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By Nicholas Haslam
Knopf, $30, 338 pages, illus.
This is one of those books that comes to us across the Atlantic trailing clouds of glory in the form of over-the-top blurbs. Two otherwise sensible critics who should know better are unwise enough to use the term Proustian and one of them even goes on to say it is a masterpiece — after acknowledging that it is an overused word. In the end, puffs like this are counterproductive, because readers opening this book in search of a Proustian masterpiece are inevitably going to be disappointed. Although it is true that those who knew Proust personally were astonished to the point of disbelief that someone as seemingly trivial and shallow could in fact produce the true literary masterpiece that came from his pen.
To his credit, British interior designer Nicholas Haslam, renowned on both sides of the Atlantic for his work, makes no extravagant claims as a litterateur and is content to tell his story of life among the rich, famous and beautiful with charm and always con brio. Rather than producing a latter-day "Remembrance of Things Past," he provides huge gobs of gossipy Proustian raw material, served up undigested and untransmogrified into anything but what it is.
Taken for what it actually is, though, and in the right spirit, "Redeeming Features" can be enormous fun for readers, as Mr. Haslam whisks them through his 70 years among a group of, it must be admitted, uncommonly interesting people. His background is privileged: he grew up in a splendid English country house and went to that most prestigious of schools, Eton, where he embarked on a life of what would later become known as networking. His mother, a member of a distinguished English aristocratic family, a granddaughter of an earl and a god-daughter of Queen Victoria, provided all manner of connections, as did his diplomat father, an associate of John Maynard Keynes and a cousin of Jorge Luis Borges.
But the fascinating thing about Mr. Haslam is precisely this combination of the expected and surprising. It's not surprising that Diana Princess of Wales is a cousin, but Borges? And actress Jane Asher? Then, it turns out that before marrying his father and producing three sons of whom Nicholas is the youngest, his mother, the impeccably aristocratic Diana aka Diamond Ponsonby had taken herself off to America, plunged into the circle surrounding Fanny Brice and married a Jewish doctor in New York. Thus, when Mr. Haslam becomes a New Yorker, he finds himself with an American half-sister, Ann Loeb, married to the heir to the Brillo pad fortune. Not your everyday pack of English aristocratic connections.
So when, on his first visit to New York with his mother when in his mid-teens and still at Eton, his good looks get him swept up by an admirer into the world of Tallulah Bankhead, it turns out she had known his mother: "Remember her? Dahling of course I do. With Fanny Brice, dahling. Diamond something. Beautiful English girl with the deep voice." If Tallulah thought his mother had a deep voice, what must it have sounded like? Basso profundo? But it's not actually his mother's connections that launch him on his life of socializing, unless you count her genes. He does that all on his own, partly because he seems — by his own account but also by the undoubted receptivity of others — to have been very attractive to both sexes.
In "Redeeming Features," Mr. Haslam shares decade after decade of vignettes about all manner of celebrities, starting with the great figures he worked for in the fashion world like the legendary Diana Vreeland. Then its dinners a deux with an aging and stricken Cole Porter, a touching account of his legendary charm when it can manage to triumph over terrible pain from a leg injury.
Lunch with a vivacious Queen Mother Elizabeth at her Scottish castle vies with a portrait of her older daughter the queen joyously celebrating at a family party the night of Charles' wedding to Diana. He has closer connections still to Princess Margaret. And encountering her on the day that the Duchess of Windsor had died — just the kind of happenstance that is a feature of his life — the Princess drops the revealing remark about the woman who had stolen her uncle King Edward VIII: "It wasn't her we hated, it was him."
There's an indelible and fond portrait of the Duchess herself, in her element at lunch at The Colony in New York and at a soiree shortly thereafter. He also purveys an example of her wit, less well known than some and of particular piquancy to him. Hearing her husband correct a visitor (none other than Gen. Charles de Gaulle) referring to his niece by her childhood name of Princess Margaret Rose by saying that she has dropped the Rose, "the duchess's usual drawl became a whiplash. 'She's dropped the Rose and picked up the pansy.'"
Sometimes his stories do have a nasty sting to them, but often they are simply uniquely revealing. Visiting the burial site of the Duke and Duchess of Windsor at Frogmore in the grounds of Windsor Castle in the company of his enduringly close friend, Lady Diana Cooper, who had known them well, he reports what is really a very interesting and informed judgment:
"It was touch-and-go for a long time. A lot of people wanted his plan to work, but she never let you feel she thought about it at all. … In many ways she was good for him. She made him read papers, meet ministers, keep appointments, which he dreaded. Even used to force him to make regular visits to Queen Mary, which he dreaded even more. It's always seemed odd to me that she, in every way so levelheaded, couldn't make him see the impossibility of it, in the end."
Nicholas Haslam may have been dedicatedly frivolous, but his book nonetheless contains some really valuable bits of the raw material of history. Considering the company he kept, how could it not?
• Martin Rubin is a writer and critic in Pasadena, Calif.


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God can not exist.
All of existence is contained in a super-dimensional field which is lethal to all Gods. This field – known as the Deity Obliteration Field – is undetectable to humans and any instrument humans have ever devised. It cannot be seen, felt or detected in any way and it is lethal to any God of any kind and Gods are the only conceivable beings that could posses the ability to perceive this field. It is especially lethal to any Gods that have the property of omnipotence or omniscience. Nothing – including Gods – can exist without this field – it is the prime requirement for anything at all to have the property of existing.
By definition, the moment a God starts to exist, its existence is summarily ended due to the Deity Obliteration Field.
Unless one can prove that the ODF does not exist, no God can exist by definition. If one is able to prove that the ODF does not exist, that same proof will be applied to the claim of any God existing thereby automatically proving that that God does not exist.
It therefore follows that either the existence of the ODF can be proven or it can't be proven but it in either case no God can exist.
God does not exist.
The question is a serious one. I would love for a Christian – Catholic preferably – to explain to me what precisely their god is good for.
What's your god good for anyway?
Make a list. All the things god might be good for. I can imagine what a number of things in that list might be.
I started considering this after I saw something on TV last night, which started a train of thought. Let me get to the point. I would like to understand what Christians do in their heads to make what is clearly an untenable, indefensible situation acceptable and defensible.
The situation I am referring to is the abject apathy from the deity which Christians label as 'all loving' and 'all good' and 'all powerful'. I realise that any given number of Christians will come up with a similar number of apologies on behalf of their deity, to justify the disturbing lack of action on its part but even unreasonable people have to draw the line at some point.
What I can't wrap my head around is how, on god's green earth, does anybody justify the abject apathy from their deity when it comes to the rape and abuse – on an absolutely epic scale – committed by priests in the Catholic church against children.
People might not appreciate what I mean by 'an absolutely epic scale' so let me clarify that phrase for you. What I mean by 'epic scale' is this:
The report stated there were approximately 10,667 reported victims (younger than 18 years) of clergy sexual abuse between 1950 and 2002:
- Around 81% of these victims were male.
- Female victims of sexual abuse by Catholic priests tended to be younger than the males. Data analyzed by John Jay researchers, shows that the number and proportion of sexual misconduct directed at girls under 8 years old was higher than that experienced by boys the same age.
- 22.6% were age 10 or younger, 51% were between the ages of 11 and 14, and 27% were between the ages to 15 to 17 years.
- A substantial number (almost 2000) of very young children were victimized by priests during this time period.
- 9,281 victim surveys had information about an investigation. In 6,696 (72%) cases, an investigation of the allegation was carried out. Of these, 4,570 (80%) were substantiated; 1,028 (18%) were unsubstantiated; 83 (1.5%) were found to be false. In 56 cases, priests were reported to deny the allegations.
- More than 10 percent of these allegations were characterized as not substantiated because diocese or order could not determine whether the alleged abuse actually took place.
- For approximately 20 percent of the allegations, the priest was deceased or inactive at the time of the receipt of the allegation and typically no investigation was conducted in these circumstances.
- In 38.4% of allegations, the abuse is alleged to have occurred within a single year, in 21.8% the alleged abuse lasted more than a year but less than 2 years, in 28% between 2 and 4 years, in 10.2% between 5 and 9 years and, in under 1%, 10 or more years.
Consider that for a minute. Then thousand victims. All younger than 18 years old. In 52 years. By only Catholic priests and in America alone. The Catholic church has been around for nigh on two thousand years and we know pretty damn well that for a thousand of those years – we call them the dark ages – some pretty heinous things were done in the name of that particular religion.
But wait, there's more:
The Associated Press estimated the settlements of sex abuse cases from 1950 to 2007 totaled more than $2 billion. BishopAccountability puts the figure at more than $3 billion in 2012.
The Catholic church has, in the United States of America alone paid three billion dollars in settlements in 57 years for child abuse committed by its priests.
Let me sum up the problem that I'm having trouble wrapping my head around. You're a Christian, a Catholic perhaps. You say things like 'god is good', 'god is great', 'god is love', 'god is all powerful' and 'all things are possible in god' while every second day of every year a priest in the service of that god is literally raping a different child in America. Let me put that another way. In 52 years there have been – according to one report – 10,667 different victims. Reported victims. That's not counting all the possible victims, of which I'm sure there are many more. If each victim was molested by a priest just twice – and to be blunt, a significant percentage of victim suffered over many years – it means that every day of every year and twice on weekends for the last 50 years a child was molested by a representative of the almighty creator of the universe in America alone. While this god watches. And does nothing.
Can you even begin to appreciate the scale of the horror? Could you sit idle and do nothing as little children beg you for help, to be saved from abuse, molestation, anal rape, every day of every week of every year for decades and decades? Could you even have a response of pure apathy?
So I ask Christians, if your god cannot – or will not – stop the rampant abuse and rape of innocent children on a truly gigantic scale in his own organisation, what precisely is that god good for?
To paraphrase a cogent meme:
If I could stop a person from raping a child, I would. That is the difference between me and your god.
God can be a real bastard when he wants to be. If we were to allow – for the sake of argument obviously – that the Christian God of the Bible exists, then we have to admit that a lot of the time He is an absolute bastard.
God's plan is mysterious right? Poor humans just don't get it. Whatever Gods plan is, it's good and just and human beings just can't understand it. Right? Right.
Start the hoop jumping and twisting so long and have a go at explaining this delightful part of the 'divine' plan:
Pastor Infects Boy, 14, With HIV
The pastor was said to have used some games on his laptop and mobile phone to entice the boy, after which he lured him into his bedroom where he had unprotected sex with him.
The father later realized that his son frequently fell ill after he had returned from the pastor's house. The man sent his son to the hospital and after a series of medical tests, it was confirmed that the boy was HIV positive.
The parent were tested too by the same medical facility and were found to be negative, raising fears that the victim might have been infected by the 'man of God', especially after he mentioned to his parent that he had been sodomized five times by the pastor.
So, help me out here since I'm having a hard time reconciling 'good', 'loving', 'God' and that story.
A man who represents God on earth, lures a child into his room where that man anally rapes the child – while God watches – and infects the child with HIV. Unless the parents of that child have some means, he's not going to get the anti retrovirals he's now going to need to survive until he's 20.
I wonder of the good Lord provided the parents with enough money for anti retrovirals? I wonder if the child prayed to God to save him from the man ripping his anus apart?
Let's say he did pray to God to stop the horror. God watches a man rape a child (maybe repeatedly) who begs to be saved and God's response is: "No, fuck you, I'm trying to teach you something. Have some AIDS with that".
That's a bastard move in anybody's book. Can a Christian or two do me a favour. Ask Jesus what the plan is with AIDS infected children since I can't come up with a satisfactory reason to include the rape, suffering and murder of innocent children in any plan. I especially have a hard time with starving kids to death, with raping kids to death and with infecting kids with diseases that slowly kill them over years while suffering in the most terrible ways.
God doesn't exist and people disgust me.
And that, is the goddamn truth.
Matthew 19:14 But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
Matthew 6:26 Behold the fowls of the air: for they sow not, neither do they reap, nor gather into barns; yet your heavenly Father feedeth them. Are ye not much better than they?
Matthew 19:14 But Jesus said, Suffer little children, and forbid them not, to come unto me: for of such is the kingdom of heaven.
From the picture it looks to me like the heavenly father is certainly helping a fowl of the air to get a meal. I guess the bit that says "Suffer the little children" was meant literally.
… just isn't what it used to be.
Think about it. Just freaking think about it.
Love? Show me it.

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Dia Mirza and Sanjay Gupta : Just friends or more?
07th Aug 2006 18.30 IST
By Nikhil Kumar
Actress Dia Mirza and filmmaker Sanjay Gupta have been getting along very well, of late.
It is better to be discreet than to jump to fancy conclusions. But the fact remains that Dia and Sanjay have been "very good friends" for some time now.
Dia was catching much attention at a party recently held at Gupta's swanky Versova villa for the launch of his latest production Shootout At Lokhandwala .
The film, to be directed by Apoorva Lakhia , has Dia playing the role of a journalist.
Interestingly, Apoorva and Dia have been linked in the past. On the other hand, Gupta has been linked with actresses like Anupama Verma and Sameera Reddy .
'Shootout At Lokhandwala' is inspired from a real life incident of shootout between gangsters and cops in Mumbai's Lokhandwala complex. Dia's role is based on real-life journalist Minty Tejpal, who covered the incident in 1992. Although Minty was a male, Gupta changed the character to a female journalist to have some "feminine glamour" in the predominantly male star cast.
Shooting for the movie began on August 1. The movie's other stars Vivek Oberoi and Neha Dhupia were also present at the late-night party at Gupta's villa last week.
Dia was spotted yapping away continuously with Gupta. She even cajoled Gupta's nephew and rocked the little boy to sleep.
There has been no formal confirmation of the relationship by either Dia or Gupta. Both have said on previous occasions that they are "very good friends". Sources close to Gupta prefer to keep mum about the subject, leading to the speculation that something more may be cooking between the actress and the filmmaker.
By the way, Dia will also act in two more films by Gupta.
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Long-Term Planning Should Temper Transportation Hub Efforts / Meeting to Address Avoiding Congestion Beyong Usefulness
Case, Patti, THE JOURNAL RECORD
"Hubs that experience congestion problems are those that experience more commerce," McCaleb said. "The big question is:
"How do we handle that kind of volume and still make it functional?"
That issue will be addressed Nov. 17 in "Transportation 2020," a meeting to be co-hosted in Oklahoma City by the Oklahoma Department of Transportation, which McCaleb heads, and two other groups: the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials and the Highway Users Federation.
The public forum will take testimony from system users - particularly highway users - on their proposals for transportation strategies into the year 2020.
Such events are being staged all over the country, he said, as an effort to anticipate tranportation needs for the coming three decades - before they become impossible to deal with.
He pointed out that tributaries in the nation already are showing signs of problems:
- Tragedies have occured on the Los Angeles expressway system during rush hour, as enraged motorists have opened fire on other commuters.
- Airports function in shoulder-to-shoulder conditions as traffic converges on commercial centers. At the least, the congestion results in increasing numbers of delays. At worst, it presents serious safety hazards as near-miss collision reports climb.
"Oklahoma City has not earned that nefarious notariety," McCaleb said. "I hope we never do. That is the reason we are spending the money planning the expansion we are - which will include toll roads, as well as rail base transit - to avoid slamming into that kind of a brick wall 20 years from now."
McCaleb expects considerable comment on two basic areas in the state-wide forum in November: methods of financing and transportation alternatives.
Financing - Toll roads will probably become more popular now that the national transportation system is functioning in the "after the interstate" era, McCaleb said.
"The advantage is that we can sell bonds - borrow the money, if you will, to build the road at once - and have the highway operational in four years. It is then paid for exclusively by the people who use it. If it is not convenient to you, you won't use it, and therefore you don't have to foot the bill for it."
Another funding idea which will probably be discussed is a proposal to return a greater portion of the federal gas taxes collected locally to the state.
Right now, he said, a 25-cent tax, which goes for highway use, is levied on gas in this state. Eight cents of that tax goes to the federal highway trust fund for maintenance and reconstruction of the interstate highway system, and one cent goes to the urban mass transit system. The remainder - 16 cents - funds state highway needs.
But of the federal funds, only about 85 percent of the money returns to the state in the form of maintenance and reconstruction of the interstate highways within Oklahoma's borders. …


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NIAGARA FALLS, Ontario (AP) - A tour boat company that has ferried sightseers to the base of Niagara Falls from the Canadian shore for more than 100 years says the company may soon come to an end.
Christopher Glynn, president of Maid of the Mist Steamboat Co., cast doubts as to whether the company would continue operating this year and into 2014 after learning that the land lease for the tours had been awarded to another company.
He said that Maid of the Mist Steamboat Co. was assessing its position.
The Niagara Parks Commission on Wednesday announced that Hornblower Canada Co. was awarded the lease and the change would take effect in 2014. It was not immediately known how the change would affect operations on the American side of the falls, which operates under separate contract.


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Jim Scott, a kidney transplant recipient walks his dog, Gidget, near his home in Angola By The Bay near Lewes. Scott will be one of 500 supporters expected to participate in the fifth annual Southern Delaware Kidney Walk at Cape Henlopen State Park April 14, hosted by the National Kidney Foundation of Maryland.
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March 31 is not Jim Scott's birthday, but he considers it to be his second one.
It was that date, 14 years ago, when he got a call letting him know a new kidney, and a new lease on life, was available for him. At age 29, he found out after not feeling well for nearly a year that his kidneys were functioning at 10 percent and he was put on dialysis immediately.
Today, thanks to the transplant - the donor was a cadaveric 14-year-old boy, believed to have been killed in a car crash - Scott leads a normal life in Lewes. And as soon as the morning after the procedure, he said he felt great again. ...


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Paul Rolly: A Utah, BYU, USU rivalry you've never heard of
Any Utahn who pays attention knows the fierce battle lines drawn among the state's major universities in sports, especially football and basketball. Utah and BYU have taken turns being dominant, with Utah State getting in its licks at times.
Other sports such as volleyball, gymnastics and baseball sometimes have grabbed the spotlight. The ski team often has put the Utes on the map. For Brigham Young University, it's often distance running.
Millions are spent on college sports. Football and basketball coaches rank among the highest-paid employees of their respective schools.
For fans, some games are momentous experiences, depending on the outcomes and, particularly when Utah faces BYU, it can get downright ugly.
But there is another competition forged annually among Utah, BYU, and USU that I would wager you have never heard of.
Among the participants, it's just as fierce, just as passionate. And as a flaming Ute fanatic who bleeds deep crimson, I have to tip my hat to the Cougars. They usually dominate this competition.
So what is it?
It's Latin.
Unlike the millions spent on big-time sports, this competition gets a small endowment from a sports fan who also loves the classics. The winners get small cash prizes and their feats are just as admirable, except they're using brain, not brawn.
The 15-year-old contest is run by Margaret Toscano, associate professor of classics at the U.
The students translate a chosen passage in classic Latin into English. They are judged on how tightly they can translate and how well they comprehend the context. Because there are so many more words in English than Latin, creativity and subjectivity are required.
Of the 200 or so competitors this year, BYU had about 100, while Utah and Utah State had about 50 each.
Because BYU has more resources than the taxpayer-funded schools, its Latin students meet five days a week, while the students at Utah and USU meet four days a week. At the end of two years, Toscano said, that's the equivalent of an extra semester.
So without further ado, here are the 2014 winners in the Nick A. Yengich Latin Competition:
Level I (first-year students) first, Tyler Paskett, Utah, ($150 prize); second, Coral Roper, BYU, ($100); third, Matthew Dewsnup, BYU, ($75); fourth, Cassandra Ball, BYU, (honorable mentions, Sierra Davis, BYU, and Lindsey Stewart, Utah.
Level II (advanced students) first, Nozomu Okuda, BYU, ($150); second, Catherine Daun, BYU, ($100), third, David Youd, USU, ($75); fourth, Benjamin Davis, Utah ($50); honorable mentions, Jordan Pueblo, BYU, and Patrick Merkle, BYU.


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Belgium coach Marc Wilmots on Friday told his players that they can "write history" in Saturday's FIFA World Cup™ quarter-final against Argentina in Brasilia by going on the attack. Belgium last reached the semi-finals in 1986, when they lost to Diego Maradona's Argentina, and with the last four now in sight, Wilmots has urged his players not to be inhibited by the occasion.
"We've studied their tactics and we'll stick to our style. We won't just defend," said the former Belgium midfielder, who played at three World Cups. "We play compact football and we don't leave a lot of space. We have to attack and defend together.
"It's all a matter of balance between attack and defence, but it's a quarter-final. We can write history. The players know this and we're going to play our own game."
Wilmots is also anxious for his players not to become fixated with the threat posed by Argentina's star man Lionel Messi. Messi has scored four and created two of the seven goals that Argentina have scored at the tournament so far and set up Angel Di Maria for their extra-time winner against Switzerland in the last 16.
However, Switzerland coach Ottmar Hitzfeld said that it was wrong to consider Argentina a one-man team, and Wilmots concurs. "I think Ottmar Hitzfeld is right," he told a press conference at the Mane Garrincha National Stadium.
"People tend to focus on Messi, and rightly so, but this morning I watched the Argentina-Switzerland match and the team is not just Lionel Messi. It's a whole. You have to reach a balance. At some points they left a few scoring opportunities for Switzerland, so things can change very quickly."


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Sandi Scannelli, president and CEO of the Community Foundation of Brevard, and Teresa McNeight support Sally's House at a 2012 luncheon.
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It's Dec. 29, do you know where your resolutions are?
If not, here's a suggestion: This year, instead of resolving to lose weight, exercise or eat your veggies, why not plan to get involved in your community.
Don't get me wrong. All the healthy-living stuff has its benefits, but, often, those resolutions are broken faster than the batteries go dead in a child's Christmas toy. ...


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Music and art mash-up at O'Hare & Midway airports
Chicago's O'Hare and Midway airports are participating in the city-wide Chicago Artists Month 2012 celebration with airport events that match music groups with artists.
Performances on tap for today (Friday, October 19th) from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. in O'Hare include the Breezy Rodio Duo playing reggae while artist Kenneth Amorio creates oil paintings. At Midway, artist Quinton Foreman will create art while Chicago Samba plays music.
Look for the Artist Month stages at O'Hare in Terminal 1 on the lower level baggage claim area near Ciao's concession, in Terminal 2 past security next to Wicker Park Seafood and Sushi Bar and in Terminal 3 past security near the entrance to Concourse L. The stage in International Terminal 5 is on the lower level meeter/greeter area next to the gift store.
At Midway, the stage is in the lower level baggage claim area next to the information booth.
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Game: "Is she really pregnant"? ***UPDATE PG54***
Better yet give me her number... Ill call!
We have had our bbc creepers, and weirdos. But I've always thought WHAT THE HELL!?!
Sheez. So weird.
Mama Jo and Fatty are expecting another beautiful baby girl!
Yes, there is a serious disorder regarding this type of thing. I linked to it earlier.
DD1 8yrs DD2 5yrs DS1 3yrs DS2 born 1/20/13
Me & Him <3
Will always love my little angel... ^i^ (1/2012)
Knowing her she's probably out to dinner or at her mother's right now. Her bf should be home soon so I know I won't hear from here tonight.
Mama Jo and Fatty are expecting another beautiful baby girl!
my aunt pulled this about 3yrs ago she was 48 at the time had had multiple miscarriages and came around swearing she was pregnant with twins well long story short she supposedly "lost them" at 7 months gestation in a hospital out of town but oddly she NEVER showed at all, and had no documentation to back her up she is dead now and we actually got ahold of her medical records turns out she made it all up she went through menopause in her mid thirties is what her records said, Sad when women lie about pregnancy I mean eventually youll have to have the baby so the lie couldn't last forever. My aunt did it trying to hold onto a man but your moms friend just sounds like shes jealous and wants to be pregnant.
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^^ Not really. She'd be due at the beginning of January! Unless by "popped" you mean is showing, and again still doesn't mean she'd be showing depending on her body type!
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David P. Manuel, chancellor of Louisiana State University at Alexandria since June 2008, has accepted a position as president of Drury University in Ohio. He will start there in June 2013.
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When Louisiana State University at Alexandria Chancellor David Manuel decided recently to take a job out of state, he joined a growing list of top Louisiana university officials who are saying goodbye.
Manuel in June 2013 will become chancellor of private Drury University in Springfield, Mo. He's going to a college that's 140 years old and rakes in accolades -- ranked 11th by U.S. News and World Report for colleges in the Midwest, Kiplinger's Personal Finance's best value private university, to name but two.
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Amazon, Visa drag on Wall StreetComment on this story
New York - Disappointing earnings from Amazon and Visa dragged US stocks lower on Friday in a broad selloff led by consumer discretionary shares.
Amazon tumbled 10.7 percent to $320.11 after reporting an unexpectedly big loss for the second quarter, citing greater expenses on investments.
With more than 7 million shares traded in the first 45 minutes of action, volume was already above the average for the past 10 days.
"Earnings have been the driving force of this market all week. We had a series of good reports but Amazon in particular was a disappointment and has led to some profit taking," said Rick Meckler, president of investment firm LibertyView Capital Management in Jersey City, New Jersey.
Amazon dragged on the consumer discretionary sector , which lost 0.9 percent.
Visa was the largest decliner on the Dow industrials with a 4.5 percent drop to $212.63 after the world's largest credit and debit card company cut its revenue forecast for the year.
The blue-chip index was down 100 points, and Visa - the costliest stock in the price-weighted index - accounted for 66 percent of the drop.
The Dow Jones industrial average fell 104.58 points or 0.61 percent, to 16,979.22, the S&P 500 lost 6.24 points or 0.31 percent, to 1,981.74 and the Nasdaq Composite dropped 17.86 points or 0.4 percent, to 4,454.25.
Starbucks fell 1.9 percent to $78.94 even as quarterly sales at established stores in its Americas region grew a stronger-than-expected 6 percent.
Orders for long-lasting US manufactured goods rose more than expected in June, supporting expectations of a strong economic rebound in the second quarter.
The S&P 500 closed Thursday at a record high and was within 0.5 percent of hitting 2,000.
Pandora Media dropped 13 percent to $24.91 after it forecast adjusted profit below analysts' estimates for the current quarter.
On the upside, Baidu shares surged 7.7 percent to $220.00 after China's biggest Internet search company blew past Wall Street's targets with a 34.1 percent jump in quarterly net profit, helped by a surge in mobile revenue. - Reuters
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Jeremy and Claire Jungling of Brandon launched A Climb for Hope in an effort to raise $20,000 for LiveStrong.
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June 1 marked a big day in the lives of Jeremy and Claire Jungling.
"Today begins an exciting journey for us as we are embarking on an effort to raise funds and awareness for an organization that has become very meaningful to us," the husband and wife from Brandon posted on Facebook.
"In February 2014, we will travel to Tanzania to climb Mt. Kilimanjaro, the tallest mountain in Africa. We will climb with the Survivor Summit Foundation for the benefit of LiveStrong. Our goal is to raise $20,000 in support of their free services and assistance to those affected by cancer."
Amidst the Lance Armstrong doping scandal and the misperception that LiveStrong only caters to cancer research, the Junglings are working to shed light on the foundation and its whole mission - "To support those dealing with cancer today and those who will be dealing with cancer tomorrow."
The Junglings know the domino effect of cancer all too well. Last summer, at age 38, Jeremy Jungling was diagnosed with colon cancer. He has since undergone surgery and chemotherapy, setting personal records in a 5K and a marathon while in treatment. A CT scan taken a month and half ago showed no signs of cancer.
"He's cancer free!" Claire Jungling exclaimed.
"Right now I have no evidence of cancer," Jeremy Jungling said. "The studies say if you can make it past five years, there's a good chance it won't come back.
The Junglings have raised $1,160 thus far, and continue to spread the word via Facebook, Twitter and on their own LiveStrong webpage. At StinkyFeet Athletics in Flowood last month, Claire Jungling manned a table with information about A Climb for Hope - the first of several events and opportunities over the next few months. StinkyFeet donated 10 percent of its profits that day to the Junglings' cause. StinkyFeet will again donate to A Climb for Hope during its monthly $5 for 5K run July 18 at 6:30 p.m. The run starts outside Genghis Grill at Dogwood Festival Market.
Earlier this year, the Insane Need For Speed Training Group, which includes beginner and experienced runners, cyclists and triathletes from the metro area, designated one of its regular Saturday morning runs as "Jeremy Jungling Day" and made a 22-mile double loop around Pelahatchie to promote colon cancer awareness.
"Claire and I have talked about how this whole thing has been more of blessing than a curse," Jeremy Jungling said. "Through this, we were led to do something to help people."


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Mercury Series (MG)
The Mercury Series replaced the KC series in 1992. They are Strat-style instruments with a variety of features. The MG series took place between 1993-1996 and was Grover Jackson's invention while he was in charge of the Washburn Custom shop. The Mercury I series were produced from 1992-1993 and the Mercury IIs were produced from 1994-1996. The USA configurations of the Merucry I series are considered very high end instruments with advances such as the Wilkinson tremolo and direct-mounted pickups.
Most of the Mercury IIs were imports except for the USA MG900 Viper and the Steve Salas signature (which also had an import version). The Mercury I series had "chunkier" necks when compared to the Mercury IIs. The series was discontinued when Grover Jackson left Washburn in 1996.
The main visual differences between the imports and USA versions:
-Imports had the "W" symbol on the pickups and also did not say "USA" on the headstock. The USA MGs also had the custom shop neckplace with an eagle visible.
Early Imports
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Below is Jennifer Batten (of Michael Jackson) playing her custom MG113 performer from 1996.
Steve Salas Signature
There was an import and USA version of the Steve Salas signature. It was also known as the MG-133 -- The USA version of the Salas sig is the only set-neck MG model known.
The Viper -- a.k.a MG-900
Below is a pic of the "Venom"
Below are pics of the "Viper"
Notice the similarities. The Viper is definitely a "Mystery Guitar" so to speak. Some claim is was made for Vinny Vincent, others say Joe Perry, and other say it was just a custom ordered guitar. Under the Washburn 1995 archives, the "Viper" is listed with no specs and an MSRP of $5,000 -- the perfect brew to create hysteria and confusion.
In the catalog photo, we see that the particular guitar is name the "Venom" and not the "Viper." The Venom is a custom ordered guitar for Joe Perry (of Aerosmith) and had an ebony fretboard with real mother of pearl dueling snake inlays. It also features a yellow quilted maple top.
The "Viper" is supposedly little sister of the Venom. Hence, Viper of Venom. The specs look identical to the Venom except it doesn't have the dueling snake inlays. There are supposedly 60 of these made -- some of them signed by Grover Jackson.
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Schubert and the Symphony
A New Perspective
Brian Newbould
Symphonic Studies No. 1 (ISSN 0966-0178)
ISBN: 978-0-907689-26-3 – Hardback
ISBN: 978-0-907689-27-0 – Paperback
Extent: 317 pages
Size: 14.7 x 22.3 x 3.1 cm
Weight: 0.59 kg
Published: May 1992
Composition: Demy octavo ~ Illustrated ~ numerous appendices ~ Bibliography ~ Index
Illustrations: 10 b/w; 101 music exx.
Schubert and the Symphony is the first full-length study of Schubert's career as a symphonist: astonishingly, his Symphonies have never received the detailed study in print that their prominence in the orchestral repertoire would suggest they deserve. In this book Professor Brian Newbould, perhaps the best-known of contemporary Schubert scholars, examines each Symphony for its individuality and shows its relationship to Schubert's symphonic oeuvre. He gives particular attention to the sketched works that have recently emerged in his own completions – not least the visionary Tenth Symphony – and to the two familiar masterpieces of Schubert's maturity, the 'Unfinished' and the 'Great C major'. He also casts new light on the role of Haydn and Mozart as models for the younger Schubert.
Schubert and the Symphony, which is profusely illustrated with music examples, is conceived as a companion to the Symphonies for the listener, the professional musician and the student. A full-scale, detailed study of Schubert as a symphonist was long overdue; this book fills that gap.
a model of urbane, questing scholarship
The Sunday Telegraph
combines a commonsense view of this remarkable oeuvre with a total command of its intricacies
The Musical Times
succinct, sensible and incisive, this is by far the best study of the Schubert symphonies to date
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Posted on: November 8, 2008 2:56 am
I have been saying saying way before the season started Crabtree is the best player in college football and I am a die hard Longhorn fan. It really hurt to the core to see him score in the last seconds last weekend but even after the horrible tackling that was displayed in order for him to score, I have to give him his props. This guy is ready for the big time. They keep talking about his QB and McCoy as front runners for the heisman, but lets get thing straight, Micheal Crabtree is the best of the best. He deservers the Heisman no doubt. An ex QB in high school you can see his knowledge of the game and not to mention is top notch athletic ability. The QB's have the ball in their hand every play, it would be interesting to see how many touches and what he has done when he has made catches or ran. I just see it as it is. He's the best player no doubt. What do you think?
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They seem to be able to make me hate Regina even MORE now than I did at the beginning of the show. To see that somewhere in there, there might be a sliver of something positive and then, WHAM, nope, just kidding! She really is an evil bitch. I was astounded when she told Henry of her plans, like, what was she thinking?
I thought this episode took a much needed break from all the infighting and war prep to delve deeper into how so much has changed from the start. Back at the beginning, but so far from it. I was also hopeful that Rick could convince Morgan to go with them, but it is not for him yet. You can easily see how anyone who has lost people to the virus or to the walkers could slip into insanity and perhaps not even notice.
I loved this episode, it may very well be my favorite episode ever. Reese kicking so much ass all over the place and the super hilarious one-liners. Good to see Harold out of the apartment. There is so much going on, I can't wait for the next episode!
As a kid, riding my bike down the street, I never shouted "PERVERTS"!! LOL Ellie Mae still gets on my last nerve, but doesn't rub so hard. So, maybe I am coming around to liking her. I also loved and laughed when Tim told Raylan "Hey, he;s stealing your bit." Good times. I love Boyd, I love his speeches. He can just walk in, start talking and everyone listens. The sister definitely didn't like where he pushed Billy and that is gold. Next week looks promising!
I almost had a heart attack while Lana was leaving Briarcliff. I wanted her to SPRINT out of there! GO WOMAN GO!! But then, showing Thredson the tape and flipping him off was awesome. AND THEN she showed up at his home. Did not see that coming. Glad she took care of him, he totally creeped me out. Good going Zachary, now when I watch Star Trek I will look at Spock a whole new way.
I did NOT see that end coming at all. One of the many reasons I love Justified is the surprises. Whether it be a surprise casting (Oswald) or surprise shootings or surprise jokes, it is all always good.
I flipping loved that coat! it does indeed reek of "adorkable" and that IS Jess! HELLO! Anyone actually watching this show? Sheesh. And, I thought Schmidt's Christmas rant was quite hilarious. Nothing racist about it. It was a joke. Overall, I thought this was a very cute episode and I loved it when Jess couldn't get out of the party due to the insane amount of floor to ceiling windows in that house.
4 months with no Billy Burke??!! Shame on you NBC.
I loved this week's episode! I am really beginning to adore Miles, but I do agree that the confrontation was not what I expected. I can only hope there was a good reason for it besides showing us again what a sleazeball Bass is. Charlie is growing on me. At first, she was a little too doe-eyed for me, but now she is getting a bit of a backbone that lasts the whole episode.
Not as much Mr. Gold as I prefer, but what can you do? Mulan is getting on my very last nerve. We get it. You are protecting Aurora. I sorta wish Snow would have shoved that arrow in her throat. Maybe later. I do agree that Cora would not need Hook to get Aurora's heart. She is like a heart hoarder. The netherworld scene with Snow and Charming was so sweet, a high point of the episode for sure.


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Get rid of the thimble.
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PROKOFIEV: Cinderella ballet (2003/2008)
Published on February 7, 2009
PROKOFIEV: Cinderella ballet (2003/2008)
Performers: Soloists/ Zurich Ballet/ Zurich Opera House Orch./ Vladimir Fedoseyev
Studio: BelAir Classiques BAC202 [Distr. by Naxos]
Video: 16:9 widescreen color
Audio: DD 5.1; DTS 5.1; PCM stereo
No region coding
Length: 105 minutes
Rating: ****
Prokofiev composed Cinderella during the peak war years 1940-1944. It was commissioned by the Kirov Ballet as a direct result of the successful Russian premiere of his Romeo and Juliet but had its premiere 21 Nov. 1945 at the Bolshoi Theater, Moscow. It was on 22 June 1941 while Prokofiev was laboring on the piano score of Cinderella's second act in the countryside near Moscow when he heard of the Nazi invasion of Russia. The ballet was laid aside for nearly two years during which he concentrated on the composition of his huge opera War and Peace. This may explain some of the distracted nature of the Cinderella score which to my ear sounds not only light – as it is sometimes called – but slightly disinterested.
The tenuous relationship between composers and the Stalin regime during the dark era of purges and show trials might also explain the music's relative timidity. Prokofiev's score for Romeo and Juliet originally featured a happy ending but was never publicly mounted as the climate of fear increased amongst musical and theatrical circles. Following two extremely notorious Pravda editorials attacking Dmitri Shostakovich and the other "degenerate" modernists a climate of fear engulfed artists in the Soviet union. The editorials were in response to Shostakovich's controversial opera "Lady Macbeth of the Mtsensk District" which Stalin reportedly had seen and hated. No doubt Macbeth's well known plot concerning a tyrant's murderous rise to power invested the title with a little too much symbolic power. The opera was condemned as being formalist, coarse, artistically primitive and vulgar. From then on confusion reigned as fear of being permanently silenced for making an incorrect artistic statement swept the Russian intelligentsia.
This performance of the ballet features splendid dancing and some astonishingly beautiful costumes and lovely sets. With male dancers appearing as the Wicked Stepmother and the two Stepsisters the comedy is broad and earthy. Karine Seneca is a stately Cinderella although perhaps a little old for the role. Stanislav Jermakov dances Frederic the Prince and is an elegant monarch. All of the dancers are quite good with the Corps de Ballet exhibiting splendid technique, making each scene a pleasure to watch. The choreography by Heinz Spoerli is conservative but effective with no movements that detract from the ballet's dramatic presentation. Movements are always facile and graceful, allowing for a stately naturalness that is always present. The music as performed by the Zurich Opera House Orchestra is well played and makes for a lively and classy accompaniment. Whatever the limitations of the ballet as composed this performance is never less than entertaining and professional.
The sound is clear and well focused with the strings especially exhibiting a warm, silky sheen. Woodwinds seem to float above the orchestra which heightens the power of those passages where Prokofiev uses them to propel both narrative and characterizations forward. PCM stereo sounds slightly richer and more robust than either DD 5.1 or DTS 5.1.
— Mike Birman
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Several companies have pulled campaigns from social network Facebook after their ads started appearing next to offensive photos and posts.
The Financial Times reports Nissan and U.K.-based Nationwide are among the firms that yanked ads from Facebook after they showed up next to misogynistic content.
Nissan spokesperson David Reuter says ads serving the U.K. version of Facebook have been halted, and the automaker is working with Facebook to opt out of placing ads globally on pages with offensive content.
In a statement released Wednesday, Nationwide says they have suspended Facebook advertising, but welcome efforts to how they respond to offensive material.
"As a responsible and trusted consumer brand, we do feel that sites like Facebook should have stringent processes and guidelines in place to ensure that brands are able to protect themselves from appearing alongside inappropriate content," reads the statement.
The focus on offensive content in Facebook was sparked by an open letter sent to the social network last week on behalf of several organizations including The Everyday Sexism Project and Women, Action and the Media urging Facebook to classify content glorifying violence against girls and women as hate speech.
The letter references "groups, pages and images that explicitly condone or encourage rape or domestic violence or suggest that they are something to laugh or boast about."
"Facebook's response to the many thousands of complaints and calls to address these issues has been inadequate," reads a portion of the letter. "You have failed to make a public statement addressing the issue, respond to concerned users, or implement policies that would improve the situation."
Facebook responded to the controversy Tuesday, saying it has removed the disputed content.
"We have been working over the past several months to improve our systems to respond to reports of violations, but the guidelines used by these systems have failed to capture all the content that violates our standards," says Marne Levine, Facebook's vice president of Global Public Policy, in a statement. "We need to do better - and we will."
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Sandwich shop owner keeps the optimism alive in Greece
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Jul 14, 2015 Business for Nick Voglis has fallen by 40 to 50 percent since 2007.
Little Athens has to cope with the crisis, too
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Jul 15, 2015 The Greek debt crisis has caused ripple effects, affecting business owners in the U.S.
Tourism in an economic crisis
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Jul 14, 2015 The Greek crisis hasn't stopped tourism.
Sweet treats in the midst of economic fallout
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Jul 23, 2015 Bakery shop owner Olga Karastathi hasn't seen profit from her business, but she's still optimistic.
College students feel the weight of the Greek crisis
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Jul 14, 2015 Some Greek are worried about job opportunities amid the crisis.
One last moment from our trip to Athens
Kai Ryssdal
Jul 14, 2015 "Don't forget, [Greece is] more than 4,000 years old."
A street-level view of of the Greek debt crisis
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Jul 14, 2015 The suffering is the same, in or out of the eurozone, Athenians say.
How do you pronounce Greece's favorite food?
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Jul 13, 2015 It's not quite as contentious as "gif."
How the euro went from unifying force to divisive one
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Jul 13, 2015 European unity requires more than a common currency.
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A very happy Monday and welcome to part deux of "Hiber-Nation," a special series of posts featuring home accessories and other odds and ends geared to make housebound-in-the-winter life more bearable.
Now that you've finally settled down with an oversized cuppa tea, it's time to stop twiddling those thumbs and think about a good distraction to keep you merrily occupied on days when the weather is too frightful to venture outside (but you'd rather not stay inside and do housework, iron, or pay bills). Below, you'll find 15 DIY diversions and distractions — puzzles! crafts! games! beer! — to help pass the time, whether solo or with company, on a cold winter's day. Sure, all of these items may not all be eco-friendly/handmade but are all engaging in a way that doesn't involve turning on an electronic device of some sort — tablet, smart phone, computer, TV, etc. — and staring into a screen for hours on end.
Raygun Puzzle by Emmy @ Supermarket ($160)
Town Hall Bingo @ Restoration Hardware ($64)
Crafting with Cat Hair by Kaori Tsuaya @ Amazon.com ($9.65)
Magic Garden @ Fred Flare ($10)
Finnish Dart Set @ KIOSK ($51)
Sugru Black and White @ Hand-Eye Suppy ($20/12 pack)
Gnome Puzzle Set by Julian Hibbard @ Cog & Pearl ($75)
Reclaimed Skateboard Top by Jason Greene @ Branch ($8)
Stuffed Log Kit @ The Curiosity Shoppe ($25)
Moss Terrarium Bottle @ UncommonGoods ($38)
Ridley's FSC Tumbling Blocks by Wild & Wolf @ Bloomsbury & Co. ($12.98)
Brooklyn Brew Shop Beer Making Kit: Chestnut Brown Ale @ Brooklyn Brew Shop ($40)
Recipe Dice @ Leafcutter Designs ($16)
and last but not least ... Golden Girls Paint by Numbers Kit @ PopParty's Etsy store ($35)
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FibeRio Introduces Forcespinning® Nanofiber Filtration Media
McAllen, Texas-based FibeRio Technology Corp. recently introduced MERV 15 and HEPA grade nanofiber
filtration media made using the company's Forcespinning® technology. According to the company,
these media are highly efficient at very low pressure drops, and can replace microglass media with
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Fiber Engine FS1100 nanofiber production process featuring Forcespinning offers a productive and
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"Forcespinning technology has the high productivity and low operating cost needed for commercial nanofiber production," said Ellery Buchanan, CEO, FibeRio. "Our customers are commercializing the next generation of nanofiber based filter media without sacrificing profit margins and the quality control that their customers expect."
"The ability to produce MERV 15 and HEPA grade filtration media from materials like [nylon] 6 and [polyvinylidene fluoride] with a cost effective turnkey process is something no other nanofiber production platform can provide," said Roger Lipton, chief marketing officer, FibeRio. "Companies looking to establish competitive advantage are quickly moving to Forcespinning because they can develop unique products and they can do so cost effectively."
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Alienware adds 3.2GHz quad-core to Area-51 tower
updated 01:55 pm EDT, Mon March 24, 2008
Alienware Area-51 3.2GHz
Quickly following on the heels of its GeForce 9800 GX2 update, Alienware on Monday afternoon refreshed the Area-51 gaming tower to add Intel's 3.2GHz Core 2 Extreme QX9770 as its best processor option. The new speed eclipses the 3GHz limit set by the older system and also brings with it a faster 1.6GHz system bus; the extra bandwidth helps keep traffic going to all four cores and also more properly feeds the DDR3 memory.
The option will launch as a higher-tier option alongside the earlier 3GHz processor and boosts the price of the system by $1,650 to $3,749 while keeping the 2GB of RAM, GeForce 9600 GT video, and 250GB hard drive of the base system. Alienware estimates shipping systems configured with the new chip by mid-April.


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Tread Lightly
The climate that created Zion's intricate slot canyons, bowing arches, and hanging gardens is the same reason for its fragile state, which requires care and management to preserve it as much as possible.
It may seem strange to think of cliffs, arches, canyons and giant slabs of rock as fragile, but it's a true statement. Pieces of the arches are falling off at a regular basis throughout the entire Colorado Plateau from the constant effect of erosion, compounded by human impact.
More than most other environments, desert plants and animals live difficult lives, built around lack of regular water and sandy soil. Where there is water, like the hanging gardens, there are few nutrients to feed them. Animals hunt and scavenge, perfecting the art of survival as long as their short lives last.
It's a difficult balance for the national park service to maintain. After all, people should have access to this site, but preservation and conservation are important themes as well, with Zion boasting over 800 native species, many of those endangered.
This is why the park service has implemented their Leave No Trace campaign, promoting a few key ideas that will help keep this national park as pristine as possible for future generations.
Remember, it's not just you following these rules, it's a community effort to responsibly use the park in a way that everyone can benefit.
- Whether you're deep in the backcountry, or just strolling along the paved Pa'rus Trail, it's important to stay on the paths. Designated trails minimize the impact on an area by reducing the amount of compacted soil.
- When on a hiking trail, a single file line is recommended, just like the Tusken Raiders from Star Wars. It will hide the size of your group, thereby reducing environmental impact.
- Desert plants are incredible survivors, but soil compacted by thousands of visitors is nearly impossible for plants to grow through.
- Vehicles are tightly controlled, so recognize and follow restrictions.
- Campsites should be small and tidy. "Yardsales" are frowned upon, so keep it close.
- Do not dig trenches around your tent, leave the campsite as you found it.
- Do not create new campsites, use ones that have been previously developed.
- Camp at least 100 yards from roads, trails and, most importantly, water sources.
- As always, bring a couple trash bags to pack out whatever trash you bring in.
- Help out general trail maintenance by picking up trash along the trail.
- Bury solid waste and pack out toilet paper. Zion is a desert, so even toilet paper takes a long time to decompose.
- Don't use soap directly in a water source, it will be someone else's drinking water.
- There are certain areas, such as the Zion Narrows, that are designated as highly sensitive to human impact and human waste disposal is important. Follow park recommendations and guidelines in these areas.
- If your campsite has a fire ring, then only burn wood that you brought or purchased.
- Firewood gathering is prohibited in the park.
- Fires are not permitted in the Zion backcountry, so bring a gas-fueled stove.
- Always be sure to completely put out any fires. Small children should be able to play in the firepit when you leave.
- Always be respectful of wildlife.
- Feeding wildlife is dangerous to you and them. The animal could get sick or become habituated to humans.
- Following an animal can make it nervous, which in turn can make it dangerous. Therefore, do not follow animals.
- Pets and wildlife are not a permitted combination, so please keep them in designated areas.
Other Visitors
- Be quiet and respectful of other visitors. They are at Zion to enjoy it as well, so make sure your fun doesn't interfere with theirs.
- Sound carries extremely well in the narrow canyons, so be extra mindful of noise while in those areas.


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Lot of y'all fired up about tier sets being removed from LFR! Weekend queue comments are always a wasteland for actual questions.
Fussypants asked:
So, I saw this mentioned somewhere a little while ago, but was wondering if it was still a thing. Is Blizzard going to allow people to go back and solo Raid Finder difficulties of raids? With all the unique colorization of pieces that are available only in Raid Finder, it would seem almost a waste otherwise. Thanks!
Yes, Ion Hazzikostas mentioned recently that they're likely going to let you solo queue for Dragon Soul and all of the MoP LFRs at level 100.
cubandreamz asked:
Is Olivia Grace still writing for WI? I enjoy her articles.
Yep! Olivia still writes for us, as well as a number of other sites, like Wowhead and Skill Capped.
Mike42 asked:
What happened to all the class articles? Are they on another site or just waiting for WOD?
This letter from our editor-in-chief should explain it. It's a budget thing we're not happy about.
Grish asked:
Have they changed the amount of instances you can run in an hour without telling us? I spammed The Stonecore farming the mount last night about 10 times before I got the notice that I had entered too many instances.....
Yep, they increased it to 10 not too long ago, up from 5.
Have questions about the World of Warcraft? The WoW Insider crew is here with The Queue, our daily Q&A column. Leave your questions in the comments, and we'll do our best to answer 'em!


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More than 100 let go in BAE's first round of layoffs
The first rounds of layoffs has happened at BAE Systems in Norfolk — 185 employees left Friday.
The first rounds of layoffs has happened at BAE Systems in Norfolk — 185 employees left Friday.
The state's new SOL Innovation Committee just turned over their proposals for what should be done to improve how academic success is measure…
Police are investigating an armed robbery that occurred at a Metro PCS on Frederick Blvd.
A driver accused of killing two women after losing control of his vehicle earlier this year now admits he is responsible.
A woman will spend 22 years in prison for her role in the shooting death of a Suffolk business owner.
Deputies say they found 80-year-old Howard Shrieves, Jr. inside a submerged vehicle around 10:40 a.m.
Police say Deborah Fletcher was last seen leaving the Indian River Retirement Home at 1012 Justis Street, Thursday at 1 p.m.
WAVY News 10 adds new technology to its newsgathering dominance with Friday's launch of Drone 10 on WAVY News 10.
If you are or were a consumer of Starkist Tuna, Nov. 20 is the deadline to file a claim in the Starkist class-action settlement.
It all stems from a failure for both sides to reach an agreement on an operating contract.
First Lady Michelle Obama and several celebrities spoke at the Ted Constant Convocation Center at ODU Friday afternoon.
After taking the vehicles in for repairs, The Samaritan House discovered that the cars' catalytic converters had been cut.
Back in May, the Hot Gumbo Brass Band went viral when they were stuck in traffic along I-264 and decided to get out and perform for the crow…
Hampton fire crews are working on a two-alarm house fire in the 3000 block of Chesapeake Avenue.
Department officials say that Garcia allegedly assaulted the female officer while she was taking a shower at Camp Arifjan in Kuwait in 2010.
Christmas trees will not be allowed at the Salem VA Medical Center this holiday season in public areas.
Firefighters say that they were called to the center about a patient who was reportedly feeling weak at the center.
Robert Ryan "Bobby" McDonnell III was found guilty of DUI and refusing a breathalyzer, in a Virginia Beach courtroom Friday.
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TEXAS POLITICS: Week in review
US Airways and American Airlines extended their merger deadline by a month to give themselves time for an antitrust trial. The issue has been fodder for the gubernatorial campaign, with candidate and Attorney General Greg Abbott opposing the merger along with the Department of Justice, and his candidate opponent Tom Pauken wanting to keep the government out of the issue.
State Sen. Wendy Davis, D-Fort Worth, refused to comment on Sen. Ted Cruz's vow to talk until he dropped on the U.S. Senate floor. Asked if he thought Cruz could outlast Davis and her famous summer filibuster in the Texas Senate, spokesman Hector Nieto said: "We're not going to comment." Davis stood for nearly 13 hours to temporarily block the Legislature's passage of strict new abortion limits statewide.
A Texas judge facing criminal charges over prosecuting Michael Morton, who spent 25 years in prison for a murder he didn't commit, is stepping down. State District Judge Ken Anderson submitted his resignation effective immediately to Gov. Rick Perry. He did not give a reason.
Two people are being laid off from the Public Integrity Unit of the Travis County District Attorney's Office, the Austin American Statesman reported. But that's far fewer than originally feared amid a budget spat involving Perry.
Davis is running for Texas governor, two Democrats with knowledge of her decision told The Associated Press. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they did not want to pre-empt her official campaign launch Oct. 3, which will take place in her home district of Fort Worth.
U.S. Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius visited Texas for the fifth time in two months to tout the benefits of the federal health care overhaul, but she acknowledged that many poor, uninsured Texans will get no help without the cooperation of state Republicans who oppose the law. Republicans have been calling Medicaid a "broken system" and have asked for a grant of money that the state can use to reform Medicaid with flexibility.
Perry named Appeals Court Justice Jeff Brown of Houston to the State Supreme Court for a term expiring in November 2014.
Perry and Lt. Gov. David Dewhurst appointed six members of the new board set to oversee Texas' embattled cancer research agency. Perry, Dewhurst and Texas House Speaker Joe Straus each get three picks for the governing board of the $3 billion Cancer Prevention and Research Institute of Texas.
More than a dozen women's health providers filed a federal lawsuit to block key provisions of a new abortion law that threw the Texas Legislature into chaos as it was approved.
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Located on the Boschendal Wine Farm in the picturesque wine-lands countryside of Stellenbosch, Boschendal Restaurant offers grand buffet style lunches.
The buffet restaurant is housed in the original wine cellar
Guests can expect an array of dishes that lean towards French / Cape cuisine. The menu changes every three days which ensures that the restaurant's exceptional standards on food quality are maintained. As a general rule patrons may look forward to roasts, seafood dishes, imaginative salads and a dessert table that caters for every sweet craving. The farm's own selection of wines is available to be enjoyed with the restaurant's offerings.
Do not miss the opportunity to visit the farm's national monument and museum, the Manor House.
Booking is essential at this popular venue.
The estate also offers deli style picnics (Le Pique Nique) and a café (Le Café) for a more casual eating experience.
Mumbai Cafe is a restaurant which has perfect Indian taste with good pricing. They are a part of Jewel of India Group and the pioneers in the food industry in South Africa.


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Are you looking for maternity skirts that fall below the knee? It can be more difficult than you think, if you don't know where to look. After being pregnant 6 times (so far) and searching virtually every brick and mortar AND online store out there for this wardrobe essential, I created this page to help expectant mothers find long, beautiful skirts.
We all have different reasons for needing longer skirts. Many women want to honor God and be faithful to their religious convictions. Others prefer this style because of comfort, warmth, body type or just personal preference. Longer flowing skirts are very feminine and add an air of "mystery" to a woman in the way they gently swirl around her legs and ankles.
I've organized the this post into three sections – US retailers, UK and Australian retailers and then last of all, patterns for sewing your own maternity clothes.
Euphoria Maternity
Euphoria sells a unique selection of skirts from names like Ripe, Olian, Elly B and Maternity America. Average prices for their longer skirts range from $60 to $90. Sale prices can be as low as $15 to $20 so it pays to check back often! http://www.euphoriamaternity.com
Motherhood Maternity
Motherhood often has long and flattering denim and/or khaki skirts on sale. It just depends on the season and you have to keep checking back. If all else fails, check Ebay. Occasionally, their dressier black skirts are available in lengths below the knee. It pays to check at their local store sale racks since the shorter skirts are usually bigger sellers. Average prices for their longer skirts range from $20 to $40. http://www.motherhoodmaternity.com
New Creation Women's Apparel
Here you'll find modest classics that are always in style. New Creation skirts and maternity fashions feature feminine styles and unique fabrics of high quality. I've had great personal experience with this retailer and have their wonderful "French Blues" dress skirt (non-maternity) and my sister loves her black and white floral maternity skirt. Average prices range from $20 to $33 and there are also slips and jackets and vests in stock.
Far Above Rubies
Lots of maternity skirts, jumpers and tops to choose from, including the cute ruffle skirt below. Prices are very reasonable and range from $20 to $40. http://far-above-rubies.net
Katie's Mercantile
This store makes a $21.00 made-to-order maternity skirt in your choice of floral cotton, denim or corduroy. Other modest women's apparel is offered, as well as undergarment and sleepwear. http://www.katiesmercantile.com/maternity_nursing.html
Hindy's: The Maternity Source
Self-styled as a retailer of "designer maternity clothes for the fashionable pregnant woman,"Hindy's has a small selection but always carries at least a few nice long maternity skirts in different fabrics. NEW for this Spring: a really cute "Trumpet Denim Skirt" and a flattering 6-gore twill skirt. They also offer maternity and nursing lingerie & robes. Prices range from $30 to $80.
Pickles & Ice Cream
A nice selection of basic below-the-knee maternity skirts in colors like black, gray and brown for prices averaging $40 to $70. Sales are frequent, allowing you to sometimes get a skirt for $30 or less. http://www.picklesandicecream.com
Teresita's Sew Creative
Beautiful and feminine maternity skirts ranging from $29 to $36 in a good selection of fabrics – twill, cotton, curdoroy, etc. This is also a brick-and-morter store that's just 20 minutes away from me. Nice friendly service both on-line and in-store! http://www.teresitasewcreative.com/Clothing—Maternity.html
Deborah and Co.
Offers fashionable, feminine and modest maternity/womens/girls apparel, including lots of pretty skirts. Plus you can find accessories like layering shells, leggings and jewelry. Prices are great and range from $29 to $50! hhttp://www.deborahandcoaffiliates.com/idevaffiliate.php?id=113_0_1_4
Pretty Me Maternity
This online retailer always has a few really cute longer skirts in prices ranging from $20 to $50. They also have a great clearance section! You'll also find nice dresses and tops from time to time. FREE shipping on all orders over $100. http://www.prettymematernity.com
The Scarlet Thread
Handmade modest clothing (conservative/old fashioned style) for misses and maternity. There's a cute maternity blouse and skirt (in your choice of calico) that cost just $20 and $25 respectively.
Style J
A huge selection of long beautiful skirts in denim, twill and other fabrics (including lots of pretty prints). Many styles here – A-line, princess, tiered, etc. and the prices are good – starting at around $20.00. They have both maternity and regular sizes. http://www.denimskirts.com
JinJi Maternity
A "private label" maternity boutique that sells attractive and modest maternity skirts. Unique items you won't find anywhere else. Prices range from $25 to $70. http://www.jinjimaternity.com
Modest Apparel USA
A very conservative Christian apparel store which offers basic maternity skirts and jumpers in long lengths, with no slits/splits. Very reasonable prices from about $20 to $40. http://www.modestapparelusa.com
Phyllis Jean's Maternity Clothes
One maternity skirt is offered here, but if you are looking for a long FULL denim skirt, this one is for you! It's lightweight and has 10 gores which means comfort and flowing style. It costs anywhere from $40 to $50. Phyllis Jean also sells modest non-maternity clothing. http://www.phyllisjean.net
Ringger Clothing
A family owned business which sells cute, comfortable maternity clothes and dresses/skirts with no slits (conservative/old fashioned style). Currently they have a nice, basic denim skirt and a cute and very practical jumper which you can have custom made in the fabric and length of your choice. The price is about $40 to $50. http://www.ringgerclothing.com
Crave Maternity
Crave offers more basic straight or A-line skirts in practical fabrics, but still very stylish. Prices average $60 to $70 in US dollars.
Fun Mum
Dresses and skirts for about twenty pounds and up, but they often have great sales, which helps since you have to pay international shipping. http://www.funmum.com
Pre-Loved Maternity Boutique
This Australian retailer sells many maternity basics including long denim, cotton and tiered skirts. Prices average $20 to $30 in US dollars, so the deals are great! http://www.prelovedmaternityboutique.com.au
Modest Handmaidens Mercantile
A Christian, home-based cottage industry that offers a good selection of maternity dress and jumper patterns at very good prices. http://www.modesthandmaidens.com
Blessed Designs
One very pretty and flattering maternity skirt pattern called "Florinda" is sold here for the reasonable price of $11.99. The pattern includes 3 maternity skirt styles plus a half slip. I've made several skirts out of this pattern and love them!
Maternity Skirt Tutuorial
Step-by-step directions online for mothers wishing to make a quick and easy maternity skirt, or convert a skirt they already own into a pregnancy design! http://seemommysew.wordpress.com
Grandma's House Pattern Store
A wide variety of maternity dress and skirt patterns offered here, most of them discontinued. Most of the "short" skirt patterns can be easily converted to "long" with extra fabric. http://www.grandmashouse.ws
Here are a few older, discontinued patterns you might search for on Ebay:
McCall's 4880
Pattern for a flattering "handkerchief hem" skirt that can be made at any length.
Simplicity 3762
Easy-to-Sew stylish, modern maternity skirt, below the knee – or could be made longer.
Simplicity 4704
Easy-to-Sew stylish maternity skirt, flared and easy to make at any length.
Simplicity 5466
Easy-to-Sew basic straight skirt; can be made longer. Also includes a cute, modest top.
McCall's 2226
Pattern for a simple, stylish A-line maternity skirt – just below the knee, but can be easily made longer.
McCall's 9545
Very flattering "2-hour" dress & jumper. The jumper could also be worn with a blouse or sweater on top to give the illusion of a skirt being worn.
Butterick 6513
Versatile pattern which features a graceful, flowing skirt that can be made at any length.
Hope you find this information helpful! If you have any questions, or if any of my links are dead, please contact me.


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Wiser, happier, wobblier: hear James Blake's new album Overgrown
By Tom Banham 10 April 13
The two years between the release of James Blake's downbeat debut LP and Overgrown have been telling. He's been summoned to work with Kanye West, received nods for a Mercury and an Ivor Novello, as well as fallen in love. Which perhaps explains why, though Overgrown still drips with his debut's melancholy, it's punctured by a brightness formerly absent. Not that Blake has lost his trademark emotional intensity: opener "Overgrown" winds its breathy, Joni Mitchell-shaded vocal through rhythms that stumble drunkenly like a lonely post-club walk home, while "I Am Sold" wails through crackling static.
But the maudlin is counterpointed by the neon glow of his return to the dancefloors where he cut his teeth; the cowbell-clattering techno strut of "Voyeur" or his collaborations with Wu Tang mainstay RZA, both low-end driven club tracks deserving of pop crossover. It would have been easy for Blake to stick to his much-copied (but never bettered) formula, but Overgrown shows a songwriter confident enough to wander without losing a sound ineffably his own.
Overgrown by James Blake (Polydor) is out now.


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Bruins 4, Sabres 3
Shortly after Buffalo's Patrick Kaleta scored the first playoff goal of his NHL career to make the score 2-1 in Boston's favor, the Bruins had to defuse another buzzing shift by the visitors. To survive it, Milan Lucic had to throw himself to the ice to block a Steve Montador shot before Dennis Wideman blocked a second shot from Montador. Finally, Lucic cleared and Boston was able to roll off three straight shifts in Buffalo's end to restore order.
Canadiens 4, Capitals 1
Leading 2-0 lead in the first period, Montreal had to kill off a 5-on-3 for 1:15 after Roman Hamrlik shot the puck over the glass. The Habs did just that thanks to excellent work from defensemen Hal Gill and Josh Gorges and forwards Tomas Plekanec and Tom Pyatt, who split time to help kill it off. Gill and Gorges each had key blocks and Plekanec forced the puck down to the other end of the ice. Gill also redirected a pass to the slot. With the 5-on-3 killed off, the Habs also killed off the subsequent 5-on-4 thanks to a clear by Gionta and two saves by Jaroslav Halak.
Blackhawks 5, Predators 3
Nashville had just rallied to tie the score on a pair of Jason Arnott goals, and it looked like the Predators and Blackhawks would skate 3-3 into the first intermission. But Jerred Smithson took a hooking penalty 17 seconds after Arnott's second of the game, and Chicago captain Jonathan Toews needed all of seven ticks off the clock before he put a wrister past Pekka Rinne for what turned out to be the game-winning and series-clinching power-play goal.


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Angel Island State Park
Angel Island State Park is a cultural and historic landmark located a short ferry ride from beautiful Tiburon, California.
Angel Island park hours are 8:00am to sunset everyday.
The highest point is Mount Livermore which is 788 feet, and named after Caroline Livermore, a conservationist who helped to create Angel Island State Park. Mount Livermore offers beautiful 360 degree views of the San Francisco skyline, the Marin Headlands, Mount Tamalpais, and the Bay.
The Island has over 13 miles of hiking trails and over 8 miles of biking trails-ranging from beginner to advanced.
The Island is also alive with history. Three thousand years ago, the island was a fishing and hunting site for Miwok Indians. Later, it was a haven for Spanish explorer Juan Manuel de Ayala, a cattle ranch, and a U.S. Army post. From 1863 to 1962, the U.S. Immigration Station, Angel Island was an entry point for hundreds of thousands of immigrants, the majority from China. During World War II, Japanese, and German POWs were held on the Island, which was also used as a jumping-off point for American soldiers returning from the Pacific.
Angel Island State Park 2013 Tours
The following tours are offered at Angel Island State Park. Tours are offered Wednesday-Sunday. Most guided tours start at 11:00, 12:30, and 1:45, and may be offered by reservation only. A minimum of 5 people is required to make a reservation. Group size restrictions vary depending on the tour. Guided tour tickets are $7.00 per adult, $6.00 per senior, and $5.00 per youth (6-17 years old). If you are a K-12 school group you may be eligible for a reduced tour ticket and or ferry ticket price. To inquire about available tours and reduced pricing, please contact the Angel Island State Park Tour Coordinator at email@example.com or (415) 435-5537. Please note that guided tour tickets and general admission tickets to USIS, are not included in the general admission fee to the Park, or the ferry ticket.
U.S. Immigration Station Tour: Tour the barracks where immigrants from around the world were detained, and see historic Chinese poetry and other inscriptions written on the walls. During the late spring and summer months tour capacity is 25 people, and during the late fall and winter months it is 40 people (total per tour time). Tour length is about 1 hour and 15 minutes. Appropriate for 4th grade and up. It is about a 40 minute walk one way (2 miles roundtrip) to this site from Ayala Cove (where the ferry lands). Please contact the Cove Cafe directly to inquire about shuttle tickets to this site. Please note that they are open seasonally.
Immigration Station General Admission: The inside of the Immigration Station Barracks and the WWII Mess Hall are viewed by self-guided tour Wednesday- Sunday from 11:00 – 3:00. At thesethis times visiting the grounds are is still free to the public, and guided tours are available by reservation or when staff is available. During the self-guided tour, park staff and docents will be available to provide for information and to answer questions throughout the building.
Tickets for the self-guided tour can be purchased at the admissions desk located inside the main entrance (top of the long staircase) to the Immigration Station Barracks the day of your visit. No reservations are required. CASH or CHECK is the only accepted form of payment. Many of the facilities at the United States Immigration Station are ADA accessible. Please contact the park office for additional information (415)-435-5390.
Immigration Station Ranger Talks: (lasting approximately 15 – 20 minutes) will be offered to the public at no cost within the Immigration Station grounds throughout the day on both Saturday and Sunday. Please check in with park staff at the Immigration Station the day of your visit for more information on these talks.
Fort McDowell: Tour the Chapel and Guard House (now Visitor Center) of this WWI and WWII army base, and learn of the varied military history of Angel Island. Tour capacity is 5-40 people. Tour length is about 1 hour. Appropriate for 4th grade and up. It is about a 45-50 minute walk one way (3 miles roundtrip) to this site from Ayala Cove (where the ferry lands).
Explorers Tour: Learn how Angel Island got its name, and about the first Spanish explorers to enter the San Francisco Bay. Each student will get to draw their own map of an island. Tour capacity is 5-40 people. Tour length is about 45 minutes. Appropriate for K-4th graders. This tour is offered in Ayala Cove (where the ferry lands) during the program groups will walk about 200 yards (roundtrip).
Guided Hike: Hike to the top of Angel Island or explore a trail with a guide. Learn about the natural and cultural history of Angel Island State Park and the Bay Area. Tour capacity, length, and appropriateness vary depending on the trail, the ability of the group and the hike leader. If you have a specific area of interest, please let us know at the time you make your reservation request.
Guided Bike Tour: Bike to a historical site or all the way around the Park with a guide! Learn about the natural and cultural history of Angel Island State Park and the Bay Area. Tour capacity, length, and appropriateness vary depending on the route, the ability of the group and the bike leader. If you have a specific area of interest, please let us know at the time you make your reservation request.
Living History Overnight: School groups can participate in an overnight Environmental Living History Program focusing on the Civil War through hands-on activities at Camp Reynolds. For more information on this program, please contact Angel Island State Park by email at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Please note that guided tour tickets, and general admission tickets to USIS, are not included in the general admission fee to the Park, the ferry ticket, camping fees, or any other fee issued by the Park. USIS guided tour tickets, include the general admission for the USIS Barracks and WWII Mess Hall.
Angel Island State Park Rules
Please note that Angel Island State Park is subject to Park Rules, which are set by the State Park (not the Ferry Company).
You can read more information about these rules at the State Park's official web site. For example, rules include:
This is not guaranteed to be a complete list of rules. Please check the State Park's official website for the latest information.
Angel Island State Park Official Website | Angel Island Conservancy | Brochure (Map & Information)