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Your face is as pock-marked as the moon's surface; your nails look like a homeless person's; the skin on your legs is hidden under a blanket of fuzz. You vaguely recall a time when you had two eyebrows (not one long one); your armpits need a weed-whacker; and a Boeing 747 could use your roots as a landing strip. And your lady-ness is now the size of a Super Wal-Mart parking lot. Sure, you could spend three consecutive days shuffling between the salon, nail technician's, waxing studio, and spa. Or you could head to Millenium. This family-run place offers ladies (and gents) an array of primping options, including manicures, pedicures, facials, waxing, plucking, and hairstyling. Prices are competitive ($25 for a Brazilian bikini wax, $25 to $30 for a pedicure), and the friendly staff most of whom are Colombian and hail from the same family tree are always polite, respectful, and competent. If you've never had someone incompetent pour scalding wax over your nether regions and then repeatedly yank at a five-square-inch tuft of your prized garden amid your shrieks of terror, then consider yourself lucky. The rest of us understand, and appreciate professionalism in this delicate arena. Rest assured, you'll find that and a lot more at Millenium.
We know a seasoned vintage shopaholic who lovingly calls this place "Chez Armé." She proudly boasts about all of the amazing finds she's procured from here. It wasn't until she showed us photos of an incredible four-poster bed that seemed to be hewn from tree trunks that we began paying attention. When it comes to buying furniture, you can't do better.The store is a clean, well-lit place with the usual thrift store finds in abundance dishes, sweaters, winter jackets, and worn children's toys. To one side you'll find dining room furniture, bedroom sets, and men's clothing. A handsome ornate chest of drawers, side tables, and an armoire are a bargain at $350. Textured wall units and a dining table come for $800. A two-piece butter-yellow leather living room set is $150. There's bland furniture and random what-were-they-thinking items, like a pair of children's loft-style beds outfitted with wooden slides for that speedy (not to mention dangerous) disembarkation. Stop by early (it opens at 9:00 a.m.) if you want to find a specific furniture item that isn't on display: "We got a whole warehouse back there," says approachable clerk Clarence Williams. Every second Saturday of the month, the lot down the street hosts the Salvation Army auto auction. So quite literally you can walk in here with nothing and leave with a suite of furniture and a new car for less than a grand.
All of us have a bunch of stuff hanging around our homes that we don't want, don't need, or don't use. Why not streamline your life by getting rid of some of that junkç Freecycle, a national online trading post with a board here in Miami, is the perfect way to turn your trash into someone else's treasure. Here's how it works: You register on the Website and then offer your stuff in a posting. If someone wants it, you arrange a (safe) meeting time and place to make the exchange. Best of all, it's free.
Don't want to spend $300 on a BCBG dressç If you're lucky, you can find one at Rag Trade for $30. You can also earn a little cash on the clothes you haven't worn for four years, the ones lying wrinkled and unused in a cobwebby corner of your closet. If you would rather barter for something in the shop, that's fine too. Like any secondhand shop, Rag Trade carries a rotating stock of wares that ranges in style from vintage to contemporary. There's also a section devoted to new clothes by local designers and by London-based Religion (not to be confused with the brand of jeans). Feel good about shopping here: Rag Trade is pro-conservation, and even the price tags are recycled.
Maybe South Florida doesn't seem like the best place to pick up knitting as a hobby after all, summer is upon us. But there are always babies to crochet blankets for, relatives up north who need hats and scarves, and the three cold days next winter. Elegant Stitches carries more than 700 different yarns and offers knitting and crochet classes for $45. The shop also has patterns, books, kits, and needles. For the truly dedicated, the store organizes a November knitting cruise on Royal Caribbean.
Light catches your eye from all directions in the Gem and Bead Gallery. Everywhere you look, there are glistening gemstones of all varieties amethyst, rose quartz, and glass beads that look almost exactly like them. Coral branches, turquoise chunks, and amber circles; jade beads and freshwater pearls. You can buy anything, from a $1000 sapphire to adorn that perfect solitaire, to $1 glass beads for a hippie love necklace. The Gem and Bead Gallery is a direct importer of gemstone beads, colored crystals, horn beads, Swarovski crystals, and pearls. The store attracts customers who are practiced jewelers, as well as first-time bead stringers. To that end, they offer hands-on Monday and Saturday classes that range from $30 to $35. From beading to pearl knotting, you can learn how to do it and then successfully make it here. Few things are cooler than being able to chirp, "Thanks, I made them myself," when you're inevitably complimented on your amazing new earrings.


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I don't get those people that read every LotR inspired book written by someone else other than Tolkien, or the similiar Star Wars, Star Trek.
These people need to get lives and read something ORIGINAL and DIFFERENT.
Like if someone, other than Chuck, wrote a sequel/spinoff to Fight Club, how f*cking boring and retarded would that be. Sorry to some of the people in this forum, that have done this, but they haven't been published so I'll let it slide.
^^^Where did this preaching shit come from: motherfucker, I loved many of the [I]Star Wars[/I] novels a few years ago when I read about thirty of them. I don't think that you are making accurate comparisons, because a novel spinning off of that epic saga is not quite the same as a novel like [I]Tyler Takes Manhattan[/I]. And [I]LOTR[/I] is a huge fucking universe that I doubt you've read.
Don't think you know what you are tangenting about. Judgmental prick.
I'm sorry, like I said I couldn't read LotR because it bored the hell out of me.
But seriously fine you like them, I can't hold that against you. If it entertains you, that's great. I just think it's boring, sold out, unoriginal. These same type of people that write Star Wars: The Lost Universe, are the same type of people that write Lora Croft: The Mayan Prophecy (These are/may not be real books, but you get the point). These people can't think of something new and original so they leech off of something successful and make money off of it. Same reason I [B]HATE[/B] pop punk music, and pop music.

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- 6 cups chicken stock, preferably homemade
- 1 1/2 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
- 1 onion, cut into 1/3-inch dice
- 1 1/2 cups arborio rice (10 ounces)
- 3 Roasted Tomato Halves, coarsely chopped
- 4 Roasted Garlic Cloves
- 1 tablespoon unsalted butter
- 1/4 cup freshly grated Parmesan cheese
- Salt
- Freshly ground pepper
In a medium saucepan, bring the stock to a simmer; keep it at a bare simmer over low heat.
In a medium saucepan, warm the olive oil. Add the onion and stir over moderate heat until softened. Add the rice and cook for 1 minute, stirring to coat it with oil.
Add 1 cup of the hot stock to the rice and cook, stirring constantly, until almost all the stick has been absorbed. Add the tomato halves, garlic and another cup of stock and cook, stirring until the stock is absorbed. Continue to add hot stock, 1 cup at a time, stirring until it is absorbed before adding more. The risotto is done when the grains are just tender and bound with a creamy sauce, about 25 minutes in all. Stir in the butter and Parmesan, season with salt and pepper and serve.


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The inflammatory effect of bombing Iran should occupy the attention of strategists bent on moving forward with one or more strikes.
These are Iran's options for responding:
1. No response.
2. Diplomatic protests.
3. A formal declaration of war.
The first option is so unrealistic that it seems not worth noting. However, considering frequent statements in the popular media one would think impunity is the stuff of fiction. Ignorance is reckless and thus dangerous.
A strike on Iran by Israel or the West would likely unify disparate elements in Iran and weaken reformists. Bombing Iran would therefore have an effect opposite the desired long-term outcome.
The most dangerous scenario is an escalation that spreads throughout the regions and beyond, resulting in a world war for the third time.
A crisis in the Gulf would create opportune conditions for a crisis elsewhere, such as the Korean Peninsula, by stretching thin the resources of the United States military.
What measures could be taken to alleviate the crisis in the Gulf?
1. Ease economic sanctions.
2. Ease and ignore rhetoric.
3. Divorce politics from diplomacy.
4. Institute secret negotiations.
5. Adopt realistic expectations. Israel possesses nuclear weapons while insisting other nations of the Middle East should not. Israel should agree to its part in a nuclear-free Middle East.
6. Promote democratic values and reform in the region.
6. Prepare for the worst case.
Unlimited power in a finite world is a mad dream. Reactionary politics is likewise psychotic. Israel must reduce its fantasy of fear and learn to adapt to an open-society compact with its neighbors.
History is largely what you make it if you are determined to point your accusing finger at yourself.


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By DON WALLACE
News-Telegram Sports Editor
New Sulphur Springs head volleyball coach Allison Irvin was very pleased with the outcome of Friday's dual scrimmage against Commerce and Cumby.
The fans inside the cool air conditioning of the Sulphur Springs High School gym got to see some spirited action as the schools played under a running clock and took turns scrimmaging each other.
The Lady Cats took on Cumby first and did well against the Lady Trojans after a slow start.
"We had the jitters. I knew the girls were nervous, since it was the first game. We settled down and played well," said Irvin. "We made some good shots and got our chemistry going. We communicated well and were reading the ball well. We were focused in both matches."
Irvin said the level of competition seemed to bring out the best from the Lady Cats.
"Cumby has some good players and so does Commerce," Irvin said. "Commerce has girls with good size and they aren't just tall, they are big and athletic."
Irvin said, "We did not let Commerce's size stop us. We played smart and did things well as a team. We don't have the tallest team around. A small team that hustles and has good team chemistry and plays smart can beat a taller team. I was pleased with our effort and how well we competed."
Irvin then talked about the team and the different makeup of the squad.
"We have three seniors — Desi Debase, Katie Barnett and Jacey Mitchell," Irvin said. "Desi is a great athlete, she will be playing outside as a hitter. Barnett and Mitchell are two setters. We have two freshmen in the middle, Kaylee Jefferson and Meike VanBenthen. Sarah Barnett and Molly Johnston will be defensive specialists. Sidney Dietze is the libero. Lexie Moore is another outside hitter for us. Sheretta Hill also is a right side player. Sarah Womack is on the varsity, but did not play Friday."
Irvin continued, "I think all the girls had their shining moments in the scrimmage."
The scrimmage was a break, in a way, for the Lady Cats. The girls have been enduring long practices.
"We worked out five hours each day Monday through Wednesday. Thursday, we took a little break and just practiced four hours," Irvin said. "I am working the girls to get them in shape. We also working on quickness. This scrimmage was a good start to our season."
Sulphur Springs JV coach David Carrillo said the junior varsity won both scrimmages during Friday action.
"We had some close, competitive matches," Carrillo said. "We got good serves from Jaye Doughtie, Torie Moore and Hannah Crowson. Playing well on defense were Kristen Allen, Daisa Pruitt, Destiny Weeks and Elle Eckerd."
Freshman coach Jerrod Hammack was also pleased with the ninth grade Sulphur Springs girls.
"We were in the right place most of the time. We served well and played hard," Hammack said. "We are having fun and playing well as a team. The girls are encouraging each other and being good teammates. I think we are going to have a good team."
The Lady Cats are participating Saturday in the Wills Point scrimmage. They will take on Caddo Mills and Mabank. The freshmen, junior varsity and varsity will compete, starting at 9 a.m.
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Trend Micro is complaining that Microsoft offering updates to its surprisingly good Microsoft Security Essentials antivirus application is uncompetitive.
Computerworld's Preston Gralla gives a good rundown of the history and situation, which boils down to competitors not liking that Microsoft can piggyback MSSE updates on the same Windows Update service it uses to distribute patches and fixes for Windows.
The best part in Gralla's piece is McAfee and Symantec dodging the chance to complain about Windows Update, but tearing down MSSE as ineffective and weak, like all the other free antivirus software out there.
I hate to say it, but I've had better luck with free antivirus in general and MSSE in particular than I did with any of the paid apps I've owned or tested. Reviews of MSSE consistentlypraise it, often putting it above freeware favorites AVG and Avast. I hate to say it because I'm not accustomed to trusting Microsoft for a piece of software that runs quickly, fails rarely, and works at least as well as similar apps I've tried.
Getting praise for anti-malware is an accomplishment for Microsoft and a stretch for reviewers that focus on or prefer open source and free anti-malware, because the two have never been on the same page before. Microsoft is usually the object of vilification for its tendency to ship multimillion-line software products that still contain flaws, and its history of weak or nonexistent security apps, either to avoid reinforcing the idea that Windows could be flawed, or to avoid interfering with sales for important ISV partners like Symantec and McAfee.
Distributing it via Windows Update does give Microsoft an advantage, and I have no idea if a judge would consider it anti-competitive. Every anti-malware app has its own facility for downloading updates and virus signatures automatically; it's a little precious to insist Microsoft use something other than its best-tuned update service to do that when competitors have to launch new processes and take up new system resources to do it for themselves. That makes for an additional process for them, but more importantly, it's an additional hit on CPU cycles and performance that the customer doesn't need to take.
Let Microsoft download MSSE updates any way it wants. I'm annoyed that I have to look under the Optional Updates to pick up new virus signatures, rather than getting them automatically with the rest of the critical updates. Usually the Optionals are things like a newer version of Silverlight than the one I deleted the last time I accidentally installed it and saw a performance hit.
I'm happy to stick with that. Things Microsoft offers Optionally I can skip; virus updates, even if they're for an app that annoys competitors by being both free and competent, should be as automatic and troublefree as Microsoft can make them.
Kevin Fogarty writes about enterprise IT for ITworld. Follow him on Twitter @KevinFogarty.


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José Cárdenas: Last week, U.S. District judge Susan Bolton denied a request to impose a new injunction on a portion of S.B. 1070 that requires law enforcement officers to check the immigration status of those stopped or arrested under certain circumstances. The requirement has been at the center of a two-year legal battle that ended in a U.S. Supreme court decision in June upholding the requirement. In the same week, federal officials announced Maricopa County sheriff Joe Arpaio's office will not face state criminal charges in their investigation. Joining me to talk about these two topics is Alessandra Soler, executive director for the ACLU of Arizona. Also here is Daniel Ortega, chairman for the national council of La Raza. Thank you both for joining us on "Horizonte." You've been here before. Pretty much the same topics, only we seem to be reaching the end of the preliminary skirmishes of S.B. 1070. Tell us what happened last week.
Alessandra Soler: Sure. Well, Judge Bolton basically said that she agrees with the supreme court's decision that it was premature to block this provision of S.B. 1070.
José Cárdenas: She didn't have any choice, though, did she? She can't disagree with the supreme court.
Alessandra Soler: Yeah, and I mean I think that's what. She did kind of have her hands tied. We obviously disagreed with her decision. We thought we did present new evidence showing that there is the possibility of detentions, but she said you've got to come back to me and bring me more evidence, more evidence we can use.
José Cárdenas: What you presented she decided was not enough at this stage.
Alessandra Soler: Exactly.
José Cárdenas: And what was the evidence that you presented?
Alessandra Soler: Sure. We presented a couple of things. We presented examples, case examples of individuals who have been wrongfully detained. An example of a 19-year-old student who was stopped and cited for screeching his tires, and then a police officer ended up showing up at his house, same police officer, called him up and said can I come to your house? And at his house, he said have you heard about S.B. 1070? And the student said well yeah, and he said if I don't take you over to ICE, I may lose my job. That was one very concrete example of how these abuses are happening even before the law goes into effect. We provided an example of the discriminatory intent, that race was a really motivating factor in the passage of SB 1070.
José Cárdenas: And, and did the judge address either of these two points?
Alessandra Soler: She, umm… not sufficiently. Yeah we think that she didn't really consider the evidence as much as we would have liked her to and I think that was what was part of the problem, we think she ignored it and just kind of piggy-backed on what the supreme court said on June 25th.
José Cárdenas: So where do things stand? At some point the law is going to go into effect.
Alessandra Soler: Exactly and barring any sort of last-minute legal maneuvering, but we are, you know, making preparations, making sure that we inform the community, the parties in the separate case, the federal government's case are going to be submitting language on how she can lift the injunction and that's going to happen sometime around the 17th, which is next week.
José Cárdenas: So Denny, what are people concerned about at this point in time? It does seem as though the state, in the process of making their case in the supreme court, and the advise that has been given to police officers, stepping back and doing everything they can, at least in terms of council for police departments, to make sure that there is no racial profiling. What are you worried about?
Daniel Ortega: Well, we're clearly worried about the extensiveness and the depth of the training that's going to be involved here. I think the key here is the extent to which people are going to be detained if they're stopped for running a red light and then there's a reasonable suspicion. It's our interpretation that it shouldn't take any longer than what it would take for running a red light than if you're going to include the stop for suspicion that you may be here without documents and there's really where the battleground is at in terms of what does this mean? Can it be prolonged beyond what it would originally take? Our position is that it can't be. That anything beyond what it would take to issue you a citation should be it. And, of course, those are the things that the judge talked about, that we actually needed cases like that, once it's implemented.
José Cárdenas: Even if the police act pretty quickly, if they have a reasonable suspicion, then they're going to make the call to ICE, right? And that's going to consume some time?
Daniel Ortega: Yeah, but you've got the reality of what's going to happen. That is that ICE may not respond. And even if they do determine that they may not be here without papers, ICE can say there's nothing we're going to do because of the priorities that have been outlined most recently by the Obama administration. So we've got a whole bunch of problems: Training, the extent to which you can be detained and if you are detained, what happens to you in the long run if ICE isn't going to act upon any information that it has about your legal status?
José Cárdenas: What kind of monitoring is going to be done to ensure or document any instances where they do keep people longer there?
Daniel Ortega: The ACLU has a phone bank that is going on as we speak where people who are stopped by the police and believe they have been racially profiles on the basis of race, and the color of their skin, on the basis of accent or any of these other things to report it, and we do urge people, all people, we believe that the racial profiling is going to happen to Latinos, irrespective of status, and it's going to happen to some other people for a variety of reasons. And we want them to call in. Umm…do you have the number, Alessandra?
Alessandra Soler: 1-8555-RESPETO.
José Cárdenas: Now Alessandra, there was another part of the ruling she enjoined a part of the statute that had not been enjoined previously.
Alessandra Soler: Exactly.
José Cárdenas: Tell us quickly about that.
Alessandra Soler: Sure. That was the first time ever that she had enjoined the transporting and harboring provision, which would have made it a crime for individuals to transport somebody who was undocumented. It was a significant step. The reality is that that provision had not been enforced over the past couple of years but it was the first time that she enjoined and based on prior decisions that came out of other cases dealing with the similar subject matter.
José Cárdenas: Dan, let's talk about the other big news, the federal government's decision not to proceed with the criminal prosecution of Sheriff Arpaio.
José Cárdenas: Well, it was shocking for me to hear the news and to hear it on the Friday before the labor day weekend. But it was even more shocking to read the letter that they sent the County Attorney Bill Montgomery, to learn for the first time that the only thing that they were investigating as it relates to sheriff Joe Arpaio were issues surrounding the misuse of funds, in particular the MCSO misuse of county credit cards and the MCSO's misspending of the jail facilities excise tax money. That's all they were looking into. And--
José Cárdenas: And that came as a surprise?
Daniel Ortega: We were all under the impression that there was an abuse of power, a federal criminal probe as it related to Sheriff Joe Arpaio, and from this letter, there was no probe. The only person who was being investigated from a criminal standpoint on that was Andrew Thomas, the former county attorney Andrew Thomas and Lisa Aubuchon as it related to their lawsuit against Judge Gary Donaho. On both counts, both as it relates to the sheriffs' and to Andrew Thomas, there was no criminal wrongdoing that they felt that was taken to trial.
José Cárdenas: Is there anything that can be done at this stage? Supervisor Wilcox expressed her disappointment. And I don't know but I thought there was some suggestion of an appeal to the department of justice and leadership to review that decision.
Daniel Ortega: My humble opinion is there is absolutely nothing anybody can do if you read this letter to convince what I believe to be a very competent, well trained very smart individual from the department of justice. Look, we're looking at it from a political standpoint. That's a whole different viewpoint from the standards necessary to prosecute a crime and beyond a reasonable doubt is a very tough standard. And I think these lawyers, not as people involved in politics, looked at it very seriously and said look, there's no probability of success here.
José Cárdenas: But you think they looked at the wrong thing or they didn't look at something they should?
Daniel Ortega: Well, I'm surprised that they didn't look at the issue of the abuse of power by Sheriff Joe Arpaio the way they did with Andrew Thomas. But if they didn't find it with Andrew Thomas, he's one removed from that. It would have been very difficult to prosecute Arpaio and give a guilty verdict.
José Cárdenas: Alessandra, we're almost out of time. Give us a quick summary or thought as to how this will impact the civil lawsuit that you're involved in and that is pending before the judge now?
Alessandra Soler: It certainly means that our civil lawsuit is hanging on a much greater significance. We've been building and collecting evidence over allegation of racial profiling for the past five years. There was a trial in late July, beginning of August, very public airing of both evidence, statistical evidence showing that he was, in fact, pulling over Latinos at much higher rates and that they were engaging in discriminatory placing. We're waiting for a decision from the judge and we're hoping that it's going to result in some substantive changes to the way that they do their policing.
José Cárdenas: On that note, we're going to have to end our interview, thank you both for joining us on "Horizonte."


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There is this one particular piece of background paper that I have been hoarding since the last Chic Tags CHA release.
The colours in the Let's Go Collection were the perfect reason to finally use it up. I love the quote on this retired paper from the Happy Place Collection. Yes, I do have three daughters, but this one just happened to be wearing a colour that worked for the layout, lol.
I love that the adhesive barely shows through these acetate letters.
A little bit of this, and a little bit of that was my driving force behind this layout. I started with the background paper, then chose my photo, and then pulled all the items I wanted to incorporate into the layout, right down to including some of the tear strip phrases. Just a touch of gold and my layout was complete.
When it comes to Chic Tags I just can't help myself from layering them, and then layering them some more. I just love the little bits of colour poking out, and the fun little phrases and words I'm able to scatter throughout my layout.
Hope you're finding all sorts of great ways to incorporate Chic Tags into your projects.


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Spiced Braised Beef With Sweet Potatoes
- 1 1/2 pounds beef chuck, cut into chunks
- 2 sweet potatoes (about 1 pound), cut into 1/2-inch-thick half-moons
- 1 28-ounce can whole peeled tomatoes
- 1 large red onion, cut into wedges
- 1/2 cup dried apricots
- 2 teaspoons ground cumin
- 2 teaspoons ground ginger
- 1/2 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 1/2 teaspoon cayenne
- kosher salt
- 1 10-ounce box couscous (1 1/2 cups)
- 1 15-ounce can chickpeas, rinsed
- 2 cups baby spinach (1 1/2 ounces)
- 1/4 cup roasted almonds, chopped
- In a 4- to 6-quart slow cooker, combine the beef, potatoes, tomatoes (and their juices), onion, apricots, cumin, ginger, cinnamon, cayenne, 3/4 teaspoon salt, and 1/2 cup water.
- Cook, covered, until the meat is tender, on high for 4 to 5 hours, or on low for 7 to 8 hours.
- Ten minutes before serving, prepare the couscous according to the package directions.
- Add the chickpeas to the slow cooker and cook until heated through, 2 to 3 minutes. Stir in the spinach. Serve with the couscous and sprinkle with the almonds.
- To freeze: Omit the couscous and spinach. Cool the beef to room temperature and divide among freezer containers or bags. Freeze for up to 3 months.
- To reheat: Thaw in a bowl of cold water or overnight in the refrigerator. Cook in a pot, covered, stirring occasionally, until heated through, 20 to 30 minutes. Stir in the spinach. Serve with the cooked couscous.


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Rogne set for Celtic talks
Thomas Rogne has revealed Celtic have opened talks with him about a new deal at Parkhead.
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Thomas Rogne has revealed Celtic have opened talks with him about a new deal at Parkhead.
The Norwegian is in the final year of his contract and the club are keen to tie him down to a new long-term deal.
Rogne, who joined the Bhoys from Stabaek in January 2010, has established himself as a key figure in Neil Lennon's plans after a difficult start to his Celtic career.
The 22-year-old insists he is happy to stay at Celtic and envisages no problem with his contract talks.
"There's been some talks and my agent is coming over again soon. I'm happy here so we'll see what happens," Rogne told the Daily Record.
"I think Celtic know I'd like to stay here and I think they want to keep me.
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French council rejects tax hike on rich
Updated 10:59 pm, Saturday, December 29, 2012
Paris --
France's Constitutional Council on Saturday struck down the Socialist government's plan to impose a 75 percent marginal income tax rate on the wealthy.
The measure had figured prominently among the campaign promises of President Francois Hollande and had become a divisive emblem of his approach to cutting the budget deficit.
Prime Minister Jean-Marc Ayrault quickly pledged that the government would reintroduce a revised version of the tax for next year to address the criticisms of the Constitutional Council, which ruled that the measure did not tax affected households equally.
The 75 percent rate was always a symbolic political gesture, as Hollande himself has acknowledged. It was to expire in two years and would have applied only to annual income above 1 million euros, or about $1.3 million, and so would have affected no more than a few thousand taxpayers.
The council ruled that the tax was unfair because it would have applied unevenly to different households with the same combined income. A couple making a combined 1.5 million euros a year, for instance, would be exempt from the tax so long as both partners earned less than 1 million euros individually. If one partner earned more than 1 million euros, however, the couple would have been required to pay the 75 percent rate on their combined earnings of more than 1 million.


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Effect of the zero lower bound on bond yield sensitivity to news in Canada in comparison with the UK and US
The interest rate channel of monetary policy works both through short- and long-term interest rates. At the zero lower bound of the policy rate, monetary policy can still be effective through unconventional monetary policy measures. We study whether the sensitivity of Canadian government bond yields to domestic and US macroeconomic data surprises changed at the zero lower bound, and compare the results with those for the United Kingdom and the United States. We find that the sensitivity of government bond yields to domestic economic news was reduced only at shorter maturities in Canada than in the United Kingdom and the United States. Moreover, we find that it was reduced less strongly in Canada than in the United Kingdom. This suggests that in Canada monetary policy lost less of its effectiveness than in the United Kingdom, and only up to shorter horizons than in the United Kingdom and the United States.
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WASHINGTON, D.C. – U.S. Sen. Lisa Murkowski, R-Alaska, today commented on the Inspector General's investigation of the Nuclear Regulatory Commission. The report follows a letter and congressional testimony from the other members of the commission publicly criticizing NRC Chairman Gregory Jaczko's behavior and management style.
"Last year, all four NRC commissioners took the extraordinary and unprecedented step of coming forward with their concerns about Chairman Jaczko's treatment of NRC employees. Today's IG report validates their concerns regarding the chilled work environment under his Chairmanship.
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Sircat Sally Stays Undefeated With Providencia Victory
Joe Turner's hombred Sircat Sally extended her undefeated streak to five when she easily coasted to a win in the $150,000 Providencia Stakes (G3T) April 8 at Santa Anita Park.
Joe Turner's hombred Sircat Sally extended her undefeated streak to five when she easily coasted to a win in the $150,000 Providencia Stakes (G3T) April 8 at Santa Anita Park.
Consider this your weekly guide to the best stakes in North America. This week we have massive stakes cards at Aqueduct Racetrack, Keeneland, and Santa Anita Park built around three top Triple Crown preps.
Although he is confident Joe Turner's undefeated Sircat Sally can run on either turf or dirt, trainer Jerry Hollendorfer is keeping the homebred Surf Cat filly on the grass April 8 in the $150,000 Providencia Stakes (G3T) at Santa Anita Park.
Voss and Big Chief Racing's Decked Out did well stretching out to 1 1/8 miles on the turf when she rallied from well off the pace to win the Providencia Stakes (gr. IIIT) April 9 at Santa Anita Park.
Seven of the nine 3-year-old fillies entered in the Providencia Stakes at Santa Anita met last month in the China Doll Stakes, with Mirage prevailing by a neck over Lady Valeur, but the Providencia adds another furlong.
Spirit of Xian spurted out to the early lead and was never headed en route to victory in the $150,000 Providencia Stakes (gr. IIIT) for 3-year-old fillies April 4 at Santa Anita Park.
Former English-trained filly should appreciate the longer 1 1/8-mile distance, as she faces 12 opponents over Santa Anita grass course
Nashoba's Gold turned the tables on Diversy Gold and won the second installment of their budding rivalry in the $150,000 Providencia Stakes (gr. III) for 3-year-old fillies April 5 at Santa Anita Park.
Diversy Harbor, who rallied from ninth in the stretch to edge Nashoba's Gold in the China Doll Stakes, will face her rival again on the Santa Anita Park turf in the $150,000 Providencia Stakes (gr. IIIT) April 5.
Withgreatpleasure, the lone graded stakes winner entered in the Bed o' Roses (gr. III) at Belmont Park June 15, is looking to boost her record with another prestigious victory when she faces five others.
Pressed all the way on a fast pace, favored Glorious View refused to give way in the stretch in her stakes debut, capturing the $200,000 Vagrancy Handicap (gr. II) May 18 at Belmont Park.
Grade II winners Brushed by a Star and Summer Applause tangle with local stakes contenders in the $150,000 Allaire DuPont Distaff Stakes (gr. III) at Pimlico Race Course May 18.
Three-time stakes winner Spectacular Sky will try to secure her first career graded stakes win when she faces five other fillies and mares in the $200,000 Vagrancy Handicap (gr. II) May 18 at Belmont.
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Jerry Hollendorfer scores stakes victory as trainer and co-owner of grass runner Scarlet Strike, who scores as the 2-1 favorite on Santa Anita's turf course in gr. III route.
David Blethen's Withgreatpleasure skimmed the rail around the turn, then held on for a three-quarter-length victory over favorite My Wandy's Girl in the Ruffian Handicap (gr. II) April 6 at Aqueduct Racetrack.
Ten sophomore fillies vie for a first graded stakes win in the Providencia Stakes (gr. IIIT) at 1 1/8 miles on the Santa Anita Park turf course April 6.
Funnys Approval will try to again take her game on the road attempting to extend her four-race win streak April 6 in the $250,000 Ruffian Handicap (gr. II) at Aqueduct Racetrack.
The $150,000 Providencia Stakes (gr. IIIT) for 3-year-old fillies at 1 1/8 miles on turf, originally scheduled to be run April 7, will instead be run a day earlier on the Santa Anita Derby program.
Bobby Rankin's Funnys Approval proved she's no laughing matter on off tracks with a solid front-running upset in the $250,000 Barbara Fritchie Handicap (gr. II) at Laurel Park Feb. 16.
For awhile it appeared that Eric Kronfeld was snakebit when it came to his grade I stakes-winning mare Nereid. But the mare lit up the bid board at the Keeneland January horses of all ages sale, selling for $1.3 million.
Onepointhreekarats made her stakes debut successfully for trainer Graham Motion when she drew off mid-stretch to win the $104,250 Thirty Eight Go Go Stakes Dec. 22 comfortably at Laurel Park.
Eric Kronfeld's Nereid has been declared out of the Breeders' Cup Filly and Mare Turf (gr. IT) after sustaining a minor injury, according to trainer John Shirreffs.
Cambina, along with rival Nereid, top the $250,000 John C. Mabee Stakes (gr. IIT) Aug. 12 at Del Mar. The cast of six will travel nine furlongs on the turf.
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It has taken Carmen Aguirre more than a decade to bring her play The Refugee Hotel to the stage, but then she is a woman accustomed to waiting.
As a child in her native Chile, she waited in hiding with her parents - university professors and members of the Revolutionary Left Movement on the run from agents of the fascist Augusto Pinochet regime - and younger sister until they could flee to Canada. Four days after they left, their safe house was raided and shut down.
A few years later, as a teenager, Aguirre returned to South America with her mother (her parents had divorced by then) and helped her run safe houses for Chilean political refugees in Bolivia and Argentina, which meant more years of waiting for the activists who might or might not arrive.
And a few years later, as an adult, she returned yet again to take charge of the border safe houses herself, an experience fraught with peril. Again, there were long, tension-filled nights of waiting, listening for the sounds of danger.
Aguirre has written a memoir, Something Fierce, which chronicles those later years, and her work in the Chilean resistance movement. It's expected to be published next year.
One of 14 plays she has written, The Refugee Hotel, is culled from her memories of the family's arrival in Vancouver in 1974. The central character of the show, which opens at Toronto's Theatre Passe Muraille tonight, is based on her uncle, a former political prisoner, tortured while in custody, who was the first Chilean refugee to arrive in Vancouver. The action takes place over a week, during which old relationships unravel and new ones coalesce.
She tried repeatedly, but unsuccessfully, to find a Vancouver company willing to produce it. This year, Toronto's Alameda Theatre Company, which promotes Latin-Canadian theatre artists, agreed to mount the show. Several members of that cast, which included Leanna Brodie, Terrence Bryant, Carlos Gonzalez-Vio, Cheri Maracle, Paloma Nunez, Bea Pizano, and Paula Rivera, have first-hand experience of the tumultuous political life of Central and South America.
The play was originally scheduled to have its world premiere at the Factory Theatre in Toronto six years ago, but was cancelled amid allegations of racial and cultural insensitivity.
Aguirre withdrew the play, alleging that Factory director Ken Gass tried to cast white actors in roles that should be played by non-whites. Gass denied the charges, but Aguirre eventually decided that "his vision of the world is vastly different from mine. I don't know if we could have seen eye-to-eye during rehearsals."
This time out, Aguirre is directing and doing her own casting.
Five years after arriving in Vancouver, Aguirre went back to South America with her black-listed mother. She recalls one nerve-wracking train ride with her younger sister; using fake passports, they were travelling to see their grandparents, still inside Chile. Later, she ran her own safe houses in Patagonia and worked in the revolution's headquarters in Lima, Peru.
Her father, who spent 10 years working as a janitor in Vancouver while he requalified for his academic degrees, knew of her clandestine work, but said nothing. "He knew what we were doing, but he also knew enough not to ask questions," she says.
Although the Pinochet dictatorship ended in 1990, "the system itself," Aguirre maintains, "did not change. Pinochet remained the head of the senate, with sweeping powers to command the armed forces. "The neo-liberal economic system remained in place and social services were not reinstated. We'd been fighting for revolutionary change. And we lost."
She might have returned to Chile, but instead came back to Vancouver in the early 1990s to study theatre at Studio 68. Since then, she's worked in collaboration with James Fagan Tait and The Electric Company, been playwright-in-residence at The Vancouver Playhouse and at Touchstone Theatre, and was part of the writing team on Da Vinci's Inquest's final season. She's also appeared in more than two dozen films and TV episodes, too often, she quips, playing the role of Mexican Hooker No. 1 or Latina Waitress.
A new work, a one-woman showed called Blue Box, commissioned by Toronto's Nightswimming Theatre, deals with a woman wanted by the secret police while obsessively following the man she loves. "It's about hunting and being hunted."
But her political convictions have not changed. She remains firmly committed to social-justice issues and to racial equity in Canadian theatre. "I look forward to the day when we can stop seeing these people - racial and ethnic minorities -as a risk."
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It's Day One of the ICIS Base Oils conference in London, and this is one mega-conference. It's grown from 100 to 400 delegates, out-growing its various homes along the way and now filling the grand ballroom at the Hilton on Park Lane. What I specially like about this crowd is that they make no secret of the fact that they want to spend these two days doing some heavy networking.
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Jake Thackray
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27 February 1938
Kirkstall, Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire, England
|24 December 2002
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Monmouth, Monmouthshire, Wales
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John Philip "Jake" Thackray (27 February 1938 – 24 December 2002) was an English singer-songwriter, poet and journalist. Best known in the late 1960s and early 1970s for his topical comedy songs performed on British television, his work ranged from satirical to bawdy to sentimental to pastoral, with a strong emphasis on storytelling, making him difficult to pigeonhole.[1][2][3][4]
Thackray sang in a lugubrious baritone voice,[5] accompanying himself on a nylon-strung guitar in a style that was part classical, part jazz.[6] His witty lyrics and clipped delivery, combined with his strong Yorkshire accent and the northern setting of many of his songs, led to him being described as the "North Country Noël Coward", a comparison Thackray resisted, although he acknowledged his lyrics were in the English tradition of Coward and Flanders and Swann, "who are wordy, funny writers". However, his tunes derived from the French chansonnier tradition: he claimed Georges Brassens as his greatest inspiration,[7] and he was also influenced by Jacques Brel and Charles Trenet.[8] He also admired Randy Newman.[7] He was admired by, and influenced, many performers including Jarvis Cocker,[9] Mike Harding,[10] Momus,[11] Ralph McTell,[12] Morrissey,[13] Alex Turner,[14] and Jasper Carrott.[15]
Early life[edit]
John Philip Thackray was born in Kirkstall[not in citation given], Leeds, West Riding of Yorkshire,[5] the son of Ernest Thackray, a policeman, and Ivy May Thackray, née Armitage.[16] He was educated at the Jesuit St. Michael's College in Leeds[5] and a Jesuit boarding school in Dolgellau, north-west Wales, and considered joining the priesthood,[6] but instead chose to study Modern Languages at Durham University.[5] After graduation he spent four years teaching English, mainly in France – in Lille, Brittany and the Pyrenees – but also including six months in Algeria at the height of the war for independence in 1961–1962. During his time in France he had some of his poetry published,[17] and discovered the chansonnier tradition and in particular the work of Georges Brassens. "I missed out on rock and all my influences were French," he would later say.[7]
Musical career[edit]
In 1964 Thackray returned to his native Yorkshire, teaching at Intake School in Bramley, Leeds. Teaching himself to play the guitar,[4] he found that one way to get unruly pupils to take an interest in their studies was through his songs. This and performing in folk clubs led to appearances on local BBC radio programmes, which brought him to the attention of producer Norman Newell. Thackray recorded 30 songs with Newell, 11 of which were released as his debut album, The Last Will and Testament of Jake Thackray, in 1967. Its title track exhorted his friends to mark his death with a party, and then forget him. The album also included "Lah-Di-Dah", in which a prospective bridegroom assures his bride he loves her so much he'll try to be nice to her dreadful family.[17]
This in turn led to a BBC television slot, composing a weekly topical song for Bernard Braden's consumer magazine programme Braden's Week.[18] He was not immediately popular – his first appearance in late 1968 provoked letters demanding his dismissal – but he eventually won over the audience.[19] After Braden's Week was cancelled in 1972, Thackray took up the same role on its successor show, That's Life!. In nearly thirty years of performing he would make over a thousand radio and TV appearances, including slots on The David Frost Show and Frost Over America,[20] and his own show, Jake's Scene, on ITV.[21]
In 1968 he married Sheila Marian Clarke-Irons, a 21-year-old student.[16] His second album, Jake's Progress, was recorded at Abbey Road Studios while the Beatles put the finishing touches to their Abbey Road album next door.[22] Released in 1969, it abandoned the orchestral arrangements of its predecessor for a small acoustic band. It included the song "The Blacksmith and the Toffee Maker", which Thackray adapted from a story in Laurie Lee's Cider with Rosie.[23] He began recording a new album in 1970, but these recordings were scrapped.[24] In 1971 he released Live Performance, a live recording of 14 songs from his 1970 performance at the Queen Elizabeth Hall in London (an expanded, 29-song double CD of the same performance would be released in 2006).
A third studio album, Bantam Cock, followed in 1972. Its title track became a folk standard and was covered by folk singer Fred Wedlock,[5] folk group the Corries and comedian Jasper Carrott among others. Other songs included "Isabel Makes Love upon National Monuments", "Sister Josephine", and "Brother Gorilla", an English adaptation of Georges Brassens' "Le gorille".[25] In 1973 he opened for Brassens when he performed at the inauguration of the Sherman Theatre in Cardiff, which he would describe as the high spot of his career.[26]
After Bantam Cock Thackray's television appearances continued, but his recording career stalled. A compilation album, The Very Best of Jake Thackray, was released in 1975. His final studio album, On Again! On Again!, appeared in 1977. Its title track, a long-winded tirade about women who talk too much, would see Thackray accused of misogyny,[1] but the album also included "The Hair of the Widow of Bridlington", a song of female self-determination in the face of social disapproval. It also featured two more Brassens adaptations, "Isabella" (based on Brassens' "Marinette") and "Over to Isobel" (based on "Je rejoindrai ma belle"). The same year he published a book of lyrics, Jake's Progress, illustrated by Bill Tidy.[23]
From the late 1970s he had made most of his living on the live circuit, touring in Europe, North America and the Far East,[5] but in 1981 he returned to television with Jake Thackray and Songs, a six-part series on BBC2 featuring Thackray and guests, including Richard and Linda Thompson and Ralph McTell, performing in a variety of venues.[27] An album of the same name, recorded live at the Stables Theatre, Wavendon, Milton Keynes, as part of the recordings for the TV show, followed in 1983.[28] A BBC-licensed DVD of Jake Thackray and Songs was released in 2014.[29] Thackray's last release during his life was a compilation, Lah-Di-Dah, released in 1991.[30]
Although he gave up teaching for show business, Thackray did not really like being what he called "a performing dick".[23] He was uncomfortable with big audiences, and would settle for a pub or community hall in preference to the grandeur of the London Palladium (although he appeared there in a Royal Variety Performance).[7] He became disillusioned with stage life – he is recorded as saying "I'd never liked the stage much and I was turning into a performing man, a real Archie Rice [the hack music hall comic in John Osborne's The Entertainer], so I cancelled gigs and pulled out"[5] – and he was plagued by a self-doubt and a breakdown in confidence that Ralph McTell describes as "catastrophic".[12] His style of work was also falling out of fashion: his literate, witty lyrics and tales of rural Yorkshire had little resonance in the punk and Thatcher years, folk audiences had lost interest in contemporary song, and in the days of alternative comedy his bawdy humour was deemed sexist and outdated.[1][16] He ultimately gave up performing in the early 1990s, and turned to journalism – for four years he wrote a weekly column for the Yorkshire Post.[31]
Retirement and death[edit]
In the 1990s Thackray withdrew to his home in Monmouth, South Wales[5] – where he had settled with his family in the late 1960s[32] – beset by health and financial problems: he had become an alcoholic,[2][3] and was declared bankrupt in 2000.[5] He had always been an observant Roman Catholic,[31] and became increasingly religious in his later years, limiting his musical activities to performing the Angelus at his local church.[33] He died of heart failure[16] on 24 December 2002 at the age of 64, leaving his widow, Sheila, from whom he was separated, and three sons, Bill, Sam and Tom.[20]
Revival in interest[edit]
In May 2002 a group of fans formed the Jake Thackray Project with the intention of making more of Thackray's work available to the public. With Thackray's cooperation, the project team, led by record producer David Harris, received permission from EMI to produce a double CD of 42 songs not on any then-available release, limited to 200 copies, which was released in November 2002 with cover art by Bill Tidy. After Thackray's death the following month EMI consented to a further edition of 100 copies.[34][35] This revival of interest led to the release of two mass market CDs the following year: The Very Best of Jake Thackray on EMI,[36] and The Jake Thackray Collection on HMV.[37] The Jake Thackray Project went on to release a remastered live recording (the CD Live in Germany), and two DVDs: the privately recorded Live at the Unicorn (2009) and the BBC-licensed Jake Thackray and Songs (2014). A musical written by Barnsley-born poet Ian McMillan based on Thackray's songs and their characters, Sister Josephine Kicks the Habit, premiered in 2005 and toured the north of England. A rewrite by Alan Plater was due to tour the UK in 2007, but was put on hold following the death of executive producer Ian Watson.[38]
2006 saw a major retrospective. EMI released an expanded, 29-song double CD edition of Live Performance,[39] and Jake in a Box, a 4-CD box set containing Thackray's four studio albums and six singles in their entirety, plus 25 unused tracks recorded in the Last Will and Testament sessions in 1967, eleven songs recorded for the abandoned album in 1970, and a handful of other rarities.[40] Comedian and writer Victor Lewis-Smith produced a television documentary, Jake on the Box, for the BBC.[41] In 2014 The Jake Thackray Project released a DVD of Jake Thackray and Songs, by arrangement with BBC music, featuring all of Thackray's performances from the television series, along with songs by three of the guest artists, Alex Glasgow, Pete Scott and Ralph McTell.[29]
Studio albums[edit]
- The Last Will and Testament of Jake Thackray — EMI — 1967
- Jake's Progress — EMI — 1969
- Bantam Cock — EMI — 1972
- On Again! On Again! — EMI — 1977
Live albums[edit]
- Live Performance — EMI Records — 1971; reissued 1976; reissued in 2006 as an expanded double CD
- Jake Thackray and Songs — Dingles — 1983
- Live at the Lobster Pot — 2005
- Live at the Lobster Pot volume 2 — 2005
- Jake Thackray - Live in Germany — JTP - 2005
- The Very Best of Jake Thackray — EMI — 1975 re-released 2003
- Lah-Di-Dah — EMI Records — 1991
- The Jake Thackray Project — JTP — 2002 (Limited edition of 300)
- The Jake Thackray Collection — HMV — 2003
- Live in Germany - The Jake Thackray Project
- Live at the Lobster Pot volumes 1 and 2
- Jake in a Box (4-CD Box set) — EMI — 2006
- Live at the Unicorn - The Jake Thackray Project (2009)
- Jake Thackray and Songs - The Jake Thackray Project (2014), by arrangement with BBC Music
- ^ a b c Andrew Hickey, "Jake in a Box: Jake Thackray reconsidered", The High Hat, accessed 14 March 2009
- ^ a b Martin Newell, "The legend of Jake", The Independent, 8 May 2005, accessed 4 April 2009
- ^ a b Alan Franks, "Living out of the box", The Times, 19 August 2006, accessed 4 April 2009
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- Jake Thackray on Allmusic
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- Jake Thackray's 1969 album Jake's Progress
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News from the Hilltop
Birmingham-Southern English professor to attend W.B. Yeats institute in Ireland
BIRMINGHAM, Ala.— Dr. Sandra Sprayberry, the Robert Luckie Professor of English at Birmingham-Southern College, is one of 25 faculty members selected from colleges and universities across the U.S. to attend a seminar in Ireland, sponsored by the National Endowment for the Humanities. She will participate in "W.B. Yeats: A Reassessment," in the cities of Galway, Dublin and Sligo, Ireland, from July 5-Aug. 1.
The month-long summer institute will focus on current scholarship on the life and works of William Butler Yeats, who was a Nobel Laureate Irish poet. Sprayberry and the others will work on projects in consultation with some of the most distinguished international scholars of Yeats and will conduct research on site at the National Library of Ireland as well as places where Yeats lived and about which he wrote.
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DAE News: April 3, 2003
Spring Greetings from Dance as Ever! We have plenty of news for you, so we'll get right to it.
Our Knitting workshops have been so popular we're doing monthly sessions. We've got a beginner workshop scheduled for Tuesday nights beginning April 8 and also one of my favorite classes to teach to knitters with a bit more experience, "17 Stitches No Knitter Should Be Without!" on Mondays beginning April 14. In small classes with personalized attention you'll learn everything you need to start knitting and make your first projects or great stitches and tricks to go beyond the basics. The beginners classes are $120 for four sessions, "17 Stitches" is $90 for three. I've taught knitting since 1997 in NY and at national conferences and internationally. You're in good, caring hands and we all have a great time. There will also be a beginner's workshop forming for May.Visit www.danceasever.org/DAEclasses.htm or email me if you're interested.
We haven't done one of these in a while, and I'd love to once again. I feel like part of the mission of Dance as Ever is to increase appreciation for all ballet, not just mine. I love introducing people to their first ballet and there's no better place to do it than at the New York State Theater. Would you like to go and see New York City Ballet, but didn't want to go alone? Go with us! We'll go to a Sunday matinee at 3 pm and then to dinner afterwards.
If you're new to ballet, I'm there to answer questions and discuss the performance. The June 8 program is a group of wonderful Balanchine works, Square Dance, Ballade, Tarantella and Vienna Waltzes that go from pure classicism to Vivaldi through to the lush waltzing (in the most beautiful gowns) to Richard Strauss. There really is something for everyone. I need 20 to make a group, so come and join us, and most importantly, bring someone who has never been to the ballet before!
Auction items are already starting to come in. Look on our website for Catherine Wingate's glitzy and glamorous "Dancing Feet" socks and Kurt Fowler's "Tagliatelle" scarf up soon. Items have been promised by some of knitting's brightest stars, and I want to thank them all for helping to make dance happen. If you'd like to help as well, one thing we could use are low-cost items that could be sold for under $25 at the show. So if you want to whip off some hats, felted purses or the like, email us!
I have an article, a 'Letter from Toronto' on the National Ballet of Canada and Toronto Dance Theatre, in a forthcoming issue of Ballet Review. Most of the other writing I have been doing lately has been grant proposal after grant proposal.
I was very pleased with our performances on the Works and Process Series at the Guggenheim, and I'd like to thank Mary Sharp Cronson for selecting us and Manny Rodríguez for his assistance with the production as well as Nancy Reynolds for participating as moderator and Peter Boal and the dancers for performing. It's a milestone for us because it's the first time we've ever performed more than once in a year, and for our largest audience ever. If you'd like to read Deborah Jowitt's review of the performances in the Village Voice, it's at http://www.villagevoice.com/issues/0308/jowitt.php
Our biggest news is that the date for the fall concert is set. We'll be performing our tenth anniversary season on September 18-21.
Tenth anniversary. I hardly believe I'm writing that. Our first performances were June 11-12, 1993 at the Theatre of the Riverside Church. It's fitting that we're returning there for this season. I've always loved the theater; I think it's one of the best small houses in the city to watch dance in. The sight lines are excellent. Up near the Columbia and Barnard campuses, the church itself is worth a visit (the stained glass is magnificent) and there are several good restaurants in the area. I'll tell you more about the neighborhood and put some recommendations on the web site closer to the date.
I'm not completely sure what the program will be yet, but we've commissioned a new score from Evren Celimli for a piece with the working title The New Rome. I'll tell you more about it as the months go by. I'm working on more good news, but I can't announce it just yet, so I'll leave you in suspense until the next newsletter!
Until then!
As ever,
Leigh Witchel [firstname.lastname@example.com]
Dance as Ever performs 9/18-21, 2003 at the Theatre of the Riverside Church, New York, NY. For more information, visit http://www.danceasever.org.
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Roppongi Hills, the giant commercial and residential complex in downtown Tokyo, celebrated its 10th anniversary Thursday, with its reputation as one of the capital's busiest and most trendy facilities showing no sign of fading.
The complex, anchored by 54-story Mori Tower, still attracts more than 40 million visitors each year.
Roppongi Hills was born out of a 17-year project launched by property developer Mori Building Co. to redevelop an overcrowded 12-hectare portion of the Roppongi entertainment district in Minato Ward with record ¥270 billion urban redevelopment project.
Mori Tower has attracted many foreign companies looking for HQ space since the March 2011 earthquake and tsunami, thanks to its advanced disaster-preparedness features, which include its own power generator. Its occupancy rate is now around 70 percent.


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More U.S. cities and territories are combating litter by banning or taxing plastic shopping bags, despite the recent defeat of a statewide ban in California.
Bans take effect in January in Brownsville, Texas, and Hawaii's Kauai and Maui counties. In February, American Samoa's ban goes into effect.
Plastic bags are already outlawed in San Francisco and other California cities — Malibu, Fairfax and Palo Alto — as well as Westport, Conn.; Bethel, Alaska; and Edmonds, Wash. This month, a ban in North Carolina's Outer Banks was expanded from large retailers to all stores. Washington, D.C., this year began requiring a nickel fee for each disposable grocery bag.
"There's going to be another explosion of local ordinances," says Bryan Early of Californians Against Waste, an environmental group that supported a state ban. He says some local governments warned they would move ahead with bans if the Legislature rejected a statewide ban, which it did Aug. 31.
Despite legal challenges from the Save the Plastic Bag Coalition, Early says bans are in the works in Los Angeles County, San Jose, Santa Monica, Santa Cruz, Berkeley and Santa Clara County.
Environmentalists such as Early target plastic bags, arguing most take decades to decompose and are recycled less often than paper bags.
The American Chemistry Council, which represents plastic-bag makers and opposed California's ban, argues that in-store recycling makes more sense than a ban.
"You eliminate the ability to recycle plastic bags" when you ban or tax them, says Keith Christman, managing director of the group's plastic markets. He says a ban also puts plastic workers out of a job.
Christman says most proposed bans or taxes don't succeed. He cites Seattle's 20-cent-bag-fee proposal, which voters rejected last year.
Aside from North Carolina's ban in the Outer Banks, none of the plastic bag bans or fees proposed in 11 other states in the past two years have passed, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
"This issue is not going away," says Ronald Fong, CEO of the California Grocers Association, an industry group that backed California's proposed ban. "The future is in reusable bags."
Wendy Koch has been a reporter and editor at USA TODAY since 1998, covering politics and social issues. She's begun a quest to build the most eco-friendly home her budget allows. She'll share her experience and give you tips for greening your home. More about Wendy


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Gay marriage & the court: Right to be let alone
Americans who value individual liberty, limited government and the right to contract freely must hope that the U.S. Supreme Court, which has agreed to take up two gay-marriage cases, will rule that they can marry whomever they please.
Presenting the better opportunity for — but no guarantee of — such a sweeping ruling is an appeal of lower courts' rulings that California's voter-approved Proposition 8 gay-marriage ban is unconstitutional. The other case, involving a widow whose $363,000 federal estate-tax bill would have been $0 had she married a man, not a woman, concerns the federal Defense of Marriage Act denying legally married gay couples benefits that straight spouses get.
Banning gay marriage — which polls suggest most Americans support and which is legal or soon will be in nine states — violates the Constitution's equal-protection and due-process clauses as egregiously as did slavery or interracial-marriage bans. So does penalizing gay spouses.
And with UCLA's Williams Institute saying just 4 percent of Americans, not Alfred Kinsey's 10 percent, are gay, claims about gay marriage — a minor societal factor overall — harming heterosexual marriage ring hollow.
Government impermissibly interferes in private lives by telling Americans whom they can marry. The high court must weigh in on the side of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness — not to mention the right to be let alone — by making marriage an institution in which all can participate fully.


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On a busy Sunday for the Utah Jazz, their most significant move may have been their exit from the playoff picture.
The Jazz fell ½ game behind the Lakers for eighth in the Western Conference after Los Angeles won its third game in a row with a 90-81 win over the Chicago Bulls. It's the first time in months the Jazz find themselves outside the top eight of the West.
"We have to try to climb higher," Steve Nash said after the Lakers' win.
The Lakers have won five of their last six games, while the Jazz are flailing. They are 1-7 in their last eight games, and have won just twice since the trade deadline. That day, the Jazz were 30-23, five full games ahead of the Lakers for the last spot in the playoffs.
Since then: Disaster. As we wrote in today's Tribune, the Jazz are starting to seem like a team destined for a lottery pick.
Even if you give the Jazz the benefit of the doubt, it's difficult to see them finishing with a winning record in their remaining games. Of their final 19, the Jazz play nine against Western Conference teams ahead of them in the standings - everyone, in fact, except the Lakers and Clippers. A three-game road trip at Houston, San Antonio and Dallas seems ominous, and then the Jazz play Philadelphia at home their first night back from that trip. The schedule is full of little traps like that. I just took a pencil down their schedule and I'm having a hard time finding more than nine wins for the Jazz.
A more discerning reporter may have a hard time finding that many.
[For those wondering, I have the Jazz winning Monday versus Detroit, against Memphis on Saturday, at Dallas, against Phoenix, against Brooklyn, versus New Orleans, at home against Oklahoma City - hey, they did it once - and in the two games against Minnesota.]
Assuming for fun that the Jazz season goes exactly that way and the Jazz finish 41-41, the Lakers (who are presently 33-31 and against whom the Jazz hold the tiebreaker) need to finish only 9-9 to finish one game ahead of the Jazz.
And for a team that gets two more games against the Sacramento Kings, and others against Washington, New Orleans, Orlando, Phoenix and Minnesota - that isn't so tough to imagine.
Of course, the playoff race doesn't involve only the Jazz and Lakers. Golden State has lost six of eight, but the Jazz are already 2 ½ games behind the Warriors. With the aforementioned schedule, that will be difficult to make up in just 19 games.
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From: Bob Shoring <>
Subject: Could "Knatrod" be a farm name?
Date: Thu, 11 Mar 1999 22:21:58 -0800
My great-grandfather wrote that his father's first wife was a Juliane
Knatrod, who died along with two of her sons in a diphtheria epidemic
around 1865 in Rakkestad, Østfold county.
On the census, I have been looking for a farm with a name like "Knatrod"
but so far haven't found any in Østfold.
Does anyone have any knowledge or ideas about this name?
Regards, Bob Shoring.............San Francisco, California, USA
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Yes, that's what we hear now. There've been endless rumours and speculations over the Bollywood's choco boy actor Shahid Kapoor personal life, ever since he broke up with his longtime girlfriend Kareena Kapoor. Time and again Shahid got romantically linked up with several Bollywood heroines, including Priyanka Chopra, Nargis Fakhri, Vidya Balan, Bipasha Basu and many more. Yet again we hear the entry of a new girl in Kapoor's life.
The TOI claims that Shahid Kapoor is currently dating a mystery woman, with whom he was spotted Mumbai. On the other hand, sources also claimed that Shahid is actually getting close to the Gangs of Wasseypur actress Huma Qureshi. When asked Kapoor about this whole link up issue, he said that there's nothing as such and he has met the girl in concern only twice. But, the actor refrained from revealing the identity of the girl.
Now the question lies, is the girl in concern actually Huma Qureshi or someone else? Well, not a surprise to us, Shahid Kapoor and alleged love affairs are like synonymous to each other. Shahid was last romantically linked up with Sania Mirza, who was supposedly getting close to the actor.
Kareena Kapoor was the only confirmed ex-girlfriend of Shahid Kapoor. The duo officially announced their relationship, but finally parted ways.
Shahid came close to Kareena's rival Priyanka Chopra on the sets of Kaminey. But, they soon broke up.
Here's yet another mysterious love story. Reportedly, Shahid-Vidya started dating each other on the sets of Kismat Konnection. But, the relationship did not last long.
Shahid was supposedly in an affair with Bipasha Basu too, after the latter broke up with John Abraham.
There were rumours that Shahid and Anushka were caught kissing at a party. Ever since then, the rumours of the duo dating each other have been doing the rounds in the tinselville.


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ENGR225 Circuit Analysis Name_________________________
Lab #5 - Capacitors and Inductors Date__________________________
To see examples of capacitors and inductors and to see how they are specified.
To verify the way capacitors and inductors combine in series and in parallel.
To verify the V-I relationship for capacitors and inductors.
To understand better how capacitors and inductors respond to dc voltages and currents.
1. Observe the examples of capacitors and inductors offered in the lab. Discuss how a capacitor and an inductor are rated or specified. What range of capacitances and inductances do we have in the lab? Compute the energy stored in the largest capacitor and the largest inductor when operating at their rated voltage or current, respectively.
2. Use the RLC meter to measure the inductance of two inductors individually and then in series and in parallel. Repeat for two capacitors. Calculate the expected series and parallel equivalents and compare with the measured values. Also, measure the resistance of the inductors and capacitors with the LCR meter and with the ohmmeter of your DMM. (Remember to first zero your ohmmeter with the leads connected to each other before measuring on the 20Ω scale.)
3. Hook up Circuit A shown on the next page. Use the oscilloscope to measure V1 and Vc simultaneously one above the other. Include the waveforms in your report labeling the traces, the times, and the amplitudes. Use the hints with the schematic to show that the expected V-I relationship for the capacitor (i=Cdv/dt where dv/dt is the slope of the voltage curve) was obtained.
4. Hook up Circuit B shown on the next page. Note the change in frequency. Again measure V1 and VL and sketch them in your report. Label times and amplitudes. Again use the hints with the schematic to show that the expected V-I relationship for this inductor (v=Ldi/dt where di/dt is the slope of the current curve) was obtained.
5. Change the resistor to 1kΩ in Circuit B and change the Wavetek frequency to 200 Hz. Sketch V1 and VL as before. Explain the V-I relationship that you see! As a hint remember that in part 2 you found that inductors can be represented by two ideal components.
6. Refer to the Circuit C. Calculate the expected values for V1 and V2 across the two capacitors. Then build the circuit and measure these two voltages. Compare your measurements with the calculated values. Summarize in words how you treat capacitors and inductors in dc circuits (circuits with only dc sources).