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Kulinarischer Spaziergang in Mailand
Der Kulinarische Spaziergang in Mailand ist eine großartige Möglichkeit Italienisches Essen und Weine kennenzulernen! Dies ist die Tour für alle mit speziellem Interesse an der Italienischen Küche! Buchen Sie Ihre Tickets für unseren leckeren Kulinarischen Spaziergang in Mailand hier!
Our 3-hour Milan Food Tour is a unique and memorable tasting experience through the historic district of Brera, which is one of the oldest and fascinating neighborhoods of Milan. Brera is the quarter of Milan where the old world charm meets a trendy and youthful downtown vibe.
On your Food tour in Milan, you will taste delightful Italian foods from local shops that specialize in traditional recipes using century-old techniques.
On this guided walking food & culture tour in English, you will also learn about the colorful history of Milan and how it has transformed throughout the centuries. Your guide will entertain you with stories and educate you about the origin of the food products and how they are made.
After our Milan Food Tour, you will be able to truly appreciate the traditional Italian pastry, pizza, Parma ham, Culatello, unique Mondeghili meatballs, gelato and much more!
Included in the tour:
• English speaking guide
• Melanzane alla Parmigiana (Aubergine Parmigiana)
• Cannoli (cream horns)
• Artisan beer made in Italy
• Culatello (refined dry-cured ham)
• Milanese-style meatballs
• Parma ham aged for 24 months
• Authentic Italian gelato
• Milan-style Aperitivo at a trendy art and aperitivo bar "La Bicicletta""
• Pizza in teglia (pan pizza)
Important information:
* After you have completed your booking you will receive a mail where your e-tickets is attached as a PDF document.
* Child age is between 4 and 10 years old.
* All guiding will be in English.
* Duration is 3 hours.
* Menu may change based on the availability of specific seasonal ingredients.
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Kulinarischer Spaziergang in Mailand
Tour starts at this address:
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Via Solferino 5,
Kulinarischer Spaziergang in Mailand
Monday to Saturday at 10:00am
Nearest Underground Station is: Lanza - Brera. From here it is around 5 min. walk


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Call for Papers -Dry lands Management Policy ForumDec 23, 2013
The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) in collaboration with the Afar Environmental Protection and Land Administration Agency would like to invite researchers to present papers on Dry lands Management Policy Forum which will take place on February 5-6/2014 in the Palace of Afar National Regional State.
1. Background
The dry lands cover about 70 % of the total landmass of the Ethiopia (NAP, 1998).
Cognizant of these multidimensional challenges in the region, a project entitled "Afar Integrated Dryland Management Project" was initiated and implemented since 2010. The Afar Integrated Dry land Management Project (AIDMP) aims to build the environmental management capacity at community/kebele and wereda level based on the 5 pilot Woredas/Districts Climate Change Adaptation Programmes prepared through the participation of Regional, Woreda and Federal level stakeholders. The Adaptation Programme has identified vulnerability of the pastoral communities and their environment, the available adaptive capacity and possible response measures to be taken at different levels.
The AIDMP also aims to contribute to building the regional Climate Resilient Green Economy (CREG) platform, which intrinsically linked to sustainable dry lands management, comprising of stakeholders from the Federal, Regional, Woreda, The Regional and the Woreda Climate Change Adaptation Programms prepared are central to the AIDMP strategy: to assist Afar communities to strengthen their resilience to the challenges of land degradation and to maintain and diversify livelihoods in difficult environmental conditions that are increasingly exacerbated by changes in weather patterns.
2. Objectives of the Policy Forum
The policy forum aims at creating an opportunity for all key stakeholders, community representatives, local, regional and federal government policy makers, academia and research institutions CSO and development partners to deliberate on the key lessons of the AIDLM project and other dry lands management programs and projects.
The policy Forum will take place at the Palace of the Afar National Regional State on February 5-6/2014 with the objectives of:
· Identifying the policy gaps for scaling up of Afar Integrated Dry lands Management best practices in different parts of the region; creating awareness of the larger public about the importance of dry lands and their contribution for the country's economy;
· Sharing experiences among the various stake holders on the benefits of sustainably managing and utilizing the arid lands; and
· Mobilizing additional resources from potential donors for scaling up of best practices from the implementation of AIDMP and other similar programs and projects on dry lands.
3. Format of the Policy Dialogue
The Policy Forum is structured into three distinct sessions; session I on the achievements and lesson form AIDLM, session II on general issues and best practise in dry lands management and session III plenary discussion and recommendation in association with Session II,
UNDP Ethiopia and Afar Environmental Protection, Land Use and Administration Agency wishes to invite for research papers. Selected commissioned papers will be presented and discussed in the Policy Forum under the following thematic areas:
4. Thematic areas
1. Climate Change Adaptation and Resilience building in the dry lands: issues, best practices and challenges;
2. Dry lands ecosystem management: issues, best practices and challenges;
3. Livestock production value chain in the context of enhancing pastoralists' livelihoods
4. Institutional and policy issues in the conservation and sustainable utilization of dry lands: challenges and opportunities
5. For Submission of Paper
Accepted papers will comprise original work not previously published, with focus on the Ethiopian context and the dry lands ecosystem management in Ethiopia. Papers must be well researched with all facts and figures clearly cross referenced. Papers must be researched based on an analysis/synthesis of desk reviews of dry lands management practices by various actors in Ethiopia. Authors may submit paper as an individual or in groups with lead author clearly indicated.
Interested authors are invited to submit abstracts of not more than 2 pages on one of the thematic areas indicated above. The abstract papers shall be reviewed by the Panel of Experts established at UNDP and selected abstract papers will be notified to develop the full paper. The UNDP will pay attractive honorarium for the selected papers and findings of the Forum and the selected research papers will be published.
6.Dates of sub mission of abstracts and full papers
Abstract: January 4, 2014
Notification of acceptance of paper January 9, 2014
Submission of final manuscript: January 25, 2014
7. Sponsorship
Support is reserved for one presenter per selected paper to travel and make the presentation at the policy dialogue.Send submissions to
Mr. Ababu Anage on firstname.lastname@example.com

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There will come a time in the near future when a plaque honoring Derek Jeter will join some of the great Yankees of the past behind the center-field fence at the new stadium in the Bronx.
Not a terribly large one, of course, because the oversized tribute to George Steinbrenner now hogs most of the space in Monument Park. But a plaque nonetheless, complete with a likeness of the shortstop and some numbers delineating his years of service to the Yankees.
That those years are winding down is the one thing both sides in Jeter's current contract talks might agree upon. Shortstop is a position for a young player to occupy, and Jeter is now 36 and coming off a season where his batting average plummeted 64 points to .270.
His value to the Yankees going forward won't necessarily be in leading off a game with a double or flashing some leather up the middle. He'll earn his money by selling a new Yankee legend and making fans feel all warm and fuzzy when they reach deep into their wallets to watch him play out the string.
For that he reportedly wants to be rewarded with four or five more years on the payroll. Jeter would like another $100 million or so, boosting his career earnings from the only team he has ever played for somewhere north of $300 million.
Crazy money, sure, though not nearly as crazy as the money the Yankees are on the hook for over the next seven years for the 34-year-old who plays next to Jeter on the infield. The numbers suggest a supposedly steroid-free Alex Rodriguez is already in decline, yet the biggest portion of his 10-year $275 million contract has yet to be paid.
The Yankees don't want to repeat their mistake with Jeter. The problem is, they really don't have much choice.
The Boss would have realized that. His son apparently doesn't.
"As much as we want to keep everybody, we've already made these guys very, very rich, and I don't feel we owe anybody anything monetarily," Hank Steinbrenner said last week. "Some of these players are wealthier than their bosses."
Chalk that up as public posturing, if you will. But a baseball executive familiar with the negotiations told the AP's Ronald Blum on Monday that Jeter and the Yankees haven't talked in more than a week and that Jeter's side hasn't made a formal counter proposal to the club's initial $45 million, three-year offer to the future Hall of Fame shortstop.
Then again, there's no real need to hurry. Jeter isn't going anywhere else.
No other team is going to pay him superstar money in the twilight of his career. The Yankees don't have to get into a bidding contest for his remaining talents.
But they do have to sign him. And they will have to give him more than three years.
Assuming things don't get too acrimonious between employee and employer, it will be money well spent. Jeter is the face of the Yankees this generation, just as Reggie Jackson was before him and Mickey Mantle and Yogi Berra were before that.
He's played shortstop for five World Series winning teams in two different stadiums in the Bronx, come to bat 10,548 times as a Yankee, and lived his life in a fishbowl without a whiff of any kind of scandal. In an era where players - A-Rod included - routinely bulked up on steroids to cheat the game there's never been a hint that Jeter used anything other than talent and hard work to play shortstop at a consistently high level over 15 full seasons.
Jeter will break into the exclusive 3,000 hit club sometime next year, and will likely one day end his career in the top five in hits of all time. He's done it all in one uniform under the most demanding expectations from both fans and a larger-than-life late owner.
Jeter is such a Yankee that he stood in front of home plate after the final game at the old stadium to lead the crowd in farewell to the stadium that Ruth built, then led his teammates on a slow lap around the field. Every time he comes to plate at the new stadium he is introduced at his insistence by a recording of the late public address announcer Bob Sheppard. He's a link to Yankees of the past, a bridge to the Yankees of the future. His popularity is one of the reasons the Yankees were able to build a new stadium, and one of the reasons they have a television network that makes them huge profits.
Former baseball commissioner Fay Vincent suggested in an op-ed piece in the Wall Street Journal on Monday that players seeking huge contracts might be better off negotiating for a piece of the team instead. Indeed, the idea of Jeter owning a small percentage of the Yankees would likely be appealing to both the shortstop and New York fans, if not the Steinbrenners themselves.
In the absence of that, give him money and give him years.
And start polishing the plaque for the day that will surely come.
Tim Dahlberg is a national sports columnist for The Associated Press. Write to him at tdahlberg(at)ap.org


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David Whatley is the secretary for the Aiken County Chess Club.
1. When did the Aiken County Chess Club form?
It's been in existence now for about nine months.
2. Why was the club formed?
The club was formed basically because there were several (chess) enthusiasts in the area. And there hadn't really been an active club in the Aiken area for a good while. So we decided to get together.
3. How often, and where, do the members meet to play chess?
Every other Saturday at the Stoplight Deli in Aiken. Currently, there are about 25 members, and that comprises all age levels from 12 up to the other side of 65.
4. What are the requirements for joining the club?
Just an interest in chess. There are no membership fees.
5. What is the Lee Hyder Memorial Tournament, which is being held by the Aiken County Chess Club and is scheduled for Saturday and Sunday, April 27, at the Hotel Aiken?
It's actually memorializing Dr. Lee Hyder, who was instrumental for chess in the 1960s and '70s in South Carolina. He had served at one time with the U.S. Chess Federation. He was responsible for bringing a real important chess game to the Aiken-Augusta area.


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PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- The president of the American Hockey League gave the city of Glens Falls a warm endorsement Monday morning, saying he believes the market could host a new AHL team once the Adirondack Phantoms depart for the new arena being built for them in Allentown, Pa.
In his annual state of the league address, David Andrews said he considers Glens Falls to be an AHL city and added the Phantoms will "most likely" return to the Civic Center for the 2013-14 season, though the team's owners have agreed to move if officials can attract a new team by April.
But there are only a few affiliation agreements and leases expiring at the end of this season, Andrews continued, and the AHL does not envision many teams will be looking to relocate this summer.
"We don't see a whole lot of movement happening and I think the Phantoms will most likely be back there next year," Andrews said in his remarks, delivered as part of the league's annual All-Star Classic. "I have been in conversation with the mayor and we have committed to him that we will work with them to try and keep AHL hockey in Glens Falls beyond that."
The Phantoms relocated from Philadelphia to Glens Falls at the end of the 2008-09 season while awaiting completion of a new arena in Allentown, Pa. Construction on that project has been delayed, but Andrews attended a groundbreaking ceremony for the arena in November 2012.
Andrews sung the venue's praises, saying it is revitalizing Allentown, and added the Phantoms will have natural rivalries with Pennsylvania-based clubs Hershey and Wilkes-Barre/Scranton.
Adirondack's owners, Rob and Jim Brooks, have said while the Allentown arena may be finished during the 2013-14 season, the
Phantoms won't move there until the start of the 2014-15 season. They have committed to playing one more season in Glens Falls. The caveat is if Glens Falls can secure a new long-term hockey tenant by April 1, the Phantoms will move to another city for the 2013-14 season before relocating to Allentown in 2014.
Regardless of when the move transpires, Andrews said he thinks Glens Falls could support a new AHL team.
"I think the response of the fans there has been very positive," Andrews said. "It's a difficult market from the perspective of being as small as it is and not having the kind of corporate base that we have in other cities to draw in from a sponsorship perspective, but it's one of our historic cities. It's a building that works for us. It's in a location that works for us from a travel point of view. I do think there's a chance that we could still be there."
A popular rumor suggests the New York Rangers may be looking to relocate their farm team, the Connecticut Whale, from the XL Center in Hartford. Their lease is one of "two or three" expiring after this season, Andrews said, and the XL Center management contract is also being put out to bid.
"The Rangers have been unable to even attempt to negotiate a new lease in there because there's nobody to negotiate with," Andrews said. "It's premature to try and suggest how that may play out, but obviously, I think, in the interests of the league and of Hartford, ideally we will have the Rangers still there and the Connecticut Whale still there as a team and a brand."
Andrews did say the Rangers are "exploring other options," given the uncertainty surrounding the building in Hartford, and the league is "working with them to see what those options might be."
But he stopped short of linking Glens Falls to any particular NHL team.
"I think the key for us is to figure out who may be available two years from now and who may have an interest in moving into Glens Falls," Andrews said. "Again, it's really early to say that."
Loose pucks
A consultant is studying the feasibility of the AHL developing more of a "western presence," Andrews said, to get more AHL teams closer to some of the National Hockey League's Western Conference clubs. The report, which will determine if such expansion is practical, is expected back by early March.
The NHL lockout drove up the AHL's box office numbers and web traffic, Andrews said. The AHL website had 7.6 million visitors through early January, when the lockout ended. That was up from 4 million over the same period last year. Ticket sales were also up 13 percent.
Now that the lockout has been resolved and a new collective bargaining agreement has been drafted, some changes are coming to the league. Notably, Andrews said AHL players will now be subject to performance-enhancing drug tests, though he did not lay out a timetable for when those may begin. "That, I think, is a very positive step," Andrews said. "Our players want it."
Andrews said a video replay system that was implemented before the start of the 2012-13 season has been used 111 times, and 80 percent of original calls have been confirmed.


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A Decomposition of the Labour Market Participation of Married Women in Three Countries: Australia, Canada and the United States of America
This study examines cross-national variation in the labour force participation of married women in Australia, Canada and the United States of America (USA), three countries of similar socio-economic development, in order to assess the observed differences in their labour market behaviour. While cross-national variation in labour force participation may be explained by a number of factors, a decomposition of the variation in cross-national labour market participation rates is explored in this study. Initially, a basic model of female labour force participation is presented using data from the Luxembourg Income Study (LIS). The results of the basic model show that the probability of married women participation in the labour market in all three countries is inversely associated with the number of children under the age of 18 years, while higher eductaion and age at younger ages are associated with a higher probability. Two applications of the estimates are presented in the study: a simulation and a decomposition of the variation in cross-national labour force participation. The simulation exercise indicates that variation in cross-national labour force participation rates for married women can be explained by both country-specific characteristics and the measured differences in the responses to those characteristics. The decomposition of the differential in labour force participation into the effect of country-specific characteristics and the effect of responses shows that if the responses of married women in Canada are imposed on the characteristics of Australian women, then participation is higher. On the other hand, if the characteristics for either Canada or the USA are applied to the behavioural responses in Australia, then the labour market partiicipation of married women is also higher. This confirms that differences in country-specific characteristics and responses both contribute to explaining cross-national variation.
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Web page: http://www.uts.edu.au/about/uts-business-school/finance
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- Willis, Robert J, 1987.
"What Have We Learned from the Economics of the Family?,"
American Economic Review,
American Economic Association, vol. 77(2), pages 68-81, May.
- Robert J. Willis, "undated". "What Have We Learned from the Economics of the Family?," University of Chicago - Population Research Center 87-1, Chicago - Population Research Center.
- Leibowitz, A. & Klerman, J.A., 1995. "Explaining Changes in Married Mothers'Employment Over Time," Papers 95-13, RAND - Reprint Series.
- Denise J. Doiron & W. Craig Riddell, 1994. "The Impact of Unionization on Male-Female Earnings Differences in Canada," Journal of Human Resources, University of Wisconsin Press, vol. 29(2), pages 504-534.
- Browning, Martin, 1992. "Children and Household Economic Behavior," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 30(3), pages 1434-1475, September.
- Francine D. Blau, 1998. "Trends in the Well-Being of American Women, 1970-1995," Journal of Economic Literature, American Economic Association, vol. 36(1), pages 112-165, March.
- Francine D. Blau, 1997. "Trends in the Well-Being of American Women, 1970-1995," NBER Working Papers 6206, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Mason, Karen Oppenheim & Jensen, An-Magritt (ed.), 1995. "Gender and Family Change in Industrialized Countries," OUP Catalogue, Oxford University Press, number 9780198289708.
- Gordon Cleveland & Morley Gunderson & Douglas Hyatt, 1996. "Child Care Costs and the Employment Decision of Women: Canadian Evidence," Canadian Journal of Economics, Canadian Economics Association, vol. 29(1), pages 132-151, February.
- Juhn, Chinhui & Murphy, Kevin M, 1997. "Wage Inequality and Family Labor Supply," Journal of Labor Economics, University of Chicago Press, vol. 15(1), pages 72-97, January.
- Chinhui Juhn & Kevin M. Murphy, 1996. "Wage Inequality and Family Labor Supply," NBER Working Papers 5459, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc.
- Heckman, James J, 1993. "What Has Been Learned about Labor Supply in the Past Twenty Years?," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 83(2), pages 116-121, May.
- Deaton, Angus & Meullbauer, John, 1981. "Functional Forms for Labor Supply and Commodity Demands with and without Quantity Restrictions," Econometrica, Econometric Society, vol. 49(6), pages 1521-1532, November.
- Connelly, Rachel, 1992. "The Effect of Child Care Costs on Married Women's Labor Force Participation," The Review of Economics and Statistics, MIT Press, vol. 74(1), pages 83-90, February. Full references (including those not matched with items on IDEAS)
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Where Do You Keep Your DVDs?
All Blu-ray issues aside I spend a lot of time concerned with my DVDs. Not by how good or bad the quality is, not by which titles I need to buy or rent, but where they go in my house. Personally, I'm attempting a library situation (that's a shot of my setup below) and pretending that they're as attractive as books, and OK enough to be put on display, but I worry I'm kidding myself.
I know that a lot of people are taking to Handbrake and ripping their DVDs so all that remains is an ephemeral digital copy, as I've done with my music collection, but I'm not ready for that. Many people just keep them behind doors and don't have to look at them, and others are getting rid of the case altogether but keeping the discs in a book.
What do you do?


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ATLANTA (AP/WAOK) – Police are investigating a shooting in the Atlanta suburb of Alpharetta.
Authorities say that a 911 call was made around 6:30 p.m. Thursday, reporting that a man was unconscious and officers responded to an address on Serenity Court.
The man was taken to a hospital with a gunshot wound.
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On Mar 18, 2013, the shares of Discover Financial Services (DFS - Free Report) hit a 52-week high of $44.43 propelled by its initiatives to boost shareholder value along with the impetus provided by the new growth initiatives revealed in the investor conference held recently.
Last week, the board of Discover Financial approved a new share repurchase program worth $2.4 billion. The company's capital plan for 2013 also includes a proposal to increase the quarterly dividend to 20 cents per share from 14 cents paid currently. These plans are aimed at maximizing shareholder value by returning surplus capital.
DFS also plans to expand its market presence through product launches, extension of distribution channels and partnerships. The company recently announced affiliations with Cadence Bank and Interswitch Limited to boost card acceptances and transaction volume.
Moreover, in the investor conference, Discover Financial announced its plans to enter the checking and home equity businesses in 2013. The company will also launch a new banking platform during the year and expand the PULSE network to include all debit transactions.
Discover Financial has set a long-term growth rate target of 2%–5% for card receivables, 5%–10% for other consumer lending and over 10% for payment volume. Further, the company wants to achieve return on equity of 15% and Tier 1 common ratio of about 9.5% in the long term.
Discover Financial has a history of outperforming estimates. The company witnessed positive surprises in 9 out of the past 10 quarters. The average surprise in the past four quarters was 10.36%.
The long-term expected earnings growth rate for Discover Financial is 8.98%.
On Dec 20, 2012, the company reported fourth-quarter 2012 operating earnings per share of $1.07, lagging the Zacks Consensus Estimate of $1.13. However, earnings surpassed the year-ago quarter's earnings of 95 cents per share.
The valuation for Discover Financial looks reasonable. Although the shares are currently trading at a premium on both price-to-book and forward price-to-earnings basis, the return on equity of 25.7% is higher than the peer group average of 21.8%. The 1-year return for the stock came in at 38.03%, much above the S&P 500's return of 10.53%.
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Contemporary generic market in Japan – key conditions to successful evolution
Japanese pharmaceutical market, world's 2nd largest in size, is traditionally renowned for its brands' domination and weakest generics share among major established economies. An in depth observation of published evidence in Japanese/English language provided closer insight into current trends in Japanese domestic legislation and pharmaceutical market development. Recent governmental interventions have resulted in significant expansion of generic medicines market size. Substantial savings due to generic substitution of brand name drugs have already been achieved and are likely to increase in future. Nationwide population aging threatening sustainable health care funding is contributing to the relevance of generic policy success. Serious long-term challenge to the modest Japanese generic manufacturing capacities will be posed by foreign pharmaceutical industries particularly the ones based in emerging BRIC economies.
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- Aoki, Reiko & Kubo, Kensuke & Yamane, Hiroko, 2006.
"Indian Patent Policy and Public Health:Implications from the Japanese Experience,"
Working Papers
199, Department of Economics, The University of Auckland.
- Aoki, Reiko & Kubo, Kensuke & Yamane, Hiroko, 2006. "Indian Patent Policy and Publich Health : implications from the Japanese Experience," IDE Discussion Papers 57, Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade Organization(JETRO).
- Kobayashi, Eriko & Karigome, Hiroshi & Sakurada, Tomoya & Satoh, Nobunori & Ueda, Shiro, 2011. "Patients' attitudes towards generic drug substitution in Japan," Health Policy, Elsevier, vol. 99(1), pages 60-65, January.
- Toshiaki Iizuka, 2012. "Physician Agency and Adoption of Generic Pharmaceuticals," American Economic Review, American Economic Association, vol. 102(6), pages 2826-2858, October.
- Hudson, John, 2000. "Generic take-up in the pharmaceutical market following patent expiry: A multi-country study," International Review of Law and Economics, Elsevier, vol. 20(2), pages 205-221, June.
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On The World Wide Web
Margaret Herscher
Small Book With Glasses
© 1996
(H: 7 1/4", W: 6", D: 3 1/2" bronze)
My sculptures are memories of my past as a dutiful daughter of a middle-class mid-western family. Surrealistic sentinels of my sheltered past. my sculptures have solidified in bronze fragil items of my heritage creating icons of my history. They stabilize me and give me strength in my unstable life as a rebellious artist with fragile health.
The small book was a childhood travel diary. The glasses were my favorite pair of sunglasses that had become too scratched to wear.


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Owned since new?
Owned for how long?
13 year(s)
Buy this make again?
Price and equipment9.0/10
Has superb pick up and totally reliable
Under the bonnet8.0/10
Runs as smooth as the day we bought it
How it drives7.0/10
Drives very well in all conditions , has plenty of grunt for those freeways
Comfort and practicality9.0/10
Very comfortable whether driving or in the back. Lots of boot space
Servicing and running costs8.0/10
Just the regular services in 13 years with very few other problems.
Aesthetics and styling7.0/10
Trim appealing with a sexy look from outside
Safety and security8.0/10
Very safe vehicle, takes collisions well for its size and you can feel totally safe at all times
Quality and reliability10.0/10
Quality plus when it was bought and 13 years on is still a great buy with reliability plus
Overall verdict10.0/10
I bought it new and 13 years on I am still driving the vehicle like new and would buy another Mitsubishi tomorrow


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" Brand: Miracle-Gro / Type: Compost / Soil "
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I must admit that I have become a very lazy gardener and now do the bare minimum I can get away with.
In an ideal world I would have a beautiful cottage garden with plants packed together, tumbling over paths and climbing up trellises and filled with beautiful scents.
Unfortunately that does not go hand in hand with lazy gardening and living with someone whose ideal garden would not have any plants or greenery. My husband is the kamikaze of the gardening world, who over the years has cut back and dug out many prize specimens, always with the excuse that he thought it was a weed, so much of the garden is now paved and I limit myself to planters.
As a very lazy gardener I look for products that require the minimum of effort, but still allow me to have a nice display in my pots and planters.
So Miracle Gro was made for me, not only is it a high quality potting compost, but this particular version contains plant food and aqua coir which retains moisture. That means that you don't have to feed your plants for 6 months or water as often and are more or less guaranteed a beautiful plant display.
Miracle Gro is a multi - purpose compost that is suitable for pots and baskets in this particular formulation.
I have a large collection of containers and they are planted with bulbs for spring colour, some perennial plants and small shrubs and roses . If they are not culled by my hubby, I plant summer bedding around the existing plants and have some other pots and containers that I simply fill with bedding plants each year.
Using Miracle Gro to completely fill all my pots and containers would be very costly as I have so many so here is what I do:
Planters with shrubs , bulbs and Perennials
I take out the top layers of soil taking care not to disturb the plants and bulbs and add Miracle Gro to the existing soil. That means that the existing soil is improved and the new plants are mostly planted in the new compost. So all the plants benefit from the plant food for 6 months and they require less watering as moisture is retained in the coir in the soil.
Planter with Bedding Plants
I usually do these from scratch each year. As bedding plants tend not to be deep rooted I go to my supply of broken crocks that every garden has in plentiful supply - only joking I use pebbles grit and stones at the bottom for drainage. Then put squashed up plastic plant pots or polystyrene to fill up the bottom layer , then top up with the compost which means I use less compost and the pots are not as heavy, so easier to move around.
I don't profess to be an expert, but I do know that plants grown in containers need more water and feeding and if you allow them to get too dry , they do not flourish , become stressed and are prone to attack from green or white fly. I find that my pots and containers now do much better since I started using Miracle Gro as they don't have to rely on me for their food and water.
I planted my pots last week and my hubby has thrown the bag away (still had some in) also a bamboo met its maker whilst he was helping!
I have checked online for the mix.
Scotts who manufacture Miracle Gro say online that they use peat moss , compost made from leaves grass bark and animal manure, perlite the little white bits for drainage , fertiliser and composted coconut hulks that absorb water.
This is lovely compost it smells earthy and nice and has a lovely consistency which is nice and rich. You get the odd bit of bark or coconut that hasn't fully composted , but this is a quality compost from a brand that is famous for its plant foods.
It comes in a strong plastic bag that I usually open with scissors as it is strong plastic. I buy 50 litre sizes , which are quite heavy. I have not seen it in other sizes.
I used to get the cheapest compost , but I have found that doesn't pay off in the long run as the plants don't do as well as the compost shrinks, doesn't drain well and the compost is not as rich so requires more watering and feeding.
I planted in what must be the hottest week of the year so far and can say that with ordinary compost my pots would have needed watering at least twice a day, but I have managed to get away with doing this just once a day as the compost retains the water.
So less water is used, which is good given the drought conditions , less cost as I have metered water and more time to sit in my chair admiring the plants!
I usually water early in the morning or later when the sun has gone down and I watered this morning and the soil is still moist and most of the pots have been in full sun. What I would say is that do make sure you water well in these conditions and don't just sprinkle a little on the top layer as this means the roots don't get the water they need.
Having used this before I know that the plants will thrive and grow much bigger than they would in ordinary compost as they are kept well fed. My pots and planters have survived better when we have been away as even if it does rain ,that isn't generally enough water for a pot or container, so other than the odd plant, they have done well unattended.
Would I Recommend?
Yes this is brilliant stuff for people like me who forget to water and feed regularly. I also like to pack my plants in as I I like to have flowers and greenery tumbling out of the containers to the point where you can't see the pots. So to get a great display like that the plants need lots of food and water as they are packed together so tightly. Miracle Gro delivers that with great compost food and moisture retention, so ideal for a lazy gardener.
When you have invested money in plants you want them to do well , so I think it is worth the investment.
I have planted a mix of pansies, bizzie lizzies, gerbera, geraniums, verbena , dianthus, violas , palms , nepeta and trailing petunias in primarily white pinks and purple with some pink thrown in. Not quite the jubilee colours but close without realising it !
I am confident these will give a great display without too much effort on my part . Miracle Gro say plants will grow twice as big and need 50% less watering. As I have not conducted a controlled experiment to test this, I can't confirm , but they do grow much bigger and need less watering than other composts I have used.
I just need to protect them from my husband!
Price and Availability
I bought mine from a local garden centre but could have got 2 x 50 litre bags for £12 at Homebase and B&Q .
Prices vary so shop around. I usually try to buy where I get most if my plants so I do the buying and planting the same day .
5 stars from me
Absorbs twice as much water as ordinary multi purpose compost so plant roots stay more moist.


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CHATSWORTH, Ga., March 21 (UPI) -- An elderly man was hospitalized after spending more than an hour trapped at the bottom of a deep toilet pit at a Georgia park, officials said.
Lisa Parker, spokeswoman for the district that covers the U.S. Corps of Engineers property at Carters Lake, said toilets at the park open to the hole where the refuse is treated and left to decompose. The man apparently fell in after standing on the toilet instead of sitting, the Dalton (Ga.) Daily Citizen reported Thursday.
"We've had these type of toilet facilities for 10 to 15 years, and he just misused the toilet, unfortunately," Parker said.
Parker said the man was trapped for about 70 minutes, as it took some time for family members to become concerned and park representatives had to be summoned to unlock the door.
The spokeswoman said the man was "covered in mess and scraped up." He was taken to Murray Medical Center in Chatsworth.


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While property prices around the country continue to fluctuate between the mildly alarming and the downright terrifying, there are many of us who would give our eye teeth for a resilient property in a reliable location.
A study from Lloyds TSB has found locations which hold their value far better than elsewhere in the country - and indeed have grown by an average of over £1,000 a month since 2001 - and they all have something in common. So what's the magic ingredient?
Apparently the silver bullet for property success is a spa. Lloyds TSB has been tracking property prices in 18 spa towns around the country and found that they consistently performed better than the UK average - and better than their surrounding areas - over the past decade.
ConsistentOwners of properties in the spa towns have seen the value of their home rise by nearly £130,000 over the past decade. The average house price in the 18 England and Wales spa towns rose by 88% to £275,397 in 2011 - equivalent to a monthly rise of £1,077. Between them they have outperformed the UK average by 12%. Some 89% of them also out-performed their immediate neighbours.
PremiumHome buyers have to spend £48,000 more on average, to live in a spa town. Homes in Ilkley, West Yorkshire currently command the highest premium, costing 96% more than their surrounding area. They are followed by Boston Spa with an 85% premium and Bath at a 53% premium.
Five spa towns have seen house prices more than double in the past decade. The largest increases were in Builth Wells (170%) and Llandrindod Wells (109%) - both in Powys in Mid Wales. Harrogate in North Yorkshire (107%) experienced the next biggest increase. At the other end of the spectrum, Epsom in Surrey (62%) and the north Worcestershire town of Droitwich (72%) recorded the smallest increases.
Epsom is the most expensive spa town with an average house price of £339,231; 23% higher than the average spa town house price (£275,397). Tunbridge Wells has the second highest average house price (£326,753).
The attractionsMartyn Baum, NEA Spokesperson and an Partner at Hartleys Estate Agents in Ashby de la Zouch, says: "Spa towns tend to be more desirable and resilient than elsewhere, and are seen by investors as safe money."
He points out that these are often historical market towns, with character properties, which hold natural attractions for buyers. In addition, he says: "Many of them are compact, which limits the supply of housing. And many are character properties, which means there's nothing else quite like them, so there is always interest when one comes onto the market."
Nicholas Leeming, business development director at Zoopla.co.uk, adds: "Attractive homes with plenty of 'curb appeal' provide a big draw for buyers, and the family friendly nature of these towns means that demand for larger, more expensive, homes keeps upward pressure on price.s"
"The desirability of many spa towns is increased by their proximity to some of the UK's most stunning countryside, however, they also tend to offer easy access to larger towns and cities which provide more amenities and transport links, allowing homeowners to enjoy rural life in eye-catching property without feeling cut-off."
Spa towns with the biggest rises over a decadeBuilth Wells 170%
Llandrindod Wells 109%
Harrogate 107%
Buxton 105%
Boston Spa 103%
Knaresborough 100%
Matlock 95%
Cheltenham 94%
Church Stretton 92%
Tenbury Wells 89%


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There was a girl who was wondering around the woods. Her name was
Annabelle. She was a wonderful girl. It all started when she was five years old. Her parents were taken away from her so she grew up in the streets and she was taken to prison. After five years in jail, she was released from prison because a friend of her dad's helped her and her dad's friend gave her a safety box which her dad would write to her and left a picture that lead her to the people that ruined him and his family.
Three years later a house was on for sale. She looked around and realized that it was her father's house so she bought it. There was a lady living next to her and her name was Samantha she was Annabell's mum but Annabelle doesn't know her ever since she was little but she remarried and had a husband named Jake. Four years passed and it was Annabelle's mum and dad's anniversary. She went to the place where her mother and father was buried and celebrated with her dad. She spent one hour with her mum and dad.
She arrived home and she didn't know that Samantha was watching her from the other side. When she walked inside she closed the door but someone blocked it with their feet she looked and it was man wearing a mask and she never knew who was hiding under the mask. He was pointing a gun at her. She stepped back to her draw where she keeps her guns she looked inside nothing was inside so that meant that the man was already been inside. Until the man grabbed her by the neck and pointed the gun at her brain.She was scared and nervous. She was working out what she could do in a situation like this. The man unmasked himself. He was wearing a black shirt, black pants, black gloves and he had orange hair like the sunset.


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I was looking for c.c terminal using google and found they website
so i call them and ask few questions as i don't know who they are,:
Min. contract, min. monthly fees, percentage etc. all good,
but you know what people says : If It Is To Good To Be True that Prob. It Is, So i had follow up questions and THEY Duck ALL Answers
then become rude and hand up.Be Aware & don't get rip off.
I pass they offer as if someone don't answer your questions :
business related questions only !
then chances you get screwed are great and for that reason
i cant recommend them but wish to warn others.


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Just curious. If you weigh, say 150 and can bang out 20 pushups, what should that roughly translate to in bench-pressing?
I ask only to relate to the people who insist on putting a 5 lb plate on either side of the bar and making the bench into an effort. What gets me is that they can make it an effort.
Sorry, ranting.
I'm not sure what you're getting at but if someone can only do 20 push-ups, they have no right to bench press at all.
I'm not quite sure what you mean either but I have done tests with several people and pushup weight seems to be roughly 70% of body weight. You can test this yourself, just do a pushup on a scale and see what it reads. So a 150 lb. person is roughly lifting 105 lbs. each time they do a pushup. The angles and such are not exactly the same in a bench press and pushup so I don't know if you could directly translate one to the other. I think what you are getting at is that someone who can only lift the bar should just do pushups. Sorry, I have to disagree with that. Lifting is a part of life, be it weights or whatever, why wait. On the other hand, if lifting the bar is a max effort or close to it, then I agree they should work with lighter weights or exercises such as DB's and/or knee pushups. I've trained a lot of women who started with only the bar but they could do 10-12 reps or so without too much struggle on flat bench. With inclines we had to use a lighter bar or DB. Everbody has to start somewhere and sometimes that means only the bar and light weights.
Jeez- 20 push-ups is pretty rough for me and I am closing in 400. The funny thing is when I could do 50 reps in a set for push-ups, I could barely take 135 for 5 with a barbell. I'm not sure you can correlate these two exercises all that well.
One rep max for 20 pushups at 150 lbs would be approximately 175lb bench. This is a crude estimate using 70% body weight and Epley formula.
Please do not have try to do a 175lb bench. Try 130lbs for 10 reps (Epley formula gives an approx. 173lb one rep max).
Do a pushup on a scale and see how much weight it reads at the bottom and top of the pushup. Depending on your body shape you may not fit with the 70% number. If you have very skinny legs and big upper body that would change the %. If you have big legs and hips but have a skinny upper body the % may also be different.
Thanks to all but the last answer was what I was looking for.
Basically, there are these guys who put 5 lbs on the bar on each side (I kid you not) and rep out 8 bench presses huffing and puffing and generally sounding like they're benching heavy. Yet they can bang out 20 push-ups. So I was looking for something along the lines of "Hey, you should at least be able to move X lbs at your bodyweight since you can already do pushups".
In other words, they should up the weight a bit. I don't know where they got their routines from but they seem content to not move up just in case of injury.
Thanks again.
Very well said!
I doesn't matter, some slow twitch people can do 50 push ups and can't bench for their lives...
Pushups are incredibly subjective.
1.) Some people go halfway down2.) Their torso is not aligned properly
very true, I think a better push up exercise would be blast strap/ring push ups.Will42
The other thing you have to consider is that you are much more stable doing pushups than bench presses, and to go along with beefcake, few people touch their chests to the ground when they do pushups. Also 70% is incorrect, that might be true at the bottom of the pushup but at the top it would be significantly less.
I think knuckle pushups would be a better way to approximate pushups as they mimick benchpressing more closely.
I think that bench being open chain and pushups being closed chain can affect the results as well. Correct me if I'm wrong, but don't closed chain exercises recruit more muscle fibers than their open chain counterparts? It'd probably get too complicated to find a 1RM from just pushups, seeing as how body types, hand positions, form, etc. can affect the "load" of the pushup.
20 pushups at 150 lbs. comes out to 175 lb. bench...? I don't think so....
Absolutely not. Don't they activate different muscle fibers when it is endurance vs. 1 rm? I can do 60 pushups at a clip, and max out at about 230 on bench. I'm not sure one has much to do with the other.
Ted Williams used to do hundreds of fingertip pushups, but I don't know that he could bench 150.


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Rand Paul Ends Historic Filibuster After Almost 13 Hours
Stephan Dinan
The Washington Times
March 7, 2013
After years in the shadows, the administration's secret drone program burst into very public view Wednesday with lawmakers grilling the attorney general over legal justification for targeted killings and Sen. Rand Paul launching an old-style one-man filibuster to demand answers from President Obama.
The Kentucky Republican held the floor for almost 13 hours, effectively blocking a vote on the nomination of John O. Brennan, whom Mr. Obama has tapped to be CIA director. He said he would relent only if the administration publicly vowed not to target Americans on U.S. soil.
"This is a long, drawn-out day, but it's to try to get some answers," Mr. Paul said after he crossed the eight-hour mark late Wednesday evening. "It's to try to shame the president into doing the right thing."
Democrats, who control the chamber, were forced to delay a vote on the Brennan nomination until at least Thursday, and it could go into the weekend, depending on what other blockades Republicans erect.
At issue is the administration's argument that it can kill those it suspects have ties to terrorism, including U.S. citizens, without having to put them on trial.
The fulcrum of the debate is the drone program, started under President George W. Bush and expanded by Mr. Obama, which many lawmakers said gives too much power to the executive branch — and raises tricky questions about whether drones could be used to execute Americans in the United States.
The administration has only recently acknowledged the drone program and says it is seeking a public debate in order to find common ground on what Americans are ready to accept.
"I think there is going to be a greater effort at the transparency. A number of steps are going to be taken. I expect you will hear the president speaking about this," Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. told the Senate Judiciary Committee on Wednesday morning.
But he faced bipartisan demands for more information and more clarity on what is and what isn't allowed.
"You can hear almost unanimous concern about transparency and wrestling with how to move forward here in a way that protects both our constitutional liberties and our security as a nation," Sen. Christopher A. Coons, Delaware Democrat, told Mr. Holder.
Under close questioning by Sen. Ted Cruz, Mr. Holder repeatedly said American citizens on U.S. soil were not "appropriate" targets for extrajudicial executions.
Mr. Cruz said that wasn't good enough.
"You keep saying 'appropriate.' My question isn't about propriety. My question is about whether something is constitutional or not," the Texas Republican said.
"Let me be clear: Translate my 'appropriate' to 'no.' I thought I was saying no, all right? No," Mr. Holder said.
Mr. Holder also said he is not sure Congress could ban the president from using drones to kill Americans on U.S. soil.
He said that likely would run afoul of the Constitution's grant of powers to the president in Article 2.
The 2011 killing in Yemen of Anwar al-Awlaki, an American citizen tied to an al Qaeda offshoot, helped push the drone execution program into the public eye — though the administration regularly declined to confirm its existence even as recently as last month.
But NBC News last month obtained a Justice Department memo explaining the legal justification for targeted killings. At the same time, Mr. Obama has been trying to reconstitute his second-term Cabinet, and those nominations have become leverage for senators, who have demanded information in return for agreeing to hold confirmation votes.
The killings overseas have raised questions about what would be allowed on the homeland.
Mr. Paul described the legal situation as one in which one person — the president — holds the power to be the accuser, the judge and the executioner, since terrorist-designation proceedings are all contained within the executive branch and conducted generally in secret.
Read the full article: After almost 13 hours, Rand Paul ends Brennan Filibuster


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Monday, November 5, 2012
Precuts Layer Cakes Part 1
In September the precuts club started again. This time I am doing Layer Cakes. I thought I would share some of the projects I did to present to the club. All of the projects in this post are from the Moda Bake Shop. (A fantastic place to find great quilts and gift ideas).
First up. this little gadget bag. It takes only 3 layers and very little time. After I made mine I matched three layers and rolled them (1 for each of the club members) and used them as a little give-away.
This pattern is called Pillows Gone Wild. I chose this simple square in a square as the first pillow pattern. Another fast and fun project. I am really loving making pillows. I think I have to change to an overlapping back so that I can rotate the pillows around.
One of my Coworkers sent me a link to this pattern as soon as she saw it. Potholders. Always fun to make. I am not sure if any of you are like me, but my pot holders take a lot of abuse. When I do cook, I am a messy cook. This potholder is two quilted layers so you use it like an oven mitt.
These take one layer each. They are magnetic so you can add a magnetic clip and then use it for notes, or patterns, or things that inspire you. They are burner covers from the dollar store, a layer of mod podge, a layer cake. Let it dry, another layer of mod podge and let it dry again. The pattern instructed that you spray paint the edges, but I just hot glued ribbon on the sides.
This one is a fun pattern. It is a place mat, and a table runner. Just make as many place mats as you need for your family, then add buttonholes and buttons, put them together and you have a cute runner.
My favorite of this group is Owlivia. I think it uses 4 layer cakes. Simple sewing and adorable stuffy, or pincushion.
I still need to get a picture of the quilt, which is hanging in the shop.
Still need to catch up on fall market and layer cakes part 2 and my daughter's shower....oh so much.
Happy stitching.
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I'll have to look up the Moda Bake Shop. The Owl would be cute to make for Abigail! All the patterns are good! The gadget bag would make good stocking stuffers! Hmmm...ReplyDelete
Very cute! You have been busy!ReplyDelete
I don't know what a layer cake is, but those projects are adorable! I like the idea of a round place mat.ReplyDelete
It sure doesn't look like the tail is winning to me! Some very cute projects in there. Thanks for sharing...now my mind is churning with new ideas...just what I didn't need!ReplyDelete
You have some really cute projects going on lately;) Keep up the creativity;) Maybe you aren't chasing the tail, but keeping it occupied so you can get stuff done;)ReplyDelete
Happy Quilting!!
You've been busy with lots of cute projects. I think that little owl's relative may just jump into my daughter's Christmas stocking...time permitting!ReplyDelete


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As the first Broadway revival of Andrew Lloyd Webber and Tim Rice's Evita officially opens on April 5, all eyes will be on the Argentinian star of this new production, Elena Roger. At age 37, Roger is making her Broadway debut as the ambitious First Lady of Argentina alongside Main Stem veterans Ricky Martin (as Che) and Michael Cerveris (as Juan Peron). Since relocating to London six years ago to play Eva Peron, Roger has won an Olivier Award for Piaf and picked up two other Olivier nominations for Evita and Passion. During a two-show-day dinner break, the magnetic star invited Broadway.com into her dressing room to share stories about her journey with Evita, working with Ricky Martin and meeting previous Evas Patti LuPone and Elaine Paige.
At the time you were cast for the London revival of Evita, you spoke little English. How did you prepare to tackle this massive role?
In Buenos Aires, I have a very close friend who speaks very good English, and she taught me. It was quite difficult because the muscles of your mouth are used to your language, and then when you want to speak another language they don't go to the place they need to go to make the sound. Then if you've listened to "Buenos Aires," there is the section "fill me with your heat/with your noise/with your dirt/overdo me" [and] it was like, "Oh God, why did he write all those words and fit it in only a little bit of music?"
As an Argentinian actress, what does it mean to play Eva Peron? Any extra pressure?
I think sometimes people say, "Oh why'd they chose an Argentine actress when any of our lovely New York actresses can do this?" But the fact that I did it is because when the director [Michael Grandage] saw my audition he felt that there was something different about my performance. It's my story; it's my history; it's the history of my country; it's in my blood. When I mention the streets like Rio de la Plata or Nueve de Julio, I have been in those streets since I was born so I know what they look like. When I say Buenos Aires, I know what I am talking about, and I think that was in my eyes. All that emotion was there; that's why they chose me. I want to give to the American audience the best I can give.
You've been doing this show off and on for almost six years. What has kept it fresh for you?
Well, I did it six years ago, and then I did other shows and I forget Evita. Then I had to think, "Oh god, do I want to do Evita for a year again?" And [in the end] I had to do it because my acting is more mature and I think that being on Broadway is amazing, so that is the best part of it. Now that my English is better, I'm able to talk to the cast and tell them stories about my country. It was quite tough when I went to London: They couldn't understand me too well, and I couldn't understand them too well. It improved through the year, but at the beginning when rehearsals are going and you want to speak—my God, it was so frustrating.
The Perons are considered by many people to be villains. Do you find yourself defending Evita? How has your view of her and her husband changed from being part of this musical?
It impossible to judge and criticize someone and just put a wrong or right. It's gray, it's not only white or black. The character has a lot of complex things: She is a woman; she is tough. I am still reading biographies, and every day I read something and say "Oh, whoa!"
You've had leading roles in Argentina and London, but what does it mean to be on Broadway? Was Broadway always a goal for you?
I never thought I could be on Broadway [and] I never thought I was going to go to London, because my English wasn't very good and I have an accent. But when the universe wants you to do something, they open the door and you are there. It wasn't a goal, but it is great!
What is it like working with Ricky Martin and Michael Cerveris? What do they bring to the roles of Che and Juan Peron?
Because he is Latin, I think Ricky brings something [extra], and he has been in Argentina a lot so he knows what he is talking about. He is so professional. He has such a light onstage! He is like an angel. He is also a wonderful person [and] to be working with him is great. He is amazing in the role. Michael Cerveris did so much research about Peron that I am amazed. Every day he comes in and says, "Look what I bought, look what I got, look what I've seen." I really appreciate and thank Michael for understanding my country.
Have you had any contact with any of the ladies who did the role before you—Elaine Paige, Patti LuPone or Madonna?
I met Patti LuPone and Elaine Paige in a party. I didn't speak too much with Patti, but she was lovely with me. Elaine Paige gave me some advice…it was a secret, but it was something like, "You know when I used to do the part, I used to this..." I appreciated that.
Evita, Edith Piaf and Fosca in Passion—why do you think you keep getting cast these super-dramatic roles?
It's not me, it's the universe trying to bring me all this stuff. Piaf I did it because I wanted to do more theater instead of only musicals, and someone gave me the book and said to me, "You have to do it." Maybe because I'm tiny or something [laughs]. I started reading the book and said, "Oh, this is very difficult but it could be a great challenge." Then Fosca—well, I love that story.
Which of those three parts feels closest to you?
I think the three characters are great, and they [each] have something. I love the power of Evita and the fact that she was an actress. With Piaf and Evita, I try to understand what it was like to be a woman in those times, in a man's world. It was very difficult because they were vanguards—they opened doors for other women. There was something that attracted me to Piaf because she was a singer and the strength she had about that profession. It was like, "Oh my God, this woman really loved to sing and to be a performer." And with Passion, I love the story of that hopeful woman because society is hard if your beauty is not the stereotype, but that doesn't mean anything. What matters is how you are inside, and that's why I love Fosca. She wasn't pretty, but she could have that man too.
Which is more challenging to sing: Sondheim's Passion or Lloyd Webber's Evita?
Evita is harder.
In Patti LuPone's memoir, she talked about the extreme vocal demands of Evita. How are you maintaining your voice?
In London, I have a reflex problem and I lost my voice for about 10 days. It's tough because it's an emotional show too. We have alternates that perform two shows because it's so emotional—it's not something you can sing cold. You have to scream and cry. When I started rehearsing again, I thought, "Am I going to be able to sing this?" But because I did it a year in London, it was in the muscle memory.
What do you miss most about your home city [Buenos Aires]?
The people I know there, and the streets. And my family, that's the most important thing I am missing. I have a new niece and I don't know her so I would like to go and meet her.
What is something you are dying to do while you spend a year living in New York?
I am living in Chelsea and I think it's a lovely neighborhood. I would like to study some theater here. I would like to go to some museums and walk around, know the city as much as I can.
You've spent most of your 30s living and working in London, and now New York. Does that make it difficult to maintain a life outside of the theater?
I am very lucky: I have my family, my friends and my profession. My life is this—it's all together.


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The video was posted on South Africa Exposed's Facebook page on Monday.
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By SUNNY LOCKWOOD
The Angels Camp City Council unanimously approved a draft of a regional housing needs assessment, but that doesn't mean more houses are right around the corner.
At Tuesday's meeting, council members discussed the assessment prepared by the Central Sierra Planning Council. It projects how many housing units the city will need to plan for in order to serve its growing population.
City Planner Amy Augustine told the council that the assessment recommends the city plan for 282 new housing units by June 30, 2008.
The needs assessment proposes that the city plan for 64 housing units for "very low-income" households, 44 units for "low-income" households, 59 units for "moderate" income households and 115 units for "above-moderate" income households.
"Very low income" is defined as less than $20,511. "Low income" is from $20,512 to $32,818. "Moderate" income is $32,819 to $49,226, and "above moderate" is more than $49,227.
Based on the 2000 Census, Calaveras County's median household income is $41,022, the RHNA shows.
The city is already on its way to seeing those 282 housing units, having already allowed 133 middle and upper-income homes.
"Low-income housing is what we'll need to concentrate on," Augustine said.
The assessment doesn't mean the city must build houses or housing units, but that based on past growth rates, these are the numbers of housing units the city should plan for. More homes mean more demands on infrastructure, safety and social services and other city concerns.
The assessment is revised every five years.
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GILFORD — The First United Methodist Church of Gilford is pleased to announce that there will be a Living Nativity at the church on December 15 at 2 p.m.
The Methodist Church has been a large part of the annual Live Nativity for many years in Gilford Village, but due to the issues surrounding safe places for the animals during the Nativity, and parking for the trailers as well as those who come to the program, the church decided to have the Living Nativity at their church at 18 Wesley Way (off Rt. 11A near the 3/11 by-pass) in Gilford.
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LOS ANGELES — Two groups tied to The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints and Brigham Young University wowed judges of "The Sing-Off" and won the right to perform in another round of competition on the NBC reality show.
Vocal Point, which is still missing its ninth man (Ben Murphy, whose father died recently), took the stage in the "current hits" segment and made a man's song out of Justin Bieber's "Never Say Never" hit.
"I will never say never will I enjoy a Bieber song sung by a bunch of Mormons," said judge Ben Folds following the Vocal Point rendition.
Judge Sara Bareilles said the group sounded "like a bunch of wholesome thunder cats. You guys are so entertaining. I loved it. I thought it was awesome."
Shawn Stockman also weighed in with praise. "You didn't take yourselves too seriously, which was fun to watch," he said.
The judges also heaped praise upon Vocal Point for its '60s selection of "The Way You Look Tonight" with Bareilles saying the group made "a cute little Rat Pack right now" and Stockman saying they were "really, really, really, really, really good."
Folds said he liked the way Vocal Point covered a variety of '60s styles.
Delilah, of which two members — Laina Walker and Amy Whitcomb — were previously in BYU's female a cappella group, Noteworthy, also won the right to come back.
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Delilah sang "Heat Wave" as the group's '60s number and didn't seem to impress the judges with the song. Folds called it "a bit static" while the other two said it was sung with personality and stayed cute.
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The five groups will compete in the next round of an ongoing fierce competition for $200,000 and a Sony recording contract. Ultimately, the television audience will choose the winner.
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The true snipers only need a sniff.
They have a nose for the net. And all they need is a whiff of a potential goal and they jump on the puck like a rabid dog.
You can check them into the ice for 60 minutes -- or more -- but they're never completely neutralized.
The Calgary Flames did a masterful job of bottling up Martin St. Louis for four straight periods.
Tampa's diminutive sniper didn't have so much as a shot on goal through 80 minutes of play.
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He ends the game in the blink of an eye.
"I was waiting to see if the rebound would come," St. Louis beamed after scoring last night's game-winner 33 seconds into double overtime.
"It wasn't a good angle to shoot but I just thought throw it on net, you never know."
St. Louis' second overtime goal of the Stanley Cup playoffs forced a winner-take-all Game 7 Monday night in Tampa.
Lightning coach John Tortorella praised his superstar for not getting frustrated by the Flames' smothering checkers.
"They were working him pretty good throughout the game," Tortorella said. "We couldn't get him consistently involved in the offence but he makes a big play.
"I mean, you work so hard and you are trying to crawl back into a series so everybody was pretty happy.
"To be honest with you, I was surprised it happened so quick. I thought we were in for a long night."
Like St. Louis, Flames sniper Jarome Iginla was held in check for the majority of the game, managing just a pair of shots on net.
Iginla said the winning goal was a result of a broken play but wasn't about to take anything away from St. Louis, who will be his teammate on Team Canada's World Cup team.
"We had it on the wall but unfortunately, it didn't get out," the Flames captain said. "But he made the most of it.
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William Douglas Wallach (1812 – December 1, 1871) was an American surveyor and newspaper entrepreneur. Born in Washington, D.C., he earned a civil engineering degree at Columbian College and moved west doing survey work, reaching the Republic of Texas in 1838 where he supported Sam Houston and the annexation of Texas to the U.S.
In 1839 he was editor of the Matagorda Bulletin and purchased the Matagorda Colorado Gazette and Advertiser the following year, which printed until 1843. He returned to Washington in 1845 and joined the staff of the Washington Union. In 1853 he purchased a stake in the Washington Daily Evening Star, becoming its sole owner in 1855. He guided it to become one of the city's leading newspapers until 1867, when he sold his interests in the Star to the Noyes, Kauffman, and Adams families.
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On October 29, Seether will release a double-disc hits collection called 'Seether 2002-2013′. Not only will the discs contain Seether's best work, but a couple new songs and a Veruca Salt cover of 'Seether' are also included. Take a listen to the new song 'Safe To Say I've Had Enough' and the 'Seether' cover right here at 97rockonline.com.
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The stream of lava rose up to a kilometre above the summit of Klyuchevskoy, one of the active volcanoes on the Kamchatka peninsula in the east of the country.
The volcano, which erupts around every two years, is one of the largest on-land active volcanoes, according to the US Geological Survey.
It stands at 15,584ft on the north end of a belt of 30 active volcanoes.
The dramatic picture of Klyuchevskoy was captured by photographer Marc Szeglat on October 16 at a distance of approximately 9.5 miles from its concealed cone, as the volcano erupted for the first time in three years.
The explosion triggered by the eruption could be heard from 20 miles away.
In September 1994, an eruption caused disruption after it affected airline routes across the Pacific Ocean.
The active nature of the volcano, which first began erupting in 1697, means it is still rarely a target for climbers.