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-- team needed something good to happen. Enter and .Herron blasted a two-run home run that sailed over the bleachers in left field at Jaguar Field Wednesday night and Pilkington added a a run-scoring single shortly afterward in sparking the Jaguars' 3-2 win over Mississippi State at Jaguar Field.USA was coming off back-to-back losses for the first time this season, losses at that. They lost three of four games last week, having also lost at Alabama. Wednesday night's win was a shot int he arm for the No. 15-ranked Jags.MSU didn't make it easy. The Bulldogs responded with a run in the fifth and another in the top of the seventh. In fact, the Bulldogs had a runner on third when South Alabama recorded the third out of the inning and final out of the game."Yes they did (make us work for it),'' South Alabama head coach said. "It was a good game. The biggest thing is I'm proud of our club for bouncing back. We had a rough week last week and I thought we got some things figured out. The kids were really good, I thought, at the plate early on. We were very balanced, we let our hands work and we weren't pressing and that's something we've been trying to get. So I'm proud of them for coming back. We got good pitching and we got good defense.''The Jags improved to 31-6 overall with the win, setting the stage for this weekend's visit to Louisiana-Lafayette for a Sun Belt Conference showdown between the league's top two teams. Lafayette currently is in first place, with the Jags in second."This was a great start to the week,'' Clark said. "We know what we've got ahead of us and this week was a big week for us. We know that we've got a good SEC team and then Lafayette this weekend, and we were on our home field too and we needed to get it done here.''The win pushed the Jags' home record to 13-0 this season.Alex Breeden hit a one-out double to left-center in the second and Alyssa Linn entered the game to pinch run. It wouldn't matter who was on the base because Herron's blast allowed both to trot home. Taylor Rodgers was hit by a pitch and moved to second on a wild pitch and with two outs, Pilkington delivered a single up the middle that scored Rodgers for a 3-0 lead.Farish Beard pitched the first four innings, allowing just two hits, no runs and two walks while striking out three. Hannah Campbell entered the game int he fifth. She hit the first batter she faced. Loryn Nichols, and Alison Owen attempted a sacrifice bunt, but Campbell threw wildly to first in an attempt to get the force out and instead Nichols scored and Owen advanced to third. But Campbell retired the next two batters.In the seventh, Kayla Winkfield singled to lead off the inning, followed by a Nichols single and a Jessica Offutt bunt single to load the bases with no outs. Heidi Shape hit a sacrifice fly to right that scored Winkfield and trimmed USA's advantage to one run. But Campbell got a groundout from Sam Lenahan and a fly out from Logan Foulks to end the threat and the game."Just get them both a little bit of work,'' Clark said of her decision to use both Berard and Campbell in the circle. "My plan was to try to get Farish through the lineup twice and the third time we went through, let (MSU) see a little different look. ... That way nobody gets too many innings in the mid-week (game) and they're ready to go this weekend.''Pilkington was 2 for 3 for the Jags with Herron, Breeden and Chloe Rathburn getting one hit each, though Herron's carried a bit more weight than the others. Campbell allowed two runs, one of them earned, and three hits while issuing no walks and getting no strikeouts in three innings of work. Beard is now 17-3 on the year and Campbell picked up her fourth save.
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Charming Studio in the Heart of Paris
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This is a great choice to spend a few days in Paris.
All commodities nearby. Bakeries, great restaurants and supermarkets. At walking distance, The famous Bistrot Benoit. Open in 1912, this bistrot represent the most authentic Parisian life of the 1920"s . A true travel in time. Nearby you have les Halles (the largest shopping mall in Paris), the village Montorgueil and little further away le Louvre Museum.
Lots of museums around. Museum Picasso, Museum Carnavalet (oldest museum in paris aimed to known everything about the city of light), Museum of Judaism. 10 minutes from the studio, take the métro line 1 and in 20 minutes you will be in Champs- Elisées ( the most famous avenue in the world) and Avenue Montaigne (the street where you will find all the" Haute Couture" brands shops).
1 minute from the studio, take the metro line 3 and in 5 minutes you will be on the famous Place de l'Opéra, Place Vendome with its famous Ritz Hotel, Jardins des Tuileries and rue Saint-honoré (well known for its elegant boutiques).
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Herve, who welcomed us at the apartment, was very friendly and helpful. The apartment itself was clean and it was exactly what we needed for our 4-day-trip. Two supermarkets are just around the corner (about a minute by foot), as well as the metro station. The heading "charming studio in the heart of paris" is not an understatement and the central position of the apartment is ideal for tourists. Apart from that, the area is quiet, because there are no cars allowed in the street of the apartment. Me and my friend highly recommend the apartment :)
tiny and cosy flat, great located so that you can reach nearly everything by foot. (Centre Pompidou in about 3-5 mins. Metro 1 minute). Perfect for single person or couples, very clean.
Really nice host, Joanne&Hèrve are really kind and helpful they can give you many tips for places you shouldn't miss in Paris. We would definitely do it again!
We had a very Good time at the apartment in parís. The apartment is very confortable, and it have a very Good localization. The hosts are so kind!! Thanks to herve and Joanne everything was ok!!
The flat is clean and well situated. The owners were really nice, we would always go back! Merci pour joanne et herve
We had got the pleasure to meet Hervè, the host of the Studio; he's so nice and really accomodating. He will help you for everything you need. The studio is a little perfect place for young couples, having all the necessary for a short, lovable holiday in Paris. It's situaded in centre of Paris, really close to Centre of Pompidou, Notre Dame and so many points of interest. It is near and easy accesible to the Metro too.
Everything was perfect! The apartment is in very good conditions and it is situated in the center of Paris. We had a really nice experience. Joanne was carefully with every detail and very flexible with the check in and check out times. We really enjoy our stay there!
Wir hatten einen tollen Aufenthalt in der kleinen Wohnung, mitten im Herzen von Paris. Der Kontakt mit den Besitzern war sehr unkompliziert und einfach. Ausserdem wurden uns tolle Tipps für gute Bäcker oder Restaurants gegeben. Die Wohnung besteht aus einem Zimmer mit einem kleinen Bad. Die Küche ist in einem Schrank integriert, eignet sich aber gut für das Zubereiten kleiner Speisen. der Blick aus dem Fenster ist sehr schön und das Bad ist sehr sauber und neu. Leider sind die Wände sehr dünn, doch dass ist in Paris wohl kaum anders zu finden. Ausserdem ist dass Haus schon sehr alt (hat somit einen tollen Flair), deswegen darf man kein Toilettenpapier ins WC schmeissen. Die Müllentsorgung ist auch sehr einfach.
Wir kamen schon gegen Mittag in Paris an und konnten trotzdem sofort die Wohnung beziehen. Auch am Abreisetag konnten wir noch bis 16 Uhr in der Wohnung bleiben und somit unseren Stadtbummel ohne Koffer machen.
Internet hat super funktioniert!!
Nettes kleines Apartment in der 4. Etage ohne Aufzug, das für zwei Personen gut geeignet ist. Es ist alles vorhanden, was nötig ist. Sehr freundlicher Empfang durch Hervé. Sehr zentrale Lage. Für Paris gutes Preis/Leistungsverhältnis.
Very cute place! Small and basic, but clean and comfortable. Very central (Centre Pompidou at 5 min. walking distance, Notre Dame at 10 min.), located in a nice street and an interesting area. Joanne was a perfect host. If you don't want anything fancy, just a good place to sleep, I truly recommend it.
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Not too long ago, I got a cryptic message from the trail boss at DFW.com telling me about a new barbecue joint in Watauga called Twisted Hickory. The word was that it is located next to a farmers' market, so they get fresh produce (I'm guessing to feed to the cows and pigs they will be smoking). I called to get the hours, and then drove out there to find the place locked up and dark an hour before the closing time they had on the door. And it's in a strip mall.
Finding the holy grail of barbecue joints can be trying at times.
Desperate for smoke, I pulled up the barbecue finder app on my phone and found Red Barn Bar-B-Que just a few miles away. 'Cue in a barn sounded promising. Great barbecue should always be in a dilapidated building, served cafeteria-style by suitably surly employees on paper plates. So a barn sounded grail-like.
I followed my GPS until it took me to a new concrete building with a lot of neon. The place wasn't red, and if this is a barn, someone is really pampering their livestock. You could see the big screen TVs from the street. (Apparently the original Red Barn BBQ in Colleyville is in an actual red barn of sorts, but this is the new location with a sports-bar concept.)
Inside there was a live country band playing, and we were shown to a table. A not-surly-at-all waiter gave us nice glossy menus - in my barbecue Shangri-La, menus are supposed to be in yellowed plastic on the wall. OK, so these guys strike out on traditional ambiance, but it's the food that matters most. So let's move on to that.
I ordered the three-meat plate with sliced brisket, pork ribs and sausage. For sides, I opted for the potato salad and onion rings. Desert was banana pudding, and then I noticed they had fried pies. I've had this fried pie problem ever since that debauchery at Bakers Ribs in Deep Ellum. I ordered both.
The brisket, the hallmark of Texas 'cue, was pretty decent. Red Barn nailed the texture, and there was a nice pink smoke ring along one edge. Flavor was good, but somewhat mild. I'm guessing pecan wood.
The real test of good brisket is that it shouldn't need sauce, and this didn't. Two different sauces were provided at the table in squeeze bottles. Avoid the sweet sauce, it overpowered the meat, but the spicier sauce only enhanced the beef. The meat didn't need it, but it was good either way, and I found myself alternating between plain and sauced.
The ribs were a bit of a disappointment. I got a smallish end piece that had tiny little broken up bits of bone that I had to pick around. Customers shouldn't be served that part of the rack, but the ribs had good flavor. (I did show up late in the day, and since ribs take hours to cook, the restaurant may have been running low. Next time, I'd rather be told it's out of ribs.)
The sausage was solid, but standard fare, and did well with the sauce.
On the sides, potato salad was nothing special, but the onion rings were excellent. Next time I'll get two orders of those. The banana pudding was served in a mason jar (nice touch) and was some of the best I've had anywhere. The fried apple pie was good, too, and there were other flavors. Has there ever really been a bad fried pie?
While the 'cue at the Red Barn was appropriate, the atmosphere of this location isn't going to make the list. We are looking for the holy grail of Texas barbecue joints -- the perfect blend of building code violations, indifferent employees and fantastic smoked bovine. We'll keep looking, and you keep sending in your suggestions.


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But I went anyway. A local man is shipping out for Iraq next week, the family wanted to surprise him with a ALR/PGR send-off
It was only 28 degrees out but I decided if he could spend a year in the desert I could ride in the cold.
Got to the rally point and a few snow flurries started falling. The ride was only a few blocks away so off we went.
By the time we got done talking to the family etc., the snow had gotten heavier. Thank God I only had to ride a few blocks home, it was gettin' really slick out!
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Ubud is a remarkable town in the middle of Bali Island. It is a relatively tranquil and peaceful place compared to all other tourist spots in Bali. Being an island and despite of its sandy beaches, there are also scenic mountains and beautiful villages in Bali. Ubud has been Bali's center for fine arts, cultural dance, and music for more than a century ever since it has been discovered by tourists.
It is popular globally among backpackers, as Ubud has a very strong character. It attracts people from all around the world who are actively involved in art and nature, music and dance, religion and architecture, etc.
Ubud in my opinion, is the best place to be based in while visiting Bali; be it from the cultural, natural or inspirational points of view. Ubud is surrounded by most of Bali's tourist attractions, the paddy fields, small villages, art and handcraft centers, ancient temples, rivers, hills and greenery. And it's central location makes it easy to get from Ubud to the volcanic mountains and beaches.
There are plenty of interesting things to see and do on the main streets, but the real Ubud is under the surface. Most of the magic of Ubud is hidden away. In the backstreets, backwaters, courtyards and cafes. In people's hearts, minds, and dreams. The real Ubud, the real Bali, is awaiting to be discovered.
For people who'll rent a car or a motorcycle, exploring Ubud and its surrounding areas is a blissful joy. Hiring a car with a local driver is undeniably a good way to save time and hassles as the roads are slopey, branched, and usually narrow.
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Water softener salt hog
My water softener goes through a 40lb bag in about 4-5 days. Does this sound excessive? This is well water with a high iron content. I swear if I turn the dial down even a bit my wife is on me within a couple days about the water being too hard. She's right though, I can tell too. Soap doesn't lather, tastes different, etc. I'm just tired of spending all this $$ on salt. My neighbor down the road says his goes through a 40lb bag in about a month. :huh: That's a huge difference from mine. Is there a normal range that a softener should go through?
How much salt you use depends on how often the water softener runs.
It sound like your water is very hard.
My softener runs once every 24 hours. No way to increase or decrease the frequency unfortunately. Well you can do a manual regeneration if you need another one before the 24 hours is up. I was surprised by this when I read the manual. I figured you could set it for certain days, but it clearly states the unit is configured to run at 2:00AM every day.
What is the make and model of your softener?
Is it electronic?
You should be able to set how often it runs but I know that you can not change the 2:00 am setting because that is when there is less change of someone turning on a tap or flushing the toilet and contaminating the lines.
If you want to run it every second night just unplug it then plug it in the next night.
I do this with mine because it is right next to the bedroom and makes to much noise at 2:00 am. Then I plug it in every Monday before I go to work turn the dial to manual start it.
Mine can be set to run as many times a week as need though.
Check with your neighbor and see what kind of timer he has.
Not being able to set it just doesn't sound right.
It's an Autotrol with a 460i automatic controller. It's supposed to keep track of water usage and regenerate accordingly...supposedly an upgrade from the manual controller where you set how often you want it to run. That's why there is no option to set frequency. You can only adjust the time, hardness, and capacity. I'm certain our household does not go through enough water to require a regeneration every day so I think something may be wrong with the unit or some kind of adjustment is needed. I read on another site that a softener shouldn't go through more than 80lbs in a month max under the worst water conditions...mine goes through double that.
Can you tell us what your water conditions are at the source? Perhaps a twin-tank system would benefit your water demands and water quality. If your single tank softener is regenerating EVERY day, then it may be undersized for conditions.
How many people using water? Give us a plumbing audit--how many baths, sinks, water appliances, etc., do you use? What is the size of your softener tank?
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Albizia saman
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Albizia saman (sometimes treated under the obsolete name Samanea saman) is a species of flowering tree in the pea family, Fabaceae, that is native to the Neotropics. Its range extends from Mexico south to Peru and Brazil, but it has been widely introduced to South and Southeast Asia, as well as the Pacific Islands, including Hawaii. Common names include saman, rain tree and monkeypod (see also below). It is often placed in the genus Samanea,[2] which by yet other authors is subsumed in Albizia entirely.
Saman is a wide-canopied tree with a large symmetrical crown. It usually reaches a height of 25 m (82 ft) and a diameter of 40 m. The leaves fold in rainy weather and in the evening, hence the name "rain tree" and "five o'clock tree" (Pukul Lima) in Malay. Several lineages of this tree are available, e.g., with reddish pink and creamish golden colored flowers.
During his 1799–1804 travels in the Americas, Alexander von Humboldt encountered a giant saman tree near Maracay, Venezuela. He measured the circumference of the parasol-shaped crown at 576 ft (about 180.8 m[3]), its diameter was around 190 ft (about 59.6 m), on a trunk at 9 ft (about 2.8 m) in diameter and reaching just 60 ft (nearly 19 m) in height. Humboldt mentioned the tree was reported to have changed little since the Spanish colonization of Venezuela; he estimated it to be as old as the famous Canary Islands dragon tree (Dracaena draco) of Icod de los Vinos on Tenerife.[4]
The tree, called Samán de Güere (transcribed Zamang del Guayre by von Humboldt) still stands today, and is a Venezuelan national treasure. Just like the dragon tree on Tenerife, the age of the saman in Venezuela is rather indeterminate. As von Humboldt's report makes clear, according to local tradition, it would be older than 500 years today, which is rather outstanding by the genus' standards. It is certain, however, the tree is quite more than 200 years old today, but it is one exceptional individual; even the well-learned von Humboldt could not believe it was actually the same species as the saman trees he knew from the greenhouses at Schönbrunn Castle.[5]
Large branches of the tree tend to break off, particularly during rainstorms. This can be hazardous as the tree is very commonly used for avenue plantation.
During falling leaf period
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Black-rumped flameback (Dinopium benghalense) on rain tree bark
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Albizia saman is a well-known tree, rivalled perhaps only by lebbeck and pink siris among its genus. It is well represented in many languages and has numerous local names in its native range. Most names that originated in Europe (where the tree hardly grows at all) are some variety of "rain tree". The original name, saman - known in many languages and used for the specific epithet - derives from zamang, meaning "Mimosoideae tree" in some Cariban languages of northern Venezuela.[5]
The name "rain tree" was coined in tropical India, especially Bengal. Its origin is the moisture that collects on the ground under the tree, largely the honeydew-like discharge of cicadas feeding on the leaves.
- English: saman, rain tree, monkey pod, giant thibet, inga saman,[6] cow tamarind,[7] East Indian walnut,[8] soar, suar.
- Spanish: cenízaro, acacia preta, árbol de lluvia (rain tree), genízaro
- Cuba: algarrobo
- Central America: carreto, cenicero, dormilon, genizaro, zarza
- Colombia: campano, saman
- Venezuela: carabeli, couji, lara, urero, samán
- French: arbre à (la) pluie (rain tree)
- German: Regenbaum (rain tree), Soar, Suar
- Portuguese: chorona
- Haitian Creole: guannegoul(e)
- Jamaica: goango, guango
- Trinidad: Samaan Tree
In the Caribbean region, it is occasionally called marsave.
- Sanskrit: Shiriisha
- Bengali: shirish শিরীষ
- Gujarati: shirish
- Hindi: vilaiti siris सीरस
- Kannada: Bhagaya mara
- Malayalam: chakkarakkay maram ചക്കരക്കായ് മരം
- Marathi: विलायती शिरीश (exotic shirish)
- Sinhalese: mara
- Tamil: thoongu moonji maram தூங்குமூஞ்சி மரம் (Literal translation is tree with a sleeping face, actual meaning is sleepy tree. Refers to leaves closing in the evening)
- Telugu: nidra ganneru తెలుగు
- Indonesian/Malay: pukul lima (five o'clock tree, in Malaysia), pokok hujan (rain tree)
- Javanese: trembesi
- Khmer ampil barang (French tamarind)
- Malagasy: bonara(mbaza), kily vazaha, madiromany, mampihe, mampohehy
- Burmese: kokko ကုက္ကို
- Sundanese: ki hujan (rain tree)
- Thai: ก้ามปู (kampu), ฉำฉา (chamcha), จามจุรีแดง (chamchuri daeng), จามจุรี (chamchuri)
- Vietnamese: còng, muồng tím, cây mưa (rain tree)
As an introduced plant on Fiji, it is called in some regions vaivai (ni vavalagi), from vaivai "watery" (in allusion to the tree's "rain") + vavalagi "foreign". In some parts of Vanua Levu, Fiji the word vaivai is used to describe the lebbeck, because of the sound the seedpods make, and the word mocemoce (sleepy, or sleeping) is used for A. saman due to the 'sleepiness' of its leaves.
Notable trees[edit]
During the production of the 1960 film Swiss Family Robinson, a 60 metres (200 ft) tall albizia saman tree in Tobago was used for the construction of the family's famous tree house. The set was left intact after filming, but was destroyed by Hurricane Flora in 1963. The tree itself has survived, and is located approximately 11°12′42.8″N 60°37′46.5″W / 11.211889°N 60.629583°W near Goldsborough, Tobago.
CO2 sequestration[edit]
According to a research conducted at the School of Forestry of the Bogor Agricultural Institute, Indonesia, a mature tree with a crown diameter measuring 15 meters absorbed 28.5 tons of CO2 annually. The trees have been planted in cities of Kudus and Demak and also will be planted along the shoulder of the road from Semarang to Losari.[9]
- ^ "The Plant List: A Working List of All Plant Species". Retrieved May 16, 2014.
- ^ "Samanea saman (Jacq.) Merr.". Germplasm Resources Information Network. United States Department of Agriculture. 2010-02-03. Retrieved 2010-03-25.
- ^ Presuming von Humboldt used the Magdeburg foot of 1755, introduced in Prussia in 1793, which was 1.044 ft (31.385 cm).
- ^ von Humboldt & Bonpland (1820): pp.98-100
- ^ a b von Humboldt & Bonpland (1820): p.99 footnote
- ^ It is a rather close relative to the ingas.
- ^ a b c Among the legumes, it is not very closely related to tamarinds.
- ^ It is not at all closely related to walnuts.
- ^ http://www.thejakartapost.com/news/2011/05/18/save-earth-planting-trembesi.html
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Denville's Dan Zaleski still has 'odd feeling' about having an impact
Denville native Dan Zaleski spent a total of 20 months driving supply convoys for the Air Force in Iraq, so driving home from work at APM Terminals in Port Elizabeth should have be a relatively uneventful ride. However, on a rainy May evening, Zaleski found himself in the position to help — twice.
The first act of civil service came when Zaleski stopped to help an elderly couple, who had a blown-out tire.
"Me and a buddy from work stopped until the police showed up," said Zaleski. "It was on a dangerous curve on Route 1 and 9 and my buddy had road flares that we set up so they wouldn't get hit by anyone."
Later in the ride, while on Route 78, Zaleski came across another scene, but this one was much more severe than a blown tire. A car had careened across four lanes, jumped the median, and hit oncoming traffic.
Zaleski explained that while he didn't see the accident, it was empathy that compelled him to stop for a second time.
"I was probably about 10 cars back or more," said Zaleski. "I just thought about my family and if that was one of them that I would like for someone to help them out. So I got out to see what I could do."
After getting to the car and finding the driver, Cheryl Galante of Maplewood, Zaleski utilized the training he received in the Air Force.
"We are trained in Self-Aid Buddy Care, which teaches us how to be first responders and to take care of each other after an attack," said Zaleski.
Galante explained that her initial instinct was to run and to take care of the situation herself. Fortunately for her, Zaleski's training came in handy because even though he thought she looked fine, he knew the best thing he could do was keep her calm until the ambulance arrived.
"I remember coming home after that night of the accident and telling Renee, my wife, that all I thought she had wrong was a concussion, whip lash, and some minor cuts and bruises," said Zaleski. "When I found out she had fractured her neck I was blown away and had no clue what I did made such a large impact."
But like the shock Galante felt during the accident, Zaleski seems to be in shock after helping, and certainly after all the kind words and gestures he's received in light of his willingness to help.
"It is still an odd feeling," said Zaleski. "I met one of her daughters for the first time and she said to me, 'Thank you for saving my mother's life.' I can not pick words to describe that moment and I don't think that I ever will."
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West Australian Curtis Luck who only five days ago was a losing finalist at the Australian Amateur Championship has maintained that form to lead the Lake Macquarie Amateur Championship at the Belmont Golf Club south of Newcastle.
Luck leads by one over Sydney golfer Isaac Noh after recording the best round of the day (65).
Noh's round of 69 was highlighted by an albatross 2 at the par five 4th hole.
Luck's fellow West Australian, Jarryd Felton, is one shot further back and alone in third position while the medallist at last week's Australian Amateur Championship qualifying Ryan Evans is in 4th position.
New Zealander Compton Pikari and Sydney's Jordan Junic are tied for 5th and four shots from Luck's lead.
First round leader and recent Australian Amateur Champion Tae Koh of New Zealand was twelve shots worse today, his round of 77 seeing him slip to a share of 9th position.


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It was only a two hour flight but since we lost an hour we arrived in Hong Kong at 17:00. We then caught an express train to Hong Kong station and then a taxi to Hollywood drive. Unfortunately our taxi driver didn't quite get our hotel stop right so ended up walking the street trying to find it. Hong Kong is amazing. We've never seen so many skyscrapers in our lives! The plan was to meet Anton's university friend Borris for dinner as he lived near by. Unfortunately he was on stand by to fly, he is a pilot for Cathay Pacific, and was called up to leave at 21:00 at the last minute. We decided to meet for a quick dinner anyway so walked straight there instead of wasting time looking for our hotel. It was super for Tess to meet Borris and for Anton to catch up even though it was a quick dinner. Hopefully Borris will be flying to Johannesburg in the new year and we'll see more of him then. We discovered that our hotel was 500m from the restaurant so found it easily after that. We were upgraded to the businesses suite which is very nice. There is a bedroom and a little sitting room. Perfect for us considering the space issue in Hong Kong. We were both feeling pretty wrecked and still snotty so stayed in for the evening and watched Indiana Jones. The view from our room is ridiculous. Just pillars and pillars of buildings. We are looking forward to exploring Hong Kong's gems tomorrow.


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Shane Long insists it is too early to start panicking at West Bromwich Albion, despite Steve Clarke admitting that his position will come under increasing scrutiny if results do not improve before the New Year.
• Evans: Pressure building
Long, 26, and his Baggies teammates have suffered three defeats in the space of a week to intensify the spotlight on head coach Clarke, whose contract expires in the summer.
The Albion boss conceded ahead of Saturday's disappointing 2-0 defeat to Norwich City that the pressure on his position will increase if his side do not start picking up victories, with the club now sitting just two points off the relegation zone.
The Baggies must next focus on crucial encounters with Cardiff City, Hull City and West Ham ahead of New Year's Day -- three fixtures which could decide whether the club will be facing a relegation fight for the remainder of the season. They will also go a long way to determining whether planned discussions with Clarke over a new contract will take place in January.
However, despite the importance of the fixtures, Long has urged his teammates not to panic just yet and retain their focus.
"It was disappointing against Norwich because we needed three points, let's not disguise that, so we were disappointed. Credit to Norwich. It's a big three points for them and they've not been having good results lately, but we need to pick things up fairly soon," Long said.
"It's too early to start worrying about our run. Over the last few games we've played quite well and Saturday was the first game when we didn't really look like threatening. In the second half we were all over them but we didn't really have too many clear-cut chances.
"Stephane Sessegnon had one and I had one cleared off the line. Up to now we've been putting in really good performances and just not getting the breaks so we need to get back to that, playing teams off the field and letting the rest take care of itself.
"I think the sooner we forget about Saturday the better. We have two winnable games coming up now against Cardiff and Hull and then the Christmas period with West Ham and Tottenham. There are still points up for grabs so we can't get too down on ourselves. We've just got to forget about Saturday, get back in training, get down to work and concentrate on the job in hand.
"Norwich was one of the three games in a row where we thought we could get three points so to come away with nothing was frustrating. We've got to learn from it, but at the same time forget about it because we've got to make sure we pick up three points next Saturday and then move onto the Saturday after. Good results would take a bit of pressure off us going into the hectic Christmas schedule."
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Mon., June 18 – Fiona Apple on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
In honor of her first album release in seven years, Apple will hit the stage the night before her long-awaited album drops. She will likely play the first single off The Idler Wheel, "Every Single Night."
Tues., June 19 – Dirty Projectors on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
The Dirty Projectors will be releasing Swing Lo Magellan, their sixth studio album, in July. To promote the new release they will be hitting the late-night circuit, performing either "Gun Has No Trigger," the first single off the album, or "Dance For You," a track that has recently surfaced. We'll see if the band can hack it without vocalist Angel Deradoorian, who is currently on hiatus from the group.
Wed., June 20 – Robert Glasper Experiment on Late Night With Jimmy Fallon
After touring across the globe for months, Glasper is returning to the States to support his recent album, Black Radio. On the show, Glasper and his band will be performing a genre-bending cover of Nirvana's "Smells Like Teen Spirit." Glasper will also be sitting in with house band the Roots throughout the show.
Thurs., June 21 – Avett Brothers on Conan
The North Carolina group is making its first appearance on late-night in a few years, in light of an upcoming album, due out later this year. After making waves with their last record, I And Love And You, the Avett Brothers are looking to keep up the momentum with their next release.
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June 21 – Metric on Jimmy Kimmel Live!
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CORAL GABLES, Fla. -- Miami Hurricanes' forward Jasmine Paterson was among the 11 players recognized with Atlantic Coast Conference All-Freshman honors, the conference offices announced Thursday.
"Jasmine is a special player," head coach Tom Anagnost said. "She can do things that most cannot do. I am most proud of the young woman she is."
Paterson, who finished tied for second on the team with seven points on the season, scored her first career goal in an Aug. 24 win over Morehead State. An 88th-minute goal, her second of the season, would seal a road win over NC State in the game's final stages.
Paterson added three assists during her impressive campaign, including two in the team's 2-0 road win over Clemson Oct. 7. The Key Largo, Fla. native started 15 of a possible 19 matches this season, missing two late in the year due to injury.
"She is learning how to work hard all the time and is gaining a stronger mentality," Anagnost added. "Continued improvement in these areas could make her one of Miami's all-time greats."
Joining Paterson as ACC All-Freshman selections were Virginia's Makenzy Doniak and Emily Sonnett, North Carolina's Hannah Gardner and Summer Green, Florida State's Carson Pickett and Isabella Schmid, Maryland's Ashley Spivey, Virginia Tech's Ashley Meier, Duke's Cassie Pecht and Boston College's McKenzie Meehan.
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Sep 3, 2013 - The Associated PressJACKSON -- Biologists say a bad year for whitebark pine cone output could lead to more hunter-grizzly bear conflicts in northwest Wyoming this fall.
Officials say whitebark pine cone output has fallen off by 84 percent this year. The pine cones are an important food source for grizzlies before the winter.
Wildlife biologist Frank van Manen said the average cone count per tree dropped from 33 cones last year to just 5.2 cones per tree this year across the Greater Yellowstone ecosystem.
Because whitebarks grow at high elevations, they help keep grizzly bears separate from hunters in lower elevations.
But with the low crop, wildlife managers say there will be increased grizzly activity in the lowlands this year.
Whitebark pine has been identified by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service as a candidate for endangered species status. The agency says threats to the tree include habitat loss, pine blister rust, mountain pine beetle, catastrophic fire and fire suppression, environmental effects resulting from climate change, and "the inadequacy of existing regulatory mechanisms."
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Man Stopped For Medical Emergency, Found To Be Sex Trafficking Suspect By PoliceHoward County police have arrested and charged a Pikesville man with human trafficking after officers learned he was forcing women into prostitution and taking their money.
Bills Designed to Provide Justice for VictimsGovernor Hogan unveiled bills Thursday designed to provide harsher penalties for offenders and better treatment for victims.
3 Indicted In Maryland Human Trafficking CaseThree people face time in federal prison, accused of victimizing dozens of women.
Laurel Man Accused of Sex Trafficking Teenage GirlsAn undercover sting led to the human trafficking arrest of a Laurel man accused of pimping teenage girls online, authorities said Tuesday.
Baltimore Special Ed. Teacher Charged With Human Trafficking, ProstitutionA special education teacher has been placed on administrative leave after he was arrested on charges of human trafficking and prostitution, according to police and a school letter obtained by WJZ.
Under Armour Designer Climbs Everest To Combat Human TraffickingOne of Under Armour's top designers came up with what even he calls a crazy idea: climb some of the six highest mountains on earth to combat human trafficking.
Police Raid Baltimore's 'Block' In Trafficking InvestigationLocal and federal law enforcement agents raided three clubs on The Block, Baltimore's famous downtown red-light strip, as part of a human trafficking investigation.
New Bill Works To Fight Human Trafficking In BaltimoreNew protections are going in place to combat human trafficking in Baltimore. The City Council passed and the mayor signed a whistleblower protections bill Wednesday.
Climbing The World's Highest Peaks To End Human TraffickingVery few people get to say their achievement is the first of its kind in the world. As Mike Schuh explains, a Baltimore man is risking his life to try, and help humanity along the way.
2 Men Arrested In Maryland For Human Trafficking Two men have been arrested and charged for human trafficking and other related charges in Somerset County on Sunday.
Baltimore Officer Sentenced For Running Prostitution RingA former Baltimore police officer has been sentenced for allegedly operating a prostitution ring.
Montgomery County Schools Enroll Unaccompanied Immigrant Children About 100 unaccompanied children who have crossed the border from Central America have enrolled in Montgomery County schools.


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An American History blog focusing on the Reconstruction Era as experienced by the people of Jackson County, Florida.
Friday, October 20, 2006
William Mallory Levy Biography: Part III- Post-War
After the war, Levy resumed his career as a lawyer in Natchitoches. During the reorganization of the Democratic Party during the Reconstruction period, Levy remained politically active as evidenced by his attendance at the Democratic Party's 1872 convention in Baltimore as a Louisiana delegate. In April 1873, Levy announed the formation of a law partnership with E.L. Pierson, brother of the wife of Levy's brother, called "Levy & Pierson" (replacing "Pierson & Levy").
E. L. Pierson was a member of the state legislature and was murdered in December 1875 by J.H. Cosgrove, editor of Natchitoches' Vindicator newspaper. ("The difficulty orginated (sic) in a newspaper controversy, in which the epithets of coward, &c, were exchanged. Pierson was a Kelloggite ["radical republican" - DRW], Cosgrove a Democrat." Ouachita Telegraph, Dec. 31, 1875 at http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/la/natchito/history/piersonc.txt).
Levy was elected to the 44th Congress (March 1875 to March 1877) as a Democrat. Though he was not renominated for Congress in 1876, Levy spent his "lame duck" months actively involved in the Tilden-Hayes controversy. In the disputed presidential election of 1876, Louisiana was one of five states whose electoral votes were in contention (Florida was another of these states and William Purman played a major part in that controversy). The Louisiana gubernatorial election of November 1876 was similarly contested. Both the Republican and Democratic candidates declared victory. Louisiana's Republican-controlled board of elections confirmed the Republican candidate as the winner. Levy denounced the actions of the Louisiana board of election before the House on Feb. 20, 1877. The New York Times contended that Levy played a leading part in the compromise that ended Democratic filibustering aimed at preventing the House's certification of the presidential election in Hayes' favor. The Times also insisted that Levy was a leader in devising the deal that accepted the Louisana board of election's determination in favor of Hayes' winning that state's electoral votes in exchange for the recognition of the Democratic candidate as Louisiana's governor. Though historians dispute the existence of a "deal" to settle the election, the Times insisted that Levy's speech on the floor of the House on March 1, 1877 was proof of such an arrangement. Levy was quoted as speaking in opposition to the Democratic filibuster that "I feel that sound policy and the paramount consideration of the salvation of the State and people of Louisiana require that their Representatives in this House should abstain from a futile attempt to nullify that decision, and thereby postpone the redemption which is essential to their very existence and from which alone they can expect peace and prosperity" (NYT, March 31, 1877). Louisiana's electoral votes were delivered to Hayes and the Democrats took control of Louisiana, effectively ending Reconstruction in that state.
In 1878, Levy formed a law partnership with Daniel C. Scarborough which contined until Levy's appointment in April 1880 by Governer Wiltz as an associate justice of the Louisiana Supreme Court. Levy died in August 14, 1882 at Saratoga Springs, NY at the age of 54. Levy's burial service was held at the Protestant Episcopal Church in Natchitoches on Dec. 11, 1882. Biographical sources indicate that Levy was buried at the American Cemetery in Natchitoches, but extensive indexes of graves at that place do not list his name. His widow, Catherine, died in New Orleans in 1900.
Charles H. Levy was most likely William's younger brother. Born on August 18, 1837, Charles Levy's biography lists him as a Virginia native and the youngest of seven children of John B. Levy, also a Virginian by birth who served in the War of 1812. The father John moved to Natchitoches in 1870, but moved the following year to Longview, Texas where he died in 1877 at the age of 89 (another source says he died on Dec. 29, 1880). Father John's wife, Emeline Butt (unclear if she was the mother of William), also a Virginia native, died in Texas in 1875 at the age of 72. Charles was educated in Portsmouth and entered the U.S. Navy's engineering corps. He resigned from the U.S. Navy in June 1861 and joined the Confederate Navy, being promoted to chief engineer in 1864. At the close of the war, Charles settled in Natchitoches. Like his brother, Charles became in involved in the Democratic Party and was elected justice of the peace in 1879. Charles and his wife, Emily Pierson, were members of the Episcopal Church and had six children, including one son named William M. Another brother, Richard Butt Levy Sr., was a trustee of the Presbytarian Church in Longview Texas and served as Texas Secretary of State for a number of years. Richard died in 1918.
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It was only launched on Tuesday but already people have signed up to contribute to the community fundraising effort for the Sarjeant Gallery in Wanganui.
When Wanganui Mayor Annette Main announced the fundraising effort she said the target for campaign - named A Thousand Stars - was $1 million in four years.
Wanganui District Council has applied to the Ministry of Culture and Heritage for up to $10 million in government funding for an extension and earthquake-strengthening for the gallery. It is a project which is currently estimated to cost $22 million.
Ms Main said already people had been into the gallery to sign up to the fundraising effort, which aims to get individuals to contribute $5 a week for four years.
"And I know other approaches have come from people living out of town," she said.
"I've spoken at meetings around the city and people have told me that while they may not have a lot to contribute they want to give what they can."
However, launching the campaign before getting a guarantee of Government support is worrying district councillor Ray Stevens.
Mr Stevens said he had not seen this initiative mentioned in any previous council agendas.
"I've certainly got nothing against fundraising for the project but I'm concerned about what happens to any funds raised and then we find Government funding doesn't come across," he said. "This is really being far too premature in my view."
He said he would contribute to the fundraising effort "when the time was right" as he had done to earlier fundraising efforts.
"But my biggest fear is that this community could not possibly raise the amount we're talking about for gallery extension and quake strengthening without funding from central government," Mr Stevens said.
"And I'd also question the timing, introducing something just before Christmas."
However, Ms Main said the criteria for getting any central government funding was a demonstration from council that it was making an effort to raise funds from its community, from trusts or philanthropists.
"They want to see a community supporting the project so this is one way of doing that," she said. Councillor Michael Laws has chipped into the debate as well, describing the fundraising device "just a little pathetic. If the aim is to get people to give $5 a week for four years then that's roughly a $1000 donation. It would take 1000 Wanganui people to agree to that to raise $1 million. Compared to the costs, that's a minuscule community fundraising effort."
But Mr Laws said that assumed the fundraisers could find 1000 people which was about 6 per cent of Wanganui's entire adult population.
"Frankly, the arts are not a popular recreation here and the Sarjeant is the lowest priority of virtually all capital works needed or wanted in our community," he said.
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Henry returned to his room.
His first impulse was to throw aside the manuscript, and never to look at it again. The one
chance of relieving his mind from the dreadful uncertainty that oppressed it, by obtaining
positive evidence of the truth, was a chance annihilated by the Countess's death. What
good purpose could be served, what relief could he anticipate, if he read more?
He walked up and down the room. After an interval, his thoughts took a new direction;
the question of the manuscript presented itself under another point of view. Thus far, his
reading had only informed him that the conspiracy had been planned. How did he know
that the plan had been put in execution?
The manuscript lay just before him on the floor. He hesitated; then picked it up; and,
returning to the table, read on as follows, from the point at which he had left off.
'While the Countess is still absorbed in the bold yet simple combination of circumstances
which she has discovered, the Baron returns. He takes a serious view of the case of the
Courier; it may be necessary, he thinks, to send for medical advice. No servant is left in
the palace, now the English maid has taken her departure. The Baron himself must fetch
the doctor, if the doctor is really needed.
' "Let us have medical help, by all means," his sister replies. "But wait and hear
something that I have to say to you first." She then electrifies the Baron by
communicating her idea to him. What danger of discovery have they to dread? My Lord's
life in Venice has been a life of absolute seclusion: nobody but his banker knows him,
even by personal appearance. He has presented his letter of credit as a perfect stranger;
and he and his banker have never seen each other since that first visit. He has given no
parties, and gone to no parties. On the few occasions when he has hired a gondola or
taken a walk, he has always been alone. Thanks to the atrocious suspicion which makes
him ashamed of being seen with his wife, he has led the very life which makes the
proposed enterprise easy of accomplishment.
'The cautious Baron listens--but gives no positive opinion, as yet. "See what you can do
with the Courier," he says; "and I will decide when I hear the result. One valuable hint I
may give you before you go. Your man is easily tempted by money--if you only offer
him enough. The other day, I asked him, in jest, what he would do for a thousand pounds.
He answered, 'Anything.' Bear that in mind; and offer your highest bid without
'The scene changes to the Courier's room, and shows the poor wretch with a photographic
portrait of his wife in his hand, crying. The Countess enters.


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Mojo readers know that I'm hooked on a couple wonderful marketing/business cartoonists and like to share their work now and then. On my second blog, Marketing Observations Grown Daily, it's David Jones' Adland. Here, it's Tom Fishburne's Brand Camp. Enjoy!
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Date of Stay: June, 2006
Lightner Creek is one of my favorite campgrounds in the U.S.! The staff/owners are exceptional and the camp hosts are great. The modern bathrooms are ultra clean. The park is small, but it is and cozy. Our site was by the stream which was very enjoyable. I love the paved roads. The great thing about Lightner Creek Campground is that it is secluded, yet right near Durango. It is also convenient for visiting Mesa Verde National Park. There are no seasonal or permanent residents except for the camp hosts. We will visit Lightner Creek everytime we pull west!
Date of Stay: May, 2006
We stay at Stone Bridge Campground a couple of times a year. The park has a lot of seasonal or permanent residents, but all sites are exceptionally maintained. The campground sites are level and the pull through sites can accommodate any type of rig! The only thing negative is the older bathrooms could use some updating. My biggest complaint is that they do not have any hand soap or towel in the bathrooms! I would think this should be required. The staff has always been very friendly and helpful. You can walk to restaurants from this campground.
Date of Stay: May, 2006
We have stayed at this campground for several years every May for a motorcycle rally. The new owners are working miracles at this park. There are a lot of seasonal residents, but they are not intermingled with the regular campers. The new owners have strict requirements for the seasonal residents to keep neat and presentable sites. There are many big rig sites available. The bath houses are older, but kept clean and stocked. The owners have plans for total bath renovations. The park is a wonderful relaxing place. This is an excellent park for a staging area to enjoy Helen, Georgia, waterfalls, many state parks and the mountains in general. They are pet friendly and motorcycle friendly. The paved roads in the park are especially nice for keeping the dust down! Wonderful play areas for children. In the summer, they have many planned activities for the campers.


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TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (AP) — Florida State quarterback Jameis Winston is under investigation in an alleged sexual assault reported nearly a nearly a year ago.
The university and Winston's attorney confirmed Wednesday that the Tallahassee Police Department is conducting an investigation.
Tallahassee Police Department officials refused to answer any questions, although they did release a heavily redacted two-page incident report. The report does not mention Winston by name, but it says the incident took place between 1:30 and 2 a.m. last Dec. 7.
It describes the suspect in the sexual assault case as being between 5-foot-9 and 5-11. Winston is listed by Florida State at 6-4.
Timothy Jansen, a Tallahassee attorney, said Winston hasn't been interviewed by police. Jansen said that at one point he had believed the matter had been resolved.
• UNDATED (AP) — Baylor coach Art Briles has a new 10-year contract with the fourth-ranked Bears, the team he has taken from perennial Big 12 loser to the conference's lone remaining undefeated team.
Two charged in agents probe
HILLSBOROUGH, N.C. (AP) — A sports agent's employee and a former college football player are charged with violating North Carolina's agent law, making them the fourth and fifth people facing criminal charges for providing benefits to Tar Heels football players in 2010.
Willie James Barley Jr. and Michael Wayne Johnson Jr. are charged with facilitating Georgia-based agent Terry Watson's efforts to sign Robert Quinn and Greg Little — both now in the NFL — in violation of the law.
Florida officials back Muschamp
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Florida officials are coming to coach Will Muschamp's defense.
President Bernie Machen and athletic director Jeremy Foley voiced strong support for Muschamp, telling the school's website they are fully committed to keeping Muschamp around to fix the team's problems.
The Gators (4-5) have their second four-game losing streak in Muschamp's three seasons and are facing the possibility of missing a bowl game for the first time since 1990.
Muschamp is 22-13 at Florida, including 13-10 in Southeastern Conference play. The latest loss came against Vanderbilt on Saturday.
Sabres fire coach, hire former one
BUFFALO, N.Y. (AP) — The Buffalo Sabres fired coach Ron Rolston and hired former coach Ted Nolan to replace him.
Sabres owner Terry Pegula also announced Wednesday that he fired general manager Darcy Regier and hired Pat LaFontaine as president of hockey operations.
The Sabres are off to a 4-15-1 start, the worst in franchise history.
Buffalo edged Los Angeles 3-2 in a shootout Tuesday night to avoid tying the worst home start in NHL history.
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The Australian dollar was more than half a cent lower on Wednesday after markets began pricing in a pause in interest rate rises after the release of weaker than expected gross domestic product figures.
At noon, the Australian dollar was trading at $US0.9041/45, down 0.8 per cent from Tuesday's close of $US0.9124/27.
During the domestic session, the local unit traded between $US0.0932 and $US0.0964.
Commonwealth Bank chief economist Michael Blythe said the market had taken the idea that the Reserve Bank of Australia would pause with monetary tightening at its upcoming board meeting in February.
"So they [the market] have been looking for reasons to back that view and a weak GDP number, or a weaker than expected GDP number, I think gave them an excuse to move that way," Mr Blythe said.
"We've seen the same sort of thing on interest rate markets where the odds of a February move have been scaled back a little bit."
Real gross domestic product rose by a seasonally adjusted 0.2 per cent in the September quarter, the Australian Bureau of Statistics said on Wednesday.
The outcome was slower than the unrevised 0.6 per cent growth pace recorded in the second quarter.
It also compared to the median market forecast for growth of 0.4 per cent in the September quarter.
The annual growth rate of 0.5 per cent was also slower than market expectations for a 0.7 per cent expansion in the year to the end of September.
In a speech delivered on Wednesday, RBA deputy governor Ric Battellino said the RBA's monetary policy stance was now back to a "normal" range, given recent rises in bank deposit, housing and business lending rates.
He also said there was less justification for banks to continue to enjoy wider net interest margins - which are about 20 basis points above pre-financial crisis levels - and that the gap should level out soon.
His remarks were initially interpreted as reducing the likelihood of the central bank raising official interest rates again at its next board meeting in 2010.
Mr Battellino said the RBA took "changing relativities" between the rates of loans and deposits and its official cash interest rate into account when making decisions on monetary policy.
The current cash rate of 3.75 per cent was still 50 basis points below the previous cyclical low of 4.25 per cent recorded in 2001.
But Mr Blythe said Mr Battellino and his Reserve Bank colleagues had made that point before.
"So in a sense that is less new news than these numbers out today."
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Growing up in the Sutherland Shire, Mark and Andrew would pause cartoons and sketch the scenes rather than be fixated on the show itself. They are both quick to credit their parents for their support, insisting they were encouraged to be anything they wanted to be. Although they knew their creative connection was intense from early on, they flirted with the idea of going to different universities after they were done with high school simply to diverge from the path they were sharing. "But then we thought, why deny each other just because?" reflects Andrew, who later goes on to explain that their severe honesty and at times harsh critique of one another when they were working on their degree at COFA was precisely what propelled them forward. "If it was 3am and we were working on the end of our projects, we wouldn't tell each other it's 'good' just to be polite. If we thought it needed more time, we would say it – even if meant we would have to stay up and redo the entire concept."
Such reviews gave them both a thick skin and, inevitably, the ability to take criticism and use it to their advantage. Their years of heightened bonding also reflected back on their ability to read people, which they cite as a basic key to success.
"A lot of people don't do simple things to get ahead – it's all about identifying what people want and delivering it," says Andrew.
"I think we're in tune with reading people because all we ever did was read each other – it's a subconscious intuition," continues Mark.
Indeed, they found a certain success almost immediately, gaining positions at their respective internships straight upon graduation. Although they were at times pitching against each other for the same jobs, they continued to freelance with one another from their home in Rose Bay, bouncing ideas off one another and working on both commercial and passion projects together. One of them eventually became Demo Magazine, which was the aftermath of another project that they started but eventually ceased in 2006 because it was, as they describe, "a self indulgent piece of shit". The end result became quite the opposite in the form of a large scale music magazine to promote up and coming artists, which ended up winning them recognition with both awards and the public. They don't hide behind the fact that they only have time to publish it once a year, but, as they say, it is better to do one than none. "Great ideas are always difficult to execute," says Andrew. "But if you do nothing, nothing happens."
Demo and the various other projects they worked on together since they were young all served to facilitate their grand plan, which was branching out together. They officially became Moffitt Moffitt only a few months ago, which they say has been in the making since they were born. They cite collaboration as both the biggest benefit and challenge to their partnership, but, at the end of the day, trust is paramount. "We have confidence in one another. We are partners, so we've pretty much employed each other." Perhaps one of the most substantial components of their predestined success is their strong outlook on the linked relationship between commerce and creativity. "We determine the value of our own work, and define it," says Mark. Andrew goes on, "There is a strategic currency in everything you do, and there is different levels of it." Their strong business sense is perhaps the necessary additive to their innate creative talent, which is, at the end of the day, their lifeblood.
"Ideas are everything, and as creative directors, we solve challenges in creative ways," explains Mark. "We create a series of experiences based on what our clients want, and curate content to execute their identity. Every day, we discuss what creative opportunities we ca use to make the experience memorable, and how we're going to feel when we are working on it. That is one of our currencies as well."
When asked to cite the project that has defined them, they simultaneously agree that it will happen in the near future – that the plethora of work they have already created and that has won them a list of awards has been a mere rehearsal to what is about to occur. But despite their acute devotion to what they do, they both possess a holistic side – on top of future projects, they are also looking forward to mentoring and creating more opportunities that will help other people... in an artistic way, of course.
Their exhibition, "No, More" opens at MART Gallerytonight and will continue through to August 28. An abstract, thought-provoking exploration into the excess of the music industry, the series is at times haunting and confronting, but always beautiful.
MART is open from Tuesday to Saturday from 12pm to 5pm.
words: Seema Duggal
All images are previews from tonight's exhibition.


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– NXT star Xavier Woods worked last night's WWE live event in Windsor, Ontario, Canada. He competed in a battle royal that opened the show and later lost a match to Ryback.
– WWE Diva Cameron noted on Twitter that she was at the WWE Performance Center training with NXT trainer Sara Del Rey this weekend.
– Former WWE Diva Maxine did a photoshoot for the cover of RED Magazine yesterday. She will be featured in the November issue with an article about her role in the upcoming web series called The Cell. She tweeted a preview photo from her shoot:


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With the Olympics less than a month away, the controversy over athletes allegedly using performance enhancing substances is understandably reaching a crescendo, with Australian cyclist Sean Eadie recently cleared of importing banned drugs.
Should athletes just be allowed to use drugs to improve performance?
This topic is now closed - this is what you said.
There are some pretty naieve opinions being posted here today. To say there are no performance enhancing drugs being used in professional sport in 2004 is wrong. Simple as that. The important thing is that its down to the individual competitor as to wether they want to compete within the rules, or break them to get an extra edge. Personally I think it would be a bit of a Phyrrhic victory for one to win after taking performance enhancing drugs - what's the point in it if you know that you've beaten clean athletes then are you really the best? You'll never know.
When is a win really a win?
Yes, I liked what you said about athletes competing for the love of the game having happier and healthier lives - its a recurrent theme in our house.
I just had one of those 'moments of truth' last night when D interviewed me. It became clear to me that he idolises me and thinks of me as being a 'great' cyclist.
Ben-e-boi (accept no imitatings)
The olymics should be the sporting world community striving to achieve its purest natural best through physical fitness and mental determination.For the olympics to retain there credibility it must be made sure that drug cheats dont compete and seen not to compete.
Justin Wright
You people keep mentioning SPORT... It hasnt been a sport for about 20 yrs.
Sport is something kids do. When they start getting paid for it, it is NOT sport anymore.
With people making MILLIONS from endorsements, how the hell is that sport ??? It is not, it is called BUSINESS.. Nothing more nothing less.
Can someone explain to me, how spending my tax $$ on the Australian Institute of Sport, or these businessmen/women betters my country, or me, or health, or schooling that are actually important to all of us?
Brad Stokes
Ben-e-boi -
I don't know, I think that if there was a true two-tiered system, with an amateur competition (drug-free, no endorsements or payments allowed) and a professional competition (open slather) then maybe children might again start to learn that winning isn't everything? Especially when they start seeing that the people who are fastest, highest, strongest etc. develop terrible health problems while the amateur athletes, who compete for the true love of sport, have happier and better lives.
I know, a ridiculous pipe-dream!
Kate Stewart
Love is a Drug, I understand the after-event parties and evening recreational events within the official residential Village at the last Olympics weren't that different from what you described. With a likely aural resemblance to a shedload of top-level female karate masters immobilising a posse of screaming villanous kamikaze ninja attackers with a collective repeated 'fighting yell' whilst fighting adajacent to an high-pitched opera singers convention, the nocturnal stress-releasing gymnastics of that location during mid-2000 reportedly covered an Olympic amount of territory in both invention and individual numerical totals.
Aussie Aussie Aussie... Oi Oi Oi...
Some comical posts here today. All said and done its just sport. I think there are bigger issues in the world that these athletes who have made bad choices, if affects no one but themselves really. It would be nice if it was just about personal achievement and representing your country proudly, but its all money. When it is there for the taking it drives people to do anything to win...sad but true.
Kate Stewart
You said "It's only sport, after all."
You're right, to a large degree I agree with you. However, the Olympics is also about generating a new batch of roll models and heros. After the Olympics our children are much more inclined to get involved in sporting activities and olympic athletes are accessable heros who have demonstrated goal achievement.
By allowing drugs in sport, one acquiesces to the notion that it is ok to be dishonest in achieving your goals. It sets a moral precedent for uncompetitive behaviour that is decried in other spheres in life, particularly in business and academia.
Just as an aside,
This term my son's class is looking at The Olympics and what it takes to achieve goals. As part of his homework he interviewed me about my personal achievements, and whether I thought he would achieve goals in the same or similar areas. It was a very prescient reminder of how much children model their behaviour and aspirations on their roll models.
Ben-e-boi (accept no imitatings)
Beren, you should care because their unfair advatnage is pressuring young kids to take lethal crap just so as they can compete.
Would you want your daughter injecting horse steroids into her legs so she can keep up?
Faster, higher, stronger. As long as everyone's having a good time I don't see what's wrong with it. After all we allow drugs in music - do you think Hendrix would have come up with half that stuff if he hadn't been ripped?
Dondal Blumble
I can't believe how you people are missing the point on this issue.
If an athlete is resourceful enough to track down the right drug, has done his or her homework on whether 2 pink pills beat 3 blue pills - well they should be rewarded for it. Surely there's some prowess involved here?!
If they're game enough to pump themselves full of whatever - good on 'em. As long as I can sit back with a couple of beers and be entertained, what do I care?!
As a former amateur cyclist having raced in Australia and in Europe I can only say that I am totally disgusted with the sport of cycling and its administration. In Europe you were expected to take drugs (illegal drugs) no matter which team you were in -otherwise you were given the boot.
The administrators of the sport know about all this (and some are involved in the distribution of such substances), but to protect their own hides and their sponsorhip (MONEY!!!) are happy to turn a blind eye and use the occasional athlete as a scapegoat (eg: Mark French)- especially if you get up their noses.
From a fanatical cyclist,
Now only cycling to keep fit.
le tour
beren, are you seriouslky suggesting that clean athletes shoukd start using drugs?
this "let them all use" is the most stupid arguement I have ever heard.
Telling athetes to risk their lives by taking drugs so as to provide a "level playing feild" is patient nonsense.
It should be a free for all. Imagine watching the 100m final and the winner runs 4 seconds for the 100m crosses the line and then he explodes.
What television. I would tune in for that
Drugs for TV
Anyone who thinks that the olympics is about some myth called "sportsmanship" is dreamin'
Just look at our beloved thorpedo - fairly and squarely disqualified - so they change the rules to win more gold. What a joke! It's all about money. That's what the olympic movement stands for..
Frank Russell
You forgot the Green pills, that makes you go like cool daddy latham - back flip city!! Even think ex leader is your mate, only there to help you!!
Drugs in elite sport has been going on for ages and will continue to do so. Unfortunately, its a given.
What I thought was a more interesting aspect of the current drugs in sport issue was the erosion of natural justice for athletes accused of wrong doing. As soon as an allegation arises, an athlete is presumed guilty until proven innocent. In a sense, I feel that Eddie, and to a degree, French were seen as convenient scapegoats to divert attention away from incompetancies within the AIS.
Ben-e-boi (accept no imitatings)
The only way to have a level playing field is to say "everybody take whatever you can get your hands on". There's always going to be a huge market for science to keep 1 step ahead of anti-doping agencies - as far as detection is concerned.
At least if the athletes were encouraged to take drugs the olympics might not be so dull.
There there, Adam, do you feel better now? Have you shown off your moral superiority over everyone to your heart's content? Good. Now shut up and let's get back into the debate(?)at hand. I agree with Ralph Moser, but would add that the red pills should also slowly alter physical features: bushier eyebrows, whiny voice, spine of string, etc until we all look like our beloved Johnny (Yes sir Mr Bush sir) Howard.
Frank Russell
I think it's hilarious that we, the great Australian sporting nation which was so very eager to point the sanctimonious finger at the East Germans and the Chinese, are now finding that the sportsmen/women, their great heroes, are just as guilty, not only that, but it's been going on for ages. Talk about feet of clay - (and brains of mush).
Love is a Drug - I expect Rocco Siffredi would sweep all other contenders before him. Siffredi is entirely drug free too, from what I've read, simply consisting on the whites of 30 eggs each morning to compliment his animalistic natural energy.
Arch Stanton
Win Gold at the olympics and you are set for life.... that's why people take drugs! That's why drugs will never be stamped out unfortunately.
Say no to drugs
Tara - obviously you have never met a professional "clean" athlete in your life.
i know a few of them who have dedicated their lives to a particular sport by combining dedication, hard work and persistence.
Its quite funny you consider them a joke as they would have worked harder than you obviously ever will.
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Longhorn will incorporate the results of an industry-wide initiative to create PCs capable of running programs in isolation from each other. The concept, called "protected execution", will mean hackers or worms attacking vulnerabilities in one piece of software will not be able to infiltrate the rest of the PC or the network.
Until the technology becomes available, IT departments have no choice but to work increasingly hard to keep ahead of attackers, said Gammage. "Up to two-thirds of critical business data can be found on PCs. That is way too much. Bring it back in house. It does not need to be there," he said.
Businesses need to develop policies to protect their networks as an increasing number of employees are using laptops and remote mobile devices.
IT departments need to move to standard configurations to simplify patching, said Gammage. "If you do not know what is in your PC environment, it is going to make you vulnerable," he said.
Firms without a standard PC configuration have to test patches on all the desktop configurations in their organisation, which has cost and security implications.
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A handbag made out of possum fur by New Zealand based company PESST
The third autumn/winter season of Mercedes Australian Fashion Week kicks off in Melbourne today and, after a couple of lean-ish fledgling seasons, buzz is starting to build. Beyond last night's opening party repeat of Collette Dinnigan's (northern) spring/summer 2005 show just seen in Paris, the hottest ticket is without doubt Thursday's world preview of Tsubi's new collaborative range with Michelle Jank. Other highlights include Jayson Brunsdon's first shot at winter after his successful May solo debut - and the unprecedented coup of getting three Kiwi labels, Zambesi, World and Sabatini, which have just shown winter 2005 in Auckland as part of New Zealand Fashion week, to do it all again one week later in Melbourne. Then there's Wednesday's runway debut of upwardly mobile accessories queen Amanda Briskin (but no, she's not breaking out a fashion range). As part of a strategy to steer Mimco towards the high end of the fashion accessories market (a strategy that means closing hundreds of gift shop accounts to roll out into bigger, more chic fish, notably 16 Mimco concept stores in David Jones), Briskin is following up last winter's knitwear with a range of wraps, shrugs and ponchos. These are designed to work with her myriad accessories - styling the show, we hear, to the wazoo. Here's a sneak peek, below.
Hop across the Tasman
Good to see this neck of the woods starting to look like a proper mini-fashion circuit. As there is no longer a fortnight's gap between New Zealand's annual fashion event and MAFW autumn/winter, a posse of internationals has hopped over from NZ to Melbourne to taste two markets in the one trip. Those fresh from Auckland in the front row this week include expatriate Australian retailer Elizabeth Charles from New York, Kimberley Kee from Singapore's Trixilini boutiques, Nicole Bargwanna, another expat, from Japan's Q boutiques and Tanya Jensen-Hawver from New York-based online 'zine The Daily.
Swish Swedes
Cult Swedish fast-fashion chain Hennes & Mauritz has 1106 stores in 20 countries but as yet none in Australia. But it may now have a beachhead. Someone claiming to be the son of H&M chief executive Stefan Persson, who ranks 37th on Forbes magazine's 2004 rich list with a net worth of $US8.6 billion is, we hear, painting the town red with a troupe of good-looking, Swedish twentysomething males. The Swede is not only dropping Stefan Persson's name but also boasting a study connection with Sydney's Billy Blue Group which confirmed to Fashion police that it has a Christoffer Persson joining the school's two-year advanced diploma in communication design in January. This leaves the would-be H&Mer plenty of time to see more of Sydney's nightlife with his mates, all of whom dress very smartly. "They all think they're [Swedish soccer player] Freddie Ljungberg," notes one Sydney club source. And they are very talented with the ladies.
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Entirely fitting
Landini Associates, known for its Sydney restaurant fit-outs, is emerging as the guru of fashion retail design. Its burgeoning portfolio includes Diana Ferrari, Papinelle, Maggie T, JAG, Mambo, Jigsaw and Morrissey. What's next? After working with sass & bide's Sarah-Jane Clarke and Heidi Middleton on their concept areas within David Jones, Landini Associates is working on the designers' hotly awaited stand-alone store in Paddington, their first, which is due to open in January.
Hello, possums
Fashion police walked straight past one delegate at the NZFW opening night party sporting what looked like a T-shirt emblazoned with an anti-fur slogan. The T-shirt, from Hastings-based company PESST, read, hilariously, "Say no to faux" and was one of several possum fur-related products in the trade fair. With fur back in a big way, the time may well have come for NZ's possum fur businesses. Our brushtail possum, introduced there in 1837, is destroying native forests and dominating local wildlife despite regular culling. We liked PESST's luxe-like possum satchel, above, and chaps and the divine possum blankets by Alpine Furs. Given that Elizabeth Charles snapped up 50 possum pelts elsewhere in Auckland last week and says she'll buy PESST's T-shirts (another reads: "Guilt-free fur Ts"), it seems we're not alone.
All Wright on the night
New Zealand Fashion Week sells its delegate's bag for $NZ79 ($74) and crew T-shirt for $NZ49 through Kiwi chain Max and there is an annual competition to provide the graphic. Last year, 1200 T-shirts sold out on day one; this year Max managing director David Wright printed 2000 - then, for a tense 48 hours, faced the rather awkward prospect of having to destroy the lot. The Ministry for Culture and Heritage got wind of the winning design from Christchurch student Hannah Ogilvie - whose whimsical "Passport to Fashion" design added such rag-trade items as a tape measure and fabric swatches to the NZ coat of arms, - and hit the roof, relenting only at the 11th hour. "We almost had naked ushers," Wright says.