion, and see into the very heart
of God. This heart is a heart of love. It is also a heart of mystery.
It lives by dying for those it loves. It is glorified in being humbled
for those it loves. It is given abundant wealth by becoming poor so
that those it loves might share in its wealth. These things are all
paradoxes. They are all mystery. Yet they all boldly and clearly
proclaim the truth of God's love. This love was most dearly revealed
in the death of God's Son, Jesus Christ.
Do we understand this mystery, or do we still seek a Messiah who will
come in worldly victory? Do we really seek the action of the Spirit in
our life so we might understand this mystery? Do we really allow
ourselves to be daily born again in his love by coming to share in a
daily death to selfishness and sin? As a Church we must not allow
ourselves to remain in ignorance. We must be born again in the true
sense of the word.
We pray …
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Eternal rest grant unto them and may perpetual light shine upon them.
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I knew it. Exactly what I was afraid would happen has happened.
America, we're under attack by indie hipster romantic comedies.
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What has people shitting their pants about this flick is the fact that instead of moving in a linear fashion, it goes back and forth in chronology, showing us both the good times and bad for this couple. Among other quirks are a musical number, some 2D animation and the use of split-screen. A lot is being made of the fact that although this is a romantic comedy, the boy and the girl don't end up together. I'm not spoiling anything by saying this, either; the narrator tells us up front that it doesn't work out between these two. People seem to find (500) Days of Summer frank, refreshing and original.
Except it's not any of those things, not really. I will tell you what (500) Days of Summer is. It's another indie rom-com that tries to be simultaneously ironic and sincere, hip and heartfelt. Tom thinks he's found true love just because Summer likes his taste in music. They frolic around a furniture store pretending to play house with the non-functional kitchen and living room items. They play duck duck goose and the aforementioned game of yelling "penis." Summer is a "free spirit" that the movie tries to make us think has some sort of preternatural pull on people. She gets apartments for 9% off their normal price. She's responsible for a spike in Belle and Sebastian record sales because she quoted them in her high school yearbook. She's the (wait for it) manic pixie dream girl of the piece. She's seldom held up as more than an object of Tom's affection, a walking, talking McGuffin (of the Juno variety) that inspires Tom to take a look at his unambitious young life and try to change for the better. She even has a fucking heart-shaped birthmark. I'm guessing the reason this character wasn't named Mary Sue was because it didn't lend itself to a pun in the title. And when she's not perfect, she's just sort of a bitch that's hard to feel attached to. And Tom is so much of a sap that it's hard to sympathize with him. He cranks up a Smiths song on his iTunes in hopes that Summer will hear it as she passes and instantly fall in love with him. Tom has a precocious, wise-beyond-her-years little sister who tells him early in the timeline, during a game of Wii Sports tennis, "Just because she's likes the same bizzaro crap you do doesn't mean she's your soul mate." This is probably the truest sentiment the movie has to offer, yet Tom of course ignores it and goes to make Summer a mixtape with his favorite obscure band that she never listens to.
And then there's the narrator. He opens the movie and introduces us to Tom and Summer, and pops up now and again throughout the picture. At the start, he tells us Tom had seen The Graduate and had misread the ending. Is the narrator here to make sure that the audience doesn't misread this movie's intentions? Because I can't think of a single reason this movie needs narration. It's plain enough what's happening if you have eyes, ears and a brain. At the end of they day, it just seems like the screenwriter hammering his points into the audience's heads. Oh, and the narrator's a fucking liar. "This is a boy meets girl story. It is not a love story." No, it's both. Yeah, the boy and girl don't end up falling in love and isn't that so unique and different and hip and cool. But every other scene, someone's talking about love or saying they're in love or asking someone else what love is. It's a love story insofar as it's a story about love. And even after the story goes through hoops to try to debunk Tom's naive attitude about finding "the one," the movie still seems content to leave a little bit of hope for all the mopey art school losers out there that maybe, just maybe, there's fate and destiny and all that.
The thing is, people, is that this movie isn't really anything new. If I was feeling particularly glib or dismissive, I could've just written "I liked this movie better when it was called Annie Hall" and called it a day. It's a clear inspiration and a superior movie. Annie Hall did the same charting of the ups and downs of a realistically-doomed relationship interspersed with little flourishes of style like having out of body experiences, and it did it while being actually funny! But Mr. Grump, you say, that was 30 years ago. The kids need something they can relate to today! Well, that already happened in 2004. And no, I don't mean Garden State. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind took its own indie hipster crack at a doomed relationship, played out of order, only it spiced things up with a science fiction twist and also included some really heavy stuff on the importance of memory and happened to have a visionary director at the helm, creating some of the most inventive stuff I've ever seen in a film. AND it was a good dose more sobering than this veritable love letter to ex-girlfriends. Practically everything in this movie has been done before, and done better.
And this fucking influx of these too-cool-for-school romantic comedies. We should have seen it coming. We were warned when Zach Braff's adorably-coiffed mind gave us Garden State, a Natalie Portman manic pixie dream girl vehicle known equally for its hip soundtrack. However, we sat idly by while Jason Reitman invaded Poland directed Juno, an indie hipster romantic comedy that rode its wave of popularity as ironically as possible to an Oscar win. And now look what we've wrought. Michael Cera's allowed to roam free, making movies like Nick and Norah's Infinite Playlist. Even the title's reference of iPod/digital music player terminology makes me wretch. And Cera's got ANOTHER awful, twee film about his awkward love life coming out, Paper Heart, a documentary (?) featuring his "girlfriend" Charlyne Yi traveling America interviewing people about their definition of love and coincidentally falling in love with Cera by the end of it. It seems to exist solely to give the geeky girls out there that look or think the way Yi does hope that they have a chance at Michael Cera, their dork king. And then there's Adam, the romantic comedy about Asperger's, the serious autism spectrum disorder that seemingly everyone who's even a little bit of a misfit is being diagnosed with. The trailer made it seem like Asperger's just makes you adorably awkward and honest and too pure to live in this complicated world but maybe he can teach her about the simplicity of lov–BLECH.
You know what? I'm gonna make up a hip, indie romantic comedy. Right now. It's called An Apple A Day and is about a quirky young woman named Apple (played by Jena Malone) who moves into a New England (or Northwestern, either works) town and opens a shop where she knits scarves with ironic phrases on them. She catches the eye of local social misfit, Michael Cera, who comes out of his shell after he and Apple bond over their The Cure vinyl record collections. Michael Cera can be wearing a nostalgic/ironic print t-shirt with the obscure 80s cartoon character Bravestarr on it. Apple can live with her eyepatch-wearing grandmother who's adorably going senile, but gives Cera amazing romantic advice in the third act to stop Apple from riding away on Demitri Martin's Vespa. The soundtrack can have Regina Spektor, Imogen Heap, Iron and Wine, The Postal Service and theme song by The Plain White Ts. There should be a lot of references in the dialogue to blogs, Scott Pilgrim and esoteric commercials. A sample:
[Apple enters Michael Cera's apartment]
Michael Cera: Apple, look, we need to have a talk… about us.
Apple: Where's the beef, Mr. Whipple?
Michael Cera: The beef is here. With us. Like an elephant in the room. But beef, instead.
… Oscar, anyone? Now all I need to do is pretend I was a stripper and start dressing like a homeless drag queen.
It's not like (500) Days of Summer doesn't have its occasional glimpses of truth. There's this one scene where Summer is describing in a voiceover a dream she has about flying while her and Tom are playing pattycake or whatever on her bed and it actually feels like there might be a glimpse at a real, human emotion somewhere in the scene. The scene where Tom's expectations and reality play out in split-screens is a clever idea. I honestly like Joseph Gordon-Levitt as an actor. If you want a good Joseph Gordon-Levitt movie (AND peformance!) see Brick, a truly overlooked gem from the past few years. As for Zooey Deschanel… she has yet to prove herself to me as an actress and not as a twee indie cottage industry.
At the end of the day, I did not think (500) Days of Summer was the delightful breath of romantic fresh air that movies needed. If you want that, watch Annie Hall or Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind or even better, Amélie. At least those movies are a bit more honest and less formulated for success. If you liked this movie… good for you. The alchemists in Zach Braff's shoegazing army did their jobs, I guess.


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App's carrying a one star rating are seemingly destined to hit bottom, as only 13% of users will even consider installing it. However, such an abysmal rating is usually due to performance issues, so raising it from the depths isn't impossible.
"Users always check ratings before installing an application," said Dexence's Business Development Director, Luis Dosso.
According to Dosso, app performance is often the first casualty when companies rush their app out the door to grab market share, without considering aspects such as design, usability, and security. "Businesses realize that apps represent a lucrative revenue stream, but lack experience in the platform to launch a quality product," shared the executive.
So does a one star rating automatically mean the death knell for your brainchild? Not necessarily, as the Kahuna survey revealed that a rating bump from two to three stars can yield 280% more user conversions, while hitting four stars puts that number up to 540%.
At Dexence we call this process 'revitalization.'
'Revitalizing' an app: the technical steps
Kicking conversions up a notch often means going back to square one on two key fronts: UX and engineering.
"Normally, we work from two perspectives. First, during Sprint Zero, we look at user experience; is the design appealing and how does the application behave for the user," said Dexence's Director of Marketing, Bill Coutinho. "Then we tackle engineering. We know that in order to get high ratings the app has to perform smoothly at every phase."
Recently, Dexence had the opportunity to solve similar cases for a variety of clients. "It's been increasingly common for customers to call on us when they need to revitalize their apps," said Business Development Executive Juliana Furtado.
One example is Nextel, which operates in Brazil and throughout LatAm. After implementing enhancements created by a team that Dexence put together specifically for this project, their ratings soared from 2.3 stars to 4.3.
According to Raoni Normanton, one of Dexence's Senior Developers, this team consisted of more than 30 people from Dexence and Nextel, with skill sets such as UX, UI, mobile developers and quality analysts (QAs) all collaborating on the project. Dexence, experts in agile methodology, employed a comprehensive process, starting with user research, then progressively moving forward to functional design, prototyping, usability testing and monitoring metrics.
"We completely overhauled the app, redoing all of the features and functions (UI and UX)," said Normanton. "as well as server side services and support."
"We added a feature that allows users to evaluate their experience within the app while in the 'happy flow,'" said Furtado. "People rarely enter any app just to rate it, even if they've had a good experience. This ratings mechanism boosted Nextel's numbers almost immediately."
Continuous improvement
Well aware of user fatigue and increasingly shorter attention spans, apps demand consistent care and feeding to remain relevant.
"We don't treat these projects as one-offs," said Coutinho. "We're always engaged with our client and their goals, shaping the application to reflect current conditions."
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Rescue of the Month: The Animal OrphanageCaring for Greater Old Town and Orono's Stray Animals
Back in the day, a group of like-minded individuals got together to start this no-kill 501 (c) 3 shelter. The town's powers-that-be agreed to turn over a small one room building to the newbies, and over the 29 years, animal-lovers have grown the facility in not only size but in its ability to serve and save more animals.
This non-profit is governed by an all-volunteer Board of Directors--ten individuals who give it everything. They're assisted by a staff of three, and Animal Orphanage is lucky to partner with several area veterinarians.
Shelter Manager Erick Chambers said they average about 400 animals annually--from cats and dogs to bunnies and pocket pets. They used to see more dogs, but now primarily take in cats. "Fortunately, most of our dogs are boomerangs," he chuckled. In other words, loose dogs that land in their care but are quickly reunited with their owners. He admitted to staying late more than a few nights so worried owners could pick up their lost dogs.
When a dog comes to their shelter--be it an abandoned or stray from one of their contracted towns, they scan for a microchip and worm and treat for fleas. The dog goes on a "hold" status for ten days. If he is not claimed after that time, they arrange for spay/neutering and shots and place him up for adoption.
They offer Barn Buddies--adoptable outdoor cats for $15. "They're not necessarily cuddly," Chambers explained. But they'll like a barn's shelter and keep critters away in exchange for a place to slumber. They ask that you provide year-round food, water, and that roof over their head. They have two available now that they'd like to place.
Chambers is proud of the fact that he's repainted rooms, replaced washers, dryers, and sinks. To continue to remodel, update, and insure the facility is sanitized and routinely cleaned down to prevent respiratory infections, they need financial support.
They rely on fundraisers to keep them going. Because they have zero state or federal funding, they're grateful for all donations, memberships, memorial gifts, trusts, and will donations. Speaking of funding, they are looking for volunteer grant writers to aid them in their endeavors. There is a need for fosters as "Kitten Season" is upon them. Volunteers for cleaning the facility would be a welcome addition.
The Animal Orphanage has a 5K Run & Walk Race on Sunday, April 28. It's open to all ages and leashed dogs may participate--but if you bring your pet, you'll run at the end of the pack. Admission is $15 per person or $30 for a family of 5. The race starts and ends at the Old Town-Orono YMCA at 472 Stillwater Avenue. Visit facebook.com/pg/AnimalOrphanageMaine/posts/?ref=page_internal and click on the "Run" post to sign up.


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Eyelid Rejuvenation, Want Versus Need: Lisa's Story
Lisa had been thinking about getting an upper blepharoplasty for several years but didn't go through with it until this past year. Like many fifty-somethings, she is in a career she loves, finding it very rewarding and educational, but is working with a group of talented people that are younger than her. Although she eats right, exercises regularly and has always been told she looks younger than she actually is, she felt she looked "tired" at work and needed that fixed.
Options for female sexual health
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Breast reduction, then implants: Stacy's story
Stacy, a woman in her forties, was unhappy with her breast size and shape. During her regular workout routine, she would constantly say to herself, "Breasts, stay put!", but her breasts had other ideas. She saw herself as a "sloppy 36/38C" and sought to get them tightened up. A surgeon in Fairfield County provided a solution, and in 2006 she underwent a breast reduction and lift. He had warned her that in ten or so years she might want implants to counteract the effects of age and gravity.
It's easier today to love your looks!
Loving your appearance has become easier and more appealing to both men and women, as reported by the American Society of Plastic Surgeons (ASPS) in their latest findings. Although women comprise the majority of cosmetic patients, men are starting to develop more interest and are acting on it. Also, people between the ages of 40-54 are the most likely to have a cosmetic procedure in 2019.
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Our head barber and general manager, Daniel Davies, was asked to come along to Capital FM and help out with an unusual request for a fan of Dua Lipa. Curious about what happened and how Daniel and the team helped this fan declare his undying love for Dua Lipa?
Would you get I ❤ Dua Lipa shaved into the back of your head?
Ross, a huge fan of Dua Lipa, was a great sport and let Daniel and Christian, head barber at our Bishopsgate store take to his hair and shave I ❤ Dua Lipa into the back of his head. The message was lined out and coloured with pencils which we have used at a number of pop-up barbershop events in the past, especially for the UEFA Champion's League Madness or Priceless campaign, for which we were shortlisted for a BT Sport Industry Award.
Watch what happened!
We let @PallMallBarbers loose on Ross' hair, all in the LITERAL name of @DUALIPA. ✂ We probs reckon he does give a f now. 😏 pic.twitter.com/Qxs71VRkun
— Capital (@CapitalOfficial) April 19, 2018
The presenter team were pleasantly surprised with how great it looked, even if a little unsure about how it might be to walk around declaring your adoration of an artist who as we all know 'DGAF'. This is first time we've ever had such a specific and curious request, but of course we're down for a good time here at Pall Mall Barbers. We're obviously huge fans of Dua Lipa here at Pall Mall Barbers too – we love our London born artists – but no idea if Dua has seen this herself or what she makes of it!
Media requests
We're always happy to help out with any media requests and queries. Over the past decade, Pall Mall Barbers has featured in more than 200 different media clips for high profile companies including GQ, the Evening Standard, BBC, Channel 4 and ITV. We have featured on many mainstream television programmes, including Sunday Brunch, This Week, Daily Politics, Mr Selfridge, The One Show, Heir Hunters, How To Look Good Naked and the BBC News. We are familiar with the demands of production companies, the requirements of journalists and the pressures of live radio. We are able to offer advice on the best angles to shoot from within our stores, where to put lighting and how to maximise the most interesting location features for the best possible results. Several staff have been invited into TV studios to provide barbering services and the professional skills of our barbers have been called upon for shaving scenes where actors did not have the technical or safety knowledge to authentically shave another actor with an open blade.
About Pall Mall Barbers
Providing a traditional service in a modern manner, Pall Mall Barbers has a long established history of providing hairdressing and grooming to gentlemen, dating back over 120 years. Founded in 1896 at No. 27 Whitcomb Street, The Pall Mall Toilet Saloon, as it was historically known, was a standout in St James' and Pall Mall. Pall Mall Barbers has grown and evolved over the years, and across our 6 London locations in Trafalgar Square, Fitzrovia, Bishopsgate, King's Cross, Westminster and Paddington, we employ a staff with over 350 years of international barbering experience between them. We train our barbers on the fundamentals of exceptional hair cutting, beard shaping, and wet-shaving and base our service around educating our clients to help them get the best of their look and grooming routines. We produce award-winning grooming including a 5-Step Shave System for use at home and in barber shops, as well as a selection of styling and haircare products.
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Guest Preacher July 21st and July 28th
The Rev. Dr. Luis León
Luis retired as Rector of St. John's Church Lafayette Square in Washington, DC in 2018 after 24 years of service. His specialty was building inner city parishes through spiritual leadership, preaching, and outreach that involved parish members in community service. Luis was nationally sought after to teach courses in parish building and stewardship.
Luis began his spiritual journey when he was baptized into the Episcopal Church in Guantánamo, Cuba. In 1961, he came to the United States as part of the "Peter Pan" flights out of Cuba, joining thousands of children whose parents, at that time in history, feared for their future in Cuba. Luis was 11 years old when he arrived in the U.S., and was supported by the Episcopal Church in Miami.
Luis attended the University of the South, and graduated in 1971. He received a Masters in Divinity degree from Virginia Theological Seminary in 1977 and in 1999 was awarded an honorary Doctor of Divinity degree from the University of the South.
Luis and his wife, Lu, have two grown children, Emilia and Sofia. This summer will be the Leóns 4th visit to St. Ann's Church. We look forward to welcoming them back!


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On the first day of Hanukkah (that is to say, Tuesday) my city gave to me its response to the federally filed lawsuit in which the National Solid Wastes Management Association insists the city's new ordinance driving all trash to the McCommas Bluff Landfill is "extraordinarily anti-free-enterprise." Catchy, no? And, sure, nothing says, "Happy Christmas!" like another flow control item -- but the city, which is to say you, be paying Gibson, Dunn & Crutcher a lot of money ($175,000, for starters, and we're still three weeks away from the first hearing) for this lengthy riposte, so you might as well enjoy the read.
As always, the docs follow -- in this case, a 33-page now-look-here that opens with a swift kick to the dumpster (opening lines: "Contrary to Plaintiffs' contentions, there is no constitutional right to operate a landfill. This lawsuit is Plaintiffs' attempt to accomplish through litigation what they failed to accomplish through the political process"), tumps a trashcan over the waste-haulers' collective heads ("Plaintiffs nevertheless insist that this was nothing more than the City acting in a proprietary capacity to advance its own economic self-interest") and proceeds to bang on that wastebasket with a rolled-up copy of a previous Supreme Court ruling involving this very issue ("Plaintiffs' views are also ultimately incompatible with the Supreme Court's own assessment of flow control in United Haulers, a case they never once cite").
An excerpt, and we're not even out of the introduction yet:
The stakes here are high: Plaintiffs are asking the Court to presume that the City assigned away its sovereign power to decide the location of waste disposal in the City for the twenty-year duration of the agreement, and to conclude that the Constitution precludes the City from enacting ordinary social and economic legislation. There is nothing, however, in the contract or the Constitution that supports Plaintiffs' request. This is precisely the kind of issue properly left to the political process, and the federal judiciary has no obvious role in declaring the proper wastemanagement policies of a state municipality. Plaintiffs are profoundly wrong to insist that the federal judiciary inject itself in the middle of this local policy issue.
From there it's on to "The History And Future Of The City's Waste Management," a chapter clearly lifted from my dream journal. When I first mentioned Gibson Dunn's involvement a few weeks ago, several Friends of Unfair Park promised first-rate prose. At the risk of logrolling in our time: This filing isn't a waste of your time.
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Downed railroad crossing arms near Gifford caused traffic problems
Here are tips on what to do if you are involved in a traffic crash, according to Master Sgt. Frank Sabol, Port St. Lucie police spokesman.
INDIAN RIVER COUNTY — Downed crossing arms affected at least two railroad crossings near Gifford Thursday morning.
The arms were stuck in the down position, causing traffic problems as motorists sought alternate routes.
The crossings at 65th Street and 41st Street near U.S. 1 were reported blocked about 7:45 a.m.
More: Railroad crossing malfunctions caused traffic headaches, road closures in Sebastian
More: #TCTraffic: Crash, vehicle fire could affect your morning commute on I-95, Turnpike
Traffic was backed up on 41st and 45th streets near Gifford Middle School, with motorists lined up on U.S. 1 near 45th.


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Refugee Empowerment and Action for Community Transformation (REACT) is a project partly financed by the European Refugee Fund (ERF) falling under the 2012 annual programme.
REACT aims to facilitate the integration of beneficiaries of international protection and asylum seekers by: (1) Empowering them to be agents of change through capacity-building activities focusing on: language training (English and basic Maltese); Maltese History and Culture; Human Rights and the rights of beneficiaries of protection; Communication and Public Speaking Skills (2) Working with them to organise awareness raising activities targeting children in local primary and secondary schools, using drama, story-telling and culture-based activities to raise awareness of their experience, foster a deeper understanding of the causes of forced displacement, combat fear and stereotyping and promote greater respect for human dignity and appreciation of the diversity of people and cultures in Malta today.
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It is a heartbreaking instance when the person who used to encourage you to eat your vegetables is now fighting you about eating theirs. There have been many times since March of 1999 when I have become overwhelmed with the effects of my Mom's accident. So many times I have listened to my little heart crying "this isn't how it is suppose to be", over and over again. And yet inescapably reality cries back "Yes it is". Loosing a parent is never easy and living in the constant subtle reminder that you can no longer pass as normal is a fast track to little bit's of shattering.
And today brought with it more bad news, my Grandfather is dying. Well actually to be honest he has been dying for the last year or so, but now it is more likely a manner of weeks than months. Even sitting here writing this I find myself stopping and pausing with the knowledge that very soon I will be without a Grandfather. With him goes another bit of my family history and part of me. Loss is this horrible thing and when it begins happening before you are old enough to ask the right questions to know the stories of old, every subsequent loss feels like a greater void. Like a hole in your understanding of who you are and why you are here. I have lost stories from my Grandfather and Grandmother Knippel already, although that side of the family was better with stories so many are clips in my faulty memory. Also there are always my Aunts, beautiful women who carry love, hospitality, and stories in their beings. From them I may be reminded and told the history of my muddle people. But from my Mother's family very little was told. Weird oddly out of place stories like the one about my Uncle, my mother's youngest brother, being caught smoking my Grandmother's pilfered cigarettes and Grandma making him smoke the whole pack until he was green and puking.
There is very little to hold though, so much hidden like my mom's baby pictures and photos of her growing up, the like of which I had never seen until I was given a box. Cleaning out my Grandparent's condo and storage unit, my Aunt and Uncle discovered a treasure trove of a life. Living though the Depression and so many other of the world changing events of the last century left my Grandparents with the save everything mentality. I never knew this as a child or even a teenager at least not consciously, yet I can remember something of this being said or told to me between high school and junior high. So many aspects of their lives was hidden, in storage, in propriety, in that damned frozen chosen mentality of the WASPy Presbyterians that my mom's family is. Their English and Welsh heritages accumulating to this reservedness. And so I find myself wondering if I know my Grandparents as I sometimes wonder if I know my Mother. The woman I love so much it hurts, who for years following the raping of her deep and beautiful intellectual mind and replacing it with a clarity of focus and belief never seen before, I couldn't figure out how to relate to with out words and ideas. I could only sit next to her and hold her hand sending and receiving our secret message of "i love you" passed down from the moment I can remember. And yet sometimes I wonder at all the things she can't tell me, those things that I search for in her letters and journals.
Loss is a bitch of a thing and I am tired of it.


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Tulia Sept 30
I'm back dating this to the 30th even though today is the 4th of October because the photos are from September.
Tulia has changed yet again. We went to a San Jose community festival. She got to check out a horse and play on the playground. Tulia has started climbing everything.
Tulia points at things she wants and if she doesn't get them, she throws a tantrum. She is eating finger foods now and will occasionally eat what we are eating. Tulia also cut her first tooth. I tried to get a close up but it didn't turn out.
Tulia also says "sat" as what's that… Tulia also switched from two naps a day to one!!! That was a huge step.
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In Lien Botha's work the photograph – as text, object or trace – intersects and interweaves a collection of recurring concerns which her practice - spanning more than thirty years - has continuously investigated and ruminated upon: memory, meaning, experience, object and place.These concerns do not operate autonomously, but are rather always presented as interdependent and mutually generative.The photograph, then, conceptualised beyond the rigidities of the documentary frame to which post-Apartheid photography in South Africa is so often inclined to, becomes an active site of memory – both personal and collective; a living, generative space that both recalls real places in space and time, and revisits and reimagines them through complex networks of association and narrative.This duality endows them with an undeniable enigma and surrealism – one has the sense that events are occurring, actual and imagined, which cannot fully be seen or expressed.The photograph thus sits somewhere between object and place, between real and unreal, tangible and intangible.
Botha's "Wonderboom" series is a virtuosic distillation of these steadfast concerns. A visual companion piece to her debut novel of the same name, which tracks the protagonist's journey across a dystopic South Africa as she slowly loses her memory, each image corresponds to a chapter. A series of disintegrating photographic texts, "Wonderboom"
references Eadweard James Muybridge's groundbreaking image sequences. But while Muybridge's sequences are accumulative and continuous, Botha's tracks a trajectory of loss and disintegration. Layers of meaning are progressively stripped away, severing connections and associations as they disappear.The collection of objects comes to represent a mind that is slowly losing its grip on itself, a place slowly eroded, a history forgotten or confused.This visual entropy effects a tactile sense of loss, and reminds us that lived experience is predicated on complex layers of association which are ever vulnerable to disruption, destruction and delirium.


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Are Social Media Algorithms a Thing?
The search engines rely on algorithms to organize information and return the most relevant results to users, but they aren't the only ones. Social media sites are also switching to algorithm-based feeds. While these updated feeds may not mean much for users, they certainly do for marketers.
When algorithms are thrown into the mix, it forces brands to revamp their marketing efforts so that their content is showing up in the news feeds.
Let's take a look at the different types of algorithms that some of our favorite social networks are using.
Facebook has been using an algorithm for a while now because of the massive amount of traffic and user-generated content. In order to deliver the right content to the right people, Facebook developed an algorithm early on.
Here are some of the factors that the algorithm places importance on.
- How often users interact with posts
- Which types of posts users interact with most
- How often posts are hidden by others
- How much engagement posts receive
- How well posts have performed with people who have already interacted with them
The best way to make the Facebook algorithm work in your favor is to create relevant, high-quality content for your audience.
Twitter has been toying with a lot of new features, including the option to expand the character limit on tweets to 10,000 characters (which has been nixed for the time being). In the meantime, they've rolled out an algorithm that is similar to Facebook's.
One of the new features you'll see is the option to view "the best tweets you may have missed" which is similar to their old "while you were away" feature. This feature can provide you with additional engagement and organic reach.
Instagram has hinted that they, too, will be jumping on board with an algorithm of some sort. The feeds are getting too cluttered for users to see the things that are important to them, so an algorithm will ultimately be the best way to cut through the noise. Instagram stated that people miss, on average, 70 percent of their feeds.
Social media algorithms aren't necessarily a bad thing. They cut through the clutter and put the right content into the right hands. At the same time, these algorithms increase competition because it forces brands to share prime real estate. That's why paid advertising becomes a valuable tool because it can help your content be see by the right audience.
If you need help creating quality content that won't be hindered by the social media algorithms, set up a call with WSI Net Advantage. We can also reevaluate your paid social strategy to make sure that you're getting the most for your money. Call us today at 510-687-9737 or visit our contact page.
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Posted from a local toy4wd group;
This guy recently imported this jdm 87 fj62 firetruck; He's been waiting months to get it and has been finding parts and gear to get it all tip top;
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Well, at this point I'm pretty certain I'm cursed when it comes to owning vehicles I like. Parked my truck on the street out front my buddies house while I was there visiting. I was there for less than an hour and we heard a loud noise outside followed by a grinding noise, go outside and find that somebody slammed into my parked truck hard enough to shunt it 20' down the street
Pretty sure that's totalled, at least the fire tray is written off-if the frame is not. Good luck finding fire truck parts to fix it. Best case scenario is the frame is ok and you can still go full expo and add a tray to whatever you are left with.


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When you need to sell your car fast, consider selling the car to a cash buyer. One of the best things about selling the car for cash is that you sell the vehicle in its current condition. So, whether you have an old car or one that is in poor condition, you need not worry because the fast cash buyer does not mind the state. Note your vehicle may be in a situation that is hard to get a buyer unless you choose to sell to a cash buyer. Some people also incur costs trying to remodel the car to enhance the appearance of the car so that they can get a buyer. This is not the case for the car cash buyer. Apart from that selling the car to a cash buyer prevent you from those annoying visits and offers before you can get a buyer.
The procedure for selling the car fast is simple. Most of the car cash buyers list and market their services, which makes it easier to reach them. Also, due to the incredible services offered by the best car cash buyers, you will find that it's so simple to get a recommendation for a cash buyer, meaning that you do not hustle getting a buyer. It's so simple to sell the car to a cash buyer, noting that you can get into an agreement through a phone call. All that required is to state the model of the vehicle, the year of make, and its current state. The cash buyer, on the other hand, gives an offer on how much they can buy the car. When you reach an agreement after price negotiation, you agree on when and where to seal the deal. Remember, for security purposes ensure that you choose the most secure place to get the payment after the sale of the car. Get this some sellers have lost their vehicles and money to rogue car cash buyers. The primary benefit of selling a car for cash is that you get to save time to complete the sale.
Before selling the car for cash, get a simple valuation of the vehicle to know the market price for the vehicle. This will help you to negotiate the price with the car cash buyer and get a good offer. Note there are some car cash dealers whose offer can be too low despite the condition of the car. This is why it's necessary to have an idea of the price range to sell the vehicle, thereby avoiding incurring losses. To get the best deal, consider contacting several cash car buyers before you settle with the best offer.
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Do you have a tween that loves all things sparkly, unicorn-themed and magical? Then I guarantee she'll love this colorful unicorn birthday cake! With this step-by-step process, you too can create a magical unicorn-themed birthday. Cheers to rainbows, sparkles and unicorns!
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Have you been searching Pinterest for ideas about how to make a unicorn birthday cake? I spent hours looking for ideas before I launched into this unicorn birthday cake project. I was so afraid that this would become a massive Pinterest-fail and that I would disappoint my birthday girl. I'm happy to say that this unicorn cake was a sweet success. In fact, my sweet girl helped me make the cake for her party. Not only did we finish a beautiful cake, we also had great fun bonding over it.
We paired this beautiful unicorn birthday cake with other unicorn-themed party favors, napkins and plates. It was the perfect amount of sparkle without being too garish.
No haters please
A few things to note: I am not a professional baker. I do enjoy baking, but for this project I set some reasonable expectations for myself knowing that this cake may not be perfect. I absolutely did my best. I debated long and hard about whether or not to even share this post with you because I know it isn't professional bakery perfect. That being said….my daughter was thrilled with this cake. She also helped decorate it and selected all the colors. I encourage you to the same. And you too may enjoy creating a magical unicorn birthday cake for your loved one. The best part about baking this cake was spending time with my daughter. We both agreed that any minor imperfections would simply be considered sparkles of "unicorn love".
How to make a unicorn birthday cake
First, make sure you allow enough time to not only make each component of the cake, but to assemble and decorate. This unicorn birthday cake was made in different stages over approximately two days. Make sure to clear out lots of room in your fridge to accommodate the cake. Remove any smelly food items in or around the cake such as left overs, onions and garlic. You want your cake to be magical, not smelly right?!
Select your flavor of cake. I chose a white vanilla cake with rainbow confetti sprinkles because this is what my daughter wanted. Because the cake is decorated with butter cream frosting, it can be any kind of cake that you prefer. If you like chocolate, you'll love my delicious devil's food cake recipe. I decided not to over complicate the design by attempting to make rainbows and different colors on the inside of the cake. There is plenty of color and attention to detail on the outside. You can absolutely use a "boxed" cake mix if desired. The main thing to consider is having the right size and shape of cake pans. You will need two Baker's Secret Basics nonstick 8-Inch round cake pans. This cake has two layers to achieve both height and dramatic effect. A Wilton cake leveler is handy for leveling out the top of each baked cake prior to layering. Vanilla buttercream frosting was used in-between and all over the cake. You can also buy white vanilla buttercream frosting if you don't want to make it from scratch.
For this post, I will focus mostly on how we chose to decorate the unicorn-themed birthday cake. My main tips on baking the cake are to use nonstick parchment paper on the bottom of the cake pan and spray the pans with baking spray (like Pam). Also, watch and time baking the cake carefully in the oven. Don't step away…don't get on Facebook or Instagram and forget all about it. No one likes a dry cake.
Unicorn Birthday Cake Components
- Vanilla cake mix
- Vanilla buttercream frosting (three tubs)
- Confectioner's sugar
- Gel food coloring (black for the eyes, pink, turquoise, purple any colors you like for the mane)
- Box of fondant for the ears and horn
- One sugar ice cream cone for the horn
- Cake decorating sprinkles (multi-color, pink sparkly)
The Unicorn Horn and Ears
I thought creating the unicorn's horn for this birthday cake was going to be the most difficult part of this process. It actually wasn't. I used a sugar ice cream cone for the horn shape. Wrap the base, top-portion and tip with Wilton decorator white fondant. It's just like play-doe and will cut and roll out in any shape you like. Pink and multi-colored cake sprinkles were used as decoration. The sprinkles were applied after brushing this area of the sugar cone with a confectioner sugar slurry (simply confectioner's sugar with a little water mixed in). It essentially works like glue or as royal-icing would. My daughter decided on how she wanted the horn to look like. This is her design.
The unicorn ears I free-hand cut out from white fondant. To make the inside of the ears a blush pink color, mix a little bit of water with pink Wilton gel-based food coloring. Use a small paint brush to lightly color the fondant. The fondant can be molded into the tear-drop shape you like for the ears and placed on the cake. I used a couple toothpicks inserted and hidden at the base to help prop the ears more upright.
The Unicorn Eyes
The eyes and lashes were the most difficult part to get right. I suggest practicing on parchment paper before going for the actual cake. Or make your eyes on the paper, pop them into the freezer to chill and set, then transfer them onto your cake. The eyes are made of a small amount of vanilla frosting with black food coloring mixed into it. I used the smallest piping tip I had to free-hand pipe-out the eyes and lashes. They are essentially upside down "U" shapes with feathery lashes on the side. It takes a bit of practice and allot of patience.
The Mane
To make the swirly colorful mane of the unicorn, divide the vanilla frosting up into three bowls. You'll need at least one and a half cups of frosting for your more predominant color. And anywhere from half a cup to one cup for the other two. Add a small amount of gel food coloring to each bowl. We chose turquoise, pink and purple. You can select any colors you like. Mix a small amount of coloring in at a time until you get the desired shade you want. Transfer each color into a separate piping bag fitted with a different size star tip in each bag. Each tip will provide you with different swirl patterns. Practice on parchment paper a few times to get the hang of it. Start at the front of the cake and move around towards the back along the right side of the cake.
Cake Decorating Essentials
The following items help make decorating the cake allot easier. These supplies are good investments for future cake decorating projects. You will need several piping bags. You can also use zip-lock bags. Cut one corner and insert your desired decorator tip.
If you have made it to this point in reading this post, I hope that you have found inspiration for creating your very own unicorn birthday cake. As I mentioned before, it takes a little bit of time and some patience, but the end result is totally worth it. I hope you have a magical unicorn-themed birthday party!
- Gluten free options: Pillsbury Funfetti Gluten Free Cake Mix
- Joy Gluten-Free Sugar Ice Cream Cones
If you make a unicorn-themed cake, come back and comment below about how it went. What worked for you? Did you make any changes?
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Unicorn Birthday Cake
This recipe provides instructions about how to make and decorate a unicorn-themed birthday cake. The focus is on the decoration and uses a box cake mix and store bought frosting rather than bake from scratch.
Shopping and supply list
- 1 vanilla cake mix ((ie, Betty Crocker vanilla cake))
- 3 tubs vanilla buttercream frosting ((ie. Betty Crocker vanilla frosting))
- 1/4 cup confectioner's sugar
- gel food coloring (black, plus 3 other colors of your choice)
- 1 box of fondant
- 1 sugar ice cream cone
- cake decorating sprinkles ((ie, multi-color, pink))
- 2 8 inch non-stick round cake pans
- parchment paper
- non-stick baking spray ((ie, PAM))
- Any ingredients on the back of the birthday cake mix box ((ie, water, eggs, oil))
- 1 cake leveler or large serrated knife
- 1 cake decorating spatula
- 4 cake decorating piping bags or zip-lock bags (1 large, 2 medium, 1 small)
- 4 cake decorating tips (1 round tip (size #2 or #3) 3 other various sized star or flower tips, your choice)
- 1 small clean paint brush
- 1 cake decorator turn table or cake stand ((optional))
Bake two cakes
Use 8 inch round non-stick cake pans. Place a cake pan on top of a sheet of parchment paper. Trace around the outside of the pan with a pencil. Do this 2 times. Cut out the circles. Place the parchment paper circles inside of the cake pans. Spray each pan liberally with baking spray. Pre-heat the oven. Follow the instructions on the back of the cake mix box to prepare the cake batter. You will have better results if the eggs, water, oil are at room temperature. Evenly divide the cake batter in-between the cake pans. You can do this either by weight using a kitchen scale or fill each pan about 3/4 way full. Bake the cake for length of time and temperature specified on the cake mix box (typically 25 – 30 minutes). Use a toothpick or cake tester inserted in the middle of the cake. It should come out clean when done. Allow the cakes to cool completely before removing them from the pans. Level the tops of each cake using a Wilton cake leveler or a large serrated knife.
Build and frost the cake
Use a cake stand or cake decorating turn-table to build the cake layers. Start with a thin all-over crumb-layer of frosting. Gently spread the frosting using the cake decorating spatula. Add frosting on top of the base layer (or use another filling such as pudding, compote etc.) Place the second cake on top and continue with the all-over crumb layer of frosting. Chill the cake in the fridge for 15 minutes before frosting again all over. You will use about one tub of frosting. Use the remaining tubs frosting for the mane and eyes decoration. Chill the cake while you prepare the decorations.
Unicorn horn
Use a sugar ice cream cone for the unicorn horn. Use parchment paper and your fingers to roll out the fondant. Similar to play-doe fondant will roll out and cut into any shape. You can wrap the base of the horn with a small worm-like length of fondant. Create another long (about twice the size of the cone) worm-like piece of fondant (medium-sized width). Start at the top of the ice cream cone. Work your way down wrapping the cone with the fondant strip. This creates the swirly horn effect. Use your fingers or fondant shaping tool to gently press and flatten the fondant how you like into the cone.
If you'd like to decorate the horn with sprinkles add a little water (1 tbsp) to 1/4 cup of confectioner's sugar. Create a slurry or royal icing. Use a small paint brush to brush on the icing in desired areas. Hold the horn with one hand while adding the cake decorating sprinkles and turn the horn. Work quickly. This should help adhere the sprinkles. Be creative. On my unicorn horn we used multi-colored cake sprinkles near the base and pink cake sprinkles in the middle. The top of the horn was left white fondant.
Unicorn ears
Use a rolling pin and parchment paper. Roll out a thin layer of fondant (about 1/4 inch). Free-hand cut out two large tear-drop shapes for ears. You can paint the inside of the ears by mixing a tiny amount of pink gel food coloring in 2 tbsp of water. Use a clean small paint brush to paint it. Leave about 1/2 an inch all the way around the outside of the ear white. The ears are quite delicate. We used a couple small tooth picks inserted at the base to help prop them up on the cake.
Unicorn mane
Frosting should be at room temperature. Place the horn in the center of the cake. Add the ears, one on each side. Reserve and set aside about 3 tbsp frosting for the eyes. Divide the remaining frosting into three bowls. Use about 1 1/2 cups frosting for the predominate color. In our unicorn cake this color was pink. Divide the remaining frosting in two. Add a small amount of gel food coloring to each bowl. Add a little color at a time and mix well until you reach the desired colors you want. In our unicorn cake we chose purple and turquoise. Transfer each color into a separate piping bag fitted with a different decorating tip. Use a large star tip for the most predominant color and two smaller star tips for the other two colors. You can also use zip-lock bags if you do not have multiple decorator piping bags.
Start with the most predominant color. Apply one large swirl in the center. In this case pink. Alternate frosting colors and swirl techniques around the first one. Continue your way along the side and back of the cake until you are happy with it. Use a mix of large swirls and small ones. There is no right or wrong way. Practice the frosting techniques on parchment paper first if necessary.
Unicorn eyes
Add black gel food coloring to the reserved 3 tbsp of frosting. Practice eyes on parchment paper before applying to the cake. Or make the eyes on paper, pop them into the freezer to chill and set. Then transfer them onto the cake with a knife. Use a small round tip (#2 or #3 size). Create upside down "U" shape and add two one inch lines on either side for lashes.
Store the cake in the fridge. Remove the cake and bring to room temperature at least a couple hours before serving.
Additional tips:
- Clear out plenty of room in the fridge for the cake. Remove any smelly foods (left overs, onions, garlic etc.)
- Chill the cake for several minutes at a time in-between stages, frosting and decorating. Frosting will need to be at room temperature for effective piping.
- Insert the decorator tip into the piping bag. Then place the bag inside a large water glass prior to filling it with frosting. This helps to prop it up. It is also a good way to store the frosting.
- Go to https://www.wilton.com/learn-piping-techniques/ for free instructions on how to pipe frosting.
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The board of Oxford University Hospitals Foundation Trust, which runs the hospital, unanimously agreed on Wednesday afternoon to downgrade the maternity unit after it was advised by Paul Brennan, the trust's director of clinical services, that continuing the current service would be "unsafe".
The closure of obstetric services comes after the hospital has faced longstanding problems attracting doctors to work in its maternity unit. Horton's shift to a midwife led unit has been described as "temporary" with a plan to "reverse" the service changes by early 2017 if the trust is successful in recruiting to the six out of eight vacant obstetric posts at the hospital.
However, the report on Horton's maternity services discussed at the meeting recognised that local sustainability and transformation plan led by Oxfordshire Clinical Commissioning Group "could impact on how maternity services are provided across the county in the future".
A spokesman for the CCG said "proposals are being developed as part of the Oxfordshire transformation programme", which will look "at the long term future of Horton hospital" and the services that it offers. He added: "A number of options are being worked up which will be part of a public consultation process to be run in the autumn. No decisions have been taken at this stage."
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In El Bandolero's restaurant, guests may enjoy the rustic ambiance in our main dining room, Restaurant La Bodega del Bandolero, where lunch and dinner are served daily, or one may enjoy a meal in the hotel's bar, Bar de El Tempranillo, or on la Terraza.
All meals are prepared by Chef Iván Sastre Pascual who trained in both savory and pastry at Le Cordon Bleu, London and has worked at some of London's finest restaurtants.
Originally from Ávila, Spain, Chef Iván Sastre features fare from Ávila in his menu. A typical meal might consist of: potaje de garbanzos y castañas (chic pea and chestnut stew), Suprema de Cochinillo con salsa de miel y especias (Suckling Pig Supreme with honey & spice sauce), Solomillo Ibérico al arrope con puré de patatas con crema de castañas (Pork Tenderloin al arrope [grape juice reduction] with mash al chestnut cream) or Venison tenderloin served with a porcini sauce and mash and finished off with crema quemada de castañas (baked cream infused with chestnut purée and topped with burnt sugar) or a volcán de chocolate (warm soft centreed chocoalte cake withe ice cream).
Above please find the link to Restaurant La Bodega del Bandolero's menu; it contains dishes that are on offer at one time or another.
There is also a link to view example menus for groups; our main dining room has capacity up to 55 diners with advanced bookings.
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