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AUGUSTA, Ga. — At the last hole, Guan Tianlang retrieved his ball from the cup after ending his first Masters with his 48th par. The fans ringing the 18th green gave him a standing ovation. They no doubt were thinking that they had not seen the last of Guan, a 14-year-old from China who finished as the low amateur.
He carded rounds of 73-75-77-75 at Augusta National Golf Club for a total of 12-over 300. In four days on what he described as "the most difficult course in the world," Guan did not have a double bogey.
"It's not easy to play here, to make the cut and be low amateur," Guan said. "I think I did a pretty good job this week and can't believe it's over."
Guan, who finished 58th, assessed his play: "I think the first couple rounds I played pretty good. I feel a little bit tired today. So, yeah, there's still a lot of things to improve. My short game's good but still needs to be better. My driver probably needs to be longer. Yes, I mean, everything needs to improve."
Guan's playing partner Sunday was Sandy Lyle, the 1988 champion and his senior by 41 years. Lyle seemed to relish the chance to play with Guan. "It was very interesting to see," Lyle said. "He hits the ball quite a reasonable distance at the moment and remember, he's only 14. Short game is very good."
Asked what he would like to accomplish in the coming years, Guan said: "I have my own idea and my own opinions. I want to play where I can get more opportunities, and it's totally up to me."
How long before he wins a Masters?
"As soon as possible," he said, smiling.
MICKELSON'S LOST WEEKEND Phil Mickelson's Masters was done before the fourth round began for the last 18 players in the field. For the fifth time in 21 appearances at Augusta National, Mickelson did not post a sub-70 round. With scores of 71-76-77-73, Mickelson, a three-time champion, finished in a tie for 54th, in a group with Sandy Lyle, Keegan Bradley and Scott Piercy at nine-over 297.
It was his worst placing in 20 four-round appearances. Mickelson has missed the cut once, in 1997.
"I just had an off-year, I don't know what to tell you," said Mickelson, who won his 41st PGA Tour event in January in Scottsdale, Ariz. "I played poorly."
Mickelson, who had three double bogeys in the four rounds, usually plays the tour stop in Houston the week before the Masters to sharpen his game. That tournament was held a week earlier this year, giving Mickelson a rare week off before traveling here.
"The things I did last week to get ready, I just wasn't as mentally sharp as I needed to be," he said. "I've got to find another way to get ready for big events if I'm not able to compete the week before."
He added: "This was disappointing for me in that this is my favorite place in the world to play. This is my favorite place to be, my favorite tournament, and one I look forward to the day after it ends. And to perform like this is disappointing." KAREN CROUSE
SNEDEKER SEES POSITIVES Brandt Snedeker lost another good chance to win the Masters, but in contrast with 2008, when he broke down in tears at a news conference after finishing third, he was philosophical and looking forward.
"It's different; I'm not as crushed as I was in 2008 because I know I'm going to be there again," he said. "I know this golf course so well and I putted about as poorly as I could today, and I still had a chance on the back nine. So while I'm very disappointed that I didn't win, I realize that I'm not that far off from winning this thing. I'm going to do it soon."
Like Tiger Woods and other players, Snedeker said he was undone by the speed of the greens, which the players said felt much slower than they had been on Saturday.
"On the back nine, I could not get a putt to the hole, no matter what I did," Snedeker said. "If you watch me play, I never leave putts short. And today, I probably left every putt short coming in. I didn't make the adjustment that you got to make."
Snedeker said he was frustrated and happy with his play in the tournament.
"Anytime have you a chance to win the Masters and you don't come through — my lifelong dream — you're going to be upset, you're going to cry, you know, but I'll get through it. I'm playing great; I look forward to what the next weeks are going to hold." BILL PENNINGTON
A 10, TIMES TWO Starting the day 11 strokes behind the leaders, Kevin Na figured he had nothing to lose. So he went for a high-risk, high-reward shot on the 12th hole, a 155-yard par-3. Na took aim at the pin, which was hugging the right collar of the green, and hit his first 8-iron into Rae's Creek. His second and third shots, with the 8-iron, also ended up in the water. Na ended up two-putting for a 10 on his way to an 81.
"I'm in the back of the field, I was trying to make a 1," Na said, adding, "I was trying to pull off a shot that's maybe a low-percentage shot."
Na, who held the lead at the Players Championship before tying for seventh, gained notice in 2011 when he made a 16 at a par 4 during the tour stop in San Antonio without losing his ball or hitting it in a hazard.
Na's expression brightened when he learned that Bubba Watson, the defending champion, also took a 10 at No. 12 on Sunday. "He did?" Na said. "Really?"
Na was playing with a back injury that he said would have kept him from playing in any other tournament. "No chance," he said of skipping the Masters. "This is a special place. I love coming here." KAREN CROUSE
VONN'S WEEK Lindsey Vonn walked the course with Tiger Woods's mother, Nike's Phil Knight and some others from Woods's entourage.
Vonn had a large black brace on her reconstructed knee. She tore ligaments in a crash in February but is hoping to recover in time to defend her Olympic downhill title in February.
Vonn obliged spectators who approached her for autographs and chatted with members of the gallery, many of whom inquired about her knee rehabilitation.
Asked about her first week at the Masters, Vonn smiled and replied, "It's been fun." BILL PENNINGTON


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You've sent us so many snow pictures that we needed another picture gallery for them! Rowan from Northumberland sent us this pic of her dog Ted looking cold.
Abigail and Sam built this giant snowman in Stourbridge. It's nearly as tall as than both of them put together!
Check out this huge polar bear made by Archie and Kitty in Berwick-upon-Tweed.
Elise and Casey from Norfolk sent in this pic of their dog Pepsi looking like something out of Ice Age!
And this dog Ellie looks nice and comfortable - if you put a dog in an igloo does it become a dogloo?!
Emma and Rebecca from Southampton have kept their snowman nice and warm with this scarf.
This great action shot shows Harry, Archie and grandad flying down the slopes.
These amazing icicles are hanging off the roof of Maria's house in Reading.
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Kye, six of his friends and lots of passers by all helped to make this massive five-metre high snow giant in Maidenhead.
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Ross, his sister and his dad put together this snowy couple in their back garden.
When Sadie's horse Flight got a bit peckish, it started tucking into the snowman's carrot nose!
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— With no established brand guidelines, the oldest library in New York asked for a brand identity system and website that not only celebrated the Library's esteemed history but also reflected the vibrant institution it is today.
In 1754, when there was no library in the city open to the public, the New York Society formed a subscription library which anyone could join. It has attracted such luminaries as George Washington, Herman Melville, Willa Cather, and Truman Capote.
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Seattle, Wa - On Saturday, April 23rd, 2011, The Filipino Chamber of Commerce of the Pacific Northwest (FCCPNW), in partnership with the Filipino American Civic Employees of Seattle, the Filipino Community of Seattle, and the Filipino American Association of Certified Public Accountants, held their 3rd Annual Business Development Conference appropriately themed, "Starting and Building Your Business in the New Economy".
This event's main purpose was to connect entrepreneurs with business opportunities in the region and educate with legal requirements and tax benefits related to conducting a business as well as empower business owners and managers by creating networking opportunities. This event also provided professionals to earn continuing education credits. As Sheila Burrus, FCCPNW Chamber President, stated, "We are seeing more Filipino businesses emerge in the services sectors like the legal profession, financial planning and real estate. This conference is to encourage young and old alike amid these fields to start thinking entrepreneurial. Hence the growing demand of these conferences within the Filipino community."
Invited to kick off the event was Steve Johnson, the Director of Seattle's Office of Economic Development (OED). He painted an overall picture of what industries weathered the recession, how Seattle's new economy centers around creativity and providing value-driven services, his office's role in helping you do business in Seattle, as well as the importance of shared prosperity for all in our region.
The City of Seattle Department of Finance and Administrative Services are reporting approximately $80 billion of revenue from Seatle based businesses last year. Of that, $40.6 billion were generated from service related businesses, an increase of 1% from the previous year. The harder hit of the industries, Real Estate and Cons/Residential businesses, $7.0 billion and $4.6 billion were generated, respectively. The glimmer of hope here is that income increased incrementally quarter by quarter last year with at total income of $101.2 billion, including business income from outside businesses.
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- Filipino Chamber of Commerce of the Pacific Northwest - http://www.fccpnw.org/
- The Pinoy Reporter - http://pinoyreporter.com/
- Seattle Center Community College - http://www.seattleccd.com
- Filipino Community of Seattle - http://fcseattle.org/
- Filipino American Civic Employees of Seattle http://facesseattle.org
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We're Architects and Building Conservation specialists who are known for delivering projects with an authentic sense of place. We're an RIBA Chartered Practice based in the Midlands.
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I am a design-led architect, passionate about delivering unique projects which exceed our client's expectations. Having worked for a national architectural practice specialising in residential architecture, I bring an in-depth knowledge of the sector, ranging from developer-led housing, to extra-care and specialist housing schemes, one-off bespoke dwellings, masterplanning, and rural exception development sites.
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Hanamaru-sensei, creator of the popular children's character panda-cat, is in a slump and cannot draw. When he happens
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The Sakura Class draws pictures of what they want to be when they grow up. Their dreams range from brides to florists to astronauts. While looking at their drawings, Tsuchida-sensei remembers the decision he made as a high school student to become a kindergarten teacher. After class, the other kindergarten teachers excitedly share the reasons they became teachers.
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This comic opera sparkles like sunshine on the sea with all the charm that made it a hit more than a century ago
You may have never heard of Arthur Sullivan and W.S. Gilbert, but you've certainly heard of Gilbert and Sullivan. The two had a run of comic opera hits in England whose popularity propelled them across the pond to America, where that popularity was magnified. Because Gilbert's father was a naval surgeon, life on the seas and the politics of power were often themes of the librettist. That's certainly the case with H.M.S. Pinafore, the light yet acerbic jab at patrician politics and love that 2nd Star Productions in Bowie has brought to seafaring life.
Gilbert's propensity for detail took him to the seaside of Portsmouth to measure and record every detail of a real ship so that his sets would be as realistic when the play opened in 1878. His could have been no more lifelike than 2nd Star's. Director Jane Wingard has designed a nearly life-size two-level ship so real it makes us feel we're bobbing along the waves with the crew. The detail is impressive, down to other ships far off in the background.
The gorgeous set anchors (ha, see what I did th… oh never mind) a production that is brisk as a sea breeze. Josephine (Emily Mudd), the captain's daughter, is in love with Ralph Rackstraw (James Huchla), a lowly deckhand. But she is expected to marry The Right Honorable Sir Joseph Porter (Paul Koch), First Lord of the Admiralty. Porter's lack of actual seafaring experience is revealed in his admonitions that each order be accompanied by a friendly "If you please." So does his insistence that class hierarchy has no place on a ship, as all are equal. Which of course leads Josephine and Ralph to believe it's clear sailing ahead (uh-oh, I did it ag… never mind) for their love.
As Josephine, Emily Mudd is as bright as the North Star. One second she is perfectly and hilariously melodramatic and camp; the next she is regaling us with the beautiful and haunting 'Sorry the Lot Who Loves Too Well.' It's as professional a performance as you'll see on any stage. Her vocal chemistry with Huchla's soaring tenor is thrilling, especially when the two square off on 'Refrain, Audacious Tar,' as she pretends to play hard to get when he professes his love.
Huchla in fact leads a male chorus whose harmonies brilliantly permeate the show's group numbers but are especially in evidence on the a capella sailors' boast 'A British Tar.'
As Porter, Koch is quite funny, and his musical explanation of how he rose to his position through sheer ineptitude, 'When I Was a Lad,' is a comic delight as well — if only we could hear all of it. In giving his refined fop a constricted manner, Koch, at least on opening night, allows that manner to impede the rat-a-tat of so many of Gilbert and Sullivan's staccato lyrics, thus forcing the audience to strain to understand what's being sung. I hope he can crank the volume a bit; his performance is too good to miss.
Brian Binney brings a pleasant baritone to the role of Captain Corcoran, and to the captain's reluctant flirtation with Pam Shilling's beautifully sung Little Buttercup, the dockside vendor who harbors (there I go …) a deep secret. As the humpbacked, twisted-legged, one-eyed Dick Deadeye, Nicholas Mudd is so in character that the deformed leg maintains its twistedness even during the dances.
Music director Joe Biddle understands that lyrics are key in a comic opera, so he ensures that his very good orchestra plays a less-is-more supporting role. There's even a nice glossary of nautical and other terms in the playbill to help us track the language of the day.
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"Simon, Simon, behold, Satan demanded to have you, that he might sift you like wheat; but
I have prayed for you that your faith may not fail; and when you have turned again, strengthen your brethren" (Luke 22:31).
Jesus understood that Peter would not bring himself to confess that he was the Lord's disciple. He knew also that after a period of inner struggle, Simon would again regain his faith. Thus He doesn't say "if," but "when you have returned." When faith takes hold once again, Peter will be all the stronger for the experience. He will have compassion on others who will have fallen, then returned to the Lord.
Too often we feel that everything is lost when we fail in a crisis situation. In losing our self-confidence we lose faith in ourselves as well as in the Spirit of God Who never leaves us. Christ Jesus knows better. He can outline the broad aspects of our lives for us. He realizes that each human being is an ongoing adventure in faith. We are all in the process of finding and losing, searching then rediscovering our true selves on the journey through life towards the Kingdom of God.
We also hold illusions about ourselves which we cherish. We make idols of our ideals. Like St. Peter, we think: "Even though they all fall away, I will not" (Mark 14:29). The despair that he later would experience was caused by his failure to stand by Jesus that night when He was taken prisoner. Peter's guilt was compounded by the awareness that he had failed himself. He never imagined that he would betray his Master. The idol that he had created in his mind's eye of his invincibility had been shattered. Nobody did it to him; his will failed him. Imagine what were his thoughts as he sat warming his hands in the courtyard while Jesus was inside being tried by fire. Jesus wasn't the only one on trial that night. Peter stood accused of being a disciple of Christ. The accuser, a lowly servant girl, and Peter his own defense attorney.
Everything works for good to those who love God. Thus we may claim a blessing on St. Peter's denial for several reasons:
First, in order that he who was to be the first among the Apostles would understand and empathize with the weakness and failings of all who would look up to him for inspiration;
Second, so that he would never again rely in himself for spiritual gifts, but upon faith in the living Christ Who never forsakes or abandons those who trust in God;
Third, that we who read this intimate passage can reassure ourselves that although we fail the tests put before us, as long as our faith stays intact, we are able to gain from the experience yet another lesson about our inner composition, realizing the error of self-reliance and the need for God-reliance.
Even more important is the lesson that our integrity depends on us. Not the heavenly Father, nor the Holy Spirit, nor Christ Jesus will decide for us whether we shall respond to the delusions of Satan and trust in our own omnipotence, or if we are to crush the idol of self and live by faith in God alone.


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Updated, 2:10 P.M. — Comment from Amazon added near the bottom of this story
Out of the 44 reviews for "The Everything Store," the new book about Amazon and its founder Jeff Bezos, there is a single 1-star review. It's written by someone who might surprise you: MacKenzie Bezos, wife of Jeff Bezos.
Yep, that's right: Jeff Bezos' wife this morning penned a 937-word recap of the book, calling out author Brad Stone for "too many inaccuracies," for a book that is "a lopsided and misleading portrait of the people and culture at Amazon," she writes.
In the beginning of the book, Stone describes Jeff Bezos reading the Remains of the Day as inspiration for starting Amazon. But MacKenzie Bezos says that her husband didn't read the book for more than a year after starting the company.
She then accuses Stone of stretching the truth and using "weak rhetorical devices" in the book, which sheds light on Amazon's brutal culture and offers an unvarnished look at Bezos' aggressive and at times abrasive leadership style.
We just spoke with Stone, who said he was taken aback by the review.
"Of course I'm surprised," he said in a phone interview. "We haven't heard much from MacKenzie over the years when it comes to Amazon."
Stone added that he talked to more than 300 current and past executives of Amazon "to get a portrait of this incredibly secretive and disruptive company."
"To the extent I made a mistake, I'd happily correct it in the e-book and subsequent print editions," he said.
Stone said that he has a "great relationship" with Amazon and has interviewed Jeff Bezos many times. However, Jeff Bezos declined to be interviewed for the book — something MacKenzie Bezos notes in her review. But to Stone's credit, he did approach Jeff Bezos for approval to interview his family and friends.
"Jeff has always told authors that it's too early to write a history of Amazon, and frankly, he probably doesn't want to spend time reflecting," Stone said of Jeff Bezos declining interviews for his book. "I wasn't surprised by that."
Mackenzie Bezos also took issue with the description of the Amazon "people whose accounts of a supportive and inspiring culture contradict his thesis," saying that Stone "refers to them dismissively throughout the book as robots."
Stone, though, said that this was inaccurate. He references a phrase in the book — "Jeff Bot" — that is used within Amazon to "teasingly" describe executives who take Jeff Bezos' own mannerisms and philosophies as their own.
In an interview with Harvard Business Review, Stone notes how the phrase "does connote a bit of mimicry, but it's also about loyalty."
"Jeff's leadership style is infectious," he told the HBR. "The people who do the best at Amazon are the people who absorb his principles. I don't think the Jeff-Bots are Yes Men—they just have internalized the way Jeff thinks."
Amazon VP of Global Communications Craig Berman reached out to GeekWire and provided this statement in response to Stone's reporting for the book, also adding that "[Stone] uses an excuse that we are 'incredibly secretive…' to blunt criticism from Mackenzie and others":
"Over the course of the author's reporting, Amazon facilitated meetings for him with more than half a dozen senior Amazon executives, during which he had every opportunity to inquire about or fact-check claims made by former employees. He chose not to. I met in person with him on at least three occasions and exchanged dozens of emails where he only checked a few specific quotes. He had every opportunity to thoroughly fact check and bring a more balanced viewpoint to his narrative, but he was very secretive about the book and simply chose not to."
Here's Mackenzie Bezos' review in full:
In the first chapter, the book sets the stage for Bezos's decision to leave his job and build an Internet bookstore. "At the time Bezos was thinking about what to do next, he had recently finished the novel Remains of the Day, by Kazuo Ishiguro, about a butler who wistfully recalls his personal and professional choices during a career in service in wartime Great Britain. So looking back on life's important junctures was on Bezos's mind when he came up with what he calls 'the regret-minimization framework' to decide the next step to take at this juncture in his career." It's a good beginning, and it weaves in nicely with what's to come. But it's not true. Jeff didn't read Remains of the Day until a year after he started Amazon.
If this were an isolated example, it might not matter, but it's not. Everywhere I can fact check from personal knowledge, I find way too many inaccuracies, and unfortunately that casts doubt over every episode in the book. Like two other reviewers here, Jonathan Leblang and Rick Dalzell, I have firsthand knowledge of many of the events. I worked for Jeff at D. E. Shaw, I was there when he wrote the business plan, and I worked with him and many others represented in the converted garage, the basement warehouse closet, the barbecue-scented offices, the Christmas-rush distribution centers, and the door-desk filled conference rooms in the early years of Amazon's history. Jeff and I have been married for 20 years.
While numerous factual inaccuracies are certainly troubling in a book being promoted to readers as a meticulously researched definitive history, they are not the biggest problem here. The book is also full of techniques which stretch the boundaries of non-fiction, and the result is a lopsided and misleading portrait of the people and culture at Amazon. An author writing about any large organization will encounter people who recall moments of tension out of tens of thousands of hours of meetings and characterize them in their own way, and including those is legitimate. But I would caution readers to take note of the weak rhetorical devices used to make it sound like these quotes reflect daily life at Amazon or the majority viewpoint about working there.
For example, when the author does include people whose accounts of a supportive and inspiring culture contradict his thesis, he refers to them dismissively throughout the book as robots. In an archive of the thousands of thank you messages written to Jeff over the years, a small sampling includes "I just wanted to thank you for giving my husband the opportunity to work for your company so many years ago and let you know that he always spoke kindly and enthusiastically of the distribution center, the people and you." "Having finished my shift I thought I would send you a short email to say thank you. There is a fantastic team based here and we have super support. Our mentors are true Amazon angels providing guidance and showing great patience." "I cried as I read the Career Choice announcement on Amazon today. What Amazon is doing to help its employees is affecting lives in the most meaningful way I can think of. It restores my faith in humanity." It seems like unbalanced reporting to avoid including the point of view of more people like these (and to use narrative tricks to discredit those who are included), given how plentiful they are.
In light of the focus in many of the reviews here and elsewhere on what the book "reveals" about Jeff's motives, I will also point out that the passage about what was on his mind when he decided to start Amazon is far from the only place where the book passes off speculation about his thoughts and intentions as fact. "Bezos felt…" "Bezos believed…." "Bezos wanted…." "Bezos fixated…" "Bezos worried…." "Bezos was frustrated…" "Bezos was consumed…" "In the circuitry of Bezos's brain, something flipped…" When reading phrases like these, which are used in the book routinely, readers should remember that Jeff was never interviewed for this book, and should also take note of how seldom these guesses about his feelings and motives are marked with a footnote indicating there is any other source to substantiate them.
One of the biggest challenges in non-fiction writing is the risk that a truthfully balanced narration of the facts will be boring, and this presents an author with some difficult choices. It may be that another telling of the Amazon story—for example, that people at Amazon have no secret agenda they've been able to keep hidden for 19 years, really do believe in the mission they keep repeating, and are working hard and of their own free will to realize it —would strike readers as less exciting than the version offered here. I sympathize with this challenge. But when an author plans to market a book as non-fiction, he is obliged to find a suspenseful story arc that doesn't rely on mischaracterizing or avoiding important parts of the truth. I am grateful this is the era of the Internet, when characters in non-fiction can step out of books, as Jonathan Leblang and Rick Dalzell have done, and speak for themselves. Ideally, authors are careful to ensure people know whether what they are reading is history or an entertaining fictionalization. Hollywood often uses a more honest label: "a story based on true events." If authors won't admit they've crossed this important line, their characters can do it for them.


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GOODREADS SUMMARY | Random House Canada | Hardcover, 208 pp. | April 7th, 2014 | Adult Fiction | Thriller | Rating: 4 out of 5 Stars
Jo Nesbø is a household name in the suspense/thriller genre. And since I've rarely venture out into that aisle of my bookstore, I've yet to discover all the hows and the whys he's so popular. At 208 pages, this book did its damnest to convince me that he is as prolific in the genre as everyone claims him to be.
I get it. I get his style. I get his characters and the brutal violence that he could very well be known for. This man has written a number of books; including a couple of stand-alones that are critically acclaimed. As an inexperienced reader of noir fiction, I'm hardly an expert. But I hope you'll give me some leeway when I say that Scandinavian thrillers are a different beast altogether. I think did him a disservice when I tagged this book as pulp fiction during the first few chapters of my reading. Truth is, it really is not.
It's difficult to develop a rapport with a character whose line of work dealt with the murder of suspect characters. But Olav is what you would consider as an assassin with a heart. Depending on the assignment, the chances of him saving a kill is more than likely to happen. He does his research well; he finds anything worth saving before he goes for the kill. It's a deterrent to success in his line of work. After all, he can't save everyone. And while he is a killer with a kind heart, he could be also be as cold as a trained assassin could be.
His latest assignment led him to a whole world of trouble. He was to kill the wife of the man who give his assignments. During his usual surveillance, he found out that she was, indeed, cheating. But the circumstances can't be as black and white. He sees the man beats her before they have sex. He concludes that he was blackmailing her, hence the forced sex. He didn't anticipate how badly things will turn out when he decided to kill the man instead of his boss' wife, however.
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Women's groups, without the votes
Women's groups didn't do as badly today as they might have, as the Stupak executive order appears to be more a restatement of the Nelson language than an instatement of the Stupak language.
Still, the battle exposed the profound weakness of the abortion rights movement, which -- though often assumed to be identical with the Democratic Party -- still simply doesn't have the votes. Women's groups reacted today with mixed relief and anger, but I think NARAL Pro-Choice America's Nancy Keenan makes the essential point:
On a day when Americans are expected to see passage of legislation that will make health care more affordable for more than 30 million citizens, it is deeply disappointing that Bart Stupak and other anti-choice politicians would demand the restatement of the Hyde amendment, a discriminatory law that blocks low-income women from receiving full reproductive-health care. Today's action is a stark reminder of why we must repeal this unfair and insulting policy. Achieving this goal means increasing the number of lawmakers in Congress who share our pro-choice values. Otherwise, we will continue to see women's reproductive rights used as a bargaining chip.
Planned Parenthood's Cecile Richards strikes a conciliatory note:
We regret that a pro-choice president of a pro-choice nation was forced to sign an Executive Order that further codifies the proposed anti-choice language in the health care reform bill, originally proposed by Senator Ben Nelson of Nebraska. What the president's executive order did not do is include the complete and total ban on private health insurance coverage for abortion that Congressman Bart Stupak (D–MI) had insisted upon. So while we regret that this proposed Executive Order has given the imprimatur of the president to Senator Nelson's language, we are grateful that it does not include the Stupak abortion ban.
NOW President Terry O'Neill, meanwhile, is less focused on the details:
The National Organization for Women is incensed that President Barack Obama agreed today to issue an executive order designed to appease a handful of anti-choice Democrats who have held up health care reform in an effort to restrict women's access to abortion. Through this order, the president has announced he will lend the weight of his office and the entire executive branch to the anti-abortion measures included in the Senate bill, which the House is now prepared to pass.
President Obama campaigned as a pro-choice president, but his actions today suggest that his commitment to reproductive health care is shaky at best. Contrary to language in the draft of the executive order and repeated assertions in the news, the Hyde Amendment is not settled law -- it is an illegitimate tack-on to an annual must-pass appropriations bill. NOW has a longstanding objection to Hyde and, in fact, was looking forward to working with this president and Congress to bring an end to these restrictions. We see now that we have our work cut out for us far beyond what we ever anticipated. The message we have received today is that it is acceptable to negotiate health care on the backs of women, and we couldn't disagree more.


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National badminton champion Mark Constable bowed out of the Yonex All England Championships at the first hurdle in Birmingham.
The Coventry player lost 7-4, 7-0, 7-4 to Luo Yigang of China in the opening round of the mens singles at the National Indoor Arena.
Solihull's Julia Mann, the England No.1, beat Anne-Marie Pedersen of Denmark 4-7, 7-4, 7-2, 7-0 to set up a meeting with Holland's Karina de Wit in the second round.
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Record Catches
This probably isn't about the kind of record
catches you have in mind, but it worth a quick read anyway. People will
do almost anything on a dare or to "break an existing record" no matter
what that record might be, and baseball players are no different. That
is unless you've ever tried to catch a baseball dropped from several hundred
Contrary to popular belief (read that myth), Gabby Street was not the first person to have caught and held on to a ball dropped from the top of the Washington Monument. He accomplished this feet on August 21, 1908. However, almost exactly 14 years earlier, on August 24, 1894, Pop Shriver of the Chicago White Stockings beat him to the honors. The ball was dropped from a window at the top of the 555 foot obelisk by pitcher and Shriver teammate, Clark Griffith. When Street's catch was publicized, Shriver's was never even mentioned and for years never got his due.
Hall of Famer, Gabby Hartnett and the Cubs were in Los Angeles on April Fool's Day (when else?) 1930, to play the Angels farm club in a pre-season match up. Before the game, a blimp flew over the ball field at 800 feet and tossed out a baseball. Gabby watched it drop and grabbed it, then he promptly caught a second ball that had been tossed out. Gabby still holds the record for catching a ball dropped from the greatest height.
In 1914, the Brooklyn Dodgers', Wilbert Robinson was talked into a challenge to catch a ball dropped from an airplane flying over the Dodger's training camp. Wilbert agreed to catch the ball, but what he didn't realize was, the pilot, Ruth Law forgot to take a baseball up with her. Not to worry. Our intrepid aviatrix substituted a fresh grapefruit for the baseball and "let 'er fly". The surprised Robinson was knocked down, but managed to hold on to the grapefruit to complete the catch. Some people say teammate Casey Stengel was behind the fruity substitution but, he wasn't even in camp yet. There goes another baseball myth.
Fordham/Cardinal Connection
Can you name two Fordham College second basemen
became Cardinals? You'll remember these two gents as Frankie Frisch and
Frankie Spellman. Well Frisch you know you remember but Spellman you don't
realize you remember.
Frisch, known as the Fordham Flash, was a stand out athlete in college starring in football, baseball, basketball and track. Upon graduation, Frisch went directly to the New York Giants where he proved to be an accomplished field and hitter. He batted over .300 13 times in his career, was MVP in 1931, Runner-up another year and elected to the Hall of Fame in 1947. Frisch had played exactly 1,000 games for the Giants when he and Jimmy Ring were traded to the Cardinals for Rogers Hornsby.
A decade before Frisch's tenure as Fordham's second baseman, Jack Coffey held the position. Coffey's backup was Frankie Spellman. Coffey went on to play in the majors for two years and later became the athletic director for his alma mater. His backup entered the priesthood and was eventually became Francis Cardinal Spellman, head of the Archdiocese of New York City.
It's Not Necessarily Good To Stand Out In A Crowd
Richie Ashburn, the long-time center fielder
for the Philadelphia Phillies was known for his ability to foul off pitch
after pitch until he found one he wanted to hit. On August 17, 1957 in
a game against the Giants, Ashburn fouled a line drive into the box seats
along the third base line. The ball hit Alice Roth, wife of the sports
editor of the Philadelphia Bulletin, and broke her nose. The game was
stopped briefly as Alice was administered to, but was soon resumed as
Alice was being taken from the stands. On the very next pitch, Ashburn
fouled off another ball… on the third base side…into the box seat section
. . . and hit Alice again as she was being carried out on a stretcher.
Lou Gehrig's 1931 Bid For The Home Run Title
In the 13 years between 1918 and 1930, Babe
Ruth had been the American League's home run leader 11 times. In each
year from 1927 to 1930, Ruth's teammate, Lou Gehrig had finished a distant
2nd to Ruth in the home run derby. But, Gehrig was gaining ground. 1931
looked like it might be the year Gehrig could finally push past Ruth to
grab the title.
On April 26, 1931, the Yankees were playing the Senators in Washington. Lyn Lary was on first with two out when Gehrig came to bat. Gehrig drove a pitch to center that landed in the stands. The centerfielder, Harry Rice, caught the ball as it bounced out of the stands back into the playing field. Just at that moment, Lyn Lary looks up as he's rounding second. He sees Rice catch the ball and assumes Gehrig's drive was just a long fly for the last out of the inning. While third base coach Joe McCarthy was intent on watching Gehrig round the bases, Lary trotted right past him unnoticed, heading for the dugout. Gehrig then gets called out for passing the runner and the home run is nulified.
Gehrig won the home run title in 1931 but he had to share it with Ruth. They both ended the season with 46 home runs.
The Last Of The Spitballers
Get caught throwing a spitball today and you'll
likely get thrown out of the game, but that wasn't always the case. Before
1920, it was completely within the rules for pitchers to apply all kinds
of "foreign substances" to affect the flight of the ball. Vaseline, tar
and saliva were just a few of the tricks of the trade. Marty O'Toole pitched
between 1908-14 and had a habit of giving the ball a good "lick" before
hurtling it toward the plate. Fred Luderus played first base for the Phils
in 1912 and thought of a way to get even with O'Toole's doctored pitches.
Fred stuck a tube of liniment in his pocket and rubbed the ball with it
every time he got his hands on it, which, being the first baseman, was
often. In those days, the same ball remained in play much longer than
it does today, sometimes for innings at a time so Fred's "doctored" ball
was getting to O'Toole over and over again. Within 2 or 3 innings, O'Toole's
tongue was burning so badly, he had to leave the game.
In 1920 the league passed a rule outlawing foreign substances being applied to baseballs. However, they didn't want to take away the livelihood of existing pitchers, so they also passed a grandfather clause allowing each team to designate two spitballers. The rest of the pitching staff had to pitch clean. Any new pitchers coming into the league were also barred from loading up baseballs. The last of the spitballers, Burleigh Grimes, was released by the Yankees in 1934. Burleigh won 270 games in his career and is in the Baseball Hall of Fame, not far from a drinking fountain.
Triple Play!!!
The unassisted triple play is one of the
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Two For The Price Of One
| In 1922, fans rooted for the batting title
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in the same home ballpark.
Between 1898 and 1953, St. Louis had two major league baseball teams. The St. Louis Browns played in the American League and the St. Louis Cardinals played in the National League. In the 1922 season, the Cardinals' Rogers Hornsby and the Browns' George Sisler won the batting title for their respective leagues while both teams played their home games at Sportsman's Park. The Cardinals had vacated St. Louis' timeworn Robinson Field in 1920.


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Tom Dollard reports on the Portland to Portland cycle ride
Take 14 architects and planners of different abilities, age, personalities and throw them together on a cycling adventure across 4,400 miles of the USA, Ireland the UK. This was the challenge of the Portland to Portland cycle ride. If things went wrong, 'I'm an architect get me out of here!' could be an appropriate name for the TV programme. However, after 42 days on the road, fortunately this was not the case.
I left the team at Minneapolis as I had to get back to my work at PTEa, but was satisfied with having made it more than half way across the States.
Much has been written about Portland Oregon, as America's capital of cycling, but Bicycling Magazine named Minneapolis America's No.1 bike city! Nearly 4 percent of residents bike to work and it is easy to see why.
The bike lanes and bridges, greenways, festivals, bike shops (with free storage, showers and changing facilities for commuters), bike storage on buses and the general attitude to cycling in the city is exceptional. The mid-town greenway, a dedicated dual lane bike path through the city, has been a major generator of residential development and property prices along the route. Seeing the value created by this investment, Minneapolis has committed a further $25 million investment in cycling over the next 3 years.
This contrasted with the poor conditions of South Dakota. Poorly surfaced roads, flat landscapes, rain and sometimes painful hailstones coupled with a 25mph head wind all day is the most disheartening challenge a cyclist can face.
Then we reached the long straight roads of the Prairies. A small family farm in the Prairies is 8,000 acres. This is indicative of the states as a whole – they are massive in more ways than one. A friend of mine we met in Bozeman, Montana, said that he thought the whole country had been inflated with a bike pump – the cars, roads, buildings, urban grid, food and the people! Even the bike lanes were large, smooth and well maintained – perhaps a by-product of the national desire to provide the best. This ambition coupled with America's resources, space and willingness to learn from Europe could soon see America topping the world's list of cycling cities.
- Tom Dollard is head of sustainability at Pollard Thomas Edwards Architects
Source: Bob West
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This book was written by a Romanian living in Switzerland and writing in German, but I read it in Dutch. De blinde masseur is about taking chances or playing it safe, about the difference between passive Cioran and active Camus. The successful Teodor has made it in Switzerland but feels a need to return to his homeland Romania. There he meets a cast of sick, poor but charming people who he feels strangely drawn to. They lure him into their lives and in a sadistic twist the tables are turned and they drive back to Switzerland in his Audi and leave him stuck in rural Romania the same way as they once were. Ironic, isn't it? But that's only one way to look at this book. It's playful, definitely ironic but quite thoughful as well. Florescu is an intriguing writer and his book is charming, sadly charming if that's possible.
30 November 2007
Arena, 2007
Original title Der blinde Masseur, 2006
Translated from the German into Dutch by Jeannet Dekker


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This proposal describes a detailed 5-year training program for the development of an academic career in rheumatology, with a special focus in geriatrics. This principal investigator has shown her firm commitment to an academic career in her specific field of study, and is perfectly poised to establish herself as an independently funded clinical investigator in geriatric rheumatology. She has completed all required coursework for the Masters in Clinical Research at UCLA. She has also completed her written thesis and is preparing for the oral presentation her thesis to her Advisory Committee. The training activities as outlined in this proposal will build upon a foundation of clinical/research skills and allow her to develop into an independent scientist capable of performing translational studies (biomarker discovery and development) in the field of geriatric rheumatology. Through formal coursework and informal training over the 5-year award, she will gain expertise in aging, basic immunology, building/managing large biomarker databases, and advanced multivariate statistical analyses. Drs. Theodore Hahn, Harold Paulus and Dr. Daniel Furst, are nationally and internationally recognized researches in the field of geriatrics and rheumatoid arthritis clinical trials;they will jointly mentor the scientific development of this principal investigator. A Mentorship Advisory Committee, consisting of three successful biostatistical/laboratory researchers will advise the candidate by providing scientific and career guidance (Drs. Elaine Reed, Betty Tsao, and David Elashoff). Despite significant advances in rheumatoid arthritis (RA) treatment options, clinicians still face challenges in treating the complex older RA patient with comorbid conditions. Up to 1/3 of RA patients treated with a TNF inhibitor have minimal to no improvement;this causes unnecessary time spent on a costly immunosuppressive agent with the potential for toxicity. Consequently, the earlier a clinician can determine if a patient will respond to therapy, the sooner one can arrive at the optimal therapeutic regimen. We hypothesize that the early assessment of biomarkers when starting a TNF inhibitor in older RA patients can aid in predicting response to therapy. We will test our hypothesis by evaluating the utility of 1) a T-cell immune response assay, 2) a readily available multiplex protein profile array, 3) a targeted set of promising markers and 4) clinical characteristics specific to the older RA patient, for early prediction of therapeutic response. In a cohort of 150 older RA patients initiating a new TNF inhibitor we will: 1) Determine the association of biomarkers with both 'status'and 'response'short-term (initial 3 months) RA outcome measures, 2) Examine the association between biomarkers (at baseline, 1 month, and 3 months) and long-term RA patients'clinical disease status at 6, 12, and 24 months (DAS28/ESR, HAQ-DI, and radiographic progression), 3) Determine the clinical characteristics specific to the older RA population (comorbidity measures, age, polypharmacy) that predict whether or not he/she will achieve minimal disease activity (MDA;DAS28/ESR<2.85) criteria over the 2-year study, and 4) Develop a statistical model using both clinical markers and biomarkers to predict therapeutic response (EULAR and ACR Response) in the older RA patient. Our central contention is that there is a great need to develop and evaluate biomarkers for early identification of therapeutic response in RA, especially for older RA patients. We anticipate that the results of this 5-year study, utilizing a combination of clinical and biomarker data will improve the rheumatologists'ability to more rapidly select the optimal therapeutic regimen in each older RA patient, in the clinical setting.
Our central contention is that there is a great need to develop and evaluate biomarkers/clinical markers for early identification of therapeutic response in RA, especially for older RA patients. We anticipate that the results of this 5-year study, utilizing a combination of clinical data as well as the T-cell immune response assay, cytokine profiling, a targeted set of biomarkers, and clinical characteristics will improve the rheumatologists'ability to manage older RA patients in the clinical setting.
|Ranganath, Veena K; Duffy, Erin L; Garg, Vikram K et al. (2018) Obesity Impacts Swelling of Ankle and Foot Joints in Early Rheumatoid Arthritis Patients. J Clin Rheumatol :
|Bauer, Erin M; Ben-Artzi, Ami; Duffy, Erin L et al. (2017) Joint-specific assessment of swelling and power Doppler in obese rheumatoid arthritis patients. BMC Musculoskelet Disord 18:99
|Ranganath, Veena K; Motamedi, Kambiz; Haavardsholm, Espen A et al. (2015) Comprehensive appraisal of magnetic resonance imaging findings in sustained rheumatoid arthritis remission: a substudy. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) 67:929-39
|Ranganath, Veena K; Maranian, Paul; Elashoff, David A et al. (2013) Comorbidities are associated with poorer outcomes in community patients with rheumatoid arthritis. Rheumatology (Oxford) 52:1809-17
|Curtis, Jeffrey R; McVie, Theresa; Mikuls, Ted R et al. (2013) Clinical response within 12 weeks as a predictor of future low disease activity in patients with early RA: results from the TEAR Trial. J Rheumatol 40:572-8
|O'Dell, James R; Curtis, Jeffrey R; Mikuls, Ted R et al. (2013) Validation of the methotrexate-first strategy in patients with early, poor-prognosis rheumatoid arthritis: results from a two-year randomized, double-blind trial. Arthritis Rheum 65:1985-94
|Weng, H H; Ranganath, V K; Oh, M et al. (2010) Differences in presentation of younger and older systemic sclerosis patients in clinical trials. Clin Exp Rheumatol 28:S10-4
|Ranganath, Veena K (2010) Through the looking glass: ""remission"" in rheumatoid arthritis. J Rheumatol 37:1371-3
|Wong, Maida; Ranganath, Veena K; Clements, Philip J (2010) Antineutrophil cytoplasmic antibody-positive digital necrosis in a patient with limited systemic sclerosis. J Rheumatol 37:214-5
|Grossman, Jennifer M; Gordon, Rebecca; Ranganath, Veena K et al. (2010) American College of Rheumatology 2010 recommendations for the prevention and treatment of glucocorticoid-induced osteoporosis. Arthritis Care Res (Hoboken) 62:1515-26
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We must look to Mary to "help us discern God's will regarding the concrete path of the Church in China", Pope Francis said at yesterday's Regina Caeli (full text, full video).
Pope Francis has reportedly authorised the SSPX to ordain priests without the local bishop's permission (Fr John Zuhlsdorf).
Peacekeepers must do a better job of protecting civilians in the Central African Republic, Cardinal Dieudonné Nzapalainga has said.
Ukraine has denied that the Holy See summoned its ambassador to complain about proposed "religious laws".
John Allen, Gabriel Debenedetti and Jacopo Barigazzi, Austen Ivereigh, Michael O'Loughlin, Francis Rooney and Michael Sean Winters preview Donald Trump's meeting with Pope Francis.
Rocco Palmo, Rorate Caeli and Fr John Zuhlsdorf, reflect on the five new cardinals.
And Owen Wilson will portray God in a new comedy called Miracle Workers.
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Winter break has come to an end; the feeling of being well rested and eager to begin the new year has settled in. I am so very grateful for the amount of love and support I have received from my family and friends this break, I got to see familiar faces and some that I have not seen in a long time.
This year I want to focus on being a better person, a better version of myself. I want to show how appreciative I am to all those that are there for me and help me when I need them. I want to show more love to those who I unconditionally love and I want to do all I can to help them when they need it. I want to be able to be a better role model to those around me, to be the person I wish I had in my life when I was so impressionable. I want to have more self love and take better care of myself, if it be taking care of my skin more or eating better foods for my body.
This year I don't want to just say that I will go to the gym more or some generic new years resolution. I want to challenge myself to be overall a better person. This break has brought to my attention how fragile life is and not to waste time or energy on being a negative or selfish person. I want to be the best version of myself not just for me but for those around me. I am determined.
I think when it come to then of a year, chapter of life, or situation how you acted and treated others is the most memorable part. I want to leave a positive lasting impression on all those around me.
I am ready for a new year, not because I am done with 2015 or that I didn't think it was a great year (because I believe it was the best year of my life). I am ready to try and top 2015, to make 2016 and all the years to come full of growth, love, positivity, and most importantly cherishing the moments that I get to share with the amazing people I have in my life.
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text: Reem Khatib Visual artist and cultural activist www.reemkhatib.com Graduated from Faculty of Fine Arts (Visual communication) 1992 – Study in Higher Institute of Drama: critic & theater 1991-1994- - Director the Centre of Visual Art in Damascus "Adham Ishmael" Syrian Cultural Ministry 2000 -2013 established the Contemporary Art Laboratory "Adham Ismael Centre", is a series of workshops which aims to improve the Syrian arts and supporting the artists ,And the completion mor then 10 several art projects with children ,young people and artists: joint panels and murals in the streets of Damascus and configurations in the form of a huge installation in Damascus garden 2002-2010 - Lecturer in the Faculty of Fine Arts Department of Visual Communications From 2014 until now Establishing, the Art Space studio for visual art in Damascus 2015 - Establishing, Saya association for Culture and Heritage In 2015- -In 2010, Reem started the Alhara Museum , bringing visual arts to people's streets to connect with a wider audience In 2009-2010 I shared a colleague with preparing a research about Syrian Cultural - Politics' Compendium with Al Mawred Culture http://www.mawred.org/en/services/cultural-policies/156-beirut Participation in Cultural Leadership (CLI) with the British Council 2010-2011. - Digital Photography Course London School of Photography 2011 The Clore Leadership Programme - course May 2011 London. Developing a video art project (Damascus now) short film series 1-3 minutes about 35 film2012-2013 . - Establish of a series workshops with refugee children in Damascus city , entitled (Home)2013-2014 ) - Collaborated with Ta Tate Britain on several projects ,for example, Nahnou -Together which took place between2005and 2008 and has presented her research surrounding various recourses in Syrian art to the gallery -Established ,the Contemporary Art Laboratory2009 at the Adham Ismael Centre, with a series of workshops which aim to improve the Syrian arts and support artists and art researchers of all ages in discovering new developments in the visual arts world that connect art to society -Works in design decor "scenography" for the dozens of theatrical performances of the National Theater and independent teams and design for UN and many advertising campaigns.


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When Darcy DiNucci coined the phrase Web 2.0 back in 1999, it was a wonderfully self-referential and descriptive way to talk about where the web was going next. It spoke of the interactive web, the social web, the web beyond static HTML pages. Well, we've moved beyond all of that… way beyond.
The phrase Web 2.0 was coined nearly a decade and a half ago. It doesn't make sense anymore.
2.0 has become shorthand for anything new or next, but that's not the way the nomenclature works. Based on iterations of software, after 2.0 might come 2.1, or maybe 2.01, or even 3.0. Iterations of software aren't intended to be stagnant; they move forward. The new and next can't stay 2.0 forever. The inventor of the internet, Tim Berners Lee, calls the phrase Web 2.0 "jargon".
The phrase Fashion 2.0 in particular, seems silly to me. While I firmly believe that there are lots of fantastic things happening in fashion technology right now that will drive a lot of things forward, fashion didn't significantly help build web 2.0, and it's not the primary force driving the next web either. Fashion 2.0 is a reductive and outré turn of phrase. Calling our company Third Wave Fashion was, in part, a response to the idea that fashion's use of technology is still stuck in Web 2.0. (It's not.)
Web 3.0, unlike 2.0, has not had wide agreement on what the phrase might stand for. Some suggest that this is the semantic web, others that it is the personalized web. Others say that it is Web 2.0 with a business model, or even the "metaverse" (where physical and digital objects coexist).
If you want to talk about what's new or next, try talking about what you see. Explore responsive web design, the internet of things, and the semantic web. Learn what HTML5 does and why smart companies are no longer building phone apps.
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Stone is an extremely popular material for the kitchen backsplash. Granite, marble and travertine are some of the common finishes for the kitchen backsplash design. But there is yet another natural stone that is widely used for floors, walls and above all, the kitchen backsplash. Slate, owning to several remarkable features, is regarded as one of the best natural stones available for the creation of the backsplash in kitchens.
Salient features of slate tiles
The slate tile is made from a natural, oily stone that is both organic and textured and offers several natural variations in color. That is because slate itself is composed of several layers that are colored different from each other. With so many hues to offer, the slate backsplash pattern is truly unique and very distinct. The slate backsplash has a naturally textured surface making it non-slip and thus an excellent exterior for not just backsplashes but also floors, fireplaces and walls.
There are drawbacks, though…
Despite the variety of advantages, there are several problems with the slate backsplash. To begin with, at times slate tends to be extremely soft and so not really the kind of material for a wet area. Also slate is highly prone to streaks, white marks, stains, discoloration, scratches and even flaking at times. To overcome these problems, make sure you pay heed to the following points at the time of installation:
* Never use a thinset or mastic as an adhesive but only a thinset with acrylic addictive while fixing the tiles.
* Since slate is an oily natural stone, the oil will come to the fore after a certain point in time. So is there a solution? Make sure the sealer you use is meant specifically for slate only and not for all natural stones.
At a price of $2.50 per square foot, slate is as good as any other natural stone. Its appeal lies in the way you use it.
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Now, while we are discussing this, we would also want to touch upon an important topic. Choosing a particular kind of backsplash material should not be done at random. With every home decorating choice you make, you should really be seeking to significantly enhance the value of your home. Especially if you are planning to sell it after a while.
Some choices tend to increase the value of your house while others tend to decrease it. That's right. It's actually possible to invest money and effort and end up decreasing how much your home is really worth! Why would anyone want to do that? Maybe because they simply do not know.
Luckily, having a really nice slate backsplash in your kitchen can add to the value of your home.