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Belmont Stakes 2014 Wrap Up
Kelly Kultys, Sean Hahner and Drew Casey sit down to talk about everything that went on at the 2014 Belmont Stakes.
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Kelly Kultys, Sean Hahner and Drew Casey sit down to talk about everything that went on at the 2014 Belmont Stakes.
After riveting wins in the Kentucky Derby and the Preakness, Jockey Victor Espinoza and his horse, California Chrome, saw their dreams come to an end at the Belmont Stakes. After being injured at the start of the race, California Chrome never recovered and finished tied for fourth with Wicked Strong.
Daily Racing Form's Dave Grening breaks down the about 146th running of the Belmont Stakes with Kelly Kultys, Sean Hahner and Drew Casey, as well as the potentail Triple Crown horse, He tells One on One the specific horse catching his eye and much more.
Kelly Kultys and Sean Hahner discuss the greatest rivarly in horse racing history with the jockey of Affirmed, Steven Cauthen and the jockey of Alydar, Jorge Velasquez.
They first relive the fierce rivalry between one another's horses from the Kentucky Derby to the Belmont Stakes, the difference between the two horses and the jockeys themselves.
Kelly Kultys, Sean Hahner and Drew Casey preview Saturday's Triple Crown race, including California Chrome's chances at making history and the rest of the field.
As California Chrome looks to become the first horse to capture the Triple Crown in 36 years, it is clear that his connections have a positive outlook on Saturday's race. Co-owner Steve Coburn has maintained an optimistic attitude since the Preakness and is going full speed ahead into Belmont.
Kelly Kultys spoke with California Chrome trainer Art Sherman about California Chrome and the Belmont Stakes.
By: Drew Casey
Art and Alan Sherman, a father-son horse training team from Southern California, have been drawn into the spotlight this past week in New York and rightly so. Their horse, California Chrome, will run in tomorrow's Belmont Stakes with hopes of becoming the first horse in 36 years to win the Triple Crown.
As the post time for the 146th running of the Belmont Stakes draws nearer, all eyes continue to follow California Chrome and his hopes to become the first Triple Crown winner in 36 years. For the rest of the field of Saturday's race, the target painted on his back only becomes clearer.
Jerry Bailey, a Hall of Fame jockey and NBC horse-racing analyst, spent 32 years riding horses for his storied careers. Bailey captured two Kentucky Derbies, two Preaknesses, and two Belmont Stakes. He won the Breeders' Cup Classic five times, before his retirement in 2006.


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Passenger train service to N. Ga. suspended for a 2nd dayBy Ken Stanford Staff WASHINGTON - Amtrak suspended passenger train service in north Georgia again today because of the lingering effects of this week's snow storm.
The Crescent usually stops twice-a-day in Toccoa, Gainesville and Atlanta, once in the morning on its way from New York to New Orleans and once in the evening on the return trip to New York. Amtrak officials said yesterday service was being halted to reduce the exposure of Amtrak passengers, crews and rail equipment to extreme weather conditions. © Copyright 2015 AccessNorthGa.com
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10 Seasons Later: Where are America's Favorite Dancers?
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Catalan Dragons prop Julian Bousquet has failed in his bid to have his four-match ban reduced.
The 21-year-old France international was given the suspension a week ago for a shoulder charge that knocked out Salford scrum-half Theo Fages and he sat out last Friday's game against Warrington.
Bousquet admitted the offence when he appeared via Skype in front of the Rugby Football League's disciplinary committee but the Catalans contested the severity of the ban.
The club risked having the ban increased but the RFL's appeal panel tonight ruled the original punishment should stand.
The Dragons' disciplinary worries worsened when full-back Brent Webb was given a one-match ban after being found guilty of fighting.
The former Leeds player was sin-binned, along with Warrington's forward Ben Westwood, during his side's 24-16 defeat by the Wolves last Friday.
Webb will miss his side's game at Castleford on Sunday but stand-off Leon Pryce will be available after he admitted a grade A charge of kicking out in the tackle.
Pryce avoided a ban but forfeited his right to submit another early-guilty plea for 12 months.
Like Webb, Westwood was given a one-match ban, ruling him out of Warrington's trip to Hull on Saturday.
Bradford prop Nick Scruton is clear to play for his club against St Helens at Odsal on Saturday after avoiding suspension.
Scruton was accused of making a reckless shoulder charge on Castleford scrum-half Garth O'Brien in the fourth minute of his side's 38-12 win over the Tigers on Saturday.
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Join delegates from around the world for the 5th conference in the NETNEP series and share the latest research, knowledge, ideas, innovations and current developments within nursing and healthcare education from local, national and international regions
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Impact of leadership and education on patient care
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We've spent $6 billion on broken iPhones -- why?
May 23, 2013
iPhone users have reportedly spent $6 billion since 2007 to repair or replace their damaged phones, and repair costs are only getting more expensive.
Welcome to the tax shelter island known as ... Manhattan
May 22, 2013
Not all of Apple's untaxable billions are overseas. Some are held right here in the U.S., protected because the accounts are foreign owned. Welcome to the tax-shelter island otherwise known as Manhattan.
Senator Carl Levin and Tim Cook clash in tax haven hearing
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Senator Carl Levin says big companies are abusing tax loopholes. Apple's Tim Cook says they uphold the spirit of the law.
How much would Apple's overseas cash help the U.S. economy?
May 21, 2013
Apple's $100 billion in overseas cash is just part of the nearly $2 trillion in U.S. corporate funds that are beyond the reach of the IRS. What difference could that money make if it was brought home?
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May 21, 2013
Apple CEO Tim Cook tries to answer the $1.7 trillion question: How does the U.S. get corporations to repatriate their overseas profits?
What Foxconn profits can tell us about Apple
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Apple and Samsung both reported quarterly earnings last week. Today we hear from the company that makes many of the gadgets they sell -- Taiwanese tech giant Hon Hai, or as we know it, Foxconn.
Want to run Windows on your laptop? There's a MacBook Pro for that
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A new report highlights a particularly awkward bit of news for Microsoft's Windows and the computers that run it: MacBook Pro is the best Windows PC.
The sound of music: iTunes store turns 10
Apr 26, 2013
In just a decade, Apple's music-buying service has redefined the music industry and the way we listen.
Why Apple -- cash-rich and debt-free -- is going to borrow money
Apr 24, 2013
An explanation to the puzzle of why Apple is borrowing funds, while also rewarding shareholders with higher dividends.
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Financial News
Mothercare Boss Calver Quits Amid Struggles
The boss of high street chain Mothercare, who was brought in from internet movie company LoveFilm to boost online sales, has quit after less than two years in the job.
Simon Calver's decision to resign with immediate effect comes just weeks after the firm issued a profits warning on the back of poor Christmas trading figures.
He has overseen a major store reduction programme since being appointed as chief executive in April 2012.
However, he struggled to make the company more profitable amid fierce competition from supermarkets and online retailers.
Mothercare did not give a reason for Mr Calver's departure, although chairman Alan Parker said: "We have a strong executive management team which is very capable of running the business in the interim while the search for a new chief executive is under way."
Mothercare has around 230 stores, including its Early Learning Centre outlets.
Mr Parker said his outgoing chief executive, who is entitled to £250,000 in lieu of six months' notice, had accelerated the company's growth as a "multi-channel retailer".
However, the company made a £21.7m operating loss in the UK in the last financial year.
Despite strong international sales, it warned in January profits for the present year "are likely to be below the current range of market expectations".
In today's statement, the company said: "The board remains confident in the underlying strength of Mothercare and expects results for the year ending March 2014 to be in line with current market forecasts."
The company's share price has continued to fall since tumbling by around a third on the day its Christmas results were announced.
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Rhubarb 5 Ways
by Dana Angelo White in In Season, April 13, 2010I've always been fascinated by nutrient-packed rhubarb. It looks like a large piece of red celery, is incredibly tart and is a frequent dessert star. But don't limit rhubarb to the sweets table — there are quite a few things to do with this quintessential spring goodie. If you've never experienced this pleasingly sour plant, try it! Here are 5 different ways.
Classic Rhubarb Crumble
Sweet strawberries are a common foil for tart rhubarb, but a hazelnut topping adds sweetness to this springy crumble. A few spoonfuls of this warm, crunchy dessert is all you need.
RECIPE: Rhubarb Crumble (pictured)
Brownies! (Yes, Brownies)
Chocolate and rhubarb – what a fantastically unexpected pair. Cut brownies into small squares for bite-sized portions. This recipe is at the top of my list when I bring rhubarb home from the farmers market!
RECIPE: Mexican Rhubarb Chocolate Chunk Brownies
Leave it to Claire Robinson to come up with such a simple (and low calorie) rhubarb-infused sauce. Drizzle on grilled fish or roasted veggies.
RECIPE: Roasted Asparagus with Rhubarb Vinegar
This spicy condiment is sweet, tart and full of bold flavor. Serve it with pork, chicken, shrimp or cheese and some crusty whole grain bread.
RECIPE: Sautéed Pork Chops with Sherry-Berry Pan Gravy
Grown-Up Milkshake
This decadent cocktail is made with sugar, vodka, cognac and ice cream. Keep servings to just one of these babies or save some calories and share with a buddy.
RECIPE: Cool Rhuby Cordial
TELL US: What's your favorite rhubarb recipe?
Dana Angelo White, MS, RD, ATC, is a registered dietitian, certified athletic trainer and owner of Dana White Nutrition, Inc., which specializes in culinary and sports nutrition. See Dana's full bio »
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That's the divining message passed along Monday to members of the committee formed to look at the idea of siphoning excess water from the Missouri River and moving it west to a reservoir in the Utica area.
Even the volunteer time offered by members of the aqueduct committee is being counted as in-kind contributions to the overall $300,000 being spent to take a new look at a 1982 Corps of Engineers study to see just how much water might be available and how much it would cost to move it west.
Along the way Monday, committee members from northeast, northwest, southwest and even south-central Kansas raised a myriad of questions about the water's destination.
Even though the aqueduct would end in the Utica area before being parceled out, perhaps to replenish the Ogallala Aquifer, no one from Ness County was on the committee.
Even with a broad range of questions raised Monday, most simply won't be answered because there's a tight schedule, effectively January in time to present findings to the 2015 Kansas Legislature.
Joe Pajor, Wichita's deputy director of public works, said it comes down to figuring out what the committee wants.
Kansas Water Office director Tracy Streeter said the 1982 study is the underlying focus.
Monday's meeting offered a first glimpse to many of the committee members of the scope of the 1982 study, which looked at pulling water in excess of navigation needs from the Missouri.
The idea already has set off something of a firestorm in Missouri, and along the Mississippi, where navigation reigns supreme.
A representative of the Missouri Department of Natural Resources attended the meeting but didn't join the discussion.
Streeter said the 1982 study didn't look at any of the environmental barriers that might be posed by moving water west.
"They just presumed it was going to be easy-peasy," he said.
The environmental issues didn't get mentioned much, except for how water might affect efforts to boost pallid sturgeon numbers in the Missouri.
HDR Engineer John Denlinger, hired to update the project, highlighted some of the 1982 study proposed:
* A 360-mile aqueduct, using 16 pumping stations to push the water to an area that is nearly 1,745 feet higher in elevation.
* The reservoir used to store water as it's pulled from the river and then slowly released into the concrete aqueduct would be capable of holding 700,000 acre feet of water.
* The Utica reservoir was expected to hold anywhere from 760,000 to 1.6 million acre feet of water.
"Again, we will be looking at different sizes and alternatives there," Denlinger said.
Aqueduct proponent Mark Rude, executive director of the Southwest Kansas Groundwater Management District, raised the issue of as much as 90 miles between pumping stations on the aqueduct.
"It would be a lazy river," he said
In the Flint Hills, Rude said, economic development groups are looking at the aqueduct for recreational uses.
Streeter said there's been a lot of talk about concerns from Missouri or from Mississippi navigation forces.
"I'm maybe a little more interested in what we Kansans accept," he said. "We're just trying to evaluate our options."


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James Gilliland is an author, minister, transpersonal intuitive counselor, visionary, and founder of Sattva Sanctuary (the Self Mastery Earth Institute), and ECETI (Enlightened Contact with Extra Terrestrial Intelligence). His books include: A Reunion with Source , Becoming Gods 2 , and the soon to be released Ultimate Soul Journey . He is also featured in two videos, Project Contact , and The Keys to Utopia . After a Near Death experience, James was expanded into what he calls interdimensional mind. This greater awareness brought him into a greater understanding of the vast interdimensional multiverses in which we live.
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Author and historian Robert Zimmerman spoke about space-related issues and also shared his contention that there isn't enough evidence to confirm that global warming is happening. We don't have enough data over long-term cycles to draw any definitive conclusions about the Earth's upcoming climate, he maintained. During the first hour, Art spoke with ET/UFO contactee James Gilliland and several witnesses to UFO activity at Gilliland's ranch in Washington state. ... More »
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Commercial Textile Maintenance has forever changed since Sept.11, 2001. We now have three issues that have rocketed to the forefront of every facility manager's priority list, Security, Maintenance Programs and Professional Cleaning.
Security has increased tenfold. No longer is it acceptable for anyone to be wandering in and about a building without specific identification and purpose. Maintenance Programs are more important because they extend and preserve the life of corporate capitol investments, especially during slow economic times. Finally, the importance of maintaining a clean and healthy indoor environment utilizing Professional Cleaners has become increasingly important to the public.
These times present an opportunity for proactive companies to show their true colors. Either step up to the plate or move out of the way. Now is the time, if you have not already, to standardize uniforms, create picture ID tags, mark your vans with your corporate logo, and increase communication between you and your clients. Customize and sell new maintenance programs to companies that might not have been interested just a few months ago. Pull those certification cards, certificates of completion or association membership pins out of the drawer and use them to develop, sell, close and build valuable trustworthy relationships. Remember: Where there is a need; there is a vision Where there is a vision; there is a passion Where there is passion; there is endless opportunity. Doug Bradford, CEO Textile Cleaners of America


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Rubber hand illusion
"In the 'rubber hand' illusion, a person's hand and an adjacent rubber hand are both brushed gently. The real hand is kept out of sight. Before long, the subject's brain creates a new spatial link, imagining that the sensation in the real hand is arising where the rubber hand is."This is such a cool idea to take advantage of this "rubber hand" illusion as a way of establishing sensory feedback on a neuro-prosthetic device.
Graduate student Matthew Mulvey of Leeds Metropolitan University has now shown that the effect will work if the researchers deliver transcutaneous electrical nerve stimulation (TENS) not to the hidden hand but to the wrist. After being primed with the illusion, subjects perceive the impulses--which hijack the nerve pathways between hand and brain--as a tingling located in the rubber hand.


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Scouting Program Archives: Hiking Troop Program Feature
"SCOUTING is three-QUARTERS -OUTING." Anyone who has been around the BSA very long has heard that saying. Hiking, camping, and other outdoor activities are the heart of Scouting's attraction for boys. Spending plenty of time outdoors will help every troop succeed.
The hiking program feature concentrates on hiking skills. It also offers Scouts opportunities to learn other outdoor lore. As they prepare for hikes and set out on the trail, younger Scouts can work on a variety of requirements for the ranks of Tenderfoot through First Class. Older Scouts will be able to tackle some of the requirements for a number of outdoor-related merit badges.
The troop's big event for the month will be a trail trek – a hike of at least five miles in territory unfamiliar to the Scouts. As the patrol leaders' council is planning a hike, they might want to figure out some special activities to do along the way – nature study, map and
compass use, or some other skill Scouts will enjoy. The destination of a hike can suggest activities, too – fishing in a lake or stream, cooking a meal over a camp stove or open fire, reaching the top of a high hill, or pitching in to help with a conservation project.
Find the complete plans for the Hiking Troop Program Feature on the BSA website.
60 Hikes Within 60 Miles (Multiple Locations Available)
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The Scoutmaster, Senior Patrol Leader, and Assistant Senior Patrol Leader work together to develop long term plans for a Boy Scout troop. One thing which can help with this is the BSA troop program features.
National Outdoor Badges – Hiking
I don't think anyone in our troop has come close to doing this much hiking, but we do have a group currently training for Philmont, so maybe they will make these goals.
60 Hikes Within 60 Miles Book Series
We are coming up on some prime hiking season. In the spring the temperatures are mild and it isn't buggy yet. So I am reviewing my favorite hiking book – 60 Hikes Within 60 Miles. Hopefully there is one available in your area.
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The Outdoor Code
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America had no idea who this bleached blond, white rapper was or what he was talking about, until he told us (for just over four minutes) that he was Slim Shady. Eminem completely enthralled American media as he made light of the infamous Monica Lewinsky scandal and made fun of Pamela Anderson and Marilyn Manson.
This and other videos like "The Real Slim Shady" have granted Eminem eternal recognition as one rap's raunchiest acts. He is often credited with the desensitizing of rap fans to shock tactics, paving the way for the likes of Odd Future and Hopsin.
Though his skill with lyrics and complex subjects would later gain recognition, Eminem's initial appeal centered on his penchant for slander and the ease with which he displayed intensely graphic violence through his music. Prime examples include "97 Bonnie & Clyde" and "Kim."
Of course, Eminem did not invent horror core rap. What he did was contribute some of the most defining songs in the sub-genre. Beyond the disturbing lyrics though was Eminem's steely defense of them. Songs like "The Way I Am" and Em's verses on "Renegade" make a compelling argument for the basic human element in some of his more colorful rhymes.
While most discussed his antics and whatever the latest controversy was, Em's core fans knew the talent behind the character. Eminem has always been nice with the lyrics, as far as anyone that's heard Infinite can vouch. The rest of the world got a taste as early as "Stan" one of Eminem's most successful singles to date and the common internet designation of overly biased or belligerent fans.
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By the time "8 Mile" released Eminem was well established as the hottest rapper on the scene, or at least close to it. The film's critical and commercial success only helped reinforce this sentiment.
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Just a year after the film's release, Eminem helped birth another of the most popular artists of the time, 50 Cent. All this combined with his station as the co-founder of Shady Records and his vast production catalogue make Eminem one of the premier hip-hop moguls in the business.
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PUBLISHED: 29 Jun 2012 04:03:00 | UPDATED: 29 Jun 2012 11:49:50PUBLISHED: 20 Jun 2012 PRINT EDITION: 29 Jun 2012Former Democrats leader Natasha Stott Despoja in between former foreign minister Alexander Downer and former finance minister Nick Minchin. Photo by Nic Walker
Natasha Stott Despoja is talking about love, life and the pursuit of happiness after politics but doesn't rule out a 'second act' in a precocious career that enabled her to have a back-to-front experience. For the former leader of the Australian Democrats, politics preceded motherhood rather than the other way around. "I'd never rule it out,'' she says when I ask whether she would exclude the possibility of returning to public life. She knows such an eventuality is "problematic'', to use her own word, but you couldn't blame her for thinking about it, especially when conversation turns, as it did, in the late afternoon, to what might be – or might've been.
Our discussion, in her light-filled house on the Adelaide waterfront, is interrupted by her children – Conrad, 7, and Cordelia, 4 – a reminder that there is more to life than politics. "Transition isn't easy,'' she says. "But I suspect I was better placed to handle it as I chose the time of my departure and I had a clear idea of what I would be doing immediately after my term finished.'' In other words, motherhood.
Over several weeks the AFR Magazine delved into the lives of seven political retirees. Apart from Stott Despoja, the others are two Liberals – Alexander Downer, former Howard-era foreign minister; and Nick Minchin, former finance minister and Coalition senate leader; two Nationals – John Anderson, former leader and deputy prime minister; and Mark Vaile, who followed Anderson into both those positions; two Laborites – Carmen Lawrence, the former Paul Keating-era health minister and premier of Western Australia; and Steve Bracks, former premier of Victoria.
They are five men and two women whose careers describe an arc in Australian public life in the past two decades. None had regrets about retiring from political combat, except for what you might expect of people who had entered public life with goals and who, inevitably, did not achieve all they had set out to accomplish. So what might people contemplating mid-life career changes learn from the experiences of some of the country's highest-profile figures who knew when to quit, rather than be dragged – or catapulted – from office?
These conversations spanned the continent, from Anderson's 1800-hectare property in the foothills of the Warrumbungles, outside Gunnedah in northern NSW, to the staff club of the University of Western Australia on the Swan River where Lawrence, the psychologist, has returned to her old alma mater. I catch up with Vaile in Boggabri, where he is touring mining sites as chairman of Whitehaven Coal; with Downer in Melbourne, where he has business engagements as part of his international advisory business; with Bracks in his office in the Melbourne-based superannuation fund he chairs; and with Minchin in Adelaide, where this recent retiree is taking his time getting a post-political life in order.
I ask all of them more or less the same question, one that derives from Gareth Evans's observation about suffering from "relevance deprivation syndrome'' after leaving politics and, along with it, the constant churn of engagements and attention, the diary secretaries, the Commonwealth cars, deferential attendants and the illusion, perhaps, of influencing the country's trajectory.
Mark Vaile acknowledges that it is no small adjustment: "You do go through a period of withdrawal, and thinking, well, you used to be deputy prime minister; you used to be this important person and, next thing, here I am wandering by myself through the airports of Australia and the world booking my own taxi. There's no hire cars, there's no Comcars, there's no VIP aircraft; it's quite a sobering experience. But once you come to terms with that, I just thoroughly enjoy what I'm doing now.''
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Carmen Lawrence does not equivocate. "There's not a single day I've woken up and thought: I wish I was still in politics. Not a nanosecond,'' she says during a conversation that ranged over work, books, music (she is convener and chief fundraiser for a choral group), kids, grandkids and the state of the nation, but little politics per se. We had better things to talk about, including her academic work in pursuit of answers to why people take extreme positions on all kinds of issues.
Quite soon after she announced her intention to leave parliament, Lawrence approached the UWA vice chancellor with a suggestion she establish a centre to examine the whole issue of extremism. "I became very interested in the course of the Iraq conflict and the terrorism associated with it: how do some people get to the point where they can – without apparent compunction – kill, destroy, maim, blow up other human beings for a political or religious purpose? As a psychologist I wanted to understand [the motivation].''
What began as a two-day-a-week job has stretched to four days, with a teaching load, supervision of PhD and masters students, alongside her chairmanship of the Australian Heritage Council and membership of the Gonski committee in its report into schools funding. She has a full book, although unlike in her political life, she can switch off when she goes home in the evenings to listen to her favourite composers – Beethoven and Mozart.
Progressive politics remains in Lawrence's blood even if she is distant these days from the party that nurtured her political ambitions and ultimately, you suspect, ended up disappointing her. This is not a subject she particularly wants to dwell upon. The past is the past, even if Carmen Mary Lawrence is a former president of the Australian Labor Party and someone who was widely talked about as, potentially, the country's first female prime minister, just as she had been the country's first female state premier.
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A week or so earlier I had driven from Tamworth to John Anderson's property via the hamlet of Mullaley through terrain that had inspired a homesick London-domiciled Dorothea Mackellar's love of "a sunburnt country". This is as close to Godzone country as you will get. Sitting down to afternoon tea, the former National's leader is reflective, certainly more forthcoming than in political life when his caution made him an awkward interview subject. Post-politics, he opens up a bit and is joined in our discussions by his forthright wife, Julia. This is both a marriage and a partnership. Julia Anderson co-manages the large Newstead enterprise, with its Hereford herd and seasonal crops of wheat, sorghum and beans.
Sitting at the kitchen table in their kitchen-living room and looking south-east towards the Liverpool Plains with the Warrumbungles at your rear, you understand what drew someone who served as deputy prime minister and, on occasion, acting prime minister, back to a place that is a long way from Canberra in more ways than one. "It's in my blood,'' he says of the property settled by his Scots forebears. "I have an attachment to the land, which comes from six generations [on the land]. I've always lived and worked on it. I know every square inch of it. You come to wear it like a glove."
In some ways, Anderson puts you in mind of a Scottish laird of an Australian upland with its views down across the plains, less Braveheart perhaps than a son of the Scottish Enlighten-ment. When I ask whether he gets bored, he responds he is "too busy to be bored'' but also agrees there are moments when "I miss being at the centre of things. But only moments.''
If Anderson learned anything from his years away from the farm – it was run by a manager during his time in federal cabinet – it was how tight the margins are, prey to the vagaries of markets and seasons. Unlike others in politics at the end of their careers, he was fortunate to have a ready-made retreat to come back to after political life. "Nine and a half years in cabinet and six as deputy prime minister – it was a long stint,'' he says. "I was done; I was worn out.''
If he has a regret, it is that he gave himself too long on the backbench (two years after relinquishing the leadership) before retiring from politics altogether. He chafes a bit at not getting his national water initiative "bolted down'' before he left. "It's by far the only significant regret I have about leaving. I really genuinely thought – having gotten the big-principle stuff up, the states all signed on – others could take it forward. Yet, years later, they're still fluffing about all over the place.''
In his post-political business career things have not always gone smoothly. Santos criticized environment management practices at the coal seam gas developer Eastern Star Gas, which Anderson chaired until a takeover by the oil major in late 2011. He rejects such criticism and insists that mining for coal seam gas is safe, or at least safer, than alternatives. "I am absolutely sure – as sure as you can be in these things – that it can be safely extracted without damaging water tables, and I believe it's about as unobtrusive a resource extraction process as we've discovered,'' he says.
Anderson was only 50 when he left politics, a relative baby compared with his predecessors Doug Anthony and John 'Black Jack' McEwen. A benign prostate condition had been one of the principal reasons for his standing down as party leader two year's previously. At the time, Anderson had not planned to reveal his medical condition but John Howard persuaded him to do so, saying "you better give the reason".
So this most private of men unburdened himself about a chronic ailment that caused so much pain he could not sleep. In retirement the condition subsided. "It improved almost overnight,'' he says. "I don't have problems any more. It's just your body saying enough – flying was murdering me. Some men get ulcers, some get heart attacks, I got this.''
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In the workplace – if we can describe parliament as such – there can be few more stressful activities than party leadership and ministerial office with its early starts and late finishes, especially for those like Anderson whose reticence would render the task more difficult than otherwise. As it happens, his successor Mark Vaile's retirement from politics in 2008 was also occasioned by health issues. Vaile had a malignant melanoma diagnosed three years earlier. This prompted what he describes as "reconsideration, future planning, family, everything else". Specialists give melanoma sufferers a five-year respite but, as Vaile says: "Super optimist that I am, I always believed I was going to be much more fortunate than that.''
In his political afterlife, the former Taree stock and station agent is doing nicely as chairman of Whitehaven and a director of other boards, including Virgin Australia at a moment when that company is stretching its wings. He has taken advantage of the knowledge, contacts and experience he gained as a former minister for both trade and transport during the Howard era from 1996 to 2007. "I always had the view that I wasn't going to spend my entire working life in politics; I would ultimately go back to working in the private sector,'' he says. But even he might not have anticipated that he would ultimately be involved in the creation of a $5 billion company and have a personal stake worth at least $10 million.
When people ask whether he misses politics or would return, he laughs. "No, I don't miss it. And, no, I can't afford to go back there.'' Serendipity plays its part in successful lives and so too Vaile's. His meeting with coal mining entrepreneur Nathan Tinkler through a mutual friend led to an offer of the chairmanship of Aston Resources and subsequent involve-ment in the merger with Whitehaven. "We've been through this amazing process of pulling off the merger where we actually got 99.6 per cent support of shareholders,'' he says, as if he still can't believe it's all come to pass.
While their departure in 2008 was not co-ordinated, Vaile and Alexander Downer vacated the parliament at the same time, prompting by-elections in Lyne and in Downer's old seat of Mayo in the Adelaide Hills. The former foreign minister is enjoying himself as special United Nations envoy to Cyprus, as a visiting professor at Adelaide University, as a columnist for The Adelaide Advertiser, and in his advisory business with former Labor minister Nick Bolkus and corporate affairs specialist Ian Smith (the husband of Stott Despoja).
Their business Bespoke Approach has, for example, represented Billabong, the Australian leisurewear company, in its dealings in Indonesia where it had run into difficulties "Did it worry you your business might be portrayed as a lobby shop?'' I ask. "It didn't worry me,'' Downer replies evenly. "A couple of my friends raised that with me. 'You wouldn't like being a lobbyist!' Anyway, I don't do any lobbying ... I don't ring up politicians."
He concedes, however, that there is an imprecise line between corporate advice and lobbying and acknowledges that a change of government would not be bad for his business. "I have a lot of friends in the shadow cabinet,'' he notes. "I am a vice president of the Liberal Party and I also run fund-raising in South Australia. I host a lot of business lunches and dinners for the Liberal Party, so if people want to know what the Liberal Party thinks about XYZ, I can tell them.''
Downer mentions one of the big miners as an example of the sort of client he has advised on issues such as the mining tax. "In terms of domestic politics, we give them advice on how they should approach the government,'' he says. "I think we can give very sound advice because we know all these people, either Liberal or Labor. Since Nick [Bolkus] and I live in Adelaide, we get together and we brainstorm."
Downer courted controversy in a lengthy political career that included leadership of the Liberal Party. In retirement he is not averse to expressing his opinions forcefully, such as when he bought into the controversy over Canberra's decision to exclude the Chinese company, Huawei from tendering for work on the National Broadband Network. As a member of Huawei's Australian board, he drew criticism for describing the decision as "absurd''. Downer is adamant he was not "singing for his supper'', rather he regards the issue as symbolically important beyond the Huawei decision. "There's a broader question here,'' he says. "It's about how Australia approaches China and what do we think about China? There's a sophisticated view which I think we could embrace, which is that the rise of China is there, it's happening, it's happened. You call China your enemy, it will be your enemy."
Downer's response to the regrets question comes as a surprise, since he was, with Howard and Peter Costello, one of the three dominant figures in the Coalition government. He reveals he wanted to leave at the 2007 election – he had tired of the grind – but was constrained from doing so because it would have appeared disloyal to Howard, who was facing electoral defeat, including in his own electorate of Bennelong. "If I'd had my druthers, I would have retired happily at the election,'' he says. "[But] if I'd put up my hand and said I'm leaving, that would have been a very disloyal thing to have done. I could see we were not going to win the election.''
It was Downer who, at the 11th hour, was deputised to go to Howard to suggest he consider stepping aside in favour of Costello, but the approach was rebuffed. I ask him whether he regrets not having put the case more forcefully. Unsurprisingly, he deflects the question. "The only comment I'd make is that the parliamentary party remained, up until November 2007, overwhelmingly in favour of John Howard staying in office,'' he says.
Downer's South Australian right factional colleague, former Senator Nick Minchin, was not one of those who were overwhelmingly in favour of John Howard staying in office, but Minchin is focused now on creating a new life for himself and not dwelling on the past. One of the Liberal Party's warriors on issues ranging from the preservation of Australia as a constitutional monarchy to his campaign against those he describes as climate change "warmists'', he remains engaged in the public debate, corresponding for The Spectator, writing letters to editors and appearing on television programs, including his recent jousting with Anna Rose in the television documentary, I can change your mind about climate.
Minchin got people's attention when he criticised former colleague Peter Costello over his lobbying for the job of head of the Future Fund that went eventually to Sydney businessman David Gonski. "I expressed my surprise at the proposition that Peter Costello would be seeking the chairmanship of the Future Fund board, given that he and I [as finance minister] both went to enormous lengths to ensure the de-politicisation of that board,'' he says.
As might be gathered, Minchin is not in the habit of being shy of courting controversy but, talking to this tribune of the right, there is no impression he is suffering withdrawal symptoms. "One of the many, many reasons I decided to leave was I still had a 13-year-old daughter in school, and I had imposed an enormous and unfair burden on my wife in bringing up our children without me,'' he says.
Minchin doesn't dwell on it, but a serious boating accident involving his son Oliver, a cadet at the Australian Defence Force Academy finally persuaded him it was time to go. "When Olly had his accident [in February 2010] it was probably the catalyst for me deciding to leave,'' he says.
As for the future, the former finance minister does not rule out accepting board appointments – he has recently completed an Institute of Company Directors' intensive course. But, strategic character that he is, he is proceeding methodically. "I had several criteria,'' he says. "I didn't want another full-time job. I'd worked for 32 years effectively in politics, which is more than full time. I didn't want to be a lobbyist and I wouldn't take a job with a Labor government that would embarrass my side of politics.''
This has not precluded him accepting a statutory role courtesy of the Labor government: he is a member of the Official Establishments Trust along with his friend, ex Labor Senator Robert Ray. The trust looks after the Prime Minister's and Governor General's residences in Canberra and Sydney – The Lodge, Kirribilli, Yarralumla and Admiralty House. This task is hardly likely to attract political controversy unless it involves the lavish restoration of any of these establishments.
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Nick Minchin and Steve Bracks might not share the same political philosophy but, in some respects, they are similar in that both avoided overreaching themselves in their political careers. Bracks made a virtue of being underestimated before taking just about everybody by surprise, including possibly himself, by edging out Jeff Kennett in the Victorian state election of 1999. He consolidated his grip on power the next time round, and then went on to win a third election before springing another surprise by resigning at a moment people least expected him to do so.
It is no surprise that Bracks has few regrets about a political career which stamped him as one of Victoria's more successful premiers, and someone who in his early 50s had the luxury of looking forward to a satisfying, even lucrative, post-politics career. Besides chairing Cbus Super, he is a member of several advisory boards and recipient of various commissions on behalf of federal Labor, such as his investigation into the automotive sector. "I always had the view that you're better off determining your own future,'' he says in his offices not far from the state parliament. "But I had an equally strong view that I wanted to leave the party in better shape than I found it, and the government we led in good shape.''
On both counts, Bracks's judgment was probably correct but it still did not guarantee his successor John Brumby victory next time around. Politics is a fickle business and rewards or penalises those who get their timing right or wrong. Did he have regrets after seeing his party go down to defeat at the hands of Ted Baillieu, I ask? "I've never ever regretted my decision. Never, ever regretted it,'' he says. "Had I the time again, I'd make exactly the same decision. I loved the role of premier. I loved leading my party, I loved Victoria, and nothing will ever replace that period. But I like, in equal measure, this period of having other interests.''
When thinking about what to do with himself, Bracks consulted former premiers who had been through the same process, including Labor's Wayne Goss in Queensland, the Liberal's Nick Greiner in NSW and Richard Court in WA. He laughs when you suggest he might form an ex-premiers' advisory panel for superannuated politicians, including what is almost certain to be a swag of ex-Labor MPs at the next election. He makes the serious point that his peers among state premiers had all advised him to "hasten slowly'' before taking on responsibilities once he had vacated the premiership.
"Don't make precipitate decisions,'' he warns. "The offers that come to you in the first period may not be the offers which fit in the long term with the sort of portfolio you want ... It might crowd out an agenda where you can't take those that are better.'' So Bracks took his family on a lengthy overseas holiday that afforded him an opportunity to reflect. Was there anything that surprised him about his disengagement from day-to-day politics, I ask? "What surprised me is that people said the adjustment would be at least a year and I'd miss the daily adrenalin ... That's not true,'' he says. "I didn't miss that. Yes, there was an adjustment; yes, the phone didn't ring all the time; yes, you weren't a required player. But I had intellectually adjusted to that because I had decided to leave.''
Unsurprisingly, these strong-minded people have firm views about the direction in which the country is heading, and none more so than Anderson, whose religiosity influenced his public life more than most (he reads from the scriptures before he retires at night). He laments what he describes as the "rise of narcissism'', and draws my attention to a recent Newsweek article by Daniel Altman, 'United States of Narcissism', as a cautionary tale about what could happen here with what he perceives as the continued erosion of traditional values. "It started in the '60s with the whole idea of self-discovery and rapidly morphed into 'it's all about me'. I saw an ad in Canberra the other day that, to my way of thinking, really sums up the West's problem: 'It's all about you. Buy this now, you deserve it.' One ad, both statements!''
Stott Despoja would not necessarily agree with this analysis but nor would she argue that things are fine. "I find the current political scene depressing,'' she says. "Some of the antics and behaviour are depressing at best and, at worst, destroy the remaining esteem in which people hold our politicians and leaders. If ever Australia needed a progressive political force that combined social justice and environmental sustainability with small 'l' liberalism, it is now. My heart breaks at the demise of the Australian Democrats."
Lawrence put her misgivings about the political malaise forcefully in her preface to the recent re-release of Don Watson's 2002 profile of Paul Keating, Recollections of a Bleeding Heart. "We have seen it all before," she wrote. "The concentration on image; the ephemera of the personality contests; focus groups used to transform people's fleeting itches into enduring needs ... The balance is gone, the arguments and ideas harder and harder to find.''
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The solar energy water heater to join the national electrical appliances to the country since the directory, the state of the support strength increase gradually. "1025" programming also put forward again, to comprehensive development solar thermal utilization industry. People in the industry say, is currently in the low temperature stage--solar thermal utilization areas, the promotion of the water heater in 40 million ㎡, year section coal 8 million tons, 18 million tons of carbon dioxide emissions. If solar thermal utilization of industrialization promotion into warm can stage, every year, the number of energy saving and emission reduction will be at least 10 times more Solar Water Heater data to rapid growth, only with a solar thermal each quarter and more than 8000 tons of coal. From linuo rhett CPC temperature solar energy boiler system completion and "industrial green power plan" gradually be born, not only very good solve the Chinese solar thermal utilization technology of high temperature industry problem, and can also realize the paper, food, tobacco, wood, chemical industry, medicine, textile, plastic and eight industry more than 10% of the energy alternative.
In the 10 years from linuo rhett celebration, Solar Collector Shanghai jiaotong university professor WangRuZhu said, from linuo rhett CPC temperature solar energy boiler system perfect can be formed after a complete set technology, in various industries have large scale application. If 10% of the country industrial enterprise use solar energy to retrofit, will at least 5% of the energy consumption and reduce carbon dioxide emissions.
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WordPress2Doc – How to convert WordPress articles into Word and PDF documents
WordPress2Doc is a small program I developed, that enables you to convert your WordPress articles into Word (docx) documents. In addition to the Word format (.docx) the PDF format (.pdf) is available as a target format. For the conversion, the program makes use of the WordPress export XML file and can convert the items inside the export file in one or both of the aforementioned formats.
Tip: The download link for WordPress2Doc is at the end of this article! Who needs no further information, can now confidently scroll to the bottom of the article.
How to convert WordPress articles into pdf and docx files
To convert your WordPress articles into .docx or .pdf format, the relevant articles must be exported from WordPress at first. This can be done at WordPress' backend. Therefore open the administration page of your blog and navigate to the "Tools-> Export" menu in the WordPress backend.
In the export menu arrived, the "Posts" option must be selected. Then, depending on the desired, more restrictions can be set. By clicking on the "Download Export File" button relevant items are exported into a xml file.
At this point WordPress2Doc comes into play. After the start of WordPress2Doc the downloaded export file must be opened with a click on the tile "Load WordPress export.xml".
Now the "Choose items" tab opens itself. On this tab you can once again choose if all or just a selection of your articles should be converted. Therefore you can use the "select all" and "deselect all" buttons or check the articles by hand in the article list.
If you are not sure about the content of an article and therefore do not know if you would like to convert it, so you can open a preview with a double click on the item in the article list. The preview is rendered either as HTML or as source code on the right side of the WordPress2Doc interface.
If you have choosen your desired articles, you have to switch to the "Convert" tab. In this tab, the export format can be defined. The selected WordPress items can be converted in the .pdf format or just the .docx format or as well as in both formats at the same time.
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The download of WordPress2Doc is (of course) free! Anyone who wants to use only the program, should decide to click on the top download link. The others, who wants to know how WordPress2Doc works or would like to improve it, should opt for the second link (GitHub) where you'll get the WordPress2Doc sourcecode.
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I need you – help us to do better. Basically there are 3 ways to help:
- You comment on this article and give me your criticism, suggestions for improvement and/or new ideas.
- You help to translate WordPress2Doc. Since now there are only translations into "German" and "English" available. If you speak another language, join us and help translating! A list of phrases to be translated can be found here: WordPress2Doc translation list
- You grab/fork the source code (in the download section of this article) of WordPress2Doc and lay hands on the code itself!
No matter what you choose – your help is always welcome!
Hi Raffi,
great tool, thank you very much.
Simple, easy to understand and very quick. Just what I wanted.Cheers und nochmals Danke
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I think it's a great app better then others that I had tried. I have one request is it possible to make corrections to the post in the preview, like remove thinks that I don't want to include? Other then that I love it. Thanks for your hard work.
I get an error when I want to install the plugin:
Are you shure you want to do this (Weet je zeker dat je dit wilt doen?)
Try again (Opnieuw proberen)
I can only click on Try again and then I get the same result.Kind regards,
Sorry, I'm an idiot. I thought WordPress2Doc was a WordPress Plugin. Guess what? It isn't ;-)
Great tool! תודה :)
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Thanks….found this after a google search and it's fine…
Only thing is like someone else here I just wish the "title" of each of the posts was inserted up top in an for each and every file….that'd be SO cool…
Can I ask is this a "do-able" item in the near future?
Great app, just what i'm looking for. I'm having trouble uploading the wordpress file though. The file generated from WP 2.5 gives the following error when i try to load: "The file you have chosen isn't well formed". Do you know what changes i need to make to the XML for it to be valid? I've tried searching but can't find anything anywhere.
unfortunately, it can't convert blog post title in chinese characters! I have 300+ over posts, half of them with chinese titles. The tool can only export half of it (with english title).
Thanks a lot! The software works just great.
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Thank you very much for sharing this most useful application! It's very useful that the program exports to both DOCX files and PDF files, especially since Open Office cannot natively import the DOCX files (at least on my version). Just a suggestion: further support Open Source files structures – since not everyone can afford Microsoft products. Even Microsoft's Open XML Converter could not convert the files to a word 97 file structure.
Hello there, nice try with the app. The contents are alright in Greek but I also have a situation with Greek file names, but it doesn't concern me that. Could you please make these?:
1) All articles in one file (I have more than 500 articles so your app makes more than 500 files).
2) Could you include the post titles inside the file, in the contents? For exaple:
article 1 title
linearticle 2 title
lineI hope you understand what do I mean.
This is a really nice app! However I'm having trouble with Greek post titles. The files created have no filename before the .docx.
I guess this doesn't concern most people, but I thought I'd let you know. There may also be a problem with all other not latin languages. -
If you need help with the French translation, let me know. I will install it and report bugs. I've been looking for a solution like that for a while now as I get more and more requests to translate WordPress style, and if a customer can export easily, all the better.
Thank you so much for this wonderful article. It worked perfectly and i was able to export all the post into a word document.
Where did your video go??
Hi! Thanks so much for putting together this tool.
I just ran it on one of my sites and was a bit surprised by the results. It's useful, definitely. But I want to share some feedback that may help you further develop this tool:
1. There is no indication anywhere that this outputs individual files for every post. I was under the impression that this would output a single file of each version of the selected output (docx and/or pdf) — so I chose to save to my desktop.
This tool saved over 150 files to my desktop! Oops.
So it would be nice if it was 1. more clear about this and 2. if there was a "save as single file" option.
2. All of the docx files I attempt to open in the open-source LibreOffice Writer program are blank. So there may be an issue there.
3. The PDF files open ok, but I was surprised to note that the only text included in the file(s) are the BODY text. There is no subject/title information in the PDF file (although the PDFs are named the subject/title of the original posts).
So it would be helpful if you included the subject/title text in the file itself, as well.
The posts I used to text were from the ADVICE sections here: http://zerodean.photography/
I hope this feedback helps. Thanks again!
You should make it so that I can copy and paste error messages.
I didn't expect this to work. :/
Thanks very much for a great utility app. I've found it very useful.
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Hallo Raffi,
do you need the tranlation to portuguese and spanish?
Great tool btw, kudos!


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Pete Prisco with CBSsports.com joined Mike and Seth on MadRadio talking about the Texans surprising the NFL finishing 9-7, the Packers cockiness costing them the game, and just how good QB Tom Brady and Peyton Manning are.
Prisco: JJ Watt Is MVP Worthy
Pete Prisco of CBSSports.com joined Mad Radio and they talked about Russell Wilson being overrated, the greatness of JJ Watt, are the Texans overachieving as well as his thoughts on the Colts, Eagles, Giants and DeMarco Murray.
Prisco: Don't Expect Much From Fitzpatrick
Pete Prisco from CBSSports.com joined Mad Radio and discussed his thoughts on Texans Training Camp, Fitzpatrick, Clowney, Alfred Blue, Andre Johnson and Mike Thomas as well as a couple rookie QB's around the league Bridgewater and Bortles.
Prisco: Expectations Should Be Tempered For Texans Due To Quarterback Situation
Pete Prisco of CBSSports.com joined Mad Radio and they discussed Clowney's hernia surgery, the expectations of the Texans, his thoughts on the QB position for the Texans, Andre Johnson's lack of leverage against the front office and Johnny Manziel's off field stories.
Russell Wilson Is Over-Rated
Pete Prisco joined MaD Radio to knock Russell Wilson down a notch, and give us his take on what that means for the rest of the NFL.
Quarterback Play Is The Key For NFL Teams
Pete Prisco from CBS Sports joins MaD Radio to discuss the state of the Texans, what he thinks about Case Keenum's future, and what the Texans need to do in order to fix this team. […]
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Houston Texans' fans believe this has to be the Texans year. The Texans organization believes the coach to do it, is Gary Kubiak.
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Miratis: New Online Shop
Ohhh pretty products are calling, do you hear them?! The cry is coming from Miratis, a new online shop offering contemporary products for the home. While I can't say contemporary is how I'd describe my taste, I definitely surprised myself when I found some gorgeous and tactile ceramics in their shop that made me drool in delight and imagine scooping up for my nest.
a.| large flower bowl b.| medium Chinese jug c.| oval vase d.|small torn bowl.
Miratis ("mirus" meaning wonderful/astonishing/wonderful and "artes" meaning the skill of art and craft) gives immediate access to a hand-picked selection of some of the most exciting designers and makers in Europe and beyond from textiles to glass, ceramics to metal — and more.
Curated by founder Lisa Harrison, all the featured designers in the store create items that are exclusive to the website, I love the ceramics by Emma Clegg and Janet Stahelin-Edmondson the most.
Aren't these pieces above just lovely? I can imagine grouping them all on a shelf with a few flowers in each. I love that large flower bowl as it reminds me of a vintage swim cap my grandmother Millie wore when I was a child. So pretty!
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Oh wow, Holly, these are just lovely. And that top one *does* look like a swim cap — wouldn't have thought of it until you mentioned it, tho! :)
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What is the No. 1 Tip for Home Buyers? Jessica Edwards with Coldwell Banker Sea Coast Advantage shares her advice for first time home buyers. Tips for buyers abound on the Internet. Everyone from magazines to your Uncle Salvatore has a tip for you. Ok, maybe you don't have an Uncle Salvatore, but you get the point. We decided to Continue Reading »


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Bryzgalov locking in for stretch run
March, 14, 2012
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Len Redkoles/Getty ImagesIlya Bryzgalov has had a great start to the month of March.
BOCA RATON, Fla. -- On Tuesday, when chatting about his goalie Ilya Bryzgalov, Philadelphia Flyers GM Paul Holmgren started listing all the challenges Bryzgalov faced when he made the transition from the Phoenix Coyotes to the Flyers. Besides the pressure that comes with a giant new contract, Holmgren mentioned the huge adjustment of joining a new team. He pointed out that Danny Briere and Scott Hartnell didn't just jump in seamlessly to wild success in Philadelphia."Scotty Hartnell went 19 games before scoring a goal when he came from Nashville to the Flyers," Holmgren said.


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German Lawmakers Win Bid Over Government Informing on ESM
June 21 (Bloomberg) -- The start of Europe's permanent bailout fund may be delayed next month after Germany's Constitutional Court asked the president to withhold his signature pending potential lawsuits challenging the law.
Germany's Federal Constitutional Court asked President Joachim Gauck to hold back from signing the European Stability Mechanism and the fiscal pact into law to allow sufficient time to examine potential lawsuits, Gauck's office said today in e-mailed statement, adding that the president will honor the request.
The court will probably ask Gauck to wait a "few days" before signing the ratification of the ESM, which is scheduled to be approved by both houses of parliament on June 29 along with the European fiscal pact, court spokeswoman Judith Blohm said today. The European Union has been planning for the ESM to start operating on July 9.
The request is normal procedure to allow the court to rule on a potential emergency action seeking to block the law, Blohm said in an interview from the western city of Karlsruhe. Groups including Germany's Left Party -- the former East German communists -- which wants to stop the fiscal pact, have said they'll challenge the legislation.
The 500 billion-euro ($629 billion) ESM, designed to bail out indebted euro-area member states beginning this year, will replace the temporary 440 billion-euro European Financial Stability Facility, which was set up in May 2010 to fight the bloc's debt crisis.
Because the EFSF still has unused funds, a delay for the ESM won't deny European leaders a backstop tool.
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