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Get the feel for Festival Fashion
Posted: April 25, 2014|
Emma Frayling from The Bath in Fashion 2014 team gets the feel for Festival Fashion
Festivals are as much about fashion as they are about music and with Glastonbury 2014 just weeks away, thoughts are already turning to this year's festival look.
With the line-up for Glastonbury announced the excitement is building so what will you be wearing for the Dolly Parton Party or the Paolo Nutini gig? The fashion stakes get higher every year with celebrities and super models like Carla Delevigne, Sienna Miller and Alexa Chung leading the way when it comes to flaunting this year's must-have trends.
The one thing at the top of every Glastonbury list is Wellington boots. Kate Moss made original green Hunters part of the festival's uniform, so channel the model by teaming them with a graphic tee, classic Ray Bans and a touch of rock chic sparkle - a killer combo for three days of dancing through the mud. Or for alternative footwear try Cath Kidstons cute blue ditzy floral shoe wellies.
Cath Kidston offers great inspiration for festival dressing with their spring/summer range.
Inspired by memories of family day trips during summer holidays, the new Safari print blends the charm of English safari parks with the neutral palette of the African savannah. Featuring zebras, elephants, lions and giraffes alongside a versatile palette of earthy khaki and soft cream, key items include playsuits and trousers, the giraffe jacquard jumper and the Safari holiday bag.
Floral headpieces are always a popular look and during If you want to craft a head dress festival fashion then be sure not to miss the session by Tallulah Rose Flower School during the festival.
But if you don't feel you want to adorn your head with a flower crown, just tie a floral scarf around your head to keep your hair back and add some flair to a sweater and brightly coloured shorts.
If your style is more understated, keep your cool in relaxed basics like a tank top tucked into a breezy maxi skirt while you shade your face with a straw fedora. For a rugged look team a silk blouse with denim shorts and tough lace up boots or if you want something much more flirtatious these summer's floaty floral dresses will look great with flat sandals and a cross-body bag which will leave your hands free to snap photos all day.
Festivals are also a great opportunity to experiment with pattern and neon brights or brush stroke prints that take inspiration from art and design.
River Island's summer range has got the rock chick look so be sure to visit the SouthGate Bath store to get fitted out.
Whether you're a bohemian darling or all about the rock 'n' roll feel, New Look have everything you need to get in the mood this festival season. Think kimonos and crochet against tough denim cutoffs, with the bracelet affirming itself as the must have style for fields.
And Bath is well set for more practical festival gear from Cotswold Outdoor and Blacks who have all the camping essentials before the party kicks in.
Bath in Fashion will be hosting a lively debate on Festival Fashion with Emma Hope, director of the highly covetable Emma Hope range of shoes and bags and show designer for fashion houses including Paul Smith, Anna Sui and Mulberry. Top stylist Rebekah Roy will also be on the panel.
Date: Wednesday May 7
Time: 4pm
Venue: Bath in Fashion Style Pavilon in partnership with the Bath Chronicle
To Book visit bathinfashion.co.uk.


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Charleston police say a historical marker commemorating a 1960 Civil Rights sit-in was damaged by a truck Monday, about a week after it was erected.
A witness told police a large box truck was leaving a parking spot in front of the S,H. Kress & Co. building at 281 King Street about 5:45 p.m. when it appeared to accidentally hit the sign, police spokesman Charles Francis said.
The truck left the scene. Francis said the cab of the box truck is yellow.
Anyone with information about the truck or the driver can contact Charleston police at 577-7434.
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Amanda Engle
ERWIN — It will be up to a Unicoi County grand jury to decide if the Erwin woman accused of spitting on a pizza purchased by Unicoi County Sheriff's Department Chief Deputy Frank Rogers will be charged.
A preliminary hearing for Amanda D. Engle, 29, 729 Rock Creek Road, was held in Sessions Court on Monday. Following the hearing, Judge James Nidiffer determined that there was probable cause to send Engle's case to the grand jury for its consideration.
Engle was arrested in January and charged with disorderly conduct, although that charge was amended to vandalism at Monday's hearing.
The arrest report previously written by Rogers said he went to the Erwin Pizza Hut, where Engle worked Jan. 23, to pick up pizzas he had ordered by phone earlier. Engle did not ask Rogers for his name but rang up the pizzas and advised Rogers that the pizzas were still in the oven and that they would be ready in a few minutes.
"I sat down on the bench, which is straight in front of the counter," Rogers said in his report. "The pizza oven is directly behind the counter. As the defendant removed the pizza from the oven, I observed her cut her eyes and look at me. The defendant then leaned over the pizza that she had began to slice, and I observed her spit on the pizza (that) had been purchased by me."
Rogers wrote that he called this action to Engle's attention, and asked her if she was aware of who he is. She replied she knew Rogers, and when Rogers asked to speak to the manager, Engle replied that she was a manager, Rogers' report said.
"The defendant was observed by me depositing bodily fluid on the commercial food (that) had been purchased by me," Rogers said. "The defendant did, in a public place, create a hazardous or physically offensive condition by an act (that) served no legitimate purpose."
Engle was arrested at the scene and transported to the Unicoi County Jail for booking.
Sheriff Mike Hensley previously said Engle's alleged action was in retaliation for a driving under the influence-related charge placed against her by Rogers in April 2013. Hensley also said that Engle was fired by the restaurant the day after her arrest.
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Neeps & tatties
Cooking timeReady in 1¾-2¼ hours, including reheating
Skill levelEasy
ServingsServes 8
'Neeps' are better known as swedes, the traditional Scottish accompaniment to haggis
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- Vegetarian
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- kcalories
- 229
- protein
- 3g
- carbs
- 25g
- fat
- 14g
- saturates
- 4g
- fibre
- 3g
- sugar
- 0g
- salt
- 0.17g
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- 8 large baking potatoes, washed, peel left on and cut into 2cm x 4cm chunks
- 6 tbsp light olive oil or sunflower
- 1 swede weighing about 675g/11⁄2lb, peeled and roughly chopped
- 50g butter, plus extra for serving
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- The day before you want to serve, preheat the oven to fan oven 200C/conventional 220C/gas 7. Put the potatoes into a pan of lightly salted water, return to the boil and cook for 5 minutes. Drain the potatoes, put them back into the pan and place it back on the heat for a couple of minutes to dry out.
- Meanwhile, pour the oil into a large roasting tin (you may have to use two) and heat it in the oven until smoking hot. Now stir the potatoes into the hot oil and return to the oven to roast, turning occasionally, for 55 minutes.
- Cook the swede in boiling salted water for 50-55 minutes, or until very soft. Drain and add to the roasted potatoes. Roughly mash everything together, keeping quite chunky, then cool, cover and keep in a cool place.
- To serve, preheat the oven to fan 180C/conventional 200C/gas 6. Uncover the potatoes and swede, dot with the butter and put in the oven to reheat for 25-30 minutes, stirring now and again until piping hot. Serve with lots of butter.
Recipe from Good Food magazine, January 2004
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Seems like an awful lot of work to make a simple veg mash. I just peel the swede and cut in to small chunks and combine with the unpeeled potatoes which have been cut into a little larger pieces (as they cook quicker). I boil up them up until tender, drain and mash with butter and milk, season to taste. This may be deverting from the trational neeps and tatties, but I also add carrots into the combo.


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Veteran's epic bike journey cut short after bike stolen in San Diego
SAN DIEGO - A veteran in the middle of an epic cross-country journey on his bicycle is now in a holding pattern in San Diego after his bicycle was stolen.
Matthew Jarrett's custom-made road bike has taken him more than 6,500 miles across the country this year.
Jarrett is an Army veteran who served in Iraq and his ride across the United States and back is to raise awareness of veterans' suicide.
"Vet Ride for Life, TransAmerica Ride for Life … and I thought, why don't I put the suicide awareness message in there and through the ride, it can generate awareness of it?" he said.
He started in Virginia and has traveled through Canada, Colorado, Oregon, Montana and made his latest stop in San Diego on Friday. He never thought this stop would be his last.
"It went through my mind, 'Should I take my bike in?' And I thought, 'Well, I have two locks on it, I'm not going to be in for long,'" he said.
Jarrett locked up his bike outside a Dick's Sporting Goods store. He was only in the store for a few seconds but it was just one second too long.
"My first thought was … did I go out a wrong door?" he said. "And then it was kind of … my heart just sunk to my feet."
He called the police and walked around the area over and over looking for the bike. He even went in the store and asked if they had security cameras, but no luck. He felt helpless. The bike was gone.
"I was a couple blocks into walking back," he said. "You know, I had my bike helmet on and this little girl goes, 'Aren't you supposed to be on a bike?' … I felt so hopeless."
Now on foot, Jarrett is hoping the bike will be returned. He has had too many memories to just let the bike go.
"You think, oh, a bicycle," he said."I've had people message me, 'Get another one, continue on' … well, no."
Jarrett was heading into the desert across Arizona next, but now is not sure if he will continue. He is renting a car and heading home to Colorado.
10News spoke with Jarrett on Monday morning and he says his bike is still missing. However, he said people have begun to offer donations so he can build a new bike and continue his journey.


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Believe it or not, the Holy Grail actually exists … probably … maybe — but in the way that neither Sir Galahad nor Dan Brown ever imagined.
The Holy Grail is the cup used by Jesus at the Last Supper. Fanciful and romantic medieval literature, such as Robert de Boron's Joseph d'Arimathie, Chrétien de Troyes' Perceval, le Conte du Graal and Sir Thomas Malory's Le Morte d'Arthur, ascribe magic properties to it.
Many unlikely places around the world have suggesed they possess the chalice used by Christ, including a hill in England known as Glastonbury Tor, Nova Scotia and Accokeek, Md. But historical scholars suggest that if the cup used by Christ at the Last Supper exists, it's most likely the one reserved at St. Mary's Cathedral in Valencia, Spain.
This week on Holy Thursday, when Christians recount the words the Lord used at the Last Supper instituting the Eucharist — "This is my body. … This is the cup of my blood" — it's worthwhile recounting the history of how the grail may have gotten to this Spanish port city on the Mediterranean Sea.
Pope Benedict XVI used the chalice when he celebrated Mass at the 2006 World Meeting of Families in Valencia. Pope John Paul II used it during his 1982 visit to the city.
Valencia's sacred chalice is made up of two parts. The polished stone vessel on top is supposed to be the cup of the Last Supper. It is made of dark brown agate and measures 6.5 inches tall and 3.5 inches wide. Archeologists say it dates back to the first century B.C. and is of eastern origin, from Antioch, Turkey, or Alexandria, Egypt.
The part of the chalice that the cup rests upon was made during the medieval period. The chalice's stem and handles are made of fine gold, and its alabaster base is decorated with pearls and other gems.
Msgr. Jaime Sancho Andreu, president of the liturgy commission of the Archdiocese of Valencia, believes the first popes celebrated Mass with the same chalice that Jesus used. He points to the Roman Canon — which dates to the second century and specifically refers to the early popes using the chalice as opposed to merely any chalice, saying at the moment of consecration that Christ took "this glorious chalice in his holy and venerable hands."
Another manuscript, written by St. Donatus, spoke of how Pope Sixtus II, killed during Emperor Valerian's persecution in Rome, gave the Holy Grail to Deacon Lawrence in 258 to protect it from the emperor. St. Lawrence was a native of Valencia, and, thus, it would not be inconceivable that he brought it to his hometown to keep it safe.
Jewish Precedent
Though some will claim differently, the Holy Grail legends did not begin with Arthurian tales. In fact, this particular chalice was already in Spain long before the legends started. Later, medieval writers created a false but persistently popular etymology for sangréal, an alternative name for "Holy Grail." In Old French, san graal or san gréal means "Holy Grail" and sang réal means "royal blood." This pun was played up in Dan Brown's nonsensical and sensationalistic novel The Da Vinci Code.
Rabbi Arthur Steinberg of Temple Sinai in Portsmouth, Va., told me of the importance of the kiddush, the cup reserved for the Jewish liturgy of Passover and Sabbath services.
"Many Jews in the second large wave of immigrants to America in the late 1800s," he said, "carried with them two objects of great liturgical importance: the pa-moat, or candlesticks, and the kiddush."
If Jewish immigrants hoped to preserve their culture and faith by retaining these religious items, it follows that the apostles would have done the same. Their faith in Christ would have prompted them to preserve the cup he blessed by using it at Mass.
The cathedral housing this sacred object, St. Mary of Valencia, is an overwhelming Gothic structure, with an octagonal bell tower capped with an eight-sided dome.
The church was built on the remains of a mosque that had been built upon the ruins of a razed Visigothic Catholic cathedral. It was consecrated in 1238 by the city's first bishop, Pere d'Albalat.
I arrived at the cathedral before the evening prayer service dedicated to the Holy Grail. During exposition of the Blessed Sacrament, prayers referring to the grail are chanted, and Mass follows. The services are held each Thursday in honor of Holy Thursday, when the first Mass was offered by Christ.
The Holy Grail is reserved in its own chapel, which was built between 1356 and 1369. It was initially separate from the rest of the cathedral, but was brought under the same roof in 1459, when the nave was expanded. The chapel is about 50 square feet in area, with a 40-foot-high ceiling. The grail is reserved in a reliquary in the shape of a tabernacle in the center of a magnificent marble altarpiece.
Relics aren't simple mementos or souvenirs; they are tangible evidence of individuals and the events surrounding them. Like the Shroud of Turin, or any of the other relics associated with Christ, we might never know the true provenance of the chalice with 100% certainty. But, ultimately, I believe it doesn't matter. Instead of presuming upon the chalice's historicity, it is better that we view it as a religious aid or focus.
I stood before what might be the very chalice touched and sanctified by his blood and his sacrifice and closed my eyes. I felt gratitude for Christ's sacrifice and for the communion of believers he created by his message.
Catholic News Service contributed to this article.
Angelo Stagnaro writes
from New York.
The Cathedral of St. Mary
Almoina Square
46003 Valencia, Spain
(34) 96-391-81-27
Planning Your Visit
Valencia has some of the best weather in Spain, as it's on the Mediterranean coast. The heat can be intense, but the humidity is ameliorated by the ocean breeze. Masses are on Sundays at 8, 9, 10 and 11 a.m., noon, and 1, 6, 7 and 8 p.m. There are also Masses on Saturday evenings, anticipating Sunday, at 6, 7 and 8 p.m. On weekdays, there are also Masses throughout the day.
Getting There
Valencia has a modern airport and more than enough hotels to accommodate even the largest pilgrimage tours. The city can serve as an excellent base for exploring the other important towns in the area. Valencia is made for walking, and getting lost there is a great treat.


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In 1997 the world of publishing was as fickle as ever. The sudden death of Diana, princess of Wales, occasioned an outpouring of books that were devoured by the public, even as critics decried the impulse behind them. Although major publishing houses owned by multinational corporations continued their hegemony, an increasing number of highly regarded small presses came to represent a kind of literary samizdat. The virtual bookstore became a reality so overwhelming that many physical bookstores began to feel the effects. In the United States in particular, the best-seller lists were unexpected homes to a good number of dense and imposing literary titles by writers such as Thomas Pynchon (Mason & Dixon) and Don DeLillo (Underworld), and the winners of major literary fiction prizes (the National Book Award for Fiction in the U.S. and the Booker Prize in Great Britain) were big commercial successes in advance of the awarding of the prizes themselves, which disputed the initial common wisdom that the memoir was supplanting the novel as the literary form du jour. Both prizes, however, were increasingly vexed; the shortlists ignored any number of important titles in both the U.S. and the U.K., and both were won by first-time novelists, which caused many in publishing to shake their heads in disbelief and dismay.
Throughout the world the approaching millennium sent writers fleeing to the past for subject matter. In the U.S. major novels explored the 18th century, the Civil War, the Cold War, and the 1960s. In Britain Jim Crace's Quarantine took place in 1st-century Judea, and France's Prix Goncourt was won by La Bataille, an account of an 1809 Napoleonic battle told from the combatants' point of view. Germany's cult hit Starfish Rules was set in the U.S. during the 1930s, and a major Danish novel explored the religious and political struggles of 14th-century Denmark. Throughout Latin America fiction meditated on recent historical outrages.
The persecution of writers by the state continued in many parts of the world, notably in the Middle East and Africa. The International Parliament of Writers, headed by Nobel Prize winner Wole Soyinka of Nigeria, mailed out an appeal for funds, citing censorship, harassment, imprisonment, and even murder in places like Algeria, Iran, China, Nigeria, and Uzbekistan.
Highly regarded new English translations of Horace's Odes and Ovid's Metamorphoses appeared. The 75th anniversary of James Joyce's Ulysses was marked by the publication in the U.K. of a "reader's edition," which most critics regarded as a travesty. Other highlights of the year included the sudden high visibility of expatriate Indian writers, as well as new works by such internationally known authors as Haruki Murakami, Philip Roth, Peter Handke, Peter Carey, Robert Stone, Cynthia Ozick, John Updike, Saul Bellow, Norman Mailer, Colleen McCullough, Beryl Bainbridge, Peter Findley, Ben Okri, J.M. Coetzee, Athol Fugard, Hélène Cixous, Aharon Appelfeld, Joyce Carol Oates, Mario Vargas Llosa, A.B. Yehoshua, Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, Kurt Vonnegut, Mario Benedetti, and Lyudmila Petrushevskaya.
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In 1997 literary critics widely agreed that there were no new standout novels. Other literary forms, however, such as the memoir, seemed to many to give better expression to the fin de siècle mood of the country. Stephen Moss, The Guardian's literary editor, complained about what he regarded as a lacklustre 1997 Booker Prize shortlist, writing, "The death of the novel is an endlessly replayed . . . subject, but any objective observer of the events surrounding this year's Booker would have to conclude that fiction was in a parlous state. Breathing, but only just."
The Booker shortlist drew criticism both for its obscurity on the one hand and for pandering to popularity on the other. Three lesser-known titles shortlisted were Mick Jackson's The Underground Man, Madeleine St. John's The Essence of the Thing, and Tim Parks's Europa. The three more prominent titles, however, were considered more likely to win. Although Grace Notes by the well-established short-story writer Bernard MacLaverty from Northern Ireland was expected to gain the award, Booker Prize administrator Martyn Goff said that the panel felt that the book was really three short stories strung together, and its status as a novel was thus weakened. Jim Crace's Quarantine was many literary critics' favourite. An ambitious historical novel set in Judea in the 1st century ad, the action took place in the desert during the time when Jesus undertook his 40-day fast. Other characters took up residence there as well, including a dying and wily merchant whom Jesus saves, a woman trying to cure her infertility, and a group of pilgrims intent on settling in the caves. Although Quarantine earned praise for its humane intelligence and superb writing, the book nevertheless failed to win. In the voting the judges were divided but eventually arrived at a unanimous decision, announced October 14. The prize of £20,000 was awarded to Arundhati Roy, a first-time author from New Delhi, for The God of Small Things. The story, a saga of love, death, and intercaste relations, focused on twins growing up in the southern Indian state of Kerala. In the author's native India, critics charged that the book corrupted public morals. It nevertheless enjoyed strong sales in Britain and North America, and by the day before the winner was announced, the book had emerged as the favourite. Although Gillian Beer, the chairwoman of the judges, praised the book's "extraordinary linguistic inventiveness," Carmen Callil, 1996 chairwoman, in an interview just after the announcement, derided the decision of the judges as "execrable." Moss dismissed comparisons of Roy to V.S. Naipaul and Salman Rushdie as the "fantasies of publicists" and concluded that the year's choice had been "disastrous" for the award and "profoundly depressing."
The Whitbread Award was less controversial but notable in that the overall winner was not a novel. The respective winners in each of four categories--first novel, novel, poetry, and biography or autobiography--were John Lanchester's The Debt to Pleasure (1996), Beryl Bainbridge's Every Man for Himself (1996), Seamus Heaney's The Spirit Level (1996), and Diarmaid MacCulloch's Thomas Cranmer: A Life (1996). Although Bainbridge's novel, a tale about the sinking of the Titanic, was favoured to take top honours as the Book of the Year, nine judges, chaired by Malcolm Bradbury, settled on Heaney's poetry collection. "It was a tightly fought battle and the decision . . . was not unanimous," said Bradbury, "but [Heaney] represents some of the most powerful, original, and energetic work in the language." Heaney, the Northern Ireland-born poet and winner of the 1995 Nobel Prize for Literature, had been hailed as Ireland's greatest poet since William Butler Yeats.
The second Orange Prize for Fiction, awarded for the best novel written by a woman, went to Anne Michaels's Fugitive Pieces. The book was the Canadian poet's first novel and probed the memories of a Holocaust survivor through his journal. It was a late submission and was considered only after one of the judges of the award called on the publishers, Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, to enter it for the prize. The novel also won The Guardian Fiction Award.
Whereas many critics were less than enthusiastic about the year's literary fiction, genre fiction, particularly the crime novel, rose to ever more popular heights. P.D. James published her 12th traditional English crime novel, A Certain Justice. A story of a murder in London's Inns of Court, it went straight onto the best-seller lists, along with Ruth Rendell's latest Inspector Wexford novel, Road Rage. These established queens of crime were joined by such newcomers as noir stylists Nicholas Blincoe, with Jello Salad; Glaswegian writer Christopher Brookmyre, with Country of the Blind; and Neil Tidmarsh, whose Fear of the Dog was a smooth-paced thriller about amoral dealings in London's 1990s art world. Counterbalancing crime novels set in the gritty modern day was a rush of historical detective fiction. Iain Pears's An Instance of the Fingerpost was set in Oxford in the 1660s, and authors Peter Tremayne and Kate Ross, respectively, produced a 7th-century nun and a Regency dandy as sleuths. The Guardian praised the best of these offerings for prose styles "at least equivalent to that of, for example, Madeleine St. John, Booker-shortlisted this year." As if envious of the genre's popularity, literary fiction writers Ian McEwan and Martin Amis both produced books obeying elements of the crime novel. McEwan's Enduring Love featured a stalker, and Amis's Night Train presented a case that might have been murder or suicide.
Other novels that won critical acclaim were Rose Tremain's The Way I Found Her, a story of summer love in Paris narrated by a 13-year-old boy, and Edna O'Brien's Down by the River, a disturbing story of a 14-year-old girl seeking an abortion after becoming pregnant as a result of an incestuous relationship with her father. A short novel, The Reader, a love story set in post-World War II Germany by Bernhard Schlink, was acclaimed by several reviewers for its terse and haunting prose, and Do White Whales Sing at the Edge of the World? by Paul Wilson was hailed by The Independent as "not a nice novel, but . . . grim and fantastic."
One of the most controversial books of the year was a new edition of James Joyce's Ulysses. Coinciding with the 75th anniversary of the book's publication and appearing on Bloomsday, June 16 (the day on which the action in Ulysses takes place), Ulysses was edited by Danis Rose, a Joyce scholar in Dublin. Rose claimed to have purged some of Joyce's errors and won praise from, among others, Irish poet and novelist Seamus Deane, who hailed it as "one of the most important editions . . . in a long time." Many critics were stridently disparaging, however. The London Review of Books remarked that Rose's approach "violates every principle and procedure of critical editing," and John Kidd, director of the James Joyce Research Center at Boston University, commented, "No responsible editor has ever undertaken the scale of mutilation that Danis Rose has perpetrated on this text." The Joyce estate, led by Joyce's grandson Stephen James Joyce, threatened to stop the book's publication on copyright grounds.
The memoir threatened to oust the novel as the literature of choice, with Angela's Ashes (1996), Frank McCourt's poignant tale of growing up in the slums of Limerick, Ire., winning praise in both the U.K. and the U.S., though sales in the U.S. were greater. Skating to Antarctica by Jenny Diski was a memoir of a traumatic childhood, overshadowed by a father who was a con man and a mentally disturbed mother who had aspirations of making her daughter into an ice-skating champion. Along with impoverished and abusive childhoods, illness was another favoured subject for autobiographical comment. The Diving Bell and the Butterfly, Jean-Dominique Bauby's account of his suffering as a result of a paralyzing stroke--dictated by blinks of his eye--won high praise when it appeared in the U.K. in a translation by Jeremy Leggatt. The Independent declared it a "hugely absorbing narrative" reminiscent of the "icy clarity" of Simone de Beauvoir's description of Jean-Paul Sartre's descent into blindness and confusion. Bauby died in March. Fiona Shaw's Out of Me, an account of a postnatal breakdown, was a passionately written piece about life at the edge of an emotional abyss. More self-reflection came from Elizabeth Kaye, whose book Mid-Life: Notes from the Halfway Mark (1995; published in London in 1997) was a wistful but colourful account of coping with aging.
Literary biography continued to thrive as a robust form. The first volume of R.F. Foster's biography of Yeats appeared under the title The Apprentice Mage, 1865-1914 and was hailed by The Literary Review as being as rewarding as it was long awaited; it was especially celebrated for its "brilliantly" handled examination of Yeats's relation to political events in Ireland. Fintan O'Toole's biography of another Anglo-Irish writer, Richard Brinsley Sheridan, was also well received, as was Phyllis Grosskurth's Byron: The Flawed Angel, the first substantial account of the life of the poet for more than 30 years and much applauded for its balance and restraint. A stirring account of the life of Daniel Defoe, author of Moll Flanders and Robinson Crusoe, was produced by Richard West, with a title reminiscent of his subject's writing style: The Life & Strange Surprising Adventures of Daniel Defoe. Although little was known about Defoe's life, West coped with this exigency by supplying a lively historical backdrop to his narrative, encompassing such events as the Great Plague of London, the Great Fire of London, and the Popish Plot.
Other warmly received biographies included Jennifer S. Uglow's Hogarth: A Life and a World, a rich evocation of the artist and his London hometown. A.N. Wilson's Paul: The Mind of the Apostle conveyed the subject's enormous intelligence and literary skill amid a backdrop of vexed Mediterranean politics in the 1st century. Wellington: A Personal History by Christopher Hibbert provided new insights into the duke's personal life. The author had used newly found archives that had come to light since Elizabeth Longford's major study appeared 25 years earlier.
Other nonfiction works included Hugh Thomas's The Slave Trade: The Story of the Atlantic Slave Trade, 1440-1870. Three decades in the writing, it was hailed as one of the most rounded and complete studies of the slave trade to date. David Crystal's English as a Global Language examined the rise of the English language, from its murky origins in the Dark Ages to its present-day status as a language to which, Crystal claimed, approximately one-third of the people on the planet were routinely exposed.(See Spotlight: English Language Imperialism). Equally ambitious in scope were Felipe Fernández-Armesto's Millennium, a history of the world over the past 1,000 years, and Roy Porter's authoritative The Greatest Benefit to Mankind: A Medical History of Humanity.
Two remarkable compilations were also published. The Penguin Book of Columnists, edited by Christopher Silvester, brought together in 640 pages the most vibrant of the U.K.'s newspaper columnists. The Papacy, edited by Michael Walsh, was a compact history of the papacy as it approached the 3rd millennium. The book ended with the conclusion that there would be a pope in Rome for as long as there was a human race. One of the most highly sought-after edited collections, however, was a new and comprehensive edition of the letters of the Brontë family. The Brontës: A Life in Letters, edited by Juliet Barker, was celebrated for its intimate portrayal of Yorkshire life in the vicarage at Haworth; the book's popularity spoke to the enduring fascination among British readers with this family of geniuses.
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How to reward great authors when reading them through (legal) free means
February 12, 2014 | 12:53 pm
By Joanna Cabot
I have just finished my first five-star read of the year—which I know is not saying much given that it's only February, but it's been a long time since I've read a book which really knocks my socks off.
The book—[easyazon-link asin="B008QXVDJ0″ locale="us"]The Golem and the Jinni[/easyazon-link] by Helene Wecker—is set in turn-of-the-century New York City (and is rich in historical details of this period) and finds the two titular mythical creatures washed up randomly upon its shore. The Jinni, a creature of fire, finds water-logged New York City unsettling, and hooks up with a mentor (a Syrian tinsmith) who tries to teach him some social niceties and make him a useful member of the very alien human society in which he finds himself. Meanwhile, the golem (a creature of Earth), finds herself 'widowed' when her master dies during the voyage to America. She too hooks up with a mentor, an elderly rabbi, who guides her in a similar fashion.
In my quest to buy less but read more, I wishlisted this book when I first learned of it, and then waited for it to become available at the public library. Now, I find myself wondering what to do. It seems silly to spend money (almost $13 for the Kindle edition!) on a book I've already read. But I did so enjoy it. I feel the author deserves her due for this one. If only she had another book that I could buy instead. Or a website with a Paypal tip jar…
I acquired this book—for free—through legitimate means and I know I have done nothing wrong by choosing it from my library's selection. But still. I wish there was a way to send the author her due without having to purchase a book I've already finished. And if I could reach her directly and not have to pay Amazon's premium, so much the better. So, readers, what would you do in this situation? Would you buy the book because that's the only way?
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What you did here was what I do with library books. Give it word of mouth so readers can find it.
I give mini reviews of the books I enjoy and some I don't on various reader lists I belong on so readers can find good books.
I have also been known to buy an extra paper copy to give away to a friend I think will enjoy it, as well.
I agree with Marilynn – you've done the author a favour with the exposure you've given her on this site, plus buying the odd paperback copy is a surefire way to send at least a few pennies the author's way. As for a website with a "tip jar," it is up to authors to decide whether they have the tech savvy/time/energy/focus to devote to such endeavors. Not everyone does – although hmmm, I like the strategy of "shareware books," suspect we'll see more and more of that as we go.
Kindle price is $9.01.
This is a good example of how Patreon can help Authors, creative types.
Post a work schedule, see who wants to contribute just to keep you able to do what you enjoy. Let them be beta readers, etc. for a perk.
I agree with the others- this book is now on my to-read list and will likely represent a sale that otherwise wouldn't have been.
This kind of publicity is a great start which I hope the author appreciates! (And Joanna, thanks for starting this thread — I think it is a great idea.)
In an era where so many authors feel that they have to "sell, sell, sell" to have any chance of being read, the idea of having READERS help a book find an audience is really going to be more and more important. So many great books are coming out — traditionally published and indie — anything that helps an excellent book stand out and reach the readership it deserves is greatly appreciated by most authors.
Many traditionally published authors encourage readers to buy a copy through authorized vendors (simply because they know they are in partnership with their publishers, who undertake the cost of printing, distributing, etc.).
Other ways you can support the author are favorable reviews, blog posts, comments on message boards, tweets, etc.
Some traditionally published authors also have their own self-published side projects (short stories, unpublished novels, etc.) that they may sell direct (using Gumroad or Ejunkie or PayPal) or sell on the mainstream ebook sites like Amazon, Smashwords, Nook, Kobo, etc.
Many authors (such as myself), especially indie authors, openly have a tip jar (using PayPal or Amazon Payments (payments.amazon.com) where readers can contribute directly if they wish. Even if an author doesn't have a "Tip Jar" on their website, if you find their email address on their site or blog, you can send them a donation on your own with a note as to why you are contributing. (Some authors may feel awkward about a direct gift, but many authors take it as the kind, gracious compliment of direct patronage such contributions are meant to be).
And as always, good word of mouth and reviews where the author's target audience hangs out is greatly appreciated — especially on threads like "recommend a great book," so you may bring it to the attention of people who are not already aware of the title. (That's the "problem" with reviews on, say, Amazon — people normally only read reviews after they are already aware of the book. The best way to help an author is to bring their books to the attention of readers who don't already know about the author.)
And I don't think any author would turn down a thread labeled "(Title) by (xx) is AWESOME!" on Kboards, Reddit, Amazon discussion forums, Goodreads, your Facebook page, etc. — although presenting your appreciation in such a way that it is clear that you are not a shill/astroturfing for them can be a challenge.
Thanks. This book looks interesting, but $10.99 is too expensive for me. I will wait for a lower price. As everyone said, I think you have already helped to promote this book. The author will appreciate this.


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Speed Wobbles
open topic, for anything cycling related.
Speed Wobbles
Anyone ever get speed wobbles? Any suggestions on fixing it other than changing body position. (Ive changed position more times than an 'X'y with a budget.)
It happens when I go over 60km/h.
I've heard its common on all bikes over a certain speed. That right?
No. Some bikes are more prone. Some bikes with some riders are more prone. At the end of the day, it's all about the natural frequency of the system. Irrespective, to get speed wobble at 60km/h is rather unusual and bad. Have you checked if your headset bearing and other major bearings are in good order?
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+1 for sogood's response, but you might also find you are tensing up at those speeds, enhancing that "natural frequency harmonic" which sogood mentioned. Try loosening your grip on the bars to help your arms relax somewhat. It's going to be hard to do that though - you'll need to overcome natural (and sensible) fear.
Think outside the double triangle.
Imagine a world with no hypothetical scenarios.
just lift your bum up just a little bit, so your bum is rest on the seat but all you weight is on your feet.
this puts you more in control of the bike, and gives you a bit more confidence at high speeds.
combine that with a fairly relaxed grip on the bars and you'll be fine
Clamp the top tube between your thighs and decelerate without braking, as Sogood said there's a certain combination of rider, bike, speed and terrain that'll bring on the wobbles, change one of them and voila.
...whatever the road rules, self-preservation is the absolute priority for a cyclist when mixing it with motorised traffic.
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I set my new top speed yesterday - 74.3kmh. Fortunately - no wobbles, but a fair bit of tail end clinch.
What is it with cycling? 30+ kmh and lycra???!!!
are your tyres pumped up enough?
i find that i get death wobbles if my tyres get under 60psi
(tyre not beading with rim properly)
but i don't know much about stuff...
Haven't experienced them yet and my bike computer says I've maxed at 88. (Now that was a rush and lots of wind noise too)
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To tell the truth I would be a little worried
Back in 1994 a girl died when the front wheel of her BMX failed under her at speed. They said the reason for the wheel failure was due the Bike developing speed wobbles, all bmx bikes of a certain brand were recalled.
I remember this Cos I was 9 and had a BMX.
BCC give us some more bikeways fore safe travel!!!!
Upgrade the NCL now QR!!!!!!
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Yeah I would be worried too.
I have hit 90+ with no wobbles. It does bother me though the damage that I would do when (if) i came off. I have come off before at 60km/hr and that was bad enough - took some major skin off legs, hands, arms and a huge gouge out of my side. But 90 will hurt, if there is anything left to hurt.
I've never had the speed wobbles.. I only learned about them by reading online. I try and stay as relaxed as possible on descents now though.
Fastest I've been is 75kph... plenty fast for me.
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Thanks for the responces.
I just went to the bike shop and had the front wheel trued a bit.
Will go down and try to reach 70km - the speed I'd be happy with - and report back. Hopefully they'll have the net in hospital.
One question though: how do you decelerate without braking when you're going down hill?
...the painful way.When you get a tank slapper on a motorbike the best way to get out of it is too accelerate hard...so better pedal faster!.
Never had a bike get a speed wobble...hope the shop didn't tell you that!.
Didn't put that well did I...
Sit or stand up, make a big 'chute of your body.
...whatever the road rules, self-preservation is the absolute priority for a cyclist when mixing it with motorised traffic.
London Boy 29/12/2011
...or too tight.
Were you pressing on your bars a bit? Weight on the front end above the headset will generally precipitate a speed wobble. It began to happen to me on a local descent when I got to about 55kmh. I was mildy concerned about what was going on. Later on another descent I got into my standard descending stance (which I had been slack about earlier) - weight towards the rear of the saddle, cranks level, knees clamped on the top tube and arms relaxed with no weight on them. All of a sudden 65kmh+ was quite comfortable.
Any half decent road bike should track quite straight, given half a chance. The caster on the steering geometry will ensure this.
Riding bikes in traffic - what seems dangerous is usually safe; what seems safe is often more dangerous.
Stop pedalling and sit up straighter - air braking
Riding bikes in traffic - what seems dangerous is usually safe; what seems safe is often more dangerous.
I had something similar happen to me the other week, I hit 70 and it started to buck, at which point I was glad my knicks weren't white!! . I'm putting it down to the fact that I was rooted from the climb up the hill and was too lazy to shift my bum back on the saddle for the descent. I hope it dosen't happen again though cos it scared the **** outta me!!!
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How fast is too fast (road legal of course) and what should I consider a maximum speed for a Trek 3900 mtb.
I have skinny road tyres and so far have topped out (before squeezing the brakes lightly) at 71kph! No Wobbles
Do bikes come with a manufacturer top speed??
My highest speed (twice) was 83kmh, on the road.
The day I did 69kmh on a fire-trail near Healesville on my rigid MTB, some of the guys on DH bikes with suspension had done 89kmh!! On a steep, rocky track with off camber corners - going a full 20kmh faster than I did. Yikes
Riding bikes in traffic - what seems dangerous is usually safe; what seems safe is often more dangerous.
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Erasing Time is so cool: teenage twins Sheridan and Taylor are taken from the present day into the far future by mistake and must learn how to survive in a world that is very, very different (and dangerous). The people who brought them to the future were intending to bring forward a brilliant (adult) scientist, but instead got the twins, and they're not sure what to do with them now that they have them. There's no possibility of a return trip.
The story is told mostly from the perspective of Sheridan, who is the more "average" of the twins. Taylor has always been the brilliant twin, the science whiz who graduated high school at an incredibly early age, went on to college, and is now studying for her PhD at age 18. Sheridan is smart, but no matter how smart she is, she feels that she'll always pale in comparison to Taylor, who is also very outgoing.
The two girls must learn to work together to manage the situation they find themselves in. They have an ally - maybe - in Echo, a boy from the future whose job it is to translate the future English into the past English and vice versa. When the twins discover that the scientists from the future plan to fix their mistake by giving the girls memory washes, they go on the run, with the help of Echo.
The two girls must learn to work together to manage the situation they find themselves in. They have an ally - maybe - in Echo, a boy from the future whose job it is to translate the future English into the past English and vice versa. When the twins discover that the scientists from the future plan to fix their mistake by giving the girls memory washes, they go on the run, with the help of Echo.
I love reading books about the future in part because it's always interesting to see what one person thinks that future will look like. Hill's future is curious. People live in isolated cities, basically domes, ostensibly for their own safety, and they have no interaction with the outside world. Everyone has an ID chip implanted in their bodies, almost no buildings have actual walls, religion has been outlawed, and our system of government has been completely eliminated. There are different factions within the city, too - such as the dangerous Dakine, who use violence to achieve their goals, and the more benign "Doctor Worshippers," whose name actually means something very different from what it sounds like.
The government tells citizens that natural plant and animal life no longer exist, and they're nowhere to be found in the city. One of the most amusing parts of the book is when Echo tells the girls that the reason animals are now extinct is because the people in Sheridan and Taylor's time ate them all. (Taylor is quick to point out to Sheridan that complete extinction of non-human animal life is impossible, since it would make human life impossible as well.) Actually, there are a lot of moments where the future culture has interpreted our current culture incorrectly, and it leads to most of the story's laughs.
The way Hill uses language is interesting. The gap between future English and current English seems to be about the same as the gap between current English and Middle English - gibberish initially, but understandable once you practice at it. To make telling the story simpler, Hill doesn't actually write out what the future English must sound like - she "translates" it for us via Echo, and once the girls learn to understand it, she "translates" it via them too. Hill also uses current English idioms to great effect, as a way for the twins to talk to each other without the future people knowing what they are really saying. I thought the language issue was an interesting touch, and it's a problem I've always wondered about when reading stories set in the far future.
I think there are a lot of neat ideas in this book, but they aren't executed terribly well. I'm a little unsure why the scientists from the future wanted to bring a scientist from today forward. It's explained in the book, but not in a completely understandable way. I also think a couple of obvious secrets are withheld too long, making their ultimate revelations underwhelming.
Mostly, I wanted more of a story. With the whole future world at her disposal, it seems like Hill told a rather pedestrian, small kind of story - Taylor and Sheridan must elude those who are out to get them, with the help of a boy from the future. I suppose I wanted more intrigue and excitement and less talking and pontificating. I wanted to see more of the future world through Sheridan and Taylor's eyes, know more about the Dakine, and so on. Erasing Time ultimately left me unsatisfied. Still, it held my attention and should appeal to fans of time travel stories.
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Check out TVGuide.com users' 15 favorite crime fighters"No one's told us to write it so that it ends," executive producer Pam Veasey tells TVGuide.com with a laugh. "It is an incredible challenge each year to sort of leave it open. Once again, our objective was in [the characters'] personal lives. Have you learned something about each of our characters that says they will go on and they will grow and they are still the family that's wonderful and complete?"On the other hand, Mac (Gary Sinise), who was shot at the end of last season, is very much thinking about the future — particularly as it involves his girlfriend Christine (Megan Dodds). "In the first episode of Season 9, she's just devoted to Mac and his recovery. The deal is sealed almost at the beginning of this season," Sinise says of the relationship. "We established in the very beginning of the series that Mac is a grieving 9/11 widower. We established him as somebody who was troubled. For him to find love again at the end of our season — or series — is kind of special and very sweet."But Mac must first survive another dangerous situation. The finale (Friday at 9/8c, CBS) finds Mac and Detective Flack (Eddie Cahill) trapped in a police station with two officers who may or may not have shot and killed an unarmed man. When the community learns of the shooting, a large group begins rioting outside the police station and the scene quickly becomes sticky.


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The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), an agency of the United Nations, is meeting today in Dubai to plan the future of the internet. The World Conference on International Telecommunications (WCIT) will take place from now until the 14th, and it will have serious implications for the entire internet. These next few days have the potential to completely change the way the internet works, and that is terrifying.
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A beloved doctor of three decades retires leaving hundreds of people from Grand Meadow and surrounding communities wondering where to seek treatment.
The line out the door of those wishing Dr. Michael Gregg a good retirement shows how much the community loves him.
Dr. Gregg has worked in Grand Meadow for nearly three decades, and just a week ago he put down his stethoscope for good.
"Different, very different and I'm going to miss it. I'm going to miss the scientific part of medicine as well, but mostly I'll miss the patients," said Dr. Michael Gregg.
Most of his patients feel the same way about him.
"I could call him up and I didn't even have to come in and he knew what to prescribe," said Lavonne Baldner.
Lavonne Baldner has been a patient of Dr. Gregg's ever since he started working at Mayo Clinic in Grand Meadow.
"I am a little nervous about getting a new doctor," said Baldner.
The local clinic is now closed because they've had no luck finding a replacement for Dr. Gregg.
"He was always looking out for your best interest, so I'm really going to miss that and I hope I find it again," said Baldner.
The community hopes another physician will take Dr. Gregg's place at the clinic, but many say they have big shoes to fill.
"It's been wonderful and a privilege to share their lives, you know they shared their lives with me and I enjoyed them a lot," Dr. Gregg.
For now, the Mayo Clinic in Grand Meadow remains closed. It seems Dr. Gregg is easing into retirement, he's still helping out at the local nursing home once a week.


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The olive trees growing on Olea Estates in Sparta, Greece, are a youthful 150 years old. By comparison, some trees in the Mediterranean are still producing fruit after a couple thousand years. But like their ancient counterparts, the young trees have thick, rough trunks that give way to leafy branches that stay green all year, and the black olives — specifically, Koutsourelias — that hang from them.
Nicholas Chronis purchased the 25 acres of land that comprise Olea Estates in 1856, after the Greeks regained their independence following nearly 400 years of Turkish occupation. He planted a couple hundred trees; today, that number is closer to 1,200.
"We all bled in the fields," George Chronis, Nicholas' great-grandson, says of the four generations of his family who cultivated, maintained and harvested the grove's olives and oranges. He still has his great-grandfather's pocketknife, the one he used to cut olives from the trees, and his father, a retired Oxford-trained cardiologist, continues to tend the fields today.
But three years ago, the Chronis family nearly sold the land they've owned for more than a century: The price of olive oil plummeted, and the grove's profits were lower than the cost of its upkeep. George asked for one last chance to salvage the fields by trying to carve out a market for the oil in St. Louis. "Give me a year or two," he told his father in 2009. If he failed, the fields would be history.
George Chronis, 37, lives in Town & Country with his wife, Lauren. He was born and raised in Sparta but came to the United States for school at the University of Missouri-Columbia, where he earned a PhD in artificial intelligence.
The groves were a constant throughout his life in Greece, and by the time he was ten, his weekends were spent pruning trees under the distant, snow-capped specter of Mount Taygetus. Workdays and nights were long, and breakfast typically meant a slice of bread dipped in oil. "We didn't have to do that. My family had enough money to eat a good breakfast. But my dad wanted to show us how money is made," he says.
Not that it was such a terrible way to grow up. "At that time, I didn't have a problem with the trees so much. I never said, 'I'm not going to drink orange juice because it kicked my ass working the orange fields,' or, 'I'm never going to eat another olive,'" he says. "I didn't have it against nature, but I did have it against my dad who made me do it."
To Chronis, the perfect olive is deep brown, maybe black. Greek olives are firm like apples. Once they turn black, they become softer, taking on the consistency of a grape: crisp on the outside, soft on the inside. The window to pick the olives is a short one. Wait more than a few days, and that perfect black olive begins to turn soft and wrinkly.
At Olea Estates the olives are harvested from mid-October through the end of November the old-fashioned way: tediously. Only the black olives are used for oil; the less ripe green ones are more acidic. And because the same branch can hold olives at varied stages of development, the workers — about five in the fields on any given day — pick every olive by hand, branch by branch, for each of the 1,200 trees. As more olives reach their peak, workers can use a comb — which resembles a child's plastic sand rake — to go through the branches and snag plump, ripe olives between its tines, plucking them from the branches while leaving most of the leaves intact. Then the olives fall onto a fine-mesh tarp that provides a soft landing place (olives easily bruise). The workers fold the tarp with the olives into a bucket and drag everything to the next tree.
And so it goes, branch by branch, tree by tree. But that's just the first pass; typically, each tree gets ten passes per season. Using a tractor to shake olives loose from a tree would get them to drop more quickly, but with that comes leaves, sticks and the risk of damaging the tree itself.
Chemicals aren't used at Olea Estates, either: no need, when the Chronis' neighbor has hundreds of goats. "Our deal with him is that he can graze his goats in the grass under the trees, and in return, we get the manure from the goats, and that's our fertilizer," Chronis says. The olives are certified organic by both the USDA and the European Union.
After the olives are harvested, they are washed with river water, cold pressed between thick linen-like sheets and left to sit undisturbed in stainless-steel tanks. There, the tiny bits of skin settle at the bottom. Two months later the first-press olive oil — the highest-quality oil that's extracted when the olives are pressed for the first time — is taken from the top of the tanks. The second and third presses, not used for Olea Estates' oil, can bring pieces of pit and skin.
"Other farmers, out of 100 pounds of olives, they'll make 70 pounds of oil. We'll make 30. The rest is not going to waste, but it's going to be industrial oil; it's going to be pomace. In Greece we don't consider pomace oil to be human food."
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A former Texas State University student says she's been wrongly jailed for weeks after authorities said they believe she was involved in bomb threats to the San Marcos school.
Brittany Henderson tells the Austin American-Statesman (bit.ly/Vx4gBp3) Share she didn't even know about the mid-October threats emailed to the school until she heard about them on television.
She was arrested five days later and was held in the Hays County Jail until last week when she was released on bond.
A federal criminal complaint says her ex-boyfriend, 22-year-old Dereon Kelley, used her email to send threats to Texas State and Texas A&M.
The 19-year-old Henderson says she was asleep at the time the threats were made.
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The Department of Defense announced today the death of a soldier who was supporting Operation Iraqi Freedom.
Spc. Todd M. Bates, 20, of Bellaire, Ohio, was on a river patrol on the Tigris River Dec. 10 south of Baghdad, Iraq, when his squad leader fell overboard. Spc. Bates dived into the water and did not surface. He was originally listed in a duty status whereabouts unknown status. Bates' body was subsequently recovered and his status changed to deceased on Dec. 23. Spc. Bates was assigned to the 135th Military Police Company, Army National Guard, based in Brookpark, Ohio.
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Seven candidates are running for three seats on the nonpartisan, at-large Dorchester District 2 School Board.
Incumbents Lisa Tupper and Barbara Crosby are seeking re-election, but Bo Blanton, who served on the board since 1996, is not running again. He attended his last meeting as a board member on Oct. 22.
Tupper and Crosby are challenged by Harry Blake, Sam Clark, David DuBose, Louis Smith and Justin Farnsworth.
All of the candidates have said they support the districts $179.9 million general obligation bond referendum, which will be used to build four new schools and renovate several others.
Asked what they feel needs to change in the district, their answers were:
Blake: Being more diversified in all our departments.
Clark: Graduation rates must keep improving.
Crosby : With evening school, tutorial opportunities, and other programs we have in place, we will save more of our children from dropping out of school.
DuBose: I think we should focus on the noncollege-bound children a little more. Not every child is college material but have a lot to offer in other areas.
Farnsworth: We need to adapt and plan better for the continued growth of Dorchester County.
Smith: I believe that the district can do more to reduce the drop-out rate, the expulsion rate, teen pregnancy, and increase parental involvement.
Tupper: (We need to) ensure graduates have a marketable skill or can attend college, expose children earlier to career options, increase the graduation rate, keep all stakeholders accountable.
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Buena passes its final early-season examination
Tough non-league schedule finishes with 32-17 victory over Rio Mesa
The Buena High football team is gaining momentum.
The Bulldogs' latest win came at the expense of host Rio Mesa in a 32-17 Buena win Friday night. Buena, coming off a 56-0 shutout of Pacifica, now has two straight wins going into its rivalry game next week against Ventura.
The win also evened out Buena's record at 3-3. The Bulldogs completed a challenging non-league schedule featuring Newbury Park, Camarillo, Saugus, Oxnard, Pacifica and Rio Mesa.
"We played a really tough non-league schedule," Buena coach Cliff Farrar said. "We're four plays away from 6-0. Our kids are doing a great job and getting better every week."
Buena has seen its share of injuries, including a sprained ankle that sidelined Kendrick Mathis Friday night. But it was Andrew Martinez, the powerful 5-foot-6, 160-pound runner who powered the Buena offense.
Martinez ran for 143 yards on 24 carries. Martinez missed the first three weeks with a fractured jaw, before injuring his knee. The last two games has allowed him to regain his conditioning and make an impact, he said.
"The (offensive) line was strong," Martinez said. "Everyone did well."
Rio Mesa didn't help itself with fumbles taking away opportunities for touchdowns.
After Buena punted on its first possession, Rio Mesa marched to the Bulldogs' 25-yard line only to turn the ball over. Buena recovered. On Rio Mesa's second possession, the Spartans made it to Buena's 5-yard line before fumbling.
Neither team scored in the first quarter. Buena broke through when quarterback Chase Smith rushed 2 yards into the end zone for a 7-0 lead two minutes into the second quarter.
Jordan Nunnery helped Rio Mesa respond quickly. Nunnery took the handoff on the second play of the Spartans' next possession and ran 60 yards up the right sideline and into the end zone.
Rio Mesa's defense struggled to slow Buena as the Bulldogs went on a six-play, 77-yard drive capped by an 8-yard touchdown run by Martinez.
Brad Wellman's 47-yard catch was a highlight of the drive.
Rio Mesa went three and out on its next possession. The Spartans punted to Buena's Derrick Raines, who promptly ran it back 70 yards for another Buena touchdown and a 19-7 Bulldogs lead going into halftime.
The Spartans' Nunnery had a 20-yard touchdown run to open the third quarter. But again, Buena's offense was effective and completed an 11-play, 65-yard drive with an 8-yard touchdown run by Martinez.
Rio Mesa's last three points came via a 22-yard field goal from Tim Dominguez.
"To hold these guys to 17 points — nobody's really done that," Farrar said. "Our defense is playing well."
Rio Mesa falls to as it starts Pacific View League play next week with a trip to Oxnard.
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Recent failures aside, few coaches have done a better job of reclaiming lost players the way Bill Belichick has during his career with the New England Patriots.
And the only thing resting on whether Belichick can rehabilitate Aqib Talib, who had his share of disciplinary issues in four-plus seasons with the Tampa Bay Buccaneers, is another Super Bowl title. While the Patriots won't get a chance to unveil Talib – described by one NFC executive as "a $10-$12 million-a-year talent" – for another week as he serves the remainder of an NFL-mandated suspension for using Adderall, the fact is that Belichick hasn't had a cornerback this physically gifted since Ty Law.
CB Aqib Talib recorded 18 INTs in his career with the Buccaneers. (AP)That gives Belichick a chance to turn the deal for Talib – acquired for a fourth-rounder – into one of his greatest trades, which is no easy feat. During Belichick's 13 years with New England, he has pulled off some of the most lopsided deals in NFL history. While not all of his deals have worked (the 2011 trades for Albert Haynesworth and Chad Ochocinco were notable flops, even if they didn't cost much), the Talib deal has a chance to rank among his top five ever.
Here's the list of Belichick's best trades for the Patriots:
1. Acquiring Randy Moss for a fourth-round pick in 2007
Belichick pulled off the first of two significant deals with Oakland's Al Davis when he picked up a future Hall of Famer for what effectively became journeyman defensive back John Bowie. Moss returned to his Hall form for the next three years before being dealt in 2010.
2. Acquiring Wes Welker for a second- and a seventh-rounder in '07
Belichick's 2007 offseason might be one of the most brilliant in NFL history when he rebuilt his receiving corps and changed the direction of his offense in two remarkably cheap moves. Belichick got Welker for picks that eventually turned into journeyman center Samson Satele and defensive end Abraham Wright.
3. Shipping Drew Bledsoe for a first-rounder in '02
The most remarkable part of this deal is not that the Patriots turned the pick into Ty Warren, who played seven seasons with the Pats; it's that they got so much for a guy who had just lost his job to Tom Brady. Then again, that's the price tag for a starting-caliber quarterback and Buffalo paid.
4. Shipping Tebucky Jones for (eventually) Corey Dillon
In another example of Belichick extracting value for a subpar player, he dealt Jones, a safety with limited cover skills, to New Orleans in '03 for a third- and a seventh-rounder in that year's draft and a fourth-rounder in '04. Belichick then dealt that third-round pick to Miami for a second in 2004. He then dealt the second to Cincinnati for Dillon, a guy who was the center of his offense for two years, including the Super Bowl XXXIX title season.
5. Shipping Terry Glenn for a fourth-rounder in '02
Glenn had a fine career and even had a bit of a renaissance after this deal. However, he wasn't a good soldier during the 2001 season and butted heads with Belichick. The Pats ended up with defensive lineman Jarvis Green, a valuable backup and sometime starter on two championship teams.
Randy Moss didn't hide his love for Bill Belichick and the Pats after he was dumped. …6. Shipping Moss in '10 for a third-rounder
After Moss wore out his welcome, Belichick still managed to turn him into something of value. He dealt Moss in midseason to Minnesota for a third-round pick in 2011. That pick has turned into backup quarterback Ryan Mallett. The jury is still out on Mallett, but Moss was cut by Minnesota after only four games.
7. Acquiring Ted Washington for a fourth-rounder in '03
Washington played only one season in New England, but he was a vital cog in a Super Bowl-winning team as the Pats' defense ranked No. 4 in the NFL that season. The Bears shipped the fourth-round pick to the 49ers.
8. Shipping Richard Seymour in '09 for an '11 first-rounder
This deal was (and to an extent still is) one of the more controversial trades in Belichick's career. This was done just as the 2009 season started and many viewed it as a huge step backward for the Pats' defense. Seymour remains a productive (albeit expensive) player for Oakland. In 2011, the Pats used the pick to get Nate Solder, who is now the starting left tackle. So far, the Raiders have gotten more productivity, but the Pats hold all the upside.
9. Shipping Matt Cassel (and Mike Vrabel) for a second-rounder in '08
While Belichick was criticized for not getting more for Cassel, he had to move fast because Cassel was on a franchise tag. Cassel is now trending back down to backup status. The Pats used the pick to draft safety Patrick Chung, a solid-if-unspectacular starter.
10. Acquiring Deion Branch for a '11 fourth-rounder in '10
The back-and-forth dealing of Branch to and from Seattle is worthy of a long feature, but the end results have been just so-so. The Pats originally traded him to Seattle in '06 for a pick that turned in Brandon Meriweather (that deal was an ineffective draw). The Pats got Branch back in '10 and he immediately returned to being a reliable target. Seattle got linebacker K.J. Wright in 2011 with the draft pick, giving them the long-term upside on the deal.


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From "Boyfriend" to Fiancé? Engagement Rumors Heat Up For Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez (UPDATE)
He's 18. She's 19. They're young, they're hot, they're busy promoting their music careers… and they're going to get engaged soon?
It's not the first time rumors of an engagement have followed Justin Bieber and Selena Gomez — and it's also not the first time they've been off-base.
On April 19 the Chicago Sun-Times sparked the latest round, reporting, "[S]everal people close to the superstar couple say they're convinced an engagement is in the very near future. The teen idols were spied closely eyeing some pricy bling in a couple of major jewelry stores — especially major diamond baubles that could only be described as the kind usually slipped on a woman's left-hand ring finger."
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The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga women's tennis team was eliminated from the Southern Conference Tournament by No. 73 Samford this afternoon. The Mocs were shutout 4-0 in the semifinals at the Champions Club.
The match was much closer than the final score indicated since play stops once a team reaches four points. These two programs were very evenly paired, as seen in the 4-3 Samford win in last week's regular season finale.
As with most tight duals, the doubles point is very important. Samford won the doubles last week, and again today it proved to swing the momentum in the match.
After dropping the first match at No. 3, the Mocs need two wins to take the doubles point. Senior Alexa Flynn and junior Kaylene Chadwell were up 4-3 in their No. 1 bout with Kristin Lewis and Emily Mallory.
Flynn and Chadwell broke serve at 4-3, but gave it right back. They broke again to go up 7-5 and closed out the win on their serve. That avenged an 8-3 loss in the previous meeting and set up the No. 2 bout as the decider.
Sophomores Kayla Jones and Katie Polk were up 7-4 against Yasmeen Ebada and Carita Moolman, but could not close out the win. Samford eventually battled back to take the match and the first point in a tiebreaker.
"That took a little wind out of our sails, but I think it did more to lift them up," stated UTC head coach Jeff Clark. "You have to give Samford credit. We did not choke that No. 2 match away. They battled back and won it."
Samford used that momentum to take the first set in five of the six singles matches. Two of those first set wins were in tiebreakers. The Bulldogs went up 2-0 when Jones lost to Stephanie N'tcha (6-2, 6-3) at No. 1. The Mocs fell further behind when Flynn dropped her No. 3 match to Ebada (6-3, 6-1).
Despite a 3-0 hole, Chattanooga was battling at every position. Sophomore Kelsey Coots won her first set at No. 4 while Polk was up 2-1 in the third at No. 6. Chadwell and junior Claire Mulyadi both lost their first sets in a tiebreaker, but were locked in close matches.
Mulyadi lost some ground to Mallory in the second frame and could not get it back. Mallory's (7-6, 6-1) win at No. 5 closed out the match and sent the Bulldogs to tomorrow's finals.
Chattanooga ends the season with an 18-5 overall record. It is the second straight season the Mocs have won 18 matches, the most since winning 21 in 1991. Chattanooga finished third in the league for the first time since 2002, won seven league matches for the first time since 2000 and advanced to the semifinals of the SoCon Tournament for the second time in three seasons.
Flynn is the lone senior on the Mocs roster, so UTC will return the core of its lineup. Chattanooga was 10-0 at home in the regular season and had five individuals honored on the All-SoCon team.
"If you look at all of the things we accomplished this year, there was definitely progress," added Clark. "Winning today was the goal, but when you look back on it, we absolutely moved forward as a program."
#73 Samford 4, Chattanooga 0
Apr 18, 2014 at Chattanooga, Tenn. (Champions Club)
Doubles competition
1. Alexa Flynn/Kaylene Chadwell (UTC) def. Kristin Lewis/Emily Mallory (SAM) 8-5
2. Yasmeen Ebada/Carita Moolman (SAM) def. Kayla Jones/Katie Polk (UTC) 8-7 (6-4)
3. Stephanie N'tcha/Jessica Northcutt (SAM) def. Kelsey Coots/Claire Mulyadi (UTC) 8-2
Singles competition
1. Stephanie N'tcha (SAM) def. Kayla Jones (UTC) 6-2, 6-3
2. Kristin Lewis (SAM) vs. Kaylene Chadwell (UTC) 7-6 (8-6), 4-2, unfinished
3. Yasmeen Ebada (SAM) def. Alexa Flynn (UTC) 6-4, 6-1
4. Jessica Northcutt (SAM) vs. Kelsey Coots (UTC) 4-6, 5-4, unfinished
5. Emily Mallory (SAM) def. Claire Mulyadi (UTC) 7-6 (7-5), 6-1
6. Lauren Caballero (SAM) vs. Katie Polk (UTC) 6-1, 1-6, 1-2, unfinished
Match Notes
Chattanooga 18-5
Samford 20-2; National ranking #73
Order of finish: Doubles (3,1,2); Singles (1,3,5)


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Women's Soccer | Sunday, October 10, 2010
Women's Soccer Secures 2-0 Victory over Lutes
Wetzel and Batzer Score for the Bearcats
SALEM, ORE. -- The Willamette University women's soccer team defeated the Lutes of Pacific Lutheran University, 2-0, on Sunday, Oct. 10. Willamette moved to 5-7-0 overall and to 4-4-0 in the Northwest Conference. PLU is now 2-9 overall and 2-6 in the NWC.
After playing to a 0-0 tie through the first half, freshman Sabine Wetzel (MF, Martinez, CA/Campolindo HS) scored her third goal of the season to give the Bearcats a 1-0 lead in the 50th minute. Wetzel re-directed a pass from Maddy Grainger (So., F, Salt Lake City, UT/West HS) to score the goal. Grainger has three assists this season.
Senior Alex Batzer (F, Medford, OR/North Medford HS) added a second goal for Willamette in the 81st minute. Batzer was assisted by Elena Johansen (So., D, Salem, OR/South Salem HS) on the play. The goal was Batzer's fourth of the season.
Senior goalkeeper Kelli Gano (Portland, OR/Cleveland HS) earned the shutout in goal for WU. She made one save in the game as she earned her second shutout of the season.
The Bearcats attempted 10 shots in the game with five shots being on goal. Willamette controlled the ball for most of the game and limited PLU to just two shot attempts, one of those on goal.
Willamette is back in action on Wednesday, Oct. 13 at home against Linfield College. The game will begin at 5 p.m. (PDT) at Sparks Field.
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