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Jefferies, Richard
Richard Jefferies 1848-1887
(Born John Richard Jefferies; also wrote as R. J.) English essayist, novelist, naturalist, and poet.
Jefferies is best remembered for writings that combine description of the English countryside with an ardent admiration of the natural world. Jefferies is the author of some of the most detailed and interesting rural scenes in English literature; critics consider his essays intimate without being sentimental, exposing positive and negative aspects of country life.
Biographical Information
Jefferies was born in rural Wiltshire. His conventional schooling was sporadic and ended by the time he was fifteen, with most of his knowledge acquired through informal study at home and outdoors. Jeffries gained a position as a reporter for the North Wilts Herald at Swindon in 1866, and worked there for six years, while contributing to several other periodicals. With the publication in the London Times in 1872 of three letters in which he sympathized with farmers' requests for higher wages, Jefferies received wider attention as a journalist. In 1874 he married, and the couple moved to the London suburb of Surbiton in 1877. Four years later Jefferies became severely ill. He continued working, eventually dictating to his wife. He died in 1887.
Major Works
Jefferies's first published novels—The Scarlet Shawl (1874), Restless Human Hearts (1875), World's End (1876)—all of which focus on the upper classes, were financial as well as critical failures. In 1877 he contributed eleven articles to the Pall Mall Gazette; they were published the following year in book form under the title The Gamekeeper at Home. This collection—Jefferies's first book-length success—earned him widespread critical recognition. It was followed by three more works that originated as series in the Pall Mall Gazette: Wild Life in a Southern County (1879), The Amateur Poacher (1879), and Round about a Great Estate (1880). Also published in 1880 was Hodge and His Masters, which had originally appeared in the Standard. These four books, incorporating Jefferies's reminiscences about the sites and events of his rural childhood, established him as an authority on country life. Wood Magic, Bevis, and The Story of My Heart, all published between 1881 and 1883, were also imbued with Jefferies's love of nature, and are further characterized by reflection, urgency, and a visionary quality that some biographers have linked with his fatal illness. Jefferies's last book published before his death, Amaryllis at the Fair, again treats rural characters in a country setting. It is believed to be a fictionalized account of his own family.
Critical Reception
Jefferies's literary career began early in his life, but he gained admiration slowly. His first novels focused on the life of the upper class, a subject with which he was obviously unacquainted. However, as he turned to a more familiar style and such subjects as childhood reminiscences and nature writing, his works, particularly his essays, greatly improved, and popularity soon followed. His descriptions of rural life were well-received; some scholars have suggested that the main reason for their appeal was that they commemorated an age and lifestyle that was quickly passing. While his reputation has declined in modern times, Jefferies's last works, especially his essays, are still valued as an interesting and important contribution to English nature writing.
Principal Works
The Scarlet Shawl (novel) 1874
Restless Human Hearts (novel) 1875
World's End (novel) 1876
The Gamekeeper at Home; or, Sketches of Natural History and Rural Life (essays) 1878
The Amateur Poacher (essays) 1879
Wild Life in a Southern County (essays) 1879
Greene Ferne Farm (novel) 1880
Hodge and His Masters (essays) 1880
Round about a Great Estate (essays) 1880
Wood Magic (novel) 1881
Bevis, The Story of a Boy (novel) 1882
Nature Near London (essays) 1883
The Story of My Heart (autobiography) 1883
The Dewy Morn (novel) 1884
The Life of the Fields (essays) 1884
After London; or, Wild England (novel) 1885
The Open Air (essays) 1885
Amaryllis at the Fair (novel) 1887
Field and Hedgerow; Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies, Collected by His Widow (essays) 1889
The Toilers of the Field (essays) 1892
The Early Fiction of Richard Jefferies (novels, essays) 1896
The Saturday Review (review date 1879)
SOURCE: A review of The Amateur Poacher, in The Saturday Review, London, Vol. 48, No. 1253, November 1, 1879, pp. 548-49.
[In the following article, the Saturday Review critic provides a very positive assessment of The Amateur Poacher.]
This third volume of a very agreeable series is perhaps in some respects more enjoyable than its predecessors. Naturally we become sensible of a certain monotony, or at least of some diminution in the freshness of the first vivid pictures. But, on the other hand, the charms of the country are infinite with a variety that never grows stale; and the author of Wild Life and The Gamekeeper at Home dwells upon them with the affection of a lifelong familiarity. In The Amateur Poacher we have the most delicate painting of the minutest details of our rural landscapes, with realistic sketches in eloquent language of the changing scenery of English seasons. It is full, too, of the lively autobiographical reminiscences which always give truth and colour to a book. The author began his studies in amateur poaching in the earliest years of a happy boyhood. He was bred, if not born, as he has intimated to us before, in the most delightful circumstances a boy could desire. His home was in a venerable farmhouse in a primitive country, where the occupants had the right to shoot over farms that had never been touched by modem improvements. There had been no grubbing or trimming of the luxuriant hedgerows that divided the irregular fields; there was an abundance of the water that always attracts birds, with the pond under the alders and the brook among the osier beds, which we fancy we have heard of before. Rabbits swarmed in the banks and double mounds; snipe and even duck were to be found in the swamps and among the hedges in the season; a "cock" would now and then be flushed in the small spinneys; while, beyond the boundaries which enclosed their lawful shooting-grounds, were preserves that were strictly looked after by the keepers. The very danger of trespassing upon these forbidden domains had irresistible temptations for roving boys; and we have a thrilling account of an expedition into the great pheasant wood, although it was only upon very rare occasions that they ventured so far into the enemy's territory. The poaching indicated in the title does not necessarily imply breaking bounds. It merely means that, as boys will do, they had to follow their various sports under grave disadvantages of weapons, and were by no means particular as to the contrivances by which they circumvented the game.
The book begins with the romantic story of the youthful bent forcing its way under difficulties. It tells of the old gun with its single barrel of preposterous length, which had been hidden or forgotten in an attic popularly said to be haunted. "No modem mortal could have held that mass of metal steady to his shoulder." But the young artillerists made a gun-carriage of a chest set upon a linenpress, and they used the venerable piece of ordnance for practising sights upon animate objects from the garret window. That gun was burned in cruel kindness, lest the boys should do themselves a mischief with it; but as they were evidently set upon shooting with something or other, it was replaced a year or two after with another. Then the pair of scapegraces took the field in earnest, playing in a domestic English way at the hunter's life in the wilderness. They would sit watching for rabbits of a hot summer noon with the enduring stoicism of the Red Indian. "The shadowless recess grew like a furnace"; the black flies settled down upon them in crowds; and yet they felt bound in honour to sit motionless, in the hope of a shot at some unsuspecting rabbit. We can enter into their feelings of excitement when a woodpigeon perched upon a bough overhead, and, little dreaming of the danger immediately beneath, after assuring himself of his solitude by rapid glances all around, complacently gave them an easy opportunity; or still more, as they were navigating their craft among the osiers, when a great bird rose out of the wooded channel ahead, and dropped to a quick shot through the branches. The mysterious fowl proved to be a wild duck, and great was the triumph and rejoicing. For they had calked the seams of a water-logged old punt with dried moss and clay, and, having fitted her with a mast, a sail, and an anchor, they used to go poling her through the labyrinth of channels among the reeds. So far they had been more of sporting loafers than poachers. But their nautical tastes made them long for a handier boat, and to reach that object of their ambition money must be obtained somehow. Their ally the blacksmith was ready to buy any number of rabbits at sixpence a head, on the understanding that the vendor asked no questions. But getting rabbits with the gun was slow work, so it occurred to them that they might try their luck at wiring. The difficulty was, that though rabbits were known to be snared freely in the neighbourhood, nobody would own to having even a notion of the elements of the art. So they had to fall back on self-education and experiment, and it was only by slow degrees that they arrived at the necessary adroitness. In the chapter which gives the narrative of their studies, and elsewhere, we are taught the whole...
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James Purves (essay date 1883)
SOURCE: A review of The Story of My Heart: My Autobiography, in The Academy, No. 600, November 3, 1883, p. 294.
[Here, Purves appraises The Story of My Heart, calling the book "a contribution to the ideal in life."]
This book is decidedly clever, though very unsatisfactory. Mr. Jefferies has not told the story of his own heart so well as he told the stories of The Gamekeeper at Home and The Amateur Poacher. "If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer; let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away." So said Thoreau in Walden; and Mr. Jefferies for the...
(The entire section is 1285 words.)
Walter Besant (essay date 1888)
SOURCE: "Fiction, Early and Late," in The Eulogy of Richard Jefferies, Longmans, Green and Co., 1888, pp. 145-62.
[Besant was a prolific English novelist, historian, and critic who used fiction to exposé and denounce the social evils of late-Victorian England. In the excerpt below, Besant discusses the failure ofJefferies's early novels.]
The Scarlet Shawl was published in July, 1874, in one volume. As the work is stated on the title-page to have advanced to a second edition, one of two things is certain—namely, either the book appealed to a large number of readers, or the editions were very small indeed. I incline, myself, to the latter opinion....
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H. S. Salt (essay date 1894)
SOURCE: "As Poet-Naturalist," in Richard Jefferies: A Study, Swan Sonnenschein & Co., 1894, pp. 49-69.
[In the following excerpt, Salt discusses the shift in Jefferies's style from naturalist to poet-naturalist, as "we find the poetical and imaginative element wielding almost complete supremacy over the merely descriptive and scientific. ']
The volumes which mark this most important transition [from naturalist to poet-naturalist] are Wood Magic and Bevis, published in 1881 and 1882 respectively, in both of which the central idea is the intimate sympathetic converse that exists, or is imagined to exist, between childhood and Nature.
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Arthur Rickett (essay date 1906)
SOURCE: "Richard Jefferies," in The Vagabond in Literature, J. M. Dent & Co., 1906, pp. 141-66.
[In the following excerpt, Rickett discusses Jefferies as a vagabond temperment, stating that he 'presents to my mind all the characteristics of the Vagabond," including "his many graces and charms," as well as "his notable deficiencies. ']
Looking at [Jefferies] first of all as an artist, the most obvious thing that strikes a reader is his power to convey sensuous impressions. He loved the Earth, not as some have done with the eye or ear only, but with every nerve of his body. His scenic pictures are more glowing, more ardent than those of Thoreau. There was more of the...
(The entire section is 3279 words.)
Edward Thomas (essay date 1909)
SOURCE: "Recapitulation," in Richard Jefferies: His Life and Work, Little, Brown & Co., 1909, pp. 317-28.
[A poet, novelist, and critic, Thomas is the most prominent twentieth-century representative of the tradition of nature poetry in English literature. His verse displays a profound love of natural beauty and, at times, an archaic tone and diction. In the following essay, Thomas assesses the impact of Jefferies's personal life on his writings.]
Richard Jefferies was … always a child of the soil, as well as of the earth in a larger sense. From father and mother he had the blood of Wiltshire and Gloucestershire farmers. He was the second child (the eldest child,...
(The entire section is 4337 words.)
William Ernest Henley (essay date 1921)
SOURCE: "Jefferies," in Views and Reviews: Essays in Appreciation, Macmillan and Co., Limited, 1921, pp. 161-66.
[Henley was an important figure in the counter-decadent movement of the 1890s. As editor of the National Observer and the New Review, Henley was an invigorating force in English literature, publishing and defending the early works of such writers as H. G. Wells, Thomas Hardy, and Bernard Shaw. Below, Henley focuses on the qualities that made Jefferies's writings popular.]
I love to think of Jefferies as a kind of literary Leatherstocking. His style, his mental qualities, the field he worked in, the chase he followed, were peculiar to himself,...
(The entire section is 1482 words.)
Edward Garnett (essay date 1922)
SOURCE: "Richard Jefferies' Amaryllis at the Fair," in Modern English Essays, Vol. 5, J. M. Dent & Sons Ltd., 1922, pp. 102-11.
[Garnett was a prominent editor for several London publishing houses, and discovered or greatly influenced the work of many important English writers. He also published several volumes of criticism, all of which are characterized by thorough research and sound critical judgments. In the following essay, Garnett challenges the opinion of most critics that Jefferies was not a novelist, emphasizing the merit of his Amaryllis at the Fair.]
"The book is not a novel" is a phrase often in the mouth of critics, who on second thoughts might,...
(The entire section is 2613 words.)
Herbert M. Vaughan (essay date 1931)
SOURCE: "Richard Jefferies: Natural Historian of the English Countryside (1848-1887)," in From Anne to Victoria: Fourteen Biographical Studies Between 1702 and 1901, Methuen & Co. Ltd., 1931, pp. 156-75.
[Here, Vaughan explores Jefferies's writings, contending that they provide insight not only into natural history, but also into "the human element of the countryside. ']
Jefferies has had many imitators.… [He] was the founder of a new school in natural history. Even in the press of to-day one can discover echoes of Jefferies' influence in the small paragraphs of 'Nature Notes,' which most papers include in their columns. Of course these humble contributions own...
(The entire section is 6103 words.)
Q. D. Leavis (essay date 1938)
SOURCE: "Lives and Works of Richard Jefferies," in Collected Essays, Vol. 3, Cambridge University Press, 1989, pp. 254-64.
[Leavis was a twentieth-century English critic, essayist, and editor. Her professional alliance with her husband, FR. Leavis, resulted in several literary collaborations, including the successful quarterly periodical, Scrutiny, in which she published many critical essays. In the following excerpt, first published in Scrutiny in 1938, Leavis defends Jefferies against critical attacks of his works, calling him a "manysided and comprehensive genius.']
To secure Jefferies his right to be read, several points could be made. One is the...
(The entire section is 2098 words.)
Samuel J. Looker (essay date 1938)
SOURCE: An introduction to Jefferies' England: Nature Essays, edited by Samuel J. Looker, Harper and Brothers Publishers, 1938, pp. xi-xxvii.
[In the excerpt below, Looker compares the early and later works of Jefferies.]
What is most striking in the life of Richard Jefferies is the gradual development of his power of thought from the conventional and specious attitude of the early papers to a deeper realisation of the underlying needs and hopes of the mind.
It is a far cry from the Gamekeeper at Home to the "Pageant of Summer." The Jefferies of 1876 could hardly have written: "To be beautiful and to be calm, without mental fear, is the ideal...
(The entire section is 2212 words.)
William J. Hyde (essay date 1956)
SOURCE: "Richard Jefferies and the Naturalistic Peasant," in Nineteenth-Century Fiction, Vol. 11, No. 3, December, 1956, pp. 207-17.
[In the following essay, Hyde examines Jefferies's portrayal of peasant life in his writings.]
Never famous among the ranks of the English rural novelists, Richard Jefferies nevertheless possesses a handful of ardent admirers, whose acclaim of his rural realism encourages an analysis of his achievement in the rural scene. Both Edward Thomas in his study of Jefferies [Richard Jefferies, 1938] and Edward Garnett in his introduction to Amaryllis at the Fair [1908] offer high praise of Jefferies' treatment of rustic characters;...
(The entire section is 3401 words.)
Henry Williamson (lecture date 1959)
SOURCE: "Some Nature Writers and Civilization," in Essays by Divers Hands, n. s. Vol. XXX, 1960, pp. 1-18.
[Here, Williamson surveys Jefferies's life and discusses his development of two distinct styles.]
It is not always immediately apparent to the very young writer that a man's thoughts, and particularly his ideals, arise indirectly from the circumstances of his early environment. Truth has many relatives. And at the end of a life, as Heine the German poet wrote, 'Under every gravestone an entire world lies buried.'
Lacking the views of maturity in my youth, when first I read Richard Jefferies's The Story of my Heart, it was to me a...
(The entire section is 4982 words.)
W. J. Keith (essay date 1965)
SOURCE: "The Romances: Wood Magic, Bevis, and After London," in RichardJefferies: A Critical Study, University of Toronto Press, 1965, pp. 100-22.
[In the following essay, Keith explores some interconnections between Jefferies's romances—Wood Magic, Bevis, and After London.]
[Let us] consider the three… fictional works of Jefferies' maturity, Wood Magic (1881), Bevis (1882), and After London: or Wild England (1885), under the general term "romances." The first two are naturally linked by a common hero, Bevis, though they are so different in tone and intention that this superficial connection is somewhat misleading. But...
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Brian Taylor (essay date 1982)
SOURCE: "The Last Essays," in Richard Jefferies, Twayne Publishers, 1982, pp. 135-52.
[In this excerpt, Taylor studies four ofJefferies's essay collections, suggesting that his "numerous essays originated in his obsessive early cataloguings of the details of the natural world.']
The volumes of collected essays which saw publication in Jefferies's lifetime were Nature Near London (1883), The Life of the Fields (1884), and The Open Air (1885). Field and Hedgerow, published as "Being the Last Essays of Richard Jefferies, Collected by his Widow," appeared in 1889, two years after his death. These four volumes repay more detailed examination and...
(The entire section is 7006 words.)
Richard Mabey (essay date 1983)
SOURCE: An introduction to Landscape with Figures by Richard Jefferies; edited by Richard Mabey, Penguin Books, 1983, pp. 7-24.
[In the essay below, Mabey focuses on Jefferies's treatment of the common land-worker in books such as The Gamekeeper at Home and Hodge and His Masters.]
The central character in what Jefferies once called 'The Field-Play' is the land-worker himself. The shift in the way he is depicted—from laggard to victim to hero—is the most striking expression of the movement of Jefferies' thinking. Even his physical characteristics are viewed in different ways. In the early 1870s he is described as a rather badly designed machine. Ten years...
(The entire section is 5308 words.)
James Krasner (essay date 1992)
SOURCE: "Blossoms of Mutation: Field Theory in the Works of Richard Jefferies, W. H. Hudson, and D. H. Lawrence," in The Entangled Eye: Visual Perception and the Representation of Nature in Post-Darwinian Narrative, Oxford University Press, Inc., 1992, pp. 139-72.
[In the following excerpt, Krasner explores Jefferies's view of nature, noting that he perceives "natural energy rather than natural form."]
Albert Einstein [in The Evolution of Physics, 1961] explains the emergence of field theory as follows.
The old mechanical view attempted to reduce all events in nature to forces acting between material particles.… The field...
(The entire section is 4020 words.)
Further Reading
Arkell, Reginald. Richard Jefferies. London: Rich & Cowan, 1933, 294 p.
Biographical and critical overview.
Avebury, Lord. "Richard Jefferies." In his Essays and Addresses: 1900-1903, pp. 67-78. London: Macmillan and Co., 1903.
Touches on Jefferies's life and explores his views on nature based on his thoughts on evolution, theology, and philosophy.
Coveney, Peter. "Mark Twain and Richard Jefferies." In his
Poor Monkey: The Child in Literature, pp. 169-91. London: Richard Clay and Co., 1957.
Discusses Jefferies in the context of the romantic tradition, stating that "his work, with all its...
(The entire section is 298 words.)


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Last night my residential area lost power for about 2 hours, between 2-4 am. This reminded me of something, and there's analogies to MySQL infrastructure. Power companies have over recent years invested a lot of money in making the supply more reliable. But, it does fail occasionally still.
From my perspective, the question becomes: is it worth the additional investment for the power companies? Those extra few decimal points in reliability come at a very high cost, and still things can go wrong. So a household (or business) that relies on continuity has to put other measures in place anyway. If the power company has an obligation to deliver to certain standards, it might be more economical for them to provide suitable equipment (UPS, small generator) to these households and business (for free!) and the resulting setup would provide actual continuity rather than merely higher reliability with occasional failures. Everybody wins.
As a general architectural considering, new houses can be designed with low voltage circuits (12-24V) in most areas and 110/240V just in kitchen, laundry. Why? Because most stuff around your house actually runs on low voltage anyway, but uses inefficient heat-generating transformer blocks (power adapters) to get it. Cut out the middleman! It saves money, looks better, is safer (no transformers in ceiling for halogen lighting, etc), and there are fewer points of failure. It'd be fed from central batteries, charged by solar if you wish, and a single transformer (basically like a car battery charger) from mains power. Also think about led lighting for some places and uses, very cheap to run. Apart from all the aforementioned advantages, again it delivers higher uptime since a power failure will then not affect your lights and other stuff running off the low voltage circuit, since its direct power source is a battery – essentially a UPS for most of your house's electricity needs.
Mind you, I didn't invent any of this this. It's been done. All it takes is builders with vision, and/or home owners with initiative. Appying existing technology.


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White Pizza
- 1 store bought pizza dough - or pick one up from your favorite pizzeria
- Extra- virgin olive oil, for drizzling
- 2 cups whole or part skim ricotta
- 2 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- Handful flat-leaf parsley, finely chopped
- 2 cups shredded mozzarella or provolone, 1 pouch
- 10 fresh basil leaves, 1/2 cup, shredded
Preheat a pizza stone if you use one along with the oven to 425 degrees F.
Stretch dough to form a pie and transfer to stone or pizza baking tray. Pierce the dough with the tines of a fork in several places. Drizzle extra-virgin olive oil around the crust. Mix the ricotta cheese with garlic and parsley and season it with salt and black pepper. Spread the ricotta across the dough. Top the pizza with mozzarella or provolone. Bake until crispy, 20 minutes. Top the white pizza pie with the shredded basil leaves, cut and serve.
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""Flying is like good music. It elevates the spirit and it's an exhilarating freedom. I love the machines, I love the aviation community. I used to own airplanes and have pilots flying them for me, but I finally realized they were having more fun than I was." —actor and pilot Harrison Ford, in the Daily Mail (UK) "
Stars in the Sky
In today's world, it's less unusual for a top celebrity to own a jet than to fly commercially. That was far from the case only a few decades ago, however. Here's a look at some of the luminaries who pioneered the use of private aviation.
Frank Sinatra
In 1957, composer Jimmy Van Heusen and lyricist Sammy Cahn wrote "Come Fly with Me" for Frank Sinatra. The song not only became a standard for the so-called Chairman of the Board, it also became an anthem for the first generation to enjoy the private jet age and the freedom it afforded to travel luxuriously, spontaneously and rapidly.
Not surprisingly, Sinatra was one of the first Learjet owners. From 1965 to 1967, his Learjet 23, tail number N175FS, racked up 1,500 hours transporting him, his famous Rat Pack and a host of other showbiz friends, including Elvis, to movie locales, wild times in Las Vegas and the sanctuary of Palm Springs, California.
The Lear was not Sinatra's first airplane, nor would it be his last; he later upgraded to a Gulfstream II. But the Learjet was his most notorious aircraft. This was the airplane the then 51-year-old Sinatra used to squire actress Mia Farrow on their globetrotting, whirlwind romance. It doubled as the designated escape vehicle to get out of town fast after a night of overindulgence and fisticuffs.
This was also the airplane that took Sinatra to Vegas when he debuted his award-winning A Man and His Music big-band show with the Count Basie Orchestra in the Copacabana Room at the Sands Hotel in 1966. Of course, the opening song was "Come Fly with Me." By 1966, that was, after all, how most visitors were coming to Las Vegas.
Other celebrities and business leaders took note of Sinatra's latest mode of travel and it wasn't long before "Come Fly with Me" was sung by a chorus.
Bob Hope
For more than three decades, Americans were used to seeing Bob Hope TV specials that showed him stepping out of an Air Force cargo airplane to entertain troops at war. Stateside, his ride was decidedly more plush. In 1967, he bought a 10-passenger Lockheed JetStar, tail number N18BH.
The four-engine jet began as a military project during the 1950s and was later immortalized in the 1964 James Bond movie Goldfinger. It climbed at a brisk 4,150 feet per minute and had transcontinental range. The Air Force bought a fleet of them, which it designated VC-140Bs. At one time or another, they flew every U.S. president from Johnson to Reagan. One is on display at the LBJ Museum in Austin, Texas.
Other luminaries were also attracted to the model. Howard Hughes would escape seclusion to take the controls of his, and Elvis christened his Hound Dog One. The aircraft's original engines slurped a prodigious amount of fuel and were notorious for their high-pitched noise, so Lockheed began offering a retrofit with Honeywell TFE731 turbofan engines in 1976. Bob Hope was one of the first customers for the conversion. He kept his JetStar until he died in 2003, at age 100. His estate sold it. In 2010 it turned up on the market with an asking price of $400,000. In 2011 it was removed from the FAA registry.
Hugh Hefner
The so-called "sexual revolution" was a dominant cultural theme during the 1960s, and arguably no one benefited more from it than Playboy founder Hugh Hefner, who used some of the profits from his magazine publishing empire to begin flying privately.
On a 1966 commercial flight to London, he came up with the idea of having his own airplane, Big Bunny. It was a 1968 McDonnell Douglas DC-9-32 airliner, tail number N950PB, painted all black, emblazoned with the Playboy bunny logo on the tail and outfitted as a flying pleasure palace. "Hare Force One" featured a guest bar/lounge, a disco and a private stateroom with a huge six- by eight-foot elliptical bed covered in exotic furs. Hefner, who had begun his career as a cartoonist, dictated much of the design. He used the aircraft for international jaunts, commuting between his corporate offices in Chicago and the Playboy Mansion in Los Angeles, and squiring a long list of lovelies.
Although the focus was clearly on fun, the aircraft was professionally crewed and managed. Continental Airlines trained the leather-clad "jet bunnies" who served as stewardesses. Initially, the well-regarded flight department at Purdue University provided pilots and managed and maintained the aircraft as part of its "airlines program."
Hefner's empire hit a rough financial patch in the mid-1970s and he was forced to sell Big Bunny in 1976. The airplane was repainted, stripped of its hedonistic interior and pressed into airline service in Venezuela and Mexico. Much of the airplane was scrapped in 2008.
Malcolm Forbes
Malcolm Forbes was another publishing magnate who understood the power of branding. His Boeing 727, the Capitalist Tool, was painted in bold shades of green and gold and flown relentlessly to promote Forbes magazine. Compared with Hefner's ride, Forbes's was button-down corporate, even staid: the cabin featured a monochromatic grand lounge with multiple conversation groupings of leather executive single seats and divans with cocktail and card tables.
It wasn't so much what was on Forbes's airplane as who: Hollywood's A-list, including Elizabeth Taylor; the politically powerful, such as former secretary of state Henry Kissinger, defense secretary Caspar Weinberger and numerous governors; legendary CBS News anchorman Walter Cronkite; and various captains of industry. Forbes collected the rich and powerful much like he collected his famous Fabergé eggs. The jet, like his mega-yacht the Highlander, was a vehicle he used to bring them all together. He employed it for exotic outings to his Moroccan palace, his French chateau and his private Fijian island as well as for his global hot-air-balloon and motorcycle adventures.
Elvis Presley
Elvis Presley caught the private jet bug from Sinatra and later purchased a pair of JetStars. However, with his film career behind him in the 1970s, he focused increasingly on concert tours and needed a larger airplane. In 1975, he acquired a quad-jet Convair 880 from Delta Airlines. The model resembled a Boeing 707, except that it was slightly smaller and faster. Smarting from the 1973 Arab oil embargo, the airlines were eager to unload them, and Elvis snapped his up for less than $1 million. He ripped out the airline-style interior and had it customized with executive seating for 29, a private bedroom and bathroom with gilded faucets, a conference room and what was then a state-of-the-art entertainment system. Elvis named the airplane Lisa Marie after his daughter.
In 1977, the then 42-year-old Presley was hours away from boarding the Convair when he was found dead in his Graceland home in Memphis, Tennessee. The airplane was subsequently sold, but his estate reacquired it in 1984 and moved it to the Elvis Presley museum at Graceland. It remains one of the museum's most popular exhibits.
Paul Newman
Despite being one of the U.S. movie industry's most bankable stars during the 1960s, Presley was never really comfortable with the Hollywood scene. Neither was actor Paul Newman, who captivated film audiences in critically acclaimed films such as The Hustler, Hud, Cool Hand Luke and Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid.
Newman spent his free time racing cars and raising his family quietly in Connecticut with his wife, actress Joanne Woodward, whom he married in 1958. He bought his jet largely to support his car racing. On any given weekend you could find him behind the wheel at a Sports Car Club of America race or in the pits cheering on the IndyCar drivers of his Newman-Haas race team. And on the ramp at a nearby airport sat N499NH, his electric blue 1981 Sabreliner 65. Woodward sold the airplane after Newman's death in 2008, but it is still flying today from its new base in Alabama.
Adam Khashoggi
One of the largest private jets in the 1980s belonged to celebrity Saudi arms dealer and international fixer Adnan Khashoggi. From the 1960s to the late 1980s, wherever there was a flashpoint in the world, from Yemen to Nicaragua, Khashoggi was not far behind. Between 1970 and 1975, Lockheed reportedly paid him more than $100 million in sales commissions. In 1982, his Triad Holdings company purchased a stretch DC-8 four-engine jetliner and had a California company install a luxurious sculpted interior, complete with a star-map ceiling. The airplane's dishes alone reportedly cost three-quarters of a million dollars. The DC-8 was fitted with a large lounge and three private staterooms.
Although Khashoggi was in a profession that demanded discretion, he seemed to crave the media spotlight, often hosting elaborate parties on the airplane with Hollywood celebrities and international dignitaries and inviting coverage of his lavish lifestyle. This in-your-face visibility helped make Khashoggi a prime target of international law enforcement, and his finances subsequently unraveled. The airplane was sold in 1986. Two years later, Khashoggi was arrested in Switzerland and extradited to the U.S., where he stood trial and was acquitted on fraud charges. He now reportedly lives a somewhat more modest life in Monaco.
Prince Bandar
Large as Khashoggi's airplane was, another U.S.-based Saudi had an even larger one. Prince Bandar, who served as his country's American ambassador, parked his Airbus A340 jumbo jet at Washington, D.C.'s Dulles Airport during his tenure from 1983 to 2005. Often on weekends he used it to commute to his 56,000-square-foot, $135 million ski lodge in Colorado, where he entertained guests. Bandar was a fixture in the diplomatic corps and its leading bon vivant. He was such a frequent White House visitor that the Bush family began referring to him as "Bandar Bush."
Bandar's jet became the focal point of an arms bribery scandal in Great Britain shortly before he left Washington. Britain's Serious Fraud Office uncovered $240 million in payments from British Aerospace to the Saudi Embassy in Washington over the course of a decade that were allegedly used to defray the A340's operating expenses after Bandar allegedly helped steer an $80 billion Saudi arms buy the company's way. The investigation was dropped in 2006 and Bandar was never charged.
The A340 has recently been 'dusted off' and is back in service, being run by a former Red Arrows team leader.....
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"Evelyn Nesbit vs. Harry Kendall Thaw.
"Supreme Court, city and
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and I had apartments at the Hotel Maintenon in
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with Mr. Thaw to
"We then
traveled through the Bavarian highlands, going to the Austrain Tyrol.
all this time said Thaw and myself were known as husband and wife and
represented by the said Thaw and known under the name of Mr. and Mrs.
"After traveling for about five or six weeks, the said Thaw rented a castle in the Austrian Tyrol known as the Schloss Katzenstein, which is situated about half way up a very isolated mountain. This castle must have been built centuries ago, as the rooms and windows were all old-fashioned. When we reached the place there were a number of servants in the castle.
I saw a
butler, a cook, and a maid. They were the only servants there.
occupied one entire end of the castle, two bedrooms, the parlor, and a
room. I was assigned to a bedroom for my personal use.
first night we reached the Schloss Katzenstein I was very tired and
went to bed
right after dinner. In the morning I was awakened by Mr. Thaw knocking
on the
door asking me to come to breakfast, saying that the coffee was getting
cold. I
immediately jumped out of bed and hastily dressed. I walked out of my
room and
sat down to breakfast with said Thaw.
breakfast, he said he wished to tell me something and asked me to step
into my
bedroom. I entered the bedroom, when Thaw without any provocation
grasped me by
the throat.
"I saw by
his face that he was in a dreadfully excited condition. His eyes were
and his hands grasped a raw-hide whip. "He seized hold of me, placed
fingers in my mouth and tried to choke me. He then without the
provocation inflicted on me several severe blows with the rawhide whip,
severely that my skin was cut and bruised.
"I begged
him to desist, but he refused.
shouted and I cried.
stopped then for a minute to rest, and then renewed his attack on me,
me with the rawhide whip.
screamed for help, but no one heard me; the servants did not hear me
for the
reason that they were in the other end of the castle.
the said Thaw renewed his brutal attacks until I was unable to move.
following morning the said Thaw administered another castigation
similar to the
day before. He took the rawhide whip and belabored me unmercifully.
swooned and I did not know how long I remained in that condition until
regained consciousness.
"He left
me in a frightful condition. My fingers were numb, and it was nearly
weeks before I sufficiently recovered to get out of my bed and walk.
"When I
had sufficiently recovered the said Thaw took me to a place in --,
"The next
morning I made some remark and said Thaw took me to my room, and while
in the
room took a rattan and beat me until I screamed; when I began to scream
Thaw again stuck his fingers into my mouth.
all that time the said Thaw never attempted to make the slightest
excuse for
his conduct or state what the provocation was.
all the time my mother and I remained in
"When in
"One day
my maid was in my room taking things out of the drawers and I found a
silver box, oblong in shape, about two and a half inches in length,
a hypodermic syringe, and some other small utensils. I asked Thaw what
that was
for, and he stated to me that he had been ill, and had to make some
excuse. He
said he had been compelled to take cocaine. The first time I found he
addicted to the taking of cocaine I saw the said Thaw administer the
cocaine to
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to do so.
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were at the Schloss Katzenstein the said Thaw took from me without my
and still retains in his possession two diamond rings, one sapphire
ring with a
diamond on each side, one pearl locket, one gold purse and $400 in
money consisting
of drafts from Thomas Cook & Sons. He had also in his possession in
city of
"I had
not seen my mother since I left her in London, and I am informed within
last few weeks that she returned to the city of New York from London on
steamer Campania.
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see that all my requirements received attention. I had letter from him
to the
said Longfellow in which the said Thaw asked the said Longfellow to
have me
followed by detectives and also to see that everything I wanted was
done and to
see that I was not troubled by anybody.
"I had
received a number of cablegrams from Thaw which I have delivered to my
Abraham H. Hummel.
"I have been repeatedly told by the said Thaw that he is very inimical to a married man whom he said he wanted me to injure and that Thaw would get him into the penitentiary; that the said Thaw had begged me time and time again to swear to written documents which he had prepared, involving this married man and charging him with drugging me when I was I5 years of age. This was not so; and I so told him.
because I refused to sign these papers said Thaw not alone threatened
me with
bodily injury, but inflicted on me the great bodily injury I have
Subscribed to
before me this 27th day of October, I903.
"Sworn to before me this 27th day of October, I903."
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Tuesday, 16 November 2010
The full details on the terms of the PIKs
14 comments:
- United Rant said...
So why did David Gill keep telling us that it was nothing to do with MUFC when the debt was secured on the club.. or at least shares in the club. Isn't the CEO supposed to be concerned about ownership issues. Far too busy trousering his £2m a year salary.
- 16 November 2010 at 09:43
United Rant: Because technically, Gill was 100% right. It's like you borrowing money to buy shares in Barclays and the debt is secured on your shares. Barclays wouldn't be responsible for paying off the debt you borrowed to buy its shares.
- 16 November 2010 at 09:52
proven to be wrong anders
- 16 November 2010 at 10:10
Could you post Red Football Limited results when available,interesting times ahead
- 16 November 2010 at 10:18
If you're a bit short of cash, wouldn't it be a great wheeze to refinance the debt you own a chunk of, then pay yourself part of the money you've raised from the refinance.
Especially if you bought that piece of debt on the cheap, using borrowed money. £36m from a borrowed £10m. Genius!
- 16 November 2010 at 10:44
Anonymous - "proven to be wrong anders"
Bad tit, sir. We'd all love to be proved wrong, but there's already well over £400m gone out the door which could have been spent on players or kept ticket prices reasonable. You think we're going to see that again? You think there won't be at least as much again going out the club before they are gone?
- 16 November 2010 at 10:49
Interestig point redloner...they could possibly refinance to a slightly lower interest fee now and at the same time free up some cash reserves on their own...
- 16 November 2010 at 13:03
What are your thoughts on this from T Panja:
"PIK holders were contacted by representatives of United's owners last week and agreed to a waiver allowing the family to take 50 million pounds out of the team to buy back that amount of the bond. That permission isn't needed now that the Glazers are buying back the PIK debt."
This is a confusing development (though seemingly redundant) on top of everything else.
A week ago the PIKS, it seems, were to remain but the Glazers were focusing on delevering the bonds! What the bloody hell?
Wouldn't early partial redemption of the bond be expensive- they would need to be redeemed above par?
Now that the piks are (to be) removed, there are, I believe, no restrictions on how the carveouts and annual dividend entitlements are used; so presumably cash can be directed to other uses such as paying down the bond debt. Maybe this waiver business provides some insight in to their plans.
Your thoughts would be appreciated?
PS Could RF invest in its own debt? Could the club purchase, say, 50m of the bond on the open market as opposed to proceeding with a formal redemption of the same amount?
- 16 November 2010 at 17:43
I now think Rooney is off in Jan and the deal is done already. Hopefuly not, but we'll see.
- 17 November 2010 at 13:11
the answer to your PS is YES !
- 17 November 2010 at 16:18
That's what I thought too. I don't think there's anything to stop the Glazers taking dividends out of the club, buying bonds on the bond market and then earning the 10% coupons for themselves. MUFinance can't of course pay off any of the bonds until 2013, and not until 2017 without paying penalties.
It'd be good to get Andy's opinion though on why the Glazers were considering doing that while the PIKs were still in place, rather than using the cash to pay down PIK. Seems a strange one.
- 17 November 2010 at 16:50
'tis strange, surely.
In many ways, the bond has become-
in light of recent developments- an expensive and now largely reduntant refinancing exercise; its secondary (probably primary) function was to release cash to deal with the PIK. The Glazers wanted to delever at the RFJV level as opposed to the RF level. Seemingly, they have now managed to do so without exercising those careveouts, etc.
IF we had retained the old term loans, cancelled the original swap(as done), and rehedged, I believe the fixed annual cost would be around 28m pa (reducing in line with repayments) Vs the current bill of 45m.
Now, there would be a tricky mandatory repayment schedule to meet but as we could essentially repay(without penalty) at any time before the mandatory dates (using, say, the equivalent of some of the 'carveout money' ) the club could have managed to negotiate its way to 2014\2015 before having to refinance a reduced principal amount.
As it is, the bond matures in 2017 but it will be refinanced a good bit in advance to avoid potentially adverse credit conditions later on.
Again, I wouldn't mind hearing Mr Green's thoughts on this.
- 17 November 2010 at 18:13
- andersred said...
Hi LSD,
I think your analysis is spot on as usual. If the issue with the bank debt was the repayment profile there were far cheaper ways of alleviating that problem than doing the bond issue.
I end up thinking that supporter pressure, probably reflected by the elimination of all excess ticket demand, could have told in the end.
I very much doubt there was a desire to deleverage, rather a desire to stop the ongoing leveraging caused by the PIKs. The Liverpool sale valuation is telling in this, as is the extensive nature of the sale process Liverpool conducted. There just wasn't any demand at the sort of valuations the Glazers have in mind for United. This is despite the fact that Liverpool (with a properly financed stadium) is more of a growth asset than United.
If a valuation multiple of c. 10x EBITDA is more appropriate for United than the Glazers' 15x, the PIK issue was becoming potentially huge with total leverage around £740m currently and eating fast into an EV of c. £1bn. But taking the carve out risked a major revolt. Answer? Refi the PIKs another way and look for an opportunity to use the carve outs further down the track.
Speculation of course! I've given up on prediction and certainty.
- 17 November 2010 at 18:39
Hi Anders
It was entirely rational, and reasonable to assume that the Glazers would use the carveouts, etc, to deal with the PIKS. Assuming the converse would be unreasonable.
There was too much circumstantial evidence to thing otherwise. The JPM credit report assumed the same and we are talking about an informed document- the contents would have been approved by the Glazers. They 'certain'ly envisaged using club cash but hadn't 'predicted' or factored in the very negative and very public reaction.
I am somewhat skeptical of recent developments; I think we witnessed a bit of fancy finagling designed to create the illusion that we are finally shot of the PIK. I would wager that formally this is the case (in the sense that refinancing took place outside the UK group) but the club will bear the costs (of the substitute debt) indirectly through dividends.
From the press statements released by the club, It looks like the careveouts will be retained for the time being at least. It will be interesting to see if a consistency emerges wrt to annual dividends.
I can't fathom the variability in the valuation multipliers. Within a specific industry you would expect some consistentcy to emerge.
The very fact that such a broad spectrum of multipliers have been used to value different clubs within football should serve to remind us how inherently volatile football is as a business. The notion that any one club sould have a specific multiplier to determine its EV is odd.
Anders, if you get a chance, will you have a look at the T. Panja comment posted earlier.
And keep up the 'speculating'.
- 17 November 2010 at 22:38


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Betty Hart, whose research showed the importance of mother-child communication in the early years, has died at 85 in Tucson, reports the New York Times.
"Rather than concede to the unmalleable forces of heredity, we decided that we would undertake research that would allow us to understand the disparate developmental trajectories we saw," she and her former graduate supervisor, Todd R. Risley, wrote in 1995 in "Meaningful Differences in the Everyday Experience of Young American Children," a book about their findings, which were reported in 1992.
. . . "Simply in words heard, the average child on welfare was having half as much experience per hour (616 words per hour) as the average working-class child (1,251 words per hour) and less than one-third that of the average child in a professional family (2,153 words per hour)," Drs. Hart and Risley wrote.
"By age 4, the average child in a welfare family might have 13 million fewer words of cumulative experience than the average child in a working-class family," they added.
Educated mothers were much more likely to use an encouraging, warm tone with young children, while welfare mothers were more likely to reprimand their children.
The Hart-Risley research has been very influential, yet I think we could do more to help poorly educated mothers improve their parenting styles. Early childhood education funding should be focused on very disadvantaged children who need social and emotional support and exposure to language.


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I've wondered for years how we could contribute some perspective to the moral consternation that stem cell research stirred in recent years. As with so many other real and important questions raised by medical advances, I have been unconvinced by the blunt either/or choice that culture-war debates seemed to present: defining stem cell research as either a slippery slope to killing babies or a straight path to curing a host of dreadful diseases. Efforts to humanize the issue with real-life examples — seeming to present a stark choice between condemning Michael J. Fox to death by Parkinson's, for example, or finding an immediate way to save him — can misrepresent both the promise of this science and the moral concerns it raises. Hearing Doris Taylor speak a few months ago was a revelation. I knew I had found our way in to this topic. When it comes to stem cells — as to everything else in life, it turns out — the truth is complicated. And much of the story of stem cells — the big picture that arguments have obscured — falls outside the realm of the most passionately contested issues. From Doris Taylor I come to understand, for the first time, that the existence and function of stem cells is one of those discoveries, not unlike DNA, that will fundamentally change the way we think about the human body. I learn that there are billions of stem cells throughout my 48-year-old body, and as I write they are repairing my organs and tissues as they have done all of my life — albeit less vigorously at 48 than at 8 because of the passage of time and the stresses that life has imposed, and that I have imposed on my body. The newness and rapidly emerging nature of our knowledge about stem cells has contributed to incomplete premises and an understandable measure of fear. Doris Taylor has spent time in conversation with people in churches these past years as well. She has come away with a conviction that, if the medical community and journalists had used different vocabulary to discuss stem cells at the outset, some of the most heated debates might have been avoided. She has often encountered the false impression that the stem cell lines used for research came from aborted fetuses. In fact, as she says, "fetal cells" are too old for the work she does. And the "embryonic cells" she uses have all come from eggs fertilized by way of in vitro fertilization (IVF) that would otherwise be destroyed. This insight, of course, does not address moral quandaries over embryos and IVF technology. But much of the research Doris Taylor and others are doing might one day circumvent all of these issues. If she could build me a heart by way of the process she and her colleagues are refining in the University of Minnesota Center for Cardiovascular Repair, she would use my heart stem cells to do so. Seeing the untold story of stem cells beyond the lightning rod, moral issues clears my vision to see unexpected spiritual implications of this work. The genius of Doris Taylor's work is in its simplicity — in realizing that there was no need to "build" a heart from scratch. Instead, she works with a dead heart, extracted from a cadaver — nature's cardiac "scaffolding," as she thinks of it. She washes the lifeless heart, cleans it, and injects the decellularized scaffold with cells that know how to colonize it — and begin to beat and live again. Doris Taylor echoes one of my favorite themes: beauty is essential to life itself — beauty as a core moral value — as she describes the architectural perfection of nature that she honors and works with. In an exhilarating "field trip" to her lab, which you can watch on our Web site, I was able to hold the translucent heart of a pig in my hand and see its exquisite intricacy — at once delicate and muscular — for myself. Approaching the mechanics of life at this level inevitably raises questions about life's mystery. Doris Taylor says she is passionate about "regenerating heart on a lot of different levels." And as she considers how new knowledge about stem cells might one day change the way we think about health across the life span — facing aging, for example, or cancer — she is studying how spiritual technologies like prayer and meditation might support that. She describes a very simple test she did on the Buddhist spiritual teacher Matthieu Ricard, who will be my guest on this program in two weeks. She measured a vast increase in stem cells in his blood after just 15 minutes of meditation. All of this said, the fascinating science of stem cell research still comes with a world of real and complex moral uncertainties. We hope this conversation with Doris Taylor might broaden existing conversations and inform fresh thinking on the moral and ethical questions her science touches. Let us hear your thoughts — either as they're sparked by this conversation or through your own experiences and knowledge.
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"Bioreactors and Building Hope"
[video, 4:17] From my visit to Doris Taylor's lab, you can see elaborate architectural glass bulbs with tubes feeding suspended rodent hearts — one lifeless with old cells; another one stage farther, a pale "scaffold" ready for stem cells to be injected; and finally a regenerated heart pink, pumping, alive and beating on its own. Also, hear the story of the man with a heart disease that told Taylor she is "building hope."


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Here's how RW members rated this race in the past (589 votes).
In short: Very tough race! I thoroughly enjoyed the mad experiance! Date of review: January 1, 2007
In short: What a great race! Unlike anything I've ever seen!In full: Really enjoyed the race today and the run through on the 18th. Really friendly and encouraging fellow runners, marshalls and spectators out for a family walk on Box Hill! Thanks for organising it so well Dr Rob - My husband's up for the challenge next year too!Date of review: January 1, 2007
In short: Knacker cracker - did what it said on the tin!In full: Fab race, well organised, my compliments again to Dr Rob and the team. Loved the medal, (huge) cunningly designed with a long ribbon to hang around your - well, let's just say below the waist! Still don't know what the carrot is for - is there a night section?! Very very muddy this year, and the staggered start meant the step section toward the end was both slippery and a little crowded. A race that is friendly and tough in equal measure - looking forward to the Munro.Date of review: January 1, 2007
In short: hills and mud followed by soup and cheese rolls........ lovelyIn full: my kind of race.good staggered start great atmosphere,plenty of pain and hills. the steps at the end just about finished me off! great race ,happy marshals,great raffle at the finish!!! see you next year.Date of review: January 1, 2007
In short: Loved it, running in the mud, hurdling trees and those steps at the end – great start to a new year!!!In full: My first Knacker Cracker run and wasn't disaponited. Excellent organisation and extremely friendly marshalls and fellow runners, a definate for anyone that likes a challenging run! Date of review: January 1, 2007
In short: Great way to start yearDate of review: January 1, 2007
In short: Great way to start the New Year. Big thanks to Dr. Rob and his team!Date of review: January 1, 2007
In short: Fab race, and those hills are a killer, a real challenge to start the year.In full: Combination of long steep hills and muddy conditions really test your legs. Still I've got a whole year to get my legs strong enough for next year. A real test for any runner at any level.Date of review: January 1, 2007
In short: Four tough hills, muddy conditions but a excellent challenge on New Years day! Date of review: January 1, 2007
In short: Ouch ouch ouch ouch!In full: great race but am I going to hurt later or what??perfect way to start the year (if you like running up and down hills until your legs feel like jelly!)Date of review: January 1, 2007
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- 1 cup red lentils, washed and soaked for 1 hour, drained
- 2 cloves garlic, thinly sliced
- 1 green serrano chile, split and seeded
- 1 -inch piece fresh ginger, peeled and minced
- 1 medium onion, thinly sliced
- 1 large tomato, diced
- 2 tablespoons canola oil
- 1 teaspoon cumin seeds
- 1/2 teaspoon paprika
- 1/2 teaspoon turmeric
- Kosher salt
- Honey, for drizzling
- Optional garnishes: chopped fresh cilantro, yogurt, lemon or lime wedges
Combine the lentils, garlic, chile, ginger, onions, tomatoes and enough water to cover in a medium saucepan over medium heat. Bring the mixture to a boil, and then lower the heat and simmer until the lentils are tender, 30 to 45 minutes. Whisk the cooked lentils to release some of their starch and break them down further.
Warm the oil in a small saute pan over medium heat. Add the cumin seeds and cook until they are sizzling and spluttering. Stir in the paprika and turmeric. Pour the seasoned oil onto the lentils (be prepared for a big sizzle). Stir to combine; sprinkle with salt and a small drizzle of honey. Ladle into soup bowls and garnish with cilantro, a drizzle of yogurt, lemon or lime wedges.
From Food Network Kitchens; after further testing and to ensure the best results this recipe has been altered from what was in the actual episode.
Recipe courtesy of Aarti Sequeira


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DescriptionPelagia noctiluca may grow to 10 cm in diameter. The medusa colour varies from pale red to mauve-brown or purple and the exumbrella surface is covered in pink or mauve nematocyst-bearing warts. The mushroom shaped, deep bell has 16 marginal lobes, eight marginal sense organs and eight, hair-like marginal tentacles. These thin tentacles may extend as far as 3 m. All tentacles on Pelagia noctiluca are covered in nematocysts. The manubrium bears four thick, frilled oral arms. This species has no sessile stage and the adults release juvenile medusae in the autumn.Pelagia noctiluca feed mainly on pelagic ascidians and other small jellyfish (Hayward et al., 1996).
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In Search Of...A Cut Above the Rest: Part 2
A La Crosse barbers' heartbreaking and inspiring story
LA CROSSE, Wis. -- La Crosse barber Ken Garves has been cutting hair for six decades...and at 83-years-old, has no plans of closing up shop. "It's interesting. Everyday goes fast and it's very good."
And don't expect him to slow down anytime soon as a longtime member of the Mount La Crosse ski patrol. "We've got people from all walks of life. It's unbelievable."
But it turns out, it's Ken's walk in life that is the most unbelievable and in some ways - the most heartbreaking. First, a little back story. Ken was just 20 years old when he married his wife Ardel. "We met at the Avalon ballroom. We danced and one thing led to another."9198692
They had two children together, a daughter Vicki and a son Dan and as families go - they were about as close as they come. "Very close. I was very lucky in that respect."
But in 2006 that perfect family unit was shattered when Ardel, the love of Ken's life died from a heart attack. "She was the perfect mate. Everybody should have a wife like I had."
The years that followed her death were difficult but fortunately for Ken, "my two children they really took good care of me."
Losing a spouse is an unfortunate part of life no matter when it happens. But losing a child goes against the laws of nature. On January 30th, 2009, Ken's daughter Vicki and her husband Larry were flying home to Hudson, Wisconsin in a small plane piloted by Larry. "They just about made it home. I was working the next days and a policeman friend of mine took the obligation to come tell me."
Vicki, Larry and a friend also on board all died in the crash. "Federal aviation board said it was ice on the wings. It was tough. It's still tough."
After Vicki's death, Ken leaned on his son Dan and daughter-in-law Bobbi more than ever. "We were close, but I think we got even closer. They included me in so many things that I wouldn't have been included in."
"He's the perfect example of how life goes on and to keep enjoying it," say Bobbi Garves. "His amazing strength. His ability to go on."
I wish this were the end of the story. But it turns out, Ken would need to find the strength to survive the unthinkable yet again. On Valentines day 2011, "a friend of mine called and said, 'Dan had an accident.' I drove to French Island and they were hauling the truck away and I talked to a guy I new on the Sheriff's department and he said, 'I think you better get to St. Francis hospital right away.' So I did."
Ken's son Dan had a massive heart attack while driving. "He lived a few hours and that's all."
No parent should have to bury a child, yet here Ken sits today having buried two. "Do you ever ask, 'Why me?' Oh sure. You can't help but do that sometimes. Especially about your children. People say things get better and they do to a certain extent. It's good to have those memories."
But Ken Garves will not let his life be defined by the tragedies that have plagued him. And that's what this story, Ken's story, is really all about. About finding a way to go on, to overcome the terrible hand you've been dealt and continue to live life. "I don't know what I would have done without Ken to show me the way. I wanted to give up many times."
He finds comfort in his many, many friends, and also in a yellow lab named Noel - a dog that belonged to his daughter. "The dog was supposed to be in the plane with them that day. So I ended up with the dog. She's been a big help. She's good company. She's a good greater when I come home. And she don't leave my side when I'm here."
"Sometimes I think there aren't words to describe how amazing he is and his attitude towards life. He doesn't let the bad things take him down. He takes a hold of life and goes forward and I love him so much for it."
So yes, at 83 years old, he's still working. He's still skiing. He's still doing all the things he loves in life. "I think, you've gotta just stay ski-patrolling, that's why I'm still working, playing golf....fishing. I'm glad I've got those situations. I like to work. I like to leave this house in the mornings. I hug the dog goodbye. That's what keeps me going."
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Naked Spirituality: A Life with God in 12 Simple Words
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (Feb. 10, 2010) – The U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team coaching staff has initiated a new program called Coaching Outreach Program (COP) to promote the exchange of coaching ideas between the U.S. Women's National Team and college community.
The U.S. Women's National Team coaching staff of head coach Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand), assistant coach Karch Kiraly (San Clemente, Calif.) and assistant coach/technical coordinator Jamie Morrison (Dana Point, Calif.) developed the foundation of the COP program last summer with several goals in mind. The intentions of the program are three-fold: 1. Develop professionally as a group; 2. Build bridges and improve lines of communication between the U.S. National Team staff and the college coaching community; and 3. Catalyze discussion about best practices in teaching and learning.
The first COP session, with 20 coaches in attendance, was held Feb. 9-10 at the USA National Team Center located inside the American Sports Centers in Anaheim, Calif. The second session will take place Feb. 15-16 with an additional 10 coaches participating in the COP program.
To start the program in 2010, the U.S. Women's National Team coaching staff invited the head coaches and assistant coaches of all NCAA Division I programs who received an automatic berth into the 2009 NCAA Division I Women's Volleyball Championship tournament, plus some additional coaches by invitation.
"In our invitation letter, we assured the coaches that the National Team staff is not interested in telling anyone how to run their program, or in telling anyone how they should be developing players for the next level," Kiraly explained. "The program's goal is to stimulate thought, discussion and idea exchange."
As part of the program, the invited coaches took part in a tutoring and practice session from 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m. on Feb. 9. As a group, the coaches had a working lunch with the National Team coaching staff at the White House, one of the U.S. National Team Center sponsors in Anaheim, to talk volleyball and continue discussions on best practices. The day continued with the invited coaches watching the National Team performing individual work from 3-4 p.m. The session concluded on Feb. 10 as the invited coaches watched a second tutoring and practice session 9 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.
"I think the coaches really enjoyed the low-key atmosphere of this program to talk about volleyball," Kiraly said. "This was an opportunity for them to explore new ideas even with coaches who they compete against on the court and for recruits."
The U.S. Women's National Team coaching staff sees this as an annual event occurring in February with the purpose of allowing any new ideas to be implemented into a spring training season.
"We have chosen February, as opposed to May, for the COP program so that if the college coaches see any new ideas that interest them at the USA National Team Center, they will have the opportunity to put them into practice in their spring training period rather than later in the August pres-season," Kiraly said.
Attendees of Coaching Outreach Program Session I (Feb. 9-10)
Kristen Bauer (Coastal Carolina University Head Coach)
Rob Browning (Saint Mary's College (Calif.) Head Coach)
John Cook (University of Nebraska Head Coach)
Laurie Corbelli (Texas A&M Head Coach)
Cathy George (Michigan State University Head Coach)
Mick Haley (University of Southern California Head Coach)
Tonya Johnson (Georgia Tech Head Coach)
Chris Lamb (Wichita State University Head Coach)
Beth Launiere (University of Utah Head Coach)
Jim Moore (University of Oregon Head Coach)
Tim Nollan (University of Southern California Assistant Coach)
Santiago Restrepo (University of Oklahoma Head Coach)
Kyle Robinson (Long Island University-Brooklyn Head Coach)
Mark Rosen (University of Michigan Head Coach)
Dave Rubio (University of Arizona Head Coach)
Lizzy Stemke (University of Nebraska Assistant Coach)
Cookie Stevens (University of Southern California Assistant Coach)
Erik Sullivan (University of Nebraska Assistant Coach)
Ed Tolentino (Georgia Tech Assistant Coach)
Leonid Yelin (University of Louisville Head Coach)
Attendees of Coaching Outreach Program Session II (Feb. 15-16)
Molly Alvey (University of Houston Head Coach)
Ray Bechard (University of Kansas Head Coach)
Tom Black (Loyola Marymount Head Coach)
Kevin Hambly (University of Illinois Head Coach)
Tom Hilbert (Colorado State University)
Susie Johnson (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee Head Coach)
Pat Kendrick (George Mason University Head Coach)
Jon Newman-Gonchar (Loyola Marymount Assistant Coach)
Richard Nold (Jacksonville State University Head Coach)
Danijela Tomic (Florida International University Head Coach)


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Certified delicious.
Here at CI, we call 'em like we see 'em. We've got the "Bag o' Crap Sampler"....which is, well....crap. And we've got the Delicious Dozen II Sampler....of course, it's delicious. 12 cigars total, comprised of 4 top shelf brands, yours for 68% off. Take a peek at the list below, check my nutty price, and instantly be overcome with joy. Repeat as necessary.
The Delicious Dozen II Sampler includes:
3 - Rocky Patel Decade Robusto (5" x 50)
3 - Ave Maria Knights Templar (6" x 48)
3 - Cohiba Red Dot Robusto (5" x 49)
3 - La Herencia Cubana CORE (6.5" x 52)
This is a great sampler. All of them are great choices, not just some of them. My favorite is the RP Decade. Good cigars and a good price.
First class deal! Great smokes!
Overall, I'm happy with the sampler. The RP Decade was a very good smoke, so was the La Herencia Core. The Ave Maria and the Cohiba Red Dot were good.
Awesome sampler worth the price. I have found my top 5 cigar with the Cohiba's. This was the first sampler I ever tried I usually stick with my go to cigars of Kuba's. But I gotta say I am glad I took a gamble.
Very very good.
What a great sampler. I just got out of the hot-tub. About 2 fingers worth of Ryan Crème in one hand and the La Herencia in the other. Could life get any better? The crème was strong enough that I lost any nuisances of the cigar, but it was strong enough to hold its own against the drink and every bit as smooth! I had the RP Decade earlier in the evening and it was great also. The Cohibia is a fine cigar, but does not compare the other ones. I have had the Ave Marie before and I know it is great already. The bottom line is this is one of the best sampler values you can get.
Great Deal!!!
Lets call it the Delicious Nine. As other reviewers have commented, why include the very mediocre Cohiba Red Dot? Its not my style. I use these to give to friends....
Great deal, I loved La Herencia Cubana especially, thanks for discovering this cigar and this deal CI.
Great way to try some highly rated smokes. Picked this up when I was new to cigars. And it spoiled me. Can't beat the price.
I have enjoyed the Ave Maria blend, as well as the Cohiba offering in this exclusive sampler. Both are solid, tasty vitolas, well worth the meager 3 clams & change asking price. But to include 2 of the most prestigious & alluring blends on the market today, Decade & Core, for the same low cost, borders on unbelievable. Who am I too complain? Rocky's dynamite contribution to this "no-brainer" extravaganza is worshiped far & wide as one of the very best. However, what puts this over the top, makes it a bargain of unequalled value & assures you will be smoking the very best, is AJ Fernandez's zenith blend, the incomparable, unequalled full bodied/full flavored masterpiece, La Herencia Cubana Core. Just laying your paws on a toro 3 pack of these beautiful works of the blending art would set you back $25.00 or more. It's like getting 9 very good cigars for less than $1.50 apiece. Try this one out & see if you don't agree. I guarantee you will flip over Core & save yourself enough to buy the "better half" a little gift for putting up with the constant clouds of smoke they endure.
Definitely worth it just for the Rocky Patel Decade and the La Herencia Cubana Core. 2 great cigars!
Great buy
great sampler!rp decade nice but core still needs some seasoning.cohiba and ave m. needs some humi time too but all in all I'd buy again!
Templars smell like fish. Red dots were disappointing. Rest was amazing
Not gonna lie, this is all that I buy. For the price and the selection, NO OTHER website even comes close to a great deal such as this. HIGHLY recommended for any cigar enthusiast.
The Ave Maria's are one of the best cigars I've had the pleasure to smoke. Smooth and flavorful. Wish there were six of those and no Cohibas, but overall I'm very happy with the purchase
Took my cigar taste buds to the next level! I was very happy with this sampler. It really showcased the differences in some fo the medium and full body wrappers. I enjoyed all of them, especially the RP and LH. I highly recommend this!
AMAZING DEAL! All the smokes are top quality... and i know the red dots aren't the best, but i like them for a casual smoke. I would buy this sampler over and over. Got the oxford humidor to put them in and it all looks amazing. I was having them shipped regularly and they arrived in 2 days which amazed me. Thanks CI for another home run.
I purchased it for the RP Decades and Cohibas, but the CORE's were fantastic. Great deal- all solid cigars.
First of all, I just want to say this is my first time buying from CI and this sample pack came in today and the quality of shipping and packaging was amazing. Now these cigars are one of my favorite. This is a great deal from a great company. I will be a lifetime customer.
Any 3 of these smokes alone come close to covering off the shelf pricing at your local smoke shop. If you're even looking at this sampler, it is a safe bet that you know and enjoy a good cigar, so what are you waiting for?? ADD TO CART!
I just ordered this sampler for the second time. I think it's definitely worth the money just for the Decades and Cohibas. Can't go wrong with this.
This is by far the best sampler package that I have tried. All great smokes, never a let down. The price is just insane for such high quality cigars. Great job, CI, for putting this one together..........Kudos.
This has to be the best sampler in existance for the price. The Core is DELICIOUS, one of my top 5 cigars. I burn them down until my fingers are on fire!!! The RP Decade is another one of my favorites, very satisfying. The Ave Maria is a solid cigar all the way around. You know its a good sampler when the Cohiba is the 4th best cigar of the bunch. You just can't go wrong ordering this sampler for this price!!
I have to say one of the best samplers I have ever ordered from CI. The Ave Marias alone made this sampler worth it for me. I am smoking one as I write and words can not discribe how splendid a smoke it is. The only gripe I have about this sampler is like the many reviews before me. The Cohiba was lack luster at best. I bought this sampler solely to try the Cohiba and the Ave Maria. The Cohiba left me asking when is it going to get good the entire time. There was no depth, no spice, no nothing really. Just a meh cigar. The rest of the cigsrs however are amazing and more than make up for the Cohibas.
This is a great deal, but maybe there should be a word of warning about the LHC Core. This was listed under the mild to medium samplers. The LHC Core was a nice tasting cigar but it is certainly full bodied. And lots of ligero, which can leave the once-a-week smoker like me a little weak in the knees.
Great value for great Cigars!
This (Delicious Dozen) was the first sampler I have ever purchased, and it will be hard to beat. The La Herencia CORE is an excellent cigar, one that may never be beat. The Ave Maria's are a great smoke as well. I was a little disappointed in the Cohiba's though. For being a part of a sampler labeled "Delicious", I was expecting a little bit more, they were pretty bland. Overall this is a good sampler. I would recommend to a friend, however, I won't purchase again unless they replace the Cohiba's with something more flavorful.
One of the BEST deals going! I LOVE the Miamis', my new top of the line smoke. The Aves' were not a disappointment but expected more. For the money cannot be beat.
I really loved this sampler! The Cohibas were amazing and so were the Padilla Miamis. I was also pleasantly surprised to find that the Ave Marias and Cores were great cigars as well. I especially liked the Core. I would definitely recommend this sampler to other and would purchase it again. In fact, I plan to very soon.
The Ave Maria and La Herencia Cubana CORE are two of the finer cigars you'll ever have the pleasure of smoking. Absolute winners ... with the Ave Maria being a medium bodied smoke on the order of classic Cubans with a nice sweetness to it, and the La Herencia being a bit bolder and full bodied (which I favor) that really could stand side by side with the best cigars made today. To be honest, I liked the La Herencia better than the terrific Padron 1926 I last smoked. That's how good it is. Now, the bad news ... the Cohiba was another story. Picture a tasteless Dominican budget cigar .... choke down a third, and put the rest in your golf bag. Come back next season and fire it up ... and it will still taste better than that nasty thing called the Cohiba Red Dot Robusto. Worst cigar I have ever tried to smoke. It didn't even resemble tobacco ... like the other reviewer said ... I don't know what it tasted like, but any adequate description could not be rated PG. I'm hoping that the Padilla Miami is consistent with other Padilla Miamis I've smoked in the past which have been very good if less than remarkable. Overall, the deal is still good given the quality of the Ave Maria and La Herencia, but the Cohiba keeps it from being a screaming deal because they are pure throw-aways.
Great deal on some real nice cigars!!! Just got the box today and was very happy to see how nice the stoggies looked. I was excited to try the cohiba and was very disappointed not a very good cigar at all!!! I hope the others have at least some flavor other then umm well not sure what flavor I was getting with the cohiba.
Great buy. These are great cigars and worth every single penny. Love the value.
Great Deal.. all around good package for the price. "the Delicious Dozen II"
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The subject of over 20 scientific studies, BeActive is also the ONLY supplement of its kind certified for its ability to support healthy MMP (Matrix Metalloprotease) activity within normal levels. MMP's are enzymes that break down collagen and cartilage, and can excessive wear and tear on joints as we age. One study even showed 93% of participants feeling significant and noticeable improvement in joint comfort. Also eco-friendly, BeActive™ has even been independently studied to be SUPERIOR to Glucosamine and Chondroitin. (1)
With over 1,000,000 bottles sold in Europe, Asia, and the South Pacific, BeActive's formula is finally available in the United States.
Note: (1) In vitro laboratory studies on BeActive's unique glyco-amino isolate show it to have a more extensive range of activity for reducing joint and muscle discomfort compared to Glucosamine and Chondroitin, including antioxidant activity (ACCMER, Sept 2005).
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- Contains Omega-3, Omega-5, Omega-6, Omega-7 and Omega-9 fatty acids
- Contains Glycosaminoglycans made up of Chondroitin, Keratin, Derma Sulfates, and Hyaluronic Acid
- Supports healthy COX-2 and 5-LOX enzyme levels
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Everyday Minerals, Shimmer Eyes, Midnight Mystery, .06 oz (1.7 g) (Discontinued Item)
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