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WASHINGTON -- In one of his characteristic conniptions about people who frustrated him, Theodore Roosevelt, progressivism's first president, said of Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, "I could carve out of a banana a judge with more backbone than that." TR was as mistaken about Holmes' spine as are various progressives today about Chief Justice John Roberts'.
They are waging an embarrassingly obvious campaign, hoping he will buckle beneath the pressure of their disapproval and declare Obamacare constitutional. The crucial question is whether Congress exceeded its enumerated power to regulate interstate commerce when it mandated that individuals engage in commerce by purchasing health insurance.
Justice Anthony Kennedy is generally considered today's swing vote, but his acerbic first question to the administration's lawyer during the second day of oral argument changed assumptions: "Can you create commerce in order to regulate it?"
Concluding Kennedy might be disposed to overturn the mandate, some Obamacare defenders decided Roberts' vote will be decisive. They hope to secure it by causing Roberts to worry about his reputation and that of his institution.
Recently, for example, Vermont's Pat Leahy, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, delivered a Senate speech defending the constitutionality of what he calls the "personal responsibility requirement." (This is his Orwellian appellation for the mandate, whereby government coercion nullifies personal choice regarding insurance.)
After 37 years in the Senate, Leahy probably no longer knows when he sounds insufferably patronizing, as he did when he said that during oral argument he thought Roberts "seemed well aware of the significance of (the Obamacare) decision." And "I thought I saw a chief justice who understands the importance of this case to all Americans." And Roberts "seemed to understand" the deference owed to Congress.
Leahy intimated overturning Obamacare would be as momentous, as divisive of the nation and as damaging to the court as was Bush v. Gore, which he asserts "shook the confidence of the American people in the Supreme Court." But surely a striking fact about that decision is how equably Americans accepted it. This testified to the court's durable prestige, which is a function of the court's immunity to pressures from politicians. Public approval of the court is above 50 percent, that of Congress below 20 percent.
Leahy unsubtly intimated that to avoid "another 5-4 decision" Roberts should emulate "the leadership that Chief Justice Warren provided in the unanimous decision in Brown v. Board of Education." It is, however, passing strange to compare the Obamacare case with Brown, implying that a less-than-unanimous decision would be dangerous.
The school desegregation case overturned the social order of an entire region and accelerated the transformation of the nation's cultural norms. Obamacare is just an unpopular law enacted by grotesque logrolling (securing three Democratic senators' votes with the "Louisiana Purchase," the "Gator-aid" and the "Cornhusker Kickback"). Furthermore, Obamacare passed because grossly corrupt conduct by Justice Department prosecutors in the trial of Republican Sen. Ted Stevens of Alaska had cost him re-election.
Leahy tutored Roberts about "appropriate deference" to "the elected branch," vacuously admonished him to be "a chief justice for all of us," and absurdly asserted that the mandate is "consistent with the understanding of the Constitution" that "the American people have had for the better part of a century." Jeffrey Rosen of George Washington Law School, writing in The New Republic, topped Leahy's rhetorical extravagance by saying this is Roberts' "moment of truth" because if the court overturns Obamacare 5-4, Roberts' "stated goal of presiding over a less divisive court will be viewed as an irredeemable failure."
Oh? Viewed by whom? Perhaps by people who consider it "ideological" and somehow reprehensible that in the last full term, conservative Justices John Roberts and Sam Alito voted together 96 percent of the time, but who consider it principled and admirable that Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Elena Kagan voted together 94 percent of the time. Like-minded justices agree. So?
Why, exactly, would it be less "divisive" for the court to uphold the broadly disliked Obamacare 5-4 than to overturn it 5-4?
But whether Obamacare is liked or detested is entirely irrelevant. The public's durable deference toward the Supreme Court derives from the public's recognition that the court is deferential not to Congress but to the Constitution.
Concerning which, it is cheeky of Rosen, a liberal, to lecture Roberts about jurisprudential conservatism, which Rosen says requires "restraint," meaning deference to congressional liberalism. Such clumsy attempts to bend the chief justice are apt to reveal his spine of steel.
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Can anyone explain to me WHY the federal government should fix the health insurance problems in the various states? Massachusetts enacted Common Wealth Care for all of its citizens and Washington has laws that forbid declining health insurance based on pre-existing conditions. Citizens in both states must be happy with their laws because there have not been mass exoduses after the laws went into effect. Remember, if you dont like a state law, you are free to leave that state and reside elsewhere. If you dont like the federal laws, you can only attempt to change them as there is still no better country that the USA. A great many of us do not like federally mandated health care systems and we are not looking to go elsewhere; fight on - we will oppose this federal takeover of health care until it is overturned. The federal government has a poor history of doing anything efficiently in the economy; why would a thinking person believe the same government could provide more healthcare and better healthcare at a more affordable price? History and economics tells us just the opposite will happen: costs will soar, quality will fall and our economy will suffer an even greater drain on GDP! Any amount of government intrusion in a market activity introduces inefficiencies that make our economy weaker not stronger. A totally free market cannot exist - some inefficiency is required to protect property rights and enforce contract laws; but many other situations could be resolved without a new federal law and the attending increased bureaucracy to enforce it!
Interesting that the loon left thinks it's divisive to disagree with them,but they continue to divide the country.By the way the vote was taken a few days after the arguments were made,so nothing said in the last few weeks matters.It just shows how the loons think.By the way buzzy Medicare is for senior's:Medicaid is for the rest and that is a state run program.


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The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) awarded a three-year $875,000 grant for a team of Pittsburgh scientists, including Anirban Jana of the Pittsburgh Supercomputing Center (PSC), to develop computational models for turbulent mixing in the VHTR (Very High Temperature Reactor), a Generation IV nuclear reactor.
Generation IV reactors offer significant advances in sustainability, safety, reliability and economics. Their designs are currently undergoing study through the Generation IV International Forum (GIF), comprised of 12 countries including the United States, and are expected to be available commercially after 2030.
Jana, co-principal investigator on the project, will collaborate with Mark Kimber (principal investigator) and John Brigham of the University of Pittsburgh Swanson School of Engineering and Milorad Dzodzo of Westinghouse Electric Company. The collaboration, says Jana, who will guide the computational modeling thrust of the project, pulls together expertise both in experimental study and computational modeling along with Westinghouse's multi-decade experience in nuclear engineering.
The focus of the study is turbulent mixing in a portion of the VHTR called the "lower plenum" — where helium that has absorbed heat from the nuclear reaction enters at speeds up to 100 meters per second and at temperatures approaching 1000º C. The high flow speed and non-uniform heating cause turbulent mixing and temperature fluctuations that affect the structural reliability of the lower plenum.
The team will use several sophisticated computational fluid dynamics software packages to simulate the complicated flow dynamics and thermal stresses involved. For some of the simulations and for analyzing the large datasets that will be generated, says Jana, the team expects to use PSC's Blacklight system, an SGI Altix UV1000 system partitioned as two connected 16-terabyte shared-memory systems, the two largest shared-memory systems in the world.
They expect also to use other resources of XSEDE (Extreme Science and Engineering Discovery Environment), the National Science Foundation cyberinfrastructure program. The aim is to build a computational model that is validated and verified with available experimental data, and which then can provide confidence as a design tool to better understand stresses and refine the design of the VHTR lower plenum.

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I would like to see proxychains as part of Bt4, thanks.
proxychains is the shit feed it a proxy list and tor node list etc ...
good.txt is the 'good ' fast proxies
I wrote this script to get a quick list of proxies HORRID code but it works ...
proxychains is a simple, no frills utility that works for me quite well when I need to put in address of my network's proxy in programs that don't have means of using proxy by themselves. I haven't tried using it for anonymity, just connecting to internet from my network
how does it comapare to connect-proxy?
I join the request! I'd like to see proxychains in BT4 aswell...
It's a very good proxy chainer.. :cool:
Bumping the hell outta this, started using tsocks this morning and just found out about proxychains. Its amazing what it can do, no frills, no bullshit .. it just simply works.
Anyways after a little search apparently it was installed in BT2 so that leaves me with 3 questions as to why its no longer here.
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Manuka honey homemade sore throat pastilles
Try this natural sore throat pastille recipe with the goodness of manuka honey and slippery elm bark to ease the first signs of a sniffle.
Makes approx. 30
- 1 x herbal tea bag (I used peppermint)
- 1/4 cup (60ml) fresh boiled water
- 2 tbsp manuka honey
- 40g slippery elm bark powder (and a little extra, for dusting)
Put the teabag into a tea cup with the 1/4 cup of freshly boiled water.
Put the honey into a heatproof bowl and when tea has brewed for a minute or two, pour it in with the honey and then stir to melt honey.
Add slippery elm bark powder and mix well to form a thick paste.
Line a cookie tray or breadboard with some baking paper and transfer the 'dough' onto it. Dust over with some extra slippery elm bark powder and use the back of a metal spoon to flatten and shape it into a rectangle, about 5mm thick.
Take the smallest ring from a set of cutters (or the lid off something like a vanilla essence bottle) and use it to cut out small pastilles. Then pop the dough back into the fridge to set, before removing, combining, re-flattening and repeating the cutting out until all the dough is used. (You won't have to put it back into the fridge each time you re-flatten and cut!)
Arrange the pastilles in a storage container and, with lid off, leave to harden in a dark, cool, dry place. The chill will be a welcome relief on sore throats.
At the first hint of a sore throat, chew or suck as liberally as you like.
- Manuka honey has long been used for its antimicrobial properties. When combined with slippery elm bark powder to form a sticky dough, it's perfect for making into DIY sore throat pastilles.
- Slippery elm bark powder is a nourishing fibre source that feeds the beneficial bacteria of the bowel and coats the small intestine with its lovely gel-like consistency. It promotes healing of inflammation and tissue trauma.
- Consider it a part of dietary therapy for food intolerances and leaky gut, or after a bout of gastro or to relieve constipation.
- You can harden your pastilles in the freezer, as I do, or just leave them in a cool, dry place (without a lid).
- Kids may or may not take to the flavour of these. If there's a complaint, try dissolving one into a small cup of their favourite hot drink and make sure they drink it before it thickens up too much. Or just do what I do and tell them to eat it otherwise the elves who are watching for Santa will report back to him!
- You can use ordinary honey for this recipe, but manuka honey has the best antimicrobial properties.
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When we grow protein to feed the world, we get more fat than we can eat. Biodiesel is made from used cooking oil, animal fats, and a growing diversity of waste greases and vegetable oils, like soybean oil. The US has a large supply of these excess fats and oils as a byproduct of food production. Using these excess fats and oils reduces the cost of protein for the food supply.
Here are some basics you need to understand about combatting climate change. You don't need a PhD or to be of any particular political persuasion to comprehend this. These are the fundamentals to master if you want to engage in debate or effectively find solutions to global warming.
Biodiesel can be an elegant way to store solar energy for transportation uses. Biodiesel is nontoxic, biodegradable, reduces emissions, and creates local jobs. With multiple benefits stemming from every gallon of biodiesel used to displace fossil fuels, the big question is: What is the appropriate and achievable rate of growth for this young industry?
Advances in technical research and market development are propelling agriculture in new directions. Through agricultural science, crop varieties and yields continue to improve to produce sufficient nutritious food for a growing and increasingly affluent global population. In the course of satisfying global demand for protein, agriculture has been oversupplying carbohydrates, fat, and fiber which are coproducts of protein production. This surplus gave rise to the development of biofuels.
Half of the biodiesel produced in the US is made from soybean oil. The other half is produced substantially from animal fats, used cooking oil, and other recycled or waste oils. It is easy to see how using wastes and byproducts to make biodiesel is a good thing, but some people have trouble understanding that using soybean oil works the exact same way. Biodiesel uses excess oil that we don't use in our food supply.


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For the LaserDisc set, please see Star Trek - Log 1.
Novelizations of three Star Trek: The Animated Series episodes.
"Beyond the Farthest Star"Edit
A 69-page adaptation of "Beyond the Farthest Star".
A 64-page adaptation of "Yesteryear".
"One of Our Planets Is Missing"Edit
A 46-page adaptation of "One of Our Planets Is Missing".
- The distress call from Mantilles is received two and a quarter days after the ship left the Guardian's planet.
- The three planets seen in the star chart – Alondra, Mantilles, and Bezaride – are mentioned to be second, third and fourth in the Pallas XIV star system.
- Starfleet regulation E-11634 is posted on the access route to antimatter control. It specifies "absolutely authorized personnel" only. A lift behind the door led to the "antimatter nacelle".
- This was the first time the interior of the two warp drive nacelles was referenced on Star Trek.
- Kirk makes a log entry on stardate 5372.1. The opening page of the book states the log ends on 5380.
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|Torben Ebbesens work contains frequent allusions to mythology and religion without for that reason representing literal translation into the present of themes handed down to us by ancient civilisations. What he prefers to do is to paraphrase certain motifs of mythical thinking, triad and trinity or the reference to water as life-giving element, a constantly recurring theme in Nordic mythology, These paraphrases are them selves part of an overarching conceptions which does not however become immediately apparent.
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"Il Superiore Chianti Superiore was recently introduced into Ruffino's portfolio and represents a precious complement to the winery's rich Chianti selection, reinterpreted in a new style which reflects the demanding taste of the modern consumer. Il Superiore Chianti Superiore is produced by grapes selected in low yield vineyards located in the Chianti area. No more that 7 tons of grapes per hectare are cultivated in these vineyards. Such a yield is even lower than the one produced in most Chianti Classico vineyards." -Winery


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TAMPA — About the same time it caught on as the Tampa Bay Lightning's collective creed, the phrase "all in" had been adopted by Cambridge Christian's baseball team as its 2011 rallying cry.
Had the Lancers looked to the NFL, they may have found a more fitting mantra.
Something like "Who dat?"
If nothing else, the Lancers led Hillsborough County in obscurity. One of their three seniors had no career varsity starts. Another had no scholarship prospects. Their coach, meantime, had no delusions.
"You see a lot of guys in other programs that commit early," first-year coach and former Jesuit right-handed ace Sam Marsonek said. "If you saw these (three) guys a year ago, two years ago, you would've been like, 'They're not committing anywhere.' "
Today, the long-term futures of catcher Andrew Widell, rightfielder Jordan Lewis and shortstop Zac Gilcrease are secure. Their short-term future, meantime, is surreal.
A year after losing nearly half their roster to graduation, the Lancers (16-12) are a victory from the Class A state tournament.
"You can't replace all the guys we lost last year, but for the most part we've done a pretty good job," said Widell, who leads the team in six major offensive categories and will play next season at State College of Florida (formerly Manatee Community College).
"As you see right now, we're not the biggest, we're pretty small, but we've got heart."
On a roster featuring no player bigger than Gilcrease (6-foot-2, 175 pounds), the effort clearly has been collaborative.
Gilcrease's younger brother Levi is a budding star in center, and junior Spencer Wynn's seamless transition from leftfield to shortstop — when the elder Gilcrease injured his hip late in the regular season — was critical.
But even Marsonek concurs the key has been the seniors' evolution from no-names to nucleus.
"It was more about hard work," he said.
Widell, a starter since eighth grade, was the only senior with any type of cred among colleges. Gilcrease, widely known as "Gilly," had hit .407 with 32 RBIs as a junior but couldn't get a sniff from the next level.
"I've always been a good fielder," Gilcrease said, "but the bat wasn't always there, so I was more of a slap hitter."
And in three previous seasons at Tampa Catholic, Lewis never started a game.
"He needed a GPS to run the bases, like (Marsonek) has said before, and in the outfield you didn't know if he was going to catch the ball or what was going to happen," Widell said of Lewis. "He'd do circles around it then go and make the play."
Gradually, scouts began circling Doc Nance Field.
Gilcrease (.382, 24 RBIs), who remains sidelined for Friday's Class A region semifinal at West Palm Beach Summit Christian, worked out six days a week in the offseason and added 15 pounds. Later this week, he'll choose between USF and Wake Forest.
Lewis, who acknowledges he arrived from TC with far more bravado than playing time, signed this week with Lakeland's Southeastern University. Having discovered the game's nuances while losing his ego, he enters Friday's game as the team's hottest hitter (4-for-7, one home run, three RBIs in postseason).
Suddenly, TC — not to mention anonymity — seems so far away.
"Yeah," Widell concurs, "we came out of nowhere."
Region finals
Games Friday at 7 p.m. unless noted. Admission is $6.
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5A: Durant vs. Lakeland at Joker Marchant Stadium
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The campaign in this week's Utah Crowd-Funding entry is coming down to the wire, and needs a lot of help.
The Salt Lake Film Society's massive Digital Deadline campaign — to replace the old film projectors in the Broadway and Tower theaters with up-to-date digital projectors — is trying to raise $50,000 in individual pledges via Kickstarter.
With six days to go, the campaign has only raised $9,765 — just under 20 percent of the goal.
The new projectors are a necessity in today's movie-exhibition world, as many studios and distributors have either stopped striking film prints or plan to stop in the next year or so.


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And out of the ground the Lord God formed every [wild] beast and living creature of the field and every bird of the air and brought them to Adam to see what he would call them; and whatever Adam called every living creature, that was its name.
And Adam gave names to all the livestock and to the birds of the air and to every [wild] beast of the field; but for Adam there was not found a helper meet (suitable, adapted, complementary) for him.
And the Lord God caused a deep sleep to fall upon Adam; and while he slept, He took one of his ribs or a part of his side and closed up the [place with] flesh.
Then Adam said, This [creature] is now bone of my bones and flesh of my flesh; she shall be called Woman, because she was taken out of a man.
And they heard the sound of the Lord God walking in the garden in the cool of the day, and Adam and his wife hid themselves from the presence of the Lord God among the trees of the garden.
But the Lord God called to Adam and said to him, Where are you?
And to Adam He said, Because you have listened and given heed to the voice of your wife and have eaten of the tree of which I commanded you, saying, You shall not eat of it, the ground is under a curse because of you; in sorrow and toil shall you eat [of the fruits] of it all the days of your life.
For Adam also and for his wife the Lord God made long coats (tunics) of skins and clothed them.
AND ADAM knew Eve as his wife, and she became pregnant and bore Cain; and she said, I have gotten and gained a man with the help of the Lord.
THIS IS the book (the written record, the history) of the generations of the offspring of Adam. When God created man, He made him in the likeness of God.


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She could still be in pain. A human hysterectomy takes 6 months to completely heal from. Try to feel if there is a specific area that is bothering her, and check for visible signs of an infection. Sometimes they get litter in their incision and it becomes infected. Otherwise, she is showing her displeasure at you. Give her treats, a new window perch, toys and extra attention to show her that she's still your girl, and as long as she's physically okay, this behavior should dissipate with time. happy Holidays!! ^_^
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HERSHEY — The IUP men's golf team recorded the second-best round of the day and fourth-best of the week, shooting a 5-over 289 as a team in the third round, but it wasn't enough to keep the Crimson Hawks' season going.
IUP finished the NCAA Division II Men's Golf Championships at the Hershey Country Club in 14th place overall with a 55-over 907, nine strokes shy of qualifying for the final championship round. The top eight teams from the first three rounds of competition advanced to the finals.
The Crimson Hawks dramatically improved each round, shooting a 314 on Monday and a 304 on Tuesday before shaving off even more strokes with their 289 on Wednesday.
Only two teams in the tournament field broke the 290 mark for a round, including Barry University twice (284 in round one; 288 in round two) and Florida Southern (280 in round three).
Florida Southern leads with a 15-over 867, and Barry (Fla.) is second with a 24-over 876.
Zack Kempa was the top golfer for the Crimson Hawks, finishing in a tie for 11th place with a 5-over 218 for the tournament. He shot a 1-over 72 on Wednesday.
Indiana High School graduate Sean Sweithelm wrapped up his career with a 15-over 228, tied for 44th place overall.
Jack Owen finished the tournament in a tie for 64th place with an 18-over 231, and Kenny Sames finished his first NCAA championships in a tie for 83rd with a 22-over 235.
Derek Baker finished his IUP career with a fantastic turnaround, finishing with a 1-over 72 in the third round after opening the tournament with a 14-over 85 on Monday. He finished tied for 87th with a 23-over 236.
This was IUP's sixth straight NCAA championship appearance and second straight 14th-place finish.
Joining Florida Southern and Barry in the final eight is Nova Southeastern, Lynn, South Carolina-Aiken, California State-Monterey Bay, Missouri-St. Louis and Western Washington.
Florida Southern's Tim Crouch took the individual title with a 2-under 211.


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Z3 Tire Wobble Problem Solved
About 1000 miles ago I put on four new snow tires and wheels and recently began to experience steering wheel vibration. I thought the problem was that Tire Rack had not properly balanced my wheels. My local tire guy agreed. But when I told him one other fact he completely changed his diagnosis. I told him that the wobble does not appear right away when I start driving the car. It only kicks in after 5 or 6 miles. Right away he said, "I bet tire balance is not the problem. I bet it's a frozen caliper." And he was right. He pulled off a tire and found the caliper was the problem.
By the way, since he had the car up on the lift, I asked him to go ahead and check the tires for balance anyways. He did and reported that two were fine, and two needed balancing. I wish I had asked him how out of balance they were.
I thought I would post this info in case someone else has steering wheel wobble.
So you are saying that the car didn't pull one way or another due to the frozen caliper? If a caliper is frozen and is binding the brakes excessively, I would think that there would have been other symptoms affecting the steering. Tire wobble would not be one of them. Hmmmm, this is a new one for me.
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mhughett, you are quite right. There was pull to one side! It pulled to the right and the mechanic said the right front caliper was frozen. But is true, that once the mechanic heard that my steering wheel began to shake only after the car warmed up, that he jumped to the guess that it wasn't so much a tire out-of-balance as it was a frozen caliper. Why the frozen caliper would cause the steering wheel to shake after wam up is a bit beyond me.
Hi there,
Did u suffer any judder in the pedal when braking.
I have the wheel wobble I can't feel it in the. Brake only in the wheel most strong at 40 mph I was wondering if I needed spigot rings even though my wheels are standard already tried 4 new tyres and that didn't work any ideas much aappreciated
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The gentleman that did get shot and was killed was wearing body armor, Martin said. That is a trend we are starting to see. The bad guys go in to do a robbery or home invasion and they have their body armor on.
"The Gentleman???"
Great, now these thugs are wearing body armor... practice your headshots I guess, or use a shotty with slugs.
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Shreeve comes through with another fantastic edit backed by one of the greatest soundtracks in film history. The transition from day to night? Perfect. Check it… and wait for the kick.
Every drift video needs headbanging. It just feels right.
I love it when videos make drifting appear larger than life. Because it is. And it should appear that way. Shreeve killed this one.


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There is a lovely blog meme running around the web at the moment, started by hostelbookers, with the idea being that travel bloggers share seven photos from their travels. Not just any old photos though, these photos have to match the following seven categories:
- A photo that…takes my breath away
- A photo that…makes me laugh or smile
- A photo that…makes me dream
- A photo that…makes me think
- A photo that…makes my mouth water
- A photo that…tells a story
- A photo that…I am most proud of (aka my worthy of National Geographic shot)
I was nominated to take part in this by the lovely Erin of De La Pura Vida (and if you're heading to Costa Rica, you should definitely check her site out!). Photography being one of my main passions, I'm obviously very excited to be able to take part.. the only tough thing was picking the photos!
A photo that…takes my breath away
This is one of my favourite HDR photos I've done, a combination of three different shots blended together to produce this one. I absolutely love the clouds and the sky, presided over by the absolutely spectacular Mount Taranaki in New Zealand.
I was overwhelmed by how popular this shot was on my facebook page. It really seemed to resonate with the locals of the Taranaki region, many of whom said I had managed to paint their mountain in a way they had never seen it. Many thanks to the involvement of the Taranaki Regional tourism board on facebook for helping to share this :)
I climbed Taranaki while I was out in New Zealand, and it is by far my favourite day hike in New Zealand. Although it will take your breath away ;)
A photo that…makes me laugh or smile
Like its antipodean neighbour, New Zealand is a country with an obsession with giant things. Quite what makes a village think that the only thing that is missing from its sight seeing list is a gigantic concrete carrot is beyond me, but it makes for some photographic opportunities. I'm sure you can think of your own joke to insert for this one ;)
A photo that…makes me dream
A rainbow. And a sunset! And New Zealand's southern alps in the background, dusted in snow. It is the stuff that dreams are made of, which was a theme for most of my trip around New Zealand. This was just one of the most spectacular natural sights I've ever seen, in a land that provided no end of them. If you've not been to New Zealand yet, get going. It's an amazing place!
A photo that…makes me think
In June 1944, a German SS Panzer division rolled into the town of Oradour-Sur-Glane in rural France, rounded up 642 town people, and executed them. The women and children were taken to the church to be shot and then burned alive, whilst the men were dealt with in a barn. The town has been preserved ever since in the state it was left in on that day.
It's not a happy place to visit, but it makes me think as to the sadness and unspeakable acts that still go on around us in the world today, nearly seventy years on.
A photo that…makes my mouth water
I've never really gotten into taking photos of my food, mostly because I want to eat it too fast. Still, I was very proud of this smoked tuna salad that I put together whilst travelling through New Zealand's Coromandel Peninsula. So here's a photo of that.
A photo that…tells a story
On the east coast of Australia, there are a number of coastal towns which feature breakwaters composed of kilometre long stretches of jumbled up bits of rock. It has become a bit of a thing to write things on these rocks. Whilst most of the writing are of the fairly banal "I was here" type, sometimes you are lucky and come across something a little more significant.
I'm not sure what drove the author to share with the world via the medium of a rock this piece of news, nor what role the rock had in the pregnancy. But there is a definite story here.
A photo that…I am most proud of (aka my worthy of National Geographic shot)
This photo, of Antony Gormley's Inside Australia art installation in Western Australia, won me the weekly travel photography competition in the Times of England, no less. Which was pretty exciting. It is also, handily, the correct alignment for a National Geographic cover. Still waiting on that call…
All that remains is for me to tell the internet that "I am taking part in HostelBookers 7 Super Shots." If you want to see more posts like this one from other bloggers, check out the twitter hashtag #7SuperShots. Also, I should nominate some other bloggers! So, in no particular order…
- Gary from Everything Everywhere
- Michael from Go, See, Write
- Theodora from Travels with a Nine Year Old
- Pete and Dalene of Hecktic Travels
- Raymond, from Man on the Lam.
You're next!
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Green products join fight against climate change
By Sugita Katyal
SINGAPORE (Reuters Life!) - A radio made of wood. A bag crafted from recycled ring pulls from drink cans. And a stylish lamp made from old Vespa scooter parts.
A figment of some designer's imagination, right?
Wrong. They are actually among a range of eco-products showcased by social group Qi Global at Singapore's National Museum as part of its wider efforts to protect the planet.
Qi says all the products are aimed at breaking the general perception that eco-products are inferior in quality and lacking in aesthetics.
But, more importantly, they're meant to save the world from the impact of climate change.
Apart from the Vespa lamp and the radio of sustainably grown wood designed by Indonesian Singgih Kartono, the lineup of eco-carbon products includes sneakers made from left-over skin of fish for food, solar mobile chargers and tiny hydrogen-powered cars.
"Imagine that one day in the far distant future, perhaps sitting sipping wine on a beach while playing with our grandchildren, we'll tell them: 'Once upon a time we tackled something called global warming...'," said Mette Kristine Oustrup, one of the founders of Qi Global.
Describing them as "good energy products," Oustrup said demand for low-carbon goods would increase as people compared them with "bad energy" products which are made by child labor or which use toxins. Continued...


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A settlement has been reached in the wrongful death of a Salineville man.
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BP argued that a flawed funding formula enabled nearly 800 businesses to overestimate their spill-related claims.
Officers saw a man they believe to be Eric Frein as recently as Tuesday, Lt. Col. George Bivens said Wednesday afternoon.
Secretary of State Jon Husted said he is compelled to seek a review by the full court because he says the ruling eliminates the ability of e…
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The Rotary Club of Youngstown, which is celebrating its 100th anniversary, hopes to build 34 additional locations.
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I recently purchased my first new Sig P220 .45. After I bought the gun I began having concerns with how the dealer stored all of the handguns for customer viewing. The majority of the handguns were displayed on wooden rack that has brass rods sticking up into the air. The gun was held in place by inserting the rod the end of the barrel. They were all attached by a security cable so anyone can pick the gun up without any assistance from the employees of the gun shop, review the gun and then replace it by placing the gun barrel over the brass rod.
The handgun appears to be in great shape. My question is, how easy would it be for someone reviewing this gun to incorrectly place the barrel over the brass rod and damage the rifling of the barrel? I would be surprised if a gun dealer would display handguns in a manner that would cause damage. It is too late for me to do anything about it now, but I am trying to decide if I need to plan spending the money for a replacement barrel.


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The severity of chorioamnionitis in pregnant sheep is associated with in vivo variation of the surface-exposed multiple-banded antigen/gene of ureaplasma parvum
Knox, Christine L., Dando, Samantha J., Nitsos, Ilias, Kallapur, Suhas G., Jobe, Alan H., Payton, Diane, Moss, Timothy J.M., & Newnham, John P. (2010) The severity of chorioamnionitis in pregnant sheep is associated with in vivo variation of the surface-exposed multiple-banded antigen/gene of ureaplasma parvum. Biology of Reproduction, 83(3), pp. 415-426.
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Ureaplasma species are the bacteria most frequently isolated from human amniotic fluid in asymptomatic pregnancies and placental infections. Ureaplasma parvum serovars 3 and 6 are the most prevalent serovars isolated from men and women. We hypothesized that the effects on the fetus and chorioamnion of chronic ureaplasma infection in amniotic fluid are dependent on the serovar, dose, and variation of the ureaplasma multiple banded antigen (MBA) and mba gene. We injected high- or low dose U. parvum serovar 3, serovar 6, or vehicle intra-amniotically into pregnant ewes at 55 days of gestation (term = 150 days) and examined the chorioamnion, amniotic fluid, and fetal lung tissue of animals delivered by cesarean section at 125 days of gestation. Variation of the multiple banded antigen/mba generated by serovar 3 and serovar 6 ureaplasmas in vivo were compared by PCR assay and Western blot. Ureaplasma inoculums demonstrated only one (serovar 3) or two (serovar 6) MBA variants in vitro, but numerous antigenic variants were generated in vivo: serovar 6 passage 1 amniotic fluid cultures contained more MBA size variants than serovar 3 (P = 0.005),and ureaplasma titers were inversely related to the number of variants (P = 0.025). The severity of chorioamnionitis varied between animals. Low numbers of mba size variants (five or fewer) within amniotic fluid were associated with severe inflammation, whereas the chorioamnion from animals with nine or more mba variants showed little or no inflammation. These differences in chorioamnion inflammation may explain why not all women with in utero Ureaplasma spp. experience adverse pregnancy outcomes.
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Every once in awhile Matt and I fall into a dinnertime routine that works. Lately, it's been simple — he grills some kind of meat, I make some kind of salad, and that's all we have. When we first started cooking for each other a few years ago I did the standard salads; iceberg lettuce, ranch, cheddar cheese. Then I learned that he's into more adventurous salads, so I've had to step up my game!
It's no secret that I'm a huge fan of Mark Bittman so when I fell into a salad rut I decided to consult How To Cook Everything. His recipe for balsamic strawberries with arugula seemed so easy, I had to try it.
Unfortunately, the only arugula at the store came in a massive bag, as in enough to feed 15 people, and cost $12, so I won't be able to try the real recipe unless I can find arugula at the farmer's market this Friday. I picked up some baby romaine instead.
I followed the strawberry recipe, but I didn't measure the amounts. It was basically one large container of berries (minus three or four I sacrificed to Matt because I didn't feel like chopping anymore), a tablespoon of balsamic, and a few shakes of pepper, followed by a glug of olive oil once I mixed in the romaine.
The last step was adding goat cheese, which put the whole thing over the top. Matt said it tasted like dessert as much as it tasted like salad!
I tried it again a few days later, this time using local blueberries and adding some maple syrup to the balsamic mix, and honey roasted pecans in with the goat cheese.
So good. I highly recommend picking up some berries and goat cheese today.


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Editor's Note: As prepared for delivery in the House of Commons on Tuesday, Feb. 11, 2014.
Mr. Speaker, nearly 150 years ago, Canada was founded with fiscal responsibility as its cornerstone. The men and women who carved this great country out of the wilderness simply called it "good government."
That's what Minister of Finance John Rose was talking about when he stood before this assembly to deliver Canada's first budget speech in 1868. He said, "I say that we ought to be most careful in our outlay, and consider well every shilling we expend."
Now, that's just old-fashioned English for old-fashioned common sense. And it is that solid, Canadian common sense that has guided our Government through good times and bad.
Mr. Speaker, I am proud to rise today to present Canada's Economic Action Plan 2014. This prudent plan builds on our record of strong, sound and consistent fiscal management. It is a low-tax plan to promote jobs and economic growth and support Canadian families. And it is a common sense plan that will see Canada return to a balanced budget in 2015.
Economic Action Plan 2014 sticks to the principles that we adopted when I rose to deliver our Government's first budget in 2006 during good times. What did our Government do then, when our budget was in surplus and when few could see dark clouds on the horizon?
We paid down our federal debt.
We lowered taxes for families and job creators.
We made sure our fiscal house was in order.
Why did we do this? Because it was the responsible way to a brighter future for Canadians.
Financial prudence now leads to financial prosperity in the future. It leads to opportunity. And so it was that when economic bad times came, our country was better prepared than most.
Since the depths of the recession Canada has led the G7 in job creation. Coming out of the recession Canada had a triple-A credit rating with a stable outlook — which was and still is virtually unmatched among our peers. We have the best net debt-to-GDP ratio among G7 nations.
There are many reasons to be optimistic. There are signs of recovery around us. But there are also troubled waters. The world economy is still fragile — one need look no further than Europe and the emerging economies to see that.
Here at home, household debt is still higher than we'd like to see. And there are still too many Canadians looking for work, and too many employers looking for workers. There is still work to be done.
As my favourite Father of Confederation, Thomas D'Arcy McGee, once said, "We are in the rapids and must go on." And so, even as the times get better again, we will stay the course that has worked so well.
1. Balancing the Budget
Mr. Speaker, Sir John A. Macdonald — my other favourite Father of Confederation — could have been talking about our Economic Action Plan when he said, "the Government are merely trustees for the public." And that is why we are so committed to balancing the budget and returning Canada to a position of fiscal strength.
When governments run prolonged deficits, they are spending money that belongs to future generations. Deficit spending endangers social programs we benefit from and our children will soon depend on.
We also recognize that balanced budgets are important to the long-term prosperity of this country, inspiring confidence in investors and consumers, whose dollars grow the economy and create jobs, and ensuring interest rates stay low.
Canadians have trusted us with the economy and we have delivered. As we have promised, our Government remains committed to balancing the budget in 2015.
But I must be clear. We did not do this on the backs of ordinary Canadians or Canadians in need, or at the expense of our provinces and territories. We did not cut the programs Canadians rely on. We did not cut transfers to our provinces and territories — money they use for things like education and health care.
Rather, we did this by getting our own fiscal house in order. And, Mr. Speaker, that is exactly how our Government will continue.
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Somebody busted up my drivers side side view mirror. I am going to buy one, does anyone have detailed instructions on hot to remove the old one and put on the new one. It is a 2000 and its a manual mirror, not electric.
There are a few clips holding the mirror in place, you might half to take the inner portion of the side mirror and pry it out in order to get a hold of them clips. Although I haven't done this myself an auto body showed me how to do it. They said it would take like 10-15 minutes to get everything into shape.
Take off the triangle, just pops off, then locate the 10mm bolt and use a socket, with a long extension to reach it, unscrew and it comes off, but you need to again pop it off.
The mirrors should be plug and play, if powered. Dunno about manual.
Good luck.
"take off the triangle"
This triangle is on the INSIDE. it is also known at the sail panel. where the mirror adjustment knob or dongle is.
^^Yep, thanks Peter!
You forgot one step CKA, there is a torque screw that also holds the mirror on, its on the inside of the door behind the "triangle", dont break that off otherwise your mirror will fit loose and vibrate when you drive.
oh ya i forgot that one too.
just a technicality though... its not a "torque" screw.... it is a "torx" screw. T25 I think.
Like a Dummy I dropped the bolt inside the door steel. I need to retrieve it, so should i go thru the speaker hole with a magnet stick or peel up the weather strip at the bottom?
Wow , thats a hell of a bump . I think you can get into there by removing the door card. Its not too hard / time consuming
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Thanks! I'll try that first. I found a vid on how to cut it back and replace it.
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During the week of May 12, producers of the Ellen Degeneres Show contacted Oregon State University leadership to propose a plan to film a segment of the show on campus. A chance to show off the university's beautiful people and campus on national television? Of course they said yes.
And just like that, plans for the May 21 event were in motion. Ellen would do a live segment from her studio with students in the quad. Going off the cue of Ellen's Twitter hints to the public, we slowly (and strategically) released details to the public. Excitement grew quickly, even into rumors — the biggest that Ellen would be speaking at Commencement.
She teased.
And teased.
And then dropped the details.
During that four-day span, we set interaction records on Twitter and Facebook. Ellen's 30 million followers helped us with that. On Twitter, our @OregonStateUniv handle was mentioned alongside @TheEllenShow handle 7,275 times.
Our followers also spiked, as seen in the bar graph below. The account gained 1,000 followers in just a few days.
Here's a look at our top tweets.
6x normal reach:
Over on Facebook, we posted a photo of the event. It was seen by more than 100,000 impressions and received nearly 5,000 'likes.' For context, our posts average between 800 and 1,000 'likes.'
One thing Ellen and her producers excel at is getting people to dress in theme for their events. At Oregon State, the theme was "dress up in your worst Dad outfits." As expected, hilarity ensued, and we received a ton of awesome photos (see the Storify below).
This was our favorite by far, a whole family! –>
For a timeline of all the Ellen festivities, including more costumes, check out our Storify below. It was a blast! Beaver Nation represented well, as usual!


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Chefs see double-edge sword in reality TV shows
By Richard Leong
NEW YORK (Reuters Life!) - Chefs acknowledge cooking on television is an effective way to promote their restaurants and cookbooks but some of them do not savor the frenzy and demands of reality competition shows.
In the United States, cooking competition shows are part of a growing genre, which garners advertising support from the food industry.
These series, such as "Top Chef Masters" and "The Next Iron Chef," are known as much for their emotional exchanges between contestants and judges as their cooking challenges.
Some of New York's top chefs said appearing on television has become part of their job as chefs emerge from their kitchens as celebrities.
"It's a marketing tool," Jimmy Bradley, head chef and owner of the Red Cat in West Chelsea, said during the New York City Wine & Food Festival that ended on Sunday.
Many chefs who have appeared on these competition shows have become celebrities with attendees at the festival lining up to see their cooking demonstrations or to be photographed with them.
Chefs who have competed said these shows were powerful as they reached a nationwide audience of potential diners or buyers of their cookbooks.
"To win is to have a successful business," said Bradley, who sees the financial rewards stemming from appearing on these shows as possibly more important than winning the competition. Continued...


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Pope says Church must end obsession with gays, contraception, abortion
By Philip Pullella
VATICAN CITY (Reuters) - Pope Francis said the Catholic Church must shake off an obsession with teachings on abortion, contraception and homosexuality and become more merciful or risk the collapse of its entire moral edifice "like a house of cards".
In a dramatically blunt interview with an Italian Jesuit journal, Francis said the Church had "locked itself up in small things, in small-minded rules" and should not be so prone to condemn.
Its priests should be more welcoming and not cold, dogmatic bureaucrats. The confessional, he said, "is not a torture chamber but the place in which the Lord's mercy motivates us to do better."
His comments were welcomed by liberal Catholics; but they are likely to be viewed with concern by conservatives who have already expressed concern over Francis's failure to address publicly the issues stressed by his predecessor, Benedict.
Francis, the first non-European pope in 1,300 years, the first from Latin America and the first Jesuit pope, did not hold out the prospect of any changes soon to such moral teachings.
But, in the 12,000-word interview with Civilta Cattolica, he said the Church must find a new balance between upholding rules and demonstrating mercy. "Otherwise even the moral edifice of the Church is likely to fall like a house of cards."
In the interview with the magazine's director, Jesuit Father Antonio Spadaro, he also said he envisioned a greater role for women in the 1.2 billion member Church but suggested it would not include a change in the current ban on a female priesthood.
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Independence: The Struggle to Set America Free by John Ferling (2011)
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Gives a more real-world (less textbook) look at what was happening before and during the Revolutionary War. THIS should be the required reading in elementary school. The founding fathers were real, imperfect, humans...not the pedestal-worth gods some Americans think they are.
While little new ground is covered, Ferling's achievement is to assemble all of the various threads of the latest scholarship into an engaging narrative that manages to bring fresh nuance to various aspects of the ideological struggle for and against independence, both in the Americas and in the mother country, where George III, his ministers and Parliament manage to demonstrate that the colonies are theirs to lose by misstep – and then actually make all of those missteps and lose them! I knew a great deal of this story from Don Cook's masterful The Long Fuse: How England Lost the American Colonies 1760-1785 and other sources, but again it is refreshing to observe Ferling speaking from the latest historiography which tends to view the conflict simultaneously on both sides of the Atlantic, rather than the traditional approach which is all about the "Founders" and how they alone forged a divorce that was universally welcomed by all of the colonists and bitterly contested by all of the Brits, something that not only is an oversimplification but is also patently incorrect in many particulars. In Ferling's coverage, there is the subtly unstated hint (that other authors emphasize more loudly) that the British Parliament's intransigence in its refusal to show weakness in the face of resistance is often echoed by contemporary American foreign policy, with similar disastrous results. As in the latter, the eighteenth century MP's seemed dully aware that every step they took carried them closer to a doomed outcome, yet they proceeded in step, not unlike a carefully formed regiment marching in cadence towards an entrenched machine gun nest. In Independence, Ferling resurrects a story that I think most Americans are largely unaware of.
While most of the material on the colonial side is more familiar, I did run across some new bits that piqued my curiosity. Ferling, a biographer of John Adams, details how a canny Sam Adams maneuvers and manipulates his more conventional cousin to eventually take the leading role in the Continental Congress that champions and finally wins independence. (In return, John teaches the urban squire Sam how to ride a horse!) I knew little about Sam Adams, a kind of squirrelly historical figure, and his relationship with his more notable relative, and Ferling succeeds in outlining how the two Adams' played off each other's strengths and weaknesses to achieve their common purpose – separation for the colonies. Ferling also spends more time here on other leading characters from the drama -- such as Richard Henry Lee and Joseph Galloway -- that many other treatments tend to minimize or entirely overlook.
Another arena Ferling treats is the complicated results of the near cataclysm in Benedict Arnold's failed invasion of Canada. It turns out that this disaster, counter-intuitively to my mind, encouraged rather than discouraged the more radical bloc in Congress in their vociferous efforts to defeat the more moderate "reconciliationists," led by John Dickenson, largely because this calamitous rout underscored to both sides the need to aggressively seek foreign assistance in order to stay in the game on the military side. Of course, the eventual success that brought the war to a close many years hence at Yorktown could not have been achieved without French intervention.
I was also struck by the debate over calling for the ban of the African slave trade. Jefferson, ever ambivalent about the peculiar institution, does write a passage in the Declaration – excised from the draft by other more circumspect legislators – that vehemently condemns George III for profiting on the evils of the slave trade. But while Jefferson may have been genuinely offended by the practice, other less moralistic Virginia planters called for the abolition of the slave trade primarily because they had a surplus of slave property they hoped to retail at higher prices to the lower South, where the market showed by a scarcity and a growing demand.
I have read Ferling before and while I have enjoyed his material, in general I tend to find his writing less compelling than a David McCullough or a Joseph Ellis. While that still may be true to some degree, Ferling's style has improved over time and in Independence his narrative is much less stilted and far more engaging than in previous works. I would urge those who are interested in a single volume that explores the forces that led to the Declaration of Independence to read Ferling's finely crafted book.
I received this book as a part of the LT Early Reader program.
And it's always profitable to study history in this way--both to understand the events themselves and to see what light they throw on our own times.
Ferling has taken as his task to provide the story of the 40+ months of colonial/revolutionary history that leads up to the Declaration of Independence in 1776, with a particular focus on all of the "turning points" where things which now, in the hindsight sharpened by more than 200 years of historiography (and mythologizing), seem inevitable.
In the course of this narrative, we come to understand that the Revolution itself, and nearly every turning point in the process that led up to independence itself was a near-run thing, and that it was often a confluence of events--and some singularly bad decision-making in England--that pushed the American states toward independence, even though for a good part of the time, not that many of the colonists wanted to break with the mother country.
I'd recommend this book for anyone interested in American history--and really anyone at all.
As an amateur photographer, one of the most challenging things to do is take an interesting photograph of a famous place. When something has been photographed thousands of times over, it becomes incredibly difficult to produce something novel.
Ferling's book faced the same challenge. A market of revolutionary-era history and biography from Isaacson, McCullough, Ellis, and so many dozens of others has flooded the market in the last ten years.
In a genre swamped with narrative histories and biographies, Ferling's route to originality was to turn an idea into a character.
Through a progressive series of short biographical discussions of the main players in the process of independence from its first whisperings to its final passage by the Continental Congress, Ferling does not attempt complete biographies or to provide the exhaustive story of the revolution.
Keeping the subject narrow and focused produced a work that was truly a joy to read. It provided specific insights into many major and ancillary players from the revolutionary period, as well as into the military and political history of the period, but only and always in a fascinating and engaging exploration of the way an idea grows and develops.
This reminded me of McCullough's "1776" not in its style or content, but in its specific and direct scope.
Very nicely rendered.
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An exhibition of portraits telling the story of Virginia Woolf's life opens in London this week.
The National Portrait Gallery show includes pictures of the writer by Bloomsbury Group members, including Duncan Grant and her sister Vanessa Bell.
Photographs of her growing up, as well as some by important figures such as Man Ray, will also be on display. The show, curated by biographer Frances Spalding, also features rare archive material — including her final letter to her sister before her suicide in 1941, aged 59. Sandy Nairne, the gallery's director, said: "Virginia Woolf was one of Britain's most important writers and thinkers."
Virginia Woolf: Art, Life and Vision, from tomorrow to October 26, admission £7. npg.org.uk
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