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Red Bull driver Sebastian Vettel won the fast time in the series clashing Belgian GP. He successfully outperformed Fernando Alonso and Lewis Hamilton.
At the Spa Circuit, Sunday (25/8/32013), Vettel became the first after a 44-lap race in one hour 23 minutes 42.196 seconds. Alonso finished second after posting a time of 16.8 seconds slower. Hamilton is in third position with 27,700 selisi seconds slower than the winner of the race.
Completing the top five riders were Nico Rosberg and Mark Webber. With this result, Vettel more firmly in the first rank, which stood at 197 points from 11 races.
Alonso, who collected 151 points, second place rider standings. And Hamilton finished third with 139 achievement points. While Raikkonen failed to finish down two spots to fourth with 134 points collection.
When the flag was hoisted sus big finish was ranked the top three did not change. One rank Vettel, Alonso runner-up, and Hamilton in third.
Belgian GP Final Results:
No-Name – Team – Time
1. Sebastian Vettel Red Bull 1:23:42.196
2. Fernando Alonso Ferrari 16,800
3. Lewis Hamilton Mercedes 27,700
4. Nico Rosberg Mercedes 29,800
5. Mark Webber Red Bull 33,800
6. Jenson Button McLaren 40,700
7. Felipe Massa Ferrari 53,900
8. Romain Grosjean Lotus 55,800
9. Adrian Sutil Force India 69,500
10. Daniel Ricciardo Toro Rosso 73 400
11. McLaren Sergio Perez 81,900
12. Jean-Eric Vergne Toro Rosso 86,700
13. Nico Hulkenberg Sauber 88,200
14. Esteban Gutierrez Sauber
15. Valtteri Bottas Williams
16. Giedo van der Garde Caterham 1 lap
17. Pastor Maldonado Williams 1 lap
18. Jules Bianchi Marussia 1 lap
19. Max Chilton Marussia 2 laps
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Febreze officially has launched a new campaign that features real people participating in live scent experiments.
In an effort to help women battle blemishes, Procter & Gamble's Olay skin care brand has introduced its new Olay Professional Pro-X Clear line.
Kroger at its family of stores this past weekend extended its Honoring Our Heroes campaign, an initiative designed to benefit the United Service Organizations.
Pepto-Bismol once again is sponsoring the Nathan's Famous Fourth of July International Hot Dog Eating Contest in Coney Island, N.Y.
Kroger CEO David Dillon said the company will continue to focus on customer loyalty, after reporting last week that it saw identical-store sales increase for 30 consecutive quarters.
CINCINNATI — Kroger has released its fifth annual sustainability report.
Some of the highlights noted in the report include:
Kroger stores reduced overall energy consumption by 30% since 2000;
Company-wide, including all facilities, Kroger has saved more than 2.2 billion kilowatt hours;
Kroger completed its first wind energy project. Two wind turbines installed at Turkey Hill Dairy in Lancaster, Pa., will supply 25% of the dairy's annual electricity needs;
Kroger announced that it has named Michael Donnelly as SVP merchandising. Donnelly has been president of the company's Ralphs division, based in Los Angeles, since August 2007.
The National Consumers League recently launched the Script Your Future initiative to raise awareness among patients about the impact of not taking their medications as prescribed, and now the first-of-its-kind campaign is kicking off in several markets around the country.
Kroger reported strong first-quarter results and marked 30 consecutive quarters in which identical-store sales increased, the supermarket retailer announced Thursday.
Beauty mavens now can explore beauty items, get a beauty consultation, and read and write product reviews from the palm of their hand via a new multibranded mobile application from Procter & Gamble Beauty & Grooming.
Kroger on Monday named Reuben Shaffer the grocer's new chief diversity officer, effective immediately.
Procter & Gamble has announced a string of organizational changes, including the appointment of Patrice Louvet as president of global male grooming.
Kroger has kicked off a two-week campaign that is expected to generate $5 million dollars in cash and food donations to assist 80 local food banks in communities where Kroger's customers and associates live and work.
Kroger said that its family of stores is offering new ways for its customers to save on gas.
An Eli Lilly executive was elected to Chiquita's board of directors at the company's annual shareholders meeting.
Procter & Gamble announced that it has filed a lawsuit against a private-label manufacturer and distributor of mouthwash for allegedly violating the former's intellectual property.
Pampers has introduced Prints, a limited-edition diaper line.
Procter & Gamble's Tide brand is bringing its mobile laundry program to Missouri to provide free laundry services to victims of the recent tornadoes in the area.
Members of a local coalition in Providence, R.I., launched on Monday the Script Your Future campaign, which is part of a national effort to educate consumers on the importance of medication adherence.
Procter & Gamble is taking its packaging for three of its laundry products to the past.
Procter & Gamble's Charmin Sensitive was voted the best new bathroom tissue of 2011 in a study conducted by BrandSpark International and published in the Better Homes and Gardens magazine's third annual Best New Products awards issue.
Procter & Gamble has announced a new advertising campaign for its Pantene hair care brand, featuring actresses Eva Mendes and Naomi Watts.
Procter & Gamble has announced a string of organizational changes, including the retirement of Edward Shirley, vice chairman of beauty and grooming, after 33 years of service.
Procter & Gamble has teamed up with Kroger to support the United Services Organization.
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This was the 2nd antiques fair at Bakewell Showground this year, and what a fair it was. I had arrived and set up my stall by about 8.30am, and would have been happy to have stood there all day having not taken any money just to look at the surroundings, they are breath taking, and the weather, well was absolutely magnificent ! There was probably about 120 - 130 stalls at a guess, but still a huge immprovement on the last fair there. On arrival, I was greeted by a one of the senior event staff, although young in age, but clearly knows what she is doing and how to look after the customers, and was welcoming, friendly and polite, and always smiling. ( it is refreshing to see compared to the growing frowns we see everywhere now). She then directed me to a gentleman in a high vis vest who then asked me to wait a moment while the next person along directed the car infront into its pitch. After being directed down to my space, the gentleman parking the cars was also one of the main organisors, and I think clearly, if you want a job doing properly, you do it yourself. He was fabulous, clear, polite and helpful, especially when I needed extra help in reversing with my trailer, he even offered to do it for me !!! Yes my driving is that bad !!! As at all fairs, you get the typical traders doing the rounds, and then at about 10am, this sleep little village comes alive and the public really start to arrive, and before you know it, the fair is in full swing, and its shoppers and buyers galore !! I sold the things I wanted to sell, and more, and then some more still. It was great. Glorious weather and lots of buying public, a sellers dream come true. Cant wait for the next one !!!!
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Inauguration celebrations have little to do with enjoyment for average people, and everything to do with the winning party fawning over and lavishing their wealthy supporters with expensive parties. It's disgusting when Republicans do it, it's disgusting when Democrats do it. Pretty much says "all you poor people can leave now, go enjoy the free museums and then gtfo of our city, the rich people are having their parties now, shoo."
Yeah, I'm not sure why that bothers you. The celebrations aren't taxpayer supported, and there's no way you could put all the poor people into the various ballrooms and such anyway. Besides, the museums of Washington D.C. are pretty nice. I'd be pretty happy with those. The "lavish celebrations" are really just expensive working dinners anyway.
On top of that, you really want to say people shouldn't have private parties? Really?
Go and tell my baby sister
Not to do what I have done
Go and spurn that house down in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
Let him have his party. Every president before him did it so why start to complain now? Personally I have no issue with it.
Notice how I said it's always been uncalled for. Must have missed that part because your Obama defender mode kicked in.
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So, now it's an expensive working dinner, not a party? It's not purely privately funded, otherwise I wouldn't care.
I'm pretty sure some would condemn Romney for this if he was elected.Notice how I said it's always been uncalled for. Must have missed that part because your Obama defender mode kicked in.
Go and tell my baby sister
Not to do what I have done
Go and spurn that house down in New Orleans
They call the Rising Sun
If you want to be disgusted by rich people throwing money away take a ride around LA or Miami
The total price tag is still unclear at this point, but Secret Service protection, clean up, sanitation and other municiple functions aren't free. The Secret Service detail alone is probably several million dollars, considering the number of people being protected.
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What are you trying to point out?
This is a bullshit statistic, since the Secret Service detail is based on the President's needs. That's what they're there for. This is just as dishonest as including the salaries of the Secret Service staff in the cost when working out how much the President's vacation cost.
Those men were going to be paid to do their job regardless of what the President did that night.


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Ratings: 21 | Reviews: 14 | Show All Ratings:
Reviews by Kemmerlin:
4.1/5 rDev +19.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
A: golden hazy color with a frothy white foamy head leaving little lacing but good staying power.
S: has sour fruity and wheat aromas, very nice for a saison
T: cane sugar like base with some caramel notes and Belgian yeast taste such as banana in the aftertaste. Overall very sweet.
M/D: light bodied mellow and easy feel. Decent session brew overall a good beer. There are other saisons from Colorado that adds a wow factor but this one is not bad at all.
Serving type: bottle
04-10-2011 20:29:53 | More by Kemmerlin
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3.13/5 rDev -8.5%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3 | feel: 3 | overall: 3
Poured from bottle into Sam Adams tulip glass. No date on bottle so do not know how fresh it is.
Appearance: Nice golden & hazy look - Nice head about 1 finger tall that recedes slowly and leaves behind a litlle lacing
Smell: Lemon and bread or musty old lemon bread is what I'm getting
Taste: Tart, citrusy and light - More like a lemoned up heffewizen.
Mouthfeel: Crisp and Smooth
Overall: OK, decent and drinkable, Definitely not what I was expecting from a saison.
Nothing I would throw out but probably will not buy again.
Serving type: bottle
03-07-2012 00:09:18 | More by goldennectar
4/5 rDev +17%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
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4/5 rDev +9%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4 | overall: 4
I am not a huge fan of Tommyknocker so I wasn't really excited about trying this beer. Golden Saison is golden in color with lemony edges and a good carbonation stream. Very similar to a hefeweizen though without as much yeast aroma. The nose is lemony tart but lacking of banana. The taste is less hefeweizen and more saison and less carbonated than anticipated but has a lot of wheat and lemon and hop flavor. Very easy to drink, especially in triple digit heat. Overall I was impressed with this offering from Tommyknocker. Not bad at all.
Serving type: bottle
Reviewed on: 07-22-2011 21:09:20
Serving type: bottle
01-05-2012 15:55:49 | More by hopfacebrew
3.65/5 rDev +6.7%
look: 3 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 4 | feel: 3 | overall: 3.5
on tap at the brewery in idaho springs. listed as 5.5%, not 5, but whatever. poured into a 10oz chalice. smells fruity and tart, yeasty and zesty. taste is good, complex and about what i was expecting, white wine like, and peachy in the finish. overall the mouthfeel was to heavy and undercarbonated, but the flavor palate makes it a good beer. would love to get it lighter, maybe the bottle does that? went well with my medium rare buffalo burger.
Serving type: on-tap
12-30-2011 01:49:51 | More by StonedTrippin
3.58/5 rDev +4.7%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 3.5
I would swear this a lime-flavored Hefeweizen. The citrus aromas and flavors are quite interesting. Creamy carbonation and a pleasant mouthfeel makes it a nice summertime quaff. Label claims Perle hops, but they are very much in the background. First sip tasted like pear cider to me, but pineapple-orange might be a good description. Tart but not sour. Spicy esters more like a German wheat.
Lots of flavor for the modest alcohol. Really very drinkable but more of an amiable oddball than an actual variation on the Saison theme.
Serving type: bottle
07-03-2011 03:40:49 | More by mactrail
3.5/5 rDev +2.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
A - Pours with one and a half fingers of white foam on top of a hazy, golden body. The head settles rapidly and leaves little lace.
S - A light aroma of musty hops with a hint of tropical fruit in the background. Little else.
T - Some tart wheat up front with a bit of lemon. Some herbal hops come out in the middle and there is another flash of the herbal hop character. The beer finishes with more of the tart wheat and lemon character as well as a hint of black pepper and mild bitterness.
M - Medium-thick body, high carbonation, and a somewhat sweet finish.
D - Kind of bland and one dimensional, but not undrinkable. The what character and light tartness are right on for the style but it is almost totally lacking in yeast character, there is only hint of fruit in the nose and nothing noticeable in the flavor. This weak flavor could have been mitigated by a more robust hop flavor, but what is present simply isn't enough to give the beer the kind of character that a true saison has. A decent golden ale with a little bit of Belgian character, but not much of a saison and not something that I would burn liver cells on again.
Serving type: bottle
03-06-2011 07:32:08 | More by nickfl
3.53/5 rDev +3.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 3.5
Golden Saison is golden in color with lemony edges and a generous number of upwardly racing bubble streams. The manila colored crown is both airy and rocky, with a decent amount of stick-to-it-iveness.
Hefeweizen would have been my first guess if blinded, although ripe banana is pretty much absent. The nose is lemony tart, untoasted wheaty and clove spicy, the last of those due to four different Belgian yeast strains. Are that many really necessary?
Things are definitely more saison-like on the palate. Despite the fact that this bottle is now pushing 180 days of age (120 days and under was recommended), it has held up well. No signs of breakdown in terms of either flavor or feel.
Golden Saison is both more wheaty and more lemony tart than my favorites of the style. More hop flavor-bitterness and bolder yeast esters would have most likely resulted in higher taste and drinkability scores. Maybe the brewers should have used six yeast strains. This is pretty simple stuff, but it's easy to drink and is reasonably refreshing.
The mouthfeel is light-medium and could use harder working carbonation. The beer doesn't expand on contact and fill the mouth like it should. Still, not bad, all things considered.
Tommyknocker is contributing 25 cents from each bottle of Golden Saison (purchase price $4.99) to the restoration of the Gulf of Mexico. Good for them, but this is overpriced ale for what it delivers. If you're jonesing for an American-brewed saison, there are much better options out there.
Serving type: bottle
03-03-2011 12:43:05 | More by BuckeyeNation
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3.6/5 rDev +5.3%
look: 3.5 | smell: 3.5 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 3.5 | overall: 4
The beer pours a hazy golden-yellow color with a big cap of foam. The foam settled into a respectable retained layer. Spicy hops, lemon, yeast and pale malt conspire to form the aroma. Fairly light on the palate, although there is a little slickness from, what appears to be, a buttery component. Pale cracker-like malt leads the way to an acidic lemony center with a touch of sourness. The beer finishes a touch of clove, providing balance. The beer is well rounded, but could use more complexity.
Serving type: bottle
02-27-2011 00:42:06 | More by BeardedBoffin
4.58/5 rDev +33.9%
look: 4 | smell: 4.5 | taste: 4.5 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 5
16oz. bottle
P: a hazy golden color; a fluffy, bubbly head that seemed to stick around for quite a while
S: aroma had hints of lemon zest and a little bit of floral aroma with it as well, sort of like sniffing a flower; huge aroma for a beer with such a light abv
T: citrusy with a nice tartness to it, plus a little bit of sour tartness as well; floral, hoppy bittersweetness; can't get over how full of flavor it is
M: feels light/medium; a touch of creamy heaviness from the yeast, but not too heavy
D: good grief; this is perfect
Serving type: bottle
02-11-2011 04:59:50 | More by boudreaux
2.7/5 rDev -21.1%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 2.5 | feel: 2.5 | overall: 2.5
Poured into a New Belgium glass.
Pours a cloudy golden hue with a big fluffy white head, that really stands up.
Aromas of lemon, musty yeast, some sourness, a little bit like a lemonhead hard candy.
Flavors of tart lemon, some chaulkiness, a little like alka-seltzer. Some light mustiness. And a little carbonic bite. No pepperiness that is common for this style.
Mouthfeel is thin, watery, and a sharp prickle from the carbonation. Although thin, it's not a dry beer.
Decently drinkable, but misses the mark on so many levels from what I normally expect from a saison. I am really left with the alka-seltzer impression from this beer. It's not unpleasant, but not all that enjoyable.
Serving type: bottle
12-02-2010 02:37:12 | More by JamnesCameron
2.9/5 rDev -15.2%
look: 4 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 1.5 | overall: 3
16oz bottle. Pours a hazy straw yellow with a medium white head that diminishes to a thin film and leaves a little lacing.
The aroma is sweet malts, spices (clove) and a little tart fruit and musty yeast.
The flavor is very watery and washed out. Some sweet sugary malts with a little pepper and yeast and tart fruit. The mouthfeel is medium bodied with low carbonation and is very watery.
Overall, an OK saison. It's just too washed out and watery.
Serving type: bottle
10-17-2010 04:59:49 | More by Beaver13
4.18/5 rDev +22.2%
look: 4.5 | smell: 4 | taste: 4 | feel: 4.5 | overall: 4.5
A- Pours a Gold, with a nice white head, high carbonation makes it look very nice in the glass. looks like it reads, a Golden Saison.
S- Smells of Bananas, Cloves, and a nice grainy sweetness.
T- Excellent. Nice tartness on the finish, with Bananas, and malt up front. The bitterness doesn't linger like some other Saisons I have had which is great.
M- Very nice, high carbonation and zero cloying make this beer go down easy.
D- Overall this is what I would love my 'gameday' or Lawn mowing beer to taste like. Enough interesting flavors to keep me drinking it, but light enough to keep me going. IF you are new to Belgians or have a friend who is just getting into craft beer this would be a excellent choice.
At the Brewery during GABF!
Serving type: on-tap
09-21-2010 00:13:42 | More by SeattleBeerBlog
3.18/5 rDev -7%
look: 4.5 | smell: 3 | taste: 3 | feel: 4 | overall: 3
Saw this one on the shelf at Lukas Liquors, $4.99 for a 16 ounce bottle. Bought this one on a whim, and really wasn't all that impressed. Started off nicely, with a rich golden pour, capped off with a perfect white head. On the nose I get some citrus, pepper and wheat. On the palate, lightly tart, with lemon, grapefruit and a little backing malt. Nothing special.
Serving type: bottle
09-07-2010 02:08:46 | More by emmasdad
3.88/5 rDev +13.5%
look: 4 | smell: 4 | taste: 3.5 | feel: 4 | overall: 4.5
A: Clear, light gold color. Poured a fizzy white head that dissipated to an even, thin skim. Decanted continually. Laced the glass in a few random patches.
S: A little sweet, a little sour. Spices; pepper and grass. A light crackery malt character.
T: Malt comes more to the front with a light soury funk. Some sweet fruits. Light, even bitter for balance.
M: Light body. Ample carbonation. Light on the tongue and crips.
D: I wish I started on a Saison like this; its a nicely balanced, flavorful "starter". Light enough and low enough abv its like a summer saison.
Serving type: on-tap
07-31-2010 00:29:42 | More by Haybeerman
Golden Saison from Tommyknocker Brewery
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The change would save the district money by eliminating the extra machinery for voting and the cost of hiring extra staff to man voting booths, officials said.
The school budget will automatically be capped at the state-mandated two percent increase from the previous year, and will no longer need to be voted on by the public unless it exceeds that cap. There would still be a presentation of the budget to the public, however. Board member terms and deadlines for nominations for the board will be extended as well.
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Another member of the community said she felt the budget shouldn't be voted on by the public at all and supported the change.
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Probably my favorite workout ...ever at this point. It is a great stress reliever, endurance builder and body reshaper. If you commit to 3 classes a week, you will see a transformation in your body and in all aspects of your life :). I can guarantee it!!
I take Trevor's class in the mornings....I amaze myself anytime I finish class without stopping. You will not be bored and you can certainly push yourself even after 4 months working out there. I still have so much to learn and feel AMAZING after every class.
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I have enjoyed my experience with Perfect Balance. The trainers are awesome, making sure we are performing the exercises correctly for a better workout. I started off with a friend as a groupon customer and now we are both members. When the class is full it feels a bit crowded however, I still get a good workout done with great music and motivational coaching. Perfect Balance is definitely better than other kickboxing Doral facilities I have been to.
I started attending Kickboxing classes at Perfect Balance several months ago. I have been trying to get back in shape for a couple of years now, and Perfect Balance has been the PERFECT place to finally make that happen. I signed up via Groupon, and it has been one of the best investments in my health and fitness that I have ever made. The classes are fun, challenging, and versatile enough to keep you engaged. The instructors are personable and provide a great deal of individualized attention, which I really appreciate. They take into account physical limitations (i.e. I have a bad wrist), and they are able to modify the workouts according to your needs. I cannot recommend this kickboxing gym highly enough- try it out, you won't regret it!
So glad I bought the Perfect Balance Groupon! The kickboxing classes are a great workout and the instructors are wonderful. I recently moved to Miami and got out of my workout routine so I was nervous jumping into kickboxing having never tried it before and feeling out of shape. All levels are welcome in the class and the instructors really push everyone to their personal max. Every class I've tried has been a little different so you never get bored. I signed up to keep taking the classes, they're definitely worth it. So glad I found Perfect Balance...you should go check it out! I agree with Irene...kick-ass classes!!
Before I started Martial Arts - I was disrespectful, shy, had no discipline and irresponsible. I would always talk in class and talk back to the instructors but one day Mr. Andre took me aside, inspired and motivated me to be the best i can be. His words touched me so much that today I am a proud Black Belt at Perfect Balance. I loooove all the instructors and they are like family to me!
A great developmental program. My daughter is overcoming her shyness by being empowered each class. Not only is she smiling and eager to go to class every time but she LOVES her instructors. She is making changes each day and her confidence has grown. Honestly one of the best programs I have researched due to the coaching and personal contact!
Great schoo! I have seen the possitive impact on my son's discipline, focus, and responsibility. The teachers are not only instructors, but also mentors. Highly recommend this school.
Just want your money – Incredibly overpriced classes that are so crowded your child does not get any proper attention. They talk you into signing a year contract even though you explain to them you don't agree with that... If then, after a month you realize this is not what you expected, they have no honor to return your money back. Instead they keep charging you automatically even though you are not attending classes.
LOVE IT! – It teaches your kids discipline! My kid has changed so much! It works like a charm. Not only does it teach discipline and confidence, it teaches good martial arts!
terrible martial arts academy, not a true martial arts school, they do not teach you martial arts what they teach you is bogous stuff that doesnt work. the owner isnt a real martial artist does not kno what hes talking about. way to overpriced and bogus stuff. The owner is a cocky self centerd man who kisses your butt to take your money. it wont teach your kids to defend themselves its mostly a day care, so if you just wanna drop your kids off somewhere then this is your place although its expensive. if you want your kid to learn better martial arts and defend themselves not the place to come. i suggest you look at an ATA school before here, and even thats bad. They dont care about your students they just care about your money.
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At the outset, advocate Prashant Bhushan, appearing for Sharma, submitted that an important development has taken place (referring to audio tapes) since the last hearing and the case needs to be heard urgently. The bench, also comprising justices Ranjana Prakash Desai and Ranjajan Gogoi, then asked Sharma to file affidavit and posted the case for hearing in the first week of December.
Two investigative portals, Cobrapost and Gulail, had claimed on November 15 that Amit Shah, the former home minister of Gujarat and Modi's close associate, had ordered illegal surveillance of a woman at the behest of one "saheb" and they had released taped conversation between Shah and an IPS officer to back up their claim. Sharma, a 1984 batch IAS officer, is facing five criminal cases including a case for alleged irregularity in land allotment to private firms in Kutch district in 2008.
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Most hotlink routines use rewriting rather than redirecting, so the image will always come through as a 200. It just won't come through as the physical picture they asked for.
I used the "view site as googlebot" feature in GWT and aimed it at an image on my site that has htaccess hotlink protection on and they returned a 200 code which is good but does it return a 200 ok code even on the scrapers site despite being hotlinked since googlebot DOES visit image urls directly?
My point was that for google there's no such thing as "on the scraper's site". On rare occasions you get the googlebot (by name) asking for an image and giving your site as referer-- but what it needs to do is give some other site as referer. Preferably some made-up name that you can't possibly have whitelisted.
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10th December 2006, 21:22
hi there does anyone have any photos of the empress of canada 1965 onwards.And any crew details.
11th December 2006, 07:23
Go to Gallery scroll down to search type in ships name click Go..bingo...Empress of Canada.....
7th April 2009, 15:29
I served 3 years on the Canada, and also did trips on the England and britain in the 60,s great ships, I also served on 18 other ships from19 55 to19 65 those were the days
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7th April 2009, 16:13
I emigrated to Canada in April 1967 on the Empress of Canada ,even had a look down the engine room, quite cramped from those I was used to.
She was the last ship I 'sailed' on, foul weather all the way across and I enjoyed every minute of it ( my wife did not!).One of the questions to the skipper in an evening forum was did she have equipment to prevent the uncomfortable trip,his reply....'We have stabilisers and they ARE in use, Thank God'
Being a Tankerman what are 'stabilisers? (LOL)
However just being on her for those 7 days did make me think I had possibly been years sailing in the wrong company.
7th April 2009, 16:55
Done two 17 day trips on the Empress of Canada in 1962, could,nt get off her quick enough. Talk about passenger ship mafia, well she had the lot, plus numerous homosexuals it certainly put me off passenger vessels never went near one again as a crew member.
I remember the old mans name it think it was Bell, bosun Martin Quinn, bosuns mates Terry/Tommy Dolan, Eric Swanvick or similar.
Remember a few others mainly AB,s etc.
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7th April 2009, 18:01
Done two 17 day trips on the Empress of Canada in 1962, could,nt get off her quick enough. Talk about passenger ship mafia, well she had the lot, plus numerous homosexuals it certainly put me off passenger vessels never went near one again as a crew member.
I remember the old mans name it think it was Bell, bosun Martin Quinn, bosuns mates Terry/Tommy Dolan, Eric Swanvick or similar.
Remember a few others mainly AB,s etc.
Cutsplice, I agree with you there, they were horrible ships, for the deck crowd.
I was on the Britain, Martin Quinn did one trip bosun on her, I think he was covering for someone while his own ship was in drydock.
I was on the eight to twelve the whole time I was on her, I dont think they ever rotated the watches, and all we ever did was sugi the working alleyway at night, and sugi above deck in the day, plus sugi the funnel, plus paint the bleedin funnel.
There were hundreds of catering crew, most of them were in some racket or other. The crew galley served up inedible 'food', you basically paid a steward for passenger food, or you lived on toast.
And the worst bit?
You had to wear a sailor suit complete with RN style cap when on stations.
I loathed it.
7th April 2009, 22:28
One trip for me was more than enough. I was on 12/4 out and back - always my favourite watch - but not on EoC. PK sums it up. We had two guys locked away in the brig. They were better treated and rewarded than we were. Dougie Virgoe (a Canadian) and Gerry Woodbine (or Woodvine) are names I remember for some reason.
Pat: That "working" alleyway I can now recall - it was as you say like a subway. We sugied it after the 8-12.
Wretched ship!
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7th April 2009, 22:36
John & Pat,
What on earth took you to sail in that outfit and under those conditions when you were both ex China Boat men?
7th April 2009, 22:46
The writing was on the wall - but I guess now that I didnt quite wish to read it.
It was only when one experienced the other side of seafaring that one really appreciated the finer elements of AH and no doubt other companies of good repute.
CP (passenger ships) did not inspire me to do more than one trip. Fortunately, I kept my head low and "toughed" it out for one WNA trip. Went back to AH again shortly afterwards.
Pat Kennedy
8th April 2009, 07:55
More or less the same reason as John, and I too returned to the China after trying several other companies, some good some not so good, but none as bad as CPR.
23rd April 2009, 16:06
You guys were in the wrong department for passenger ships, although they were hard working ships ,10 or 11 hour days we always ate the same as the passengers, and my last job was chief engineers man, with a cabin on the boat deck and all the booze and beer that I wanted, the trips were 17 days and back home in the summer months but 6 months cruising in the winter. the cargo boats that I did were easy work and a good rest after the liners , all in all it was a great time of life.
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Painting after Trimming trees
A company came in a cut a way a lot of the lower branches of the maple in my yard. I asked them if they were/should paint the tree where the branches were removed and they said no. I was under the impression that you were supposed to paint the cut to protect the tree from rotting, getting diseases ect. What say you GL4x4? What do you do?
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ive only seen it done a few times. we never use to do it when i worked for a tree company several years ago
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everything i've read on this topic over the last several years sez no, don't paint or seal the wound.
my wife is a master gardener and she was taught to not treat the wound. the only deal i hear about here is the time of year the trimming takes place. i never saw an orchard manager paint wounds on apple, cherry, etc trees after they are pruned. can you imagine the work that would entail in an orchard? finally, mother nature does NOT paint tree wounds when a limb breaks off. if it's good enough for mother nature, it's good enough for me. |
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No, you don't paint. The goal is for the tree to heal over the cut. Paint or tar will hold in moisture and can cause the non-living heart wood to rot quicker. The living tissue (cambium) will grow over the cut quicker when dry and untreated.
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I think people probably paint the cut to make it blend in with the trunk.....I have never painted trimmed branches and have never had a problem.
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Yeah right, like you know what you're talking about.
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I'm not old, honest...
I've got a couple large Maple and Oak trees that have been struck by lightning and I have had 3 different local tree services look at them. All of them say do not paint over a wound or trimmed limb. The tree needs to heal itself. Never trim an Oak tree when the leaves are green.
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Caution: Stay away from services promising instant links. It's a dead-giveaway for spam linking! (See section below: The Dao of Link Popularity)
Also, be advised that this is not a directory submission program nor a blog links program. Almost all our program partners are running businesses or services and our sites do not exist for the sole purpose of passing on PR. They are legitimate businesses including many lawyers, agents, tradespeople, etc. Most directories and blogs are spam one-way links programs that have been penalized by the engines because they exist only to transfer PR. Simply, they are not legitimate. There are only about 10 or so PR-worthy legitimate directories (Yahoo, Dmoz, Hotfrog, etc.). All our links come from legitimate hard-working websites that exist to conduct business not to provide spam links - legitimate businesses vouching for the credibility of other legitimate businesses via membership in our program.
Build Link Popularity
Welcome to the Internet's first one way links program. The One-Way Links Program is a link building service from Ken Sproul, an SEO since 1998. The member base of the program is comprised of Mr. Sproul's SEO clients and new members who join through the provisions of this website.
Building link popularity these days is not easy given the recent trend to penalize self-serving blog networks, spam directories, article-writing campaigns, reciprocal linking programs, etc. But you can still increase your link popularity by joining the Internet's original one way links program. All the web sites included in this campaign are legitimate, hard-working businesses working to improve their link popularity at google and the other engines. Overwhelmingly our links are business-to-business links, pretty much the best sort of links you can have.
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> 250+ one-way inbound links to start with (July 2013)
> no "instant overnight" links (signals spam linking)
> no linking software or silly directories (signals spam linking)
> all unique ip addresses (not a link farm)
> new links throughout the year, no extra charge
> links from legitimate (hard) working websites
> you get a one-way link by giving a one-way link
> 100+ words of keyword rich anchor text
> 13 sets of anchor text so different partners link to you with different text
> anchor text varies including plenty of natural anchors - important for Google credit based on Matt Cutt's comments Spring 2013
> $250.00 membership fee includes all inbound links
> many links from mature pages going back to 2004
> our partners help one another and avoid the cost of buying individual text links
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The One-Way Links Program directs to you one-way inbound-only links. The program subscribers are divided into three pods (A, B, C). The pods are balanced for site themes (e.g. travel sites, hosting sites, etc.) and PageRank. Members of Pod A provide links including 100 words of anchor text to members in Pod B. Members of Pod B provides the same to each member of Pod C. Each member of Pod C provides the same to each member of Pod A. Eureka! One-way links!
The number of websites in each pod depends on the total subscriber base. That will vary and tend to increase. Presently there are over 750 member websites. That means about 250 non-reciprocal links pointing to the partners in each Pod and improving their link popularity. That is a lot of one-way links, all legitimate, real working websites. Further, throughout the membership year, as new subscribers sign on, they will be added to the program and further help you in building link popularity.
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We receive many more testimonials than we can display and you'll find many of our clients on page one of Google for some very significant search phrases. Keep in mind that not everyone sees exactly the same set of search results due to Google's different databases and whether or not you are logged in to your Google Webmasters Account but these results will be pretty close. Search for 'retirement homes' and you'll find our program partner top 3 (RetirementHomes.com). That's a big search phrase. Search for 'criminal lawyer toronto' and you'll see a couple of our clients on page 1 including cflaw.ca. Or search 'dallas injury lawyer' and you'll find our client (bristoldubiel.com/) on page 1 as is common with both our law clients and our tradespeople. Here are a few recent testimonials from other clients:
July 2013
Our company was sceptical of your program as there are a lot of ineffective programs like this on the web. We were given your name from one of our clients who found your program quite effective so we decided to try the program out. We were pleasantly surprised at the results. The system works because it is done manually with three way links instead of reciprocal links. It also works because the links don�t all appear at the same time which will signal spamming. We have since signed up a dozen clients with you and will refer more in the future.
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Hi Ken, I just wanted to let you know we got $15,000 in consulting sales last month, all because of this program. We show up #1 in Google in certain search terms we wanted and on the first page for 3 other keyword phrases. More work to do as always, but, the point is, we've gotten our money back many times over and all terms we wanted should be #1 within 2 months since it was so easy to get first page. At that point, we'll likely have to partner with someone as we may end up with more business than we have people for. To rise so fast in the rankings has really helped us succeed and was a lot easier than all of the other work we had done previously. Your program definitely was the key part in this success. So, thanks!
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April 2013 (from a client who discontinued her membership):
I am sorry to inform you that I will need to cancel with "One way links". Unfortunately Seriesse International (her supplier, Sylvester Stallone no less) closed the door and I am out of business. I just want to take opportunity to thank you for your excellent work and extraordinary website optimization. Your work is unbeatable. I should mention that your optimization skills are way beyond the basics and I enjoyed your lecturing. Regardless of my poor English especially grammar (Blame not on me but my country of origin) I was able to understand the meaning of SEO in the whole new light. You are an excellent teacher. I would be honored to attend your classes. You will be highly recommended to all my friend entrepreneurs. Thank you very much for everything.
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I have just sent the renewal payment to you via PayPal. Thank you for your message and all its informative contents. We have been very happy with the results of your program during the last year. It has obviously played a large part in the increased success of our website performance, which in turn has greatly increased our bookings. We find that in quite a few key phrases we are coming in the first one or two pages in Google and we are on page one for our main phrase '. Many thanks again, and we wish you and all involved in the links program, continued success.
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Remember that Google only displays a small sampling of credited links - for any site!
The Dao of Links Popularity
In Chinese Daoist philosophy birth is the coming together of Yin and Yang (opposites that arise together and depend upon one another), death is the disperal of Yin and Yang. Health is the balance between Yin and Yang and illness an imbalance between the two. One example of Yang is strength. An example of Yin is weakness. Is it better to be strong than weak? Not necessarily. It is better to have a balance between the two. Too much strength is associated with aggressiveness and brittleness. Some weakness is associated with suppleness and flexibility. The single biggest mistake webmasters make is the mistake of too much Yang. What inspired this harangue? I just came from a competitor's site boasting about how he'd have 1,000 one way back-links up for you within 24 hours. Duh!! Spam-linking penalty for sure.
Nature is the harmonious balance between Yin and Yang. Is it natural to receive 1000 links in 24 hours? In the real and natural world would 1000 people discover your site and all put up a link to you in 24 hours? The engines are smart enough to know that is not natural and they simply penalize those links as being artificial and unnatural. Don't be too aggressive; don't be too strong. Appreciate the balance between Yin and Yang.
In our program you will receive the links naturally over the course of some weeks. All comes to he who is patient.
Most of my link building clients are also optimization clients so I can't just take the money and run. I have long term relationships with these folks some since 1998 for SEO and since 2004 for link popularity. We talk about site issues several times a year and I have to offer them a links service that actually works. One with accountability!
Primer on Link Popularity
Link popularity is an off-site method for promoting website rankings. It is determined by the number and quality of external incoming links to your site. External incoming links are links on other sites that point to yours.
Search engines consider link popularity important because they see links from other sites to yours as a kind of recommendation or guarantee of the worth of your site.
Link popularity arose as a ranking factor because so many people used spamming techniques to position their site higher in the rankings. Engines started to use link popularity as a means of dampening that impact. Assigning a link popularity value to a website based on number of incoming quality links pointing to it was deemed an effective way to determine whether a site had useful content or not because if other people think it does, then surely it must.
Of course, this has not stopped people from finding ways to artifically inflate their link popularity to exploit this search engine ranking factor. And, the engines have endeavored to dampen the impact of such spam linking by changes to their algorithm. In this regard, folks always worry about potential penalties but the reality is that only the most egregious spamming behaviour leads to site-specific penalties. Everything else is dealt with through the algorithm which serves to dampen the effect of any activity bearing a spam signature. Nonetheless, our program reliably takes program partners from PR0 to PR3 or PR4 within the first membership year.
Page Rank
The above text mentions that link popularity involves both the number and the quality of inbound links to your site. The term PageRank refers to the quantification of these factors. PageRank or PR is a measure of how important a page is. Note that I said 'page', not 'site'. A page has PR, not a site. Acquiring PageRank is more complicated that just acquiring a quantity of links. The quality of a link has great influence on PageRank. A quality link is a link coming into your site from a site that itself has a good page rank (PR3 or above). In other words, if a popular site links to your site it really helps your popularity. Google has PR10, by the way. But don't expect them to link to you.
PageRank is the 'second' part of a two part search engine algorithm. Part one pertains to 'on the page' ranking criteria like the title tag, the metatags, keyword position on the page and so on (standard optimization variables). The second part involves off-page factors like link popularity which refers to: 1) the number of relevant inbound links from other sites, 2) where the links come from (i.e. high PageRank pages) and 3) that the Anchor Tag Text contains your keywords (more on this below). Simply put, if all else is equal or near equal, then the page determined to have the best Page Rank will rank higher. By the way, in light of the above reference to quality. PR0 websites also contribute to your PR, just not as much. PR0 is not really PR0; it is a score somewhere between PR0 and PR1. You should never eschew links from PR0 websites because in a few months they might well be PR3.
How Link Popularity is Built:
One-Way Links
One-way links are just that - you receive a link from a website without having to give a link back to that website. One-way links count a lot more than swapping links. They appear to be a truer endorsement of your site, an endorsement that says your site must really be good because there was no quid pro quo (i.e. no reciprocation).
Many of you already have the most valuable one-way link on the internet, a listing in the dmoz.org directory (Open Directory Project). The dmoz link provides a highly relevant, on topic, one way link. That is one of the main reasons people pull out their hair over trying to get in there. Another good one is a link from the Yahoo directory but that costs $299. Don't do that one until you have truly optimized your site as you need to try to influence the editor vetted Yahoo description so that it will benefit your rankings. But regardless, the link is a good one. Most other directories have less value. Please stay away from directory programs that sign you up to thousands of directories. There are only a handful of quality directories and you should submit to those directories by yourself, thoughtfully and carefully. Most directories were created to exploit the one way links phenomenon and they have been penalized simply because they do not exist as sincere, legitimate directories.
Reciprocal Links
In the last couple of years webmasters have worked very hard to develop reciprocal links with other sites. The reasoning has been that although one-way links (inbound only) might be more valuable than reciprocal links, they are almost impossible to get, but you can get some inbound links if you offer a link in return. The birth of reciprocal linking.
But the engines are not stupid. Reciprocal links are hardly an indication of the worth of a site. Most reciprocal links are a device to artificially inflate link popularity to exploit this particular search engine ranking factor. According to Danny Sullivan, Search Engine Watch editor: "Google combats these attempts by identifying what it considers 'artificial' link structures and adjusting or eliminating their influence in the rankings. Google has also recently taken action against reciprocal link pages, link "farms," and guest books, downplaying their importance in its link analysis algorithms." (See: http://www.clickz.com/search/opt/article.php/1025331)
By the way, some companies selling individual text links charge as much as $8-$16 per month for a PR3/4 link and $65 a month for a PR6. When you join our program, you will be pay only our annual membership fee which averages out to much less than $1 per link for valuable one-way links including PR5 and PR6 links. Why so cheap? Well, because our partners are in this to help themselves by helping one another. My fee of $250.00 is just to manage the program. I do not 'sell' links. I manage a membership club.
And from the forum moderator at Webmaster World: "The way it is going with everyone hunting for links and the easiest way out being asking for reciprocal links, it would seem that long term, reciprocal links will be worth less than one way links. You scratch my back and I'll scratch yours is ok for sending each other visitors (the original idea of links), but the question is if it will account for the same as a straight one-way link."
Actually, that boat left the dock more than a year ago and reciprocal links have been greatly devalued. When I started this business in 2004 there were almost no searches for the phrase 'one way links' and hundreds of searches for 'reciprocal links'. It's exactly the opposite in 2013.
Anchor Text
Anchor text is the text a site uses to link to your site, basically it is text describing your services or products or why the site is linking to you.
If you were giving someone a one-way link the anchor text might look like:
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Toronto Criminal Lawyer - Criminal law firm in Toronto - Daniel Brown. Criminal lawyer representation for domestic assault, impaired driving, sexual assault, theft, fraud, utter threats, mischief, shoplifting, bail hearings and more.
You might think that the important text above is the blue hot-linked text, literally the 'anchor' text. But Google figured out a long time ago that folks use anchor text to artificially influence their rankings. So the text surrounding the anchor text is equally important. It should validate whatever text is in the anchor. That's one of the strengths of our program. Partners can include up to about 100 words of supportive descriptive text. Having said this, based on Matt Cutts comments in the Spring 2013, it's also important to have a balance of natural anchors as well as keyword anchors so many of our anchors will be natural, giving you a "natural" links profile.
The Myth of Relevant Links
While most believe that the best links are from sites that are thematically related to your own site, that really only applies to reciprocal linking programs. The best link for the Alaska Fishing Charter business is not the reciprocal link from the bait-cutter down the road but the one-way, non-reciprocal link from the Iowa banker who chartered one of the company's boats last summer and is now recommending the company via her personal website.
Giving weight to thematically related reciprocal links is just the search engine's way of controlling for spam linking and the thousands of reciprocal links people pick up in order to artificially inflate their link popularity. To NOT count any of them would be to no longer value link popularity in the search engine algorithms. And, of course, some reciprocal links may well be sincere votes of popularity. So, the engines compromised and opted, in the case of reciprocal linking, to give credit for thematically related links. This is not an issue with non-reciprocal linking since non-reciprocal or one way links are perceived to be legitimate by virtue of the simple fact they are not reciprocal.
To confirm the above just go to Google and check out the websites credited with linking to this site, One-Way-Links.com. Very few if any would met the test of 'relevance'. They say, nothing spreads like a lie and that nothing is bigger than something of mythic proportions; 'relevance' is a small truth exxaggerated into a myth to suit the needs of certain SEO companies and article writers (associated with those companies). The proof can be found in most any search at Google. Google credits many so called 'irrelevant' links because if those links are one-way links, then they ARE relevant. When you check for back-links at Google always remember than Google never shares more than a sampling of credited links. Only Yahoo shares a full links history.
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"Old-fashioned service? I'm old enough to remember when they used to deliver milk right to your door. That was back in the early 1950s. The thick glass bottle usually had a thick plug of cream at the top and on Friday my mom always got Vico -- chocolate milk! That was real service back then and I pledge to serve you by providing you with legitimate one-way links from hard-working web sites many of whom have been clients of mine for several years, many with PR4 or better." - Ken Sproul
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Prp19 is the founding member of the NineTeen Complex, or NTC, which is a spliceosomal subcomplex essential for spliceosome activation. To define Prp19 connectivity and dynamic protein interactions within the spliceosome, we systematically queried the Saccharomyces cerevisiae proteome for Prp19 WD40 domain interaction partners by two-hybrid analysis. We report that in addition to S. cerevisiae Cwc2, the splicing factor Prp17 binds directly to the Prp19 WD40 domain in a 1ratio1 ratio. Prp17 binds simultaneously with Cwc2 indicating that it is part of the core NTC complex. We also find that the previously uncharacterized protein Urn1 (Dre4 in Schizosaccharomyces pombe) directly interacts with Prp19, and that Dre4 is conditionally required for pre-mRNA splicing in S. pombe. S. pombe Dre4 and S. cerevisiae Urn1 co-purify U2, U5, and U6 snRNAs and multiple splicing factors, and dre4Delta and urn1Delta strains display numerous negative genetic interactions with known splicing mutants. The S. pombe Prp19-containing Dre4 complex co-purifies three previously uncharacterized proteins that participate in pre-mRNA splicing, likely before spliceosome activation. Our multi-faceted approach has revealed new low abundance splicing factors connected to NTC function, provides evidence for distinct Prp19 containing complexes, and underscores the role of the Prp19 WD40 domain as a splicing scaffold.
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The avatar is censored. If it's safe for Facebook then it's safe for MM. NEXT! Ciao Stefano www.stefanobrunesci.com
Thanks Interesting difference in our vewpoints on this. I tend to prefer light to be focused on one area and "balanced" by some darkness and/or negative space in another so it doesn't feel unbalanced to me. To be honest, the photo was never really about the piercings - I just thought it would make a good thread title
Thanks The model was aware that the piercings were visible and described this as "cool" so I figured I'd leave them in. Ciao Stefano www.stefanobrunesci.com
It looks like you nailed it.
I like it for exactly the opposite reason. With few exceptions, genital piercing are "for your eyes only." Many very mainstream-looking people have them, but we never know, nor can they tell us. Stefano has done a great job allowing the model to show without telling.
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