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|Euro 2016: Slovakia v England
|Venue: Stade Geoffroy Guichard, Saint-Etienne Date: Monday, 20 June Kick-off: 20:00 BST
|Coverage: BBC Radio 5 live, BBC Sport website and app.
I think Roy Hodgson will start with Jamie Vardy and Daniel Sturridge up front against Slovakia on Monday – he has to.
This is not the end of Harry Kane's tournament and he still has a big part to play at Euro 2016 but, after the impact Vardy and Sturridge had off the bench to help England beat Wales, I can't see him starting our final game in Group B.
Roy will have to find a system to fit two players up top in Vardy and Sturridge, but they don't both have to play as out-and-out strikers.
Sturridge gave us a bit of width at times against Wales, and he also dropped deep to get on the ball as well as trying to get into the area – like he did when he scored the winner.
He was basically given a free role to get up and support Vardy and also weave some magic. His winner was a brilliant finish and I would like to see more of the same from him against Slovakia.
England's other substitute on Thursday, Marcus Rashford, was again very impressive when he came on for what was his competitive debut but starting with him as well might be too bold.
Roy did it on Thursday because he was chasing the game, but it would be very brave to start a game with three and a half centre-forwards on the pitch.
I say 'half' because you would class Wayne Rooney as a forward as well, even if he is operating a lot deeper.
Against Wales, Rooney was outstanding again with the way he grabbed the game by the scruff of the neck and was driving everyone forward. He and Kyle Walker at right-back have been our best players in France so far.
'The most obvious thing we had on the bench was goals'
I said after the draw with Russia that Kane and Raheem Sterling deserved another chance but they had to improve against Wales or changes would be made during the game.
That is exactly how things panned out. Roy was right to stick by them and give them another opportunity but he acted at the right time when he took them off at the break.
It is the way it should be – he has taken five strikers to France and has plenty of options so, if one of them does not perform, then another one comes in for his chance.
Vardy and Sturridge would have been champing at the bit in training, and when they came on they both showed what they can do.
'I feel sorry for Harry Kane but that's the way it goes'
It's not all Kane's fault that he has only touched the ball once in the opposition area in 135 minutes at Euro 2016.
He was there for a game and a half on his own, then Roy gambled and put on two centre-forwards so it was a little bit easier for Vardy and Sturridge from that point of view.
I feel sorry for Kane but that is the way it goes. There was pressure on me before Euro '96 started because I had not scored for England for 12 games over 21 months and, if I had not scored in the opening game against Switzerland, I could not have complained if Terry Venables had dropped me.
If it is not working out, you have got to use the guys who are in form because the most obvious thing we have on the bench is goals, and Roy has done that.
It was a brave move by him because his neck was on the line at half-time, but it meant we got so many more bodies in the box in the second half.
When that happens, things are going to fall to players – like they did with Vardy for England's equaliser. It was not a fluke that he was there when the ball dropped for him two yards out.
We did not have that in the Russia game, or in the first half against Wales apart from the big chance Sterling had. It would have been a totally different game had that had gone in.
'I want a complete performance against Slovakia'
The big positive is that we have won the game – but there are still plenty of things to work on.
We created one or two chances in the first half but it was still pretty poor from England's point of view.
England should beat Slovakia and now finish top from the position we are in, but I want to see us play well for the entire game in Saint-Etienne.
Four points should be enough to get us out of Group B but I want us to take the first half from the Russia game and the second half against Wales and put that together for a complete performance – so we kick on going into the last 16.
Alan Shearer was speaking to BBC Sport's Chris Bevan in France.
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Fake News and Real Consequences
February 09, 2018
What should Christians do in a world of fake news? It's a question I've heard frequently from listeners to my radio show "Washington Watch." Media distortion is a real and present danger, as President Donald Trump knows better than anyone. But in the last several months, the problem has ballooned well beyond the White House gates. The relationship between Americans and the press is rockier than ever -- and not just for conservatives.
As Harvard points out, the skepticism surrounding what used to be one of the country's most respected institution is at an all-time high. A whopping 65 percent of Americans think the mainstream media is full of fake news, including 53 percent of Democrats and 60 percent of independents. An astounding 84 percent of voters said it's hard to know what to believe online. Over the past two years, Gallup has clocked similar numbers across the country, pointing out that more people have "very little" confidence in newspapers. According to Gallup these are the lowest levels of confidence they've ever recorded in the 45 years.
This agenda of intentional deception is raising serious questions about the media -- but the rising skepticism from the public doesn't seem to be prompting the kind of soul-searching that's necessary to snap the press back to respectability. Instead, the media often seems to be digging in deeper, casting its net of deception even wider. Two weeks ago, I was caught up in a headline war of my own when a 45-minute podcast was reduced to a five-word soundbite taken completely out of context. It was sensational and controversial, which is what the media intended when it took a comment I made in a broader conversation and turned it into a national caption that Christians excuse sin.
Like so many news outlets, Politico is desperately trying to understand evangelicals' strong support for the president -- who's made good on his promises but carries plenty of moral baggage. In a lengthy interview, which lasted about 45 minutes, I made the point that Christians weren't rationalizing or excusing bad behavior. Here's the transcript from that conversation. I want you to see the raw transcript from the portion of the interview that other media outlets crafted narratives and headlines from that aren't even close to what I said in this very straight forward podcast with Edward-Isaac Dovere:
Dovere: You know, we have a situation in which it seems this woman is claiming from an interview she did years ago, that she had sex with the president – well, not then the president, but with Donald Trump, three months after his son was born. So he's married and with a porn star, that just seems like what would be a huge problem...
Perkins: Well, it's not -- I would not say it's not a problem. But I would say... I think it's important to understand is that evangelicals did not vote for Donald Trump based on his moral qualifications but based upon what he said he was going to do and who he was surrounding himself with. Now, that was in the context of a general election.
Dovere: Right.
Perkins: When you had Hillary Clinton – who, you know, embraces abortion and the whole homosexual agenda -- and herself does not have a pristine background with some of the stuff between her and Bill. So, that's the context, you've got to put it in that context.
Dovere: That's totally fair. I guess you know well that's 2016 and you get the decisions that were made in 2016. Now it's 2018. Does this give you pause at all?
Perkins: Well... I think he's maturing as president -- and back to what we said earlier, I think from a human being standpoint and a spiritual being standpoint, I think he is maturing as well because of the people he's been around and the influences that he has brought into his life. Again, evangelical support is not unconditional. If the president were to all of the sudden revert back to some of that behavior as president, evangelical support will not be there. So it's basically, we gave him a mulligan. You know, you get a do-over. You can start --
Dovere: A mulligan for 70 years of his life?
Perkins: I mean the guy -- I mean this is what he's committed to. And as long as he commits to that and continues on that, he will have the support of evangelicals.
Dovere: There are people who are not evangelicals who would say this -- and there are some people who are evangelicals but whose politics don't line up with yours who would say -- it's hypocritical to say that you believe in all the things you believe and--
Perkins: But what's the option?
Dovere: Yeah.
Perkins: What's the option? That's what I would ask, what are the options I have? Is one of the options to sit at home and allow Hillary Clinton to --
Dovere: No, no, no but in 2018 --
Perkins: OK, but why should I not support him now when he's actually doing the things that I asked him to do? I mean I say me, but I mean we --
Dovere: Right, right.
Perkins: I mean, he's done more to restore religious freedom given the background over the last eight years than any president we have ever had. He is actually doing what he said: he is keeping his promise. So I have no reason to say, 'Alright, well, 10 years ago you said this, so I am going to drop my support.' Again, it's not unconditional, this President keeps his commitment and his promise to the evangelicals that supported him, and he continues to you know walk this straight and narrow if you will..."
I went on to explain how evangelicals could come to the point of supporting Mr. Trump, I told the reporter that we -- of all people -- understand grace and new beginnings. That message never made it to the majority of Americans. Instead, they opened their web browsers and Twitter feeds to outright lies. "Evangelicals trumpet morality while condoning the rankest sin," was the lead from the Daily Kos. "It's unlikely," Salon scoffed, "that after a lifetime of disingenuousness Tony Perkins and other leaders of the Christian right will admit that their entire crusade was never about 'values.'" The fake controversy exploded, with the New York Times fanning the flames: "Christian conservatives may believe strongly in their own righteousness. But from the outside, it looks as if their movement was never really about morality at all." "Rank hypocrites," cried the Washington Post. The viciousness dripped from the Left's megaphones, CNN and MSNBC, to print outlets like the New Orleans Times Picayune with a creative license usually reserved for fiction.
The debate raged on this week in editorial pages like USA Today. Fortunately, I had the chance to counter the spin in my own response. Evangelicals, I warned, are not offering blind allegiance.
You have to understand the motive behind these headlines. It's not to uphold a biblical standard of morality. Instead, it's designed to accomplish two objectives in the pursuit of snuffing out the flame of conservative, constitutional governance. The first objective is to discredit evangelicals and try to brand them with the Left's scarlet letter H -- hypocrite. That facilitates their second objective, which is to drive a wedge between the president and evangelical voters so that they don't turn out in record numbers and vote with unity, like they did in 2016. Suppressing the evangelical vote would enable the Left to retake Congress, impeach the president, and pick up where Barack Obama left off with his pro-abortion, anti-Christian policies.
Thankfully, FRC has its own ways of cutting through the media's lies and misrepresentations. Through this publication, along with my daily radio show, we were able to show the intentional distortion of the media. But this episode certainly underscores a lot of things, including the vigilance Christians need to have when they take in today's headlines. It's not enough to know the fake news is out there. As disciples of truth, we have to practice real discernment. Who can you trust? The Update and "Washington Watch" are two daily, reliable options for getting the news you care about from a Christian perspective. If you know people searching for credible commentary, share it! Click here for a station listing and Update sign-up.
Tony Perkins' Washington Update is written with the aid of FRC senior writers.

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This recipe is a family favorite. We have had with with both hamburger and chicken, both of which are wonderful. You can also use cream of celery soup instead of the cream of chicken. Black olives are good as well.
1 bag of Nacho Cheese Dorito's
1 pound of hamburger or chicken
2 cans of cream of chicken soup
1 can of water
1 small can of chilies
1 8 oz back of shredded cheese
Brown the hamburger and drain or cook the chicken.
Cover the bottom of a 9×12 in pan with Dorito's.
Pour the hamburger or chicken over the Dorito's.
Combine the soup, water, and chilies in a bowl. Mix well.
Pour over the hamburger or chicken and make sure all the Dorito's are covered.
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text: Our picture this month comes from Gladys Shamp Mullen and is of a Church picnic at Bears School formally located on the north side of old route 30 half way between Jakes Restaurant and The Rancho Grande. A number 3 is painted on the building which probably indicates that it is school district 3 of East Union township and a sign to the left probably indicates that the gathering is for the Willing Workers Sunday School class of the United Brethren Church. I would guess judging by the age of the cars that this picture may have been taken in the mid 1920's.


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Something about the way they drop
Their petals on the tabletop
And do not wilt so much as faint,
Something about their burnt-out hearts,
Something about their pallid stems
Wearing decay like diadems,
Parading finishes like starts,
Something about the way they twist
As if to catch the last applause,
And drink the moment through long straws,
And how, tomorrow, they'll be missed.
The way they're somehow getting clearer,
The tulips make me want to see—
The tulips make the other me
(The backwards one who's in the mirror,
The one who can't tell left from right),
Glance now over the wrong shoulder
To watch them get a little older
And give themselves up to the light.
~ A. E. Stallings


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Housed in a distinctive Edwardian building, Bury Art Museum offers a welcoming, warm and friendly setting for visitors to enjoy art, (old and new), and discover the rich history of Bury and the surrounding area. Highlights from the art collection include 'Calais Sands' and 'Ehrenbreitstein' by JMW Turner; 'Spring Morning, Haverstock Hill' by Sir George Clausen; 'Different Horizons', blue neon light piece by Maurizio Nannucci; and 'Revolution of the 19th Century' and 'Essential Elements' by Pavel Büchler.
On the lower ground floor is a dedicated contemporary museum space which hosts a vibrant temporary exhibition programme based upon the museum's archaeology, ethnography, natural history, costume and social history collections.
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Contemporary Art and International Touring Exhibitions
Committed to innovation, Bury Art Museum works with artists on a regular basis, and hosts the Text Festival which is an internationally recognised event investigating contemporary art practices including, poetry, text art, sound art and performance. Bury Art Museum also houses the Text Art Archive: the largest dedicated collection of original works of Language Art in the country. The Text Art Archive's aim is to stimulate critical thinking and writing in the field around the subject.
In addition, Bury has considerable experience in international practice and currently leads a consortium of North West museums in generating touring exhibitions from the region's great art collections to send to galleries abroad. The consortium's first exhibition, 'Toward Modernity: Three Centuries of British Art 'was launched in November 2012 and went on to tour six venues in China, including Beijing. The exhibition included prints, paintings, drawings and watercolours from across the region.
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Tuesday to Friday: 1000-1700
Saturday: 1000-1630
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Bury Art Museum was established in 1897, with a donation of over 200 oil paintings, watercolours, prints and ceramics collected by local paper manufacturer Thomas Wrigley. The Wrigley Gift represents some of the most successful and prominent artists of the industrialist's day and include Edwin Henry Landseer's 'A Random Shot', John Constable's 'Hampstead Heath', George Clausen's 'Spring Morning, Haverstock Hill' and the star-piece, JMW Turner's 'Calais Sands at Low Water: Poissards Collecting Bait'. Successive curators have added to Wrigley's legacy. There are twentieth-century paintings by artists such as Victor Pasmore and Edward Burra (watercolours), while the establishment of a picture purchase fund has allowed the collection to continue to develop into the twenty-first century. The current focus is on acquiring high-quality recent art, often commissioning work directly from the artist, rather than attempting to fill any perceived gaps in the existing collection.
The Museum opened as a cabinet of curiosities on the lower ground floor of the Art Gallery in October, 1907. The founding collections in the Museum consisted of non-local natural history, archaeology, geology and ethnography. This changed after 1974, when local government re-organisation created the Metropolitan Borough of Bury. The Museum collections developed to become an important local/social history resource representing all aspects of life in every part of the Borough. There are already around 60,000 objects in Bury's Social History collections which are growing at a steady and fairly rapid rate.
Collection details
Decorative and Applied Art, Fine Art, Social History, Archaeology
Key artists and exhibits
- JMW Turner
- George Clausen
- Edwin Henry Landseer
- John Constable
- Victor Pasmore
- Edward Burra
- Pavel Buchler
Familiarisation tours
We also offer one-to-one familiarisation sessions which can be booked in advance to help you find out more information about the artworks and objects on display. These sessions may be particular if you are planning a self-guided visit.
How to obtain
Drop into the museum or ring 0161 253 5878.
Loan boxes
We have 3 education loans boxes that cover the topics of Home Front WW2, Victorian Kitchen and Toys. The loans boxes are free and can be borrowed for a maximum period of two weeks. Loans boxes must be booked in advance, telephone 0161 253 5878 to book a loans box.
How to obtain
Loans boxes must be booked in advance, telephone 0161 253 5878 to book a loans box.
Museum staff led sessions
These cover a range of subjects including Portraits, Gallery Explorers, World War II and the Victorians. Some sessions are free and others carry a small fee. These sessions can be booked on Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday or Friday 10.00 to 12.00 and 13.00 to 15.00. Please note that these are the usual slots for a workshop but other times may be negotiable.
The sessions are normally 1 hour 30 minutes, but this can be altered to suit requirements.
How to obtain
Please ring 0161 253 5878.
Self-Guided tours
You are welcome to bring a group for a self-guided visit at anytime. However, we ask that you always ring in advance to let us know when you are planning to visit and inform us of the size of your group so that we can help you make the most of your visit and inform you of the most suitable times.
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Your Local Supplier of Horse Drawn Equipment for Fun and Farm www.atlanticdrafthorsesupply.ca Atlantic Draft Horse Supply carries Amish made horse equipment and Harness for many sizes of horses. We are the Atlantic Canada authorized distributor for Pioneer Equipment, I & J Manf., Lancaster Spreader, Yoder Shoeing Stocks, Boontown Sprayers, Stumptown Manf. as well as many others.
ADHS stocks wagons, ploughs (sulky and walking), harrows, ground drive manure spreaders, I & J PTO forecarts and Pioneer non-PTO forecarts, haying equipment including new and used mowing machines, rakes and tedders, cultivation equipment, new poles, hitch accessories including new yokes and doubletrees for various size teams in steel and wood, team harness, new collars & pads, shoeing stocks, John Deere and International painted children's wagons, and loads of decorative horse themed pieces.
Mini and Pony sized easy entry carts, stone boats, work sleds and logging arches plus many other things.
Located at 327 Cedar Road, Maitland, NS B0N1T0 Visiting ADHS: Give a call to plan a visit and talk horse!!
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Website: www.atlanticdrafthorsesupply.ca Phone: Call Richard at 902-261-2022
Harder's Heritage – New and used draft horse equipment. Authorized Pioneer dealer and Yoder Stocks. Harder's Heritage 613-395-1855 email email@example.com or website www.harderequipment.com
Hoover Collar Shop – Good Quailty Longstraw collars, Field Collars, Pulling Collars, Buggy Collars – 44754 Orange Hill Road, RR1, Gorrie, ON N0G 1X0 Fax: (519) 335-6540
Gateway Fabricators – 52056 Glencolin Line, RR 34, Aylmer, ON N5H 2R3 519-765-3941 ext 1 – Pioneer Equipment, Lancaster Manure Spreaders, Forest Logging carts
Knorr Equipment, equipment. I & J Mfg., White Horse Machine, Pioneer Equipment Inc., Gateway Manufacturing, Yard Hitch. – Horse Drawn Farm Machinery – Sawmill Equipment – Custom Built Machinery – Wagons, forecarts, riding plows, walking plows, cultivators, Cultimulchers, hay tedders, rakes, spreaders, wooden or steel sleighs, shoeing stocks, neck yokes. Edward Knorr 843 Huron-Kinloss, RR4, Ripley, ON N0G 2R0 or Fax: (519) 395-5900
Martin's Custom Wagons Noah Martin, 4360 Hessen Strasse, RR #3 Wellesley Ont., 519-699-6005. • Quality Made People Haulers • Farm Wagons Made to Order • Available With Cover.
New Massey 51 Walking Skimmers now available, We have re-cast the rotating head, machined the handle and forged the skimmer points and wings. Price $150 + HST Contact: Tony Wallbank (519) 458-8331 or email email@example.com
Farms and ranches
Little East River Farm Box 452 Novar, ON, P0A 1R0, (705) 788-1169, Sandy Nicholson and Steve McCutcheon. Our 300 acre farm is just 10 minutes north of Huntsville, Ontario in scenic Muskota. We have 4 beautiful Belgians who help us offer sleigh rides, wagon rides, carriage rides and cutter rides during the year. We also have 9 horses at different stages of development and training for trail rides and equitation. We're open year round, so visitors are always welcome.
Film production
Raymond Lacusta Productions Box 23 Calder, SK S0A 0K0, (306) 742-2033, email@example.com, www.lacustaproductions.com. Producer, Filmmaker, Photographer. Licensed with the Film and Video Classification Act of Saskatchewan. Specializing in Canadian Wildlife Adventures – Farm and Rural Life. Productions Available: To Call a Coyote; Saskatchewan Moose Hunt; To Call a Buck; How to Fillet and Debone a Jack Fish; Centennial of Calder, Saskatchewan. Post Production and Editing: . Film Productions of: Canadian Wildlife Adventures; Preserving Canada's Heritage; Capture a Story; Educational Presentations. Draft Horse Connection productions include over 30 DVDs filmed coast to coast in Canada.
Harness makers
Brubacher's Harness Shop Wallenstein, ON, 1-866-669-2064, www.brubachersharness.ca. Harness mini to draft, complete harness sets, also carry English and Western draft saddles and riding equipment for those gentle giants.
Joy's Harness Repair Joy Drynan, RR4 Almonte, ON K0A 1A0, (613) 257-1266. Blanket repair and manufacturing; Harness repair and manufacturing, Nylon, Granite, Vinyl and Leather.
Harnais J D Harness Jean-Denis Campeau, prop. Repairs and fabrication Leather, Nylon, Granite Harness. RR1 North Lancaster, ON K0C 1Z0, (613) 347-3311 Fax: (613) 347-3310.
Aaron Martin Harness Ltd. 4445 Posey Line, RR1, Wallenstein, ON N0B 2S0, 1-800-367-0639, (519) 698-2754 fax: (519) 698-2420, www.aaronmartin.com, firstname.lastname@example.com. The complete source for the Harnessed horse. Manufacture harness for horses and pets and offer top quality, handcrafted work, both ready made and made to measure.
Poplar Bluff Harness & Tack Shop – New and Used – Ed Mercier, RR1, Box 16, Arran, SK S0A 0B0 306-595-2232
Steady Brook Saddlery James Brown, 303 Etter Road, Mt. Uniacke, NS B0N 1Z0, (902) 866-4055, email@example.com. Used Harness Making Equipment – New Harness Making Hardware, Chrome and brass, Japan Black Steel, Black Rubber-Coated Steel. Patterns available.
Stockman's Stall Stan and Mabel Wheller, Box 368, Killam, AB T0B 2L0, (780) 385-3661, www.stockmanstall.com email@example.com. Custom built harness for all sizes of horses, donkeys and mules. Write for free catalogue.
American Suffolk Punch Association Mary Margaret Read, #C, Secretary, 4240 Goehring Road, Ledbetter, TX 78946 USA, (979) 249-5795 http://suffolkpunch.com. Suffolk Punch Draft Horses: The Farmer's Choice.
BC Draft Under Saddle Club Contact: Kendall Venning, 24888 121 St. Maple Ridge, BC V4R 2A5 http://bcdraftundersaddleclub.com. email@example.com
Canadian Belgian Horse Association http://canadianbelgianhorse.com – Info: Barb Meyers – 905-939-1186 or email email@example.com
Canadian Fjord Horse Association The Fjord Horse, Stout & Strong & Norwegian in Ancestry is our Lord's Masterpiece among Domestic Animals. The Fjord horse is a general purpose horse used for dressage, English/western riding, jumping, packing, plowing, logging, combined driving. Andrea Thiel, Secretary: 136 des Pivoines, Gatineau, Quebec J9J 2G8 819-684-355 or email: email@example.com
Canadian Haflinger Association The North American Driving world's best kept secret. They excel at all equine endeavors from draft and farm work, to light carriage, to riding. Quiet enough for children, with enough spark and flare for the serious horse person. Discover the Haflinger today! Contact Jan Hayward, Secretary Canadian Haflinger Association, R.R.#1 Grand Bend, ON N0M 1T0
Clydesdale Horse Association of Canada was organized and incorporated in 1886. It consists of ten Directors from across Canada. Current President is Calvin Martin, 3830 Mowat Road, Winnipeg, MB. Secretary/Treasurer is Marlene Langille, R.R.#2, Hopewell, NS. For more information contact the web site at "canadianclydesdales.ca†On it you will find information on Clydesdales and on the Association. There is also an e-mail address to contact the Secretary. Registrations, Transfers and Memberships are handled by Canadian Livestock Records in Ottawa. email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Canadian Percheron Horse Association http://canadianpercherons.com – Info: Kathy Ackles – 250-759-4981 or email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Ecological Farmers Association of Ontario Courses, workshops, kitchen table meetings, farm tours, farmer advisory, newsletters, all in the pursuit of ecological farming. Contact EFAO – 519-822-8606 or firstname.lastname@example.com – http://efao.ca
Inland Draft & Teamsters Association Our club has been around in one form or another for at least 25 years. It is one of 3 Member clubs in B.C. under an umbrella organization called Draft Horse and Mule Association of B.C. We have approx. 40 members from all over southern BC who love horses and an outdoor/farming/ranching way of life. In total our members have approx. 15 teams consisting of Percherons, Belgians, Clydesdales, Fjords and Mules and some light horses as well. Our club has had access to approx. 10 acres of dry grassland near Knutsford where we have hosted a number of activities. The last weekend of April we host Spring Field Days where we hold a competitive plow with teams coming from various parts of B.C. We have been hosting a plowing match for approximately the last 10 years. This year we moved to new surroundings. The City of Kamloops has purchased a large acreage between the Yellowhead Hwy (Hwy 5) and the North Thompson River near Rayleigh, just north of Kamloops, and wants the ranching/farming/agricultural community to have a large presence there. Our club was invited hold our competitive plow there on Apr 24th, 2010. We will probably have access to 4 acres of river bottom land in the future. After the plowing match we traditionally disc, harrow and seed the field with a grain crop (using club and privately owned horse drawn equipment). Hoping for good germination and growing conditions, we set aside 2 weekends in September/October (depending on the weather), 1 weekend for cutting, binding and stooking our grain and the second weekend for bringing in our crop with a team and wagon and hosting an old fashioned threshing bee. We sell the grain and straw to raise monies for the club. One of our club projects has been to build quite a large implement shed on our Knutsford site to store a lot of our old equipment. Our club also hosts and/or participates in a number of other events such as other plowing competitions, driving competitions, horse pulls, clinics, fall fairs, fun days and our annual horse and wagon/cart campout over a 3 day weekend during the summer. Some members make all or part of their living with their horses (horse logging, sleigh rides, wagon rides as well as hauling gear in remote places) while the rest just do it for fun and the social activities that go along with it. It costs $10/yr to join our club. We also request that anybody handling horses purchase Horse Council BC insurance to give protection financially in case of accident. Our club also purchases insurance so we can hold events. We have meetings the first Thursday of every month, at 7:30 pm, in the meeting room upstairs at Duffy's Pub in Kamloops. Dennis Ryan is our club president so he should be our contact person. His contact information is Comp B2, Legion Site , Westwold, BC V0E 3B0 (250) 375-2425. firstname.lastname@example.com
Leeds County Draft Horse Club Formed in 1986, its purpose is to promote the proper care and use of draft horses; whether it be for agricultural or recreational endeavours.Membership in the Club is $20.00 annually. This includes the cost of a monthly newsletter, as well as the opportunity to participate in meetings and other Club activities. The current membership stands at approximately 80. Meetings are held the third Wednesday of each month (except December), in the Toledo United Church Hall during the school year, and at members' homes during the summer months. Every year, the Club hosts a Spring Field Day, with teams performing such tasks as plowing, discing, log- skidding, and giving wagon rides. There is always good food and good music at the field day! President: Brent Christie – 613- 925-0374
Newfoundland Pony Society PO Box 8132, St. John's, NL, A1B 2M9. Designated under the Heritage Animal Act of Newfoundland and Labrador. A charitable organization, dedicated to preserving, protecting and promoting the Newfoundland Pony as a distinct heritage animal. We encourage ethical breeding standards, maintain a registration process, and foster public awareness of the pony's history and it's future. Membership forms as well as other information about the society and the NL pony can be found at www.newfoundlandpony.com http://www.newfoundlandpony.com
Ontario Percheron Horse Association Inc. President Kim Davidson 519-454-8734 email@example.com Secretary/Treasurer – Michelle Campbell 2321 Cockshutt Road, Waterford, ON N0E 1Y0 (519) 443-6399 Email: email@example.com Website: www.ontariopercherons.ca
Southwest Ontario Draft Horse Club "The Lines In Your Hands" is a group effort to bring together people with an interest in working with Draft Horses, be it farming, logging, parades, showing or wagon/sleigh rides. All breeds of horses and teamsters are welcome. The focus is on training teams & teamsters, rebuilding farm equipment & vehicles, participating in draft horse events and field days,& participating in topics the group may be interested in such as care, feeding, braiding tails & manes, harnessing, vet care, single hitches etc. Contact: Phil Waite President – 519-424-3693
Southwest Harness and Driving Club Ten years ago we formed the South West Harness and Driving Club – The club is a great way to get together and meet great friends. In February we get together and show films, have a visit and a potluck supper. We have an annual meeting and people suggest what they would like to do at our events. We hope to have a spring planting, summer haying and a fall threshing bee. We do everything at the events, from wagon rides, plowing, discing, and seeding. Having these events depends on the weather conditions. Don Dolgolpol Box 191 Consul, SK S0N 0P0 306-299-4471
Saskatchewan Working Teamsters Association SWTA Promotes the practical use of draft animals for pleasure and profit. Annual event Father's Day weekend, teamsters & spectators gather at the Campbell farm for plowing, discing, driving, competitions for fun, log skidding, and bale racing. Niall Campbell (306) 886-2050 – www.swta.ca -firstname.lastname@example.com SEMINARS – We will be hosting seminars on the basics of working with draft animals. These seminars will be geared towards the beginner and will cover the basics of harnessing and hitching safety. There will be a limited class size. If you are interested, please contact the SWTA ASSOCIATION 306-886-2050 OR email@example.com – Niall Campbell
Vancouver Island Draft Horse Club meetings held on the 3rd Friday in the months of January, March, May, July and November at the Cowichan Agriculture Centre on Clements Street, Duncan. For more information contact: Jazzi Tinsley, PO Box 660 Ganges PO, Salt Spring Is., BC V8K 2W3 or Jazzi Tinsley or Doug Carr at (250) 245-4864.
Wild Rose Draft Horse Association The WRDHA is a group of draft horse enthusiasts who banded together in 1994 with the goal of giving all Draft Horse enthusiasts in Alberta a strong presence. The Wild Rose Draft Horse Association is an advocacy group, which speaks with a unified voice for Alberta's Draft Horse Industry. Since that time the Association has become directly responsible for such worthwhile events as the Annual Olds Draft Horse Sale, the Alberta Draft Horse Improvement and 4-H Draft Horse Events. We are also major sponsors of such worthwhile events as the Calgary Stampede, the World Percheron Congress, Irricanna Pioneer Acres as well as most Alberta Draft Horse Shows. We strongly recommend that anyone with an interest in Alberta Draft Horses become involved with the Wild Rose Draft Horse Association by contacting Membership Director, Barb Stephenson 403-933-5765.
The Clydesdale Speculator 113 Old Bridge Road RR1, Hanover, ON N4N 3B8, (519) 364-7051 Fax (519) 364-2166, email@example.com. A quarterly magazine featuring the Clydesdale breed and its supporters.
DVL Publishing Inc. Box 1509, Liverpool, NS B0T 1K0, 1-877-354-3674, www.countrymagazines.com. Horse & Pony and Rural Delivery. Canada's Farm and Country Journal.
Rural Heritage box 2067 Cedar Rapids, Iowa, 52406 USA, 319-362-3027 fax: 319-362-3046 -Â www.ruralheritage.com. For hands-on know how in farming and logging with horses, mules or oxen, look no further. Read about work animals; find out what's going on today.
Small Farm Canada 1-866-260-7985, www.smallfarmcanada.ca, The magazine for Canada's Most Dynamic Farmers.
Small Farmer's Journal Box 1627, Sisters, OR 97759 USA, (541) 549-2064 firstname.lastname@example.com, www.smallfarmersjournal.com. Featuring Practical Horse farming since 1976.
Rominick Livestock Services The Power Hoof Trimmer – Trim sole, bars, wall and flare – Take the work out of hoof trimming! Hoof trimming equipment and hoof care supplies. 780-388-2222 www.rlscanada.ca
Trailers Plus Highway 7, 2 miles East of Peterborough, ON, (705) 745-5732 or 1-800-532-3396. Designed for long life and comfortable travel, an Eby trailer sets the standard for rugged construction and provides options in draft horse transportation. Let Eby Pull your Team!
Atlantic Draft Horse Supply 2013 Schedule for Horse Events, Training Days and Exhibitions
April 19, 20 & 21…ADHS will be attending the Atlantic Horse Fair as an exhibitor at the NS Provincial Ex Grounds. Come by and have a chat with myself and see some new equipment. We will also have lots of horse related metal pieces for sale.
April 22-27…ADHS will be going to Ohio and Pennsylvania for another load of new horse equipment and harness. Place your order now to take advantage of this and get your new equipment soon as possible. More trips during the year as required.
May 11…Introduction to Single and Team Driving Clinic. ADHS will review safe procedures involved in driving single and double. This program emphasizes safety in harnessing, hitching and driving. This is a one day program and so book your place asap.
May 25…ADHS Springtime Equipment Demonstration Day. Come by and watch the new equipment in use in preparation for seeding. See the new Lancaster Manure Spreaders, various pieces of Pioneer Cultivation Equipment like ploughs (both sulky and walking), cultivators (disc, spring and tooth types) and the Famous Pioneer Homesteader. We will also be featuring the I & J Manufacturing Ground Drive PTO Forecarts and more. All horses being used are already booked for this event!
June 15…Introduction to Single and Team Driving Clinic. ADHS will review safe procedures involved in driving single and double. This program emphasizes safety in harnessing, hitching and driving. This is a one day program so book your place asap.
August 17…ADHS Summertime Equipment Demonstration Day. We will be firing up all the equipment we have on-site for haying with horses with various local teams. Come see the horses make hay including such activities as mowing, tedding, raking, baling and bringing in the baled hay. Wagon rides will also be enjoyed by all. Horses used are already booked for this event!
August 20-24…ADHS will be returning to the Nova Scotia Provincial Ex all week long with loads of goodies to check out.
September 21…ADHS goes Open House for a Fall Ploughing day. Teamsters can bring their own horses and equipment as well as try out items for sale at ADHS. All teams will be asked to perform a safety test prior to being allowed to take part for insurance and overall safety reasons. It would be good to have interested parties contact me for more info if possible.
Please do not show up with horses for the Field Day in May or August as the teams being used have been already booked. Let me know if you are interested in taking part in future events or coming another day to work with us here directly.
Located at 327 Cedar Road, Maitland, NS B0N1T0 Visiting ADHS: Give a call to plan a visit and talk horse!!
Email: email@example.com Want a catalogue: Drop me a note with your address
Website: www.atlanticdrafthorsesupply.ca Phone: Call Richard at 902-261-2022
Butternut Farm and Draft Horse Workshops Hands on driving and draft horse workshop, instructor Pat Wolfe. Workshops in June. For more details visit www.patwolfefjords.com or email email@example.com. Phone 1-877-253-9888.
DRAFT HORSE WORKSHOPS geared to your needs. New and used draft horse equipment. Authorized Pioneer dealer and Yoder Stocks. Harder's Heritage 613-395-1855 email email@example.com or website www.harderequipment.com
Orchard Hill Farm Workshops and Apprenticeships Ken and Martha Laing, 45415 Fruit Ridge Line, RR#5 St. Thomas, ON N5P 3S9. firstname.lastname@example.com 80 acre certified organic farm CSA for 100 families, Christmas trees, spelt, oats, rye, hay and pasture. Suffolk Punch horses, bred, trained and used for most farm work and logging. Buggy horse main source of transportation. We offer 3-day workshops from April thru September to train new teamsters how to safely and effectively harness, hitch and drive draft horses. Each year between April and Thanksgiving we take on two apprentices, who come to our farm to learn about and practice organic horse farming. Check out our website for pictures and more information at: www.orchardhillfarm.ca.
Ottawa Valley Large Animal Clinic Dr.L.A. Butler, R.R.#4, Kemptville, ON K0G 1J0 (613) 258-5773
Rutherford Equine Services Dr.Mark Rutherford, Specialized Equine Veterinarian, 4792 Highway #2, RR3, Gananoque, ON K7G 2V5 (613) 382-1166 or pager 536-0614 or email:firstname.lastname@example.com
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This article provides a snapshot of the synthetic biology market in a number of key industries and explores how disruptive technologies can significantly alter the way businesses operate across any market space.
This article explores the patent landscape in more detail, and looks at how the information gleaned from the analysis of a patent landscape can provide a company important insights to better understand their place in a given market space and help to make strategic decisions.
While clinical data is required for manufacturers of high risk devices and implants, the vast majority of manufacturers that make low-to-medium risk devices may not need to conduct clinical trials for their products or produce peer-reviewed literature that supports their clinical use. This article helps identify the specific clauses of the guidance document that pertain to clinical data and explores alternative pathways to compliance.


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An eco-friendly house could inspire energy-efficient home improvements
Home owners considering investing in replacement windows such as double glazing and alternative energy-efficient home improvements could find inspiration from one architect who turned his house into an eco-friendly abode.
BDonline.co.uk reported that John Christophers transformed a property in Balsall Heath, Birmingham, by enhancing its eco-friendly features and had to make both the old and new-build section of the house energy efficient.
"Retrofitting existing housing stock is becoming an increasingly important way of helping the UK meet its carbon emission targets … normally retrofits would not qualify for the code, but Christophers' did because more than half of the project was new-build," it stated.
Housing expert Alan Yates added that the new home fits in with the local environment but still remains low carbon, which he commended.
Andrew Leech, director at the National Home Improvement Council, said that he is "surprised" by reports which suggest only 12 per cent of people intend to make energy-efficient improvements to their property.
Last year the Glass and Glazing Federation launched a petition for a nationwide scrappage scheme to be introduced by the government which would assist homeowners in making their homes more energy efficient.
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New York — The Wall Street Journal gave a big spread to Sharp's $9 billion bet on LCD manufacturing today. But Sharp has had a NORTH RIVER MANAGEMENT GRADE F since we began collecting data on it in 1996 and is deep in the type of trouble that NRV's new CORPORATE INNOVATION PROJECT is designed to solve.
The chart shows the gravity of Sharp's difficulties. In spite of some movement over the last decade, the company is well into the Dead Zone of our Soccer Ball System for gauging the speed of operations, core to accretive innovation.
The NRV system shows exactly where Sharp needs to innovate to get out of the Dead Zone and to make innovation accretive for the long term.
To take a bet of the size Sharp proposes — between a third and a quarter of its sales on an LCD factory at Sakai the size of 32 baseball stadiums — the company should already be testing 20 days of inventory instead of the 49 it has.
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I'm going to be lazy tonight. Last day of my holiday, and all I want to do is scroll through a page with pictures on it… so there it is. My favourites from the 100 below, but I urge you to have a look at them all in the link above; some really clever art.
1) Street Art in Olsztyn, Poland
Art doesn't have to be complicated to be effective.
3) Chalk Art by David Zinn
It is better when it interacts with its surroundings.
53) Street Art in Berlin, Germany
It re-defines something that already existed.
66) Street Art by Pabi A – In Lund, Sweden
It pushes "outside the box".
67) Another brick in the wall – In Gorzow, Poland
It can be subtle and easily overlooked.
88) Lego house, Warsaw, Poland
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|Lavender cuttings now taking up residence in my family room since there is no more room in the greenhouse!--Oh, spring where for art thou???
|Sagebrush growing in the Northwestern U.S. Photo from Wikipedia.
|Blooming Hill lavender field before pruning this past weekend.
|A picture of sagebrush fom Wikipedia. It looks similar to a lavender bush, at least in this picture.
|Look at that! Somewhere in America, they actually DO plant sagebrush in straight rows! Photo from Wikipedia.
|Can sagebrush produce this, I ask you?!?!
|The weekend grounds crew; P. Lorenz and the prodigal son.
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District of Columbia Army National Guard
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|Headquarters, State Area Command
District of Columbia Army National Guard
|United States
|District of Columbia
|United States Army
|ARNG Headquarters Command
|Part of
|District of Columbia National Guard
|D.C. Armory
|Major General Errol Schwartz
The District of Columbia Army National Guard is composed of 10 units:
- 74th Troop Command
- 260th Regiment (Regional Training Institute)
- 33rd WMD Civil Support Team
- 121st Medical Company
- Mobilization Augmentation Command
- District of Columbia Medical Command
- Detachment 4, Operational Support Airlift Command
- Recruiting and Retention Battalion
- National Guard Bureau Legal Support Office
- Detachment 1, B-Company, 1-224 Aviation Security & Support Battaltion
- HQ District Area Command (includes Joint Force Headquarters)
The District of Columbia Army National Guard has a unique mission. It is led by a Commanding General, and is the only Army National Guard organization activated by the President of the United States for natural and civil emergencies. The Adjutant General of the District of Columbia reports to the Mayor of the District of Columbia, who may only activate the National Guard assets for local purposes after consulting with the President of the United States, making the D.C. National Guard unique. Like all other Army National Guard units, the D.C. Army National Guard continues to support the United States Army and its national security objectives.
District of Columbia Army National Guard units are trained and equipped as part of the United States Army. The same ranks and insignia are used and National Guardsmen are eligible to receive all United States military awards. The District of Columbia National Guard also bestows a number of state awards for local services rendered in or to the District of Columbia.
The following contains public domain text from the records of the DC National Guard
The DC Army National Guard was constituted in January 1776 as Headquarters 25th Battalion, Georgetown and Headquarters 29th Battalion, Bladensburg in the Maryland Militia. These initial units were mobilized in March and July 1776 to repel marauders. Mobilized January 1777 for services at Trenton and Princeton, and in October 1777 for combat service in Germantown.
In April 1781, the 25th Battalion remobilized for defense of the Potomac River Valley, and in May 1781 for defense of Georgetown. The unit saw further service at Fredericktown and Old Fort Frederick through 1781.
The Act of December 1793 reconstituted the 29th Battalion and officially recognized it on 18 June 1794 as the 14th and 18th Regiments, Maryland Militia, and Headquarters 4th Brigade, Maryland Militia, with headquarters in Georgetown. The units were established as Headquarters, District of Columbia Militia by Act of the Congress in March 1802, and organized during May and June 1802 as a Brigade Headquarters. Again the unit was reorganized by Act of the Congress 3 March 1803.
The Militia was mobilized in Federal service from 1–4 July 1863 to resist Confederate forces. The unit was immediately demobilized after the fight was completed on 4 July 1863. Again, a year later the Federal government called upon the militia to resist Confederate attacks in July 1864 on the District of Columbia.
The unit was further reorganized under the Territorial Act of 1871 with the position of Commanding General eliminated and the position of Adjutant General established as commander of military forces. However, 16 years later, in 1887 under the Act of 1803 the position of Commanding General was reestablished.
The Militia was reconstituted as the National Guard of the District of Columbia under the Act of the Congress, 1 March 1889 with the headquarters retaining the designation as Headquarters, District of Columbia Militia, with the command of the District of Columbia National Guard. The Act specified that the unit have no more than twenty-eight companies of infantry organized into regiments, battalions, and unattached companies as may be deemed expedient; one battery of light artillery; one signal corps; one ambulance corps; one band of music; and one corps of field music.
The District of Columbia National Guard were brought into Federal service April 1898 to fight in the Spanish–American War.
The Organization of the District of Columbia National Guard modified by Act of the Congress, 11 May 1898 to provide for organization of a naval battalion to consist of not more than four companies of naval militia.
The DC National Guard was mustered into Federal service at Fort Myer, Virginia 20 June 1916 to mobilize units for Mexican Border Service. However the units were soon discharged again on 21 October 1916. Furthermore, between 25 March 1917 and 25 July 1917, all elements and personnel, less Headquarters mobilized for Federal service. Their Commanding General was later mustered into Federal service on 5 August 1917.
The unit was further Reorganized between October and December 1917 to include Companies A & B, 4th DC Infantry (units never established), and the 2nd Separate Battalion (Colored) to consist of retired and discharged veterans and exempt men to provide a "home guard" for the defense of the District of Columbia. Further reorganized on 5 March 1918 established the 5th DC Infantry and the 2nd Separate Battalion (Colored).
On 19 December 1919 the DC Guard was reorganized to consist of one battalion and two companies of infantry, one headquarters company, one field artillery battery, and one signal company. Only Headquarters, 5th Infantry and companies A and C were established. Further more, the Fifth Infantry was reorganized and redesignated 31 December 1920 as the Engineer Regiment (Federal recognition as 121st Engineers, 1 January 1921 creating a separate lineage). Reorganized 19 January 1922 with the 260th Coast Artillery (separate lineage) and elements of the 29th Division (separate lineages) added.
On 16 October 1923, the Commanding General of the District of Columbia Militia was appointed, Commanding General, 29th Division with Headquarters, 29th Division allocated to the District of Columbia National Guard. However, the 29th Division transferred to the Maryland National Guard on 10 April 1934. From October 1940 until July 1941, the Commanding General of the District of Columbia Militia, was brought to active duty and appointed District of Columbia Director of Selective Service. Soon however, the Commanding General of the District of Columbia Militia was appointed Commander of the Washington Provisional Brigade (precursor of the Military District of Washington) in July 1941 serving in this capacity until May 1942 when appointed Provost Marshal of the District of Columbia (with jurisdiction over trial of five German saboteurs). He remained Provost Marshal until October 1942 when he was relieved from active duty and returned to command of the District of Columbia National Guard.
Supervision and control of District of Columbia National Guard passed from the President of the United States to the Secretary of Defense pursuant to Executive Order 10030, 26 January 1949 with authority given to the Secretary to designate officials of the National Military Establishment to administer affairs of the District of Columbia National Guard. The Secretary of the Army was directed to act for the Secretary of Defense in all matters pertaining to the ground component, and Secretary of the Air Force directed to act in all matters pertaining to the air component of the District of Columbia National Guard by Secretary of Defense memorandum, 2 February 1949.
By Act of the Congress, 2 September 1957 the Commanding General of the Militia of the District of Columbia was authorized to hold the rank of major general or brigadier general.
The DC National Guard was placed into Federal service from 5 to 16 April 1968 to aid civil authorities and again in May 1971.
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thii;N banaat ul-na((sh-e garduu;N
din ko parde me;N nihaa;N
shab ko un ke jii me;N kyaa aa))ii kih ((uryaa;N ho ga))ii;N
1) the Daughters
of the Bier of the heavens were hidden, by day, in pardah
2) at night, what came into their inner-self, that they became naked?
He expresses the mood of the stars' coming out; he has constructed it as 'becoming naked'. The Daughters of the Bier are seven stars visible in the north. Four stars among them are the bier, and three are the bearers of it. (116)
The Arabs consider [these stars] 'girls', and the women of Hindustan call them a group of 'seven girlfriends' [saat saheliyaa;N].... He says, by day, they remain hidden in the pardah of the heavens, and by night, they emerge from pardah-- that is, they become naked. (167)
The truth is that from the apparent form of the words ['Daughters of the Bier'] he found occasion to pull out a delicate theme, and on it he has laid the foundation of the verse. Just as in the verse {153,7} he has composed the verse only on the basis of bai;Thnaa . (219)
But what occurs to them at night, that they come before everyone unveiled? ( ((uryaa;N can mean either 'naked' or 'unveiled'.) (209)
As Bekhud Mohani observes, this is a verse built almost entirely on wordplay. It's also what I would call a classic 'mushairah verse'. From the first line, the listener can't tell what's coming next, and must wait during the mushairah's suitably suspenseful oral-performance interval between lines. Even when the second line is vouchsafed, the punch-word doesn't appear until the last possible moment.
In the first line, we hear of the 'Daughters of the Bier', who all day remain, with apparent chastity and rectitude, in the seclusion of pardah. Thinking of them as 'daughters' makes us feel that they're living discreetly and quietly in their father's house. But of course, the 'Daughters of the Bier' is the Arabic name for the constellation Ursa Major, the 'Great Bear'.
Even in the second line, we're starved of information until the last possible moment: 'at night, what came into their heads, that they --became NAKED?! (For a discussion of the uses-- and positioning-- of the word 'naked' [((uryaa;N], see {6,1}.) And then, when you suddenly 'get' it, you've got it entirely, and surely with a laugh. A 'mushairah' verse is not the kind of verse that demands, or rewards, further study or reflection.
The second line is in Ghalib's favorite interrogative form of his favorite inshaa))iyah mode of speech. We immediately recognize it as a rhetorical question, however. What came into their mind? Well, we all know, don't we! The verse, with a clever show of naive innocence, enlists our own erotic memory and imagination into its service. This is one of Ghalib's elegantly indirect erotic verses; for others, see {99,4}. What other poet could make something so witty and sexy from such seemingly mild material as the idea of the stars coming out?
Compare the mileage that Mir gets from similar innuendo about the 'Daughter of the Vine': M{584,7}.


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Like Hollywood, Bollywood is also known to turn to novels and non-fiction books for movies. But sometimes the films become so popular that they overshadow their source material.
Herewith, after going through an extensive development period, actor-filmmaker Aushim Khetarpal, is producing a movie on his life along with a Hollywood production house. The film is actually based on his book titled 'The Chosen One'. In 1999, Khetarpal a sports promoter through his company, Radiant Sports Management Company too got linked to match fixing but wins the case and was given a clean chit from Scotland Yard. Read more


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Afghans fume over transfer of accused U.S. gunman
(CBS/AP) KABUL, Afghanistan - Afghan lawmakers expressed anger Thursday over the U.S. move to fly an American soldier accused of killing 16 civilians out of the country to Kuwait, saying Kabul shouldn't sign a strategic partnership agreement with Washington unless the suspect faces justice in Afghanistan.
Shortly after, Afghan President Hamid Karzai demanded that international troops pull out of villages and rural areas to main bases and let Afghan forces take the lead for countrywide security in 2013, a year ahead of schedule.
Negotiations over the agreement governing the presence of U.S. forces in Afghanistan were tense even before the shooting deaths of the civilians, including nine children, in southern Kandahar province on Sunday.
The killings came in the wake of violent protests last month triggered by American soldiers who burned Korans and other Islamic texts. Over 30 people were killed in those demonstrations, and Afghan forces turned their guns on their supposed allies, killing six U.S. soldiers.
Suspect in Afghan massacre flown to Kuwait
Panetta: Reevaluate how stressed troops are
Calculating the price of a civilian life in Afghanistan
The public response to the shooting spree has been much more muted, partly because senior Afghan officials have used their influence to persuade citizens not to hold demonstrations.
The U.S. flew the suspect out of the country on Wednesday evening, said U.S. officials. The U.S. military said the transfer did not preclude the possibility of trying the case in Afghanistan.
But that didn't appease Afghans upset at the move.
"It was the demand of the families of the martyrs of this incident, the people of Kandahar and the people of Afghanistan to try him publicly in Afghanistan," said Mohammad Naeem Lalai Hamidzai, a Kandahar lawmaker who is part of a parliamentary commission investigating the shootings.
Afghan suspect in apparent runway attack dies
Panetta visits Afghanistan amid fresh violence
CBS News correspondent David Martin reports that Defense Department spokesman Capt. John Kirby said the suspect was moved because "we do not have an appropriate detention facility in Afghanistan" and that the move was made on the legal recommendation of the command's lawyer.
A second official told Martin that it was done with the knowledge and approval of Karzai.
Moving the suspect will allow the U.S. to provide pretrial confinement, access to legal representation and the ability to ensure fair and proper judicial proceedings, said U.S. Lt. Gen. Curtis Scaparotti, deputy commander of American forces in Afghanistan.
Afghan government officials have not responded to request for comment on the transfer.
In Kuwait, U.S. Army spokesman Lt. Col. David Patterson said Thursday that the detention unit there, known as a Theater Field Confinement Facility, holds pre-trial detainees and post-trial confinees for a limited amount of time.
He would not confirm any further details about the case.
The Kuwait detention facilities have been used for other U.S. troops. The most prominent detainee recently was Army PFC Bradley Manning, who was held there after he was taken into custody in Baghdad in 2010 for allegedly leaking government documents in the WikiLeaks case.
Abdul Khaliq Balakarzai, another Kandahar lawmaker, said Karzai should respond to the U.S. decision to move the soldier by refusing to sign the strategic partnership agreement governing NATO troop presence in the country.
"If the trial was in Afghanistan, the people would see that America doesn't like this soldier and wants to punish him," said Balakarzai. "But unfortunately America ignored our demand."
Haji Abdul Ghani, a tribal elder from the area of Panjwai district where the shooting spree occurred, warned the U.S. move would cause "people to rise up and increase the hostility between Afghanistan and America."
Members of a high-level delegation sent by Karzai to investigate the killings have largely prevented demonstrations so far by calling tribal leaders and urging them to calm down locals, said Afghan officials and villagers.
There has only been one significant protest since the killings. About 1,000 students demonstrated Tuesday in the eastern city of Jalalabad, shouting anti-American slogans and burning an effigy of President Barack Obama.
U.S. officials have expressed shock and sadness over the massacre and have promised a thorough investigation. But they have resisted calls both at home and in Afghanistan to speed up the withdrawal of American troops in the wake of the tragedy.
U.S. Defense Secretary Leon Panetta visited Afghanistan on Wednesday, the first American official to visit the country since the shootings.
On Thursday, Panetta met with Karzai in an effort to repair relations, telling the Afghan leader that the U.S. remains committed to staying the course in Afghanistan until the planned withdrawal of combat troops in 2014. He also acknowledged that the U.S. had made a series of mistakes, including the shooting, the Koran burning and a video uncovered earlier this year showing Marines apparently urinating on dead militants.
Karzai said he delivered the message about hastening the NATO transfer of security responsibility to Panetta during that meeting.
Panetta's visit was marred by a bizarre incident Wednesday in which an Afghan man crashed a stolen truck at an airfield in southern Afghanistan as the defense secretary's plane was landing and then exited the vehicle in flames.
Scaparotti, the deputy U.S. commander, told reporters traveling with Panetta in Kabul that he believed the man an interpreter working for foreign forces was targeting a group of U.S. Marines assembled on the ramp. He said it would have been difficult to know which plane the defense secretary was aboard.
"There was a puff of smoke and he came out engulfed in flames," Scaparotti said.
Panetta told reporters he does not believe he was the target. He was told on the plane that it was being diverted to another landing site. But he was not aware of the truck incident until later.
No one in Panetta's party was hurt.
The man who stole the vehicle died Thursday of extensive burns, said Scaparotti.
Authorities were not able to talk to or get any information from the driver before he died.
A U.S. military official said a British soldier was injured when he tried to stop the driver from stealing the truck on the base. The Afghan man hit the British soldier with the truck as he was driving away. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because the incident is still being investigated.
The U.S. Army staff sergeant accused of carrying out the shooting spree in Kandahar has been identified as a married, 38-year-old father of two who was trained as a sniper and had served three tours in Iraq, where he recently suffered a head injury.
The U.S. has not released the name of the soldier partly because of security concerns for the individual and his family, said Scaparotti.
The U.S. soldier allegedly slipped out of his small base in southern Afghanistan before dawn Sunday, crept into three houses and shot men, women and children at close range, then burned some of the bodies. By sunrise, there were 16 corpses.
The suspect was taken into custody shortly afterward.
The soldier's trial is not the only point of contention in the case. The U.S. has said the killings were carried out by a single shooter, but some Afghan officials and local villagers have insisted that at least two soldiers were involved.
On Thursday, six civilians, including four women and two children, were killed when their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb in southern Uruzgan province, said police spokesman Fareed Ilayal.


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English newcomers Riff Bastard are ready to make the world a much heavier place with their groovy brand of hard rocking sludge and, of course, riffs the size of bull elephants. M3 asked the band about their origins, the death of the record store, and the New World Order…
M3 – First of all, could you tell us a bit about yourself, and what it is that you do?
Riff Bastard – We are a new heavy rock/sludge/doom band in Nottingham. We are playing gigs, just recorded our first record and are signed to local independent label 'Unrepresented' run by Junkie Kut.
What inspired you to form Riff Bastard? What are your own musical backgrounds?
Riff Bastard started with a couple of band members Chris and Victor meeting up and talking about a mutual love of all things rock/ metal. Especially the doom – sludge end of things. It grew from that point as they contacted like minded mates and old aquaintences. We got together and connected instantly, we are seriously pleased with the resulting ideas and dynamics of the band. We play what we want as long as it works which has included elements of Hardcore or Black metal.
What would be your preferred medium to listen to music (eg. Vinyl, CD, tape, MP3 etc.), and why?
CD's because they are pretty hard wearing. It's hard looking after vinyl you end up with jumping crackling records. MP3's are good because you can save physical storage space and feed your musical addiction without having to displace the rest of the family.
Do you feel the idea of an album, as a piece of art that people will listen to from start to finish, has been undermined or forgotten about in the digital age?
Depends on who is listening. If you are into pop music you tend to want to hear the hits. If you are into music which is less about instant gratification and making cash you tend to want to get the whole picture the artist is portraying. Most people might do a bit of both so it gives people a bit of freedom.
Much has been made of the supposed death of the record store in recent years. Do you believe the digital age has killed the record store, and if so, do you think that this is a necessary part of progression, or a tragic loss?
Many record stores have closed since the internet has made it easy to buy music online without having to leave your living room. The big record stores deserve it because they were always sterile and over priced. The independant local stores will be missed because they were havens for music as art, the staff knew you and your tastes and they supported the local music scene.
Many people have claimed that there is no longer any money in record sales, and that touring is the most efficient way to earn an income as a band. How much truth do you think there is in this sentiment?
Depends on Simon Cowell…
Do you think traditional copyright laws are still enforceable in the digital age, or do you think we will have to rethink the concept of copyright itself?
The copywright laws will remain. The big corporations trade with online companies which support their interests. It's the New World Order.
What is your take on the recent SOPA/ACTA controversy?
It may infringe upon freedom of speech and be used to shut down unwanted voices (Wikileaks etc).
What would you say are the main challenges facing an up-and-coming musician/band in today's cultural climate?
The world is awash with music and bands, a lot of it is sterile and contrived. You have to stand out from the pack. That doesn't mean that you deliberately go out of your way to be different, you can get heavily formulaic music played by bands with a certain spirit and attitude that grabs you and draws you into the music, you have to find and tap into the psyche of like minded people.
Finally, what does the future hold for Riff Bastard?
More awseome music and more fun, staying up late playing gigs, meeting more people!
For more information about Riff Bastard, you can visit their official Facebook page.


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No room for rebels on the road
He was an icon back in the 1950s, a legend seen as either a very cool tough guy or a troubled teen, depending on your perspective. Yet, there is agreement that James Dean died too soon – in a car crash that reinforced both images. He was only 24 when he died in a high-speed crash in 1955, and the "Giant" lessons the "Rebel Without a Cause" left bear relearning today – 60 years later.
In Florida, driver fatalities are highest in the 20-24 age group.
Teen Driver Safety Week: Don't touch that phone
Every day, on average, there are more than 700 traffic crashes on Florida roadways, according to the crash facts report by the Dept. of Highway Safety & Motor Vehicles. About 8 percent of those crashes involve teen drivers.
Drivers between the ages of 15-19 naturally have less experience. But teen drivers also tend to think they are experts at multitasking, which is an incredibly dumb thing to believe while driving.
College students need crash course on insurance
All across Florida, college students are settling in for another school year – and they bring lots of stuff with them. Hopefully, they have already learned the important lesson of having all that stuff properly insured.There's nothing quite like lugging box after box of belongings into a new dorm or apartment to remind you about how much you own. But what if something happened to all that stuff? With proper insurance, it could be replaced.
Helping teen drivers be safe drivers
I remember, fondly, my 16-year-old self on the one driving lesson I had with my mother. She let me drive her to the deli to pick up fixings for dad's lunch. I made a left turn on a green light, directly in front of a car coming through the intersection. Yeah, that other car had the right of way, as I learned from that near miss, yet I thought I owned the road.


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10 Reasons To Visit Siam Reap, Cambodia
Traveling to a place like Cambodia seems out of reach for many reasons, maybe it's financial, distance or simply fear. I was admittedly a little nervous about going because I didn't know what to expect, but after having spent a few days in Siam Reap, I can tell you they've gone to great lengths to make life easy for the tourist. Here is my list of reasons to love Siam Reap.
1. Short, inexpensive flight from Bangkok. Several airlines service the one hour flight to Siam Reap and depending on how far in advance you book you can snag some pretty good deals. We flew Air Asia for about $100/person round trip.
8. Great Sites! Okay, the reason to visit Siam Reap is to see the Khmer ruins of Angkor Wat. The massive stone temples crumbling under the weight of tree roots do not disappoint and their mythology is so foreign to many of us it's real education. There are also very few rules and restrictions when romping around the ruins. You are free to explore and discover; my kids really liked that!
10. Swenson's Ice Cream. This one was contributed by my daughters. After almost 4 years of European gelato, we loved the familiar taste of American ice-cream--it's predictable flavors, sundae's and shakes. We ate it almost every day.


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Black Ball of Tendrils Floating Above me
I am looking for an interpretation of what this could mean. The dream I am in the water and out of the water there is a black ball of nothing but tendrils floating above me.
I need this right away please!
Thanks in advance...
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Actors: Helen Morgan, Joan Peers, Fuller Mellish Jr., Jack Cameron, Henry Wadsworth
Director: Rouben Mamoulian
Genres: Drama, Musicals & Performing Arts
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Fine Early Talkie
Mr Peter G George | Ellon, Aberdeenshire United Kingdom | 01/25/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Applause is an important film in the history of the movies. It is one of the first talking pictures which really moves. Rather than using long static shots, Rouben Mamoulian directed the film in such a way that it is full of camera movement. Moreover the film uses interesting camera perspectives from above and below and is imaginatively edited. Many early talkies look like filmed stage plays and are often hard to enjoy. Applause is not only important it is also enjoyable. This is because Mamoulian uses his imaginative direction to tell a moving and involving story. The film begins in the 1910s with burlesque star Kitty Darling (Helen Morgan) giving birth. She decides to send her daughter April to a convent. When April (Joan Peers) returns as an adult, she is pursued by Kitty's sleazy husband and against her will forced into the world of burlesque. Her mother is now a fading star and needs her, but she is repelled by the low class theatre lifestyle. April meets a clean-cut sailor and is faced with a choice, whether to go with him or remain with her mother in a job she hates. Mamoulian tells the story in a realistic way. Far from glamorising the dancing women, he accentuates all their flaws. He shows close-ups of women with gold teeth, unshapely legs and rumpled stockings. The dancing in the film is often mediocre as if Mamoulian is intent on showing that these women are just going through the motions; that they are dancing only because they need the money. Applause is not like later musicals where everyone sings and dances perfectly. It portrays the bottom rung of the entertainment ladder and tries to portray it accurately with all its faults. The acting in Applause is on the whole very good. There are some scenes where the acting is rather stiff and stilted, but generally the performances are naturalistic. Helen Morgan does well as the aging Kitty. Hers is a courageous performance, sympathetic and moving. It is great to have the chance to hear the legendary Broadway star sing her signature tune "What Wouldn't I do for that Man?" Joan Peers is delightful. Her romantic scenes are sincere and believable. Her sweet, shy performance is one of the highlights of the film.The print on the Kino DVD is very good. It seems to be complete and has only a few tiny scratches and nicks. The photography is clear and sharp with good image detail. Unfortunately the soundtrack is much less good. The problem is not so much with hiss and crackle as that the sound is at times indistinct. It is often, especially at the start of the film, difficult to hear all the dialogue. It is a pity that the sound quality is rather poor, but the story is never hard to follow and the film remains wonderfully enjoyable. The DVD has a good number of extras, including some clips of Morgan singing and galleries of production stills and promotional material. It should be enjoyed by anyone who is interested in early sound film and the beginnings of the movie musical."
Still Powerful After 75 Years!
Jery Tillotson | New York, NY United States | 05/03/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)
"This nearly l00 year-old movie is still a fascinating excursion into the dark side of the Jazz Age. Made in l929 by wunderkind Rouben Maumoulian, the movie is often so seamy and dark and brutal that you still cringe. Helen Morgan has to be admired for allowing herself to play someone so repulsively weak and cringing. You see her at the turn of the century as hot little Kitty Darling, burlesque performer. She performs with a stable of "beef-trust" gals--genuine over-the-top burlesque dancers--who are all fat, sloppy and so unattractive you wonder if even the bottom of the barrel burlesque houses would have hired them. During this segment, Mamoulian lets you have it between the eyes: a montage of shots of sweating, broken-tooth lechers and bored, exhausted looking women with wrinkled tights and enormous thighs and rumps. Joan Peers portrays the innocent, convent bred daughter who leaves her cocoon and sees her mother on stage for the first time. When "Applause" was first released in late l929, the reaction was definitely ambilavent. Even then, critics and movie goers were turned off by the relentlessly down-beat tempo. Many were hoping to see a glamorous Helen Morgan, the radiant star of the Broadway smash, "Show Boat." What they saw was a flabby, weak looking entertainer who sported a head of bleached curls throughout the movie. You have to wonder why even a weak a character as Kitty Darling would tolerate a boyfriend as sleazy as the one she clings to throughout the movie. Still, this is a fascinating look at what the just emerging "talkers" could produce. Cameras were generally still frozen into place because of that new fangled gadget--the microphone. Mamoulian moves the camera all over the place and creates striking scenes of dramatic lighting and shadows. Unfortunately, this movie did nothing for careers of its talented cast. Helen Morgan made only a few more movies and Joan Peers, who plays her daughter and received glowing reviews, vanished off the radar screen."
An astounding film
Alan | New York, NY | 01/25/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)
"Rouben Mamoulian was one of the great innovators in film. This story of an aging burlesque queen, her daughter, and her sleazy and amoral husband-manager ought to be a cheap, silly melodrama, given the script. But under Mamoulian's stunning direction, and with Helen Morgan giving a devastating, unflinching performance as the pathetic yet ultimately noble burlesque queen--a woman completely lacking in self-esteem but who is willing to sacrifice everything to protect her daughter---it packs a surprising punch.Mamoulian focuses on the lurid and grotesque side of burlesque, but rather than making you turn away in disgust, his direction, combined with Morgan's willingness to be vulnerable and needy, make this painfully compelling to watch. Because of Mamoulian's visual style, which was way ahead of what anyone else was doing at the time, and the story's sexual frankess, the whole film seems very modern. There is some amazing location shooting in 1929 New York.Kino's transfer is about as good as it could possibly be given the film's age and relative obscurity, and there are some very interesting extras. While some dialogue in the early parts of the film is impossible to understand, this seems to have been unfixable: Mamoulian knew that if he wanted the camera to move as much he did, the sound from the movement of the large cameras (which were all that were available at that time) would make it impossible to hear some dialogue. He decided that his visuals were more important, and in the particular scenes in which this occurs, I think he was right.This film is one of the early masterpieces of the sound era. It holds up extraordinarily well. Start watching it. After five minutes, you'll be hooked in a way that few films manage."
FAME! [1929 that is!]
Alan | 06/02/2004
(5 out of 5 stars)
"HELEN MORGAN [looking somewhat like Goldie Hawn in 'Death Becomes Her' - before the transformation] shines as the burning out Star [somewhat along the lines of a weaker Madame Rose - who made it to burlesque - but not Broadway] - tied to 'heel' Fuller Mellish Jr. with saintly daughter [Joan Peers]- who brings new meaning to 'the Show Must Go On!' - quite a transformation for this very, very talented gal [strikingly like Carrie Fisher]- Henry Wadsworth as Tony, the Young Sailor brings a breath of wholesome air to this shade tale of burlesque on the skids - brilliantly envisioned and conceived by ROUBEN MAMOULIAN - who certainly went on to bigger, bigger and better things - BUT this one's a real find.PITY that the existing copy of somewhat damaged [like most of the cast ..... ] but still quite worth watching over and over again.GREAT CAMERA-WORK - rivalling the world-weary Cabaret girls in 'Blue Angel' - never before have we seen SUCH a large and tired chorus line of gals - and fittingly so - Grandmamas possibly to Fosse's unshaven KitKatClub girls of CABARET.Bit of a downer - one can see why this one did not quite work - but Helen Morgan is quite unforgettable - so's the rest - especially the very contemporary HENRY WADSWORTH [shades of Brad Pitt here....]Movie also features great vintage shots of Manhattan's sky line and sky-scrapers circa 1929."


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American Red Cross seeks blood donations after Sandy
NORWALK — The American Red Cross says Hurricane Sandy forced the cancellation of more than 325 blood drives in 13 states and the District of Columbia, resulting in a shortfall of 11,000 blood donations.
More cancellations and additional losses of blood donations are expected while areas deal with the storm's aftermath, the organization said.
A spokesperson for the American Red Cross urged eligible donors to give blood or platelets as soon as they are able.
"Sandy has affected blood collections along the East Coast," Donna M. Morrissey, director of communications of the American Red Cross —Northeast Division, said in a statement.
"Now that our operations are up and running again, we encourage the community to come forward and help replenish the blood supply."
All blood types are needed to ensure that an adequate blood supply is available during a disaster, Morrissey said.
Type O positive, O negative, A negative or B negative blood are especially needed, she said.
Blood has a limited shelf life and platelets have a shelf-life of just five days. Nationwide, about 44,000 blood donations are needed every day to meet the needs of accident victims, cancer patients, and children with blood disorders, according to the American Red Cross.
These patients rely on blood products during their treatment. Blood that is already on the shelves helps save lives before, during and after a disaster.
The American Red Cross is helping people across 13 states with safe shelter, food and comfort as part of a huge disaster response to Hurricane Sandy.
In addition, the organization is providing lifesaving blood for patients in area hospitals, thanks to the help of generous blood donors.
To make an appointment for a blood donation, or for more information, call 1-800-RED-CROSS (1-800-733-2767) or visit www.redcrossblood.org.
A blood donor card or driver's license, or two other forms of identification are required at check-in.
Individuals who are 17 years of age, weigh at least 110 pounds and are in generally good health may be eligible to donate blood.
High school students and other donors 18 years of age and younger also have to meet certain height and weight requirements.
Visit www.redcrossblood.org, call 1-800-RED-CROSS, or text the word REDCROSS to 90999 to make a $10 donation.


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Brett Hendrie – 2012 Arbor Award Recipient
Innis College and the Cinema Studies Institute are proud to announce that Mr. Brett Hendrie was the recipient of the 2012 Arbor Award. Recipients were recognized at a special ceremony held at the President's official residence at 93 Highland Avenue.
A former student of the Cinema Studies Program (BA INNIS 2001), Mr. Hendrie has been a dedicated and generous alumnus serving as a member of the Innis College Town Hall Advisory Board, as well as a guest speaker at student/alumni events held at the College. He is the Managing Director of Hot Docs, Canadian International Documentary Festival.
To view Mr. Hendrie's complete award citation and ceremony photo, CLICK HERE