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Conservatives are deeply frustrated at the 2012 election's outcome, after years of work and investment. Some blame the candidate, or the conduct of the campaign; others focus on demographics.
But these explanations are unsatisfactory. President Obama won reelection because his message of resentment against the rich for failing to pay their "fair share" resonated with millions of people of all backgrounds. They were unoffended by the administration's wholesale embrace of an unreconstructed entitlement state, and they endorsed the idea that government can and should sort out our economic woes.
In short, President Obama won because his philosophy is in tune with what has become the conventional wisdom. Refuting that conventional wisdom is the challenge we face today, and understanding this challenge is the first step in forming a plan for renewal — a plan that does not rely on winning a series of elections or Supreme Court cases, but rather focuses on the establishment, over the coming decade, of a new popular consensus based on the ideas of our Founders, common sense, sound economics, and basic decency.
The economic fundamentals we face today have become depressingly familiar. Government at all levels is consuming 36 percent of GDP, and according to the Congressional Budget Office, that figure will rise to 50 percent by 2038 as we pay back the ruinous debt we have accumulated. The U.S. has the highest corporate tax rates of all the industrialized nations, making us less and less competitive. Meanwhile, economic growth is in long-term decline. In short, we are not moving toward becoming a European-style social democracy; we are already there.
After the last four years, it is easy to see these sorry trends as the product of Obamanomics. But they are not. The trends are decades old, and span both Republican and Democratic administrations. The most we can say about Obama's first term is that, in Wall Street Journal columnist Peggy Noonan's phrase, "He made it worse."
To find the culprit for our economic decline, we must look toward ourselves. To be sure, we cruise down the freeway to serfdom hand in hand with opportunistic politicians, but politicians are generally followers, not leaders. What today's politicians follow is today's conventional wisdom, which is based today on three pillars.
The first pillar is that our system is unfair, and economic inequality is a problem per se. It has become increasingly respectable to question the legitimacy of our system on the basis of the fact that the wealthy have so much more than others.
Forget that every income class has seen dramatic real-income increases in the preceding decades. Or that, as my AEI colleagues Kevin A. Hassett and Aparna Mathur have shown, consumption inequality has hardly changed at all over the years. Or that the top 5 percent of earners already pay about 59 percent of federal income taxes. The income-leveling argument has now taken root in the public mind. Exit polls after the November election found 59 percent of voters saying that our economic system is not fair to all and favors the wealthy (70 percent of them voted for Obama). Nearly three in four Americans think upper-income families should pay even more than they already do in taxes, according to a 2011 Washington Post poll.
Thus, even if it hurts the economy — and ultimately costs jobs and opportunity — it is considered fair to tax capital gains and dividends at relatively high rates simply because the people who receive income of this sort tend to be rich. Similarly, it is fair to tax business incomes at internationally uncompetitive rates. The "Buffett Rule" (creating a tax floor for millionaires, so named after Warren Buffett's complaint that he pays a lower tax rate than his secretary) encapsulates this invidious belief.
How much has the conventional wisdom shifted on this point? Thomas Jefferson said: "To take from one, because it is thought his own industry and that of his fathers has acquired too much, in order to spare to others, who, or whose fathers, have not exercised equal industry and skill, is to violate arbitrarily the first principle of association, the guarantee to everyone the free exercise of his industry and the fruits acquired by it." In contrast, our president today justifies more redistributive taxes on entrepreneurs by telling them their success is due to government infrastructure: "You didn't build that," as he said, a claim that apparently resonates with millions of Americans.
The second pillar of conventional wisdom is that our expanding entitlement society can coexist with the American experiment as we have traditionally understood it. Despite many surveys showing that the public vaguely believes the government is too big and tries to do too much, the Gallup polling organization finds that a solid majority of Americans oppose cuts to government entitlements of virtually any kind, from Social Security and Medicare to farm subsidies to aid for the poor.
Why the antipathy to any cuts in spending? Not to put too fine a point on it: Millions of us have our hand in our neighbor's pocket.
My colleague Nicholas Eberstadt has ignited a furor with his new book A Nation of Takers, in which he shows that Americans have created an entitlement state by systematically voting to share others' money. Today, more than half of American households receive government-transfer benefits, and the Tax Foundation notes that nearly 70 percent of Americans now take more out of the tax system than they pay into it. Entitlements have doubled as a percentage of the federal budget since 1960, and at the same time the federal budget has exploded as a percentage of GDP. Today, two-thirds of our entire government is devoted to transferring money and services from earners to recipients. This expansion is completely bipartisan, and has occurred more under Republican presidents than under Democratic ones.
It's not true that Americans are simply consuming what they have earned in their working years. According to scholars at the Urban Institute, the average two-earner couple retiring today will take three times as much out of the Medicare system as they paid into it, even after inflation and interest are accounted for. Meanwhile, the number of Americans receiving disability benefits has exploded from 455,000 in 1960 to 8.6 million today.
Living off of others is the exact opposite of what attracted most of our ancestors to America. Their goal was to make it on their own hard work and merits. Few would have objected to a safety net for the most disadvantaged citizens, but our current system, with its massive transfers, would have been noxious to most voters just a few decades ago.
In fact, it was none other than Franklin Delano Roosevelt — the man who introduced many of the entitlements that subsequently exploded — who said, "The lessons of history, confirmed by the evidence immediately before me, show conclusively that continued dependence upon relief induces a spiritual and moral disintegration fundamentally destructive to the national fiber. To dole out relief in this way is to administer a narcotic, a subtle destroyer of the human spirit." Roosevelt obviously could not see the damage that entitlements, as expanded by later administrations, would ultimately inflict on his country. We can see, but have become willfully blind.
And if we want to see where all this leads, we can look at Greece and the other European social democracies in full economic and social decline. That is our future — unless we change course.
The third pillar of today's conventional wisdom is that the government can and should pick the right course for the American economy to follow. Today, most Americans believe the president and Congress have the wisdom and responsibility to guide our economy via bailouts, Keynesian stimulus, and subsidies to the supposed industries of tomorrow. In 2009, Gallup found that a majority of Americans supported the passage of an $800 billion stimulus package (although three in four Americans later said that most of the money had been wasted).
Adding insult to injury, politicians use the public's demand to "do something" as an excuse to pass out spoils to their politically connected cronies. Perhaps the most shameless case of this cronyism is that of public-sector unions. These organizations collect dues from their members and use them for political contributions to sympathetic politicians. The politicians, in turn, support collective-bargaining agreements that hand public-sector employees pay and benefits that are generous compared with those of their private-sector counterparts.
Effectively the same pattern can be seen in corporations that are favored by the government. From car companies to "too big to fail" banks to green-energy firms run by political operatives, billions of tax dollars each year accrue to those who collude with politicians rather than compete with each other.
The real-life stories on this score are shocking. For example, as the Wall Street Journal's Bret Stephens has reported, former vice president Al Gore has increased his net worth by a factor of 50 since leaving office, to $100 million. How? According to Stephens (citing the Washington Post's Carol Leonnig), in no small part through investments in "green tech" firms that received or directly benefited from $2.5 billion in loans and subsidies from the government under President Obama — who hired several of Gore's former aides to run his clean-energy programs.
Changing conventional wisdom is a tougher nut to crack than winning elections. It happens slowly, and requires strategy and years of patience. But it can be done. We know this because we have periodically seen major shifts in conventional wisdom, to the great benefit of our nation. A good example of this is welfare reform.
I grew up in the 1970s in a Seattle neighborhood on the cusp between poor and lower-middle-class. Some people took care of their property; others had a Chevy up on blocks out front. Some earned a living; others were on public assistance. The families on assistance always seemed the most dysfunctional — absent fathers, low work-force attachment, substance abuse. The conventional wisdom was that this very dysfunction showed the need for welfare.
At the time, right-wing politicians railed against the welfare system, arguing that it was a huge bureaucratic boondoggle and a colossal waste of taxpayer money. The conventional wisdom, however, was that poor people would benefit if the government gave them money, free housing, and food stamps without imposing time limits or work requirements. Attempts to change the system for economic reasons were dead on arrival, because good and decent Americans were unwilling to expose people to poverty just to save a few bucks.
What finally changed the system was a concerted effort to change the conventional wisdom. It started with social scientists such as Charles Murray, Michael Novak, and Irving Kristol in the early 1980s, at my own institution and elsewhere. These scholars argued that the problem with the welfare system was not primarily an economic one; it was moral. The welfare policies of the 1960s had changed the rules of the game for poor people, making it rational in the short term to behave in ways that would ensure poverty and dependency in the long term. "The most troubling aspect of social policy toward the poor," Charles Murray wrote in his pathbreaking book Losing Ground, "is not how much it costs, but what it has bought."
According to these scholars, welfare had two pernicious effects. First, the system effectively held people in miserable conditions, harming those it was supposed to help. This was immoral and had to stop. Second, by keeping people in this condition, the system created dependency on the state, stripping citizens of the dignity that comes from earning their own way. Once again, this was immoral.
Such arguments were radical in the mid-1980s. But a decade-long movement that made the moral case for welfare reform ultimately changed the conventional wisdom about how to help the poor. Politicians fell into line. During the Clinton administration, legislation was crafted to reduce the extent to which people could become dependent on the system. It did so by imposing time limits on how long people could receive support and requiring them to work.
Welfare reform was signed into law in 1996. It was a resounding success. According to the U.S. government, it helped move 4.7 million Americans from welfare dependency to self-sufficiency within three years of enactment, and the welfare caseload declined by 54 percent between 1996 and 2004. Even more important, there is evidence that it improved the lives of those who moved off welfare as a result. A new economic study using the General Social Survey shows that single mothers — despite lost leisure time and increased stress from finding child care and performing household duties while working — were significantly happier about their lives after reforms led them into the work force.
The point to remember is this: Welfare reform was not passed when welfare became too expensive, but only when it became the conventional wisdom that welfare was destroying the lives of the most vulnerable among us.
There are many other examples of established wisdom that was toppled by an appeal to morality. Ronald Reagan helped to end the Cold War not by showing people behind the Iron Curtain all the wonderful consumer items we enjoyed in the West, but through the moral truth in his appeal to "tear down this wall." Similarly, the struggle for civil rights was won not by showing that black Americans were underperforming economically, but by showing that they were not truly free.
Even if Mitt Romney had squeaked through, the election of 2012 would have done nothing more than temporarily impede America's social democratization. Romney may have wanted with all his heart to remake American government in the constitutionally limited vision of the Founders, but against the headwind of today's conventional wisdom, he would have found it hard to do anything more than slow down the trends.
Our goal should be to establish three truths in place of the established conventional wisdom.
First, we need a fairer economy. While some redistribution will always be necessary to pay for a functioning government, fairness comes only from demanding that people earn what they possess, rewarding merit, and creating opportunity. So we must encourage the public to understand the fair society as one that militantly rejects cronyism, looks for ways to increase opportunity, and completely repudiates the notion that there is something inherently wrong with being rich. Redistribution should be undertaken with regret and apology, not self-righteous bureaucratic arrogance. Envy should be shameful.
Second, an entitlement society will ruin our country. And not just economically, but morally. An entitlement society necessitates coercive redistribution from our neighbors and our children. It steals our future and makes America undesirable for the world's strivers. Further, it compromises a safety net meant only for the indigent and the most vulnerable, as middle-class citizens and corporations come to rely on it as well. Unearned government transfers must not be a form of income that is morally equivalent to paychecks.
Third, we do not tolerate a government that dispenses discrimination and picks winners. A good government enforces property rights and upholds the rule of law. When it intervenes in markets, it does so to establish a basic safety net for the poorest Americans, to create equal opportunity (for example, in education), and to sort out market failures when it can do so cost-effectively. The government should be the source of law and justice — not of favors, power, wealth, or prestige.
To make these truths into the new conventional wisdom will in turn require that we accomplish four things.
First, we need innovative policy ideas that embody this wisdom and help the bottom half of our economy. For example, we need an education system that serves students more and teachers less. We need to remove government impediments to starting small businesses by hacking away at onerous licensing rules and taxation. And we need an open discussion about how culture — family, community, and work — is holding back the vulnerable among us.
Second, our persuasive effort must be based in morality, not materialism. Take, for example, the policy areas just listed. Why is school innovation important? Sure, it makes students into more productive adults through better education. But the real reason is that children in the bottom income quintile in traditional school settings are frequently run through an expensive, underperforming education machine that denies them the opportunities the rest of us enjoy. That is unfair and immoral. Similarly, the barriers to entrepreneurship in today's hyper-regulatory economy are most onerous to people at the bottom, which is an intolerable inequity. And the unwillingness of people at the top to discuss cultural patterns that hold back poor communities today is the true tyranny of the 1 percent.
Third, we must state and restate the new conventional wisdom about America. In a world where sloganeering routinely substitutes for ideas and wisdom, it is unpleasant for most of us to repeat any mantra. But there is no choice. The Americans we most need to reach are paying little attention to any individual magazine article or book. It takes communications creativity and many repetitions for an idea to become "sticky." Today, communications are almost as important as ideas themselves. If an idea is important enough to develop, it must be important enough to promote passionately and creatively.
Finally — and most important — we have to commit to this effort for the long haul, across many political cycles. Changing culture and convention takes decades, not months. That's a daunting commitment in an environment where "long term" generally means from now until the next midterm election. But if welfare-reform advocates had sought a quick victory, millions more Americans would still be poor today. And if free-enterprise advocates today see winning an election as the real victory, they will surely lose over the long term.
A decade or two of hard work is no time at all compared with the two centuries of American history and tradition that are at stake. Two hundred years ago, Jefferson wrote, "The last hope of human liberty in this world rests on us." That remains true. Free enterprise is America's blessing and its gift to the world, and it is worth fighting for today.
– Mr. Brooks is the president of the American Enterprise Institute and the author of The Road to Freedom.


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A deliciously refreshing dessert or snack! If you have any leftover chocolate cake and some peanut butter in the cupboard you can make these amazing ice cream sandwiches! Everyone will love them and no more leftovers!!
- Break the readymade or leftover chocolate cake into pieces. Put them in a food processor along with the peanut butter.
- Process until the mixture is combined and it looks like coarse breadcrumbs.
- Divide mixture in half and press onto the bottom of a 30x25 cm baking pan lined with parchment paper. Both bottom and sides should be lined.
- Put in freezer until needed. Set the remaining cake and peanut butter mixture aside.
- Beat the vanilla ice cream for 3-4 minutes in a standing mixer on low speed, using the paddle attachment, until it softens. If you have a handheld mixer, or if it isn't very powerful, beat the ice cream in batches so your mixer doesn't ruin.
- When the ice cream softens, remove mixing bowl from stand. Add the extra peanut butter and roughly mix with a wooden spoon. You don't want to mix it in completely so you can get chunks of peanut butter in the ice cream.
- Transfer mixture to frozen baking pan. Spread over layer of chocolate cake and peanut butter mixture and smooth surface with a knife.
- Cover with the remaining chocolate cake and peanut butter mixture. Press gently with your hands to make the surface as smooth as possible.
- Place in freezer for 4-5 hours or overnight until frozen and firm.
- Cut into square pieces and enjoy!
You can use any flavor of left over ice cream or cake for this recipe! Make unusual combinations of your own!
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Are essential to give energy to the body while helping to maintain the body temperature. They are divided into saturated "bad" fats and unsaturated "good" fats.
Saturated Fats
Known as "bad" fats are mainly found in animal foods. It is important to check and control on a daily basis the amount you consume.
The main source of energy for the body. Great sources are the bread, cereals and pasta. Use complex carbohydrates as they make you feel satiated while they have higher nutritional value.
Try to consume sugars from raw foods and limit processed sugar. It is important to check the labels of the products you buy so you can calculate how much you consume daily.
It is necessary for the muscle growth and helps the cells to function well. You can find it in meat, fish, dairy, eggs, pulses, nuts and seeds.
They are mainly found in plant foods and they can help regulate a good bowel movement while maintaining a balanced weight. Aim for at least 25 grams of fiber daily.
A small amount of salt daily is necessary for the body. Be careful though not to overdo it and not to exceed 6 grams of salt daily
*Based on an adult's daily reference intake of 2000 kcal.
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Ombudsman Services
An ombudsman is an individual appointed to receive and resolve disputes through constructive communication and advocating for consensus and understanding.
Ombudsman procedures are intended to provide enhanced communications and initial problem-solving capacity at the local level. All associations must provide ombudsman services to their members and members' clients and customers consistent with Professional Standards Policy Statement #59, Associations to Provide Ombudsmen Services, Code of Ethics and Arbitration Manual.
Role of Ombudsman
The ombudsman's role is primarily one of communication and conciliation, not adjudication. Ombudsmen do not determine whether ethics violations have occurred or who is entitled to what amount of money, rather they anticipate, identify, and resolve misunderstandings and disagreements before matters ripen into disputes and possible charges of unethical conduct.
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I know you have all been anxiously awaiting the newest release from Elzybells. This new release actually does not feature Lizzie, but the cutest little chicks you've ever seen instead. I kept this card really clean and simple because I thought the image was really simple. It's just meant to be soft and sweet. The scalloped oval was stamped with Colorbox Chalk Ice Blue. I added some Sakura Glitter Pen to the bee's trail.
Be sure to check out the blogs of the rest of the A Muse Designers and Instructors as I know many of them will have sneak peeks of the new A Muse and Elzybells releases. The new stamps will be available on the 19th. Any LSS's that pre-ordered should have them in stock by then.
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UN Assigns Aid to Colombia and 14 Countries
8 United Nations, Jan 19. -The United Nations assigned emergency humanitarian aid of U.S. $ 84 million to 15 countries, including Colombia, to combat hunger, malnutrition, disease, conflict and displacement. The information was released by the UN coordinator for such assistance, Valerie Amos, who said that the resources come from the Central Emergency Response Fund. Colombia is the only LatinRead more


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Village website run by Visit Nunney to promote tourism, business, heritage and the arts, and updated daily by local volunteers.
Nunney Community Association
"The judges were hugely impressed by all you do. If there were Visit Nunneys everywhere there's little doubt that tourism would be in a better condition than it is across the country."
Robin Barker, South West Tourism Excellence Awards
"Visit Nunney is a superb example to towns and villages across the UK wanting to improve and grow their presence online."
The Good Web Guide
"Many a village website is dull as ditchwater and out of date. The Visit Nunney website is different. It's fresh, lively and packed with all kinds of up to date news, pictures, useful information, reviews, fascinating and well-researched local history articles, things to do, Parish Council news, advertisements, a local calendar and loads more. It's a real eye-opener."
John Webb, Postlebury News
Our village website for Nunney in Somerset, England, is designed and maintained by Visit Nunney, an independent Community Interest Company that promotes tourism, business and the arts in Nunney.
We provide our service totally free of charge. We rely on donations and sales of The Nunney Collection of quality gifts inspired by Nunney Castle and village to cover the cost of printing tourist information brochures and other promotion materials.
We work closely with Nunney Community Association, Nunney Parish Council and other community groups, but Visit Nunney is totally unofficial and privately-run by local volunteers with busy full-time jobs that often take them away from the village.
"Visit Nunney means that we are simply the best-informed community in Somerset."
Anonymous Nunney resident quoted by The Good Web Guide
"Since Visit Nunney was launched in 2009, it has continuously punched well above its weight."
2016 Believe in Somerset Awards
The Good Web Guide Website of the Year interview
The Good Web Guide, the highly respected guide to innovation and excellence online, published an interview on running this village website with Visit Nunney's founder and editor Adrie van der Luijt in August 2014.
Visit Nunney has since gone through to the final round of the Good Web Guide Website of the Year Awards 2014 in the category Information/News and again in 2015 in the category Charity/Social Enterprise, beating over 1,500 full-time staffed, big budget websites to the final round.
We are also nominated for 2018 UK Charity / Social Enterprise Website of the Year in the Good Web Guide Awards.
Since 1 September 2014, Visit Nunney is registered with Companies House as a Community Interest Company (Company No. 09197083), regulated by the Office of the Regulator of Community Interest Companies. This is a special type of limited company that exists to benefit the community rather than private shareholders.
A CIC is different from a not-for-profit organisation. We do make a profit on our commercial activities (sales of The Nunney Collection of quality gifts inspired by Nunney Castle and village), but profits are reinvested to achieve benefit for the community. This helps us raise funds from advertising and other activities to pay for materials to promote Nunney and local community groups.
Every penny we raise is regulated and any profits must by law be invested in our activities to support the community – guaranteed.
As well as running a village website, Visit Nunney helps local firms, events and activities with Marketing and PR support. This includes graphic design, social media marketing and hands-on, practical advice.
This is paid for out of public funding, grants, donations and sponsoring, and charged at cost – we do not charge for our time.
Our village website was recognised as a finalist for UK Website of Year in the 2014 and 2015 Good Web Guide Awards, as well as a Top 3 position for Community Support Business of the Year in the 2015 Mendip Business Awards.
Visit Nunney won Unsung Hero for Customer Service Excellence in the 2015-16 South West Tourism Awards.
In December 2016 Visit Nunney won the Leisure/Tourism category in the Believe in Somerset Awards, organised by Trinity Mirror Group (Western Daily Press, Western Gazette, Somerset Standard, Bath Chronicle, Wells/Shepton Mallet Journal).
"The exhibition on the history of Nunney church that Visit Nunney produced for us is a magnificent piece of work. It really could not be bettered."
Ken Lloyd, Chairman, Friends of Nunney Church
"I want to express my very real gratitude to Visit Nunney for all the work that you have done, and are doing for the Friends of Nunney Church and also for the village. Your input is hugely appreciated and you have been immensely generous with posters, publicity and the exhibitions you have put on. Visit Nunney is doing an invaluable job and it is making a superb contribution to the village."
Dr Mary Lynch-Staunton BEM, Friends of Nunney Church
What we do:
- this village website was launched in July 2009 and relaunched in its current format in March 2013; it had over 180,000 visits from over 66,000 unique visitors since the relaunch
- The Nunney Collection of quality gifts inspired by Nunney Castle and village, with proceeds of sales funding our community support activities.
- the @VisitNunney account on Twitter currently has over 4,800 followers (see the counter at the top of this page)
- the Visit Nunney group and Visit Nunney page on Facebook currently have over 1,350 followers in total
- Visit Nunney produces flyers, posters and brochures that are distributed to tourist information centres (TICs) in Frome, Wells and Shepton Mallet as well as to restaurants, hotels and B&Bs in the region.
- although Frome TIC is the nearest official tourist information centre, we receive and respond to hundreds of tourist enquiries about Nunney by telephone, email, on our website and on social media throughout the year
- PR and social media campaigns for Nunney Street Market and Fayre; this resulted in a double-page spread in The Times ("one of the village fêtes to be be seen at this summer"), an interview on Classic FM, a Things To Do partnership with the BBC and an estimated 10,000 visitors to the 2013 event (up 25% on 2012)
- Local history research and the production of articles and exhibitions on local history. Our research uncovered the receipt for the Nunney market charter granted by King Henry III in 1260, which formed an unidentified part of the Henry III Fine Rolls Project run by King's College London and the National Archives. We were also able to deliver rare artefacts from the Roman villa at Whatley (now within Nunney's parish boundaries) to the archaeologists at the Somerset County Archives.
Visit Nunney is an active member of the British Association for Local History, the Somerset Archaeological and Natural History Society and the Frome Society for Local Study.
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(about "The Nunney Hoard")
Dr Eleanor Ghey, curator British and Roman coins, British Museum
"Wonderful article"
(about "Charabancs: a grand day out")
Caravans & Charabancs, WW1 project by the National Motor Museum in Beaulieu and The Caravan Club
- design, production and sponsorship of rackcards promoting Nunney Castle and village; these are distributed free of charge to Tourist Information Centres in the region
- design, production and sponsorship of a poster campaign in aid of Nunney Church Raise the Roof Appeal
- design, production and marketing of four annual Visit Nunney charity calendars in aid of local charities and community activities, featuring work by local artists, old postcards and photos of Nunney community life throughout the year
- event management and publicity for the first annual Nunney Christmas Market at The George at Nunney
- design, production and sponsorship of five exhibitions:
- stands promoting Nunney at the 2012 and 2013 Nunney International Horse Trials and Frome Cheese Shows
- publicity for the temporary exhibitions in Nunney Church, including an interview with photographer Johnny Fenn on BBC Somerset's Breakfast Show
- practical marketing support and sponsoring for Nunney First School's open mornings, which are critical to future funding of staffing levels at the school.
- production of the Nunney Treasure Trail The Hunt for the Nunney Diamonds in association with Treasure Trails Somerset
- design and production of individual one-off books on Nunney as a leaving gift for members of Nunney Community Association
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The house outside may be facing the end of its days. It presents a skeletal image now of what it once was. Only one wall remains, the one in the back; the roof is gone, probably blown off during a storm. This enabled the pines to deposit about an inch of their needles onto the floor, a mere four and a half feet square. Now, when the sun comes through the trees after a rain they shimmer like new copper, or a hoard of fool's gold.
It was to be Nicholas's retreat from the world of adults. His father, Pat, and I, built the thing on four posts, to hoist it about three feet off the ground, necessary in this low terrain so close to the sea. We attached a three-step ladder to get into it. When we finished we told Nick to share it with his younger brother, Stefan, my second grandchild, and with his cousins, my three other grandchildren, when they come down here to enjoy the beach with us. Nicholas, when he got a little further on in his life, didn't bother with it much. "It's for kids," said No. 1 Grandson, as he pushed off on his skate-board down the road toward the beach, lugging his surfboard.
Nick doesn't know that I identify him in my mind by a number. I got the idea from Charlie Chan, the fictional character in old movies, a Chinese American detective with a frozen, unhappy smile, yet operating effectively in an American milieu. He was like Confucius, wise and out of his time. Charlie called his first born "No. 1 Son," which suggests to me that he expected others would follow.
After Nick, came Stefan, No. 2 in our family; Lily followed as No. 3; then her brother Finnegan, No. 4, and finally No. 5, Lukas: what a talker! I don't tell any of these children about their numbers. I do it because it just helps me keep their names adhered to their faces.
They all played in and out of the house over the years, rough and loud sometime. Stefan, for instance, once took a hammer and a bag of nails and pounded them all into this playhouse; maybe he thought his father and grandfather had built a rickety unstable retreat. We didn't.
One of Stefan's siblings, bright Finnegan, suggested that all those nails might draw lightening our way. Stefan gave thought to that, and the next time I saw him with the hammer in his hand he was sitting on the ground breaking up a concrete block. Why? Maybe he felt a need to create something: rubble, perhaps.
Lily (No. 3) favored sedate tea parties. I once saw her climbing into the house with both Stefan and Finnegan trailing behind her with crockery in their hands. Lily poured her tea, and peace reigned. She calmed the boys with her softness and her tea – for a while at least, until the boys' friends showed up in the yard and they all began shooting one another. Together they had an arsenal that would have impressed Muammar el-Qaddafi.
They had pistols, machine guns, hand grenades to throw at each other, rubber knives, even scimitars, ancient weapons to stab and slash with long blades made of pure sponge. One day, while sitting on the porch of the main house, I kept hearing "Bang! Bang! Bang! You're dead!" Over and over.
I've never felt comfortable having weapons around the house, so I never did. Even fake weapons such as ours. More than once I said to myself, "It's not a gun. No, it's not a gun; it's a symbol of a gun. A toy. Harmless. Yes, right?" But occasionally I would shout at them: "Don't shoot so loud," I'd say. "You're disturbing the peace!"
There came the moment when my mind took a turn in a different direction: I began to think the toys were not completely harmless; they were everywhere: floating through the Internet; on display in shops all around our town.
I looked in on Wikipedia and learned that in our country more people own firearms than those in any other country in the world. Also I learned that 40 percent of our nation's households have guns in them, one or more. Comforting?
I've been in many countries as a travelling journalist. I've watched children playing on green fields and in dry rust-colored spaces in Asia, South America, the Middle East, Africa, and other places distant from here. But I have never seen them waving plastic guns that look very much like the real thing. More often than not, the noise, the joyous shouts and screams were made by kids chasing and kicking soccer balls.
One day, having heard "Bang! Bang! Bang! You're dead!" too many times around my house, I decided to seize their arsenal. And, unfortunately, their pleasures. "No more guns around here, I declared." And they disappeared, just like that. The next day I uncovered one or two of them, one that looked very much like an AK-47. They were stashed behind a tree. With great ostentation I threw them in the trash. And I discovered some more in the house outside, which encouraged me to tear it down. But no, the smaller ones, Finny and Lukey are still in and out of it.
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text: Morning light on the first day of the last month of 2018 reflecting off my rag doll's skirt. A stack of tiny paper books are sewn to her left hand (not visible in this photo), faded pink bow to her hair. She was created to represent the courage of the Little Rock Nine and the spirit of hope. She was adopted from the DuSable Museum of African American History and gifted to me in 1999. I named her Abigail Louisa. She has helped me move house, leave a marriage, find footing in a jimmy-rigged career, build poems, raise a daughter, and feather an empty nest. Her loose seams remind me, always, there is possibility.


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Friday, 31 March 2017 15:35
In collaboration with WFAD, Nusroto Al-Anashid Association under the patronage of H.E Pierre Bou Assy, the Minister of Social Affairs in Lebanon, are organizing an international convention on Drugs at Monroe Hotel in Downtown - Beirut,Lebanon on May 3rd & 4th, 2017
The theme of the conference: "Drugs: Prevention and Treatment".
The conference will include Ministries Speakers: Ministry of Social Affairs, Ministry of Interior and Municipalities, Ministry of Media, Ministry of Public Health, Ministry of Justice, Ministry of Education and Higher Education, professional speakers from Europe and Asia specially from Sweden,Austria, Pakistan, Syria, Lebanon, and other countries as well as the International president of WFAD (World Federation Against Drugs) in Sweden.
The conference will also include presentations and lectures on the most updated drug treatments, rehabilitation, and prevention. Attendees will be from political, religious,military and civilian authorities.
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"Whether its an arts and craft library group that supports social isolation, or a community fitness bootcamp, the investments we make are always centred on the needs of our communities"
Emma Hutchinson
Warrington-based Community Interest Company, LiveWire is supported by Community Leisure UK – formerly Sporta – as it launches campaign to raise awareness of it's not-for-profit status
Driven by insight commissioned by Community Leisure UK, LiveWire's new year campaign aims to boost understanding around how leisure trusts operate including their ethos on protecting services and serving the community
LiveWire Warrington has gained the support of national body – Community Leisure UK (formerly Sporta) – as it launches a campaign to raise the profile of its community trust status.
The campaign, #LoveLiveWire, will launch on December 27th with the strapline 'Your Town, Your Wellbeing, Your LiveWire'.The campaign aims to broaden awareness of the fact that LiveWire is a community interest company (CIC) - which works to improve the physical and mental health of Warrington residents of all ages and backgrounds with any revenues generated re-invested back into services and community priorities.
Fuelled by research commissioned by Community Leisure UK, insights found that vast swathes (76 per cent) of the Warrington community wrongly believe LiveWire to be an arm of the local authority.
Research also discovered that only three per cent of Warrington residents knew their local LiveWire-run leisure facility or library was run on a not-for-profit, and 37 per cent said they'd be more interested in taking up a membership knowing this.
In order to raise greater awareness around how LiveWire operates as a CIC, the campaign will focus on the people behind its array of services including customers, staff and direct beneficiaries of the raft of programmes delivered by LiveWire.
Emma Hutchinson, LiveWire Managing Director, said: "As a Community Interest Company, we are driven by local needs, but not everyone knows or understands that. This is why the #LoveLiveWire campaign is such an important one. We need to generate more noise locally and nationally about what leisure trusts like LiveWire are achieving and how we operate.
"Whether its an arts and craft library group that supports social isolation, or a community fitness bootcamp, the investments we make are always centred on the needs of our communities – and this is something more people need to be aware of when they're choosing a preferred lifestyle provider. The research from Community Leisure UK shows how much of an important driver being socially conscious can be for people.
"Leisure trusts like ourselves are there to deliver high quality services, link health and lifestyle services together, support local priorities, invest for communities not shareholders and generate millions of pounds of savings for the public purse. That's an incredibly positive force for good."
Cate Atwater, Chief Executive of Community Leisure UK, said: "On a national level, LiveWire is regarded as a shining light in terms of leisure trusts and how they work, so we're delighted to be supporting their campaign to raise awareness like this.
"There is a genuine need, right across the country, to raise the profile of not-for-profit trusts like LiveWire and how they are a sound choice for people looking for options to support their leisure and lifestyle needs."
For more information on LiveWire visit www.livewirewarrington.organd to learn more about the work of Community Leisure UK visit www.communityleisureuk.org.


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Sailing Trips in Barcelona
Your guide to unfurling the sails and enjoying a boat tour on the Med.
By Duncan Rhodes
Whether you're a seasoned seaman, or a traveller who can't resist the allure of the sparkling Mediterranean, at least for a few hours, you're on the right page. We share a number of Barcelona Life approved sailing tours and trips, as well as details on how to charter a yacht for yourself.
Life on the ocean waves! That's what it's all about. Blues skies, salty air, and the majesty of the Mediterranean unfurling in front of you as you sail out of Barcelona's ports thirsty for adventure. (Hopefully with a copy of Moby Dick and a bottle of rum tucked inside your cabin for good measure).
Barcelona is one of the best bases in the world for sailing holidays, with its clement weather, modern marinas and the wealth of picturesque coastal towns along the Costa Brava. Those with a week or so to spend as sea might also note the city's proximity to the magical Balearic islands, Majorca, Menorca and Ibiza.
For the casual tourist … there are plenty of great sailing activities on offer in the Catalan capital, which can be enjoyed in a single afternoon, or less.
While for the casual tourist, who doesn't have time for a weekend, let alone a week, on a boat, there are plenty of sailing activities on offer in the Catalan capital, which can be enjoyed in a single afternoon, or less.
We've divided them into shared experiences, where you book a place on a boat shared with others, such as on the popular 1.5 hour Sailing Trip with Vermouth, which costs just €39 (or less with a Barcelona Life discount!); and private tours, where the whole boat is reserved just for you, such as on this sunset cruise.
One of the great joys of a sailing trip is that you can make it as active or passive as you want it to be. If you've been on a boat once or twice before, you can help the captain by yanking on ropes and holding the helm steady, whilst those who don't know their port from their starboard (and have little intention of learning) can dedicate themselves to drinking champagne on deck and working on their tan, leaving all the hard work to the qualified skipper.
Aspiring Buccaneers could even choose to spend a week or two in Barcelona learning the ropes (quite literally) on an RYA accredited sailing course that will have you hoisting, tacking and reefing up and down the rugged coastline of the Costa Brava.
Qualified sailors, meanwhile, can charter a yacht from Barcelona and take a leisurely (or not so leisurely) cruise around the Mediterranean, heading up to France or further down to Spain's southern resort towns like Marbella.
Sailing Trips (Shared Boats)
Shared boats are the most accessible sailing activities for visitors. Most travellers want to sample a slice of the seafaring life in Barcelona, but few can dedicate a whole day to it (not with all those other fun things to do in the city!). Here are some trips that can be done in a couple of hours or less, that are suitable for any budget.
1. Sailing Tour (1.5 hrs) with Vermouth
This is the number one activity from Barcelona's number one boat company, Sailing Experience. Their professional skippers will take you out on an 11 person sailboat for a 1.5 hour spin on the big blue. You'll leave from Port Vell (Old Port) and, looking back across land, you'll be able to admire views of the Statue of Columbus, Barceloneta beach and the historic castle of Montjuic. And you'll do all that with a delicious glass of Catalan vermouth in your hand, or beer, sangria, wine or soft drinks, if you prefer. This tour runs four times a day (9:30am, 12pm, 2:30pm and 4:40pm) every day of the year – even on Christmas day – and costs just €39 per person. Great news, we've even negotiated a 10% discount for Barcelona Life readers. Just use the voucher code BARCELONALIFE2020 when you check out. Look for the blue box on the right of the page that says 'Add Promo code / Voucher' when it comes to entering your payment details (first you have to select your date and hit the Book Now button to get going).
Vermouth Sailing Trip
Price: €39 per person (discounts for children)
Duration: 1.5 hours
Boat size: 11 people
Availability: 4 departures a day, 365 days a year.
Departure from: Port Vell
2. Sailing Tour with Brunch
Not a morning person? That might change as you break your fast with a delicious brunch of local pastries and hearty sandwiches with a sea breeze running through your hair. Another of Sailing Experience BCN's most booked trips, this slightly longer sail must be one of the best ways to start any day in Barcelona. It leaves from Port Vell every day at 9:30am, and yes, you can benefit from the same 10% discount that you can use when booking any of Sailing Experience's tours. Just use the voucher code BARCELONALIFE2020 when you check out. Look for the blue box on the right of the page that says 'Add Promo code / Voucher' when it comes to entering your payment details.
Brunch Sailing Trip
Price: €59 per person in low season (€64 in high season)
Duration: 2 hours
Boat size: 11 people
Availability: Every day at 9:30am
Departure from: Port Vell
3. Afternoon Sailing with Snacks
…and if you're really not a morning person then the Mediterranean will still be waiting for you in the afternoon. This tour is exactly the same as the sailing trip with brunch, except that it takes place at 3:30pm, and comes with traditional 'merienda' (afternoon) snacks and some refreshing beverages (beer, sangria, soft drinks, help yourself!). As always you can take advantage of the 10% discount we negotiated for our readers. Just use the voucher code BARCELONALIFE2020 when you check out.
Afternoon Sailing Trip
Price: €59 per person in low season (€64 in high season)
Duration: 2 hours
Boat size: 11 people
Availability: Every day at 3:30pm
Departs from: Port Vell
4. Sunset Sail with Cava
Barcelona boasts some beautiful sunsets, and there are few places better to enjoy them than out on a boat with views back over the city's darkening skyline, glass of Cava in hand. After a hectic schedule of sightseeing, this is the perfect way to round off your day! Plus you can save 10% off the price when you use the promo code BARCELONALIFE2020 on the Sailing Experience BCN website. After you've entered your dates, look for the blue button on the right of the page that says 'Add Promo code / Voucher'.
Sunset Sailing with Cava
Price: €69 per person in low season (€79 in high season)
Duration: 2 hours
Boat size: 11 people
Availability: Every day, leaving around 1 hour before sunset
Departs from: Port Vell
(NB: During the summer you can enjoy the same activity, but with live Spanish guitar included as well. Price €91 p.p. You can apply the discount here too!)
5. Las Golondrinas Boat Tour
This affordable tour departs several times a day from the Port Vell (Old Port), near Las Ramblas, and takes you on a pleasure cruise along Barcelona's coastline, past Barceloneta beach, all the way to the twin towers at the modern Port Olimpic, before heading back to where you began. This tour has been taken by 100,000s of travellers since it began back in 1888, and is still popular today. The tour takes place on a comfortable, large motorised catamaran (not a sailing boat!), departing several times a day. You can book via Get Your Guide.
Las Golondrinas Boat Tour
Price: €15.50 per person
Duration: 1.5 hours
Boat size: 80+ people
Availability: Between 1-7 departures a day, depending on the season
Departs from: Port Vell
Private Sailing Tours
Ramp up the luxury a bit with a private boat trip, exclusively for you and your partner, friends or family. Prices in this section are per boat, not per person.
1. Chill Out Day Sail
If you fancy heading out to sea with your besties then this activity offers you a very reasonably priced three hour yacht hire with experienced captain, and the chance to roam Barcelona's coastline and of course enjoy a dip in the water and a few drinks. Perfect for small groups of friends. The cost is €350 total for up to 7 people (or €450 if you need a bigger boat for up to 11 people). We have a direct contact with the provider, so just email us on email@example.com with your dates and group size, and you'll hear back within 1 working day.
Chill Out Sailing Trip
Price: €350 per boat up to 7 people (or €450 for up to 11).
Duration: 3 hours
Boat size: Up to 11 people
Availability: Every day at 10:30, or 14:30 (or 18:00 in summer)
Departs from: Port Olimpic
2. Romantic Sunset Cruise
During this amorous activity you'll head out on to the glittering Mediterranean for a romantic cruise you won't forget with gorgeous views back over the iconic Barcelona skyline. It doesn't get much more romantic than cuddling up with your loved one with a glass of Cava and chocolates on the gently rocking waves. The cost for this 3 hour private trip with skipper depends on the price of the boat, starting at €250 total for two people for an 8 metre boat (€350 for a 10 metre craft, €450 for a luxury 12 metre vessel). Read more on the different options here. We work directly with the provider for this one, so simply email us on email@example.com with your preferred dates and expect to hear back within 1 working day.
Romantic Sunset Cruise
Price: From €250 per boat
Duration: 3 hours
Boat size: Up to 7 people
Availability: Every day
Departs from: Port Olimpic
3. Private Boat Trip (2-8 hours)
With 10 different private boat tour options, Sailing Experience can cater for almost any group size, any time of the day and any length of trip, from two hours (which costs €239) to eight hours (which costs €839). Their boats can hold up to 11 people, and if you're lucky private hire might even work out cheaper than a shared activity, once you divide the costs – especially when you take advantage of their 10% discount for Barcelona Life readers. First you can head to their website and scroll to "Private Sailing Experiences". Pick the one you want and then select a date and click 'Book Now' to start the booking process. You will be offered additional options, and then, on the next screen, you can fill out your payment details. But before you do so, just be sure to enter the promo voucher code BARCELONALIFE2020 on the right hand side of the page and your shopping cart price will change to reflect your discount.
Private Boat Trips
Price: From €239 (plus you get a 10% discount!)
Duration: 2-8 hours
Boat size: Up to 11 people
Availability: Every day
Departs from: Port Vell
4. Sport Fishing Charter
If sunbathing, swimming and winching the odd rope is not enough for you, then you might want to try your luck at one of man's oldest hobbies… fishing! Click the link above to find out a list of boats available for fishing charters in and around Barcelona. You will also be able to grill and eat your catch at the end of the day at a local restaurant.
Sailing Packages
Want to combine some ocean spray, with other luxury or adrenaline activities? Here we go…
1. Barcelona Helicopter, Land & Sea
This 4-hour, small group tour starts in the Gothic Quarter, where your expect guide will reveal the beauty of Barcelona Cathedral, Plaça Sant Felipe Neri, Las Ramblas and Boqueria food market, before you will take a ride from the city's old port in a wonderful Turkish Goleta or an Eco-boat. After that you'll be driven to Barcelona's heli-port for an unforgettable flight over the Catalan capital. Great value at just €99.50 per person, all included. Book safely and securely via Get Your Guide.
2. Ferrari Drive & Sail
Move over James Bond, there's a new playboy in town… you! For this activity you get to drive a 460hp Ferrari California around Barcelona, with the wind in your hair and purring of a V8 engine under your bonnet. Afterwards you get to relax on a 1.5 hour sailing cruise, cocktail in hand. Prices start at just €99 for a combined 20 minutes drive + 90 minutes sail. We work directly with the provider for this one, so just drop us a line on email@example.com and we'll get back to you with more details within 1 working day.
Yacht Charter Companies
There are a number of yacht charter companies in Barcelona, from whom you can hire you a variety of boats, including sailing yachts, motorboats and catamarans. If you're a qualified sailor you can leave a deposit and rent a yacht bareboat, ie. without a skipper/crew, and get going. However, most companies provide the option of hiring a professional captain to make sure your sailing holiday doesn't end in you shipwrecking yourself on a desert island and being forced to grow a Tom Hanks-style beard.
Barcelona Yacht Charter
This leading private charter company, directly affiliated with Barcelona Life, has an enviable array of vessels to choose from – from 1 to 12 berth sailing yachts, top notch motor yachts, three catamarans and several historical yachts. You'll definitely be the envy of the Costa Brava swanning along the Mediterranean in the Llaüt "Sant Ramon" from 1904. Virtually all of their vessels are available both for bareboat rental or with a skipper and/or crew and hostess. They can also arrange sailing day trips, boat parties and luxury cruises for large corporate groups. Whatever you need, email us on email@example.com and we'll get back to you with a price quote.
Learn How To Sail
We're currently researching the best providers of sailing lessons and courses in and around Barcelona and the Costa Brava, where you can study for your RYA sailing certificate, and become a qualified seafarer. We'll be back to update this page shortly with this information.
Corporate Sailing Events
If you're on this page looking for sailing activity for a corporate team building event then you've just struck gold. This sailing regatta allows up 400 people to take part, racing against each other on boats of up to 8 people. It's a tonne of fun, and a great way to challenge your colleagues and also see them work together in a new way. Maybe that's why Pepsi, Mars, Zurich, Unilever, DHL and Swarovski have all booked it for their staff in recent years. We work direct with the provider, with no mark up on the price, so just drop us an email on email@example.com with dates, group size, etc and you'll hear back within 1 working day.
About the Author
Duncan established Barcelona Life in 2009, whilst freelancing for the likes of Conde Nast, The Guardian, Easyjet Magazine, CNN Traveller and many more. From interviews with Ferran Adria to revealing the secrets of the city's poetry brothels, he knows the city inside out… and shares all his best tips right here.
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Hi Duncan, I am trying to find a way of crossing the sea from Barcelona to Palma, on a sailing boat. We want to get to Palma from London, by not flying, and by using as little CO2 as we can. Diesel ferry boats use the dirtiest fuel and end up not being any mor eco-friendly than flying! We can take the train to Barcelona but I can't find a friendly sailor to take us across to Palma and collect us a week later for the return trip. In these days of 'green tourism' it seems like these sailing holidaly and party boats are missing a trick. Many people like us want to do the right thing for the environment but still travel leaving a smaller a carbon footprint as possible. Any ideas Duncan? There are two of us. My husband has some sailing experience so could help with ropes and things 🙂 Best wishes, Sonja (Thame, England)03.07.2020


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Wilmer Valderrama And Demi Lovato Might Be Back Together
A little over a month ago, 23-year-old semi-professional social media shit-starter Demi Lovato and 36-year-old Wilmer Valderrama took their six-year relationship out back and tossed it into the dumpster. It looks like they might have had second thoughts about not being together. Just like the time I realized I really really wanted to eat that Snickers bar after all and dug it out of the trash (it was still pretty much wrapped, okay?), Wilmer and Demi apparently had regrets about that whole breaking-up thing. At least according to Hollywood Life they did.
A source tells Hollywood Life, which Justin Bieber will be heartbroken to learn is still up and running, that Demi and Wilmer are giving each other a second chance. The source adds that they did actually break up last month, but they're back together and "dating again." The source also goes on to describe it as another "Jelena situation." As in, like the many times Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez got back together.
Neither Demi nor Wilmer have said anything about getting back together. As of last week, Wilmer was claiming he was "very good" after splitting with Demi. Yesterday, Demi said in a radio interview that she felt "free." So this source could be full of crap. Personally, I'm skeptical that they're back together. Confirmation for me will be when I wake up one morning and read the news that Demi swung by her second home (Twitter) and tweeted a late-night rant about soulmates and second chances and "the haters." Then, and only then, will I believe they're back together.
Here's a maybe-single/maybe not Demi leaving Z100 in New York City earlier today. If only pictures had smell-o-vision, we might be able to tell if she's doing Wilmer again. Sadly, my nose isn't picking up any traces of sleazeball or Old Spice.
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The Philippines has been sending queries to India on how the whole system functioned even before the visit was to take place.
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Shah was given a clean chit in the Sohrabuddin case in 2014. Judge Loya was hearing the matter at that time.
Leading porn sites saw rise in female users in 2017
According to leading adult sites, 2017 saw a spike in female users and women-oriented porn searches.
Till Death Do Us Part
What had upset the two year old friendship of the women was the transfer order which had arrived four days earlier. The orders posted them to two different schools far away from each other.
A Home of Sorts
The institute is run by the government. It dates back to 1950 when it was started by Shri Moti Rameshwari for the benefit of all unwanted women.
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The failure of the ruling party and the opposition to evolve a modus vivendi is a source of friction, but the intensity of the politicians' bitter feelings against each other and their strident note of acrimony reflect at best a comparatively less intractable aspect of the matter.
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Mohanjeet's essentially Indian creations have quite literally taken fashion-crazy Paris by storm.
A Goldfinger in the Pie
The spiritual 'Road of True Life' - that is the English translation of the English tongue-twisting name of the hermitage of Meivazhi Salai, 25 miles from Tiruchirapalli in Tamil Nadu-was studded with pure diamonds and solid gold bricks.
Is This Cricket?
When the Indian cricket team first set out on its tour of New Zealand and the West Indies, a large section of cricket commentators expressed their satisfaction at the choice of players.
What the Doctor Saw
In the early hours of the morning the patients pour in like a torrent of rain. As the clock strikes nine all the benches are occupied and the scene closely resembles a railway station. This description could apply to any out patient department in a public service hospital.


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Crystal Lake Police Sgt. Mike Bennett has shoveled driveways, changed tires and even stopped traffic on Route 31 to help a mother goose and her goslings get across the busy roadway.
Bennett sees it as part of the job, one that led to his decision to pursue a career as a police officer after working as a security officer in low-income housing, but one that doesn't get as much attention as it should.
"[Departments] don't prioritize that," Bennett said. "But you do hear about how many tickets you wrote the day before, how many tickets they want you to write, concentrating on different intersections for certain violations and stuff like that."
The Crystal Lake Police Department, where Bennett has spent the past 21 years, has been supportive of the efforts, but the good deeds still aren't quantifiable, he said.
Bennett's emphasis on community policing is one of the reasons he was named to a new target response unit that will be focused on problem-solving within the community, getting to spend more time on quality-of-life issues such as neighbor disputes, kids who are running into trouble and issues related to drug addiction, said his supervisor, Cmdr. Ron Joseph.
"Mike is self-initiated, team-oriented, works to inspire his personnel to achieve a higher level of customer service," Joseph said.
That's why Joseph wasn't surprised at all to hear that Bennett was raising money to buy a new dog for Laura Johnson, a developmentally disabled Crystal Lake resident who had been out walking her dog when she was hit by a car, leaving her dog, Scooby, dead and her with an injured foot and leg.
Johnson had been woken up by her dog around 2 a.m. Oct. 26, said her mother, Judy Johnson.
Laura Johnson doted on Scooby, a 3-year-old shelter dog that looked like a black poodle, and would take him out anytime of day or night, Judy Johnson said. They'd head out the front door and loop around the condominium complex they've lived in for the past 18 years.
That night, they didn't make it farther than the sidewalk right outside their building when a car driven by Damian Dzitkowski jumped the curb and hit the two of them. Dzitkowski was charged with driving under the influence of alcohol and was sentenced to a year of probation in December.
"She was down there screaming, 'He killed my dog. He killed my dog,'" Judy Johnson said. "She was sitting on the ground. She couldn't stand up yet. She was in such shock. Her foot hurt, but she didn't even realize [that she had been hit]."
Information came to Bennett in bits and pieces as the first officer responded and then he arrived to conduct the investigation, get witness statements and, ultimately, make an arrest, he said.
"After everything kind of died down and we talked to Laura a little bit – she didn't say a whole lot – then we realized there was more to it than a woman out with her dog," Bennett said. "By the end of the shift, it kind of sank in. I think a lot of us felt pretty bad."
Bennett thought about putting out a jar with a note on it to raise money to help replace the Johnsons' dog, but then he decided to do something "a little bit more modern."
A link to the crowdsourcing site GoFundMe.com was sent around the Crystal Lake Police Department and its dispatch center, Southeast Emergency Communications or SEECOM, Bennett said. Within three days, they had raised $500, and by the end of the week, it was about $1,000.
The Johnsons used the money plus an additional $200 they had gotten from some of Judy Johnson's former co-workers – she had retired from McHenry County College the year before – to buy a bichon-frise-and-shi-tzu mix puppy they named Abbie.
The donation gave Laura Johnson something to look forward to instead of just thinking about what had happened and the dog she lost, Judy Johnson said.
Actions like this help the police department build trust with the community and ensure the department can be successful, Joseph said.
"I thought it was very noble," he said. "It was very empathetic and noble that he would lead the charge for trying to make restitution, but working with him for 21 years, that's nothing that surprised me."


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With a list of accolades as long as a pair of stripy tights, Gabby Young And Other Animals (otherwise known as the "World's Finest Purveyors of Circus Swing" – Clive Anderson, Loose Ends on Radio 4)'s highly anticipated second album, "The Band Called Out For More", is out today. This release follows their critically acclaimed 2010 debut album, "We're All In This Together".
Written by Gabby and her partner Stephen Ellis, who also produces, this 13 track work represents a giant sonic step forward. Its colourful avant-garde sound, with lush orchestration, horns and quiet melodies, exudes the best bits of music hall, burlesque, 1920s flapper music, Nouvelle Vague cinema and torch songs. Indeed, Gabby comes across like Rufus Wainwright's other younger sister – bred perhaps on a diet of Bjork, Imogen Heap, and Joanna Newsom – as she sets out winningly to reinvent her own genre, Circus Swing.
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Legendary British Metal band Tank return with a brand new album, War Nation. The highly anticipated follow up to their 2010 album "War Machine" is the second album to feature long time guitarists Mick Tucker and Cliff Evans alongside vocalist Doogie White, bass player Chris Dale and returning drummer Steve Hopgood.
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After four melodramatic years, The Twilight Saga is coming to an end. Next month, Summit will release the final entry in the series, Breaking Dawn—Part 2. But before diving into the vampire action, go behind the scenes with this new featurette.
The video contains interviews with the cast discussing their last hurrah. Robert Pattinson (Edward Cullen) speaks about Breaking Dawn's massive scale and the effect the franchise has had on fans. "It's been building up, and building up and building up. It gets a very visceral reaction out of people," he says.
The film has vampires coming out of the woodwork—literally. The Cullens need all the help they can get to defeat the Volturi. That means putting aside their differences and joining forces with the werewolves. Breaking Dawn—Part 2 includes a huge battle set against a snowy backdrop. Catch a glimpse of the final showdown below.
The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn - Part 2 opens in theaters everywhere Nov. 16.


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Tiny UK manufacturer Ariel has proven itself rather competent at building most excellent skeletal lightweight and utterly, mentally, fast cars, such as the Atom.
It gets prodigious performance in the time-honoured way of jamming powerful engines into ridiculously light cars, so when it turned its attention to something more off-roadish, things were very promising indeed.
And so it turned out, as the the Ariel Nomad is said to be rather excellent fun off the sealed stuff.
But now Ariel has decided to up the fun factor by offering a supercharged option.
The blower added to the Nomad's 2.4-litre Honda engine will pump out 216kW and 340Nm and add around $13,000 to the $68,000 starting price. Given it will propel the tiny off-roader to 96km/h in a frankly silly 3.4 seconds, the Good Oil can see the value in it.
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The number of employees at the Ariel Motor Company
The number of cars produced annually by the Ariel Motor Company
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Pilot spots triangle UFO 'size of a football field'
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A Tennesseee pilot watching departing traffic at Memphis International Airport reported seeing a triangle UFO with dull white lights on November 24, according to testimony from the Mutual UFO Network (MUFON) database.
The 8-year commercial pilot veteran said the object's lights were not blinking or strobing, and that it was silent. The pilot stated that the object was moving at between Mach 1 to Mach 1.5.
Sizing the object up with other known aircraft in the sky at the time, the pilot believes this object was "the size of a football field."
Reports appear to have increased on these large triangle crafts that are low to the ground.
Following is the unedited and uninvestigated report from MUFON. Please keep in mind that most UFO reports can be explained as something natural or manmade.
TN, I'm a pilot w/ based in MEM. I was watchiching departing traffic overhead, and noticed at approx. 290 degrees a diamond shape object with dull white lights travelling at approx Mach 1- 1.5 totally SILENT! MUFON Case # 20704.
As mentioned above, I was watching departing traffic from MEM looking North in the city of Cordova when I noticed a triangular shaped object… [CONTINUED.. see comment below]
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This doesn't suprize me that the black triangle craft are being seen again. There are also reports from around the UK currently coming out of the same thing being seen over the xmas period.
We saw, and reported to Mufon, a similar craft over the Fox River in Illinois in early December. There's some who feel these are military craft, much like high powered stealth blimps.


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Representative market media studies based on large case numbers survey the media usage and consumer behaviour of the German population (attitudes and usage to equal degrees). SINUS-Institut has direct access to this comprehensive data and is able to undertake individual computations along with market-defining analyses. The data can be differentiated according to either sociodemographic characteristics or Sinus-Milieus (or a combination of the two). The Sinus-Milieus have been established for decades as a target group tool for optimised media planning, which means they are integrated in all the main market media studies.
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Continued from last column, we are introducing Ellen Baker's new collection, Rough Cut. This time double gauze fabric is featured. The double gauze has two thick layers of fabric that are stitched together to create a super soft and cozy fabric, perfect for clothing and baby items.
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I am pleased to report that the WFDB's Presidents' Meeting, hosted by the Borsa Istanbul, was incident free and generated positive results. The venue was spectacular which contributed to good working conditions. The social events hosted, a dinner cruise on the Bosphorus and a gala dinner at the Four Seasons Hotel on the banks of the Bosphorus, were superb. Photographs of the meetings as well as the social events will be available for viewing on the WFDB website.
As we have reached the mid-year period I would like to wish our friends in the northern hemisphere countries a good and well deserved safe vacation.