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My reason for watching? When I got off the plane in St. Louis during my
recent vacation, two of the lovingest little boys I ever saw grabbed me
around the knees and hugged me tight, adopting me as their grandmother.
Later, we went swimming in their real grandparents' swimming pool. And
those grandparents, Bob and Marilyn Chandler, are the owners of Bigfoot,
the grandfather of monster trucks.
My daughter, Peggy II, lived across the street from the Chandler's
daughter for about nine years, and she took care of their kids this
summer. Thus the airport greeting and swimming party in the beautiful
backyard of the Chandler's semi-country home.
Peggy II told me how Bob Chandler developed Bigfoot and the ensuing
monster truck mania. "He wondered what would happen if he put big tires
on a truck," she said. "So he tried it." When he got the itch to drive
his monster truck over a bunch of cars, he went to the junkyard and got
some bodies, parked them in a line and drove over them. Later, he
organized the first monster truck show, and the business took off.
Now you can see Bigfoot replicas all over St. Louis (and I suppose in
Pecos). I noticed a video display of Bigfoot in Union Station, the old
railroad station that St. Louisians turned into a tourism mall with
restaurants, shops and a fudge-making display that draws the audience
into the performance.
Did I enjoy the monster truck show? No, that's not my bag. But anything
is more interesting when you have some personal knowledge of the people
involved. I didn't meet Bob and Marilyn, but I've heard so much about
them, they seem a part of the family. And, since we share two precious
little boys as grandchildren, they are, in a way.
The show did remind me of a demolition derby I went to see as a
teenager with another adopted family, Troy and Pauline Kell. My sisters
and I babysat the Kell's three boys, and they took us with them on
special occasions. This trip was to Amarillo - maybe especially to see
the races. During the race, the cars bumped each other, trying to
disable the competition. I don't remember much else about it except that
we bought tamales from a street vendor, my first, and I loved them. And
on the way home, I smoked my first (and last) cigar and got sick.
"If your law had not been my delight, I would have perished in my
afflication." Psalm 119:92, NIV.
Editor's Note: Peggy McCracken is an Enterprise writer and webmaster whose column appears each Tuesday.
Contrary to what a recent headline on your editorial page stated, Pecos
has a very adequate and fine ambulance service.
The eighteen women and men who serve with Pecos Volunteer Ambulance
Service are highly trained and very dedicated to providing the best
possible care to the patients we serve!
The citizens of this community have provided us with three ambulances
and the necessary equipment to serve the community with a top notch
ambulance service.
Most of our personnel all have other jobs, and thanks to the
understanding of their employers are allowed to emergencies when calls
come in. We carry pagers and respond to the Ambulance Hall immediately
when a call comes in.
We have ambulances available to respond to emergency calls throughout
Reeves and western Ward counties ANYTIME 24-hours a day, 365 days a
year! Although Pecos Volunteer Ambulance Service does not handle
hospital-to-hospital transfers, we have done our best to provide Reeves
County Hospital with an ambulance when their transfer ambulance is out
of order IF this does not leave the community without adequate emergency
ambulance coverage. I feel strongly that there must ALWAYS be at least 2
ambulances available to respond to emergency calls. There have been a
few times when one of our 3 units was down for repairs. In those few
instances, we were not able to assist the hospital with an ambulance.
The citizens of this community are very fortunate to have a quality
ambulance service that is available to respond to an emergency call any
We thank you, the citizens of this community, for your support! We thank
the Town of Pecos City Council, Reeves County Hospital District, and
Ward County for its continued funding and support of our service!
We will continue to be there for each of you!
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Last weekend I was at a dinner party enjoying some interesting conversations with my friends about life, work, kids, and Netflix. Yes, Netflix was a topic that kept coming up during our conversations. As a matter of fact it seems like the topic of streaming shows and movies through Netflix is very common among adults nowadays.
The conversation usually goes something like this: "Do you watch Orange is the New Black?" "Oh, yah I love that show. I can't wait for the new season to begin." "What do you think is going to happen to Piper this season?" This goes back and forth for a while until someone changes the topic to ask about another show. Maybe something about "House of Cards", or "Fuller House."
Everyone shares about his or her favorites and then eventually you get someone who hasn't seen any of them. Or they cut you off by saying, "Wait don't say anything about last season I'm still watching it." Of course no one wants to be a spoiler so we just say, "You're going to love the way it ends", or something like that. When we run out of Netflix shows to talk about we end up bragging about whom has binge watched the most episodes in a row.
I think I hold the record for watching an entire season of Sons of Anarchy over a three-day weekend. I wonder if that is something I should be proud of or not. I guess in the scope of things it really doesn't matter much. I'm being entertained and no one is getting hurt.
What is your favorite show or movie to stream on Netflix?
The Netflix Sneak
I know there are only so many times you can hear the Dinotrux theme song before you start sneaking off to binge the new season of Orange is the New Black in the bathtub or "do work in the garage" while you secretly watch Voltron: Legendary Defender. Don't be ashamed, moms and dads, you're definitely not alone. This is why Netflix has created this exclusive and fun Netflix Sneak – What's the craziest place you've watched Netflix?
Go ahead and try the Netflix sneak with some of your favorites
Orange is the New Black: Season 4 (6/17)
Bloodline: Season 2 – Now on Netflix
Voltron: Legendary Defender (6/10)
Scandal: Season 5 (6/11)
Chelsea – Now on Netflix
Grey's Anatomy: Season 12 (6/17)
New on Netflix for Kids, Tweens, Teens and Families:
Pretty Little Liars: Season 6 – Now on Netflix
The Giver (6/15)
LEGO Friends: The Power of Friendship: Season 2 (6/10)
All Hail King Julien: Season 3 (6/17)
Justin Time GO!: Season 1 (6/24)
Dragons: Race to the Edge: Season 3 (6/24)
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Moose Hunting in Alaska
DM769 Permit Hunt Information
for Regulatory Year 2019
(See also: DM769 for the 2018 Regulatory Year)
Hunt Details
Hunt Number: DM769
Regulatory Year: 2019
Hunt Type: Draw
Species: Moose
Legal Animal: Bull
Number of Permits: 240 permits
GMU, Area
20A, Central Tanana Flats
Season Dates
Sept. 1 - Sept. 25
Residency Restrictions
Alaska residents only
Reporting Requirements
Successful Hunters
- Online, by mail, or in person to Fairbanks ADF&G within 10 days of kill.
- Specimens Required: None
Unsuccessful Hunters
Report by Internet, mail, or in person to ADF&G within 15 days of season end.
Internet Reporting
You may report online at http://www.hunt.alaska.gov
Additional Requirements and Information
- Hunt Area: that portion of Unit 20A bounded on the north and east by the north bank of the Tanana River, bounded on the south by a line beginning at the mouth of the Little Delta River (N64°17.033', W146°42.383') to the intersection of the Wood River's east bank and the Rex Trail (N64°14.00', W147°41.75'), and bounded on the west by the east bank of the Wood River.
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For Sale | Lifestyle | ID# 31618101392
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WOW, will be the first word out of your mouth.
This magnificent property is fully cleared, developed with pasture land, and fruit and forestry trees planted. There are 80 different varieties of tropical fruit trees on the property and the two hectares of landscaped gardens has one of the largest collection of plants and palms to be found in Vanuatu.
There is over 500 forestry trees with the initial planting of whitewood nearing harvest. Natapoa and Mahogany are the other two species planted.
This property has multiple revenue streams. It currently runs a commercial free range pig division with over 300 pigs as well as a hugely popular tourism business, EDEN On The River, focusing primarily on the ever growing cruise ship market. They also run small herds of sheep, goats, dairy cows and a flock of chickens.
Pre Tropical Cyclone Pam the property was also producing asparagus for sale.
The property borders the Rentaboa River which flows all year. Water supply to the property is currently sourced from the river but a new bore has just been drilled.
The property sale includes a main house (2 bed, 2 bath), container house used as separate guest accommodation, Nakamal, office/café and storage, workshop, staff accommodation and numerous farm buildings.
All this is accessed by tar sealed road to Port Vila, only 25min from CBD.
While the property is currently used for agriculture and tourism, it would be suitable to be used as a:
- Hobby Farm
- Boutique Resort
- Retirement Village/ Private Hospital Facility
- Additional Adventure and Eco Tourism
- Honey Production
- Other Agricultural Growing and Farming
- Sandalwood
NB: Animals and certain plants sold separately.
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The evening schedule for Capital Public Radio News is being modified to bring listeners more news, with the addition of BBC Newsday, and moving the rebroadcasts of Insight and Fresh Air Fresh Air to earlier in the evening.
Starting Feb. 2, Insight's re-airing will begin at 7 p.m., followed by Fresh Air at 8 p.m. BBC Newsday will air at 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday, with Science Friday moving up an hour, to 9 p.m. every Friday.
Capital Public Radio Station Manager Carl Watanabe said, "Moving Insight's rebroadcast to 7 in the evening was long overdue. The topics and issues covered by Insight with Beth Ruyak make it clear the show should be on with our other evening news programs. Q from CBC had a good run on Capital Public Radio, however, in the last year, its audience has dropped dramatically. That wasn't the main reason for the change, but it certainly was a factor. We'll keep a link to Q on our website so fans of the show can still access it online."


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Giants coach Tom Coughlin isn't the type to heap praise on players who haven't earned it, so rookie receiver Rueben Randle must have done something very well at the start of the team's rookie minicamp.
Randle, the wide receiver from LSU who was taken with the team's second-round draft pick, was singled out by Coughlin as a player who looked particularly impressive on the practice field.
"I was very impressed by Randle out on the field this morning," Coughlin said after the team's first rookie minicamp practice.
No matter how impressive Randle is over the summer, he'll enter the season as no better than the team's third option at wide receiver, after Victor Cruz and Hakeem Nicks. But third receiver is an important position, it's a position of need for the Giants after Mario Manningham left in free agency, and Giants offensive coordinator Kevin Gilbride said that it's a position Randle has the potential to excel at.
"But you need that third component so that when people start skewing over and clamping down on Cruz and Nicks, you've got a guy who, if he gets 1-on-1, has the ability to get over the top and hurt people like Manningham did," Gilbride said.
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With 2 USB ports and 3 HDMI sockets there's plenty of connections for plugging in extras. Connect an external hard drive or USB stick to view photos, watch films and record TV. Plus, catch up on the best TV in the house with Freeview Play, coming soon.
- LED TV Screen.
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The original, independent guide to Lisbon
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The Baixa district is the heart of Lisbon and comprises of magnificent plazas, grand avenues and boutique shopping boulevards. The district is popular with tourists, as contained within Baixa are many of Lisbon's major tourist attractions, along with a huge variety of restaurants and many excellent hotels. Baixa has a lively and vibrant atmosphere, and is where most tourists should start their tour of Lisbon.
Baixa has not always been so magnificent, on the 11th November 1755, one of the world's strongest recorded earthquakes devastated the district and, along with the massive Tsunami, killed thousands. The rebuilding of the ruined district was assigned to the Marquis of Pombal, who disregarded the original city layout of narrow streets, and created the first city plan that followed a grid pattern. The buildings of Baixa were constructed in a magnificent neoclassical style but more importantly incorporated the earliest examples of Earthquake resistant architecture.
Today the avenues and plazas are crowded with Portuguese shoppers and tourists, and there is a real prosperous buzz about the district. There is a lot to see and do in Baixa, but often the main attraction is just to wander around the impressive avenues and plazas, and embrace the relaxed café culture of Portugal. This guide will provide an introduction to Baixa and includes details of the major sights, a suggested half day itinerary and other useful tourist advice.
Money saving tip: Baixa is a tourist district, therefore all meals will be more expensive, especially at restaurants overlooking the plazas or with waiters stood on the street. For good value food head into the food court in the Armazéns do Chiado shopping centre (GPS: 38.71099, -9.13942) or the Pingo Doce supermarket (GPS: 38.713811, -9.140286).
The Baixa district is considered as the central, downtown area Lisbon. The district extends from the banks of the Tejo Estuary in the south, up to the Marquis de Pombal Square in the north and is positioned between the two hills of the Alfama and Chiado districts. For tourists, there are four main plazas:
• Praça do Comércio
• Praça dom Pedro IV (Rossio)
• Praça dos Restauradores
• Praça Figueira
While there are two main avenues:
• Avenida da Liberdade
• Rua Augusta
The nightlife of Baixa is primarily focused around late meals, casual drinking or performances in the theatres. The street Rua das Portas de Santo Antão is a very popular dining area with many great, touristy restaurants which stay open late into the night.
The open-air cafes and restaurants of Rua August, Rossio and Baixa tend to close around 11pm. For the banging late nights, which Lisbon is famed for, head west to Bairro Alto district (which closes at 2am) and then Cais do Sodre (which continues until sunrise). Baixa is a good location for family evening meals and does not have a rowdy or chaotic atmosphere, as with some other districts.
Here is our suggested route for a half day tour of the Baixa district, included are GPS coordinates for the major (or difficult to find) sights. The route covers 3km but it is all downhill as it starts from the top of the Marquis de Pombal hill.
• Catch the Metro to the Marquis de Pombal square (blue or yellow line)
• The Park Eduardo VII and Marquis de Pombal Square – 20minutes (GPS: 38.72573, -9.15050)
• The tree-lined Avenida da Liberdade, with the designer shops and boutiques - 30minutes walk
• The Praça Dos Restauradores with the Art-Deco Edan theatre and the pink Palácio Foz- 20 minutes
• Ride the Gloria funicular up to the São Pedro de Alcântara viewpoint – 3O minutes (GPS: 38.71612, -9.14267)
• Rossio square, with Rossio station, Dona Maria II Theatre and the fire ravaged São Domingos Church – 20 minutes
• Have a glass of Ginja at the little Ginjinha bar – 20 minutes (GPS: 38.71471, -9.13906)
• Praça Figueira – 10 minutes
• Ride in the Elevador Santa Justa and viewing platform – 30 min (GPS 38.71207, -9.13933)
• Largo da Carmo and Carmo Church – 30 min (technically not part of Baixa but next to the Santa Justa lift) (GPS 38.71189, -9.14074)
• Rua Augusta (and a coffee) – 30 minutes
• Arch do Rua Augusta viewpoint – 20 minutes (GPS: 38.70842,-9.13677)
• Praça do Comércio – 20 minutes
• Relaxing walk along the Ribeira das Naus and the banks of the Tejo Estuary to Cais do Sodre (GPS: 38.70628,-9.13856)
• Have lunch or dinner in the Time Out Lisboa Market (again not Baixa but a great place to end a tour!) (GPS: 38.70687, -9.14581)
Internet Tip: For very detailed maps of Lisbon (and Portugal) try OpenStreetmap.org, which is free and open source: http://www.openstreetmap.org
Annoyance: While wandering the streets of Baixa tourists will be likely approached by people selling drugs. Firmly tell them no and they will go away – the police are unable to do anything as the "drugs" are just crushed (legal) herbs and seeds.
The Baixa district is at the centre of Lisbon, from the district it is easy to travel to almost every other area of the city. The train to Sintra departs from Rossio station, while the tram to Belem departs from Praça do Comércio the tram and the bus to/from the airport passes through Rossio square.
From Baixa it is just a short walk east to the historic Alfama district and the social nightlife of Bairro Alto is just to the west. Baixa has an extensive range of restaurants, shops and bars – and in our opinion is the best place to be based within Lisbon.
The best attraction of the Baixa district is the wonderful view from the top of the Arco da Rua Augusta. This magnificent arch connects the Rua Augusta Street with the Praça do Comércio. From the vantage point of the arch there are panoramic views across the plaza, the Tejo Estuary, the Rua Augusta and up to the castle.
Drinking a small glass of the cherry liquor called Ginja from the Ginjinha bar. The small bar is loved by the Portuguese as it is the traditional home of the sweet drink. The older Portuguese generation often reminisce about Ginja as it was commonly given as a "medicinal cure" for minor children ailments and illnesses. There is no better way to break up a day of sightseeing than with a glass of Ginja and a disjointed conversation with a retired Portuguese person. For a guide to the Ginjinha bar please click here.
The Ginjinha bar in Baixa
The Praça do Comércio is the grandest of the plazas found in the Baixa district and was historically the gateway to the city. This impressive square was where the trade from the colonies was bought and sold, while expeditions to the far reaches of the world were financed. To read more, please click here.
The neo-classical Elevador Santa Justa is an artistic marvel of the industrial age. The lift transports visitors up one of the steepest hills in Lisbon, to the ruins of the Carmo Church, to read more please click here.
The Praça Dom Pedro IV is commonly referred to as Rossio and is the heart of Lisbon. Rossio is always a hive of activity and is a great place to watch the capital from one of the cafes that surround the square. To read more please click here.
The haunting ruins of the Igreja do Carmo are a permeant reminder to the horrendous devastation of the 1755 earthquake. Inside the Carmo Church is a small archaeological museum. To read more about the Carmo Church, Carmo Church, please click here.
The Praça Dos Restauradores is one of Lisbon's most varied squares, which combines the 19th century pink Foz Palace with the Art Deco Eden Theatre and the Gloria funicular. Standing at the centre of the square is an obelisk that celebrates the 15th century independence from Spain.


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VAT & Tenancy Deposit Scheme
I would appreciate if you could please help with the following matter:-
Rent from a past tenant who left 3 months ago is still owing to us, the letting agents have given us a new address for her, having sent a letter requesting the outstanding rent. They have also said the initial rental payment is in the deposit scheme but we cannot understand why they have not claimed it by now and given it back to us in order to settle this outstanding amount.
Furthermore we are now being told by them that the property where the tenant is now living (which is another of the letting agents properties ), has disappeared. Given the time, delays and excuses we are sceptical of this.
Also, we are not VAT registered, but due to the VAT increase our monthly rental income of £550 on this property has decreased, however according to our calculations the additional 2.5% deduction would mean it should be £536.25 and they are now giving us a cheque for £547.87 therefore their explanation to the reason for the additional deductions in rent doesnt add up and we cannot understand why they are keeping this additional amount.
We then queried if our rent has reduced because of the VAT increase why didnt we get an increase in our rent during the period when VAT was reduced, to which they have replied it was because it was only a temporary measure.
We have already checked and they are not a member of any regulatory body, however we suspect they may be doing something illegal.
Money owing to us is not being handed over and that which is, is having additional amounts taken from it as well.
Could you therefore advise of possible actions we can take.
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NFL Week 1: What We Learned In The NFC [OPINION]
Now that Week 1 of the 2012 NFL season is in the books, what exactly did we learn, if anything?
NFC East:
Dallas- With a lot of questions unanswered, the Boys looked like a contender Thursday night. If Dez Bryant can play show up in the second half, the emergence of Kevin Ogletree could be even bigger than everyone thinks.
Washington- If one game is any indication, RGIII could be exactly what Dan Schneider and Redskin Nation have been searching for. Lets not forget though, it is only the first game and this is the NFC East.
Philadelphia- A win is a win. Right? Don't be to sure about that. Andy Reid needs to lean more on McCoy and less on Vick. Like they say, you can lead a horse to water but you can't make him drink or in this case you can ask Vick to throw but you can't make good decisions for him.
NY Giants: The loss in game 1 hurts this group way less than other teams in the NFL. They got in the playoffs with a 9-7 record and won a Super Bowl. But then again, Victor Cruz was catching a lot of passes and Thursday night, he wasn't.
NFC North:
Detroit: The Rams? Really? The Rams? Surely this was just Week 1 jitters and nothing to be alarmed about? Right?
Chicago: What a performance by the Bears in every way in this game. Will this continue or is it only because they were playing the Colts?
Minnesota: If AP did not play, you could be looking at the Viking being 0-1. But with 2 TD's, Peterson showed he is back and Jared Allen makes me thankful I don't play QB in the NFL. He is a beast. This was a big win, even if it was Jacksonville that they beat.
Green Bay: Aaron Rodgers had an off game. He has a ton of weapons to throw the ball to and that is great but Cedric Benson doesn't look to be the answer at tailback for the Packers. Until the Pack finds a running game, expect a lot of close games.
NFC South:
Tampa Bay: The Bucs got what they needed and that was a win. With a new coach and after what happened last year, to start the season on the positive side is a good thing. But that is really all you can say.
Atlanta: The Falcons made a strong case for being the top dog in the NFC South and maybe the NFC for that matter after hanging 40+ on the Chiefs. Nothing against the Falcons but I want to see a performance like that, in say, New York.
New Orleans: No one except Redskin fans expected to see New Orleans open the 2012 season with a loss. Mistakes cost the Saints and I would be shocked if you see the same ones again. You have to believe the Saints are going to take their frustrations out on the Panthers.
Carolina: Panther fans are hoping that Cam Newton just had an off day last Sunday in Tampa and it is not the sign of the "sophomore slump". From start to finish just a poor game all around by the Panthers.
NFC West:
Arizona: With John Skelton going down to an ankle injury, the time is now for Kevin Kolb to show the management and fans in Arizona that he was worth the large contract he received last season. The game winning drive was a start but will he prove the critics wrong?
San Francisco: It seems the 49ers haven't missed a beat from last year to this year after the convincing win in Green Bay on Sunday. The huge plus that people are not talking too much about it the play of Randy Moss. If Moss plays well, look out NFC.
Seattle: Russell Willson looked solid in his rookie debut but the rest of the offence didn't. Marshawn Lynch wasn't able to get in space and if Wilson's wide receivers do not start catching balls, it is going to be a long year in Seattle for Seahawks fans.
St. Louis: For as bad as it was for Detroit, it was that good for the Rams. First year coach Jeff Fisher needed a big performance to build on and whether you want to believe it, the Rams go it. It may have been a loss but it was a small victory.


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About the project
'Accessing Mainstream Finance' is a Flip Finance project focussed on better understanding the availability of mainstream finance for social organisations and catalysing further opportunities. It is aimed at social enterprises and charities seeking finance, banks who want to serve the social sector better. It is needed because mainstream finance has the systems and scale to offer products and services that social investment, as it currently stands, cannot.
The story so far
'Social investment' continues to attract significant, and arguably disproportionate, rhetoric, policy focus, financial support and media coverage. Yet social investment is understood too inconsistently, narrowly and inaccurately.
In 2015, Flip team members David Floyd and Dan Gregory set out, using a 'big data' approach to establish more accurately the extent of bank lending to the social sector. We worked to give social sector organisations (including social enterprises and charities), policymakers, social investment experts and banks themselves a clearer picture of the role of banks in financing the UK's social economy. We concluded, in a report for RBS – "Forest for the Trees: UK banks' investment in a social purpose" (July 2016) – that total bank lending to social sector organisations could be around £3 billion.
Next steps
We hope this investigation into a too long forgotten area of activity data can provide greater clarity on the contribution which mainstream banks make to meeting demand for finance in the social sector. We would like to see other banks publishing their data, and we would like to work further with banks and social sector organisations to help them do more to engage with each other about the relevance of 'normal' financial products and services.


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Morning everyone. I'm back. I was down in Orlando the past couple days watching Less Than Jake and Rancid play some shows. It was pretty amazing, not gonna lie. So what did I miss? By the looks of it not all that much. Some big teams are out of the Euros: Holland, France, Portugal. Turkey and Russia are looking really good and Spain versus Italy today. Should be a dandy.
I guess you could say the main Arsenal news over this weekend still revolves around Emmanuel Adebayor. When did I do that last podcast? I think I might do another one just to talk about this subject. It seems now that the situation has escalated even more, with sources reporting that Arsenal are prepared to accept a 25 million pound bid for him, should the bid be made. Adebayor's agent says that Arsenal would rather sell him to Barcelona than Milan, "for their own motives." Like I said, it has to be Yaya Toure. I can't see us wanting anyone else from their team that we could actually get. We couldn't get Xavi, Messi, or Iniesta and I don't really think we'd want anyone else besides them and Yaya.
This article again links us with Blackburn's Roque Santa Cruz, who had an impressive first season in the Premiership last year, if Adebayor does leave. He's not really a player I want to see at Arsenal and I think it's probably just speculation but I'd think for 25 million pounds we could get in someone else. Goodplaya, however, reckons we really do want to sign him.
The Sun, (which is of course complete bollocks on a daily basis) says that Barcelona have agreed a fee and terms with Adebayor and hope to complete the signing in the next few days. Yes I know the Sun is a terrible paper but even they have to get one right sometime you'd think.
So the moral of all this is I think I've changed my mind on this one. For weeks I've been saying that Adebayor definitely won't leave and that he's loyal and loves Arsenal and all that, but I digress. I think he may very well be leaving now, and it would surprise me if he doesn't go really. I'll admit though that I would be very upset if we did lose him, but 25 million pounds would probably help to ease the pain.
Who do I want as his replacement if he goes? Well I've got a couple on my list. Of course I like David Villa, if you read this site often then you know that. I like Podolski, I don't mind Santa Cruz, and honestly Eto'o wouldn't kill me either. Like I said though, I think Ade is probably going and I'm 110% positive that Arsene already knows for sure one way or the other if he's staying or not. So if he is leaving than Arsene knows it and he's already looking for that replacement now. Things could get very interesting in the next few weeks...
In news apart from all this, Gael Clichy has signed a new long term contract. Like I said on the podcast, this is why we love Clichy and Sagna. They have brilliant seasons and still show no desire to move clubs and in fact both signed new deals this month. It's outstanding. I hope they're our fullbacks for the next ten years. I know it's unrealistic but would anyone complain if it were to happen? I think we should be thankful that Clichy and Sagna didn't get selected to play for France. That team was destined to be shite and now we can be thankful they weren't injured.
Speaking of the Euros though, Russia beat Holland 3-1 yesterday and Andrei Arshavin was the main reason why. Now he's been linked with a move to Arsenal after saying that he wants a move to a bigger club. He's currently plying his trade for Zenit St. Petersburg in Russia, so it would be quite a step up to the Premier League. He's 27 years old which is a bit old for Arsenal's usual signings but he's been absolutely fantastic in the last two games for Russia. I wouldn't mind seeing him replace Hleb and Nasri replace Rosicky at all. Or just bring him in and have them all compete for places. That would be nice.
Apparently we're also trailing some Brazilian named Diogo from Portuguesa. I don't know anything about him but the club are claiming to have rejected an Arsenal bid for him of 6 million pounds. They say they want 12 million for him. I bet they do.
So yeah, the speculation is getting crazy. It's going to be interesting guys so hang in there and don't let it frustrate you too much. Enjoy the match today and maybe I'll do a podcast while I watch it! PS, listen to the first one, I still need feedback on it. Cheers!
Sunday, June 22, 2008
Adebayor's Soap Opera
5 comments:
- sportingbet free bet said...
it will be interesting to see how this pans out and whether wenger handles the situation differently to alex ferguson with ronaldo
- June 22, 2008 at 1:45 PM
- Joaquin said...
If we can get 25 for him take it and sign Santa Cruz and fuck it why not Sneijer? Madrid need to fund their Ronaldo purchase.
- June 23, 2008 at 2:30 AM
probably more likely that Arsene would replace him with someone like Gervinho then Villa but I've got my fingers crossed. Really don't want to see the big man go...I think he's replaceable...and if RVP is healthy that's a good start...and Bendtner is probably capable in the air...but it would really suck to lose Ade at this point. You'd really have to wonder what is going on with a club that loses Adebayor, Flamini and maybe Hleb in an offseason when they are so close to breaking through. Arshavin is awesome by the way!
- June 23, 2008 at 11:24 AM
- Joaquin said...
Arshavin says he wants Barca, but I would love to have him. I feel as though we would have too many creative players when we lack steel through the spine, but regardless I will take class and let them duke it out for places in our 11.
- June 23, 2008 at 1:02 PM
- ArseNole said...
Yeah I agree joaquin, after seeing what he can do at this tournament against top opposition I'd love to have him at Arsenal. The catch is that Barcelona can't afford him yet and they're selling Eto'o, Ronny, and Deco to try to pay for Ade. 20 million for Arshavin is a bit too steep for me but if we could bring him in for less I'd be all for it.
- June 23, 2008 at 1:44 PM


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Saving the Seas of life
Koh Tao is one of the world's 10 most wonderful diving destinations. The coral reef of Koh Tao exhibits abundant diversity and beauty, attracting at least 320,000 tourists from around the globe annually and has gained more than two billion baht income locally and nationally per year.However, the Island has been rapidly developed non-stop, causing unwise business or activities being created, such as those releasing waste into the sea, run off from the hill to the coral reefs, killing or breaking coral, throwing anchors onto coral reef and so on. All will affect the marine ecosystem negatively. Therefore, we must raise awareness, research, monitor coral and endangered species and set up proper rules and regulations in order to manage our marine natural resources used in our tourism industry.
Preserve Paradise…Keep it clean, keep it green
If one person throw one piece of rubbish on the ground per day then that person throw 365 pieces of rubbish in one year, but Koh Tao has more than one person, in fact 320,000 people per year, if all throw more than one piece of rubbish…
Let's think how much rubbish will remain on this small Island!
Rubbish seems like a small problem effecting the tourism business, but it isn't!! It is a major problem occurring due to tourism development along with deforestation, lack of freshwater, wastewater release, infrastructure, including social problems.
However, Koh Tao family has very strong networking and they are entrepreneurs on the Koh Tao tourism business. Therefore, raising awareness and participating in natural resource and environmental management is crucial to pass on clean, white sand and abundant forest for the next generation.
Divide rubbish…reduce using plastic bag
Land and underwater clean ups are a community affair. Helping to raise awareness amongst all who volunteer themselves, such an event is an excellent opportunity to educate our children-future leaders of the world we leave behind.
The last joint clean up day was in Mae Hadd. The event was attended by the island elders, local business people, over 100 scuba divers cleaning under the water, tourist volunteers and local school children. Over 1,000 kilos of rubbish was collected. Please click to read the Koh Tao monthly rubbish report for more details.
Forest restoration…Reef rehabilitation at Tanote Bay
- King grass plantation, check dam construction, marine ecological impact assessment.
According to a local Koh Tao brainstorming among members of the marine conservation team, including over 30 Thai and foreigners diving instructors, found that the first priorityy of marine crisis need to solve urgently was running off cover the reef at Tanote bay…the bay which is one of the most beauty and high biodiversity of Koh Tao.
It caused of the reservoir construction in purpose of water supplying of Water resource department, Ministry of Natural Resource and environment in 2006. Moreover, the project wasn't doing the environmental impact assessment and also didn't do the public hearing about the pro and con of the project at all.
Education for sustainable development
They experience new technology, such as computers and scuba equipment in which are complicated and changing all the time… nowadays they are been taken further away from family bonds and their local roots bit by bit…
However, if we learn how to adapt and gain knowledge in development, modernize educational processes, learning with a formal curriculum, open to outside classroom learning, they will learn about their own community and natural resources and learn to respect their own environment. Building a learning community, which won't be limited usder the current educational framework or by age...so join us by developing education for sustainability in life, culture and the environment all together.
Koh Tao Community History
In the past, Koh Tao was used as a political prison. Many of Baworadej prisoners were transferred from Tarutao Island to Koh Tao in the reason of being an isolated Island in the gulf of Thailand, only wide sea was freedom control. One of them was also Sor-Sethabute, the famous Thai-English dictionary author. In the mean time, there were local people being settled down and had been fishing, coconut palm plantation, rice paddy and orchard.


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Painting Placemats
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Have you ever wanted to meet an artist and take part in a workshop where the artist sits with the participants and teaches them her craft? A Kakadu Workshop is just that….a wonderful and unique experience. Meet Reut Shahar in her workshop and hear about how she got started and how she built a well known brand.
Kakadu artwork is painted wood in specific Kakadu colors and you may recognize it from their store on Yoel Soloman in town. The art uses shapes, animals and figures from nature. Visit the photos tab for a gallery of Kakadu products.
Choose from a variety of wooden art pieces to decorate with the guidance of the artists at Kakadu. This is a great activity for kids of all ages and even adults can enjoy the hands on workshop.
Meet Reut the world renowned Kakadu artist and see some of her recent work. Kakadu is located in the beautiful Ella Valley in Moshav Tzafririm (near Beit Shemesh).
Gallery Visits & Hands on Workshop
Families can reserve a private Kakadu experience where they meet Reut and hear about the story of how she built the Kakadu brand. Then you will enter the workshop yourself and create a Kakadu masterpiece.
Visitors can choose from place mats, to decorative objects, coasters, Hamsas and can even design floor mats if they request it in advance. The wooden carpets are internationally patented. Each piece is "finished" off by Reut herself and each person walks away with a beautiful piece of art in the Kakadu style. At Kakadu they believe that everyone is a born artist.
The tour ends with a visit to the Kakadu factory store. Tour can be arranged in English or Hebrew. Advanced booking is required.
Art Parties – Bar/Bat Mitzva or Birthdays
Kakadu runs a unique art workshop to help you celebrate a special day. Whether it's a Bar/Bat Mitzva or a special birthday, Kakadu will create a custom program for your guests. Parents and grandparents can enjoy the workshop as well in the beautiful pastoral setting.
The party can take place in the Kakadu Gallery & Gardens in Moshav Tzafririm or if you prefer, you can also invite Kakadu to come to you. Reut will bring her stories and crafts and create a Kakadu workshop in your home or at a special location of your choosing. Contact Reut for details.
Activities Near Kakadu: make it a full day activity
Custom Order Furniture
During the winter months, Kakadu offers customers the option of ordering special custom pieces of furniture including large floormats (Internationally patented), Choose your colors and pattern and Reut will create your unique piece of art.
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Private groups – 4 people for 600 NIS
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Three Symbolist cities: Bruges, Ravenna, Toledo
Bruges declined because its port lost its link to the sea. A similar fate befell Ravenna, its Italian counterpart almost a millennium before. During the fifth and sixth centuries, as the city of Rome was increasingly revealed as unsafe, Ravenna became the capital of the Roman Empire. Protected by canals it was linked with its port of Classe. Gradually, though, the soil brought down by the Po River accumulated on the Adriatic shore, severing the city's connection with the East and its security from invasion.
In 1877 Oscar Wilde was attending Magdalen College, Oxford. That year he chose to spend his vacation in Greece, stopping off at Ravenna. The city engendered a long poem, "Ravenna," which garnered the Newdigate Prize in the following year. Trenchantly, the Irish writer captures the city's situation, "Discrowned by Man, deserted by the sea./Thou sleepest, rocked in lonely misery. A special place in the poem is accorded to Dante Alighieri, who died in exile in Ravenna in 1321. Wilde does not seem to have responded to the mosaics, as they were in a style to which he was not yet attuned.
Wilde approached the city on horseback. For others, though, the city was conveniently reachable by train. It is not always realized that the spread of Europe's railway network opened up various places, hitherto little visited. The mosaics of S. Vitale and the two churches of S. Apollinare clearly struck some visitors. Arguably the faceted treatment the technique requires influenced the emergence of the Divisionist variant of Neo-Impressionism.
For some observers, especially those of Decadent leanings, Ravenna was tied up with Byzantium. In San Vitale, of course, it housed the only notable portrait of the Empress Theodora, a historical femme fatale. In 1884 the French dramatist Victorien Sardou brought Théodora before the Parisian public. Conceived as a vehicle for Sarah Bernhardt, this play crossed the personality of the empress with that of Salome.
In 1907 William Butler Yeats visited Ravenna, where the mosaics especially impressed him. Recollections of this visit formed the basis for his two later poems "Sailing to Byzantium" and "Byzantium."
Appreciation of the third city, Toledo, was bound up with the rediscovery of El Greco. Long ignored the Cretan-Spanish artist was rediscovered in the second half of the nineteenth century.
Arsène Alexandre (1859-1937) was a French art critic who wrote for Le Figaro. Together with Félix Fénéon he introduced the term Neo-Impressionism in 1886. Later, recalling the cultural climate of the 1880s, Alexandre noted that at that time there were only a dozen persons in Paris who were capable of appreciating El Greco. Edgar Degas owned one significant canvas. The influential critic Théodore Duret urged a visit to see his works in Spain. Joris-Karl Huysmans placed one in the imaginary collection of his decadent hero Des Esseintes in his 1884 novel Against Nature. (Some may miss the allusion, as the artist appears under his birth name of Theotocopuli.)
The connection was consolidated by a short book El Greco, et le secret de Tolède (1911), by the then-popular novelist Maurice Barrès (1862-1923). The French writer evoked the loss to the city of its Jewish and Muslim inhabitants. In 1561 it also forfeited its status as capital to Madrid.
Geographically, the situation of Toledo, ensconced high on a hill, differs from that of Bruges and Ravenna. Yet the Spanish city also became silent and mysterious, owing to a combination of factors that deprived it of its original significance.
"Bruges, Paris and the spectres of Symbolism"
Patrick McGuinness
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The central figure in the dead-city cult was the Belgian poet and novelist Georges Rodenbach, and the totemic city was Bruges, or, to give it its full fin-de-siècle name, Bruges-la-Morte, the title of Rodenbach's novel of 1892. Rodenbach may not have invented the "dead city" genre, but he became its most influential practitioner. He was the archetypal Symbolist: spectrally complexioned, delicately Nordic and stricken with all the right lung problems, he also produced books with titles such as Le Règne du silence and Les Vies encloses, and poems that display the Symbolist aesthetic at its most mystical and oneiric. His subjects are the deserted beguines and quaysides of "la Flandre insolite", correlatives of a poetic voice that is reflective, monotonous and introspective. There are poems with titles like "Aquarium mental" and "L'Âme sous-marine" through which the Symbolist keywords – lassitude, exil, sanglot [sobbing] – parade like unclaimed luggage on an airport conveyor.
But it was Rodenbach's novel that made him famous, and gained him something like a mass audience (the only other Symbolist to achieve this was his fellow Belgian Maurice Maeterlinck). Bruges-la-Morte generated poems and plays, films and operas, and made its author, for a time, as influential as Mallarmé, though far more easily imitated. Mallarmé famously wrote of the "double état de la parole," the double state of the word, by which he meant language in its brute and in its ideal forms. For the Belgians, caught between French and Flemish, north and south, Symbolist theory was simply an intellectualization of their own cultural, linguistic and psychological duality. The Symbolist moment was also the moment when Belgian literature emerged internationally as a distinct phenomenon, but that distinctness was always invested in paradox and ambiguity, artistic sublimations of Belgium's linguistic and cultural conflicts: between French, the language of the bourgeoisie, and the then second-class Flemish; between the Latin and the Germanic; and between the north and the south. Belgium was and still is the "double état": doubleness nationalized, where, as Jacques Brel put it, "les rues pissent dans les deux langues".
Rodenbach wrote about Belgium for the French paper Le Figaro, where Bruges-la-Morte was serialized, and about France for the Journal de Bruxelles. His first contribution to Le Figaro was a series of essays on "Agonies de villes" ("the death throes of towns"), atmospheric meditations on the urban decrepitude of Bruges, Saint-Malo and Ghent. In his piece on Bruges, Rodenbach describes the city as a sort of coastal Miss Haversham: "Bruges aujourd'hui oubliée, pauvre, seule dans ses palais vides, fut vraiment une reine dans l'Europe d'autrefois, une reine avec le faste d'un train de cour légendaire, au bord des vagues, une reine que Venise saluait comme une soeur plus heureuse et jalousait d'au-delà les horizons." (Bruges, now forgotten, impoverished, all alone with her empty palaces, was truly a queen in Europe in another age, queen to a sumptuous court of legend, beside the waves, a queen that Venice, envious beyond the far horizon, bowed down to like a less fortunate sister.)
He has also been at the fin-de-siècle medicine cabinet for his metaphors of the city's economic decline: Bruges is "consumptive," "spits out her stones as from her lungs" and has the "pallor" and "lethargy" of the terminally sick. For all this dramatic imagery, Rodenbach had a point: Bruges had once been a great port connected to the sea by the Zwijn. One day in 1475, the North Sea retreated, and the Zwijn dried up, cutting the city off from the water that had sustained it. In the words of Ernest Reynaud, one of many who tried their hands at writing a Bruges poem, the place became an "estuaire inutile oublié par la mer," a useless estuary abandoned by the sea. Baudelaire's ports are buzzing with colours, smells and sounds, they are gateways to other worlds; Rodenbach's Bruges is both relic and reliquary, tomb and stricken corpse. In his last novel, Le Carillonneur (1897), the hero wants to preserve the old Bruges, Bruges as museum-cum-mausoleum, against the civic authorities' hope to bring the water back to the city and create a new port. Today's Zeebrugge, a complex of duty-free hangars and late-night bars, is the result of their wishes, and in Le Carillonneur Rodenbach allows himself a degree of attention to contemporary social reality that is almost absent from Bruges-la-Morte.
Despite its melodrama and symbolism, Le Carillonneur touches on Flemish nationalism and cultural resistance, industry and commerce, tourism and engineering, and is Rodenbach's most complex and textured work of fiction. It was not a big success – his readers wanted their Bruges shimmering with torpor, shrouded in crepuscular murk and lost in self-contemplation. Construction of the port of Zeebrugge began in 1897, five years after Bruges-la-Morte, and the year Le Carillonneur appeared. (It was completed 100 years ago this year.)
Rodenbach gave the French an exoticized Bruges, an epilogue-city that could function as an other to bustling Paris, city of Heracleitan flow. The cult of Bruges comes from a fixation with stalling time in an era of frenetic change and movement: Rodenbach's Bruges is a stagnant pool, its water stilled or slowed to a trickle. The novel's extraordinary popularity in France is due in part to the fact that his Belgium is made for export, like those luxury products one never sees in their country of origin. For Rodenbach, Belgium becomes more itself the further one gets from it:
"Paris donne du recul, crée la nostalgie . . . . Or on peut dire de tout art qu'il provient d'une nostalgie, du désir de vaincre l'absence, de faire se survivre et se conserver pour soi, ce qui bientôt sera loin ou ne sera plus." (Paris gives you distance, creates nostalgia . . . . We could say that all art comes from nostalgia, from the need to conquer absence, to help survive and to keep for oneself what will soon be far away or not be at all.)
The suggestion is that exile from Belgium is the best position from which to write about Belgium, and that literal exile may well be a correlative, or a double, of the Belgian writer's internal exile. Belgium is more Belgian when one – or it – is not there.
Bruges-la-Morte came out in the same year as Maeterlinck's Pelléas et Mélisande, and both works have come to represent the high points of Symbolism. They are as redolent of their period as Mallarmé's poems, Debussy's music and Khnopff's paintings. Maeterlinck specialized in a theatre of inaction – "static theatre", he called it – and it is interesting to think of his plays, like Rodenbach's novels and poems, as islands of stasis and reflection in an age of tumult: the early to mid-1890s was a period of anarchist bombing campaigns, state paranoia and financial crisis. The social and political contexts from which Symbolism averted its gaze were busy ones. In an age saturated with spectacle, Maeterlinck's theatre was the only place you could go and be able to rely on nothing happening. By the same logic, Rodenbach's Bruges promised an antidote to the flux of Parisian life, and Paris was where the cult of Bruges really took hold. "Bruges-la-Morte" is really a Symbolist anti-Paris, the static, inverted double of the French capital, and the majority of tourists who visited Bruges for its deadness were Parisians. Dead-city tourism took off. Swarms of weekend city-break necrophiles descended on Bruges, and found more or less what they were looking for.
What they were looking for can be seen in the famous portrait of the Belgian Symbolist painted by Lucien Lévy-Dhurmer in 1895, three years after the publication of Bruges-la-Morte, which is now in the Musée d'Orsay in Paris. It depicts Rodenbach in an open-necked white shirt, with a stylized Bruges behind him. There are gabled housefronts and a beguinhof on his left, a cathedral tower on his right, and, below it, a low stone bridge. His shoulders seem to merge with the canal at his back, and he looks thin and ghostly (he died three years later, in the same year as his friend and master, Mallarmé). Rodenbach appears as the city's emanation, a pale flower from its watery depths; at the same time, Bruges is like a crepuscular think-bubble, existing only as the writer's projection. The persistence of that image, or its persistent vagueness, is attested to by the fact that in the Pisan Cantos, meditating on the lost world of European Symbolism, Pound remembers, or half-remembers, "somebody's portrait of Rodenbach."
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That Pound cannot quite remember the painter or the location seems in keeping with the Symbolist aesthetic of the lacuna, and with the book's paradoxical status as, on the one hand, the ultimate novel of place and, on the other, French literature's finest example of place evacuated and dematerialized. Mallarmé's poem "Remémoration d'amis belges" imagines Flanders as an ideal Symbolist region, a place on the border between presence and absence, reality and imagination, concreteness and immateriality. One of the recurrent images in Rodenbach's prose and poetry is lace, "dentelle": the ubiquitous nuns are in lace shawls, the windows are shivering with lace curtains, the surf of the sea resembles Brugian dentelle. It is also one of Mallarmé's favourite images, and he compared Rodenbach's novel to a piece of Flemish lace: a delicate knit of matter and void, emptiness coalescing into form, form composing itself around emptiness.
The premiss of Bruges-la-Morte is simple: Hugues Viane, a young widower, settles in the city because it is a propitious place to mourn his wife. The novel is not without its suspense, and Rodenbach is able to draw the thin plot out as far as it will go before the ending brings everything crashing into Gothic melodrama. For all his delicate poeticism, he could tell a tale, and he had always been interested in the unconscious, in medical disorders and in aberrant psychology: among his short stories (collected in Le Rouet des brumes and still untranslated) are small masterpieces of fin-de-siècle fiction about mesmerism, murder, suicide, narcissism and automatism. It is significant that Hugues has left Paris – where, the novel tells us, he had led a happy and eventful life – and is looking for somewhere whose every stone and curtained window endorses his grief. The novel is an experiment in decadent psychogeography, where everything submits to the poetic, and to the poetics of reflection: the canals are "analogies" to Viane's sorrow, the winding streets map his own convoluted inwardness, the city rhymes with his bereavement. We might think of Bruges-la-Morte as an attempt to transfer into prose the period's poetic fascination with rhyme: Hugues looks in mirrors, he watches the trees and houses reflected in the still waters, sees versions of himself in the darkened windows which are described as being like eyes clouded over before death. In the original edition, Rodenbach included sepiatone photographs of Bruges, and it was these that Lévy-Dhurmer worked from, having never himself set foot in the city. Subsequent editions left them out, but the original photographs, like the haunted Bruges cityscapes painted by Fernand Khnopff, had fixed on the canals reflecting the quays and streets back at themselves in such stillness and detail that it was hard to tell which was the reflection and which the original. Upside down, the images would look no different: they were more than visual rhymes, they were visual palindromes, and nicely suggested both the novel's concern with reflection and inversion and its atmosphere of entrapment and claustration. (Mallarmé asked Rodenbach whether Bruges-la-Morte was the tale of a hero who projected his inner world onto the city, or of a city whose human inhabitants were just figments of its own imagination.)
The book's central rhyme is between the dead wife and Bruges, and just in case the reader was going to miss this, Rodenbach helps out:
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Viane meets an actress and dresses and grooms her to resemble the dead woman, getting drawn further and further into an erotic relationship that, while being more "real" than the ritualistic mourning, is also a vulgar copy of the original love. This is the fausse rime on which the novel depends. The whole of Bruges-la-Morte is a tesselation of doublings and pairings, reflections and inversions. The only element of the story that is unpaired is Viane himself, and Rodenbach has him muse on his widowhood: "Veuf! Etre veuf! . . . Mot irrémédiable et bref, sans écho. Mot impair et qui désigne bien l'être dépareillé". That word "impair" reverberates in French prosody too: famously, in the imparisyllabic line of the master of regretful decadence, Paul Verlaine, who in "Art poétique" celebrates the beauty of the uneven and the asymmetrical: "De la musique avant toute chose, / Et pour cela préfère l'Impair . . .". That is Hugues Viane: a lost syllable in a world of rhyming, scanning pairs. His lament is untranslatable, not just because the French measure their poems in syllables and not feet (perhaps in English an odd sock might carry the same weight of personal loss and prosodic awkwardness), but because "widower" and "widowed" have too many syllables.
The lure of what the French called la Flandre insolite has worked on a number of English-language writers. One of the few pieces of writing about Bruges that injects life into the place, and breaks free of Rodenbach's compelling though simplified version, is Henry Miller's "Impressions of Bruges", in which Bruges contrasts happily with the "rectilinear nightmare" of American cities. It is precisely because he is coming at it from the American city and not from Paris that he makes out its secret life. For Miller, Bruges is not dead; it isn't even sleeping. It is living and breathing, its winding streets and circular walks offer a challenge to the dull straight lines of "Progress", a different way of thinking about time and movement, and a more organic rhythm of urban life. Most recently, Alan Hollinghurst, in his novel The Folding Star, has drawn on the mix of eroticism, occultism, and psychosexual geography that characterizes Belgian fin-de-siècle art and literature. His novel is a glittering updating of the genre: set in a Flemish city that may or may not be Antwerp (with elements of Bruges), it involves a modern story of love and sexual obsession intertwined with an investigation into the dark world of the late-nineteenth-century artist Edgard Orst, who may or may not be James Ensor or Fernand Khnopff. As in Rodenbach, so in Hollinghurst: what makes a dead city so attractive is that it pulses with a darker shade of life.
There was always something of the stage Belgian to Rodenbach, and his detractors accused him of producing a kind of literary camelote, a kitsch Flanders that bore no relation to the reality of the place. More locally, the upstanding burghers of Bruges were dismayed to have their city given the epithet of morte, and be depicted as a place of economic stagnation, religious superstition and twisted eroticism. Today's visitor to Bruges will look in vain for a memorial to Rodenbach. A statue in his honour, offered by no less a sculptor than Rodin, was refused by the authorities, and even now there is only a small plaque to his memory. The Rodenbach you see on menus in Bruges's cafés is a dark fruity beer and has nothing to do with the man who thought that Belgium was always at its best when viewed from elsewhere. It is also available by the crate in Zeebrugge's "Mr Booze" duty-free supermarket.
Patrick McGuinness's translations of Québecois poetry will be published next year.


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Materials Recycling Facilities (MRFs)
We operate two Materials Recycling Facilities (MRFs) in London (Hackney) and Essex (Barking). They have a combined area of 18 acres and are both fully permitted by the Environment Agency to receive up to 1.3 million tonnes of waste per annum.
We accept a complete range of wastes and specialist loads at our two MRFs and can accommodate almost any sized vehicle.
Booking-in is straightforward using our Avery-calibrated, self-service weighbridges which are fully automated allowing you to enter the site using a touch-screen terminal accessible from your vehicle.
Zero to landfill
In October 2011 McGrath formally announced it had reached a 3-year corporate goal to achieve "Zero to Landfill".
Advances in reprocessing technology combined with the development and implementation of our two new packaging plants have enabled us to collect and dispatch residues from our MRF for Waste to Energy processing which has allowed us to divert all but hazardous wastes from landfill.
Trade bodies and accreditations
The McGrath Group is accredited to various trade bodies and accreditations including PAS 402:2013. We also operate an integrated management system which is certificated against international standards OHSAS 18001 (health & safety), IS0 9001 (quality) and ISO 14001 (environmental) and ensures our products and services are supplied safely, consistently and sustainably. There are more details of our accreditations here.
Both MRFs are easily accessible being situated on major arterial roads in and out of the capital – just 5 mins from the Blackwall Tunnel, 10 mins from M11 and 15 mins from the M25.
MRF in Essex (Barking)
The Barking MRF is located in the heart of the industrial complex in River Road off the A13. The 11-acre site in Barking has undergone major redevelopment to significantly expand our recycling capacity. We have installed the latest MRF process sorting technology.
The site also has wharf waste facilities, which can accommodate 100m vessels to provide a more sustainable method of transporting wastes from site and to their ultimate destination. The wharf waste facilities are just six miles from central London, and used to transfer waste from boats on the Thames in London, amongst many other uses.
|54-60 River Road, Barking, Essex IG11 0DW
|0845 548 5500 / 0845 658 8391
|0844 579 3560
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|Operational Times
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MRF in London (Hackney)
Our MRF in Hackney is located in Wansbeck Road and is accessible via the A12 (via the Wick Lane overpass) and Old Ford Road. This site operates our crushing and washing plant to enable quality recycled aggregates to be processed.
|Wansbeck Road, Hackney, London E9 5HL
|0845 548 5500 / 0845 658 8391
|0844 579 3560
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We have developed a network of specialist re-processing partners for recycling other materials. Metal waste is separated magnetically into different elements and remelted where impurities are extracted and the residues re-cast.
Plastics are shredded into a variety of different grades and used as feedstock for manufacturing of new plastic items. Paper and card is graded then pulped and screened, cleaned and de-inked through a number of processes until suitable for reconstitution into new paper products.
Organic materials such as non-protein-rich food or green waste are composted which involves adding natural enzyme-based substances to accelerate decomposition.
Where possible we will always attempt to find destinations that re-process rather than recycle waste. For all wastes but particularly bulk items or ad hoc materials we collect, we assess if there is a potential re-use.
For example, we work closely with our service partners to ensure the most sustainable solution is delivered for unwanted office furniture and equipment. Good quality items that have no resale value are distributed to worthy local charities.


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FREE "Deer And Darling" QP Set5:35 AM
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Cute, cute! Love it!ReplyDelete
Love it! They are so cute!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 21, 2010 at 7:18 PM
Adorable! I've got the other papers too. However, I cannot find the link to download the quick pages--am I missing something?ReplyDelete
Very nice - so cute!ReplyDelete
OMG is so so pretty thanks for sharing this with us!!! I couldn't find the link for download. I'll be back later :D thanks again!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousApril 22, 2010 at 7:28 AM
Love this whole kit, but the kink is not working for the latest two QP's. Nothing happens when I click on it. Help!ReplyDelete
The link is working now!!!ReplyDelete
This quickpage (and kit) is perfect! My husband sings a song from the movie Darby O'Gill and the Little People to my little girl and this qp/kit matches perfectly.ReplyDelete
Here is a line from the song: "Oh, she is my dear, my darlin' one. Her eyes so sparklin', full of fun. No other, no other, can match the likes of her."
Thanks so much for sharing your amazing talent!!


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The Violence Prevention Network
The Violence Prevention Network (VPN) is a collaborative of violence prevention programs based in Cumberland County, Maine. Together, these programs represent a K-12 approach to violence prevention programming for schools, with the objective to provide age-appropriate educational and co-curricular programming for students to address issues related to exposure to violence.
Our members include:
- Hardy Girls Healthy Women
- Boys to Men
- Civil Rights Team Project
- Portland Defending Childhood
- Family Crisis Services
- Prevention. Action. Change.
- Speak About It
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One of the main storylines that goes on in Skyrim is a big civil war. On one side, you have the Imperials, the main army of Tamriel trying to restore order to the nation that has stepped out of line with the emperor's decree. On the other side, you have the Nord rebels, the Stormcloaks, who are against Imperial control. However, which side to join is not the easiest choice, and without a second full playthrough, you will never get to see both sides. So, I decided to make a list of qualities of both sides to see which one is better to join.
The Stormcloaks are the uprising rebels. At the beginning of the game, you find yourself face to face with the executioner's axe. Why? Doesn't matter. Every Elder Scrolls game starts this way. You're imprisoned or finished your sentence or something. Just a good literary point to have a "new beginning on life". Alongside of you to be executed is the head of the Stormcloak rebellion, Ulfric, who is proud of his Nord heritage. Before the execution can take place, a dragon attacks and you and Ulfric escape. So, automatically you're thinking of joining the Stormcloaks as there is already a bond there. So, I visited the Stormcloak's main city of Windhelm to join up with them… and found the city in trouble. With Ulfric in charge, the other races in the town who weren't Nord were segregated. If you weren't Nord, you were nothing. Argonians only live outside the city and are used for slave-like labor on the docks. Dark Elves are relegated to a single area of the city. Racism runs rampant under the Stormcloak rule. So, these people who fight for their freedom from the Empire are also taking away the rights of others. It also doesn't help that when you first meet Ulfric, he's kinda a jerk.
This didn't sit well with me, so I visited the Imperial capital of Solitude. Their side of the story isn't so clean either. From their side, they are trying to end the rebellion to restore order to Skyrim. However, it also comes at the cost of taking away the right of free religion. During the big war that happened before Skyrim's beginning, the elves dictated that one of the game's deities, Talos, a mortal whose accomplishments made him a god in the eyes of the people, was blasphemous to the worship of other gods and his worship was to be abolished. The elves are essentially the main power in Tamriel as they forced the signing of a treaty to end the war. The banning of worship of Talos was part of the treaty. So, the Imperials are also fighting to stop the practice of the Nord people's primary religious figure.
So, the choice is definitely not one that is supposed to be easy. Side with the racist rebels trying to protect their religious freedom and create a free Skyrim? Or with the race accepting, but anti-religious Imperials who are just looking to establish order? Either way, the choice feel dirty. Establish freedom at the cost of racism, or create order at the cost of religious tolerance? Personally, I don't consider myself racist. I think I'm a very accepting individual, accepting others of races and religions not my own. However, freedom is a very important human right. Everyone, doesn't matter their race or orientation, deserves the same basic rights.
In the end, I see the abolishment of en entire religion to be the bigger offender. Racism will always exist at some level, and though it is terrible, racial tolerance will eventually prevail in the long run. Religious freedom, especially one that doesn't harm anyone else, might not survive the war if the Imperials win. So, in this case, fighting the war for religious freedom seems more justified. Despite Ulfric being a prick, his fight seems right. Most important, you don't have to like the leader to agree with their cause.
Aside from the philosophical discussion, I have a gaming goal. Essentially I want to get as far as I can in Skyrim before Guild Wars 2 launches. I'm afraid I simply won't be able to make this goal as Skyrim is… well… Skyrim. I've hit level 42, so not too much can stand in my way at this point… but I STILL haven't even really touched the main storyline. There's just so much to do!! I haven't even visited every major city yet! So, my gaming plan may be to even give the Guild Wars 2 launch a little bit of a pass until I complete Skyrim. I know that by the time I'm completely done with Skyrim, I'll be so tired of the game that I won't want to touch another Elder Scrolls game until they release the next one (Hopefully… I know there is an Elder Scrolls MMO on the horizon, but I'm really hoping they don't stop making the single player titles because of it).
So, anyway, thank you for reading and here are a few more screenshots for your enjoyment.
Game well, my friends.
\\ Ocho
P.S. – I added a few more mods to the game, including ENB Cinematic Lighting, which completely overhauls the lighting in the game. Hence why all the screenshots above look a little more shadowed, bright, and colorful. Without it… the game just looks muted and dull. Plus, light spells, torches, and lanterns are useful again.


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Practice Areas
AD/CV Notices: Welded Pipes and Tubes, Saccharin, Oil Country Tubular Goods
Agency: International Trade Administration.
Commodity: Circular welded carbon steel pipes and tubes.
Country: Turkey.
Nature of Notice: Final results of administrative review of countervailing duty order for the period Jan. 1 through Dec. 31, 2012.
Details: De minimis net subsidy rates for the Borusan Companies and Erbosan; as a result, no CV duties will be assessed on entries of subject merchandise from these companies during the period of review, and no CV cash deposits will be required for such merchandise entered or withdrawn from warehouse for consumption on or after Aug. 26. Net subsidy rate of 0.83 percent for Toscelik; CV duties will be assessed and cash deposits collected accordingly. Review rescinded for Yucel, Umran and Guven; as a result, CV duties on subject merchandise from these companies will be assessed at the CV cash deposit rate required at the time of entry or withdrawal from warehouse for consumption.
Agency: International Trade Administration.
Commodity: Saccharin.
Country: China.
Nature of Notice: Sunset review determination that revocation of this antidumping duty order would be likely to lead to continuation or recurrence of dumping at margins of 249.39 percent to 329.94 percent.
Agency: International Trade Commission.
Commodity: Oil country tubular goods.
Country: Saudi Arabia.
Nature of Notice: Termination of antidumping injury investigation, effective Aug. 19, due to final negative AD duty determination by ITA.


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Fees | CPHT Brighton Hypnotherapy Training
The total cost of the course is £2760.00 Sterling. Normally payment is via ten monthly instalments of £276.00 Sterling. Fees may be paid by bank transfer, cash, cheque or standing order. Funding – for information on financial assistance to support your learning, please visit or contact 0800 100 900. If you live far from the training centre and have to stay in accommodation for one or more nights please make it clear on your application form. We can suggest reasonably priced hotels/guest houses. Additional Costs (Unless otherwise stated to be applicable by Month 3) Because we are a very practical course and see members of the public from the outset of the course we have, largely as a 'peace of mind' precaution, arranged student malpractice insurance. Generally the cost of this would be £30 - £40 for a twelve month period. It is a requirement that students join the prestigious Association for Solution Focused Hypnotherapy (AfSFH) as a student
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This hollow form vessel, "Aquifer", was turned from end grain, fiddle back maple. The elegance and fluidity of this piece is obtained by employing Fibonacci proportions. The orientation of the fiddle back grain, in combination with the layers of aniline dyes, creates great movement in the piece. This piece creates the illusion of water spilling out of the opening and down the form. Your eye then travels back up the elegant form and the journey begins again.
"Aquifer" highlights the incredible depth created by the layers of aniline dyes. The grain, detail and colors create great movement, allowing the viewer a ride on the rapids. Once you have reached the end of the ride, it is only natural to follow the elegant form back and take another journey.
"Aquifer" allows the viewer more tranquility. You are able to get close and admire the incredible depth, detail, and subtleties. I believe in form over function. "Aquifer" stands up proud, as if it just inhaled new life. "Aquifer" has a small footprint, somehow defying gravity with perfect balance – like a ballet dancer en pointe. Strong and bold, yet dainty and fragile; "Aquifer" marries complete opposites into an exercise of controlled passion of eloquence and fluidity.
-- My favorite piece is my last one, my best piece is my next one.
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#1 posted 07-31-2010 03:13 PM
Wow Joe, it is beautiful, you really have this method down pat. Great work.
-- Dan Wiggins
#2 posted 07-31-2010 03:19 PM
A beautiful piece. From the shape to the figure to the colour… pure excellence!
-- Ken in Sharbot Lake, Ontario
#3 posted 07-31-2010 03:19 PM
Probably my favorite. Really nice colors.
-- Gerry, http://www.thecncwoodworker.com/index.html http://www.jointcam.com
#4 posted 07-31-2010 03:26 PM
Another real beauty, Joe. Your finishes are absolutely amazing.
I'm going to have to start putting on hip boots to read your descriptions, though…. they're getting pretty deep. :-)
-- Charlie M. "Woodworking - patience = firewood"
#5 posted 07-31-2010 03:28 PM
Incredible piece – absolutely stunning.
#6 posted 07-31-2010 03:34 PM
Great job and very good description of your piece. The finish is amazing. It almost looks like a polished stone.
-- I'm a Fungi --
#7 posted 07-31-2010 03:55 PM
The depth that you get on your finish is absolutley amazing. A very beautiful peice. Thanks for sharing your works of art.
-- Mike, Missouri --- "A positive life can not happen with a negative mind." ---
#8 posted 07-31-2010 03:57 PM
Quite a description change since you first posted this project over a year ago : )
-- I'm absolutely positive that I couldn't be more uncertain!
#9 posted 07-31-2010 04:01 PM
Joe, WOW! What a stunning piece. You are in a class of your own.Don't pay no never mind to Charlie..he ain't had his meds yet today.Anything more than 5 words messes him up!! Your writing are as eloquant as your work. I like both.
#10 posted 07-31-2010 04:08 PM
A truly admirable piece! Your description gives great insight as to what the viewer can see in the beautiful grain of the wood and the balance you obtained in your turning presents grace and elegance in the final work. Your finishing techniques have always been excellent along with your shapes. It's always a pleasure to see your work and how it has matured and keeps advancing. Excellent work!
-- "They who dream by day are cognizant of many things which escape those who dream only by night." ~ Edgar Allan Poe
#11 posted 07-31-2010 04:16 PM
A beautiful piece.
-- I've been blessed with a father who liked to tinker in wood, and a wife who lets me tinker in wood. Appomattox Virginia [email protected] †
#12 posted 07-31-2010 04:16 PM
I could stare at this all day long! Very beautiful work.
-- Robert B. Sabina, Ohio..... http://www.etsy.com/shop/WoodenfrogWoodenProd
#13 posted 07-31-2010 04:28 PM
Thanks for sharing,
-- Chuck Emery, Michigan,
#14 posted 07-31-2010 04:30 PM
That's a pretty one, I bet it is stunning in person.
#15 posted 07-31-2010 04:32 PM
Very nice Joe.
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From Zero-K
Using the "game" menu you can quickly hotbind any key combos to almost any action or unit commands. For more advanced usage of hotkeys see this page: Keybind file
Selection Keys[edit]
Selection Keys are commands that quickly select groups of units. You can edit your selection keys in the game by navigating to Game > Selections.
Some selection key examples[edit]
- Ctrl-C selects your commander and focuses on him. Forgot where your commander is? Hit Ctrl-C!
- Z selects an idle builder. Pressing it multiple times cycles through your idle builders.
- Ctrl-B selects all idle builders.
- Ctrl-A selects all. Convenient in some situations, just please don't use Ctrl-D with this when the battle is still going.
- Ctrl-Z selects all units of the same type as those in the current selection. The most used command, by many players. Very useful for keeping your army together, getting reinforcements, etc.
Auto grouping[edit]
Ever wished to have all fighters in group 7, all gunships in group 8, all raiders in 4 etc? Autogroup achieves just that..
- Auto grouping is feature of ZK (widget)
- Alt+number - makes permanent "auto group" out of currently selected unit types
- New units then join that group when they first become idle.
- Alt+~ - removes currently selected unit types from the autogrouping.
- Ctrl+~ - selects ONE unit out of currently selected units (closest to your mouse cursor) and removes it from any groups (not removing type from auto group, just current unit from group).
- Autogroup settings can be modified from the in-game menu: Menu -> Settings -> Interface -> Control Groups
Example use:
- Select a Glaive and a Warrior and press _alt+1_.
- From then on, new Glaives and Warriors will join group 1 when they first become idle (after reaching factory waypoint). You can press 1 to select them.
- If you then want to add Zeuses to autogroup 1, select one and press alt+1.
- If you then want to remove Glaives from autogroup 1, select one and press alt+~.


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Party dealing with the land or interest
The full legal name of the party to a transaction must be stated on a Real Property Act dealing form and must be identical to the name of the registered proprietor of the estate or interest being dealt with as shown on the Torrens Register.
Also see Change of name of a party dealing pages.
The ACN for a company must be stated.
The ARBN for other bodies corporate, other than a company or statutory authority, capable of dealing with land must be stated.
A foreign company that does not have an ARBN must furnish a statutory declaration or statement set out under the company letterhead by an officer or representative of the company stating that the company:
- is a foreign company
- is not registered in Australia as a foreign company
- does not have an ARBN and
- does not carry on business in Australia.
The capacity of trustees, executors or administrators must not be shown on a dealing, see s82(1) Real Property Act 1900, except for:
- a Transmission Application
- a Bankruptcy Application or
- an application pursuant to:
- s46C Real Property Act 1900
- s12 Trustee Act 1925 or
- an Order of Court.
A dealing that will be executed on behalf of the registered proprietor (e.g. a liquidator, a trustee or pursuant to an Order of Court, or an attorney) must be drawn in the name of the relevant registered proprietor.
See dealing by a minor page.
Staff processing information
Where a party who has dealt with an estate or interest is deceased, except for a severance of joint tenancy, and the dealing has been executed by the deceased, refer to Legal through the Senior Examining Officer for approval to register. Where the party severing a joint tenancy is deceased, a Notice of Death form 02ND should be lodged and the dealing must be drawn in the name of the surviving joint tenant.


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Who We Are
ACCA offers the broadest continuum of addictions care in the Capital Region and is a leader in best practices for addictions treatment and prevention. Several of ACCA's award-winning prevention programs have been distributed nationally and are utilized across the country to educate and equip school children with the knowledge to prevent addiction and live healthy and productive lives. ACCA's programs are recognized nationally as solid evidence-based models with exceptional rates of success in treatment and prevention.
ACCA's continuum of care includes the following treatment and prevention programs:
Treatment Programs
Prevention Education
ACCA is unique in its philosophy and focus on the individual needs of each person served, integrated compassion and care, respect for diversity, and distinctive approach to group and individual counseling. ACCA is licensed by the New York State Office of Alcohol and Substance Abuse (OASAS) which provides ongoing regulatory oversight.
As a 501(c)(3) not-for-profit, ACCA relies on the generous support of our community to maintain critical programs throughout the Capital Region. Funding for ACCA is provided by individual and corporate giving programs, government funding, private grants, and funds raised by The Addictions Care Foundation, which provides continuing support to advance the mission and vision of ACCA in preventing and treating addictions.
ACCA and the Addictions Care Foundation partner together to continually search for fresh and innovative opportunities to deliver their message to the community—that addiction is both preventable and treatable.


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Mohammed Bashir, a suspected member of Boko Haram, says the insurgent group was planning to carry out attacks in Ondo state before he was arrested.
Speaking while he was paraded on Thursday by the police, Bashir who was arrested in Akoko south-east local government area of Ondo, described himself as an "officer in Boko Haram" and said "killing means nothing to us".
The suspect told journalists that since he joined the sect he had participated in many of the attacks in Borno and Nasarawa states.
"I am an officer in Boko Haram, I was arrested by the police when I wanted to go and eat. Other members of the gang and I have been meeting in the bush on how to carry out attacks on Ondo state," he said.
"I left the meeting to go and eat when the police arrested me. Killing means nothing to us. I have once killed two people with gun. I killed one man and a boy; we just kill people at will.
"We kill people because we believe that those practising western education are evil doers and we must kill them."
Gbenga Adeyanju, police commissioner of Ondo, said they were working to ensure the arrest of other Boko Haram members that may be in the state.
"If they (Boko Haram) remain in this state, we will get them; it is our work, we know how to get them," he said.
The police commissioner further called on the residents to support security agencies by giving out information that would lead to the arrest of criminals.


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A foundation dedicated to helping homeless children in Venezuela's Vargas State has announced is celebrating nine years in operation.
Venezuelan food sector entrepreneur Mauro Libi Crestani founded the Casa Hogar Foundation in 2008 in response to an influx of children living on the streets of Vargas. It has paid for housing, education and medical care for 146 children since its founding.
"These children were abandoned by their parents,' Crestani said. "It's heartbreaking. Everybody needs a family."
Crestani said that 12 Casa Hogar "graduates" are now in college.
Vargas suffered what many believe was Venezuela's worst natural disaster in 1999, when a mudslide killed an estimated 10,000 to 30,000 there. The community never recovered economically.
"Someone had to step in and do something," Crestani said. "I wish we could do more."
Casa Hogar signified its anniversary with a evening gala that included the children. They received soccer equipment and uniforms as gifts and were treated to music by a local youth symphony orchestra .
Food processing and philanthropy
Crestani is the president of the food processing company Avenas Inproceca. The company is one of the main oat processing and distributing companies in the country of Venezuela.
He began in business after becoming inspired by his father, who was an entrepreneur. When he was 16 years old, Crestani studied management in Milan, Italy.
He came back to Venezuela a decade later in 1996 to become a food industry entrepreneur. His first job was at his father's company, where he ran a team of 33 people.
Casa Hogar Al Fin Foundation
The foundation is located in the town of La Guaira. It has the capacity to serve up to 75 children at any given time.
According to their age, kids receive an education through the foundation's various alliances with local schools. The foundation pays for the education.
Of the total number of children who have passed through Casa Hogar Al Fin since its founding, more than 50% have been able to be reinserted into new families, and have been able to develop professionally thanks to the help of the Foundation.


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I've been wanting to try making a basic salt pork recipe for a while now. I've had a real craving to cook some classic french dishes like Cassoulet and Petit Salé aux lentils but that is hard to do without the star ingredient, petit salé. Petit salé is a very basic French dry cure salt pork, cured with Sel Aromatise and generally soaked before use, As with the Sel Aromatise recipe posted earlier in the week, this recipe is an adaptation of one of Lindy Wildsmith's. I've made a few tweaks to the recipe to save time and cut out the soaking stage, the most important of these is reducing the salt content substantially. I've also used a pinch of Prague powder to ensure that the meat retains its lovely bacon pink colour when cooked. This results in a beautiful, delicately spiced piece of pork that is equally at home in a soup, stew, or used to enhance the flavour of side dishes. It's particularly good in my basic gumbo recipe that I'll be writing about in a few weeks.
The pork I used for this was a tasty bit of belly that came from the Sillfield farm shop in Borough Market and came with thick creamy layers of tasty tasty fat on it (as well as quite a lot of hair. It's strange starting a recipe by shaving your meat. I should do a post on porcine grooming at some point!)
Jon's Petit Salé
700g pork belly, rind on.
30g sel aromatise
10g dextrose
2g Prague powder #1
2 bay leaves, crumbled
1g juniper berries, crushed.
The recipe for this,like most other bacons is incredibly simple so forgive me if the below recipe is slightly shorter than usual. It's simply a case of some basic preparation then having the patience to wait until its ready. If however, you are confused by anything, I'd recommend casting an eye over my previous cured pork posts.
Take your piece of meat and trim off any loose bits of fat. A square or rectangular piece of petit salé is easier to cut than a misshapen piece. If your meat is hairy, you can shave it or use a lighter to burn off the excess hair.
Take your pork and place it in a freezer bag. Next combine your seasoning ingredients and rub them thoroughly into the meat. It makes sense to do this when it's already in the bag as that way you won't lose any seasoning. You want to aim for about 80% of your cure rubbed into the meaty sides and maybe 20% on the skin. My skin piece came from the butcher with the skin scored for roasting so I was able to work more cure in that way.
Wrap your meat in the bag and place in the fridge to cure, turning occasionally and rubbing the meat through the bag to work the salt and seasonings in. After about a week, take your meat out of the bag and place on a rack to dry. Place it back in the fridge and leave for another week to dry out by the end of which you'll have petit salé ready to go. As I mentioned earlier, this is great in cassoulet, gumbo, or with lentils. You can also use it in place of ordinary bacon and the taste of it is just great; slightly spiced, salty and deeply porky.