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Bold as Love: Local musicians reflect on, cover Hendrix
Several of Charlottesville's finest guitarists will band together to pay their respects to the original gypsy alien troubadour at Bold as Love, a Jimi Hendrix tribute concert at the Jefferson Theater. The sound of these guys channeling Jimi on one cover song after another should be something to behold, but we rounded them up and found that their personal reflections were just as interesting.
Eli Cook: Before I started even playing guitar, his music moved me in a way that no one else's had before. Not only was he a ground breaking guitarist, but an amazing lyricist and arranger as well – that gets overlooked quite often. The only monster in the set is "Machine Gun." The idea of trying to cover it is a little audacious, as the only version most people are familliar with is a very long masterpiece of live improvisation that displays more aggression, angst, and depth of feeling than pretty much any electric guitar piece since. But a challenge is always good, and something that Jimi would never have backed down from.
Performing: Machine Gun, Voodoo Chile
Ian Gilliam: Jimi was the first mainstream rock guitar player to combine his influences into a unique sound that almost made it hard to tell where it all came from. If you listen to Jimi with an ear pointed toward blues, you can hear phrases straight from Freddie King, Buddy Guy, and Guitar Slim, but the way Jimi brought those influences together to create a sound that was all his own was pioneering.
Performing: Remember, Nine To The Universe
Jay Pun: Hendrix has been a huge influence on my guitar playing since I first started. Even if you can't actually hear Hendrix riffs in my guitar style, he definitely shaped me into who I am today. I can remember learning the strum pattern to "Purple Haze" and now I even teach it to my students. I have a poster of the Jimi Hendrix Experience that's up in our music studio now. It's amazing to have my students look at that and say they want to be Jimi.
Performing: 1983, Drifting
Andy Waldeck of XPS: I remember when I first heard Jimi at prep school in Connecticut. I was mesmerized. I sat and listened to the entire album, missing my classes, and stopping only to flip over the record. From that day on, my musical vocabulary has been tinged with Hendrix. He was, and still is, the ultimate guitar innovator. The sounds he was producing are amazing even by today's standards, and his ability to weave magical little parts into others is incredible. There simply is guitar playing before Jimi, and guitar playing after Jimi, and that is the rule.
Performing: Fire, Waterfall
Aric Van Brocklin of the Chickenhead Blues Band: Guitar players in bands performing during the 1960s and 1970s who were expected to cover tunes by the Jimi Hendrix Experience either accepted the challenge and did the best they could or accepted their limitations and covered another artist, instead. But in either case there was respect; respect for an exceptionally creative artist who defined innovation and changed the way that the guitar was played. Here we are forty years after his death celebrating his talents and creativity. What if he were still alive today? Who knows, but his musical ideas remain alive for those of us who dare to work with them. Thanks, Jimi! God rest your soul.
Performing: Little Wing, The Wind Cries Mary
The Bold as Love Jimi Hendrix tribute show happens Saturday, January 15 at the Jefferson Theater. $10-$12, 8pm.
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Where's Jamal Millner?!?
I'd also like to point out that like Eli said, Jimi was an amazing musician, not just a guitarist but a great songwriter and lyricist. This show is not only about "guitarists covering or channeling" hendrix's music, but about musicians plating Hendrix tunes that influenced us. For our set, my interpretation of how Jimi influenced my style will definitely be shown, but of course Morwenna Lasko and her violin will indeed be shinning as some have even called her "The Jimi Hendrix of Violin." She is proud to be the only female on this bill and we are really excited about our set as we also have some very special surprises. We also can't wait to hear all the other amazing renditions of Jimi's timeless music!
What about Bennie Dodd?
Jerry Goodman is a lot closer to being "The Jimi Hendrix of Violin" than anyone in this town is. Good to see there is room for a chick in the line-up anyway.
Does anyone know what order the bands will go on stage on Saturday?
ditto Billy Brockman re:James Painter...I also wonder if anyone knows the line up?
Jamal would've loved to have been there, but alas he has another gig. Jamal taught me everything and hopefully this will be an ongoing thing with a whole new line up next time, where he along with others will be on the next show. This should be a really exciting show, regardless!
I've seen all the groups on here live at some point or another, and I've gotta say, it's a fantastic line-up. Every group is top notch. Saw Eli do Voodoo Child with his band once in Crozet, and it was the most satisfying rock experience I've ever had. They are a well-oiled machine, and I bet they end the show. I mean it's hard to follow Machine Gun and Voodoo Child. Cheers...
I want to come and play Manic dpression, and Dolly Dagger, I have something to prove in this area. I didnt even know about this show. We will put on our own Jimi Hendrix Tribute show this summer.
I was really hoping Jamal was going to be part of this as well. He's a monster player. I can't wait to hear everyone!
cookieJar, Jerry Goodman is one of the original Rock Violinists of course, but back in the 70's. He hasn't done much since Mahavishnu, some small projects, but nothing notable. He wasn't Jean Luc Ponty (who really made the sound of that band in its height). Neither are living here and there are very few violinists that could play Hendrix or be as inventive as he in this town. I saw that girl Morwena play with Corey Harris once and she's the bomb. She was trading rhythms with the late drummer Johnnie Gilmour at Fridays After 5 some years ago. I hope she shreds against some of those guitarists, that'd be killer!
Looking forward to see what XPS plays too, I saw Joe Lawlor play with Dave Matthews here in Charlottesville and THAT guy is AMAZING! I heard he was in a band called "Egypt" where they played original rock in the 90's. I'm hoping one of the acts that night will play some of Hendrix's blues stuff too! I bet Eli or the Chickenheads will do some of that.
Hey cookieJar! I agree with Marcus. If there is anyone who can tear-it-up, it is Morwenna Lasko. You must not be familiar with her work. If you like Jerry Goodman, you will certainly become a fan of Morwenna (who in my opinion is more expressive and inventive than Jerry and plays more in tune) . I also find it to be rather refreshing that there is a female in this show. The Jefferson in general does not have enough women gracing their stage, and I mean female musicians, ones who are more than just the pretty faces and can actually write music and play instruments with great skill. Also, have a little respect. Chicks are poultry. Ellen McIlwaine and others may have started to pave the way for other women to shine in this genre but unfortunately, there is still some work to be done and folks who need to expand their minds a bit.
@James Painter; dude, lighten up!
Ian and his band stole the show! X Porn Stars were awesome!! I wish Eli would have played something new...been hearing those same songs from him since the Dew Drop Inn days.


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See rare vintage and antiques motorcycles from the early 1900s at the Kick-Start! American Motorcycle Design exhibition in Highlands.
The exhibition will premiere with a reception and gallery talk from 5 to 7 p.m., Saturday, Aug. 7 at The Bascom. Motorcycles from the exhibit are on loan from Wheels Through Time, a Maggie Valley-based private collection.
The exhibition will trace the progression of 20th century design styles as evidenced through the motorcycle. The earliest objects will date from the early 1900s. From 1900 to 1928, motorcycles evolved from a motor powered bicycle to a form of reliable sport and transportation.
This exhibition is sponsored by Helen and Fred Cooper and Old Edwards Club members Barbara and Doug DeMaire, Judith and Robert Moore, Angela and Art Williams, and Patsy and Bill Wolff.
The Bascom's exhibitions are free and open to the public from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Tuesdays through Saturdays, and from noon to 5 p.m Sundays.
www.thebascom.org or 828.526.4949.

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Sickly sweet: Driven crazy by honey
Published February 17, 2005 in issue 0407 of the Hook
DRAWING BY DEBORAH DERR McCLINTOCK
Q. How has eating honey, that prototypical "health food," been known to bring armies to a sickening halt? –P. Bear
A. Travel back to 400 B.C. when Persian King Artaxeres II defeated an army of Greek mercenaries. Retreating, the soldiers pitched camp on hills covered with rhododendrons and feasted on nearby honeycombs and honey, says Dr. Joe Schwarcz in The Fly in the Ointment.
Soon (by the general's journal) the men lost their senses, vomited and couldn't stand up. The "mad honey" effect didn't last long, he wrote. The soldiers recovered within 24 hours.
Today certain emergency hospitals post signs reminding physicians that "mad honey" poisoning can resemble a heart attack. Turns out that nectar from flowers of the rhododendron family can contain "grayanotoxins," causing weakness, slow heart beat, perspiration and nausea– like a heart attack.
In Turkey, hospitals still report cases of such poisoning, with complaints starting an hour after a person eats at least 50 grams of honey. "Sometimes atropine is needed to boost the heart rate and in rare cases a pacemaker has been temporarily installed." Most poisonings can be traced to producers with only a few hives, says Dr. Joe, so the average consumer's risk is remote, because commercial producers pool the product from many sources, diluting any grayanotoxins.
Q. When was the last time the U.S. got around to "cleaning up its act," as many people gave up drinking, cut back on smoking, reined in their libido? –A. Kinsey
A. Odd as it might sound, reforms of this sort have been cyclical, on roughly an 80-year period, says Indiana University applied health scientist Ruth C. Engs, author of Clean Living Movements.
Wind the clock back 80 years or so to the 1920s and national Prohibition was in force, and 80 years before that was state-mandated Prohibition of the 1850s. "It didn't work then and it didn't work in the 1920s and it isn't working now for those under 21 years," Engs says.
Every 80 years or so we Americans go through a clean- up-society movement: don't smoke, don't drink, don't do drugs or be promiscuous. Caught up in this, we pass laws that are forgotten 30 years later, setting the stage for a renewal of the cycle, says Engs. The cultural forces operating in human society have their predictable patterns of waxing and waning, making it seem as if morality were pegged to the year on the calendar.
Q. At a New York bar, you order a whiskey sour with 100 proof bourbon. What does alcoholic "proof" mean anyway, and how did the term get started? –J. Walker
A. It traces to the 17th century when the alcoholic content of a whiskey was "proved," or tested, by moistening gunpowder with it and setting it afire, says Robert Wolke in What Einstein Didn't Know: Scientific Answers to Everyday Questions. A slow even burn indicated 50 percent or so alcohol content, a sputtering flame suggested a watering down.
In the U.S. today, 50 percent alcohol by volume is defined as 100 proof, so the proof is always twice the percentage of alcohol. If you mix a pint of alcohol with a pint of water, you won't get two pints of mixture but only about 1.93 because the two liquids form bonds that snuggle the molecules in closer together. This (plus alcohol's lower density) confounds the concept of percentage of alcohol by volume.
"Should it be the percentage of the volumes before mixing, or the percentage of the final volume after mixing?" Beverage producers use the smaller volume, after mixing,
which of course increases the label's advertised proof.
But if you live in Canada or elsewhere, be sure to watch your numbers, because other systems obtain there.
Q. Most of us are lucky to remember a 10-digit phone number. How about recalling 36 random digits, or 36,000? Is this humanly possible? –A. G. Bell
A. Rajan Mahadevan made The Guinness Book of Records for reciting the first 99,000 digits of pi, a mathematical number most of us know simply as 3.14, or maybe 3.1416. Call out 50 random digits that you just dreamed up and he can repeat them forward or backward.
Mahadevan said his secret is "chunking" the numbers into manageable units. For example, explains Rod Plotnik in "Introduction to Psychology," here's how Mahadevan broke up one substring of 14 digits– 11131217351802: "He chunked 111 and named it `Nelson' because Admiral Nelson had one eye, one arm and one leg; he chunked 312 and named it the `area code of Chicago'; he chunked 1735 and named it `29' because Ben Franklin was 29 in 1735; and he chunked 1802 as `plus 2' because John Adams occupied the White House in 1800."
Then, to recite the number, he recalled: Nelson, Chicago area code, Ben Franklin, John Adams.
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Much Is Well at Allswell, A Gastropub in Williamsburg
124 Bedford Avenue, Brooklyn NY 11211 (at North 10th St; map); 347-799-2743; allswellnyc.tumblr.com/
Service: Welcoming, prompt, helpful
Must-Haves: Ricotta, most fried things
Cost: Snacks up to $6, apps up to $14, entrees up to
Grade: B+
We try to strike some balance in the reviews we write, which generally means putting a quota on "rustic Italian West Village restaurants" (okay, we're pretty bad at that one) or "trendy new Brooklyn openings." Which means that there are a decent number of Brooklyn restaurants that fall through the cracks. We hadn't made it out to Allswell, on Williamsburg's Bedford Avenue, until recently—but we're glad we finally did.
Chef Nate Smith, formerly of the Spotted Pig, opened Dean Street in my neighborhood of Prospect Heights about a year and a half ago, and I had just enough time to stop by on a preliminary visit, and order two promising plates, when he picked up and left the restaurant. So I was curious to see where he'd land next.
It's a restaurant that's friendly to drinkers—in the quality of cocktails, the happy hour specials (discounted shot-and-beer? $1 oysters? Yes, please) and the happy hour and late-night food menus. Let's start with those cocktails, a list that runs toward the boozy (the lightest drink, dubbed "Careless Carrie," includes gin, Averna, and Poire Williams along with its lemon, cucumber, and soda) and current, inasmuch as current means classic profiles. You'll see lots of vermouth and amari and variations on known drinks. The "I Got Lillet'd" ($11; come on, how can you resist ordering that) balances a healthy pour of mezcal with Lillet Blanc, with grapefruit, honey, and Angostura bitters to round it out. A Kingston Negroni ($11) swaps out gin for the warming, rich Smith & Cross "Navy Strength" rum, with the expected Campari, and Dolin rouge as the vermouth. A White Rabbit ($11)—gin, Salers Gentiane, and Dolin Blanc—was a lighter, sharper take on the spirit–vermouth–aperitif situation. All three, I'd drink again, and feel fortunate that there are plenty of small plates I'd pair with them. Allswell is a place I can easily imagine passing a night happy with nothing more than a few drinks and a few snacks. (Not that there aren't larger plates worth ordering as well.)
On any given night, there will be a number of items that emerge golden brown from the fryer. If our experience is any indication, most of them will be a great bet. Anchovy fritters ($5) sandwich sage leaves around the fish, plump and crisp and salty in the sort of batter you'd use for fish and chips. They disappeared within seconds of landing on our table. Tiny fried cornichon nuggets ($5) did, too, panko crusted with blue cheese dip. Tripe chips ($6) varied in texture, but all gave a substantial crunch (some had more stretchy, gelatinous innards than others.)
Delicata squash ($11) steams beneath its crackling tempura shell, only made more appealing with honey and a shower of grated Pecorino. And a fried calamari roll ($6), on the happy hour menu, was a highlight of the evening. Piled on a sesame seed bun with tartar sauce and lettuce, it made for an excellent sandwich that would've sufficed as a plate without the bun, too. (I'd come back and eat it either way.) It's worth noting that their fried dishes vary considerably—every one has a different coating. There's buttermilk–flour dip on the calamari, panko on the pickles, batter on the fish, a light flour dusting on tripe, tempura on the squash—it's not the kind of restaurant where everything is a uniform, crunchy golden brown. It's much more impressive than that.
We preferred it to a housemade sausage roll ($6)—of the "sausage, on roll" sort, not the British pastry-wrapped sort. The flavors (pork meets spice) and various components (caramelized onions, mustard) were dead-on, but the texture was a little dry and a little mealy. As a $6 bar snack, no complaints, but it lacked the precision some other dishes showed.
For the most part, this sort of casual-done-right fare ended up being Allswell's biggest strength—though plenty of less, er, crispy-salty-golden plates fared well, too. "Potted duck" ($11), a more-than-sufficient cap of pure melty fat atop well-seasoned duck rillettes, was a mighty tasty thing to slather on bread, and a parsley-tomato salad, particularly with mid-September's exquisite sweet tomatoes, a lovely thing to cut the richness with. (All the breads are made in-house, and across the board they're excellent. Plenty of restaurants seem to bake just for the sake of doing so; at Allswell, the quality justifies the effort.)
You'll find their bread too on a plate with silky, small-curd ricotta ($5; which would likely be my first repeat order) and as the bun to every sandwich like dish. It works beautifully on the burger ($14, +$2 for cheese). The dry-aged meat has a pronounced funk and arrives drippingly juicy; some in our group found the texture lacking ("a little bouncy, like a sausage" was one comment) but I found the flavors compelling enough, and the price fair enough, that I'd re-order. The fries lacked the crisp crust I'd want from specimens this thick (and which, curiously, nearly other fried item had).
As I've seen with other Brooklyn restaurants, some prices seem quite gentle while others don't quite justify themselves. I was all about the beet and plum salad with gorgonzola and walnuts and puntarelle, for instance—but $14? Per dollar, I'd much rather order the equally tasty cardoon & chili soup ($8), rich and earthy and punctuated by a drizzle of olive oil on top.
The Allswell menu changes frequently enough that I couldn't feel confident in its return, but bucatini ($16), in a briny sauce of capers, peppers, and tomatoes, is another dish I'd happily eat again. The skate wing ($25) sported a delicate crisp over steamy, moist flesh, draped over a compelling farro-corn base with impossibly sweet segments of tomato. And while a well-seasoned medium-rare flatiron steak ($24) with carrot purée and sautéed lacinato kale isn't exactly novel, I'd still be happy with it for dinner if it appeared in front of me.
Desserts were more or less straightforward, all with redeeming elements, but none spot-on. We loved the filling of an apple raspberry pie ($7), an appropriate bridge between summer and fall, but the end crust was so tough it couldn't be cut with a fork; much the same was true of a plum tart ($7)—beautiful fruit, crust that didn't quite match. (On both, the lusciously buttery whipped cream was worth eating on its own.) A chocolate molasses cake ($7) succeeded mainly by virtue of the salted caramel ice cream on top, which improved the slightly dry cake dramatically once it soaked in.
There are plenty of Spotted Pig comparisons to be made: the menu, which I'd call nose-to-tail, fryer-heavy, but strongly seasonal fare; in the cocktail list, far more ambitious (and well-executed) than I'd expected; and in the vibe, a vaguely pubby but obviously New York, appealing to an all-night crowd.
I wouldn't by any means call it a destination restaurant, in the way I would consider the Pig. But as an everyday place, there's a lot to like. It's occasionally ambitious in the kitchen, and many of those efforts pay off. And it's a good-natured place, welcoming in a way that many Brooklyn restaurants of its ilk just aren't. Smith's last short-lived project, Dean Street, was just a few blocks from me; heading to Allswell, I'm sad the former didn't work out. Because this is the sort of neighborhood restaurant where, if not perfect, I find a lot to appreciate. If I lived near it, I'd be there quite a bit.
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Cable's Indian Summer
By: Janice Rhoshalle Littlejohn, Multichannel News
After a ratings-record-breaking summer, cable is hoping some of the heat will continue into the fall.
Cable networks just scored a 10th-straight summer win over their broadcast rivals in household share, and many think the medium can do just as well with scripted fare in the cooler months — despite the seasonal gale of promotions for new broadcast shows.
Cable networks are looking to build on the momentum gained with last season's slew of series launches in September, October and November, now that production schedules have bounced back from last year's Writers Guild of America strike. The fallout held up production and forced programmers to delay several new shows until the fall, which is traditionally broadcast's time to shine.
"We generally do 13-week pieces that fit well into the calendar quarters," said HBO executive vice president of programming Dave Baldwin. This year, the premium programmer unveils Bored to Death, a new comedy series about a neurotic writer and mystery fan-turned-private eye in New York (see Review, page 14), as well as the seventh season of Larry David's Curb Your Enthusiasm on Sept. 20.
HBO first tested the autumn-launch waters about a decade ago with its acclaimed comedy The Larry Sanders Show. It subsequently churned out a number of water-cooler series in the fall such as Curb, Carnivale,Extras and True Blood.
Similarly, premium programmer Showtime will kick off season four of its successful series Dexter and the third season ofCalifornication on Sept. 27.
The programming team at Starz has spent the past year retooling its signature series Crash, which returns Sept. 18. One of the advantages a premium channel like Starz has "is the ability to incubate a show," senior vice president of network operations Jonathan Shair said.
For basic-cable programmers, the fall has become a way "to build up the expectation that we're going to be in originals as much as possible throughout the year," said SyFy president Dave Howe.
SyFy, which continues a tradition of autumn launches with the premieres of Sanctuary (Oct. 9) and Stargate Universe (Oct. 2), is focusing its efforts on Friday nights, typically not a big night for the broadcast networks.
ABC Family went with Monday nights for the recent return of Greek and the Sept. 14 return of Lincoln Heights. "We have got established brands that have passionate audiences season after season, so we're very confident people will come back for those shows, especially when you've established a night for specific programming," said ABC Family president Paul Lee.
Lifetime is premiering its 12-episode multicamera comedy Sherri, starring The View's Sherri Shepherd, on Oct. 5 as a companion anchor to the second season of Rita Rocks, which has a 20-episode order. The comedy block will launch in the primetime cable slot at 7 p.m. Eastern, one hour earlier than broadcast primetime, and then will be stripped throughout the week. The shows will then move to their regular time period at 10 p.m. and 10:30 p.m., respectively.
"We feel at 10 o'clock that networks don't play in that arena in comedy," said Lifetime executive vice president of entertainment JoAnn Alfano. "A female audience that is either working late and coming home late or after putting their kids to bed become available later in the evening, and comedy sometimes is like the greatest escape before you go to bed."
For series creators, fall brings increased media interest. "It's the TV Guide special fall preview issue, and there's just a lot more attention to TV shows overall," said Stan Zimmerman, who is co-creator and executive producer of Rita Rocks with James Berg.
While cable networks are gaining ground with viewers, "audiences are losing faith in broadcasters' ability to produce compelling dramas that people want to return to week after week," said Kurt Sutter, creator and executive producer of the FX drama Sons of Anarchy.
"Broadcasters can make more noise, so we combat that by making shows that are very different," said FX president and general manager John Landgraf, whose network entered the fall fray in 2005 with the third season of Nip/Tuck. "It seemed like a risk, but the show grew."
The experiment paid off, and paved the way for other titles, including last season's debut of Sons of Anarchy (which roared out of the gate for season two Sept. 8 with 4.29 million total viewers and 3.03 million adults 18-49, both all-time highs) and the third season of It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia (which starts season four on Sept. 17).
"When we moved Sunny to the fall in mid-September 2007, there was a 16% increase in adults 18 to 49, but [there was] a whopping 35% increase in 18 to 39 in Sunny in season three vs. season two," Landgraf said. "We noticed that we really provided an alternative to the broadcast networks for younger viewers who are less broadcast-centric and more adventuresome."
USA Network enjoyed a record-setting summer, thanks in part to returning players In Plain Sight, Monk, Psych, Law & Order: Criminal Intent and Burn Notice as well as freshman hit Royal Pains, which was the top-rated ad-supported cable series of the season. Now USA president Bonnie Hammer is hoping White Collar, which premieres in October, will be a perfect fit for fall.
"We've gotten to the point where we know our brand, we know who our viewers are, we know how to expand beyond our core," Hammer said, "and God knows you can never predict, but in our heart and in our gut we think we've hit a sweet spot with White Collar; something that is fun, entertaining escapism that is broad and young at the same time with characters that have amazing chemistry that we honestly believe that can compete with anything else out there." (See related story.)
Of course, there are some cable networks that would prefer to steer clear of the fall-season scrum, when broadcasters promote their new shows relentlessly.
"Why go into the teeth of a billion-dollar marketing campaign that's put up for the broadcast premieres," said TNT, TBS and Turner Classic Movies executive vice president and head of programming Michael Wright, who noted a similar aversion to the February and May sweeps periods. "It's also not an ideal place for us to be."
Instead, TNT will premiere its off-summer drama, Men of a Certain Age, on Dec. 8. "There's a lot of good television out there right now," Wright said. "It would kind of make sense for you to launch that show when you're not competing for attention with a gajillion other shows."
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Karly Blue Power Reclining Sectional
Measurements115" W x 85" D x 29" H
293 cm W x 216 cm D x 74 cm H
Available Colors
Available Configurations
- Navy Blue
- Power headrest(s)
- Power in left and right recliner
- Combine single pieces for various combinations
- Built-in USB port(s)
- Push button to reset to original position
- Knife-edge padded armrests
- Block style chrome legs
- Power motion
- Wall-hugger mechanism
- Transitional style
- Performance Fabric
The Karly Blue Power Reclining Sectional is comfortably made for a large living room. The navy blue performance fabric with padded armrests and a soft surface is enhanced with the left and right recliners and headrests that are powered on with push buttons, allowing you to pick your level of relaxation. Additionally, this sectional sofa has built-in USB ports that make it easy to charge a variety of electronic devices when the battery is low.
Important Notes
A modular sofa allows you to create your own combination, so you get exactly what you want. You can add or remove as many or little as you want if your needs change. The pieces can be connected together in different combinations or used separately. Includes:
1-Right Power Recliner
1-Left Power Recliner
1-Armless Chair
1-Corner Unit
About Dual Power Recliners: The headrest and footrest recliners are both powered. Simply turn them on with the push of a button.
Care Instructions
To clean the performance fabric, wash with cold water and mild detergent.
Care: When you purchase upholstered furniture, you want to make sure it lasts a long time in your home for you to enjoy for years to come. In order to keep your pieces strong and prevent soiling, it is best to take care of your fabric with routine maintenance such as lightly brushing the fabric with a soft brush or vacuum. This helps remove the accumulation of dust and grime.
Sometimes life is not under our control. If you encounter a spill on upholstered furniture, do not leave it untreated for too long or else it will be absorbed into the fabric of the piece and will be harder to remove. Make sure the area is completely dry once you are done cleaning it.
Please keep in mind that the use of a professional cleaning service is always recommended if you do not feel comfortable cleaning an upholstered piece yourself.Warranty Information
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Expanding upon connections formed during their overseas program in Cuba, members of Lewis & Clark's student group ACCION have brought a diverse array of Cuban art to Portland.
Titled Fugue, the exhibit features video installations, paintings, found object works, and collages by seven different artists from Havana's Instituto Superior de Arte. With funding from Lewis & Clark, three of these artists were able to accompany their work to the United States and travel outside of Cuba for the first time.
Jack Andreoni '14, a founding member of ACCION, believes that Fugue "aligns perfectly with ACCION's goal of strengthening the networks we make abroad and opening up these networks to the greater Lewis & Clark and Portland communities."
ACCION means action in Spanish, and it serves as an acronym for the Association of Cross Cultural Interchange and Overseas Networking. Sharing his motivation for involvement with the group, Andreoni says that the privilege of studying abroad "should not be looked at as an experience that takes place only over the course of the semester, but as an opportunity to create cross-cultural interchange."
Fugue embodies ACCION's mission of interchange by exploring such universal themes as space, time, and travel—as opposed to typical Cuban themes of revolution, counterrevolution, and political unrest. The exhibit's highly accessible and relatable works reflect the artists' attempts to transcend the physical and cultural barriers that separate Cuba from the United States.
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KNOXVILLE, Tenn. (Dec. 22, 2010) - Tennessee shot over 80-percent to start the first 13 minutes of the second half and the Lady Bucs had no answer for the strong surge, as the fifth-ranked Lady Vols stormed past ETSU 102-53 in front of 11,751 fans inside Thompson-Boling Arena Wednesday night.
ETSU was led by Destiny Mitchell (Bluffton, Ga.) and Gwen Washington (Manassas, Va.) as they each netted 10 points. Mitchell also finished with seven rebounds and two assists in 34 minutes of work. Meanwhile, Washington just missed recording a double-double after pulling down nine rebounds.
The Lady Bucs, who were playing Tennessee for the first time since Jan. 8, 1986, dropped to 3-6 after the setback. Tennessee improved to 11-2 after registering its 330th victory inside Thompson-Boling Arena.
"Coming in here and playing Tennessee was a great opportunity for our program, and I was pleased with the effort - especially in the first half," commented head coach Karen Kemp. "Prior to the game I told the team to have fun, play hard, protect the basketball and knock down open shots. I thought we did three of those things well, but we just didn't hit the open shots. I can't wait to get home and look at the tape, because I thought we did some things very well tonight. We will take away some positives from this game and hopefully execute them next time out against Holy Cross."
Tennessee opened the game on a 5-0 run, but the Lady Bucs didn't back down as ETSU scored 11 of the next 20 points, forcing the Lady Vols to burn a 30-second timeout after Tara Davis (Murfreesboro, Tenn.) found Tosha Austin (Chattanooga, Tenn.) for an easy lay-up to make it 14-11 at the 14:26 mark.
The timeout by Pat Summitt paid off as the Lady Vols regrouped and used the next four-plus minutes to expand their lead to double figures, but the Lady Bucs continued to battle and eventually pulled back to within eight, 29-21, when Washington hit Natalie Pickwell (Kingsport, Tenn.) open in the corner for a three with 8:23 showing on the clock. Unfortunately, Davis picked up her third personal foul with four minutes left before halftime, and Tennessee carried a 14-point lead into the break, 46-32.
For the half, the Lady Bucs shot 36.4 percent (12-33) from the field, compared to Tennessee posting a 44.1 shooting percentage (15-34). ETSU assisted on 10 of its 12 makes; however, the Lady Bucs turned the ball over 10 times and the Lady Vols converted those into 11 points on the offensive end. Tennessee also went to the free throw line 13 more times than ETSU, but the Lady Vols were 11-of-21 while the Lady Bucs hit 5-of-8.
Tennessee hit the first four shots to begin the second half and opened a 22-point lead, 55-33, after Kelley Cain laid one in at the 17:53 mark.
After trailing by 14 at the half, ETSU was only able to get to within 19, 59-40, when Washington knocked down her second three-pointer of the season early on in the final stanza.
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For the game, ETSU shot 30.2 percent (19-63) and the Lady Vols finished at 52.2 percent (36-69) from the field. Tennessee's height played a factor as they out-rebounded the Blue and Gold by 19, 53-34, and the Lady Vols also swatted five shots.
Tennessee had six players score in double figures as Angie Bjorklund led the way with 16 points.
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Merry Christmas, or, as you would say in Latvian, Priecīgus Ziemassvētkus!
Hope you and yours have a good holiday!
And what would be a Latvian Christmas without pīrāgi (bacon buns)?
Here is my dad, making pīrāgi yesterday…
And here is (some of) the finished product! I helped. We made both the traditional bacon-filled ones, as well as mushroom-filled ones, which I had developed a taste for back when I was a vegetarian.
I provided this link on the Discovering Latvian Roots Facebook page last week, and decided to share it here as well. Here's a tip: If making the dough seems too time-intensive, use Pillsbury's "Country Biscuits" instead – just flatten them out, fill them, and away you go! Though be prepared to invest some money in this case – there are only 10 per can, so if you're making lots of pīrāgi, you may want to just make the dough yourself. Up to you, delicious either way!


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San Francisco's New Wave
Posted by TheShot on 21 Jan 2006 | Tagged as: Local Brew
Over the past couple of years, San Francisco has undergone something of a revolution in great espresso. Although the quality revolution has yet to trickle down to the typical corner café, great changes have taken place at the upper eschelon.
At the forefront of this revolution is a troika of relative newcomers: Blue Bottle Coffee, Café Organica, and Ritual Roasters. These three cafés have come to represent what some people have (ridiculously) referred to as the Third Wave of coffee in San Francisco. (I've come across a poster on CoffeeGeek.com's forums who once said of me and this site, "He's not very Third Wave" — as if it was some kind of management cult akin to California's est craze in the 1970s.)
Personally, I simply prefer the term "good" coffee. This isn't Moore's Law or a generation of mobile phone technology that becomes obsolete every 18 months. While the approach and the suppliers have been finely tuned, great espresso has been that way for decades. Hold the techno-foam and the marketingspeak.
Now on to the troika…
Blue Bottle Coffee
I suppose if you had to choose an order, I'd start with Blue Bottle Coffee. James Freeman started in the Easy Bay with the bold statement of actually posting the roasting dates on his small batch coffee roasts. He emphasized freshness above all else, making it a policy to never sell beans roasted more than 48 hours ago. (Of the troika, Blue Bottle is the only member that roasts their own coffee.)
By 2004, James took his Berkeley farmers market stint on a roadshow, establishing a weekend espresso cart presence on farmers market days at the newly remodeled Ferry Building. Long lines soon followed.
However, perhaps the biggest imprint James first left on San Francisco was his partnership with the Ferry Building's Frog Hollow Farm. Known more for their peaches and baked goods, James' influence on Frog Hollow Farm's coffee was total: from the installation of a La Marzocco FB70 … to the use of Blue Bottle Coffee beans … to impeccable staff training for how to produce the finest espresso.
The partnership was so successful that CoffeeRatings.com rated Frog Hollow Farm as the #1 espresso in San Francisco throughout most of 2004 — ranked even higher than James' own weekend cart service next door. But it was perhaps too successful, as James seemed to have designs of his own for a regular presence in SF. The result was the opening of a rough storefront in a Hayes Valley alleyway. Meanwhile, James appeared to pull out of his partnership with Frog Hollow Farm, and the quality there, while still very good, hasn't quite been the same since.
Their espresso has a real sweetness in the cup that I like, and they make mean macchiato. I also recommend picking up a bag of their Temescal Espresso blend for making your own milk-based espresso drinks at home (I've found it can be better than their own milk-based drinks!).
Ritual Roasters
Ritual Roasters is a great success story. Opened in May 2005 by Northwest expatriates, Eileen Hassi and Jeremy Tooker (and cover boy in the latest issue of the recommended Barista Magazine), Ritual Roasters shows an obsession with great espresso in a neighborhood that has largely neglected these values over the years: the Mission District.
Jeremy and Eileen met when they were first lured to San Francisco to help staff the once-excellent, Seattle-based Torrefazione Italia chain as it developed operations on Union Street and two downtown (on Montgomery Street and on Battery Street). (Disclosure: the son-in-law of Torrefazione Italia's founder once worked for me.) For those who missed out, Torrefazione Italia may have changed owners several times, but the chain brought a modern quality and aesthetic to San Francisco espresso that previously did not exist here. Elegant Deruta ceramic cups (what, no paper?!), latte art, and baristas who strived for the best behind their dueling Elektra machines were their hallmark.
However, Torrefazione Italia's last suitor, Starbucks ( a company that, for the record, I am quite neutral about), actually lived up to their normally undeserved Evil Empire moniker. By 2005, the staff was replaced by less competent baristas making far lower wages, and the product suffered terribly until all outlets were (deservedly) closed in San Francisco by September 2005. But like a phoenix from the ashes, Ritual Roasters was born out of the demise of SF's once great Torrefazione Italia.
But here the owners of Ritual bring a passion for Portland, Oregon's Stumptown Coffee. In fact, despite their occasional mumblings about roasting their own on site, Ritual has benefitted greatly from a relationship they established with Stumptown owner, Duane Sorenson.
Today, it's great to see Ritual packed with many locals who have come to recognize the real quality in the product they produce.
Café Organica
Café Organica is frequently rated as pulling the #1 espresso in SF on CoffeeRatings.com. It also opened in early 2005, but it has a different lineage than the others. Owner Eton Tsuno developed his taste and knowledge of excellent espresso in Southern California and, later, Mountain View. And where I might describe Blue Bottle and Ritual as places of espresso artists, Eton is more of an espresso scientist.
The scientific approach is evident at Café Organica. Sure, they time their shots and apply methodical preparation techniques like the others. However, Organica leans a bit more on the experimental side. Here the baristas more frequently pull and re-pull shots for customers — partly as a measure of quality control, but also as a way of allowing their customers to taste the differences in both shots when they are prepared slightly differently. And of course, offering a selection of at least four different bean varieties underscores their commitment to customer experimentation and learning. Meanwhile, Eton is often trying new bean stocks and roasters, single-bean roasts and blends, and he was likely the first in the Bay Area to offer shots "naked" or "with spouts" (i.e., with open or the usually closed portafilter).
Eton has big ideas. If you catch him there, he can go on about his visionary ideas for espresso cocktails, educational centers with home espresso machines and training, and other industry trends that may or may not ever materialize. But whatever the espresso topic is, you quickly realize that he has thought about it a lot.
The espresso shots at Organica aren't the sweetest and most full-bodied (when looking for those qualities, I am more apt to visit the other troika members). However, a visit there is like a wine tasting excursion. They produce some of the most meticulous shots you will find in the Bay Area — and always coated with a crema of dark flecks that I often associate with Chicago's Intelligentsia.
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[…] The rude truth is that still is the case today. It was seven years ago that I first encountered a restaurant that actually offered several varietals of coffee in personal French presses (Square One in Santa Barbara). Yet even today, such a thing is still virtually unheard of in San Francisco. New, Mediterranean-themed restaurants open with elaborate wine and tea lists and yet still have a pathetic coffee service (Vignette, as an example). And with the sad closure of Café Organica this year, you currently have to drive to Palo Alto or Santa Clara to get a choice of beans for your espresso. […]
[…] Earlier this year, I recall a specific incident where Eton Tsuno, owner and head barista at SF's (regrettably) now-defunct Café Organica, was cornered by coffee consumers who complained that only 80% of the coffees he used were certified Fair Trade. Here's a coffee expert who knew a tremendous amount about the industry, quality coffee, and its various social and ethical implications. And yet he was being talked down to by boycotters, armed with a flimsy three-paragraph article on Fair Trade coffee, who essentially accused him of unethical practices over 20% of his coffee supplies. This was insane — and yet another example where a little knowledge can be a dangerous thing. […]
[…] number of café and restaurant closures in that time. These vary from the high profile examples of Café Organica's closure due to labor disputes (among other matters), café ownership changes (e.g., Cafe ? […]
[…] But there are times where even I discover my caffeine limits — like the first time I visited Cafe Organica, and I just had to try four different double espressos with different bean variations within about […]


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More Moments
With the men of the 503d PIR in the SWPA.
by Paul F. Whitman
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About the Book
The first is expression and the second is communication. That great examiner of what it took to be a SWPA paratrooper, John Lindgren, touches upon the expression issue when he opines that having re-examined themselves throughout their advancing years, many men still carried a residual uncertainty about the battles they had participated in, and even about themselves, and whether they had fulfilled their lives as their own heroes might have expected they should. It's essentially an unanswerable question, for there is really no one to talk to about it unless the person they are speaking with has experienced the same thing.
Chet Nycum, who spent his war as a Pfc, and risked his life as a first scout, spoke to me of the difficulties he had experienced in talking with those who came to the topic without having done their homework, because it was "just plain difficult to open up to someone who doesn't even speak using your alphabet." Communication with a veteran requires a level of understanding not just of the times, but of the paratrooper persona.
I have tried to make this a book that's not about Emmett Wester personally, though it inevitably became about what he and his comrades saw, the faces of his contemporaries, and the places he and his brothers served in.
Most of the images came without the slightest identification of their subjects, or where they were taken. Some identifications have been possible, but there's still a need to fill in between the dots.
Wester would have denied he was ever a hero, of course. "Our heroes didn't return," he would have said. That's what many told me. But for me, the fact that they came home from the war and commenced to practice normalcy, as if hoping to trick it to return to their lives, that itself became a kind of stoic heroism that has never faded.
Named 'The Emmett L. Wester Collection' because he preserved them the indifferent years, the book also includes many snapshots which are from The "G" Company Photo Collection. The story of the origins "G" Company collection has been told before, but it deserves another retelling here, to ensure that credit is spread widely. It is unusual, to say the least, that the most comprehensive photographic history of the 503d PRCT comes from "G" Company, but that's just the way it is. To Chet Nycum and Mike Levack who were the co-creators of the "G" Company collection, we must give due credit.
This publication is dedicated to the preservation of the 503d PRCT's Heritage, so that people can look beyond the words of history at what is essentially an overlooked aspect of WWII, and in some respects, a relation of personal kinship experiences not otherwise told by those fathers, uncles and relatives during their time with us.
200 pages, profusely illustrated.
About the Creator
Through the Corregidor Historic Society and, more recently the 503d PRCT Heritage Regiment., Paul presents thirteen publications, all connected in some way with Corregidor and the US Armed Forces in the SWPA during WWII. He started developing the Corregidor.Org website about the 1941-42 siege and the 1945 retaking of Corregidor as a penance for being an insolvency lawyer. Now retired, he has produced ten websites, more than a dozen Military History books, and has co-produced, with Peter Parsons, the documentary of the 1945 retaking of Corregidor - "CORREGIDOR - THE ROAD BACK. He married Rosie in 1980, has three adult children, and hates cats. He lives between two shores, Corregidor and Brisbane, Australia.


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Friday, January 30, 2015
Monday, October 6, 2014
Magical Newgrange
The tombs at Newgrange are older than the Pyramids and are located exactly 1/10 of the Earth's circumference from them. They were perfectly constructed so that at sunrise during the winter solstice each year, a beam of light penetrates a small opening and illuminates the entire chamber of the tomb. We left feeling humbled as we realized how little we actually know.
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Monday, April 14, 2008
Star Struck
When writing the previous blog entry, I totally forgot to mention one of the best stories from graduation. One of the cool things about the BYU schools' graduations, is that they have general authorities come and speak. This year at our graduation, we had Elder Ballard as the main speaker. Now Ryan's uncle is a member of the 70 so he's met quite a few apostles, while I, on the other hand...have not. So there we were, walking out to the main floor at the beginning of commencement, and all of the faculty were lined up on the sides of the hallways clapping for us. As we walked through the hall, we were saying hi to all the teachers we had taken classes from in the past. At the end of the line, right before entering the auditorium, I saw the President of the university standing at my right, so I looked to my left to see who was standing there. As I walk past this man, I realized that it was Elder Ballard. Being totally shocked, I just stood there staring at him in total awe. More than anything, I was just surprised. I had never even been in the same room as an apostle, and "poof," there was one right next to me. After staring at him and not saying anything, he finally broke the awkwardness and said "Hi there." The moral of the story is that I will always be known as the creepy girl who just stood there totally star struck by an apostle. Let's just say that since it happened, Ryan hasn't let me forget what a total goober I looked like.
Saturday, April 12, 2008
Well, that day has finally come and gone... On Friday, Ryan and I officially graduated from college. I'm not gonna lie, it's a little weird. Here we are, sitting at our apartment on a Sunday night, not knowing what to do with ourselves without homework. I'll admit, the thought of starting real life and working 8 hour days without a summer vacation, really doesn't sound too exciting. But altogether, we're excited to be moving back to the warmth and starting something new!
It was a fun weekend as we were able to spend the weekend hanging out with our parents. We definitely want to say thank you to our parents as they made the trip here to Rexburg to support us. We also want to give a special thanks to my dad for making the drive up here the day after tax season ends to help us move!
Sunday, February 24, 2008
Countdown to Graduation
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The goal of this component was to first get the logged in user's email address, then get a list of public mailman mailing lists that they could subscribe to. It lists all publicly available lists, with a preselected button based on whether or not they're already subscribed to that given list. It allows them to subscribe via regular or digest mode.
They select what list(s) they want, and what mode they want, and click "Subscribe," and magic happens. They get subscribed, the web page tells them what happened, and they get an email telling them what happened.
Download the Joomla 1.5 version here. (It is not a native 1.5 component. It requires Legacy Mode to be enabled to work.)
If you want to see how it works, you're welcome to sign up to my site, http://www.backupcentral.com/, and log in. You'll then see a menu item called "Mailing Lists." Click that and you'll see how it works. Feel free to subscribe to and post to the mailing list called Testy.
Thank you very much to Stefan Haller who took my raw component and created an admin interface to it.
Install instructions:
1. Install the component via standard install procedures.
2. Point your admin browser to Components -> Mailman2 -> Config, and change the five or six config variables.
3. Make a menu item under your user menu
a. It should be of "Link URL" type
b. It should point to /index.php?option=com_mailman2
c. It should only be available to registered, logged in users
4. That's it!
Does this require command line access to the Mailman commands?
The component is installed and I configured it in the admin screen, but when I run it, I see "Warning: Invalid argument supplied for foreach() in /home/accname/public_html/components/com_mailman2/mailman2.php on line 203" What's up with that?
So far everyone who has had this error has not put the right values in the configuration screen. The most common misconfiguration mistake is to leave the http:// in the domain name you're using to admin Mailman. If your domain admin interface is http://mydomain.com, you should enter just domain.com as the value for the admin domain.
What about the 1.0 version. Where did it go?
You can download the Joomla 1.0 version of the component here . (This version is no longer maintained or supported. You should seriously think about updating Joomla!)
Good luck. I'd love to see how well you get on with it.
We're still open to suggestions and welcome anyone who would like to contribute to the work.
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A French psychologist seeks to "rehabilitate infidelity": men's, that is.
I was sort of dispirited, in Alice Walker's "open letter to Tiger Woods," to see Walker say that she "support(s) you in your effort to try to crash out of a life that you had outgrown." It smacks too much of the sort of glib justifications that seem to come easily to some loose lips, and no one needs the validation. In a new book, Les hommes, l'amour, l'infidelite, French psychologist Maryse Vaillant makes the case for destigmatizing infidelity because it's basically "unavoidable."
I'll admit to puritanical leanings on the subject, both because I am lucky enough to come from a fiercely monogamous home and because I wouldn't wish the searing pain of infidelity on any woman. Of course, Vaillant explains away those poor saps who stay faithful: "'These are often men whose father was physically or morally absent. These men have a completely idealized view of their father and the parternal function. They lack suppleness and are prisoners to an idealized image of a man of duty."
There's pragmatism, there's relativism, and then there's old-fashioned double-standards. I couldn't quite credit Vaillant's message and so I ordered the book and broke out the French dictionary. And, yup, that's the gist of it: Vaillant takes a traditional view of men: fundamentally frail (her innovation is in casting that as a virtue.) And, in her view, it's women's role to get over it. Indeed, embrace it. It's a funny conundrum to find oneself both too old-fashioned and too modern to be receptive. Dommage.
Husband's Affairs Are Good For Marriage Claims French Psychologist [Telegraph]
Why An Affair Could Be The Key To A Healthy Marriage [Daily Mail]
A Letter To Tiger Woods From Alice Walker


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Breaking: Anthony Mangieri May Be Selling Una Pizza Napoletana to Motorino Owner
Prompted by an item on Eater, we're going to let go with some news we've been sitting on for a couple months—it appears that Anthony Mangieri may be selling Una Pizza Napoletana and that Mathieu Palombino of Motorino may take over the space.
An unnamed and well-placed source told us in late April that renown pizza-maker Mangieri had been thinking about selling his space and oven to an existing pizzeria. Mangieri told the source he was thinking about leaving Manhattan's East Village and opening a new pizzeria either in New Jersey or San Francisco.
So when I saw this item on Eater, I figured the "existing pizzeria" had to be Motorino and called Palombino for comment. [After the jump, what may become of the original Motorino space... ]
When we spoke in early June, Palombino indicated that Mangieri was still on the fence about the sale, but that Mangieri initiated the beer/wine license transfer to see if they could get Community Board approval on the transfer before going any further with a sale.
"I love that pizzeria and respect Anthony. If anything happened to it, I would cry," he said.
Mangieri has operated the celebrated Neapolitan-style pizzeria since October 2004.
Palombino told me that if the sale goes through, he will operate two Motorino locations.


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The two Australian soldiers killed in a helicopter accident in Afghanistan yesterday have been described as an enthusiastic young private with a ''can do'' attitude, and a quick-witted and highly professional soldier.
Prime Minister Julia Gillard announced this afternoon that the two special forces soldiers were Private Nathanael Galagher and Lance Corporal Mervyn McDonald.
Private Galagher, 23, was born in Wee Waa and enlisted in the army in 2007. He was on his second deployment to Afghanistan.
Private Galagher is survived by his partner Jessie, parents and sister.
''Private Galagher always put in 100 per cent in everything he did,'' a statement from Defence said. ''He was an enthusiastic, young soldier who was very well respected by his mates.''
Lance Corporal McDonald, 30, was born in Carnarvon and joined the army in 1999. He was on his sixth deployment to Afghanistan and is survived by his fiancee, Rachael, his mother, stepfather and three brothers.
He was described as ''quick-witted and brought a positive energy to both his unit comrades and to all those who served with him''.
''He was a highly professional soldier'' with a ''quiet nature and humility''. Both soldiers were from the 2nd Commando Regiment.
Chief of the Defence Force David Hurley expressed his condolences and said that ''all evidence'' at this stage still pointed to an accident with the helicopter.
The helicopter incident came during a horror 24 hours for Australia in Afghanistan. Earlier, three Australian soldiers were killed in a so-called ''green on blue'' attack in Oruzgan.
The hunt continues for the Afghan soldier who shot and killed the three soldiers and wounded two others.
General Hurley said that Afghan, Australian and international forces were pursuing the man - identified as Hek Matullah - using a combination of patrols, human intelligence and electronic sources.
Ms Gillard said the families of the soldiers in the so-called ''green on blue'' incident were requesting privacy.
The rogue soldier attacked the Australian personnel at the patrol base in the Baluchi Valley, north of the main base at Tarin Kowt, on Wednesday night before escaping.
Defence Minister Stephen Smith said today Hek Matullah was known to the Oruzgan chief of police and Australian forces.
"He's not in our area of operation. He's on the run, but he continues to be pursued," he said.
It is understood the soldier was a relatively new recruit, having recently arrived at the base after training in Kandahar.
General Hurley said at this stage there was no concrete link between the attack and the Taliban. ''The evidence does not necessarily support this,'' he said.
He said that despite additional security measures for Australian troops, there was no way of guaranteeing against similar incidents in the future.
''There's no 100 per cent guarantee to stop it,'' he said.
Mr Smith also cautioned that Australia may never find out why the soldier turned on Australian troops.
"When we have examined previous terrible [green on blue] events, we've found it very difficult to come to a conclusion on what the motivation has been," he said.
Mr Smith echoed Ms Gillard's commitment to keep Australian troops in Afghanistan until the planned 2014 withdrawal and dismissed independent MP Andrew Wilkie's comments that Ms Gillard and her predecessors Kevin Rudd and John Howard had "blood on their hands".
Ms Gillard also steered clear of Mr Wilkie's remarks, saying she would not engage in domestic politics at this time ''even if some ugly language is being used in the course of it".
Today, Opposition Leader Tony Abbott said that Australia should not leave Afghanistan before 2014.
"I don't think Australians want us to be a country ... that cuts and runs," he told Channel Nine.
"Having spoken to lots of soldiers, they think they are making a difference."
Greens senator Scott Ludlam repeated his party's long-standing call to bring troops home from Afghanistan.
"What were we doing there in the first place?" he asked on ABC TV.
He said the deployment had suffered from "scope creep", moving from catching al-Qaeda to nation building.
Macquarie University counter-terrorism expert Clive Williams said that if Hek Matullah remained in the Baluchi Valley area he would be "vulnerable" to capture. But Professor Williams expressed concerns that the soldier might have gone to Pakistan.
"If he goes to Pakistan, obviously he's out of reach pretty much," Professor Williams said.
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Judith Ireland is a political reporter for the Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, based at Parliament House


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Tips For Grooming German Shepherd Dogs - Bathing German Shepherd Dogs
One most frequent question that I usually come across is: "How often should I bath my German Shepherd?" Most of the dog sites state that dog doesn't need so frequent bath. True indeed! They do not need frequent bath. But I am sure you don't find this answer quite satisfactory. Well, a lot of things are to be considered to decide how often if you should bath your German Shepherd. Frequent bathing washes off the natural oil of their skin, making it dry and produces dandruffs, which can be one of the major reasons of seborrheic scurf and other dermal infection. Over-bathing your German Shepherd Dog should be avoided to avoid drying out of his skin.
The first thing to be considered is how well you maintain him.
Secondly, the country you live and it's climatic condition are of the next prime imporant points to be considered.
Thirdly, season
Fourthly, regular brushing keeps your dog clean.
Fifthly, the place you keep your dog is the last point... but not the least!
A well maintained dog usually doesn't require frequent bath. Maintenance includes everything, starting from feeding right kind of foods to regular cleaning. In fact, to avoid over-bathing proper maintenance is of prime importance. It keeps the most beloved member(s) of your family live a happy and healthy life.
Next most important point is the country you live in. Most people, I have seen, overlook the point. If you are living in tropical country, most likely you may need to bathe your dog more frequently than if you live in colder region. Summers in topical region are really the most dangerous time of the year for breeds like Alsatian dogs. Frequently bathing – sometimes as often as once a week may be required during summer in tropical countries. Summer is the killer season for breeds like German Shepherds in tropical countries. During the flea season, you may need to bathe your German Shepherd Dog more often as a part of a the flea control program.
Routine and regular brushing keeps your shepherd's coat free from mats and tangles, which naturally keeps him clean. Not so frequent washing is required.
Lastly you must keep your kennel clean. It's part of your daily routine.
Make sure you use the soap and shampoo specially made for dogs. Why? Because, the body "pH" of a dog is much different from that of human beings. Also remember GSDs' skin "pH" are comparatively higher than most of the other breeds. Picking the right kind of soap and shampoo finds its importance here, when it comes to bathing your shepherd. Make sure water should enter the ears... if this happens, it may end up with serious ear infection in future.
Make sure you rinse him well. Left over shampoo and residual of soap leather will cause skin irritation and infection in future.
Wet coat gets easily tangled. Make sure to dry him well after the bath.
Here's another important tips, you might not have heard before! Between two consecutive baths you can easily manage the odor that can come during this long span of time! All you need to do is to massage some baking soda into the shepherd's coat properly and brush it off well. This will remove the odor. You can repeat this at an interval of 10 – 15 days. This is a temporary deodorizing technique for your dog.
How to use baking soda?
Interestingly, it's quite easy! And you don't need to call a professional groomer for that.
- Just make him lie of the floor.
- Sprinkle small amount of baking soda powder on his body part that can be massaged.
- Massage him properly.
- Make him roll the other side and repeat the process.... it's as simple as this!


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The Government will create a standalone Crown entity to regulate drinking water in New Zealand. This decision by Cabinet signals the Government's determination that the new regulator responsible for ensuring supplies of safe, clean drinking water for all New Zealand households and communities should operate with a high level of independence.
- Hon Dr David Clark
All New Zealanders expect their drinking water to be safe and now the Government has approved a dedicated watchdog and new water regulations to ensure this happens.
- Hon Dr David Clark


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Jewish World Review August 19, 2013/ 13 Elul, 5773
Blood is on stop-and-frisk judge's hands
By Christine M. Flowers
http://www.JewishWorldReview.com | (MCT) It's always a dangerous bit of hyperbole to say that someone has "blood on his hands." Instead of pointing the finger at the actual killer of abortionist George Tiller, choice activists accused pro-lifers of having the doctor's blood on our hands. When the Senate failed to pass gun-control legislation, anti-gun activists said that NRA president Wayne La Pierre had the blood of the Newtown kindergartners on his hands. When four Americans were assassinated in Benghazi, some conservatives accused President Obama of having their blood on his own hands.
As much as I am not a fan of La Pierre or Obama, I find it ridiculous to turn them into Lady MacBeth, lurching down the corridors of our collective conscience screaming "Out, out, damned spot!" As far as the pro-life movement being responsible for spilled blood, that is a bitter irony given the millions of lives lost in the name of "choice."
Sometimes, however, hyperbole is the only thing that accurately captures the anger of a community whose safety and welfare are being cavalierly sacrificed at the altar of good intentions and twisted thinking. Today, that community is New York. Tomorrow, it could be us.
On Monday, federal judge Shira Scheindlin came to the edge of her ivory tower and made the following pronouncement: the Big Apple's "stop and frisk" policy, one credited with having saved thousands of lives over the past decade, is unconstitutional. She did not say it was ineffective, because she couldn't, given the overwhelming evidence to the contrary. She did not say it was impractical, because she couldn't do that either, given the relative efficiency of the NYPD in implementing the policy.
What the judge with the lifetime appointment said from her elevated perch above the streets with its noise and potential for mayhem was that a police officer who reasonably believed that a crime was about to be committed could not stop and then search a suspect without triggering a fourth amendment violation. And she told the city that it had to neuter the program to bring it in line with the constitution.
Never mind that the uber-liberal Warren court (which was fairly familiar with the Fourth Amendment) ruled otherwise. In Terry v. Ohio, the court held that if an officer had a reasonable suspicion that a crime was about to be committed, he could stop and then 'frisk' the target. Any contraband discovered could be used as evidence in court.
But Scheindlin knows better than the Supremes.
She reviewed 19 instances out of the approximately 4 million stops that had occurred in the past decade, and found that five were completely lawful, nine were completely unlawful, and five others were a hybrid. That means, then, that out of millions of applications, the policy was only proven to have violated someone's constitutional rights in about .01 zillionth of an instance.
You might argue that this doesn't mean all those other stops were lawful. I agree. We don't know if the police overstepped their bounds in, say, instance number 3,000,254.
What we do know is that since the policy was implemented there has been an exponential drop in homicides. If we were talking about gun control as opposed to stop-and-frisk, advocates would be waving those statistics in front of every camera they could find, prattling about how well their policy worked.
But alas, when you raise the dreaded shadow of racial profiling, you are not supposed to exult in the bottom line. Who cares that thousands upon thousands of Black and Latino children are alive today because their mothers and fathers were not murdered on the doorstep? If there is the prospect that those same children will be inconvenienced because some over-zealous police officer stops them without a really, really, really reasonable suspicion, we have to pull out copies of the constitution and hogtie the folks with the badges. In this post-Trayvon era, pretty much everyone not wearing a hoodie is a racist, after all.
Judge Scheindlin has a history of not liking the police, and she didn't disappoint this time. Effectively co-opting the language of the aggrieved civil rights plaintiffs, Scheindlin made it sound as if the sole purpose of the NYPD was to abuse minorities.
In a 195 page lament, she called stop-and-frisk a "policy of indirect racial profiling" that targeted "blacks and Hispanics who would not have been stopped if they were white." Scheindlin sounds more like a host on MSNBC than a legal authority. Her decision is shot through (excuse the pun) with unintended irony, as when she points out that the stops "soared in number" as the crime rate plummeted. Instead of realizing that, um, maybe this shows their effectiveness, she concludes that it represents an overall disregard for the Fourth Amendment.
Someone needs to explain chickens and eggs to the good judge. Right after they give her a cloth to wipe her bloody hands.
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Verne Simons: 1949 Willys CJ-3A
The Ultimate Rigs of UA 2011
Driver: Verne Simons
Co-Driver: Trent McGee
Stomping Grounds: Peoria, AZ
Trent McGee and Verne Simons are two former fulltime magazine guys who can never seem to get enough wheeling. These days Verne is a fulltime biologist and parttime freelance writer, while Trent has found his home peddling quality off-road products at Daystar. Though the hustle and bustle of daily life keep them busy, both manage to break away for the weeklong wheeling fest that is the Ultimate Adventure. Since Trent has actually attended every UA to date, he knows what the trip entails and plays storyteller/historian for those who can't remember which year he may or may not have been duct-taped to a chair. We surely appreciate their help on the trip, as their experience makes the trip run more smoothly each year.
- Engine: '84 Buck V-6 even fire bored 0.040 over, Howell fuel injection, GM HEI, Advance Adapters headers, Edelbrock muffler, Griffin radiator
- Transmission: T-18 with Advance Adapters chain control linkage
- Transfer Case: Dana-18 with Advance Adapters Saturn overdrive
- Front Axle: Narrowed Dana 44, Dutchman axleshafts, CTM U-joints, Warn hubs, ARB Air Locker, 5.38 gears
- Rear Axle: Offset Dana 44 from a '78 Jeep Cherokee Widetrac, Detroit Locker, 5.38 gears
- Springs & Such: (Front) Spring-over axle with YJ leaves, Daystar greasable shackles, Daystar bumpstops; (rear) spring-under with 31/2-inch YJ BDS leaf springs, Dynatrac U-bolt flip, Currie shackles, Daystar bumps, Rancho shocks
- Tires & Wheels: 35x12.50 BFG KM2s on 15x8 Champion beadlocks
- Steering: Power conversion
- Tom Wood's drivelines, Herm the OD Guy's OD shifter, 3/4-inch body lift via Daystar CJ-5 body pucks, boxed frame, Smittybilt roll bar, Warn 8274 winch, custom bumpers, Aqualu aluminum body, 841/2-inch wheelbase, 79 inches tall, 3,600 pounds


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The Girl Below by Bianca Zander
Penguin $30
Bianca Zander's debut novel, The Girl Below, is a terrific read - the sort of book you don't want to put down, and then stays with you when you do.
The central character, Suki Piper, returns to London after a decade in Auckland and for many reasons she occupies a world out-of-kilter. Suki had fled London after the death of her mother but found scant welcome from her father and his new family in the Waikato. However, the London she returns to is not the London she left. Everything seems to startle and disappoint her.
Two equally strong forces drive the novel: a mystery and Suki herself. Despite the pull of the mystery, this narrative is achingly real.
Suki keeps returning to the past and the past keeps returning to her. She is haunted by a key incident that arrives in disconcerting flashes and experiences. The night before her parents separated they held a decadent party. Somehow Suki almost drowns in an air-raid shelter, but the whole occasion is sealed in the murky and
unreliable grip of memory.
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Zander works the entwined themes of estrangement and strangeness beautifully. Certain objects pulsate with such weirdness Suki cannot bear to be in the same room. It is as though they become alive with her fears.
We are given a puzzle both psychological and real, which is the key to Suki. Rippling out from the cloudiness of the air-raid incident are the uncertain relations she has with her parents and the other occupants of the apartment building.
What lifts the book beyond the allure of mystery is the complexity of Suki - she is both frail and fierce. She is an object of pity: mother dead, stepmother dislikes her, no job, no money, no lover, no place to call her own, zero self-esteem. In Auckland she writes herself off, again and again; with drugs, drink and make-do sex.
Despite this miniature portrait I have drawn, neither novel nor Suki remain in a bleak state of darkness and despair. There is a turning-point when Suki meets up with her old babysitter from the apartment and gets to mind the babysitter's son. The son (for some inexplicable reason) is a wild little punk and is Suki's salvation as much as she is his.
I can see why the book was initially picked up in the United States. In her end-note, Zander says it has been through a number of drafts and it shows. You might think there is a high risk of superficial stereotypes at work here (a cranky stepmother, a selfish father, a distant mother, spiteful friends). Far from it.
Zander shows novels can embody truth - in the dialogue that hits the perfect pitch, in the emotional span from glee to guts to grief and in the individual yet recognisable passage to a point of survival. I loved it.
Paula Green is an Auckland poet and children's author.