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Huntington Announces Special Events to Accompany GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER, Beg. 9/5
In conjunction with its upcoming production the compelling family comedy Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, Huntington Theatre Company will host a number of special events and post-show conversations. Admission to onsite post-show events is free with a ticket to Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, available at huntingtontheatre.org/guesswho, by phone at 617 266 0800, or in person at the BU Theatre (264 Huntington Avenue) and Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA (527 Tremont Street) box offices. Tickets start at $25. Performances begin Friday, September 5, 2014 at the Avenue of the Arts / BU Theatre.
Friday, September 5, following the 8pm performance
A post-show party for the region's culturally curious ages aged 35 and below featuring backstage access, free refreshments, and live entertainment by Aphrolove. Mingle with members of the cast, creative team, and Huntington staff. Hang out with friends and meet new people.
35 Below tickets are available at all performances to patrons 35 and under for just $25. Harpoon Brewery is the official beer of 35 Below.
Monday, September 8, 7pm -- Coolidge Corner Theatre
A screening of director Spike Lee's 1991 film Jungle Fever about an interracial relationship, followed by a conversation with Boston Globe Metro Desk reporter James H. Burnett III and Guess Who's Coming to Dinner playwright Todd Kreidler. Stage & Screen is a collaboration between Coolidge Corner Theatre and the Huntington that explores the depictions of shared themes in Huntington productions and acclaimed films.
Tickets to Jungle Fever are $11 / $8 for Coolidge members (with member ID) and Huntington Theatre Company subscribers (with promo code) and may be purchased online at coolidge.org or at the Coolidge box office, located at 290 Harvard Street, Brookline.
Todd Kreidler served as dramaturg for August Wilson's Radio Golf and Gem of the Ocean in their early productions at the Huntington and other regional theatres and on Broadway. He wrote the musical Holler If Ya Hear Me, an original story featuring the lyrics of Tupac Shakur, which played on Broadway this summer. He is also writing a musical with Nikki Sixx, based on Sixx's memoir and music, The Heroin Diaries. His stage adaptation of the film Guess Who's Coming to Dinner ran at Arena Stage in Washington, DC and premiered at True Colors Theatre Company in Atlanta. Most recently, he directed August Wilson's one-man show How I Learned What I Learned at the Signature Theatre in New York. He originally directed and co-conceived the piece with Mr. Wilson performing at Seattle Repertory Theatre in 2003. He co-founded the August Wilson Monologue Competition, a national program aimed at integrating August Wilson's work into high school curriculum, of which the Huntington facilitates the Boston semi-final.
James H. Burnett III is a regional reporter on The Boston Globe's Metro desk where he writes on topics of race and race relations. He was previously a culture writer for the Globe's Living/Arts section and a columnist and culture writer for the Miami Herald, where he contributed to award-winning projects on juvenile crime and the deadly 2010 earthquake in Haiti. He has appeared on NPR and CNN.
Wednesday, September 17 at 10am -- ASL-Interpreted and Audio-Described
For students in grades 8-12. Tickets: $15. Includes pre-show in-school visit, curriculum guide, post-show Actors Forum, and Dramatic Returns card for each student. Call 617 273 1558 for more information.
Wednesday, September 17 at 10am (student matinee) and Friday, September 26 at 8pm
The Huntington Theatre Company offers ASL interpretation for the Deaf and hard-of-hearing at designated performances. Under the supervision of season consultant Wendy Watson and ASL consultant John Pirone, the two performances will be interpreted by Sharon Mendes and Cara Schwartz.
Seating for each ASL-interpreted performance is located in the orchestra, house left. Tickets are $15 for each Deaf patron and a guest. To reserve tickets, please contact Access Coordinator Meg O'Brien at email@example.com.
Wednesday, September 17 at 10am (student matinee) and Saturday, September 27 at 2pm
The Huntington Theatre Company offers audio description for blind and low-vision patrons at designated performances. Under the supervision of season consultant Alice Austin, the two performances will be described by Cori Couture (primary describer) and Vince Lombardi (secondary describer).
Tickets are $15 for each patron and a guest. To reserve tickets, please contact Access Coordinator Meg O'Brien at firstname.lastname@example.com.
Thursday, September 18 after the 7:30pm performance
The Boston Globe Metro reporter James H. Burnett III will moderate a conversation with Malcolm-Jamal Warner (Dr. John Prentice) and Meredith Forlenza (Joanna Drayton) from the cast of Guess Who's Coming to Dinner at this interactive post-show conversation. A Boston Globe Insiders event - tickets to the 9/18 performance are $45 for Boston Globe subscribers who use the discount code.
Meredith Forlenza (Joanna Drayton) has Broadway credits that include The Winslow Boy, A Behanding in Spokane, and Pal Joey. Her Off Broadway credits include Completeness (Playwrights Horizons), All-American (Lincoln Center Theater), The Notebook of Trigorin (The Flea Theater), and A Contemporary American's Guide to a Successful Marriage (SoHo Playhouse). Her regional credits include The Delling Shore at the 2013 Humana Festival of New American Plays and Steel Magnolias at the Arts Center of Coastal Carolina. Her film and television credits include David Chase's Not Fade Away, Hannah Has a Ho-Phase, The Union, "Mercy," "Guiding Light," and "As the World Turns." Ms. Forlenza is a graduate of Northwestern University.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner (Dr. John Prentice) is a seasoned actor, musician, director, and producer. Mr. Warner first rose to national prominence appearing in the television series "The Cosby Show." His work on the show garnered him an Emmy Award nomination for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Comedy Series. Other television credits include NBC's hit show "Community," TNT's "Major Crimes" and "Hawthorne," CBS' "The Cleaner," Showtime's "Dexter," and BET's original series "Reed Between the Lines." As a director, he has worked on television series including "Malcolm & Eddie," "The Cosby Show," "All That," "Keenan & Kel," "The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air," "Sesame Street," "Reed Between the Lines," and the AIDS awareness video "Timeout: The Truth about HIV, AIDS, and YOU" (NAACP Key of Life Image Award). His short film This Old Man received critical acclaim on the theatre festival circuit. Mr. Warner made his feature film debut in Paramount Pictures' Drop Zone and was also seen in Warner Bros.' Pictures Fools Gold. He also co-starred in the independent films Restaurant with Adrien Brody, A Fare to Remember, and The List with Wayne Brady. His theatre credits include Guess Who's Coming to Dinner (Arena Stage), Three Ways Home, Cryin' Shame (NAACP Theater Award for Best Supporting Actor), and Freefall (Victory Gardens Theater), A Midsummer Nights' Dream (La Jolla Playhouse), and the West Coast debut of his one-man theatrical production of Love and Other Social Issues. He plays bass guitar in his jazz-funk band Miles Long. The band has performed in several major jazz festivals and recently performed at the historic Apollo Theater. His CDs are available on iTunes.
James H. Burnett III (see above)
Sunday, September 21 after the 2pm performance
Harvard University social psychologist Mahzarin Banaji will discuss how our unconscious attitudes towards race sometimes run counter to our admitted beliefs and the use of innovative research methods to measure bias as these topics relate to Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, followed by a conversation moderated by a Huntington staff member. Humanities Forums are presented in conjunction with all Huntington productions.
Mahzarin Banaji received her PhD from Ohio State University and was a postdoctoral fellow at University of Washington. She taught at Yale University for 15 years, receiving the Lex Hixon Prize for Teaching Excellence. She is currently a Richard Clarke Cabot Professor of Social Ethics in the department of psychology at Harvard. She served as the first Carol K. Pforzheimer Professor at the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. At present, Ms. Banaji also serves as Cowan Chair in Human Social Dynamics at the Santa Fe Institute. She is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship, the Diener Award for Outstanding Contributions to Social Psychology, and she is a Herbert Simon Fellow of the Association for Social and Political Psychology. Ms. Banaji studies unconscious thinking and feeling as they unfold in social context. She has primarily studied social attitudes and beliefs in adults and children, relying on multiple methods including cognitive/affective behavioral measures and neuroimaging (fMRI). With these, she explores the implications of her work for questions of individual responsibility and social justice in democratic societies. Her current research interests focus on the origins of social cognition and applications of implicit cognition to improve organizational practices.
Friday, September 26 before the 8pm performance
A pre-show reception with refreshments for members of the Community Membership program. Community Membership is an initiative designed to reduce the cost barrier of attending live theatre for those with limited income and to diversify the Huntington's audience so it looks more like the city of Boston. Members can purchase best-available tickets to any performance without restriction for just $15. Membership is free and available through partnerships with agencies and organizations that serve limited-income populations. Santander is the Lead Supporter of the Huntington's Community Membership program.
Please note: There is no elevator access to this reception.
Friday, September 26 after the 8pm performance
WBUR's Robin Young, co-host of the nationally-broadcast "Here & Now" speaks with Malcolm-Jamal Warner about Guess Who's Coming to Dinner, his time as a member of TV's favorite family, and more.
Malcolm-Jamal Warner (see above)
Robin Young brings more than 25 years of broadcast experience to her role as host of "Here & Now." She is a Peabody Award-winning documentary filmmaker who has also reported for NBC, CBS, and ABC television and for several years was a substitute host and correspondent for "The Today Show." Ms. Young received several Emmy Awards for her television work, as well as cable's Ace award, the Religious Public Relations Council's Wilbur Award, and the National Conference of Christians and Jews Gold Award. She has also received radio's regional Edward R. Murrow award. As an independent documentary filmmaker, she produced and directed the opening film for Marion Wright Edelman's White House Conference on Children and followed the rise of then unknown filmmaker John Singleton in the film Straight from the Hood. Her documentary The Los Altos Story, made in association with the Rotary Club of Los Altos, CA, won the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award and is now the backbone of a worldwide HIV/AIDS awareness initiative. She has had an eclectic career in broadcasting, serving as second director on Boston Bruins and Red Sox telecasts, was one of the first hosts on the groundbreaking television show "Evening Magazine," and she's pretty sure she's the only Peabody Award-winner who has also hosted a cooking game show! Ms. Young was born on New York's Long Island, attended Ithaca College in upstate New York, and has lived and worked in Manhattan, Washington, DC, and Los Angeles, but Boston is her hub.
After most Tuesday - Friday, Saturday matinee, and Sunday matinee performances
GUESS WHO'S COMING TO DINNER runs September 5 to October 5, 2014. Select Evenings: Tues. - Thurs. at 7:30pm; Fri. - Sat. at 8pm; select Sun. at 7pm. Matinees: Select Wed., Thurs., Sat., and Sun. at 2pm. Days and times vary. Press Opening: Wednesday, September 10, 7pm. RSVP online. All performances play the Avenue of the Arts / BU Theatre, 264 Huntington Avenue, Boston.
Single tickets starting at $25 and FlexPasses are on sale: online at huntingtontheatre.org; by phone at 617 266 0800; or in person at the BU Theatre Box Office, 264 Huntington Ave. and the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA Box Office, 527 Tremont St. in Boston's South End. Select discounts apply: $5 off: seniors; $10 off: subscribers and BU community (faculty/staff/alumni); $25 "35 Below" tickets for patrons 35 years old and younger (valid ID required); $15 student and military tickets (valid ID required).
ABOUT THE HUNTINGTON THEATRE COMPANY - Recipient of the 2013 Regional Theatre Tony Award and named Best of Boston 2013 and 2014 by Boston magazine, the Huntington Theatre Company has developed into Boston's leading professional theatre and one of the region's premiere cultural assets since its founding in 1982. Bringing together superb local and national talent, the Huntington produces a mix of groundbreaking new works and classics made current to create award-winning productions, runs nationally renowned programs in education and new play development, and serves the local theatre community through its operation of the Calderwood Pavilion at the BCA. Under the direction of Artistic Director Peter DuBois and Managing Director Michael Maso and in residence at Boston University, the Huntington cultivates, celebrates, and champions theatre as an art form. For more information, visit huntingtontheatre.org.


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A pepernoot (Dutch pronunciation: ['peːpərnoːt] ( listen); plural: pepernoten ['peːpərnoːtə]; literally, "pepper nuts") is a Dutch or Belgian cookie-like kind of confectionery, traditionally associated with the early December Sinterklaas holiday in the Netherlands and Belgium. The ingredients have some similarities with German Pfeffernüsse although they look completely different.
They are light brown, square shaped, and made from the same ingredients as taai-taai: rye flour, sugar and anise, and sometimes also cinnamon, and clove. They are fairly chewy, though they harden gradually when exposed to the air.
A particularly distinct custom associated with pepernoten is throwing them in handfuls through the room so children can look for them. Originally this is an ancient fertility symbol not unlike throwing rice at a marriage like a farmer sowing seeds. In ancient times, parents of newborns would place one or two carrots underneath the infant's pillow. They believed Sinterklaas would then come and bless the child by showering the infant with "pepernoten".
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- Kruidnoten are often confused with pepernoten.[1][2]
- Pfeffernüsse
- ^ "Pepernoten / kruidnoten: Noem je het bekende strooigoed nu pepernoten of kruidnoten? Of is daar een verschil tussen?" (in Dutch). onzetaal.nl. Retrieved 19 November 2011.
- ^ "Pepernoten of kruidnoten?" (in Dutch). Radio Nederland Wereldomroep. 21 November 2010. Retrieved 19 November 2011.
External links[edit]
- Media related to Pepernoten at Wikimedia Commons
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Wayne Swan gets credit for a clever bribe.
As with John Howard, he has opted to boost middle-class welfare as a way of winning votes.
The blunt political tactic behind this budget is to frame a hand-out that should be harder to block in Parliament.
Instead of a one-off sugar hit, however, Swan is distributing largess for each year that Labor remains in power and the first instalment lands just before the (scheduled) date of the next election.
But this involves another broken promise, one that will resonate through the community as business complains loudly about the loss of its promised tax cut.
''Working families'' are the winners, as always, in this ''fair go'' budget.
The biggest loser is the public servant who loses his or her job, with as many as 1500 Canberra-based positions to go in the next financial year alone. This is going to have an inordinate impact on Canberra's economy, reminiscent of Howard's first term.
The intangible element in this budget is the impact on growth from the savings.
The Treasurer's pitch is that returning to surplus gives the Reserve Bank scope to reduce interest rates. However, a decision to cut rates would occur if the bank believed the economy was sluggish and needed encouragement.
While this sends a mixed message, selective cuts such as putting off future Defence spending should have minimum impact.
In a very short-sighted move, the amount of money allowed to be put into superannuation will be halved, from $50,000 this financial year to $25,000 from July 1.
Along with business leaders, the complaints today will come from those states and territories having their GST cut.
As a political strategy, giving up on the tax cuts for companies might make sense when you're bashing your head against a parliamentary wall.
The Greens form a brick in the wall, but you won't hear much about their efforts to stymie the flow of revenue from the mining tax.
Labor's rhetoric is focused on the Coalition for its threatened obstructionism. Tony Abbott was never going to support the company tax cuts despite Liberal philosophy because an incoming Coalition government is committed to rescinding the mining tax, which was to fund the reduction in the company tax rate.
Abandoning the company tax cut is a low blow to the business community, made to garner votes in the suburbs, not the boardrooms.
Today Swan has written his preferred headline - The Battlers' budget. Its mission is to share the proceeds of the mining boom more fairly with all Australians. ''This Labor government knows that for many Australians this feels like someone else's mining boom,'' he told Parliament.
The government's exceptionally poor poll ratings reflect Julia Gillard's broken promise on the carbon tax and Abbott's successful campaign to steer debate on that tax away from environmental gain to economic pain.
Every time Labor boasts about its compensation for the carbon tax, voters are reminded why they are getting the extra $10 a week - to cover the hike in the cost of living as large companies pass on the cost of the carbon tax to consumers.
The de facto compensation will now be more than doubled for some, with many families receiving an extra $600 a year in the new giveaway. Assuming, that is, the parliamentary strategy at the core of this turnaround works.
The return to surplus is a modern day miracle, defying the global trend - and hopefully will be sustainable.
Australians will not know for some time whether the overarching strategy of returning the budget to surplus works.
Despite the rhetoric, Swan has not delivered a surplus - he has projected one. Labor's wafer-thin promised surplus will not be achieved until the accounts are in for 2012-13.
It is true that Australia ''walks tall'' in comparison to the train wreck in Greece, but the danger for Australia is that Europe will slow our economy, despite the enormous revenue from the resources boom.
If that occurs, another round of creative accounting will be needed in the mid-year budget update to achieve a surplus because Gillard cannot afford another fail.
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A planning application seeking consent to build a new home at 6 Woodlane Crescent, Falmouth, fronting onto Florence Terrace, is being opposed by the town's planning committee.
While a similar application had been withdrawn last year, but the new one prompted the same reaction from local councillors. They claim it would be over development of the site and would not be in keeping with the neighbourhood.
If Cornwall Council approve it, Falmouth councillors want a condition that the new home is kept as ancillary domestic use to 6 Woodlane.


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ALVIN, Texas - A youth championship football game won't be played as scheduled because of a lawsuit.
Last week, the Galveston Hurricane defeated the Alvin Yellowjackets, earning them the right to square off in the Junior Super Bowl.
The big game has been postponed because of a lawsuit.
The lawsuit claims the coach for the Yellow Jackets filed a complaint claiming that the Hurricanes violated Texas Intercity Football rules by not allowing all of its players to participate in the minimum number of 15 plays.
The lawsuit claims that complaint led to the Hurricanes being disqualified from playing in the big game.
"Texans take it very seriously," resident Bruce Baker said. "You say it's fun, but it is serious on the other hand."
According to documents filed in Galveston County, the Alvin Yellowjackets didn't have all the facts when they filed that protest. The lawsuit was filed to temporarily stop the Junior Super Bowl and to get the Hurricanes back in the game.
"The hurricanes defeated the Alvin Yellowjackets, 19-13, and earned the right to represent their community in the championship game. The lawsuit was filed to protect the rights of the Galveston team," a statement from the Hurricanes read.
Attorneys for the Hurricanes got a victory Friday. A judge ruled to postpone the game until there is a hearing on the lawsuit. That hearing was scheduled for Monday.
"I guess the courts are there for a reason: to settle disputes," Baker said. "This is a dispute, so, it's there to help."
Officials with Texas Intercity Football and the Yellowjackets' coach declined to comment.
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Nearly 3 months ago now my husband and I got married. It still feels quite surreal and I'm finding it difficult to get used to my surname changing. My now husband proposed on the Brighton Wheel whilst we were having a long weekend away. I had never really thought about getting married and definitely didn't have it all planned out in my head like some do. This made the process quite difficult in deciding what we wanted but fun.
We had just over a year in planning our wedding. We decided to get married in May because we wanted some nice spring / summer weather, but of course you can never guarantee the weather! We got married on a Friday and all week it had been cloud and rainy. Our wedding day was better with a few clouds but also a little sunshine. However the weather is though I don't think any bride can focus too much on this as it is absolutely out of anyone's control.
Our wedding day was everything that we wanted. We got married in a gorgeous little church that my husband grew up near. Our reception venue was a newly refurbished hotel which was lovely. We had originally booked to use a yacht club for our reception venue but we were let down by the caterers and so had to change.
The funniest part of our day was all revolving around our Vicar. The Vicar that married us was retired and came out of retirement for our wedding ceremony. He was lovely and had a lot of quirks.
Our vicar was late for our ceremony! I arrived at the church only about 5 minutes later after being determined that I would be on time. When I arrived the vicar was nowhere to be seen and nobody could get hold of him on the phone! I am quite relaxed about most things but I was even secretly worried at this point. When the vicar did arrive he went into the church and apparently apologised to the congregation saying that he had gone shopping! The vicar proceeded to give a hilarious sermon about cats and said our names wrong (which we had to correct him on) during the service. Luckily my husband and I took this well and we had a certain fondness for our vicar after meeting with him prior to the service.
I think that ultimately you wedding should be what you want and it is the person that you are marrying and the people that you invite that depict the day. My husband and I both have really lovely memories of our wedding day and we now get to enjoy married life :)
Upon my engagement, I felt that the obligatory next step was to go out and buy a bridal magazine. Or two. So I did.
The first surprise I got was the price - these things cost almost as much as a novel! Still, you only get married once, right, so in my basket this one went.
Flicking through it at home later, I noted the following good and bad points.
There are lots of ideas in the book for little touches, such as table decor and invitation styles.
There was a very handy little planning guide in the back of the magazine, detailing what needs to be booked and bought when, which did help to prioritise things.
It's always nice to read about other people's weddings (or at least I think so!) and the stories are well told.
There were quite a lot of dress photos so I could get some ideas from that.
***Not So Good***
All the weddings featured were clearly seriously mega bucks budget-wise and there was nothing "simple and beautiful" there at all. I had a £4k budget for my wedding so didn't really want to read about how you could buy the bridesmaids a diamond necklace to say thanks, or how wonderful it was to have a train of limousines.
There were large numbers of adverts in the magazine - though I imagine some people would find this useful, it was just a bit of a waste of pages for me.
As usual, all of the dress models were (a) a size six and (b) looked bloody miserable. It is hard as someone a little larger (but not by any means huge, just a different shape to the models) to picture what the dresses will look like on someone with curves, and in some cases where you might have to travel quite a long way to try on a dress from a photograph, it would sometimes be nicer to see perhaps similar styles on a selection of models. And someone please tell them to smile - it is really offputting and doesn't do the dresses any favours at all to have Little Miss Grumpy modelling them, looking as if she is about to be forced to marry Josef Fritzl.
Overall, it was a fun magazine to read as a newly-engaged person but I don't think it was worth the money for the benefit I got from it - I could and did get more inspiration online, for nothing.
After 28 years of gazing wistfully in bridal shop windows, at last it's my turn! Once the novelty of the sparkly thing on my finger wore off, and the date was set, though, it was difficult to resist the urge to race in and buy everything, now! After all, there's still another 14 months to go, and the last thing I want to do is jump straight into the first frock that I see and regret it when the perfect one pops up nearer the time. So, what's a girl to do? Buy magazines, that's what. LOTS of 'em. Stack 'em high, pore through 'em day and night until you can't actually see your fiance over the top of the pile. To be fair, though, not all of the bridal magazines on the market are a lot of use. Sure, they're all full of pretty pictures of frocks and shoes and tiaras (now, stop drooling in the corner, there...) but once you've seen one Pronuptia advert, you've kinda seen them all and you either end up setting your heart on a dress that's only available in an exclusive boutique at the other end of the country, or you start to despair that there's nothing out there that you'd possibly want to wear on your big day. You & Your Wedding is one of the better national magazines that I've read so far. It's got plenty of big, glossy adverts to give you a wide idea of the dresses available on the market , and a good selection of smaller, 'classified'-style ones spanning suppliers across the country, advertising everything from stationers, cake decorators and florists to the more outlandish entries like fireworks displays or ice sculptures. The layout of the magazine itself is clear and concise - sections for the bride (fashion, beauty, etc.), the groom (how to avoid panic attacks!), and general sections on planning, the reception and, of course, the honeymoon. They do a good line in 'How Not To Kill Your Loved One/His Mother/Your Mother (delete as applicable) Before You Make It Dow
n The Aisle' articles and, of course, the ubiquitous 'diary'-style column page at the back. The magazine normally comes with a 'free' booklet - on hair, or flowers, or cakes, or something else to make you think, "oooh, pretty..." I'm onto my second issue of 'You & Your Wedding' (it's published bi-monthly) since my engagement, and I'm already brim-ful of stunning (if maybe a little ambitious) ideas for our wedding. Just don't tell him indoors!!
When my husband ask me to marrie him, i was so happy,i through now i have to plan,alot of planing needs organizeing. So i deciced to take a trip up to london,when i bump into a shop where i saw a book called weddings from collins pocket refernce. The book has everything you need to know about weddings,for example all about the marrige law,all types off wedding,as we all know we all like types off weddings. You also have responsible for the groom,as in role and responsibilities before the day. The Contents off this book: 1. all about engagement. 2 The laws in marriage. 3 All types of weddings. 4 all types of church weddings 5 Arranging the reception 6 Going away 7 And all things that the the brides mother,brides father need to know. Theres much more then what i have told you ,just a little advice, dont let the man leave you you to all the plannings. So if you are planning to get married all the what some future please read about this books, it will give you so many ideas. I've always loved reading books,so when my husband ask me to marrie me it was a good change to reading other books. It was one of the most brillant books i have read.
Being a scientist by nature, as soon as my boyfriend popped the question I started my wedding research by buying as many wedding magazines as I could afford. It just so happened that the first one that caught my beady little eye was You and You Wedding. The first thing that impressed me was the price which is not bad at £3.80 for a magazine with over 400 pages. Another thing which impressed me was the planning sections which, being a wedding novice, were invaluable. I had not considered half of the things which had to be planned and also had not realised that weddings could occur in places other than church or registry office (neither of which had appealed to us). The magazine targets all people with all budgets and also tries to give good advice and suggestions for dealing with problems such as divorced parents (a problem which worried myself). In most magazines, lots of pages of adverts would put people off, but the pages of wedding dresses and shoes and other bridal and groom wear in this magazine are very helpful especially if you don't have a clue what you want! The magazine does not restrict itself to conventional ideas and therefore exposes you to things which you may not have otherwise considered. You and Your Wedding magazine is a monthly magazine. Most would probably think that one edition would be very much like another as there can only be so many things associated with weddings which could fill a magazine right? Wrong! Every month they have different aspects which they concentrate on and these features are always extremely useful. To anyone getting married in the future I strongly recommend this magazine
Having recently got married I obviously had to buy every Bridal magazine in the shops. One of the best ones I thought was You and Your Wedding I found it did not have as many adverts in it as a lot of the others did. It had a lot of pictures of wedding dresses and guidelines on what type of dress would suit you. They used to give out some freebies with it aswell. I had a sandals wedding planner with one which was useful. It has all useful telephone numbers in the back of the magazine so you can ring suppliers for magazines of their stock. The only thing I found irratating was that they always used to say the average wedding was about £10,000 people get married on less than that. The prices they say people pay for things were stupid prices
I can't think of any of the Bridal/wedding magazines that I tried a year ago which stood out in my mind. This one is no exception. Every single one of them is stock full of glossy adverts and not much else. Even their articles are not so much indepth as promotions for various products. The basic premise with these magazines is to prey on a Bride's basic fear that something might go wrong on her wedding day, so she pays out @ £3.00 on one of these magazines to help allay her fears that she has not forgotten anything, and that she is doing everyhting right. Unfortunately these magazines do not seem to focus on what is the most important element of a wedding ; the marriage afterwards. Sure a Wedding day is important, but it's only one day; a marriage could be for a lifetime. They also pander to the "expensive" side of weddings. Registry Office weddings are rarely if ever featured. They work on the statistic that avergae wedding costs are about £14,000. Let me tell you, mine in May 1999 cost £3,000 including all the outfits and the honeymoon. And I didn;t scrimp on anything that was important, just cut out the faff like "favours" etc.
There may be a lot of adverts in this magazine, but there are in all wedding magazines today. For a bride who is lacking ideas, this is actually a good thing, as it is a source of inspiration. For a bride who wants to read articles rather than looking at pictures, then it's maybe not the best. However, it is better than some magazines out there, so it's not the worst either! However, there is some sound advice in You and Your Wedding, and you get a lot more pages for your money than most of the other wedding mags. If you want to buy only one wedding magazine, you could do a lot worse than to buy this mag. Yes, there's a lot of adverts, but there are also a lot of interesting articles too.
I am continually annoyed by glossy magazines which charge you a lot for a load of adverts. This magazine is no exception - there is page after page of adverts with a few articles in between. The cover promises things such as 'the best bridal hair accessories' and 'over 100 fashion ideas for your maids'. After spending 5 minutes trying to find these articles (the contents page isn't much help) you are treated to 1 page of more glorified adverts. I also find it annoying when they assume that everyone has unlimited resources to pay for their wedding. Their idea of a wedding dress on a budget is one that costs less than £600! One useful feature however, is the service they offer where they will send you information on a wide range of wedding companies , free of charge. Apparently the average wedding costs around £13,000 - personally I'd try and reduce this by saving the £3.80 this magazine charges for the privilege of reading a load of adverts.


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And to be able to do the things that they want to see, they don't really want to see me shooting jump shots, so it's cool to be able to get up and down and have fun with it.""We've got some high leapers out there," said ex-Jazz forward Paul Millsap, who logged 15 minutes and scored six points in his first All-Star Game. "LeBron, Blake. Those two guys put on a show tonight."And that's what All-Star Weekend is a show."A success. It was unbelievably tiring. You're here and there, but what better city to be in than New Orleans," said Clippers point guard Chris Paul, once a basketball fixture in the Crescent City, in describing the event.The weekend was as packed with story lines as the French Quarter was with partygoers.New NBA commissioner Adam Silver, just a few weeks into replacing David Stern, offered a first look into his plans for league.There were the league's budding superstars: Damian Lillard competed in five of the weekend's events, the first player ever to do so; Steph Curry, the league's best shooter, got the nod as a starter after perceived snubs from the game; Washington's John Wall won a convoluted dunk contest.There were some other up-and-comers.Millsap, at age 29, was the oldest of the All-Star "rookies.""This is just the start for me," he said. "A great experience. Extra motivation to work hard. It was amazing to be out there with these guys. I had a blast. Hopefully I can come back."Jazz rookie Trey Burke got his first All-Star weekend experience, winning the Skills title alongside Lillard and expressing his renewed motivation to play in the big game someday.Meanwhile, Indiana's Frank Vogel coached an East team that included two of his own players, Paul George and Roy Hibbert, who will now go back to trying to break the Miami Heat's grip on the NBA Finals.The old guard was there, too.Dallas' Dirk Nowitzki, at age 35, went scoreless in what could have been his last All-Star game. Brooklyn's Joe Johnson, in his seventh All-Star Game, carried a camera at times, snapping up some memories.Bryant was in New Orleans, too, though wearing a suit on Sunday instead of playing in his 16th All-Star game."It's tough coming here though because normally when you come, the competitive juices are already flowing, now it's kind of looking at it from a different perspective, but you also get a chance to soak it all in a little bit more and kind of sit back and watch and observe," he said.The future Hall of Famer hopes to return to the Lakers this year and start his bid for a 17th All-Star game next year. Although, if he planned otherwise, he probably wouldn't give much of a heads up, the way Yankees great Derek Jeter just did."I don't really want the rocking chair before the game," he said of his eventual retirement plans. "It would drive me crazy. But I'll probably just pop up and just vanish."On Sunday, Pharrell, Snoop Dogg and Nelly performed for 20 minutes during player introductions. Magic Johnson led the crowd in singing "Happy Birthday" to NBA legend Bill Russell, who turned 80.Russell, by the way, would be on Kobe's Basketball Mt. Rushmore, next Jordan, Bird and Magic. (Jazz legend Karl Malone, however, didn't want anything to do with all the recent Mt. Rushmore talk "unless it has something to do with hunting and fishing.")The the ball was tossed up in the air and the rest is a blur.The East beat the West, with the two teams combining for 318 points, the most ever in the history of the event. The previous record of 303 was set in 1987.Defense took the night off, though no one asked it to show up."Between the two teams, 242 shots were taken. Not a single block was recorded."They all laughed at me," Vogel said of suggesting to D up with his side down 18 points at one time. "I did say it with half a smile, and they all laughed at me. I said OK, I see what you're saying. So if you care about winning, that what you got to do. It's up to you guys."Kevin Durant topped the 30-point mark, something he's done a lot in what some believe could be the season he takes the MVP award away from LeBron James. But Durant simply seemed happy to be playing alongside former teammate James Harden on Sunday."He's going to be a brother to me forever," Durant said.Harden's trade from Oklahoma City to Houston, of course, is one of the realities of the business. Players move, for money and minutes and opportunity.That's why the crowds surrounded Minnesota's Kevin Love, who can become a free agent after next season. And around Knicks forward Carmelo Anthony, who hit a 3-pointer with a minute left to help pus the East to victory."I've been telling you that it was going to be hard for me to try and enjoy this weekend," said Anthony, whose Knicks have struggled at times this season, "but I did. I found a way."Kyrie Irving's 31-point, 14-assist MVP night didn't hurt the night either."Man, he put on a show," Heat guard Dwyane Wade said of the game's surprise MVP. "I said forget a dunk contest, do a layup contest and he'll win it. He's got so much pizzazz when it comes to laying the ball up. He just did an unbelievable job of taking over and making big shots for us. He deserved the MVP tonight. Because of him we're all smiling a little bigger."That's got to count for something. Aaron Falk


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Chairman Trip Pittman said Tuesday repaying the education
budget's debt to the state Rainy Day Fund is a priority for fiscal 2015
because it's required by state law.
Pittman says debt and other
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Rookie Spotlight: Solomon Thomas Can Be The Foundation Of A Resurgent 49ers DefenseHigh expectations come with being the third overall pick in the NFL Draft, so the San Francisco 49ers organization needs to see big things from rookie defensive end Solomon Thomas.
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Thursday Night Breakdown: Can 1-3 Cardinals Bounce Back Against 49ers?While the 49ers seem an ideal opponent to get the struggling Cardinals back on track, they may pose more of a problem than most realize.
CBS Sports' Bill Cowher On Cards-49ers TNF Matchup, Other Week 5 GamesBill Cowher, CBS Sports analyst and Super Bowl-winning coach, breaks down the Cardinals-49ers TNF matchup and Jets-Steelers in Week 5.
The 50: Top 10 Super Bowls That Never Lived Up To The HypeThere have been some great Super Bowls in the 49 years of the big event, including last season's thrilling New England win over Seattle in the final minute of the game. On the flip side of the coin, there have been some downright dogs. And when we say dogs, we're putting it kindly. In fact, you could probably say the following 10 games were nothing short of massacres.
CBS Sports' Ian Eagle: Seahawks More Desperate Than 49ers For A WinCBS Sports' Ian Eagle took some time to speak on three big games coming up this week including a huge NFC match-up on Thursday Night Football between two desperate teams.
TNF Fantasy Starters: Seahawks Vs. 49ers - Who To Play, Who To PassA big time NFC West match-up between the Seattle Seahawks and the San Francisco 49ers highlights Week 7 of Thursday Night Football.
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Kent -- Over the years, the annual Kent Heritage Festival has established itself as the city's biggest single-day draw, bringing about 25,000 visitors to downtown for a full day of live entertainment, food, family friendly activities, arts and crafts.
While many of Kent's residents and frequent visitors are familiar with the downtown landscape that's still shaping up, the city's sights have vastly changed since last year's Heritage Festival.
"I think people will be pleasantly surprised if for some reason they haven't been here since the last Heritage Festival," said Lori Wemhoff, executive director of the Kent Area Chamber of Commerce, noting that much of the new downtown was merely dust, barrels and a few steel beams last year.
The Heritage Festival on July 6 from 9 a.m. to 11 p.m. takes place as connecting of the city and university nears completion via the pedestrian friendly KSU Esplanade extension.
More than 100 vendors will pack the streets throughout the day, with festival food carts parking along North Water Street and craft and info booths along South Water and East Erie streets.
Live music, dancing and other performers can be experienced throughout the day at three stages on Main Street, North Water Street and East Erie Street.
The annual car show returns, with cars lining on Franklin Avenue and West Erie Street from the crack of dawn until 4 p.m. The Kent Jaycees will race a plethora of colorful rubber duckies down the Cuyahoga River at 6 p.m.
A few hundred extra parking spaces are available this year. PARTA's Kent Central Gateway on South DePeyster and East Erie streets, offers more than 300 spots, and the lot on Locke Lane behind Davey Resource Group will be open for parking as well.
Wemhoff said those who haven't been to Kent for some time will have much to behold. "I think it's going to blow their socks off when they see what all is down here with all the changes," she said.
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In a fading town, far from anyone he knew or trusted, a young Lemony Snicket began his apprenticeship in an organization nobody knows about. He started by asking questions that shouldn't have been on his mind. Now he has written an account that should not be published, in four volumes that shouldn't be read. This is the first volume.
Lemony Snicket had an unusual education and a perplexing youth and now endures a despondent adulthood. His previous accounts and research have been collected and published as books, including those in A Series of Unfortunate Events, 13 Words, and The Composer is Dead. This is his first authorized autobiographical work.
Seth is no stranger to a town that is fading. He is a multi-award-winning cartoonist, author, and artist, whose works include Palookaville, Clyde Fans, and The Great Northern Brotherhood of Canadian Cartoonists. He lives in Guelph, Canada.
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Snicket, author of the wildly successful Series of Unfortunate Events stories, returns with the first in the projected four-volume All the Wrong Questions series, supplying "autobiographical" accounts of his unusual childhood. Nearly 13 when the book opens, Snicket is beginning his apprenticeship for a mysterious organization under the tutelage of dimwitted S. Theodora Markson, who is ranked dead last in effectiveness by the agency but who may be the source of Snicket's tic of defining vocabulary pedantically, a word which here means, oh, never mind. Unlike Snicket's Unauthorized Biography (HarperCollins, 2002), which left readers as uninformed about him as they were before they read it, this account reveals that Lemony is "an excellent reader, a good cook, a mediocre musician, and an awful quarreler." Not mind-blowing, but it's a start. And perhaps not true. Straight answers are hard to find as Snicket and Markson investigate a theft in a seaside town that's been drained of its sea, encountering deception and double crosses at every turn. Full of Snicket's trademark droll humor and maddeningly open-ended, this will have readers clamoring for volume two. Ages 9–up. Agent: Charlotte Sheedy Literary Agency. (Oct.)


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My Aunt keeps her apartment very cold. She works (Wal-Mart) but she says she can`t afford any more money for heat.
She is always shivering and has on 3 or 4 sweaters when I go over there. I looked at her thermostat and it only said 50 degrees.
Is this bad for her? I don`t think she ever turns it any higher than that. Could she get hypo-thermia? She is 58.
Handling environmental temperature gets more difficult as we reach advanced age. But since your aunt is only 58, she is young enough to manage cool temperatures by wearing layers such as sweaters. Hypothermia usually occurs at very cold temperatures. Shivering is a normal response to temperature that's tool cool for your aunt's comfort. Does your aunt shiver at higher temperatures than 50? Using 3 or 4 sweaters and still shivering may warrant a physical check up with her primary care provider to rule out any circulation or other medical problems that may cause a person to be cold at temperatures like 50 degrees (which is usually considered cool but not cold) while wearing 4 layers of sweaters. Suggest your aunt get a physical check up. Also, could she afford to get an electric heater to boost the furnace heat? In addition, have your aunt contact the energy company that provides her heat to explain her situation as she may qualify for help from the company to pay her heating bill.
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Court of Foxes was the Wales Regional winner in the 2007 national competition organised by Undiscovered Authors, and was published in July 2008.
In the Welsh village of Morredin, no house is numbered '7' and its children belong to a secret society. Into this brooding atmosphere comes Bryn to live with his grandfather, and nightmares commence which take him deep into a cave.
What is the dark secret surrounding Emrys Morgan, who is buried in a far corner of the churchyard? And why does no one except Bryn see and hear the foxes?
When he stumbles on the cave of his nightmare, Bryn finds the book of seven golden locks which is known to hold evil power. As his connection to Morredin is revealed, Bryn faces a decision that could change the world for ever.
Court of Foxes- The journey
It all began with an article in Saga magazine with the eye-catching title 'I'm off to see the Wizard.'
As I read the story of this amazing man, and wizard, the wheels of my creative thought began to turn.
The Book of Revelations featured strongly in Byron's account, and I was to study that frightening epistle as my story evolved.
'And I saw in the right hand of him that sat on the throne a book written within…sealed with seven seals.'
What has that extract from the Book of Revelations to do with Dr Harries?
The answer is simple: he also had a magical book with seven locks and, 'once a year, the Wizard, cowled and carrying the locked book would climb the hills. It was said that when this happened the skies would darken over the Vale of Caio, and thunder would roll as he opened it,' wrote Byron.
After reading that the grave of the doctor was away from others in the small cemetery, and the 'Harries stone' in the hills where he used to pray to evil forces, split on the night of his death, I was hooked!
I telephoned Byron Rogers who told me that one man had shown him where the grave was sited then said: 'I went to see it one Halloween, and haven't been right since.'
A story was forming in my mind, and the protagonist was named Bryn, and there would be a magical book of spells, with seven locks, and….I had to visit Caio.
From Llandudno it is over one hundred miles, and the journey takes you up into the hills from Pumsaint on the A482.
I saw the entrance to a cave, and that was placed in my memory bank, though I also took many photographs to be on the safe side.
As I entered the old church I was immediately struck by a stained glass window with the image of Dr Harries, resplendent in his Victorian finery, but it was the animals cavorting at his feet that drew my attention: they were foxes.
'Do you know why there are foxes in that picture?' I asked the old lady sweeping the church floor.
'Oh you mean the dewen (wizard). He was able to change into an animal, and the fox was his favourite,' she answered, and the hairs on the back of my neck rose
Foxes were going to be important in my story and when I walked through the village and learned the name of the crossroads was 'The Court of the Fox,' I knew I was destined to write a story as I now had a title.
This was bound to be character in my book, and Selwyn, who meets Bryn at the beginning is an important link in the events that take place.
I studied the Book of Revelations which gave me some graphic scenes with fiery red horses, a pale horse carrying 'death' on its back, and a nightmare where Bryn is hit by blood falling down as rain.
To be truthful, the story wrote itself, and characters evolved, like Carys, who leads a secret society of children who meet in one the caves near my mythical Welsh village of Mordach.
Not being a Welsh speaker, I was lucky to have the services of staff at my local library, so the fox became cadno, and the scary black fox, cadno du.
At workshops with local schools, I am often asked if I can speak Welsh, and I see the triumph on their faces when I answer in the negative. However, I see a modicum of respect when I ask if they know the meaning of 'dewen,' 'cadno,' and the other few words I have learned, as most shake their heads!
I would like to end with the opening of my story, and you will see how this evolved if you care to go back to Byron Roger's account:
'The man threw back the hood of his black cloak, dark eyes glittering with excitement. Walking towards the star-shaped flat stone on the hillside, he clutched a leather book tightly.
Placing the book carefully on the stone, he took out a key ring from a pocket in his cloak. It held seven gold keys. The time had come.
'Adentium, mesantium, nostrarium,' he shouted to the darkening sky, his arms outstretched . An answering rumble of thunder bounced off the hillside as he opened the first lock on the book.
In the villages below, dogs howled and shivered. People hurried indoors and crossed themselves as they looked fearfully towards the distant hills known at the 'Court of Foxes.'
'Dyn Hysbys,' they whispered. 'The Wise Man prays.'
One final thought. The book of seven locks with its collection of evil spells and power was never found after the death of Dr John Harries.
'What I liked about the story was the strong sense of PLACE and the character of Bryn. He is a very believable character.'
Adele Geras.
'A powerful and dramatic piece of writing that has all the ingredients necessary to appeal to both young and old readers alike, an excellent compelling piece of fiction.'
Phil Carradice. Novelist, Historian, BBC Broadcaster.
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2 Country Songs Every True Fan Should Know [VIDEO]
If you call yourself a "real country fan," you should know two songs that both celebrate an anniversary today.
Today's country music sure is a lot different than these two songs. However, it is good to know where our great genre has been and where it is today if you are going to be a big-time fan.


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Fabulous Family Cruise: Carnival Inspiration Cruise Review by jodagayton
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Fabulous Family Cruise
Destination: Mexican Riviera
Embarkation: Los Angeles
We just got back from the Carnival Inspiration 2/20- 2/24.
Took my daughter 12 and her friend.
Trip started out rocky when Southwest lost my suitcase when the flight attendant checked my bag at the gate because it was a little too big for carry-on. Piece of advice - either bring a small carry-on - check SW website or check your luggage. Make sure that even your carry-on has id on and in the suitcase - mine didn't. If you are one of the last people on the plane, you might have to give your suitcase to the flight attendant - so make sure you get tag, double check that the flight attendant has put a tag on it, and make sure your suitcase has id - nothing like going on a cruise with no clothes.
Southwest did not find my bag the whole time we were gone - Carnival was great about checking with them throughout the cruise and Carnival gave me a free toiletry kit, T-shirt, and 20% off in the ships More stores. Southwest also gave me up to $500 to spend in Catalina - which doesn't go far in Catalina - I did find a great store - Avalon Bay Company - 407 Crescent Street - to the right of the pier - had cute - non "touristy" clothes - Maria very helpful.
SHIP - Room M191 - state attendant great - tried to get a balcony but I think they only have 40 on board - next time would book a room on the even side of the ship - then would have views of Catalina and Ensenada. Rooms are tiny - not good for more than 2 - squishy with 3. Food excellent -had early seating with other families traveling with children - have to try the warm chocolate melting cake - yum! Kids club great - Club O - for 12 - 14 year olds very fun for my girls. Shows - excellent. Comedy - fantastic - especially adult only comedy - so funny! Guest services incredibly nice and helpful. People on the ship- very nice - mostly families - probably half of ship kids - very different than previous Carnival Cruises - where everyone was drunk.
CATALINA - Book all excursions off ship if possible. Snorkeled with Catalina dive shop - unfortunately had to get excursion through ship because they had an deal with the ship $50 per person - nice people - problem with wetsuits - hard to put on without zippers - water only 55 degrees and a little hard to get in water at Lovers Point - heard that fish were beautiful - I bailed out of going - just too cold. I recommend to snorkel when it gets warmer.
Parasailing - Island Water Charters Parasailing - $65 per person - great - very nice people - book right when get off tender - tandem sailing - very safe and fun!
ENSENADA - A MUST MUST MUST DO - Las Canadas Zipline - 40 minute drive - go into town to take taxi - don't take small buses from port - double the price - unfortunately I didn't know - should only cost about $40 round trip - driver will stay while you zipline. Course at least 6 different lines - obstacle course - guides very nice and patient - one in front of group and one at the end - very safe - not crowded now - will be in summer - 400 zipliners a day. Price only $25 for 2 - I gave the guides each a $20 tip because they handled screaming girls very well. Highlight - planks in air that you jump to - if too scared you can also walk around that section. Beautiful scenery - worth the drive - on the way back to the ship we had our driver take up to the blow hole. Better to see Blow Hole in the morning - not good in the afternoon - shopping great - 2 blocks of vendors - cash only - lots of bargaining - great deals - a little aggressive. Best Guacamole in Havana Banana's restaurant - if you just go to blow hole - don't take tour through ship - just have taxi in town take you - I think round trip about $30.
I hope that this review helps - so much fun! Less
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DENVER -- The suspect in the Aurora movie shooting mailed "burnt currency," along with a notebook, to his psychiatrist before the attack. He threatened a professor and was banned from a university campus before withdrawing from its neuroscience graduate program. His defence team has added a psychiatrist.
Those were the few tidbits of information in hundreds of pages of heavily-redacted court documents released Friday, which serve as the best chance the public has to understand what happened before James Holmes allegedly opened fire at a midnight screening of the new Batman movie more than two months ago.
The documents shed little light on Holmes' possible motives or whether the university ignored warning signs about him. That's partly because Arapahoe County District Judge William B. Sylvester continued to keep under seal the key documents in the case -- the affidavit that lays out prosecutors' case against Holmes, and the search warrants that allowed them to gather evidence against him.
Holmes, 24, faces 152 charges in the July 20 shooting that killed 12 people and injured 58 others.
Some of the pages are entirely blacked out. In others, Sylvester's rulings on legal disputes, references to years-old case law and even copies of newspaper articles are redacted, along with information about the investigation.
The documents do shed a little more light on one of the main disputes in the case -- Holmes' threats against a professor, possibly the university psychiatrist, Dr. Lynne Fenton, who has testified she contacted campus police after her last meeting with Holmes June 11. Fenton, who testified Aug. 30, said she went to police to gather more information and communicate her "concern."
She did not refer to her concern as a threat.
Prosecutors contended that Holmes was barred from campus after making the threats. The University of Colorado has said Holmes was denied access to nonpublic buildings on campus because he withdrew as a neuroscience graduate student, not for safety reasons.
A university spokeswoman did not return a call for comment Friday. The university has previously refused to comment on how it handled Holmes, citing a gag order Sylvester imposed. Before the gag order, university officials said their police force had no contact with Holmes and that the chief of the department knew nothing about him.
The defence team sought sanctions against prosecutors for contending Holmes had been barred from campus, arguing that the false statements could contaminate the jury pool. But Sylvester shot that down, ruling the statements were within legal bounds.
Defence attorneys issued a written statement Friday again saying the claim that Holmes was barred from campus was false and misleading.
The most legally significant disclosure Friday was the inclusion of the psychiatrist on Holmes' defence team. Holmes' attorneys have said he is mentally ill.
"This is unusual in a normal case, but not surprising in this case," said criminal trial lawyer Dan Recht, former president of the Colorado Criminal Defence Bar. "Presumably he's (the psychiatrist) the one who is going to opine on whether Holmes is insane or not.
"It's a foregone conclusion that the defence will plead not guilty by reason of insanity."
Prosecutors suggested Holmes was angry at the failure of a once-promising academic career and stockpiled weapons, ammunition, tear gas grenades, and body armour as his research deteriorated and professors urged him to get into another profession.
-- The Associated Press


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Margo's Sweet Potato Waffles
Recipe by Hill Family
I haven't yet made these but everything Margo has given me has been great so I am sure these will be as well
Top Review by KateL
We loved these waffles! I boiled a medium sweet potato and mashed it by itself. It would also have worked quite well if I had used some leftover seasoned mashed sweet potatoes. Even though I have a Cuisinart nonstick Belgian waffle maker, I still coated the waffle iron plates with vegetable oil with a silicone basting brush (and used that brush to sweep off any residue that clung to the waffle iron plates. I would set the waffle iron between 2.5 and 3 for desired brownness. I got 10 individual waffles from this recipe, using about 1/3 cup of batter in each section. I'm so glad I tagged these for Photo Tag!
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 2 cups all-purpose flour
- 1 tablespoon baking powder
- 1 teaspoon salt
- 1⁄4 teaspoon ground cinnamon
- 3 eggs, separated
- 1 1⁄2 cups milk
- 1⁄4 cup vegetable oil
- 3⁄4 cup sweet potatoes or 3⁄4 cup yam, cooked and mashed
- 1⁄4 cup black walnut, chopped
Directions See How It's Made
- Combine flour, baking powder, salt and cinnamon; set aside.
- Beat egg yolks in a medium bowl; add milk and oil, mixing well.
- Stir in sweet potato.
- Add to flour mixture, stirring until well blended.
- Beat room temperature egg whites until stiff peaks form; fold into batter.
- Pour into waffle iron (oil iron if not non- stick) and sprinkle with a few walnuts.


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What I'm trying to say is that FG% is not the statistic that measures who is a great shooter and who isn't. Dwight Howard (and several other Centers) have very high FG% but you don't consider them good shooters, right?
So, yeah. He is a great shooter. At least, he was a great shooter before the injury. Injuries like that do not tend to take away one person's shooting but I guess that I have to wait and see how he plays when he returns before using the present tense.
See, looking at a single statistic doesn't tell you the whole story. It gives you one very small piece of a much bigger puzzle. Only once you start adding other pieces to the puzzle do they start to show you the whole picture. The shooting percentage stats are only one corner of the picture.
BTW, his numbers and stats and percentages were inflated on a bad team coached by JOb. Murphy shot 45% one year. But you should have seen him shoot in the 4th quarter that year. Teams were not guarding the Pacers that tight...
A difference in volume is very significant since higher volume tends to mean lower efficiency. Another significant part is whether this player is an off-ball player or an on-ball player. Hill, Watson and Rush are mostly off-ball players. Danny was both but he spent a lot of time on-ball as well. Again, shooting 3s as an on-ball player is harder than shooting a spot-up 3. That's also why I want Danny to be an off-ball player when he returns.
That's why Curry is so amazing. Because he is shooting crazy percentages (45.3% last year) while taking a huge volume of 3s (7.7 per game last year) and he does all that while being an on-ball player. I mean, Curry is just transcendental.
I think Danny's future is uncertain, but there's no denying that he was a very good player in the past.
Three point specialists and athletic defensive centers are examples of low volume players who tend to be super efficient because they rely on other players to get them shots, and they tend to only shoot when they're open.
This is a great example of how scouting/statistics work together actually. Teams evaluate a player's role in the offense through observation, and then they can dig into the statistics and compare his efficiency to other players who have the same role in their offenses to see if he's being as efficient as he should be. Then they can look deeper into shot charts, etc. to see if there are certain areas of the court that are better for them to see if the offense is utilizing them correctly. Paul George IIRC was just talking about this about using shot charts to find spots on the floor that he naturally shoots better at and working in the offense to get to those points on the floor.
I love Danny, but if he wants to be apart of a Championship contending team, he will accept his role and come off the bench. I think/hope Lance can continue to improve and be our starting shooting guard for years to come. I do think Lance will go into a slump at some point during the season, and this could very well coincide Danny's returning to playing meaningful minutes, but I do not think that the starting lineup should be changed.


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BALTIMORE (WJZ) — State lawmakers, business leaders and tourism professionals celebrate the fourth annual Maryland Tourism Day. It's a chance to brainstorm and jump start the year's tourism.
Tim Williams has more on their hopes for 2014.
It's the time of year state tourism professionals spread the message, starting in Annapolis and reaching from the sea of people on Ocean City's boardwalk to the shining sea of buildings at the Inner Harbor.
"From a destination standpoint, Baltimore and Ocean City are our top-visited destinations," said Maryland Tourism Executive Director Margot Amelia.
So the plan is to distribute the wealth and the tourists by aggressively promoting statewide attractions beyond the obvious ones. It's an economic impact that really adds up.
"Visitors spend $14.9 billion in the state, and that represents $2 billion in local and state taxes, so it helps to pay for schools and public safety and all the important things," Amelia said.
At Fort McHenry, tourism has survived government shutdowns and furloughs, but not without innovative methods of promotion.
"The page helps you plan your trip. So obviously directions, cost and just a brief overview," one visitor said.
Tourism experts say one key to driving promotion is social media, meaning your trip starts long before you arrive.
"Your website is the best thing to do, and it still is, but now we're finding Facebook and now Twitter are becoming more popular," said National Parks Service Chief of Interpretation Vince Vaise.
Hopes are tourism overall will be more popular statewide in 2014.
For more information on this year's activities, click here.
Other Local News:
- Coconut Charlie's Owner Puts Up $10K For Info Leading To Arson Arrest
- Baltimore Mayor Doubles Down On Decision To Remove Monuments Following Trump's Criticism
- Baltimore County Set To Hand Out School Supplies At Several Locations
- Confederate Names At Naval Academy Could Face Rough Seas
- Special Stench: Corpse Flowers Blooming At U.S. Botanic Garden


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David Dimbleby was joined for the interactive debate by David Blunkett MP, Michael Ancram MP, Jim Wallace QC MSP, Nicola Sturgeon MSP and UKIP Chairman Petrina Holdsworth.
Title: Former Home Secretary
Career: David Blunkett resigned from the government in December amid allegations over his ex-lover's nanny's visa.
Tipped by some to return to the Cabinet if Labour wins the election, Mr Blunkett has said the English should stop being "apologetic about our history" and celebrate St George's Day.
Title: Shadow Foreign Secretary and Conservative Deputy Leader
Career: Mr Ancram stood as a candidate in the 2001 Tory leadership election.
But he failed in his bid to succeed William Hague and at the next leadership contest, in 2003, he decided to give Michael Howard a clear run.
Under John Major, Michael Ancram was a minister for Northern Ireland. William Hague appointed him constitutional affairs spokesman in 1997 and party chairman in 1998.
Title: Scotland Deputy First Minister and Enterprise Minister
Career: Jim Wallace is leader of the Scottish Liberal Democrats.
As Scotland's deputy first minister, he signed a second coalition deal with Labour in Scotland following the 2003 elections for the Scottish Parliament.
He did not seek re-election for his Westminster seat at the last general election, having represented Orkney and Shetland since 1983.
Title: Deputy Leader, SNP
Career: Nicola Sturgeon was elected deputy leader of the SNP in 2004.
Previously shadow minister for health issues in the Scottish Parliament, she has also held the post of shadow education minister.
Nicola Sturgeon contested local and national elections before winning her seat in the Scottish Parliament in 1999 and again in 2003.
Title: Party Chairman, UKIP
Career: A barrister by profession, Petrina Holdsworth was elected chairman of UKIP last year.
At the forthcoming general election she is standing against the Conservative leader Michael Howard in Folkestone and Hythe.
At the 2004 European elections she was a UKIP candidate for the south-east region.
BBC ONE's Question Time is broadcast this week on Wednesday at 2240 GMT.


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Luxury Watches: Vacheron Constantin and the Barbier-Mueller Museum have joined forces in changing the face of haute horology. Inspired by the ancient art of tribal masks, Vacheron Constantin has introduced its latest four-piece series in the Métiers d'Art Les Masques collection.
Each year, Vacheron Constantin has revealed its superb craftsmanship to the world with the annual release of Métiers d'Art. Only 25 sets are produced each annually, adding to the collection's value and exclusivity. Each individual timepiece in the Métiers d'Art Les Masques collection provides a remarkable representation of primitive art, spanning over 2,000 years and four continents.
Each mask offers its own story, which is told through short poems in prose written by Michel Butor. The words circle the sapphire dial in letters of gold and spiral in such a way that they can only be read when the light strikes from a certain angle.
The latest series of watches are fashioned after four exceptionally crafted masks from the Barbier-Mueller Museum, including a Facial Mask from Indonesia, a Zangs Bag Facial Mask from China, a Pendant Mask from Mexico, and a Ngontang Mask from Africa.
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Microsoft's Aggressive New Pricing StrategyBy
Microsoft has long enjoyed Olympian profit margins, using its monopoly power to maintain prices on its software even in tough times. But now, amid a terrible downturn and rising competition, CEO Steven A. Ballmer is shifting to a scrappier approach. He is cutting prices on a variety of fronts, from flagship Windows and Office products to newfangled Internet services.
The idea is to accept lower margins in some businesses but boost overall earnings by going after a grab bag of growth opportunities. These range from expanding its share of big companies' software purchases to lowering the price of Office software so consumers in emerging markets pay for it rather than pirate it. With the outlook so cloudy, "we're focusing on gaining share in those areas that are most critical," says Stephen A. Elop, who heads the business division.
On July 13, Elop demonstrated the new Office 2010 in New Orleans. While Microsoft expects most customers to pay for the program the way they always have, less powerful, ad-supported versions will be available free on the Web. The company is also charging a monthly fee for online applications, such as the e-mail program Exchange, which is about a third as profitable as selling the software on CDs. And on Oct. 22, Microsoft's new Windows 7 PC operating system will go on sale in stores for $40 less than the $240 it charged when it launched its Vista program in 2007—the biggest price cut on a new version of Windows in years.
All of these moves amount to a risky experiment in price elasticity. By lowering prices, the company hopes to increase sales of existing products while making fast headway with new ones. If the company can gain enough market share to cover its massive costs in Web services and Internet search—notably, its vast data centers—every extra dollar will be pure profit. "I'm not saying it will be easy," says Ballmer. "But we have great opportunities to grow total profit dollars."
Microsoft is cutting the price of Office and offering the free versions of Word, Excel, and other programs to head off competition from Google and other rivals that offer similar software at little or no cost. Microsoft has so many promotions for Office that its effective price is $100, down from $150, and even lower in such countries as Brazil and India. But the experience is sparking optimism at Microsoft about the new strategy. The company says unit sales of Office surged 415% in the second half of last year.
The most aggressive price cut has come in China, where Microsoft says 95% of Office installations have been pirated. Since it began testing a $29 offer in China last September, sales have soared more than 800%. The low price was "like taking firewood from under the cauldron" of piracy, says Liu Tianxiang, a vice-president with Beijing Federal Software, a Chinese software distributor. He figures Microsoft has sold 80,000 copies of Office in China since the trial started. Now Microsoft intends to make the low price permanent.
Not surprisingly, Microsoft continues to hunt for ways to offset price cuts. It hopes to boost the bottom line by encouraging Windows 7 software users to upgrade more often. Since the program CD will come loaded with multiple versions, users who buy the cheaper Starter edition can easily pay later to get premium features. Of course, that risks annoying users—when rivals such as Google are trying to lure customers with cheaper alternatives. But in the current economy, there's no risk-free way to stay ahead.


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Irish Lamb Stew
Recipe by LastBaron
A traditional Irish stew, as handed down by my grandmother, who was born and raised and is now buried in Bangor, Co. Down, Ulster. This recipe has been modified slightly, as indicated in my comment below. This is a good, hearty stew, whcih is excellent fare anytime there's "a chill in the air."
Top Review by Serferss
FYI two things: A.) Bones are very nutritious and have been removed from American tables by grocers. Just try to find a knuckle now. AND B.) I bet your grandmother never used canola oil, unless this isn't really traditional. Canola oil has only been around since the 20th century. In spite of your obvious dislike for Americans, I thank you for your contribution and forgive you your prejudice. Good luck.
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Ingredients Nutrition
- 3 1⁄3 lbs boneless leg of lamb, cut in 1/2 inch cubes
- 1⁄2 cup all-purpose flour
- 2 1⁄2 teaspoons salt
- 3⁄8 teaspoon black pepper
- 1 2⁄3 teaspoons canola oil
- 6 2⁄3 yellow onions, peeled,coarsely chopped
- 1 2⁄3 cloves garlic, finely chopped
- 3⁄8 cup chopped fresh curly parsley
- 1 2⁄3 teaspoons caraway seeds
- 2 bay leaves
- 1 1⁄8 pints chicken broth or 1 1⁄8 pints beef broth
- 1 (20 ounce) bottle Guinness stout or 1 (20 ounce) bottle dark beer
- 3 1⁄3 tablespoons apple cider vinegar or 3 1⁄3 tablespoons red wine vinegar
- 1 2⁄3 tablespoons packed brown sugar
Directions See How It's Made
- Combine flour, salt and pepper.
- Dredge lamb cubes in seasoned flour.
- Heat oil; brown meat over medium-high heat.
- Reduce heat to medium, add onions and garlic.
- Cook, stir 5 minutes until browned and onions are translucent.
- Add remaining ingredients, raise heat to medium-high and bring to boil.
- Reduce heat to simmer, cook (sitrring occasionally) for 90 minutes to 2 hours, or until meat is fork tender.
- Thicken gravy, if necessary, with cornstarch-sauce slurry.
- :In Ireland, the lamb used is*never* boneless.
- A stew is, by Irish tastes and sensibilities (and very much contrary to the American perception thereof),*not* an elegant dish, but rather a working dish that can be made and left unattended while good Irish lads and lassies are out toiling in the fields, tending the lambs and sheep that are used in this dish, or following other gainful pursuits and pastimes.
- The bones have been removed here to adjust this recipe to more molly-coddled American tastes.