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I WOULD NOT recommend these to a friend.
By Gailispissed
from Yarmouth NS
I was so excited to get my Wolfgang Puck cookware.Four months later the large pot get a big crack in it.Turns out the "Favorites" set does not have a manufactures warranty....Are you kidding me....DON"T WASTE YOUR MONEY!!!! SO NOT HAPPY!!!
Bottom Line No, I would not recommend this to a friend
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Total Set - All you will ever need ...
By Bert
from Calgary, AB
Definitely a great quality set that comes with everything you could possibly need or want for your kitchen. Looks great and the price was amazing.Some of the pieces are huge but you never know when you may decide to invite over the entire family and try them out. Having all of the lids makes the set priceless.
Bottom Line Yes, I would recommend this to a friend
Very Poor Quality
By JH
from Edmonton
Many pieces in the set but quality is not good. Very thin Stainless steel. I returned the order.
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By Bluebutterfly
from Hamilton
By far the best set of pots and pans ever purchased. I have another brand name set that cost me 3 times the amount. Now it just sits in my cupboard. Cleanup is a breeze with this set. No regrets. Thank you Wolfgang!
( 5 of 5 customers found this review helpful)
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By Greggs
from GEORGINA ONT
Wow!!!Very disappointed. I've read some of the negative comments from others, and I say diddo to almost all of the negative ones. Especially the ones that mention following the directions that for the most part seem to be slightly contradicting!! It's easy if your boiling water or something, but when it comes to cooking something as simple as an omelette, the pans are terrible. Who wants to saturate their food with oil, or something that spoils the taste of their food, all for the sake of eliminating it sticking to the pan?Sorry, but the pans are a pain to try to clean!!
( 4 of 4 customers found this review helpful)
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By B.
from British Columbia
I love the set. Easy to cook in all the pieces, very easy to clean. They look great, shiny. The price great!
Great set of cookware
By Eva
from Vancouver
This cookware looks and cooks fantastic. It allowed me to make a large Thanksgiving meal with pans to spare. My only complaint is with the lids. They are heavy and the handles get hot. This is a wonderful cookware set as long as you have the space to accommodate this huge set. I love them!!! I would actually give them a 4.5 but that option wasn't available.
( 6 of 7 customers found this review helpful)
By Lora
from Windsor, Ontario
The only reason I'm giving this 2 stars is because it's lightweight and easy to handle. All of the pans I've used are discoloured. One of the pans also has small black pit-like marks on it after using once. I'm wondering if it's caused by bad tempering of the metal when being made. Anyway, I like them because they're easy to handle but not impressed with the fact they're all discoloured now. Wouldn't recommend this set.
( 2 of 2 customers found this review helpful)
By HELEN
from Caledon, ON
I absolutely am thrilled with the 18 pc. Wolfgang Puck set. Love the quality and style. Beautiful high end cookware at a very affordable price. Very easy clean up as well. I highly recommend this set and am so thrilled that I bought it as a showstopper.
I would buy this product again and again
By Dee the Collector
from New Brunswick
a few years ago I purchased an 18 pc Bistro set of wolfgang pucks so when this set came on I was surprised to find that it was totally different then the other set I already own and love, so of course after checking for repeat sizes ,I was excited to see there were no repeats so I would be able to purchase the new set as well.I LOVE Wolfs products . the quality is exceptional and the price point is very affordable especially with the shopping channels easy pays. I love watching wolfgang and learn alot of tricks from each show. i also own many of his appliances and would highly reccomend his products anytime.I LOVE WOLFGANG !


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Photos and Description of this 5 bedroom holiday villa in Camps Bay - The Bayleaf
The Bayleaf Villa in Camps Bay , luxury living, 5 bedrooms all en suite
4 Star grading ! Luxury living ! Best location in Camps Bay! Compact home with small garden and plunge pool
5 bedroomed holiday home all bedrooms en suite available throughout the year. Sleeps 10. But the villa can be let as a smaller home. It is a compact home and one or two of the rooms downstairs can be closed to make it suitable and cosy for guests wanting a smaller house
Consisting of 2 of the original historical cottages, the Bayleaf has retained the charm and character of the early nineteen hundreds. Although renovated twice, it retains the original oregon floors and beautiful teak shutters. It has been tastefully renovated and has all the modern conveniences.
Upstairs there are 3 very spacious bedrooms all ensuite. The main bedroom has a King size bed and a balcony with amazing views . One can actually see the cable car going up to the top of Table Mountain. The second and third bedrooms upstairs both have queen size beds.
Downstairs there are 2 bedooms. These can be interleading if wanted. The one bedroom has a queen bed and leads out to the garden and pool . The bedroom next to this one has 2 single beds that can be made into a King bed. Both rooms have bathrooms en suite.
• Spacious bedrooms, all en-suite,
• Modern, fully-equipped kitchen,
• Home full of character, with wooden floors and teak shutters,
• Fully serviced except Saturdays, Sundays and public holidays but service for these days can be arranged at the guests expense.
• Wireless Internet
• Weber braai,
• Patio area,
• Small pool and garden,
• Top quality linen and towels,
• Security alarm with radio monitoring,
Situated across the road from bowling club, tennis and squash courts, and a playground/park and 1 minute from the beachfront !!
- Suitability:
- children welcome
- non smoking only
- pets considered
- suitable for elderly or infirm
About Shirley Engers
My husband and I were both born in Cape Town and lived here all our lives. We both went to the University of Cape Town. I am a retired school teacher specialising in special needs and Keith is still practising law. I travel to London once a year to visit my brother and sister who both live there.
Shirley Engers purchased this villa in 1988
Why Shirley Engers chose Camps Bay
We bought this house 25 years ago. Both my children were brought up in the house. They have both moved out now and for the last 15 years we have been running this once family home as a guest Villa.
What makes this villa unique
It is in the best postion in Camps Bay as you can walk everywhere. All guests who stay here feel very much at home as it has a wonderful relaxed feel about it and the house has so much charm and character. It is very safe for children and we also have a pool net.


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"Why I went to the woods" by Henry David Thoreau comprises the second chapter of his "Walden" titled "Where I Lived, and What I Lived for." He gives the answer to his own question of why he went to the woods in a brief passage that is probably one of the most famous quotes from Thoreau.
"I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and see if I could not learn what it had to teach, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived."
He went to the woods, but he could have lived anywhere. Indeed, he did live in several farms, albeit in his imagination. In his imagination he has bought all the farms he has looked at. "Wherever I sat, there I might live," Thoreau says, for "what is a house...but a seat?"
It was enough for Thoreau that he could enjoy all the things in his imagination without wanting to possess them, "...for a man is rich in proportion to the number of things which he can afford to let alone."
Compare this to Diogenes Laertius when he talks about Socrates: "Often when he looked at the multitude of wares exposed for sale, he would say to himself, 'How many things I can do without!' "
Thoreau did eventually settle on a place that was to be his "experiment," the humble cabin next to Walden Pond. Here he spent two years, and from this resulted his "Walden" as well as his "A Week on the Concord and Merrimack Rivers."
Early in the chapter Thoreau quotes the two opening lines from a poem by William Cowper, "The Solitude of Alexander Selkirk."
"I am monarch of all I survey,
My right there is none to dispute."
Almost at the end of the same poem are two lines that Thoreau doesn't quote yet are suggestive of his experiment.
"Even here is a season of rest,
And I to my cabin repair."
Interestingly, there's another lengthy poem by Cowper called "The Task." The spirit of this poem is very similar to that of the "Walden," and in Book Three there is a short passage that expresses sentiments that bring to mind Thoreau's "Why I went to the woods."
"I was a stricken deer that left the herd
Long since;....
.... in remote
And silent woods I wander, far from those
My former partners of the peopled scene,
With few associates, and not wishing more.
Here much I ruminate, as much I may,
With other views of men and manners now
Than once, ....
I see that all are wand'rers, gone astray
Each in his own delusions; they are lost
In chase of fancied happiness, still wooed
And never won. Dream after dream ensues,
And still they dream that they shall still succeed,
And still are disappointed; rings the world
With the vain stir. I sum up half mankind,
And add two-thirds of the remainder half,
And find the total of their hopes and fears
Dreams, empty dreams...."
And Thoreau says: "The millions are awake enough for physical labor; but only one in a million is awake enough for effective intellectual exertion, only one in a hundred millions to a poetic or divine life."
Thoreau speaks of living close to nature, and away from technology and the pressing concerns of daily life. But it should be noted that he only stayed at Walden Pond for two years, and did eventually return to living a normal life.
If, as Thoreau says, he went to the woods to live deliberately, he must have already had the thoughts that he put down in writing while at Walden and after his return. No doubt much of the writing talks about the things he did and saw and thought while at Walden. But the philosophy must have already been there, at least in embryonic form.
One can speculate that Thoreau had formed this idea of living a life of "Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!" from his reading and his own thoughts prior to his stay at Walden, and then decided to conduct his experiment. "...To drive life into a corner, and reduce it to its lowest terms."
The fact that he returned after two years and did not again attempt to return to nature suggests that he realised it wasn't necessary to live this way permanently. What he probably realised, and meant to show through his writing, is that it's important to take a mental step back from the hustle and bustle of daily life.
"I know of no more encouraging fact than the unquestionable ability of man to elevate his life by a conscious endeavor.... To affect the quality of the day, that is the highest of arts. Every man is tasked to make his life, even in its details, worthy of the contemplation of his most elevated and critical hour."
What Thoreau did with his two-year experiment can be done mentally by those who cannot, or do not wish to, physically take a hiatus from normal existence. People everywhere may be forced by circumstances to lives dictated by drudgery. But they can make a difference by opening their minds to higher thoughts. Waking up, as Thoreau says, to the world and wakening that part of us that otherwise remains dormant.
"Little is to be expected of that day, if it can be called a day, to which we are not awakened by our Genius, but by the mechanical nudgings of some servitor, are not awakened by our own newly acquired force and aspirations from within, accompanied by the undulations of celestial music..."


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November 3, 2011
Scientists studying the Aug. 23 5.8-magnitude earthquake and the subsequent aftershocks say it's possible there is a new fault line in Central Virginia.
U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) workers Mark Carter and Mike Blanpied hosted a live Twitter lecture Wednesday titled "Did You Feel It? The Virginia Earthquake of August 23, 2011." Months after the historic quake – the strongest in Virginia in 114 years – seismologists are taking advantage of nature's lesson.
"Following an earthquake of this kind it's a unique opportunity for scientists to get a better understanding of this earthquake and its aftershocks," said Blanpied, an associate program coordinator for the USGS Earthquake Hazards Program.
The 208 portable seismographs they have placed throughout Central Virginia have recorded more than 600 aftershocks since the original quake, although only about 40 of those have registered a 2.0 or higher on the USGS "Latest Earthquakes" map.
While all that is normal, Blanpied and Carter say what those aftershocks revealed was, well, shocking.
"The fact that we had a big earthquake was not a surprise, but the exact fault that it might have occurred on is a bit more of a mystery," he explained.
"What we might be looking at is either a new fault or a previously undiscovered one deep within the geologic formations here," Carter wrote.
If that's true, and the 5.8 quake occurred on a previously unknown fault, it could mean more strong earthquake in the future. The potential discovery has led USGS seismologists to do new geological mapping to determine exactly how many fault lines are under Central Virginia.
Although they cannot say when or where, scientists are positive Central Virginia will continue to feel more minor to severe aftershocks for possibly years to come.
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In early October, the GOP developed a plan to make the federal government's response to Ebola a central part of its midterm elections strategy. Television media played into Republicans' hands, helping to foment panic about the disease. Following the diagnosis of a handful of U.S. Ebola patients, the major broadcast networks ran nearly 1,000 segments about the virus in the four weeks leading up to the elections. Coverage of the disease plummeted in the two weeks following Election Day, with the same networks running fewer than 50 total segments.
From the November 18 edition of Fox News' The O'Reilly Factor:
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Sunday morning political talk shows on ABC, CBS, NBC, and Fox devoted just 30 seconds of coverage to net neutrality the week after President Obama called on the Federal Communications Commission to require Internet service providers to treat all content equally. Those same programs dedicated nearly 17 minutes to helping scandalize comments made by Jonathan Gruber, an economist who helped estimate the impact of the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
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Fox News warned that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is "unpopular" and "failing the public" the day before health care exchanges opened for the 2015 enrollment period, ignoring new polling data that shows the law is overwhelmingly popular among its enrollees.
This week Fox News devoted at least 57 segments to scandalizing MIT economist Jonathan Gruber's statement that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) "was written in a tortured way" in a renewed effort to delegitimize the passage of health care reform.
Gruber, who helped craft and provided data for various ACA provisions, can be heard in a recently surfaced video saying that the health care law "was written in a tortured way" to minimize criticism. Gruber was making the innocuous observation that Congress often crafts legislation to fit rules and politically acceptable limits, and in the case of the ACA, Congress went on to transparently debate the law for years.
But Fox News seized on Gruber's comment to manufacture a scandal surrounding the ACA's passage, pretending his remarks show the law was passed deceitfully. According to a Media Matters count, this week alone the network devoted at least 57 segments to trumpeting this fictional account.
Of course, as New York Times economics correspondent Neil Irwin explained, Gruber's comment illustrated the "completely commonplace" way that "Congress makes policy of all types." Irwin went on, "Legislators frequently game policy to fit the sometimes arbitrary conventions by which the Congressional Budget Office evaluates laws and the public debates them."
The Senate held years of bipartisan hearings on health care reform before the ACA was passed, explaining in part why, as The New Republic described, the debate over the health care law was "one of the most transparent in recent memory," and why the law was so difficult to pass.
METHODOLOGY: Media Matters searched internal databases for mentions of "Gruber" and "Obamacare" on the Fox News Channel between 6 AM - 11 PM from November 10-13th.
UPDATE: A subsequent PolitiFact count shows Fox News mentioned Gruber's name 779 times from Nov. 10-18, while MSNBC referenced Gruber 79 times and CNN just 27 times over the same period. PolitiFact's count defined a mention as "any time Gruber's name is said on air within a one-minute window." The search began midnight Nov. 10 and extended to 10:30 AM Nov. 18.
Fox News dishonestly claimed that MIT economist Jonathan Gruber's comment that the Affordable Care Act (ACA) "was written in a tortured way" to minimize criticism proves that the law was passed deceitfully. In fact, Congress routinely crafts bills to fit legislative rules and politically acceptable limits, and health care reform was transparently debated for years with input from Republicans.
A Media Matters study on the coverage of key policy issues in nightly news' midterm election broadcasts finds that 65 percent of network news segments that dealt with the midterm elections failed to discuss the policy issues most important to the American people.
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Fox News pivoted its stance on the public health threat posed by Ebola after leading the charge in media stoking fears about the disease in the weeks prior to the midterm elections. The network is now downplaying the urgency of increasing funding for Ebola research and relief efforts while criticizing President Obama's request of a multi-billion dollar Ebola emergency appropriation from Congress.
Conservative media have used Republican electoral gains in the 2014 midterm election to renew calls to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA). But recent polling indicates that most Americans do not support repealing the healthcare law, including midterm voters.
Media are promoting Republican gains in the House and Senate in Tuesday's midterm elections as evidence that the country has shifted to the "center-right" on political issues, despite the fact that ballot initiatives and national polling reveal broad support for progressive positions.
Sharyl Attkisson's new book attempts to cast the former CBS News reporter as an intrepid reporter fighting against intractable barriers. But the book's sloppy inaccuracies and absent context reinforce her image as a journalist more interested in a biased narrative than uncovering the facts.
Attkisson resigned this year after two decades at CBS and promptly launched a media tour attacking her former employer for supposedly protecting the Obama administration from her reporting. Her new book has been published and promoted by conservative interests, who clearly see this narrative as a confirmation of their worldview that the "liberal" media is biased against them.
But Attkisson doesn't portray herself as a conservative folk hero pitted against "liberal bias." In fact, she sees that kind of rhetoric as distracting "from the real issues," and the real reasons she left CBS. Instead, Stonewalled: My Fight for Truth Against the Forces of Obstruction, Intimidation, and Harassment in Obama's Washington is meant to confirm her place in the pantheon of nonpartisan journalists, who will "follow a story wherever it leads, no matter how unpleasant, no matter whom it touches or implicates." In her account, Attkisson is one of the few reporters who have been trying to hold the Obama administration accountable by investigating its supposedly scandalous behavior in the face of "forces" who seek to protect the White House.
Attkisson organizes the book around her coverage of four major news stories -- the botched law enforcement Operation Fast and Furious, the bankruptcy of a few green energy companies that had received federal funding, the Benghazi attacks, and the rollout of the Affordable Care Act's website, Healthcare.gov -- which she casts as symbolic of her desire to investigate administration failures. But Attkisson claims her efforts were repeatedly stymied by CBS.
Attkisson's claims of the opposition she faced at CBS News are difficult to confirm, as they rely on private conversations and anonymous sources. (The Washington Post's Erik Wemple has been attempting to identify and reach out to some of them, but has received few confirmations.) But her account inflates those supposed scandals by hiding key facts in favor of pushing conservative talking points -- the sort of behavior that led CBS officials to fear that she was "wading dangerously close to advocacy" in her reporting.
Attkisson was one of the first reporters to cover Operation Fast and Furious, under which Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives (ATF) agents allowed firearms to be trafficked across the U.S. - Mexico border, hoping to follow the guns to high-level Mexican drug cartel targets. ATF lost track of the guns, some of which ended up at crime scenes in Mexico, while others were found at the scene of the fatal shooting of a U.S. Border Patrol agent in Arizona.
Stonewalled details Attkisson's role in reporting the story, for which she won an Emmy. However, her book also floats a number of debunked conservative conspiracy theories about the botched operation, while promoting the 2012 Department of Justice Inspector General report that undermines those same theories.
For instance, Attkisson falsely suggests that her reporting proved Attorney General Eric Holder was lying about his knowledge of Fast and Furious. Holder testified under oath that he was unaware of the operation until it became public knowledge in early 2011, but Attkisson claims Holder was aware several months earlier:
Unfortunately for Holder, it wasn't long after his testimony that we obtained internal documents showing he was actually sent weekly briefings on Fast and Furious as early as July 2010, ten months before. The briefings came from the director of the National Drug Intelligence Center and from Holder's own Assistant Attorney General Breuer.
However, the Inspector General report found that Holder did not personally review those reports, and that those reports did not refer to the agent's major failure to stop the firearms from crossing the border. The report went on to completely exonerate Holder, placing the "primary responsibility" for Fast and Furious on the ATF's Phoenix field office and the Phoenix U.S. Attorney's Office. Even House Oversight Chair Darrell Issa (R-CA) has acknowledged that he has "no evidence" or even a "strong suspicion" that Holder was aware of the gunwalking tactics.
Attkisson calls the Inspector General report "scathing" while acknowledging that its findings contradicted some of her reporting. Nevertheless, she misleadingly concludes by blasting the press for accurately exonerating Holder, accusing them of a "generous interpretation of the facts."
Attkisson goes on to attack the Obama administration's electric vehicle initiative, a part of the Department of Energy's clean energy loan program. She focuses on several failed companies that received federal funds, including Fisker Automotive and A123, and falsely claims their eventual bankruptcies were representative of the entire program:
Were these failed enterprises alone among an overwhelming body of successful green energy initiatives funded by tax dollars? No.
This is false. Despite conservative media's fixation on the few beneficiaries of clean energy loan programs that failed, such as Fisker and Solyndra -- and despite Attkisson's previous error-ridden report on what CBS called "new Solyndras" -- 98 percent of clean energy funds went to successful ventures:
Attkisson criticizes the media for a double standard when covering the bankruptcies, insisting that journalists gave President Obama a pass that they wouldn't have afforded President Bush -- all while insisting that she would have covered each president fairly (emphasis added):
Imagine a parallel scenario in which President Bush and Vice President Dick Cheney personally appeared at groundbreakings for, and used billions of tax dollars to support, multiple giant corporate ventures whose investors were sometimes major political campaign bundlers, only to have one (or two, or three) go bankrupt. At a cost to taxpayers of hundreds of millions of dollars. During a presidential election. When they knew in advance the companies' credit ratings were junk. News headlines would have been relentless with images of Bush and Cheney smiling and waing at one contrsuction-start ceremony after another, making their invalidated claims about jobs and untold millions...contrasted with images of empty plants and boarded-up warehouses. And I would have been proposing those stories.
But the program that started the Fisker loans -- called the Advanced Technology Vehicles Manufacturing program -- did begin under Bush.
In fact, Fisker itself was approached by the Bush administration and encouraged to apply for the loan, and they were in charge when the application was filed. Attkisson does not mention this context in her description of Fisker; instead, all she offers is a brief note that she had broadly investigated "the backgrounds of some troubled green ventures that benefited from federal tax dollars, whether under Bush or Obama."
Attkisson hides basic facts to suggest the Obama administration is trying to cover up the truth about September 2012 terrorist attacks in Benghazi, Libya.
She narrates a moment in November 2012 when she attempted to find a photograph of President Obama on the night of the Benghazi attacks as a way to account for his "actions that night." Conservative media, and Fox News in particular, have repeatedly questioned the whereabouts of various administration officials the night of the attacks.
Attkisson claims the White House isn't being forthright about the President's whereabouts, which she characterizes as suspicious and politically motivated, given that "tax dollars pay to have a professional photographer cover most every aspect of the president's work life."
A photo of the president in the Oval Office taken the night of the attacks has been available on the public White House Flickr account since October 11, 2012, three weeks before Attkisson claims she started looking for a photo.
The photo depicts Obama meeting with Denis McDonough, then-Deputy National Security Advisor, Vice President Joe Biden, then-National Security Advisor Tom Donilon, and then-Chief of Staff Jack Lew. The existence of the photo has been repeatedly documented. Attkisson apparently did not know about the photo at the time, but she does not attempt to reconcile the facts now.
Attkisson criticizes her CBS bosses for not letting her repeatedly report on theoretical security problems the Affordable Care Act's insurance exchange website faced -- while hiding key testimony that confirmed there had been no security breaches.
Attkisson highlights the closed-door House Oversight Committee testimony of Teresa Fryer, a lead cybersecurity official on the project, who Attkisson holds up as "a knowledgeable insider" whose testimony is worth trusting as a "current, sitting, senior manager." Fryer testified that there had been two high-risk security findings on Healthcare.gov "after it went live October 1" (emphasis original), which Attkisson claims is a "bombshell" and reveals that the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has misled journalists when they confirmed that "all fears about security risks in the past never came to pass."
What Attkisson fails to note is that during her testimony Fryer also explained there had been "no successful breaches" of the website; the "several layers of security" in place had performed as expected. The two findings Fryer mentioned were simply red flags -- they did not result in any real security failures, according to Fryer herself.
Attkisson notes that according to HHS one of the findings was a "false alarm" and the second was fixed, but insists "that may or may not be true. No proof is offered." She insists until evidence is produced it's simply the government's "side of the story," and derides media figures who accept the HHS "claims." She does not mention that Fryer made the exact same claims.


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MEMPHIS — The NBA playoffs don't start until late April.But as far as Dirk Nowitzki is concerned, they start Wednesday when the Dallas Mavericks square off against the Memphis Grizzlies at the FedEx Forum in a game with playoff implications.The Mavericks (28-21) are one game ahead of the Grizzlies (26-21) for the eighth and final Western Conference playoff spot. Dallas has beaten Memphis twice this season in Dallas, so if the Mavericks win Wednesday, they'll clinch that playoff tiebreaker."It's a big game," said Nowitzki, the Mavericks' 12-time All-Star. "You don't really want to say in February it's a playoff game, but it definitely will be that kind of intensity."We've beaten them already twice this year, so they're going to be ready to play, especially coming off a loss. They're very, very good defensively. They're long, they're tough, so it's going to be a grind-out type of game."The Grizzlies are the NBA's hottest team. Before Monday's 86-77 loss in Oklahoma City, the Grizzlies had won 11 of 12 games, including five in a row.More importantly, they have back a huge piece of their front wall in center Marc Gasol, who missed 23 games with a medial collateral ligament sprain in his left knee. Since Gasol's return Jan. 14, Memphis is 9-2 and appears to have regained the swagger that earned them a trip to last year's Western Conference Finals."Since Marc's back they've been playing phenomenal," Nowitzki said. "I said once they get healthy they're going to make a run at the playoffs and that's exactly what they're doing."We've got our hands full — it's going to be a tough game. It's going to be a playoff-type atmosphere."Marion returnsForward Shawn Marion practiced Tuesday and will be back in the starting lineup against the Grizzlies.Marion missed the previous two games with soreness in his right shoulder and upper ribs. He suffered contusions stemming from a fall Jan. 7 against the Los Angeles Lakers."I feel good," Marion said. "My flexibility is back 85-90 percent. I've felt better the last few days and there's no setbacks. I feel like I can be good to go."Marion's return is important because of the Grizzlies' big front line in Gasol, Zach Randolph and Tayshaun Prince."They're a half-court team and they're going to go to their big guys," Marion said. "They clog the paint well and they protect the glass."We've got to make sure we keep a body on them. We have to hit them first."Dalembert watchIf center Samuel Dalembert can give the Mavericks 18 points, eight rebounds and two blocks consistently like he did in Monday's 124-107 win over the Cleveland Cavaliers, they believe they can compete with any team in the NBA."Obviously he's not going to get 18 and eight every night, but we'd love him to be active," coach Rick Carlisle said. "If he goes after shots and contests shots at the rim, and rebounds and get some tip-outs and finishes around the rim, then we're a different team."Dalembert converted 7 of 8 shots against the Cavs, and most were dunks and layups."He's a very important part of our team because of his length," Carlisle said. "When he is in there we are better defensively."
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If you are interested in riding across the James River, then hitch a ride on the Hatton Ferry, now open for the season.
The ferry has been around for over two hundred years and served as a way carry people across the James River.
Today it is still up and running thanks to the Albemarle County Historical Society.
The captain says it's a great way to get out and see the James River as well as cross over to Buckingham County.
"The ferry goes from Albemarle to Buckingham county and back," says Craig McPherson. "We do pick up people on the other side of the road when they honk or blow their horns, or blink their lights, I'll go get them."
The ferry runs from 9AM to 5PM on Saturday and from Noon to 5PM on Sundays.
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The St Mary School community empowers students to grow spiritually, academically, creatively, and physically so that they may experience, understand and live their responsibilities to god, family, community and self.
St. Mary Catholic School is a Faith Community -students, parents, staff, parishioners and friends.
Teachers, in partnership with parents, are dedicated to providing spiritual and academic development of each child.
Our curriculum is designed to nurture creativity, academic excellence, and spiritual, physical and emotional growth.
We instill responsibility, respect, and compassion for all people.
We are committed to making students aware of social issues while providing the foundation and experiences necessary to be living examples of the gospel.
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Best place of fish and chips
Heading to London for a week in early April. Want to make sure I have authentic fish and chips while there. Staying near Kings Cross but will be touring all over London proper.
Can someone direct me to the best place to grab fish and chips and maybe a pint on the side?
You can do a search for previous threads on this topic... upper right hand corner of the page.
Two favourites seem to be Master's Superfish near Waterloo or The Golden Hind, Rock and Sole Plaice is also popular.
Noting your wish for a pint and "authentic", bear in mind that there are those of us who would suggest that pubs are not the best place to eat fish & chips.
I've enjoyed Masters and thought Rock & Sole Plaice possibly the worst I have experienced anywhere in the country - even worse than the chippy on the village which is saying something.
"Authentic fish and chips"
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As Harters said F&C and a pint of beer are not usually the best bedfellows (a big pot of tea is more traditional). Plenty of pubs do have OK F&C on the menu (though menu have pre-made bought in versions) and the B&L is a very fine dining pub.
But good F&C needs to come from a good chippy with big industrial fish fryers, it needs to be served in paper and it doesn't need poncy triple cooked chips - I actually like slightly soggy (but real) chips with lots of salt and vinegar, which takes me back to my youth and picking up a fish supper on the way back from the pub and eating it from the paper as I meandered home.
Pub F&C vs. Chippy F&C is like a taco from a nice restaurant vs a taco from a down and dirty taco truck - ones real, ones gussied up! Head for Masters and have a few pints first.
Appreciate all the replies. I know nothing specific about the pub scene vs other options. I just know I like f&c and wanted to get a good batch. If a pub isnt the place, fine and as for the pints - that was a side remark.
re: brokentelephone
They also have VERY good burgers.
I really liked The Golden Hind when I tried it a few times many years ago, but I completely converted to Master's Superfish. They have some crazy lunchtime deals too.
Fish Central near Barbican/Moorgate (kind of) is really good for fish and chips and at least as good as any I've had in London.
I was a Golden Hind devotee, mostly due to proximity and ambiance, but I think I've shifted.
I found Kerbisher & Malt to be mediocre, though am aware people are keen, perhaps I had a bad night. The service and look of the place are, like Poppies, a few steps up from the commonly suggested alternatives.


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In his youth, Hugh MacCarrick foolishly fell in love with a beautiful English lass who delighted in teasing him with her flirtatious ways. Yet he knew he could never marry her because he was shadowed by an accursed family legacy. To avoid temptation, Hugh left home, ultimately becoming an assassin.
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Jane Weyland was devastated when the Highlander she believed would marry her abandoned her instead. Years later,… (more)
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The Poussin Project
An introduction to the project
Welcome to the online conservation treatment diary for Nicolas Poussin's Crossing of the Red Sea. This is the first instalment of a series of informal updates designed to keep the public informed about the restoration of one of the NGV's most prized paintings.
The main aim of this diary is to provide you with the opportunity to look in on the many steps required to bring such a treatment to completion. Large scale conservation treatments can take months, sometimes even years. They require patience, discipline and planning. We hope the real-time release of news about this treatment while it is in progress will enable you to experience something of the journey the painting and the conservator take as the treatment unfolds.
What does the term"conservation treatment" mean? Broadly speaking, the treatment of paintings falls into two main categories: structural and superficial. Structural work involves the repair of components of the picture which can no longer properly serve their physical function, such as a canvas that is torn, a panel which is split, or paint layer which is flaking.
Superficial treatment concerns work to the surface of the painting, for example the removal of old varnish and restorer's overpaints, the application of a new varnish, and the retouching of lost or worn areas of paint. Both structural and superficial treatments are time-consuming and demand a ongoing process of adjustment and decision-making to reach the best balance between the demands of the artwork and its material condition. The Poussin treatment will mainly involve surface work. At the top of this page you will find a projected map of the treatment, giving you an outline of the various stages the painting is expected to go through on its way to completion.
Any canvas painting as old as the Crossing of the Red Sea - which we know was painted around 1634 - is bound to have its share of conservation issues. Few paintings emerge unscathed even after a century. For that reason, and also on account of its size, a full year has been set aside to complete the restoration and return the painting to the Gallery walls.
This is the first time we have undertaken an informal online record of a major treatment like this, so it will undoubtedly take time for us to exploit this medium, but we shall try at the very least to accompany the written posts with photos and where possible, with audio-visual content.
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Apple iPhone 5C New Versions
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Medroxyprogesterone Compared With Venlafaxine in Treating Hot Flashes in Women
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RATIONALE: Medroxyprogesterone and venlafaxine may be effective in relieving hot flashes. It is not yet known whether venlafaxine is more effective than medroxyprogesterone in relieving hot flashes.
PURPOSE: Randomized phase III trial to compare the effectiveness of medroxyprogesterone with that of venlafaxine in treating women who are experiencing hot flashes.
Hot Flashes
Drug: medroxyprogesterone
Drug: venlafaxine
Phase 3
|Study Type:
|Study Design:
|Allocation: Randomized
Masking: Open Label
Primary Purpose: Supportive Care
|Official Title:
|Phase III Comparison of Depomedroxyprogesterone Acetate (DPROV) to Venlafaxine for Managing Hot Flashes
|Study Start Date:
|April 2002
- Compare the efficacy of medroxyprogesterone administered as 1 injection vs medroxyprogesterone administered as 3 injections (closed to accrual as of 1/22/03) vs venlafaxine for hot flash alleviation in women with symptomatic hot flashes.
- Compare the toxic effects of these regimens in these patients.
- Determine whether there is cross resistance between these 2 drugs in these patients.
- Compare the 1-year efficacy of these regimens in these patients.
OUTLINE: This is a randomized, open-label, multicenter study. Patients are stratified according to age (18 to 49 vs 50 and over), current tamoxifen use (yes vs no), current raloxifene use (yes vs no), duration of hot flash symptoms (less than 9 months vs 9 months or more), and average frequency of hot flashes per day (2-3 vs 4-9 vs 10 or more). Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms. (Arm II closed to accrual as of 1/22/03.)
All patients complete a daily questionnaire regarding number of hot flashes beginning on day 1 and continuing for 7 weeks.
- Arm I: Patients receive oral venlafaxine once daily for 6 weeks beginning on day 8. After week 7, patients with satisfactory efficacy may continue venlafaxine for up to 6 months. Patients with unsatisfactory efficacy may cross over to arm III.
- Arm II (closed to accrual as of 1/22/03): Patients receive medroxyprogesterone intramuscularly (IM) on days 8, 22, and 36 for a total of 3 injections. After week 7, patients with unsatisfactory efficacy may cross over to arm I.
- Arm III: Patients receive medroxyprogesterone IM once on day 8. After week 7, patients with unsatisfactory efficacy may cross over to arm I.
Patients are followed at months 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 8, 10, and 12.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 220 patients (110 per treatment arm) will be accrued for this study within 18 months. (Arm II closed to accrual as of 1/22/03.)
|Ages Eligible for Study:
|18 Years and older
|Genders Eligible for Study:
|Accepts Healthy Volunteers:
- History of breast cancer, ductal carcinoma in situ, or lobular carcinoma in situ (currently without evidence of malignant disease) OR
- Concerns about taking estrogen for fear of breast cancer
- Bothersome hot flashes, defined as occurrence at least 14 times per week and of sufficient severity as to make patient desire therapeutic intervention
- Presence of hot flashes for at least 1 month
Hormone receptor status:
- Not specified
- 18 and over
- Female
Menopausal status:
- Not specified
Performance status:
Life expectancy:
- At least 6 months
- Not specified
- Not specified
- Not specified
- No prior thromboembolic disease
- No uncontrolled hypertension (persistent diastolic blood pressure greater than 95 mm Hg and/or systolic blood pressure greater than 160 mm Hg)
- Not pregnant or nursing
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception
Biologic therapy:
- Not specified
- More than 4 weeks since prior antineoplastic chemotherapy
- No concurrent antineoplastic chemotherapy unless clinically appropriate
Endocrine therapy:
- More than 4 weeks since prior androgen or estrogen therapy
- More than 3 months since prior progesterone as part of hormone replacement therapy
- At least 1 year since any other progesterone therapy (including megestrol)
- No concurrent androgen, estrogen, or progestational agents unless clinically appropriate
- Concurrent tamoxifen, raloxifene, or aromatase inhibitors are allowed if started more than 4 weeks ago and continuation for more than 5 weeks is planned
- Not specified
- Not specified
- More than 2 weeks since prior agents for treatment of hot flashes (e.g., clonidine, Bellergal-S, or vitamin E of more than 400 mg per day)
- More than 1 year since prior antidepressants (including Hypericum perforatum [St John's Wort])
- No other concurrent antidepressants or monoamine oxidase inhibitors
- No other concurrent agents for treatment of hot flashes (e.g. clonidine, Bellergal-S, or vitamin E of more than 400 mg per day)
Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier: NCT00030914
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|Study Chair:
|Charles L. Loprinzi, MD
|Mayo Clinic
Additional Information:
|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier:
|NCT00030914 History of Changes
|Other Study ID Numbers:
|Study First Received:
|February 14, 2002
|Last Updated:
|May 9, 2009
|Health Authority:
|United States: Federal Government
Keywords provided by National Cancer Institute (NCI):
hot flashes
Additional relevant MeSH terms:
Hot Flashes
Signs and Symptoms
Medroxyprogesterone Acetate
Antidepressive Agents
Antidepressive Agents, Second-Generation
Antineoplastic Agents
Antineoplastic Agents, Hormonal
Central Nervous System Agents
Contraceptive Agents
Contraceptive Agents, Female
Contraceptive Agents, Male
Contraceptives, Oral
Contraceptives, Oral, Synthetic
Molecular Mechanisms of Pharmacological Action
Neurotransmitter Agents
Neurotransmitter Uptake Inhibitors
Pharmacologic Actions
Physiological Effects of Drugs
Psychotropic Drugs
Reproductive Control Agents
Serotonin Agents
Serotonin Uptake Inhibitors
Therapeutic Uses
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this record on November 27, 2014


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Satellite Sentinel Project Documents New Eyewitness Reports and Visual Evidence of Mass Graves in Sudan
The Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP) has revealed visual evidence of mass graves in South Kordofan, which corroborates new eyewitness reports, obtained by SSP, of systematic killings and mass burials in this conflict-torn region of Sudan. The evidence found by SSP is consistent with allegations that the Sudan Armed Forces (SAF) and northern militias have engaged in a campaign of killing civilians.
Satellite Sentinel Project Releases New Visual Evidence of Government of Sudan War Crimes in Abyei
The Satellite Sentinel Project (SSP) has released new visual evidence that the Government of Sudan has committed grave violations of the Geneva Conventions and other war crimes, some of which may also constitute crimes against humanity. The totality of evidence from satellites and ground sources points to state-sponsored ethnic cleansing of much of the contested Abyei region, says SSP. The evidence is being conveyed to the International Criminal Court and the UN Security Council.
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X-Ray Specs are an American novelty item, purported to allow the user to see through or into solid objects. In reality the glasses merely create an optical illusion; no X-rays are involved. The current paper version is sold under the name X-Ray Spex; a similar product is sold under the name X-Ray Gogs.
X-Ray Specs consist of an outsized pair of glasses with plastic frames and white cardboard "lenses" printed with concentric red circles, and emblazoned with the legend "X-RAY VISION".
The lenses consist of two layers of cardboard with a small hole about 6 mm (.25 inch) in diameter punched through both layers. The user views objects through the holes. A feather is embedded between the layers of each lens. The vanes of the feathers are so close together that light is diffracted, causing the user to receive two slightly offset images. For instance, if viewing a pencil, one would see two offset images of the pencil. Where the images overlap, a darker image is obtained, supposedly giving the illusion that one is seeing the graphite embedded within the body of the pencil. As may be imagined, the illusion is not particularly sustainable.
X-Ray Specs were long advertised with the slogan "See the bones in your hand, see through clothes!" Some versions of the advertisement featured an illustration of a young man using the X-Ray Specs to examine the bones in his hand while a voluptuous woman stood in the background, as though awaiting her turn to be "X-rayed."
The claim is untrue, of course; besides the unlikelihood of a safe and functional X-ray device selling for about a dollar, X-ray detectors require an X-ray source.
Part or even most of the novelty value lies in provoking the object of the wearer's attentions. These subjects, if unable to be entirely sure that the device did not indeed allow the wearer to compromise their modesty, were liable to respond with a variety of amusing reactions.
The principle behind the illusion was first patented in 1909 by Fred J. Wiedenbeck (Patent #914904)
X-Ray Specs were improved (Patent# 3592533) by Harold von Braunhut, also the inventor of Amazing Sea-Monkeys.[1]
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