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Outside Lands Reveal 2017 Music Line-UpThe ever popular outdoor festival that celebrates art, music, comedy and food at Golden Gate Park released their musical line-up for 2017...
The Who Announce Las Vegas ResidencyThe band will be the first rock acts to take residency at The Colosseum since the venue's opening in 2003.
Rolling Stones, The Who, Paul McCartney Rumored For Fall Mega-FestivalIt's like the Coachella or Outside Lands for grown-folks...
Top 2015 Music Festivals In The U.S.A look at five of the best upcoming music festivals from across the country...
Jan Wahl Movie Review: 'Lambert and Stamp' and 'Can't Stand Losing You: Surviving the Police'KCBS Entertainment Editor Jan Wahl reviews two rock 'n' roll documentaries this week; "Lambert & Stamp", which chronicles two filmmakers that stumbled upon The Who, and "Can't Stand Losing You: Surviving The Police".
Best Rock 'N Roll Cities In AmericaThis list includes five of the best rock 'n roll cities in America, with honorable mentions to the cities of Austin, Boston, Chicago, Detroit, New Orleans, Philadelphia and Seattle.
SF Playhouse Seeks Tube TVs To Smash For Keith Moon Bio PlayA San Francisco theater is asking for donations of unwanted tube TVs that will be smashed as part of an upcoming show about the life of the legendary drummer of the band The Who.
Jukebox Jury: Should There Be A Rock & Roll Retirement Age?
The Who, Johnny Cash Tribute Added To GRAMMY Nominations ConcertThe Who will play NYC's Madison Square Garden on the night of the nominations concert.
Dierks Bentley & The Band Perry Added To GRAMMY Noms ConcertThe Who and Hunter Hays are also scheduled to perform during the live television special airing on CBS, December 5 at 10PM.
My Father's House - Five Fathers Who Rock With Their Kids Dads pass on their talents to their kids. And some kids follow dad into the music business, including these musical families.
HealthWatch: High-Tech Surgery Saves Rock & Roll Legend's VoiceFrontman Roger Daltrey of The Who doesn't consider himself a legend but many people do. But his world came to a standstill when his voice was almost taken away.

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Even a broken leg can't slow Demi Lovato down! She talks exclusively to Seventeen about music she loves, what's going through her mind during X-Factor auditions, and why she loves being an Acuvue mentor.
Lucy Hale's Done With Drama
"I'm really excited about my song, 'Heart Attack,' and for my album to come out in May. I'll be announcing a tour later this year, so everyone should be on the lookout for that! There are so many artists who inspire me as a musician. Cher Lloyd is talented and incredibly sweet. I'm also really loving Ke$ha's new album—I've actually been friends with her for a long time. Bruno Mars' new album is fantastic, too!"
"As a judge on The X-Factor, forming groups as well as finding individual talent is definitely on my mind. It's not something I think about during the initial audition process, but later if we don't have enough groups, we'll make one. I try and think about which people would sing well together."
"If PSY had auditioned on The X-Factor I would have thought he was funny, but I need someone who can sing. I don't get the whole 'Gangham Style' crazy—sorry!"
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Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo could be out for the season
By Bryan Houston and Matthew Postins
News broke late Monday afternoon that Dallas Cowboys quarterback Tony Romo had undergone an MRI on his back, and was diagnosed with a herniated disk that may require season ending surgery. The news comes just days before the Cowboys are to play the Philadelphia Eagles in a de facto NFC East Championship game, with the winner making the playoffs and hosting a first round game next weekend.
At an early evening press conference, Dallas Cowboys head coach Jason Garret would not confirm Romo had been ruled out of Sunday's game with the Eagles but would only suggest the quarterback would be evaluated daily throughout the week to determine his status for Sunday. If Romo is indeed inactive for the game with the Eagles, backup quarterback Kyle Orton would get the start while the Cowboys look to sign a free agent to be their number two signal caller behind Orton.
Rattle and Hum Sports' Dallas Cowboys columnist Matthew Postins joined host Bryan Houston Monday evening on Blog Talk Radio to cover the shocking news coming out of Valley Ranch.
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On an intriguing walking tour through Venice, Ute Junker crosses over to La Serenissima's darker side.
A floating greengrocer is moored at the Ponte dei Pugni, or Bridge of Punches - a small, apparently insignificant, bridge across one of Venice's many narrow canals. Locals stop to pick up a bunch or two of fresh asparagus before continuing on their way. There's no indication that, for decades, this tranquil spot was the scene of bloody clashes between two of Venice's powerful clans.
The Montagues and the Capulets had nothing on the Castellani and Nicolotti, influential Venetian clans whose mutual loathing became a spectator sport for the rest of the city's populace. Each year, from September to December, the rival clans would battle it out on the city's bridges. The procedure was simple: supporters of both sides would rush onto the bridge at a designated time and try to knock their opponents into the water below.
The Ponte dei Pugni was the favoured venue. Over the years, weapons - originally pointed sticks hardened by repeatedly being soaked in boiling oil - were replaced by fists, but the fights remained brutal and casualties were common.
Brawling season in Venice was similar to football season in Melbourne, with hundreds of spectators attending each clash. Hawkers would sell meals while the crowd cheered on the fighters, waving handkerchiefs in encouragement.
Fights were also staged for visiting dignitaries, such as King Henry III of France and a group of Japanese ambassadors. The fights were outlawed in 1705 after a particularly riotous battle in which roof tiles were torn off nearby buildings and used as missiles.
Today, the only reminders of the melees are two sets of footprints on the bridge, which mark the traditional starting point of the fights.
Bloody brawls are not the type of activity usually associated with Venice. However, the city's history is more complex, and darker, than most people realise.
Our walking tour is supposedly dedicated to Casanova's Venice in its extravagant 18th-century heyday. However, in a city as densely populated as Venice, earlier histories intrude constantly, offering a different perspective of the city you thought you knew.
Take the city's many campos, or squares. Our guide tells us that in Venice's early days, the squares were literally campos (the Italian word means field), where cows grazed, and the city had no bridges. The rich used their own boats to move about the city. The poor stayed put, never venturing beyond the area in which they had been born.
Venice, like most cities, was shaped by its wealthier citizens. Yet, with limited land at their disposal, even the rich had to be inventive. By the 1500s, all the available land had been taken. With no opportunities to build grand new houses, the best way the rich could show off their wealth was to put new facades on their homes. Look inside the city's gorgeous 18th- and 19th-century palazzos and you'll discover the buildings are, in fact, centuries older than they appear from outside.
Churches provided another opportunity for the city's elite to flash their cash: they commissioned magnificent artworks and facades for their favoured houses of worship. Near the Ponte dei Pugni, for example, sits the church of Santa Maria del Giglio, its riotous baroque facade standing out amid the area's more restrained buildings. The marble facade was commissioned by nobleman and admiral Antonio Barbaro and features relief maps of places where he served, including Zadar, Rome, Corfu and Spalato.
Nobles wielded all the power in the Venetian government. If your family wasn't mentioned in the 13th-century list of nobles, you didn't get a look-in. A noble birth did not, however, guarantee riches; far from it. Under the Venetian system, all the family's property went to the oldest son, leaving the other children to fend for themselves.
This system created numerous problems. With only one son per family able to marry, most of Venice's noble daughters were destined to remain single. Most were packed off to convents, which became some of the city's key cultural centres.
Venice's younger sons had to eke out their own existence. Many of them lived in the area around Campo San Barnaba, near the Ponte dei Pugni, and were referred to as Barnabotti. While their noble status gave them political influence in the form of seats on the Great Council of Venice, it also barred them from engaging in commercial trade, ruling out one profitable source of income. Eventually, the state recognised the problem and issued the Barnabotti a small allowance and established a school for their children.
Not that there were many of those: with no money to support a family, many of the nobility never married. By the 18th century, the figure was as high as 60 per cent.
A large population of unmarried men created a flourishing trade in prostitution, which was encouraged by the government as a way to avoid what was seen as the more sinful alternative: homosexuality. In fact, another Venetian bridge, the Ponte delle Tette (Bridge of the Tits) is so named because prostitutes were encouraged to stand upon it topless to entice and convert suspected homosexuals.
The Republic of Venice had another reason for tolerating prostitution: they made a lot of money out of the business. Taxes paid by the city's prostitutes, who at one time numbered more than 11,000, helped finance major public works, such as the building of the Arsenale.
Hearing stories is one way to learn history; another is to look at pictures. Our tour winds up at the Querini Stampalia, a gorgeous palazzo with a fascinating collection of paintings showing daily life in Venice. We see depictions of the fist fights on the bridges, and other gruesome pastimes, such as the bull baitings that used to take place at the Campo Santo Stefano, where bulls were tied to a stake and attacked by dogs.
In fact, the paintings suggest animal torture in any form was regarded by the Venetians as jolly good fun. There are images of Venetian-style hunts - in boats, naturally, with hunters using slingshots to bring down small birds. Most distressing are the images of another favourite game, in which a cat was tied to a wall. Blindfolded participants had to headbutt the cat until it was dead.
Fortunately, not all of the images are so gruesome. The records of grand events, such as gondola regattas or the elevation of new doges, are fascinating for the tiny details they reveal, such as the fact that women's flowing skirts were traditionally shorter in front than behind, so they didn't trip when walking up and down the city's bridges.
The writer was a guest of Context Travel.
Trip notes
Getting there Emirates has three services daily from Sydney and Melbourne to Dubai, with daily connections to Venice, which is one of three Italian destinations serviced by the airline. Return economy-class airfares start from $1812 from Melbourne and $1828 from Sydney. 1300 303 777, emirates.com/au.
Touring there Context Travel offers walking tours of Venice, including "Casanova's Venice". Group tours cost €65 ($82) a person. Private tours are also available. contexttravel.com.


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Nixon is one of the two or three most intelligent presidents in U.S. history.
Maybe of the 20th century.
My question is who has the authority to challenge the president and second expedite this case to the SCOTUS. My point is by the time this gets to the high court it will be 2014. I believe the court strikes down the president on this but Obama wins on time. Still, the legislative branch has to advance this case to curb the executive branches powers.
quote:Why would you pick him, how about Bobby Jindal. And Yes, he could choose to not enforce it. Executive order, maybe?
If a Scott Walker was President then he could theoretically not enforce ObamaCare?
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Boosting Taxes On Foreign Companies Can BackfireDean Foust
To mitigate against currency swings and dumping suits, many foreign companies have shifted production to the U.S. But that move opens the foreign company to another attack--that it underpays taxes, thanks to some accounting legerdemain that inflates its production costs here. During his election campaign, President Clinton vowed to crack down on these scofflaw corporations, and the Administration may soon seek to boost tax collections from foreign transplants. At the same time, multinational corporations face similar pressures elsewhere: Japan, for example, recently slapped large tax assessments on Coca-Cola, Ciba-Geigy, and Roche to end what Japan perceived as "transfer-pricing" abuses.
Yet a new study by two Columbia University researchers, Jason Cummins and R. Glenn Hubbard, suggests that the costs from governments' looking to crack down on multinational companies could outweigh the benefits of any incremental revenue gains. Specifically, multinationals facing the prospect of sharply higher taxes in foreign markets are very likely to reduce capital investment in those locales. By looking at reports filed by several hundred subsidiaries of U.S. multinational corporations from 1980 to 1991, the pair discovered that each percentage-point increase in the tax-adjusted cost of capital led to a 1 to 2 percentage-point decrease in the annual rate of investment. "There had been an opinion among some economists that taxes didn't matter in foreign direct investment," says Hubbard. "But we found that taxes were a very big determinant of FDI."


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Drew Brees was a 2nd rounder, and most people in SD thought he was a bust. And that was after 3 years of mediocre performances.
Let's give the kid one bad preseason and see what he can do in the regular season. Who knows, maybe he suddenly gets it after a week or two and starts pushing even Evans for the spot..
When I think of a Baltimore Raven - we go in there, we take your lunch box, we take your sandwich, we take your juice box, we take your applesauce, and we take your spork and we break it. And we leave you with an empty lunch. Thats the Baltimore Raven way. - Steve Smith Sr.
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Memorial Build Starts Soon
Construction of the Flight 587 memorial is set to begin on Beach 116 Street this month, and the city will host an update meeting in Rockaway Monday night for a select audience only, The Wave has learned.
Last week, a group including memorial designer Freddy Rodriguez, the Department of Parks and Recreation personnel, Borough President Helen Marshall and Rockaway representatives met at Borough Hall to try to limit the disruption caused by the project this summer, according to Community Board 14 District Manager Jonathan Gaska, who attended the meeting.
The memorial includes reconstruction of the public restrooms located below the sand on the south side of the boardwalk. That work was originally scheduled for the summertime, which would have inundated the site with porta-potties during the peak visitor season and the hottest months of the year.
Gaska said he, City Councilman Joseph Addabbo Jr. and Assemblywoman Audrey Pheffer convinced Parks, the supervising agency, to begin work on the restrooms after Labor Day. He said they also negotiated an agreement whereby only one of the boardwalk entrance ramps on the north side would be closed at any given time.
"The issues regarding beach access are very important to us and we made that known: the bathroom accessibility, the parking on 116, the fact that half a million people cross that area in a given beach season," Addabbo said of the talks. "We need to have it open for our visitors and our residents."
Aside from those details, little is known about how the memorial will take shape. Mayor Michael Bloomberg's administration has not updated the public since it announced the selection of Rodriguez' design in November, 2005. Instead, the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs and the Community Assistance Unit have relied on invitation-only meetings in Washington Heights and Rockaway Park. The meetings "to update the [victims'] families and community representatives" are closed to the general public and the media, according to Silvia Alvarez, a Mayor's Office spokesperson.
And just as the project is starting to heat up, Rockaway's "community representatives" are finding themselves partially out of the loop. A private update meeting that was supposed to be held at the Beach Club last month was cancelled for lack of attendance. Gaska told The Wave he wasn't invited and heard about the meeting from a third party at the last minute. Addabbo's office found out by chance, according to a staff person.
"To date, the invitation part of every meeting has left a lot to be desired, and I've made my feelings known about that," said Addabbo, who added that the process "should be open to all for input.
"What have they got to hide?" he continued.
Victims' family members were recently asked to verify the "spellings and groupings of loved ones for the memorial wall," according to a February 21 letter from Immigrant Affairs Commissioner Guillermo Linares. The letter, obtained by The Wave, indicates that the Beach Club meeting has been rescheduled for March 6, from 6:30 to 8 p.m.
"Is this one of those secret meetings," Gaska quipped when a reporter asked him if he was invited. He received a call this time, he said.


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While there are indexes that track micro cap stocks, there are few indexes tracking nano caps. Although definitions vary, a nano cap stock generally has a market capitalization of less than $50 million and a micro cap has $50 million to $300 million. A company's market cap is simply its share price multiplied by the number of shares outstanding.
The Russell Micro Cap™ Index (created in June 2005 by Russell, which is well-known for its small cap Russell 2000) is made up of stocks with a market cap of $55 million to $500 million. While this does go a little above the market cap of micro caps and into small caps, this index is still an accurate measure of the overall returns of micro cap stocks in the market. However, this index excludes stocks trading below $1, which are generally found on the over-the-counter bulletin board (OTCBB) and/or the pink sheets.
The Dow Jones-Wilshire U.S. Micro Cap Index is another index that can be used to measure the returns of micro caps in the market. This index tracks around 2,500 stocks in the Dow Jones Wilshire 5000 Index. Despite its name, the Dow Jones Wilshire U.S. Micro Cap Index not only tracks micro caps but also small caps, having broadened its capitalization selection criteria to between $100 million and $1 billion, with an average of about $300 million. It contains around 300 companies and differs from the other two micro cap indexes in that it screens its stocks based on fundamentals. This means that it tries to select higher quality small caps, which are likely to have a longer life cycle.
To get indexes that track the OTCBB and pink sheets, which have limited historical data, you'll generally need to sign up for subscription-based services. OTCBB and pink sheet stock are not represented in the above indexes due the risk that the companies listed there will have limited life cycles, which diminishes the quality of any index comprised of only these stocks.
Therefore, while there are indexes that include micro cap stocks, it's important to realize that they cover the smallest stocks from the major exchanges and tend to exclude OTCBB, pink sheets and stocks below $1.
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Mars was right. It's all about the shoes.
RAY ALLEN is notoriously obsessive about everything. He's legendary for his pre-game routine, which starts three hours before gametime. As a kid, he's said he was borderline OCD. You don't get to be the NBA's all-time three-point champ without having a touch of crazy in you.
Paul Pierce looked around, saw a free-agency market crowded with the likes of LeBron James, Dwyane Wade, Chris Bosh, Dirk Nowitzki and others (including his once-and-possibly-future teammate Ray Allen), and decided he wanted to join in today, opting out of the final year of his deal with the Celtics and becoming a free agent.


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Kicking off another stellar year of star-studded goodness, the 2016 Oscars got underway last night (February 28) in Los Angeles.
And with so many deserving nominees, the competition for each and every one of the twenty-four trophies was nothing short of fierce.
Leonardo DiCaprio's revenge thriller 'The Revenant' was the big winner at the 2016 British Academy of Film and Television Arts Awards on Sunday (February 14).
Tinseltown loves to honor its own, and last night (January 31) The Screen Actors Guild Awards highlighted some of the best and brightest stars in Hollywood's galaxy.
"Transparent" actor Jeffrey Tambor took home the Outstanding Performance By a Male Actor in a Comedy Series trophy, while Uzo Aduba won Best Female Comedy Actor title.
"Spotlight" and "Mad Max: Fury Road" were the big winners at the 21st Annual Critics' Choice Awards in California on Sunday night (January 17).
Spotlight, which chronicles the drama surrounding The Boston Globe's 2002 reporting of the Catholic Church's child abuse scandal, was named Best Picture and Best Acting Ensemble, while Josh Singer and Tom McCarthy picked up the Best Original Screenplay prize.
It's going to be another great year at the Environmental Media Association Awards, slated to take place on October 24th, and the list of nominees was just released to the public!
EMA president Debbie Levin told press, "Over the past 25 years of this award show, it never ceases to amaze us of all the great work that has been done to further highlight the achievements of those who lead by example through environmentally conscious programming, filmmaking and production."
Given that Memorial Day Weekend is the unofficial kickoff of the summer season, Disney wisely slated "Tomorrowland" for a big opening run.
The Brad Bird family sci-fi flick starring George Clooney, Britt Robertson, Hugh Laurie and Raffey Cassidy nabbed $9.7 million on Friday and is expected to wind up with around $40.7 million by the close of business on Monday.
Making the successful jump from modeling to acting, Abbey Lee is featured in the new film "Mad Max: Fury Road."
And the sassy Australian poser tells Marie Claire's June 2015 issue that the transition is easier said than done. "No one knows who the f*ck I am."
Stepping out for a swanky evening, the cast of "Mad Max: Fury Road" attended the big premiere at the 68th Annual Cannes Film Festival on Thursday night (May 14).


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BATON ROUGE- An arrest report outlines more information about what happened inside a Stafford Drive home before a woman was abducted by her ex-boyfriend earlier this week.
WBRZ News 2 obtained the affidavit Wednesday. Investigators wrote Jeremiah Rodriguez tied family members up and left them for hours until he left the house with Viscaacuba James, 33.
According to records, James was with her two kids and two male cousins when Rodriguez forced his way into the home through the carport door early Monday morning. He was armed, witnesses told detectives, and threatened the people inside.
Eventually, deputies reported, Rodriguez put the six people in a back bedroom and used yellow cord to tie their hands and taped their mouths shut. They were left for hours until they were released and eventually ushered back to the bedroom and Rodriguez apparently left the house with James.
The five victims said Rodriguez brandished a gun as he pulled James out of the house.
A few hours later, Rodriguez and James were located in Gulfport, Mississippi. James was rescued and Rodriguez was arrested. Rodriguez faces aggravated burglary, false imprisonment and kidnapping charges.
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Live updates from Game 36 of IPL 6 between Rajasthan Royals and Sunrisers Hyderabad at the Sawan Mansingh stadium in Jaipur on Saturday.
Both the teams came into this game after losing their previous encounters.
While Hyderabad were at No. 3 in the points table, Rajasthan were one place below them.
Rajasthan: Shane Watson, Ajinkya Rahane, Rahul Dravid(c), Stuart Binny, Brad Hodge, Dishant Yagnik(w), Sachin Baby, James Faulkner, Kevon Cooper, Ajit Chandila, Siddharth Trivedi
Hyderabad: Akshath Reddy, Shikhar Dhawan, Hanuma Vihari, Kumar Sangakkara(w/c), Thisara Perera, Darren Sammy, Ashish Reddy, Karan Sharma, Amit Mishra, Dale Steyn, Ishant Sharma
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ITU is holding a workshop - Making accessibility a reality in emerging technologies - at the second meeting of the Internet Governance Forum (IGF) in Rio de Janeiro, 13 November, 1430-1600.
ITU's standardization arm - ITU-T - has a long history of providing standards in the field of accessibility. It started in the early 90's with the international text telephone standard, ITU-T Recommendation V.18, which ties together text telephone protocols allowing different textphone types to communicate.
ITU-T's accessibility experts have helped to incorporate accessibility needs into standards for multimedia, network interoperability, multimedia service descriptions and multimedia conferencing.
The latest work has focused on taking accessibility needs into account in the development of all standards. For this reason an 'Accessibility Checklist' has been created for the makers of standards to ensure that they are taking into account the needs of those to whom accessibility to ICTs are restricted, the deaf or hard-of-hearing for example. Experts say that such a list will help to ensure that accessibility needs are taken into account at an early stage, rather than 'retrofitted'.
An area of current intensive standardization activity is that on the next generation network (NGN). Accessibility features have been included at the first stage of standards work where requirements are defined. However it is important that these needs are taken into account as work progresses.
This workshop, organized by ITU, as part of the Internet Governance Forum brings together experts from around the world to examine how best to take into account accessibility needs in emerging technologies.
Further information here (ITU page) here (IGF page).
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Fundraiser for RPD Officer Pierson's Family
Source: iHeartRadio Network
The Rochester Police Department has identified the officer killed in the line of duty last night as Officer Daryl Pierson. Get more info here.
Officer Pierson, 32, leaves behind a wife and two small children, ages 4 years and 3 months. His oldest just started kindergarten yesterday.
A fundraiser has already been started to help out his family financially...click here to learn more.
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On this date in 1847, Annie Besant (née Wood) was born in London. The sheltered girl married the unpleasant Rev. Frank Besant (rhymes with "pleasant") at 20. Besant, she later quipped in an early autobiography, had "very high ideas of a husband's authority and a wife's submission." Besant met liberal former minister Moncure Conway, and after a course of reading, gave up Christianity at age 25 and soon after separated from her husband. In 1874, Annie met Charles Bradlaugh, Britain's most prominent freethought leader and an attorney for the poor, who offered her a position on the weekly National Reformer. They embarked on a platonic professional partnership of writing, speaking and reform. Besant became a celebrity among reformers, with George Bernard Shaw praising her as "the greatest orator in England, and possibly in Europe." Annie persuaded Charles to reprint The Fruits of Philosophy, a book about birth control, to challenge the Obscene Publications Act. They were arrested, tried and narrowly avoided jail. When Annie shrewdly rewrote the outdated booklet, her version became a bestseller that hastened the birth control movement worldwide. But her involvement lost her custody of her 8-year-old daughter. Annie became a student at London University when it agreed to admit women in 1878, receiving the only honors award in botany in 1881 in Prof. Thomas Huxley's class. She was the first woman on the London School Board, and an advocate for working class women and woman suffrage. Her enthusiasms for other causes and other men gradually strained her friendship with Bradlaugh. The rudest shock to Bradlaugh, his daughter Hypatia, and admirers such as Elizabeth Cady Stanton came in 1889, when Besant officially converted to theosophy. Although retaining affection for the freethought movement, she became a successor to the mystic founder of theosophy, Mme. Blavatsky, moving to India. A fanatical bent which her mother had detected (her mother's prophetic dying words: "it has been darling Annie's only fault; she has always been too religious") took Besant on a journey to occultism. Even in India, however, Besant was a true reformer, never quite losing her practical bent. An early supporter of Indian Home Rule, she was later praised by freethinker Jawaharlal Nehru as the "Mother of India." D. 1933.
Annie Besant
" . . . I rejoice that I played my part in that educating of England which has made impossible for evermore the crude superstitions of the past, and the repetition of the cruelties and injustices under which preceding heretics suffered."
—Annie Besant, Autobiography (1910)
Compiled by Annie Laurie Gaylor; Photo used with permission in Women Without Stuperstition
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Recently teaming up with Converse on the 1HUND(RED) project, multi-faceted artist/designer Jeff Hamada gets his hands into another collaboration effort, this time with the GreyOne/ Soul Assassins team, which recently merged together to create the G1SA Identity. Similar to the previous GreyOne New Era release, these ELM Company caps feature a nice suede palette with the embroidered Soul Assassins crest and satin lining coming in a Grey and Black colorway. Both hats will release August 1st at the G1SA store in Pasadena.
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JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Winn-Dixie Stores announced that it is offering special bundles for tailgate, school or office parties, and for trick-or-treating to help customers get ready for Halloween. The grocer said it also is holding special pumpkin-decorating workshops for children this Saturday and Sunday afternoons at select stores. Any child visiting a Winn-Dixie store while wearing a Halloween costume on Saturday, Sunday or Monday will receive a fresh-baked cookie from the Winn-Dixie bakery.
"This weekend is one that will be fun for children and adults, and we're ready to help them celebrate," said Mary Kellmanson, Winn-Dixie's group vice president of marketing. "Whether they're tailgating before college games in Miami, Tallahassee, Jacksonville or Auburn, planning a party or gearing up for trick or treat, we have all the ingredients with special savings."
For tailgaters, Winn-Dixie offers eight pieces of fried chicken from the deli, Sabra Hummus and Stacy's pita chips for $11.99 (a savings of $2.58) with the Customer Reward Card. For school parties, customers can purchase a dozen Halloween cupcakes from the bakery for $9.99 and receive a free 18-inch Mylar Halloween balloon. For trick-or-treaters, customers can purchase a 10- or 11-ounce bag of Snicker's, Reese's or Kit Kat snack-sized candy for $4.99 and receive a free Halloween bag with a clear window that shows how much more space is available for candy.


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It was only last week or so that we premiered the Mickey Remix of "Mr Overtime", a collab between London-ers Punks Jump Up and Chromeo's Dave1 and now we have the equally glowing music video.
If driving music came to mind when listening to the original or remixes you'd be pretty spot on the at the visual interp as the bro's find themselves roaring along a futuristico highway, quiffs blowing in the wind and wayfs ready to block the lazer rays!
Still don't get it? Just watch.
Due out 30th of May on Moda Music w/ Remixes from Oliver, Mickey & Gigamesh


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Build the home of your dreams on this glorious Indian Creek acreage. This 1.35 acre lot is one of the very best in Indian Creek and offers a level yet elevated building site with sweeping mountain views and all day sunshine. The site is large enough to create an estate, yet small enough to be easily maintained. Located at the beginning of the upper section of Indian Creek, this property has the distinct advantage of a truly breathtaking view that includes most of the ranch's valley, the trout pond and distant mountains. It is also adjacent to the common area, which assures privacy and serenity as no one can build in front of the lot.
The Indian Creek subdivision is one of the most desirable in the mid valley because of its beauty and abundance of open space. Indian Creek residents enjoy year-round use of the multiple trails that meander through the common areas of the ranch and summer time fun on the beautiful community pond. Other advantages include historic Indian Creek water rights, maintenance of common areas, the bike path and roads, as well as snow removal when needed. A real community feeling exists at Indian Creek and residents join together to keep the ranch special.
This enchanting property is truly the finest remaining in Indian Creek Ranch and among the very finest in the Wood River Valley. The potential for this world class home site is unlimited and will reveal itself upon a first visit.


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Today we woke up, and drove to Aztec National Monument. When we got there we went to the front desk at the Ranger Station. There we got our Junior Ranger books. After that we went on a hike. We saw many houses in the village, and in the middle was a big kiva. The houses were about 900 years. Although that is really old, we have still been to older houses. In the middle of the hike my dad got mad because we were misbehaving.


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Reality check
Mileage: 35.3 and 16.0
January mileage: 51.3
Temperature upon departure: -2 and 6
For much of December, daytime temperatures were in the single digits or teens. I developed a complacency in my bicycle preparation routine, piling on the same layers day after day. The clothing that I wear for 10-15 degrees and dry is very similar to what I wear when it's 35-40 degrees and raining, so in many ways, I haven't mixed up my routine for months.
Then, on New Years Day, the temperature dropped another 15 degrees. I didn't really notice at first. On went the polypro base layer, the single fleece pullover, the softshell coat and pants, the single balaclava, mittens and two-sock VB system. I pedaled off into the bright bluebird day, thinking I could squeeze in five hours of solid riding, and plenty of snowbiking, before it was time to attend a birthday party at 4 p.m. The snow was squeaky and hardpacked; the roads were nearly clear of traffic. Conditions were ideal, save for a pretty strong east wind ... but you can't have everything. I was loving life.
Then, about 12 miles from home, I first noticed a familiar burning numbness in my backside. The unpleasant sensation starts in my butt cheeks and eventually works its way down my thighs until it's wrapped itself around my entire upper leg. I've never found a cure for cold butt syndrome. My legs are the hardest-working parts on my body. When those go cold, they're the most difficult to bring back - even by sprinting and climbing. I was an hour into a five-hour ride. The development was discouraging. "Well," I thought. "Maybe it won't get any worse."
I veered off onto the foot trails - rideable, but cut deep, narrow and seriously technical. My pace slowed considerably. My balaclava froze and clumped up against my chin. I couldn't pull it over my nose. I stopped to thaw my eyelashes. My mittens were chunky and hard - they're insulated with goose down, and I had worn and sweated in those same mittens every day for about a week straight. The insulation had likely been wet when I left the house, and now it was frozen. I was an hour and a half into a planned five-hour ride. Those developments were very discouraging.
I stopped at another point on the trail to take a picture. The camera wouldn't work. I used a trick I figured out in the race last year - I pulled the battery out and stuck it in my mouth for a few seconds. It's probably not a great technique if you are trying to avoid zinc poisoning, but it works wonders for coaxing a frozen camera to snap a few shots. Stopping, however, was a terrible idea. By the time I got back on the bike, I was shivering.
I decided to find my way out of the foot trail maze and ride on the road for a while, where I could amp up the speed and hopefully generate some heat. The shivering became more pronounced, so I jumped off the bike and ran. I ran for several minutes and tried to ride again, but I swerved and fumbled and eventually steered right into a tree. One thing dropping core temperatures cause is loss of dexterity. I jumped off the bike and ran some more. I was beginning to feel a little frightened. In my complacency that caused me to underdress, I was also doing something else I almost never do - traveling without any extra layers or chemical heat packs.
I made it to the Glacier Visitor Center and tried to go into the heated bathroom. It was locked. %$#! New Years Day. While I stood there, I pulled out my thermometer, which was still nestled in a coat pocket. 11 below zero. That was the temperature inside my coat. -11F. And of course, temperatures can be worse. But underprepared for the cold is underprepared for the cold. I tried again to pull my balaclava over my face, but it was a block of ice. My mittens were in close to the same condition. I briefly scanned the smooth trail on the lake, the sparkling blue glacier, the frozen waterfall and handful of people braving the cold to experience the beautiful day. I was going to enjoy none if it. I was going to have to go home.
It was still 15 miles with more headwind and shadows, as the midday sun sank behind the mountains. I was uncomfortable and of course angry with myself, but mostly just uncomfortable. I was beginning to feel that deep, sleepy tired that comes with cold. About halfway home, I pulled off the highway and made my way to the wetlands, looking for a spot in the sun. I stopped to cram down some slushy water and two peanut butter cups. I've learned that a little water and some high-calorie, mostly-sugary food does wonders for helping the body warm itself. With the sun and the sugar, I began to feel a little better even as I stood still. In the distance, I could see Wal-mart. There were cars in the parking lot and it appeared to be one of the few places open. I thought about going inside to buy some heat packs, but then decided, "No. Can't do that out on the trail." I had to see how well I could help myself warm up should I ever require that kind of knowledge, heaven forbid. I got back on the bike, greedily eyed the heated big box store as I pedaled by, and gave the effort everything I had.
I did begin to feel better. I can't say I was ever comfortable, but I managed to halt the drop in core temperature, and the sleepy tired began to wear off. I had my hands clenched in fists inside my mittens, so there wasn't much braking or shifting going on. I thawed out my mask enough to at least get it up over my half-frozen nose. I almost had to laugh at my situation - cold butt, frozen face, rigid fingers and burning legs ... about the only warm parts of my body were my feet, usually the first to go. But my feet were the only place where I was actually prepared for the cold.
I arrived home about three and a half hours after I left, crusted in ice and walking like a mummy. "You cut your ride short, huh?" Geoff asked me as I walked in the door. "Yeah," I said, "but that was about the most valuable learning experience I could have asked for."
I'm never leaving the house again with anything less than a moon suit. And I had really hoped to pack lighter for the Iditarod race this year. Dang it.
The New Years Day ride did admittedly instill quite a bit of fear. It was hard to coax myself out the door today, with temperatures still hovering just above zero, and falling snow to add to the winter fun. I overdressed, put on a real face mask and goggles, grabbed a bunch of extra layers to pack with me, and even put the pogies on my bike. (I know - it's idiotic not to use pogies in subzero temperatures. But I've come to regard pogies in the same way I regard my waterproof overboots: Wonderful when they're needed, but pretty annoying any other time.) I pushed my bike up the Dan Moller Trail and rode down. It was great fun, and I never got cold. Lessons learned the hard way are lessons learned well.


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Herald Rating: 3/5
Address: 246, 219 Don McKinnon Dr, Albany
We came here because it seemed like a handy stop before taking in a movie in the Westfield complex.
Parking was no problem in the carpark around the back of Westfield, but can be hard to come by at times.
We walked in and immediately thought the cafe felt relaxed and there was a cosy fire blazing in the corner - unfortunately the table near it was taken as it was a chilly morning.
The most unusual thing on the menu was corn benedict - poached eggs on corn fritters with hollandaise sauce and rocket, with a choice of bacon, smoked salmon or champagne ham.
We ordered the corn benedict, with bacon ($22.50), which was an interesting twist on the traditional eggs bene and quite tasty; and blueberry pancakes with fresh fruit and mascarpone ($16) which were disappointing - more like something from the supermarket.
The service was very helpful.
The coffee was on the warm - rather than hot - side.
We recommend if you come here sit back and watch the world go by.
Overall we thought Caffe Massimo is well situated for that pre-or-post-shopping or movie coffee and cake - as long as the coffee is hot.


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Secret Superstar: Jonathan Goff, New York Giants
Secret Superstar: Jonathan Goff, New York Giants
New York has long been known to draft for the trenches and 2010 was no different. Despite the suggestion from some prognosticators that the Giants had a strong interest in linebacker Sean Weatherspoon (who eventually became a Falcon,) they took defensive end Jason Pierre-Paul.
Considering the vacancy left by the release of Antonio Pierce prior to the draft, that selection appeared a risky strategy. Little did anyone know the Giants had a Secret Superstar on their roster in the form of 2008's 5th round pick, Jonathan Goff.
Goff is the prototypical old school middle linebacker – punishing running backs and offensive lineman is his trademark. While he may not be ideal in coverage, that's not to downplay his importance to a defense that ranked eighth best against the run in 2010.
A runner's nightmare
Goff exploded as a run defender in 2010. He had the same number of defensive stops (37) as Bart Scott, our top ranked run-stopping inside linebacker, despite playing almost 200 fewer snaps. He also made more stops per tackle than studs like Patrick Willis and Brian Urlacher and missed just two tackles on the year. A particular highlight was an impressive Week 2 performance against Indianapolis where he logged five stops on seven tackles and earned a +3.0 Run D grade. He put on an equally strong display against Chicago two weeks later. His +14.5 rating for the year had him ranked as the ninth best inside linebacker against the run.
With over 300 tackles and a reputation for being tough against the run while in college, this is the kind of production the Giants may have envisioned as being the best case when drafting Goff. A defensive leader for Vanderbilt and a two-time second team All-SEC performer, Goff came with all of the backing of his former coaches and had the drive to stay in school for his senior season to once again captain the team and complete his mechanical engineering degree. It did take him nearly two seasons and an injury ahead of him, though, to get into the spot and earn enough of an opportunity to show what he was capable of on the NFL field.
Goff's 2010 was in stark contrast to his 2009 when he first got the chance to contribute after Pierce's injury and Chase Blackburn's short stint as a replacement. He did little of note against the run in his first significant playing time, finishing his 248 snaps with a -0.9 rating and making just seven stops. Those snaps in 2009, though, were an achievement coming off of his rookie season in which he was rarely used and even when he was, he primarily saw action on special teams.
Know your limits
While Goff may be one of the better run defenders in the league, the knock on him as he entered the league has not gone away – his coverage needs work. Try as the Giants might to shield him in passing situations, he still sees a number of targets, even being replaced in nickel situations by Deon Grant. His completion percentage allowed of 68% was pretty good, but those numbers don't tell the whole story. Goff gave up 178 passing yards (117 of them after the catch) for an average of 10.5 per reception and a particularly example of his struggles was in the season finale against Washington.
As with most players, Goff isn't polished in all areas of play, but in 2010, his numbers leapt forward. For his sake, and that of Giants fans, that was a hopeful sign that he may be settling in and feeling more at ease with this level of competition. If this is a trend that continues for him, there's no telling where Goff can go from here.
He's rarely asked to rush the passer (just 36 times in 2010) but his run defending qualities may translate well if he saw an expanded role there, especially with his ability to shed blocks. Already at the top of his game against the run, if he finally finds a way to step it up in coverage, he could become one of the league's better interior linebackers and more than a two-down option.
And it would be a surprise to most as Goff's 2010 success was a widely-held secret.
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Irish Examiner - March 2009
Feast for organic lovers.
It was a memorable feast around a giant table, adorned with thoughtfully sourced ingredients, all very simply cooked.
All 40 diners at The Strawberry Tree Restaurant licked their lips afterwards. The occasion was the recent Garden Slow Food Convivium's tenth anniversary, celebrated with an Organic and Wild Food dinner at BrookLodge in Macreddin Village in Co. Wicklow.
Evan Doyle moved form Killarney in 1999 to open a hotel in the beautiful Wicklow hills. His ambition was to own the first organic restaurant and hotel in Ireland, no easy task when over 80% of organic produce sold in Ireland is still imported.
He quickly set about creating links with local farmers and food producers to supply BrookLodge with organic produce – both fresh and wild.
Meanwhile, he experimented with smoking his own salmon and beef. In 1999 Evan discovered and bought a smoker from the lovely Innes Walker from Scotland who came over to give hands-on lessons on how to get the best results from the smoker.
Both the Macreddin home-smoked beef and salmon were part of the menu on Saturday night. The salmon was served with citrus poached pear and avocado jelly. The beef came with a grape tapenade and blue cheese.
Evan's kitchen team are every bit as passionate about sourcing good produce as he is. Early in the day Evan, head chef Tim Daly and sous chef James Kavanagh all went to pick wild garlic and lots of wild greens and leaves.One of Paul Crotty's plump organic chickens was anointed with wild garlic butter and roasted until
the skin was crisp and golden. We almost fought over the last pieces. There were squabbles too over JJ Ahern's duck from Born Free Farm near Carrigtwohill in Co Cork. That was not all we tasted along the way.
Kerry Castle is Ireland's proud contribution to the Worlds Heritage of rare breeds. Considered by many to be a dairy breed, I too can vouch for the fact that they produce wonderful meat with rich yellow fat. Raymond Halliard of Killarney introduced Evan to these beautiful black cattle years ago.
Even works with several farmers to get a supply of this prized indigenous meat throughout the year. The succulent venison came from Michael Healy down the coast in Rathdrum.
There was also some baked haddock served with wild sea spaghetti. Organic Vegetables, Roast Beets and Swede Turnips came for the local farms of Dennis Healy. Alan Pierse and Mark Winterbotharn in Kiltegan and Aughrim.
But the most memorable flavours of an altogether memorable meal for me was the salad of wild leaves picked that afternoon – penny worth, wild sorrel, tiny dandelion and primrose leaves, simply dressed with extra virgin olive oil from Evan's olive groves in Basilicata in Southern Italy.
As one cynic remarked "If there was a strike, there would scarcely be a bite of food in a restaurant in Ireland".
There are exceptions, chefs like Evan Doyle who go out of their way to source local or at least Irish Food.
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Henry Bennett (rose hybridizer)
Henry Bennett (1823–1890) was a pioneer in the systematic, deliberate hybridisation of roses. The tenant farmer from Stapleford in the Wylye Valley near Salisbury, Wiltshire (United Kingdom) applied the systematic breeding used in raising cattle to roses and emphasised that his roses were raised scientifically from known parents. His hybrids, between Teas and Hybrid Perpetuals, were called Pedigree Hybrids of the Tea Rose. He is considered the father of the Hybrid Tea class. Important cultivars are the Hybrid Tea 'Lady Mary Fitzwilliam' (1882), a parent of 'Mme. Caroline Testout' and the Hybrid Perpetuals 'Captain Hayward' (1893) and 'Mrs. John Laing' (1887).[1]
Henry Bennett was a cattle and wheat farmer in Stapleford in the mid-1800s. He married Emma Rebbeck in July 1852, and they had 8 children: John, Charles, Maria, Francis, Mary, Arthur, Charlotte Emma, and Edmund. Charlotte Emma died in infancy. Henry Bennett decided that the future was not in cattle and wheat, but a new source of income was going to be necessary, and that would be roses. In 1865, he bought his first roses and planted them on the farm, to propagate for sale. His knowledge of cattle breeding suggested to him that he might be able to make great advances in rose cultivation by applying the same principles to rose breeding – that of using known parents, selected for the qualities desired in the progeny. His first efforts were unsuccessful, so from 1870 to 1872 he visited successful rose hybridizers in France.[1]
In France, Bennett was surprised to find that the masters of rose hybridisation did not practice deliberate hybridisation through controlled pollination, but rather raised the seeds resulting from natural pollination, which meant that while the seed parent might be known, the pollen parent never was. He also saw that he was fighting an uphill battle with the cool damp English climate, which did not provide enough summer heat to ripen rose hips.[1]
On returning home, he built a heated glass house for his roses. He also kept his parent plants in pots. This system allowed him to work nearly year-round with Tea roses, and gave him a much longer bloom season with the Hybrid Perpetuals. Where other British rose hybridizers worked primarily in summer, Bennett's system allowed him to begin cross-pollination in March. While developing his own roses, he introduced and sold roses acquired from other breeders.[1]
Emma Bennett, an avid hunter, died in 1875 from a horseback riding accident. The two surviving daughters Maria and Mary, then 16 and 11, took over running the household.[1]
Bennett moved operations in 1880 from Stapleford to Shepperton in Middlesex. From then on, he was no longer a farmer, but a rose hybridiser. He travelled to the US in 1888 to study rose growing in America. He was introducing some of his roses in the US before introducing them in the UK.[1]
Bennett died from cirrhosis of the liver in 1890. His youngest son Edmund introduced the rose Captain Hayward posthumously, in 1893.[1]
Up until the 19th Century, rose hybridisation was a spontaneous occurrence, mediated by pollinating insects such as bees, or self-pollination. Deliberate, controlled pollination of roses to create new varieties was first systematically practised by Empress Josephine's horticulturalist, Andre Dupont, in the early 1800s.[2] Still, controlled pollination was practised by very few people before Bennett began hybridising roses, inspired by his knowledge of cattle breeding.[1] The laws of genetic inheritance were largely unknown at the time, as Gregor Mendel's pioneering work in genetics were not widely disseminated until the turn of the 20th Century.[1]
The (Royal) National Rose Society was formed in 1876, largely a group of professional nurserymen and wealthy clergymen. New rose varieties were often introduced at its rose shows. Bennett showed some of his acquisitions in 1878, but did not show or introduce his own roses until 1879. At that time he introduced 10 roses, with named parentage, which he called Pedigree Hybrids of the Tea Rose. He was the first to publish and guarantee the parentage of his roses. He described these roses as having better repeat bloom, higher petal count, and being 'altogether different in type' compared to other roses. None of these roses are still in commerce, however.[1]
One result of Bennett's Pedigree Roses introduction was a shakeup of the rose hybridising world. Other hybridizers rushed to copy Bennett's system, with controlled pollination and heated glass houses.[1]
In 1880, Bennett was invited to a meeting of the Horticultural Society of Lyon, then a center of rose breeding and production. It was decided at this meeting that Bennett had created an entirely new class of roses, and that it would be called Hybrid Tea. Other rose growers followed suit, in the UK first by Paul & Son nursery in 1883, then Hugh Dickson of Belfast in 1884.[1] The eminent British rosarian Joseph Pemberton dates the recognition of Hybrid Teas as a separate class at 1890, and credits the nursery Paul & Son with the first commercial offering of a Hybrid Tea in 1873, with 'Cheshunt Hybrid'.[3] The National Rose Society in UK recognised the new class of Hybrid Tea in 1893.[1] Of course, 'La France', introduced in 1872 by Jean-Baptiste André (fils) Guillot, is now generally considered to be the first Hybrid Tea, but was not recognised as a new kind of rose until after the new class was designated at this meeting in Lyon; it was classed as a Hybrid Perpetual when it was introduced.[4] 'La France' also suffers from sterility, making it difficult to use in hybridising, while 'Lady Mary Fitzwilliam' is very fertile.[5] The online database HelpMeFind Roses lists over 14,000 descendents for 'Lady Mary Fitzwilliam'.
In 1883, the National Rose Society introduced the Gold Medal, awarded to the most outstanding new rose introduced at one of its rose shows. Bennett won the first and second Gold Medals awarded, with 'Her Majesty' (Hybrid Perpetual) in 1883 and 'Mrs. John Laing' (Hybrid Perpetual) in 1885.
While few of Bennett's roses are still in cultivation, he is credited with developing an entirely new system of rose hybridisation, still used in the 21st Century; an entirely new class of roses; and with creating rose cultivars that served as critical genetic material for future hybridizers. 'Lady Mary Fitzwilliam', in particular, is in the parentage of tens of thousands of modern hybrid tea roses, starting with Joseph Pernet-Ducher's 'Mme. Caroline Testout'. 'Mrs. John Laing', a pink Hybrid Perpetual, was described by the British horticulturalist Graham Stuart Thomas[4] as "...one of the most satisfying roses to grow and cut ...".
Partial List of Bennett Cultivars[edit]
- 'Bennett's Seedling' (18
40, some time after he bought his first rose in 1865)
- 'Mme Welche' (1876)
- 'Cissie' (1879)
- 'Tiny Tears' (1879)
- 'Lady Mary Fitzwilliam' (1882)
- 'Folkestone' (1886)
- 'Her Majesty' (1883)/(RNRS Gold Medal)
- 'Grace Darling' (1884)
- 'Mrs. John Laing' (1885)/(RNRS Gold Medal)
- 'Viscountess Folkstone' (1886)
- 'Mrs John Laing' (1887)
- 'Captain Hayward' (1893)
- 'Climbing Souvenir de la Malmaison' (1893)
|Wikimedia Commons has media related to Roses by Bennett.
- ^ a b c d e f g h i j k l m Harkness, Jack Leigh (1985). The Makers of Heavenly Roses. London: Souvenir Press. p. 175. ISBN 0-285-62654-X.
- ^ Bechtel, Edwin de Turk. 1949, reprinted 2010. "Our Rose Varieties and their Malmaison Heritage". The OGR and Shrub Journal, The American Rose Society. 7(3)
- ^ Pemberton, Joseph H. (1908). Roses: Their History, Development and Cultivation. London: Longmans, Green, and Co.
- ^ a b Thomas, Graham Stuart (2004). The Graham Stuart Thomas Rose Book. London, England: Frances Lincoln Limited. ISBN 0-7112-2397-1.
- ^ Beales, Peter (1997). Classic Roses. Henry Holt. ISBN 0805055843.


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This B&B is an 8,500-square-foot cut-stone home built by Joseph P. Hazard in 1884. Antiques, oriental rugs, fireplaces in each bedroom, down comforters, private baths and koi pond. Path to ocean, hammock. Air conditioning, internet access.
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Bernard Financial Group closes $12 million loan for mixed-use building in Michigan
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Bernard Financial Group arranged a $12 million loan for the Merrillwood Building, a mixed-use building in Birmingham, Mich.
The property contians 54 multi-family rental units and 42,344 square feet of office/retail space.
Merrillwood Building, LLC is the borrowing entity. Dennis Bernard and Kevin Kovachevich originated the loan.
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I have been active and eating well, but I have a really big roll located under the navel. I can't get rid of it. I don't want to go through the whole Liposuction thing. Lipotherme sounds great, but how long will it take to lose that big roll? Will it be expensive?
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Time for another creepy, alarming collectivist ad lib from Hillary
posted at 4:20 pm on October 11, 2007 by Allahpundit
As I said once before, for all her vaunted message discipline and coolness under fire at the debates, it's amazing how often ominous, outsized statist soundbites slip casually into her rhetoric. Has Obama ever said anything as cartoonish as this?
She defended that decision yesterday, saying she is focusing on proposals with more political support and she is not formally proposing anything she can't fund without increasing the deficit: "I have a million ideas. The country can't afford them all."
Has he ever promised businesses he'll try "to take those profits" or Americans that he'll "take things away from you for the common good"? (The "we're-all-in-it-together society" is more up his alley.) I'm willing to accept that her natural inclinations aren't this grotesquely confiscatory — well, no, I'm not, really — but if they aren't, why does she so often suggest that tendency, and so memorably, in her speech?
The country may not be able to afford all her ideas but it sounds like they're willing to try.
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Smart grid: Some Glendale and Burbank residents want to opt out of new smart-grid system - latimes.com
Glendale and Burbank officials are touting their new "smart meters" project as an exciting technological advancement that will help the utilities and customers track real-time water and electrical use.
But a small group of residents is resisting, saying they're worried about the health effects of the radio waves emitted by the meters. They also say the utilities' ability to view electricity and water usage as it occurs is intrusive and could change the rate structure.


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Saimoe Tournament 2008 Quarterfinals 1
The results:-
1位 1138票 柊かがみ@らき☆すた [Hiiragi Kagami @ Lucky Star]
2位 790票 坂上智代@CLANNAD[Sakagami Tomoyo @ CLANNAD]
YESSSSSSSS! Kagamin wins! Surprisingly enough there was more fakes for Tomoyo than Kagami. According to the unofficial vote counter, it was 1.3k Kagami votes to 1.1k Tomoyo votes before it ended, so there was like… 400 fakes for her? Wow, unexpected. I was expecting it the other way round, lol.
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Carolina de Bartolo's and Erik Spiekermann's visual textbook 'Explorations in Typography: Mastering the Art of Fine Typesetting' became quite successful right after its release in summer 2011 (see review on Typographica). We have ordered a few that we would like to give away with a little lottery drawing. All you need to do is send us one or more examples from the projects where you have used FontFonts. Five participants who win the lottery will get a free copy. The in-use examples can be sent as PDFs or images with a minimum size of 1000x200 pixels to firstname.lastname@example.com until November 28, 2011.read more


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WOW this forum is amazing all of the posts are excellent....Heres my little story
So Im 23 now I meet this girl when I was 20 and she was 17, At the time she was driving a black 5-speed 323I that her daddy had bought her and I was instantly hooked. I dont know if I was more attracted to her or her car, I had a POS civic hatch at the time. Well to start it all off the very first night we meet was solely based off of lies which is never a good sign. I had asked her GF. if she was single and that if she was 18 yet and I was lied to on both accounts saying yes she had just turned 18 three weeks prior (not true) and that her highschool BF had dumped her 3 months prior (not true) in truth she was still dating her HS. BF and the B**** had just turn 17
So me and her start dating.......... she remains dating the other guy for two weeks into our relationship unknown to me. As time goes by 1 year turns into 2 years things get slowly worse as she repeatedly cheats on me with multiple guys most of which I introduced her to being that they were all my F**KING Friends or so I thought they were. By now we have been together for almost Three years on and off many times. She has herself a decent paying job as a nurse at a local hospital by this time....(She is 19 now and Im 23) and she decides it time to buy "OUR" first home so "WE" can be together forever. I say okay sounds great! As our new house is being built (brand new) I am excited as hell buying TV's, furniture, Tools for my new garage etc.
. The day comes for us to move in and Im so excited Im freaking out the house IMO was sweet and new. I feel the only logical next step in our Relationship would be to get married. So three weeks after living happily together in our new house I buy her a 2 carrot $3700 dollar engagement ring and ask her to marry me which she excitedly say yes to
and takes the ring. Looooooooooooooooooooooooong story short we lasted about another 4 months in the new house and on a monday morning (memorial day of this year) I woke up with two short and sweet text messages on my phone say "Eric I am sorry but I no longer feel the way I once did about us you are a great guy but I am no longer in love with you. Plz. dont make this harder then it needs to be. Could you have all of you belongings gathered up and out of "MY" house by the time I get home from work today. Dont call me back and I wont bother you. Just leave me alone....I am truely sorry but this is whats best for the both of us. Goodbye" I swear to god I thought I was dreaming I didn't know what the hell was happening. I started to panic and sweat all over and just started to pace around the house. I called her IMMEDIATLY and she didn't answer I must of called her 100 times that day. I did the only thing I knew to do and drove to her work. She was not there
. I did the only adult and mature thing at that point I thought I could do....I listened to her request and removed every single item from "OUR" home that day. The next day she changed her cell #.
We have been apart now for almost 7 months and to this day I will not drive by "OUR" house or even go down that street. One week ONE WEEK after we split She had a new man moved into "OUR" house. A 33 year old local Sheriff and she is only 20 years old. The 4th week they were living together in our house she turns up pregnant by him. She is now 5/6months pregnant and engaged to get married this coming april or may after she has his kid. She has since Lost her job at the Hospital and is working at a local Mcdonalds.
BTW she still has my engagment ring I gave her and refuses to give it back stating that it is the only thing she has to show proof of the three years of her life she wasted on me!!!!!! She has his engagment ring on her finger and still F***KING keeps mine hidden somewhere
Words cannot describe the emotional rollercoaster that my life has been these past 7 months. It really is surreal
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Knee Injury Ends Simmons' Season
Jan. 3, 2002
University of Kentucky gymnast Jennifer Simmons suffered a season-ending injury when she tore the anterior cruciate ligament in her left knee during practice, Coach Leah Little announced Wednesday. The senior from Pasadena, Texas, has not yet decided whether she will seek a medical redshirt.
Simmons spent her 2001 season recovering from a broken ankle suffered in 2000. She came back strong, competing in the all-around in seven of the GymKats' 12 meets. She led the team on vault with a career-high 9.781 average and scored a season-high 9.900 at Arizona State. Simmons also placed fifth on the vault at the NCAA Central Region Championships.
As a freshman in 1999, Simmons competed in all 12 meets, leading the team on the uneven bars with a 9.723 average. She also recorded her first 10.0 from a judge en route to a career-high 9.975 vault score at Auburn.
"I hate this most for Jennifer," Little said. "She had a great season last year after missing most of her sophomore season with a broken ankle. She was working hard in practice and would have been one of our top gymnasts on vault and beam. It is a shame her career may end this way."
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Hello and Welcome to One Day Luxury!
Sign up to get the opportunity to drive our inventory for free!!!! All you have to do is pay for the gas. We will take a $20 payment ahead of time to make sure you will show up and then we will refund the amount of gas that is not used as long as you show up and take a vehicle for a spin. All who do not show up will have their payment donated to the Make a Wish Fondation!
All vehicles will be available at our grand opening. You may also get a special invite to take one for a fest drive before the Grand Opening Event.
Currently we have in our fleet:
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Volunteers needed to count Burien bikers/pedestrians next week
Press release:
The Annual Bicycle and Pedestrian Count will be taken at locations throughout Washington State in nearly 40 jurisdictions, including Burien.
Data collected from these counts will be used to monitor success in increasing bicycle and pedestrian travel as identified in the Washington State Bicycle Facilities and Pedestrian Walkways Plan while also providing critical data to support improvements to bicycle and pedestrian facilities.
Let's show them how many of us really are on foot or on our bikes!
We at WABI are opening up a rare volunteer opportunity for those who want to contribute to the bicycle and pedestrian counts for 2012. There are only about 18 volunteer spots left, so hurry!!!
The bicycle and pedestrian counts are, as you might guess, a tally of bicyclists and pedestrians at selected intersections. We do the tallies every year, in the same locations and compare and contrast trends over time.
The count is run by Cascade Bike Club and the numbers are all turned in to WSDOT.
Over a 3 day stretch, each chosen location needs a morning and afternoon count (you only need to do 1!!). The shifts are 2 hours.
What: Bicycle and Pedestrian Count
Dates: Volunteers can choose to conduct their count on Tuesday, Wednesday, OR Thursday, September 25, 26 and 27.
Times: 7am-9am OR 4pm-6pm
Count Locations:
SW 136th & 4th Ave SW
Ambaum & SW 136th St
SW 150th & 4th Ave SW
SW 152nd & 21st Ave SW
SW 152nd & 1st Ave S.
S. 136th St & 8th Ave S
1st Ave S & Normandy Rd
Ambaum & SW 144th
SW 160th & 4th Ave Sw
Des Moines Memorial Dr & S 136th St
SW 116th & 4th Ave SW
So how can you participate?
1) Choose a location from the list.
2) Choose a morning or afternoon shift (7am-9am OR 4pm-6pm). Your shift can be fulfilled on any one of the three days.
3) Email WABI (firstname.lastname@example.com) with your preferred location and shift, we'll check its availability then send you a confirmation ASAP. Locations and shifts are assigned on a "first come, first served" basis, so don't delay. Get the time and spot you want! (Please contact WABI to keep things simple for Cascade.)
Taking part in these counts is also a rare opportunity to just sit and observe your fellow Burienites for 2 hours, and chat with people as they pass by.
Please forward this along to anyone you think might be interested.
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Date of Stay: March, 2008
We stayed here one night and we liked the park. We reserved a beach front, pull in site. And we will do so in the future as well. We liked having the view. The price did not bother us at all because we felt it was worth the cost of not having another coach parked in front of us. The sites are small for a 40ft plus motorhome with 5 slides and it was difficult to negotiate the site to accommodate all of them. All in all, we made it and were satisfied with the stay. The staff were very friendly and the park was clean. It was only about half full which was nice too. The restaurant was not open at the time of our stay due to remodeling so we cannot comment on the food. We stayed here in a motorhome.
Date of Stay: March, 2008
We were very pleased to find out that this RV Resort had opened up in this area. They offer so many amenities, you really have no need to go anywhere else. This park will be very beautiful after all the trees grow. The staff from the registration desk to the maintenance workers were all very friendly and helpful. The park was relatively quiet until the morning rush hour but after awhile it was not noticeable. The sites are decomposed granite with a concrete pad at the entry door. We had our MH washed and thought at first there was going to be a huge mess, to our amazement, all the water soaked right in with no run off. I was pleasantly surprised. We did use the laundry facilities and they were very nice and adequate. We unfortunately did not eat at the restaurant so we cannot comment on it. We will definitely stay here again.
Date of Stay: June, 2007
WOW! This resort is absolutely beautiful. Lots are huge and the resort is well maintained. We will definitely stay here again. We did not eat at the restaurant so we cannot comment on it's food. All the staff were very friendly and courteous.


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Five Ways to Tell If a Writing Partner is for You
Julie Gray lays down five aspect to look at when finding and working with a writing partner. Having a writing partner can be a wonderful thing. A wonderful, supportive person who keeps the script moving on those days when you have lost your mojo or have to go to the dentist or have to work. Read MoreRead More


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" Newly opened international airport near Hyderabad in India. "
Rajiv Gandhi International Airport opened in March 2008, taking over the business that had previously been served by the much more central Begumpet airport. As so often happens, airports become the victim of their own success - do too well and you become obsolete and get replaced by something bigger and shinier but much further from the city.
The airport was ready long before the infrastructure that's needed to support it - hence you'll find lots of reports on travel forums of people trying to find a hotel near the airport. There's only one - the Novotel - so for everyone else, there's an inevitably long journey to be made. There will be train links and fancier roads sometime in the future but for now, it's not the easiest or most convenient place to get to and from.
~Arrival ~
It's a fairly safe comment to make that it's never a great experience to land at an airport you don't know at 4.45 in the morning. Our recent visit to Hyderabad found us tired, a bit confused and not entirely sure what to expect but I had done some homework before travelling so I was fairly well forewarned and forearmed. I had learned a few key things about the airport. I knew that it was very new, that it was a LONG way from the city and (from reading online travel forums) that I was highly likely to get ripped off for a taxi. But I needed to stay calm because I was also aware that if we got hot and bothered and looked at all like we might have swine flu, we weren't going to be let into the country. So no pressure then!
Due to having nabbed seats that were fairly near the front of the economy cabin, we were able to get off pretty quickly and beat the worst of the queues. Stepping off the plane my husband looked around and said "Wow, this is pretty impressive", and considering that we most often fly into Delhi when we go to India, it's very true to say that Hyderabad is a gleaming bright jewel of an airport compared to the run-down inefficient, smelly horror that is Indira Gandhi International airport. Keeping it in the family, the airport that bears her son's name is a 1000 times more pleasant than her Delhi hub.
Walking up the gleaming air-bridge and looking towards the brand spanking new terminal we were both a bit dazzled. I was reminded of Munich Airport but maybe that was just lack of sleep though I did once pass through Lagos airport and found an identikit copy of Amsterdam's Schipol so I'm always on the look out for such similarities.
Once inside the terminal everything was clean, shiny and best of all, everything worked! The toilets were spotless and nobody tried to mug us for our change to pay for the facilities. The moving walk-ways all, well, moved! It sounds like little to be stunned by but most of the Indian airports I've used (and I've used many) just don't come close to the charms and efficiency of Hyderabad.
~Squeak piggy squeak~
We joined a pair of lines for the health checks, overly conscious that heat-seeking cameras were checking us and those around us to make sure we weren't suffering from fevers. We'd already completed our 'I haven't got swine flu, honest' forms before stepping off the plane but faced with a bank of serious looking doctors and nurses in face masks, it's hard not to imagine being hauled out of line and refused entry. What would happen? Would they stick you on a plane back to London or throw you in an isolation hospital and chuck away the key? I have no idea and fortunately I didn't have to find out.
As a result of the long line for flu-screening, the passport check area was almost empty and we sailed straight through. Passing duty-free arrival shops filled with tempting goods we found ourselves at the luggage carousels where the efficient sparkling airport systems broke down a little and we waited nearly 20 minutes for all the bags to come through. All the porters were watching the cricket so we couldn't help wondering if the baggage handlers were doing the same.
~ We're here, what now?~
Whilst we waited, my husband popped off to change some money and we were soon out of the airport, facing a wall of waiting faces. I'd already read up on the transport options both in the luggage area and on the internet before we travelled so I knew we were likely to be charged higher rates into the city because it was so early in the morning. I also knew that we could either take a taxi straight outside the terminal and take a gamble on getting one that would charge the official rate of 15 Rp per kilometre, or we could take a bus to the so-called Transit Hub and get a 'pre-paid' taxi. The locals apparently pre-book their taxis on-line which is the cheapest way but well beyond the capabilities of a foreigner without an Indian bank account or local contacts. Finding the transfer bus right in front of us, we opted for the latter. No sooner were we on that we were being schmoozed by a taxi man.
"Where are you going?" he asked and I told him evasively "The Transit Hub". "No, no, WHERE in the city?" I told him I wasn't interested, I wanted a pre-paid taxi and would get one at the Hub. After a bit more nagging from him, I revealed the area of the city and he told me it would be 800 Rp. I laughed in his face and called him a crook (yes, it sounds extreme but I knew that he was overcharging me) and I repeated that I wanted a pre-paid taxi. He showed me his ID pass showing that he was a pre-paid driver and I said I'd take my chances at the Transit Hub. My husband was sniggering and enjoying the entertainment. I told the guy he was charging far too much and he claimed it was because these were the 'night rates'. I told him the official rate from outside the airport was only 15 rupees per km and so it shouldn't be more than 600.
~ The Transit Hub~
After about 5 minutes we were at the Hub, a clever set up where all the taxis and buses are kept off the main airport concourse by holding them in one place. It's an elegant solution and we were impressed at the organisation and thought that had gone into this system. What we weren't impressed by was finding that there was no sign of a pre-paid taxi office. Throughout this trip we struggled with so-called Pre-paid systems before finally working it out in our last destination, but in theory you SHOULD be able to go to a ticket counter, tell the operator where you want to go and be assigned a driver and a fixed price. Sadly at 5.30 in the morning there was no evidence of such an arrangement.
It's worth keeping in mind at this time that I was arguing mostly for the sport. 800 Rp is only a little over £10 and the journey was going to be about 25 miles so the actual amount wasn't going to make or break the holiday. I kept the debate going a bit longer before eventually agreeing I'd pay him 650 Rp and an extra 50 if he got us there without any crazy or dangerous driving. It might sound trite and you might think me very rude but if I'd agreed to his original 800 he'd never have respected me and would have spent the rest of the day kicking himself for not asking for 1200. The deal was struck, he called a driver over and he and the driver took us into town along the smoothest and probably newest roads I've seen anywhere in India. Our holiday had begun