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Optimise Subsidiary Crop Application in Rotations
Contract period:1 April 2012 to 31 March 2016
Project webpage:http://www.oscar-covercrops.eu
Main funder:EU FP7
Contact staff at ORC:Dr. Bruce Pearce
Other staff involved:Dominic Amos, Sally Westaway
Project aims
The project aims to develop improved conservation tillage systems, based on subsidiary crops (also known as cover crops) , used both as living and dead mulch, that
- increase the duration of soil coverage by plant canopies;
- minimize the need for soil tillage and reduce tillage intensity;
- increase the diversity of species within the plant canopy and the rotation;
- reduce the need for fertilisers, pesticides and herbicides; and
- in dry climates, conserve water and reduce need for irrigation.
ORC's role
ORC will lead the dissemination activities in OSCAR and will develop a toolbox for using cover crops and living mulches. See www.covercrops.eu. The core of the experimental programme in OSCAR is a set of coordinated field trials in 12 different environments, ranging from boreal climates in North Europe to Mediterranean and tropical subhumid climates. ORC will host one of these trials.
Project leader and partners
- University of Kassel Faculty of Organic Agricultural Sciences, Ecological Plant Protection group (KU, Germany). (project leader)
- Research Station Agroscope ART Reckenholz-Tńnikon (ART, Switzerland)
- Norwegian Institute for Agricultural and Environmental Research, Plant Health and Plant Protection Division (BIOFORSK, Norway)
- Agronomic Institute of Paranß (IAPAR, Brazil)
- The International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA, Morocco).
- Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, Morocco (INRA)
- Institute of Soil Science and Plant Cultivation (IUNG, Poland)
- Swedish University of Agricultural Sciences (SLU, Sweden)
- Scuola Superiore Sant'Anna (SSSA, Italy)
- Technische Universitńt MŘnchen (TUM, Germany)
- University of Copenhagen (UCPH, Denmark)
- UniversitÓ di Pisa (UNIPI, Italy)
- Universita' della Tuscia (UNITUS, Italy)
- Wageningen University, Department of Plant Sciences (WU)
- Arcoiris s.r.l (ARCOIRIS), Italy (SME)
- Ferrari Costruzioni Mecchaniche s.r.l. (Ferrari, Italy) (SME)
- Marangon Srl. (MAR, Italy) (SME)
- P.H. Petersen Saatzucht Lundsgaard GmbH & Co. KG (PHP, Germany) (SME)
- Friedrich Wenz GmbH (Wenz, Germany) (SME).
OSCAR, 2016. Optimising Subsidiary Crop Applications in Rotations, Final report. 39. pp. Available at: http://cordis.europa.eu/docs/results/289/289277/final1-final-report-complete.pdf
Baresel P, D÷ring TF, Finckh MR. 2012. OSCAR ľ a new European project on cover crops. 12th Congress of the European Society for Agronomy Helsinki, Finland, 20-24 August 2012 (abstract, accepted).
Other output
Read article in ORC Bulletin 120 Spring/Summer 2016 Developing new cropping systems based around cover crops, catch crops and living mulches for use in low-tillage agriculture
Newsletter Issue 1, December 2012
OSCAR project leaflet. Download here (566kb pdf file)
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The Bachelor's Jake Pavelka appeared on The Ellen Show today to discuss his current season.
Jake was however coy when asked by Ellen DeGeneres whether or not he found his soulmate on The Bachelor. "Did you find someone?" DeGeneres asks him. "Because you are done shooting it, right?"
"Yeah, we finished up a couple of weeks ago," Jake replied. "You know, you don't have to choose anybody."
He did however admit to falling in love with more than one woman. According to Jake, he says he didn't know it was possible to have feelings for multiple women at once — until he filmed the Bachelor.
"The world tells you that your heart can only be in love with one woman at a time, and that is absolutely not true," the 31-year-old pilot says. "That is one of the things I learned on the show. Your heart can fall for a lot of people at the same time and it's painful."
In other Bachelor news, the host Chris Harrison continues to trash contestant Rozlyn Papa who was accused of cheating on Jake during the show's filming. In a new interview with the New York Post, Chris says he regrets going easy on Rozlyn when he confronted her.
"I can't let that happen again. I just need to go out there and butcher a girl on live TV like she is on a witness stand." He however would like her to return to the show's reunion to tell her side of the story. "Hopefully she will come on to the 'Women Tell All' episode and sit down and talk to me," Harrison tells The Post.
Chris also confirms the producers identity is Ryan Callahan, he is surprisingly friends with Callahan and wishes his name and identity never become public. "It really sucks that [Callahan's] name came out and his picture came out, because that was never our intention," says Chris.
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NEW ROCHELLE – Iona guard Lamont Jones scored 16 points to lead five Gaels in double figures in an easy 80-61 victory over Siena in the regular-season finale at Hynes Athletic Center today.
Siena (7-23, 4-14) lost for the seventh time in eight games and finished tied with the 2004-05 team for the most regular-season defeats in program history.
Ninth-seeded Siena will face No. 8 Marist in the first round of the Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Tournament on Friday at 7:30 p.m. in Springfield, Mass.
The Gaels (17-13, 11-7) led by 21 points early in the second half until Siena cut it to 47-38 on a Anosike layup with 14:55 to play.
However, Iona went on a 10-0 run later in the half to take control at 64-43 with 7:59 to play.
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2012 Manchester University football preview - Young Spartans' squad to enter preseason camp Wednesday, July 18, 2012 NORTH MANCHESTER, IN. – The phrase "youth will be served" could easily characterize the 2012 Manchester University football team. "We've got some opportunities for new faces to step in and make an impact," Shannon Griffith, ninth-year head coach of the Spartans, said. "While there are some position battles stacking up going into preseason camp, I'm excited about that because it will make us better (down the road). "I see the gap between the teams in the conference closing," he added. "You've got to be ready to go day in and day out. It's a pretty simple formula I use when someone asks me what the biggest keys to success are. Get turnovers but don't turn the ball over while working on field position constantly. You need to set up your offense on a short field and create a long one for your opponents." With another strong Heartland Collegiate Athletic Conference race looming and non-league clashes against traditional opponents Trine and Kalamazoo leading off the schedule, the Spartans have plenty to focus on when preseason camp opens next month. While both sides of the ball took losses, MU does have four of its top five offensive linemen coming back this fall. The quartet of Eric Courter (Carmel, Ind.), Adam Cantwell (Elkhart, Ind.), Cody Larimore (Walton, Ind.) and Tom Webster (Fort Wayne, Ind.) looks to anchor the Spartans' attack. "We're going to need each of those juniors to pave the way for some inexperience in the skill positions," Griffith said. Behind the line lie some question marks. Junior Nick Williams (Fort Wayne, Ind.) enters camp as the early leader at quarterback with some varsity experience in tow, while Griffith added that sophomore Randy Frederick, a transfer from Trine, will be in the mix along with a pair of freshmen. The new signal caller will have a strong group of returning receivers to get the ball to. Senior Kurt Monix (Crown Point, Ind.) was the top receiver a year ago with 52 receptions for 544 yards and four touchdowns en route to all-league honors. Sophomores Collin Huffine (Centerville, Ind.) and Alex Lissade-Gardner (Indianapolis, Ind.) also earned playing time during their freshman campaigns. Senior tight end Dante Dinkins (East Chicago, Ind.) has a strong upside for the Spartan offense, too, as he can handle traditional blocking and receiving chores as well as being set in the backfield. In the backfield, sophomore Austin Adams (Dowagiac, Mich.) is the top returner to go along with some newcomers. Dinkins and junior Ryne Lehrmen (Hoagland, Ind.) add some versatility, as they both spent time at fullback. "If the quarterback position can grow quickly, there are weapons to throw to," Griffith said. "I'd like to see us get the running game balanced with it, but the inexperience there will take some time to develop. "I like what our offense has," he added. "I think we'll be able to do some things." On defense, Griffith's and his staff face a rebuilding process. With losses that include Beyond Sports Network second team All-American safety Brecken Kennedy due to graduation, there will be many spots up for grabs when camp opens. "It's tough to replace a guy like Brecken," Griffith said. "He was a three-year starter and unit leader. We'll need to look to some new faces to fill in at his spot and others on defense." While the newcomers may populate some of the "D", Griffith likes his front line anchored by senior Aron Miller (LaGrange, Ind.). "We've got some guys coming in that saw some time in those spots last fall," Griffith said. "There will be a mix of juniors and sophomores and maybe even freshmen that could step in there." Manchester University's head coach also sees potential in the defensive secondary. The senior duo of Matt Frieden (Wabash, Ind.) and Jake Butler (South Bend, Ind.) each ended in the top 10 of the 2011 squad in tackles and will lead the way, according to Griffith. "We'll look to both of them to guide a group of new faces," he said. The linebacking corps' slots are all open going into preseason camp. "It's to be determined here," Griffith said. "We lost all three starters due to graduation. Junior Dylin Kennedy (North Manchester, Ind.) did play very well in a back-up role last year, so there is a chance for good leadership." Along special teams' lines, the Spartans have senior Kyle Evans (Winamac, Ind.), the HCAC's Special Teams Player of the Year, back to handle the place-kicking and punting duties. "It's tremendously important to have a guy like Kyle coming back in this area," Griffith said. "He'll be a big plus with a fairly young offense where field goals may be the only solution from time to time. He will also be able to help our defense with his punting by changing the field position situation." Griffith and his staff also have Monix for special teams after averaging better than 15 yards per punt return in 2011.
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Michigan Gov. Rick Snyder and Detroit Emergency Manager Kevyn Orr defended their plan for the beleaguered city's bankruptcy Friday, reiterating their opposition to a state or federal bailout and resisting pressure to meet bondholders' demands.
In an interview in New York, Mr. Snyder said he hasn't spoken to President Barack Obama and wouldn't consider asking for a bailout. Detroit's general-obligation bondholders will also continue to be treated as unsecured creditors in the city's bankruptcy, said Mr. Orr in the same interview....


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Bulldogs Finish With 2-3 Record
WALTHAM, Mass. – It was a difficult day for the Yale women's fencing team at the Dec. 4 Brandeis Invitational, hosted by Brandeis University at Waltham, Mass. The team battled its way through competition, finishing up Sunday with a 2-3 record.
The Bulldogs' results at this year's Brandeis Invitational are similar to last year, when the team walked away with a 3-2 record – they beat out Boston College, Brandeis and Haverford, while falling to MIT and St. John's.
This year, the Yale team kicked off competition against UNC, falling just short 12-15. But the Bulldogs quickly turned that around with a narrow 14-13 victory over MIT.
While the team also fell to Boston College 11-16 and St. John's 24-3, the Bulldogs took some solace with their win over home team Brandeis, 16-11.
"I'm very happy with our results from today, " said junior captain Robyn Shaffer. "We were missing three starters, but still performed well against MIT and Brandeis. Our close losses to UNC and BC were tough to bear, but the team kept fighting throughout the day."
With the completion of the Brandeis Invitational, the Bulldogs are off until the New York University Invitational on Jan. 21.
"We're looking forward to the continuation of our season in January, to take this spirit and excitement into our next tournaments," Shaffer said.
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Torquay beat Shrewsbury 2-0 in the League Two play-off semi-final first leg at Plainmoor on Saturday night.
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First-half goals from Chris Zebroski and Eunan O'Kane put the Gulls in charge ahead of the second leg at the Greenhous Meadow next Friday night.
Striker Zebroski opened the scoring with a neat finish in the 29th minute after good work from Gavin Tomlin, and O'Kane added a second on the stroke of half-time.
The midfielder hit a low shot from 20 yards and, despite his effort lacking power, the ball flew into the corner past Shrewsbury goalkeeper Benjamin Smith.
Paul Buckle's men will feel they have taken a significant step towards reaching the final at Old Trafford after an impressive, fully-deserved victory.
Shrewsbury were second-best throughout and face a big task to try and turn round the tie in the second leg on Friday.
Graham Turner's side created precious few genuine goalscoring opportunities but they threatened first when James Collins hit a 20-yard shot which Torquay stopper Scott Bevan held comfortably.
Yet the Gulls always looked more dangerous in attack and almost led in the seventh minute when Tomlin crossed for Billy Kee, who headed wide from just six yards out.
Zebroski was then afforded the time and space to hit a long-range piledriver from 30 yards which flashed just past Smith's left-hand post in the 15th minute.
Shrewsbury forward Matt Harrold then fired wide from 25 yards before the hosts were dealt a blow in the 25th minute.
Defender Ian Sharps succumbed to injury and was replaced by Niall Canavan.
James Collins then drove wide from 12 yards before the opening goal arrived in the 29th minute when Tomlin did superbly well to create space down the right flank.
He turned his marker and played a low cross into the feet of Zebroski, who took one touch to control the ball and another to rifle home a low shot from eight yards out.
Torquay almost claimed a second moments later as Jake Robinson's 20-yard strike was parried by Smith and, with the hosts in the ascendancy, they scored again in the third minute of added time at the end of the first half.
Jake Robinson, who is on loan at Plainmoor from Shrewsbury but is eligible to play against them in the play-offs, embarked on a strong run down the left flank.
He laid the ball back to O'Kane, who hit a low right-footed shot from 20 yards which Smith perhaps should have saved.
Kevin Nicholson almost added a third for the Gulls in the 59th minute but Smith made a smart stop and then also denied Tomlin to keep the score down ahead of the second leg at Shrewsbury next week.


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Danny Deng (鄧有癸) has been grilling steaks for nearly 40 years and has been responsible for some of Taipei's best steak restaurants, most notably A Cut in the Ambassador Hotel (國賓飯店) Taipei. He has since opened his own restaurants, the newest being Danny's Steakhouse. Over his long career, Deng has not just gained a deep experience of the preparation of steak and other fine food, but has also built up a team of cooks and service personnel who give this restaurant an assured refinement that is equal to that of Taipei's five-star hotels.
Danny's Steakhouse is tucked away in the residential district between the Dazhi (大直) and Jiannan Road (劍南路) MRT stations, a location that precludes passing trade. But with Deng's established reputation for offering stylish dining and top quality food, the 70-seater restaurant was already pulling a crowd last week, just days after opening.
Deng has a great love of the technology of cooking, and his restaurants often feature a top-of-the-range stove of some kind that he uses as a central theme in designing his dishes. At Danny's Steakhouse, Deng has brought in a gorgeous wood fired stove with a huge wheel that allows a massive iron grate to be micro-adjusted over the flames. At one level, this might be seen as a back-to-basics technology, but with the fragrance of oak, walnut and cherry wood wafting over the likes of USDA Prime dry-aged rib eye, this is the basics at its most sophisticated.
While big slabs of meat are a major part of dining at Danny's Steakhouse, the rough edges of the barbeque are rounded down by a deep understanding of fine dining, with the full vocabulary of amusing twists on various age-old favorites.
Address: 58 Lequn 3rd Rd, Taipei Taiwan (台北中山區樂群三路58號)
Telephone: (02) 8501-1838
Open: Noon to 3pm; 6pm to 10:30pm (bar open until midnight on Friday and Saturday)
Average meal: From NT$1,200 (lunch); from NT$2,000 (dinner)
Details: English menu; credit cards accepted; 10 percent service charge
My meal began auspiciously with the dangerous choice of the bartender's special concoction of a wasabi dry martini, which sounded silly and adventurous at the same time, and in addition to the cleverly balanced flavors, had the proper alcohol bite of a proper cocktail.
Then came the amuse-bouche, a clever concoction of charcoal macaroons with a foie gras cream filling. They were elegant, amusing, unexpected, and most importantly, actually tasted really good.
Ordering is done through a versatile arrangement of set menus that start at around NT$1,000 (for lunch) and go up to around NT$3,000 for some of the choice cuts. Most of the meat is served ready sliced with little other than a side of grilled vegetables and some whole roasted garlic. Salt is the only condiment, and nothing so vulgar as a sauce is anywhere in sight. Served in this way, the meat is expected to stand on its own merits and the chef has no way to hide any imperfection in appearance or flavor. For those who appreciate the finer pleasures of meat eating, something like the USDA Prime "rib eye fillet" steak (8oz, NT$1,800 for a set) is a ticket to paradise.
The care taken with the steak is also in the other dishes, and a taste of Deng's smoked tomato soup was a revelation, bringing in intriguing wood fragrances to a dish that might be thought of as a tad homely. In Deng's preparation, it was anything but, and was accompanied by an excellent bread that is baked on the premises.
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Making your home sparkle can be an ultimately rewarding "chore", but at what cost to the environment and your family and pets?
It's a question Jessica Bragdon and her husband Paul asked themselves as they went on the very long hunt for safe, affordable, chemical-free cleaning products that not only could make their home smell fabulous, but actually work.
"If you look at the labels on ordinary products, you'll see warnings about some of their ingredients being hazardous if accidentally inhaled, or if they come into contact with skin," says Jessica.
"That's because these chemicals are either poisonous or at the very least, harmful. So you start to wonder, however carefully I use these types of product, can I be sure they're not leaving behind any nasty vapours or residue? If I'm using harsh chemicals on bathroom and kitchen surfaces, am I really cleaning them? And then, if we're all using toxic products, what is that doing to our water systems, and everything that relies on water to thrive?
"I came to realise that cleaning our house by filling it with the toxic chemicals found in most cleaners was not actually creating a clean and healthy home."
I came to realise that cleaning our house by filling it with the toxic chemicals found in most cleaners was not actually creating a clean and healthy home.Jessica Bragdon
When the couple couldn't find something suitable they decided to create their own range of products, completely free of synthetic fragrance and colouring, and using natural, native plant-based remedies that contain natural antiseptic and astringent qualities, and have been harvested for tens of thousands of years by Aboriginal people for food and medicinal needs.
Called Koala Eco, the ingredients in the products are 100 per cent pure essential oils from the bark and leaves of native Australian trees and plants such as eucalyptus, tea tree, lemon scented iron bark, lemon myrtle, peppermint, lavender and rosemary.
"We also use essential oil extracted from the peel of citrus species like grapefruit and mandarin," says Jessica. "These all have incredible natural antibacterial and antiseptic properties."
"To these essential oils we add ingredients like vinegar, sugar-based biodegradable alcohol and bicarbonate soda, plant-derived solubilisers and surfactants, and purified water. So everything in our products is non-toxic, vegan, and grey water safe."
Jessica says it's hard not to be inspired by nature when you live in Australia.
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Continuous positive airway pressure therapy, or CPAP, helps patients with sleep apnea breathe better during sleep by pushing air into the nose through a mask to keep airways open.
The treatment has been shown to improve daytime sleepiness and reduce blood pressure, but its impact on heart disease, stroke, and diabetes risk factors that are common in patients with sleep apnea has not been well understood.
Results from a study published in the Dec. 15 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine suggest that CPAP is associated with a lower risk for metabolic syndrome, a cluster of symptoms that increase the risk for heart disease, stroke, and diabetes.
Researcher Surendra K. Sharma, MD, PhD, of the All India Institute of Medical Sciences in New Delhi tells WebMD that along with weight loss and lifestyle modification, treatment with CPAP may be an important way to lower heart attack, stroke, and diabetes risk in patients with sleep apnea.
Sleep Apnea, CPAP, and the Heart
More than 18 million adults in the U.S. have sleep apnea, according to the National Sleep Foundation, and a significant percentage of them are overweight or obese.
Other than weight loss, CPAP is considered the most effective nonsurgical treatment for patients with moderate to severe sleep apnea.
The new study included 86 patients with sleep apnea, including 75 who had metabolic syndrome.
Study participants were treated with either CPAP or a fake therapy for three months, followed by a month of no treatment and three additional months of the opposite treatment.
Before and after each phase of the study, researchers recorded the participants' blood pressure, blood sugar, blood fats called triglycerides, hemoglobin A1c levels, neck artery thickness, abdominal fat, and insulin resistance, which measures the body's ability to use insulin efficiently.
When compared to the fake therapy, three months on CPAP was associated with significantly lower blood pressure, total cholesterol, triglycerides, and LDL cholesterol, the so-called bad cholesterol.
Treatment with CPAP was also associated with a significant decrease in abdominal fat and body mass index (BMI).
It was also associated with a significant decrease in hemoglobin A1c values, which indicate average blood sugar levels over the past two to three months. And 1 in 5 patients with metabolic syndrome before starting CPAP treatment no longer had the condition after three months of treatment.
Lack of Sleep and Chronic Disease
Sleep specialist Meir Kryger, MD, of the Yale University School of Medicine and the VA Connecticut Health System, tells WebMD the findings highlight the growing recognition that sleep disturbances play a significant role in chronic disease.
Kryger is a board member with the National Sleep Foundation.
"It is now clear that patients with heart disease or a metabolic disease like type 2 diabetes should be asked about their sleep habits, and they should be treated if they have sleep apnea," he says.
Cardiologist Tara Narula, MD, of Lenox Hill Hospital in New York City, says sleep issues have not been a major focus in cardiology in the past. But she says this is changing.
"We are seeing more and more studies linking sleep disorders and stress to [heart disease and stroke risk]," she tells WebMD. "This study suggests that a simple, effective treatment for sleep apnea may help reverse the abnormalities that lead to heart attack and stroke."
While CPAP may be simple and effective, Kryger acknowledges that most patients don't like wearing a mask while they sleep.
But he adds that CPAP technology and masks have improved dramatically over the last few years. Most new machines are even able to monitor how often the treatment is used and how well it is working.


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Hello. My name is Jacque Monet, I am a chef. And You have a problem. Yes, you. You most certainly have a problem.
Look at you sitting in this Americanized bastardization of a French Bistro. Are you even aware of we French resent what you American's have done to the word Bistro? This is not a bistro. It is a what you call a "Corporate Chain Restaurant", that serves "consistently good food", which is code for bland food for bland pallets. In my native France we would not serve this swill to our hogs.
But this is not your problem[edit]
You may think that this is a your problem, but it is not your problem. Then who's problem is this? It is my problem.
"You must see the world," my mother tells me. She is an unfeeling cold bitch, so naturally I must do what she says to curry her favor.
So I go to see the world. And where do I end up? In Roma? No. In the Virgin Islands? No. In Rio where they samba because they cannot afford food? No. I end up here: in an "American Bistro"" in Cleveland, Ohio, where I create meals. No, I take that back, there is no room to create meals here, because the "Corporation" has recipes that I must follow and stagnant menu featuring the "chicken fingers", well done meats and something called "lava cakes".
This is my problem[edit]
I should probably begin by telling you a little bit about myself. I'm 34 years old, a Frenchman living in Ohio. I attended the Paul Bocuse Culinary Arts School, and graduated Magna cum laude at the age of 21. And that is when I left to see the world. While I saw the world I had many lovely woman, and we made amazing love to each other. But I pressed on, looking for the most tortured place on earth that had also had the best art museum in all the world.
And that is how I come to be in Cleveland.
Not only did this filthy, dying and gritty place have an amazing art museum, but it also has the best symphony that I hear outside of France. And because the French love a tortured soul and great art, here I decide to make my stand. Here I will forge my character. Here I will save these digusting people from themselves.
So what is your problem?[edit]
In time, I will get to your problem. This is another of your problems, America; you want always to rush to the end. You tell the punch line even before you savor the set up. This how a nation of pigs acts. You want immediate satisfaction, always. When a waiter asks you what you want for dinner inevitably one of you will say "I'll start with dessert!"
Just like a fine meal you must take you time when it comes to catharsis. You cannot rush a great a epiphany, no?
No is correct![edit]
I must start somewhere, so I read the paper, and it is of no use for me to find the proper position.
So I go to the bank and am very displeased to find that it is not Nationalized. Filthy rotten capitalists. They will not give me a loan because I have no income. How can I make income if they will not give me a loan? I argue. But they do not listen. And then the rent is due, and I do not sleep on the street for that would be too much torture. No?
So, I swallow my pride and decide if I must sell my soul to the devil I will take a job at a newly opening café in a shopping mall. I am disgusted with myself, but I need to pay the landlord for my [[UnNews:Apartments on the sun for rent |apartment]]. And besides, I tell myself, you will be in a kitchen! But I soon find out it is not a kitchen, but factory for corporate food. I think about leaving, but where will I go?
And when I look out at the serving floor what do I see? I see large women, and screaming children, shoveling this slop that they serve as food into their - how do you Americans say it - "pie holes", and I make sick in a trash can. This what I see in America, fat people, getting fatter on bland, tasteless food.
Why is this your problem?[edit]
Now, after twenty years in this rotten place, twenty years of slaving away, making an Onion Soup that no French person would even pollute a gutter with, I have taken matters into my own hands, so to speak.
That white sauce on your $9.99 plate of Fettuccine Alfredo? I ejaculate into it. That creamy ranch dressing that you defile my salads with? I ejaculate into that, too.
NO! you say. Most certainly, I assure you.
And that Sauce Bearnaise served with the Tuesday Night Steak Special $10.99 "rib eye"? My ejaculate gives it a "flavor" that the weekly free newspaper that no one reads, calls "Amazing!"
"Not the creamy potato and leak soup?" you ask. Yes, that too.
But I assure you that nothing on the children's menu contains my ejaculate, because that would be perverse. And I am not a pervert. No. I am a chef.
Even we French know that there are limits to what we can do to the chicken finger or the hot dog served on a bun.


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Pipeline Inbox: High school hurlers headline Draft
The First-Year Player Draft is still six weeks away, yet it's beginning to dominate my thoughts as it always does this time of year. We're on the verge of expanding the MLBPipeline.com Draft Prospects list from 50 to 100, and we'll have several additional Draft-related features when we do.
The First-Year Player Draft is still six weeks away, yet it's beginning to dominate my thoughts as it always does this time of year. We're on the verge of expanding the MLBPipeline.com Draft Prospects list from 50 to 100, and we'll have several additional Draft-related features when we do.
The Draft is the primary focus of today's Pipeline Inbox as well, though we do manage to sneak in a question about a talented young Mariner. Let's get to the mailbag.
Whom do you see going to the Astros with the No. 1 overall pick in the Draft?
-- Michael V., Beaumont, Texas
I've been covering the Draft for more than two decades, and the Astros may be the most secretive team I've encountered in terms of tipping their hand with the top choice. They had the No. 1 selection in 2012 and 2013, and even the team picking second didn't find out who Houston was taking until Commissioner Bud Selig announced his name.
So my answer to this question is more educated guesswork than any premium scoop. I could see four players as potential No. 1 overall choices for the Astros: California high school left-hander Brady Aiken, East Carolina right-hander Jeff Hoffman, North Carolina State lefty Carlos Rodon and Texas prep righty Tyler Kolek. That's not necessarily the order in which we'll rank them when we unveil the updated Draft Top 100 list, but that's the order in which I imagine Houston would prioritize them if the Draft were today.
Though he's a high schooler, Aiken has been more consistent than the college arms and combines stuff and polish better than Kolek. If the Astros pick the best available player and don't consider demographics or try to save money for later picks, Aiken would be their man.
What are your thoughts on the Mariners' callup of Nick Franklin? Do you think he'll stay up?
-- Keith F., Brambleton, Va.
Franklin may have been sadder than Yankees fans were when Robinson Cano signed his $240 million contract with the Mariners. Seattle is committed to Brad Miller at shortstop -- a position that's a stretch for Franklin anyway -- and now second base is locked up for the next decade.
The 27th overall pick in the 2009 Draft, Franklin had a respectable .225/.303/.382 rookie season in 2013 and hit 12 homers in 106 games. He has more pop than most middle infielders, and his batting average and OBP figure to improve as he gets more experience. He's just 23 and will remain under team control through 2020.
The Mariners continue to struggle to score runs, so they've tried to inject Franklin into their lineup by giving him starts at second base, shortstop, right field and DH, and also by using him at third base. He tripled in his first at-bat off Yu Darvish but has gone 1-for-15 since.
Franklin has nothing left to prove in Triple-A, a notion he reinforced by batting .395/.469/.744 in 11 games there to start the season. Yet Seattle sent him back to Tacoma Wednesday night anyway. If he can't crack the Mariners lineup, he'd be an attractive piece of trade bait.
Are there any college or high school bats the Cubs might consider with the fourth overall pick in the Draft?
-- Jeff B., Madison, Wis.
If the Cubs drafted purely on need, they'd take a pitcher at No. 4. Their system may have more high-ceiling position players than any other, starting with shortstop Javier Baez, third baseman Kris Bryant and outfielders Albert Almora and Jorge Soler. Chicago did place two arms on MLBPipeline.com's Top 100 Prospects list in C.J. Edwards and Pierce Johnson, but it will need more help on the mound.
However, teams almost never draft purely on need at the top of the Draft. The Cubs certainly didn't in 2013 when they used the second overall choice on Bryant rather than flame-throwing right-hander Jon Gray.
In all likelihood, Chicago will take a pitcher with the fourth selection because that's the strength of this year's Draft. It's possible that seven of the first eight picks will be pitchers. The only hitter I could see the Cubs considering would be California high school catcher/outfielder Alex Jackson, but I bet they wind up with Aiken, Hoffman, Kolek or Rodon instead.
Where do you think Florida high school right-hander Touki Toussaint will go in the Draft? I haven't heard his name in a while.
-- Patrick H., Tuscaloosa, Ala.
There hasn't been a lot of buzz about Toussaint this spring, mainly because Aiken and Kolek have hogged the spotlight among high school arms. Toussaint, who ranked No. 9 on MLBPipeline.com's initial Draft Top 50 list, still figures to be the third or fourth prep pitcher drafted. He'll probably go in the 11-20 range, behind Aiken, Kolek and maybe South Carolina righty Grant Holmes.
Toussaint has one of the more electric arms and best fastball/curveball combos in the 2014 Draft. He's still figuring out how to repeat his delivery so he can have better control and command of his pitches. If he does so, he'll be a frontline starter.
Jim Callis is a reporter for MLB.com and writes a blog, Callis' Corner. Follow @jimcallisMLB on Twitter.


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Sunday, July 27, 2014
Friday, July 25, 2014
The Winner
Please email me at firstname.lastname@example.com for further instructions.
Which Bouquet?
The Dress…
…Ivory long sleeve illusion gown with floral lattice embellished sheath…from Monique Lhuillier……
The Bouquet…
Bouquet #1
Designed by Todd Events
Bouquet #2
Designed by Wild Flowers Inc.
Bouquet #3
Designed by JL Designs
Which would you choose?
Don't forget to leave a comment on Wednesday's post for a chance to win a seat in a Francoise Weeks Workshop. And check back this afternoon to find out if you're the winner!
Have a great weekend!
Thursday, July 24, 2014
Quite Possibly The Best Flower Story Ever
I wanted this week to be filled with special flower features as we celebrate our 5th year of sharing flowers together on Botanical Brouhaha. I saved this story, which may be my favorite "flower story" to date, to share with you this week because it is truly special.
Laetitia Mayor, a member of the Botanical Brouhaha Expert Panel, wrote me earlier this month and shared this experience. I knew it was going to be good when she said: "I wish all weddings were so full of kindness, it was two weeks ago but I still feel the butterflies in my stomach when I think of it."
Laetitia owns Floresie and she was asked to design flowers for the June 21st wedding of Vanessa and Vincent in the small village of Blanzy where she lives. Vincent dreamed of getting married in the small medieval church in Blanzy where he was baptized as a child. Over the years, the church had fallen into disrepair and had not held a wedding in 20 years. Laetitia quickly agreed to help and began dreaming up a natural garden look that would embrace "the work of time and Mother Nature" rather than attempting to hide the crumbling walls and broken windows..
To execute her design vision, Laetitia needed lots of garden flowers. While talking with Marguerite, "the most adorable inhabitant of Blanzy", it was suggested that Laetitia ask the villagers to donate flowers from their personal gardens for the wedding. Laetitia loved the idea and word began circulating through the village.
The result: A 100% Blanzy wedding!
As the wedding day approached, villagers began showing up at Laetitia's house with buckets of surprise blooms. Laetitia set about combining the flowers into arrangements, personal flowers and pew ends.
On the day of the wedding, the flowers were transported the short distance to the church in a wheelbarrow…no need for a car.
The final design, the product of an entire village working together for the love of a young couple, would make any floral designer "feel the butterflies" that Laetitia described.
Laetitia's last words gave a chill: "I gathered my equipment in my little red wheelbarrow and I left the church doors open, ready to welcome the guests. On the way home, I turned. Small smile."
For more on this story, go to the Floresie blog here and here.
Thanks for sharing your beautiful story, Laetitia. Best wishes to Vanessa & Vincent from all of us at Botanical Brouhaha!
Wednesday, July 23, 2014
And The Winner Is…
The winner of Fresh From The Field Wedding Flowers by Lynn Byczynski and Erin Benzakein is… #18 Rochelle W.!
Congratulations Rochelle! Please send your mailing address to email@example.com.
For more information on this book, you can go to the Fresh From The Field Wedding Flowers website or Facebook page. To order a copy, click here or here!
A very special thanks to Lynn and Erin for your generosity in sharing your book.
I'm thrilled to announce that my friend Francoise Weeks is helping us celebrate the 5th anniversary of Botanical Brouhaha by gifting a seat in her Botanical Couture Workshop to one of our readers!
The Botanical Couture Workshop will be held in Francoise's personal studio (pictured above) in Portland, Oregon on October 13-15, 2014 from 9am-4pm each day. Imagine strolling into this quaint studio each morning and learning the mechanics and techniques behind Francoise's signature botanical shoes, purses and headpieces….choosing from her hand-selected assortment of foliages, flowers, and woodland elements…allowing yourself to explore new possibilities…experiencing the guidance and passion of a floral artisan in her own private studio…
I can't say enough about Francoise…her generosity, her extraordinary vision, her humility and her technical design expertise. Not only is she a master of woodland designs, but she also creates exquisite botanical couture headpieces, shoes and purses. After years of being email friends with Francoise, I was lucky enough to attend one of her workshops (and meet her in person for the first time) in Austin this spring. You can read about my experience here and here. Francoise will inspire you and you'll lose yourself in her unbridled passion for the art of botanical design. When you return home you'll find yourself looking at nature in a new way…often stopping along your daily routine to pick up a twig or piece of bark to carry back to the studio and incorporate into a design.
Recently, Francoise appeared on Art Beat Oregon for an interview and behind-the-scenes look at one of her botanical couture photo shoots. I love this video because it really captures who Francoise is as a designer and as a person. You can watch it here.
To enter for a chance to win the seat in Francoise's workshop, simply leave a message at the end of this post by Friday (July 25th) at noon (CDT). We'll announce the winner on Friday afternoon!
Note: The winner is responsible for travel and lodging expenses. The 3-day workshop is valued at $1,100.00.
For more information about the workshop location, class size and lodging, click here.
Thank you Francoise, for helping make our 5th anniversary extra special!
Tuesday, July 22, 2014
Behind The Scenes
For today: an entire post dedicated to what you all do behind the scenes to make the magic happen, but first…
Ever wonder about the people who appear in the magical floral photo shoots? Who are they 'behind the scenes'? What are their names in real life? What do they do for a living?
Let's take this guy photographed by Carly Tia Photography, for example…
Name: Tommy Franklin aka 'Salty Rain'
Photo Shoot Location: Julia Rose's farm (Australia)
Flower Beard Design: Wedding Flowers by Julia Rose
What Tommy does in real life: (Julia Rose says: "The video is 8 mins long. You HAVE to watch it all and not skip, trust me.")
What else Tommy does in real life: He's traveling Australia on a smile campaign! And he promotes drug & alcohol-free dance parties to the youngings.
Don't you feel like you know Tommy now? Doesn't the flower beard shoot make perfect sense?
Special thanks to Julia Rose for sharing this experience with Botanical Brouhaha!
Ever wonder what the process of a photo shoot looks like behind the scenes? I love this example from Flowerbazar and Max Koliberdin Photography. Start by picking a location…
Bring lots of talented folks, a few props and a couple of models along…
And you get this…
So, let's recap…can you believe it's the same place?
Let's finish out the day with a few other great behind the scenes shots…
Passionflower (titled 'home life of a florist')
Happy Tuesday!
(Reminder: Go to yesterday's post and leave a comment for a chance to win Fresh From The Field Wedding Flowers by Lynn Byczynski and Erin Benzakein)


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The real genius of the ever evolving 419 scam is its ability to change with the times. Like Madonna or antibiotic-resistant staphylococcus, the money-advancing grift continuously reinvents itself to better infiltrate society's weaknesses.
Coming soon to an Inbox near you; arguably the most insidious 419 scam yet. Unlike older cons promising money, love or your life, this new variant doesn't exploit greed, lust or fear – but another human languor equally as vulnerable — puppies!
Send money now, pleads the unsolicited mail, and you'll receive these purebred bulldog pups pictured here. Else wise they'll die horribly. Brilliant, really. As recent events show, nothing makes Americans go nuts like the publicized perils of poor, defenseless, forever innocent puppies.
And people do send the money — if not for pups, than for a million other 419 constructions. Perfectly regular (albeit frighteningly naïve) Joes get taken again and again and again.
According to the U.S. Secret Service, 419 scams net hundreds of millions of dollars annually worldwide. Even in the Information age, the 419 scam remains a viable, moneymaking operation.
Named for an article of the Nigerian Criminal Code dealing with fraud, the 419 or "Nigerian letter" scam originated in West Africa in the early 80s after Nigeria's economy crashed. Previously reaching unsuspecting parties via fax, telegram and snail mail, the Internet explosion invited similar operation start ups worldwide.
Considering that the 419 scam's been around longer than the Internet's been mainstream, it's weird happening upon someone who's never heard of it. Yet, just like the people who continue to fall for such ploys, the 419 ignorant are out there — real people with e-mail accounts who've never ever received an all-capped, grammatically freaky message that started something like this:
Of course, it's not always the crooked government official looking to trade free money for your bank account number. It might be a missionary, a person of God, looking to trade free money for your bank account number.
Or it could be an e-mail with a photo of some totally hot woman attached. She loves you, wants to be with you, have like, 10 million of your babies — but first she needs some cash to get out of a jam.
Then there's the kindly, principled hitman — my doctor actually called the cops on this one. He wants you to know that your "close friend" took a contract out on your life. But he's been watching you, and since you're a decent guy, he'll agree to not kill you — for a nominal charge.
The angles differ, but all go for the unguarded emotional jugular.
So now it's puppies. Cute, adorable, smoochie-woochie-whose-a-good-baby-yes-you-are! puppies. Some contend this latest version is perhaps the most heartless because it plays to good samaritans instead of greedy bastards. Actually, like all the 419 variants, it preys on the cognitive dissonant.
"I'm still going to put some serious blame on those who get taken," wrote one poster in a forum discussing the new-fangled doggie bait. "If they wanted to help a dog, the local SPCA (in the US) has plenty of dogs that need homes. And they don't need thousands of dollars to get to your door — just wander over and pick one out for the price of immunizations and neutering."
True that. Animals are sent over the Rainbow Bridge every day in our own neighborhood animal shelters. But often, it isn't until a particular doe-eyed furbaby is highlighted by the media as the "Pet of the Week" or as the victim of horrible neglect or abuse that people pour out of the woodwork wanting to be that famous darling's new "forever home." Then there's the thing about buying from breeders, but that's a whole other "Oprah."
The notoriously unsympathetic Internet has extra-bitter venom reserved for those anonymous chumps who fall for this or any other 419 scam. The stupid and greedy deserve whatever they get, right?
Unless, of course, it's your beloved Gramps or Granny who gets taken. And it happens, because like us, they're human. Who isn't at least a little stupid or greedy under the right light? Which is why the 419 scam, in all its incarnations, continues to work.
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This is my first hard slitherlink I've ever tried, and I'm kinda proud that I made it this far. I had help here and there with the "show errors" option, but I never used it to help make a guess. When it showed a mistake, I undid the wrong line, and use logic to find out why.
But it sucks that I've gotten THIS far, and am just stuck. I have a hunch that the next step lies somewhere in the 2 or 3 in the middle there...
As for the help... I don't want someone just saying "Oh, put a line here" and don't explain why. ^^; I'm here to find the next logical step, not to cheat and have someone fill in the answer. XD
Thank you for your help!
RE: Classic Slitherlink
Here's my logic process. I look around for "unstable" situations and say, 'well
if there was a link here
, then does anything bad happen?'. Similar is looking at when there
a link somewhere. Or consider all the possible combinations (when there are few such combos) and see if there's any similarities.
I noticed this...
Edit: there's also an X'd path that is in common with those two.
RE: Classic Slitherlink
Can you please explain the logic behind the second diagram, in regards to the red line in my picture?
It turns out when I tried it out, it immediately came up wrong. That red line shouldn't be there, and I'm curious as to why you thought it should. Turns out your first diagram was correct. The one you thought was wrong. :/ That red line that you say should be there, shouldn't. (As it turns out, with a bit more logic, I was able to figure out the correct position of the lines, by ruling out the other positions, like you said. The correct layout is in blue. I'm still just confused as to why you think that red line should have been there. ^^; )
Anyways, thanks for your help, the two green lines you did offer did in fact help!
RE: Classic Slitherlink
oh i put a red line to denote that a lane can't go there.
RE: Classic Slitherlink
Hi kovukun,
The line in red cannot exist, as it would mean the number 3 next to it is unable to have 3 sides.
Therefore the line in green is the only correct option.
Then one can see that the pink line must not exist, for if it did the yellow line would have to exist aswell and it has nowhere to go on the left hand side.
RE: Classic Slitherlink
A technique that be very powerful and extremely effective when you're otherwise stuck is what I call the "inside/outside" method. It's based on an algorithm in geometry which determines if a point is inside or outside of a (possibly very complex and convoluted) polygon, by counting whether a line drawn from the point to a point known to be outside the polygon crosses an even or odd number of edges (if even, it's outside the polygon, if odd, it's inside the polygon). This works because if you're inside and cross one line, you're now outside, and vice versa.
Since the final solution in Slitherlink is a closed loop, it too is a polygon, and any square on the grid is either inside or outside the loop. This fact can be used to deduce whether two adjacent squares must (or must not) have a line between them in the final solution.
Consider your partially solved puzzle as I've marked it up here. Look at the column near the middle which has colored dots on it. The red dot at the very top is clearly in a cell that is outside the loop, as there is no line above it. Moving down, since we crossed a line, the cell below it (which has the "3" in it) has to be inside the loop, so I've marked it with a blue dot. Moving down again, we cross another line, so the cell below that has to be outside the loop, and I've marked it with a red dot (it's also pretty obviously outside the loop since you've completed the area up and to the left of it which leads to the edge of the puzzle). The cell below *that* one we reach by crossing a "definitely no line here" boundary, so it too must also be outside the loop like the one we just came from (so a red dot again). And so on downward, flipping between inside/outside each time we cross a known line, and remaining with our current inside/outside status each time we cross a "no line here" boundary. When we reach the "maybe a line?" area surrounded by the turquoise box, we stop for a moment as we don't yet know if that's going to end up a line or a "no line".
Now we move to the bottom and repeat the process moving upwards. The lowest cell is clearly inside the loop since there's a line on the bottom of the puzzle dividing it from the "outside" area of the puzzle -- blue dot. As before, we move up the puzzle, marking each cell as inside (blue) or outside (red) based on whether we crossed a line to get there. Again we run into the "don't know" turquoise box area.
Note that we now know that the cell directly above the turquoise rectangle is *outside* the loop (since we red-dotted it), while the cell directly below the turquoise rectangle is *inside* the loop (since we blue-dotted it). Two immediately adjacent areas that are of opposite "sideness" (one outside, one inside) MUST be separated by a line lest they "run into" each other and create a contradiction. Thus we KNOW for a fact that a line belongs in the area marked by the turquoise rectangle. QED.
In this case it happened that we could do this exercise in a straight-line clear across the puzzle, but often things aren't that neat. But we can "go around corners" if necessary. If we didn't have the lower half of that dotted column complete enough, we could have done something else. Look at the cells marked with orange dots a little to the left. The lowermost one was clearly an "outside the loop" cell. From there I "walked" up the "also outside" region (not always in a straight line, but always crossing a "no line here" X'ed divider so we know we're still in the "outside" region. Look at the green dot just to the right of the uppermost orange dot -- we know it must be an "inside" cell since there's a known line between it and our "outside orange" dot. Lines separate insides from outsides.
Also note the other green dot on the "3" cell -- we know it must be an "inside" cell since we had to cross a line to it from the red (outside) dot just to the right of it (which we knew was outside due to coming down from the top of the puzzle before). Now consider the "is it a line?" area between the two green dots. It MUST NOT be a line, otherwise it would divide a known inside cell from a known inside cell, which is a contradiction. Adjacent inside cells, and also adjacent outside cells, have no line between them, they are part of the same region. So we can safely "x" that location and proceed solving as usual.
RE: Classic Slitherlink
Sometimes a simpler way to invoke the same technique I just described is to realize that a necessary consequence of the "crossing rule" is that *every* column and *every* row in a Slitherlink puzzle *must* have an *even* number of lines in the completed solution (0, 2, 4, 6, etc.).
In the partial solution here, the column with all the red and blue dots has seven known lines (e.g. the lines you cross as you move all the way down the column from top to bottom), and one "unknown" line (one place where we don't yet know if a line is there or not), the area marked with the turquoise rectangle.
Since a column *must* have an even number of lines, it's easy to see that the unknown area *must* have a line in it so that our column's line count finishes out to be an even number (8) instead of the uneven number (7) it would be if we did not draw a line there.
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Shrewsbury produced a dramatic late show to seal an incredible 2-1 victory over Tranmere.
Micky Mellon's side were 1-0 down with time almost up before goals from Andy Mangan and Mickey Demetriou deep into stoppage time sparked a real turn around.
Rovers started brightly and skipper Max Power's 20-yard drive forced a scrambling save from goalkeeper Jayson Leutwiler.
Shrewsbury almost took the lead when visiting keeper Owain Fon Williams failed to claim Demetriou's cross, James Collins fired goalwards, but covering defender Michael Ihiekwe was on hand to make a fine clearance.
Home skipper Connor Goldson then headed an Ashley Vincent corner over the bar as Shrewsbury continued to push, but it was Tranmere who snatched the game's opening goal in the 42nd minute.
Jake Kirby's cross from the left was nodded down by Mark Laird and Abdulai Baggie swept home from close range.
The hosts controlled the second half but Fon Williams produced fine saves to keep out efforts from Scott Vernon, Nathaniel Knight-Percival and Jean-Louis Akpa Akpro.
Shrewsbury were eventually rewarded in the last minute when sub Mangan tapped in Demetriou's low cross for an equaliser.
Then, with time almost up, Mangan returned the favour, delivering a deep cross which was headed in from close range by left-back Demetriou.


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Actor Gerard Butler: A true Hollywood maverick
The star, determined to get 'Chasing Mavericks' right, recounts a harrowing surfing session that almost took his life.
BEVERLY HILLS — Rule No. 1 of extreme surfing: Don't confuse fear with panic. "You panic," says Gerard Butler's character, a craggy surfing pro in new film Chasing Mavericks, "you die."
It's a line that would reverberate through the actor's head just two days after he delivered it. With film cameras trained on him, Butler, 42, was bobbing in Northern California's Half Moon Bay when a massive swell crashed over him, ripping away his surfboard and pinning the actor underneath the churning sea. Lungs burning and quickly losing breath, seconds clicked slowly by as a thought crossed Butler's mind: "Why was this necessary?"
Chasing Mavericks (out Friday) is based on the true story of Jay Moriarity, a fearless young surfer who gained worldwide attention surfing a big-wave mecca near Santa Cruz known as Mavericks. Butler plays Frosty Hesson, Jay's rugged, real-life mentor who schools Jay (played by Jonny Weston) on the rules of survival around 50-foot swells.
Underwater, "all of those things were going around my head, going 'This is it. If I panic now…" Butler was barely able to gasp a breath before a second wave hit and the cycle began again.
Submerged again, Butler fought the urge to scream. "I felt very present. There was something that felt very normal about it. But by the time I got to the point I got to thinking, 'I'm in big trouble now,' that was only a about a quarter of the way through it. It went on and on and on. And then I started thinking, I just wanted to scream. And I was so deep underwater. I wanted to scream 'Help, somebody!' Or 'Mom!' Or something. And yet I knew the second I did that I was done."
Close to being jettisoned onto jagged rocks, Butler finally grabbed a crew member's hand, was pulled to shore and taken to the hospital (he was released the next day).
It wasn't the first time he'd taken a beating in the ocean.
For months, Butler, whose strength has been showcased in brawny films such as 300 and Law Abiding Citizen, trained with surfing pro (and film consultant) Grant Washburn in Santa Cruz, where Moriarity, at only 16, had attracted worldwide attention in 1994 by wiping out spectacularly on a 30-foot Maverick -- and immediately continuing to surf. The shot was captured on film and landed him on the cover of Surfer magazine.
Beloved by the surfing community for his positive attitude and daredevil skill, Moriarity's resulting career brought greater attention to his sport until his death in 2001 after drowning while free-diving in the Maldives.
"His story, his persona, what he represented was just a huge inspirational tale for surfers and for non-surfers," says Washburn, who surfed with Moriarity.
By all accounts, Butler threw himself into Frosty and Jay's surf, but the waves that were waiting were beasts.
Dangerous days were frequent. "He and I would personally have some sessions where there was nobody else around, it was just the two of us and he got completely smashed like that where he was held down and it was black water," says Washburn.
"That's what grabbed me about the script is understanding the essence of what you go through in that training and that preparation," says Butler who executive-produced the biopic. "I thought I'd never really seen that in a movie, to try and get across how treacherous it is to be out there and then to actually feel that."
Famous big wave surfers like Greg Long, donning hoods that allowed for computer-generated face replacement, filled in for more intense surfing sequences, with up to eight cameras and a helicopter capturing the action.
"Most of the time we were reining (Butler) in," adds Washburn. "We'd be out in the water and he'd get excited, we'd be like 'Slow down!' He really just wants to dive right into the middle of it."
A softer side of 'Gerry'
Despite his penchant for bicep-bulging, bulletproof films (see: Machine Gun Preacher, Gamer), in Chasing Mavericks the only ammo his character is equipped with is verbal, as he takes on a fatherly role mentally and physically preparing young Jay for the surf.
In December, Butler switches over to soccer in Playing for Keeps, a romantic drama directed by Gabriele Muccino (The Pursuit of Happyness) about a retired sportsman trying to forge a relationship with his young son and ex-wife (Jessica Biel).
Butler has worked with Jennifer Aniston (The Bounty Hunter) and Katherine Heigl (The Ugly Truth), but his chemistry with Biel is palpable as his character struggles to hold on to a life outside the all-too-forgiving spotlight.
"Chaos follows him around," says Butler, whose character keeps his native Scottish brogue and is tempted by a succession of hot suburban moms (Catherine Zeta-Jones, Uma Thurman, Judy Greer). "He's just a guy who's used to getting everything he wanted. At the end of the day it's not always the most fulfilling way to live. But it is a very seductive way to live."
It's not an entirely unfamiliar concept for a movie star.
"I've had fun along the way, but I've worked – listen, this was a second career for me," says Butler, noting his early professional life as a lawyer in Scotland. "And in my first career I was very unhappy…. But what I realize now is if you give me the right thing, I'm like a dog with a bone. I've put so much into my career, so much work, so much love."
Relationships notably buoy both fall films. "I don't know if it's every couple years I decide to do a family-oriented movie or if after a couple of years that suddenly grabs my attention," says Butler. "I think that at the end of the day I always have quite a sappy heart. And I'm a bit of a romantic and I get very touched, very emotional in movies, especially if they're done well."
Nor is the bachelor, who lives in Los Angeles and New York, immune to fatherly impulses.
Last week, Butler took his two 12-year-old nieces with him to the Chasing Mavericks premiere (his first kid-friendly film since 2008's Nim's Island). He can rattle off uncle-y trivia, quizzing his interviewer on the life span of flies and the pace of their wings. On set, Chasing Mavericks co-director Michael Apted noted how easily Butler bonded with children.. "I think he has a trick, which is he treats them as equals," says Apted. "He doesn't patronize them."
Playing a father "does make me think, 'Wow, maybe I could do this. Because I do love the qualities that you feel and the challenges that those roles present," says Butler.
As his chicken Cobb salad hits the table, a "but" hangs in the air.
"There's a huge but!" he says with a laugh, ticking off vices. "But, there's Gerry Butler," the fun-loving, adventure-seeking Scotsman. "That's the big but."
Gregarious and charming in person, Butler, whom Apted calls " a very sociable animal" with colossal energy, "just likes to be in the middle of things and he likes a lot of stuff going on," the director says.
Muccino chuckled discussing Butler settling down. "He tends to be quite a consistent bachelor -- but I wouldn't be surprised if suddenly he would change his mind. I've seen it happen a lot."
Loves to take risks
Today Butler talks freely, brandishing a bruised index finger thanks to action on set of his recently wrapped White House thriller, Olympus Has Fallen. Although late to take his visiting nieces surfing in Malibu, he's generous with his time, sitting for an interview well over the allotted lunch hour and telling stories that travel from surfing in Hawaii with big-wave pro pal Laird Hamilton to getting banged up biking at night around redwoods in Northern California with three friends (and just one head lamp).
One can bike during the daytime, it feels charitable to point out.
"I'm not always the most common sense about these things," he says, grinning ruefully. "I was just determined that we were going to go biking."
That kind of enthusiasm can fill a room. Even after a 12-hour flight from London, Butler refuses to hide in the corners at his own premieres, gamely chatting up the after-party crowd (collapsing, he'll admit, practically shoes-on in his bed later).
It's partly why his directors love him. "I just love his enthusiasm, his love of what he's doing and his willingness to give anything a go," says Apted.
Almost anything. When a woman walks by in a pair of eyebrow-raising thigh-high leather boots, Butler's PG reaction is unexpectedly hilarious.
"Look at these boots that are coming through here," he says. "Look at this. Like, are you serious? The boots are getting longer and longer and they're starting earlier and earlier in the day."
(Butler simultaneously averts his gaze and ducks his head out of an invisible frame. He has learned the hard way about paparazzi catching him at inopportune moments.)
Although he doesn't read gossip stories about himself, Butler is protective of his reputation. When he checked into rehab in February for dependence on prescription painkillers, tabloids reported it was related to alcohol abuse. "That's when I say the stories can just get nasty," he says. "That bummed me out. But I haven't actually had a drink for 15 years. Nor have I had any wish to." (He also does not smoke.)
Even in today's micro-blogged world, he's picked up a talent for keeping his personal life private, and is rarely photographed with women he dates (although cameras did capture him a week ago in France with Romanian model Madalina Ghenea). "It's possible to do," he says. "But there's times when you want to go, 'You know what, I just want to be able to go out, sit out in the open and walk out in the streets. Of course, it gets harder and harder."
The open star even shares some of his regrets, including 2011's Machine Gun Preacher. "They advertised that as an action movie, but it was way more than that," he says. "I thought it was an important movie. Of all the movies I've done, that's the one that makes me saddest that more people didn't see it."
Today's outlook? Smooth sailing. In January he'll appear as a foul-mouthed leprechaun in Brett Ratner's "bizarre," celeb-packed Movie 43, and he's currently on the hunt for a black comedy or a "straight-up drama."
But surely he has a vice or two left?
"My god," he says, grinning devilishly. "I am Mr. Vice."


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I used to be a scientist but have always been an artist. ♥ Fiona Watson , Scotland-based artist. This quote really moved me, another sci...
Fiona Watson, Scotland-based artist.
This quote really moved me, another scientist out there who is also a creative.
She also has a project called "an unwritten book" which I posted on The Next Page
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- AnonymousTuesday, December 22, 2009
ooh, so pretty! the last picture is so lovely.ReplyDelete
beautiful!! i love the colors in all of these...science and art go hand in hand in my mind....ironically.ReplyDelete
the last shot is perfect!ReplyDelete
I think that we're lot of scientist that are creative... I'm a psychologist, and it is said that I'm moved by science and faith... maybe... ;)ReplyDelete
@Sahakiel ~ its true that in history there has been alot of scientist that were also creative. Id love to study psychology too, its so interesting!ReplyDelete
wow. Twiggy. lol. I really love this.ReplyDelete
oh gosh that quote really is perfect for you! this girl has some lovely stuff too :)ReplyDelete
- AnonymousTuesday, December 22, 2009
delight for the eyes. lovely photos, liss.ReplyDelete
oh i love this! and the quote is wonderful. my dad was an aerospace engineer and an artist. it goes together, i think...ReplyDelete
Science and art go hand in hand.ReplyDelete
In my opinion one of the most fascinating kind of people who exist.ReplyDelete
@Tina ~ i think your Dad and I would get along!!ReplyDelete
@Maggie May ~ aw thank you :)
That quote made my day! I love it because I am the same and I'm glad other people feel that way too!ReplyDelete
beautifuls photos!ReplyDelete
I have 2 science degrees and have left them behind to become a freelance illustrator. It's hard work, but it feels right. I live that quote everyday.ReplyDelete
I think this is a sign of someone well rounded. In the classical times science and art were not separated as they are now. We need more people like you guys.ReplyDelete
Love it and that unwriten book is really cool too!ReplyDelete
So cool! "I still work in finance but consider myself creative" is mine...ReplyDelete
that quote is so lovely, i love to discover people like that as well.ReplyDelete
it's refreshing.
Amazing Liss! Loving this - made me think of myself, even though I'm not an artist. All about discovery. Have a wonderful holiday!ReplyDelete
The first image makes me giddy. I love that look. I love flower buds, more than blooming flowers!ReplyDelete
these photos are so soft and beautiful... i love the audrey hepburn shirt <3ReplyDelete


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The chance to watch Meryl Streep or Tommy Lee Jones is often all the encouragement the otherwise reluctant moviegoer needs to risk the kitsch pleasures of Mamma Mia! and the familiar genre beats of Men in Black 3. The new film Hope Springs holds out the delectable promise of watching them work on screen together for the first time, and in a story about a longtime marriage that's gone dry. It's a subject that's as unusual in mainstream American cinema as the sight of major stars letting it all hang out on camera, wrinkles and possibly dignity included, though perhaps not for long, given the movie industry's growing interest in the country's aging population.
Hope Springs has modest charms to go with its well-matched and practiced pair of wily scene stealers, but the industry will have to do better if it wants to persuade boomers that there's something for them at the local multiplex other than cartoons and cliches. As directed by David Frankel from a promising screenplay by Vanessa Taylor, the movie is an awkward cross between a domestic comedy and a marital tragedy that's laced with laughs, soggy with tears and burdened by a booming, blunt soundtrack that amplifies every narrative beat, from I Don't Want to Be Your Mother to Everybody Plays the Fool, Let's Stay Together and It Ain't Over 'Til It's Over.
Frankel, whose direction in The Devil Wears Prada at least had energy, seems uneasy handling the mood swings in Hope Springs. When the story takes off, Kay and Arnold (Streep and Jones) are celebrating their 31st wedding anniversary at home in Omaha, over dinner with their grown children, a son, Brad (Ben Rappaport), and a daughter, Molly (Marin Ireland). From the outside, both Kay and Arnold's home life and their jobs seem perfectly normal, if bordering on monotonous. Arnold's name hangs outside his office at the accounting agency where he works and exchanges bathroom small talk with his colleague and apparently only friend, Vince (Brett Rice); Kay folds tops at the clothing shop where she makes small talk with her colleague and apparently only friend, Eileen (Jean Smart).
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Once the children clear out, though, it's clear that Kay and Arnold are living separate lives. Every night he falls asleep in his lounger while watching a golf show on TV, and they head off to separate bedrooms, and every morning she greets him with bacon, eggs and a smile he doesn't return. To underline the point, Frankel stages the breakfast scene enough times that he must have made his way through several dozen fried eggs. It's obvious, but made lightly funny because of Jones's sleepy shuffle and also a bit painful because Streep lets you see the disappointment in Kay's face when Arnold makes for the table and his newspaper. Something has to give, and does.
The something turns out to be Dr. Feld (Steve Carell, playing it straight), a therapist Kay discovers through a self-help book and who takes the story into places that Frankel doesn't always seem comfortable going. With Dr. Feld's gentle, insistent encouragement, Kay and Arnold turn the couch into a veritable stage on which they enact a familiar marital drama characterized by swapped accusations, confessed disappointments and exchanged hopes in long scenes that are engaging, if largely on a voyeuristic level, and so cinematically inert that you may find yourself counting the creases on Streep's and Jones's faces during the many close-ups. The creases are beautiful, and there's certainly pleasure in watching them undulate across such malleable, movable masks.


text: 11 Dec 2013 08:00 Etihad Airways will launch direct flights to Dallas Fort Worth, Texas, in 2014, the United Arab Emirates' national airline's fifth destination in the United States. The addition of the new ultra-long haul three flights a week service, which will start on December 3, 2014, follows Etihad Airways' pledge to continue to expand its US flight network to cater for growing demand from business and leisure travelers.Dallas is also the largest and most important hub for American Airlines, Etihad Airways' US codeshare partner,and the new service will strengthen Etihad Airways'reach and depth across the US, attracting air travelers from the Middle East region and Indian Subcontinent.James Hogan, Etihad Airways' President and Chief Executive Officer said: "The United States is one of Etihad Airways' most important global markets and we are delighted to add Dallas, a key US destination and hub, to our flight network, bringing the number of American cities we will serve to five by the end of 2014."The new service will also strengthen the deep commercial and bilateral ties between the United Arab Emirates and the United States."Much of the US demand will initially come from the oil and gas sector which has significant connections with Abu Dhabi and the Middle East, as well as from the 20 Fortune 500 companies based in Dallas and the 52 Fortune 500 companies based in Texas.Mr Hogan added: "Abu Dhabi's unique geographical position, as well as Etihad Airways' extensive flight network and those of partner airlines, such as Jet Airways in India and American Airlines, will ensure air travelers have an unparalleled proposition when flying between the Middle East and Indian Subcontinent and the United States."Dallas joins the other US cities of Chicago, New York, Washington D.C., and Los Angeles (to launch on June 1, 2014) on the Etihad Airways flight network.The addition means Etihad Airways will provide 31 return flights each week between the UAE and US by December 2014.The new Dallas announcement follows the naming of Etihad Airways as Airline of the Year by leading US magazine, Global Traveler, having been selected for the prestigious title by the Global Traveler Advisory Board.Etihad Airways also won the awards for Best Airline for First Class and Best Airport Lounges, voted for by Global Traveler readers.Etihad Airways was also recently voted World's Leading Airline at the World Travel Awards for the fifth consecutive year, as well as World's Leading Airline First Class and World's Leading Airline Cabin Crew.Etihad Airways will deploy a three cabin ultra-long range Boeing 777-200LR on the Dallas operation. The aircraft will be configured to carry 237 guests, with 8 Diamond First Class suites, 40 Pearl Business Class flatbed seats, and 189 Coral Economy Class seats.Flight EY161 will depart every Wednesday, Friday, and Sunday from Abu Dhabi at 9.45am and arrive in Dallas at 4.30pm the same day. The return flight, EY160, will depart Dallas at 6.45pm on the same day and arrive in Abu Dhabi at 7.50pm the following day. Bize Ulaşın Tam anlamıyla uluslararası bir havayolu olarak, gerçekten küresel bir faaliyet ağına sahibiz. En yakın Etihad ofisi ile nasıl iletişim kuracağınızı öğrenin. İletişim bilgilerini görüntüleyin Geri bildirim Bize yorum, tebrik veya şikayetlerinizi göndermek ya da soru sormak isterseniz, lütfen buraya tıklayın Bizi Beğenin Facebook sayfamızı ziyaret edin! Bizi İzleyin YouTube kanalımızı ziyaret edin Bizi Takip Edin Etihad Havayolları | Etihad Kampanyaları | Etihad Yardım | Etihad Ödülleri


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October 17, 2013
Capture, Create, Connect: The Nikon D5300 D-SLR Lets Photographers Do It All with Confidence
Compact yet Capable, Nikon's Newest D-SLR Provides Photographers with an Easy Entry into D-SLR Performance with Amazing Image Quality and Built-In Connectivity
MELVILLE, N.Y. – Today, Nikon Inc. announced the latest addition to its legendary digital SLR lineup, the Nikon D5300. Offering the benefits of SLR performance with the versatility of wireless connectivity, the D5300 allows users to easily capture and share amazing images and videos. Though compact and lightweight, the Nikon D5300 packs an enhanced 24.2-megapixel DX-format CMOS sensor, EXPEED 4 image processing and the convenience of built-in Wi-Fi*(1). Users now have the power to take both frame-worthy and share-worthy photos and HD videos with one device no matter where they are.
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Making memorable moments even better, the Nikon D5300 offers stunning image quality with sharp, crisp detail to preserve life's precious memories. The enhanced 24.2-megapixel CMOS sensor delivers stunning images and HD videos with heightened clarity and detail due to the removal of the optical low pass filter (OLPF). From planned family portraits to candid moments, the D5300 has the performance, along with easy and intuitive features, to help users capture photos confidently, including:
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