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Anderson Cooper: From CNN to something more 'frivolous'
NEW YORK – Talk about strange bedfellows.
There's Kathy Griffin, snuggling up to Anderson Cooper under his white duvet in his Hamptons house, wearing the CNN anchorman's underwear and taunting him with wildly inappropriate questions (sample: "Do you want to touch me in my no-no place?").
Sitting on the set of Anderson in The Allen Room at Jazz at Lincoln Center, a five-minute walk from the set of Anderson Cooper 360, the odd couple of New Year's Eve hosting gigs snicker as the taped, what-I-did-this-summer segment rolls. There's a pixilated Griffin skinny-dipping in Cooper's pool (tune in online for "the after-dark version," Cooper says live to his 400-person audience). There's Cooper bench-pressing his pixie-tiny house guest in his equipment-packed gym. There's the pair swinging on his porch, munching on turkey franks. "Appetizing," Griffin deadpanned, when surveying the meager contents of Cooper's kitchen.
Sure, Cooper made his name in hard news, keeping politicians honest during Hurricane Katrina and reporting from the devastation in Japan, but he's clearly no strange bedfellow to daytime TV. After 32 appearances as Regis Philbin's fill-in, Cooper, 44, is aspiring to become the next first-name titan of talk, when his eponymous syndicated show premieres today.
"I'm actually not nervous about this, which doesn't mean I'm overly confident," he says. "I'm trying to enjoy it as much as possible. I'm trying to enjoy the unknowns."
Of course, Philbin's impending retirement isn't the only notable vacancy in the daytime landscape; with Oprah Winfrey and a slew of soap operas gone, there are a host of eyeballs up for grabs. "The opportunity has never been greater," says Hilary Estey McLoughlin, president of Telepictures, Anderson's production company. Over the last 25 years McLoughlin has developed more than 25 or so similar shows, creating several one-name chieftains of chat in the process: Ellen (DeGeneres), Rosie (O'Donnell), Tyra (Banks). And though it's "harder than ever" to make a show work — "there are too many choices" — she puts her latest launch in the winner's column. "We're in the right place in the right time with the right talent."
As for his potential future competition, as Katie Couric, Ricki Lake, Jeff Probst et al wait in the daytime wings, Cooper is gracious. "I wish them well. I think there's room enough for everybody." Besides, he says, "in the world of TV, a year is a very long time."
But there's something unprecedented about what Cooper is bringing to the daytime couch (actually, a pair of sleek white armchairs): the gravitas of Phil Donahue, the unabashed pop-culture consumption of O'Donnell (on tap for Friday: TheReal Housewives of Beverly Hills), the self-deprecating accessibility of DeGeneres. "He definitely has a chance" at success, says analyst Bill Carroll of ad buyer Katz Television Group. "We had the experts" — Drs. Phil and Oz and The Doctors, Carroll says.
Now, viewers want versatility, McLoughlin says, "someone who's multi-dimensional, who has this ability to traverse across a range of emotions and topics," from Haiti to Heidi (Montag).
Cooper is still keeping one foot in the literal trenches (Afghanistan, Somalia) that AC 360 traverses. "I'm more energized and interested in what's happening in our world than ever before. I think what we're seeing in the Middle East is just remarkable," he says. "It's such an exciting time that we're living in and I feel amazed that I'm able to be on the front lines of history and see it happening. It's incredibly cool." Though the programs will share little overlap, occasionally Anderson might air live if a big enough story — akin to, say, May's massive Joplin, Mo., tornado — warrants it.
And how does Cooper, a non-coffee drinker, fuel up for five tapings a week, plus CNN? "Amphetamines," he jokes. "I discovered those years ago." The audience roars.
"That kind of energy will allow him to break through," Carroll says.
Still, Cooper's big challenge will be going head-to-head in certain markets with established shows. In Philadelphia, for example, as an audience member points out, he'll be up against his "good friend," as he puts it, Kelly Ripa. "Thank God there are DVRs," he tells the diverse crowd. There are middle-aged women in matching yellow-and-black striped sweaters and others in head scarves. There are even a smattering of men, some in suits.
"I'm bummed I'm not working with Kelly," Cooper says later (he would "love" to have Ripa on as a guest) "but to be able to do a show where I can do more than just talk to celebrities, where I can talk to real people facing challenges and do stories that I can't do on news but stories which really do impact people's lives and resonate with people's lives. You can't do that anywhere else." To wit: This week he's looking at the working vs. stay-at-home-mom debate through both the lens of a new movie, the Sarah Jessica Parker-starring I Don't Know How She Does It, and the struggles of real women.
"Viewers are going to sample," says Carroll. "Is Ellen to their taste or is Oz to their taste or is Phil to their taste — or is Anderson to their taste?"
At least some watchers of today's taping are keeping their options open. "No one's hooked me yet," says occasional Oprah (and AC 360) watcher Robin Herman, 26, an unemployed social worker from Springfield, N.J. "Maybe this will." Cooper, Herman says, is "charismatic, a little charming and also unassuming," the kind of guy who, Vanderbilt pedigree notwithstanding (mom Gloria stops by an upcoming episode), gets $16 haircuts and rides the subway or his bike to work. (Yes, he has been given a hard time about the fact that, as per Anderson's promos, he doesn't wear a helmet. His excuse is that he hasn't found one that looks good, "which I know is no excuse because a feeding tube isn't sexy, either.")
Says Herman's friend, Brooklyn grad student Anna Tsiporin, 27: "He doesn't come across as snobby" — as someone who would sneer too snidely at, say, Snooki.
There she comes, teetering out onto the carpeted stage in a black leather skirt and silver studded belt, her skin burnt umber and her head crowned by a tiny netted black top hat —the spawn of Elvira and a leprechaun.
"Top of the morning to you!" Cooper chirps. Snooki talks about the JerseyShore's recent Italian sojourn, about how a difference between the current season and the show's previous locales is that Italy is "another country."
"People often say that about Italy, that it's another country," Cooper says.
Cue another taped summer segment, this time Cooper and Snooki going spray-tanning. As the studio screens show Cooper in a hair net, showing off his sizable "situation" — er, six-pack. ("After 20 years of being a reporter, it's nice to be able to exercise different muscles," he says off-set.) As his screen self readies for the air brush, a watching, seated Cooper buries his head in his left hand and crinkles up his deeply furrowed brow. (Lately, viewers have been wondering via e-mail if the groove is really a cut on his forehead. "Maybe it's just more people getting more HDTVs, or maybe I'm just getting very old very quickly," he speculates. "Maybe I'll go gray.")
About inviting members of the RidicuList to his show: "There's nothing better than somebody who has a sense of humor about themselves and are willing to poke fun at themselves, and I try to do that to myself all the time," Cooper says later. "I'm not doing anything that's completely antithetical to anything that I am. Maybe (a topic) is something that is silly and frivolous," but "if I'm not interested in it, I'm trying to understand why other people are."
And yet, with his ballooning profile (there's a video billboard of him in Times Square), more people are interested in him. (As McLoughlin says: "He goes to get a PB and J sandwich and they write about it in the New York Post.") But if he's an eager talk-show host, he's a reluctant celebrity. "I don't think of myself as a public figure," Cooper says. "I know it's totally naïve and not reality." And he knows that the very nature of his new gig requires a level of intimacy with the audience (hence the online and on-set opportunities to "ask Anderson" virtually anything).
"I am pretty private and I do like to keep a certain level of my personal life personal and that's the sort of way I've always been, but this is a different venue, a different format and we'll see what happens," Cooper continues. "I don't plan out stuff. It just sort of happens organically," like the question, posed during a recent taping, about whether he dyes his hair. "The idea I would intentionally dye it this color is sort of funny to me."
Or, "boxers, briefs or commando?" (He gets that one all the time.) The answer? "It depends on the day."
And yes, "people are clearly interested" in his dating life, he acknowledges, but he keeps mum on the subject. "It's not a question I ask other people. It doesn't interest me."
"There's a lot of daytime in here," Herman says while scanning the set, from the talk show-friendly potted orchids to, more literally, the 50-by-90-foot floor-to-ceiling glass wall overlooking Columbus Circle that after days of rain is finally letting in light. In the opposite corner stands a blue shower curtain. Cooper solicits guesses from the audience as to what lies within: a portrait of Griffin? A spray-tanning booth?
It's nighttime anchor-Cooper — dark suit, white shirt, burgundy tie, silver coif, "blue-steel" gaze (as per Griffin), a wax figure destined for Madame Tussauds nearly 20 blocks south. "I look like kind of a jerk," Cooper says.
Herman has a slightly different assessment: "He looks so uptight, like he's holding his breath, like he's constipated" — like someone completely different from the guy who bounds around the studio, signing books for fans, extending a hand and getting a hug in return.
"His daywear," Tsiporin says — dark jeans, black suede boots, chunky brown belt, crimson and white checked shirt with the sleeves rolled up — "is so much cuter."
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like home, but definitely not mine
I didn't care for the ambience. It reminded me of that friend. Remember that one friend from high school whose home looked the same when you graduated, as it did when you guys were just 5? Outdated, stale, and musty? That's what Le Comme Chez Soi feels like - someone's living room or a lumberjack's mancave. It's adorned with old lamps and home-y furniture. Kudos for their vision, but I am obviously not their target demographic.
I loved their open kitchen though. It's a bright light at the end of a dark tunnel.
I loved their open kitchen though. It's a bright light at the end of a dark tunnel.
In the interest of full disclosure, you should know this was not my first choice. My sister and I went to Sparrow, but they only have a set menu. It looked innovative and interesting but I wasn't feeling it, so we left.
My stomach simply had no room for creativity or courses. It just wanted some eggs and protein.
So we walked a block-and-a-half to Le Comme Chez Soi. Their menu was simple and predictable. That was EXACTLY what we were craving.
We shared the benedict and the burger. I wouldn't have thought to get a burger - except I remember reading about it on Mr. Lew's blog. It stood out because it`s made with bison. I like bison - like beef but leaner.
|Dried cranberries...who would have thought.
Stealing the idea.
|Bison burger with roquefort and bacon
My only complaint is that they treat ketchup like it's a rare commodity. Our dishes came out with the silver tin only half-full. Obviously we had to ask for more. When they brought another tin over, it was even less full. Now if there's one thing our family could bet our house on, it's the fact that my sister loves ketchup. So I can only imagine what her inner angry little girl was saying. She can fool the server, but the smile on her outer peaceful adult woman didn't fool me.
Even with the lack of ketchup, our brunch was yummy. A special thumbs up for the homefries - crispy and not greasy. Everything tasted just as it looked. And sometimes that's all you can handle on a Sunday afternoon.

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Q: Could the relay box be what's making my car want to die? on 1994 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera
My battery in my car died. So my car sat for 3 months. I keep having things done to it, thinking it's this and that what is wrong with it. The battery died and had it recharged recently. But my car keeps wanting to stop and not run good. When I am stopped at lights, it makes chugging sound and sometimes it dies and I have to restart it. I was told, it could be my relay box. That the points on it are sticking. Could that be the problem with my car? My brother who is a Certified Auto Tech., said it's probably a sensor. It needs to be checked. I called Sears and they told me, in order to do that, the engine light needs to be on. Sometimes it's on, and then it isn't. Does that light Have to be on to do any kind of testing? I need my car. And I need to know what I should do to get it repaired.
The best thing to do is to have it diagnosed by a reputable repair shop, or your brother if he has the diagnostic equipment.
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I'm concerned about some initial sociologial (versus technological) trends I'm seeing on Google+. Admittedly, I haven't played around with it too much — I still like Twitter and Facebook, since people with whom I have high-value relationships participate heavily there. Google+ is more a novelty (and a necessity for me to figure out for my clients). And frankly, while I know lots of people love the Circles — for the non-Google+-er, those are groups in which you have to put people — I'm overwhelmed by having to choose where I want to put every single person in whom I have some semblence of interest. The implications of Circles could be a whole 'nother post, so I'll leave it at that.
What I've found troublesome so far is that the atmosphere/culture Google+ has far less "personality" than the other services do. I don't see as much intimate content there (yet?) as I do other services. And the intimate content that is posted there doesn't seem to resonate as much with readers. Read more →
There's a new social networking service in town. It's called Google+/Google Plus. The beta isn't fully open to the public yet.
There's a lot of nerdy/media-y navel-gazing going on there right now.
There will be advantages to businesses, political organizations and non-profits down the road.
There are some features "stolen" from other social networks; others are brand new. Users will like some things and hate others.
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Remove the roasting pan from the heat and carefully cover it with a fitted lid or heavy-duty aluminum foil.
Even though bouts of heavy-duty panic still abound, I remain optimistic.
He always brought a heavy-duty hockey duffel with him to work, but he hit the gym more often and toned down.
Cover the roasting pan with a fitted top or heavy-duty aluminum foil.
Increasing fuel-economy standards for heavy-duty vehicles is, too.
He turned away and pulled three heavy-duty paralo-ray pistols out of the cabinet.
He ran some heavy-duty motors off it and a few other things like that.
She picked up a shirt of heavy-duty khaki from the pile on the bed and handed it to him.
A heavy-duty drilling machine performs this work, then the block goes to the lathe for further operations.
I'd say at least three heavy-duty paralo-ray pistols for side arms, and three shock rifles.
Very active; highly productive: The sting identified 46 ''heavy-duty taggers''
[1940s+; fr the term for a particularly strong and durable machine, found by 1914]


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YOUTUBE AWARDS: In the Books...HIP HOP NEWS YOU NEED TO KNOW!!!
YOUTUBE AWARDS: In the Books
Now that YouTube has become a major force in both music and video consumption, the site has entered the awards business. The first YouTube Music Awards were webcast live tonight (Sunday) from New York, hosted by actor-musician Jason Schwartzman and comedian-musician Reggie Watts. Amid performances by Eminem, Lady Gaga, Arcade Fire, M.I.A., Tyler the Creator and Avicii, awards were handed out in six categories.
Video of the Year: Girls' Generation "I Got a Boy"
Artist of the Year: Eminem
Response of the Year: Lindsey Stirling and Pentatonix "Radioactive"
YouTube Phenomenon: Taylor Swift "I Knew You Were Trouble"
YouTube Breakthrough: Macklemore & Ryan Lewis
Innovation of the Year: DeStorm "See Me Standing"


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Augustin Stable's Forever Together kept her perfect record intact Saturday at Gulfstream Park, drawing clear to a two-length victory over Elk Manor Farm's favored Silver Knockers in the $150,000 Forward Gal Stakes (gr. II) for 3-year-old fillies at seven furlongs.
With jockey Elvis Trujillo aboard, Forever Together stalked pacesetter Changeisgonnacome down the backstretch before taking command at the top of the stretch. She crossed the finish line in 1:22 3/5 over the fast track. Jayeff B Stable's You Asked finished third, 3 3/4 lengths behind the runner-up in the strung out field of seven 3-year-old fillies.
Forever Together is a roan/gray daughter of Belong to Me--Constant Companion (Relaunch) bred in Kentucky by White Fox Farm and purchased for $240,000 at the OBS March 2-year-old sales. In two previous starts before the Forward Gal, she broke her maiden at Delaware Park in early November and was a 2 1/2-length winner of an OBS Sprint in Ocala last out on Feb. 12 when teamed with Trujillo for the first time. She bumped her earnings to $144,000.
"My horse had a lot of speed and finished strong," Trujillo said.
"Mr. (George) Strawbridge has a substantial broodmare band, but the pedigrees tend to produce a lot of distance horse on grass," noted winning trainer Jonathan Sheppard. "So they like to diversify with some (auction) purchases. She ran well to break her maiden at Delaware, and she was eligible for the OBS race, which is a restricted race and essentially amounts to a non-winners of two. That was a step up and today was another big step. So far, so good. I can't say what might be next, but Mr. Strawbridge is partial to Keeneland."
Changeisgonnacome set fractions of :22 1/5 and :45 1/5 before tiring in the stretch under Cornelio Velasquez. Forever Together stumbled early before staking a position three wide. After getting the lead, she drifted out a bit late. Silver Knockers, trapped on the inside behind the pacesetter at the quarter pole, was second best after getting clear in the stretch. You Asked closed mildly to snatch third by a nose from Awsugahnow. Changeisgonnacome, Boca Grande, and Bold Assurance followed.
Sent off as the fourth choice, Forever Together paid $12.20, $4.80, and $3.60. Silver Knockers, favored off a four-length allowance win Feb. 8, returned $4 and $2.60. You Asked, second to Dream Rush in the Old Hat (gr. III) last time, was $2.60 to show.
(Chart, Equibase)
Forever Together Steps Up in Forward Gal
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Using OSX Spotlight from within EmacsPosted: August 8, 2009 Filed under: Emacs | Tags: Emacs, howto, OSX, search 1 Comment
Emacs comes with a 'locate' command that uses the locate system command to find files within your system.
On OS X, it is easier to use Spotlight, which is trivial to enable in Emacs.
In your .emacs file, add the following code:
(setq locate-command "mdfind")
Now try: M-x locate <enter your search here>
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Surely the timeline at the beginning of the episode is way off. When Meredith calls Tru at the morgue and explains about Harrison, Tru already knows because the body has been delivered. Yet as we see from the Meredith scene, Harrison has only just been arrested and police are still at the scene. It would need an ME to pronounce the death at the scene and all kinds of forensic stuff, so how come the body arrived well before Harrison was even arrested? For that matter, how come Meredith is at the scene? He wouldn't have been allowed to call a lawyer until he arrived at the police station surely? Even if he'd asked for Meredith, she'd have to meet him at the precinct.
Tru: I don't work for your wife. I'm here to help you.
Andrew: Help me with what?
Tru: Live to see tomorrow.
Andrew: Is that a threat?
Tru: No, it's not. But if I'm gonna help you I need you to be honest with me.
Andrew: So, tell me about the book. Beer? Wine? Can I get you something?
Tru: Why do I think you're not interested in the book?
Andrew: Why do I think you're one of the most perceptive women I've met lately?
Tru: Harrison, look at me, would you look at me? 22 years old and one way or another I've lost everyone I've ever loved. Our mother to a bullet, our father to lack of interest, Meredith to coke and ambition; don't you see? I can't lose you too, otherwise I'll have no one left. I'm cursed because I can see the future. If you go there right now, I'll have no one. Without you I'm all alone.
Harrison: You will never lose me Tru.
Davis: We're all someplace for a reason, just sometimes we need to accept what that reason is.
Harrison: (to Tru when meeting Sarah) For the future, two topics are off-limits when meeting my new girlfriends: my exes and their exes.
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Czech Republic: September 4, 2009 on Prima COOL
Music in this episode includes White Flag by Dido. The music video features David Boreanaz. David Boreanaz and Eliza Dushku have worked together on Buffy the Vampire Slayer and Angel.
In this episode, Tru finally reveals her powers to relive days to Harrison.
Filming for this episode began 8/13/03.
Title: Brother's Keeper
Brother's Keeper was a documentary movie with a similar plot to this episode.
It is also a reference to the story of Cain and Abel from the Bible. After Cain has killed Abel, God asks where Abel is and Cain replies 'I know not: Am I my brother's keeper?' The wider implication is that we all have responsibility for everyone, particularly relevant in Tru's case, of course.
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Source: Blabbermouth.net
Guitarist/vocalist Joe Bonamassa says that he would make another BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION album "in a minute," despite the fact that he left the band earlier this year following a public feud between singer/bassist Glenn Hughes.
The war of words goes back to last September, when Hughes began telling journalists that Bonamassa's solo touring schedule was preventing BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION from touring and fulfilling its potential. He stated that if the situation didn't change, BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION's third album, "Afterglow", could be the group's last recording project.
Asked what he would say if he bumped into Hughes in the street, Bonamassa told Classic Rock for the magazine's July 2013 issue: "I would say: 'Glenn, its nice to see you.' And you know why? I'm still a friend of Glenn Hughes, I'm still a fan of Glenn Hughes. I just disagree with the methods he went about trying to get me to commit to a two-year world tour of Shanghai and the great sea ports of the world."
Regarding what went wrong with BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION, Bonamassa said: "In 2009, when we talked about it [BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION], it seemed like the perfect situation for everybody. The words were — and these weren't my words — 'I have a solo thing that goes out every year,' or 'I have commitments with Billy Idol.' And I go: 'Well, I tour like an idiot, so we can just get together and play, maybe make a record and do a couple of one-off gigs.' We did a one-off thing at [London rehearsal facility) John Henry's, which is one of the best musical experiences of my life. That was exhilarating. It was four guys shooting for the fences. Unfettered rock 'n' roll, early '70s style. Everybody was on the same page at the very beginning. It's just when it became more successful, a couple of them wanted to move the game a little bit. And then I was, like, 'I can't.' That situation would break me. I did nine weeks in the summer. When I came home, I didn't pick up the guitar for a while. It burned me out. So unfortunately, the methods with which the whole thing came to a close, I don't agree with. But he's still my friend.
If Glenn phoned you in five years' time and said: "Joe, do you fancy playing a one-off gig?" would you do it?
Bonamassa: "I'd do it in a minute, yeah."
And what if he said: "I want to make another BLACK COUNTRY COMMUNION album"?
Bonamassa: "I'd do that in a minute. But I wouldn't want to play Peoria, Illnois, and then Rockford, and then St. Louis, and then an 80-show tour of the U.S. and the summer festivals. That's not on the cards. It never was on the cards, ever."


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Best Of :: Food & Drink
Even at excellent sushi bars, the best that diners can expect at meal's end is some red-bean or green-tea ice cream out of a carton. At Shoji Sushi, where Hedy Goldsmith reigns as pastry chef, the green tea flavors a to-die-for white chocolate cheesecake with blackberry coulis, or a crème brûlée accompanied by sake gelee, candied kumquats, and a lacy brown rice tuile. Goldsmith, an honors graduate of the Culinary Institute of America's first Baking & Pastry Arts class, is also in charge of the desserts at the other two restaurants in Myles Chefetz's one-square-block South Beach eats empire, upscale New American Nemo and all-American diner Big Pink, and at each of the three very different eateries, the sweets flawlessly suit the mood. Nemo regulars would riot if Goldsmith's warm chocolate pudding cake in a rich sweet cream puddle were ever removed from the menu. Big Pink people would sooner allow ya to step on their blue suede shoes than to leave the table without a big chunk of Elvis's favorite red velvet cake -- here even more heavenly than in The King's current place of residence. Let's face it: the woman is not a pastry chef, she is a Dessert Goddess, capital letters totally intended.
Readers Choice: Cheesecake Factory
Restaurants rarely make their own bread (so much easier to source it from a good bakery), and those that do frequently limit their production to one or two specialties. Not so Bizcaya Grill. Maybe it's because, given its location in the Ritz-Carlton Coconut Grove, it has the space and resources to do it. No doubt having an overnight baker helps as well. But whatever the reason, the results are what you can count on, or depending on your mood, count calories on: fresh-baked Danish pastries and muffins for breakfast. Pain du chocolate and croissants at Sunday brunch. Parmesan buns and lemon brioche to partner burgers and fish sandwiches, respectively, for the midday meal. And at dinner the piéce de resistance -- pretzel bread dotted with coarse salt or pumpkin seeds. The object, of course, is not to eat so much of the bread that you have no appetite for the foie gras served with a shot of vinegar or the black-and-white rabbit cannelloni. But then, we were never ones to shy away from a challenge.
Readers Choice: Don Pan
Sit in a booth, or sidle up to the counter and enjoy a massive repast with any and all combinations of the breakfast staples that make you want to go right back to bed: ham, bacon, sausage, waffles, pancakes, eggs, biscuits, gravy, grits. Chuck Wagon breakfasts provide the caloric intake you would need for ploughing your fields or rounding up cattle (rather than sitting at your terminal, wondering if co-workers can hear your stomach gurgle through the cubicle walls). Breakfast is available all day, and specials last from 6:00 to 10:00 a.m. Daily specials include a two eggs, grits, and bacon breakfast for $2, and omelet and breakfast combos that change every day, but hover around the $4-$5 price range.
A perennial favorite in the dim sum category, Tropical -- surprise -- also serves a great din-din. Traditional dishes include Hong Kong-style roast pork flavored with five-spice and then roasted; seafood-spinach soup; and always crisp, always succulent Peking duck. But innovative items are equally reliable, if unusual -- flounder pan-fried with peppercorns and jalapeños and served with bananas marinated in rice wine, for example, offers interesting counterpoints of textures, as does cherry-plum chicken wrapped with diced water chestnuts and fresh bamboo in egg-white crêpes. A healthy wine list replete with floral Rieslings adds to the fine-dining effect, giving aficionados of all kinds reason to make Tropical an evening as well as morning destination.
To borrow a line from the old ad campaign for Arnold's rye bread, you don't have to be Jewish to eat kosher chocolate. Indeed whether you follow those dietary rules or not, the ultimate issue is taste, for which Krön is an ecumenical experience of the heavenly culinary variety. Its tantalizing array of candies, truffles, and dipped fruits are all made by hand with top-notch ingredients (and prices to match). Coffee and baked goods like brownies and cookies are also for sale, though the tables set out in the middle of the mall are decidedly unatmospheric. Recent ink on the store has hinted at expansion plans. Let's hope any new outlets include a proper café.
This charming crêperie replicates the design of a classic French café: the tile floors, the long wooden benches along the walls, lots of reading material lying about, and good, strong java. If the weather were cooler, one could easily picture a professorial type in corduroys perusing Le Monde over his afternoon espresso. Locals and tourists alike flock for the delicious savory and sweet crêpes, along with other simple fare like croque monsieur (the Gallic version of grilled cheese with ham), at prices that will make you wonder whether you are really still in South Beach. To avoid a wait, come earlyish on a weekend morning with a newspaper or a book, and ease into the day over a steaming bowl of café au lait.
Readers Choice: Starbucks
BEST DESSERTS: Hedy Goldsmith
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CAMPANIA, ITALY – Thousands of protesters demonstrated in Naples on Saturday to prevent the Catholic Church from gaining any control over the treasure of a local saint, reputedly worth more than the British crown jewels.
The protest was sparked by a decree issued by Interior Minister Angelino Alfano.
Critics say his move opens the door to church control, as it threatens a lay council that for centuries has guarded the jewel-encrusted treasures donated by kings and aristocrats in honor of St. Januarius, or San Gennaro in Italian.
The lay council was established in the 16th century as the southern Italian city struggled to overcome a series of devastating misfortunes: a resurgence of the plague, a siege by the French and an eruption by the volcano Vesuvius which set off earthquakes.
Those who survived pledged in 1527 to build a chapel to their patron saint, who was beheaded in A.D. 305 during the persecution of Christians by the Emperor Diocletian.
Not only was the chapel built with the city's money, it was presided over by the newly formed council, made up of 12 lay citizens and the mayor, and came to house one of the world's most important collections of religious treasures.
As well as silver busts of saints, there are heavily-jeweled necklaces and earrings and a golden miter, the ceremonial headdress of bishops, which is studded with 3,326 diamonds, 164 rubies and nearly 200 emeralds.
Alfano ruled that the council is the same as any other caretaker body that manages religious buildings.
But the council and its supporters say it is much more than that, particularly because it oversees the Gennaro miracle. Three times a year, a ceremony is held in which locals pray for miraculous liquefaction of the saint's blood, held in a glass vial clutched by a priest or cardinal.
If the blood does not return to liquid from its coagulated state, it is seen as a bad omen for the city.


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Black Butterflies
Black Butterflies is a Dutch film about the life of South-African poet Ingrid Jonker, shot-through with lines of her poetry. The film was directed by Paula van der Oest and recently released in South Africa. You can see the trailer here.
The name of the movie comes from the line in one of Jonker's poems: "For the sun that I now cover forever with black butterflies."
The film is a depiction of the life of Ingrid Jonker (1933-65), who is played by Carice Van Houten. Her parents divorce, she lives with her sister at her mother's and, after the death of her mother, she and her sister come to live with their father (played by Hauer). Ingrid marries, and gives birth to a daughter, but the marriage doesn't last. Her father, South-Africa's Minister of Censorship, opposes her relationship with author Jack Cope (played by Cunningham) and her anti-apartheid poetry. As Ingrid keeps opposing the regime in her poetry, their relationship becomes even more strained and he tells her he never wants to see her ever again.
Reviews of the film have begun to appear in South African newspapers and on various websites.
The Sunday Independent writes: "Black Butterflies is a beautiful portrait of an artist felled in her prime by her own psychological demons, flailing powerless against the noise within, a noise that produced violently beautiful poetry and, chillingly, also served as knife and ending."
The Mail and Guardian says "Black Butterflies is a film that asserts Jonker as a complex, contradictory and rebellious poet. It provides an exceptional look into her life, concentrating on her tumultuous love affair with Cope, her troubled relationship with her father and her great need to express herself through her poetry."
City Press concludes: "It's a brooding, shadowy picture with a severe and emotional gravity. The sum of it all does not pretend to celebrate its primary subject or her turbulent life. Rather, what we are presented with here is a passionate portrait of her wounds."
Mahala is less complimentary.
I haven't seen it yet but I have been anticipating it since much earlier in the year when I first heard about it while interviewing Rutger Hauer, who was in Cape Town, filming the Heineken Kidnapping.
Black Butterflies was also mostly shot in Cape Town in March and April 2010. Look out for beautiful beach and sea shots of Llandudno. Other Cape Town locations are the playgrounds and the Promenade in Sea Point, Clifton's Second Beach, Bo-Kaap, Table Mountain, Chapman's Peak, Strandfontein, and Noordhoek Beach. A group of well-known South African actors star too: Graham Clarke as Uys Krige and Grant Swanby as Jan Rabie, along with many others. I leave you with a 2007 translation of one of her poems, by Antjie Krog & André Brink, taken from the collection ttitled "Black Butterflies", published by Human & Rousseau.
Bitter-berry daybreak
Bitter-berry daybreak
bitter-berry sun
a mirror has broken
between me and him
I try to find the highway
perhaps to run away
but everywhere the footpaths
of his words lead me astray
Pinewood remember
pinewood forget
however much I lose my way
I step on my regret
Parrot-coloured echo
tricks me tricks me on
until I turn beguiled
to retrieve the mocking song
Echo gives no answer
he answers everyone
bitter-berry daybreak
bitter-berry sun
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Alberta Arts Days are Sept 30 - Oct 2, 2011.
Alberta Arts Days are this weekend and Grande Prairie is planning a great weekend to celebrate visual, drama, music and literary arts. We're busy planning, so be sure to visit
for the full line up of events happening in the city as it becomes available.
Saturday Night Cocktail Party!
Cultural Costume Party
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Location: Teresa Sargent Hall, Montrose Cultural Centre
Time: 7:30 pm – 1:00 am
Free admission
You are invited to join us! The Prairie Art Gallery is hosting a cocktail party to celebrate Alberta's unique blend of peoples and passions. Guests are welcome to wear traditional cultural attire or even dress up as their favourite super hero or movie character. Share your love of sports, cooking, theatre, animals – whatever it may be! Costume-free guests are welcome to join the party, but we invite you to express yourself and what you love by using your fashion!
Family Workshop: Mask Making
Saturday, October 1, 2011
Location: Montrose Cultural Centre
1:00 pm – 5:00 pm
The Prairie Art Gallery is hosting a free mask making workshop where families and children can drop-in to design and make their own mask to wear and take home. Drop-in anytime between 1:00 – 5:00 pm and get creative with us!
High Art: Passport to the Peaks
September 6 – November 15, 2011
Location: Teresa Sargent Hall, Montrose Cultural Centre
The exhibition "High Art: Passport to the Peaks" serves as a documentary of the Passport to the Peaks program which has become a part of Alberta's history. It cements the relationship between fine art, sport and personal achievement. Artist Robert Guest and Dr. Keith Darcel are deeply connected to the natural history written all over the Canadian Rockies. Both of these men are avid outdoorsmen and have created a program that has been enticing potential climbers and hikers to experience something they have fallen passionately in love with: encountering nature.
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We're on the move, again.
As the restoration of The Prairie Art Gallery continues forward, our location within the Montrose Cultural Centre is entering a new phase of construction. Our location within the Montrose Cultural Centre is currently closed for construction as of September 2, 2011. We will continue to be available by phone and email. Thank you for your patience during this time of transition.
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In "Elysium", the film, the working poor live on a vast planetary slum called "Earth " and all the rich people live north of River in the foothills. Jodi Foster is in charge of the PTO at Catalina Foothills High 90210.
Sanjay Gupta just said he was sorry about his stand on Elysium. He has a hit before every on air appearance.
Whitey Bulger? I missed something. In what episode of Breaking Bad did Walt kill him with a baseball bat?Anthony Weiner just sent me a pic of his Whitey Bulger. I'm not following his tweets anymore.
US spends $13 million on 21 homes in Ajo for border agents,
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Man shot in buttocks by 3-year old son
NRA: if dad armed it wouldn't have happened.
Tea Party Representative votes to repeal Obamacare for 40th time
because bites from snake handling aren't covered.
The feature of Obamacare I like? Once a day mandatory Colonoscopies for all Tea Party members on the IRS list----FOX News, We report, you decide.
Ben Franklin was the first American to have a Colonialoscopy. Dr. Fishbine of Boston found two polyps and some kite string. Stay tuned for more on this week's National Geographic Special.
Republicans vote 40 times to repeal Republican healthcare plan.
Republicans blame Florida sinkhole on Obamacare. Film at 11 if the film crew isn't swallowed alive.
Stop and Frisk banned in NYC. Is that the new Harlem Shake?
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The 18-year-old Scot had beaten Tim Henman on his way to the quarter-final match, but the Chilean player proved too strong for him in the end.
It was the last competitive match of the year for Murray and he said he had learned a lot this year.
"I am just looking forward to starting again next year," he said.
"The main thing I have to take away from this year is that I have played against two or three top 10 players and have gone the distance."
Tennis legend John McEnroe has tipped Murray to be the top Briton at Wimbledon next year.
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LOS ANGELES — A former Charles Manson follower who was on the brink of release from prison two years ago before then-Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger intervened goes before another parole board panel Wednesday.
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Texas Monthly puts Lamar Elementary on list of state's best schools
By FAITH HUFFMAN | News-Telegram News Editor
Nov 30, 2007 - Lamar Elementary School continues to set a high standard for children and education, not only in Sulphur Springs and Hopkins County, but the entire state.
The neighborhood elementary school is listed as one of the top schools in the Lone Star State in the December issue of Texas Monthly magazine.
Lamar is one of "859 elementary, middle, and high schools that really make the grade" and put them on Texas Monthly's "Best Public Schools" list.
Texas Monthly partnered with the National Center for Educational Accountability, formerly known as Just for the Kids, to publish the roster. It's the fourth time the magazine and NCEA have partnered to compile the list, and the third time Lamar has made the grade, according to Sulphur Springs Independent School District Director of Elementary Education Connie Mabe.
NCEA analyzed student test results for the past three years as the bbasis for this year's ranking. Students at the elementary schools rated as "The Best Public Schools" performed better across all grades on the Texas Assessment of Knowledge and Skills (TAKS) test than their counterparts at other schools around the state, according to information provided by Cathy Casey, senior editor of Texas Monthly.
According to Texas Monthly's web site, NCEA's College and Career Readiness benchmark was used as a measuring stick, and the top 5 percent of schools are automatically included. The rest are added because they perform better than predicted using statistical analyses.
Lamar was recognized for its high math scores, with 33.3333 percent considered to be high performing.
Earlier this year, the Texas Education Agency recognized Lamar Elementary as a "distinguished performance school," one of only 129 campuses in the state to receive the honor. It was the second consecutive year, and the ninth of the last 10 years, in which TEA recognized Lamar Elementary with the distinguished designation.
Lamar Elementary also shows up regularly on the TEA's list of exemplary schools when annual accountability ratings are released.
Outside of Hopkins County, four other schools in the area made the list: Winnsboro High School and Lone Oak Elementary School, as well as two elementary schools in Greenville ISD,
More information is available over the Internet at www.texasmonthly.com/2007-12-01/feature6.php or on the NCEA website, http://just4kids.org/.
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Unsuspecting Mr. Dietrichson becomes increasingly accident prone after his icily calculating wife encourages him to sign a double indemnity policy proposed by a smooth-talking insurance agent. Against a backdrop of distinctly California settings, the partners in crime plan the perfect murder to collect the insurance. Perfect until a claims manager gets a familiar feeling of foul play and pursues the matter relentlessly.
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My daughter is a healthy 15 year old. 5'6 125 pounds. She doesn't diet, just eats healthy and she's on the swim team. Despite being a normal weight and active she still has areas on her body that haven't seemed to change and that she's unhappy with mainly her stomach and hips. Would she be able to have liposuction?
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Could my 15 Year Old Daughter Have Liposuction
Liposuction on a teenager
While it would be legal with parental consent to have liposuction, I think you would be hard-pressed to find a surgeon willing to perform the procedure as most know that at age 15 her body is still continuing to grow and change. In addition, she should be more mature at the time of surgery so that she is fully able to understand any possible risks and be able to properly comply with post-operative instructions.
Liposuction occasionally indicated on a teenager.
Medically there is no problem with liposuction on a healthy 15-year-old. His matter-of-fact she probably is an ideal candidate. Psychologically it's another matter. The parents will have to sign the consent and take responsibility for the procedure.
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Liposuction in a 15 year old
Personally I am not a fan of performing liposuction on a young teen ager whose body is continuing to change. Unfortunately, this is the time period when young women can be the most self conscious about what others would see as a minor physical flaw. You can often tell by looking at other family members if there is a tendency to hold on to fat pockets in a particular area, and make a determination of whether this problem may be a hereditary and ongoing problem. If you think that it might be, you might want to consider a less invasive treatment, such as Coolsculpting, which would give a non-surgical reduction to a localized fat pocket.
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Liposuction at age 15
Certainly with consent from a parent your 15 year old can have liposuction, however she is still changing and developing and it might be best to wait. There are some compelling inherited shapes which liposuction can address. Most young women easily find things they don't like about themselves and time to grow physically and emotionally will solve most.
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Can a 15 year old have liposuction?
Thanks for your question. Legally, as long as her parents give consent, it can be done. However, at 15 her body is still changing. Unless there was some very compelling reason for proceeding with a surgery such as this at this point in her life, it would probably be a better idea to defer it until she was more mature physically and emotionally. At that time, she would be in a better position to participate in the decision making process and would likely do better overall as well. Good luck!
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As long as she has your (parental) consent, she can legally have liposuction. By your description, it sounds like she has as a few spot areas that could be effectively reduced.
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Ottawa police were asking Friday for the public's help to identify two women in connection with a suspicious package containing a hoax explosive device found Monday inside a McDonald's restaurant.
Police said the incident happened at 99 Rideau St. around 11:15 p.m.
The first suspect is described as caucasian, 18 to 25 years old, with a thin build and long, straight dark hair. She was wearing a white top, beige shorts, flip flops and a pink backpack.
The second suspect is described as black, 18 to 25 years old, with a thin to medium build with dark curly hair. She was wearing a black T-shirt with white lettering and black-and-red checkered shirt over it.
Anyone with information is asked to contact the Ottawa Police Service Central District Investigations at 613-236-1222, ext. 5166, or Crime Stoppers at 613-236-8477 (TIPS) or toll free at 1-800-222-8477


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A shake-up of current complex tax laws on foreign pensions has been set out by Inland Revenue (IRD). Under existing laws most holders of foreign pension funds, including UK pensions, should be paying tax as the funds grow. Pensions cannot be readily accessed to pay the tax so most people have not reported them in their New Zealand tax return.
The proposed new IRD rules seek to tax when a payment or transfer is made from an overseas pension. They do this by treating a payment or transfer as income which should be reported in your income tax return. For the first four years of being in New Zealand the portion treated as income will be 0 per cent. For each subsequent year the portion increases, until it reaches the point where 100 per cent of the transfer or payment is treated as taxable income.
Given the widespread non-compliance with existing rules the IRD has proposed that if you have previously transferred a pension you can declare it and pay tax as if only 15 per cent of the transfer value was income. This amnesty is for all transfers prior to April 1, 2014. Those who have been in New Zealand more than seven years should consider transferring their foreign pension prior to April 1, 2014 to take advantage of a significant opportunity to save on tax.
For someone who has been in New Zealand for 20 years and has an overseas pension worth $100,000 the tax savings could be up to $18,655.
Transferring a pension to New Zealand may remove the UK tax liability on death benefits, which can be up to 55 per cent of UK pension rights. There are good compelling reasons therefore to transfer overseas pensions now. Go to www.qropsnz.com for more information on the advantages of transferring to a New Zealand pension scheme.
Liz Koh is an authorised financial adviser. The advice given here is general and does not constitute specific advice to any person. A free disclosure statement can be obtained by calling 0800 273 847.


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A quick roundup as Arizona, which defeated Belmont in Thursday's NCAA tournament game, turns its attention to Harvard:
Don't know much about Harvard, which upset New Mexico Thursday? Familiarize yourself with their roster, standings and stats here. You can follow the team on Twitter here.
The Boston Globe delivers a nice game story from the Crimson's upset. The paper has a photo gallery, too.
The Harvard Crimson — the student paper, not the team — breaks down the win.
Bleacher Report lists some keys for a Harvard upset of Arizona.
Neat story here about what watching Harvard hoops used to be like.
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A former minicab driver from Watford was among 40 people honoured in Jewish Care's volunteer of the year awards on Monday evening.
Martyn Fairbanks received a special mention for his efforts working for free at the charity's Karten CTEC Centre in Golders Green.
Twice a week, Martyn teaches members how to use computers, helping them to become proficient at using email, online shopping and editing pictures.
He was a minicab driver until he was diagnosed with multiple sclerosis five years ago. Now he drives an adapted car and can no longer work work but he overcome his own disabilities so that he could continue volunteering.
He said: "After I had acute MS it was hard to get support and a social worker, but then Jewish Care really helped me and I decided I wanted to give something back to them and that's why I volunteer."
Before Martyn received his awards, the President of Jewish Care, Lord Levy, opened the event by thanking his fellow volunteers for making Jewish Care "so special".
He said: "I am proud to say that I am a volunteer like so many of you. Our joint contribution as volunteers is invaluable to the organisation. Without it Jewish Care would have to reduce the services it offers.
"Again this year, we have been able to put a real value against the contribution of our volunteers and we estimate this to be over one million hours at £9.25 million."


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D'IBERVILLE, Mississippi– A car and an 18-wheeler collided near the 47 mile-marker I-10 Saturday night. The driver of the truck and the driver of car both died, according to the Mississippi Highway Patrol.
The 18-wheeler was hauling a tanker trailer with a hazardous substance. The tank did not rupture in the accident.
The driver of the 18-wheeler reportedly lost control, crossed the median and struck the car traveling eastbound.
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John Alessio. Photo property of World Extreme Cagefighting.
Longtime veteran and former UFC and WEC welterweight title challenger John Alessio has reportedly signed a three-fight deal with EliteXC.
The news comes from Sam Caplan of Five Ounces of Pain citing multiple sources. Alessio became a free agent this past spring after the WEC opted not to re-sign him. He last fought in June, submitting Pete Spratt at a ESPN-promoted joint boxing and mixed martial arts card in Las Vegas.
Prior to the win over Spratt, Alessio had a three-fight winning streak snapped courtesy of a disqualification loss to Brock Larson at WEC 33 in March. Early on in the first round, Alessio illegally kneed Larson in the head while he was still down on the mat. Larson was eventually deemed unable to continue, handing Alessio an unfortunate loss.
It's expected that with a victory or two, Alessio could likely challenge newly-crowned EliteXC welterweight champion Jake Shields at some point next year, although the promotion could quickly match the two up at a show later this year if Shields' wishes to face Drew Fickett aren't able to be granted.
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A family released last night from Villawood detention centre after being locked up for four months had not been illegally in Australia, their lawyer said last night.
Ian Hwang, 11, and his six-year-old sister Janie were removed from Stanmore Public School, in Sydney's inner-west, and placed in Villawood in March this year.
Janie was born in Australia and both children grew up here.
Their mother, Young Lee, was arrested the same day for overstaying her visa and has spent the past four months with her children at Villawood.
The family were meant to be deported to South Korea on March 22 but a Federal Court injunction, sought by the Refugee Action Coalition of NSW, kept them in Australia.
The family's lawyer, Michaela Byers, said the Immigration Department had reviewed the family's files and found they had been in Australia legally since 1998. "There's a been a review of their files - meaning their parents' previous visa applications - in which they've found that there was an error," Ms Byers told ABC Television. "So, since 1998, technically the family have been holding bridging visas and have not been illegal.
"They've been in detention for four months, so the department's had many opportunities to review their file, and it appears that they only realised within the past couple of days that there had been an administrative error."
The Immigration Department granted the two children bridging visas and they were released from Villawood. Young Lee is being released into community detention but it is understood the family will stay together.
Ian Hwang, who witnessed someone try to commit suicide while in detention, said he was very happy to be free. "I'd like to thank all those people who helped me out," he told the ABC. "I'm happy to go back to school, yeah. I'm really excited."
He said his sister was also delighted to be out.
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Lord McIntosh of Haringey: My Lords, I wish to express gratitude to the noble Lord, Lord Redesdale, who first suggested it, and to the noble Baroness, Lady Rawlings, who agreed to it, and beg to move that the Bill be committed to a Grand Committee.
Moved, That the Bill be committed to a Grand Committee.--(Lord McIntosh of Haringey.)
On Question, Bill committed to a Grand Committee.
Lord Hunt of Kings Heath: My Lords, before we move to the Statement on the Post Office I should like to take this opportunity to remind the House that the Companion indicates that discussion on a Statement should be confined to brief comments and questions for clarification. Peers who speak at length do so at the expense of other noble Lords.
The Parliamentary Under-Secretary of State, Department of Trade and Industry (Lord Sainsbury of Turville): My Lords, with permission, I wish to repeat a Statement on the future of the Post Office. The Statement is as follows:
"Globalisation of postal services, the growth of electronic mail and the Internet, changing customer demands and greater liberalisation of markets are the key drivers of change worldwide. The main uncertainty is not whether markets will become more competitive, but how far and how fast.
"Other post offices are gearing up for this revolution, seeking greater commercial freedom to do so. Within Europe, for example, the Dutch and German post offices have been investing in substantial acquisitions; Sweden and Finland are free to acquire and invest in other companies and Denmark has already entered a number of strategic alliances. France also enjoys considerable commercial freedom and has a wide spread of joint ventures and acquisitions. In Australia, New Zealand and the Nordic countries, their post offices have become independent PLCs. Germany has announced its intention to privatise and the Netherlands and Singapore have moved to partial privatisation.
"Not surprisingly, the British Post Office has been demanding changes to its own organisation for years but without anyone in government, until now, prepared to act. In the face of market pressures from other public post offices, from private postal operators outside the monopoly area, other communications media and distribution organisations, the Post Office was to be in a position to deliver a wider range of faster, more reliable postal services, differentiated products and prices which meet individual customers' requirements.
"Notwithstanding its successful attempts to adapt and its current profitability, the Post Office cannot meet these challenging times in its present condition. It must change or find, increasingly, it is confined to a diminishing high volume, low mark-up sector of the postal market with all the consequences of falling value and shrinking profits and employment base that this would involve.
"The Government are not prepared to sit back and allow this to happen. The Post Office plays too important a part in our national life--contributing vitally to our economic prosperity and social cohesion--and we have therefore decided to embark on the most radical set of reforms since the modern Post Office was created in 1969. In future, the Post Office will be driven by a combination of effective
"Our starting point is that the relationship between the Post Office and Government has to change. I should make it clear that we certainly do not rule out the possibility of introducing private shareholding into the Post Office--for example through the sale of a minority stake in it--at a later stage. But at present wholesale privatisation--favoured by the Conservative Opposition--would not be a realistic option. It would cause massive uncertainty and diminish the chance of immediate reform now, which would be the worst outcome of all--as the management made clear to us.
"Instead, a radical, new form of public sector enterprise, operating at arm's length from government, needs to be created. This new framework will contain the following features: the Government's role in the Post Office will be restricted to the strategic level, both on matters of commercial direction and on setting social objectives. The Post Office Board will become clearly accountable for its success or failure in running the business; an independent regulator will be established to protect consumer interests, including standards of service; to regulate prices, to ensure the Post Office is able to meet its universal service obligations, and to ensure fair competition; once adequate regulatory provisions are in place to oversee fair competition the Post Office will be able to form joint ventures, enter into partnerships and make acquisitions within the UK beyond the present limit of £20 million per annum; the regulator will have a duty to promote competition by a careful and phased liberalisation of the monopoly postal area, whilst maintaining the universal service obligation; we will require the Post Office to present a rolling five-year strategic plan each year for approval by government. This is essential to protect taxpayers' interests.
"On the basis of that plan, the Government will agree a profit target for the Post Office and the equivalent of a dividend to government, as shareholder, in line with normal commercial dividend practice. This will mean, in effect, more than halving the rate at which profits are removed from the business. The external financing limit (EFL) for the Post Office for the year 1999-2000 will immediately be reduced to £207 million from the provisional figure of £335 million; in future years the EFL will be on a more commercial footing. The Government will expect a dividend of 40 per cent. in contrast to the recent average of 80 per cent.
"This increase in retained profits will enable the Post Office to finance an increased level of investment in the maintenance of its existing business. However, the Government recognise that larger growth investment including acquisitions and joint ventures may require prudent borrowing if the Post Office is to grow successfully with new products, partners and markets. The Government will approve normal Post Office requests for borrowing for investment cases which are commercially robust.
"The Post Office Users National Council will be given a more central role and its powers increased.
"A uniform public tariff will be maintained for those activities which fall within the obligation on the Post Office to provide a universal service. The Post Office will, however, be given the freedom to price flexibly for volume users and, within the monopoly area, the regulator will restrict prices to make sure the Post Office is not making excess monopoly profits. This will be a real spur to efficiency and ensure the general public is paying no more than it should for normal postal deliveries.
"We intend to provide statutorily for the newly appointed independent regulator carrying out these duties as part of the implementation of the European Union Postal Office Directive next year. I will therefore be bringing forward measures under Section 2.2 of the European Communities Act to put this framework in place.
"The Government remain firmly committed to a network of post offices across the country. The sub-post office in particular plays a valuable role in local communities and offers real service, particularly to the less mobile. We will set a social objective for the Post Office and for the regulator of maintaining an effective network. The individual businessmen and women who run the post office cum village shop often have to be very enterprising to keep them afloat. With the best will in the world, the Post Office cannot sustain a network if it is not used, nor can the Government. But we intend to ensure reasonable access nationwide to those who need post office service on an electronic basis or face to face with the sub-postmaster or mistress.
"Because the Post Office will be at a strategic arm's length from government, we will therefore set criteria for public access to the services of Post Office Counters which will be policed by the regulator.
"There has been a moratorium on the Crown office conversion programme. I have now agreed with the Post Office a strategy, which reflects proposals put by the Post Office to the trades unions, of retaining a core of directly owned and managed Crown offices which account for a significant value of the business done at post office counters. But the strategy also recognises that some further conversions will be beneficial to customers and the business. This is a sensible way forward, and I am therefore lifting the moratorium.
"If the Post Office is to operate on a commercial basis, it must be able to reward staff for their efforts, taking account of the success of their business, but cutting the cloth to fit in difficult periods. The
"Events will, no doubt, continue to move rapidly in this constantly changing commercial environment and further structural changes might be required to enable the Post Office to grow and to meet customer needs and which are in the best interests of the Post Office and its staff. As I said earlier, we do not rule out the possibility of making further changes to equip the Post Office for success, such as a minority share sale or an exchange of equity with other businesses. These options will be kept under review. We will need legislation in due course, in any case, to reflect the long-term nature of the reform package we are putting in place, including turning the Post Office into a PLC to underline the commercialisation of the business.
"The reform programme I have outlined will provide a balanced package of freedoms and disciplines for the Post Office. It is, I believe, the best possible package of reforms available to the Post Office, which to date has been left starved of resources to invest in growth and unable to step up to new market challenges in the way that other European postal services have done.
"Over the past year we have appointed a dynamic new chairman and have refreshed the board with new non-executives with wide and complementary business skills. They have a vision of a British Post Office which is world class and which aims to be among the most successful in the world. We must give the Post Office the opportunity to bring this about.
"Considerable benefits to the consumer will be the result in terms of choice, price and quality of service.
"We are ushering in the start of a confident, bright new dawn for the Post Office, and are looking to its management and workforce to seize the opportunities, putting right the neglect of the past.
"Everyone stands to be a winner from our reforms which will be set out in more detail in a White Paper early in the new year. In the meantime, I commend them to the House".
Baroness Miller of Hendon: My Lords, I thank the Minister for repeating the Statement made in the other place. I apologise to him for the fact that I was not able to accede to his request that the Statement should be taken after six o'clock. I am sure that, on reflection, the Minister will agree that it is necessary for your Lordships to hear such news here first, in the Chamber, rather than on the news later. It would not be appropriate to marginalise either House of Parliament in that way.
As it appears that the Treasury was in favour of the sale of at least a substantial minority share of the business, and the Secretary of State for Trade and Industry seems to have won that particular argument, may we know how the capital receipts estimated at £2 billion, on which the Treasury was presumably relying in its forecasts, will be made up?
Although the Government claim that they will be giving more commercial freedom to the Post Office, it is not clear how that will be achieved. We all remember how the telephone service was starved of funds before it was privatised, freed of Treasury shackles and the constraints of the PSBR.
Where will the funds for commercial expansion come from? It is estimated that the Post Office needs £2.7 billion over the next few years. If the Treasury is still to cream off a substantial part of the profits after tax over and above what would be a normal shareholder's dividend, will not that continue to starve the Post Office of funds?
The Statement suggests that the 80 per cent. of profits that the Treasury currently takes will be reduced to 40 per cent., but that still seems to be a substantial proportion. Will the Post Office have to go into the market to borrow the extra funds to make up for what the Treasury takes away?
The Post Office currently pays £335 million per year to the Treasury over and above its corporation tax. If that money is no longer to be available to the Treasury, presumably the loss to the health budget and to the "education, education, education" budget will have to be found from some other source. Will that be by higher taxes or additional borrowing?
If the Post Office is to be a government-owned commercial corporation, how free will its directors be to enter into joint ventures with other companies here and abroad, to make takeover bids or even to enter into commercially risky transactions? The Statement mentioned only joint ventures here, but would that preclude joint ventures from abroad? Who would bail out the Post Office if anything went severely wrong with any of its enterprises? They may be somewhat risky. Would that be a matter for the taxpayers?
Although it is clear to us that the Government have yielded to pressure from "Old Labour" in the unions--the same unions that were so wrong in their opposition to the privatisation of British Telecom--are the Government aware that the members of the unions will now be deprived of the opportunity to acquire shares in the company for which they work? That is something that the Conservative Party has always encouraged, even before the party opposite discovered stakeholding.
As Germany and Holland have effectively denationalised their post office services and the new company will be in competition with them, how will the Government answer any allegations from the EC that the Post Office is being unfairly subsidised in breach of its rules? What changes in legislation will be needed to bring us into line with the European postal directive? The Minister referred to Section 2.2 of the European Communities Act.
Finally, my final question to the Minister is a simple one on a point that I am not sure that I totally understand. On the one hand, the Post Office will be given more commercial freedom, but, on the other hand, it will be subject to more competition; and the Statement suggests that somewhere down the line there might be some sort of privatisation. I believe that a minority share sale was mentioned, but even total privatisation does not seem to have been ruled out. How does the Minister think that the new proposals will make the Post Office financially viable so that somebody will want to buy the shares in, say, two or three years?
Lord Razzall: My Lords, on behalf of these Benches, I should like to share the welcome that the noble Baroness gave to the Statement. Those Members of your Lordships' House who have followed the developments of the past year will know that my noble friend Lord Ezra, occasionally aided and abetted by myself, has been somewhat like a Jack Russell snapping at the heels of the Government asking when we were to have this Statement. Indeed, for the past 12 months the Government have behaved a little like a spaniel--to take the canine analogy of the moment--but now we have the Statement before us.
My concern is obviously shared by the Government in the Statement; namely, the fear that the longer they delayed in giving the Post Office commercial freedom the more its global opportunities would diminish. Indeed, the recent acquisition by Deutsche Post of 50 per cent. of Securicor demonstrates our concern in the area.
I have three comments and/or questions for the Minister. First, we share the Government's rejection of privatisation. We feel that the privatisation that was heavily rumoured in press reports is not the solution which the Post Office requires, for the fundamental reason that we believe that the Post Office must have the global freedom to trade and invest but must also maintain the essential ethos of public service which it has had for so long. That is particularly reflected in our desire and our campaign to ensure that the thousands of sub-post offices which are now under threat should not suffer as a result of these proposals.
The Minister may well comment that the Statement indicates that a social objective will be given to the regulator and to the Post Office with regard to sub-post offices. However, I should be most grateful to receive confirmation that, wherever appropriate, other government action to protect sub-post offices will ensue. There are obvious government actions that can take place, such as resolving the difficulties between the Benefits Agency and Post Office Counters Limited over the computerisation of benefit payments where the Government have a role and can intervene to protect the interests of sub-post offices. Further, there is the ruling by the DVLA that only 3,000 out of 19,000 post offices can supply car tax discs. Indeed, that is another area where the Government could intervene. It is not just a question of social objectives. If possible, I should be
I have two further points to raise. First, in rejecting privatisation, the Government have clearly been persuaded by much of the argument for an independent, publicly-owned corporation which has been put forward both by the Union of Communication Workers and the Communication Managers Association. Many of the proposals put forward in the Statement reflect the recommendations from the independent report commissioned by those two bodies.
However, there are two areas where the Government appear not to have been prepared fully to bite the bullet of an independent, publicly-owned corporation. The first was touched upon by the noble Baroness, Lady Miller--namely, the freedom to borrow and invest. As the noble Baroness said, the Post Office management calculates that £2.7 billion over the next five years will be needed for expansion, automation and new services. The recommendation and the logic of an independent, publicly-owned corporation with its own commercial freedom is that it should be free to borrow that money in the capital markets, if it so requires, without Treasury consent and with the corollary that that would be without government guarantee; in other words, the corporation would be free to go into the commercial markets as any other corporation would do. That was the recommendation of the report produced by the Union of Communication Workers and the Communication Managers Association. The Government do not seem to be prepared to go that far. I should be most grateful if the Minister could expand on that aspect. I am concerned that this will constrict the apparent giving to the corporation of the commercial freedom to meet its financial objectives.
The second area relates to the same point but does so in another way. If the Post Office is to attempt to be one of the major players on an international basis, it will, as reflected in the Statement, need the ability to pay and "incentivise" its staff on an appropriate basis as if it were a private corporation. Again, the recommendation of the report to which I referred was that the corporation should be given that freedom. However, the Government have not been prepared to go that far in their Statement. Therefore, can the Minister confirm that a restraint will not be imposed by the Treasury with one hand in relation to what it appears to be giving with the other?
Lord Sainsbury of Turville: My Lords, perhaps I may, first, say that I hope no disrespect was given to the House by my request that the repeating of the Statement should be delayed until six o'clock this evening. Having flown back from Japan yesterday in order to attend a meeting this afternoon of the Council of Science and Technology, I very much wanted to be able to attend.
I should begin by pointing out that the Treasury was not expecting to receive £2 billion, so there is no issue as to where this money has to be found. After a period
As regards the question about joint ventures and partnerships abroad, the Post Office will be able to do that within the borrowing requirements that it has, subject of course--if it is a significant investment--to the approval of the Government. In fact, it will take very little to bring the affairs of the Post Office into line with the European directive. There will be a minor change on the level of the monopoly from, I believe, £1 to 92p, but that is rather a small change.
If in due course it is decided that shares should be sold to the public, I see no difficulty in making the corporation viable as it already makes considerable amounts of profit. I believe that both the management and the workforce of the Post Office will rise to the challenge which they now face. I am not able to enter into these animal analogies about the behaviour of the House. I found it quite difficult in Japan last week to explain what was happening in your Lordships' House; indeed, it was difficult enough without even going into the question of spaniels.
It was sensible to look at the problem carefully and not rush into decisions. The Post Office is part of our national assets and has an important social function. Therefore, it is important to get the exact balance between social and commercial objectives and between freedoms and disciplines. There will be a social objective and I can assure noble Lords that we will do everything that we can to help sub-post offices, especially in terms of systems and other procedures.
Although we are giving substantial freedom to the Post Office, as has already been said, the taxpayer will ultimately stand behind the corporation. It therefore seems to me appropriate that, for significant proposals of investment, the Government should have the ability to give the final word. As far as concerns pay and incentive, we want to change the situation so that members of the Post Office management and workforce can be "incentivised". But consideration must be given to public pay policy. The significant aspect of the proposals is that they combine both discipline and freedom. I believe that that is the way forward for the Post Office.
Lord Skelmersdale: My Lords, I should, first, declare an interest as I am a director of a mail order company and from my point of view the Post Office should essentially be healthy, successful and efficient. In that connection I welcome the 40 per cent. dividend proposal as opposed to the ever escalating negative EFL, although I note that there is a holding exercise for the next 15 months or thereabouts during which negative EFLs will continue. Even so, I calculate that, as long as the Post Office is not allowed to borrow too much in the first year of the interim period, the Treasury will still receive the best part of £400 million--both from the
I am sure the noble Lord, with his experience, will agree that the success of a commercial organisation depends on management at every level. The top level is one of the vital ones. Will the Government continue to appoint directors of the Post Office or just the chairman? Will the chairman be given freedom to have his own men and women around him as executives or indeed as non-executive directors?
The Statement mentions new businesses. One such fairly recent one is Subscription Services Limited. Will such businesses be free from the prohibition in the Telecommunications Act which prevents them from using electronic mail out of their offices? Currently, they receive instructions and items for outward transmission by fax and e-mail but are not allowed to use their mailing lists and then split them out, as it were, to the various people on the mailings lists by electronic means. They have to do it by hard copy. Will such freedom be allowed to them?
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What was Frantz Fanon's thesis in "The Wretched of the Earth?"
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Fanon's Wretched of the Earth is fairly transparently a call to action for exploited colonial peoples around the world, but specifically in Africa. He has two broad goals in the book, which he wrote while dying of leukemia in 1961. The first is to illustrate the ways in which colonial societies have been exploited by their colonizers, and the second is to show how colonial peoples might overthrow not just the colonizers themselves, but the ideas and structures that supported their rule. He pushes for the preservation of indigenous institutions, warns of the rise of bourgeois governments in newly independent former colonies, and generally calls for intellectuals in Africa and elsewhere to assert their political and cultural autonomy, even if this assertion led to violence. Violence, he thought, was perhaps an unavoidable by-product of decolonization given that colonization itself was inherently violent. Simply stated, Fanon's book was a call for immediate, unconditional decolonization.


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Among his other contributions to the wonderful world of librarianship,
Charles Ammi Cutter devised a way to assign an alpha-numeric code for
authors' last names. Use of this system allows all books within a particlar Dewey Decimal number to be arranged alphabetically on the shelf, usually by title. In "local practice" at the University Of Illinois, it's not quite this simple, but by following the shelving instructions we'll go over later, you'll know where to find the book you're looking for.
The Cutter system works as follows--a large book of tables consists of pages and pages of the following sort of thing. Catalogers try to assign distinct numbers for each name.
Doyle D 773
So in this case, David Doyle might get assigned a Cutter of D773, and George Doyle D774. Suppose Frank Doyle also wrote books.... The catalogers would make some room for him by going one more number place--maybe D7735, stuffing him in between David and George, and allowing room for more Doyles around him. It's a bit pesky, and the tables continue to be revised periodically. By the way, vowels and consonants get treated differently--names beginning in vowels, like Umberto Eco, get two letters--thus the Ec we see above. And names beginning with Sc-something get three letters and the usual bunch of numbers. Wow!
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"You can make more friends in two months by becoming genuinely interested in other people than you can in two years by trying to get other people interested in you." - Dale Carnegie The best way to convince people that you are interested in them is to remember their name. It makes a good impression and helps bridge the gap from acquaintance to friend. In his list on how to find success, Lyndon B. Johnson listed "Remember Names" as number one. However, most people say they aren't any good at it and there is nothing worse than standing next to someone and drawing a blank on their name. The best way to get better is practice. Napoleon III used to review the names of new people at the end of each day in order to keep them fresh in his mind. Your Name helps with just that.
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About Me
- Beth @A Little Country House
- God does have a sense of humor, after years of infertility, we adopted 2 beautiful babies, I later had the "surprise baby"! In the very spare time I have, I love to decorate, paint, and make all kinds of things. I do repurpose old furniture and custom paint furniture for clients. I work with all types of vintage items. I love to make our house a home. I like to see how others do it and share what I do also. Contact me at email@example.com if you are interested in any products I have posted or if you are local to Atlanta and want a furniture face lift! Love your old junk again!
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Here is another table for a client. It is going in her kitchen. We worked on this, the last, very hectic week of school. I love this finish. I used a walnut stain on the top, then chateau grey chalk paint worked into the stain, then the same color on the apron and legs. Distressed to show off the chippyness! The legs are antiques, found at the antique market. The apron is pallet wood and the top is pine planks. New and old mixed, but with great character. Enjoy!
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- Inspired by you said...
Looks great! Really love the top!
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- Dina said...
You gave SO much character to the top! I think it's awesome if you can combine new and old to make a brand new "something" that will be loved. In this case it's an awesome looking table that I would love to have in my kitchen too ;)
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- Donna Wilkes said...
Came over from Nifty Thrifty to see your table. The legs have so much character and the distressed finish is wonderful.
Distressed Donna Down Home
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- Keeping it Cozy said...
Gorgeous table!
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- Heaven's Walk said...
Beautiful job!!! Love the color and the distressing you did! I'll bet your client is just thrilled! :)
xoxo laurie
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- Heather @ The JUNKtion said...
I love this!!! I really love the top. I would love to hear more about how you worked the chalk paint into the stain. I'm inspired to recreate the look. I think it turned out amazing!!
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Will You Go Gray, Like Model Kristen McMenamy, Or Color Your Hair?
I know a woman who has tried to cover her gray hairs by coloring them, but at-home kits, no matter what the box says, really suck at covering gray hairs. So she's tried, at different times, blending the gray hair with both light and dark hair. It hasn't worked. But I say she should embrace her grays because she's worked hard for them. I admire 46-year-old model Kristen McMenamy for choosing to color a chunk of her dark hair in order to have a head-full of silver, instead of the other way around. She looks gorgeous! McMenamy even made the August cover of Dazed & Confused and the pages of Vogue with her hair, showing that gray hair could be more than a trend for fall, but a statement for women about embracing your age. Will you go gray or color your hair? [Refinery 29, Vogue, DazedDigital.com]


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Baier named COO of AgSource
The AgSource Board of Directors has named Pat Baier Chief Operating Officer of the cooperative, effective immediately. Baier succeeds Pete Giacomini, who now serves as Cooperative Resources International (CRI) Vice President of Business Development.
A graduate of U.W. River Falls, Baier started his career as a Sales & Service Technician with 21st Century Genetics, now known as Genex, In 1999, he was named Associate Vice President of Genex Domestic Marketing. In 2004 he became Vice President of AgSource DHI Operations. For the past nine years, he has been responsible for DHI product development and management of marketing and consulting programs.
AgSource Cooperative Services provides agricultural and environmental laboratory analysis and management information services to clients located throughout the United States and across the globe. The largest full-service DHI provider in the country, AgSource is a member-owned cooperative and a subsidiary of Cooperative Resources International.
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Fr. John F. Harvey, founder and executive director of the Courage, an officially sanctioned ministry to Catholics with same-sex attractions, died Dec. 27 in Elkton, Md. He was 92 and had been an Oblate of St. Francis de Sales for 73 years.
A Mass of Christian Burial is scheduled for tomorrow (Dec. 31) at 11:15 a.m. at St. Anthony of Padua Church, Wilmington, Del. Interment will be at he Oblate Cemetery in Elkton, Md.
Harvey founded Courage in 1980 at the request of the late archbishop of New York, Cardinal Terrence Cooke and remained its executive director until three years ago.
On its Web site, Courage describes itself as a Catholic "pro-chastity" ministry with the goal of helping "persons with same-sex attractions develop a life of interior chastity in union with Christ."
Fr. Paul Check, a priest of the Bridgeport, Conn., diocese, is now executive director of Courage.
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There seems to be nothing more exciting for tabloids than publishing pictures of white women in hijab. Well, unless it's publishing pictures of white women converts in their racy, hedonistic, pre-Islamic days.Last month Amy Sall and Heather Matthews told their conversion stories to the tabloid press. And instead of using the stories to dispel myths about Muslims, educate the public about Islam, or even come up with something remotely newsworthy, both news sources emphasized their incredible … [Read more...]
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