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"We will pass the cost of tariffs along to the end-users"
Univet was interviewed by Brexit Border Blog on behalf of Intertrade Ireland. The interview was first published on Intertrade Ireland's website.
Univet employs 64 people at its single manufacturing plant in Co Cavan, making veterinary pharmaceuticals for cattle, sheep and pigs. "Products aimed at the dairy industry are of increasing importance for us, accounting for up to 40% of sales," says managing director George Crowe. "We are pushing this area because we have a good set of products and good production facilities for expansion." Geographically, sales break down at roughly 25% in the home market, 6% in Northern Ireland and 12% in Britain. In the rest of the EU Germany dominates, but the Middle East and Far East are also important markets. "Naturally we are concerned about Brexit and its broader impact, but we have no major concerns of our own. This is a niche market and although we overlap in terms of products with other producers in Ireland and across Europe, there is no overall matching competitor across the whole product range. When sterling fell sharply against the euro following the Brexit referendum, we were able to adjust our prices in sterling without meeting major resistance.
"Actually, the place where we got the currency squeeze was on the purchasing side, when the weakening of sterling led the dollar to rally against the euro. We buy in a great deal of raw materials priced in dollars from China and India, probably up to $4 million worth a year. Last year, for example, we forward-bought $3.5 million dollars to cover this trade. We expect to feel some pain in this area."
George Crowe has no reason to believe there will be any significant tariff impact on Univet's operations. "First of all, if we do get into a situation of trading with the UK on the basis of tariffs, I don't expect the levels to be applied to pharmaceuticals will be prohibitively high. Even if we do, because our niche in the market is sufficiently unique, I believe we will be able to pass the cost of tariffs along to the end-users in the agricultural industry. The value is there in our products to be able to do that." Nor does the prospect of a physical border across the island pose any major problems for Univet's high-value but low-volume output, he believes. "We are talking about a few vans or other vehicles passing through and it is usually a case of deliveries by people other than ourselves. Besides, we lived with this before 1993, it's a nuisance but no more than that." On the issue of regulatory regimes, George Crowe makes a careful distinction between standards and the way they are implemented and enforced. "The big issue in our business is the length of time it takes to get a product to market up to ten years in some cases. Even if you were to come in here to me today with a product that already had all the necessary approvals, it could take two years before we could get it into production.
"As far as the standards themselves are concerned, I don't expect any changes. The British authorities will write all the EU standards across into their own legislation and keep it in line with the EU into the future. We were in London a couple of weeks ago talking to the regulators on unrelated business and we discussed this issue in general terms. We heard nothing that would indicate any moving away from the EU standards, in fact quite the opposite. So we believe reciprocal arrangements will be put in place as they generally are between advanced economies for our sector.
"On the other hand, the British are very pragmatic in the way they do business. We would hope that they would make it easier and quicker to register new products within the existing standards regime." Presuming Brexit does not throw up any insurmountable products, Crowe expects some expansion in the British market. "There is competition within the UK from other European producers, but curiously we haven't been able to track anyone manufacturing competing products within Britain." The company does not enjoy any patent protection in the UK and it has no concerns about trademark protection potentially falling away, again because of the length of time it takes to get a product to market.
Univet has not engaged any professional advisors or consultants in relation to Brexit and while the company is aware of meetings organised by Enterprise Ireland, it has not had any form of one-on-one support from relevant state agencies on the issue. "We are confident, we will cope," concludes George Crowe.


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Warner Bros. Pictures, along with Michael E. Minden Jewelers are hosting an 86th birthday bash for one of the original founding members of The Four Seasons, Tommy DeVito and part of the celebration will include a special screening of Jersey Boys on Thursday June 19. The screening, which is taking place at the Brenden Palms Theatre at the Palms Casino Resort, will be for Tommy's friends, family and celebrity guests, like DeVito's lifelong pal Joe Pesci.
The film version of the award winning Broadway play Jersey Boys was directed by Clint Eastwood. The stage show had originally been designed as a sort of Momma Mia type production but the producers decided to make the play a "jukebox musical" instead. The two act play was broken into four seasons and the finale of the show includes group's induction into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame.
Joe Pesci, well known for his roles in Goodfellas, The Lethal Weapon franchise, My Cousin Vinny and other films, is a character in the stage show, but not, apparently in the film. The Pesci omission aside, out of the original group of lads who became the Four Seasons, only Nick Massi has passed on, with Frankie Valli, Bob Gaudio and the birthday celebrant Tommy DeVito still alive and well.
Warner Bros. Pictures have arranged the birthday bash for Tommy DeVito, along with Michael E. Minden Jewelers to showcase the Clint Eastwood film Jersey Boys with a special screening. The film, like the play, focuses on the young men who eventually became the successful singing group. These talented artists from New Jersey kept their music in the charts, and the public's hearts for over 40 years.
The production charts their rise from troubled young men who made enough mistakes to be noticed by the law, to a career that reached dizzying heights. It shows the group's mafia connections, especially with mobster Gyp DeCarlo, played by award winning actor Christopher Walken in the film, and the toll of their success upon their families. Jersey Boys stars quite a few of the actors from the Broadway show so performances should be beyond brilliant.
The stage play has been very successful since its 2005 open with two subsequent tours in North America and several productions in London, Melbourne, Singapore, South Africa, and Holland. On this side of the big pond, the show has been produced in Toronto, Chicago and Las Vegas.
DeVito, a longterm resident of Las Vegas, granted an interview after the show re-opened at the Paris in 2012. Apparently one local journo repeated a comment that Jersey Boys co-writer Rick Elice made which stated that the character in the play based on Tommy, was a "bullsh*tter" which DeVito took umbrage to. In 2013 he set the record straight by chatting with the journo who printed the comment, Steve Bornfeld.
At the time Tommy had mixed feelings about the stage show, and it is not known how he feels about the Eastwood adaptation of the Broadway play. Presumably, the charge of "bullsh*tter" has been either softened or even removed from the big screen version of the show.
Since Warner Bros. Pictures are honoring Tommy DeVito's 86th birthday with a bash being held at the Palms Casino Resort, with a special screening at the Brenden Palms Theatre for his family and friends, the studio must feel that Tommy has changed his mind. The Guardian Liberty Voice has been invited to this red carpet event and it will be reported to our readers just how Tommy feels about the film. Stay tuned.
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Thilan Samaraweera defied the discomfort of an injured hand and the threat of New Zealand's attack to ensure Sri Lanka retained a foothold in the second Test on Tuesday.
Samaraweera, who had three stitches inserted into the webbing on his right hand on Monday after dropping a catch, scored an unbeaten 76 to help steer the home side very slowly to 225 for 6 by the close of play on the third day.
It meant Sri Lanka still trail by 187 runs following New Zealand's first innings total of 412, but it was a vast improvement on their position midway through the afternoon session when they had slipped to 128 for 6.
Samaraweera, a veteran of 77 Tests stretching back to 2001, was his usual calm and assured self despite his injury, and by the close of play, which came 25.4 overs early because of bad light, had batted for 209 minutes, facing 156 balls and hitting five fours.
The unbeaten innings took his tally at the venue to 597 runs, at an average of 99.50, including two hundreds.
Samaraweera found a willing ally in off-spinner Suraj Randiv as the pair added an unbroken 97 runs for the seventh wicket to frustrate the efforts of Ross Taylor's side to force a victory that would level the two-match series.
Samaraweera and Randiv's partnership was a record for the seventh wicket at the venue - which has staged 17 Tests including Sri Lanka's first against England in 1982 - eclipsing the previous mark of 85 set by Pakistan's Inzamam-ul-Haq and Wasim Akram in 1994.
The Sri Lanka duo defied everything that New Zealand could throw at them with Taylor using six bowlers in an attempt to break the stand.
The visiting side's most successful bowler was Tim Southee (four for 51), who followed up his opening burst of two for 16 on Monday with two more victims.
Resuming at 43 for three, overnight batsmen Tharanga Paranavitana (40) and Angelo Mathews (47) took their partnership to 90 and the total to 102 before Paranavitana, who had resisted for more than three hours, edged Southee to Kruger van Wyk behind the stumps.
That was after Paranavitana was dropped by Taylor at first slip off the luckless Trent Boult (one for 34) when the batsman had scored 32.
There was no such reprieve for Mathews, who became Southee's fourth wicket when Martin Guptill produced a superb diving one-handed catch to his right at second slip.
The other wicket to fall on Tuesday was wicketkeeper Prasanna Jayawardene, playing in his 50th Test, who was dismissed in identical fashion to the first Test in Galle.
He top-edged a sweep off spinner Jeetan Patel to be held at deep backward square-leg by Kane Williamson.
That was New Zealand's last success of a truncated day as Samaraweera and Randiv resisted for 37 overs.
Play during the shortened final session was held up briefly as a cat made its way across the ground.
The first Test of the series in Galle was won by Sri Lanka by 10 wickets inside three days.
New Zealand (1st innings): 412
Sri Lanka (1st innings): (overnight 43-3)
T. Paranavitana c Van Wyk b Southee 40
T. Dilshan b Southee 5
K. Sangakkara c Boult b Southee 0
M. Jayawardene c Williamson b Boult 4
A. Mathews c Guptill b Southee 47
T. Samaraweera not out 76
P. Jayawardene c Williamson b Patel 12
S. Randiv not out 34.
Extras: (lb-3, w-1, nb-3) 7
Total: (six wickets; 86.2 overs) 225
To bat: N. Kulasekara, R. Herath, S. Eranga
Fall of wickets: 1-7, 2-7, 3-12, 4-102, 5-103, 6-128.
Bowling: Southee 19-3-51-4 (1nb), Boult 17-5-34-1 (2nb, 1w), Patel 22-3-47-1, Astle 13-2-41-0, Bracewell 13-1-44-0, Williamson 2.2-1-5-0
Sri Lanka lead the two-match series 1-0.
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johndom posted a topic in Feature Requestswhy do not you break up the Poweramp equalizer for a separate Poweramp application? The Poweramp equalization options are the best and most complete, but only work on it. with the popularization of streaming music services, Poweramp fell a bit disused (I'm not criticizing the app, it's the best offline player on Playstore!). I have the paid version installed, but I hardly hear it, only when I need to listen to my old playlists and mostly put on a sound to give more power, because applications like Deezer and Spotify do not offer Equalizers equal to Poweramp. Especially the Spotify that has very low sound! Think that if you can make an equalization application for any app, you're sure to make more money because the Equalizer and Poweramp will be different applications. All of the apps I tested for Playstore's qualification (without root) are fakes / placebos: none of them improves the true gain / loudness .. Creating this app I will be happy to buy it . Thanks
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Trade between various countries of the world has taken place for many hundreds, perhaps thousands, of years. Originally trade enabled people to obtain food and materials that they could not produce for themselves. In the era of globalization, trades between countries become more frequent than before. Within the contemporary global economy international trade touches many societies and communities though direct and indirect effects. It reaches into our homes, places of work and recreational venues. Although trade has benefits on countries, in recent years, many countries attempted to increase protection for their own industries and farms so that keep them away from free trade. This essay will explain what free trade is and state what the problems of the free trade are and the possible reasons why many countries have attempted increase their trade protection.
Take UK as an example, the UK does not have a climate suitable for growing bananas, and therefore needs to import these from abroad.
(OECD, 2003) But in recent years, it has been recognised that some countries are "better" to produce certain types of products than others. By 'better' it mean that the country can produce the good more cheaply, quickly or efficiently. (Mankiw, 2002) It seems to make sense then, for countries to specialise in producing the goods that they can produce most efficiently, and to trade their surpluses of those goods for the products they cannot produce, or are less efficient at producing. This is known as the principle of free trade. (http://www.oxfam.org.uk/)However, there are many arguments from the opponents of free trade. The arguments state why they are restricting trade. Meanwhile maybe this kind of reasons could explain why many countries increasing their trade protection in recent years.
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On June 2, Heartland Institute Science Director Jay Lehr was on on "Your World with Neil Cavuto" on Fox News Channel. Cavuto asked Lehr to come on the show to discuss the Obama administration's new power plant emissions rule. The administration instituted the arbitrary rule to meet the president's goal to ensure energy bills "necessarily skyrocket."
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Baez single gives Cubs 4th straight win, 3-2 over Indians
CHICAGO — Javier Baez's RBI single in the 10th inning lifted the Chicago Cubs to their fourth straight win, 3-2 over the Cleveland Indians, on Wednesday night in a game that was briefly delayed when a drone entered Wrigley Field and landed on the outfield grass.
Automatic runner Ian Happ advanced to third when Kris Bryant greeted Phil Maton (2-2) with a groundball single to open the 10th.
After Anthony Rizzo was walked intentionally, Maton fanned Willson Contreras and Kyle Schwarber. Then Baez's liner to left scored Happ and sent the Indians to their eighth straight loss, their longest slide since June 2013.
Like many of the Cubs' hitters, Baez has struggled in the pandemic-shortened season — he's hitting just .211. But Chicago's high-energy shortstop delivered.
"It gave me some more (confidence)," Baez said. "I saw the ball good today. I've been seeing the ball good."
Manager David Ross usually likes what he sees in Baez, even when he's not producing at his normal clip.
"He's continued to compete every pitch," Ross said. "Javy is always going to affect the game in a positive fashion and create a little chaos."
The Cubs won their fourth straight and strengthened their grip on first place in the NL Central.
"We continue to do a lot of things well," Ross said. "There's still room for improvement. When you get these late wins, these walk-off wins, it feel real good and gives you some momentum."
Oscar Mercado hit a solo shot off Jon Lester in the fifth to tie the game at 2.
Five Cubs relievers followed Lester with a scoreless inning each. Jason Adam (2-1) pitched the 10th.
The Indians remain in position for an AL wild card despite their second straight one-run, walk-off loss to the Cubs.
"That's a tough one right there," interim Cleveland manager Sandy Alomar Jr. said. "I mean, guys battled and the pitching did a good job. Unfortunately we didn't hit very good with men in scoring position today."
Aaron Civale allowed two runs on seven hits, leaving with runners at second and third and none out in the seventh. The right-hander hasn't won since Aug. 19 and is 0-3 in his last five starts.
Lester yielded two runs on four hits in five innings in his second effective start following two rough ones.
The 36-year-old lefty settled in after struggling with his control in the first inning. Francisco Lindor, who walked to lead off the game, scored from third on a wild pitch.
The Cubs tied it in the second on Jason Heyward's bloop single. Chicago moved ahead 2-1 in the fourth when Cameron Maybin's infield single drove in Baez.
Umpires hastily cleared the field when the small drone flew into the ballpark over the left-center bleachers as Contreras came to bat with with two outs in the bottom of the fifth.
After it landed, the blinking drone took off, hovered at about 100 feet, then pulled away and vanished into the night beyond the center-field scoreboard.
Following a 7-minute delay, Contreras resumed his at-bat and grounded out to Civale.
"Just another thing thrown at you," Civale said. "But it happened. You've just got to push through those things."
Baez said the Cubs didn't take the the drone incursion lightly.
"I saw it and it just kept getting closer," he said. "You never know what's the deal with a drone. We just stayed away from it."
Indians: Gold Glove C Roberto Perez didn't play Wednesday so he could get treatment on a condition that's been affecting his swing. Perez, who previously missed three weeks with a right shoulder strain, is expected back Thursday at Detroit.
Austin Hedges, acquired from San Diego at the deadline in a nine-player trade, was behind the plate against the Cubs. … 2B Cesar Hernandez (paternity list) rejoined the team. He pinch-hit in the eighth and remained in the game.
Indians: AL ERA leader Shane Bieber (7-1, 1.53) takes the mound at Detroit on Thursday and tries to rebound from his lone loss, to the Twins last Friday in Minnesota. Rookie RHP Casey Mize (0-1, 5.85) pitches for the Tigers.
Cubs: Following a day off Thursday, RHP Kyle Hendricks (5-4, 3.29) faces LHP Rich Hill (2-1. 3.81) in the opener of a three-game home set against Minnesota at Wrigley Field.


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The seminar hosted four sessions on Saturday that discussed the prospects and challenges facing publishers in Bangladesh and abroad.
The participants called for a South Asia publisher-reader forum for greater reach of books published in the region.
Moderating over a session, bdnews24.com Arts and Senior Editor poet Muhammad Nurul Huda said, "While there is a demand for transnational literature at the international level, various policy guided dos and donts limit publishers' freedom."


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While investigating old cases similar to Dora Lange's Cohle comes across the Light of the Way Academy, a school that was part of Rev. Tuttle's Wellspring Program.
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HONG KONG, CHINA - Media OutReach - June 22, 2017 - Nearly US$500,000 was raised at a riveting and moving gala dinner in Hong Kong in aid of the Asian University for Women (AUW), an independent, international university in Chittagong, Bangladesh seeking to educate a new generation of female leaders in Asia.
AUW Board Members, special guests and visiting students and graduates gather on stage at the JW Marriott.
The more than 300 guests who attended "In Honour of Daughters: Empowering Women on a Mission" at the JW Marriott Hong Kong on June 13 were regaled by inspiring tales of overcoming adversity and the hardest fought success from a wide array of speakers including former AUW students, public figures and academics from around the world and human rights lawyer and AUW Chancellor Cherie Blair.
The event, which was the first gala dinner organized by Asian University for Women - Hong Kong Support Foundation, will fund 31 full scholarships for one year, enabling the most promising young women from traditionally marginalized communities around the region to attend the university and go on to lead change.
AUW Support Foundation Hong Kong Chairperson Lynne Anne Davis said: "I am so delighted that our wonderfully generous guests have donated enough money to ensure that the dreams of 31 students wanting to attend this remarkable university can now do so, regardless of their ability to pay. We are so grateful that our network of sponsors, including our event partner Marriott International and platinum sponsors Li & Fung, Goldman Sachs, Mohammadi Group, L'Oreal and Mr. Henry Hamrock, plus a host of other organisations, recognize the immense value of investing in the future talent of the region."
Emceed by Bloomberg TV anchor Rishaad Salamat, the evening of experiences extended to a Live Auction conducted by Christie's Chairman of Asian Art Jonathan Stone, featuring once-in-a lifetime opportunities designed to deepen cultural understanding and broaden horizons. Auction prizes included a private dinner for 10 in London with Cherie Blair and former British Prime Minister Tony Blair, and a private group luncheon for 10 in Hong Kong with former Chief Secretary The Honourable Anson Chan in Hong Kong SAR's 20th anniversary year.
Cherie Blair, Chancellor of AUW and the first member of her family to go to university, is a firm believer in the transformative power of education. At the gala she talked of how her mother and grandmother, who both left school at the age of 14, made sure that she could achieve her dreams. Mrs. Blair told the audience: "I was told that what Asia needed was a visual representation of why educating girls is important, a place where girls can go, learn from each other and have the chance of an excellent standard of education. That is exactly what AUW offers -- it is a beacon of hope."
Another speaker was Mowmita Basak. Ms. Basak completed her bachelor's degree in Asian Studies at AUW, and is currently pursuing a master's degree at the University of Oxford. She grew up as part of the minority Hindu community in Bangladesh and declared that AUW transformed her life and her career from a small-town girl into an aspiring youth leader. She told the audience: "One single opportunity can transform a life completely."
Sweta Kumari is another former AUW student. She overcame poverty, a terrifying assault and mental illness to graduate from AUW in 2015. She is now on a mission to transform higher education in India. She told the audience: "AUW made possible what was totally, totally impossible."
Guests at the gala also heard the personal tales from other leaders who overcame challenges to lead positive change and make a difference, including Founding Co-chair AUW Japan Support Foundation Kathy Matsui; author, academic and AUW Support Foundation Board Member Sheena Iyengar; former Dutch parliamentarian and academic Kathleen Ferrier; AUW Vice Chancellor Nirmala Rao and Executive Vice Chairman of South China Media Group, Jessica Ng.
About Asian University for Women (AUW)
Recruiting from 15 countries in Asia and the Middle East, Asian University for Women seeks out high-potential young women from communities with few opportunities for advancement, and provides them with the academic, professional, and financial support required to earn their Bachelor's degrees and to take on change-making roles. Throughout their years at AUW, students pursue a rigorous liberal arts and sciences curriculum, internships, and community service and educational exchange opportunities which enable them to broaden their worldviews, develop critical thinking skills, and cultivate their commitments to public service.
Since opening its doors in 2008, AUW has graduated five classes totaling more than 550 women. About 80% of AUW graduates pursue employment in their home countries immediately after graduation while the remaining 20% attend graduate school internationally. Former AUW students have pursued graduate studies at a range of institutions including Oxford, Stanford, Columbia, Brandeis, and Ewha (South Korea). Graduates have gone into careers with organizations such as Chemists without Borders, Room to Read, Teach for Nepal, Accenture, Chevron Bangladesh, and Democracy International. There are about 600 students currently attending AUW. The vast majority of AUW students are first in their family to attend university, and virtually all receive full financial aid.
To learn more about Asian University for Women, please visit http://asian-university.org/


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by Lorraine Murray
In just over a week, the 2012 Summer Olympic Games will begin in London, England, with the opening ceremony taking place on July 27.
Controversy erupted in mid-June of this year when the show's artistic director, film and theater director Danny Boyle, presented his plans for the ceremony and revealed that they involved re-creating a rural English setting for the audience of 80,000 (as well as the billion people expected to watch on television around the world). The plan was complete with thousands of people and real farm animals, including 12 horses, 10 chickens, 10 ducks, 2 goats, 3 cows, and 70 sheep.
The pastoral part of his theme also involves real grass and soil, plows, and a cricket team, as well as, he claimed, clouds hanging above the stadium that could provide rain. Beyond that will be the flashing, noisy, bright high-tech displays that Olympic audiences have come to expect, including fireworks. The ceremony would begin with ringing of an enormous clanging bell.
People involved in animal rights and animal welfare were immediately concerned about the animals. Ingrid Newkirk, the president of People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals, wrote Boyle a letter describing the risks of stressing, injuring, and traumatizing the animals:
"There are inevitably serious problems involved when it comes to using live animals in productions, and I don't mean just aesthetically, with animals falling ill, defecating, urinating and so on.
"Animals become stressed and anxious when they are forced into unfamiliar or frightening situations, and stage sets—with their bright lights, heavy equipment and noisy crowds—are obviously traumatic environments for them.
"Then there is the transport to and from the venue, which also proves stressful as animals do not understand what is happening.
"And as for fireworks, clearly they frighten the bejesus out of animals. By contrast, the use of stunningly clever animatronics would create a show of Olympic proportions—without harming any living beings."
She went on, "Should you opt to use real animals—and we hope you do not—please do as the producer of Babe did and 'pay them their wages' by making sure that they are retired to an animal sanctuary after the performance, rather than being sent back to farms and ultimately slaughtered. Your intent is to recreate our 'green and pleasant land' but real animals are not necessary to achieve this aspiration and, in fact, detract from it."
Indeed, it's very disappointing to see that, yet again, animals are being impressed into serving human plans as though they were much less than what they are—as if they were window-dressing, loved for certain qualities but not others, appreciated for what they look like and what they mean to humans, without any meaningful concern for their right not to be involved in things that are not to their benefit or may actively harm them. Boyle seems sincere in his appreciation for the animals of the traditional English farm, but it's a shallow appreciation. It seems unlikely that any real farmer would allow his or her animals to be paraded around before a roaring crowd of spectators for the sake of calling up sentimental nostalgia for the England of memory. Boyle wants to use the animals as part of a "let's pretend," but, unfortunately, these animals are real, not actors like the human volunteers in the ceremony, and not a stage set or lighting effect.
Animals in Olympic history
Animals have actually been involved in the Olympic Games, ancient and modern, since earliest times—both for better and for worse. The ancient Olympics were athletic competitions held in various city-states in the western Pelopponese (in Greece) between 776 BCE and the 4th century CE to honor the Olympian gods. At first, the only event was a stadium-long foot race, but other sports, including chariot races and horse racing were later added. The chariot competition began in 680 BCE, and, according to Olympic historians, was the Games' most exciting and spectacular sport.
During the religious festival of which the ancient Olympics were a part, animal sacrifice was a component of the ceremonies. On the third day, 100 oxen were sacrificed before an altar; their butchered thighs were placed on top and burned to please Zeus, and the rest of the meat was distributed to the spectators and eaten.
In the early days of the modern Olympic Games, which were revived by Baron Pierre de Coubertin in 1896 (although several Greek Olympics were held from the 1870s), animals were equally unlucky. The decided low point was the introduction of pigeon shooting as an event.
Pigeon shooting was a "sport" at the 1900 Olympics. The goal of the competition was to kill as many live pigeons as possible. In all, 300 birds were killed, and the winner was awarded 20,000 francs. According to the website Top End Sports (see reference below), "The birds were released in front of a participant and the winner was the competitor who shot down the most birds from the sky. The participant was eliminated once they missed two birds. Nearly 300 birds were killed. The event turned out to be quite messy in the end with dead or injured birds on the ground and blood and feathers all over the place." Belgium's Leon de Lunden took the gold with 21 kills; the silver and bronze medalists killed 20 and 18, respectively. That was the event's sole appearance in Olympic history.
Eight years later, a similar-sounding event—running deer shooting—was introduced at the London Summer Games. It sounds gruesome, but the targets were actually cardboard cut-outs of deer with bull's-eyes painted on them. The "deer" moved quickly (75 feet in 4 seconds) past the shooters, who stood 110 yards back and took their allotted two shots at each of them. Although a glorification of animal-hunting skills, at least it did not entail the killing of actual animals. In all, deer-shooting events took place in three Olympics.
Horses in the Olympics
By far, it is the equestrian sports that have the longest history in the modern Olympic Games, although the number and type of events has varied over the years. They made their first appearance at the 1900 Games (Paris). The five equestrian events during that Olympiad included various jumping events, "Hacks and hunters," and something called "Mail coach," a four-in-hand event. Horses did not return until the 1912 Games, but equestrian competition has been on the program ever since.
Figure riding—team and individual—made its sole appearance in the 1920 Games. Figure riding is part of equestrian training that is similar, in a way, to the once-compulsory figures in Olympic figure skating. In figure riding, rider and horse perform basic movements, such as circles, that demonstrate training, control, and moving as a team.
Until 1948 only men were allowed to compete in equestrian events, because participants were required to be military officers. Since 1964, all events have been mixed; that is, there are not separate men's and women's events. The events are dressage (extremely difficult, sometimes dance-like, movement), eventing (cross-country), and jumping. All three events have team and individual competitions, for a total of six. Professionals were first permitted to compete in 1988.
According to Olympic historians, in the early days of equestrian sports in the Olympics, "Jumping was dominated by the military, but with the mechanisation of the army over the years, civilians became more and more prevalent. The decline of the military teams also paved the way for women, who made their first Olympic appearance in jumping at the 1956 Games in Stockholm, and today are as often if not more on the top spot of the podium."
The 1956 Olympic Games were held in Melbourne, Australia, but that country's strict quarantine regulations kept foreign horse competitors out of the country. For this reason, equestrian events were held in a separate hemisphere: in Stockholm, Sweden. The equestrian competitions actually took place months before the others—during the summer (in June), according to the usual Olympic schedule. But, because of the reversal of seasons in the Southern Hemisphere, the Australia-hosted Games took place in November and December. Thus, there were two Olympic torches lit—one for the human-only events in Australia and the other for the horsey events on the other side of the world.
Dressage events are also a part of the Paralympics, the championship games for athletes with disabilities that are held in Olympic years in the Olympic host cities, using the same facilities. (This year they will take place August 29–September 9.)
Olympic animal mascots
A word about another way in which animals appear at the Olympics, in a manner of speaking: Animal mascots.
According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, "The organizers of the 1968 Winter Olympics in Grenoble, France, devised as an emblem of their Games a cartoonlike figure of a skiing man and called him Schuss. The 1972 Games in Munich, West Germany, adopted the idea and produced the first 'official mascot', a dachshund named Waldi who appeared on related publications and memorabilia. Since then each edition of the Olympic Games has had its own distinctive mascot, sometimes more than one. Typically the mascot is derived from characters or animals especially associated with the host country. Thus, Moscow chose a bear, Norway two figures from Norwegian mythology, and Sydney three animals native to Australia."
The 2012 Olympics
Back to this year's Olympics, and the opening ceremony.
Unfortunately, although Danny Boyle listened to the animal-welfare concerns expressed by PETA and responded respectfully, he did not alter his plans to keep the animals out of the show. Instead, he attempted to assuage concerns by assuring Newkirk and the public that the animals would only take part in the ceremony during daylight hours and would be taken away "before any large effects or noisy sequences take place." He also responded that he had not previously considered the animals' fates after their Olympic appearance, but that he would now "vigorously" look into having them retire to sanctuaries rather than going to slaughter. Not a promise to do so, but a promise to investigate the option.
It's something. It's not a lot, though. We'll hope that Boyle was speaking in good faith, and that he will make sure that the animals he's used go to shelters and sanctuaries. And as for the rest of it—the farm animals suddenly plunked down in a huge stadium in London before tens of thousands of people, made to mill about in an imitation of a traditional village and appear to be innocently enjoying the nonexistent peace and quiet, as though they were insentient props—well, fingers, hooves, and paws crossed for them.
To Learn More
- Time magazine, "London Olympics: Opening Ceremony to Star Cows, Sheep" (June 13,2012)
- The Telegraph article (July 4, 2012), "London 2012 Olympics: Campaigners fear for opening ceremony animals"
- The Telegraph's guides to equestrian events in the Olympics and the Paralympic Games (retrieved July 13, 2012)
- Olympic Studies Centre, Reference Document, "Equestrian Sport: Participation during the history of the Olympic Games."
- Top End Sports discussion of pigeon shooting at the 1900 Olympics
- Seven Olympic Events You've Probably Never Heard of
- Some history of the ancient Olympic Games, including the ritual sacrifice of animals
- Animal Planet's "On Top of Their Game: Olympic Animals," a fantasy-Olympics rundown of "gold medalists" from the animal kingdom.
- About.com's photo history of equestrian events in the modern Olympic Games


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WHNS, virtual and UHF digital channel 21, is a Fox-affiliated television station located in Greenville, South Carolina, United States. The station is owned by the Meredith Corporation. WHNS maintains studio facilities located on Interstate Court (just northwest of Interstate 85) in Greenville, and its transmitter is located atop Slick Rock Mountain in Transylvania County, North Carolina (five miles southeast of Brevard).
The Federal Communications Commission issued a construction permit to build a television station on UHF channel 21 in Greenville as early as 1953. Over the next quarter-century, the permit went through about a dozen owners who were unable to overcome numerous legal environmental hurdles to receive permission to build a station. Technical issues were also played a role – the Greenville/Spartanburg/Asheville market is within a vast and mountainous area, UHF television signals usually do not get good reception in rugged terrain. In the meantime, Christian station WGGS used channel 21 as a low-powered relay to improve its coverage in Asheville.
After several false starts, Fresno, California-based Pappas Telecasting Companies bought the channel 21 license in 1979. In 1981, after numerous delays, Pappas found a transmitter site in the Spartanburg area that was close enough to Greenville to meet FCC requirements which stated that a broadcast station's transmitter be located no more than 15 miles away from its city of license. Construction on the transmitter tower began in 1982.
The station first signed on the air on April 1, 1984; originally operating as the first general entertainment independent station that served the entire Greenville/Spartanburg/Asheville market. By contrast, its main competition, Anderson-based WAXA-TV (channel 40, now WMYA-TV), was practically unviewable in most of the North Carolina side of the market. The Greenville/Spartanburg/Asheville market is one of the largest east of the Mississippi River, and several parts of it are very mountainous. WHNS needed every watt of its five million watts of effective radiated power--the maximum allowed for a full-power analog station--to cover it. The WHNS call letters stand for Harry 'N (representing "and") Stella, after company founder Harry Pappas and his wife.
WHNS initially ran a schedule typical of an independent on the UHF band, consisting of cartoons, sitcoms, classic movies, drama series and select sporting events. It became the dominant independent station in the region, placing well ahead of WAXA in the ratings. As a result of the station's sign-on, religious independent WGGS-TV (channel 16) reached a deal with the owners of WASV-TV (channel 62, now WYCW) in Asheville to convert it into a satellite station to serve areas not covered by WGGS's signal. WHNS transmitted at an effective radiated power of five million watts, the maximum allowed by the FCC for full-power analog stations.
WHNS's original slogan, "It's Your Station" (which was later changed to "We're Your Station" in 1988), would also be used on then-sister stations KMPH-TV in Fresno and KPTM in Omaha, Nebraska. WHNS's first logo, which was used until 1988, consisted of the call letters in a logo resembling Subway's logo of the time period, with the channel number placed at the bottom-center.
Despite a stronger signal and wealthier ownership, WAXA beat out WHNS for a charter affiliation with the upstart Fox Broadcasting Company, which launched in October 1986. However, WAXA was forced to file for Chapter 11 bankruptcy in the fall of 1988 due to financial and management problems that occurred after the death of owner Frank Outlaw; Pappas Telecasting quickly snapped up the Fox affiliation for WHNS. WAXA never recovered from the loss of Fox programming, and went off the air on August 31, 1989. Channel 40 would not return until 1991 as a satellite of ABC affiliate WLOS (channel 13). After joining the network, WHNS abandoned its "TV21" brand and changed its on-air branding to "Fox 21".
In 1990, Pappas sold WHNS to Cannell Communications (a broadcast group owned by television producer and author Stephen J. Cannell), earning a handsome return on its original investment. Cannell sold WHNS to First Media Television in 1994. On January 16, 1995, WHNS took on a secondary affiliation with United Paramount Network (UPN), airing the network's programming during late night time periods. First Media merged with Meredith Corporation in 1997. In October of that year, UPN's programming moved to WASV – which ironically had been acquired by Pappas Telecasting Companies two years earlier in 1995. The station became exclusively affiliated with Fox as a result, only to add a secondary affiliation with Pax TV when that network launched on August 31, 1998; WHNS carried select programs from the network until 2003. In the fall of 2002, WHNS began branding itself as "Fox Carolina".
In March 2009, the Meredith Corporation announced that WHNS and Nashville sister station WSMV-TV would have their master control operations moved to a new master contol hub based out of the studio facilities of Atlanta sister station WGCL-TV, which began operations in the fall of 2009.[1] Three other Meredith-owned stations, in Kansas City, Hartford-New Haven and Bay City, Michigan, were later added to this hub in 2010. Meredith operates a similar hub at KPHO-TV in Phoenix to handle its stations in the Las Vegas and Portland, Oregon/Vancouver, Washington markets.
On September 8, 2015, Media General announced that it would acquire Meredith for $2.4 billion, with the combined group to be renamed Meredith Media General once the sale is finalized. Because Media General already owns WSPA, and the two stations rank among the four highest-rated stations in the Greenville-Spartanburg-Asheville market in total day viewership, the companies will be required to sell either WHNS or WSPA to comply with FCC ownership rules as well as recent changes to those rules regarding same-market television stations that restrict sharing agreements; CW affiliate WYCW (channel 62) is the only one of the three stations affected by the merger that can legally be acquired by Meredith Media General either by forming a new duopoly with WHNS or maintaining its duopoly with WSPA, as that station's total day viewership ranks below the top-four ratings threshold.[2][3]
The station's digital signal is multiplexed:
From 2007 to 2015, WHNS carried a 24-hour local weather channel on its second digital subchannel, which was branded as "Fox Carolina 3D Radar". Through separate affiliation agreements involving Meredith Corporation and those networks' respective owners (NBCUniversal and Katz Broadcasting) that were signed within days of each other, on March 23, 2015, WHNS announced it would affiliate its second digital subchannel with Cozi TV and launch a third subchannel affiliated with Escape onto its digital signal that spring. On April 15, 2015, the 21.2 subchannel became a Cozi TV affiliate, while the new 21.3 subchannel launched as an Escape affiliate.[5][6]
WHNS discontinued regular programming on its analog signal, over UHF channel 21, on June 12, 2009, the official date in which full-power television stations in the United States transitioned from analog to digital broadcasts under federal mandate. The station's digital signal relocated from its pre-transition UHF channel 57, which was among the high band UHF channels (52-69) that were removed from broadcasting use as a result of the transition, to its analog-era UHF channel 21.[8][9]
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WHNS operates six low-power repeater stations, which serve valley areas on the North Carolina side of the Greenville/Spartanburg market:
The station's 10:00 p.m. newscast is the highest-rated primetime newscast in the market in that timeslot (outranking the WLOS-produced newscast on WMYA-TV and the WSPA-produced newscast on WYCW), and its other newscasts are seen as competitive in the market.
In September 2012, the station canceled their 6:30 p.m. newscast due to low ratings, but the following week launched an 11:00 p.m. newscast, airing Monday through Friday. In October 2014, WHNS added a weekday hour-long 4:00 p.m. newscast, called The Four O'Clock News. [11]
In 2011, WHNS began broadcasting its local newscasts in widescreen enhanced definition. The station ultimately upgraded its news production to high definition in 2014.
On May 14, 2007, assignment editor Joe Loy was filming the aftermath of a traffic accident on a local highway when another accident occurred right behind him. Loy managed to tape that accident as a white van, which possibly went out-of-control because of a red pickup truck, spun towards and hit him, killing him instantly. In September 2009, WHNS expanded its news programming into early evenings with the debut of a half-hour newscast at 6:30 p.m.
Connie LeGrand, who had anchored the WSPA-produced 10:00 p.m. newscast, was hired by WHNS to continue as anchor of the station's new in-house newscasts; LeGrand left the station in 2004 (only to rejoin WSPA's news staff several years later), with another WSPA anchor/reporter, Diana Watson, being hired as her replacement as co-anchor. In September 2005, WHNS debuted a weekday morning newscast titled The Morning News, running for four hours from 5:00 to 9:00 a.m.
WHNS launched the first primetime newscast in the Greenville-Spartanburg market in September 1996, when CBS affiliate WSPA-TV (channel 7) began to produce a nightly half-hour newscast at 10:00 p.m. through a news share agreement. The program was produced from WSPA's main news set at its International Drive studio facility in Spartanburg, and utilized WSPA's anchors and reporters; however, the newscast had a different on-air identity and graphics package than that seen on WSPA's newscasts. Meredith Corporation terminated the news share agreement in 1999, when the station began developing its own in-house news department; its news operation launched that fall, with the debut of an hour-long 10:00 p.m. newscast.
WHNS presently broadcasts 34½ hours of locally produced newscasts each week (with 7½ hours on weekdays and one hour each on Saturdays and Sundays). In terms of the number of hours devoted to news programming, it is the largest local output among the market's individual stations (WLOS, along with sister station WMYA-TV, along with WSPA and sister station WYCW produce more hours of newscasts with their combined operations).
Syndicated programs broadcast by WHNS include Friends, The Simpsons (which also airs first run episodes), Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, The Big Bang Theory, and The Doctors. In addition, WHNS produces Better Carolinas, which airs weekday mornings at 10:00 a.m. and features a mix of segments from the Meredith-distributed syndicated program The Better Show and segments produced locally at WHNS's Greenville studios.
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For a long time, my wife and I discussed making out a will. Who would we leave our children to should something unexpected happen to us? Where would our assets go? After a lot of soul searching and discussion, we figured out what we wanted and created a will stating these things.
However, that didn't cover all of our bases. I wanted to make sure that several personal items of mine would go to specific people in the event of my singular death. Although I completely trust my wife to handle this for me, I still desired to have a clear and legally binding explanation of what I wished to happen to a handful of personal items.
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You're kidding, right? According to Lawchek, a holographic will is in fact legally binding in many U.S. states. Some states require a witness, while other states do not require anything of the sort. Check that site to find out the specifics in your state. It may also be useful to call a lawyer in your state just to be sure of the specifics – this is a great question to ask if you have access to free legal counsel at some point.
How exactly do I make a holographic will? All you have to do is write out, in your own handwriting, specifics on how you want your estate (or specific elements of your estate) to be disbursed to people. For example, you may want to explicitly list that certain personal items go to specific people and so on. You may also want to direct that all remaining assets go to someone in specific. You must also sign it at the bottom.
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It is important that if you make such a will, you are specific and very clear with your wishes. It is probably worthwhile to include a blanket statement leaving the remainder of your estate to someone you trust so that if there are issues of ambiguity, you can have some faith that the person you trust will act in your interest anyway.
When might a holographic will be useful? The most obvious situation is when you are in imminent danger of losing your life. For example, if you're trapped in a cave during a snowstorm and you're concerned you might not make it out alive, you may want to write a holographic will. A person might also write one out if they are terminally ill and want to make sure that their wishes are recorded because they believe the end is near.
Should I go this route for making my own will? In short, no. Although it's something very useful to know if you are in a desperate situation, the inconsistent legal nature of a holographic will makes it something not worth trusting your estate to unless you're in that desperate situation.
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So far Volume 2 (and the tail end of Volume 1) appears to be "let's show just how big of jerks guys can be and how untrustworthy they are" time. And I'm not completely sure why Elinor's setting Edward so high above Willoughby, since the end result from what we can see so far is the same - leading a girl on who they don't intend to eventually marry, without any explanation otherwise.
Despite what Mrs. Jennings says, I find it really hard to picture Lady Middleton as being silly and lost in love with her husband back in their courting days.
I'd feel more sympathy for Marianne here if she weren't also bent on being Overly Dramatic. Good grief. As for Willoughby's letter, it's obviously unkind, but I find it hard to see it as painting Willoughby as that much blacker than he already was. Sign of the times, I guess.
I also have to love (or in other words roll my eyes at) Marianne's assertion that the only thing that could have happened is that someone employed the Blackest Arts (of rumor and lies one supposes) against her, to turn Willoughby against her. Ah, young love. And given all this, does anyone other than Elinor REALLY expect Marianne to take the high road and "cheat her enemy of their triumph" or whatever? Really really?
I have to say that this is where I started feeling more kindly toward Mrs. Jennings, I think. Until now she comes across as fairly silly, living only (or at least mostly) for gossip, teasing, and matchmaking, but here it's apparent that even though her methods aren't always the best, she really does want to comfort Marianne.
I like Elinor's It would be unnecessary, I'm sure, for you to caution..." Translation: "Since I doubt you'll consider it on your own, I feel I'd better point out blatantly..."
It's a pretty good sign of how formal the society was in general, that it's not until this section that we even see mention of Willoughby's Christian name, John.
And I think it goes without saying that I want to smack Marianne for her refusal to think that Mrs. Jennings might actually be sympathetic, and the way she puts it. Or for that matter her language re: Colonel Brandon.
We do a least get some idea here of why Colonel Brandon loves Marianne - it's because of her resemblance to a previous love. We also find out the truth of his "natural daughter," who really isn't - she's his ward, and I suppose his cousin.
(And reading between the lines, short version: Willoughby seduced Brandon's ward Eliza, got her pregnant, and abandoned her. This means that Eliza is now pretty much ruined. Brandon and Willoughby then fought a duel, one imagines by pistols, neither of them wounded. And yes, from what I gather this was illegal at the time, but still fairly common.)
And this is also perhaps the only time I want to smack Brandon, who I like as a character... for basically keeping his damn mouth shut when he thinks Marianne is about to marry such a man. I can somewhat understand it, since he might distrust his own motives, but come on! And I don't buy the "and maybe she could make him turn over a new leaf" argument, because we all know how well THAT works. And she should at least have all the information to decide whether she wants to take that chance, damnit.
I'd also note that before the elder Miss Steele was called "Anne," but here (and at other points further on if I recall correctly) she's referred to as "Nancy," which... confuses me, honestly! I'm not sure if the one was a nickname of the era for the other, if Austen got confused, if one might be a middle name, or what!
(And while we're doling out smacks, can we portion one out to Lucy as well, for being such a bitch?)
Lavender water and hartshorn: According to this site, lavender water "relaxes the nerves, can help reduce the symptoms of headache, muscle ache and stress." I'm guessing it's something a woman might carry out with her anyhow, just for general nerve/stress/ailment relief, or maybe just for the scent, and thus would be at hand. According to wiki Pete, "hartshorn" was actually one of the terms for ammonium carbonate (aka smelling salts), which could be obtained apparently via the horns and hooves of deer (harts), thus the name. Who knew?
Wedding clothes: Among the upper class, it would be typical for a bride-to-be to purchase a new wardrobe for her wedding, and usually there would be other purchases, such as the purchase of a new carriage on the groom's part, perhaps even included in the marriage agreements beforehand. Since London was by and large the biggest city in England, and the social center, it would make sense for someone to go there to shop for her wedding clothes given the chance. (See also: Mrs. Bennet being completely aghast at the thought of one of her daughters not having wedding clothes paid for by Mr. Bennet on... a certain occasion.)
Fifty thousand pounds: This is the fortune attributed to Miss Grey, since women's fortunes tended to be considered as lump sums, since that's what their husband would receive to add to his capital upon marriage. Men usually have their fortunes referred to as an annual sum, since their fortune would be tied up in estates and capital and so on, and they would then gain money each year from proceeds of agriculture, interest from investment, etc. I believe the usual interest for investments was around 5% per year, so 50,000 pounds would be roughly equivalent to 2500 pounds per year for a man's income, which is obviously not shabby considering that Colonel Brandon is considered not utterly rolling, but not badly off at 2000 pounds per year, and the Dashwoods ("our" set) are living on the interest from a few thousand pounds.
"eloping together for Scotland": In England at the time, two people had to be of age to marry without parental consent. (And I'm not sure what that age was - I'm thinking probably twenty-one, though I'm not certain.) This wasn't the case though in Scotland, and marriages performed in Scotland were still valid in England. So under-age-of-consent couples who wanted to marry but didn't have parental consent could sneak off to Scotland, be married there, and return to England. Gretna Green was probably the village most famous for this, since it was directly over the Scottish border and elopers wouldn't have as far to travel.
"her divoce": As is fairly self-evident from the text (even if unknown before that), divorce was much less common in that day, and had much more stigma. It wasn't just a matter of couples being incompatible - more or less getting a divorce meant that someone (and probably the woman, come to think of it I don't even know if a couple could be divorced for a husband's infidelity. I'm not sure how equal the law was, there) had been unfaithful. This is one of two divorces I can think of in Austen, and in both cases it's treated as about the most shocking thing possible.
Michaelmas: One of four days that divided up the year into quarters, contracts might begin/end on these days, rents would be due, etc. It was on September 29th. See also Wiki Pete, as usual.
"Came post": This was an "okay" way to travel - for those who didn't have a carriage of their own (or perhaps just the horses to draw it, or even wanted to travel faster than their own horses could do all at once), they could hire a coach and/or team of horses, which would then stop at various "posts" along the route for a change from tired to fresh horses, thus allowing them to keep up a fairly rapid pace without having one team of horses that they were overexerting.
Good grief, I think I may have overdone the notes this time! Somebody shut me up, I enjoy talking about this period too much, apparently. :p
And... the schedule. Again. Woot!


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Taylor Swift covers the November issue of Marie Claire UK, and these are some bangsy shots from the cover shoot. It's not horrible, really. The styling reminds me of Swifty's Vogue pictorial earlier this year, which is to say "boho, 1970s, singer-songwriter, Joni Mitchell-wannabe". What's weird is that this is maybe the best styling for Swift, don't you think? It works on her.
When it comes to sharing her heartbreak with the world, Taylor Swift has been anything but shy.
But despite writing songs about failed relationships, Swift, 22, who has enjoyed a summer of love with Conor Kennedy, 18, keeps smiling and remains positive about dating.
The songstress believes in love "even after it explodes into a million pieces and burns down and you're standing in a pile of the ash of what it once was thinking, 'Why did I have to meet this person, why did this have to happen?' " she tells November's U.K. edition of Marie Claire.
"But then, when you make eye contact with someone across the room and it clicks and, bam, you're there. In love again," she says.
Asked if she falls for people she likes "easily," Swift replies, "Not if it's the wrong person, yes if it's the right person."
Sometimes that "wrong person" can end up being the subject of a tune – and she makes no apology for continuing to write about her boyfriends, adding that she doesn't warn them that they may end up immortalized in song.
"Well, it's not like it's in fine print," she tells the magazine. "But music is absolutely everything that I am and everything that I stand for. It's not my fault if someone gets into a relationship with me and then cheats and I write a song about it."
Ugh. "Not if it's the wrong person, yes if it's the right person." Girl… why are you lying to us? Or are you lying to yourself? Swifty loves love. She falls for a dude within two seconds, and within the first half-hour, she's already picturing a wedding and a baby and how she could easily sign him out of prep school to have sex with him in a New England bed & breakfast. As for "It's not my fault if someone gets into a relationship with me and then cheats and I write a song about it." That's a decent blind item. Who cheated on her? John Mayer (probably)? Jake Gyllenhaal? Probably. Who else?
Swifty also covers the new issue of Glamour Magazine, and you can read some excerpts from that piece here. Here are some highlights:
On her song "Dear John": I think that song really hit home with a lot of girls who had been through toxic relationships and had found their way to the other side of it. I've never looked out while singing a song during a concert to see so many girls crying.
On how John Mayer says the song is about him: "How presumptuous! I never disclose who my songs are about. No! I don't want to know, I don't want to know [what Mayer said about it]. I know it wasn't good, so I don't want to know. I put a high priority on staying happy, and I know what I can't handle. It's not that I'm this egomaniac and I don't want to hear anything negative, because I do keep myself in check. But I've never developed that thick a skin. So I just kind of live a life, and I let all the gossip live somewhere else. If you go too far down the rabbit hole of what people think about you, it can change everything about who you are."
Ponies and rainbows: I think some people think it's just apple pie and sunshine and sprinkles and ponies. Which is just funny. But I never feel the need to go out and make some grand statement that I'm dark and twisty and complicated, because I'm not that either. It's just not as simple as ponies and rainbows, though I do love ponies and rainbows.
What if someone uses her for fame? I think you can tell who's a good person to be around, who makes you laugh, who's fun, whom you can trust. And, yes, you're going to get burned a few times, but I'd really rather get burned a few times than sit alone in that house with the curtains drawn. So God forbid this person you're hanging out with gets a bit of validation out of the fact you're famous. Is that the worst-case scenario? You know, it doesn't seem that bad.
In the Glamour piece, she's also asked directly about her relationship to the Kennedy family, and Swifty says, "I don't talk about my personal life in great detail. I write about it in my songs, and I feel like you can share enough about your life in your music to let people know what you're going through." Girl… enough! She doesn't talk about her personal life? Except all the times that she does. I hate the faux-coy act. As for the Mayer stuff… well, it's not surprise. She can dish it out but she can't take it. I know John Mayer is a d-bag and everything, and if given a choice, I will always choose Swifty over Mayer. But it seems like we're giving Swifty special treatment if she can say whatever she wants about her ex-boyfriends and they get labeled a "douche" if they defend themselves.
Photos courtesy of Marie Claire UK, Glamour.


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Ten Things to Consider When Weighing the Cost of Small Business Benefits
Around tax time, you might start considering the state of your finances. A small business may consider cutting or adding benefits. However, before you make any decisions, here's ten things to consider about the benefits of benefits.
1. Benefits keep your best employees working for you.
2. Benefits mean more to your employees than money
3. Seriously. Benefits really mean a lot to your employees.
4. You pay for more than just health care and dental. Benefits result in other positive changes around the workplace.
5. Doing nice things for your employees makes you an easier person to work for.
6. Doing nice things for your employees makes you an easier person to like too.
7. Health Care = Happy Healthy Employees. Healthy Happy Employees call in sick less.
8. Health plans are great for morale.
9. You will attract better employees to your business if you have better benefits than your competitors.
10. Benefits might cost less than a high turnover rate.
You're never "too small" for benefits!
If you have a small team, it doesn't mean you can't benefit from offering benefits. There are plenty of ways to make benefits an affordable and cost-efficient way to improve morale, reduce turnover and attract high quality employees to grow your business.
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Jet Crashes in Virginia Beach, Setting Senior Citizens Building on Fire
Jet Crashes in Virginia Beach, Setting Senior Citizens Building on Fire
A Navy F/A-18 jet crashed on Friday, April 6, into an apartment complex near Virginia Beach, Va., setting several buildings on fire and injuring at least six people.
The aircraft had taken off from the training facility at Naval Air Base Oceana, just four miles northeast of Mayfair Mews Apartments, where it crashed. The pilots, who were both taken to hospital with non-life-threatening injuries, lost control of the plane and were unable to steer it away from the buildings, though they parachuted out of the aircraft before the collision.
The latest reports site that six people in total have been taken to hospital, including four people who were on the ground when the plane crashed, though none of the injuries have been reported as life-threatening.
According to a witness, Zack Zapatero, the jet crashed into a building occupied by senior citizens.
"There's these large fire balls coming up," Zapatero told CNN. "I was told there was a bunch of senior citizens that live in that building, which worries me a lot.
"Buildings were starting to collapse," he added.
Pat Kavanaugh, a retired rescue squad member who lives in one of the surrounding buildings, was one of the first at the scene of the crash.
"I saw a pilot on the ground with a parachute hanging from the building, with facial lacerations," Kavanaugh explained to CNN affiliate WTKR . "He was in shock and still strapped to his seat."
Details of the crash and the damage it caused are still coming in, and while no residents have been reported as missing as of Friday afternoon, five buildings were heavily damaged and firemen and rescue crews are still digging through the wreckage looking for anyone who might have been trapped inside.
"We're going to assume that there are people missing, and we're going to do a detailed search," said Virginia Beach Fire Department Battalion Chief Tim Riley.
"It's going to take a while to get through there to see the details," he added.
Several witnesses saw the Navy jet plummeting toward the ground and crashing into the apartment complex, including John Swain, who was driving off Interstate 264 heading north.
"The plane came right over us and was clearly in difficulty," Swain told MSNBC. "There were flames coming off the back … The plane got lower and lower and just as I turned … it crashed."
"He was flying real low like he didn't have any power," added Ernie Gonzalez, a retired military serviceman who was on the front porch of his daughter-in-law's house behind the Oceana base where the jet had taken off.
"He was smoking really bad. Bad smoke was coming out of the engine. It kind of backfired a couple times. I heard two pops … then 15 seconds later I heard the explosion."


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He's one of nearly two dozen residents we recruited as Community Advisors to initiate community-led transformation of Flushing Meadows Corona Park (FMCP) in Queens. The group is spending four months at our Community Design School to improve wayfinding and circulation in the Park, and its connectivity to the surrounding communities. Read more about these sessions.
Name: Alan Sherman
Occupation: A single father concerned with preserving and celebrating the park's history as the World's Fair site. I came to the 1964/5 World's Fair with my parents.
Neighborhood: Kew Garden Hills, Community Board 8
Neighborhood Involvement: Faith in New York, Our Lady of Sorrows Social Justice Commission, P.S. 143 Parents Association
Languages Spoken: English
I visit FMCP: Primarily for events and networking with a community of World's Fair preservationists.
Alan is focusing on how to create more opportunities for visitors to learn about the Park. Together with the members of his Team Learning, he's exploring ways to:
At a community forum on March 1st, he introduced his preliminary design concepts, alongside the other Advisors, for feedback from the wider community. At the second forum on April 12, they will present their final concepts. It will also mark the opening of the exhibition at the Queens Museum that features all of these community-driven design proposals, on view until May 3, 2015.
Alan, like the rest of the Community Advisors, is eager to present his ideas to the NYC Parks Department, participate in further planning and design of FMCP, and motivate neighbors to do so too. Read about our other Community Advisors.


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It all started with one mother who saw a need. She helped create a way for people to use computers to be present in a child's life.
Jenica Myszkowski sits down to visit 11-year-old Sarah, who is like family.
Sarah lives all the way in Johannesburg, South Africa. Their "net buddy" connection began in New York through an organization called Infinite Family.
"What a rewarding experience it has been," said Myszkowski. "I've had a chance to know Sarah over a year-and-a-half now."
Uniting children from Africa with mentors from 10 countries and 30 states is the creation of Amy Stokes.
"All of these children have been growing up in communities that have been severely affected by HIV and poverty," said Stokes.
Impossible to adopt them all, when Stokes adopted her son Calder, she said this was a way not to forget those left behind.
"We could use technology in a new way to create relationships that span the world and that can truly transform these children's lives," said Stokes.
The children log in at schools or youth centers in their villages. And the technology is interactive. The trained screened mentors can even help with homework, but mostly be there as a needed friend.
"If she is sad she doesn't hesitate to talk out those things," said Myszkowski.
Sarah gets something out of their weekly half-hour chats, and Myszkowski does too.
"She looks forward to seeing me on Sundays and comes prepared to tell me everything that happened that week," said Myszkowski.
Even if you don't think you have the time to be a mentor, you can still help. Sub-Saharan teenagers need everything from basic nutritional meals to equipment for their video chats.


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Today I found a new reason why people don't like America.
In Den Haag, a city here in the Netherlands, the International Court will be installed. The purpose of the International Court is to judge people who did things wrong in wars, people who did things which are against humanity etc. in wars.
But now it seems that the American senate has accepted a law proposal which allows invasion in my country, the Netherlands, if American soldiers are brought there because they have done things wrong in a war or conflict, to free those soldiers.
So, according to America it is right to pointer fingers to others who do things wrong. But don't touch their own soldiers, don't put a finger to America. Everything America does is right. American soldiers can kill innocent people, American soldiers can rape girls in countries where they are for war, that is all allowed. And if they get caught and brought to the International Court, well, then America will free them.
It seems that American find themselves so important that they can do anything they want. But if someone else does wrong, then that's bad.
I didn't like American politics and this event made this even stronger. It seems that American really seem to think they are something like the Uebermensch, which the Nazi's thought they were. That they are people who are superior to the rest of the world so they can do what they want.


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