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In all cases where an error may be attributed to L.F. (wrong shipment, catalogue and/ or price list mistake, error during order processing of the system), goods are credited and/or sent back to the Customer, according to the agreement reached.
In case of an error by the Customer, possible return claims may be accepted solely at L.F.'s discretion. This is provided that:
- L.F. receives the refund claim within and no later than eight days from delivery date.
- It is an item, which is available from stock (therefore this does not apply for out of catalogue items).
- The value of the refund is not less than € 100, not including VAT.
If the above requirements are met and the return is authorized, the value of the goods is credited with a 30% reduction from sales price. Shipment fees to L.F. are charged to the Customer.
In any case, L.F. reserves the right to find an agreement on possible solutions to be considered as an alternative to a refund.
In the instance of defective material under warranty, the report and the request for a return must be submitted to L.F. within eight days from receipt of the goods. This only occurs in rare cases as most of our suppliers work in compliance to quality guarantee ISO 9001, although they cannot be ruled out.
ATTENTION: electrical/electromechanical items must be carefully checked before installation, as the suppliers do not accept returns, not even under warranty, if the items have been assembled.
Furthermore, one has to bear in mind that, in order for the warranty to be claimed for these particular products, their keeping and storage conditions need to be determined.
N.I.R. (Numero di Identificazione Resi – Return Identification Number)
When a return is approved, L.F. creates a N.I.R. (Numero di Identificazione Resi) for each claim. No item can be accepted for return without this.
For each return the Customer has to follow the procedure below:
- contact your L.F. sales office and explain the problem you have encountered. State in your request the number and the date of the L.F. shipping document, registration and serial number , of the product if shown.
- if the return is authorized, you will receive a NIR (RIN), which will need to be shown on delivery documents.
L.F. is an ISO 9001 certified company: the N.I.R. number is fundamental for this regularization procedure – from the return claim to the credit note – to take place quickly and with no obstacles.
Therefore, do not forget to use the N.I.R. number issued and state it in all correspondence relating to the return.
1. Website ownership/seller's details: L.F. Spa (below simply called "L.F.") with registered headquarters in via Voltri 80, 47522 Cesena, P.I. 00958880403, Registration to the Registro Imprese di Forlì-Cesena n. 192897, International Chamber of Commerce of Forlì-Cesena Reg. 016904, is the owner of the websites www.lfspareparts724.com, www.lfricambi724.it (referred to below simply as "Websites") and of all the domains connected to them with the purpose of remote sale via the internet of products (below simply called "online sale"). E-mail address: email@example.com, firstname.lastname@example.com
2. Applicable law: the sale agreement stipulated between the Customer and L.F. will be regulated and interpreted in compliance with the Italian Law for the sale to "non-consumer" Customers according to the "Country of origin", where the seller is based.
3. Acceptance of the general conditions of sale: when the Customer places an order according to the methods and procedures shown in the Websites, he simultaneously confirms his viewing and understanding of the general conditions of sale, the payment and the delivery hereafter listed as well as his unconditional acceptance thereof. These conditions are integral part of the sale agreement between the Customer and L.F. Therefore, L.F. requests you to read them carefully, print them or, in any case, keep a copy. L.F. will not consider binding any condition other than what previously agreed in written form. The conditions of sale will remain in force until they are changed by the supplier. Any change will become valid when it is published on L.F. website in the various countries and will refer to the sales made from that moment on.
4. Payment: the payment of purchased items may be performed, depending on each market, by means of a bank transfer, credit card, PayPal, bank order or cash upon delivery - with a service surcharge (2% of the overall invoice, minimum € 5.00 VAT included/excluded) and payment to the courier upon delivery in cash or with a cheque made payable to the courier. In any case, the method of payment has to be agreed with the Customer's sales department.
5. Prices: All price lists, discounts and offers are agreed with the Customer's reference sales department. Prices indicated in offers and price lists are not binding and may be subject to changes without notice. Prices do not include packing, transport, VAT and other related charges. All the expenses for the issuing and the collection of bank fees and cash orders are charged to the Customer.
6. Transport costs and minimum order: transport costs and any charges related to a minimum order are charged to the invoice and as according to the agreement with the reference sales department. Any unprocessed order part will be handled as according to the arrangements with the Customer.
7. First delivery conditions: new Customers are requested to place a minimum order, whose amount and payment method have to be agreed with the relevant sales department. This applies for the first order and until a commercial relationship has been established.
8. Delivery conditions: goods are sold ex L.F. warehouse. Therefore, the delivery task is considered fulfilled when the courier receives the goods. Goods always travel at Customer's risk and danger, even when transport has been prepaid. Purchased items are delivered by a courier chosen by the Customer. The delivery deadline shown on the order is approximate and does not imply a commitment by L.F. Any delay in the delivery of items does not entitle the Customer to cancel the order or compensation for penalty or damages. No deliveries are made to post office boxes. Upon goods delivery by the courier, the Customer must check that the number of packages is the same as the one shown in the shipping documents and that the package is unaltered and has not been damaged. Any damage to packages and/or goods or missing packages must be communicated immediately in written format by the Customer on the delivery document of the courier and reported to L.F. within eight days from delivery. If the Customer fails to do so, L.F. will not be liable for transport damage. L.F. is liable for theft and transport damage only when the forwarder is chosen by L.F. and until his assignment has been terminated. In case of theft or loss, L.F. pledges to send back the goods to the Customer in their entire value, jointly with the courier's statement.
9. Liability exclusion: L.F. is not liable for the characteristics and technical data found in its catalogues and price lists nor is it responsible for possible changes made by individual manufacturers. L.F. allows no civil liability for damage caused to third parties, that might have been caused by negligence, carelessness or incompetence in the installation phase of the material.
10. Liability exclusion for force majeure: L.F. does not accept liability for poor service caused by force majeure such as accidents, fires, strikes and/or lockouts, earthquakes, floods or similar events that totally or partially hinder the fulfillment of the agreement within the established timing. L.F. will not be responsible towards any party for damage, loss and costs met because of the failed fulfillment of the agreement due to the above causes, since the Customer is entitled to the refund of the amount paid.
11. Industrial property rights: information, logos, graphical elements, sounds, images, trademarks (registered and unregistered) and any intellectual work, distinctive sign or name, written text and, more generally, any other intangible goods protected by laws and international conventions concerning intellectual and industrial property featured on L.F. website are L.F. property or conceded to it for use by third party owners. However, neither access to the website or sale agreements grant the Customer rights on the above. Any use, even partial, of the above is forbidden, without prior written authorization by L.F. and/or its assignors, to whom all relevant rights are exclusively reserved.
12. Warranty: L.F. acts exclusively as wholesaler of material produced by third parties. Therefore is does not take any responsibility for possible defects.
Any claim or dispute must be addressed to L.F. by letter or fax within eight days from receipt of goods, the loss of all rights as penalty, to the following address:
LF Spare Parts Ltd.
A10a Lakeside Business Park, Broadway Lane
South Cerney, Gloucestershire GL7 5XL
Tel. +44 (0)1285 86 16 25 - Fax +44 (0)1285 86 39 49
e-mail: firstname.lastname@example.com
In no case are disputes entitled to payment suspension.
13. Court of jurisdiction: the sale agreement between L.F. and the Customer is understood as concluded in Italy and subject to Italian Law. (Principle of the country of Origin and internal Market). Any dispute regarding the interpretation and implementation of the contracts made according to these General Conditions, which does not reach a peaceful resolution, will be subject to the decision of the Judiciary Authority of the Court where L.F. has its headquarters.
Sales assistance
Our staff is ready to assist you regarding any query you might have. You can contact us (firstname.lastname@example.com) whenever you want about:
- offer enquiries
- orders following special offers by the technical department
- orders with no LF codes (with manufacturer code)
- technical clarifications for the placing of an order
Technical support
If you cannot find the spare part you are looking for, do not hesitate to contact us. We are able to find everything you are looking for, even when it is not listed as a catalogue item!
Provide us with the details and the information you have available and our specialized technical support team will be able to fulfil virtually any request.
Naturally, the more details you are able to provide, the easier and the quicker it will be for us to find precisely the spare part you are after. In principle, in order to find a specific spare part not listed in the catalogue , the following information is required :
• name of manufacturer.
• Model/type of equipment on which it is mounted.
• Serial number (possibly year of production, since it may occur that, over the years, the manufacturer has mounted different components on the same model).
• Product description (and if possible the original manufacturer code).
•Exploded drawing of the machine with an indication as to the required spare.
• (preferably) a picture sent via e-mail.
If you cannot provide us with the above information, another possible solution is sending us some detailed photographs and, when possible, an example.
We wish to remind you that, for spare parts specially found for you, which are out of catalogue, it is not possible to cancel confirmed orders and no return requests are accepted.
LF introduces its new, completely refurbished platform.
We are now pleased to say that three major objectives were reached:
1. New graphics, in line with the new website, more appealing to the eye and therefore easier to read;
2. More user friendly, thanks to the simplification of some functions and the complete redesign of others;
3. Browsing made simpler and easier on mobile devices, thanks to its full-responsive technology, which makes the private area easy to use also with a mobile phone (like the new website).
With the publishing of the new internet shop, LF confirms its leading position also in the use of new technology!
This does not mean that we have disregarded the previous functionality! All the functions that were already present have been maintained and in the new B2B you will still be able to find these features.
A short guide to the new user area /B2B follows.
All the pages of the user area /LF's B2B can be browsed by scrolling up and down, using the scroll bar on the side or by using the scroller which is found on your mouse. By doing so, you will be able to browse the different sections on the home page and view the current special offers, news, latest publications, promoted items and other useful information.
Please note: when you connect from a tablet or a mobile phone numerous pages can be browsed by scrolling sideways (the panning function): don't forget to try it!
In the top side of the page we have placed the panel featuring the main selection functions for your orders.
On the left side, you can see all the ordering , trolley and wish list functions, which can be used as a prompt or reminder. On the right, the menu will allow you to search orders placed, their shipping details, your account information and view the download function.
Underneath the control panel, we have placed all the search functions, which are the core of LF's website!
Please note: the control panel and the search menu bar are fixed and available on all pages of the website
Inside the 4 menus (Search, Gaskets, Shelving, EGO) the functions are the same as previously seen and in some cases they are even simpler.
As you may already have noticed, we have made it possible for the search bar to be always available for you, on each page. This will allow you to gain time and have the search tool always at hand, in all menus, without having to interrupt what you are doing.
The top 10 improvements to the new user area / LF webshop.
1. You are now able to change an existing wish list: you can amend the name of an existing list without having to create a new one.
2. We have introduced the disappearing cart: every time you add an item to your order or simply pass your mouse on the icon, the shopping cart pops up briefly to show the latest updates / additions. (Note: now the cart has the push-buttons to change the quantities in your order).
3. We have introduced the order upload straight in the cart window.
4. We have made available the table for abroad shipping exceeding 30 kg, directly on the order, before confirmation.
5. It is now possible to view the details of items contained in the flyers published in the "window" of the home page.
6. We have made the download page more user friendly and easier for reading.
7. After choosing the profile required in the gasket search, a list of corresponding gaskets will be listed. Here you have the option to select the dimensions needed.
8. In the advanced search, both the search by LF code and the one by manufacturer code are featured.
9. Also in the advanced search, we have made available the function to search by contained code (this was previously only available in the search by manufacturer code).
10. We have added 360° pictures in the article details page: the view of all sides, with zoom, makes it easier to identify even the smallest details.
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Ryan Seacrest's new girlfriend Shayna Terese Taylor has landed a two-year contract with Wilhelmina Models.
Ryan Seacrest's new girlfriend has landed a modelling contract.
Shayna Terese Taylor has been snapped up by Wilhelmina Models shortly after she was photographed on holiday with the 'American Idol' host and his parents in Uruguay and Argentina late last month.
A spokesperson for the world famous agency told gossip website TMZ.com that Shayna recently signed a two-year contract and they believe the personal trainer, 24, has ''huge potential in the fitness and lifestyle world.''
Ryan, 38, who was linked to Sports Illustrated model Dominique Piek earlier this year, appears to be equally enamoured with the blonde beauty as he whisked her off on a Thanksgiving trip to South America with his family last month, where they were spotted being very affectionate.
An eyewitness, who saw them at a restaurant, previously said: ''They were obviously together, and the girl was clearly into Ryan. She was all over him, holding his back and his hand while he talked to the others. And he seemed to be loving the PDA.''
Ryan split from 'Safe Haven' actress Julianne Hough, 25, in April after three years of dating.
The former couple are believed to have split because he didn't want to get married and take their relationship to the next level.
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A senior government delegation, will attend the Forum to showcase the many investment opportunities that Montenegro can offer international investors. This invitation-only event will profile the Montenegrin economy, providing a unique opportunity for delegates to engage with ministers and senior government officials.
DMA was privileged to host the Government of Montenegro for the first UK-Montenegro Trade & Investment Forum in 2010 and we look forward a similarly successful Forum on 26th October 2017.
0800-0900: Registration & Refreshments
0900-0920: Welcome
• Atam Sandhu, Chief Executive, DMA
• British Ambassador to Montenegro
• HE Borislav Banović, Ambassador of Montenegro to the United Kingdom
0920-0940: Keynote Address
• FCO Minister
• Head of the delegation
0940-1100: Session 1 –Economic Overview
Chair: British Ambassador to Montenegro
• Hon Darko Radunović, Minister of Finance
• Representative, European Bank of Reconstruction and Development
• Stanko Zloković, Vice President, Chamber of Economy Montenegro
• Luka Popović, Partner, BDK Advokati
• Private Sector Representative
Q&A Session
1100-1130: Refreshments Break
1130-1300: Session 2 – Investing in Infrastructure & Energy
Chair: Sir Henry Bellingham MP, non-Executive Director, DMA
• Hon Dragica Sekulić, Minister of Economy
• Representative, Montenegrin Investment Promotion Agency – MIPA
• Private Sector Representative x 2
Q&A Session
1300-1400: Networking Lunch
1400-1530: Session 3– Investing in Tourism & Key Sectors
Chair: Rt Hon The Lord Hain, Former Minister of State for Europe
• Hon Pavle Radulović, Minister of Sustainable Development and Tourism
• Private Sector Representative x 2
Q&A Session
1530-1540: Closing Remarks
• Atam Sandhu, Chief Executive, DMA
• HE Borislav Banović, Ambassador of Montenegro to the United Kingdom
1540-1700: Gala Drinks Reception


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The students at Bethany Christian School in Tempe are gearing up for their biggest project yet: making over a thousand apple pies from scratch.
Last year, the eighth-grade class made 1,420 pies for the annual fundraiser to support their graduation trip to Disneyland. Pie-making will begin Oct. 24 with the students and parents working from 9 a.m. to 9 p.m. in shifts.
For $10 a pie, anyone in the community can donate to their trip and receive a delicious, homemade pie that is ready to freeze and perfect for the upcoming holidays.
All pie orders need to be turned in by Oct. 15.
For more information, call (480) 752-8993.


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The Nation
For the past two weeks, all eyes have been glued to Madison, Wisconsin. The collective and joyful resistance to Governor Scott Walker's power-grabbing budget bill has inspired the demoralized progressive base and put the corporate-backed assault on working people front and center in the national conversation.
But while it's obvious that the right wing is out to break the back of the progressive movement, it's easy to miss the strategy that guides their selection of specific targets. Their attacks are all carefully aimed at the same critical juncture: institutions that work for people in their daily lives and in the political arena, those that connect people's personal struggles across the country to the political struggle in Washington. Once we recognize the critical role these progressive service organizations play in building progressive politics, the right's broader strategy in Wisconsin and elsewhere becomes clear. Scott Walker is a soldier in the same army as James O' Keefe and Lila Rose, the right-wing video pranksters who tried to smear ACORN and Planned Parenthood.
Indeed, last month's attack on Planned Parenthood provoked a sickening sense of déjà vu. Seemingly out of nowhere, undercover activists secretly filmed an employee of a major progressive institution making embarrassing statements. The resulting video makes news and inflames the debate around federal funding of the organization's services. It was the ACORN attack all over again [see Peter Dreier and John Atlas's "The GOP's Blame-ACORN Game"].
ACORN was unique as a national organization that served our nation's poor people. Wrangling with life's common but critical challenges like mortgages and housing forms, ACORN employees built trust by offering assistance person-to-person, neighborhood-by-neighborhood. They then leveraged that trust to lobby for federal legislation to address the root causes of the crises facing these communities—predatory lending, lack of community investment and stagnant wages. Continue reading…
Related Articles
- The Lila Rose Planned Parenthood video sting: Why didn't it work? (slate.com)
- CNN's Kurtz & Co. disparagingly compare Walker hoax call to ACORN videos — which they loved at the time (crooksandliars.com)
- ACORN-Esque 'Sting' Hits Planned Parenthood (newser.com)
- "Boehner in 'war' against Planned Parenthood" and related posts (politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com)
- The 'sting' that never stung (washingtonmonthly.com)
- Man Tried ACORN 'Sting' on Planned Parenthood (newser.com)
- Planned Parenthood Calls In The FBI After Series Of O'Keefe-Like Encounters (huffingtonpost.com)
- Planned Parenthood Calls In The FBI After Series Of O'Keefe-Like Encounters (thefifthcolumn2.wordpress.com)


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Apple Inc chief executive Tim Cook has visited Foxconn Technology Group's newly built manufacturing facility for the iPhone in Zhengzhou, China, as the US company seeks to improve working conditions.Bloomberg
The US has accused Syria's President, Bashar al-Assad, of failing to respect a UN-Arab League peace plan as Syrian forces continued their assault on rebel bastions. And UN rights chief Navi Pillay said that enough evidence had been gathered to bring human rights charges against Mr Assad.AFP
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Former IMF chief
Papua New Guinea has approved the deployment of troops to a liquefied natural gas site in the Southern Highlands. The soldiers will be deployed to an area called Hides amid an ongoing land dispute around an Esso Highlands conditioning plant.AAP
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Litchfield County hazardous waste collection to be held June 7
Published 4:07 pm, Tuesday, June 3, 2014
The Northwest Hills Recycling Advisory Committee has organized an annual Household Hazardous Waste Collection Day, which will be on June 7 from 9 a.m. to noon at the Falls Village Highway Garage on Railroad Street, Falls Village, according to a release.
Residents will be able to safely dispose paints, pesticides, herbicides, household cleaners and hobby supplies.
"These materials represent a threat to water quality and public health when not disposed of properly," the release from the advisory committee states. "Propane tanks from barbecue grills are also being accepted at this Collection Day at no charge."
The release asks residents to look for containers in their basements, garages and beneath kitchen sinks and dispose of any empty ones with warning labels such as toxic, flammable, reactive or corrosive.
Residents of the following towns are invited to take part: Torrington, Litchfield, Goshen, Colebrook, Canaan, Cornwall, Norfolk, North Canaan, Harwinton, Kent, Salisbury, North Canaan and Sharon.
Registration must be done in advance from the respective town or city halls prior to June 7. There is no charge to participants.
The recycling advisory committee is a subcommittee of the Northwest Hills Council of Governments, a 20-town regional planning committee.
Reach Ryan Flynn at 860-489-3121 ext. 345.


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PORT CHARLOTTE — The decision to table talks with LF Carl Crawford until after the season should be effective in diminishing the potential distraction — for a while.
It still may get dicey at times, especially when the Rays play the Yankees, as they are considered his mostly likely free agent pursuers and the New York media have been known to be just a tad, shall we say, aggressive.
It will be interesting to see if Crawford, well aware how interest from the Yankees drives the free agent market, is any more willing to talk about his future in that situation and what he says when asked about the possibility of one day donning pinstripes. And when the Rays go to his hometown of Houston in May.
In theory, the Rays expect to be competing for a playoff spot all season, with Crawford a big part. As a result, they hold out hope of working out a deal after the season, though it would probably take a huge attendance increase, a trip back to the World Series and pretty good progress toward a new stadium for that to happen.
But just wait if the Rays aren't in the race come late July.
If Crawford leaves as a free agent, the Rays would get only a pair of draft picks for him. But by trading him before the July 31 deadline, they could get a major haul of talent. (Which will make for an extremely tough decision if they are on the fringe of the race, say 8-10 games out.)
There will be an endless stream of rumors — a Roy Halladay redux, as some suggest — as the pool of teams willing to trade for Crawford in an effort to get over the top this season is going to be larger than the ones that can legitimately afford him as a free agent.
And there will be nearly as many theories about what the Rays might do with such offers. Would they trade him to the rival Yankees or Red Sox? (The guess here is yes, if they had they best offer.) And at what premium? Would a National League team get a lower price? Would the Rays allow teams, or at least certain (non-AL East) teams, to explore signing Crawford to a long-term contract before making a deal?
And how much will Crawford get? At 29, with (at least) three All-Star appearances and four AL stolen base titles, he would be one of the most attractive free agents on the market. A Foxsports.com survey of 20 baseball people found the most common estimates were five-year deals for $60 million to $80 million, though others think he could make more in years and dollars, perhaps into triple digits.
Rays rumblings: Manager Joe Maddon isn't particularly pleased that 17 of the Rays' 32 exhibitions are against AL East teams because of the overexposure of pitchers. … 1B Russell Branyan said picking the Indians over the Rays was "a very tough decision" keyed to Cleveland's promise of being the everyday first baseman. … The Rays, according to the Las Avispas Cuban baseball blog, held a private workout for 22-year-old Cuban pitcher Juan Yasser Serrano. … Ex-Ray Troy Percival is serving as a guest spring instructor with the Angels. … Parking at Charlotte Sports Park is going up from $7 to $10.


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Chef Kurt Cooks Up French Fries
This week, MSU Corporate Chef Kurt Kwiatkowski cooked up some French Fries, per request of Joey Pants.
Chef Kurt's French Fries
2 pounds Russet potatoes
Soy or peanut oil
Peel potatoes and submerge in water. The peels do have vitamins and flavor, but your fries won't get as crisp with the skin on them.
Cut the potatoes with a 'French fry cutter' or hand slice them about a half inch thick and place back in water to prevent oxidation and refrigerate for at least 30 minutes.
Dip the fries into oil heated to 325 degrees until a crust forms, but the fries are still blond – about four to minutes.
Shake the fries as they come out of the oil and allow them to cool on a baking rack in the refrigerator.
Increase oil temp to 375 degrees and finish frying until crispy and golden brown – about three to four minutes. Shake the fries as they are coming out of the oil and salt immediately.


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ROME (Oct. 16)
Plans to update, restore and reorganize the museum and monuments at the site of the Auschwitz-Birkenau death camp complex are well under way but proceeding slowly because of lack of funds, according to a ranking museum official.
But the Polish government-run museum has already made major changes in approach, if not in physical structure, according to Franciszek Piper, director of the museum's historical department.
Since the end of Communist rule, the museum has been emphasizing that Jews were the primary victims at the Nazi death camp, Piper said in an interview here.
The Communists depicted Jews as but one of many nationalities to die at Auschwitz, but that has been changed, he said.
"Despite the fact that they were citizens of various different countries, they were in Auschwitz because they were Jews," he said.
"Now, in all our publications, the proper data on the nationalities of the victims and the fact that most of the victims were Jews is presented," said Piper, who was in Rome this week for the opening of an exhibition on Auschwitz.
He said the acknowledgement of Auschwitz as primarily a Jewish tragedy began when an international commission to reorganize the museum was established after the fall of Communism in Poland two years ago.
Piper said an introductory film made by the Red Army has been changed to reflect the new emphasis, though not yet in all languages. "That is a technical problem," he said.
In the museum itself, "what we can change and are changing are the commentaries and interpretation that explain the items and photographs on display," he said.
But Piper said to "do everything that needs to be done, we need $42 million."
Explaining that until now, the Polish government has been solely responsible for the museum's financing, Piper said he hoped private foundations and possibly other governments could help, considering the international dimensions of Auschwitz and the financial crisis affecting Poland.


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Short and sweet love letters from Paris
"Paris, Je T'Aime" is what they call an omnibus movie: one long film comprised of 18 very short ones. But it's probably more useful to think of this spotty collection as the findings of a class trip: 21 directors loosed on the city's arrondissements to film whatever felicity comes to mind.
What they deliver is long on stories of visiting Brits and Americans -- not just from American filmmakers like Alexander Payne and the Coen brothers , but from Gérard Depardieu (directing with Frédéric Auburtin ). The young Canadian Vincenzo Natali even gives us Elijah Wood as a backpacker who's bit by a vampire. Not all the episodes are that inspired, though.
The collection begins with "Montmartre ," a sugary love story from Bruno Podalydès in which he stars as a lonely guy who falls in love with the woman who passes out next to his parked car. That's it. Most of the films are that succinct. Gus Van Sant's is set in the Marais , Paris's gay district, where Gaspard Ulliel -- the Hannibal of "Hannibal Rising " -- comes on to the silent apprentice (Elias McConnell ) at a print shop. After his punch line, Van Sant comes up with a final series of shots that are illogical but sweet.
Any mention of France's recent socio-political strains are muted here. Where's the romance in, say, worker benefits? The clumsy short from Gurinder Chadha , the woman who brought us "Bend It Like Beckham," further explains the lack of politics: it's hard to put across in two or three minutes. In Chadha's film, boy (Cyril Descours ) meets girl (Leila Bekhti ), the girl is Muslim and the boy is not. But he is a student of history, which makes her father psyched. This is as ham-fisted as her features, and the least of the group.
Walter Salles , working with Daniela Thomas , films Catalina Sandino Moreno , playing a nanny in "Far From the 16th." She drops off her own baby, endures an epic metro- and bus-ride to take care of someone else's. In about three scenes and one song, the directors achieve the pointed eloquence that eludes a lot of so-called humanists.
That same streak of empathy runs through "Place des Fetes " from the South African director Oliver Schmitz , who uses brevity to moving effect. The story keeps pulling back to reveal what a dying immigrant (Seydou Boro ) from Lagos was doing to end up in the arms of a pretty paramedic (Aissa Maiga ). Schmitz conveys the tragic irony of the last days of the man's life in a great montage, bested only by Tom Tykwer's piece ("Faubourg Saint-Denis "). The "Run Lola Run" director manages to present an entire relationship (between Natalie Portman and Melchior Beslon ) as a pulsing, swelling blur.
Portman plays a struggling American actor, and there's a preference for shorts about moviemaking throughout "Paris Je T'Aime ." It's beside the point in Olivier Assayas's haunting installment ("Quartier des Enfants Rouges "), in which Maggie Gyllenhaal , playing an American actor who looks like Kirsten Dunst , falls in love with her drug dealer. It's an indulgence in Richard LaGravenese's "Pigalle ," with Fanny Ardant and Bob Hoskins as a couple of performers with a stale marriage.
As you might expect, each little film faithfully represents its maker. The Coens' contribution is an inane farce (Steve Buscemi under attack waiting for the metro). The Wong Kar-Wai cinematographer Christopher Doyle sets his baroque little number at a Chinese hair salon. And Sylvain Chomet , the animator and director of "The Triplets of Belleville ," gives us a live-action cartoon starring two mimes -- I know what you're thinking, but it's very funny.
Unpredictably enough, Wes Craven offers a tribute to Oscar Wilde and a woman's prerogative to marry for laughs.
Payne's piece (written with Nadine Eid ) is the best of the lot. It comes last and it's deceptively simple. A tourist from Denver (Margo Martindale ) reads in amusing phonetic American English from the report she wrote for her French class, while we see scenes of her wandering around the city in tennis shoes and a fannypack. Martindale is intrepid and heartbreaking (in a few minutes no less), and Payne's balance of spite and warmth is consistent, almost graceful. As an ad for the city's charms, Paris couldn't have asked for a more sweetly jaundiced love letter.
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Attorney Howard Kashman's emotions were mixed Tuesday as he sat in the courtroom and listened as a judge set free a former client.
The release comes 42 years late as far as Kashman is concerned. He was the Pima County public defender who represented a 17-year-old Louis Cuen Taylor at his 1972 trial. A jury found Taylor guilty of killing 28 people in the Pioneer Hotel fire. Kashman continued to represent Taylor into the mid-1980s when all appeals were exhausted.
"It was emotional," he said of hearing a Superior Court judge finally release Taylor. "A lot of juices flowing, with happiness for Louis and sadness for the way it had to come about."
Taylor's release was contingent upon him pleading no contest to 28 counts of murder. The plea was part of a deal brokered between the Pima County Attorney's Office and the Arizona Justice Project. The agreement set aside Taylor's original conviction and gave him credit for time already served.
Taylor has steadfastly maintained his innocence.
And Kashman believed so strongly in his client's innocence that Taylor lived with the attorney, his wife and their children during the trial.
Kashman was 27-years-old when he took on the case after the deadly Christmas-week fire in 1970. He was Pima County's first public defender. He had opened the office 11 months earlier with a handful of lawyers, a couple of secretaries and one investigator.
"We started from zero, with nothing - renting the space, buying furniture. I'd just come back from a few years in the Air Force as a legal officer. I'd been a deputy prosecutor, but other than that I had little legal experience."
Kashman hailed from New York City. He came to Tucson in 1958 to attend the University of Arizona. After earning his law degree, he took a job as a prosecutor with the County Attorney's Office. Kashman left the county in 1966 to take a three-year assignment in the U.S. Air Force's Judge Advocate General's Corps.
When he returned to Tucson, he was asked to head the public defender's office. He resigned from the office a month after the Taylor trial and went into private practice.
"Overall I feel like I did everything that could have been done," Kashman, 71, said.
"The things that turned this case around many years later were things that weren't available to me or anyone else until the County Attorney's Office turned over its entire file to the Justice Project."
At a press conference Wednesday Taylor had praise for his Justice Project attorneys, but he also remembered Kashman's contributions to his case.
"He's my hero, too. He was bombarded. The county attorney had all the resources," Taylor said.
Kashman still practices law, dividing his time between his Tucson office and Colorado, though the former criminal defense attorney has lightened his load considerably.
"I have had a lot of big cases in my career - 13 murder cases," Kashman said. "I've won some cases that I didn't think I would. I won a couple that, emotionally, I wish I hadn't. That was the role of the defense lawyer. But I had an interesting career. It was challenging."


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Here in the heart of Auschwitz-Birkenau, a scream seeks to burst from the depth of our soul and yet there is a spark of pride.The Jewish people have arisen from the death camps ashes, as a brand snatched from the burning fire. We have returned to our homeland. Three hours flight from here, we have re-established our homeland….
The Jewish people survived the destruction, suffering, exiles, expulsions and the greatest tragedy - the Shoah.
Despite it all, we have returned to our homeland and we have built a modern, developed, democratic state, which has ingathered the Jewish people from the four corners of the earth.
In all of human history, there has been no similar event.
My brothers and sisters, the martyrs of the Shoah, who were not able to join the State of Israel, world leaders have come to this place, which was your hell, in order to remember you. You are the lost citizens of our homeland.
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Guo Feng is a 53 year old dairy farmer who resides in rural farmlands of Chin. He also holds the record for having the "worlds largest man boobs".
Being a farmer is very demanding, and the large breasts made doing his job nearly impossible.
"Things like milking cows and carrying buckets became quite hard. If one of the calves got free and I had to run after it, my boobs would start heaving and bouncing. The last few years it's become unbearable" said Mr Feng.
Not only were his male breasts causing physical strain, but also the emotional aspect was taking its toll as well. Ridiculed daily by neighbors and passerby's, his wife Jia Ling left him to live with her mother.
Desperate for relief he set out in search of treatment from several different doctors and specialists. After spending his entire life savings on different tests and examinations without results, Mr Feng became so desperate he threatened to "cut them off himself".
Finally Dr Zhang Lilan at the Jinan Chest Hospital in Beijing offered to remove his breasts surgically free of change. "We wondered if he had eaten any poisons or contaminants but have found nothing after testing his blood. His genetic material is also normal, it is not any form of cancer it seems to be fatty tissue." said Dr Lilan.
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Social for Startups
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Friday, January 11, 2013 from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM
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Social for Startups
Friday, January 11th, 2013
9:00am to 5:00pm
Learn how to tell your story with digital platforms.
This Intensive Course will enable you to make smarter decisions about your online presence, maximizing your limited human and financial resources to achieve maximum market disruption.
By the end of the Bootcamp, you will know how to efficiently gather product and user data using simple existing tools that track and compile interest in business activity. Those who attend will leave with sample case studies of successful integration of marketing and online campaigns as well as social media marketing and campaign planning tools.
*This course is offered separately from, but is optimal when taken in conjunction with the Startup Finance Bootcamp & Legal Bootcamp for Social Entrepreneurs. Discount available for registering for all three courses in our Entrepreneur's Bootcamp Series.
Course Topics:
- Community Building through Social Media, including IFTTT
- Hackathons
- Campaign planning, including product releases
- Publishing Original Content
- How to use networks appropriately: LinkedIn, Facebook, Google+, Eventbrite
- Effectively reaching customers and project partners
- Basic tools to rapidly scale
- Measuring efficacy and social outcomes
This course will also cover shared economy resources and techniques, including crowdfunding, meetups, corworking spaces, taskrabbit, Odesk, TechShop, innovation labs and WorkList.
Who Should Attend:
- Entrepreneurs seeking rapid growth and exposure for their business across multiple networks and business sectors
- Public officials and business managers who are seeking to tap into the power and potential of rapidly evolving digital communities; interfacing these resources with localized needs and resources
- Anyone who wants to understand how business, social and 'third-place' media platforms can be harnessed to function as greater than the sum of their parts, interlacing networks to expand exposure and institutional effectiveness
About the Instructor:
Social strategy advisor and speaker, Evonne Heyning serves as lead for communications at the Center for Greater Good and co-founding partner at Eddefy, producing useful tools for lifelong learning together. In San Francisco and Los Angeles she aligns global nonprofits, startups and technology media hubs crafting solutions with their dynamic communities. Her first startup, Toyshoppe Systems, builds dreams into reality for major film and television projects, engineering robots to spaceships with R&D facilities connecting digital inventions across our global network.
Evonne is an artist of social architecture, specializing in translating collective intelligence through the lens of compassion. She consults on community engagement and teaches participatory storytelling beyond borders, crowdsourcing solutions as a key to open efficient systems. In the last 15 years she has produced campaigns across every major form of media from curriculum and live events to interactive transmedia games with learning economies.
Find her @amoration and tell her about your favorite chocolate or meditation practice.
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901 Mission St, Suite 105
San Francisco, CA 94103
General Admission: $190
HUB members & Presidio Students & Alumni: $100
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Red, white, purple or any combination thereof. The hue of the poppy we wear should be the choice of an informed conscience. To be coerced into a symbol, for whatever reason and by whatever means, immediately invalidates its significance.
Category - remembrance
November 1, 2014
October 31, 2014
Ekklesia is please to be supporting the British tour of Professor Tom and Rebecca Yoder Neufeld, which continues in Scotland next week (2-6 November 2014).
October 28, 2014
This year Remembrance Day and the Sunday events associated with it will have an added poignancy because of the marking of the centenary of the First World War and all the discussion and debate that has occasioned.
October 23, 2014
May 16, 2014
Yesterday saw the formal launch of the White Feather Diaries, a social media project exploring the lives of British pacifists during the first world war. The project's run by Quakers in Britain, who hired me as a writer and an editor for the project. I'm really pleased to be working on this project. Yesterday we announced the names of the five individuals whose writings will form the basis of the project, when it goes online in the summer.
January 3, 2014
Peace activist, writer and Ekklesia associate Symon Hill has established a petition at Change.org calling on the Royal Mint: to replace the the Kitchener £2 coin with one that truly commemorates the millions who died in the First World War.
November 11, 2013
Consider these two excerpts: "Writing for the religious website Ekklesia, Jill Segger explained why good people must not show solidarity with ex-servicemen and women." and "The brutalising experiences of combat lead many to harm themselves and others when they return to civilian life. These people deserve our compassion and support."
November 2, 2013
'Dangerous Women' is the title of a conference taking place this weekend on the brave women who campaigned against the First World War, and for gender and social justice.
November 1, 2013
May 5, 2013
War memorials and Quakers do not always get on. The kind of memorialising which is strong on military ceremony and pride does not sit well with us and we tend to avoid it. But we hold it important to remember all people killed in war, civilians as well as combatants. "This is the use of memory – for liberation" TS Eliot wrote in Little Gidding. And if we are to be liberated from bitterness, hatred and the propensity to pass conflict down the generations, we must remember well.


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Crime decreased at Tennessee schools last year for at least the sixth year in a row, according to a report released Tuesday.
In the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation's yearly School Crime Report, elementary, middle and high schools saw crime drop across the board by 11.5 percent.
"Schools should be among the safest places in our communities," TBI Director Mark Gwyn said in a news release. "We hope this study will help law enforcement, school administrators and government officials enhance their safety plans to continue the work to address crime issues in our schools."
The report found that violence is still a problem at schools across the state. Of the 9,741 total offenses reported last year, nearly half were crimes against persons, with simple assault as the most frequently reported offense.
More than half of the victims of school crime last year were female, according to the report.


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Hoarseness and a loss of voice are caused by problems with the vocal cords in the larynx. Problems with the vocal cords are common and can be caused by a variety of things. Treatment can help recover your voice faster which may reduce sick time and improve your quality of life. While some treatments will work with most any reason for voice loss, some treatments are more specific to the actual cause.

Acute Laryngitis

Acute laryngitis is generally caused by a virus, such as the common cold. It is rarely caused by a bacterial infection, and therefore does not usually respond to antibiotics. You will generally recover with time within approximately 2 weeks, however you can help improve your vocal symptoms by:

resting your voice (refrain from talking or whisper)

staying home from work if your job includes singing, long periods of speaking or a lot of teaching

drinking plenty of fluids

Chronic Laryngitis

Chronic laryngitis includes a loss of voice or hoarseness that lasts for weeks or even months. There is generally an underlying cause of chronic laryngitis involving irritant exposure such as:

chronic voice strain

acid reflux

 chronic sinusitis and post-nasal drip

yeast infections (especially for those who use asthma inhalers, people receiving chemotherapy, or those with other conditions that weaken the immune system)

smoking

alcohol

chemical fume exposure

While some of the treatments for acute laryngitis may help with chronic laryngitis, proper treatment of the cause is really necessary to resolve your voice loss.

Hoarseness in People Who Smoke and Drink

Cigarettes and alcohol can cause benign hoarseness, but you should be seen by an ENT specialist if the hoarseness lasts for more than three weeks. This is particularly important in smokers and drinkers, since these habits have been found to increase the risk of throat cancer.

Loss of Voice or Hoarseness Caused By Acid Reflux

Acid reflux can cause hoarseness and voice loss. When you lay down to sleep at night, and the acid from your stomach spills into your esophagus, which can affect the vocal cords. The best remedy for voice loss or hoarseness related to gastroesophageal relux (GERD), is to treat your acid reflux. This may mean making certain lifestyle changes, such as not eating before bedtime, or talking to your doctor about prescription antacid medications. Medications that my be prescribed include H2 antagonists (such as Prevacid) and proton pump inhibitors (such as Prilosec).

Misusing Your Voice

Voice loss and hoarseness related to voice misuse is most common among people who are required to speak or sing a lot for their profession. Individuals who experience a loss of voice or hoarseness from loud speaking, over speaking, or misusing their voice may need to have speech therapy to learn how to use their voice properly. Misusing your voice can lead to vocal cord cysts or vocal cord hemorrhage, both of which can also be causes for loss of voice or hoarseness.

Treatment of Voice Loss and Hoarseness

While some treatments are universally good practices if you experience a loss of voice or hoarseness, some treatments are more specific to the cause of your symptoms. Treatment options include:

Resting your voice by whispering or not talking.

Drinking plenty of fluids and resting in order to get over acute infections, such as a cold.

Getting evaluated to determine if you have a yeast infection (thrush); particularly important for those who have a weakened immune system or use corticosteroid inhalers for asthma.

Getting treatment for acid reflux.

Learning proper techniques of breathing, speaking, and singing.

Avoiding smoking and drinking.

Reducing the amount of irritants, such as occupational dust or chemical fumes, you come in contact with.

Although chronic hoarseness is often due to irritant exposure, other possibilities include cancer or neurological disease. As such, a careful ENT work-up that includes examination of the vocal folds is required. You should always seek emergency care if you experience shortness of breath or have other difficulties with breathing.

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American Academy of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery. Fact Sheet: Common Problems That Can Affect Your Voice. Accessed: September 2, 2009 from http://www.entnet.org/HealthInformation/commonvoiceproblems.cfm


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Interview: Simon Cohen
The 'mad' collector who specialises in Jew-hatred
Some people collect stamps, some collect postcards and others collect art. Most are proud to have their collections on display. Simon Cohen's collection is more unusual and he is rather ambivalent about it. He has around 1,600 pieces, of which most are tucked away in a back room and rarely see the light of day.
Cohen's speciality is antisemitic memorabilia - cartoons, sculptures, books and even board games. He started his collection in 2000 in response to what he perceived as an increase in antisemitic activity. His thought was that such a collection could be used to discredit the Jew haters. Although he has mixed feelings about the large number of hateful images he now possesses - a selection of which are now on display at the Jewish Cultural Centre - he feels that he is doing something worthwhile by exposing antisemites.
He says: "It's a mad thing to do. Of course, I'm not attracted by this stuff but I wanted to put it together to make people aware that a flirtation with evil images is a bad thing."
Cohen, who retired as a consultant at University College Hospital in 2007, is a self-confessed obsessive who collects not only what he calls "antisemitica" but also Jewish children's books, haggadot, prints and maps. The antisemitica comes from all over the place - everywhere from Jewish dealers to German auctions. It covers a wide spectrum, from the mildly derogatory to the obscene.
Cohen says: "The illustrations in Israel Zangwill's book, Children of the Ghetto, portrayed Jews in a derogatory manner - and that was from a Jewish author. There are some examples of English antisemitism which are actually quite funny. In fact it annoys me that some of it is funny. On the other hand, there are horrific images portraying ritual murder, the blood libel, ritual infanticide and deicide."
Cohen has a specific purpose in displaying the images. "We compare historic images with current ones. By juxtaposing modern images in the media - whether far-right, far-left or Islamic - with images from the Nazi period, you can see that the themes are pretty much the same."
He acknowledges that the idea of displaying images like these in public provokes controversy. "There are plenty of people who say we should not put it on - that people might come and see it and take the wrong lesson from it. But I somehow think it unlikely that racists will come to the LJCC to view this exhibition. Others say that this is not our problem, it is the problem of the non-Jews. But I'm worried that it has an adverse impact on Jews' image of themselves."
While Cohen keeps most of his collection packed away in drawers and boxes in his spare room, some of them are framed and on the wall, though certainly nothing from the Nazi newspaper, Der Sturmer. "I'm not supposed to have favourites but I quite like a cartoon of Yasir Arafat on the cross with the caption 'Do not kill him twice', which was drawn at the time of the siege of the Church of the Nativity."
There is also much that is sickening, including Jews being portrayed as rats and spiders, Jews collecting blood from a woman who has had her throat cut and Arab images of Israeli settlers drinking Palestinian blood.
Cohen realises that not everyone would understand why he would want to buy such material. It is certainly not for financial gain. It is not uncommon for him to pay more than three figures for items - even more on occasions - though he is not keen to be too specific for fear that his wife will be annoyed. He says: "I don't collect things as an investment. If I see the money back I'll be very happy. The antisemitica market is very small and quite volatile. If a collector dies it badly affects it - this is an old man's hobby after all. I love hunting for the stuff but I'm terrible at organising it. And it's quite common for me to buy the same thing twice. If I liked it the first time, I'm likely to like it the second time too."
He is open to offers for the antisemitica collection. "I would actually like to get rid of the whole thing - my wife can't bear it. I think I'm coming to the end of my antisemitic period," he jokes.
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Am I weird for liking Jean more than Jane?
I know that Jane gets a lot of love here, and is considered very stylish. I like Jane - a LOT, actually! - but lately I've been thinking about her similar sisters, Jean and Joan. I still don't think I'm a fan of Joan - she still sounds a bit frumpy and middle-aged. Jean, on the other hand, feels very fresh and unexpectedly pretty all of a sudden. What do you think, am I nuts?
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I love Jane and Jean and June...but I guess I'm all alone in my love of Joan! Should I try to convince you?
From Joan of Arc to Joan Jett to Joan Didion to Joan from Mad Men...is there a Joan out there that isn't awesome?
And isn't nickname Joanie adorable?? And so much better than Joni (which just makes me think of high-pitched Joni Mitchell and looks to me like it would be pronounced Johnny and ends in an "I" which seems so dated to me)
Anyways, Joan rules. At least for a middle, right?
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Total Workout – The Perfect Workout Mix Cd
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I love the Total Workout CD. For me, the better the music the better the workout and I get a great workout with this music. This CD is one of the best I have found out there. It is really up-tempo, songs are commonly known songs, the mixes are really good. I would definitely reccomend it.
I wanted to love this release, I really did. The amount of work that it took to secure the licensing rights for all these songs must've been AMAZING – I was hugely impressed at all the big name artists they got on this record. Unfortunately, the segues between songs are underwhelming at best, and occasionally painful. There's a few good ones, some bad ones, and then some REALLY bad ones like from track 2 to 3. It appears as if the DJ who mixed this together (Gina Star) wasn't all that familiar with the concept of BPM's and tempo, since she chose to go from Toni Braxton (123 BPM) right into Britney Spears (132 BPM) and as a result the Toni sounds choppy, oddly spliced, and artifically sped-up. This is a pretty serious mistake any good DJ never EVER makes – drastic tempo changes from one song to another trying to retain the same pitch.
Also, you'll often hear the intro beats for the new song come in halfway thru the current song that's playing! She doesn't even wait for an outro beats section – which always sounds incredibly messy. One might say, well hey this is a non-stop mix CD compilation, every minute is precious. Then guess what friends, that's what re-editing is for. Two full-on productions playing at once sounds busy and cluttered, which is a simple concept for most DJ's to grasp.
Zero stars also goes to the typo on Track 15, the correct remix title is the T-empo Mix of Taylor Dayne, which any dance music fan should know immediately – shame on them for not catching this. And the lazy fade outro at the end was pathetic….Any DJ, industry person, remix collector, or Taylor fan worth their salt can easily track down the FULL t'empo mix from either the US promo vinyl or even the import cd5 to give the whole entire collection a PROPER cold outro, not that shoddy fade-out job, as if all Gina Star had access to was the lame T'empo edit that's already been included on a dozen Arista dance compliation CD's throughout the years.
Overall, if you're buying this CD to listen to the mixdowns between each song, hoping to be impressed, don't bother. However, a casual music fan who doesn't care about the technical stuff like that will be very VERY impressed with the big name mainstream dance hits that Thrive managed to license for this compilation. Let's just hope they exercise better quality control for their next compilation.
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The Skylight's production is a triumph from start to finish. The cast, direction, sets and lights work in a highly synchronized yet organic fashion due in large part to the multitalented direction of Molly Rhode, who delighted audiences last season with a charming production of The Sound of Music.
The ensemble performance is seamless and at the Saturday performance of opening weekend, the "France Cast" of children performed with an astounding level of professionalism. Luke Brotherhood (Gavroche), Young Eponine (Georgina Pink) and Young Cosette (Harper Navin) commanded the stage fearlessly, adding to the overall atmosphere in the fight for what is just in an unfair world—a theme that still resonates today long after the curtain has come down.
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Kate Gosselin has a fan on Dancing With the Stars: competitor Bachelor Jake Pavelka.
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Pavelka is ready for Monday's premiere.
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He also got the requisite spray tan.
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Pavelka's mom and dad are in Los Angeles to support his dance debut -- and they're spending some quality time with his fiancee, Vienna Girardi.
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Coyotes midseason report card
GLENDALE, Ariz. — The Coyotes reached the midpoint of the 2013 season in a place they didn't expect to be: outside looking in on the playoff race, with the four teams immediately ahead of them all having a game or two in hand.
The culprits in this disappointing 11-10-3 start are easy to spot. Goalie Mike Smith hasn't shown more than glimpses of his 2011-12 incarnation, the team's once-trademark defensive zone coverage and puck management have been shoddy, and key injuries to forwards Radim Vrbata, Martin Hanzal and Matthew Lombardi along with defensemen David Schlemko and Derek Morris have robbed the club of depth, skill and continuity.
It is tempting, maybe even warranted, to say the Coyotes have not established an identity 24 games into this lockout-shortened season.
"If we're going to be successful in the second half, we have to recognize who we are," coach Dave Tippett said. "Right now, we're giving up too many chances, and right through our lineup – that goes from the goaltender on out – we don't have anybody that we would say, 'OK, this guy's at the top of his game.'"
But that statement relies on the premise that this club can regain the form it showed in a run to the Western Conference final last year. What if the club's 2013 identity is exactly what we've seen thus far — a maddening penchant for inconsistency, defensive lapses and mental breaks due to a dearth of practice time and a dearth of rest in this condensed schedule?
It's a thought nobody is willing to entertain yet.
"The identity of our team hasn't changed," captain Shane Doan said. "We've just got to do it on a more consistent basis. It's not a matter of finding it. You have to do it."
Here are our midseason grades:
This grade falls largely on Smith since backup Jason LaBarbera has only seen action in six games, a mere three of them starts. If you were to go simply by Smith's numbers, this grade would be even worse. His 3.09 goals-against average ranks 39th in the NHL, and his .894 save percentage ranks 34th – well off the top-eight numbers he put up last season of 2.21 and .930 with eight shutouts. But Smith's teammates haven't done him any favors this season, allowing teams to attack the slot with regularity. Smith gave up one, maybe two rebounds he shouldn't have in Thursday's 6-3 loss to St. Louis. He also didn't steal enough great chances from the Blues, but the defensive zone coverage hung him out to dry on at least two goals, and that has been happening too often. On the flip side, Smith doesn't appear to be tracking the puck as well as last year, his rebound management hasn't been as solid and his confidence doesn't appear as high, a problem that infects the team in front of him.
Grade: C-
When the Coyotes shed aging veteran Adrian Aucoin and Michal Rozsival while adding Zbynek Michaek in the offseason, most analysts assumed they had improved the blue line to the point where it was one of the best in the NHL. From a production standpoint, the group is doing well. Oliver Ekman-Larsson is tied for the team lead with 16 points, Keith Yandle is second with 14 points and 11 of the Coyotes' 70 goals have come from defensemen. It's the other end – the one you most associate with their job description – that's been the problem. Phoenix isn't defending well in its own zone (the forwards play a major role in this as well) and has been careless with the puck. The result has been a stunning 2.88 goals allowed per game, which ranks 20th in the 30-team NHL. Yandle has had well-chronicled struggles in his own end, but he's far from alone. Injuries to Derek Morris, David Schlemko and the highly underrated Rusty Klesla forced Tippett to play youngsters Michael Stone, Chris Summers and David Rundblad more than he wanted, and all three showed signs of youth. Even Ekman-Larsson (minus-4) and Michalek (minus-3) were victimized Thursday. Maybe health will lead to better consistency. It had better, because this was supposed to be a strength.
Grade: C-
The good news is that the Coyotes are scoring 2.79 goals per game – an increase of .38 goals over last season — despite the loss of Ray Whitney in free agency. The bad news is the Coyotes aren't taking care of the puck as well and aren't adhering to their defensive zone assignments. Mikkel Boedker (four goals, team-high 16 points) has taken a step forward and may be the club's most consistent forward this season. Boyd Gordon and Antoine Vermette have been terrific on faceoffs, and before Thursday, center Kyle Chipchura had been a revelation, but Steve Sullivan hasn't been able to match Whitney's production from a year ago, Doan is off last season's production and Hanzal, Vrbata and Lombardi, the team's biggest offseason forward acquisition, haven't played enough games due to injuries to have a consistent impact. If the Coyotes can get healthy over the next couple weeks, this unit could take a big step up in play. But it has to happen at both ends of the ice for the Coyotes to be successful.
Grade: C
Despite the absence of some key performers due to injury, the Coyotes' penalty-killing unit still ranks ninth in the NHL, killing off 83.8 percent of opponents' chances. Despite frequent criticism, the Coyotes' power play has been OK, clicking at a 16.3 percent clip to rank in the middle of the NHL pack (17th) — and at a far better rate than last season's anemic 13.6 percent clip, which ranked second to last. It would be nice to get a little more production, but the simple truth is the Coyotes don't have the skilled offensive personnel to do that on a consistent basis. In sports parlance, it is what it is.
Grade: B-
Tippett downplayed the role that minimal practice time has had on his club, but think about it for a minute. One of this club's greatest strengths is the fact that it has a master tactician for a coach, a guy who prides himself on examining every pore of the game for potential clogs. He'll never use it as a public excuse, but it has to be maddening for Tippett to watch his team stray away from its finely tuned defensive system and not be able to get them on the ice, so he and his assistants — Jim Playfair, John Anderson and Dave King — can correct it. He is right when he notes the importance of rest during this grueling, lockout-condensed schedule. "They can't do what you want them to do if they're not rested," he said. But if the Coyotes do disappoint this season, this may go down as one of the greatest underlying reasons. It will also bear watching how the team manages its goalies the rest of the year. Tippett said Thursday that he talks with goalie Sean Burke every day about the mental and physical state of his goalies, adding that the games are so important in this lockout-shortened season that they felt it best to ride Smith as much as possible. But Smith hinted recently that playing so often has been mentally taxing. Will LaBarbera's recent game in Anaheim give the staff enough confidence to spell Smith on more occasions?
Grade: B-
GM Don Maloney added some helpful pieces this season in Michalek, Lombardi and forwards David Moss and Nick Johnson. But health hasn't allowed Lombardi to establish himself yet, Maloney is still operating on a shoestring budget that prevents bigger moves and the trade deadline (April 3) has yet to arrive, so the jury is still out.
Grade: Incomplete
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Britain's lowest priced school uniform will hit the hangers next week (4 June 2007) when it goes on sale at ASDA for just £9.96*, including a pair of scuff resistant shoes!
The 'value' school uniform, designed by George's dedicated back to school team includes a polo shirt, a vest, sweatshirt (available in assorted colours), underpants, a pair of socks, trousers or a skirt and a pair of black scuff resistant shoes.
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Tom DeLay claims that all the criticism of his conduct is being orchestrated by a "left-wing syndicate." The latest member to join the partisan chorus: Ted Olson. You'll remember that, in 2000, Olson argued on behalf of George W. Bush before the Supreme Court. He also served as Bush's Solicitor General until July 2004.
In Yesterday's Wall Street Journal, Olson — in a piece entitled "Hands Off Our Judiciary" — criticized a "prominent member of the leadership of the House of Representatives…[who] has characterized another justice's approach to adjudication as 'incredibly outrageous.'" The person he was referring to was Tom DeLay, who made that comment the day before.
Here's Olson's response to DeLay's comments:
It is time to take a deep breath, step back, and inject a little perspective into the recent heated rhetoric about judges and the courts. We might start by getting a firm grip on the reality that our independent judiciary is the most respected branch of our government, and the envy of the world.
Olson also strongly criticized DeLay's suggestion to investigate the judges who ruled in the Terri Schiavo case:
Calls to investigate judges who have made unpopular decisions are particularly misguided, and if actually pursued, would undermine the independence that is vital to the integrity of judicial systems. If a judge's decisions are corrupt or tainted, there are lawful recourses (prosecution or impeachment); but congressional interrogations of life-tenured judges, presumably under oath, as to why a particular decision was rendered, would constitute interference with — and intimidation of — the judicial process. And there is no logical stopping point once this power is exercised.
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PHOENIX — Attorney General Tom Horne illegally coordinated his 2010 campaign with what was supposed to be an independent committee, Yavapai County Attorney Sheila Polk concluded Thursday.
As a result, Polk said Horne must refund most of $513,340 spent on a last-minute television commercial paid for by Business Leaders for Arizona, set up by Kathleen Winn, who worked on his 2010 campaign until she quit to set up an independent campaign committee.
Polk said there is evidence of coordination between Horne and Winn to defeat Democrat Felecia Rotellini, which made the $513,340 an illegal "in-kind" contribution to Horne's campaign because it circumvented limits on how much individuals can give.
If Horne and Winn do not return the money, Polk said she will take them to court for civil penalties equal to three times the amount.
Horne would not discuss Polk's findings, insisting he will be vindicated after a hearing.
"There was no coordination," Horne said. But Polk, a Republican like Horne, said she has plenty of evidence to prove otherwise.
"The content of the emails between Winn and (campaign consultant Brian) Murray, coupled with the timing of those emails and the phone calls between Winn and Horne provide convincing proof that Horne and Winn coordinated on the development of the political message to be conveyed by the Business Leaders for Arizona anti-Rotellini advertisement," Polk wrote.
Polk also said Horne got information from a Republican pollster telling him he was losing support because of pro-Rotellini commercials being financed by an out-of-state Democratic group, with the pollster recommending a strategy to "stop the bleeding."
Polk said Horne forwarded the polling information and advice to Winn with a suggesting she seek an additional $100,000.
In other words, Polk said, Horne asked Winn's "supposedly independent political committee to fulfill that (fundraising) need by doing what he could not himself do: Raise $100,000 from a single unrelated donor and spend it on an anti-Rotellini advertisement targeting Rotellini's ties to unions and her record on Arizona immigration policy."
"When Horne sent strategic information to a supposedly independent campaign, he intentionally and blatantly broke the barrier that was supposed to exist between his campaign and the BLA," Polk wrote. "The breach is so clear that Horne must have recognized it to be improper."
Maricopa County Attorney Bill Montgomery came to a similar conclusion, but Horne got his findings thrown out . Following that ruling, Horne's office selected Polk to investigate the allegations.
After leaving Horne's campaign team, Winn formed Business Leaders for Arizona, supposedly as a separate campaign committee. Such committees, which have no spending limits, are legal as long as they are entirely independent of the candidates.
Candidates for statewide office themselves were limited to taking no more than $840 from any one source that year.
The Democratic Attorney Generals Association ad backing Rotellini charged that when Horne was a legislator he voted against tougher penalties for statutory rape and that, as a member of the state Board of Education, he voted to let a teacher back into the classroom who had been caught viewing child porn on a school computer.
In response, Winn's committee, starting about two weeks before the general election, raised more than $500,000 from seven individuals and three entities.
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