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Mean Betty Asks, Is 28 Too Old For Skimpy Outfits?
A 28-year-old mother of four has been banned from all three nightclubs in her hometown because she's "too old" for her skimpy outfits. But is she really?
-Mean Betty
There is something to be said for growing old gracefully, is there not, kittens? Would that we could all grow up to be Helen Mirren! But while a good many embrace the "young at heart" philosophy that Dame Helen exemplifies, not everyone does. Indeed, some are even offended by it—even if the people in question are still actually young, and not just young at heart.
This was what Ms. Lisa Woodman, a petite blonde with an—ahem—impressive rack from Worcester, UK, found on New Year's Eve this year. Once a fortnight (that's once every two weeks for us Americans), Ms. Woodman and her sister Sarah like to go out on the town. One of their Let's Go Out nights corresponded with New Year's Eve, so naturally, they were looking forward to dancing the night away at one of the three clubs their town plays home to. But bizarrely, when they rolled up to one of the clubs, Mode, they were denied entry. "When I asked the bouncers why me and my sister weren't allowed in," Ms. Woodman told the Daily Mail, "they just said, 'You're too old to wear that get-up.'" Too old? Ms. Woodman is only 28! Since when has turning 28 launched a person over the proverbial hill?
Ms. Woodman is a mother of four. Her sister, who is 32, also has a child. After being told they were banned for life from Mode, as well as from the other two clubs in Worcester, they left the club in tears and returned home to relieve their babsitters for the evening. Outrageous? Meanie offers forth a resounding yes.
Of course, there is this: Perhaps the problem was not so much that the outfits are skimpy. Rather, it was that they are unfathomable tacky. Indeed, it is possible that Ms. Woodman would benefit from an intervention from What Not to Wear.
Ms. Woodman in one of her favorite "going out" getups.
It's also possible that perhaps she looks a little older than her 28 years; she has, after all, born four children, and after having split with her long-term partner and the father of those four kiddie-winks, she's been raising them on her own. That would wear anyone down. Maybe this is what prompted the bouncers to tell her that she was "too old" to be wearing the outfit she had picked?
(As an aside, however, Meanie would like to note that Ms. Woodman's body appears to be in incredible shape. While going through her break-up, she did two things for herself: She got a breast augmentation and she started hitting the gym. Say what you will about the boob job, kittens, but the working out can only be a good thing. There are much less constructive ways to deal with a devastating break-up than by getting in shape!)
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But then again, perhaps it's simply a case of some incredibly mean bouncers picking on Ms. Woodman "just because." Meanie will feely admit that she has a little trouble understanding the point of bouncers. From a security standpoint, they make perfect sense: Checking IDs, gauging severe levels of intoxication, and spotting overly aggressive behavior ensures the smooth running of a club by keeping down illegal drinking and weeding out those likely to cause fights. However, bouncers have more one additional function: To identify and refuse entry to would-be patrons based on their level of attractiveness. And this, kittens, is where the argument for bouncers falls a little bit to pieces. Most clubs have dress codes, so on the one hand, yes, bouncers are useful for making sure that those who enter meet the standards (no shirt, no shoes, no service!); but on the other hand, this also gives them the ability to veto anyone at all for purely personal reasons. Whether it's because the club goer wasn't blessed with phenomenal genes or if it's because they wore a color the bouncer doesn't like, denying entry on these sorts of things looks suspiciously like discrimination. And yet very rarely is it complained about, and even more rarely is anything done about it. Why?
Ms. Woodman acknowledged that her outfits may be a little provocative, but she is also correct in saying that they more or less cover her up. She doesn't, for instance, appear to be in danger of having any Lindsay Lohan-esque wardrobe malfunctions. As she pointed out, she isn't hurting anyone, and furthermore, her behavior seems to have been exemplary—she says she remained polite to the bouncers even in the face of their mistreatment of her, and there don't seem to be any reports of violence breaking out. Also note that she only goes out once every two weeks, so it's not as if she is partying her hardest every single night. Indeed, the fact that she limits her nights out to one every two weeks speaks to the fact that she has her priorities straight: She takes care of her children and she works hard to do so. Ms. Woodman, by the way, is a medical secretary at a hospital hygiene company. So given that she was not overly intoxicated, was not unnecessarily aggressive, and was certainly of legal age, why was she turned away? Because the bouncers didn't like what she was wearing. Does that seem right to you kittens?
The flip side of the argument is that maybe Ms. Woodman's outfit was offensive because it was counter to the club's dress code. When the Daily Mail got in touch with Nexum Leisure, the company which runs all three of Worcester's clubs, director Dean Hill told them this: "We expect people to make an effort and we have a dress code of smart casual." "Smart casual" is by nature a little nebulous, but it's possible that the short skirts and sky-high boots Ms. Woodman favors didn't fit with the club's image. But Ms. Woodman also told the paper that during this particular incident, "One doorman even made me walk up and down and turn around in front of people laughing at what I was wearing. I was totally in shock and really humiliated." There are ways to gracefully handle denying people entry somewhere—but publically humiliating them is not one of them.
In the words of Mr. Hill, "At the end of the day, it's private premises and we reserve the right to refuse entry for anyone." This may be true. But at the end of the day, it's also a person's right to express themselves how they want, especially through their clothing. Yes, we can always tell Ms. Woodman simply not to give these sorts of places her business—they don't deserve her patronage and all that—but ultimately the club is the one who is losing. Congratulations! You've just lost a customer!
So go ahead, kittens. Wear what you like. Even if it's tacky. Meanie won't tell anyone how old you are. Shhhhhh!
Mean Betty


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How was it in CB? Went out saturday evening, DP this morning, and again this evening. Sat it was a giant washing machine, took me 2845 hours too paddle out. But crazy fvcking drops. Watched a bigg-ish grom drop down a d-oh wave. But thats all I got, giant drops then nothin. But today it was much better. Hopin to do DP again tommorow

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The Ex | 2007
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Tom Reilly and his wife Sofia are in for some major changes now that they have a newborn. As a lawyer, Sofia has always provided a comfortable living while Tom has contributed love, support and the occasional paycheck. When Sofia decides to be a stay-at-home mom all that changes. Tom moves the family to Ohio to work for his father-in-law as an 'Assistant Associate Creative' for "Sunburst Communications." His boss Chip happens to still carry a torch for Sofia from their high school days. Each time Tom gains some ground at the firm, Chip wheels in and steals his thunder. Dirty tricks and sabotage abound creating an atmosphere of fierce paranoia that eventually threatens Tom and Sofia's relationship. Chip will stop at nothing to see Tom defeated while no one but Tom can see Chip for the evil genius he is. Through it all Tom's esteem is depleted, his manhood challenged (by a surprisingly large adversary) and he's watching his family slip away.


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Hard to provide you with an answer without knowing said card's brand and model. Are you asking if it will be able to sniff traffic or if it supports injection?
Hey Guys,
Having been searching around these forums and the general web on how to get all this working i got to the point where i know what i am doing.
I would like some confirmation please on the screenshot below whether my wireless adapter is compatible for sniffing? I am using VMware Workstation with Backtrack 4. It doesn't seem to be working as intended having random channel numbers, power and beacons going extremely high then some networks not showing up correctly whereas on my other network card shows all networks with 'Chuliganai' being the strongest.
Thanks. :)
Hard to provide you with an answer without knowing said card's brand and model. Are you asking if it will be able to sniff traffic or if it supports injection?
As for knowing if it's supported, well... I don't know what you're trying to use. Run an aireplay-ng -9 wlanX (where X is your wlan #) to see if your card supports packet injection. Other methods would be to search the internets for keywords like: aircrack-ng suite card compatibility list <Name, make and model of my card here>. Maybe you'll find a wiki with listed support and levels of support for certain cards.
thou shalt treat all computers as thou wouldst treat thyself, for thou art the creator of thine own problems.
Thanks for the replies.
I have since installed Backtrack 4 as a dual-boot as i installed a old PCI WiFi card i had spare and this cannot be used on a virtual machine. Now i get great results using airodump-ng and aircrack-ng.
After an hour of data (30000) aircrack was unable to find the key, would you say this is fairly normal? I was thinking of leaving it running overnight while i sleep so it collects a good few hours worth of data and the traffic seems to have picked up on the target network.
The WiFi card i was using before is actually some form of internal USB micro built into my desktop made by 'Azurewave Technologies. Inc.' The PCI card i just installed has an Atheros AR5213 chip and that's the one i am using with result.
An hour and you got only that? That's odd...
Ok, just found this:
You could set the WEP key to the minimum length so that you can crack it with less packets required. Also, have you turned on the -z option on aircrack-ng command?Ath5k works fine here with AR5213 & latest wireless-testing kernel, but injection is slow (about 50-100pps, anything higher results in no return packets captured)


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Lay of the Land
The Strip: This legendary stretch keeps getting better, with nearly every hotel undergoing a major face-lift.
Downtown: The city's business district is also home to Vegas's best galleries, museums, and one-off boutiques.
Getting Around: Taxis are ideal; for travel within the Strip, consider walking or taking the monorail.
See the T+L Insider Video: Perfect Day in Las Vegas
From the most buzzed-about openings to eye-catching renovations, here's what's happening in the Vegas hotel scene.
The Makeovers
MGM Grand: The $160 million renovation of the MGM includes a major green sweep (LED lighting; solar shades) and the addition of wellness-themed suites, complete with light therapy. Destination restaurants like Joël Robuchon were (wisely) left alone, but look out for new Cantonese hot spot Hakkasan. $
Hard Rock Hotel & Casino: A 7,000-square-foot entertainment venue. A rollicking gastropub. A massive gaming lounge. They're all part of the recent update of this popular off-Strip hangout. $$
Four Seasons Hotel Las Vegas: All 424 rooms and suites rang in the new year with an Art Deco–inspired transformation, incorporating lacquered surfaces that reflect the glittering Strip below. Take in the views of the desert from your floor-to-ceiling window. $$
Bellagio: A recent $110 million nip and tuck added bold colors, patterned murals, and high-tech amenities to this Vegas standby. $
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Nobu Hotel Caesars Palace: The legendary Caesars Palace has been reborn as chef Nobu Matsuhisa's Nobu Hotel. Rooms combine handcrafted grass cloth and Japanese stone, not to mention an in-room Nobu sushi menu. $$
The New Classics
Aria Resort & Casino: It takes a lot to make waves here, but Aria did it in 2009, redefining the skyline with its curvilinear glass towers housing 4,004 rooms, 17 restaurants, a spa, casino, and the Cirque du Soleil show Zarkana. $$
Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas: The city's last-built major hotel makes a design-forward statement in two sleek towers. Past the see-and-be-seen lobby, there are plenty of diversions: Marquee Nightclub, inventive boutiques, and a range of restaurants, from brasserie Comme Ça to the burger joint Holsteins. $
Palazzo Las Vegas: Consider it a rarefied version of the Venetian, with some of the most luxe suites on the Strip and a five-acre Roman-garden-style pool deck. $
Encore: Dripping with 130 red Murano-glass chandeliers, the edgier, younger sibling of Wynn Las Vegas manages to feel intimate despite its 2,034 rooms. $
Hotel Pricing Key
$ Less than $200
$$ $200 to $350
$$$ $350 to $500
$$$$ $500 to $1,000
$$$$$ More than $1,000
Don't miss these five foodie adventures.
The Strip
Tetsu: Chef Masa Takayama's new restaurant specializes in teppanyaki. Guests pick from a table piled high with meats, seafood, and vegetables, which are cooked at one of six grills—four of which are blackjack-style tables (Welcome to Vegas!). $$$$
Public House: Plenty of Vegas restaurants have tried their hand at the gastropub game, though none as successfully as this one. Nevada's first beer cicerone helps pair dozens of brews with plates like roasted bone marrow with bacon marmalade. $$
Bacchanal: If you thought you knew the Vegas buffet, you'll be surprised by the 600-seat Bacchanal. Serving more than 500 dishes from nine open kitchens, the large-scale operation puts to rest the mass-cooked concept: these foods are prepared to order. $$$
Eat: A low-key joint on the ground floor of an old apartment building has developed a cult following. Chef Natalie Young infuses American classics with New Mexican and French influences to create standouts like roast beef on ciabatta with tangy blue cheese, wild mushrooms, and pickled red onions. $
Le Thai: This tiny dining room attracts both power brokers and hipsters, thanks to an eclectic menu with monster Thai flavors. Three-color curry and pork jerky are the main draws, along with the aptly named "awesome noodles," which are tart, sweet, fishy, and spicy. $$
Restaurant Pricing Key
$ Less than $25
$$ $25 to $75
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Vegas has it all—big-name brands, funky one-off boutiques, and plenty of kitsch.
The Strip
Crystals at CityCenter: The mixed-use development is chockablock with designer boutiques: Louis Vuitton, Eres, Gucci. Add in the cinematic draws—Fendi's scale model of Rome's Trevi Fountain; a full fashion runway at Roberto Cavalli—and you have a seriously stimulating retail experience.
Forum Shops at Caesars: This over-the-top Roman extravaganza contains one of the three Tiffany & Co. stores on the Strip, as well as Valentino, Hublot, and the U.S.'s second Alfred Dunhill store.
Shoppes at the Palazzo: The airy space is anchored by Barneys and holds eye-popping shops, including Van Cleef & Arpels, Charriol, and more.
Patina Décor: It's all about the well-chosen selection of vintage furnishings here, from Hollywood Regency tables to Midcentury Modern barware. Just try going home without ordering a wing chair that's been creatively reupholstered in candy colors.
Electric Lemonade: Pieces by emerging designers are displayed like art at Electric Lemonade. Look out for throwback concert T-shirts, 1960's dresses, and retro jewelry and sunglasses.
See + Do
Four ways to get your culture fix, Vegas-style.
Neon Museum: After years of appointment-only showings, this collection of 150 neon signs dating back as far as the 1930's is finally open to the public. The lobby of the rehabbed La Concha Motel now stands as its visitors' center, through which you'll enter to see iconic signs from the Moulin Rouge, the Desert Inn, and the Stardust.
Mob Museum: The federal courthouse where the 1950 Kefauver Hearings on Organized Crime were held is now a museum dedicated to the history of mobsters. Among its showstoppers: the entire bullet-ridden wall from the 1929 St. Valentine's Day Massacre in Chicago; interactive exhibits on wiretapping; and real weapons used by Mafia hit men.
Project Dinner Table.: Every month, internationally renowned chefs, including Mark LoRusso and Michel Richard, serve 150 guests at one very long dinner table in a different setting—the middle of an orchard, say, or left field at a baseball stadium—for charity. Caveat: seats fill up quickly, so book at least 30 days in advance. April through November.
Smith Center for the Performing Arts: The most hotly anticipated cultural venue in recent Las Vegas history is a breathtaking, $465 million center that hosts groups ranging from the Israel Philharmonic and the Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater to the Cleveland Orchestra and London's Academy of St. Martin in the Fields.
Only in Vegas...
Where can you race a Ferrari or watch an after-hours cookoff among the world's top chefs? Vegas, baby, Vegas.
Test Drive Race Cars: The year-old Dream Racing experience at Las Vegas Motor Speedway offers aspiring drivers classroom training, a simulator session, and five high-speed laps around the track (0 to 60 mph in 3 1/2 seconds) in cars—like the Ferrari F430 GT—that are not street legal.
Play Vintage Games: Bring your quarters. At the upstairs gaming room at the D Las Vegas (formerly Fitzgeralds), you can race mechanized horses on one of the few remaining Sigma Derby tables, or plunk your change into retro one-armed bandits.
Watch Famous Chefs Battle: Once a month starting at 1 a.m., high-profile chefs are pitted against one another at a clutch of food-truck kitchens in the Tommy Rocker's parking lot with only a basket of mystery ingredients in what's been dubbed the Back of the House Brawl. Dishes are sold to the public until 2 a.m.
Local Take
Three Las Vegans share their favorite spots in the city.
Tony Hsieh
CEO of Zappos
Where I go for…
A Power Lunch: The coffeehouse and record store the Beat ($$), in downtown's Emergency Arts center.
Late-Night Tipples: With its hip music and low-key vibe, the Downtown Cocktail Room has been a local favorite for years.
Hanging with the In-Crowd: Coterie Downtown (515 E. Fremont St.; 702/685-7741), which is part lounge, part vintage store, is the place to be—whether you're shopping or not.
Melissa Akkaway
Owner of Beckley Boutique at the Cosmopolitan of Las Vegas
Where I go for…
A Night Out: The Barrymore ($$$), just off the Strip, has delicious American food and a Rat Pack feel that's not overdone.
Inspiration: I love to visit the Beckley House, which was my grandmother's residence and is now part of a museum. It's one of the first bungalow-style homes in the area.
A Day Off: When I get some downtime, I run the loop at Red Rock Canyon.
Rick Moonen
Chef and owner of RM Seafood at Mandalay Place
Where I go for…
A Post-Work Bite: One of my go-to places is Culinary Dropout ($$$) with soulful dishes such as meatloaf and beef stroganoff.
People-Watching: There's so much to see at First Friday, when galleries and artists' studios are open to the public until 10 p.m.
Exercise: Valley of Fire, Nevada's oldest state park, and Mount Charleston are great places to hike.
Hit up one of these places for a taste of Vegas after dark.
Bagatelle Supper Club: Start the day with the champagne brunch at this Med-style restaurant/club.
XS: Expect gold-embossed-croc VIP booths at XS, rumored to be the priciest nightclub ever built.
1OAK: This New York import reinvents itself as an intimate (in Vegas, this means 16,000 square feet) space.
Hyde Bellagio: Sam Nazarian's Philippe Starck–designed lounge becomes a club on weekends.
The Ainsworth: Done up with barn wood, this rustic yet sophisticated room elevates the sports bar.
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Brevard, N.C. - Cody Queen went deep twice in the first game and finished the day 7-for-8 from the plate as the Tornados downed the visiting Lenoir-Rhyne University Bears on Saturday afternoon at Gil Coan Field behind strong pitching performances by Johnathon Chaplain and Dylan Lee in completing the doubleheader sweep with 8-1 and 14-1 victories.
Champ Stuart and Tarron Robinson also added home runs for the Tornados (6-7, 3-2 SAC) as Brevard clinched their first South Atlantic Conference series victory in taking the first two games in the weekend series against the Bears (3-14, 1-4 SAC).
Game One: Brevard 8, Lenoir-Rhyne 1
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The Tornados jumped on the Bears early in the first game, led by pair of solo home runs by Queen and a shot by Stuart to back six innings of solid pitching by Chaplain (1-1) as the freshman right-hander recorded his first collegiate victory in the win against the Bears.
Brevard opened the scoring in the bottom of the first as Queen drilled a 1-0 pitch from Jared Carroll over the left field fence and into the BC bullpen to put Brevard up 1-0. The Tornados continued to threaten in the inning, putting runners on second and third with two outs as Robinson and Chad Funkhouser both advanced into scoring position, but the Tornados were unable to increase their lead as Carroll retired the side to end the threat.
Brevard added two more in the second inning as Stuart opened up the frame driving a ball over the left field fence to put another run on the board and Queen scored on a botched pickoff play to the plate to give the Tornados the 3-0 lead.
The Tornados added another run in the bottom of the fifth as Funkhouser drove in Robinson with a two-out single up the middle.
Lenoir-Rhyne put a run across in the top of the sixth as Mike Gasque singled through the left side and advanced to second on a sacrifice bunt. Will Whitty followed with a double to right centerfield, scoring Gasque to give the Bears a crooked frame on the board.
The Tornados answered with run in the bottom half of the inning as Kameron Armacost sacrificed home Kramer Clark to answer the Bears.
Brevard put the game away in the bottom of the seventh as Queen led off the inning with his second home run of the contest with a shot over the left centerfield fence and Stuart added a two RBI single later in the frame, scoring Bennett Hixson and Funkhouser to give the Tornados the 8-1 advantage.
Casey Smith worked the final three innings on the mound for the Tornados, facing two batters over the minimum in retiring the Bears and recording his first save of the 2012 season.
Game 2: Brevard 14, Lenoir-Rhyne 1
Box Score
Brevard sent 15 batters to the plate, with 11 scoring in the bottom of the fifth inning to put the game away as the Tornados backed Dylan Lee's (2-1) strong pitching performance to give the Tornados the doubleheader sweep on the afternoon.
Christian Christopoulos reached on a walk and advanced to second on a wild pitch with two outs in the fourth inning, coming around to score on Eric Renegar's base hit up the middle off Bears' starter Ryan Jones (2-3) to put the first run of the game across the plate.
Dalton Hall answered for the Bears in the top of the fifth inning, driving a 3-1 offering from Lee over the left field fence to knot the game up at 1 apiece.
Brevard broke the game open in the bottom half of the inning with Clark doing the majority of the damage from the plate as the senior left fielder drove in four of the Tornados 11 runs in the frame, bringing home Zack Merriken and Stuart on a double to right centerfield and then singled in Merriken and Funkhouser later in the inning as the Tornados strung together nine hits and took advantage of three L-R errors to go up 12-1.
The Tornados added two more in the bottom of the sixth as Robinson lofted a one-out home run clearing the left centerfield fence and scoring Queen from second to end the scoring in the contest, while BC reliever Hixson retired the final six batters of the game, striking out two in completing the victory.
Brevard and Lenoir-Rhyne wrap up their weekend series on Sunday, February 26th at Gil Coan Field, with first pitch of the nine-inning contest between the Tornados and the Bears set for 1 p.m.


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In the bloody and confusing years following September 11th, 2001, a group of scientists and intellectuals led by biologist Richard Dawkins and philosopher Daniel Dennett began loudly calling for less tolerance of religion. Secular-minded popular intellectuals have been criticizing religion since the Roman atheist Lucretius wrote De Rerum Natura, but this was a new level of indignation. These writers, who were quickly dubbed the New Atheists, argued that religions' nonsensical beliefs – immaterial beings, Heaven, answered prayer, and so forth – led far too easily to violence, intolerance, and bigotry. Therefore religious belief had to go! This may seem like a decent hypothesis, at least at first glance. But recently a trio of psychologists did some empirical work and came to a different conclusion: it's not religious faith that drives violence and intolerance. It's religious practice. [Read more…]


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Barron's Bounce: Six Turnaround Stocks12/2/2013 2:57PM
Jack Hough explains why GM, Delta and 4 more are ready to bounce. Plus: Why Freddie Mac and Fannie Mae are surging.
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I ... pricey market one widow investors to look for flawed companies that are mounting turnarounds Jack Otter Editor Barron's dot com on Europe's jackals senior editor of the magazine ... junkie written a story for this week's issue in which you talk about some seriously flawed stocks ... that are coming back in Europe to make an interest rate argument for why they let the investments were digging through the scratch and dent bin you're looking for bargains in autism research piece up by Credit Suisse and looks at ... what types of companies outperform when rates rise of course with that with the Fed looking eventually to to serve taper off its bond purchase we could be in a rut with that continue to be in a rising rate of bond ... it wasn't what it calls restructuring companies come visit on go on a relative to their peers ... happily we had some share price momentum suggested turning things around those companies tend to outperform ... one reason why that might be SOEs because rising rates usually come with an improving economy and the mobile companies ... after church we report them ... it's trading in the acontecer rising tide of yes so we took a look around that does make every turn around a great deal I mean we say for example J C Penney isn't confident just as ... too many problems that are by now wouldn't you know bountiful free cash so ... I you know what we look for a present opposite that and turn things round to share price momentum and still look pretty cheap and the names include Delta Air Lines ... General Motors would offer that those are two companies that day ... of the mill financially tragic history to ... sharply reduce costs structures right now both of them solve the problem ... paying down debt and that sort of virtuous cycle whereas the debt reduces ... the is more to spend on on their businesses ... aam ... covers it owns or more ... Pitney Bowes we mention Safeway and we mentioned Hewlett-Packard to market seems to very few one for those pics GM Delta Owens Illinois a and tell me I was the last one ... not a skier Safeway GM to ... Open both of those are all about percent and last I looked in the market was down slightly ... still the markets not convinced on on HP ... Norins a foreign HP well Safeway has somehow some valuable assets ... HP probably has that in this story so far in terms of it's it's it is time Netflix but it's got to ... be on the stock looks cheap and they're they're ... as for building up a cash cushion and will will see what happens next ... I have lost a wrestling match by the way with Tiernan Ray The tech columnist thinks BHP story isn't quite there ... now that they've ... been on for a bowl of the cash crunch and they've been met and that consumer spending on research development which is really just putting me now isn't looking to develop some new product lines but ... again I think the valuation on the stock makes up for the elevated risk of this company when it comes to turn around a couple these others like the one on one Illinois ... that's a that's an auto maker has seen some real consolidation there and prove profitable so that's ... that's a company with a much clearer turnaround stories is simply the differences among these companies begin to close the store incident to pieces on each let's jump to another possible turnaround ... I John Lang has an interesting story about Fannie and Freddie debt as an activist shareholders has scooped up shares on the cheap and now in his view have the chutzpah to say hey maybe all government of the taxpayers actually bails out the I mean to the tune of a hundred eighty seven billion dollars in taxpayer money and either they just want to be broken ... up these preferred shares on the cheap ... they won a cat that are ... paid at par value what they want their dividends to restrain the restored one these funds has a plan where ... just take over the now profitable insurance operations of ... of these indices and cracked and one in the way thanks to prayer God has in the last one stories in the long history of bailout deals ... no heist of the U S taxpayer would approach this one ... in cynicism and chutzpah ... and we see both cynicism and chutzpah trading five percent higher


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Chris Brown announces launch of new modeling agency
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Chris Brown is donning a new business hat.
On Twitter this week the singer announced the launch of his new model management agency, Legendary Faces. The company is currently taking submissions for new models via its website, LegendaryFacesmm.com.
My Agency http://t.co/XLYQk9dDuU casting by: @charlesincharge101 Photos by: @krishphotos @dgphoto7 pic.twitter.com/ZwODl5fQNX
— Chris Brown (@chrisbrown) March 11, 2014
Just because he's hopping into the modeling industry, doesn't mean he's turning his back on music. Brown has also announced that he's gearing up to release a music video for his single "Loyal" from his upcoming album X. Brown has set a May 5th release date for X.


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There will be an amateur card as well, as always. When things are sorted I'll post it - a couple of injury withdrawals have held things up. Should be at least one more pro prelim as well, which will be out when contracts are back.
Obviously we would have had more Scottish-based guys on the card were it not for the fact that Paul McVeigh, Graham Turner and Dan Hope were added to last month's London card after their fights at On Top had been cancelled.
really enjoyed the amateur fights at the last event, looking forward to seeing the new lineup. Got my tickets already looking forward to it
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The services of the Hotel, the position and the breakfast are very good. It's incredibile that in such kind of Hotel some persons of the staff don't speak english!!
Far better than what I expected.
Its location... Room Size
really nothing at the hotel; appart fromt the very nice view .and the access to the beach hotel seemed very 'run down' and old fashionned. definately not value for money for a short stay. the staff was non existant, the rooms were nothing better than a cheap roadside hotel type.breakfast was appaling considering the cost.if you go there for the spa the experience is probably different
The location was excellent with only a short walk to beach and village. Breakfast was excellent and had lots of choices. The pool could be opened earlier in the morning than 9pm before breakfast like most other hotels with facilities. The evening dinner menu should be more varied and generous with portions.
A Very good location. Excellent views. Good linguistic skills of staff. The building is getting tired, time for a review of details, not good enough just to use maintenance staff to keep it alive. After many years in the service industries I would be happy to elaborate. Car parking is only just acceptable, a parking attendant would ease the frustration caused when seeking a space.
The position of the hotel with all rooms facing the sea. The main attraction in the Hotel is Talasso. However if the hotel want to attract more guests and to Talasso as they must speak at least main languages. Now only a few people speak English and no one - Russian. There is no information in Russian inside the hotel. The website booking.com has mor information that hotel and Talasso themselves.
Pleasant surrounding and good quality Value for money - 75 / 25 - It is a little expensive for what you actually get in room .Good quality facilites for spa and reelax but rooms very sparse.
Very handy and attractive location for catching ferry from St Malo. A clean, efficient operation with well-trained staff.
We were travelling down to La Rochelle so was an overnight stay. The bed was uncomfortable.
Very friendly staff who did well to speak english. Our room needed a towel rail in the bathroom, and another easy chair. The menu needs to change every few days
The staff at the hotel were very helpful and there was a very good restaurant for this budget end hotel. The rooms were very clean, especially the bathroom. It was very simply furnished. Small rooms and no snacks available, but would stay again
I found the staff to be attentive to the guests needs and able to communicate in the english language when needed.
Very helpful, breakfast very good value
Good value for money. Nice breakfast. Room narrowness. Ceiling 2 meters high.
The service and size of the cold plate of food that I had - I arrived after the restuarant had closed, but had a massive and very tasty selection of cheeses, pates, bread etc, with three desserts - it was sufficient for my breakfast as well. The staff were very helpful and pleasant. Comfortable bed, good shower - what more could you want for an overnight stay? Nothing
The location is convenient to the surrounding areas we were visiting. The staff were friendly and helpful. A cute place for the budget we had. The bar lounge/outside deck area is nice when watching the sky change colors over the water in the mornings. We left out the Do Not Disturb sign on our door when we would leave during the day, however, the room was still entered and cleaned. We never brought it up to the staff though, but everything else was fine.
Excellent friendly and knowlegable staff, Good restaurant facilities Would have like tea and coffee making facilities in the bedrooms also I felt the triple room was crowded.
Convenient location after a late evening arrival from Jersey.
We were impressed with the lovely, spacious accommodation and the cleanliness of the room and bath. The dining areas are well appointed and provide excellent surrounding for dining. The service was also quite good. No
Really good food and excellent, unobtrusive service
Excellent as ever. First class service, lovely room and superb food. Also close to Cancale for a big plate of oysters for lunch on the way to the ferry.
Comfortable, nicely decorated, peaceful, warm welcome from the staff
Our room had a small and very attracive terrace that overlooked the very well-kept gardens.
Very pleasant staff. Attention to detail. Amazing food and convivial surroundings
i like the responsiveness of staff ,the restaurant no
The hotel is ideally placed for a night before the St Malo Ferry.Every thing about the food and service justified it's Michellin Star category.We went on a friend's recommendation and we would certainly recommend it to anyone looking for a special treat.
Excellent quality hotel in all respects; reception, service, staff, comfort and the restaurant was quite outstanding. The hotel was full and we took the only room available and yet we could not have asked for better service or attention. Will certainly return.
pleasant and helpful staff,superb food in luxurious surroundings,great rooms and swimming pool and close to the coast.What more could you want.
Staff were helpful and the room was very comfortable. Lovely swimming pool. Luckily we spotted that we'd been charged for breakfast (40 euros!) when we'd only had coffee.
friendly, helpful staff having to pay extra for the car
Excellent facilities & Location The fact that Parking & Breakfast was an extra charge.
Just about everything you would want at one site. VFM probably depends on whether you want to use all that the hotel has to offer. The hotel made a mistake with our booking and could not accommodate us the first night - their response was excellent (eg free alternative hotel, upgade for the remainder of our stay). If your room has a balcony, ask for the wing on the right as you look at the hotel as it gets the sun - if that is what you want but means your room also gets warmer. Rooms at the front of the hotel can suffer from a bit of street noise and as they overlook the foyer, also from those returning from the casino, more so if you have to leave your window open to cool down. Hotel car park a bit pricey at E16 per day.
The welcome was good and as expected. Garden, terrace and pool pleasant. Staff helpful, pleasant. Disappointed in room- dark with no view, not good value for. money
situation and friendly staff
Quality of the swimming pool and the roof garden to relax in.
Very professional staff No complaints
Location in Dinard was perfect. The bedroom provided did not have air conditioning.
Facilities and helpful multi-lingual staff. The pool, gym and garden terrace were a great feature as was the location. Given ugrade from superior to deluxe as staying for 6 nights. Rooms could do with tea/coffee making facility and an additional chair or two. Although the breakfast is excellent some form of express breakfast would be good as 20 euros is expensive if only a coffee and croissant is required. Very noisey in early hours as no airconditioning means windows need to be left open.
The place was very clean and tidy
A good welcome and good value for money with regard to the room and the meals we took there.
Very friendly staff, clean and comfortable room, a good spread for breakfast. A little overpriced.
comfortable room.plenty of hot water good central heating,easy access. secure parking. good TV. We booked an evening meal. The buffet was very unattractive, the main course was ok,but the dessert was stale and unappetising. Breakfast was fine.
Staff could nt find our reservation when arrived.took some time.
Reasonably quite and convenient for the ferries to UK
Perfect location for our needs having a restover before going on to the Ferry the following morning. Excellent breakfast and evening meal Tends to be getting a little pricey for a one night stay
Friendly staff, good choise of food in restaurant
The Hotel is well situated for the N137 route into St Malo and despite its proximity to the motorway was quiet. The hotel is located in a commercial area with only a Macdonald's or Pizza take away to compete with its restaurant. The ambience of the restaurant was uninspiring and the food overpriced.
Easy to find. Very comfortable. Friendly welcome. Good food.
the exceptional friendliness of the staff. We liked everything. Would have been nice if the hotel has restaurant facilities.
proximity to the beach
Accueil du pesonnel. Hôtel très bien situé dans Dinard près de la zone d'activité : plage, casino, restaurant, commerce, promenade Dommage pour le parking un peu difficile et réclamant la demande constante d'ouvrir la porte du garage à l'entrée et à la sortie (oas de dispositif personnel à l'usage du client). Dommage pas de restauration.
Recently modernised very comfortable helpful staff
We had an enjoyable stay at the hotel, the hotel staff were very friendly and helpful and the hotel was very central to the beach and restaurants Our room although being very clean and comfortable was a bit small
It is situated near the center of the city The best room's price is much higher than the standart, but the difference is so little (about 3 square meters - it means nothing)
Efficient reception, comfortable room, clean modern shower, external electric window shutters. Walking distance to beach 1 minute, walking distance to good selection of great restautrants 2 minutes, great walks along the seafront with summer boat service across the estuary to St Malo. BBC World on the TV lots of French channels but so many times you can watch the news if you don't speak French, other hotels in this town have more English tv channels which would be a plus.
Friendly staff. Good location. Comfortable room Room rather dark. Would have liked to have coffee/tea making facilities
The funny/friendly attitude of the staff though very professionnal - location - design - "piano bar" Price/quality of breakfast
Lovely room with great view. I think at the rate they were charging , breakfast should have been included. The rooms were incredibly noisy and it was possible to hear neighbours flushing toilets etc. The bathroom smelt of drains but admittedly when we mentioned this on departure the staff said they would look in to this.
Stayed the 13th to the 20th Sept 2009 and found the staff very friendly and helpful.Recommend you book early and ensure you have a room with a sea view like we did. Balconies on all first and second floor sea view rooms. Parking was fine but could imagine in the summer to be more difficult.
A beautifully modernised hotel in a fabulous location. Rated !0/10
nice hosts, good breakfast, sea view. room a bit small
The hotel is magnificently located, the tide laps at the door and the gentle sound of the tidal flow filled the room. The room was spacious and stylishly comfortably furnished. Free high speed internet access was appreciated. A quitet corner of Dinard with ready access to everything is rare and greatly appreciated.
Staff were not particularly friendly compared to other hotels we have stayed at in Dinard and was not child friendly. Could not get a reservation in the restaurant during our stay which was one of the reasons for booking this hotel. Not the hotels fault as maybe we should have made table reservations earlier however got the impression they did not like children in the restaurant. Unfortunately the room was very small and did not reflect the pictures on the website. Lack of wardrobe space and the toilet was very small - felt like you were in a cupboard!. Could only keep the windows open with the exterior blind down which blocked out all the light. Probably not an issue for someone without children but not a suitable room with children.
Great position and excellent value. Definitely to be visited again.
quite comfortable, very small room, the restaurant and cafe was extremely expensive for a 3 star hotel, staff very friendly. room, bed and toilet far too small. Towels too small and thin.
Clean and tidy hotel with attentive staff. Food good. Food rather expensive.
The location of the hotel is lovely overlooking the mouth of the River Rance. The staff are friendly and the food excellent with an attractive terrace for eating or drinking.
Its location close to the beach Breakfast was expensive
The location just across from the main beach is perfect and it is handy for the shops and local restaurants.
A friendly and convenient base from which to search for a now-defunct hotel I stayed in as a child in 1954! Didn't dislike anything
close to beach and all amenities. good value for money.
Great position and lovely outdoor patio area No bar!
Booking.com said there was private parking that is why we booked but we were told on arrival that there wa not. A little disappointing.
100 yrds from beach, comfortable room, 24 hrs come & go. no coffee/tea making facilities in rooms (minor niggle)
Hotel location is excellent -just 50 metres from main beach. Rooms were small but clean and sea view was good. Hotel needed lots of tlc but could be great. Breakfast was expensive and lacked value and choice. Proprietor did not really build up any rapport, or show us the hotels rooms or its facilities or discuss the general ammenities within the resort.
comfortable beds, clean and functionning facilities, good breakfast, easy access to town, not too noisy pity no parking, pity no hospitality tray (tea and coffee), would like real soap.
central location (though far from ferry station, 10 min walk), big rooms uncomfortable beds (they move when you move), dark in the corridors
location is excellent for shopping, dining out, the beach and good bus service to neighbouring places. The staff are brilliant and helpful and organised a taxi to pick us up at the airport and take us back. The room was clean, modern and fresh, comfy bed with thick warm duvet. Fabulous! Would be nice to have a kettle in the room for that first drink of coffee or tea in the morning.
My daughter & I had to stay an extra day in France due to a flight change. I chose this hotel after reading the reviews on Trip Adviser. The staff were very helpful & gave excellent recommendations for restaurants. The room was clean and modern and good value. I would recommend this hotel
Staff were very helpful, the bathroom was very good and everything was very clean.Good heating/ air con A kettle would have been a nice inclusion in the room and it was a little small, but it was excellent for money, so can't complain.
Staff were very friendly and helpful.Breakfast range good
great facelift though it has lost its old real French style I have known for 20+ years. Very welcoming; spottlessly clean, excellent breakfast, good value parking if you ask. Rooms small but beautifully furnished. no
Hotel in very good location. Very clean with excellent breakfast. Very heplful staff. No Parking at hotel, though free parking close by with information from reception staff.
The service at this hotel is excellent. None
we had a very friendly reception and found the bedroom clean and comfortable if ,maybe a little small The breakfast was very adequate
Excellent location. Staff ( particularily the Manageress ) were extremely polite and helpful. The breakfast was very good and unhurried. During our stay at the beginning of September the bar shut at 7.00pm so no chance of a nightcap when returning from an evening out.
The hotel was bright and new and the staff were very welcoming No car parking. The room needed a mirror in the bedroom as well as the bathroom, especially as it was 2 ladeis sharing.
Soundproofing is very poor. Shower is poor and ineffective
Situation excellent..hotel was smack on the beach....a lift took us from our floor to within yards of the promenade.Closeness to Dinard airport meant car unnecessary for our 5 day break...lots of nearby walks and restaurants(.Bedroom had an excellent and large double bed and cotton sheets.) Our street view room was a fair size but rather dark (despite clever and plentiful use of mirrors )and a little noisy at night.Very small bathroom and toilet....no good for big tall people!
Loved everything about it. The welcome, beautiful room with balcony and fabulous view. Immaculately clean. Great breakfasts. Superb location. Nothing.
Lift down to beach, good location, sea side rooms have balconies Rooms facing the street can be noisy
The reception staff were so friendly and helpful, hotel was in a fanstastic position - overlooking the sea.
Very quirky, very French. Bathroom a little dated - like your mother's bathroom in the seventies (!) but very clean and comfortable. Lovely view of beach from bedroom and superbly situated for Dinard centre for restaurants/shops. Staff very friendly and helpful. Free parking available in public carpark across the road. Very handy for boat to UK and Ireland and would use again, There wasn't really anything we didn't like. The breakfast at 12 euros was adequate - perhaps a freshly baked croissant rather than supermarket fare could be included for this price. Apart from that - all fine.
Good breakfast. Helpful receptionist who advised me where to eat in town and provided map. no complaints
Cleanliness. Beds and towels changed very frequently and room was kept tidy without any inconvenience. Helpful advice given when required. Breakfast a bit pricey.... but Dinard itself is now an expensive town for meals and snacks. Did not have a car but parking charges are steep for those who drive.
Very prompt helpful and polite service, well organised and a very clean and tidy modernised hotel
Breakfast was excellant
The staff were more than helpful
Perfect as a base. Hotel has a very relaxed and comfortable feel about it. Hotel reception (Pascal) very friendly and helpful.
we were warmly greeted by the most charming frenchman who owned this hotel. he was so good humoured and helpfully gave us great advice on where to visit in the area, so we saw all the best sights. the hotel is located about a kilometer outside the pretty seaside town of dinar. this is only a 10 minute walk along the quaint residential streets to the hotel, which has free parking. the room was basic, but comfortable, clean, quiet and included tv and wi-fi. it was also the best value in dinar, which for us, was one of the nicest towns in beautiful brittany.
Staff were mostly perfectly friendly Not a single soul there had any English whatsoever. Not a problem for us but could be for many. Perhaps this is a factor that could be included? Beds not very comfortable and small towels. Shower leaked and flooded floor in bathroom.
closeness to town nice location
Very convenient location near centre of Dinard and a good location for the ferries from St Malo. We appreciated being able to check in and leave luggage before the designated check-in time.
Perfect 'stop over' hotel pre ferry - excellent location - very clean and friendly staff. Owner very friendly in advising walks / restaurants and such n/a
the staff were very helpful and polite and welcomed us in a profressional manner
very helpful staff. hotel very basic, shower a work of art to use
Cleanliness, convenience, qulait yof breakfast
Good family accommodation, actually a self catering unit Unfortunately arrived too late to test the facilities
The room was very pleasant and although we arrived at about 9pm the lady at check in agreed to supply some food for us. We had been told that there were plenty of places to eat around the hotel. However it would have involved going by car to either Dinard or St Malo which we did not anticipate having to do.
The hotel was relaxing, beautiful and very pleasant. I thought the restaurant was expensive and not value for money. The camp site restaurant provided better food at half the price.
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This is a really great family camping/sports/adventure complex. There is a very nice hotel, campsites, rental cabins, a half dozen different swimming pools including a waterpark, and wave pool, adventure trails, horseback riding, tennis, golf, soccer, bars, restaurants... It's huge, really, but very well run, very affordable considering everything it offers. A lot of fun for kids and adults. Also near towns like Dol de Bretagne and one of the most beautiful sites in France, Mont St Michel. Will definitely visit again.
Very pleasant surroundings. The room was fine but badly needed two easy chairs, not just one seat. The shower head was insecure, the bath slippery and danger could be averted by the provision of a "grab handle".
We enjoyed the relaxed atmosphere and the friendliness of the staff.The rooms were extremely comfortable. There is also a lovely pool area to relax in.
The hotel was well represented and in a good location for a stop over night. We did not get a chance to try the restuarant but the breakfast was good. A good selection.
Very nice location between Combourg & Dol de Bretagne, ideal place to visit St.Malo, Mount St-Michel, Fougeres, Vitrè, Rennes...Rooms are spacious, comfortable and clean; the bed is big enough for tall people and very comfortable too. We had a room with view over the little hotel pool, and it was ok. We really slept fine, as there was silence all around. Nevertheless, if you don't like to be so quiet, you can go around the domaine, where there are several activities to be undertaken. The bathroom was appropriate and clean too. The personnel is absolutely great, very kind and helpful.A well run hotel in a peaceful location inside 1h from many interesting areas, where you can find also plenty sports and entertaining activities. It is a pity that breakfast is not included in the reservation; nevertheless the breakfast buffet (9 euros pp) is good enough and the waiters very helpful and keen.
Reception staff and hotel room were of a high standard. Cleanliness very good. Nice location. Lots of options to use the facilities of the Des Ormes complex. Thought the restaurant was very poor. Meal was expensive and we were forced to sit outside in the evening due to preference being given to a coach party. Waitress not very attentive. Breakfast on the first morning was not satisfactory. Not enough choice, food kept running out and not enough staff on to replenish. Second morning was better. If you are a hotel guest and are paying more money for your stay it is not fair that outside guests take preference over hotel guests in the restaurant.


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The Associated Press published a big "investigative report" blasting ethanol policy and the ethanol industry this week.
The report claims that the boom in ethanol has increased soil erosion, caused water pollution, increased the amount of carbon released into the atmosphere and expanded the dead zone in the Gulf of Mexico. Ethanol industry supporters are fighting back, arguing that the AP story overstates the impact of ethanol and pointing out other factors that have reduced the size of the Conservation Reserve Program.
There are, no doubt, some inaccuracies and exaggerations in the AP story. But it will strike a chord with a lot of people outside of agriculture and influence public opinion.
That might be enough for Congress to revise or eliminate the Renewable Fuels Standard next year.
In its rebuttal of the AP story, the Renewable Fuels Association pointed out that CRP acreage has been declining due to budget cuts and the fact that Congress lowered the cap to 32 million acres.
In addition, by law, biofuels must reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 20% compared to gasoline to qualify for the mandate and the latest models from the Argonne National Laboratory put ethanol's emission reductions at 34 percent.
The AP story further ignores the fact that about a third of corn used for ethanol is recycled back into livestock feed as Distillers Dried Grains.
RFA says the AP story "totally lacks context and fails to make comparisons to other fuels at all". Still, it may be difficult for RFA's rebuttal information to reach as wide an audience as the AP story did. (It was second only to stories about Philippines hurricane damage in major media that picked it up.)
EPA expected to announce the biofuels blending requirements for 2014 soon.
Some reduction from the 18.15 billion gallons under the current Renewable Fuels Standard is likely; but a lawsuit challenging whatever EPA announces is almost certain.
A spokesman for the Biotechnology Industry Organization said "Groups within the biofuel industry are fully committed to challenging the rule in court if the EPA changes how it implements the standard."
On the other hand, the oil industry stands ready to challenge the rule if the mandate is not lowered. Here's another rub: The way the law is written, it is not at all clear that EPA even has the authority to lower the mandate because of the blend wall problem.
Bottom line then? The level of biofuel blending requirements may remain unresolved even after EPA makes its announcement.
The EPA is also moving forward with another proposal that would essentially give itself jurisdiction under the Clean Water Act for all natural and artificial tributary streams, lakes, ponds and wetlands that affect the chemical, physical and biological integrity of downstream navigable waters.
This could make almost any body of water subject to permitting of pollution discharges and cleanup costs.
This proposal has been sent to the Office of Management and Budget for approval. Previous Supreme Court rulings have made it clear that EPA must show a hydrological connection to navigable waters before they can regulate those waters.
In other news from Washington, the House-Senate conference committee trying to work out an overall budget for the government is facing a December 15 deadline to complete work, but held just its second meeting this week.
About the only thing coming from the meetings so far is an effort to lower expectations. The focus of the talks now appears to be how much to trim discretionary spending over the remainder of the fiscal year. There is still a good chance that "savings" squeezed from farm bill negotiations will be the cornerstone of any overall budget agreement. That doesn't bode well.


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USC symposium looks at China through film
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A University of South Carolina symposium will look at China through a series of films produced in the last 30 years.
The symposium will take place Oct. 14 – 15, with screenings and discussions set for Columbia Museum of Art and McMaster College, Room 214. Most events are open and free to the public.
A complete schedule is available online on the Confucius Institute website.
The symposium is an annual event organized by USC's Confucius Institute and University Libraries' Moving Image Research Collections (MIRC). Discussions will feature film directors and experts on Chinese culture and film who will discuss Chinese films made after 1979, when China and the United States normalized diplomatic relations.
Laura Kissel, a USC associate professor of media arts, will open the symposium at 2 p.m. Friday with a presentation about "Cotton Road," a documentary that she is directing about the link between production and consumption of cotton worldwide.
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^ the axis ones that look like bbs rs
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ya beat me to it, i might paint the mesh part matte white and go whiteout on my car but glossy black would look tight too
Not sure on the cost of painting the mesh either, but you could also look into powdercoating... it may be more durable with all the mesh on the wheel.
Either way, it'll look sick.
I used to have a GTI 20th Anniversary Edition and always wanted the Axis Hiro's on it... never got that far though.
These are the Hiro's... there's a sweet little lip on 'em.
ya i dont like the all rim look ill probably go closest to 16 17 inces i was goin for the hre 501 look those are soo sick too bad each tire costs more than my car
I'm just confused about what "stanced" means bbygirl
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(verb) - to adjust a car's camber, ride height, and spacing, so that the sidewall of the tire sits as flush as possible with the fender/quarter panel. A common trend and style impersonated on drift and show cars alike, originating from the older Japanese domestic market.
i.e., This new car I got it higher than a 4x4! It needs to be stanced.
i may give one more auto run and look for an e30 b4 i buy the vw caboriett, I doubt ill find one but whatever ill probably see one go up for sale a week after i buy a car
The closest these mountains will get to stancing.
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The day before Thanksgiving, the halls of Gonzaga College High School in Washington, D.C., will be quiet. Nearly all of the students will be home during the holiday break.
But in the basement of the church next door, the kitchen will be filled with the sounds of knives chopping, mixers whirring and water boiling. Students who volunteer at the school's Campus Kitchen will be working all day, along with faculty, staff and parents, to prepare 50 Thanksgiving dinners with all the trimmings.
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Although the meal may be more elaborate than usual, this isn't just a holiday activity. Twice a week, 52 weeks a year, students from this all-boys school prepare meals and then walk a few blocks to deliver them door-to-door to about 50 older people who live in nearby low-income apartment buildings.
Founded in 2001 by D.C. Central Kitchen president Robert Egger, the Campus Kitchens Project (CKP) taps three underused resources — school kitchens, leftover food and student volunteers — to feed the hungry. The program has spread to 28 colleges and three high schools nationwide. In 2005, Gonzaga became the first high school Campus Kitchen.
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"What I particularly like about the high school and its location is, because they're walking and going door-to-door, they are able to develop relationships with the clients," says CKP director Maureen Roche. "Unlike some of our kitchens that may be dropping the meals off at an agency or homeless shelter, they meet the people they are serving.
"Across our network, about a third of our meals every month are going to seniors," says Roche. "But each kitchen is different because each group finds its own niche population. Often it's seniors; sometimes it's children."
Roche says it's easier to feed kids because they are accessible through after-school or summer recreation programs. It's a bit more of a challenge to reach older adults, who can often go unnoticed. "That's why we encourage our kitchens to look for the people that are more difficult to gain access to, like seniors," she says.
"For years, we've put kids in one place and seniors in another," says Egger. "Food was the thing that was supposed to bring people together as a community."


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At the rental-car return in Milan's Malpensa airport, I take a last pensive sniff of our Fiat Panda. Someone should bottle the scent and call it Aroma Artigianale. The top notes are of roasted hazelnuts—the vaunted Piedmontese nocciole delle Langhe in the crumbly cookies eaten just an hour ago. The base notes: Amalfi lemons we'd picked off trees in Campania. In between is a faded porcine bouquet, mingling the expensive muskiness of three-year-old culatello ham from Emilia-Romagna with the garlicky ping of a porchetta sandwich from a weekend market in Umbria.
Ah, Umbria! Where we drizzled truffled honey on slices of young pecorino at Tartufi Bianconi, a wonderful truffle shop near Città di Castello. "Quit hallucinating!" says Barry, my fidanzato. "Figure out how to get the Robiola cheese through customs!"
We had embarked on a glutton's grand tour of the boot—armed with a list, amassed with the diligent aid of top Italian chefs and critics, of the country's best food (and booze) artisans. Our itinerary would take us from Rome to Campania, through a brief porchetta detour to Umbria, farther north through pig-happy Emilia-Romagna, and on to wine-soaked Piedmont. Trattorias and fine-dining temples would figure in. But the main idea was to break bread with pizzaioli, salumai, and pasticcieri, with cheesemakers, oil producers, vintners, and chocolatiers.
A fetish for ingredients in the bel paese has, of course, long been celebrated, but now a new spirit is thriving all over the country. For every mom-and-pop farm there's a young pomodoro grower with a Ph.D. in botany. Along with village bakers, we met chocolate makers obsessed with rare cacao beans and next-generation pizzaioli schooled in yeast biochemistry. Virtually every producer was a passionate preservationist on a mission to resurrect an heirloom pig—or a grape, or a goat cheese. The Piedmontese raw-milk Robiola di Roccaverano now swaddled deep in my suitcase was one such goat cheese. The road to it led from Rome.
Pizza, Beer, and Gelato in Rome
Off the plane from New York City, we fight jet lag with a gelato-thon at Gelateria dei Gracchi, in Prati. We have 24 hours in the Eternal City to taste our short list, dictated to me by the editors of the popular Gambero Rosso guide to wine and food. Gracchi looks spare—clinical even. But a just-delivered crate of wild strawberries fragrantly reassures us. So does Gracchi's pistachio gelato, considered Rome's best. It's alive with the flavor of fresh-roasted Bronte nuts from the slopes of Mount Etna. The gelatiere, Alberto Manassei, is a Neoclassicist whose fruit flavors follow the seasons and whose chocolate-and-rum frozen sensation draws on pure fondant (not just the usual cocoa powder).
Farther on into Prati, away from the Vatican, celebrity pizzaiolo Gabriele Bonci reinvents pizza al taglio—rectangular Roman pizza sold by weight—at the tiny Pizzarium. To dough fanatics, this cramped shop is the Sistine Chapel of yeast. Yeast, as in the wild stuff from 200-year-old sourdough starters that the eccentric Bonci collects from old ladies in Calabrian villages. Subversively fluffy by Roman standards, with an intimation of sourness, his dough is kneaded from a "cuvée" of flours stone-ground by Piedmontese miller Mulino Marino.
We wait for new pizza trays. Out comes spicy coppa sausage with blood orange, then hyper-Roman old-fashioned tomatoey tripe, cleaned over three days. Bonci's signature pizza con le patate—hand-crushed, dense-fleshed Abruzzo spuds with a hint of vanilla—is a canny trompe l'oeil. Where does the dough end and the topping begin?
Bonci has found a soul mate in Leonardo Di Vincenzo, with whom he co-owns the yeast- centric Bir & Fud, in Trastevere. With a doctorate in biochemistry, the 33-year-old Di Vincenzo could be a poster boy for the new Italian artisan—discoursing on lactobacilli as easily as he rates obscure monastic Belgian brews. Four years ago his small-batch Birra del Borgo ignited Rome's craft-beer craze. At Bir & Fud, Di Vincenzo's brews are matched with Bonci's dough-centric dishes—crostini, bruschetta, round Neapolitan pies.
Following Bonci, young Italian bakers have gone crazy for sourdough leavening. Lievito naturale—passed down from the owner's family—is what raises the buttery cream-filled cornetti at Cristalli di Zucchero to stratospheres above all other breakfast pastries in town. For years sweet-toothed Romans trekked to the owners' original pasticceria in the outlying Monteverde district. The new branch is barely a truffle toss from the Campidoglio, and inside, jewellike pastries marry French techniques with local ingredients.
Our time's almost up in Rome. But how can we leave without paying respects to the monumentally chewy pizza bianca at Antico Forno Roscioli, by the Campo de Fiori? "Una droga" is how one customer praises this pizza, its distinctive crust formed when the six-foot oblongs of dough rest under a glazing of olive oil. We chew it on the two-hour train ride to Naples the next day.
Pasta, Tomatoes, and Anchovies in Campania
"Enzo Coccia!" roared Bonci when I asked who's the greatest pizzaiolo in Naples. And so here we are in the tony Posillipo quarter at Pizzeria La Notizia, where il grande Coccia bakes his featherlight pies. Perfection, so he explains to us, relies on the complicated calibration of a mere trace of yeast, a 10- to 14-hour fermentation at room temperature (no refrigerators in the 1730's, when pizza was born), and extra-loose dough. Ninety seconds in an 815-degree oak-and beech-fueled inferno, and the pies practically levitate onto the table, attractively blistered and honeycombed with tiny air bubbles—as essential to pizza greatness as marbling is to Kobe beef. The toppings are scant and expressive: bitter greens, smoked buffalo provala, a burst of Vesuvian pomodorini. A pizza bianca with a schmear of lard, basil, and pecorino is Coccia's tribute to the pre-tomato age.
The next day we hit the road, pressing south past Vesuvius, emerging an hour later at Vico Equense, a picturesque town on the Sorrentine Peninsula that travelers normally bypass for Positano. In so doing they miss the region's most remarkable food shop. At La Tradizione, product curators Annamaria Cuomo and Salvatore Da Gennaro have assembled a wonderland of Campanian foodstuffs: San Marzano tomatoes handpicked in the Vesuvian soil; ricotta smoked over juniper; and the sack-shaped local raw cow's-milk cheese provolone del Monaco, which Salvatore ages in caves and grottoes.
The Da Gennaros take us in hand. First, spongy limoncello-soaked baby babas at Gelateria Latteria Gabriele, which Cuomo's family owns. Then lunch at 'E Curti, an osteria in the shadow of Vesuvius, where super-mamma Angela Ceriello cooks regional soul food and her son Enzo D'Alessandro produces nucillo, a potent walnut digestivo. His is so terroir-driven, the slender bottles specify the exact sites where the nuts were picked. I mention Gragnano (epicenter for centuries of Italy's dried durum-wheat pasta production). Presto: Salvatore whisks us off to the sunblasted town where pastas were once hung to dry along the main street.
For dinner, the Da Gennaros drive us along a bit of hairpin Amalfi Coast road to Cetara. This is probably the last of the Amalfi villages to fully retain its salty traditional air and livelihood from anchovies—particularly their amber liquid by-product, colatura. Pasquale Torrente, owner of Al Convento restaurant, describes colatura-making with a semi-pagan glee: the fishing under a spring moon, the curing in barrels with chestnuts or lemons. The essence that seeps out of the salted fish is pure distillate of sea—added by expensive dropfuls to pastas such as Al Convento's al dente Gragnano spaghetti.
Campania's product and restaurant boom owes thanks to Livia and Alfonso Iaccarino, of the Michelin two-starred Don Alfonso 1890 restaurant, in Sant'Agata sui due Golfi, overlooking the Gulf of Naples. The Iaccarinos—who also consult at the excellent restaurant at Le Sirenuse, in Positano—pioneered the organic kitchen garden in Europe almost three decades ago. They're producers, too—of ethereal olive oils and limoncello with three times the average of infused citrus. Tumbling into the Mediterranean at the steep far tip of the Sorrentine Peninsula, their farm, Le Peracciole, was scrappy bare land when they bought it in 1990; turning it fertile has been an ongoing obsession. Livia drives us over, negotiating switchbacks with the sea down below. Then we wander on foot past olive trees and artichoke thistles, into a world of Amalfi lemons dangling from trellises. We gape at chalky-gray Capri, rising across from us in the twilight. "Gee, I'd buy here, too," gulps Barry as Livia picks greens for a salad.
Tuscany: Cheese, Chocolate, Chickens, and Pigs
After five hours battling trucks north from Campania, we rendezvous with Paolo Parisi, prince of eggs and pigs, at a traffic circle off the autostrada near Florence. Revered by Italy's snobbiest foodies for his prodotti, Parisi was one of the early crusaders to save Tuscany's now-celebrated black Cinta Senese pigs. A formidable gastro-snob himself—burly and dapper in sunglasses designed by his photographer pal Oliviero Toscani—he proclaims that Fattoria Corzano e Paterno, where we're headed, makes Tuscany's most exclusive, sought-after cheeses.
Ten miles south of Florence we chug up a dirt road through the Renaissance cypresses of green Tuscan hills. The Fattoria was developed in 1969 by the late Swiss architect Wendel Gelpke. His estate (which also produces excellent Chiantis and olive oils) is a vision from an Italy-besotted expat's fantasy; its herd of Sardinian sheep graze on property once in the Machiavelli family. Cheesemaker Antonia Ballarin (Ceres lookalike; half-English half-Italian) and her apprentice Sibilla Gelpke (Oxford grad; middle name Rapunzel) introduce us to their remarkable cheeses. Barry's wild for the Erbolino, a young Pecorino shot through with green peperoncini and saffron. I'm nuts about the dairy's signature crinkly-skinned bucio di rospo, decadently oozy but somehow not rich. Parisi votes for the subtle, soft Marzolino. "It's Tuscany's mozzarella," he says. "But only these ladies know how to make it."
Fantasy over. More autostrada. Another dirt road, finally, near Pisa. We jounce past someone's palazzo onto farmland surrounding Parisi's own farm, Azienda Le Macchie. Down a steep hillside, his pedigreed black oinkers munch pine nuts and chestnuts. Each animal gets three blissful years of roaming wild—then is reincarnated as blissful prosciutto crudo, prosciutto cotto, coppa, salami, lardo, guanciale. As Parisi slices these up in his rusticated high-ceilinged kitchen, my allegiance to Spain's jamon ibérico wavers with each glistening pinkish curl. "I'm poaching some eggs," he announces next, recounting how a few years ago, bored just being Signor Cinta Senese, he began a search for the egg equivalent of a great Burgundy wine. The quest led him to feed goat's milk to Livornese hens. The grateful birds rewarded him with the truly aristocratic eggs we are tasting, with a lean compact yolk and a pronounced almondy taste.
Dessert? A trek into Pisa, to de Bondt chocolate shop by the Arno. Paul de Bondt, congenial, long-haired, and Dutch, was one of the original leaders of Tuscany's cioccolate artigianale movement, blending exotic fine cacao beans long before the Pisa-Pistoia-Florence triangle became branded as "Tuscan Chocolate Valley." De Bondt's perfectly calibrated confections are as sleek and restrained as the geometric packaging by his artist wife, Cecilia Iacobelli. "I wanted to make chocolate attractive to men," he explains. "Women too," adds Barry, watching me polish off pralines and truffles flavored with citrus and herbs, with arbutus honey from Alto Adige's Mieli Thun, and with piquant peperoncini produced by the good brothers of Monasterio Siloe in Grosetto.
Before crashing for the night at the rustic agriturismo on Parisi's estate, we conclude the day's endless road trip within a road trip with a piatto di carbonara a crudo under one of his fig trees. Parisi whips the sauce up from his eggs and raw nuggets of Cinta Senese guanciale cured (iconoclastically) on a conveyor belt orbiting a burning brazier. That whiskey-like inflection? "Brava!" Parisi nods. "We extinguish the brazier with peat."
Peaty pork jowl, almondy eggs, English dairy dames, monastic chile-spiked chocolate—was this the most extraordinary food day of our lives? Or was it the next day, when we talked beef with Dario Cecchini, the learned celebrity-butcher in the town of Panzano, and sniffed out a whole world—licorice, citrus, tobacco—in slow twirlings of fabled Avignonesi vin santo on the winery's property overlooking the Sienese hills. The meats for our lunch are cooked in a rotisserie of special design. The designer? One Leonardo de Vinci.
Prosciutto and Parmigiano in Emilia-Romagna
After passing through Tuscany's classic hills we head north into the rich flat plains of Emilia-Romagna, land of rosy prosciuttos and vast circumferences of Parmigiano-Reggiano. Of aged aceto balsamico and pastas crafted from eggy sfoglie (sheets) thin enough to read through (ideally). All this awaits us in Modena, the affluent ducal town revered by Italian gastronauts. Our guide is Massimo Bottura, a chef who marries sensuous Slow Food preservationism with futuristic invention at the Michelin two-starred Osteria Francescana. I can't wait to visit his favorite food artisans. One of them, Giancarlo Rubaldi, presides over Bar Schiavoni, in Modena's exquisite covered market. Oblivious to the huge lines, Rubaldi meticulously assembles our lunch. To start, an artwork of bread, smoked swordfish, and baby tomatoes, with pistachio for crunch. Then, an inspired panino of duck breast with pistachio, raisins, and syrupy balsamic vinegar.
An hour later we're in the Apennine mountains south of Modena, watching Parmesan wheels bob in brine baths at Caseificio Rosola di Zocca, Bottura's favorite dairy. "Belle, no? " he says, beaming at the Bianca Modenese cows in the shed. When the cheesemaker ceremonially splits open an 80-pound, 2 1/2-year-old wheel, we all eat rolling our eyes like Bernini's The Ecstasy of Saint Teresa. Expert tasters say that a great Parmesan should have a "brothy," nutmeg-tinged scent. I say—pure umami.
I say "pure elixir" back near Modena, at the museum attached to the Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale consortium, in Spilamberto. Ferociously artisanal and endlessly complex, cask-aged balsamico tradizionale is to the supermarket version what a Ferrari (another Modenese export) is to a Hyundai. Except aceto production is as slow as a Testa Rossa is fast. Skill, microclimate, and pazienza…molta pazienza, intones Luca Gozzoli, the consortium's gran maestro. Later we ponder his words over dense, chocolaty squares of torta barozzi, a singular specialty hinting surprisingly of peanuts, at Pasticceria Gollini, in the nearby town of Vignola.
At dinner that night at Francescana, we savor musky-sweet satiny petals of culatello, the king of prosciutto, aged for 36 months in the foggy lowlands near Parma by Massimo Spigaroli, a salumaio who counts the Prince of Wales among his fans. Then toothsome dime-size tortellini, bathed in the rich, velvety cream from Caseificio Rosola. We exchange eye-rolling with Bottura—he's wolfing down the same dish near his kitchen door.
Wine, Goat Cheese, and More Gelato in Piedmont
"No more dairy or pork fat—just vino!" Barry yawps as we battle traffic on the autostrada heading northwest. It so happens our next destination is Italy's viticultural mecca, Piedmont. To most this means Big B's: Barolo, Barbera, and Barbaresco. Us? We come to chase the elusive grail of Timorasso. Timo-wha?
The answer lies in the vine-patched compact hills of the Colli Tortonesi area in southern Piedmont. Here, a maverick winemaker named Walter Massa has resurrected an ancient, indigenous white grape: Timorasso. Vigneti Massa, his farm, presents so humdrum a face we initially drive right past. Obscure still to many international grape geeks, Massa's wines have earned multiple tre bicchieri, the highest distinction from Gambero Rosso. He takes us to a trattoria up in the hills and plies us with Colli Tortonesi delicacies: salame nobile made with fancy parts of the hogs elsewhere reserved for prosciutto; Montebore, an intriguing wedding cake–shaped cow- and sheep's-milk cheese. And then we drink Timorasso. Imagine the spicy-floral-mineral charm of a Riesling trapped in a creamy powerful body of a noble white Burgundy. "Bellissimo! " Barry exhales.
And suddenly we're saying sad arrivederci to our aromatic Fiat at Malpensa.
On the plane I ponder the red-wine stains in my notebook. Ah yes…from the dinner given by Roberto and Patrizia Damonte of Malvira winery, in the Langhe region, which produces delightfully earthy Roero Nebbiolos. A little starstruck by the Piedmontese wine royalty—Barbaresco baron Bruno Rocca and Barolo queen Chiara Boschis—I overtwirled some of their austere, elegantly finessed wines.
More Piedmontese memories pulse back. The creamy, pungent mysteries of that Robiola di Roccaverano goat cheese aged by master affineur Gian Domenico Negro of Arbiora. "Don't forget Davide Palluda's conserves," Barry says. How could I? The talented young chef at All'Enoteca restaurant, in the small Langhe town of Canale, not far from Alba, packs duck, rabbit, and guinea fowl into olive oil and waits three long years until they achieve the plush concentration of a confit (crazy-good!).
My last memory reprises our trip's first taste—gelato. Us among a riot of schoolchildren, spooning local-seasonal smooth frozen stuff from paper cups at Agrigelatera San Pé, near Canale. "Agri" because this countryside gelateria doubles as a dairy farm, wholesome manure smell and all.
The latte for the gelato? Pumped from cows that very morning, of course.
Hotel Mediterraneo 15 Via Cavour; 39-06/481-4798; romehotelmediterraneo.it; doubles from $300.
Eat and Drink
Antico Forno Roscioli 34 Via dei Chiavari; 39-06/686-4045.
Bir & Fud 23 Via Benedetta; 39-06/589-4016; dinner for two $64.
Cristalli di Zucchero 88 Via di San Teodoro; 39-06/6992-0945; pastries for two $9.
Gelateria dei Gracchi 272 Via dei Gracchi, 39-06/321-6668; gelato for two $6.
Pizzarium 3 Via della Meloria; 39-06/3974-5416; pizza for two $12.
Great Value Hotel Capo la Gala 8 Via Luigi Serio, Vico Equense; 39-081/801-5757; hotelcapolagala.com; doubles from $209.
Eat and Drink
Al Convento 16 Piazza San Francesco, Cetara; 39-089/261-039; dinner for two $85.
Don Alfonso 1890 11/13 Corso Sant'Agata, Sant'Agata sui due Golfi; 39-081/878-0026; dinner for two $370.
'E Curti 6 Via Padre Michele Abete, Sant' Anastasia; 39-081/897-2821; lunch for two $90.
Gelateria Latteria Gabriele 1 Corso Umberto, Vico Equense; 39-081/879-8744; gelato for two $6.
La Tradizione 969 Via R. Bosco, Vico Equense; 39-081/802-8437.
Pizzeria La Notizia 53/55 Via Michelangelo da Caravaggio, Naples; 39-081/714-2155; pizza for two $15.
Azienda Le Macchie 1 Via delle Macchie, Usigliano di Lari; 39-058/768-5327; paoloparisi.it; doubles from $180, three-night minimum in high season.
Villa Vistarenni Loc. Vistarenni, Gaiole in Chianti; 39-057/773-8476; villavistarenni.com; doubles from $185.
Eat and Drink
Antica Macelleria Cecchini 11 R Via XX Luglio, Panzano; 39-055/852-020.
Avignonesi's Fattoria Le Capezzine Valiano di Montepulciano; 39-057/872-4304; avignonesi.it.
de Bondt 5 Lungarno Pacinotti, Pisa; 39-050/316-0073.
Fattoria Corzano e Paterno 10 Via Paterno, San Pancrazio; 39-055/824-8179; corzanoepaterno.it; by appointment.
Gelateria di Piazza 4 Piazza della Cisterna, San Gimignano; 39-057/794-2244; gelato for two $6.
Palazzo Terranova Loc. Ronti, Morra; 39-075/857-0083; palazzoterranova.com; doubles from $585.
Eat and Drink
Norcineria La Sfiziosa Porchetta at Città di Castello market. 39-075/857-4507.
Tartufi Bianconi 21 S. Stefano del Piano, Badiali; 39-075/851-1591; tartufibianconi.it.
Hotel Real Fini San Francesco 48 Rua dei Frati Minori, Modena; 39-059/205-7511; hotelsfrancesco.it; doubles from $350.
Eat and Drink
Bar Schiavoni 13 Via Albinelli, Modena; 39-059/243-073; panini for two $11.
Caseificio Rosola di Zocca 1083 Via Rosola, Zocca; 39-059/987-115; caseificiorosola.it.
La Consorteria e Museo dell'Aceto Balsamico Tradizionale di Modena 28 Via Roncati, Spilamberto; 39-059/781-614; museodelbalsamicotradizionale.org.
Mon Café 128 Corso Canalchiaro, Modena; 39-059/ 223-257; coffee and pastries for two $6.50.
Osteria Francescana 22 Via Stella, Modena; 39-059/ 210-118; dinner for two $250.
Pasticceria Gollini 1 Piazza Garibaldi, Vignola; 39-059/771-079.
Great Value Villa Tiboldi Luxury agriturismo. 127 Case Sparse Tiboldi, Canale; 39-0173/970-388; villatiboldi.it; doubles from $112.
Eat and Drink
Agrigelateria San Pé 29/A Cascina San Pietro, Poirino; 39-011/945-2651; gelato for two $5.
All'Enoteca 57 Via Roma, Canale; 39-0173/95-857; dinner for two $220.
Vigneti Massa 10 Piazza G. Capsoni, Monleale; 39-013/180-302.
Bring it Back
Francescana chef Massimo Bottura's Villa Manodori aceto balsamico, from Modena's covered market. osteriafrancescana.it; $39.


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W. Va. triple killing suspect arrested in Tampa
Published: Friday, February 8, 2013 at 10:11 a.m.
Last Modified: Friday, February 8, 2013 at 10:11 a.m.
TAMPA — A janitor and trash collector has been arrested in Tampa and charged with killing a woman and two men in a West Virginia park 38 years ago.
Authorities from West Virginia, along with the U.S. Marshals Office and Tampa police, arrested 59-year-old Eddie Jack Washington on Thursday. He had been living in Tampa for more than a decade.
The Tampa Bay Times (http://bit.ly/XcZC05 ) reports the triple murder happened Aug. 2, 1974 in Fairmont, W.Va. Authorities in West Virginia apparently believed the killer was in jail but refused to confess.
Officials say Washington has recently been identified as the "alleged shooter." He's accused of killing 20-year-old Lester Phillips, 19-year-old Wanda Jane Phillips and 27-year-old Billy Ray Cobb.
Washington is in the Hillsborough County Jail, awaiting extradition to West Virginia.
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The library does not conduct an annual fundraising campaign nor send out a solicitation request but, of course, donations are always welcome and greatly appreciated.
Unfortunately, from our perspective, charitable contributions to nonprofits, like the library, were eliminated in Michigan's tax reforms for 2012. That means this year, 2011, is the last year your cash donation to the library could earn up to a 50% Michigan tax credit.
Currently, a maximum gift of $400 to the library by a married couple filing jointly earns a Michigan tax credit of $200. With the similar federal deduction, the actual cost of that $400 gift is just $76.
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Brooklyn Prospect High School Information Night #2
Brooklyn Prospect Charter School
Monday, March 18, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM (EDT)
Event Details
Current 8th and 9th grade students (and their families) interested in applying to Brooklyn Prospect Charter School for admission to our fall 2013 9th and 10th grades, are invited to attend a high school information session at the school facility.
Parents and students will meet High School Principal Kim Raccio and learn more about Brooklyn Prospect's high school program. Following the presentation, the high school team will take questions from those in attendance.
This will be the last high school information night for this admission season (November 1, 2012-April 9, 2013). This event is an identical high school information session to the one held earlier this academic year, on November 5th 2012. Due to space constraints, RSVPs for this event are limited to three per family.
IMPORTANT NOTE: This information session is geared to current 8th and 9th grade students and their parents. We are currently growing a grade each year. For the 2013-14 school year we will enroll students in grades 6-10.
When & Where
Brooklyn Prospect Charter School
3002 Fort Hamilton Parkway
Monday, March 18, 2013 from 6:00 PM to 7:30 PM (EDT)
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Brooklyn Prospect Charter School
Serving kindergarten through twelfth grade, Brooklyn Prospect pairs students with excellent teachers in a college preparatory environment using the International Baccalaureate program. We prepare students to become global citizens and help them to develop the love of learning that provides the foundation for lifelong personal and academic success.
Brooklyn Prospect is committed to:
Teaching the skills and habits of mind necessary for success in the global community
Recruiting, training and retaining excellent teachers
- Reflecting the diversity of Brooklyn's neighborhoods