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Public Image Ltd: Public Image – First Issue
"I'd like to kill Jimmy Savile, I think he's a hypocrite. I bet he's into all kinds of seediness that we all know about, that we're not allowed to talk about. I know some rumours." This bombshell comes 46 minutes into the hour-long interview on the bonus disc of this reissue of the debut album by Public Image Ltd, John Lydon's post-Sex Pistols combo. Recorded for the BBC in October 1978, it was edited for broadcast.
It's hardly surprising the former Johnny Rotten had strong views, but the real eye-opener is that this outsider figure – then such a bête noire – knew what the establishment was hiding and did not publicise it. Whatever the self-editing, his antennae were finely tuned. Musically, they were finely tuned too.
Public Image – First Issue hit the shops in December 1978, less than 12 months after The Sex Pistols' implosion. Lydon never hid his love for music that wasn't cut for or from the punk cloth. The interview takes in Peter Hammill and the uilleann pipes. Even so, the album was a shock. Not just for the ironic glossy-mag style packaging, but because it was so much further out than the trailer single, the relatively approachable "Public Image" (watch the video on the next page).
Heard now, the impactful yet patchy Public Image – First Issue doesn't hold together as an album. It was recorded and written at great speed. But it does cohere as a non-rock take on rock. Lydon remained an anti-singer, guitarist Keith Levine was about tonal colour and a sonic backdrop, bassist Jah Wobble nailed dub to the floor while drummer Jim Walker was rubbery, complementing Wobble's bounce. Lyrics weren't easy: "Annalisa" was about a real exorcism which resulted in death; "Religion" an attack on its subject. The title track, "Theme" and album closer "Fodderstompf" are solipsistic, analogous to bands singing about life on the road. "We only wanted to finish the album, with a minimum of effort, which we are now doing very successfully," chants Lydon contemptuously in the voice of The Goons' Eccles on "Fodderstompf". In the interview, Lydon doesn't explain why he wanted to portray his new calling card, and this landmark album, so demeaningly.
Tom Robinson Band: The Anthology 1977-1978
After The Sex Pistols' dismissal, EMI later picked up their ex-bassist Glen Matlock's new outfit The Rich Kids. They were a safer bet and never going to be controversial, but their arrival at the label was preceded by a band with the potential to be as headline-worthy as the Pistols. The leader of the Tom Robinson Band was outspoken, articulate and gay. They supported organisations like Rock Against Racism and had a clenched fist logo which screamed anti-establishment attitude. EMI signing them was obviously a reaction to the Pistols debacle. TRB's first single was the hardly revolutionary but fantastic pop-rocker "2-4-6-8 Motorway". Their next release, a live EP, included the sing-along "Glad to be Gay". TRB balanced issue-based material against standard rockers, a stance more-than evident on this collection of everything they made for EMI. Three CDs are supplemented by a DVD, with released material bulked out by masses of radio sessions, live recordings and the odd demo.
As well as that balance, what also comes through is their debt to both The Kinks (heard in "Glad to be Gay" and the music hall-isms of "Martin": pre-TRB, Robinson was in a band on Ray Davies's label) and, lyrically, Springsteen ("…Motorway"'s florid "whizz-kid sitting pretty on a two-wheeled stallion"). The main essay in the booklet comes up short: not discussing why the corporate EMI became their choice of home; failing to address why a safe, non-confrontational single was their debut; not digging into Todd Rundgren producing their second album and why members were shed before it. However, an amazing Granada TV documentary from 1978 is essential. The soul searching interviews and band meetings are interrupted by concerns about whether it's OK to wear a woman's dress for a lark.
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If there's any one thing you can point to that's reliable in today's world, it's that almost nothing is truly reliable anymore. Politicians willing to compromise? Hardly. Business leaders with integrity? Please. Celebrities who can be counted on to wear undergarments to red carpet premieres? Sadly, no.
But I can think of one exception to this rule, something that has reliably been with us for generations, that dates back to before I was born, that has continued to grow and prosper during my lifetime, and which will continue to exist long after I'm gone. I'm speaking, of course, of our beloved national debt.
And it's not just the debt itself that's been with us so reliably, but also the heightened state of agitation that has surrounded any discussion of the national debt. For 40 years now, I've been hearing that we face dire economic, social and political collapse if we don't deal with the debt immediately. Republicans, to their credit, have been the most vocal on this issue, consistently demanding that the government take action to lower the debt whenever a Democrat has been in the White House.
One of the more common arguments you hear about our rising debt goes something like, "If I can balance my checkbook, why can't the government balance theirs?" It's a compelling argument, since running your household finances is exactly like handling the multi-trillion dollar federal budget. Just like the Federal Reserve, whenever you happen to be low on cash, you can always just print whatever amount of money you need, right? Voila! Problem solved! And, in the same way the government can raise taxes to bring in additional revenue, average citizens who find themselves running short at the end of the month can simply demand a bigger paycheck from their employers. I don't know about you, but I love the look on my boss' face whenever I do that!
Perhaps a better analogy between government and household spending would be credit card use. Except that most of us can't go around angrily denouncing government spending by saying, "If I can pay off my credit card every month, how come the federal government can't do the same?" That's because Americans typically don't pay off our credit cards -- the average US household carries more than $7,000 of credit-card debt, totaling more than $858 billion overall. Factor in student loans and mortgage debt, and we're collectively in the red to the tune of roughly $11.3 trillion. It's a little harder to get up on your high horse to rail against rampant government borrowing when you're worried that the bank is going to repossess your horse.
Speaking of repossession, the government of Argentina recently took a novel approach to dealing with that nation's government debt -- by deciding not to pay it back. More precisely, after negotiating with creditors to pay off most of what the country owed, Argentina could not work out an arrangement with the banks holding the last $100 billion of outstanding debt. So Argentine officials simply said "Hasta la vista" to those banks and stamped "Cleared" on the national ledger anyway.
Personally, I love the idea of an entire deadbeat country. I imagine collections agents harassing Argentina with calls at all hours, and then the government instructing the citizenry to screen incoming calls and not to open the door to anyone they don't know. Before long, in desperation, the banks would probably try calling neighboring Chile and Paraguay, pretending to be an old college classmate trying to get in touch with Argentina about an upcoming reunion.
It all sounds silly, except that Argentina's remaining creditors have literally begun trying to repossess Argentine government property, including a naval frigate that was temporarily seized last October in Ghana. Meanwhile, Argentine president Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner now travels internationally on a private jet because she fears that the country's presidential plane might be snatched by creditors as soon as it lands at a foreign airport. I swear this is true. Next thing you know, a couple of guys with names like Big Vito and Greasy Louie will show up at Kirchner's office and say, "Nice presidential palace you got here. It'd be a real shame if something were to happen to it."
Thankfully, we're not at that point here in the US. President Obama remains free to travel around the world without fear of repo men seizing Air Force One, although he has taken to parking it a few blocks away from its usual spot in certain foreign airports, just to be safe. But we're also not in any danger of doing anything about the debt. And we can all take comfort knowing that as the debt grows, our elected officials, pundits and business leaders will continue getting their panties in a collective bunch as much as ever.
Let's just be happy they're keeping their underwear on.
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In many towns, parking is permitted on one side of the street (the side with odd-numbered houses) for the first half of the month and on the 'even' side for the second half of the month. This is called stationnement alterné semi-mensuel and is shown by a sign. (Note that the French for 'parking' is stationnement; parking means 'car park'.) Parking may also alternate weekly or daily; parking on alternate days is indicated by a sign stating ' Côté du Stationnement – Jours Pairs' (even) or ' Jours Impairs' (odd). In Paris, signs may indicate that parking is forbidden on one side of the street at certain times (e.g. for street cleaning).
On-street parking is forbidden in many streets in the centre of Paris and other cities. Parking is forbidden in Paris on main access routes, designated as red routes ( axe rouge). ' Stationnement interdit' means parking is forbidden and may be accompanied by the sign of a 'P' with a line through it. No parking may be indicated by a ' Stationnement gênant' sign with a picture of a lorry towing away a vehicle (if you park in a taxi rank or in front of a private garage, you're likely to find your car towed away or your tyres slashed!) or by yellow kerb markings.
It's forbidden to park in front of a fire hydrant. In Paris, it's illegal to leave a car in the same spot on a public road for more than 24 hours. Parking a caravan on roads is forbidden at any time in Paris and some other towns and cities, and overnight parking in a lay-by isn't permitted anywhere in France, although you can stop for a rest if you're falling asleep at the wheel. On roads outside town limits, you must pull off the road to stop.
Blue Zones
In many cities and towns there are 'blue zones' ( zone bleue), indicated by blue street markings. Here you can park free for one hour between 09.00 and 12.00 and from 14.00 or 14.30 until 19.00 from Mondays to Saturdays, with no limit outside these hours or on Sundays and public holidays. Parking isn't restricted between 12.00 and 14.00, meaning you can park free from 11.00 until 14.00 or from 12.00 until 15.00. You must display a parking disc ( disque de contrôle/stationnement) in your windscreen.
These are available free or for a small fee from garages, travel agencies, motoring organisations, tourist offices, police stations, tobacconists' and some shops. Set your time of arrival in the left box, and the time you should leave by is displayed in the right box, e.g. if you set 10.00 in the left box, 11.00 is displayed in the right box. If you overstay your free time, you can be fined.
Ticket Machines
In most French cities, parking meters have been replaced by ticket machines ( horodateurs). If a parking sign has the word ' Horodateur' beneath it or there's a ' Stationnement payant' sign, perhaps with ' Payant' also marked on the road, it means that you must obtain a ticket from a nearby machine. Parking must usually be paid for between 09.00 and 19.00, although it's free from 12.00 to 14.00 (even traffic wardens stop for lunch).
The cost is around €0.65 to €1 per hour (more at railway stations) and machines usually accept 5 cent, 10 cent, 20 cent, 50 cent, €1 and €2 coins. In some towns the first 30 minutes is free, one hour costs €0.30, 90 minutes €0.65 and two hours (often the maximum period) €1.55. Buy a ticket for the period required and place it behind your windscreen where it can be seen by a warden.
Car Parks
There are car parks ( parking) in cities and towns, where parking rates vary from €0.30 to €2 per hour or €2.50 to €15 for 24 hours. Car parks in central Paris charge €1.50 to €3 per hour and €12 to €20 for 24 hours. Long-term parking, e.g. at railway stations, is available in most towns for up to €10 for the first 24 hours with a reducing scale thereafter.
Monthly tickets can be purchased, reducing your parking expenses if you park frequently. On entering most car parks, you take a ticket from machine (usually you must press a button). You must pay before collecting your car, either at a cash desk ( caisse) or in a machine and cannot pay at the exit. Machines may accept coins and banknotes, e.g. €5, €10 and €20, and debit and credit cards. After paying, you usually have around 15 minutes to find the exit, where you insert your ticket in a machine and hope the barrier rises.
In most cities, local residents can pay reduced parking fees by obtaining a permit from the local town hall. This must be affixed to the right-hand side of your windscreen. Subscription cards for ticket machines are also available for residents and commuters in most cities. Disabled motorists are provided with free or reserved parking in most towns, shopping centres and at airports, but they must display an official disabled motorist's badge ( macaron) inside their windscreen.
These are free but can take two months to obtain. Apply with your carte d'invalidité to the Commission d'Education Spécialisée (CDES) if you're under 20 or the Commission Technique d'Orientation et de Reclassement Professionnel (COTOREP) if you're over 20. Disabled drivers can also obtain a European parking card ( carte européenne de stationnement) entitling them to disabled parking privileges throughout Europe.
Fines for illegal parking are based on the severity of the offence. Throughout France you're fined around €11 for not paying or for overstaying your time in a legal parking spot, which increases to €33 if the fine isn't paid within three months. Fines for illegal parking are €35, €68 or €135, which increase to €75, €180 and €375 respectively if they aren't paid within three months.
Parking fines can often be paid by buying a fiscal stamp ( timbre fiscal) from a tobacconist's and affixing it to the notice that's sent to the relevant authority. Since January 2006, it has been possible to pay them online – a scheme set to be extended to the whole country by the end of 2007. You can usually agree a payment schedule for a large fine, rather than pay it in a lump sum. If your car is given a ticket ( papillon) and isn't moved within an hour, it will be given a second ticket and after two hours a wheel clamp may be fitted or it may be towed way.
Paris has six car pounds ( fourrière) and in addition to a parking fine of between €35 and €135 you must also pay a fee to release your car from a pound (or to have a clamp removed), plus a daily storage charge. However, if you don't collect your car within 10 to 45 days it may be sold (so don't park illegally before taking a long trip abroad!). Most pounds are open from around 08.00 to 20.00 Mondays to Saturdays.
Parking in Paris is usually nothing less than a nightmare. Parisians are parking anarchists and are world champions at the art of creative parking (you will often see cars parked millimetres apart and even a number of cars squeezed into a single space!). Parking on street corners and even on pavements is a favourite sport. Note, however, that if you park illegally, you aren't covered by comprehensive insurance should your car be damaged (which is highly likely). Needless to say, car parks are expensive. They're also often full. When visiting Paris, use public transport, which is cheap and efficient.
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Definition of Amboina wood in English:
Amboina wood
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The decorative wood of a rapidly growing Southeast Asian tree, often used for furniture making.
- The tree is Pterocarpus indicus, family Leguminosae.
Example sentences
- Exotic Amboina wood handles are decorated with a unique compass shield and capped off with Nickel silver bolsters.
- This refers as well to my wooden reel-seats made from selected and rare Amboina wood.
- He remained partial to the use of rare woods such as Macassar Ebony, the burr of Amboina wood, Brasilian Rosewood and Palisander.
Mid 19th century: named after Amboina Island (see Ambon).
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Ask The Juggle: Job-Hunting While Working Full-Time
How do you look for a new job while you are working full-time?
More people are expected to change jobs as the economy recovers, and several readers have asked for advice on the question. One reader is troubled by the shroud of secrecy he must keep up at work while going on interviews. "I've lied to my boss saying I had a doctor's appointment or another scheduled event when in reality, I'm going on interviews. This makes me feel false," this reader says. But on the other hand, citing a vague "appointment" to justify his absences seems "incredibly suspicious," he adds.
Another reader says "the time and mental stress" of a job search "are very difficult to work into a packed schedule."
There is no way to avoid some tension and strain when you are trying to jump. Every individual must decide how many specifics to cite in explaining absences to the boss. One way to avoid lying is to simply say, in a confident and businesslike way, that you have "personal business." I have seen employees use this excuse to cover needs ranging from infertility treatment to estate planning. Another strategy that may be applicable to some workers is to say you are networking with others in your field, says Kate Wendleton, president of The Five O'Clock Club and an experienced career adviser.
Whatever reason you cite for absences, be confident and assertive; you have a right to some privacy. You can ease any suspicions your boss may have by working harder when you are at the office, showing interest in long-term projects and taking initiative.
Try to gain more control over your schedule by being proactive. Schedule vacation or personal days in advance and try to set interviews and networking appointments on those days. One job-hunter took vacation days every other Friday during her job search and met with at least four people on each day off. Wendleton also suggests setting aside time on evenings and weekends to research target employers and contact them by letter or email, introducing yourself and expressing interest.
Also, push back on prospective employers to avoid missing too much work time. "Many employers will understand that you have to meet with them in the early morning or very late afternoon because you are working," Ms. Wendleton says.
However you organize your search, you will have to commit some time. "Employed people must spend 15 hours a week on their searches to get some momentum going," typically on evenings and weekends, Wendleton says. "Otherwise, nothing happens," she says. "If you are working 70 hours a week and see no way out of that, you are stuck in your present job." The Five O'Clock Club's website offers a mini-course on how to organize a job search.
A few more words on ethics: Keeping a job search confidential isn't unethical; it is a practical and professional necessity. "Your boss will never tell you when he or she is looking for a replacement for you, and doesn't think that is being unethical," Wendleton says. Letting your intentions be known would undermine your credibility at work and hurt your ability to do your job. Most bosses would "want you out of there now," Wendleton adds.
If you want to set good ethical boundaries, don't use your current employer's resources to finance your job search. Avoid using your work phones, e-mail, supplies, copiers or other equipment to make appointments or prepare resumes or letters.
Readers, what advice would you offer these jobseekers? What has been your experience in looking for a job when you already have one?


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The philosophical riddle is posed so often it has grown mossy with cliché: If a tree falls in the forest and no one is there to hear it, does it make a sound? It turns out the answer is yes, it makes an amazing sound, although the eruption of this joyful noise may not occur for centuries, when it is sliced into pear-shaped tones at the Santa Cruz Guitar Company.
Just as Michelangelo -- a Renaissance master with whom Santa Cruz Guitar guru Richard Hoover likely feels an artistic affinity -- believed every block of stone had a statue hidden inside, craftsmen in the Cruz who make artisanal acoustic guitars crave fallen timber for its distinctive timbre. A thin membrane of California sycamore produces small sonic detonations as he taps along its surface.
"Flavors, colors on an artist's palette, that's what we're creating," says Hoover, whose groundbreaking guitar company is preparing to observe its 35th anniversary.
By harvesting rare rosewood from Brazilian forests cut down in the 1920s, and 100-year-old mahogany planted for Britain's Royal Navy -- a reverberating echo of empire -- Hoover has indulged the "scientific romance" of a boutique guitar-making movement that he himself carved out.
As the Santa Cruz Guitar Company gears up for its birthday celebration, Hoover is making plans for a series of guitars using locally-grown wood that give new meaning to the term "vintage.
"We'll probably make five guitars from that," he says. Hoover used to scour the world looking for what he calls "story wood," but as his guitars became more sought after, a network of wood prospectors opened up to him. "Wood finds us now," he says.
The company produces fewer than 700 hand-crafted acoustic guitars a year. The company's 13 luthiers are all men, so at times the workshop resembles a religious order of extremely handy monks.
Handiest of all is Hoover, who set out to become a singing cowboy -- a guitar slung over his shoulder like a bandolier -- and instead became high priest to the "unplugged" generation. He and his luthiers make "sustainable" instruments that are played by preeminent pickers such as Bill Frisell, Brad Paisley and Elvis Costello.
The company's breakthrough came in the early '80s, when guitar god Eric Clapton saw a small ad for Santa Cruz Guitars in a Cupertino-based enthusiasts' magazine called Frets, and ordered one. "You bypass years of trying to establish credibility when Clapton plays your guitar," Hoover says. "The most sophisticated players will question themselves if they don't have peer support. But if Eric Clapton plays one, you don't have to ask anyone. You know it's O.K."
At 60, with ponytail, full beard and glasses, Hoover bears the unmistakable markings of a man who chose to come to Santa Cruz, which happened after he ran away from home once, then left for good at 17. He picked up the guitar himself when he was 13. "To impress a girl," he says. "That's why we all picked up guitars." He soon dropped the girl -- "I couldn't fix her" -- but never put down the guitar.
The first time he took one apart, there was no written information on how to build one by hand, so Hoover consulted texts on violin-making, and became a self-taught luthier at 16. That taught him how to use the wood to manipulate sound. "It's almost like composing a chord on a piano," he says, sniffing at bigger competitors such as Martin and Taylor Guitars that make as many guitars in a day as his shop turns out in a year. "Making pre-sized components is like throwing rocks at a piano. You don't know what kind of sound you'll get."
Wow moment
Finding a guitar with just the right sound -- a stringed tone poem that many players simply refer to as "the one" -- can be a quest of months, sometimes years. "They can be incredibly finicky," says Mike Sparber, manager of Sylvan Music, a local dealer whose shop carries about two dozen Santa Cruz Guitars. "It's not uncommon for one person to spend hours and hours over the course of several days here at our shop, playing back and forth between four or five guitars. And possibly deciding after all that, 'None of these is going to do it. I need to order my own.'"
About 65 percent of Santa Cruz guitars are custom-made, and despite an average price of $5,000 -- some the rare-wood instruments range as high as $10,000, in contrast to factory-made acoustics that sell for about $1,500 -- if you put your order in today, the wait will be a year. Hoover and his team took two and a half years to get the company's 30th anniversary showpiece just right, producing an instrument of such sculptural artistry that it is valued at $240,000.
Santa Cruz doesn't sell directly to the public, but Hoover welcomes pilgrims to his sawdust seraglio, where a 1-year-old coyote mix named Maria lopes warily past black guitar cases with people's names taped to them, which are everywhere. "Richard still keeps it very small and personal," Sparber says. "I don't think there's many companies where the owner will show you around, and tell you about the process from log to guitar. It's something amazing that he's created."
Rich and Robin Nourie came all the way from Philadelphia this week to see the fountainhead from which so much of their musical delight has flowed. Rich got his first Santa Cruz guitar nearly seven years ago, and says he never goes anywhere -- anywhere -- without it. "In that respect, it's spent more time with him than I have," says Robin, who recently gave her husband a second Santa Cruz for the couple's 25th wedding anniversary. When Rich tells Hoover how inseparable he is from his guitar, his wife just rolls her eyes.
Sawdust seraglio
"It's very responsive, very sensitive," Rich says of his wooden sidekick. "It comes alive in your lap. And it's not the typical tone signature that you'd expect from a mahogany guitar. With all the skill, devotion and real love that goes into making an instrument here, this is just the beginning of their lives. Then they go out into the world, making music and bringing people together. For me, every night it's sitting down and having this wonderful experience of my day disappearing into peace."
Things have not always been so peaceful in the bespoke business that Santa Cruz created. In addition to "boutique" competitors such as Collings and James Goodall -- which both make fewer than 1,000 instruments a year -- there are counterfeiters like "a hillbilly in South Carolina who makes a guitar called the Sant Cruz," Hoover says.
He is not necessarily enthralled with the work produced by some manufacturers in the growing strum scrum. "By taking a crazy amount of time to do this stuff right we really bring out a lot more of the potential of the instrument," Hoover says. "If you want to discover the source of the Nile, you're going to get snakebit and beat up getting there. But when you finally hack through and look behind you, here come the hot dog stands and the paved roads."
Hoover is never sure where the trail he blazed will lead next. Right now, there's a brownstone in the Bronx that's full of mahogany, and a huge wine vat made of old-growth redwood just reclaimed near La Honda. Hoover believes the wine barrel would make spectacular guitar tops, producing tasty notes of berries, vanilla and Dylan, with a finish that is totally unplugged.
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Alessandro Pavoni was born and trained in Brescia in Lombardy in northern Italy. He moved to Sydney in 2003 and became Executive Chef at the famous Park Hyatt Hotel in the heritage area of the Rocks in Sydney CBD in 2005, and later went on to open Ormeggio at the Spit in 2009 (Ormeggio in Italian is mooring). Before that, Alessandro worked at La Rotonde in France and two Michelin-starred Villa Fiordaliso on Lake Garda, Italy and as well as Restaurant Lido in Bermuda.
Omeggio restaurant has received Two Hats in SMH Good Food Guide, Two Glasses from Gourmet Traveller for the wine list, and is listed in the Top 100 Australian restaurants from Gourmet Traveller. Alessandro recently opened his second restaurant Spiedo – a Westfield Sydney restaurant.
Ormeggio takes advantage of the location on Middle Harbour – it wraps its big arms around you with natural beauty, the space dappled in summer light – we sat by the edge of the water watching the yachts coming through Spit Bridge. The inside space is nothing interesting (quite boring really) but with such a beautiful position you need nothing else, You just let the blue, diamond studded waters – and your food (that's if it's good enough ?) do the work.
We indulged in the Ormeggio Sapori experience and went for the five course menu at lunch ($69). We ate a journey through Australian influenced contemporary North Italian food, starting with Flinders Island wallaby battuta – watermelon rind – amaranth – chorizo powder. Finely chopped carpaccio of wallaby tender and just a slightly sweet minerally taste of blood, with the watery crunch from the cubes of watermelon rind, eschallots and spice of chorizo powder all combining to deliver a satisfying warm meatiness on the palate.
Carnaroli risotto, buffalo mozzarella, tomato, capers, olives, basil. The Italian waiter talked to us about the firm bite of the carnaroli, and being cooked in tomato water. This was a simple tasting risotto with a few classic flavours. But the sunny smell of summer tomatos lingering in our thoughts from the tomato cooking water, our tongues covered in creamy sexy saltiness, from the mozzarella and olives – firmness of the grains between our teeth and the smooth lasting finish of the butter and olive oil. This was one of those risottos that shut us up on the first mouthfull and that takes some doing, now the main objective was to simply succumb to this risotto – and we were not even in Milan!
Charcoal wagyu beef flank – watercress – baby beetroot -sesame seeds. Tender, encrusted wagyu long cooked at 55 degrees – the wagyu surrendered in our mouths with a soft texture full of big meat and some smoky flavours. The fresh green taste of the watercress puree was like a hot first date and the Moorish ground sesame seeds with the crunch of the dark ruby baby beets – an exciting climax of flavours that left you needing more.
Next the first of two dolci or more like a palate cleanser. Pomegranate, yoghurt, rye biscuit – a pomegranate jelly and then pomegranate jelly with cream – alongside a natural yoghurt and crisp rye biscuits crumbs. This delivered a sudden lift from the sharp pomegranate jelly and then all collapsing with the smooth cream and yogurt in the end. More balance and lightness than your usual sugar packed desserts with the natural taste/texture from the biscuit crumbs. Serious sugar lovers might be temped to say this is more like what your first meal of the day should be.
Amedei tuscan black chocolate – olive oil -sourdough – raspberry. We loved this dessert – few chocolate makers can deliver what is necessary to make the chocolate in this type of dessert – where the flavour has to be pure and to the point. The French chocolate maker Valhrona is one of our favourites – the other is Amedei from Tuscany, which is what Ormeggio used here. Fresh tangy raspberry – the lustful dark forbidden, almost bitter flavour from this chocolate – the soothing but hidden herbaceousness of olive oil, natural balance of the dried sourdough crumbs – this tasted so much better than it looked.
Ormeggio restaurant at the Spit is very sexy and it doesn't try to be, it just is, and the food of chef Alessandro Pavoni is very good!
The wine list is naturally Italian influenced – but also includes a strong regional Australian contingent which is why Ormeggio's wine list was awarded two Glasses by Gourmet Traveller Wine Awards of 2011, 2012 and 2013.
Ormeggio is open for lunch - Friday to Sunday 12pm-3pm and dinner – Wed to Sat 6pm-11pm, Sun 6pm-10pm. There's an a la carte menu for dinner or you can choose degustation options – 2 course ($49), 3 courses ($59) – inc. a glass of wine – or 5 course degustation ($69). With the combination of very good food, informative service and the best location Ormeggio delivers a cool Sydney restaurant.
Food: 8/10
Presentation: 8/10
Service: 8/10
Wine list: 8/10
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My story is the same as everyone elses... I saw a billboard for a website (wasn't even for Great Expectations, but another company), went to the website. Filled in my info... went in. Guy gave me this whole spiel, pushed me into some contract, then as soon as I walked out the door I thought to myself, what the hell did I just get into?
So I called up and called up and no one answered...the next day, I went in and they said, sure no problem, we'll go ahead and cancel that for you.
Guess what they didn't because they drafted 2 or 3 payments from my account and finally I got my bank up to speed and was able to cancel these automatic withdrawls. Because no one at Great Expectations will call me back.
NOW flash forward to about a year ago, and Conrad Credit comes up on my credit report as an UNSECURED LOAN? How is a dating membership an unsecured loan? This has to be illegal.
I called them many times, got called all kinds of names you can't imagine, which prompted them to call my family members and even send a letter to my work to verify my employment.
I have given up calling them and I guess I'll wait until 2012 until it comes off my credit report. I contacted a lawyer but it didn't sound too promising and the credit agencies did squat to remove it... since Conrad is reporting this as a LOAN it shows up as some kind of CREDIT CARD type of issue.
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> I disagree slightly with what you say. Squid can do the
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While I appreciate your article Madyson as a healer who has come to specialize in various areas self esteem being one of them, I feel you simplify the process a bit. Simply writing down things one likes about ones self and saying aloud in a mirror truly in both my personal healing with my self esteem and the work I do with my clients the key to enacting lasting change in developing a more loving, positive self esteem is beginning at the root cause. By discoverying the causes of low self esteem you begin to heal. Recognizing it's start, accepting the issue and acknowledging its existence, then accepting it is what it is, you let it go taking back your power. Moving to next address the limiting beliefs resulting from those most painful experiences and allow yourself to fully express the emotions, thoughts and anything else arising from the beliefs, followed by then expressing the needs that were not met all through journal writing. Once this is all expressed you create a ritual of release. Then you set out to rewrite, re-script your perception, worth, and overall belief of yourself.
Sociopaths and the part self esteem plays in their lives etc is irrelavant. Why? I have personal experiences with one my father is a sociopath it is not due to a lack of self esteem, but a chemical, brain wiring issue. They lack so many parts we naturally all should have, empathy , compassion, love. Sociopaths are Ego driven, Ego centered, their entire perception on everything is from I, Me, My, Mine. They give no thought to the affects their behavior causes on others, they avoid taking responsibility for what they do. It is always another's fault. The list is endless. There is no treatment or pill available to treat this disorder fully they can be dangerous and much more.
I enjoyed reading all the thoughts on this....
Love Light & Peace,
I didn't say that was their main problem, simply describing one symptom related to the conversation...
one of the ways you can recognize the indivdual as sociopathic is to watch how they relate to having hurt someone who will tell them that...there is always some amusement. It may only be a brief flash in the eyes, but it is there.
I think self esteem can be taught too.. easily in childhood, and also sometimes with difficulty in adulthood, only if one is willing to wade through feeling very crazy and conflicted and disoriented during the installation and early utilization of new thinking habits.
I don't believe that self-esteem is the sociopath individual's real problem. Doesn't it have more to do with how they see others and go on to treat others as mere objects?
A sociopath cannot get outside or himself, or extend himself to others, and therefore is pretty much lacking in empathy. This is a sad state of affairs, I agree. But then again, I am not sure that taking away his self-esteem will change that. What do you think?
In the medical model, which I very much adhere to, sociopathy wouldn't be a so much a choice as perhaps a chemical imbalance of some kind. And just perhaps it isn't either you have this sickness called sociopathy or you don't (rather black and white). I believe that sociopathy is more like a number line of which we all partake in some ways, and that it should be measured rather in degrees.
Very often in this world we live in, we are allowed to dehumanize a particular group of individuals, and in this way we are given permission to do horrible acts against them… like war and still allowed to consider ourselves civilized, take war as one example. Where is the empathy in that activity?
Getting back: Self esteem may rather than being something bestowed by others upon us, actually be a skill that must be learned through introspection (preferably at a young age), being a little like learning to playing the piano or dancing.
Peace ad Love,
Sometimes children are punished for self appreciation and approval. Some cultures discourage others from praising children because it will attract the devil's attention and jealousy.
Some teach that critical self evaluation and course correction destroys self esteem.
This is such Om msg a good topic and
so worth our attention.
Paying attention to what decreases self esteem can change very antisocial behavior when the person is ready to change. Sometimes I am used to facilitate those changes.
But in the sociopath, self esteem can be increased, yup, increased by successful antisocial acts.
I have a way of reaching out to and gathering self-esteem that has nothing to do with programming good thoughts into my thinking.
You might go so far as to call what I advocate a "de-programming" of erroneous thoughts out, altogether.
I de-program out thoughts like "our original fall from grace," and "our being born in sin," which in my opinion is a real set up for both unhappiness and suffering. We swallow so much of these grim ideas, whole! : ^ (
We were all born to be exactly who we are. If we live from this, we have what has been coined as having "integrity."
But right away, before we even get out of diapers, we are told in many ways that this is not enough, and that we must progress towards a better self. Most of us unfortunately go on to wear these disapproving scars for a life time.
We are taught to compare ourselves with others unmercifully, and to compete endlessly, rather than to become comfortable in our own skin.
This whole process would be just silly, if it weren't so sad. : ^ (
What do we gain by letting any culture grab our strings, and treat us pretty much like a meat puppet?
We are habitually off balance and in generally unsatisfied most of the time. Thus we have our addiction to progress…> as well as, our constant push towards the "happily ever after" that never quite arrives.
Peace and Love,
Thanks very much for this post. I have been looking for something like this desperately. Thanks very much for sharing this piece of information.
Olen ~ I, too, appreciated your relating your experience. How wise of you to wonder if your exercise with this friend was to help or to change him.
And, Annette, I like your Jack O'lantern.
Olen - I appreciated what you shared here - very insightful and kind....
Yes, those seeds planted within in our most formative years can have such an intense grip - after 70 years I'm still weeding the garden - the garden of me -
The only regrets that I have in life are related to the times that I hurt others and when I look closer I see that is when I wasn't in my 'inner' place of love - or self acceptance - so it comes back to me
love of self - the most important building block -
going to go write out that list :))))
Cheers on our journey
In a questionable moment that sat on the borderline between helping someone and wanting to change someone, earlier this year I conducted a similar exercise with a close friend who has self-esteem issues. Another friend and I talked him through it, we wrote his self-identified positive traits down, and asked him to stand up and read them aloud to us and tucked the list away in a drawer. He could not. As much as it was troubling, it was interesting to see the ways in which self-defeating behaviors constrict the possibilities of our lives. Why couldn't he lay proud claim to those traits? What made that so hard? Would there be some responsibility attached? Were they too unbelievable for him? Would vocalizing them trigger some lingering pain? Seeds of low self-esteem are often sown sometime early in life. Being able to burrow down through the layers of our psyche to those seeds is the work. It's never easy and sometimes one just simply isn't ready to confront them.
That's all - just wanted to share that experience.
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Celebrating Pi Day
Pi Day is upon us! It is always held on March 14, since Pi starts with 3.14. The latest video from Professor Marc Chamberland's youtube channel, Tipping Point Math, asks "How Many Digits of Pi are Useful?" With trillions of digits crunched out by supercomputers, one wonders whether these numbers have more utility than wall-papering a room. In the video, five answers are given to the question.


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Etymotic Research HF3
" After being disappointed by the Apple In-Ear Headphones with Remote and Mic, I decided to explore a set from a well-regarded company in the audio world. I had to pick something with Apple's in-line iPhone controls that could get good isolation and fit. Those were my complaints with the Apple product. The HF3 seemed to be well designed, and more importantly, they offered a custom-fit..." --Lugie
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Saturday, October 22nd, 2011
Goodbye and more to give away
Right now is the last music-worship time of Together for Adoption 2011. In just a moment, Tim Chester will speak the last message of the conference.
But this will not be my last T4A-related blog. I encourage you to subscribe if you haven't already, so you don't miss what's coming. For example, off the top of my head:
- notification when the audio downloads are available from the conference
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- info from some more T4A exhibitors
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Have enjoyed your comments that have been appearing on f/b. Loved the one about Christians not saying lies-just singing them. I feel this is so true.
But really loved your comment that we reflect God's glory-not add to it! As if God needed us to make him more radiant!
I'm a single mom, who has adopted four beautiful daughters – now, ages, 6, 8, 10 and 12. My brother (Jeff Turner) attended Bethel many years ago (and was inspired by Dr. Piper). I had the opportunity to visit my brother and your church at that time. Thank you for all your hard work.
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South Carolina DUI Arrest and Court Process
This is a general overview of what to expect during an arrest and during court. It is important to understand that different police agencies and courts have slightly different processes throughout the state. It is very important to contact a local South Carolina DUI lawyer in order to determine the exact court process your case will take.
South Carolina DUI Arrest Process
When a driver is stopped by a police officer for any reason in South Carolina, the officer will begin looking for signs that the driver is under the influence. These signs and symptoms might include slurred speech, alcohol on the driver's breath or clothes, or the results of a portable breath test. Police officers in South Carolina are more likely than officers elsewhere to videotape the stop, sobriety testing, and arrest of drivers and often have recording devices which can record conversations between the officer and the driver. If the officer believes that there's a good reason to think the driver is under the influence, the officer will arrest him or her. After anyone charged with a crime in South Carolina is arrested, the police officers who arrest him or her are required to inform him or her of the charges against him or her and bring the defendant before a judge or magistrate. Typically, this must be done within 48 hours of the arrest, but there is an exception if the State can demonstrate that unusual or emergency circumstances require a longer time. Unlike most states, in South Carolina, the police may not choose to release defendants who are charged with misdemeanor offenses or infractions with a citation. Instead, if the officer who stops a driver believes the driver has committed a DUI, the officer will arrest the driver and bring him or her before a judge or magistrate.
South Caroline Court Process In Impaired Driving Cases
When the defendant appears in court, the judge or magistrate will first tell the defendant about the charges facing him or her and the punishments that are possible for a conviction as well as the right to a public defender or court-appointed attorney for all of the proceedings starting with the initial appearance and extending through trial to an appeal.
In the typical DUI case, it's usually at this point that the court will consider whether to release the defendant on bail before the trial. Bail will probably be granted in DUI cases in South Carolina, but the court can require various things from the defendant before allowing him or her to be released on bail, ranging from a promise to appear (which is known as "release upon one's own recognizances") to restrictions on the defendant's behavior, to a bond which the defendant must forfeit to the court if he or she fails to appear when called.
In repeat offense DUI cases and other cases where punishments greater than a $500 fine or 30 days in jail are possible, the defendant has the right to a preliminary hearing conducted by a magistrate. If the defendant wants a preliminary hearing, he or she must request one within 10 days of being informed of this right, which is typically at the bond hearing. In the preliminary hearing, the court will conduct an examination to determine whether a crime has been committed and whether the defendant is probably guilty of that crime. At this proceeding, the State will present witnesses and evidence which the defendant can challenge or refute with witnesses or evidence of his or her own. If the court concludes that the defendant probably is guilty of the crime he or she is charged with, the defendant will have to plead guilty or go to trial.
Whether or not there is a preliminary hearing, before the trial begins, the defendant will be called upon to enter a plea. This is sometimes called an "arraignment" and usually consists of the judge or magistrate reading the official charges against the defendant aloud and asking the defendant to respond to them with a plea. The defendant must plead guilty, not guilty, or no contest to the charges. If the defendant pleads not guilty, the case will go to trial.
First offense DUI cases are typically tried in magistrate or county courts and repeat or felony DUI offenses are tried in district courts.
South Carolina DUI Trial Process
All drivers charged with DUI offenses have the right to a jury trial in South Carolina. The jury will consist of 12 people and they must all agree on a verdict. Trial begins with the selection of the jury from a panel of potential jurors and the defendant may participate in the process of selecting them. Once the jury is selected and sworn, both the prosecution and the defense will give an opening statement. The State will present its witnesses and evidence, and the defense may challenge the State's case by cross-examining State witnesses. The defense may put on a case of its own or may rely on the burden on the prosecution to prove the defendant guilty beyond a reasonable doubt.
Source: South Carolina Code of Laws Title 56 (Motor Vehicles) 56-5-2935, Title 17 (Criminal Procedures) 17-3-10, 17-13-50, Title 14(Courts) 14-9-120, 14-9-180, South Carolina Rules of Criminal Procedure, Rule 2, Rule 14
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MACOMB, IL - The Disability Resource Center is inviting all Western Illinois University faculty and staff to participate in the Fall 2013 Faculty and Staff Partnerships for Accessible Solutions (FASPAS). FASPAS is a program that focuses on making WIU more accessible.
A series of workshops will be held in the Horrabin Hall Multimedia Lab, room 104, from 9 a.m.-noon. The four sessions will be held on Oct. 10, 17, 24 and 31.
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When Karlyn Taylor finished kindergarten in 1955, she couldn't know that she'd be back in kindergarten in that same room 30 years later. This time, she'd be the teacher.
Now that Taylor is retiring from her Otis Elementary classroom, the memories of her kindness will continue to influence her students.
A life-long Alamedan, Taylor grew up on Broadway, went through Otis, met her husband at Alameda High and got her degree from Cal State-Hayward. It was an easy decision to settle down in Alameda since both she and her husband had family and roots here.
She received her teaching credential in 1973 and taught one year at Miller Elementary on the Navy base. She remembers having a special pass for her car, driving through the check-point and being saluted every day.
After her first year teaching, she took 10 years off to have her two sons before returning to teaching, this time at Otis Elementary.
"I went to Otis to be interviewed for a kindergarten position. I thought it'd probably be a practice interview. But they hired me," said Taylor. "My first assignment had me sharing a room with my own first-grade teacher, who was about to retire."
Taylor has taught continually at Otis for 24 years, spending the last 13 in room 1, her own kindergarten classroom.
Staying so connected to Alameda has afforded Taylor the opportunities to teach the children of former students and all the siblings in some families. She also has become friends with many parents of her students.
Kelly Floyd, a mom whose third child is finishing kindergarten this year, is happy that each of her kids was able to begin school in Taylor's classroom.
"She's nurturing and motherly, and she makes it fun. She takes an individual interest in all the kids. My oldest might not have been ready (for school), and she took him under her wing and helped him become ready to move on to the first grade. We became friends by working together to help my son," Floyd said. "All my kids say she is their favorite teacher, including my oldest who will be in fifth grade next year." .
Taylor's nurturing side also can be seen in her yearly offering for the Otis Elementary auction, which raises money for the school's arts programs. She donates her time to come to the winner's home with chocolate chip cookies and bedtime stories. Floyd says this is always a popular item in the auction.
Katie Lyons, current principal at Lum Elementary, also enjoyed working with Taylor during the time Lyons was principal at Otis.
"She has an incredible capacity to pull children in to play to their full potential. She makes kids feel included, valued and competent to fully participate in the activities of the classroom," said Lyons. "She's a very honest person, and she balances this with genuine caring about kids and families.
"She works to develop support and achievement for each kid in her class. She is the kind of teacher children and families remember long after they leave kindergarten," Lyons said.
"She also watches out for the welfare and comfort of other new teachers and professionals who come into the school," Lyons added. "She tries to draw them into the group."
Taylor also appreciates the collaborative spirit and support she has enjoyed with fellow teachers and parents.
"At Otis, (the kindergarten teachers) work so well as a team. We all get along, have the same philosophy, and support each other," Taylor said.
"The parent population is tremendously supportive, supporting you in doing your job. There is a nice, diverse mix of children.
"It's like being at home for me. The parents and children have become my friends. I hope it continues after I retire," she said. "I'll miss the kids' sense of humor, the hugs. I can draw a picture on the board and they think I'm wonderful."
After the annual end-of-school kindergarten picnic Saturday, Taylor plans to settle into a life of doing "grandma things." She has one 9-month-old grandson and another on the way.
Lyons noted that there are several other teachers, like Taylor, who are retiring this year after giving diligent service to the children and families of Alameda.
"There are a lot of teachers and administrators retiring this year that have supported the Alameda schools for 30-plus years now," Lyons said. "It's important for the community to honor that generation of educators. They built a strong, vibrant community of education in Alameda, and they will all be missed."


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i was walking acrossed the park(old fort st) to get back to my place cause i didnt have a car at the time, i was walking with two other people who both saw the same thing. we noticed two black ops choppers flying dangerously close to eachother and they were very quiet choppers cause they were only a 50 yards away at this point heading directly our way and we could barely hear them,as they got closer you could see a object flying infront of the choppers and it was noiseless the only thing you could tell about this object is that it reflected everything so well that if the helicopters were not flying dangerously close to eachoth you wouldnt have saw this ufo.The path of all three aircrafts were headed directly over our heads as it got closer we could now notice this was not of this planet because it was noiseless. it looked like a boomerang with a football inside of it(like most reports) it had greyish silver metallic surface that reflected sound and noise cause as it got over head i yelled, WHAT THE F#$% is that and it felt like my own words blew back acrossed me as if this thing reflected noise as well as visual contact with anything it came it sight with. The object skipped more than it flew smoothly, almost like it was weaving in and out of air pockets we cant see with the naked eye. and nother this thaat happend was reported on your PENN investigation with the lady who saw the sparkles fall on her tree then go back up in the ship. it was like we had the same experiace but what felt it was a part of the air craft that felt like it went threw us not sprinkles fallin on us but this stuff looked like a klocked part of the ship that physically went threw us instead of knockin us down
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