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The Republicans so far have largely let the Democrats take the lead. Senators Joseph Lieberman of Connecticut, Charles Schumer of New York, and Evan Bayh of Indiana have obliged. Undaunted by the fact that America's save-face withdrawal of combat troops from the disastrous Iraq war is four months from completion, while reports of suicide bombings in post-election Iraq arrive daily, and unfazed by the dysfunction and corruption of the Afghan narco state, these donkeys seem to relish the thought of another quagmire.
The latest round of war chatter began weeks ago, after the United Nations International Atomic Energy Agency reported that Iran may be working to develop a nuclear-armed missile. This report contradicts US intelligence, which three years ago held that Iran had abandoned its nuclear-weapons program in the fall of 2003. Israel, whose existence is on the line, disputed that assessment. And European governments, citing circumstantial commercial evidence as well as new intelligence, have been taking the Iranian threat far more seriously.
Popular Iranian support for removing the fundamentalist mullahs who oppress their own people, demonize the West, hate America, deny the Holocaust, and want to destroy Israel may be widespread, but it appears to be stalled in its tracks. It is possible that Iran has recommitted to a nuclear future in the hopes of discouraging foreign support for its internal opponents or encouraging the public's latent nationalist sympathies.
But this is no more a time for guesswork, just as it is no time for war-mongering. The UN's warning should be taken seriously. American intelligence should be reassessed. And, in the meantime, the slow and often frustrating business of implementing a fourth round of sanctions against Iran must continue. Russia has shown signs of perhaps conforming to common sense. China, long against such a process, has signaled it might be willing to consider such a resolution.
President Barack Obama's nuclear-disarmament initiative is an important part of this larger strategy. Not only would it place nuclear outlaws such as North Korea and possibly Iran outside a newly defined non-attack zone, it offers Russia solid diplomatic motives for cooperating.
For the time being, diplomacy and international deterrence is the way to deal with Iran.
Vote Flaherty
Next Tuesday, residents of Allston-Brighton and parts of Cambridge, Chelsea, Everett, Revere, Saugus, and Somerville will choose their Democratic nominee for the State Senate. That primary winner will be the de facto senator-elect — and the Phoenix believes it should be Tim Flaherty.
Flaherty, a former prosecutor (and son of former House Speaker Charles Flaherty), impressed us when he ran for the seat in 2007, losing to Anthony Galluccio. He is even more impressive now. He has thoughtful approaches to job creation, housing, education, and transportation; a genuine concern for substance abuse and gay and transgender rights; and a smarter approach to criminal justice.
On those issues, Flaherty will best be able to pick up the ball from Galluccio, who resigned earlier this year. Galluccio's personal troubles aside — along with his regrettable failure to face up to them — he was a dedicated legislator who served his constituents and the state well.
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umm we beat the browns and bucs, lol
That's a recipe for 8-8.
I do not care as long as they do not beat us
Well this was fun. Glad you were able to visit... PS. As I have said, Smith is a manager. Perfectly seen when they brought in some back up qb to throw a deep pass before the half. And all he can do is play the west coast style offense of small to mid range passes. GL 49ers


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Berlin Townhouse on Victoria Park
Size30 m²
Floor No.
- Kitchen
- Washer/dryer
- Parking available
- Balcony/terrace
- Internet/WiFi
- Towels
Accommodation summary
|Sixtusgarten, 10965 Berlin, Germany
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|2 weeks ago
The apartment is quiet, has its own entrance and private garden terrace. It is located in a listed site of the former Schultheiss brewery. Access is through the Gothic door from the former brewery park with beautiful old trees.
From the apartment is only 100 meters to the road Bergmann, one of the most popular streets of Berlin scene with all the necessary but also unusual shops, many restaurants, cafes, bars, market hall and on Saturday organic market. In the immediate neighborhood of Kreuzberg is the Victoria Park, one of the most popular and most diverse parks in Berlin with the famous monument of freedom Friedrich Schinkel and a fantastic view over the city.
Features: Entrance hall with wardrobe and wardrobe, double bed 1.60 x2.00m, bathroom with tub / shower and washing machine, small fully equipped kitchenette, cable TV, DSL, Wi-Fi, stereo, radio, CD player, solid wood flooring, underfloor heating.
Public transport: metro stations: Place the air bridge, 200m, 300m Mehringdamm, several bus lines, easy parking.
Price: 45,00 € / night (including linen and towels)
additional cleaning: 25.00 €
Minimum stay: 3 nights
House rulesNon Smoking
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Reviews of this property
Everything worked out perfectly. The accommodation was great and we will definitely be back.
Es hat alles hervorragend geklappt.
Die Unterkunft war super und wir werden sicherlich wiederkommen.
This place was very pleasent. The landlord easy to deal with. All went well. Although there went something wrong with the bookin the last few days. It turned out it was double booked, but we had no interfering with that after 1 phone call. Will book again if necessary. thanks!
townhaus am park is an excellent place in berlin: veryy quiet, comfortable and a lot of restaurant in the neighbourhood. we like to come back in summer to enjoy the garden !
frits and hanninka february 2013
Small, well equipped apartment in a great location!
Kleines, gut ausgestattetes Appartement in toller Lage!
A lovely place to stay in Berlin. Beautifully situated on the edge of Viktoria park, very quiet. Comfy beds. Definitely recommended for those people wanting.
Een heerlijke plek om te verblijven in Berlin. Mooi gelegen aan de rand van Viktoria park, heerlijk rustig. Lekkere bedden. Zeker een aanrader voor wie een plekje zoekt.
There everything was right. The host was very nice and reliable and that the apartment nice and quiet even though it is the middle of it. Thank you! Until next time
Es hat alles gestimmt.
Der Gastgeber war sehr nett und zuverlässig und die Wohnung schön und ruhig gelegen obwohl man mitten drin ist.
Danke! Bis zum nächsten Mal.
Very nice home, studio ideally located, very pleasant taking into account the views and equipment available.
Accueil fort sympathique ; studio idéalement placé, très agréable compte-tenu de la vue et de l'équipement mis à disposition.
The "Town House" at the park holds everything it promises. The location is really great - very quiet and yet very close to the Kreuzberg events. In 5 minutes you reach 2 subway lines and the Bergmannstraße. Wonderful. The apartment has everything you need for a few days holiday. The garden front of the house is great, there is something rather rare in Berlin.
Das "Townhaus" am Park hält alles, was es verspricht. Die Lage ist wirklich großartig - absolut ruhig und doch sehr nah am Kreuzberger Geschehen. In 5 Minuten erreicht man 2 U-Bahn Linien sowie die Bergmannstraße. Wunderbar.
Das Apartment bietet alles, was man für ein paar Tage Urlaub benötigt. Der Garten vorm Haus ist großartig, sowas gibt es in Berlin doch eher selten.
The apartment corresponded to the description, and we were satisfied with the stay in the apartment
Lejligheden svarede til beskrivelsen, og vi var godt tilfredse med opholdet i lejligheden
Wimdu is just great everything was fine geklappt.Unser home genausoo how beschrieben.Mit our host has also worked fine. Lg Ilonka and Christa Every time again.
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Hello all,
I have posted before but have not replied much as life got busy and weird for awhile. Here is my situation and thanks in advance to all who may reply.
I live in Southeast Virginia zone 8a and we had a mild winter. Two snows that melted the next day, only 10-15 days with lows in the 30's and most days between 40-55 with some being as high as 65-70. I have seen the bees bringing in bright yellow pollen, pale yellow pollen, red pollen, and our rock maple put buds out on Valentine's Day. Today the high is 50 and sunny and the bees are flying. I checked on them and both hives feel light and as I was watching the entrance I saw one bee with shriveled wings.
I have two hives. One is in a deep and two mediums and the other is a nuc in a deep and one medium. I started keeping before reading Michael Bush's book and will be switching to all mediums and setting up the hives as he suggests this season. When I do that I'll start a separate thread for advice My family and I are moving to SW Virginia as soon as our house sells here so the bees will be going with us and I want them strong for the ride.
Question 1. The hives are light but they are bringing in pollen and eating some dry sugar I placed on newspaper on top of the frames. Do I need to make candy to get them through the next couple of weeks. We have dandelions blooming now.
Question 2. How worried should I be about the shriveled wings I saw? I keep the bees foundationless, with the exception of the regular deep which has plastic foundation from the friend who gave me the bees, and they draw straight comb. I don't want to start down the road of chemical intervention. The bees did fine all summer without foundation and the nuc exploded, raised their own queen and she layed a very nice brood pattern, and drew straight comb on the foundationless frames.
Question 3. When should I plan on moving the nuc to a 10 frame medium hive? Right before a flow? Does anyone know the *usual* spring flow for zone 8a?
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Would you guys trade Alex Smith for Eli? I know our answer but my friend (niner fan) who said they wouldn't and it got me wondering
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Would you guys trade Alex Smith for Eli? I know our answer but my friend (niner fan) who said they wouldn't and it got me wondering
I like Alex. ALOT. I think he can take this team all the way in this offense.
That said, Eli is a better player.
Anyone that wouldn't is an idiot.
Cutler? Stafford? No freakin way.
What this offense requires is a guy who won't turn the ball over in bunches and is willing to rely on the running game.
I think Eli can do that. He is more capable of accurately making all of the throws a QB needs to make.
He wouldn't have anything close to the Numbers he would put up in NY, but he could play in it.
Remember...Andrew Luck played in this O.
Watch this on Sunday....
The 49ers come to the line on every down with at least 2 plays. You will see Alex take the play clock almost all the way down and then yell either "Let it Roll!!!" or "Kill Kill Kill".
On the regular season Kendall Hunter run for a TD, alex almost killed the play before Joe Staley looked back at him from his stance and told him to keep the play. Good thing for the Niners that they did.
At Stanford, Luck had 3 plays at the line, but that was his third year in the O. Not sure if Niners will do that.
Eli would win 3 back to back SBs with the 49ers team.


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I don't get it! He was a warrior last year during our playoff run... I actually thought he arrived. I mean he was a decent QB before, just a little inconsistent but I thought he was gonna be outstanding this year for us.
Yeah our offensive line has problems but he hasn't really been on his game all year. Yeah he threw for a ton of yards against Tampa but he also had 3 1st half turnovers. He's either injured or his head just simply isn't in the game.
Eli is a very overrated QB sure he is a good QB with 2 SBs but very a inconsistent one
when he throws a good ball these guys have to catch it
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Book Club: Crushed
Why we're buzzing about it: There is no such thing as too much PLL! Crushed came out just in time to hold us over until the new series begins next week. It will premiere June 11 at 8/9 p.m. on ABC Family, as the search for A continues. You can also win a trip to the PLL set! Click here to enter!
What it's about: The thirteenth book in the PLL series is just as suspenseful as ever! For most students at Rosewood High, it is the most important time in high school: prom season. But for Aria, Spencer, Hanna, and Emily, the search for A is always a top priority. This book is full of secrets, lies, and mind games—but this time, the girls have a plan.
Sara Shepard, the author of the PLL series, gave Seventeen the inside scoop on what exactly the girls have in mind during an exclusive interview: The fearsome foursome creates a War Room where they make a list of possible A suspects. One by one, the girls cross each suspect off the list. The girls get nearer to unveiling the truth, but the plot continues to twist. Will they get close enough to uncover just who is behind the madness, or will A distract, deceive, and defeat the girls...again?
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Cosy & Central One-Bedroom Apartment
Size50 m²
Floor No.0
- Kitchen
- Washer/dryer
- Internet/WiFi
- Towels
- Hot tub
Accommodation summary
|Mezibranská, 110 00 Prague, Czech Republic
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|Property ID
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|Calendar updated
The flat comprises a spacious open-space dining living room, a separate fully-equipped kitchen corner, a bedroom and a bathroom.
The compact kitchen corner comes complete of all comforts. It features a cooker with oven and extractor hood, a fridge-freezer and a microwave oven. Cutlery and crockery, pots and pans, a kettle, mugs, glasses, cups and all essential cooking tools are provided.
Staples like tea, coffee, sugar, salt, spices, washing powder and washing-up liquid are also on the house.
The open-plan living dining room features a three-seater sofa bed, a conference table, a bureau, a wardrobe and a dining table with two chairs.
The bedroom features two brand new twin beds, a wardrobe and a stool.
The bathroom is equipped with ventilation and features a sink, storage cabinets, a shower booth, a washing machine and a toilet. A set of two bath towels is provided for each guest. A clotheshorse, an iron and an ironing board are also available for guests.
The flat comes complete with FREE cable TV (Channels in English, French, German and Russian) and a DVD player. High-speed Wi-Fi internet access is also included in the price.
Bed linen and bath towels are provided. A change of bedlinen and towels is offered for free for stays longer than 4 days.
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House rulesBed linen, towels and toiletries are provided.
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Reviews of this property
Mirko was a very nice and helpful Host.
Communication and key exchange went flawless and he was glad to help with any questions.
The apartmant was exactly as described.
It's located directly next to Wenceslas square and therefore perfect to explore the beautiful city from there.
Due to new soundproof windows and the apartment heading to a backyard it is despite the central location still very quiet in the nights and you can easily get some rest for the next day.
Overall it was a very nice trip and if you want to visit Prague i would recommend considering this offer!
Location is perfect! Flat is very confortable and beautiful. Mirko is a very good host, he provided map and suggestions which are very helpful for our travel. I will strong recommend Mirko's apartment to all of my friends who are going to Prague!!
Mirko is a very friendly person who gave us a lot of hints which were very helpful. The flat is located in a very central area close to the wenzelsplatz. It was very clean and well furnished. We would highly recommend that flat and Mirko as the owner!
We were surprised at first that there is a basement apartment. However, we then pleased us during our stay on the quiet location. With the loving and facilities for living room, kitchenette, bathroom and bedroom, we were very pleased.
Überrascht waren wir zunächst, dass es eine Kellerwohnung ist. Allerdings haben wir uns während unseres Aufenthaltes dann über die ruhige Lage gefreut. Mit der liebevollen Ausstattung von Wohnraum, Küchenzeile, Bad und Schlafzimmer waren wir sehr zufrieden.
The apartment is really central, right on Wenceslas Square and next to a subway station. I was afraid that it will be very loud indeed, it is very quiet, because facing the courtyard.
What we did not know: the apartment is located in the basement; Views one does not (just only on the court). It is not uncomfortable, but not so that you would like to spend a long time in there (which we did not intend anyway).
Otherwise, small but well equipped, in the kitchen nothing is missing, free Wi-Fi (fine) and cable television (not so important to me).
Mirko was very friendly and helpful; as we had once locked us he was immediately prepared the evening to wait for us until we get home.
Die Wohnung ist wirklich sehr zentral, direkt am Wenzelsplatz und neben einer U-Bahn-Station. Ich habe befürchtet, dass es sehr laut sein wird, tatsächlich ist es aber ganz ruhig, weil hofseitig gelegen.
Was wir nicht wussten: die Wohnung liegt im Souterrain; Aussicht hat man keine (eben nur auf den Hof). Es ist nicht ungemütlich, aber auch nicht so, dass man sich längere Zeit drin aufhalten möchte (was wir aber eh nicht vorhatten).
Sonst: klein, aber gut ausgestattet, in der Küche fehlt nichts, gratis WLAN (fein) und Kabelfernsehen (für mich nicht so wichtig).
Mirko war sehr freundlich und hilfreich; als wir uns einmal ausgesperrt hatten, war er sofort bereit am Abend auf uns zu warten, bis wir heimkommen.
Good reception, good service, no complaints!
Bon accueil, bon service, aucun reproche à faire!
Mirko is a great host, very accommodating. Apartment was just as advertised. Very central location. Close to all major attractions.
My vacation in Prague became especially fantastic memories anyway. This apartment is in quiet location and close to center and metro,clean and nice room. Mirko and his colleague have very kindly character,so I was really comfortable.I will choose his room next time too.I can recommend this room,but he showed his other room,also very nice.I recommend his all room too!!!
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Borough Apartment - 24447
Size60 m²
Floor No.(with elevator)
- Family/child friendly
- Internet/WiFi
- Kitchen
- Washer/dryer
- Elevator in building
- Towels
- Dishwasher
Accommodation summary
Tower Bridge, the Millennium Bridge, Blackfriars Bridge, Southwark Bridge and London Bridge all connect across to the City of London are within the borough. The Tate Modern Art Gallery, Shakespeare's Globe Theatre and the Imperial War Museum are within the borough. Borough Market near London Bridge is probably London's most famous food market.
Iron & Ironing Board, Hair Dryer, Bed Linen & Towels, Washing Machine, Dishwasher, DVD, TV, vacuum cleaner, internet connection, heating
Drying Rack, Hair Dryer, toilet, shower, washbasin , bathtub, Heated towel bar, mirror
Drying Rack, Hair Dryer, cupboard, toilet, shower, washbasin , Heated towel bar, mirror
Bed Linen & Towels, double bed, night tables, lamp, shelves, wardrobe, mirror
Bed Linen & Towels, double bed, night tables, lamp, shelves, wardrobe, mirror
2 x Bathroom, Kitchen in the living / dining room, Living room, 2 x Bedroom
Cookware & Kitchen Utensils, Crockery & Cutlery, Washing Machine, Dishwasher, DVD, TV, cooking hob, oven, electric kettle, microwave, toaster, plates, pans, fridge / freezer, coffee maker, coffee table, table and chairs, double sofa bed, Complimentary Tea & Coffee, cupboards
House rulesCheck in takes place at Union Street, SE1 1SZ. Exact address is mentioned in confirmation voucher. Office is within walking distance.
Office is opened 24/7
Arrivals after 21:00 will be subject to a late check-in fee of 20 GBP and 30 GBP from 00:00
Upon check-in, guests are required to:
- all guest staying must provide a valid, government issued photo ID
- A security deposit of GBP 150 against breakages will be charged as guarantee on credit/debit card or cash.
- In case of groups of 6 or more guests, the security deposit will be GBP 50/person.
- 300GBP or higher for youngsters and last minute bookings.
- Visitors after 22:00 are not permitted. Guests may be evicted if this rule is not adhered to.
The lead guest must be at least 18 years old, otherwise they will not be allowed to check in.
Deposit is fully refundable upon check-out and subject to a damage inspection of the accommodation.
NO PARTIES allowed within the rented property nor disturbing the peace. Guests found breaking this rule will be charged penalty and asked to leave without a refund.
Apartment is non smoking and pets are not allowed.
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It was a lovely apartment with plenty of space. It was also situated in a very quiet area close to old town square. It couldn't be better.
Perfect location! We where 6 adult staying for 3 nights. The flat is big (I'd guess bigger than stated 130 Square) with good planning. Nice old flat that could have benefited from a tad better shape but still really good.
Nice and charmning apartment that had all the needed equipment. The location could not be better! It was a pleasure to walk outside the door and be in the middle of Prague! Nice service from Katarina and the whole team around Old Town Apartments.
We were very good . The apartment is very spacious , in zone 1 , very equipped and clean although I do not like the carpet . I recommend it to everybody.
very nice apartment, definitely worth the price. The elevator was a little bit of agame, not always working, but that´s all. Likely to rent again. (stayed with 10 people)
What a beautiful welcome to Prague. Two large bedrooms, one with a view looking out over the red-tiled roofs of the city towards the town square. Could not be better located. Friendly pivovars, Charles Bridge and abundant restaurants are all within a 15-minute or less walk.
The apartment was spacious and had loads of character and charm. It is in a wonderful location: close to shops and restaurants and only a short walk to the city centre. We only had two minor frustrations with the apartment: 1) the washing machine did not work too well, 2) the beds were a little hard. Apart from these two minor points we loved the apartment and found the staff professional and very helpful.
Good apartment. Lift from ground floor essential if elderly/infirm as on 6th floor. Ideal location next to the River and a 10/15 min walk to Old Town and Wenceslas Square. Lovely views from balconies and good base with local bars /restaurants nearby, Third bedroom is in attic with stairs from lounge and some headheight restrictions. Great base for first visit to Prague golfing/city break. Would use again.
Super apartment that was what we needed and no doubt it'll be this apartment again if we were to get past Prague.
Super lejlighed, der var hvad vi havde brug for og er ikke i tvivl om det blir denne lejlighed igen hvis vi skulle komme forbi Prag .
Hello. The service from you was spotless, everyone we came in contact with was hyggelige.Leiligheten was big and nice. The kitchen was clean and well equipped .. The beds were good. The apartment was very well presented. But .... The floors were filthy, there was an old deodorant on the floor in one bedroom, it was dusty at night table and table / benches. It should have been informed that the man had to go through one of the bedrooms to get to another bedroom. Incredible worn, cheap table in the living room, which can easily and reasonably could have been shifted to new and made it nicer. The chairs in the kitchen was lealøse and we were afraid they were going to fall apart when we sat on the. There should have been at least two towels for each guest when one lives in three days. Lamps were broken lock on one bathroom door was broken. In the bathroom you must get a shower curtain and wall-mounted shower heads. The apartment could have been sooo much better and pleasant with small, inexpensive adjustments. Otherwise we had a great long weekend with beautiful weather. The apartment is best suited for three couples. Regards Anne Grethe
Hei. Servicen fra dere var upåklanderlig, alle vi var i kontakt med var hyggelige.Leiligheten var stor og fin. Kjøkkenet var pent og bra utstyrt.. Sengene var gode. Leiligheten lå veldig sentralt. Men.... Gulvene var skitten, det lå en gammel deodorant på gulvet på det ene soverommet ,det var støvete på natt bord og bord/benker. Det burde vært opplyst at mann måtte gå igjennom et av soverommene for å komme til et annet soverom. Utrolig slitte, billige bord i stuen,som lett og rimelig kunne vært skiftet til nye og gjort det hyggeligere. Stolene på kjøkkenet var lealøse og vi var redd de skulle falle fra hverandre når vi satt på de. Det burde ha vert minst to håndklær til hver gjest når man bor i tre døgn. Lamper var ødelagt, lås på ene badedøren var ødelagt. På badet må dere få dusjforheng og vegghengte dusj hoder. Leiligheten kunne blitt sååå mye bedre og hyggelig med små, billige justeringer. Ellers så hadde vi en flott langhelg med nydelig vær. Leiligheten passer best for tre par. Mvh Anne Grethe
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IE10 unlocks CSS OpenType features for Webfonts
With Mozilla's Firefox and Microsoft's upcoming Internet Explorer 10, a significant step has been taken toward widespread OpenType feature support, which allows for things like discretionary ligatures in text and contextual alternates in display. Now with standards solidifying, a level of typographic sophistication previously unachievable anywhere will soon be realized. Ushering in the new browser, we share this demo page with live examples of OpenType features at work. (Note that unless viewed in IE10 or a recent version of Firefox or some other new-ish Mozilla browser, the demos won't make much sense.)
We move ahead now to take a closer look into each of the examples, and discuss what's required before we can get started taking full advantage of this new ability.
Contextual Swashes | FF Nexus Serif Italic is the most comprehensive font of the FF Nexus Superfamily, containing beautiful sets of swash letters for the beginnings and ends of words. Thanks to the Contextual Swashes feature, the swash variants of the letters appear automatically in the appropriate positions (as opposed to the "regular" Swashes feature, in which you would have to decide yourself which letters should be swashed).
Stylistic Sets | FF Unit holds the library's record for Stylistic Sets: It has a whopping 14 sets to tailor the look of selected letters to your needs. (39 OT Features in total!)
Contextual Alternates | FF Mister K isn't available as a Web FontFont yet, and if you switch off the Contextual Alternates feature on the demo site you'll see why: It just makes no sense to use it without the connections and letter variants that give FF Mister K its special look.
Small Caps | FF Ernestine is one of the few FontFonts containing two sets of small caps: Small and Petite Caps (the only other Petite Cap FontFont being FF Atma Serif). While Small Caps are available as separate Web FontFonts now, Petite Caps only become accessible through browser OpenType feature support.
Discretionary Ligatures | FF Milo Serif is one of the FontFonts that go wild with extravagant ligatures.
Oldstyle Figures and Ligatures | FF DIN Round and FF Tartine Script can actually look like this on your website right now! Unlike the other features shown above, Oldstyle Figures and Ligatures are included (if available in the design) in all WOFF Web FontFonts today. There's one more feature we didn't even mention on the demo page: The Kerning feature is activated for the whole demo page. It is most noticeable in combinations like "We" and "y.", which just look more even with kerning. This feature is included in the current WOFF Web FontFonts and is applied automatically by some browsers.read more
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When Martin Majoor designed FF Scala and FF Scala Sans between 1988 and 1994, the idea behind this was to design a serif, humanistic typeface from which a sans serif version would be derived. Martin called it: Two typefaces, one form principle. Ten years later, he expanded his idea of two typefaces, one form principle into four typefaces, one form principle, creating a new superfamily as a result. FF Nexus, today one of the most popular typefaces in the FontFont Library, borrows some of its structure from FF Scala, but adds the slab-like FF Nexus Mix and the monospaced FF Nexus Typewriter to the set.
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FF Nexus Serif Italic: A combination of the OpenType features Discretionary Ligatures and Contextual Swashes.
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love the American Woman music!!!!!
Not bad at all, stumble by the Hubbell brother on a twizzle, but I love their lifts (reminiscent of A&P).
love the American Woman music!!!!!
Not bad at all, stumble by the Hubbell brother on a twizzle, but I love their lifts (reminiscent of A&P).
personal note: I had absolutely NO glitches yesterday, but today my reception is not so good, more than a couple of glitches. Maybe because it's poring here in Seattle...
into 1st place!!!!!!!!!
sorry, can't stand the music, bombastic, fall by Carron & Jones from France, also he seems to skate faster than her & their twizzles looked far apart to me. Nevertheless, good job.
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into 2nd place FRA Carron & Jones
ditto, can't stand the music, bombastic, no falls, well matched couple, love the hydroplane move (remiscent of B&K) & also the move where's he's flying her around him with one arm!
Come on, people, post, I'm lonely...
Somebody needs to do a proper pbp, seriously.
into 1st place RUS
what happened to his eye.
Hm..I wonder who designs Gorshkova/Butikov costumes. It's hideous both OD and now FD. And all this grim again.It's so wrong!
Lovely programs from Rubleva/Shefer and Hubbells.
not really a fan of their music, not bad though, unusual costumes, and each one of them has a painted black eye on their faces. Still, they appeared to me the best ones out there thus far, close twizzles, et al.
What was the deduction for? I just caught the end.
into 2nd place! What was the deduction for? Did I miss a fall...
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Welcome to the Quilting Board!
Thanks for the suggestion on how to cut the fabric for pieces. I'll try it with the next block.
I'm not so sure that your Zero blocks are not useable. Perhaps you want to make a flange border for those blocks. It could be quite striking.
Thanks again for the answers to my questions. Can't wait to get back to working on block #1 again.
I had a great thanksgiving. I entertained friends on Saturday, and on Sunday entertained family. Once all my visitors went home on Monday all the sheets went into the laundry and I sewed. It was a great weekend. Had to go back to work to rest!!!
I'm looking forward to doing a little bit of sewing this evening as well. These blocks are a bit of a challenge, but that is always fun.
Good work!!
I downloaded and resized the patterns. I plan to use 8 of them for a purse, as mine is about work out. It'll probably be next month before I have time to get started.
I must say all these blocks look wonderful. But as for myself am having trouble getting it together. The pp is going fine, it's sewing the curves. I read the instructions, but it's just not clicking with me just yet. But seeing the wonderful job everyone else is doing, it will give incentive to keep trying. Love this block so will keep trying. Is there any little tips of putting this together to make it easier that I am missing?
LOL!! I was determined to get my blocks started yesterday. I got in a hurry. I was done with the first one and happy. Got up this morning and thought it looked wrong. I have put my A pieces together the wrong way and ended up with a very nice wedge block. Oh well, guess I will be ripping this morning. And hopefully won't repeat it.
I wanted to comment on these blocks. Beautiful and scrappy. Scrappy, is so cool. This is how scrappy I want to do mine. So this means less fretting or what goes in which block.
the pictures and tips are great. Thank you
A quilting I will go......
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United States
Energy Information Administration
March 1989
A Review of Valdez Oil Spill Market Impacts
On March 24, 1989, the tanker, Exxon Valdez, ran aground, spilling 240,000 barrels of crude oil into Alaska 's Prince William Sound and sending waves of concern across the country. This concern, focused initially on the environment, quickly spread to economic anxieties over possible supply disruptions and rising prices. Based on data available through May 19, 1989, it now appears that these fears were largely unfounded. Events since the spill demonstrate that most of the impact on petroleum markets was psychological rather than physical.
As far as oil supply disruptions go, the Valdez incident should have been a minor annoyance that should have gone largely unnoticed in the market place. Yet, gasoline prices rose faster and by more than the Valdez- related crude oil shortage alone should have warranted. To understand this seemingly contradictory market behavior, it is necessary to review the events and underlying factors affecting supply and demand both before and after the Valdez incident.
The Alaskan oil spill resulted in a 13 million barrel supply disruption over 13 days (March 24 through April 6) as tanker transport was restricted and pipeline throughput from the Alaskan North Slope (ANS) was reduced. The total loss of 13 million barrels is small by national standards, amounting to about 18 hours of total national consumption of petroleum products. Since up to 10 million barrels of the 13 million total were destined for west coast refiners, the loss was more pronounced there, amounting to approximately 3.5 days of that region's product consumption. On March 29, Exxon and British Petroleum (BP) declared force majeure on April shipments of Alaskan crude oil, which amounted to a cut-back of 15-20 percent of contract deliveries for both companies.
In the 3 weeks following the spi11, west coast refinery operations were sustained by drawing down available crude oil stocks to offset ANS crude oil losses. In fact, an increase in refinery inputs occurred during the first week after the spill. As a result, stocks of crude oil in the Petroleum Administration for Defense (PAD) District V (west coast) dropped 4.4 million barrels or about 5.4 percent in the first week. However, the full impact of the 10 million barrel loss was not felt until April 14, the day that the pre-spill level of ANS deliveries to the west coast resumed (allowing for shipping time after the full resumption of the Alyeska pipeline throughput and tanker operations).
From a level of 2,522 thousand barrels per day for the week ending March 24, refinery inputs in PAD District V increased 4.8 percent to 2,643 thousand barrels per day for the week ending March 31. With the exception of a 6.3 percent drop in the first week of April, crude inputs increased steadily to a rate of 2,764 thousand barrels per day for the week ending April 21. Most of this change was attributable to seasonal factors. The increase in refinery inputs represented a substantial increase in the utilization of existing refinery capacity, which rose 4 percent after March 24--from 79.4 percent during the 4 weeks prior to the spill to 83.4 percent over the following 4 weeks.
Although the contribution of imports to crude availability in PAD District V is not precisely known, it is not uncommon for crude oil imports to rise in the Spring. Reportedly, 10 cargos, representing a mixture of crude oil and products, were retained on the west coast or moved from other U.S. locations.
Contrary to concerns raised by some groups, the volume of motor gasoline available to the west coast market increased substantially after the Valdez incident. Comparing the 2 weeks before and after the spill, finished motor gasoline supplied at the national level increased 7.2 percent while it increased 10.2 percent in PAD District V (Figures FE1 and FE2). During the same 4-week period a year earlier (1988), U.S. gasoline supplies had decreased 7.7 percent, while increasing 3.9 percent on the west coast. Specifically:
Although actual disruptions in crude oil and petroleum product supplies were relatively small and largely confined to the west coast, the accident sent shock waves throughout oil markets. These impacts were best reflected in the movement of prices in spot markets. At first, the accident itself raised the distinct possibility that all Alaskan production might be shut in, which would reduce available crude supplies from U.S. production by 25 percent. This apprehension increased later when the State of Alaska announced that it might shut down the pipeline for an extended period. The general level of anxiety was further intensified on March 30, 1989, following the announcements that Exxon and BP had declared force majeure on their contracts with ANS customers. The next day, unleaded regular gasoline spot prices in Los Angeles peaked at Sl.18 per gallon, a $0.50 increase over the pre-spill level of $0.68 per gallon (Figure FE3 and Table FE1).
Other factors contributing to this dramatic spot market price increase on the west coast were:
Peak spot gasoline prices (wholesale) in California were short-lived (with small amounts actually sold), declining from their March 31 peak to $0.99 per gallon by April 7, 1989, and to $0.82 by April 14. Thus, as fear of a long supply interruption faded, spot prices fell sharply--$0.36 per gallon in 2 weeks; they reached $0.78 on April 28 and declined further to $0.69 on May 19. At that time, wholesale spot prices of west coast gasoline had dropped well below dealer tank wagon and other wholesale prices.
Other U.S. spot gasoline markets experienced smaller price increases following the Valdez incident, due to less reliance in general in those refining regions on ANS supplies. For example, in the New York Harbor market, spot prices rose $0.08 per gallon the first week following the spill and peaked at $0.69 on April 4, up $0.12 from their March 23 level. Following refloating of the Exxon Valdez on April 5, spot prices dropped $0.06 in 2 days, before beginning a steady climb for the remainder of April, closing out the month at $0.70 per gallon. Rising New York spot market prices in April were mostly due to events unrelated to Valdez, such as substantial crude price increases, strong gasoline demand (including seasonal factors), and concern over the possibility of inadequate supplies to meet uncertain EPA and State-imposed product-quality requirements related to allowable vapor pressure levels on the east coast. In addition, most reports on Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) production had been indicating reasonable compliance with the 18.5 million barrels per day ceiling, at least with respect to March production. Last, but by no means least, the gas explosion at the Cormorant Alpha platform (April 18) also buoyed prices by reducing U.K. North Sea production by 500,000 barrels per day, or 25 percent, well into May.
Following the Valdez disaster, less extreme increases in spot prices occurred for West Texas Intermediate (WTI) and ANS crude oil in gulf and west coast markets. During the week of March 27, spot prices in both markets rose approximately $1 per barrel to the $21 and $18 levels. The increase for WTI, however, was short-lived, as prices fell back to previous levels by April 3.
One impact of the spill may have been its contribution to a narrowing of crude oil price spreads in early April between gulf and west coast spot markets. On the other hand, east and west coast gasoline spot price differentials increased dramatically following the accident, peaking on March 31 at $0.53 per gallon. While this spread fell rapidly, returning to pre-spill levels by April 14, its magnitude and duration appears to have been sufficient to prompt the movement of additional gasoline supplies to the west coast from other U.S. locations. As noted, gasoline imports on the west coast also increased over this period.
Although wholesale (nonspot) and retail gasoline prices have risen throughout the U.S. in recent weeks, these movements were not significantly related to the Valdez incident of March 24. Energy Information Administration data show that price increases were noticeable in most markets well before that date. Prior to the accident, wholesale and retail price increases had been expected, due to the substantial rise in crude oil prices underway since the fall of 1988. From a low of $12.58 per barrel in October of 1988, WTI crude oil prices had increased about $7.50 per barrel (or $0.18 per gallon) by March 23, 1989, i.e., just before the Valdez incident. This increase was caused by several factors including:
Since crude oil and gasoline prices tend to move together in a lead-lag relationship, wholesale (and to a lesser extent retail) prices in many U.S. gasoline markets began increasing in January and early February 1989 in response to the earlier and very substantial crude oil price gains. The recent changes in gasoline prices appear fairly proportional to the earlier raw material increases. This may not always be the case as prices of other petroleum products, the level of refinery utilization and the strength of final demand can influence short-term price movements. It is clear, however, that earlier developments in crude markets played a predominant role in explaining recent gasoline price behavior. As mentioned, other factors included strong seasonal demand, as well as higher refining costs and reduced gasoline yields associated with the production of low volatility, high octane blends at refineries already running at high utilization rates.
To illustrate these points, several comparisons, drawn from available EIA data, follow:
In summary, since the Alaskan crude oil spill occurred at the same time that gasoline prices began moving strongly upward in most U.S. markets, following earlier notable price decreases, it appears that the temporary loss of ANS supplies contributed more to a perception of tight markets than to the underlying fundamental supply and demand factors already present, which collectively were leading to higher prices. All things considered, the total shortfall in production was only 13 million barrels, or the equivalent of 18 hours of U.S. petroleum products consumption.
Now that North Slope production has returned to its former 2 million barrels per day rate, California and U.S. markets have returned to normal operations and unusual price increases associated with North Slope production are not expected. In fact, the most recent industry reports on OPEC production (available in late May) indicate that April and May levels may exceed the 18.5 million barrels per day ceiling by 1 to 2 million barrels per day. This, coupled with the return to production shortly of 500,000 barrels per day of North Sea oil and rising U.S. crude stocks, suggests that more than ample crude oil supplies are available for the foreseeable future. The impact of the Valdez accident on crude and product supplies is over. Petroleum spot markets have fully discounted the perceived shortages and price trends remain subject to movements in the underlying market fundamentals of supply and demand.
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We might have a sorry arse team, but we have a much brighter future than the Rockets. And with a healthy Gordon we are better than the Rockets.
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but y'all will miss them by more than Hou.
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If Gordon comes back within the projected timeframe
depends how long gordon is out
quote:my projected time frame for his return is anywhere from the day we can trade him til the day his contract expires.
You know what I mean, I'd rather him not miss 30 games c
quote:depends how late he comes back in the season tard. if he starts the year big difference wouldnt be 9th or 8th but seeing as the year might be half to 3/4 over by the time he begins clicking with the team it may only be enough to make a small difference of 5-10 games.
So without Gordon 9th. With Gordon 8th. So Gordon is worth 1 or 2 games. Got it.
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to dressel someone means you have sex with him/her and he/she is just a fuck. you don't give a shit whats the persons name or what he/she ist doing. The sex is rough so he/she can not take action the next days, this person needs to recover. mostly you make sex with this person and you show her/him something new. You brake their mental walls down. Mostly just using the partner as a thing.
i dresseled her last night, now she knows how to deepthroat, she did not show up in office today. so i did realy dressel her.
by Pathfinder198 June 19, 2010
noun; apt to being tall; considered by some to be the coolest mother fucker ever.
Man, Dressel is the coolest mother fucker ever.
by JED April 12, 2005
A big giant douche. Sometimes slightly felched.
by notbone May 31, 2007
one drinks more than occasionally and to the extent of returning intoxicated. Also known as one who may inadvertantly get human waste in odd places such as shower heads. Dressel may be interpreted as #1 or #2. This definition explains #1.
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Lakes Area Music Festival family concert set Sunday
The Lakes Area Music Festival offers a free family concert celebrating water in the Brainerd lakes area at 3 p.m. Sunday, Aug. 4, at Tornstrom Auditorium in Brainerd.
The concert is intended for the young at heart of all ages. It will begin with a short piece inspired by Carl Orff and played by the children entering grades one through five who will have just completed the music festival's "Explore Music!" workshop.
Next will be a suite from Handel's "Water Music," followed by "Fingal's Cave" from Mendelssohn's "Hebrides" overture.
Gavin Price will narrate two movements from "Sea Creatures" by Daniel Kallman: "Puffer Fish" and "Shark."
Four songs from Alec Roth's "The Big Wash Cycle" will conclude the program, including songs about a red T-shirt, a lonesome sock, underpants and "The Washing Line Chorus Line." Baritone John Taylor Ward will perform the songs.
Marlene Pauley will conduct a 30-member orchestra for this event.
The Lakes Area Music Festival, an annual summer series attracting some of the country's leading orchestral and vocal performers, takes place through Aug. 18 at Tornstrom Auditorium in Brainerd. Concerts are free and feature more than 80 musicians and vocalists as guest artists.
For more information, visit www.lakesareamusic.org.


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When a gentleman removes his penis after ejaculating into his partner and promptly, while still covered in semen, slaps it repeatedly around his lovers face.
"I think she was expecting a cuddle, you should have seen the look on her face when i gave her The Slimey Rudder!"
by Stained July 20, 2012
The vengeful act of crapping on a lover's chest while they sleep.Buy the plush


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When you are going to rent some apartment you are normally not allowed to change the locks on your own or install some security system to the premises. So, with such restrictions, where does your apartment's security stand? Of course, you are not too safe inside your rental apartments in such cases as the landlords are often found to be negligent and they do not really come up with sufficient security measures taken for the residents. There are, however, some simple ideas that you can implement for making the apartment feel more secure and keeping yourself as well as your family and belongings safe inside.
To start with, you should add some alarms to the windows and doors of your Stockbridge apartments as the initial security measures...Read more >>


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- I. A Queer Little Child 1
- II. Undine's Jottings 33
- III. The Man with the Mouth 51
- IV. Going to Chapel 56
- V. A Sunny Afternoon and a Wild Night 71
- VI. Greenwood 82
- VII. Lovers 111
- VIII. Beautiful Snow 135
- IX. Trodden Snow 144
- X. Melted Snow 155
- XI. A Clever Little Man and a Poor Little Fool 160
- XII. Sold Her Love 176
- XIII. A Very Wicked Woman 181
- XIV. On Board Ship to South Africa 216
- XV. In an Ox Waggon 242
- XVI. New Rush 280
- XVII. Little Irons 308
- XVIII. Little Irons and a Digger 335
- XIX. Albert Blair 358
- XX. Alone with the Stars 365
HERE, in this novel, which precedes The Story of an African Farm and has some curious and interesting facts associated with it, we have Olive Schreiner "Mewing her mighty youth."
Some years before her death Olive Schreiner said to me that, if ever a biography of her were to be written, she would like me to write it, or, failing me, her "oldest and best friend," Havelock Ellis.
I was in London when she died, and wrote to Ellis as soon as possible. Telling him of her wish, I asked him if he would write the biography. This he found himself unable to do, but offered to place at my service all the information he had if I would undertake it. Without delay I engaged quarters near him and got to work. At our first "business" meeting, he brought up the subject of an unfinished novel of Olive's, much to my surprise, for I had never even heard of it. This was Undine, the manuscript of which she had placed in his hands in 1884, shortly after they met. I had the manuscript typed and left the original and a carbon copy with him.
But the novel was not complete; the concluding part was missing. On my return to South Africa in March, 1921, I found the missing section among page: viii my wife's papers. It consisted of twenty-two foolscap sheets in two separate lots (being pages 410 to 432 of the whole manuscript of the novel) which connected up unbrokenly with what preceded it. The handwriting is in Olive's large, strong, rapid style, an approximate specimen of which is given on page 228 of her Letters. The paper is faded and the matter is clearly a final revision. At some time this manuscript had been posted to "Miss O. Schreiner, c/o Advocate Schreiner, Cape Town," by her mother, whose handwriting is unmistakable. From the official cancellation of the postage stamps I cannot now make out when or where it was posted. The stamps are Cape Colony stamps, long out of date. Well weighing all the facts within my knowledge, I think, however, that the novel was completed in South Africa before she left for England in 1881, that the now-recovered missing section consists of the two parts mentioned in Olive's letter to Ellis of the 20th November, 1884 (given later), that it was taken by her to her mother at Seymour at the end of 1876 (as mentioned in her Ratel Hoek journal later), and left there, or that she left it with her mother in Grahamstown as she passed through on her way to England in February, 1881, and finally that her mother posted it to Advocate Schreiner from Grahamstown after Olive's return to South Africa (which was in November, 1889). There is another interesting fact in connection with this manuscript: page: ix on a wrapper tied round the roll I found Olive's description of its contents, written in ink in her own handwriting, "Bit of early novel when I was about 16 years."
We now come to the actual writing of the novel.
The Kimberley Diamond Mine was discovered in July, 1871. The great rush that at once set in towards it soon caused it to be called New Rush, a name it retained until the Camp at the Diamond Fields was proclaimed as Kimberley in July, 1873.
Olive's brother Theo (later a Senator) was one of the early diggers who joined the Camp at New Rush. He was followed by his sister Ettie (later the temperance orator), while their youngest brother, Will (later Prime Minister of Cape Colony), used to travel up from Cape Colony to spend his school holidays working with Theo on his claims. Like other diggers, the Schreiners lived in tents near the edge of the mine, where Kaffir "boys," under an overseer, worked the claims. Theo himself supervised the "washing" and personally did the "sorting."
In 1872 Olive went to visit her brother and sister. Setting out from the little village of Hertzog where her parents lived, not far from Grahamstown, and travelling by passenger coach the hundreds of miles to the Diamond Fields, she arrived at New Rush early in December. During her stay she lived in tents as the others did. There was no other shelter; page: x and a "pretty time" they had of it in the dust, the heat, the violent thunderstorms and the myriad fleas of the Camp.
The first mention of Undine appears in her New Rush journal on the 18th June, 1873: "I have finished the first Chapter of Undine Bock this morning." 1 At the time she was eighteen years and three months old.
It must not, however, be inferred from this entry that she had only then begun the novel. Among her papers I found (and still have) a small, cheap, paper-covered child's exercise book, part of which she had used for doing her juvenile sums. The colour and condition of the paper, the writing, spelling, and other factors about this little book of sixteen pages indicate, in my opinion, that its contents considerably antedate the manuscript of the book we now have. But they are without doubt part of the novel; for practically the whole of the little one's "scribble" is included in Undine as we now have it.
After this entry of the 18th June the next reference to the novel is in her Hertzog journal of the 3rd November, 1873. She "has not yet finished the first chapter of A Queer Little Girl."
From May, 1874, to the end of February, 1875, she was acting as governess at Colesberg. Her journal of this period contains no reference to
1This is her only use of the title Undine Bock; thereafter she omitted the Bock.page: xi Undine. However, as will presently be seen, she was just about finishing the first draft of it.
In March, 1875, we find her employed at the farm Ganna Hoek (that portion styled Klein Ganna Hoek in the Life), teaching the children of Mr. and Mrs. Stoffel Fouché, Dutch farmers. This farm lies in the Karoo mountain-veld of Cradock (Cape Colony) about twenty-five miles southwest of the village and at that time some two hundred miles from the nearest railway. Here, possibly, Olive wrote the whole of the second draft of Undine, except for the revision of parts of Ratel Hoek, a farm about sixty miles away, near Tarkastad, in 1876.
A full description of the whole of Ganna Hoek, belonging mainly to the Fouchés and the Cawoods (Olive's intimate friends), is given in the Life (pages 103-120). From these pages I now give an extract with photograph, describing the room in which she lived and wrote while engaged on this novel:
"It is the little room under the flat roof of the lean-to the window of which may be seen between the aloe and the ladder; to the right of the ladder is the baking-oven with the kitchen chimmey above it. The door of the oven is through the kitchen wall; the oven is built of brick and has no chimney; a huge fire is made in it, the 'live' coals are then scraped out, the bread is put in and the door closed; in competent hands, this style of oven (universal in the old days) is most excellent, especially for bread, in which the Boer women excel. It will be seen that there was a wall between Olive's room and the kitchen and page: xii that these two rooms as well as some other out-rooms were not in the main part of the house but in a flat-roofed lean-to, the roof of which has some stones on it to strengthen its edges against the wind. The front of the house is where the tree stands over the left of the lean-to. In the gable may be seen the door of the loft. Olive's window faces almost north and looks straight up a kloof on the steep side of the mountain, which begins within a few yards. The room was mud-floored and ceilingless. It leaked badly; when the rain was heavy Olive used to put an umbrella over herself and lead the water out of the room by making a small furrow in its mud floor. The room contained a primitive bedstead, a box to hold her clothes, and nothing else (except Mill's Logic to read); she used to wash in the little stream in the kloof near by until she secured a basin. Such was the room in which the greater part of Undine, the forerunner of The Story of an African Farm, was written, and almost certainly part of An African Farm itself too. A little way up the kloof, on which her window looked, were great rocks and a pool of water from which the garden was irrigated.... Here large wild trees grew, and here she often saw what she always called 'the long-tailed monkeys,' of which she was very fond, as well as many other untamed veld creatures."
The first reference to Undine in her Ganna Hoek journal is in June, 1875: "I mean to try and finish the first copy by the end of July and to have it written out [ i.e. id est , revised] by the end of August." Then in July she writes: "Have got Undine on board ship" (on her way from England to South Africa). In September: "I am at Mrs. Snappercap's" (a char- character page: xiii acter of the novel).... "Mean to try and finish Undine by the end of this month, and write it out next." In October: "Undine is at New Rush. Hope to get it done by the end of the year." At the end of December she has "nearly finished Undine." On the 26th January, 1876: "Afternoon, I have finished Undine; I must read out or correct and new-write if I can and get it done before I leave." Her last entry at Ganna Hoek is in April, 1876: "I have made up my mind not to have Undine published, not yet at least."
She left Ganna Hoek at the end of April, 1876, and went as governess at Ratel Hoek. Soon after this she is writing Thorn Kloof, the first title given to the novel afterwards to be known as The Story of an African Farm. In July, 1876, she enters in her journal that she has not yet decided whether to finish Undine or Thorn Kloof first, and adds (apropos of Undine): "I have just finished reading over as far as I have written her out (a very wicked woman) and I am not disgusted," and she hopes to take the completed novel to her mother at the end of the year. On the 23rd September, 1876, we have her last reference to Undine: "I think I shall finish and read over Undine tomorrow. Then to the new work [Thorn Kloof]." 1
Olive first met Havelock Ellis in March, 1884.
1 The extracts from her journals do not comprise all her references to Undine.
page: xiv They soon became great friends and before long she had placed the manuscript of Undine in his hands. A month or two later he wrote to her about it. She answered on the 24th November: "I quite forget about Aunt Margaret. I don't know what her relation to Frank was. I know that Ettie was in my mind when I drew her and Ettie's love for Theo. Not the woman of talent and eloquent lecturer, but my soft-hearted sister Ettie who used to stroke my hair. I had quite forgotten that there was such a character in the book. It's not finished either; I left off in the middle of the last chapter and tore up the half I had written. I ought to have burnt it long ago, but the biographical element in it made me soft to it."
With reference to the last sentence of this letter, it may be added that, as her journals show, she, alas, wrote and destroyed many of her writings. She told me she was so weary of The Story of an African Farm when it was finished (about the end of 1880) that she nearly threw it into the large dam at Lelie Kloof, where she was then employed as a governess.
This novel, the first book she ever wrote, is the last of her writings I have to publish. It has been a privilege to complete my work and give to the world since her death The Life of Olive Schreiner, The Letters of Olive Schreiner, Thoughts on South Africa, Stories, Dreams and Allegories, From Man to Man, and now Undine—the last five being, of course, by page: xv herself. During her lifetime she published The Story of an African Farm, Dreams, Dream Life and Real Life, Woman and Labour and Trooper Peter Halket of Mashonaland.
S. C. CRONWRIGHT-SCHREINER.THE STRAND, CAPE PROVINCE, SOUTH AFRICA, 13th September, 1928.


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Fogle, Douglas. "Matthew Barney." In Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole: Walker Art Center Collections, edited by Joan Rothfuss and Elizabeth Carpenter. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2005.
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Matthew Barney's career began, paradoxically, with a very profound absence. The night before his New York debut in 1991, he locked himself inside the gallery and began to climb. Using customized mountaineering equipment such as titanium ice screws and a climbing harness, he made his assault on the architecture. He ascended walls, moved across the ceiling, and finally descended into a basement gallery containing a sculptural tableau that included a weight-lifting bench cast from petroleum jelly housed in an industrial refrigeration unit. The next day, visitors saw only a video of the artist's climb and the sculptural and performative residue of his presence. Barney might have left the building, but he opened a door onto a new aesthetic gambit: a powerful hybridization of sculpture, performance, and the moving image that has grown more complex since that first exhibition. Today, his universe is composed of a wildly complex pantheon of figures and forces, each of which overflows with narrative connotations and sculptural possibilities. Driving these intricate narratives is a systematic investigation into the generative nature of physical resistance in the creation of form. In Barney's world, objects cannot take physical shape and narratives cannot develop without the struggle of a protagonist against an opposing force.1
One of the artist's most astonishing contributions is his ability to expand the possibilities for sculpture—not only through his choice of such unorthodox materials as petroleum jelly and self-lubricating plastic, but through his insistence on the sculptural possibilities of both performance and film. Both aspects have their roots in a wide range of cultural references and artistic sources: for example, Barney has acknowledged a debt to Bruce Nauman, who used his own body to explore the limitations of his studio space in such videos as Bouncing in a Corner No. 1 or Slow Angle Walk (Beckett Walk) (both 1968). Vito Acconci's notorious Seed Bed (1972), with its hidden onanistic performance, also comes to mind, and it is impossible not to think of Richard Serra's thrown-lead pieces, whose dynamic forms were shaped by the surfaces they encountered.2 These art-historical progenitors are fused with references to the artist's childhood heroes, including the Oakland Raiders' legendary offensive lineman Jim Otto or escape artist Harry Houdini, both of whom tested the extreme physical thresholds of the body. When the visual and narrative influence of films such as Sam Raimi's Evil Dead II (1987) or Stanley Kubrick's The Shining (1980) are thrown into the mix, it becomes clear that we are not simply dealing with cultural bricolage but with a fundamentally hybrid conception of sculptural practice.3
The motor force of physical resistance that animates Barney's work is apparent in his three-channel video installation DRAWING RESTRAINT 7 (1993). Here the mythological world of ancient Greece is thrown into perverse proximity with Barney's own cosmology of physical restraint and unrealized desire. On three separate monitors, a group of satyrs (done up in elaborate prostheses of the artist's devising) play out a ritualized struggle for dominance in the back of a stretch limousine. A satyr with underdeveloped horns (played by Barney) spins around and around in an endless cycle of expenditure without return; his two brethren engage in a Greco-Roman wrestling match as they both attempt to create a mark with their horns in the con-densation on the moon roof. As one forces the other into submission, a drawing is created. All the while, the limousine drives in a never-ending loop over and through all six major bridges and tunnels entering New York City. In this work, drawing has been taken beyond the realm of pencil and paper into an expanded quasi-biological register, where the lines of force generated by its protagonists' exertions become a kind of protean form of mark-making. In the end, though, neither protagonist wins, as they align their Achilles tendons and flay one another in a reenactment of Apollo's revenge on Marsyas for his hubris in thinking that he himself could become a god.
With its emphases on the formative power of resistance, expenditure without result, and mythological hubristic failure, DRAWING RESTRAINT 7 can in many ways be viewed as an epigraph or even a prequel to Barney's monumental Cremaster cycle, which was begun in 1994 and completed in 2002. An operatic series of five epic films, the Cremasters constitute a biological, mythological, and topological recasting of classical mythopoetic narratives in the form of a series of phantasmic quests. As Nancy Spector suggests, "Born out of a performative practice in which the human body—with its psychic drives and physical thresholds—symbolizes the potential of sheer creative force, the cycle explodes this body into the particles of a contemporary creation myth."4 It is the anatomy of the body itself that provides this creation myth with its title, as it refers to the cremaster muscle, which controls the raising and lowering of the testicles in response to such external stimuli as fear and changes in temperature. The entire cycle alludes to the moment in prenatal development just prior to the assignment of gender—an undifferentiated physical state that embodies the tension between stasis and dynamic movement. That moment provides the metaphorical superstructure for the endless sequence of expenditure and renewal of energy that permeates the narrative of the Cremaster cycle.
While linked by a certain repetition of themes, the five Cremaster films do not form a continuous narrative with repeating characters. Shot out of sequence, each of the installments centers around a series of ritualized athletic endeavors and magical transformations in which landscape and architecture are characters in the plot. Each film also has at its core a quest that, as in classical mythology, forces the central character to overcome a series of escalating challenges before reaching his goal. The protagonists (often played by Barney) are forced to engage in a range of physical tribulations, including Houdiniesque escapes, trials by tap-dancing, and heroic climbs across the proscenium of Budapest's Magyar Állami Operaház (State Opera House) and up the rotunda of New York's Guggenheim Museum. These challenges are played out in a narrative of subtle ascents and descents that mimics the movement of the cremaster muscle itself, and are set in a sequence of topographies that moves from West to East: from Idaho (Cremaster 1, 1995), Utah and Alberta, Canada (Cremaster 2, 1999), and New York (Cremaster 3, 2001) across the Atlantic to the Isle of Man (Cremaster 4, 1994) and Hungary (Cremaster 5, 1997). In addition to a video or film component, each Cremaster is also realized in the form of a multiple that includes sculptural objects housed in a vitrine of the artist's design; additional related sculptures, drawings, and photographs often have been shown at the debut of each film. As with his earliest works, these installations typically encompass a transformation of the architecture of the gallery into a complete, immersive design environment for viewing these films in which carpet, wall coverings, and even seating find themselves subject to Barney's sculptural vision.5
Like the satyr that chases its own tail in DRAWING RESTRAINT 7, the Cremaster project feeds on itself in a kind of systemic autophagy that is generative rather than destructive. The cycle builds a complex, closed system of references in which the epic play of forces can never come to a conclusion, but is instead held in a moment of undetermined suspension just prior to resolution. In the end, it is the body itself, with its biological play of forces, that is at the center of this opus. Ovid's Metamorphoses opens with the words "Of bodies changed to various forms I sing." These are the unspoken lyrics to the imaginary sound track playing in the background of Barney's work.
Nancy Spector's catalogue essay for the Guggenheim retrospective of Barney's Cremaster cycle is the most comprehensive resource to date on these intricate works. See Nancy Spector, "Only the Perverse Can Still Save Us," in Nancy Spector, ed., Matthew Barney: The Cremaster Cycle, exh. cat. (New York: Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, 2002), 2–91. ↩
Richard Serra himself would play a central role in Cremaster 3. In one sequence, Serra throws liquid petroleum jelly into a wall along the rotunda of the Guggenheim Museum in a concatenation of Barney's materials with Serra's early aesthetic endeavors. ↩
On Barney's relationship to film, see Richard Flood, "Notes on Digestion and Film," in Matthew Barney and Gracia Lebbink, eds., Pace Car for the Hubris Pill, exh. cat. (Rotterdam, Netherlands: Museum Boijmans van Beuningen, 1996), 21–35. ↩
Spector, "Only the Perverse," 5. ↩
Cremaster 2 premiered at the Walker Art Center in 1999 in an installation that included a large group of sculptural objects (many of which were used in the film), a suite of photographs, flags, drawings, and stadium seating designed and fabricated by the artist. The entire installation was acquired jointly by the Walker and the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. The Walker also owns the special-edition film vitrines related to the other four Cremaster films. ↩
Fogle, Douglas. "Matthew Barney." In Bits & Pieces Put Together to Present a Semblance of a Whole: Walker Art Center Collections, edited by Joan Rothfuss and Elizabeth Carpenter. Minneapolis, MN: Walker Art Center, 2005.
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Hi cojack,
Excuse me if I sound like an arrogant aussie, but the pipe organ that you described as being "very shiny" is one of the finest examples of this style of Baroque organ in the world. It survived the Communist era between 1946 until 1989 amazingly! The Catholic Church was despised by the regime. I have been to this church 3 times in my life, and it has one of the finest church music traditions in the whole country of Czechoslovakia and stretches back many hundreds of years. It was one of the only places where Catholics could worship in the repressive era also. You stumbled across exquisite history my friend!
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Hi cojack,
Thanks actually. I'm kinda clueless about this stuff and don't mind learning a little more. It was clear someone had spent a lot of time building it. But I didn't realize how much the communists went after religious artifacts. I had high hopes of going through and identifying what I saw after the fact, but that has fallen by the wayside and life has gone on. Now I know.


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As many of you know from my previous poll I am putting together a graph for deadouts and the sources they came from. Because of the limitations of the polling feature of the forum I have decided to convert it to an email survey. The directions are at the top of the survey. The results will be posted on blogger in May.
If you wish to participate please copy and paste the survey into an email and send your results back to me. Save your copy so you can make changes as needed.
Thanks: Brad
2011/2012 winter Deadout Poll.
Instructions: Please answer questions as accurately as possible. Only mark Addendum if you previously submitted the poll and need to make changes. Only mark the changes that need to be made, leave all other areas blank.
Use the Nuc categories for all purchased Nucs and the Splits category for all Nucs you produced yourself by splitting your own hives. Leave any areas that are not applicable to you blank or mark N/A. Please mark the month that you STARTED each Colony, if started in multiple months please list in the comments section at the bottom. Email to email@example.com
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Rugby bosses are looking to boost the value of the All Blacks brand and jump up the list of the world's most valuable sports teams.
The New Zealand Rugby Union is working with staff from US insurance giant AIG to explore ways to boost the All Blacks brand overseas.
Global specialist Brand Finance in 2011 put the value of the World Champion All Blacks side at $108 million.
That estimate is around the value of some of Europe's top soccer sides - although dwarfed by Manchester United, with a value of $720 million.
NZRU boss Steve Tew said the organisation's annual revenue of around $100-$110 million plus was made up almost equally by broadcasting, sponsorship and licensing and gate revenue and match fees.
"We would like that figure to increase reasonably steeply. The biggest opportunity we have is in broadcasting rights which will crank up later (in) 2013."
It was hoped the broadcasting deal - which runs until 2015 - would increase significantly after big jumps in other markets including the UK.
The All Blacks deal with AIG, unofficially put at $80 million over five years, was announced last October.
It controversially involved the insurer's logo being put on the front of the All Blacks and other New Zealand team jerseys.
Tew acknowledged a "degree of nervousness" surrounded the move, but said it had not resulted in blazer burning and was necessary.
"We can't nurture it unless we have the revenue coming in."
Projects will focus on making the most of the sponsorship in strong rugby nations where AIG had a strong presence.
But he stressed the sports team was primarily just that.
"Some of our fans get a bit narked if we're just talking about commercial things like brands - they think we lost sight of the fact that it's just a sport, we don't."


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It's kind of a relief, isn't it? No longer being Number One. We're not the richest country in the world any more (that's Qatar), or the happiest (the Scandinavian nations beat us) or the smartest (Japan, S. Korea, Germany ...).
We are best at American football, although that's probably because nobody else plays it.
Now that our credit rating has been downgraded from triple A to double A+, we can relax. We can finally admit that no, we don't have the best healthcare system in the world. France does. France's credit rating is still triple A. That's cool. Let's just relax and refocus on the upside of the decline of the American Empire.
And thank the Tea Party! The Teaps have no clue how the global economy works (or even that there is a global economy), so their congressional operatives had no problem holding the full faith and credit of the United States hostage for three solid weeks. Why, you ask? Because they don't want rich people to pay more taxes. Never mind that we'll all have to pay more: interest rates will go up because of the national credit downgrade and the deficit will grow, too. Never mind that the 401Ks and pension funds and retirement portfolios of millions of Americans have lost value because a few dozen pissant Congress persons refused to act like grownups.
Who would have thought that the Ayn Rand-loving Teaps could do more damage to capitalism than Karl Marx ever imagined? Not that they understand this. To them, America is a chosen nation, kind of like Israel, only with Jesus. God will fix our economy if we stay away from socialism and "take our country back" to what it was before brown people started coming here and taking the jobs we refuse to do, and black people started thinking they could walk into the White House by the front door.
The Brothers Koch must be proud of their little protegés. The Teaps have done their masters' bidding, preserving that all-important oil and gas industry subsidy, not to mention the Bush tax cuts for the wealthy. What next? Oh, yeah: there's a bill which will gut funding for the EPA, do away with clean air regulations and pretty much shut down the Clean Water Act. Uranium ore mine next to the Grand Canyon? Hell, yeah! And go ahead and blow the tops off the remaining Appalachians: there's more profit in coal than scenery. Plus, states should have the right to pollute all they want -- there's jobs in those emissions! If a downstream state doesn't like it, well, that's just tough.
(I'm not making any of this up: check out HR 2018 and HR 2584, two terrible attacks on the environment Congress didn't get around to before their August fundraising trip -- I mean, vacation).
Anyway, congratulations, Teaps! You wanted to drive the economy off the cliff and you did. You wanted to smack the president upside his furrin' commie pinko head and you did. You wanted to "send a message" and hey, the markets heard you. Now what, Teaps? What's the plan? Other than God fixing the economy, that is. You own this mess: what's the play?
You've got no plan.
OK, how about this? We let you have your own country. Let's call it "Texas." The rest of us agree to let Texas secede and you can run it according to the purest free-market principles. We keep the federal highway money (socialist), the Medicaid matching funds (socialist) and the University of Texas -- it's an elitist institution anyway, what with all that federal research money (socialist). In fact, we keep Austin: it can be a free city-state like Monaco, only way hipper. You get everything else. And since your two official religions will be Evangelical Christianity and Voodoo Economics, we'll even throw in Standard and Poor's, the agency that took the U.S. down a grade. S&P are your kind of people. Not only did they make a $2 trillion math error (that's trillion with a "t," yeah?) in their rating calculations, they are the ones who gave AAA status to the sub-prime mortgages and weird junk derivatives that got us into this financial mess in the first place.
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