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CBS News Reporter Confirms: News Media Has Leftwing Bias
Lara Logan may not be a household name in the world of journalism, but she has been a part of some well-known international news stories over the past decade.
Logan, who is from South Africa, began her news career there in Durban in 1990 and has worked for Reuters, ABC, NBC, and CBS as a freelance reporter internationally. In 2002 Logan was offered a correspondent position with CBS News where she spent most of her time on battlefields reporting in war zones around the world. Logan also made regular appearances on CBS 60 Minutes.
But Logan is perhaps best known for what happened to her off camera than on. In 2011 she was in Egypt covering the Egyptian revolution when she and her camera crew were arrested and detained by Egyptian police. They were later released but as they moved back into the streets a large group of Egyptian males encountered them and began to make lurid comments about Logan. Soon the crowd became aggressive and Logan was taken by the mob and sexually assaulted. She would later say she believed she was going to be killed. She spent several days in a US hospital upon her arrival from Egypt.
With nearly 30 years of journalistic experience at major news networks around the world, Logan is a prime candidate to speak on the subject of bias in the news industry. She sat down with retired Navy Seal Mike Ritland and was interviewed for Mike's podcast "Mike Drop." Logan had interviewed Ritland 6 years earlier for a segment on 60 Minutes. Now Logan was on the side being questioned.
Ritland has been a harsh critic of the American news media, calling it "absurdly left-leaning" and that "Democrat biases were a huge —-ing problem" and a disaster for the country. "I agree with that. That's true," Logan replied. She also implied it wasn't just an American problem. "The media everywhere is mostly liberal, not just the U.S.," she said. In the U.S., Logan says there are only a small number of news organizations that don't march to the Leftist drumbeat. She cited Fox News and Breitbart as two examples.
In the podcast with Ritland, Logan talks about her experience in newsrooms.
"Visually, anyone who's ever been to Israel and been to the Wailing Wall has seen that the women have this tiny little spot in front of the wall to pray, and the rest of the wall is for the men. To me, that's a great representation of the American media, is that in this tiny little corner where the women pray you've got Breitbart and Fox News and a few others, and from there on, you have CBS, ABC, NBC, Huffington Post, Politico, whatever, right? All of them. And that's a problem for me, because even if it was reversed, if it was vastly mostly on the right, that would also be a problem for me."
"My experience has been that the more opinions you have, the more ways that you look at everything in life — everything in life is complicated, everything is gray, right? Nothing is black and white."
"This is the problem that I have. There's one Fox, and there's many, many, many more organizations on the left. … The problem is the weight of all these organizations on one side of the political spectrum. When you turn on your computer, or you walk past the TV, or you see a newspaper headline in the grocery store If they're all saying the same thing, the weight of that convinces you that it's true. You don't question it, because everyone is saying it. Unless you seek out Breitbart on your computer, you're probably not even going to know what the other side is saying."
She wonders how people can know what's accurate and what's not when so many news outlets are saying the exact same thing, in many cases word for word.
"How do you know you're being lied to? How do you know you're being manipulated? How do you know there's something not right with the coverage?" she asked.
"When they simplify it all, there's no gray. It's all one way. Well, life isn't like that. If it doesn't match real life, it's probably not. Something's wrong. For example, all the coverage on Trump all the time is negative. … That's a distortion of the way things go in real life."
Logan continued, "Although the media has historically always been left-leaning, we've abandoned our pretense, or at least the effort, to be objective today. We've become political activists, and some could argue propagandists, and there's some merit to that."
Another major problem she sees is the use of anonymous sources, particularly in the government. "That's not journalism, it's horse shit," she said. "Responsibility for fake news begins with us."
At the end of the three hour and forty-nine minute interview, Logan said something that in itself is very revealing of the state of our free press in America. She said, "This interview is professional suicide for me." A sad, but likely all too true, sentiment in the era of Trump and the news media.
Here is the full video of the interview from the Mike Drop podcast.
When the Press No Longer Pretends to be Honest
I'm honestly getting tired of defending Donald Trump from the news media.
He's not my favorite person. As a human being he's…not very nice, to put it nicely. But he was elected under the laws of this country to be its president. I don't support all of his policies and ideas, though I believe he's done some good things to help spur the U.S. economy.
But doggone it, right is right and wrong is wrong! I am sick and tired of people working in the profession I loved and honored when I was part of it, abusing their privilege and tarnishing the 4th Estate with such shoddy and negligent reporting.
President Donald Trump's remark referring to some illegal immigrants as "animals" Wednesday drew backlash. People went nuts. "See! He's a racist!" they shrieked.
If all you heard was the president's reply, which was a response to a direct question by a Sheriff in attendance, you may have felt the same anger and disgust. But there's a problem here and it speaks to the dishonesty of many working in this country's major news media.
If you didn't hear the question asked by the reporter, you didn't have any context by which to judge the answer, but judge is exactly what everyone did. Wrongly.
Here is the soundbite including the question which provides the context.
The question was specific. It was a direct question from a law enforcement officer about MS-13 gang members, many who have come into the country illegally. According to the Associated Press the gang has indulged in rape, beatings, beheadings, dismemberment, and extreme cruelty to human beings that get in their way or cross their paths. When you consider what these people do to other people, animals probably isn't an adequate comparison.
But our Free Press, led by the New York Times, took the president's answer and reported it completely devoid of the context within the question he was asked. They made it look like Trump was calling all immigrants animals… Even now 24 hours later, these press outlets have refused to inform their readers and viewers of the omission, providing no added context to their earlier, misleading, reports.
After a White House press briefing, some of the news outlets updated their stories adding the reference to MS-13 and the question that was originally asked.
Accidental? A mistake? An oversight?
You tell me.
Do You Really Know WHAT the Tea Party Is? I doubt it.
A refreshingly honest admission by a Yale University professor may do more to help the country see the real Tea Party and understand what it really stands for than any news report could ever do.
Professor, Dan Kahan, did a study on education, religiosity, ideology, and science comprehension and posted his findings on the website CulturalCognition.net. To his very apparent surprise, people who affiliated themselves with the Tea Party were more educated in science than any other political party members.
This discovery shocked Kahan to the point that he exclaimed:
"I've got to confess, though, I found this result surprising. As I pushed the button to run the analysis on my computer, I fully expected I'd be shown a modest negative correlation between identifying with the Tea Party and science comprehension. But then again, I don't know a single person who identifies with the Tea Party. All my impressions come from watching cable tv — & I don't watch Fox News very often — and reading the "paper" (New York Times daily, plus a variety of politics-focused internet sites like Huffington Post & Politico). I'm a little embarrassed, but mainly I'm just glad that I no longer hold this particular mistaken view."
I am not really surprised that Mr. Kahan doesn't know any people who associate themselves with the Tea Party. He is a professor at a very liberal university where academicians find sport looking down on the unwashed uneducated hicks they identify as Tea Partiers or more commonly the more vulgar and disrespectful term Tea Baggers. The Left has denigrated the Tea Party so much that many will not admit their association or identification with the Tea Party to anyone for fear of public ridicule.
I'm confident this is how the majority of Americans have gained their own less-than-positive opinions about the Tea Party and why the general public carries an overwhelmingly negative perspective. Our news media has painted this picture with a continuous barrage of negative comments, allusions, and stories that in my experience always focus on one individual or small group, the fringe, and then extends that negative stereo-type onto all people in the party as a whole.
Every political party has its fringe members. I believe most reasonable and fair-minded people would agree the fringe does not represent those groups as a whole, but the Tea Party is not given the benefit of that reasoning.
Anyone who has attended a Tea Party event, meeting, or rally, knows from experience these negative images and stories are more fabrication than fact.
The Tea Party is not a political party but rather a movement of common people who feel the Government has taken too large a place in our lives.
Most who align with Tea Party ideals are worried about the constant increase in Government size and control over their lives along with a huge increase in expenditures that has increased the national debt to a point where it can never be reduced to any appreciable level.
They believe the debt will eventually reach a level where the government can not fulfill its promises. This will result in riots if the people can no longer get what the government has promised.
Tea Party people won't ask for your political affiliation if you inquire about what the Tea Party stands for. But they will ask you how you feel about the size of Government, the constitution, whether the Federal Government should be involved in Education, Health Care, Energy, Marriage, and other important social issues of the day.
They strongly believe the Affordable Care Act should not be implemented in its current form for many reason, but mainly because it was forced to a vote without having been read by those who voted, without people having any understanding as to what the unintended consequences would be, and with the costs being completely misrepresented.
Why should those people be branded as kooks, terrorists, jihadists, racists, and traitors?
If representatives who run on Tea Party principles use every legal means possible to prevent implementation of a law they feel is harmful to more Americans than it helps, do they deserve to be pilloried?
Those in power fear the Tea Party. It is as grass roots as any movement has ever been. It is made up of Republicans, Democrats, Libertarians, and Independents. It is a group that has had enough of a government they see as out of control in its spending, its regulations, its overreaching legislation, and its seeming lust and death grip on power and control over the people of this country.
They've reached the proverbial end of their rope and they're speaking out. Some are doing and saying things none of us want to see or hear, but they are the few, the fringe, and not representative of the whole. It's time the media accurately portray who and what the Tea Party is and stop spreading misinformation.
Brandon Davies: Is BYU's Premarital Sex Controversy Good For College Sports?
Back in March I wrote about Jimmer Fredette and BYU's run to the NCAA tournament. In that post I mentioned the situation with Brandon Davies, the 6'9″ power forward/center, suspended for the remainder of the season due to an honor code violation. We later learned that violation had to do with the provision of the BYU honor code referring to living a "chaste and virtuous life". Brandon admitted to having sexual relations with his girlfriend.
What followed is, in my mind, a proud moment for BYU and for Brandon Davies. I could opine about that for pages but I'd rather share an article in Time magazine published on March 4th by a disinterested 3rd party that closely follows my own thoughts and feelings on the situation. The author, Sean Gregory, articulates well the magnitude of the decision by BYU and the possible ripples that decision could have in college sports in general in the future.
It's a great read, so I decided to re-post it here with attribution.
Brandon Davies: Is BYU's Premarital Sex Controversy Good For College Sports?
These days, bad behavior among college athletes is a fact of campus life. Beat up a freshman in a barroom one night and you can be back on the court three days later. Just this week, a Sports Illustrated and CBS News investigation found that more than 200 players on the rosters of 25 major college football teams have run afoul of the law. Nearly a quarter of scholarship athletes on the University of Pittsburgh squad have criminal records.
College athletics is a multibillion-dollar enterprise, and the pressure to win at any cost — including turning a blind eye to player misbehavior — can be overwhelming. That's why the news this week that Brigham Young University (BYU) would force starting center Brandon Davies to miss the rest of the season for violating the school's honor code was so surprising.
The team looked like a title contender. BYU is ranked third in the country, and Davies, who averages 11.1 points and 6.2 rebounds, is a key player; in their first game without him, the Cougars were trounced by the University of New Mexico, 82-64.
But the most surprising fact of the story is that Davies got booted for behavior that wasn't criminal. What he did takes place, to put it mildly, every day in colleges across the country: Davies had sex with his girlfriend.
BYU is owned and operated by the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, which frowns on premarital relations. Davis, like 98% of BYU students, is a Mormon. Upon entering the school, students vow to abide by its honor code, which prohibits premarital sex as well as indulging in alcohol or coffee. "The honor code is an essential part of your recruitment to BYU," says Hall of Fame quarterback and ESPN analyst Steve Young, who played at BYU from 1981 to '83. "It's not like you find out later — 'Oh, you didn't tell me! I didn't know that!' But there's a spirit on campus that is just, 'O.K., fine, now let's now go have a good time.'"
The judgment on Davies doesn't come without costs to the school. If BYU fails to advance in the upcoming NCAA tournament without its star center, the rest of the team — young men who worked hard, obeyed the rules and did nothing wrong — miss out on a life experience they may never recapture.
But you have to admire an institution that sticks by its principles. "The expression of love between a man and a woman is sacred, valued at the highest level," says Shawn Bradley, the 7-ft. 6-in. former NBA player who spent a year at BYU and spent two years on a mission in Australia before entering the 1993 draft. Indeed, many BYU alums say they support the school's decision. "Sorry, I'm choking up a bit here," says Philadelphia sportscaster Vai Sikahema, a former NFL return specialist who played for BYU in the mid-1980s. "It's just hard for me to express just how immensely proud I am of my university."
He should be. When it comes to athletes and sex, the easy call is to let the jocks slip. On any campus, athletes are visible, and popular, especially when a team is winning. And though it's probably easier for a student to squelch his or her desires at a place where all 30,000 undergrads are also trying to stay chaste, suppression is still a challenge. "It was difficult for me," says Bradley, a devout Mormon. "We all have those urges. You're dealing with hormones, which are out in full force. But you have to stay focused, and put yourself in the right places to protect yourself."
The willingness of BYU to police poor conduct is sharply at odds with other college programs. At Seton Hall University last season, for example, a basketball player who caused an accident while driving under the influence, causing an injury to the other driver, was suspended for only eight games. This year, a top player from Robert Morris University got a four-game penalty after a drunk-driving incident. In February, two players from Marshall University were charged with battery over a bar fight; they played in a game the next evening. Schools often let athletes off easy for on-field transgressions too. Two seasons ago, a University of Florida football player intentionally gouged an opponent's eyes. He was suspended for a half.
BYU has every incentive to just slap Davies on the wrist for his transgression. A successful run at the Final Four could generate millions of dollars in television revenues and alumni donations for the school, and the added exposure and prestige can increase applications.
BYU boosters, however, believe the Davies incident could be a selling point on its own, by broadcasting the school's principled stand on honesty and taking responsibility. Davies himself has apologized to his teammates and took his punishment without complaining. And despite the stiff penalty it levied, BYU also teaches forgiveness. "It's really a pretty compassionate place," says Young, a great-great-great grandson of Brigham Young himself. "I guarantee you there's a huge outreach to make sure that he's O.K. If I could talk to him, I'd put my arm around him and say, 'Hang in there, get back on the court when you can, and make it right.'"
Davies may learn a great deal from this experience. "This could be a seminal moment in this young man's life," says Sikahema. "Better that it happens at 20, rather than 50, with four kids. He'll probably be a better man, and that's ultimately what BYU is about, building leaders, building men. If that means missing out a chance at the Final Four, well, that's what happens."
Would any other school pay that price? More than likely, too few would pass the Brandon Davies test.
Gregory is a staff writer at TIME. Keeping Score, his sports column for TIME.com, appears every Friday. Follow him on Twitter at @seanmgregory
Read more: http://www.time.com/time/arts/article/0,8599,2057184,00.html#ixzz1IaX6AvX9
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"We have agreed to sell substantially all of our assets," the company says in a SEC filing
Salon Media says they have reached an 11th hour deal to sell the company and its flagship property Salon.com for $5 million. In an SEC filing, Salon also revealed its position was dire and that it would face imminent "bankruptcy and liquidation" if the deal should fall through.
"We have agreed to sell substantially all of our assets (the "Asset Sale"), including all pertinent intellectual property rights comprising the Company's business of owning, operating and publishing the website known as Salon.com," the filing read.
The company buying Salon was named only as Salon.com LLC and appeared to be getting an even better deal than the top line figures first suggest. To complete the sale, the buyer need only pay $550,000 at closing, with an additional $100,000 left in an escrow account. The filing also showed that a deposit of $500,000 had already been paid.

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By LARRY VAUGHT
Emma Buchanan and her roommate, Caitlin Pendygraft, randomly picked a dormitory when they were applying for University of Kentucky housing their freshman year and had no idea how they got placed in a dorm with football, baseball, swim, track and cheerleading team members.
The Mercer County friends found out about their dorm when former Mercer football star Dee Smith, now a walk-on running back at UK, told them. They eventually became good friends with UK football players Josh Paschal and Nassir Watkins, who lived in the dorm basement close to them.
"They were so nice. They would do anything for us. If we had to walk back from K-lot where we park our car which is miles from our dorm, they would come get us and take us back so we would not have to walk," said Buchanan.
She didn't initially tell them her father, David Buchanan, was the football coach at Mercer County — but they soon figured out she knew a lot about football.
"When I met them I was asking what position they played and I guess most girls don't ask that," Buchanan, a marketing/business major at UK, said. "But I told them Dad was a coach and that Dee Smith went to my school. They love Dee. They said he is doing really well in practice and I hope to get to see him play this year."
That friendship led to Paschal and Quinton Bohanna, another UK defensive lineman, coming to Harrodsburg in July for the Mercer County Youth Football Clinic.
"We asked Josh to come here and he was all for it. He just had to ask permission and he was good to go and he got Quinton, who I know a little, to also come," Emma Buchanan said. "Josh is so nice. He is so down to earth. I didn't honestly know he was so good. He never acted like he was better than anyone. He would do anything for anyone. He is just the best.
"He said he was nervous about what to say (to the young players) and I told him they would love him and be excited he's here and he could not mess it up. I hope the kids learned that you need to set a goal to strive for because these guys (Paschal and Bohanna) have made it. It's hard in July to get kids out here to play. It's hot and they are not really into it but seeing these UK players should make them want to play."


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MOSCOW, June 30. /TASS/. Russia is developing an advanced space project to detect and identify the tracks of devastating asteroids and comets from directions that are indiscernible from the Earth, the Central Research Institute for Mechanical Engineering (part of the Roscosmos state corporation) told TASS.
"Research efforts must serve as a basis for future R&D work that must undergo obligatory competitive selection by the Council for Space of the Russian Academy of Sciences and the Roscosmos state corporation," the institute reported, explaining that the issue is being addressed together with other interested organizations. However, to date, this project is not part of the approved Federal Space Program for 2025 that is being implemented now.
As was earlier reported, Russian scientists recommended launching a telescope 1.5 mln kilometers away from the Earth to L1, the so-called Langrangian point (an area in which a space vehicle remains motionless regarding the Earth-Sun system) to monitor asteroids that fly to the Earth downsun. Optical telescopes are useless here. However, to identify an astronomical body over 10 meters in size, a small 30 cm diameter telescope should be delivered to this point. The project was named "Detection System for Day Asteroids" ("SODA").
Besides, the research institute said it is continuing work on developing an automated warning system for dangerous situations in the near-Earth space that will monitor, above all, operating space vehicles and space junk and warn interested agencies on the possibility of a collision in the Earth's orbit.
The institute also explained that it can also monitor asteroids and comets and, thus, closely interacts with the International Scientific Optical Network (ISON) of the Russian Academy of Sciences.
The institute explained that detection and observation of potentially hazardous objects, as well as ways to counter this threat, will be discussed this year at the international Near-Earth Astronomy conference that will take place in Russia under the auspices of the Institute of Astronomy.
In 2016, the UN General Assembly proclaimed June 30 to be Asteroid Day. This occasion is dedicated to the Tunguska event that occurred on June 30, 1908, over Siberia.


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Where to Now?
Broadcast: 14/09/2013 9:19:53 PM
Reporter: Fiona Breen
Simplot – Birdseye brand vegetable processor – SAME LOGIC WORKS for ELECTRICITY – Even River Produced Electricity is NOT FREE.
Review to two factories was not good. As USA owners were telling TERRY O'Brien
turn the factories around or close them.
TERRY O'BRIEN, SIMPLOT AUSTRALIA: "… They're quite patient investors. They've put a lot of money into Australia over the 18-odd years that they've owned it. They really enjoy having the business down here and they haven't been as demanding for returns that perhaps a public company would be. Being private, they have their own longer-term agenda, but at the same time clearly they have to get a return that makes some sense and mostly they need a return that allows them to reinvest and keep all of our assets and factories and everything up to standard…"
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Australia's vegetable industry is in crisis with the nation's last two frozen vegetable processing factories still under threat of closure. Imported frozen vegetables are taking the place of locally-grown products in supermarket trolleys and business is suffering.
Simplot's future in Australia depends on what the new Coalition Government does to help keep the industry alive. More than 500 factory workers and 150 farmers are waiting on a decision and Simplot has promised to get back to them by the end of this month.
Fiona Breen travelled to Bathurst in NSW and to Devonport in Tasmania to talk to those fighting to keep Australia's food manufacturing industry alive.
FIONA BREEN, REPORTER: This small group is a rare breed. Part of a declining number of farmers growing Australia's vegetables. Today, onions are being planted in the rich, red clay soil of Tasmania's northwest. It's a miracle this planting is happening at all. These farmers have been distracted.
ROBBIE TOLE, DEVONPORT GROWER: We came together probably as a request from Simplot to help put a proposal together to help them remain viable and also for us to remain viable and we've had a good mix of growers on the group from north of Tassie down through the northeast down here, so we're covering a wide range of areas and crops. So it's been really positive.
FIONA BREEN: They've spent more time in meeting rooms than they have in the fields, pushing themselves out of their comfort zone to work up a strategy to secure their farming future.
STEWART MCGEE, DEVONPORT GROWER: We've presented to the Greens, Liberal, Labor, to the Department of Economic Development, the University Centre of Food Innovation, which is a new, relatively new thing. I think they will be very helpful to us. Enterprise Connect, very widely with our State and Federal politicians.
FIONA BREEN: The farmers flew into action in June when Simplot Australia's chief, Terry O'Brien, announced its two big frozen vegetable factories in Bathurst NSW and in Devonport, Tasmania, could be closed. A combination of a high Australian dollar, soaring production costs and cheap imports flooding the local market was hurting the bottom line.
The dollar had opened Australia's door to global suppliers, but shut the door on Simplot's exporting arm. A review of the two factories wasn't good and the American owners were telling Terry O'Brien to turn the factories around or close them.
TERRY O'BRIEN, SIMPLOT AUSTRALIA: They're quite patient investors. They've put a lot of money into Australia over the 18-odd years that they've owned it. They really enjoy having the business down here and they haven't been as demanding for returns that perhaps a public company would be. Being private, they have their own longer-term agenda, but at the same time clearly they have to get a return that makes some sense and mostly they need a return that allows them to reinvest and keep all of our assets and factories and everything up to standard.
FIONA BREEN: Other multinational vegetable processers have already pulled out of Australia.
TERRY O'BRIEN: One of its biggest competitors, McCain's, closed its Tasmanian operation in 2009 and set up a factory in New Zealand. Hundreds of jobs were lost. Millions of dollars left the local economy. Heinz also shifted its vegetable processing to New Zealand. At this point in time you're talking across just about every input, probably 30 to 40 per cent more expensive in Australia than in New Zealand.
Now, clearly they have some limit to their production capability. They probably couldn't service the whole of Australia, so ultimately there's still a place for Australian manufacturing against them. But we really have to strive to find a way to be competitive on a parity basis with New Zealand and I think they're the main competitor for us in the vegetable business.
FIONA BREEN: Since June, Terry O'Brien has been on his own campaign trail, criss-crossing the country to rally support to keep Simplot's vegetable factories open. He urged the Tasmanian farmers to get organised.
TERRY O'BRIEN: We've had a heck of a lot going on and, I mean, I can't get the smile off my face because I'm so surprised at the reaction we've had and it's been so positive. So I suppose all I'm saying is if three quarters of what we've got floating around in the air at the moment came true, we'll probably go on and we'll be OK, and we'll commit to staying in that plant for some time.
If we can't get all the main inputs over the line, then it probably won't.
(Fiona Breen in a Chiko packaging factory)
FIONA BREEN: Simplot's campaign to keep its factories open has highlighted the potential loss of Aussie brands like Bird's Eye and Edgell, but it's the threat to another Simplot Aussie brand that has captured people's attention, and it's this – the humble Chiko roll. In its heyday, the factory here in Bathurst was making 40 million Chiko rolls a year. The numbers have dropped to 10 million but it's still a fish and chip shop staple.
The campaign by Simplot and its farmers gained some early traction with a couple of wins, but they proved to be hollow.
(Kevin Rudd meeting farmers)
KEVIN RUDD, EX-PRIME MINISTER: What do you grow, mate?
FARMER: Peas, potatoes.
KEVIN RUDD: OK, OK, that's good.
FIONA BREEN: An 11th hour pre-election promise from Kevin Rudd for $10 million for farmers, and an $18 million pledge from Kim Carr to upgrade the factories.
(3 September 2013 Kevin Rudd interview)
KEVIN RUDD: We believe in investing in, and co-investing with good companies like Simplot because farmers have been supplying companies like this since the Second World War, it's a good business and we want to see the agricultural services industry grow, and grow, and grow.
FIONA BREEN: The new Liberal Government, however, was more cautious during the pre-election circus. Tony Abbott flew into Tasmania's north a couple of times but refused to be drawn on a deal to save Simplot.
(3 September 2013, Tony Abbott interview)
TONT ABBOTT, LIBERAL LEADER: Should we form a government after Saturday, I'm very happy to sit down with Simplot. I accept that they are a very important local employer; I accept that they are very important for the future of the agricultural sector of northern Tasmania, the vegetable industry of northern Tasmania, I absolutely accept that, but the time to talk with them is calmly, rationally, after an election, not to engage in some kind of pre-election auction.
FIONA BREEN: It's not just the new government that Terry O'Brien is waiting on.
He's hoping workers will be prepared to sacrifice to keep the company in Australia. Terry O'Brien is counting on a Holden-type deal with factory workers, to freeze wages and create more flexible conditions.
(Fiona Breen standing outside a Simplot factory in Bathurst)
In the heat of the season when the factories here in Bathurst and in Devonport are running six or even seven days a week, Simplot says it's paying its factory workers about $50 per hour. Its competitors in New Zealand are paying about $20 an hour.
TERRY O'BRIEN: With our labour laws to run businesses around the clock, which you have to do for short periods of the time, that does bring with it quite high penalty rates, etc.
So the unit cost of labour when you compress it into a short part of the year is a lot higher than it would be if we had it spread throughout the year, like you can in some places.
(Terry O'Brien in factory talking to workers)
Don't you miss any of them, will you? We get complaints when they're not in there.
FIONA BREEN: Terry O'Brien has been up-front with Simplot's 200-strong Bathurst work force. Without major change, the factory might not make it far past the next corn harvest, due in April next year.
TERRY O'BRIEN: It's the harder part, for sure, and it's got alternatives offshore.
Like we could go to Thailand as well and we could go to Italy, and there's actually a big prize for us to do that and that's what, you know, really putting the question mark over Bathurst because there are alternatives.
FIONA BREEN: Have you been seriously thinking about it?
TERRY O'BRIEN: Absolutely. And we've actually worked out what the price is if we do that. But the bottom line is, as I said before, our preference is to stay in Australia and have Australian product, so our preference is to get the competitiveness of our plant close enough that we can survive rather than just cut and run.
FIONA BREEN: Devonport employs 300 people. Both factories employ generations of the same families. Many have been with Simplot for 20 years or more. Both regions also have high unemployment rates and many workers would have trouble securing new jobs.
JENNIFER DOWELL, AUSTRALIAN MANUFACTURING WORKERS UNION: Obviously they're under a lot of stress. I think particularly at Bathurst, it's really difficult for them because the threat of closure is more imminent for the plant at Bathurst. They were told that they may not have another corn season after this one, and this one finishes in about April of next year.
So they're really stressed and it's terrible for them having to come to work under such uncertainty.
FIONA BREEN: Jennifer Dowell from the Australian Manufacturing Workers Union is also criss-crossing the country, visiting both Simplot work sites to talk to factory employees. She says any changes must be negotiated through the new enterprise agreement, which is due for renewal in February.
And while the union is prepared to start negotiating early, there's little that can be fast tracked.
JENNIFER DOWELL: The issue is that at the end of the day it will be a difficult thing to try and negotiate. We have got a national agreement which covers five plants. We have spoken to workers in the plant and really before we can come to a landing on any position with respect to wage increases, we're looking at getting a whole lot more financial information from the company and more information about what their plans for the future are, because you know, I really have a problem in talking to company about wage increases or non-wage increases with the threat of closures hanging over workers' heads for months at a time.
FIONA BREEN: There's pressure for Terry O'Brien to secure his deals with workers and with Government sooner rather than later. He's due to travel to Idaho in the United States later this month to present his decision on the future of the two Australian factories. It's now a waiting game for everyone, farmers and factory workers.
But it's particularly difficult for people in Bathurst. The Bathurst factory, first built by the Edgell family in the 1920s, is most under threat.
TERRY O'BRIEN: Bathurst is the hardest plant to make sense of, because it's got a very big footprint here and a lot of different products, and so ultimately we may not get Bathurst right up to the best outcome that we'd like. But provided we can get Devonport and Bathurst together to make sense for us as a category, a vegetable category, then most likely we would continue with both plants.
FIONA BREEN: The Bathurst factory manufactures 30,000 tonnes each year, including 20,000 tonnes of canned vegetables and 10,000 tonnes of frozen vegetables. 12 months ago, the company put in new robotics to pack and wrap the pallets of cans.
(Terry O'Brien talking to a worker)
TERRY O'BRIEN: And what about the big robot here, the palletiser, that's going alright?
SIMPLOT WORKER: Yes, we had some issues with cogs breaking there, but overall we've now got over the issue of where the cogs are breaking. It's come good.
TERRY O'BRIEN: You sometimes wonder how these plants ran before without these robots.
SIMPLOT WORKER: Yes, it's doing a lot of labour.
TERRY O'BRIEN: A lot of backbreaking labour.
SIMPLOT WORKER: Definitely.
TERRY O'BRIEN: Indeed.
FIONA BREEN: Canning was the more profitable line, achieving better margins than frozen. But as imports fill the local supermarket shelves, prices and demand has dropped for canned vegetables.
Corn has become one of the cheapest canned products on the supermarket shelves and that's not good for Simplot.
FIONA BREEN: The competitor, for example, on canned corn, is Thailand where they run two seasons of growing corn every year, so they have a lot more, a lot flatter production year than we do and of course their labour rates are a little different to Australia.
But in the main, you know, they do such huge scale out of Thailand that they can get a can of corn into the Australian market sort of almost equal to our cost.
FIONA BREEN: Each factory has its own particular set of rising utility costs. The Bathurst factory is struggling with a sharp rise in the cost of electricity.
Here in Devonport, the annual water bill has gone up more than 300 per cent to over $2 million.
Each plant uses a lot of water. In Devonport, water flows through just about every part of the factory, but none more so than the washing line, where machines work hard to get the thick, red clay soil off a load of carrots.
TERRY O'BRIEN: Our current annual bill's around $800,000 and now they're threatening 2.8.
FIONA BREEN: Per year?
TERRY O'BRIEN: Per year. And I can tell you have to sell a lot of green peas to make that $2 million.
FIONA BREEN: Both plants also use a lot of electricity. Each step of the freezing process takes a lot of energy. Power in NSW has gone up by more than 200 per cent.
As the threat of closure hangs over the two factories the supermarkets are still stocking their shelves and freezers. Vegetables from Thailand, China, New Zealand, and the Netherlands sit beside the local products. They look similar and they're often cheaper.
SHOPPER 1: I suppose I just see what's on special and what I need I just grab and off I go. Yes, I sort of don't take time to read everything and get what I want.
SHOPPER 2: Price, more than anything. I mean, every penny counts at the moment so you've got to look for price more than anything.
FIONA BREEN: Many shoppers rushing in and out of the supermarket are unaware of the long-term effects of their decisions. Surveys suggesting shoppers want to buy Australian are not always reflected at the checkout.
SHOPPER 3: When I sort through the racks we see New Zealand products and other products packed here and supplied there and, yes, it's a bit disappointing.
FIONA BREEN: It frustrates farmers.
Bathurst grower Jeff McSpedden has had to cut costs each year. He wants consumers to think more about what they're buying.
JEFF MCSPEDDEN, BATHURST GROWER: People don't realise that if processing goes offshore you will have to buy imported, and then depending on the dollar, if our dollar goes down there will be a real spike in food price.
FIONA BREEN: Jeff McSpedden is in a holding pattern. He's grown corn for Simplot for 45 years. Each year his farm produces about 2,000 tonne of corn. After June's announcement he's had a rethink.
[Talking to Jeff McSpedden] Have you been holding off on buying any new equipment or getting ready for plantings because of this uncertainty surrounding Simplot?
JEFF MCSPEDDEN: It is. We made a decision when they made the announcement to actually run more sheep. So this year we've kept all our female sheep to actually increase our sheep numbers.
FIONA BREEN: Either way, a decision to close would see the McSpeddens and the handful of farmers in the Bathurst area take a big hit.
JEFF MCSPEDDEN: We don't have a processing industry in this country and I can find someone with enough money, and that may even be in China or Asia in the Asian century, I would sell it to them and Australians will have to eat the cheaper imported product. And that's not good for Australia because, you know, fresh fruit and vegetables is the answer to health.
FIONA BREEN: In Tasmania, farmers have been shaken into action. Simplot has asked them to cut costs and to try and get help to do that. It's one of the first times the company and Tasmanian farmers have really come together. In the past, they've been at loggerheads over prices.
ROBBIE TOLE: I think times have changed and we needed to change and Simplot needed to change, and I would give them a lot of credit for the way they have now engaged growers, and I think we need to work together. I don't think we can be fighting each other anymore. If we want to continue farming and be involved in agriculture I think we need to, as farmers, need to be involved further up the line, the line processing line.
FIONA BREEN: Their future will rely on some hefty government support to upgrade technology and equipment.
ANDREW CRAIGIE, DEVONPORT GROWER: There's a pivot irrigator behind us. Now as that comes around onto different soil types they require different amounts of water, variable rate watering.
That technology also goes to fertiliser. Technologies within spraying where it's not a blanket spray; it's a targeted spray for crops. Anything that can reduce our input costs and actually give us a better yield are the things we really want to focus on.
FIONA BREEN: Food scientist Hazel MacTavish-West analyses the flavour and goodness of vegetables for businesses trying to better market their produce.
She's worried that if Australia loses Simplot, farmers will leave the vegetable growing industry and the nation will lose the ability to feed itself.
DR HAZEL MACTAVISH-WEST, FOOD SCIENTIST: History tells us that in the past countries have gone to war and if they didn't have a local home supply of food, they didn't have that food. And I'd just be really nervous that such an important part of our diet in terms of nutrients and bulk, then had to come from other countries.
FIONA BREEN: Dr MacTavish-West has been commissioned by Horticulture Australia to come up with a database of health benefits vegetable producers can use to market and package their products. She's analysed the vitamin levels in frozen vegetables and says 95 per cent of the vitamins remain during the freezing process. She's worried that Australians don't realise what's at risk.
DR HAZEL MACTAVISH-WEST: We will not have the option of frozen Australian vegetables. We will have to buy imported produce. Imported produce by definition doesn't make it bad, it just isn't Australian and it isn't supporting our very valuable horticultural industry.
FIONA BREEN: In the end, however, much of it will come back to the customer.
SHOPPER 4: Majority of times with all my canned goods and that, and everything else, I try to buy Australian. Goodness, they're Chinese. So yes, so much for me buying Australian.


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About the job
We require an additional 2 trainee chartered accountants to join our firm this year. The role provides an excellent opportunity for a graduate to develop the full range of accountancy skills and experience whilst being fully supported through professional chartered accountancy training (ICAS). A rotation system will operate to ensure candidates gain appropriate experience within each key department and across industry sectors.
Key Responsibilities
Assisting in accounts preparation
Assisting in audit assignments
Liaising with the full range of clients – private, public and charitable sectors
Any other appropriate tasks, as directed
Reporting to
- Manager
About you
Successful candidates must be able to contribute to a professional environment and work effectively across our client base. You will hold/be on track for a relevant honours degree (2:1 minimum) and have Higher grade Maths and English (or equivalent qualifications). An ability to plan and achieve deadlines is essential in order to achieve staged exam success as well as effectively deliver to our clients. A quality approach to work, positive communication skills and an enthusiasm for learning are key to success.
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Previous work experience within a professional office environment beneficial
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Takes ownership of the task
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Can work effectively in a team environment or on own initiative
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Based: The role will be based at our Bath Street offices
Hours: 37.5 hours/week, Mon-Fri
Salary: Competitive
- We have developed a set of Expected Behaviours which form part of every role profile and contribute to positive culture
- Some overtime may be required at times of high workload
- Full driving licence beneficial
- Some travel (overnight) will be expected
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Residence permit, the day before the rendez-vous
October 24, 2018
The coffee's magic is starting to permeate at cellular level. I just went through re-checking one more time my papers for the residence permit application, my appointment is tomorrow, in Pendik, which is almost out of Istanbul, it will take about two hours to get there, one hour alone sitting on the metro from Kadikoy all the way to the Pendik.
This will be a significant moment. If it is a 'no', I'll have ten days to leave Turkey. The residence permit process was yet again changed last May and I heard that there are thousands upon thousands of applications awaiting response. Rumors are going wild, like 30 thousand plus applications coming every week and piling up in a room as there are not enough people to handle the inflow. People are waiting 3 to 5 months for an appointment, people stuck in limbo as they are not getting their responses and then are not able to leave the country, lest they pay an "overstay" fee and find themselves in an illegal situation.
Surprisingly, and against all expectations, I got my appointment immediately after putting in my online application and got it in a reasonable time (10 days). Pendik, the rumor is, is the only office that still more or less functions properly. Westerners dealing with Turkish bureaucracy always get really nervous and upset because here it operates on a different paradigm. In Canada or Germany for example, if you did not provide the exact, required, expected data, papers, at best you get back to the back of the line, at worst, you missed your chance and it's over. Here, there is dither, leeway, detours and a kind of 'cross your fingers, Inshallah, give it a moment' kind of thing that means that if, for example, you are missing a document, you can come back with it later, and if you have discrepancies on your paperwork, you can just explain it, and who you talk to has a huge influence on the outcome of your query.
So tomorrow is a bit of a fateful day. I will go, give my papers, talk to someone and then go back home wondering what will happen, and when. In the past I have waited for 3 months for an answer, so if it is a 'no', and I wait two, three months to learn about it, it gives me two, three more months to spend in my beautiful flat. If I am denied the permit, the question will be: where do I go for 3 months? I do have a few Workaway host requests in Denmark, Ireland, France. So there are options. I am ready for anything, but I really wish to stay put a little while longer in Galata, it seems I am just starting to really settling, to relax more deeply into a non-nomadic reality.
One of the question marks with this application, is the financial picture, in the past I would move a bunch of money from the line of credit, take a screen shot and there would be the $5000 annual financial requirement to stay, then I would move it back whence it came. This year I cannot do this as I don't have a line of credit anymore, so it's up to the person I will talk to. The last time I applied they didn't even look at the banking papers, so we will see this time
So lets see what happens. In the mean time, every day I still am in awe with my surroundings, Galata tower, in all its beauty, the Bosphorus, the poetry of this place that is everywhere, the cats, the old buildings, the faces, and the light… I am living in a fairy tale decor. I draw every day, I am working with the art course tutor on some basic skills right now, like hatching… I am putting thousands of lines on paper, I am going through the steps a beginning art student would go through and I can see the value of that. My first pages of hatching look freaked out, I was panicking at "how am I going to fill this page? (A2 size) I was freaking out at the ugliness of what I was doing. Ugliness freaks me out… then it started to show, the lines straightened and the mind became quiet and it started to have unity. Not quite beauty yet but getting there. The pleasure of seeing the extra crisp and straight lines appearing from my hand and onto the page is very rewarding.
Last week I met with a friend from Canada. He is Turkish but has been living in Canada for 35 years. It was a very interesting connection, like me he is between two worlds, feeling a stranger in both, yet enjoying both also. He helped me decipher the internet provider's packages, and on that note, I still don't have internet at home, he also gave me some plates and utensils, I have to say, I had been eating in plastic yogurt containers and the plate felt gloriously good! Our conversations felt so good to me, that is when I realize how a person's culture is so deeply ingrained, there are so many points of agreement in reality, it makes communication flow much easily even if you don't know each other so well. Plus of course, the common language, I still struggle a lot with Turkish, I am improving but to speak my mind clearly and express myself in this language is not quite available to me yet.
Well, I must go… gotta get a few more photocopies for tomorrow's appointment. If I have the gumption, I will go to the Fatih pazar to buy fresh food. And… I will draw some more.
Much love.


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Our Story
Indic Palate Co. is born out of pure passion by two young women entrepreneurs. Let's call them Tim & Tim. Jaded by the ongoing fast fashion trend, they decided it was time for authentic and quality fashion. Just like that; an idea was conceived, an idea of making high quality fashion accessible to all at affordable prices. For the next 12 months a small bedroom became the conference table and a spare room, their storage. Tim & Tim are two happy-go- lucky souls who aim at unveiling multi-layered cultures of the world through their designs. Rooting for sustainability, slow fashion is their direction. They love animals, earth and meaningful relationships that are meant to last.


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If it's classical and conservative with a guarantee of good food that never goes out of fashion that you are looking for, then Aubergine is a great choice of restaurant in Cape Town. For more than 20 years chef Harald Bresselschmidt has stayed steadfast and true for what he can do. He has been wowing discerning diners from near and far with his timeless, not trendy, cuisine. Here the wine leads the way – chef patron Harald follows his passion for wine first, chooses a selection and then starts crafting a menu to pair with it, perfectly. His well-trained and knowledgeable staff, who seem to be as passionate as he is, take true delight in guiding guests through the menu. We loved the carefully considered pairings, with my stand-out dish being the seafood potpourri, delicately balanced and delicious. My carnivore companion chose the blue wildebeest with tortellini and walnut foam, black trumpet mushroom dust.
No surprises with the décor, it remains traditional. When the seasons change the menu takes full advantage of what is growing in Harald's garden in Stelllenbosch, so for those who visit Aubergine often, there is always something different to delight their palates.
In Victoria Moore's 'The Wine Dine Dictionary' she calls the aubergine a chameleon ingredient – it can be cooked with uplifting summer accents that make you want to reach for a fragrant white, or cosied up and made so wintry that only a heavy red will do. Trust me, Harald will know what to do with any ingredient!
In December good friends celebrated a milestone anniversary, and I gave them a copy of the JHP Gourmet Guide™ with instructions to choose a restaurant so that we could enjoy a celebratory meal together. Foxcroft was their first choice, so off we set for the early sitting on a balmy Friday evening. Champagne outdoors was followed by an exceptional four-course meal, good value at R495. Our friendly waiter Mike made a good impression, having to artfully interrupt animated catch-up conversation that included meaty debates and lots of laughter. He brought to our table the seared tuna takaki, cured yellowtail, honey-glazed quail, turnip gratin and venison tartare, to loud applause. The chef generously sent an additional course, which I found to be my favourite – the goat's cheese and fig. The free-range pork with gem squash, charred cabbage and fermented plum was also exceptional. Chef Glen Foxcroft William's pastry expertise came to the fore in the desserts – both the chocolate and compressed strawberry dishes were works of art, from their visual splendour to the last, lingering flavour.
When invited to tour the Paarman Foods factory, I donned my flat shoes, removed my jewels and set off for Diep River to see how my much-admired mentor has developed a global business. I was fortunate to work for Ina, testing recipes and working on her first product, seasoned sea salt, many moons ago, with a student of hers at the Cape Technikon. Pearl Isaacs gave me the guided tour, and at each station handed me over the staff member in charge to explain the products and processes. I was impressed with their passion, the sophistication and standards of the plant, and of course, remain a firm advocate of her product ranges.
Here is a great place to spend a Thursday afternoon in autumn, on the lawns in Noordhoek capturing the setting sun and view over the rim of a glass. The market offers a wide variety of cuisine from oysters to traditional Greek fare, with plenty of choice for vegetarians too. Add some bubbly, beer, or their wines, and you are well on your way to welcoming the weekend in al fresco. It opens at 4.30pm and closes at 8.30pm, so be sure to find your spot early if you want a table, or take a picnic blanket and settle on the lawns overlooking a lake. Bliss…
How delightful to spend a week night sitting in a cosy courtyard experiencing chef Henry Vigar's talent. La Mouette on the busy strip of Sea Point offers tranquility, and truly good food. Here a six-course dinner costs a palatable R495, with wine pairing R870. After having our appetites whet with a platter of cured sea bass, Malay pickled aubergine and carmelized onion and truffle and cheese croquettes, we moved our way through the menu. Look out for the ostrich with fermented cabbage, a BBQ carrot purée and bolognaise sauce and the smoked pork belly with umami jelly, almonds and a pea and ham velouté. Worth a mention too is the lemon meringue, mascarpone, lemon leaf snow and sorrel. This restaurant, like Aubergine, supports StreetSmart, so why not support them too when next looking for something special?
Taking a day out to enjoy Cavalli and the superlative talents of chef Michael Deg made me feel like I had a holiday. The setting is superb, allow for time to enjoy the art and your surroundings, and be sure to book your table well in advance so that you get prime seats. We did, overlooking the dam and Stellenbosch mountains. Here Michael, formerly chef at Delaire Graff, has truly found his niche, and his cuisine has developed into heart-stopping splendour. I had a catch-up with Michael whilst my date spent a happy half-hour tasting Cavalli wines with a knowledgeable host. Whilst enjoying a glass of their very own bubbles, we were wowed by the bread and the baby beetroot macarons with them. I chose the spiced carrot tartar, a vegan dish recommended by chef, and my date the chilled pea gazpacho, as he remembered having a memorable pea soup at Delaire Graff last winter. This one was with a yoghurt and lemon ice cream, pea salsa and goats cheese. I then savoured the line fish with butter-poached wild prawn, delectable, and my man the free-range oak valley pork belly (sous-vided for 15 hours), which was equally superb. We tried the cauliflower steak, on the menu as a main course option for vegans, with tempura, a cauliflower purée, macadamia nuts, capers and sultanas, and then waxed lyrical. Out of this world. Desserts, too, give one a tough time in terms of decision-making, but at capacity due to all the unforgettable in-betweeners, we narrowed it right down to just one, new on the menu, the watermelon beignet with a coconut meringue and watermelon sorbet. May it stay there long enough for me to return for an eat and repeat!


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Published on September 6th, 2018 | by Sam Rose
Introducing the First World War 1918 Special Stamps
At 11am on the 11th of November 1918, the First World War came to an official end. The final hours of this conflict are commemorated in Royal Mail's newest stamp and presentation pack release.
Captured in its rawest form, Royal Mail's fifth and final issue of the World War One commemorative special stamps series provides thought-provoking imagery and emotional overtones stemming from the First World War in a poignant and commemorative series of 6 stamps and accompanying collectibles. The collection is a stark reminder of the sacrifices made throughout the four-year period and serve as a tribute to those who played their part in bringing the conflict to its conclusion.
The First World War 1918 Stamp Collection
The First World War 1918 Stamp Collection comprises of six bold images that harken back to pivotal points during the years of conflict. Including the unforgettable imagery of 100 poppies, an excerpt from Wilfred Owen's poem 'Anthem For Doomed Youth' amongst other symbols of significance, this stamp collection is a powerful commemoration of the events that transpired during the First World War.
1st Class – 100 Poppies, Zafer and Barbara Baran
The poppy has been one of the enduring symbols of the First World War and has come to be associated with remembrance. To mark the centenary of the end of the war, Zafer and Barbara Baran photographed one hundred poppy flowers, layering the images together to create 100 Poppies. Each of the poppies was freshly cut and carefully lit before being photographed to capture the flower's delicate luminosity. In the final artwork, the light gently filters through the overlapping petals, giving the image a ghostly, fleeting appearance and suggestion of gentle movement.
1st Class – 'Anthem For Doomed Youth', Wilfred Owen
In the poem, 'Anthem For Doomed Youth', British army officer and poet Wilfred Owen mourns the loss of young lives that were cut short due to the dangerous warfare. With his unfortunate death after being killed in action a week before the armistice, Owen has gone on to become one of Britain's most celebrated war poets and figures. In this woodblock print, illustrator Andrew Davidson has hand carved the opening lines of Owen's poem. Using an illuminated letter style that draws similarities to the shattered treescapes of war artist Paul Nash, this stamp design reflects the true power and rawness of Owen's words.
1st Class – Second Lieutenant Walter Tull
Second Lieutenant Walter Tull was born in Folkestone in 1888 and was orphaned after the unfortunate passing of his English mother and Barbadian father. He became known as a professional footballer, but once war had broken out, served in the Footballer's Battalion of the Middlesex Regiment and fought fiercely on the Somme. Commissioned in May 1917, Tull became the first mixed-race Army officer to command troops in a regular unit. After fighting in Italy, he then returned onto the Western Front before being killed in action on the 25th of March 1918. As he has no known grave, Tull is currently commemorated on the Arras Memorial.
£1.55 – We Are Making A New World, Paul Nash
In 1914, Paul Nash enlisted as a private in the Artists' Rifles and was later commissioned into the Hampshire Regiment. Invalided to his home in May 1917 following an accident, he returned to the front in November 1917 as an official artist. In We Are Making A New World, Nash depicts a bleak sunrise over a scattering of trees. The ground is pictured as being pitted with waterlogged shell holes, as Nash was deeply moved by the destruction of trees and other pieces of nature being destroyed by the conflict, inspiring this emotional metaphor laden painting.
£1.55 – The Grave Of The Unknown Warrior, Westminster Abbey, London
On Armistice Day, 11 November 1920, an Unknown Warrior was buried at Westminster Abbey due to being chosen at random from several unidentifiable sets of remains solemnly conveyed from France. Enormous crowds gathered in silence to witness the procession through London, with King George V unveiling the Cenotaph at Whitehall. For a nation reeling from the enormous loss of life, the burial of the Unknown Warrior provided a focal point for remembrance.
£1.55 – Lieutenant Francis Hopgood's Goggles
Lieutenant Francis Hopgood joined the Royal Flying Corps in March 1918, transferring from the Artists' Rifles. Just a few days after the Royal Flying Corps had been incorporated into the new Royal Air Force on the 10th of April of the same year, Hopgood's plane was shot down. Crash landing behind German lines, he was captured and held as a prisoner of war. For his ability to survive aerial combat, Hopgood required clear sight. It was to this point that his goggles are fitted with custom prescription lenses in Triplex safety glass and survived his crash landing without shattering into pieces.
The First World War 1918 Presentation Pack
Much like these powerful stamp designs, the First World War 1918 Presentation Pack captures and retells poignant events of the war from a historical and strategic perspective. Peppered with a host of contemporary photographs and artifacts that help tell the tale of the final year of conflict, this Presentation Pack also showcases the importance of ordinary men, who when enlisted to fight in the war, were pinnacle in achieving the final victory for Britain.


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Shruti (Vaani Kapoor) is 20-something no-nonsense girl from middle class Chennai household (Mint Street – more of north Indian population). Focused and determined with preplanned ambitions, her goal in life is well laid out by the time she reaches her final year of college.
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Together, their friendship and business, enters the ups and down of the lavish Chennai weddings. And while trying to find themselves, Shruti and Shakti discover each other and realize that rule book cannot be followed always.
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Serve risotto with peas as a side dish to all sorts of main courses, from grilled chicken or other lean meat to steamed white fish.
2 T butter (or 3 tablespoos olive oil)
1⁄2 c onion (chopped small)
1 c rice (Arborio rice, or risotto rice)
2 c water
1 c cheese (grated Parmesan)
2 T parsley (fresh leaves, finely chopped)
16 oz peas (green peas, fresh shelled or thawed if frozen)
seasoning (salt and pepper)
- In a large skillet melt the butter. Add the chopped onion and sauté for about 5 minutes until lightly brown.
- Add the rice and stir until coated with butter. Add the vegetable broth, water and season with salt and pepper.
- Bring to a boil. Then reduce the heat and cover. Cook for about 20 minutes or until the liquid has almost been absorbed.
- Once the liquid is almost gone, stir in the cheese, parsley and peas and cook for a further few minutes until the peas are tender and the rice is creamy.
- Serve immediately!
Although we prefer to use olive oil for cooking, butter can be part of a healthy diet if not used in excess.
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Losing money playing online poker is not fun at all. If this can be a problem for you, then you should look at this short article today to find out how to make money right away by playing poker online.
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First things first – if you lose money right now at the poker table, stop playing. I understand this sounds like rocket science but if you lose and lose and fall then stop playing and playing repeatedly. Uncomplicated.
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OK, so today you can have extra time, and you can patch your bankroll with some extra funds from there or here. It should not be too difficult
remember it will not further down without stopping.
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It doesn't even matter if you've read the items before. The truth is that reading good books repeatedly can be a great way to get information cemented in your brain forever.
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Now that you have entered your poker detox, then you have never missed a cent (don't mention it because you have never played with it, that the goal is you will not back down again) and also you have very good and polish your own understanding. Now it's time for you to improve your abilities.
From the books that you have read, you need to have a superior concept of the key skills you need to become a profitable poker player. You have to start practicing this; if it's by drilling they do a mock performance, putting it in the newspaper or maybe just sitting there and imagining it in your own mind.
You need to practice to find this ability to make sure after you finally return to playing you might indeed be better than the one you won.
Attention: the biggest player's mistake is they pass step 4 or 4 they actually don't do it long. You want to replicate the clinic many times, it's really automatic like baby playing. When it's necessary to umm together with arr about it for clear answers you haven't quite achieved it.
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***UPDATE (Sept. 10, 2019)***
The Five Guys Burgers and Fries restaurant that has operated for 10 years at 1057 Miamisburg-Centerville Road (Ohio 725) has shut down as workers complete its move across the street to a former dance club.
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The relocated Five Guys is scheduled to open Thursday, Sept. 12 in the 2,590-square-foot space that previously housed VUE Ultra Lounge at 1004 Miamisburg-Centerville Road (Ohio 725) in Washington Twp.
The new restaurant seats 60, according to Tom Gunlock, co-franchise owner of the restaurant.
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"We were able to add milk shakes at the new location and completely remodel the store with new furniture and new equipment," Gunlock said.
When they applied to Washington Twp. officials for permits to make the move, the Five Guys franchise owners said in their application that occupancy costs at the previous location "have become a burden that is unsustainable." Five Guys' former restaurant neighbor, Rue Dumaine, cited rising occupancy costs as the driving factor behind its closure in July 2017.
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Vue closed its doors on New Year's weekend in January 2018.
Five Guys was founded in Washington D.C. in 1986. It now operates more than 1,600 locations across North America, Europe, Asia and the Middle East.
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***ORIGINAL STORY (Feb. 22, 2019)***
A former nightclub and dance bar that shut down a year ago following a 14-year run appears headed for a complete transformation into a relocated Five Guys Burgers and Fries restaurant.
The former VUE Ultra Lounge at 1004 Miamisburg-Centerville Road (Ohio 725) in Washington Twp. closed its doors on New Year's weekend in January 2018. The franchise owners of the Five Guys Burgers and Fries on the other side of Ohio 725 at 1057 Miamisburg-Centerville Road have sought and obtained approval from Washington Twp. officials to relocate the restaurant to the former bar and dance club, and have applied for a building permit to complete the project, according to Washington Twp. and Montgomery County records.
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One of the franchise owners told this news outlet he would have more information on the relocation in the coming weeks.
"Five Guys Burgers and Fries has been located at Township Square since August of 2009. Though it has been a successful operation to date, occupancy costs have become a burden that is unsustainable," the franchise owners told Washington Twp. officials in a zoning application. "We are proposing that we move to the other side of the street to 1004 Miamisburg-Centerville Road in the old VUE location."
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Five Guys' former restaurant neighbor, Rue Dumaine, cited rising occupancy costs as the driving factor behind its closure in July 2017.
The 2,387-square-foot space would accommodate a 67-seat restaurant that would employ 25 or less, the franchise owners said.
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Township officials approved the commercial zoning application.
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