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(snug)* events is a boutique events company offering a personal and unique planning service.
We're a tenacious and creative team who can organise any event from special birthday parties right through to major donor events and charity balls. And we love doing them all equally.
We can run with your ideas and vision or we're happy to come up with the event design and style for you. We'll source venues, caterers, cocktail bars, florists, photographers and with personal links in the music industry, we can book some top live entertainment. We love all aspects of the planning process and have even been known to bake for events!
Our sister company, (snug)* pr, has over 15 years of experience securing celebrity support for charities so we can even find you celebrity hosts, auctioneers or guests for your event, if you so wish.
We'd love to have a chat with you about your event and see how we can help.
(snug)* pr specialises in securing celebrity support for charities.
For over 15 years we've succeeded in getting celebrities to attend charity events, front PR and fundraising campaigns, take on Ambassador roles, meet service users and donate auction prizes.
We understand that you don't want just any celebrity, you want the right celebrity, who's in line with your core values and understands your cause and aims. We can help with that. We can also suggest some celebrity-led fundraising and PR initiatives that you may not have thought of.
There is no denying celebrities can help sell a cause. Most charities now realise the importance of having a close fitting, or (snug)* celebrity on board. Not only can we find the right face for your charity to secure press coverage and increase public awareness, we can help raise funds and give a morale boost to service users, hard working volunteers and staff.
What we really like is when your relationship with the celebrity flourishes long after we've gone.
Job done.
Some of the celebrities secured by (snug)*pr:
Paul O'Grady, Bear Grylls, Martin Clunes, Twiggy, Matt Lucas, Elaine Paige OBE, Shane Richie, Miranda Hart, Tamzin Outhwaite, Barbara Windsor MBE, Christopher Biggins, John Barrowman, Lewis Hamilton, Jonathan Ross, Laura Bailey, Cbeebies presenters Andy Day and Katy Ashworth, Barney Harwood, Angela Griffin, Dame Judi Dench OBE, Julian Clary, Aled Jones, Jean-Christophe Novelli, Martyn Lewis CBE, Kate Winslet, Claudia Winkleman, Stacey Young, Melinda Messenger, Michelle Collins, Flawless, Billy Byrne and Diy SOS, Gail Porter, Quentin Blake CBE, Rob Ryan, Tim Henman, Sooty Sweep and Sue, Mister Maker, Holly Willoughby, Nick Knowles, Daniel Roche, Lemar, Fearne Cotton, Noddy Holder, Theo Walcott, Rupert Grint and so the list goes on...
40th birthday party > (snug)* events
Oh, what a night! Our client certainly celebrated her birthday in style by inviting friends and family to party the night away in a stunning stretch tent in her garden.
We brought the garden inside the tent with velvet green lounge furniture, hand crafted wooden tables, rich copper tones and soft florals; all coming together to create a relaxed 'Babington House' style vibe.
Guests feasted on a delicious menu of canapes and bowl food, including rare roast beef in mini yorkshire puddings with horseradish cream and flat leaf parsley, lamb tagine with roasted vegetables and lime couscous, and mini caramel chocolate tarts with sesame soil. Thankfully guests left some room for the stunning cheese table, laden with British cheeses, fresh bread, crackers, fruit and nuts, celery and home made chutneys. And of course, a party isn't a party without a birthday cake, stacked high with cream, fruit and candles!
Our fabulous mixologists were kept busy, wowing guests with their show stopping cocktails and topping off the evening with their signature Espresso Martini Twists with Popcorn and Maple Foam.
No party is complete without a great band, and our line up of world-class musicians took the roof off the tent! These party-goers weren't shy in joining Rockaoke on stage, belting out some classics and partying well into the night. And there was no stopping these guests when the clock struck midnight; they just put on their silent disco headsets and carried on dancing!
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Autumn birthday party > (snug)* events
We had great fun organising this special birthday party in such a stunning setting! Our 30 mini party guests zipped about outside playing laser tag in the Autumn sun, before coming inside the cosy tipi to warm up at the hot chocolate station, have their faces painted and play at the super hero themed craft table.
The beautiful tipi stood majestic in our client's garden and kept guests cosy and warm as they feasted on party food bags packed to the brim with tasty delights! The adults enjoyed the tea and coffee station whilst tucking into a selection of mini bites, including apple and toffee sauce cake, millionaire shortbread and all time favorite, rocky road! The DIY hot chocolate station was a big hit with children and adults alike and everyone enjoyed creating their own chocolaty delights!
Clutching their Star Wars cupcakes, balloons and bespoke party bags, the guests left tired and happy and the party boy had memories to last a lifetime.
Hooray for parties!
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Summer Garden Party > (snug)* events
There's something special about a relaxed garden party, which is exactly what the (snug)* events team achieved for our clients in Berkshire.
Armed with our brief for fresh summer food, simple décor and a laid-back feel, we dressed a beautiful sperry tent with elegant crates of succulents and soft pink roses, twinkly fairy lights and cosy hay bale lounge areas.
Sparkling summer drinks were served on arrival followed by a delicious seasonal menu, all topped off with decadent English puddings and a spectacular cheese table.
We injected some (snug)* sparkle into the evening and delighted guests with mind boggling magic, wooden boxes filled with curiosities and bespoke liquid nitrogen ice-cream, made to order in front of their eyes!
Our fabulous house band had everyone up on the dancefloor before our guests tried their hand at cocktail making in the quirky treehouse den.
As the evening drew in, contented guests snuggled into cosy lounge seating, stoking fire pits and toasting marshmallows, before making their way home along the festoon and lantern-lit pathway.
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A Winter Wonderland > (snug)* events
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Our client's brief was to create a magical winter wonderland, so with snow shipped in from Belgium, beautiful twinkly lights and a fabulous festive menu, we created a party to remember for 150 guests.
Guests warmed themselves with spiced bellinis and egg nog martinis served by our mixologists before tucking in to a delicious bowl food menu. The favourites included skewered bourbon-glazed pork belly with crackling & a sour cream chive dip and skewers of chargrilled beef fillet with big chips and béarnaise sauce.
We used glass, mirrored furniture and winter flora to create an elegant dining area, along with lounge seating for those who wanted to chat and a dance area for those who wanted to party!
The cheese and dessert stations opened later in the evening and in between dancing, guests nibbled on fig pudding balls with a warm custard dip, cinnamon and damson doughnuts with a spiced caramel sauce and Baileys & mint chocolate cheesecake.
Fabulous face painter www.glitterbox.co.uk added some magical sparkle to the evening with intricate designs for the ladies and the men were introduced to the world of glitter beards!
For those with room to fill, guests dipped, sprinkled and stirred to create their own dream drinks at the hot chocolate station before wrapping up in blankets and heading onto the decking to toast chestnuts over the open fires.
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Children's Birthday Party for Jack Wilshere > (snug)* events
(snug)* events had so much fun organising the birthday party for Archie and Delilah, the children of England and Arsenal football star Jack Wilshere. The children enjoyed fabulous Bubblegum balloons, face painting, bubbles, craft tables, bouncy castle, ball pool and a surprise appearance from Elsa and Spiderman! The mini guests feasted on a delicious dairy and GF party menu and even had their own milkshake and smoothie station where they could top up whenever they pleased! The adults weren't left out, and whilst the children had fun they enjoyed a tasty BBQ menu and even tried their hand at karaoke and Playstation. As the evening wore on, the adults relaxed in candlelit lounge areas and toasted marshmallows over the fire pit, whilst the worn-out younger party guests were carried home to
their beds.
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The Katie Piper Foundation > (snug)* events
(snug)* events proudly event managed The Katie Piper Foundation ball 2014, co-hosted by Simon Cowell and Katie Piper, and compared by Alex Jones. (snug)* pulled together all aspects of the event from venue, caterers, room decor, florists and entertainment and secured over £150k worth of auction prizes and goody bag donations. Hello! were the exclusive media partner and celebrity guests included Cheryl Fernandez-Versini, Mel B, Nick Knowles, Louis Walsh, Gethin Jones, Julia Bradbury, Jake Humphrey and much to the guests' excitement, the X-Factor finalists! Guests enjoyed a delicious 3 course dinner courtesy of The Ivy's catering arm Urban Caprice, and our wonderful (snug)* team encouraged guests to dig deep, raising £120k on the night for a fabulous charity.
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Glitzy Night Out > (snug)* events
We loved working on these two flagship fundraising events for Noah's Ark Children's Hospice. Securing Shane Richie and Christopher Biggins as hosts, we wowed over 350 guests with Britain's Got Talent dancers, internationally renowned magicians, casinos, top musicians and delicious food from Luton Hoo Hotel and Spa. The auction prizes we sourced included an all-expenses trip to Las Vegas, 2 weeks on a luxury yacht and plenty of designer handbags! Our celebrity contacts Matt Lucas, Stephen Merchant, Tamzin Outhwaite and Miranda Hart all donated generously, helping us raise much needed funds for a wonderful charity.
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Robin's 3Oth Birthday Party > (snug)* events
Robin asked us to organise a relaxed, informal 3Oth birthday celebration, so we created a rustic look with wood, zinc and moss as a central theme. We used two giant tipis for dining and dancing and created outdoor lounge areas for guests to sit back and relax. Our only remit was to include ice-cream and cocktails, so we combined this with Robin's love of cars and hired a Landrover cocktail bar to serve guests bespoke cocktails. And the ice—cream sellers were a huge hit with children and adults alike. As the sun went down, we transformed the venue into a sea of twinkling lights with our hundreds of candles and tea lights, all captured by fabulous photographer brookphotography.co.uk. The band struck up, the fire pit was lit and the guests partied and chatted well into the night.
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George's Twinkle > (snug)* events & pr
(snug)* is proud to support George's Twinkle (www.justgiving.com/George-Rodd), a charity set up in memory of a little boy who lost his life very suddenly and tragically to a brain tumour. When (snug)* pr was asked to run the PR campaign for Cbeebies' star Andy Day's national theatre tour, along with the show flyers, we sent out 35,OOO Brain Tumour charity symptom cards to schools across the UK. (snug)* events also organised a wonderful coffee and cake morning for 3OO women from George's community, with support from both local and Great British Bake Off bakers. George's family are working to raise awareness of brain tumour symptoms and (snug)* will continue to help whenever and however we can.
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Butterfly Paintings > (snug)* pr
We've initiated and run countless celebrity fundraising and pr campaigns, one of which was the Chrysalis Collection for Keech Hospice. Using the butterfly, which is the national emblem for children's hospices, we asked our celebrity contacts to paint, draw and sketch for the art exhibition and auction. We secured artwork from 5O celebrities including Aled Jones, Alesha Dixon, Claudia Winkleman, Fearne Cotton, Gaby Logan, Gail Porter, Gethin Jones, Gloria Hunniford, Holly Willoughby, Julian Clary, Alastair Stewart, Nick Knowles, Jake Humphrey, Justin Fletcher, Kara Tointon, Katherine Jenkins, Keith Chegwin, Kenny Logan, Kirsten O'Brien, Noddy Holder, Theo Walcott and Tony Blackburn. Sooty Sweep and Sue also managed to find the time to create their own special masterpiece!
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"Amy did a brilliant job organising my childrens' birthday party. The tent looked amazing, the guests all loved the food and Archie and Delilah couldn't believe the real Spiderman and Elsa came to see them! Thanks Amy and the (snug)*events team, I'll definitely be using you again".
Jack Wilshere, England and Arsenal footballer
"Amy coordinated my husbands 30th party at our home last Summer and I have to say that the party was stunning and she thought of absolutely everything and knew exactly what vibe I was going for. All of the personal touches and attention to detail made the event so special. I was equally impressed with the quality and professionalism of her suppliers. Thank you Amy! People are still talking about how amazing it was!"
Mrs LB, (snug)* client
"Thank you (snug)* events for the amazing details at Charlie's party and for rescuing us when we realised we had 30 kids coming and no kitchen (and actually making it a million times better in the process!). I will be dreaming of the hot chocolate station for the rest of winter."
Mrs TN, (snug)* client
"I remain thoroughly impressed by Amy and her commitment to high quality work. Unlike some experiences I've had, when Amy is involved it is all incredibly professional, well organised and effective. I know that if I give Amy my time, she will make the very best, effective use of it for the charity she is representing. She's great, in fact, she's even better than that."
Jake Humphrey, TV presenter
"Having worked with Amy on various different events, including a very successful Festival of Theatre and two extremely profitable Glitzy Night Out balls, I have no qualms in recruiting her to work on similar events for me in the future. She liaises with staff and suppliers with efficiency, professionalism and charm. Amy was incremental in securing much at a vastly reduced rate, as well as sourcing some amazing auction and raffle prizes. Working with Amy on these events was a delight, and the energy, commitment and sense of humour she brings to the table is most refreshing".
Sue Staples, Noah's Ark Children's Hospice
"I get inundated with requests but always know that if Amy gets in touch it will be for something I'd like to support. Everything runs like clockwork when she's involved and she gets things done. She's a gem and I wouldn't hesitate to recommend her to celebrity contacts of mine"
Shane Richie, Actor
"I have worked with a few charities whilst working in children's TV, but out of everyone I have worked with on events or on ideas to raise money, none have been more helpful and proactive as Amy. She is enthusiastic and has a lot of energy to give, she communicates very well and works hard to achieve the best results, a perfect candidate for any event!'
Andy Day, Cbeebies presenter
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We call them secrets because so few people seem to appreciate how important they are to body language. Each of the ten "secrets" listed below deserves a whole section but hopefully this page will provide a basic introduction.
This is the technique of consciously using your body language to mirror the subconscious movements and gestures of others – in a way that is subtle and unnoticed at their conscious level. This body language can include gestures, vocal tones, breathing rate, posture, attentiveness and even facial-expressions. It is important that you do not "copy cat" their motions as this will quickly become noticeable. The trick is to use similar body language postures or gestures approximately ten seconds after they have. It is harder to do than it sounds and requires practice to appear casual and natural. Mirroring is an important secret because it occurs naturally when people are building a positive rapport and by deliberately doing it you can send an encouraging message that strengthens the developing relationship.
According to NLP (Neuro-Linguistic Programming) experts, this technique will build trust and liking in the person with whom you are communicating. You can apparently measure the success of your mirroring if, after a while, you introduce gestures that the other person hasn't used and then they start to subconsciously copy you. It is at this point you can express your own desires and intentions with the greatest likelihood of the other person being agreeable. Both conscious and subconscious mirroring is most often seen in romantic and business situations where the relationship that is being established is fundamental to the success of the endeavour.
(Aquiziam footnote: We decided to test this technique to see if it really worked. We used it in several social situations and deliberately mirrored the actions of people we had just met. In all cases the communication flowed easily and a positive rapport was established. In an equal number of instances we deliberately, but with subtlety, tried to use posture and gestures that were the opposite of those that our test subjects had just used. In all cases the communication was uncomfortable and in four out of five cases the person with whom we were communicating left as soon as they could do so. We realise that our own autosuggestion may have influenced the outcome of the test but it was interesting and seemed to indicate that mirroring does have a definite effect.)
The shape and condition of your body sends a message whether you want it to or not. It has become so socially and politically "incorrect" to comment or judge people based on their body form that this aspect of non-verbal communication is often ignored in explanations and teaching – but not in reality.
The secret is this: Humans do consciously and subconsciously judge others in this way. Pretending that they don't won't make it go away. If you see a very fat person then it is often (but not always) fair to assume that the person probably eats too much and exercises too little. Sometimes these people are very adept at deceiving themselves and others. At some time we've all probably heard someone say, "I eat like a bird but the pounds just pile on!" Actually, the truth is that in most cases they do eat like birds – like vultures. What they actually mean is, "I eat like a little bird when other people are watching but on my own I'm happy to eat six pizzas and a whole cake just for lunch."
Doctors will often admit that they would rather trust what they see in a physical examination rather than what patients tell them. Someone who has well formed muscles and a fit physique probably has self-discipline. Someone who has broad shoulders and a narrow waist is likely to be more confident. Fat people are often physically lazy. Taller people are less likely to exhibit frustration. Of course there are also a lot of myths. There is no evidence that redheads are likely to be more temperamental or that men with heavy eyebrows are untrustworthy. Even so, we still judge people by the way they look. Sometimes the messages change over time. It is true that being overweight did once represent success and wealth when food was scarce and expensive. It is also true that many high-level (successful) company executives do still tend to be overweight. (It's these damned business lunches!) However, fit and trim is now becoming a greater symbol of success.
Some body language is very specific to an individual rather than a group or society. It's trait that people develop as a response to how they are feeling that has little resemblance to general behaviour. For example; most people are likely to touch their lips or nose when they tell a lie. In the case of a particular boy he would always push his right hand into his back pocket. (Perhaps to stop himself from touching his face?) Once you work out what the body movement means it can become very useful when reading that specific person's body language. These are often called "Personal Tells". Almost everyone has them and in most cases we are completely ignorant of their existence as they apply to us personally.
A certain company Chief Executive would always start scratching the tip of his nose if he was irritated by what people were telling him.
A particular woman we know always starts making little sniffing noises if she doesn't like the food she's been served in a restaurant.
Perhaps the most unusual example was the case of girl we knew at university. Her boyfriend noticed that whenever she became sexually aroused she would start stroking her left earlobe with the thumb and forefinger of her left hand. Apparently she once said to him: "It's amazing how you always know when I'm feeling turned-on." In poker, professionals often study the other players to see if they have personal body language that can be used to "tell" whether they're holding good or bad cards.
Environment has a measurable impact on body language and the way that it is displayed and observed. Dilated pupils are often associated with arousal. However, pupils also dilate when it is dark. It is for this reason that candlelight has become associated with romance. In a study of theatre audiences it was found that actors performed better if the theatre seating was comfortable for the audience. The reason for this was that if the seating was uncomfortable the audience tended to fidget and sit awkwardly. Some even sat in a hostile way with their arms folded. The stage actors could see this negative body language and it impacted on their confidence. Even though the negative body language was irritation with the seating it still had an influence on the rest of the audience and the actors even though it wasn't aimed at them.
The fact is that people react to their environments by displaying responsive body language. People cross their arms when they are defensive but they also cross them when they are cold. The landlords of pubs and bars know that their guests like to feel comfortable when they go out for a drink. They don't want to see everyone standing around with their arms crossed. For this reason owners make sure that their bars are "warm and inviting".
Whenever we smile, frown or use some other facial expression the skin on our face moves and compresses into lines (creases). In young people the high elasticity of the skin means that the when the expression changes the lines disappear. However as people get older, and the skin becomes less elastic, wrinkles form and very often these wrinkles are indicators of the facial expressions that a person has used most often. Therefore a woman with vertical mouth creases is likely to have spent a great deal of her life pursing her lips – an expression usually associated with disapproval. A Man with deep wrinkles in his forehead caused by frowning may have spent much of his life worrying. There are literally dozens of wrinkles that can be interpreted by the competent face map reader.


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In what could help Santa Barbara further increase its influence in the high tech world, Surf Air, the subscription-membership based, all-you-can-fly airline headed by Wade Eyerly, said today that it has added Santa Barbara to its daily schedule. SurfAir said it will connect Santa Barbara with nonstop service to Silicon Valley, with the first flight leaving this morning at 8:15 a.m.
The new flights make Santa Barbara as close to San Francisco as it is to Los Angeles, and could help bolster the area's high tech companies. There are already a significant number of high tech companies--particularly, in online advertising--in the Santa Barbara region. Surf Air launched its service between Burbank and San Francisco in June. Surf Air lets members pay a monthly fee for all-you-can fly access via executive aircraft, from private air terminals in the cities it serves. The company said that Santa Barbara is part of a planned expansion of routes throughout California.
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Adriano Garsia
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|Adriano Garsia
20 August 1928
Tunis, French Tunisia
|University of California, San Diego
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|Stanford University
|Doctoral advisor
|Charles Loewner
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|Omer Egecioglu
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Adriano Mario Garsia (born 20 August 1928) is an Italian American mathematician who works in combinatorics, representation theory, and algebraic geometry, a student of Charles Loewner. He published work on representation theory, symmetric functions and algebraic combinatorics.
Born to Italian Tunisians in Tunis, Garsia moved to Rome in 1946.[1]
As of 2008[update] he had 29 students and 73 descendants according to the data at the Mathematics Genealogy Project, and was on the faculty of the University of California, San Diego.
In 2012 he became a fellow of the American Mathematical Society.[2]
Books by A. Garsia[edit]
- Garsia, Adriano M. Martingale inequalities: Seminar notes on recent progress. Mathematics Lecture Notes Series. W. A. Benjamin, Inc., Reading, Mass.-London-Amsterdam, 1973.
- Garsia, Adriano M. Topics in almost everywhere convergence. Lectures in Advanced Mathematics, 4 Markham Publishing Co., Chicago, Ill. 1970
- A. M. Garsia and M. Haiman, Orbit Harmonics and Graded Representations, Research Monograph to appear as part of the collection published by the Lab. de. Comb. et Informatique Math\'ematique, edited by S. Brlek, U. du Qu\'ebec \'a Montr\'eal.
- ^ http://math.ucsd.edu/~garsia/cv.html
- ^ List of Fellows of the American Mathematical Society, retrieved 2013-01-19.
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A top Republican lawmaker on Friday subpoenaed the Treasury Department for documents pertaining to the IRS targeting scandal, after accusing the head of the tax-collection agency of obstructing congressional investigations.
During a tense hearing on Capitol Hill held shortly before lawmakers headed out for summer recess, acting IRS chief Danny Werfel weathered tough questioning from Republicans including Rep. Darrell Issa, R-Calif., chairman of the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee.
Issa claimed the IRS has been slow to produce documents, and that the documents it does produce are so thoroughly blacked out, they are useless to investigators.
"When you eliminate search terms unilaterally you are obstructing us by limiting the scope of discovery. Do you understand that, Mr. Werfel?" Issa said, complaining that the IRS had narrowed the date range for the requested documents.
That's a chart compiled by NPR based on House Ways & Means Committee data about groups whose names put them on the IRS "be on the lookout" list while applying for tax-exempt status. Despite claims that all sorts of groups were targeted, this suggests that the Tea Party and "patriot" groups really took it on the chin. "The analysis is the closest so far to an objective numerical accounting of how the groups were treated by the IRS," writes NPR, which also quotes Dems and Reps complaining about bias in the investigation.
Recall that back in May, President Obama – who has not been implicated in the scandal – called the IRS' behavior "intolerable and inexcusable." More recently – last week – he called it a "phony scandal."


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An official spokesman said that the Tata Sumo was on its way from Chandigarh to Manikaran, when it slipped into a deep gorge while giving pass to a scooter coming from the opposite direction.
There were nine persons in the Tata Sumo. Seven of them have been admitted to the hospitals at Panjgain, Bilaspur and PGI, Chandigarh with multiple injuries.
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A gang battered a schoolboy to the brink of death with a claw hammer in a scene straight out of a Quentin Tarantino film, a court heard yesterday.
Henry Webster, 16, was struck with such force that an imprint of the hammer was left on his skull, fracturing it in three places.
The 6ft 2in rugby player, who needed emergency surgery, still feels the effects of the "savage beating" by 16 Asian youths, Bristol Crown Court was told.
Four teenagers - Wasif Khan, 18, Amjad Qazi, 19, and two boys aged 15 and 16, who cannot be named for legal reasons - deny charges of wounding with intent to cause grievous bodily harm.
James Patrick, prosecuting, said: "To those who watched it, it made a sickening sight, the sort of violence you would expect to see in a Quentin Tarantino film - certainly not in a playground in a school."
The court heard how a fight "blew out of nothing" in January last year, after Henry ran into a group of Asian boys in a corridor at Ridgeway School in Wroughton, Swindon.
After a brief argument, he was asked to meet the 15-year- old defendant at the school tennis courts later that day.
Mr Patrick said: "It was to be a fair fight. A one- on- one - or so Henry thought.
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"But he had not reckoned on the fact it was not to be one-on-one - it was going to be significantly more."
The court heard how the defendant had texted or telephoned a group of friends from Swindon, who travelled to the 1,400-pupil school especially for the fight.
In a video interview filmed six days after the attack and shown to the jury yesterday, Henry told police he tried to walk away but the group ambushed him.
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"I stood around for a bit, then these men came through the gate and looked around," he said.
"[The 15-year-old] was pointing at me and saying "He's the one, he's the one". A man in a black jacket pushed me and, as I walked away, he started punching me.
"I heard screams, then I was punched in the back of my head. I was curled up on the floor but they repeatedly kept hitting me.
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"Then I felt the hammer hit the back of my head. I know it was a hammer because if it was a punch, your vision does not change.
"As I got hit, my vision turned to stars - it all separated, what I could see, because it was so powerful."
Mr Patrick said: "Amazingly, Henry remained conscious throughout but his injuries were described by paramedics as lifethreatening."
Witnesses to the assault saw his attackers run off, punching the air and shouting: "We've done it."
Doctors have told Henry he will never recover from the attack
Henry said: "The hammer had gone through my head, through my skull and into the fluid in my brain.
"I have been told I will never recover because the brain cells will not reform."
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My father used to tell us a story about his first trip to New York in the early 1950s. Walking around the city, dazzled by its architecture, and entranced by its postwar self-confidence and easy affluence, he happened to remark to his companion - a titled, aristocratic English woman - how amazed he was that every man they passed wore a freshly pressed shirt. "What do you find so surprising about that?" retorted the lady, "Everyone wears a clean shirt in England, too." "No," countered my father, "In England everyone of your social class takes a daily clean shirt for granted. In this country, apparently, everybody is able to change their shirt every day."
Like that anonymous well-bred lady, the authors of the litany of US books and essays that currently lament the passing of high culture from the American scene also seem to me to be locked into the twilight world of traditional privilege. What makes their position sadder is that a number of those who maintain that American culture is sliding dangerously into decline under the weight of competing cultures and broadening artistic horizons are themselves second-generation Americans - people who have achieved their success within the generous embrace of the North American melting pot.
Two themes preoccupy the contributors to Katharine Washburn and John F Thornton's collection of essays, Dumbing Down. The first is that in every area of cultural life - from high art to cookery - the American public is fed a pap of reassuringly downmarket, comfortably low-effort reading, viewing and listening material. This, they claim, is swiftly obliterating a long history of "good" art and literature, thereby chronically undermining an entire society. "American society, for some time fallen into disarray, has somehow begun sliding down a long, steep chute into nullity".
The second theme is that there exists an opportunistic body of unprincipled people within the American cultural establishment who flagrantly exploit fashionable requirements for "accessibility" for their own benefit, and thereby accelerate cultural disintegration. These are the people who are "cashing in on the decline of American culture", and it is their activities that give the collection its subtitle.
As Gerald Howard wrote in the Nation in 1993: "It seems to me that this nation's media elite - the people who make the deals, create the networks, conceive, write and produce the shows, the albums, the books - are well along in their own meretricious form of strip mining. They are stripping away what was already a shallow overlay of national taste and intelligence in an incredibly lucrative dive down-market."
Those who argue this essentially New Right position in Dumbing Down range from accomplished essayists like Cynthia Ozick and Joseph Epstein to frankly crass (and significantly poorly-informed) tub-thumpers like Sven Birkerts and Gilbert T Sewall. Freshness and originality are intriguingly lacking throughout, as opposed to the occasional brilliant turn of phrase and slickly seductive argument.
A significant number of pieces here have been recycled over and over again recently, in barely modified forms. And there is little sign of that "alternative agenda" for the "culture crisis" or rescue plan for American culture (as promised on the book's jacket) to counteract the relentless negativity of almost all the essays it contains.
The "dumbing down" argument is at its silliest in pieces like Nahum Waxman's "Cooking dumb, eating dumb", in which the author seriously maintains that we have become a "recipe dependent" culture - unable to cook by our forebears' "common sense" methods and natural understanding of local ingredients. Anyone who wants to sentimentalise my Auntie Sadie's leathery boiled beef, greying overcooked sprouts and soggy potatoes is welcome to, but please don't ask me to sympathise. Give me balsamic vinegar, roquette, sea bream or frangipane any day, even if I do have to read a book to find out how to serve them. The "anything goes" approach of cultural diversity may sometimes seem plausibly to lead, with a scary inevitability, into the murky waters of information overload - but not, surely, in the kitchen.
What is most disturbing about this collection, though, is its contributors' lack of respect for any knowledge outside that which they claim as "canonical" - a smug ignorance of the "non-traditional" subjects against which they fulminate. In "What to do about the Arts", Joseph Epstein argues that the underfunded National Endowment for the Arts in the US is in a state of collapse, as it presides over the cultural bankruptcy of an art scene tyrannised by the politics of race and gender. He writes with all the consummate skill we would expect of the editor of the American Scholar.
As an example of this politicised "skewing" of the arts, however, he tells a story of the Daily Telegraph telephoning him on the eve of President Clinton's inauguration to ask for an opinion on "the poet Maya Angelou", who had been chosen to read a poem at the ceremony: "I told the reporter I had no opinion of Maya Angelou, that I had read only a few of her poems and thought these were of no great literary interest. I knew of no one who read her."
It does not bother Epstein in the least that these remarks betray straightforward ignorance of contemporary writing. Maya Angelou's reputation spans a broad range of literary forms, among which her autobiographical writings - including the classic I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings - are probably best known. We all, occasionally, have to own up as critics to not having read a particular writer of repute; only those complacently clinging to an unscrutinised Great Books tradition would shrug off their own limitations with that inattentive "I knew of no one who read her".
In their introduction, the only solution the editors propose for the impasse in which they believe American culture finds itself is to encourage the return of the "educated philistine":
"At least, in their Puritanical way, educated philistines do in principle stand up for cultural aspiration, for the well-shocked family bookshelf, the series tickets to the symphony, and they express their distaste for the mayhem which they never endorsed and for which they never felt bound to apologize."
So there you have it. The choice apparently lies between narrow-minded bigots who know what they are supposed to like, and those with an open mind - the people who believe that the man-in-the-street's access to a daily clean shirt might also be a sign of a promising cultural future for us all.
Lisa Jardine is Professor of English at Queen Mary and Westfield College, London University. Her new history of the Renaissance, "Worldly Goods", is published by Macmillan.
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He pointed out that the numbers of applicants increase every day with no commensurate consular officers to attend to people, necessitating the delay in the process.
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Speaking on the duration of visa issued to Nigerians, he said it is decided on reciprocal bases because the United States' duration of visa is usually the same with that issued by the country where the mission is situated.
He noted that the increment of duration would help in reducing the number of people who come to the embassy to seek for visa renewals.
On Nigerian democracy, Hawkins made reference to Ondo State election in which he was part of the US observer mission and stated that he was encouraged by Nigerian democracy and 'by the numbers of political parties represented, and the civil societies'' that participated in the election.
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The county announced today they were prepared to release their 31-year-old former captain with a year of his contract to go.
But the departure of the player hailed as 'the next Denis Compton' when he made his first-team breakthrough at 17 has left the Middlesex hierarchy angry and demanding the England Cricket Board examine the contract regulations governing professional players in this country.
Middlesex chairman Phil Edmonds said: "I think the ECB need to examine this issue in some depth. The ramifications for cricket are of concern to us as a county and should be of concern to the rest of the game.
"It begs the question: What does this mean for contracts?
"Does this mean the end of long-term contracts?
"Does it mean players will only be given year-long contracts for fear of them breaking the terms of a longer agreement?"
Edmonds, who shared a dressing room with Ramprakash when he made his county debut in 1987, admitted that he feared the onslaught of a football-style transfer system with players moving from the County Championship's Second Division to First Division clubs.
He added: "Our position is that we are prepared to release him, but we are very disappointed to see him go because we have supported him right through his career. Obviously, he is a very fine player. Mark says he is leaving to further his England ambitions.
"I would have thought he could achieve that as the fulcrum of our batting line-up rather than at another county.
"Surely the England selectors would give a great deal of attention to his character and determination in reviving Middlesex rather than taking the decision to jump ship.
"What this means for cricket I am not sure. There has been a tremendous amount of debate in committee about the Ramprakash decision.
"Many feel aggrieved by his lack of loyalty after they had supported his benefit year so enthusiastically.
"I feel very sorry that he's going, but I wish him well."
Middlesex chief executive Vinny Codrington also believes that Ramprakash's exit could have long-term ramifications for cash-strapped counties.
Codrington fears counties could buckle under increasing wage demands from players.
He said: "Mark was not driven by money, but players are asking for more and more, and it is becoming unsustainable. I think there should be some compensation. He's been involved with Middlesex since the age of nine. While Mark might say that he has done us favours, this county has supported his cricket development and there are some at Middlesex who are very angry about this."
Ramprakash delivered his shock request to leave Middlesex three months ago in a dramatic move to revive his flagging England career after being excluded from all of his country's winter tours.
He believes a change of county will rekindle the magic he first showed in 1988 when he crowned an outstanding debut in the NatWest Trophy by winning the man-of-the-match award for his innings in the Lord's Final.
He said: "The decision to leave Middlesex is a career move. A new county could give my career fresh impetus. I need a fresh challenge."
Ambitious county champions Surrey are favourites to sign the restless Ramprakash, who leaves England this week to fulfil a short-term contract to play Saturday grade cricket for the University of Western Australia until mid-March.
However, his friendship with England captain Nasser Hussain could lead to a move to Essex, while Warwickshire are another county known to covet Ramprakash's batting talent.
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More praise for our beloved ST. Can you really ever get enough of that?
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47.9 mpg?! I'm averaging 30...
I don't know the details, but I do know that one should take European mpg specs with a grain of salt.....always way over ours here stateside for the same cars. Different measurement standards , thigh I'd love to know what they are. I imagine a 80 headwind is involved somehow? Lol
Might be liters per gallon?
Oops. Meant kilometers per gallon.
Whoops! I just realized that this is a repost of Paul's video here: CNET - Ford Fiesta ST: Believe the hype
That link didn't play on my tablet, and I didn't know that CNET and XCAR were related, so I didn't know that it was a duplicate video. Sorry, guys!
They may use the imperial gallon, which is about 20% more than a U.S. gallon. Even so, that seems a bit high.
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Washington, Jan 9 (ANI): US Secretary of Defense Robert Gates, who is scheduled to reach Beijing on Sunday evening for a three-day visit to China, would seek to put military relations on a smooth surface despite recently released photos of China's J-20 stealth fighter, according to analysts.
The Christian Science Monitor quoted them as saying that Gates is unlikely to raise US concerns about any particular Chinese weapons system during his visit to Beijing. He would instead seek to finally put US-Chinese military relations on an even keel.
Beijing has suspended its contacts with US military officers for two of the past three years to protest US arms sales to Taiwan, which the Chinese regard as a renegade province.
"This kind of long-term tension is really bad for both sides and for mutual trust. The US aircraft carrier group "was designed to scare North Korea" after its forces shelled a South Korean island, "but it also showed that if China violates US or its allies' interests, America can deploy its military power without hesitation. If America cares about its relations with China it should avoid holding drills in such sensitive places," the paper quoted Xu Guangyu, a former People's Liberation Army general, as saying.
"Both sides should dial it back a notch," suggests Carpenter. "China gets annoyed with this rather ostentatious display of American military power in China's backyard," he added.
The US side is particularly anxious to resume the military dialogue, because it is worried that misunderstandings between the two potential rivals could lead to clashes at sea where both navies operate, and also because China's military doctrine is unclear.
Meanwhile, Ted Galen Carpenter, a defense expert at the Cato Institute in Washington, said that the new Chinese fighter would not make any difference to the "balance of power for another 10 years or so, but psychologically and symbolically it's important."
He also added that China gets annoyed with American military power display in China's backyard.
However, before leaving for China, Gates said that the Pentagon is stepping up investments on a range of weapons, jet fighters and technology in response to the Chinese military build-up.
Earlier this week, Chinese military websites and newspapers had published a prototype of a stealth aircraft developed by the country, which the Pentagon had downplayed saying that China is still years away from deploying a stealth aircraft. (ANI)


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Jon I am totally thrilled with what is happening here and i hope the hits keep coming. You deserve all the support and notoriety that comes from your exceptional skills and productivity. All the very best with this....food for thought how about asking the web community to help naming the drone?View Instructable »
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A Marine pilot stationed in Beaufort who died after ejecting from his aircraft Wednesday night off the coast of Japan has been identified.
Marine Capt. James E. Frederick was pronounced dead after his body was recovered during search operations, a Marine Corps news release said Friday morning. Frederick, 32, was from Corpus Christi, Texas, and an F/A 18 pilot with Marine Fighter Attack Squadron 115. The squadron is stationed at Marine Corps Air Station Beaufort. Frederick had been deployed to III Marine Expeditionary Force of Marine Corps Air Station Iwakuni, Japan.
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The 22nd session of the Conference of Parties (COP-22) to the Kyoto Protocol was held in Marrakech, Morocco, from 7-18 November 2016.
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Red Hat Releases JBoss ESB 4.2
Red Hat Linux has just released JBoss ESB 4.2, a community variant of its JBoss middleware.
The JBoss Enterprise Service Bus (ESB) is a subproject of the JBoss Enterprise Middleware Suite (JEMS). The JBoss ESB component provides a kind of nexus for enterprise applications and services, and thus helps to automate business process workflows. JBoss ESB 4.2 supports various messaging products, the integration of data from Hibernate and MetaMatrix-based data sources, and component models as endpoints for a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA). The software can be scripted using the Java-based Groovy scripting language.
According to the developers, version 4.2 has improved software distribution and configuration thanks to a special ESB server. In April 2007, Red Hat forked JBoss development into an enterprise and a community driven branch.
Commercial enterprise products include support and maintenance contracts, and are more conservative with respect to their development, whereas the community version tends to push technical development along at a faster pace. The current enterprise products are the JBoss Enterprise Application Platform and the JBoss Enterprise Portal Platform. JBoss ESB is not a standard module with either of these platforms right now. Source code and binary versions of the community software are available from JBoss Labs under the GNU Lesser General Public License (LGPL).
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The two foundations join forces to expand their efforts to reach young people.
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Millions of devices that use Samba Server are vulnerable to attacks.
Red Hat Announces OpenShift.io
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A SICKLE-wielding masked man robbed a grocery shop in Ban 3, Sengkurong a few days ago but got away only with a suitcase that contained documents.
The Royal Brunei Police Force (RPBF) has appealed for information from the public to help locate the suspect whose daring crime was caught on the shop's CCTV.
The drama unfolded late in the evening on September 10, 2014 during the shop's closing time, according to a statement from the RBPF, which received an emergency call at 11.40pm.
The shop's manager was outside the shop and about to lock the door while two workers had already returned to their quarters when the suspect emerged from a car and rushed towards the manager.
The suspect threatened the manager with a sickle and told him to go back inside the shop.
Though he was terrified, the manager told the Bulletin that he refused to go back inside.
The manager showed a CCTV footage of the robber rushing inside the shop and rummaging through the drawers near the cash register. The suspect grabbed what appeared to be a suitcase.
As the suspect dragged a drawer full of paper out, he noticed that the manager tried to lock him inside the shop.
The suspect let go of the drawer and rushed to the manager and stopped him from locking the door by threatening him with the sickle.
The robber returned to the drawer but the manager again attempted to lock him inside the shop.
The robber then ran towards the door and decided to leave.
The manager said the robber went to his car and left with the suitcase, which he said contained three passports, business licence documents, cheque books and immigration documents.
The RBPF statement said that the police have classified the case as robbery under Section 392, Chapter 22 of the Penal Code after investigating the CCTV footage.
The RBPF said that the grocery shop's manager suspects that the robber was a foreign national based on the suspect's accent.
The RBPF also revealed that the suspect drove a Mazda saloon car without licence plates in the incident.
The RBPF are urging the public to provide any information on the robbery to the Sengkurong Police Station by contacting the number 2661904 or the emergency hotline 993.


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A smoke detector that has become defective must be removed from the wall or ceiling it occupies so that a fully functioning replacement can take its place. The warning sounds made by the detector must also be eliminated. You can achieve both of these goals by dismantling the smoke detector. You will need a few tools -- the same ones that were used to install the smoke detector in the first place. The procedure is straightforward and does not require the assistance of a certified electrician.
Things You'll Need
- Putty knife
- Phillips screwdriver
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Battery-Powered Smoke Detector
Insert a putty knife beneath one side of the smoke detector. Work the edge of the putty knife around the smoke detector to loosen the adhesive holding it to the wall or ceiling. Pull the smoke detector off the wall or ceiling.
Push in on the tabs on the back of the smoke detector and pull the back off. If screws were used instead, remove the screws with a Phillips screwdriver before pulling the back off.
Remove the battery from the inside compartment. If the battery is attached to a battery clip, disconnect the clip from the battery first. If a side compartment opens to the battery compartment instead, remove the battery compartment lid on the side of the smoke detector and pull the battery out from inside.
Remove the screws from the circuit board that is inside the smoke detector with a Phillips jeweler's screwdriver. Remove the circuit board from the smoke detector.
Dispose of the smoke detector's base, circuit board and back in the trash. Dispose of the smoke detector properly, since there is a radioactive element inside that is used by the sensor. Your local fire department can provide details as to how to properly dispose of the detector.
Electricity-Powered Smoke Detector
Trip the circuit breaker in the fuse box to cut off electric power to the room where the smoke detector is located. Plug a lamp into a wall socket in the room to verify that that there is no electricity.
Twist the smoke alarm counterclockwise to loosen it from the base that is screwed into the wall or ceiling. Pull the smoke alarm off the base.
Press in on the tabs on the connector on the back of the smoke alarm. Pull the connector out of the smoke alarm.
Leave the base of the smoke alarm alone if you are going to put a replacement smoke detector in place instead. Otherwise, remove the screws from around the base with a Phillips screwdriver and remove the base. Loosen the screws from the electrical junction box inside the wall or ceiling with a Phillips screwdriver.
Unwind the wires that are wrapped around the screws. Pull the connector and the attached wires out from the electrical junction box. Screw a cover plate over the electric junction box with wood screws using a Phillips screwdriver.
Push in on the tabs on the back of the smoke detector. Pull the back off with your hands. Remove the battery from the inside compartment. In some cases, the battery compartment will be on the side of the smoke detector and will require sliding off a battery compartment lid first to get to the battery.
Unscrew the circuit board from the smoke detector using a Phillips jeweler's screwdriver. Remove the circuit board from the smoke detector.
Place the battery away for use at a later time. Return power to the room's electrical line. Dispose of the smoke detector's base, circuit board and back in the trash. Dispose of the smoke detector properly.
Tips & Warnings
- If you live in a condo or apartment, you may need to ask for permission before dismantling a defective smoke detector.
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