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My life and good
Long? Certainly. I little thought, when I was singing Cumberland Gap with the Original Riversiders skiffle group back in the middle of the Twentieth Century, that I'd still be at it (albeit with a rather different repertoire), five decades later.
Hard? Well, there have been good times as well as bad. These days, the toughest time is when the phone rings, and it's The Independent on the phone; "Oh God," I cry, "who's dead now?" Because the only time the broadsheets call it's the obituary desk, and is so-and-so important? Funny, I could ring the arts page until my dialling finger's white-numb, and the day before, they didn't want to know about so-and-so. The day after so-and-so dies, I can get a big piece in, plus a picture splash.
Seems like, the way it's always been for artists from Dylan Thomas to Kurt Cobain, they have to die to live.
After Bert Lloyd died, they organised a big celebratory concert in his memory. "Sod that," I exclaimed, and we (Bruce Dunnet and I, that is) persuaded Ken Livingstone to lend us County Hall for a weekend symposium in honour of Ewan MacColl, which the great man could attend himself. Thank God we honoured Martin Carthy while the old bugger was still alive , though that was someone else's bright idea, not mine.
It's a murderous business, this music. "Ashes t'ashes 'n' dust t'dust/If the drugs don't get you, the car-smash must," as the old jazz standard didn't quite put it. Back in the Seventies I wrote a book called Singers of an Empty Day: Last Sacraments for the Superstars. Much of it was bollocks, attempting to relate the rock scene to the writings of Sir James Frazer (The Golden Bough), Robert Graves (The White Goddess, The Greek Myths), and Margaret Murray (The God of the Witches), seeing the dead superstars as ritual sacrifices. In among the ill-digested anthropology, I did get one thing right, I'm sorry to say: that if the Beatles ever re-formed, they'd die.
Well, they didn't. But the only Beatle who stayed more or less true to the original dream was shot down on the steps of the Dakota apartments in New York on December 8, 1980. The first I knew of it was when a colleague rang me. "I thought you were full of shit," he said, "but you were right. John Lennon's dead."
So many deaths, so many bright talents cut down in their prime: John . . . Jimi . . . Sandy . . . Phil . . . Peter . . . Redd . . . the Martins (Lamble and Winsor) . . . Tim Hardin, who had more or less kicked his habit when suddenly getting all those royalties from If I Were a Carpenter pushed him off the rails again.
Not to mention those whose more balanced lifestyle kept them going to a ripe old age but the grim reaper got 'em all in the end. So many wonderful singers and musicians, just to mention whose names is like plugging into reality: Maggie Barry, Michael Gorman, Harry Cox, Billy Pigg, Walter Pardon, Jeannie Robertson . . . each name drags back into memory too many more to list here.
People look wide-eyed when I reminisce about what Bob Dylan or Miles Davis or Jim Morrison or Phil Ochs might have said to me, but the real memories I treasure are the walking wounded who are still going -- if not strong, then soldiering on. People like Joe Cocker, who proved to me that white men can sing the blues if their roots are in the steel mill, the aforesaid Bruce Dunnet, who refused to manage the Rolling Stones and wouldn't book Paul Simon for a fiver, no longer managing acts but still hoping the revolution comes before closing time, John Hasted, the atomic scientist who turned his University College lab into a songwriters' workshop, the man I used to dictate my songs to over the phone, and I did it just before the retired prof died, during the bombing of Yugoslavia, about Milica, an injured schoolchild in Serbia.
Walking wounded: the words came into my head when I was talking to Cocker, at some sort of half-arsed commemoration of Woodstock, staged in a half-empty aircraft hangar somewhere in the Lowlands of Holland, I forget exactly where, probably in '79 or so, the sort of commercialised cash-in rip-off that all too often (thank you, Lord!) collapses into disaster. As did, indeed, Woodstock itself, despite the myth.
Talking to Cocker was
like space communication in 2001 Space Odyssey: "Hello Mission Control,
do you copy?" [Long pause] "Yes, we read you, Discovery. Go
I don't claim my demons are the equal of Cocker's, or anyone else's for that matter, and I'm not doing any kind of "poor me" bit, because if it all ended right now, then I'd still be ahead of the game. I've been a very lucky man. OK there's been shit; it happens. But the dark is a frame for the day, yin-yang, you win some you lose some, the rough with the smooth, as my friend Steve Ashley once sang, so brilliantly.
It has been my good fortune, ever since my first article appeared in Melody Maker on July 7, 1957, to have walked with giants. OK, I never met Leadbelly, because I couldn't afford the fare to Paris when he made his sole European visit. Likewise Woody, though I was there when Arlo Guthrie started writing Alice's Restaurant in my fifth-floor London flat, and spent happy times with Woody's widow, Marjorie. I took her to see Bob Dylan at the Blackbushe airport gig and sent a message to him backstage to advise him she was there, but he never even acknowledged it. I guess he was still upset at the poor reaction he got from London folkies like me during his first visit to play a wandering minstrel in a TV play in 1964; he also remembered the way Martin Carthy and his then wife, Dorothy, had befriended him, and ensured that Martin got backstage at Blackbushe.
The thing was, Dylan really wasn't very good that trip. We'd got used to having brilliant American musicians and singers in London (and, later, though I was never that keen on him – still am not – Paul Simon), and Bob's rap about having hung out with Woody didn't go down so well, since we already had, in Ramblin' Jack Elliott, a genuine compadre of Guthrie's (Arlo told me Dylan only came to their house a few times, and visited Woody in hospital but once; of course, they never could have travelled the road together, since Woody was already too ill with Huntington's chorea before Dylan even decided to leave Hibbing).
He turned up at the Singers' Club when I was there, and I can't agree with Robert Shelton that he got a great reception because he was, frankly, just terrible. Martin had him at the King and Queen in Foley Street, but Nigel Denver wouldn't even let him sing at the Roundhouse in Wardour Street. Yes, he was that bad.
What we didn't realise (though I suspect Martin did) was that Dylan's ears were flapping all the time, and he was picking up traditional melodies which he was to use for the basis of some of his best new songs. And not only traditional: could he have written The Lonesome Death of Hattie Carroll if he hadn't heard Bertolt Brecht? Later, people put him down for rifling other people's traditions in that way, but wasn't that we were all doing? When I wrote The Arbroath Tragedy I had forgotten I'd first heard the air I used from a Northumbrian shepherd when I was a lad of eight or nine. And when there were no recordings of traditional music to be heard to expand our repertoire, the only way we could build up a repertoire which wasn't just a duplication of what we heard Bert or Ewan sing was to take a traditional theme and bring it up to date, as I did with the "who's going to shoe your pretty little foot" theme of The Lass of Loch Royal (and many others) and turn it into The Conscript's Farewell (I was mightily amused the other day to hear a "traditional" song using my melody sung in the Bradford Topic).
This was why, years later, I never could understand the supposed conflict between traditional and contemporary song. After all, the only reason trad survives is because it has a contemporary relevance and resonance to those who continue to sing it. In The Electric Muse I tried to explain why a song about a soldier dying of the pox had survived over the centuries and become a cowboy song and a New Orleans blues:
(I wrote at that time as an atheist; now, as a Christian, I would place the story in a rather different perspective, without invalidating the basic point about the songs' continuing relevance.)
Dylan was also ahead of the game (at least as far as this folkie was concerned) in his awareness of the continuing significance of blues and (later) rock 'n' roll to the traditions he was pillaging. I recall the day my friend Steve Sparkes, the mod photographer, brought in the single of Subterranean Homesick Blues to play me. It totally blew my mind, though I couldn't understand what the hell it was all about (I am still working out some of its imagery, much as one can do with Shakespeare, finding new depths within depths as the years go by).
When I had recovered a bit of my self-control, Steve said: "Of course, you know what it's based on?" I had to confess I didn't. "Chuck Berry . . . Too Much Monkey Business," he offered. He had me there. Like most folkies, I regarded the electrification of the blues as the grossest commercialism, though this was actually some years after I'd heard Fitzroy Coleman suggest to Ewan MacColl that an electric guitar would make a great accompaniment to The Bloody Gardener.
When Muddy Waters first came to Britain, he came with an electric band, and all we self-styled purists turned our noses up at him. Like all great popular artists, Muddy was willing to give the people what they wanted, so next time, he played acoustic. Unfortunately (and typically) by this time we had caught on to what was actually happening on Chicago's Southside, so we gave him stick for not playing the "authentic" electric blues, and for indulging what he imagined were our refusal to listen to it. You just can't win, if you're a musician in a truly living tradition, not one that is as moribund as England's has been for much of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries. (And no, "moribund" doesn't mean dead, as Ewan once suggested at Ballads and Blues when he was having a go at me: it means "at the point of death, in a dying state", according to the Shorter OED; can anyone doubt that this was the way it was in the Fifties? The question is: is it in any better state today, for all our efforts?)
Well, that encounter with electric Dylan literally changed my life, as profoundly as the first time I heard Charlie Parker and Dizzy Gillespie, the time I was in my bath on a Sunday morning and heard Harry Cox sing on the radio and ran down soaking wet to find out who the hell that was, singing in a way that made Ewan and Bert and the rest of us sound like the self-indulgent chancers we were. I could never understand the people who shouted "Judas" at him. But by then, of course, my view of him had changed.
If there'd been no Subterranean Homesick Blues, I might never have ended up interviewing people like Pink Floyd and Frank Zappa and Janis Joplin and Jim Morrison. I might not have understood what was really going on when Fairport Convention took down the words of ancient ballads over the phone and turned them into Liege and Lief.
The crucial watershed, for me and I think many of the rest of us, was Dylan's May 1964 tour, immortalised in the Don't Look Back movie (recently released on DVD). I caught him at the Royal Festival Hall, and my wife Gloria did a brilliant drawing of him from our seat in the stalls. My friend Ken Pitt, who wrote a monthly cabaret column in a magazine I was editing at that time (for licensed clubs, since you ask) was involved in the tour in some capacity, and he promised to get us backstage. So there was I getting what could turn out to be an exclusive interview with a young man I wouldn't have given the time of day to only eighteen months previously.
In his account of our meeting in his generally excellent biography, No Direction Home, Robert Shelton is less than fair to Dylan, describing him as "sometimes a boxer without grace". His report of our conversation is accurate, and complete: "Dylan: 'Are you for me or against me?' Dallas: 'Frankly, I don't know you.' After that, Dallas said, 'I was given the polite bum's rush.'"
But not by Dylan. He was charm itself (bear in mind he was supposed to be resting between sets), offering us a drink, making polite conversation. I think his question was a response to the fact that I said I was going to write about him for the Daily Worker. I didn't know at the time of the run-in he'd had with the New York Marxist establishment, which inspired My Back Pages. I'd heard, and quite liked Another Side, but it didn't have the impact on me of The Times They Are A-Changin', so I gave it to Sydney Carter to review.
The thing that struck me at the time was just how pretty Dylan was, compared with the disreputable-looking beatnik of the year before last. In later years, I became used to Dylan's constant changes of persona. I knew that all of us, from Jimmie Miller to Albert Lancaster Lloyd, were busy reinventing ourselves to fit in with an image we had of what it meant to be folk, but Dylan was the first in whom the process was a permanent revolution, never holding still so anyone could nail him down to any particular role.
But it wasn't he who gave us the bum's rush. It was my friend Ken Pitt, who'd been told in no uncertain terms by Dylan's manager, the dreadful Albert Grossman, to get me out of there, and he did it, very politely, as I told Shelton.
The concert itself had been a revelation. The songs were better than anything he had written previously, certainly better than the awful Blowin' in the Wind, much of which he'd filched from a student song of the time, anyway – but I knew those from the albums. What was different was the authority with which he sang them, so different from the diffident, insecure young man who'd been barred from the Roundhouse less than two years before.
Some of my folkie friends found this reaching into the world of Allen Ginsberg hard to take: I remember Gill Cook complaining about the surrealistic imagery of Hard Rain, though it isn't surrealist, strictly speaking, something I felt passionate about, having been strongly influenced by the surrealist poets – Louis Aragon, Paul Eluard, and especially the Chilean diplomat, Pablo Neruda (all of them communists, like me, incidentally) – in my pre-folk writing days.
Ewan seemed never able to free himself from the memory of the terrible showing Dylan made at the Singers' Club, and constantly assailed him in print, mostly in magazines I edited (I disagreed with him, but that's freedom of the press). He failed, also, to differentiate between Dylan's undoubted if unruly talents and the hype that surrounded him, most of which was typical American showbiz baloney. In one article, comparing Dylan to McGonigall, he attacked Dylan's use of the deliberately tautologous phrase, "pathbeaten trail"; I felt at the time that this was one of Dylan's better metaphors (reminiscent of the Biblical duplet technique used throughout the King James version – always a powerful influence on Dylan, demonstrated by the nearly 60 Biblical references in Michael Gray's Song & Dance Man III - the art of Bob Dylan – eg Psalm 121, 4 "he shall neither slumber nor sleep") and worthy of Woody Guthrie himself. Then MacColl had a poor view of Woody's talents as a versifier.
One of the great missed opportunities of my publishing life was not taking up Hamish Henderson's offer to give me an essay on McGonagall for my magazine; when I saw it published elsewhere, I realised how appropriate it was as a riposte to MacColl's facile jibe.
Like Woody, Dylan would twist pronunciations to make rhymes where none existed (as in "that dirty little coward/Called Judas Iscariot" in Woody's Jesus Christ) and in performance could make limping couplets work (eg "But I mean no harm, nor put vault/On anyone that lives in a vault"). In his magnum opus cited above, Michael Gray devotes several pages to the infelicities of Dylan's writing on the Infidels album, excoriated for its "sloppiness, his self-imitation and his recurrent reliance on counterfeit sentiment and rather reactionary non-ideas". He quotes MacColl's "embarrassing fourth-grade schoolboy attempts" dismissal of Dylan ("what poetry?"), but aims to draw a distinction between the verses of 1983 and the torrent of words from his pen fifteen years before. But Dylan always appeared slipshod to those whose devotion to neatly encapsulated morality was almost anal.
But he certainly had the ability to come up with images which stuck in the brain (and had a nasty habit of coming true, like "But even the President of the United States/Sometimes must have/To stand naked"). How true it is that "he not busy being born/Is busy dying", that "it is not he or she or them or it/That you belong to", not to mention the final affirmation, "It's life, and life only". A wonderful song!
The sad thing was the way his occasional sloppiness was emulated as a quality by many who imitated him on both sides of the Atlantic. Perhaps because I had already digested many of the influences so evident in Dylan's work, I was never tempted to follow his lead in my own songwriting. And the fact that, to the people who controlled Melody Maker, Dylan's sales figures disqualified him from being considered folk (a sort of perspicacious philistinism which also prevented me from writing about the Dubliners during their Seven Drunken Nights chart success), meant that I never wrote about him in their pages. Not so The Daily Worker, and in fact my failure to admire every stitch of this young emperor's new clothes got me into hot water with the Communist Party establishment, who accused me of sectarianism. (These were the same opportunists who destroyed the party during the miners' strike, when we had need of a strong and united left response to the destruction of our manufacturing base.)
When Jack Hutton hired me to write about folk for the MM, he was blunt about what he wanted from me: "I don't like folk, and I don't want to know anything about it. But there are people out there who like this garbage, and they advertise in our gigs guide, so I'm giving you a page to fill to keep them happy. Don't bother me, don't ask me, write about what you think is important, and we'll get along fine. And no law suits."
This last was because Eric Winter, who had taken over my column when I went off to travel the land with Billy Smart's Circus, had twice involved them in threats from the continually litigious Dominic Behan. Eric was probably in the right of it, but the old hack's dictum, "the greater the truth, the greater the libel", applied here, and I was back at the folk helm at MM, a position I held for the next twenty or so years, until all the specialist jazz and folk pages were abolished into an unsuccessful attempt to turn the paper into a tabloid version of the enormously successful Smash Hits.
Dominic had a thing about Dylan's "borrowing" of traditional tunes and themes: when Bob performed With God on Our Side on TV, he was on the phone to me in a trice. "That bastard has stolen my song," he spluttered. In vain did I point out that the tune was basically The Nightingale, as sung by Burl Ives (though I didn't dare remark that this was obviously the source also for the tune of Dominic's The Patriot Game). Interestingly, when Burl came to Britain and I met him from the airport, Dominic was the one British singer he wanted to meet. When I tried to interview Big Daddy Burl about his red-baiting performance before the House Un-American Activities Committee, when he named many of his old singing buddies as reds under the bed, he retreated into tight-lipped silence.
I seem to be writing about all my failed interviews, so let's acknowledge the others that got away: Miles Davis (who strode off into the night waving his arms in the air and crying that everyone in England hated him), the wonderful Irish jazz guitarist, Louis Stewart, who took exception to my playing devil's advocate, and my suggestion that some might consider his style a little old-hat in the age of Jimi Hendrix (nothing wrong with that, of course, but Louis clamped his mouth shut and has never spoken to me from that day to this), and of course Chuck Berry, who goes into automatic pilot when he talks to the press, and never says anything they haven't heard a thousand times before (unless you dare to mention his prison record, whereupon the interview is terminated, like immediately, and with extreme prejudice, as the CIA would put it).
Dick Gaughan once criticised me for being too close to the people I wrote about, and in a way he was right. I never did a decent interview with Sandy Denny, for instance; she had a nasty habit of saying, "Oh Karl, you know the answer to that", if I touched on something rather basic, that I still needed to hear in her own words. I do think I never let friendship (or, in Sandy's case, something akin to love) get in the way of saying what had to be said about a poor performance. After Fairport's disastrous Royal Albert Hall concert, on which so many of their hopes were riding, I felt I had to tell it like it was, friends or no friends; a year later, Sandy said to me: "I have almost forgiven you for that review, Karl."
Knowing Sandy, and following her career from the naive gamine uncertain of what direction she should go, or even to consider giving up her work as a nurse, seeing her blossom into a singer (and songwriter) of authority and passion, a power that persisted even during her last tour, when she was patently unwell and unfit for the rigours of the road, is probably the one most exciting experience of my over a half-century of critical writing.
If anyone was one of the walking wounded, it was she, and her untimely death was far from unexpected. Today, perhaps, knowing how to deal with my own self-inflicted wounds, I might have been better able to help her into the sort of recovery that has changed my life, but who knows, after all? "If only" is as idle a speculation as "what if".
Would she have been as great an artist if she had been less damaged, emotionally? The conventional wisdom is that genius (and she had that elusive quality, of that I'm sure) is close to insanity, and one can certainly think of other tortured artists (Mike Oldfield and Eric Clapton, for instance) whose work since they confronted and defeated their demons has been a pale shadow of what went before. On the other hand, Eugene O'Neill produced his best work after he quit boozing his life away, and certainly Scott Fitzgerald's fast decline after his first promise was due to alcohol.
We seem to have ended up where I started last month, with death. The eternal return, as Jean Cocteau called it. Of course, when you reach the Biblical allotted span of three-score years and ten, as I have, one tends to lose friends. The exciting thing is to find new ones, and especially brilliant new performers who have the flame that illuminated so many of those who have shot across all our lives like shooting stars. I ask only that they be given space to grow, without the spotlight of overpraise and constant scrutiny which is making some of our most promising performers old before their time. There were no "young singer of the year" awards when Sandy was singing at the Scots Hoose, and I'm dubious that they would have been anything but a negative influence upon her artistic development.
Perhaps I'm just turning into an old curmudgeon. Or perhaps I always was.
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Recently, I was privileged to hear a presentation from Dr. Jim Slack, the premiere demographer within the Southern Baptist Convention. For the past two plus decades Dr. Slack has conducted global demographic research helping Southern Baptists understand population growth trends, population shifts, people movements, church planting movements, etc. The presentation entitled, Realities, Trends and Implications Concerning the Future of the USA, Evangelicals and Southern Baptists focused on the changing face of America's population and the implications for ministry as a result of these changes. Slack's presentation is much too exhaustive and even more, much too significant, to cover in one blog post. Therefore today, Cross the Culture begins a four-part blog series examining the changing face of the American population and the implications for ministry these changes necessitate. Over the next four blog posts we will examine:
1. Anglo-Americans will soon be an ethnic minority in the USA.
2. The rise in illiteracy.
3. The "open back door" within the evangelical church in America.
4. The massive gap between total US population and evangelical
church membership.
In part one we will focus on the rapid growth of ethnic populations in the USA. Parts two through four will follow over the next three weeks.
1. Anglo-Americans will soon be an ethnic minority in the USA.
Slack stated, "From 1970-2005 the highest era of population growth in the USA occurred. In that 35-year period 35,000,000 more ethnics came into the USA. This figure includes only legal immigrant ethnics coming into the USA to stay. In addition, immigration data also indicates that the first half of the last decade (2000-2005) has been the highest five-year period of immigration in American history and the latest waves of immigrants come mainly from non-Christian backgrounds such as Islam, Hindu, Buddhist and Animist (Traditional Religion) backgrounds." Slack concluded, "Soon, no one ethnic group will make up more than fifty percent of the total US population. This means that for certain in only a few years, likely 10 years at the latest, Anglo-Americans will no longer be the largest and dominant ethnic people group in the USA."
Implications for Ministry
Wow! As we say in North Carolina "This ain't Mayberry anymore!" The rise in the ethnic population of the USA yields staggering implications for the predominantly Anglo-American evangelical church. Local congregations must begin examining the demographic information available for their community and become knowledgeable of the ethnic makeup of their surrounding population. We must take the initiative to learn the cultures, the religious belief systems and the worldviews of the ethnic peoples in our communities. We must develop holistic evangelism/discipleship strategies to effectively communicate the Gospel of Christ and strategies to help ethnic converts travel the road of spiritual growth toward mature discipleship. We must develop a simultaneous strategy for ethnic church planting in a multitude of languages (over 230 in my native state). The USA needs Hispanic churches and Burmese churches and Iranian churches and African churches and Russian churches and on and on and on. To be obedient to the Great Commission the evangelical church in America must aggressively engage the multiplicity of ethnic cultures in America with the Gospel in their heart-language. Reaching the "panta ta ethne" in America is the biblical mandate for the church in the USA!
But, not only must we engage in an aggressive strategy for the planting of ethnic churches we must also embrace ethnic leadership within our ranks. The evangelical church in America needs ethnic pastors, ethnic denominational leaders, ethnic college and seminary presidents, ethnic presidents of our national boards and agencies. To effectively reach the American population with the Gospel the evangelical church must resemble the America population and to that end the evangelical church has a long way to go.

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Robert West #731
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I would like to apologize for all of the pain and suffering I put you all through. I hope this will give you closure now and later on down the line.
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Before you add me, there are a few things you should know.
One: my name is not Jane-- but you may call me that. Two: all of the information on this account is false. I am not 14, but I am not under the age of 13. My birthday is not September 19th. I am not from California. I may not even be from the USA. Don't be alarmed. I am a kid. I actually have another KW account that I am quite active on and a lot of you know me. I'm very popular actually. Why would I put false information, you ask? Well, because this is an annoymous account. I made this for fun, honestly. But also for you to send me message telling me something, asking me something, anything. And I'll give you my honest opinion/answer. I'm basically an annoymous friend that you can trust with anything (as long as it is within the kidzworld rules and regulations) and it will be confidential. That is all
I am anonymous-- but you all know me on my other KW account very well. I'm quite popular on my personal account. You may take a guess at who I am-- but you'll be shocked at who I truly am.


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Want to build my first AR 15
I want to build my first AR 15 but have no clue where to start. So many brands and choices. Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks for the reply. That's a great help and a lot of very useful information. Sure answered a lot of my questions.
The top of this sub forum is filled with threads full of information on how to build your own, along with lots of great shopping advice.
Building an AR-15 is a lot less daunting than it appears to a new person.
Just like anything - the first time you constantly check between your work and Google (like me haha!) - but you'll quickly realize it is nothing more than legos for adults.
Just make sure you have the proper tools - like AR Wrenches. You can buy universal ones that will handle the barrel, barrel nut (if needed), buffer tube, butt stock, etc. etc. For $30.00 or less.
Scroll thru some forums, ask a lot of.questions, search YouTube even more then make up a list of parts. The quickest and easiest would be to order a rifle kit which gives you everything except for the lower receiver. Brownells and AR15.com have a ton of how to videos and detailed instructions. When it comes to working with firearms the ar platform is very user friendly
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The spine is a thing of beauty: a sleek stack of 24 vertebrae, cushioned by 23 disks and neatly arranged into an elegant structure that—in a marvelous feat of biological engineering—gives us both strength and flexibility. Yet back pain is rampant. Roughly 80% of Americans will experience it at some point, according to the National Institutes of Health. Why should this be?
Esther Gokhale has a theory. A licensed acupuncturist and New York Times–dubbed "Posture Guru of Silicon Valley," Gokhale says poor posture is a key culprit—one often overlooked by doctors. In her view, we slump most of the time. We sink into soft, cushy chairs that encourage us to round our backs rather than sit up straight. When not slouching, we're overarching or otherwise kinking our spines. (High heels and heavy purses aren't helping, either.)
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1. Sit for Success
Wrong: Don't tuck your tailbone under you, which causes you to round your back. This can lead to lower-back pain. Similarly, hunching over your work or meals rather than leaning forward with a straight back places stress on neck and shoulder muscles, leading to stiffness.
Right: Straighten up, Gokhale says. Focus on flattening your mid-back and straightening your neck. (Try this quick massage for neck pain relief.) Align your shoulders by rolling them up and back. For extra support, tighten your core muscles. When it comes to spinal curvature, less is more, she explains. Between those 24 vertebrae are disks shaped like hockey pucks. If the spine is erect, the disks maintain that puck-like form. But when you sway your back or hunch over your work, the tilted vertebrae squish those disks into wedge shapes, she says. That's bad.
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Wrong: There are so many ways to err, from sinking into one hip and rounding the upper back to the typical stance of someone told to stand straight: thrusting out the chest and swaying the lower back. (Try these 10 stretches for back pain.)
Right: Flatten your spine as you would for sitting, says Gokhale. Make sure your weight is evenly distributed on both legs. Keep knees slightly flexed to avoid sway in your lower back, and put your weight in your heels.
3. Bend Better
Wrong: When we stoop to make the bed or pick up toys and laundry, most of us crunch at the waist and round the lower and mid-back, compressing disks. Doing this repeatedly can lead to inflammation in the spine and cause impingement on nerves. (Here is a natural way to fight chronic back pain and inflammation.)
Right: Again, keep your back flat, Gokhale says. (Notice a trend here?) The only way to do this is by tilting your hips forward. To get the feel of it, place your hands on your hipbones, with your fingers in front and your thumbs behind. Push down with your fingers, and let your body follow. Pick up only light objects this way.
4. Sleep Straight
Wrong: You spend a third of your life in bed. If you sleep on your stomach or in any other position in which your legs are perfectly straight, you're asking for back trouble, suggests a study in the Lancet.
Right: A technique that Gokhale calls "stretch-lying" can help relieve pressure on nerves and disks. Lie on your back with a pillow under your knees. Prop yourself up on your elbows, and place your hands on your hips. As you slowly roll back down, one vertebra at a time, keep pushing your shoulders away from your hips to help lengthen your spine. Even if you spend just 15 minutes in this position, Gokhale says, "you're resetting the resting length of the muscles, and the nerves are decompressed." The Lancet study authors advise sleeping in something akin to the fetal position—on your side, knees bent—or on your back with a pillow under your knees.Copyright © 2017 Rodale Inc.
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Pushing yourself to your limit to get in shape can be awesome…if you know your limits and not if it means long term injury as a result #FAIL
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Born 8:16:30 PM, 15 December 2006, La Jolla, California.
8 pounds, 12.2 ounces (3,975g). 20" (51 cm).
Many thanks to my darling wife who has stayed up each and every night with little Ryan so I can sleep and keep working. Many thanks to her, too, for having such a healthy, cute, well-mannered and strong little boy.
31 December 2006, Sunday
Baby Ryan Rockwell helping daddy write his Nikon D80 User's Guide. (Self-portrait, D40, 18-55mm II and bounced SB-400. I got the excellent M&K B-1600 speakers for almost nothing from M&Ks refurbished section. Good luck navigating their website. To my surprise, M&K speakers are used all over Hollywood for mixing and QC.)
30 December 2006, 10:45AM: Most of Ryan's umbilical cord falls off.
(photo too gross for publication.)
29 December 2006, Friday: At the doctor's at two weeks old.
The weigh-in: 8 pounds, 8 ounces. This is normal, down from 8 pounds 12.2 ounces at birth and 8 pounds, 2 ounces last week.
Looking good! I think he might turn out red-haired. Ha ha! (D40 and 18-55mm II in available light, Auto ISO.)
27 December 2006: first visit to the California Highway Patrol
If you're lucky enough to live in California, the California Highway Patrol (CHP) offers free classes and inspections of child seats. Everyone should do this. We had a one-on-one consultation, free!
We thought we had read the directions, and CHP Child Passenger Seat Safety Technician Tom Kerns helped us install our seat correctly. It turns out installation directions leave a lot to be desired. For instance, Tom Kerns showed us that the LATCH connectors on our 2006 Saab, like most cars, are only for the left and right rear seats, not the center as we had been lead to believe from all the manuals. Car makers are still cheaping out.
We also learned a lot about keeping anything and everything out of our passenger compartment, since many things, especially those on seats and in the various storage areas, will fly all over and become deadly projectiles in case of a crash. (D40, 18-55mm II and direct SB-400. As always, I love how my Nikons nail perfect flash fill every time.)
Christmas Day, 2006
Still sleeping Christmas morning.
Getting Changed.
All Clean and ready for Christmas! (previous three shot with my D40, 18-55mm II and bounced SB-400. The 18-55mm kit lens is excellent for close baby shots!)
What Daddy got from Santa: Fujinon 14x40 Stabilized Binoculars. I prefer these to all of the Canon IS binoculars. I was lucky enough to try these at an industry trade show; I've never seen them at retail. Of course a review is coming, and I'm very curious as to why some other folks prefer the Canons. I'll probably walk these into a store with the Canons to compare again. (D200, 18-200mm, SB-600 bounced, with white paper for kick. The SB-400 does the same, but for bouncing takes longer to recycle off our 20' ceiling.)
24 December 2006:
Ryan Rockwell holding Dad's Finger.
Great-Grandma Mimi, whose 91st birthday is the same as Ryan's: December 15th.
Grandma (nicknamed Noni) cooking.
Bug on Shoulder. Self-Portrait
Ryan Rockwell's cousins playing "Silly" with Noni and Pops; really just beating up their grandparents. (all shot with my D40, 18-55mm II and a bounced SB-400. I deliberately burned the corners on the donnybrook photo above with the vignette function of Photoshop CS2's lens distortion filter.)
23 December 2006, Saturday
Merry Christmas from baby Ryan, Ken and Mrs. Rockwell.
Hah! I had no green shirts. Baby Ryan also wishes you a Happy Hanukkah since he was born just after sundown on the first night of Hanukkah; weird, since we're Protestant. (D80 with 80-200 AF-S at 15 feet (4.5m) triggered by ML-L3 in my other hand, studio strobes triggered by SB-600. I have photos of the lighting and triggering and camera setup coming later.)
22 December 2006, Friday
Lab tests. Ryan enjoys giving blood!
The lab tech confirmed what everyone else told us: Ryan has big feet! He was already a hit with the little girl newborns. (Both shots with D40 and 18-55mm II, auto ISO, available yucky fluorescent light. I darkened the corners of the foot shot deliberately to emphasize the foot in the center, since the foot is vertical and your screen is horizontal.)
21 December 2006
(D200, 105mm, SB-600 bounced, with white paper for kick. The SB-400 does the same, but for bouncing takes longer to recycle.)
Self Portraits. (D40 and 18-55mm II, SB-600 bounced, with white paper for kick. I love the cheap new 18-55 since if focuses so close for these shots.)
Ryan finally went to sleep on my lap working on the website after I changed his pooper, ha!, a first. Wife thought I couldn't figure it out when she left me to keep an eye on him for a little while.
19 December 2006, Tuesday
First Doctor's Visit.
I missed the peak, but little Ryan pulled the same stunt I did as a newborn which had all the nurses checking me out, to the confusion of my parents. Ryan is also one of the few babies strong enough and curious enough to be able to lift his head up and look around. Good going! Newborns are rarely this strong or curious. (Both shots with D40 and 18-55mm II, auto ISO, available yucky fluorescent light.)
Helping dad work on dad's website. (shot by mom, D200, bounced SB-400.)
(D200, direct flash)
18 December 2006, Monday
First Day Home
(D40 and 18-55mm II, bounced SB-400.)
(photo by wife, SD700)
17 December 2006, Sunday
Helping daddy with his work.
Baby's first night home. Ryan scored a free toy at the drive-through when we let the fellow at Del Taco know it was baby's first drive-through. He said "Baby's first drive-through? Then here's baby's first toy!" That's what makes America great.
16 December 2006
One Day Old.
Born 8:16:30 PM PST, 15 December 2006, Friday.
(Photo by my non-photographer wife with my D200 and 18-200mm, in automatic white-rectangle focus mode. Auto ISO chose 1,600. Except for the weird lighting, focus is perfect and I wish I made shots this good! I'm letting my wife do the photography from now on; I'll just prep my cameras for her.)
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Cork Ferry Port & Terminal guide
Ferry port facilities, directions and transport information
Cork Ferry Port, also known as Ringaskiddy Ferry Port, is situated on the South Coast of Ireland, about 30-40 minutes drive away from central Cork. There is an efficient road network providing easy access to and from the ferry terminal.
Brittany Ferries operates cruise ferries sailing from Cork Harbour direct to Roscoff in France throughout the summer season. Our weekly service from here allows you to completely bypass the UK, so saving yourself considerable time and inconvenience.
Where is Cork Ferry Port?View on our Trip Planner
Address & contact details
Tel:021 437 8401
GPS co-ordinates: 51.832449,-8.323345
Cork Ferry Port Facilities
Baby care/Changing room
There is a baby changing and feeding room in the terminal.
There are no facilities available in the terminal building. However, the local village bar (about 1 mile away) offers light snacks and more substantial meals can be found in the nearest town to the port which is about 4 miles away.
Disabled facilities
- Single storey terminal building is easily accessible with a wheelchair
- Disabled toilets can be found in the terminal, but there are none in the vehicle check-in areas
- For passengers with limited mobility who do not have their own wheelchair and require assistance, the port provides and operates an electric wheelchair to embark and disembark passengers on and off the ship
- Wheelchairs are available in the terminal in case of emergencies
Information desk
The Brittany Ferries information desk is open for ship arrivals and departures only. The terminal is closed during the winter season when there are no sailings to Cork.
Coinbox payphones can be found in the terminal.
Travelling with dogs
Dogs are allowed on the grassed area at the edge of the port and must be on a lead at all times. They are not allowed in the terminal or to leave the car once they have passed security.
The nearest park is Currabinny Woods which is a 20 minute drive away. From the port take the R613 towards the south and turn left onto Seamount at the Curraghbinny sign and continue for approximately 3kms.
Parking at Cork Ferry Port
Parking is only permitted for dropping off and picking up. Passengers wishing to park for longer must use one of the paying car parks nearby. Vehicles are parked at your own risk.
Getting to and from Cork Ferry Port
By car
From Cork city centre take the N28 in the direction of Douglas and Ringaskiddy. The Ringaskiddy ferry port is approximately 30 to 40 minutes from Cork city.
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RICHMOND, VA—Two public meetings, discussing the proposed Redskins Training Camp site, will be held Tuesday.
The meetings will be held at the Richmond City Hall located at 5801 Bremo Road.
The first meeting will get underway at 4:00 p.m. and will run until 5:30 p.m. A second meeting will start at 6:00 p.m. and end at 7:30 p.m.
Last week, Richmond's City Council endorsed the proposed deal moving the Washington Redskins' training camp from Northern Virginia to the city.
Although endorsing the deal, the council has yet to officially approve the specifics of the plan.
City officials and Bon Secours Health Systems announced the proposed deal in October. The camp would be located on 17 acres of state property behind the Science Museum of Virginia.
Bon Secours would build a $6.4 million sports medicine facility over the next 10 years that the team would use during the three-week camp.
More than a dozen residents voiced opposition to the resolution before it was approved by the Richmond City Council. Residents questioned the deal's economics and what they called a lack of transparency.
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Information is Power
Online Resources Have Created an Informed Consumer
Best Practices by Lou Dzierzak, email@example.com
The first snows of the 2012-13-winter season have arrived. Snow sports enthusiasts are hurrying into ski shops armed with the information about latest skis, boots and bindings from gear reviews, online forums and blogs. With today's online resources consumers are better informed than ever before.
As a result snowsports brands and retailers have to pay attention to product education processes. "Today's consumers are better educated than they were 5-10 years ago. After the crash of the global economy, consumers became much more careful about every $100 they spend," reports Tait Wardlaw, VP brands, Marketing, Communications for Rossignol Group. "Very few people are willing to spend money as frivolously. They are not willing to buy a new ski or snowboard without a fair amount of research relative to what they may have done 5 years ago."
More information about ski equipment doesn't necessarily translate to accurate information. "Just because the information is available doesn't mean they are interpreting it correctly or the product they are researching is best suited for their needs," says Pat Purcell, senior marketing manager, experticity, the parent company of 3point5.com.
Raul Pinto, co-owner of Satellite Boardshop in Boulder, Colorado believes the glut of online information actually confuses most consumers. "I don't think many consumers can differentiate technical aspects of hardgood brands," notes Pinto. "Online resources can have small effects to lure a customer with a "good deal" but there is nothing that replaces a retailer's service and hardgood knowledge."
Sales people who are well-trained and understand differences between brands and applications often have to overcome faulty expectations from consumers who come in convinced that one particular product is right for them. "Consumers can also be very misinformed, sometimes it is a matter of correcting a misconception that a customer may have picked up on a message board or perhaps they have identified themselves as a certain kind of user, " explains Connor Folley, global marketing manager at K2 Sports. "The service really starts at a much more basic level though, because as informed as consumers can be about the model or brand they want, they may have no idea what size they need which will ultimately be much more important in determining their satisfaction with that purchase."
Every season begins with new products from an ever-increasing number of hardgoods ski brands. Even sales people who feel dialed in about current products need to take time to get caught up with new launches and introductions. Brand marketing teams work diligently to provide accurate, timely information to make the retailer education process efficient.
"The key to education remains the same: consistent, relevant, well-illustrated communications," reports Wardlaw. "After that, the plethora of vehicles that are available, including various web tools, print, video, or conference programs are all a conduit for the repetition of a consistent, effective message."
Product education also has to be tailored to the needs of the consumer. Some expect the most detailed specifications discussions while that same information can turn away another customer. "It's also about keeping your tech story simple, what does it mean to the customer," explains Folley. "While we are all gear heads and love the tech side of the industry, you need to keep your product message brief and ensure that it resonates with the customer, not just sound techy and cool."
Skinny Skis uses a combination of approaches such as online, in-store vendor clinics and the store's own internal discussions and clinics to keep everyone up to speed on Nordic, alpine touring and backcountry touring equipment. "I think it's more important than ever to have an informed staff one that can communicate well," says Phil Leeds, owner, Skinny Skis, Jackson, WY.
3Point5 has been a Snowsports Industries America partner for almost five years. More than 500,000 registered retail sales professionals use 3Point5 online training programs. "The need to have a well-educated staff is crucial right now," notes Purcell. "Consumers will come in knowing as much if not more about the products than the people on the sales floor."
While online training resources offer 24/7 access to brand information, face-to-face training plays a critical role in product education. "We have an incredible rep force and they are the front line, getting into stores, doing clinics, and ensuring that retail employees are armed with all the knowledge they need to assist the customer in making the correct purchasing decision, " says Folley. "We provide our reps with innovative and unique clinic tools every season to assist them in educating the shop staff."
Since many sales people are spending much of their free time skiing or snowboarding their own experiences and biases can influence the presentation of product information. That enthusiasm has to be tempered a bit to ensure the consumer is getting accurate information that addresses the consumer's specific needs.
"Sales associates need to be well versed in all brands not just their favorite. They can tell the consumer I've skied on this ski from brand X and brand Y and here's my experience. That adds to the expertise of the sales associate," says Purcell. The 3Point5 training program offer incentives and purchase discounts to motivate retail sales people to learn about a wide range of products.
"We try to talk to retailers every single week from August through January. We try to respect their passions and attention spans," reports Wardlaw. "We try to share good, intriguing content that helps them enjoy the sport and their jobs as well as be more effective sales people. Our shop employees and specialty retailers are still the single most influential source of information for most of our alpine ski product consumers. They're the guys at "ground zero" when a customer is about to commit to the purchase. So, effective in-store training and communication is still paramount to a brand's success within the retail environment."
At Satellite Board Shop the staff tries out many different brands to find the right snowboard selection for their customer base. "We ride them all if we think they deserve a spot on the wall, says Pinto. "I like to have brands compared against one another and my experiences vs. the other employees. They all contribute to the authenticity of the sales and set-ups we are making for customers."
The enthusiasm sales people have for skiing and particular brands can be a powerful selling tool. The challenge is keeping that energy focused and accurately presented to customers. "We believe in our products and if we have an advocate on the shop floor all the better," says Folley. "So long as we are keeping in tune with what their perceptions of our products are, solving any perceived problems, and ensuring our reps communicate back to the shop employees that "hey we listened and changed that", why not leverage the street cred of those shop employees."
Offering a range of brands and being informed about the feature and benefit sets across product lines ensures the customer will leave with the appropriate equipment. "We need to remind our staff that our buyers have done their best to provide a solid line-up of products," explains Leeds. "In many cases there is more than one option within a particular usage or category. More often than not one of our in-stock products will meet the customer's needs. In fact, they'll be stoked!"
As the season unfolds, consumers will continue to research skis, boots and bindings before making a purchase. Snow sports retailers that invest in product education will be ready to answer every question thrown their way. "There is a huge opportunity for the sales staff. Even an educated consumer still has questions," says Purcell. "They can better guide them to the products that fit the experiences they are looking for. They can have a well-versed conversation. It's never a good when the consumer walks away believing they know more than the sales person."
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Managing a successful snow sports specialty retail store requires expertise in an ever-changing array of business operations. Human resources, event planning, marketing, product selection, social media and e-commerce are just a few examples. Lou Dzierzak has written about these topics for over a decade. Best Practices will shorten the learning curve by offering case studies, resources and how-to tips from experts in specific fields. If you have suggestions for future topics, please feel free to contact Lou at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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What is the atmosphere at the opening of Hamlet and how does Shakespeare produce it?
The atmosphere created at the beginning of the play is one of foreboding and suspense, full of portents of disaster. Of course, this is created by the appearance of the ghost of the recently deceased King Hamlet, but it is also developed by Horatio's interpretation of the event, which he compares to the night before Julius Caesar was assassinated, an evening in which the dead roamed the streets of Rome. Shakespeare also emphasizes that there are preparations for war ongoing in Denmark. Horatio explains that young Fortinbras threatens invasion of Denmark to reclaim some lands his father lost in battle to the elder Hamlet. In fact, he interprets the appearance of the ghost as a sign that perhaps the time for war is near. So it is obvious even early in the play that something is, as Horatio will say later, "rotten" in Denmark. But it is not clear exactly what that is, and it is only when young Hamlet meets his father's ghost that Shakespeare reveals exactly what is wrong.


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Tonight's Dollhouse episode is clearly better than last week's Britney-wants-to-die splashorama. We got an early review copy a while back, and here's our spoiler-free exultation.
When we begged Fox for review copies of Dollhouse episodes, they sent us copies of the first two episodes... plus tonight's leather-clad imbroglio. It's clearly better than last week's stumble, and here are a few reasons why.
For one thing, Echo gets way better outfits than last night's WTF tube top and dancer gear. Most notably, the leather pants and spike-heel pumps. (Although, she says several times that she always wears comfortable shoes, while prancing around in those pinchy-looking stillettoes. As Blastaar would say, "Eh?")
For another, it's pleasingly twisty and turny. There are enough flips and swerves over the course of the episode to keep you pretty engaged, even allowing for the extra-long running time due to remote-free viewing. (Curse you, Fox! Who told you I wanted to be free of my remote?) A few times over the course of the episode, I thought I knew where it was going next, and then I guessed again.
Also, we get another huge piece of the puzzle about the show's ongoing mythos tonight, and some real answers to some questions that have been floating around about the Evil Naked Guy (TM) and just what his game is. Not all the answers, mind you, but a healthy serving. And we get to see the "programmable mind-puppet" concept applied in a new, and somewhat original, way.
And once again, Echo is more than just a funky robot. She's a funky person. With funky desires, and occasionally funky initiative.
Best of all, FBI agent Paul Ballard, Tahmoh Penikett's character, stops being quite such a pasty (patsy? Oooh, I suck at tough-guy talk.) He finally starts to seem like a bit of a badass, not just a cool kickboxer with a "kick me" sign glued to the seat of his pants. Oh, and the Boyd love continues to flow with tonight's episode.
Oh, and best of all, no singing. Or dancing. Or vogueing or vamping. Or sashaying. Anyway, I doubt "The Gray Hour" will be considered the best episode of the show's run once we have 100 other Dollhouse episodes to compare it to. But it's good fun, and well worth checking out if you're not going to see some movie about a guy with a Dalmatian mask tonight.


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If the country's business elite are suffering from a case of economic apprehension in a post financial crisis kind of world, the virus clearly never made it over to Perth. It was literally flowing Dom Perignon on Monday night as Perth's business and political set celebrated the opening of an exhibition by one of the country's most celebrated living artists,
The opening – which attracted everyone from federal Deputy Opposition Leader
West Australian Premier
There were also quite a few corporate advisers in attendance, including the head of Ernst &Young in WA,
As the champagne celebrations turned into a three-course dinner at a nearby Italian restaurant, Satterley was seen pouring the red stuff from premium Margaret River wine producer Moss Wood late into the evening.
A couple of guests noted that Satterley seems to pour more wine into his guests' glasses than he ever drinks himself, which might account for how he's negotiated some very lucrative property deals in his time.
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Moustache has come a long way from being one of the pioneering branded denim products in India with its launch in 1984. Inspired by the rugged denim wearing Texan cowboys, Moustache started out with a distinctly macho image reflected in its rugged denim wear. Today, the Moustache phenomenon is visible across 600 MBOs, 72 EBOs and in large format stores like Shoppers Stop, Pantaloons, Pratik Lifestyle, Central and Reliance Trends. The large format stores have played a vital role in creating the Moustache pan Indian brand.
Basically a denim product, Moustache offers jeans for men and women, casual shirts, cotton trousers and T-shirts. Men's jeans are from Rs 995 to Rs 2,595 and the limited range of women's jeans, are from Rs 895 to Rs 1,095. Moustache jeans are available in all three waist styles, i.e. regular, high and low and three fits: normal, straight and skinny. It also has a special line called Beyond Skinny, which may be referred to as a super tight pencil fit. Moustache jeans for both genders are designed in New York. "Recently, a new product line called M was introduced to spruce up the women's jeans range. The Southern California collection, priced between Rs 2,195 and Rs 2,595 has been a success," says Hari Narayan Shah, Chairman, Moustache International. According to Shah, "Women's jeans contribute 15 per cent of our category. Nearly 75 per cent is from our basic jeans. Our designer jeans are subtle and contribute about 25 per cent."
To complement their jeans line, Moustache also has V-neck, polos, round neck and collared T-shirts are priced between Rs 395 and Rs 695. For non denim bottoms, there is a range of pleated as well as flat fronted cotton trousers, priced between Rs 795 and Rs 1,195. "We are thinking of women's and men's perfumes as well as belts and casual shoes. Very shortly these will be in the market and they will reflect my brand image. They will carry the Moustache name," Shah informs.
Talking about the brand's retail expansion plans Shah says, "By March 2012 we will have a total of 100 EBOs. And we want to be in 50 more large formats since Reliance and Shoppers Stop are expanding, we want to go along with them. We increase our MBOs by 10 per cent a year because the recovery cycle is slow. Another 100 MBOs may come up this year. Exclusive stores give 50 per cent of our sales, MBOs 30 per cent and large formats the rest." Already present in the east the brand's target is north, south and a part of western India. "We target A, A plus and B plus cities. Then we will venture into other areas like C plus," Shah says.
Moustache also has a sister concern called Moustache Exports and another brand, Court, which they export to the US. Court has shirts, trousers and jeans. Moustache is exported to UAE and UK as well under its own brand name. They provide to the Lulu chain of stores.


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Housebuilder Lovell is set to welcome house-hunters to its Parkside development in Carlisle this Saturday 27 February from 10.00am to 5.00pm for a special event promoting the benefits of the Help to Buy scheme.
Saving for a deposit is one of the hardest parts of the homebuying process, which is why the government-backed Help to Buy initiative has proved so popular, with over 130,000 homebuyers taking advantage of the scheme's requirement of a deposit of just 5%.
At Parkside, this means that a brand new home can be purchased with a down payment of just £5,300. The event will bring together the Lovell team and some independent financial advisers who can give visitors to the site one-to-one help on the best way to pay for a new Lovell home with the Help to Buy shared equity option, where the government provides a 20% equity loan and the buyer needs a mortgage of 75%.
Parkside has a range of two- and three-bedroom homes, ideal for first-time buyers, homeowners moving up the property ladder and downsizers looking to move from a bigger property. Prices start from £105,995.
Clare Noakes, regional sales manager for Lovell in the North West, says: "Traversing the homebuying process can be daunting, particularly if you're buying your first home. Our Help to Buy event at Parkside, Carlisle is a great opportunity to get some free and independent advice. Even if you're not in the market for a new home immediately, everyone is welcome to visit and find out more.
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Lois M. Collins: Kids' summer 'bucket list' can foster real growth
Lois Collins Salt Lake City, UTMay 21, 2013 4:37 p.m.
Toosmartforyou, I think of it as a list of things you want to do before you run out of time. And summer is such a fleeting thing to a child. So I chose to use the word to capture that sense of before time runs out. I doubt the dictionary will change its mind about meaning because of anything I write, but I'm okay with that.
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As I understand it, a bucket list consists of things you want to do before you die so that you have no regrets as to missing something you really wanted to do in life. Calling a teenager's summer goals a "bucket list" seems an awfully strange use of the term. Surely they all think they are invincible and will never die, so why wouldn't they have literally decades instead of just one summer to do whatever they wanted? If that statement is true then it is not a "bucket list" in any sense of the term. Please be careful when revising meanings of words. (Remember when the phrase "That's OK" meant yes instead of no?)
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I love the "joy and the chaos" part. You really nailed my emotions. Thanks for reminding me it's about the experiences on the list, not just crossing items off.


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We all enjoyed late night puzzles, games (board games, pool and video games) and movies and our son LOVED the ducks on the staircase, and the birdhouses around the yard. He wanted to move into the cabin permanently lol. None of us wanted to leave!
If we didn't have our son with us, we would have tried the Winery while we were there. It is a short drive from the cabin. The scenery was just beautiful and the entire area gave us plenty to do while in town.
We appreciate Jody letting us stay in her home for the weekend. It was quite lovely and we will visit again the next time we are in Western, NC!
This home is tranquil and beautiful. It is very well furnished too I was finding new things on the wall up to the day I left that I found very interesting. It was very centrally located for Hiawassee and surrounding activities that we did in North Carolina. Lots of fun and would highly recommend and stay again.
The space and amenities at Fisherman's Retreat totally blew me out of the water. The open living room/ kitchen was terrific for a large family and the downstairs playroom was perfect for the occasional rainy patch. The river was just deep enough for my grandkids to play in and do a little fishing. I just can't say enough- loved the house, as well as the area. Grocery stores are within 20 minutes, as are lakes, hiking paths, quaint little towns.
Our family rented this property for two weeks and thoroughly enjoyed our entire stay. We had a small issue with an appliance and the owner immediately had the issue fixed. We could not have been more pleased with our interactions. We highly recommend this property
We had such a nice time. The creek and pool table were a huge hit. We were very comfortable there and it was so nice to unplug for a couple days. The fenced yard allowed us to relax knowing our dog could hang out with us outside without worry she would run off. Overall, a wonderful time and we hope to return.
This cabin is beautiful, very clean, and feels so homey. Jody has an amazing talent for decorating in a way that is warm and whimsical! We loved every minute we were there.... the pool table was loads of fun; the huge porch was perfect for relaxing; the boys enjoyed the video games; the kitchen was incredibly well-stocked with every pot, pan, dish and utensil we might need; the creek was peaceful and fun for the kids. Experiencing a campfire creek-side was spectacular and something we'd never done before. The four-legged members of the family were ecstatic about being able to romp and play to their hearts content in the fenced yard. Everything about it the cabin was cozy and inviting and we can't wait to go back! The Hayesville area is also beautiful and had loads of amenities so that you have the option of staying at the cabin and enjoying the comfort of peace and quiet, or of getting out and about to do a variety of activities. We went white water rafting with Carolina Outfitters and on a trail ride at the very-close-by Chunky Gal Stables. Both were tons of fun and great for making memories! We very highly recommend Chunky Gal Stables if you would enjoy horseback riding...outstanding guides and horses. All in all Jody's cabin is a spectacular choice for a memorable family vacation or for anytime you might need an escape from the real world.
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Today is Mardi Gras. Don't live in New Orleans? Never celebrated Mardi Gras?
No worries. My philosophy is Never let a good holiday go to waste. So, just for you, dear readers…
Mardi Gras 101.
What is Mardi Gras?
The Romans' Lupercalia festival was held in mid-February to honor the god of fertility and agriculture, Lupercus. The party had definite Mardi Gras-like qualities, including drinking, feasting and "pleasures of the flesh". During the Crusades, the carnival-like Lupercalia became adopted as a "last fling" of indulgence before the 40-day Lenten period of penitence. ~Mardi Gras on the Net
How did New Orleans become the Mardi Gras capital here in the U.S.?
Some think the French explorer Sieur d'Ibervilled introduced Mardi Gras when he landed in what is today Louisiana in 1699. Others say that early French settlers to Louisiana introduced Mardi Gras to the Americas. While others argue that the first Mardi Gras was celebrated by French soldiers back in 1703, in the city of Mobile, Alabama. Either way, by the 1820s, Mardi Gras was firmly entrenched in New Orleans culture. ~ Mardi Gras on the Net
What's the story behind the Mardi Gras colors of green, gold and purple?
In case you were ever wondering why the colors of Mardi Gras are purple, green and gold, Rex, the King of Mardi Gras, chose the official colors in 1872. All three colors have their own meaning, purple represents justice; green, faith; and gold, power. ~Long Island Press
What's the deal with the Mardi Gras King Cake?
(The King Cake is) An oval cake honoring the three kings is decorated in purple, green and gold colors, representing justice, faith and power, respectively. A small plastic baby, symbolizing the Baby Jesus, is baked into each cake. Whoever gets the piece with the baby not only will have good luck that year, but will also be responsible for bringing the King Cake to next year's party! ~Mardi Gras on the Net
Click here for my recipe for Easy King Cake Recipe , simplified, of course, because that's how I roll.
Why is Mardi Gras called Fat Tuesday?
Mardi Gras is held a day before the start of Lent season. Eating excessive amount of food is prohibited during the season…The primary reason why Mardi Gras is called Fat Tuesday is because at this day, most people…consume all the foods in their homes that are forbidden or not allowed during the Lent such as eggs, butter and sugar. One of the most popular foods served during Mardi Gras is pancake. ~WhyGuides
Liz and I are lovin' the pancakes on Fat Tuesday. Click here for the link to our fav. syrup recipes for the big day.
Also, Liz's King Cake story and her confessions as a Lenten slacker.
So enjoy your Mardi Gras.
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When the island of Manhattan is shaken up by a series of earthquakes, the incidents get both the attention of Peter Parker, and Hercules. While Peter investigates the incidents through his connections at Empire State University, while Hercules travels the island saving people and trying to reduce the damage.
Through the situation, Spider-Man and Hercules trace it to a group calling themselves the City Stealers, who are hoping to shake loose Manhattan so that they can pull it out to sea and hold it ransom at risk of having the island sunk. Defeating the City Stealer's robots, Hercules then literally pulls the island of Manhattan back to its original location.
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