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This week, I had the joy of attending a family reunion deep in the wildwoods of Tippah County, Mississippi which has long reminded me of Snuffy Smith Country with all the hills and hollows. Not only did I get a taste of the best Southern cooking this side of the Mason Dixon, I picked up a few colloquialisms which I plan to incorporate into my vocabulary. It would be a shame to lose these priceless relics of our distant past.
My most favorite is the term "ring-tailed tooter" which rolled off the lips of my friend Norma while describing a
spunky young man. She couldn't believe I'd never heard the saying. We immediately looked it up and learned that it dates to the 1880s when it appeared in a dime novel and was used to describe spunky or mischievous children. We decided then and there that from this day forward our little band of high school friends would forever be called the "the ring-tailed tooters". (Believe it or not, we still have spunk and the word "mischievous" doesn't begin to describe our antics even at our advanced aged.)
The class behind us call themselves the Salty Dawgs, so by George we're going to be the Ring-tailed Tooters.
But back to the reunion. I overheard a double sixth cousin say "We are really getting down to the lick-log on this, so you better hurry." I pulled on his sleeve and told him I was about to have a "conniption fit" (which is two hairs shy of a hissy fit) to find out what that meant. He mumbled something about logs being floated down the river, but I didn't really get it. The best I can determine, the lick-logging is happens just before the rubber meets the road.
I sat and listened to the sayings being floated around the room as we feasted on pimiento sandwiches, a mess of greens brimming in pot liquor and 11 platters of fried chicken. I realized the letter "G" was not a part of my family's vocabulary because we did some singin', laughin' and cryin'. Oftentimes the "S" got lost as well – as in "Idn't that cobber delicious and dudn't your Momma make the best banana puddin'.
While surveying the variety of chicken parts and pieces, I wondered whatever happened to the "pulley bone". My cousin had no idea what I was talking about. "You remember the pulley bone where you and your sister could pull in opposite directions to break off the smallest piece and your wish would come true?" (Or was it the long side?)
"Oh….The Wishbone!" she corrected. (Tomato, Tomahto, whatever.)
"Y'all hush your mouths now," whispered my seventh cousin. "They are startin' the blessin'." See? There go the "Gs" again. And hush is so much nicer than "Shut up" which I would never have uttered six decades ago or my Daddy would have washed my mouth out with soap. Ditto for Dadgum or anything else too salty for his taste.
I know the South gets maligned for all sorts of reasons, some real, some imagined. But in that room filled with an eclectic collection of related folks – some said they were "broke up" over the loss of our favorite cousin and others stove up by a plethora of maladies.
I was just hankerin' for some more of my Cud'n Becky's caramel cobbler, and all seemed right with the world.


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Looking for a sweet and easy Valentines (or anyday) treat for your little ones?
Chocolate Waffle Cookies
1/2 C butter
3/4 C sugar
2 eggs
2 Tbs cocoa baking powder
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mix ingredients together & cook in a waffle iron for about 1 min or until cookies are lightly browned & firm.
I'm sharing this because it's one of my kids very very very favorite treats in the entire world. It's super easy, only 6 simple ingredients I normally have on hand. AND because you use the waffle iron it's quick and easy cleanup.
Oh, and when I make a chocolate treat for my little ones they really know I love them, since I'm not a fan of chocolate myself.
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Emperor Smith – the man who built Scilly
When Augustus Smith became Lord Proprietor of the Isles of Scilly in 1834, the islands were approaching the final stages of anarchy, dereliction and famine. Smith was a man with advanced social theories. He saw in Scilly the ideal laboratory for testing these theories.
His wise but arbitrary rule soon learned him the nickname of Emperor – loved by some, hated by others, respected by all. During his reign he tirelessly championed the weak against the strong. He rebuilt farms, quays and houses, and introduced an educational system forty years in advance of the one prevailing on the mainland. And he founded and laid out Tresco Abbey Gardens, still one of the wonders of the world, though no longer (as in Augustus' day) populated by forty ostriches.
So who was Augustus Smith, and why did he never marry, and what possessed this sprig of a Home Counties banking family to attach his fortunes to wild, lovely Scilly? This book uses material from hitherto unseen and inaccessible archives to paint an extraordinary picture of the public, private and secret life of an extraordinary and colourful man.
The Worst Journey in the Midlands
illustrations by Chris Aggs
I wrote this book after living out of England for six years. When I returned, I found that the travel book had taken over from the novel. In place of characters, chance encounters along the route. In place of plot, itinerary. In place of protagonist, narrator. Eager to keep up with the trend, and even more eager to satirise it, I filled up the holes in an ancient open boat, and rowed it from the source of the Severn to the Houses of Parliament. This occupied the wettest October since records began. The book has been described as 'a little masterpiece of gloom.' I cannot argue with this.
The Bounder's Companion; a manual of Good Advice, by Harry Chance
I met Harry Chance in a casino in Aruba some thirty years ago. Even then he was a strange figure, toothbrush-moustached, Panama-hatted, out of his time. But after he had taught me how to play Persian Monarchs (cut a deck of cards; highest card wins) I found myself greatly in his debt. In exchange for his letting me off this financial obligation, I agreed to ghost-write his laws for easy living. I am often asked if the book was a success. Well, the librarian of the House of Lords tells me that of the four copies of the original edition bought for the House, three were immediately stolen. You may draw your own conclusions.
By the way, I found out the other day that Gavin Chance, the protagonist of my thriller Black Fish, is some sort of nephew of Harry's. Which just goes to show that unreliable narration runs in families.
Small Parts in History
Great events often have small causes. Think of Kermit Tyler, on radar watch at Pearl Harbour, who in 1942 dismissed a huge flock of approaching echoes as a flight of geese, only to find out the hard way that it was in fact the Japanese Air Force. Think of the ancient peasant woman whose cakes Alfred the Great burned while he schemed the invention of the British Navy. Think of William Webb Ellis, first man to pick up a football and run with it. Without these nonentities, history would have been very different. There are seventy-seven of them in this book, all obscure, all crucial.
Yacky dar moy Bewty! A phrasebook to the regions of Britain (with Irish supplement)
The English-speaking traveller in non-English-speaking countries is well provided with phrasebooks. In England, things are different. Stray thirty miles from home or arrivals lounge, and you will find yourself in a country whose language is totally unfamiliar. Baffled and stammering, you will find yourself in danger of misunderstanding, impatience, and xenophobic violence. This book provides a handy guide to the languages of Britain's regions, and will spare the reader a load of embarrassment – pointing out, for instance, that a pony is a small horse in the country, £25 at Newmarket Races, and something really disgusting in Southeast London. No home should be without one.


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My association with Wilson Audio products goes back several decades to the first Wilson Audio Tiny Tot (WATT). When I first heard this speaker, I was amazed by its resolution of fine detail, its openness and transparency, its wide and focused soundstaging, and its crystalline clarity. Its time-alignment and inert cabinet really helped reduce smearing. I owned both the WATT 1 and WATT 2 but never added the Puppy—marrying my early WATTs initially to Entec subwoofers and, eventually, to the woofer towers of the Infinity IRS Beta before the Puppy was introduced. I parted with my WATTs in favor of dipole speaker systems such as the Infinity Beta and the Quads (from the originals to the ESL-63s with full Crosby mods).
The WATT was originally designed by Dave Wilson as a location monitor for recordings, but I—like many other audiophiles—used it as a mini-monitor in my primary system. However, I was never able to integrate it seamlessly with subwoofers, and its somewhat analytical, "tell-it-like-it-is" presentation, which is so good for monitoring recordings, proved to be aurally fatiguing in extended listening sessions. While later WATT interations ameliorated many of my initial objections—and the Puppy was a much better match than the subs I had employed—I never returned to the WATT or its successors. However, Peter McGrath of Wilson Audio has showcased many of his brilliant recordings for me on various Wilson speakers at industry shows over the years, so I've have kept pace with the evolution of the company's loudspeakers.
At the 2016 RMAF, I heard the Wilson Audio Yvette (which replaces the Wilson Sophia 3 rather than for the WATT/Puppy), and was very impressed. Here was a single-enclosure, full-range loudspeaker that offered a harmonic richness—an improvement over the sterility of the original WATT—without its losing any of the compelling sonic attributes that first drew me to the WATT. I was so taken by the Yvette's remarkable performance, particularly on demanding solo piano recordings, that I gave it my "Best of Show" award when it was demo'd in a system with VTL electronics, Brinkmann/dCS front ends, and Nordost Odin 2 cables. I was anxious to hear what the Yvette could do in my own listening room with somewhat more modest electronics and cables.
The evolution of Wilson Audio and its loudspeakers has been well documented in these pages. For example, see Jacob Heilbrunn's insightful review of the WAMM Master Chronosonic in Issue 276, or the company profile of Wilson Audio in The Absolute Sound's Illustrated History of High-End Audio, Volume 1: Loudspeakers. Dave and Sheryl Lee Wilson, and now son Daryl, have built a company that has enjoyed enviable and well-deserved success. Assembling a top-flight group of professionals over the years who share the Wilsons' vision has been a key factor in that success. On a recent trip to the Wilson headquarters in Provo, Utah, I was surprised to learn that top Wilson lieutenants Peter McGrath and John Giolas had owned high-end audio dealerships, and several others on staff also had worked in audio retail. I suspect this is one of the reasons the company places such an emphasis on first-rate dealer training and customer support.
From the outset, accuracy in the time-domain as well as extremely low enclosure resonance have been hallmarks of Wilson designs. The same holds true for the latest loudspeakers, for which Dave's son Daryl served as lead designer and continued to improve performance in these areas. Moreover, Daryl's Yvette and Alexx designs have benefited from being developed alongside Dave Wilson's masterpiece, the WAMM Master Chronosonic, whose micro-adjustments of individual driver positioning mark the ultimate manifestation of time-domain accuracy in a multiway speaker system.
Dating back to the original WATT, Wilson enclosures have been extremely inert—to help minimize spurious vibrations that can smear the sound and reduce clarity. As mentioned above, the Yvette's enclosure is designed for time-domain accuracy and extremely low resonance. In contrast to the WATT/Puppy, the Yvette employs a single enclosure built from proprietary Wilson-developed composites—its third generation X- material, as well as S-material developed specifically for enhanced midrange performance. A replacement for the Sophia 3, the Yvette is about the same size as the Sophia, though slightly shorter and a bit deeper, it weighs ten pounds more due to its more "ambitious bracing." A laser vibrometer, which measures minute mechanical vibrations, helped the Yvette's design team create a significantly less resonant cabinet. Another plus is that the Yvette's resistor-tuning system is more accessible and uses improved hardware over that found in the Sophia 3. The actual volume for the woofer is larger in the Yvette due to angled bracing behind the midrange driver that adds internal space for the woofer. However, the Yvette has slightly (1dB) lower sensitivity than the Sophia 3 and a dip to 2.94 ohms versus the 3.1 ohms minimum for the Sophia 3.
The Yvette has certainly benefited from advances in Wilson's far costlier and more massive loudspeakers. I heard the Wilson Alexx (designed by Daryl Wilson) at an off-site dealer location during the 2016 Munich Show and gave it my "Best Sound in Munich" award. The Yvette uses the same Mk III version of the Convergent Synergy Tweeter found in the Alexx and the Sasha Series 2. In contrast to the Sophia's inverted titanium dome tweeter, the Yvette uses a sealed, one-inch silk dome optimized for time-domain performance and dispersion; it's situated on its own baffle made of X-material. Each of the Yvette's other drivers are also positioned on separate baffles and angled to optimize time alignment and dispersion. Its 10-inch rear-ported woofer is "a cousin" of the 10-inch woofer found in both the Alexx and the WAMM, and its rear-vented 7-inch midrange is the same midrange unit found in Wilson's formidable Alexandria XLF. The Yvette uses a venting system similar to that of the XLF, Alexx, Alexia, and Sasha Series 2.
These marvelous drivers are housed in a single non-resonant enclosure built to the most exacting standards I've seen in the industry. During my factory visit, I was surprised by the minute measurements and frequent inspections taken throughout the manufacturing process of the Yvette. The slightest variation from the standard resulted in the enclosure being rejected. This degree of precision and attention to detail rivals that of a medical instruments company.
On the same visit, I had the pleasure of hearing the formidable WAMM at David Wilson's house and was stunned by its overall sonic excellence. It showed me just how close we've come to bringing the concert hall into the living room, and underscored the importance of accuracy in the time domain. Transients from its multiple drivers arrive at the same time for amazing clarity, coherence, and realism. Although it lacks the WAMM's precise and adjustable individual driver positioning to optimize time alignment, the Yvette's fixed-position-driver approach can yield very good time-domain accuracy with careful speaker placement, which is key to the Yvette's superlative performance.


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Our patented conveyor belt cleaning system "CleanScrape" represents a new standard for the industry.
The system incorporates both a Primary Diagonal Cleaner (PDC) as well as a Secondary Diagonal Cleaner (SDC) which offer the highest level of cleaning performance with the lowest rates of wear to both the conveyor belt and the cleaners thanks to the extremely low pressure contact between the cleaner and the belt surface.
Your benefits:
- Extended life of scraper and conveyor belt
- Reduced cleaning costs
- Reduced maintenance costs
Our new patented belt cleaning system – is a new standard for the industry.
CleanScrape PDC (Primary Diagonal Cleaner)
The primary cleaner is installed diagonally across the discharge pulley and forms a three dimensional curve.
The cleaner incorporates tungsten carbide scrapers and is tensioned against the belt by way of integrated steel cables and a gas strut. Despite an extremely low contact pressure between belt and cleaner, 85 per cent to 95 per cent of stuck material is removed.
Suitable for use with reversing belts and with any conveyor belt joiners or fasteners which are currently on the market.
CleanScrape SDC (Secondary Diagonal Cleaner)
Ideal for use with higher speed belts
The secondary cleaner also operates diagonally across the belt and is usually installed between the discharge pulley and the first idler or alternatively at another point between idlers in the return run. This cleaner removes any remaining fine material from the belt.
- Optimum cleaning results
- Simple installation
- Removed material returns to main flow (PDC)
- Low wear to the belt
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- Suitable for all belt speeds
- Suitable for use with all types of mechanical joints and fasteners
- Long life expectancy for scraper and belt
- Very low maintenance
- Best value for money (True Life Cost)
- Suitable for use with reversing belts (PDC only)
- FRAS approved for Australia and New Zealand
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Equinix Invests $28M in Australia Data Center Expansion
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- Aug 11, 2016
By Robert Demeter
Melbourne, Australia—Equinix Inc. has completed the second phase expansion of its International Business Exchange (IBX) in Melbourne, known as ME1. The company invested $28 million in the facility's extension, indicating its commitment to customers, prospects and partners in the region.
Phase two of ME1 provides 750 new cabinets and an additional 17,900 square feet of colocation space. The completion of the expansion brings the total operational capacity of ME1 to approximately 1,125 cabinets and a total colocation area of 35,790 square feet.
The recently completed IBX will also enable new and existing customers to use evolving ecosystems in cloud, Network Service Providers, content, financial services and enterprise across other Equinix locations, including those in Sydney.
"The development and expansion of ME1 phase two addresses the growing demand from businesses planning to expand into Melbourne, which is now home to 25 percent of the Australian business population," said Jeremy Deutsch, managing director of Equinix Australia. "Melbourne is a significant site for us, and one of the most requested by our customers. With our twin-metro strategy in Australia, customers can leverage the thriving customer base and the rapidly expanding ecosystems available to them."
ME1 is located in Port Melbourne, 1.5 miles from the Melbourne CBD.
There are over 25 network service providers (NSPs) available in Equinix's Melbourne data center from a diverse ecosystem of more than 100 customers. Equinix has 28 IBX data centers in APAC, in eight metros, including SY1, SY2 and SY3 in Sydney, ME1 in Melbourne, and its new SY4 facility, opening soon in Sydney.
Equinix recently acquired Digital Realty Trust's operating business in Paris, and prior to that, Equinix sold eight carrier-neutral data centers in Europe to Digital Realty, in a transaction valued at about $870 million.
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Our Dolores Seashell Pencil Dress is a classic vintage pencil dress with elasticated gypsy style sleeves. Made from our bespoke pale blue seashell print, the Dolores features a subtle curved sweetheart neckline and pleated bust detailing with two domed, pearl effect plastic buttons at the centre. Her sleeves can be worn on or off the shoulders for a variety of looks. She fastens with a centre back zip, and has a skirt vent for added movement. This Dolores is sure to get you ready for the beach, so why not pair her with some of our summer wedges for a day in the sun!
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You and Me and Home Sweet Home by George Ella Lyon, illustrated by Stephanie Anderson
In poetic form, Lyon tells the story of a young girl, Sharonda, and her mother who have a Habitat for Humanity house built for them. The story moves from them living in a tiny room together in her Aunt Janey's apartment and through the process of the home being built and completed. Beginning with the empty lot and hope, the story is built as sturdily and lovingly as the home itself.
Lyon's poetry does not rhyme and for most children will not read as a poem, but it is. Filled with imagery, captured moments and truth it is a powerful message of community. Anderson's illustrations add so much to this book. They too are real, concrete and yet elevated. Her paintings have unique perspectives, strong emotions and great composition that allow for deep colors.
A beautiful picture book that really speaks to the power of hope, community, and family. Appropriate for ages 4-8.
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We are teaming up with Dogs and Storks to help you feel even more prepared as a family.
Check out www.dogsandstorks.com for ongoing support and workshops. Ask for Jennifer and tell her Baby Sounds for Pets and Kristen sent you. We are here for you before and after to help your pets get ready. After you might have some jealousy issues or behavior issues, that is where Dogs and Storks is great. Jennifer is a certified dog behaviorist and a great person.
Friday, June 10, 2011
Teaming up with Dogs and Storks
We are teaming up with Dogs and Storks to help you feel even more prepared as a family.
Happy Summer check out our latest.
Hi all Mommies and Daddies to be, we are adding some great things to our site. Have you seen the video reviewing our CD on the morning show on CBS by a top vet in her field. We are very excited to share it with you.
We also wanted to make our checkout process easier for you too. If you have any questions feel free to email us at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Thursday, March 17, 2011
Sick Dog Blog, great info!
I wanted to share this information on our CD, people are also using it to help Rabbits, Potbellied Pigs, Guinea Pigs and birds. So what animal do you have that might need to be helped with baby preparation?
Check it out!!!
Wednesday, February 23, 2011
Baby Sounds for Pets! Success
We are excited that so many new mommies are finding us to help their pets get ready for their new baby. We would love to hear your stories of success. Email me at email@example.com
Tuesday, January 25, 2011
More great reviews to share with you too!
We are so grateful for all the reviews we get fro you the buyer. All we ever wanted to do was help pets and family's stay together during the time of a new baby entering the family!
Face Book page, check us out!
Hi there, we now have a fan page on Face Book, please check us out and be our friend on Face Book.
The link is!
Great consignment store in Cllifton NJ to check out!
Hi all mommy and daddy's to be there is a great consignment store in Clifton NJ on Market street called, Little Bean. I work with her selling the CD in her store but she has sooo many cute things in her store for Newborns on up. I just wanted to share it with you all. Great place to stock up and sell things you don't need anymore.
Tuesday, January 4, 2011
Happy New Year!!!! 2011
Happy New Year everybody, we are so excited for 2011! Baby Sounds for Pets have helped so many families around the world get ready for a new baby. We thank you for bringing us into your family and are so excited for your new family of baby and pets! Congratulations and Have a wonderful new year!
Kristen and everyone at Baby Sounds for Pets!


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What to Expect from Oracle's (ORCL) Q4 2019 Earnings After Microsoft Cloud Deal?
Shares of Oracle ORCL are up roughly 19% in 2019 to match its industry's average climb. And the company on June 6 announced a cloud computing partnership with Microsoft MSFT in an effort to challenge industry giant Amazon AMZN.
With that said, let's see what to expect from Oracle's fourth-quarter fiscal 2019 financial results that are due out after the closing bell on Wednesday, June 19 because these results are likely to impact the stock more in the near-term than its recent MSFT deal.
Recent News & Overview
Oracle and Microsoft said the two tech powers have set up a "cloud interoperability partnership" that will allow customers to essentially use both MSFT's Azure and Oracle Cloud. The deal will enable customers to "migrate and run mission-critical enterprise workloads across Microsoft Azure and Oracle Cloud. Enterprises can now seamlessly connect Azure services, like Analytics and AI, to Oracle Cloud services, like Autonomous Database."
The move comes as Amazon's AWS cloud business continues to dominate the industry. Amazon Web Services reportedly controls around 30% of the market, according to Synergy Research Group. Meanwhile, Microsoft has moved into second place at roughly 15%, with Google GOOGL and IBM IBM behind MSFT. Oracle is part of a best of the rest group of enterprise cloud firms, which is why the new partnership could be beneficial for Oracle.
Shares of ORCL are up roughly 16% over the last 12 months to help it crush its industry's 3.2% average decline over this stretch. However, we can see that the firm has lagged this same group of tech stocks over the last three years. Oracle stock hovered at around $53.62 per share through mid-afternoon trading Friday, down just off its 52-week intraday trading highs of $55.53.
Going forward, Oracle hopes to expand its cloud business to help inspire more investor confidence beyond its wave of share buybacks, which came in second only to Apple AAPL last year, according to a Goldman Sachs GS report.
Outlook & Earnings Trends
Moving on, our current Zacks Consensus Estimate calls for Oracle's fourth-quarter revenue to dip 2.7% to reach $10.96 billion. Last quarter, the firm's revenue slipped roughly 1%, but did climb 3% on a constant currency basis and topped our estimate.
At the bottom end of the income statement, Oracle's adjusted quarterly earnings are expected to climb 8.1% to hit $1.07 per share. This would roughly match Q3 2019's 8% growth that saw ORCL post earnings of $0.87 per share, which also topped our estimate that called for $0.84 a share.
Oracle has seen zero earnings estimate revisions over the last 90 days for Q4. But the company does have a solid history of quarterly earnings beats, which includes a 3.97% average surprise over the trailing four periods.
Bottom Line
Oracle is a Zacks Rank #3 (Hold) at the moment that boasts a "B" grade for Value and an "A" for Momentum in our Style Scores system. Oracle is scheduled to release its fourth-quarter fiscal 2019 financial results after the closing bell on Wednesday, June 19. Make sure to come back to Zacks for a full breakdown of ORCL's actual quarterly metrics.
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Cameron Mathison says there's still hope for Ryan and Greenlee to be together when All My Children premieres online.
"[Rebecca Budig] is open to ... possibilities," he says. "I would say to the fans to try to be patient."
All My Children comes to an end: Creator Agnes Nixon and the cast look back
Mathison, who stopped by the TVGuide.com studios while on the "Tribute to Pine Valley" tour with cast mates Michael E. Knight, Walt Willey, Vincent Irizarry, Darnell Williams and Jacob Young, shared how he hopes there's a time jump when the show picks back up. Plus: Was he satisfied with the television ending? And what's the latest news on Susan Lucci's return? Watch the video interview below!
Online home of All My Children, One Live to Live gets a name


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First screenshots of the next Assassin's Creed, called or code-named Assassin's Creed: Unity, have reportedly surfaced via Kotaku developer sources.
Unity is said to be one of two Assassin's Creed games due out later this year. Unity will purportedly be released for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, while a second game, called or code-named Assassin's Creed: Comet, will be released for PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360. Presumably one or both versions will also come to PC. Kotaku said it hasn't heard anything about Wii U versions.
The images of Unity showcase a new assassin, reportedly named Arno, in 18th century Paris. It is said to be set during the French Revolution.
View the screenshots below. Kotaku notes that these are early screenshots of an unfinished game, and that the final game will have better textures and less-empty plazas.


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Health Beat: Heart Valve Replacement
March 07, 2019 04:48 PM
Mitral regurgitation is a condition in which your heart's mitral valve doesn't close tightly. This allows blood to flow backward in your heart. If the mitral valve regurgitation is significant, blood can't move through your heart or to the rest of your body as efficiently, making you feel tired or out of breath. Treating it can be dicey for some people. That's where a new procedure is helping. It's called transcatheter mitral valve repair with MitraClip therapy.
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Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan will press Turkey's ambitions to become a leading political power in the Muslim world this week in trips to Egypt, Tunisia and Libya, three arenas in a wave of popular revolts that have reshaped the region.
Erdogan's "Arab Spring tour" comes against a backdrop of escalating tensions with former friend Israel over the killing of nine Turkish activists last year -- a standoff that has strengthened support for Ankara in large parts of North Africa and the Middle East.
Arab countries, in the throes of popular uprisings, have watched the economic growth and influence of Turkey's secular democracy with a mixture of fascination and trepidation.
Under Erdogan's AK Party, rooted in political Islam, Turkey has boosted political and commercial ties with a region the country ruled under the Ottoman empire.
Last week, Erdogan threatened to back up his growing diplomatic clout with military action by saying he would dispatch the navy to protect flotillas against Israeli patrols -- an announcement analysts said could also alarm Arab powers.
The Arab revolts have forced Turkey to rethink its foreign policy, particularly in Syria, where former ally President Bashar al-Assad has defied Ankara's calls to end a bloody crackdown on protesters, and in Libya, where Turkey had billion-dollar investments before Muammar Gaddafi was ousted.
Besides seeking closer economic and military ties with the new rulers of regional heavyweight Egypt and oil-rich Libya, analysts say Erdogan will use his Sept 12-15 trip to cast himself as the champion of the Muslim world.
Erdogan is expected to give a speech on Monday at Cairo University, where his aides say he will set out Turkey's vision for the region.
"With the resounding victory of the elections in June, Erdogan has complete control at home and now he wants to assert himself as the leader in the Muslim world and the Middle East," said Gareth Jenkins, an Istanbul-based security analyst.
Erdogan's visit to Egypt -- the first by a Turkish leader in 15 years -- will be closely watched by Israel and by the United States, which has seen with alarm the deterioration of ties between Turkey and Israel and between Israel and Egypt.
Israel's peace deal with Cairo has come under increasing pressure since the fall of former Egyptian President Hosni Mubarak. The Jewish state would regard with suspicion signs of closer alliance between Egypt and Turkey at a time Ankara has taken a more confrontational attitude towards Israel.
Erdogan will meet the head of Egypt's ruling military council, Field Marshal Mohamed Hussein Tantawi, Prime Minister Essam Sharaf and representatives of the pro-democracy movement that ousted Mubarak.
"Turkey is using the Arab-Israeli conflict and the recent rising tension in the Arab region against Israel to publicise itself," said Nabil Abdel Fattah, political analyst at the Cairo-based Al-Ahram Centre for Political and Strategic Studies.
"All its moves against Israel are only meant to promote itself as a political power in the Arab region and spread its influence on the new generation of the Arab youth who are longing for change and power."
Ankara has already downgraded diplomatic relations with Israel and halted defence trade following the Jewish state's confirmation last week that it would not apologise for the 2010 assault on a Turkish boat challenging its Gaza blockade in which nine Turkish activists were killed.
But Ankara is likely to stop short of doing anything to alienate Washington, said Fadi Hakura, a Turkey expert at Chatham House.
"At the end of the day, Turkey sided with Washington on its key policies in the region -- hosting NATO's radar system, condemning Assad and distancing itself from Iran," Hakura said.
"Americans can live with Turkey's emotional outbursts unless, of course, they translate into a naval confrontation but I don't think that will happen."
Erdogan would be the first head of government to visit Libya since rebels fighting to end Gaddafi's 42-year-old rule entered Tripoli.
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Welcome to the Knesset, Beware the Lobbyists
NGO to issue incoming MKs a guidebook so they won't become 'easy prey for inaccurate data and spin tactics.'
Parliamentarians sworn in on February 5 to the 19th Knesset will receive a beginners' guide on everything related to the activity of lobbyists swarming the building's corridors. The handbook will include figures on the number of lobbyists and explain the rules pertaining to them.
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- Lobbyists Barred From Showing Up at MKs' Offices Uninvited
"We've decided to distribute the basic guide to Knesset members so they won't become easy prey for inaccurate data and spin tactics used by lobbying firms," explained Shabi Gatenio, head of the nonprofit Association for Progressive Democracy. "Every new member elected to the Knesset will receive a set of updated figures on the activities of Knesset lobbyists."
The Association for Progressive Democracy calls for barring paid lobbyists from entry to Knesset building.
The association recommends Knesset members not rely on material provided by paid lobbyists but rather to always check facts on issues under consideration with the Knesset's Research and Information Center. It also advises they maintain full transparency in their dealings with lobbyists and document any discussions with them.
A bill presented by Knesset members David Azoulay (Shas), Haim Katz (Likud), Shelly Yacimovich (Labor) and Zion Pinyan (Likud) proposed requiring lobbyists to publicly disclose any material they furnish to elected officials in an attempt to sway the legislative process. The Association for Progressive Democracy intends to push for the bill in the upcoming session as a partial solution while it aims for banning the presence of paid lobbyists from committee hearings.
There are now 254 registered lobbyists in the Knesset, 26 percent more than a year ago and nearly four times as many as there were four years ago, according to the association. Among these, 80 work full-time for lobbying firms and 31 are self-employed, while the remaining 143 includes lawyers and others who lobby on a part-time basis. Altogether, 796 different clients are represented by Knesset lobbyists.


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Curves and hills, scenery and urban grit—this interconnected series of parkways are an ideal place to cruise. Consisting of about 50 miles of parkways, the Grand Rounds snake their way through the heart of Minneapolis. The brainchild of Horace Cleveland some 120 years ago, the Grand Rounds offer an inner-city ride that feels more like a country lane, something that appeals to everyone from the brawny chopper guys to the beep-beep scooter crowd. Starting on the northeast side of town, you'll cut west across the northern part of the city and head south through Theodore Wirth Park, then around the lakes and back east along Minnehaha Creek. It turns north at the river and ends in downtown. Pure bliss arrives on late summer evenings when the traffic subsides and the lights all turn to green.


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Forty Days of Lucien
Thursday morning, beautiful sunrise, coffee is warm and sweet, feeling good! So why not continue these good vibrations with a super funky 7 O CLOCK Sample!
I pulled today's sample from a wonderful 70s Jazz-Funk album entitled WINDOWS OF THE MIND. Billy Brooks put this album out on Crossover Records in 1974. This album is full of funky jazz cuts, but few as funky as the last track on the album FORTY DAYS.
I guess the fellas from A TRIBE CALLED QUEST agree with me on this one. For their debut album PEOPLE'S INSTINCTIVE TRAVELS AND THE PATHS OF RHYTHM, the fellas used this cut for the story book rap, LUCK OF LUCIEN.


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In order to assist you and inform you at best, we set up the chatbot Gustave with the startup BOTSPELL.
The first mission of our chatbot is to inform the visitors. Gustave is educated to answer questions which are usually asked to hosts and hostesses or on social networks:
"At what time does the exhibition open? »« Is there a parking? ". Thanks to its artificial intelligence the chatbot is able to answer more than 200 questions.
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Spruce and Peatland Responses
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Peatland warming strongly increases fine-root growth. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. :202003361.. 2020.
Melanin mitigates the accelerated decay of mycorrhizal necromass with peatland warming. Ecology Letters. 22(3):498-505.. 2019.
Rapid loss of an ecosystem engineer: Sphagnum decline in an experimentally warmed bog. Ecology and Evolution. 9(22):12571-12585.. 2019.
The response of boreal peatland community composition and NDVI to hydrologic change, warming and elevated carbon dioxide. Global Change Biology. 25(1):93-107.. 2019.
Ecosystem warming extends vegetation activity but heightens vulnerability to cold temperatures. Nature. 560:371.. 2018.
Fine-root growth in a forested bog is seasonally dynamic, but shallowly distributed in nutrient-poor peat. Plant and Soil. 424:123–143.. 2018.
Forecasting responses of a northern peatland carbon cycle to elevated CO2 and a gradient of experimental warming. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 123(3):1057-1071.. 2018.
Methylotrophic methanogenesis in Sphagnum -dominated peatland soils. Soil Biology and Biochemistry. 118:156-160.. 2018.
Near-real-time environmental monitoring and large-volume data collection over slow communication links. Geoscientific Instrumentation, Methods and Data Systems. 7(4):289-295.. 2018.
Novel climates reverse carbon uptake of atmospherically dependent epiphytes: Climatic constraints on the iconic boreal forest lichen Evernia mesomorpha. American Journal of Botany. 105(2):266-274.. 2018.
Seasonal patterns of nonstructural carbohydrate reserves in four woody boreal species. The Journal of the Torrey Botanical Society. 145(4):332-339.. 2018.
Small differences in ombrotrophy control regional-scale variation in methane cycling among Sphagnum-dominated peatlands. Biogeochemistry. 139:155-177.. 2018.
Vertical Stratification of Peat Pore Water Dissolved Organic Matter Composition in a Peat Bog in Northern Minnesota. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 123:479-494.. 2018.
Attaining whole-ecosystem warming using air and deep-soil heating methods with an elevated CO2 atmosphere. Biogeosciences. 14:861-883.. 2017.
Biophysical drivers of seasonal variability in Sphagnum gross primary production in a northern temperate bog. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 122:1078-1097.. 2017.
Deep peat warming increases surface methane and carbon dioxide emissions in a black spruce-dominated ombrotrophic bog. Global Change Biology. 23(12):5398-5411.. 2017.
Gaseous mercury fluxes in peatlands and the potential influence of climate change. Atmospheric Environment. 154:247-259.. 2017.
Hydrogenation of organic matter as a terminal electron sink sustains high CO 2 :CH 4 production ratios during anaerobic decomposition. Organic Geochemistry. 112:22-32.. 2017.
Long-term carbon and nitrogen dynamics at SPRUCE revealed through stable isotopes in peat profiles. Biogeosciences. 14(9):2481-2494.. 2017.
Molybdenum-Based Diazotrophy in a Sphagnum Peatland in Northern Minnesota. [collaborator contribution]. Applied and Environmental Microbiology. 83:e01174-17.. 2017.
Soil thermal dynamics, snow cover, and frozen depth under five temperature treatments in an ombrotrophic bog: Constrained forecast with data assimilation. Journal of Geophysical Research: Biogeosciences. 122:2046-2063.. 2017.
Temporal and Spatial Variation in Peatland Carbon Cycling and Implications for Interpreting Responses of an Ecosystem-Scale Warming Experiment. Soil Science Society of America Journal. 81(6):1668.. 2017.
Chapter Five - The Sphagnum Genome Project: A New Model for Ecological and Evolutionary Genomics. Genomes and Evolution of Charophytes, Bryophytes, Lycophytes and Ferns. 78:167-187.. 2016.
Dynamic Vertical Profiles of Peat Porewater Chemistry in a Northern Peatland. Wetlands. 36(6):1119-1130.. 2016.
Intermediate-scale community-level flux of CO2 and CH4 in a Minnesota peatland: putting the SPRUCE project in a global context. Biogeochemistry. 129(3):255-272.. 2016.


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The year 2010 is a milestone for APEC in a sense that it is when the industrialized economies committed themselves to achieve the Bogor Goals of free and open trade and investment. Baring this into mind, APEC Customs Directors- General /Commissioners Meeting was held in Tokyo, Japan on 14 September following the ACBD to evaluate 15-years-of-works of the SCCP comprehensively and discuss direction on future activities of the APEC Customs administrations at a higher level. Through the intensive discussions by the head of APEC Customs, eight priorities to be promoted through the SCCP activities were agreed and publicized as the statement of the Chair.
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Blue Jean Drama Queen -- Worst George Will Column I've Ever Seen
At Culture11, I nearly wrote the most thorough defense of George Will ever penned, but got busy and didn't. I later sat out the global warming column controversy. But I cannot stay silent having read Mr. Will's atrocious column on blue jeans. I say that as someone who is inclined to like quirky, contrarian tirades — but if you're going to pen one of those, you shouldn't be so uninformed as to write something like this:
Denim is the clerical vestment for the priesthood of all believers in democracy's catechism of leveling — thou shalt not dress better than society's most slovenly. To do so would be to commit the sin of lookism — of believing that appearance matters. That heresy leads to denying the universal appropriateness of everything, and then to the elitist assertion that there is good and bad taste.
Denim is the carefully calculated costume of people eager to communicate indifference to appearances.
In the America where I live, men and women pay a hefty premium for designer jeans that communicate fashion savvy, aesthetic sensibility and wealth, a trend overstated but nevertheless documented in this 2005 Forbes piece:
While many women—and some men—are willing to pay as much as $145 without giving it a second thought, increasingly, designer labels are offering jeans ranging from $300 to as much as $4,000. For those who want exclusivity, there are custom couture jeans with prices that are even higher. "For the most part our jeans are in the $150 to $225 range, but there are, in designer, some very expensive jeans, and it's because they're highly embellished and have treatments that really bring the price point up," says Colleen Sherin, fashion market director at retailer Saks Fifth Avenue.
Regardless of whether they are embellished or embroidered, covered with beads or precious gems, to many people, even those who could easily afford it, the notion of paying thousands of dollars for jeans—they are still jeans, after all—is ridiculous. For others, though, having a signature label in the back is as much a status symbol as the hood ornament on a Mercedes. These are people who "want the look of the moment, hot off the runway and regardless of the price," says Sherin.
….It is not just the age, the label or a flattering fit that drives up the price of today's most expensive jeans. Much of the added cost comes from the decorations and fixtures, such as 14 karat gold or silver rivets and diamond buttons. The jeans that top our list come from Escada's couture line. They start at $7,500 and have no price cap. So far, the most expensive pair they have made cost $10,000 and were studded from top to bottom with Swarovski crystals.
Is this willingness to spend thousands on denim a sign of decadence or a relaxing of the barriers between high fashion and comfortable clothes? Marshal Cohen of NPD says, "We've reached the point in that, number one, denim is being viewed as an investment like jewelry and hand bags, and that number two, like women with a shoe fetish, there are now women with a denim fetish. Everyone, woman and man, is in the quest for the perfect jean and will be for a long time."
As I said, Forbes overstates matters — I am not in the quest for the perfect jean, nor will I be for a long time; but nor do I own two pairs of $130 Lucky Brand Jeans, purchased on sale two years ago for $80 apiece, because I yearned to express aesthetic egalitarianism.
I've never been one to think deeply about clothing, a subject better left to James and Ann Friedman, who ought to be hired by a glossy New York magazine as co-fashion bloggers. Indeed, I only have the opportunity to comment on the subject when stodgy, bow-tie wearing conservative pundits go so far awry that I feel comfortable begging to differ. In that spirit, let me assure Mr. Will that the thing most of us would prefer, as we purchase our Levis or Calvin Klein's or Lucky's, or whatever other jeans are out there, is that whatever denim we can afford also happens to make us seem more attractive to the opposite sex — and if any of us could pay a premium for the assurance that our blue jeans would make us appear relatively more attractive than anyone else to the opposite sex, we would.


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Faith, Perseverance, and Courage
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Campaigners demand US 'torture' probe
Human rights campaigners have urged the United States to investigate allegations that suspected al-Qaeda and Taleban detainees are being tortured.
In a letter to President George W Bush, the New York-based Human Rights Watch (HRW) says immediate steps must be taken "to clarify that the use of torture is not US policy".
The group says that otherwise the Bush administration risked criminal prosecution.
The newspaper said suspects at US facilities in Afghanistan and other foreign countries are sometimes held in uncomfortable positions for hours and deprived of sleep.
It says some of those who refuse to co-operate are handed over to foreign governments that are known to practise torture and other forms of mistreatment.
"US officials who take part in torture, authorise it, or even close their eyes to it, can be prosecuted by courts anywhere in the world," Kenneth Roth, HRW's executive director, said.
However, US officials quoted in the report insist they neither use nor condone the use of torture.
Cold comfort
"The picture that emerges is of a brass-knuckled quest for information (...) in which the traditional lines between right and wrong, legal and inhumane, are evolving and blurred," the Washington Post wrote.
Unlike the detention centre at Guantanamo Bay in Cuba - where journalists and Red Cross officials are occasionally allowed to monitor detention conditions - the CIA's overseas interrogation facilities are off-limits to outsiders, the Washington Post reported.
Those who cooperate are rewarded with "creature comforts": interrogators whose methods include feigned friendship, respect, cultural sensitivity and, in some cases, money.
Those who refuse to co-operate are sometimes kept standing or kneeling for long periods, in black hoods or spray-painted goggles, according to experts quoted in the report.
One official quoted by the newspaper explains: "We don't kick the [expletive] out of them. We send them to other countries so they can kick the [expletive] out of them."
'Cultural intimacy'
US officials who defend the practice say the prisoners are sent to other countries not because of their tougher interrogation methods, but because of their cultural affinity with the captives.
Besides being illegal, they say, torture produces dubious information from suspects who are desperate to stop the pain.
The US turns to foreign allies more because their intelligence officers can develop a culture of intimacy that Americans cannot, those officials say.
CIA director George Tenet has said that interrogations overseas have yielded results.
"Almost half of our successes against senior al-Qaeda members have come in recent months," he said in a speech earlier this month.
Former terror suspects who have been freed from the Guantanamo Bay facility have described harsh conditions inside the camp - but said they were not beaten.
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You can create a special kind of account for your business or brand, called a Google Plus Page as well as The Brand Page. You can link to a YouTube channel. It can also be managed by multiple Google accounts holders.
If you have an existing Account (for example created with your business or brand's YouTube channel) you can add a Google+ Page to your Brand Account.
1. Sign in to Google+ as the Owner or Manager of the Brand Account
2. Click your profile image at top right, then select your Brand Account from the menu
3. Once you have switched to your Brand Account, click Enable Google+ on the left menu
4. Read the Pages terms of service, then click Enable again to complete the process
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1. Sign into Google+ with the Google account you want to Own the Page
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Leaving an abusive partner is difficult. Many victims of domestic abuse feel trapped and helpless, scared to leave in case their partner comes after them. Some still love the abuser, despite his behavior, and cling to the hope that he will change his ways. It's common for the victim to blame herself for the abuse due to manipulation from her partner. Help and support is out there; you just need to find the courage to take the first step. Remember, you deserve to feel happy and safe.
Decide that you are going to end the abusive relationship. Even if you still love your partner and believe he can change (which is not entirely out of the question), you need to break free from him. Remind yourself of the excuses he has made and how many times he has apologized and promised not to hurt you again. Someone who inflicts violence on his partner has serious psychological issues and needs professional help, says HelpGuide.org. You cannot change him. Look at it this way: if you stay with him, you are enabling his behavior.
Get in touch with the domestic violence program in your area, which can give you emotional support, counseling and safe emergency housing if necessary. Contact them from someone else's phone or computer, or get hold of a new cell phone if you think your partner might be monitoring your calls and Internet use. Some domestic violence shelters provide abused women with free cell phones.
Change your online user names and passwords on a safe computer (such as at a friend's house, the local library or community center) if you suspect your partner has obtained your personal information through spyware. If he can access your bank accounts and social media profiles, he can keep track of your movements, warns HelpGuide.org.
Get away from your abusive partner. If you feel strong enough to tell him you are leaving him, ask a friend or relative to be there to support you. If there is even the slightest chance that he will react to your decision with violence, avoid a confrontation with him. If you live together, wait until he is away from home before packing your bags and moving out. Make sure you have somewhere safe to go, such as a friend's house or a women's shelter. Visit WomensLaw.org for a list of domestic violence shelters in every state.
Consider counseling or therapy to aid in your recovery from the violent relationship, suggests GoodTherapy.org. Join a support group for survivors of domestic abuse to help you deal with your emotions and traumatic memories, build up your self-confidence, and learn how to trust again.
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Hong Kong businessman Hui Wing Mau has purchased the majority stake in Australian meat processing company Bindaree Beef Group, the company said Friday [1 September 2017]. Although the exact figure has not been disclosed, it is believed the 51 percent share of the business cost somewhere between 100 and 150 million Australian dollars (79-120 million U.S. dollars)…Full Article: Xinhua Sept 2017
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- The 51% stake was sold to Hui Wing Mau's Archstone Investment. Headquartered in Beijing, Archstone Investment is a property development firm that is also the controlling shareholder of the Hong Kong-listed Shimao Property Holdings (HKG:0813).
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- In October 2015, Delisi Food bought a 45% stake in Bindaree Beef Group, an Australian meat (e.g. beef) producer. The investment by Delisi Food, once approved by Australia's Foreign Investment Review Board, will partly be used to develop upgrading Bindaree's meat-processing plants in eastern Australia.
- Founded as early as 1989 and headquartered in Zhucheng, Shandong province, Shandong Delisi Food (SHE:002330) is a major pork processor. The company also produces and distributes chilled meat products (e.g. chicken, liver, etc.) as well as sesame balls and pasta. The company was listed on the Shenzhen Stock Exchange in 2010.
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Prior to incorporation, the founders or "promoters" of a future corporation sometimes may make vague promises to employees or attorneys that if the business is successful, they will give the employee or attorney an "interest in the business." Also very frequently, the owner of a corporation agrees that an employee will earn an ownership interest over time. After the employee performs his part of the agreement, the majority shareholder may regret the deal and delay or refuse to issue the shares. This was the situation in Willis v. Donnelly. In that case, the defendant was the sole shareholder of a corporation that was established to operate a day spa. The defendant contracted with the plaintiff, who owned a successful hair salon, to give up his existing business and to transfer his staff and customers, for which the plaintiff would receive a 25% ownership in the corporation as soon as the new business reached a certain revenue goal. However, the defendant soon regretted this agreement because the costs and capital requirements were much greater than anticipated, and when the revenue targets were reached the corporation was still losing money. The defendant demanded that the plaintiff "act like an owner" by contributing capital or assuming some of the debt and was frustrated when the plaintiff refused to do so. Therefore, the defendant delayed issuing the stock and later persuaded the plaintiff to consent to the delay so that the defendant could get all the tax benefits of the losses from the S corporation. Ultimately, the plaintiff was fired without ever having received his shares. The Supreme Court reversed a judgment for the plaintiff for breach of fiduciary duty, holding that no duties arose because the plaintiff was never a shareholder.
When does one become a shareholder? The transfer of share ownership is a matter of contract. When there is a "manifest intention of the parties to this enterprise" that a person is a shareholder, and then he is a shareholder. In Yeaman v. Galveston City Co., the Texas Supreme Court held: "He becomes a full stockholder, certainly where he has performed his obligation, and possession all of a stockholder's right, even if no certificate is issued to him at all." In Greenspun v. Greenspun, the Court of Appeals held that, as a legal matter, "transfer of title may take place though there is no delivery of the certificates themselves, nor endorsement of them, nor transfer of them on the books of the corporation, and even though the sale be by parol." In affirming the lower court's opinion, the Texas Supreme Court specifically adopted this portion of the opinion.
The plaintiff in Willis v. Donnelly should probably have argued that he became a shareholder by virtue of the letter agreement the moment that the revenue target was reached, that the agreement to transfer ownership was essentially self-executing. However, that theory would have been inconsistent with the plaintiff's claim that the defendant breached the letter agreement by not issuing the shares, which the jury found to be the fact. Furthermore, the undisputed evidence was that the transfer of ownership was delayed (not merely the issuance of share certificates) so that the defendant could continue to enjoy the tax benefits of the corporation' losses, which would have to be shared with the plaintiff once the plaintiff became a shareholder. Therefore, in Willis v. Donnelly, it was clear on that record that ownership had not been transferred to the plaintiff.
In Bower v. Yellow Cab Co., the plaintiff had signed agreements conclusively proving that the plaintiff's husband had purchased shares in the corporation. Those shares were never issued. After her husband's death, the plaintiff made several requests for the share certificates and was ignored. The defendants never denied plaintiff's share ownership; but they also never issued the stock to her on the company's books and never "allowed [plaintiff] to exercise any rights of a stockholder," never notified her of a stockholders' meeting or gave her the opportunity to be present. The court held that the evidence demonstrated "a wrongful refusal to issue certificates of stock to which plaintiff was entitled in the Yellow Cab Company" and that "her rights as a stockholder were ignored" and held that both the corporation and its directors individually were liable for conversion torts.
In Neyland v. Brammer, the defendant's husband contracted with the plaintiff to have the plaintiff locate, acquire, and develop sand and gravel deposits in the vicinity of Victoria, Texas, promising to pay him "$400.00 per month and 10% interest in the profits of such business, as compensation for his services," which was later modified to provide for issuance of 10% of the stock in the corporation that defendant formed. The plaintiff later sued the defendant for conversion of his stock based on the failure to issue the stock agreed to by her late husband. The trial court rendered judgment for the defendant; the court of appeals reversed, holding: Plaintiff "conclusively showed himself to be the owner, under the terms of his
original contract of late 1927 or early 1928 with J. L. Brammer for 10%. of the latter's interest in a holding corporation to be thereafter created for their joint sand and gravel business at Victoria" and that defendant "converted to her individual benefit the interest so belonging to him, became in consequence liable in both her capacities to him for its reasonable value as of that date." The court reversed and rendered a judgment for the plaintiff for the value of the stock found by the trial court, but then on rehearing remanded the case for a new determination of damages.
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(ਨੱਕ) - ਅੱਧਕ - Adhak.
This mark creates the impression of increasing the intensity (emphasising) the letter that follows it, by leaving a small time (between a tenth and a fifth of a second long) between the end of the sound before and the sound that follows the adhak.
With explosive consonants, you just wait for the time and then start the next letter but with other consonants (such as ਲ, ਛ ਮ and so on), you don't have much choice but to start the consonant and then hold it.
Using English words, think of the stereotyped way that Welsh people say 'middle' and 'village' (with pause in the middle of the central, double letters). So, 'middle' becomes 'mid-dle' and 'village' becomes 'vil-lage' or even 'vil-le-je' demonstrating the two types of consonant.
In Punjabi, ਮੱਛੀ sounds a bit like 'Mashshshee'. If you stopped the ਛ, you would effectively turn it into a ਚ which would be wrong.
In Punjabi, using an adhak or not can change the meaning of a word . . .


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Honor Related Violence (Sweden)
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Statistics on Honor Related Violence and Killings
Violence and repression are regular occurrences for a large section of 16-year-old school goers in the city centre and suburbs, according to a study commissioned by local politicians.
Ulf Kristersson (Mod), Commissioner of Social Services, is one of a number of politicians surprised and outraged by the findings.
"It's not permitted for adults, not even parents, to prevent children from living full, independent lives," he told Sveriges Television.
The results come from a survey of a cross section of more than 2,000 pupils.
Almost a quarter of female respondents, 23 percent, said they were expected to retain their virginity until marriage and were not allowed to have a boyfriend. Sixteen percent of girls were not allowed to have male friends or decide whom they would marry.
Seven percent of girls and three percent of boys said they were exposed to serious violations in the form of threats and violence.
And ten percent of girls and four percent of boys said their lives were limited to the extent that they could not live in the same way as other people their own age.The majority of teenagers who matched the honour culture profile have parents born outside Sweden.
The Local, April 14, 2009
Fadime Sahindal, shot in the head, January 21, 2002
Fadime then left her family and moved to Sundsvall, where her brother found her and threatened her. She went to the police who advised her at first to talk to her family. She then turned to the media with her story, after which she turned again to the police and was offered a secret identity. By turning to the media Fadime managed to receive support from the Swedish authorities, but she had also made the "shame" of her family public.
She filed a lawsuit against her father and brother and won - her father was accused of unlawful threats.
The next month, in June 1998, they were scheduled to move in together when the boyfriend, Patrick, died in a car accident. He was buried in Uppsala.
Her father forbade her to visit Uppsala, since he did not want her to visit her former boyfriend's grave. Nalin Pekgul, a Kurdish-Swedish parliamentarian negotiated a compromise in which Şahindal agreed to stay away from Uppsala and her father promised not to stalk her.
On 20 November 2001 the Violence against Women network arranged a seminar about the topic "Integration on whose terms?". During the seminar Fadime spoke in front of the Swedish parliament about her personal story.
On 21 January 2002, Fadime was secretly visiting her mother and sisters in Uppsala. Her father arrived and shot her in the head, in front of her mother and two sisters. Confronted by police, he confessed and said to his defence that he was ill. Despite the confession, one of her cousins later tried to convince the police that he had killed her.
Her murder sparked a debate in Sweden about immigrant integration and raised questions regarding Patrick's death.Fadime was buried in Uppsala.
Wikipedia, accessed January 20, 2011
Abbas Rezai, beaten with a baseball bat and iron rod, scalded with hot oil, and stabbed to death, 2005
The verdict was not unanimous. Two of the judges in the trial said they believed that the 18 year old's mother and father were also guilty of murder. They wrote that who had done what was certainly not clear, but that it was beyond any doubt that the three on trial had planned the killing together.
Abbas Rezai was found dead in the apartment belonging to the Afghan family in Högsby, in Småland. According to the prosecutor, Kjell Yngvesson, the murder was an honour killing, in revenge for Rezai's relationship with the 16 year old daughter in the family.
The mother, father and son were all tried for murder, but from the beginning the son claimed responsibility for the crime. He stated that he and Rezai had had an argument which had escalated into the violent killing.
Abbas Rezai had been beaten with an iron rod and a baseball bat, and hot oil had been poured over him. He was also stabbed 23 times with a 29 centimetre knife.The prosecutor maintained that both the parents and other members of the family had collaborated in the murder. He demanded a life sentence for the parents and a long jail sentence for the son.
The Local, April 26, 2006
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The court classified the murder as a so-called honour killing as Rezai was involved in a relationship with the convicted man's sister at the time of his brutal slaying in November 2005.
His parents were meanwhile acquitted despite both the district court and the appeal court ruling that their son could not have committed the crime alone.
In his application for a pardon from the Supreme Court, the 23-year-old has forwarded claims that it was in fact his parents who were behind the killing, arguing that he was merely present in the apartment at the time.
In support of his case he has cited the testimony made in police interviews by his younger brother, who was 15-years-old at the time. The teenager spent some time in state care due to concerns over reprisals from his family.The man has furthermore supported his application with a new statement from the medical examiner and the police forensics team which carried out the examination of the apartment.
The Local, May 9, 2011
Jian, beaten and threatened with death, 2009
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Sune Johansson said that this case involved family's honor and what happens when a daughter's chastity is questioned.
Jian and Azad's case is one of the few concerning honor related violence which has come to trial.
In the summer of 2007 Jian's parents discovered she had a boyfriend. Since then her life changed around completely: her father drove her to and from school, she was not allowed to go out without an aunt following her. Azad comes from the same city in Kurdistan, but her parents wanted her to marry a cousin, whom she didn't know.
Jian says her parents and relatives beat her, threatened to kill her and cursed her. They called her a 'whore' and told her she was dirty and worthless. Her father told her he'll kill her with a pistol and her mother told her they'll kill her on the spot. They threatened to kill Azad and cut him up in the bathtub. Jian says that the only thing preventing them from doing so was the fact that everybody would then know about the relationship.
Jian and Azad wanted to get married and Azad asked Jian's father for her hand, but was refused over and over again.
The suspects deny the charges and say that the boyfriend manipulated Jian and brainwashed her, and that he wants to marry their daughter only so he could get asylum in Sweden. They admit that they tried to restrict the relationship between Jian and Azan since they thought he was too old for her, unemployed and threatened with deportation, but they deny that honor is involved.
Jian's 21 year old aunt told the police that nobody wanted to do anything bad to Jian and that they would never harm or kill Jian or Azad. The family accepted that they would marry.
The social services took Jian into their custody at the end of February last year. For two months she couldn't meet Azad and then she ran away from the shelter. She was found by her parents and two male cousins. The four were in a car, Jian's mother was driving. She beat Jian with a shoe and threatened her with a broken glass bottle and screwdriver. The abuse ended when the police showed up.
The relatives deny this and the father says that he was so happy to see his daughter that he hugged and kissed her.The threats against Jian and Azad are considered very serious and according to newspaper GT, even the people around them are threatened.
Islam in Europe, May 12, 2009
Young women, stabbed 53 times, November 2010
Subhi Othman, who admitted to stabbing his daughter to death in November last year, was sentenced Monday to 18 years in prison by the district court in Nyköping, south of Stockholm.
After killing his daughter on the stairs of the family home, Othman gave himself up to the police.
When police arrived on the scene, they found his daughter lying in the foetal position at the bottom of the stairs. She had been stabbed 53 times.
During questioning, Othman claimed he saw no other solution as his daughter was leading what he viewed as an 'indecent' lifestyle.
According to tabloid Aftonbladet, Othman began hating his daughter after her husband had filed for divorce. Behind this was a rumour of infidelity.
The 21-year-old woman and her three-year-old daughter had moved from Gothenburg to Katrineholm, in central Sweden, to live with her parents following the divorce.The court found that the murder had been premeditated and especially brutal.
The Local, March 21, 2011
18-year-old female, threatened, beaten and forced to strip in public, June 2011
The brother gave his sister several blows to the face and kicked her in the hip. He threatened to break her arm if she didn't give him her cellphone and told her he would be willing to sit in jail to see her dead.
The woman had been engaged to a man in her parents' homeland, but had left him last year because he beat her.
The woman's mother defends her son and condemns her daughter's actions. she told the police that her daughter had ruined her life because ten police officers had come to the family home because of her.
The brother was in police custody for several days last June. He had confesses to the crimes, but has since then changed his approach and claims innocence. He says his sister had received her injuries, which were documented in a medical center, when she jumped off a roof.
The case was reported to the police by the principal of the sister's school.
Three of the sister's girlfriends will be testifying as witnesses. two of them were there when the brother forced his sister to undress. The brother had said his sister was no longer worth the clothing and jewelry she had received from their parents. His sister did what he wanted for fear of being beaten, but she refused to give up her mobile phone and stuffed it into her bra.During the conflict the phone rang, which made the brother even more upset and he twisted his sister's arm.
Anders Isberg, Skanskan.se, February 28, 2012
19-year-old male, almost beaten to death with metal bars, October 2011
"You don't usually get very far in the investigation of these matters," said prosecutor Karl-Erik Antonsson to news agency TT.
The six men allegedly beat the 19-year-old so severely with metal bars that he was close to losing his life.
The young man turned up bleeding at the reception of the local gym Alléhallen in Hallsberg in the beginning of October last year. He was quickly taken to hospital where medical staff performed emergency surgery to try to save his life.
Police suspect six men who had been in the gym as the attempted murder took place.
At first they thought that the motive was an underlying vendetta between two families, but as the details of the case unfolded, investigators instead started looking at the case as a honour-related crime.
The prosecutor believes that the men wanted to protect the daughter in their family after an alleged kidnapping attempt.
The prosecutor filed the charges against the men last week under the classification of attempted murder.Four of the men allegedly deny having anything to do with the attack, while two admit to a certain degree of assault and battery, according to news agency TT.
The Local, January 30, 2012
14-year-old female, beaten with a vacuum-cleaner, stomped on and kicked, February 2012
The police were called in when a neighbor saw the girl, who was walking around with very little on. The brother had beaten, stomped and kicked his sister. He also beat her with a vacuum-cleaner. The girl had wanted to invite boys to the family home.
Politiken, February 14, 2012
19-year-old female, stabbed 107 times, April 23, 2012
The teen, who was 16 at the time, was convicted of killing his 19-year-old sister at her home in the southwestern town of Landskrona on April 23 last year.
He had called emergency services and said a masked attacker had killed her, but investigators said his story didn't hold up against evidence found at the scene.
"The court found the man guilty of the murder and that the motive was to restore the family's honour," the Lund district court said in a statement.
It said that "despite the man's young age," it was sentencing him "to a long prison sentence, and has set it at eight years."
The names and nationalities of the brother and sister were not disclosed, but media described the family as being of Iraqi origin.
The sister had told friends and family that she was worried her life was in danger, after she fled from Iraq, where she had been reportedly married against her will to an older man whom she claimed beat and raped her.
Once in Sweden, she contacted social services in Landskrona, but she said they did not take her family's threats against her seriously, Swedish media reported.The court meanwhile refused to pay damages to the victim's mother and a half-sister born to the same father, arguing the relatives did not have a close relationship with the deceased.
Agence France-Presse, January 29, 2013
Young women, lips cut off and eaten, May 2012
According to Sweden's Aftonbladet newspaper, the man flew into a jealous rage over suspicions that his much younger wife had been having an affair.
The man, who is 52, admitted to cutting off his wife's lips in a closed court hearing, the paper reported, saying it was retaliation.
'It was honour related. He doesn't seem to regret a thing. He believes she insulted him,' a source with knowledge of the matter told the paper.
The assault was so brutal that the prosecutor tried to have him charged for attempted murder. But the court sought to downgrade the charge to aggravated assault.
Ingela Hessius Ekman, who represents the victim, said her client may have suffered irreparable damage.
'She has very serious injuries, doctors can not yet determine whether she can be healed or not,' she told Aftonbladet.
'She's in a lot of pain.'
Miss Ekman added that the trial is due to start at the beginning of July.
The man, who is from Iran, was doing post-Doctoral research at the institute in 2010.He is now employed by a university in Tehran, but still lived partly and Stockholm, where he collaborated with his old research group at the university, and used its email services and library through a 'declaration of association.'
Richard Orange, Mail Online, May 31, 2012


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I am always amazed to hear the stories of how clients are referred to me. The S. family came to me via a fellow photographer's blog posting. If you've been following my blog for awhile you may recall the SOAR photography scholarship I applied for in December. Through the application process I have been able to network with many budding photographers from around the globe. Marcia Stuhler of Texas based Classy Kids Photography is one of the amazing women I have gotten to know this year through SOAR and she was kind enough to feature me and my experiences at the LAUNCH photography workshop on her blog back in March. Well, Marcia also just happens to be originally from the Washington Metropolitan area and this is where the S. family comes in. They happened to read her blog posting with my feature, clicked over to my site, and when they realized I wasn't too far away from their Rockville, MD home they contacted me and asked if I'd be willing to come out their way for a family session.
After two reschedules in April we were finally able to connect last weekend and the wait was worth it! We got the perfect weather and I had such a great time with this family of four at the Brookside Gardens in Silver Spring, MD. This place is a photographer's paradise with sprawling landscapes, fountains, ponds, and flowers. I am so glad they introduced me to this location because it's one I hope to use again in the future! We had a fun morning just strolling the gardens and enjoying the weather. One unique thing I learned about the S. family on our morning together? They like to travel and before going on vacation they'll research on-location photographers in the area they are visiting to do a family sessions while they are there! What a great memory and a great way to get the whole family in vacation photos.
Thanks so much S. family for a wonderful morning and for introducing me to a beautiful location for photos! I hope you enjoy this sneak peek, the rest of your session will be on the way soon.


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137 uncomfortable plot summaries of movies, TV series and books. Some favorites:
- ALIENS: An unplanned pregnancy leads to complications.
- DELIVERANCE: Tourists experience local hospitality.
- DIE HARD: Dysfunctional cop saves marriage by murdering foreign national.
- GROUNDHOG DAY: Misanthropic creep exploits space/time anomaly to stalk coworker.
- JURASSIC PARK: Theme park's grand opening pushed back.
- KARATE KID: Boy gains acceptance through violence.
- KILL BILL: Irresponsible mother wants custody of her child.
- LORD OF THE RINGS: Midget destroys stolen property.
- MONTY PYTHON AND THE HOLY GRAIL: British comedy troupe inadvertently creates language lab for nerds.
- RED DAWN: Despite shock-and-awe tactics, a superior occupying force is no match for a tenacious sect of terrorist insurgents.
- RISKY BUSINESS: Privileged rich kid gets everything he wants with no consequences.
- SCARFACE: Immigrant finds running his own business stressful, dangerous.
- STAR WARS: A NEW HOPE: Religious extremist terrorists destroy government installation, killing thousands.
- TERMINATOR: An unplanned pregnancy leads to complications.
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Chilliwack – Chilliwack Fire are investigating a major house fire on the 45000 block of Safflower Crescent. Flames had burst into the sky around 3PM (July 11). In all, five structures had major damage (two of them appear to be completely destroyed) and another 11 had minor heat damage.
So far 5 people are homeless for the time being.
Fortunately no one was hurt although reports on social media say a resident in a basement apartment got out safely and was able to move his vehicle out of harms way.
If you have any information on this fire, call RCMP at 604 792 4611 or email Crimestoppers at crimestoppers.ca or call 1 800 222 TIPS (8477).
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Wide world of art: Dozens of local artists plug into the vast audience available on the Internet with the help of an online art gallery run by Sonoma artist Katherine Spiering and her partner, David Heller.
Web Wonders
Why are artists seeking their net worth in the unrefined world of cyberspace?
By Paula Harris
"MY FATHER was a black polka musician, my mother a Puerto Rican country-western singer who defected from France. Being politically naive, she didn't know it wasn't necessary. I was raised by an order of dyslexic nuns in Canada--consequently my confusion with God or Dog! . . . 'You have one cobra eye, one tiger eye.' These words whispered to me on the streets of Bombay 20 years ago began my art career. Or maybe not . . ."
Welcome to the vivid virtual reality of art on the Internet. This colorful back-story is an excerpt from the fantastical biography of Sonoma artist and virtual-art-gallery curator Katherine Spiering. Posted on her web site, it serves as Spiering's counterculture jab at the traditional fine arts establishment--that world of swanky galleries hawking their artists with impressive and increasingly colorful bios.
"They want a shtick," says the mischievous Spiering, shaking her black curls, dark eyes glinting. "They want some kind of bio that lends to the art world mystique--they want a hook. So this is my response.
"And some people actually believe it," she adds. "Some people will come over and say, 'Hey, I didn't know your father was black!' "
Spiering, 43, who formerly co-published an arts magazine in Mendocino with her partner, David Heller, decided to go the Internet route six years ago. She and Heller moved to Sonoma and started a home-based business called Left Coast Art, which offers an online art gallery--one of the first in Northern California--plus an online arts magazine.
The web site, which can be found at leftcoastart.com, showcases the works of some 20 to 40 mainly local artists, including Spiering's own pieces--a vibrant mix of pastel and acrylic with themes she describes as "urban neurotic."
The site currently features the work of three sculptors, one potter, and various craftspersons, but the emphasis is on the fine arts. Computer users navigate the site by clicking their way through brief biographies of the artists and thumbnail sketches of their work.
"I'm an artist myself, but more of a facilitator," explains Spiering, leaning against her desk in the white-walled studio and home office off the kitchen. The space is crammed with computers and multimedia equipment, with a tangle of wires beyond. The room also sports rows of books on technology and on art.
"I like discovering artists and promoting those I think are good," continues Spiering, who often visits galleries in the real world in the hope of enticing artists online. Those who take her up on the offer pay a nominal fee upfront and then a 20 percent commission to Left Coast for any work sold.
"I like to keep rotating artists through the site, and I like them to keep refreshing their work," says Spiering. "If an artist loses interest, I don't like to keep them online."
The arrangement works well for many artists who don't want to pay high overheads and would rather circumvent the gallery and go directly to the people. "A lot of my friends won't even deal with [traditional] galleries," says Spiering. "By the time they paint it, frame it, schlep it, and schmooze, it's all too much."
Heller, 50, a jeans-clad, lanky computer whiz with a ponytail, says the pair decided to go cyber because of the low overhead. Regarding the magazine, he says, "It's still publishing, but now I don't have to pay a driver to distribute the magazine, or for a storage locker to hold paper, or printing costs."
He says the Internet art gallery business--with its low overhead, unlimited access, and high traffic--is paying off, pulling in between 12,000 and 90,000 hits per month. "We're linked to just about every search engine--and we get a lot of hits from Europe," he says.
THE PARTNERS like the idea of reaching a larger, more global audience. "You're walking a lot more people by an image as opposed to a traditional gallery," Spiering says.
Another advantage to online art is its spontaneity. Spiering recalls an instance when a local man browsing the Web came upon one of her paintings and immediately purchased it as a centerpiece for a cocktail party he was throwing that night.
"The snobbery level is still there, but it's not so prohibitive," she adds. "As an online artist, you don't have to have the proper background or education or be in the right circles, all the things that are traditionally attached to fine art. There's definitely an underground movement. You can put your own art online if you can't get into a gallery. It's great for small-time artists and students."
THANKS to broad-based sites such as NextMonet.com and Visualize.com, the work of virtually unknown artists shows up on computer screens around the world as big and bright as that of Degas or Picasso. Some web sites are even dedicated to, um, inferior images, such as The Gallery of Very Bad Art, at www.badart.com.
A growing number of artists are soloing--creating their own sites because the overhead isn't as high and because the egalitarian notion of a virtual gallery appeals to them.
For some artists, the Web is more than a place to market their wares or network with colleagues. It is a liquid canvas for making art itself.
And in this virtual world the cyber artist can use digital media to interact with the user.
"The World Wide Web is a new world, and its artisans are using new tools to create within it. Technology has become a technique, and technique is the result of technology," says Amy Stone, founder of the Museum of Web Art, an interactive art gallery in Brentwood, Calif., that is designed especially for the Web.
For artists who design their own web sites, the cost is usually minimal. But despite that, some sites don't do well. Two Sonoma Countybased online art galleries display defunct telephone numbers on their Web page.
"It does cost money to keep a gallery online," Heller says. "Some artists use free sites, but then it gets objectionable when ads pop up. Another problem is if you get too popular and you have a server capacity that can't handle it."
Then too, not everyone likes virtual art galleries. At first they aroused significant opposition in the art community. "People weren't into it," says Spiering. "They wanted everything done traditionally."
One of the complaints was about the loss of tactile experience: You can't get up close and personal to online images. Another was that potential buyers were leery about spending money on something they could gauge only from their computer monitors.
One additional qualm is copyright ownership. "Some images carry digital watermarks, numbers embedded in the file--it puts [artists] on a better footing if they need to sue," says Heller. "We limit the [on-screen] size to a printable 4-inch-by-4-inch [image] that's not enlargeable."
Even with all these difficulties, the majority of art galleries and university galleries are now online. The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art awarded its first SFMOMA Webby awards for excellence in online art in May.
"There's a good future for Web art because it's a visual medium in all aspects. There's a lot of potential for artists," says Spiering.
"It's great for the collector too," adds Heller with a grin. "You can see art at three in the morning in your pajamas!"
From the June 22-28, 2000 issue of the Sonoma County Independent.
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