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2017 Newsmaker: After Decades on the Contemporary Clothing Scene, BCBGMaxAzria Declares Bankruptcy
When Max Azria established his BCBGMaxAzria brand in 1989, he was immediately off to the races in the world of women's contemporary clothing.
Tapping into his French and Tunisian roots, the brand was named after a French saying, "Bon chic, bon genre," a hip Parisian phrase meaning "Good style, good attitude."
For decades, the Los Angeles label was very popular with high-end department stores and boutiques. Later, BCBGMaxAzria branched out and opened its own chain of stores that by 2006 numbered 550 worldwide.
It also acquired the French label Hervé Leger in 1999 and started up BCBGeneration for a younger, more price-conscious customer.
But the recession of 2008, the blossoming of fast-fashion retailers and the advent of online shopping took their toll on the company as debt mounted. At one time, BCBGMaxAzria had $685 million in loans owed primarily to Guggenheim Partners Investment Management and its affiliates.
In 2015, Guggenheim Partners swapped its debt for 80 percent equity in the company, eventually pushing Max Azria out the door. On March 1, the company filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection.
This summer, Marquee Brands paid $108 million for the company's intellectual-property rights for all three brands. Global Brands Group paid $23 million to be the licensee for Marquee Brands with the intention of continuing to manufacture the brands' clothing collections at the same factories that were used by BCBGMaxAzria. Global Brands is also operating some of the BCBGMaxAzria stores in the more profitable locations.
Marquee Brand executives said they acquired the brands because they thought they still had legs. Chief Operating Officer Cory Baker said the BCBG customer is still a loyal shopper, and Marquis planned to keep the contemporary look of the brand, which would continue to sell from $100 to $400. In the past, the typical customer has been between the ages of 20 and 35.
Special attention will be given to the Hervé Leger brand, which was slightly neglected and is an under-penetrated luxury brand with an international market. The new owners see Hervé Leger growing with more licenses for eyewear, footwear, luxury fragrances, handbags and lifestyle categories.


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It took a good deal of courage to open an upscale restaurant in Birmingham just as Michigan's economy was plummeting toward nether regions not seen since the Depression. That is what confronted Brian Polcyn when his stylish bistro made its debut in August, on Forest Avenue, one block south of Maple, on the unlikely east side of Woodward Avenue. To judge by the difficulty in getting reservations at the Forest Grill, there are still enough deep-pocketed foodies around to justify Polcyn's confidence in the resilience of the U.S. economy.
It helps, of course, that he is one of our most celebrated chefs, with a pedigree that goes back to Milos Cihelka of the fabled Golden Mushroom, and star turns in the kitchens of Pike Street, Chimayo and, currently, the Five Lakes Grill. His executive chef's résumé is equally impressive. David Gilbert apprenticed at Michelin-starred restaurants in France and Spain as well as at Napa Valley's French Laundry, and more recently was in charge of the kitchen at the Rugby Grille in Birmingham's Townsend Hotel. Mario Plaza, formerly general manager at the Grille, came along with Gilbert as general manager-sommelier.
The Forest Grill is on the ground floor of a new multi-use, especially "green," three-story building created by prize-winning architect Victor Saroki. The handsome, long, narrow room, with huge windows and a bustling open kitchen, seats only 65 at its white-clothed tables and lively bar. The absence of butcher-block paper on those thick tablecloths and the price structure suggests "bistro plus," with the main genuflection to the genre being the service of a warm mini bread loaf in a napkin rather than an elaborate bread basket.
On the other hand, the hearty bowl of French onion soup ($8), thick with onions and melted cheese and a bit on the sweet side, is redolent of Les Halles. Another starter, which might please two or more, is the charcuterie du jour platter ($18), with exquisite smoked meats, sturdy housemade mustard, and three choice mini-salads including heirloom beets and goat cheese. Polcyn's specialty is charcuterie, which he teaches at Schoolcraft College's culinary school and which is highlighted in the grill by the huge porcine sculpture on its kitchen wall.
Another starter to share could be a clay-oven-baked pizza ($16) such as the thin-crusted beauty overloaded with sweet Italian sausage and a creamy Pecorino Toscano cheese. Among other hot appetizers are crab cakes, mussels and frites and the popular duck confit.
The mains, most of which hover around $28, are anchored by an admirable steak-frites platter, with a thick strip rather than hanger or flat-iron steak, plus abundant skinny, crunchy fries. The savory and tender slab of meat, like other entrée portions, is slightly undersized but that is one way to keep them below the daunting $30 barrier.
Another pleasing dish is the Berkshire pork loin, thin slices of meat, perhaps a little fatty, but nicely adorned with warm green apples and red cabbage, along with a cippolini onion, all of which rests gently in a subtle port-wine reduction.
Aside from a daily vegetarian entrée, the hearty late-fall menu features the rarely-seen-in-these-parts veal cheeks with spinach and ricotta gnocchi, Norwegian salmon with citrus-braised radicchio in a saffron vanilla sauce, and roasted leg of lamb with sausage, white and green beans, basil pesto and an olive tapenade. Gilbert's kitchen is quite imaginative with the tasteful garnishes that accompany the meat or fish.
Starches are absent from most platters. If you must have potatoes or macaroni and cheese they are available as sides at an additional fee. Speaking of fees, two "Bistro Classics," côte de boeuf with wild mushroom ragout and bouillabaisse are the most costly items on the menu at $34.
Forest Grill is a mecca for oenophiles. A handful of bottles on the lengthy and eclectic list, often from relatively obscure producers, are asterisked to signify "a wine we think you 'gotta' try." Ignoring the Palinism, this may lead you to a Rueda for $24, a Vinho Verde for $35 or, gulp, a California merlot for $115. Even better, almost all of the wines are not only available by the 5-ounce glass but also by the 2-ounce taste, which permits a good deal of experimentation, even for those doing the driving.
As for dessert, it is difficult to pass up the warm chocolate cake, stuffed with chocolate mousse, which comes with contrapuntally cool vanilla-bean ice cream, pistachios and cherries. This sweet mélange can be washed down with an impressive, if not surprisingly pricey, array of sweet and fortified wines.
The service, as one might expect in a Polcyn restaurant, is highly professional and attentive, although I was a bit surprised in such an elegant setting to have one busboy ask, "Are you still working on it?" That all-too-common query conjures up images of diners sawing away ungracefully at their meals.
But that is a minor quibble considering the high quality and even the cost-benefit ratio of the overall dining experience at the Forest Grill. One can only hope that we will soon climb out of this dreadful financial hole so that more of us will be able to splurge at one of Oakland County's more fashionable temples of gastronomy.
Mel Small teaches history at Wayne State University. Send comments to email@example.com.

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"Urgent" birth certificates will be issued - HSE
"Urgent" birth certificates will be issued - HSE
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Parents of new born children at Letterkenny General Hospital will be accommodated if they are in urgent need of a birth certificate the HSE have confirmed.
It follows revelations that no childbirths had been registered at the hospital this year.
They claim work has now begun on the backlog after it was learned no new babies had been resistered since January 1st because of staff shortages.
A HSE response to a query on the matter by the Donegal Democrat stated: "At Letterkenny General Hospital all forms relating to births at the hospital up until 10th January have been forwarded to the Civil Registration Office. The hospital is continuing to work on the backlog of forms. However, if any parents require the documentation in relation to the birth of their child urgently the hospital is accommodating such requests.
Explaining the background situation to the "Birth Registration Process" they state:
"When a baby is born in a hospital, a Birth Notification Form (Form BNF/01) is given to mothers and is completed by one or both of the parents to guarantee that the information to be recorded in the Register of Births is correct and accurate.
Once the mother/parents have completed the form, it is given to hospital staff to enter additional hospital information (the particulars of the birth). The hospital then forwards the form to the Civil Registration Office letting the Registrar know that a birth has occurred. In order to register a birth, the parents must then attend the Civil Registration Office in person to formally register the birth of a child. A Birth Certificate is obtained from the Civil Registration Office and not from the hospital."
Earlier this week the HSE admitted that due to staff shortages, compounded by the take up of the early retirement scheme, new birth certs had not been sent for processing to the Civil Registration Office, the official registration office of births, deaths and marriages.
The matter came to light when a grandfather tried to get a birth certificate for his daughter's baby which was born on January 7th.
He said his understanding was the person who carried out the duty of bringing the records between the hospital and the registrar had retired and was not replaced.
His daughter, a lone parent, required the certificate to claim State support for her child.
The HSE stated a number of posts in the hospital had not been filled since the New Year due to the early retirement scheme in December in 2010.
Ritchy Carrothers of the union IMPACT says they had raised the issue and had attempted to engage with the HSE about filling the posts but they received no response.


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My youngest daughter 21 months seem's to hate clothes, it started with a frilly pink party dress a few weeks back she threw the mother of all paddies and actually put her foot threw the lace on it ripping it, she liked the alternative party dress even less but after a fight getting it on her she had no choice but to wear it, now a few weeks on she's doing it even more, it's mostly dresses she dislikes and the other day she took her dress off 7 times in the end I put on a capped sleeve dress that she couldn't get off. Anyone else gone though this? I'd assume she'll grow out of it with time but I am the mam I should tell her what to wear not battle with her every morning.... Right!


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My three year old Granddaughter "reading" her Mommy's Birthday gift from me.
If she follows on the reading path of her Gran(me), her mommy and aunts, she too will be a Jane fan. It's getting difficult to find books we do not already have-that's alright we can just read the ones we have again & again-right??


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Microsoft has unveiled a deeper conglomerate of Bing and Facebook that harvests the power of the social Web, one year after forming a partnership to take "social search" to the next level.
When the partnership was formed it seemed meaningless and redundant. After all, if you're checking Facebook and Twitter several hundred times a day, do you need your friends' updates appearing in your Bing search results? Where's the value in that? Well here's a look at Bing's new Facebook features and why this may mean the end of Google +1.


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Armed with recently acquired information about the horrors of palm oil production; I have now reexamined my consumption of this omnipresent ingredient. My new awareness has left me asking the question: Can a plant used by humans that results in environmental degradation, animal cruelty and deaths, and social injustice be considered vegan and cruelty free?
Palm oil is derived from the cooked fruit and kernels of the palm plant. Since it comes from a plant it is inherently vegan—not derived from an animal. Nevertheless, the increased demand for palm oil—due to its lack of trans fat—has caused production to skyrocket leading to massive environmental destruction, the slaughter of hundreds of species, and the confiscation of land from indigenous peoples—surely un-vegan outcomes.
According to the Rainforest Action Network, palm oil is now found in roughly fifty percent of all packaged goods and is used to make a wide variety of consumer products from cookies to breakfast cereals, to cosmetics, soaps and detergents. Just try to find a ready-made vegan cookie or pie crust that doesn't contain palm oil. Take it from me; it's extremely difficult.
The increase in palm plantations, specifically in Indonesia and Malaysia which together control 90 percent of the market, has left the orangutan fighting for survival. According to Thomas King, founder of SayNoToPalmOil.com, some dozen orangutans are killed every day due to palm oil production. In fact, palm oil workers are actually paid a bounty for every orangutan they kill. Orangutans are often caught wandering through plantations desperately hungry for food. The workers are instructed to do whatever they have to do to eliminate them—run over them with logging machinery, beat them to death, bury them alive, or set them on fire. Those who are not killed, often abandoned babies, are sold into the illegal pet trade or are shipped overseas to be used in abusement [sic] parks, zoos, circuses, or are made to perform in commercials and movies.
It is estimated that more than 50,000 orangutans have already died for the production of palm oil. Scientists believe that if nothing is done, these great apes will vanish from the wild as early as 2015. And they are not alone. In addition to orangutans, other species such as the Sumatran tiger, Sumatran rhinoceros and Asian elephant are also being exterminated directly and indirectly through palm oil production, making the profitable plant terribly cruel to animals.
There are also grave environmental consequences from manufacturing palm oil. The increase in palm plantations is causing widespread environmental destruction as old growth forests are destroyed to make room for palm plants, essentially releasing tons of trapped carbon into the atmosphere. Nearby waterways are polluted from toxic pesticides, herbicides, and insecticides, while the air is choked with smoke due to slash-and-burn techniques used to clear forests. According to a United Nation Environment Program report, Indonesian rainforests will be all but destroyed by the year 2022 due to illegal logging and palm oil production.
Lastly, indigenous peoples are often ejected from their land at gunpoint so that palm oil thugs can make a profit by selling what they harvest to influential agricultural companies like Monsanto and Cargill. According to a recent VegNews magazine article by Mark Hawthorne entitled The Problem with Palm Oil (Feb. 2013), Indonesian state authorities murdered 22 people involved in land struggles with palm oil companies. In one case, a Filipino farmer was powerless to stop guards who sprayed his banana and coconut trees with chemicals so that they would die in order to bulldoze his land to make way for more palm plants.
Like the blood diamond industry, there is no fool proof way to ensure that palm oil is produced in an ethical manner, or in a way that is environmentally sustainable, fairly traded, and doesn't negatively impact the lives of both human and non-human animals. The existing methods of production are not tenable and are highly destructive to people, wildlife, and the entire planet.
If to be vegan means to avoid all forms of animal cruelty and exploitation while promoting products and ideas that benefit humans, animals, and the environment, then the consumption of palm oil as it is made today does not adhere to the spirit of veganism.
For all intents and purposes, palm oil is a vegan product, however, as with most things, humans have turned a thing of nature (the palm plant) into a cruel and destructive commodity (palm oil) that ought to be avoided any way possible. Currently, there is simply too much suffering associated with the production of palm oil to excuse its usefulness any further.
What You Can Do:
- Spread the word.
- Boycott products with palm oil.
- Contact companies that continue to use palm oil and ask them to stop.
- Support conservation efforts in Borneo, Indonesia and Malaysia.


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Dear Family,
Thanks for the updates and I just finished emailing Erica and she sounds like she is doing good. (What does your apartment look like?) The apartment is very plain I actually have some pictures that I will try and send soon. It's very simple. Concrete floors very simple toilet and shower. Just two beds in the rooms and a little closet thing. (Who are some of the people you are working with?) Ricahard and his wife. He's been to church a few times and he's great. He's getting married this month and I think he's very interested in eternal marriage. Saul as well he's 24 and we introduced the Book of Mormon to him last week. He is great and his girlfriend is a member. I really hope we can get him to church. I think it will take some effort but I know he will love it when he comes. (What is the funniest thing that has happened to you since you have been in Ghana?) Umm funniest thing I don't really know. There's a lot of funny things but we burned a shirt last night because it was my companions one year mark. So that was pretty cool. (How long does it take you to wash your clothes?) Today I think we did it in about an hour and a half. It went fast today and its good cause I do it with Elder Bradshaw. (What are the stores like?) A lot are just little shops that people have. There are very few stores that you actually walk in and the stuff is more expensive there anyway. So there is just a lot of stands with stuff to buy.
Kasey it's great to hear from you and I'm sure goodwill is as good as ever. I hope school is going well and that's cool dad bought a jacket for Skyler. yes Randolph was fun and a great experience I hope you enjoyed it. The food is ok and I'm still getting use to it but I'm sure I will love it eventually. Have a great week and stay hipster.
Thanks dad that update about Randolph was great and is sounds like you had a great time . I'm sure Randy will love to talk to you in the next life. Thanks Dad you are the best. I hope work is good and you are enjoying taking the bus and being a desk jockey ha. I hope the calling is going well and I'm sure it's a lot of work but very rewarding. I love you dad and I miss you. You are a great example to me and I hope your week is great. ha thanks for the joke and it's good to see James has a mission call.
Carly it's good to hear from you and it sounds like everything went great. The pep rally sounded pretty legit so good job with that. Yea that stinks about the game but you can't win them all right. That's sad about Kristin's mom and that's sad. her mom was pretty sweet. I love you all and I'm having a great time here and this work cannot be stopped. I love it here and I hope all of you have a great week I love and miss you all.
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Goat's Legs Removed In Video, Coast Guard Won't Verify Video Involves Their Personnel (GRAPHIC VIDEO)
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RICHMOND, Va. (AP) — The Coast Guard is defending its practice of using live animals in its combat medical training after an activist group released a video on Wednesday of a goat's legs being removed with tree trimmers during what it said was training for agency personnel.
Live anesthetized goats have been used in Coast Guard training to treat combat wounds, but the agency could not verify if the video involved its personnel. The courses do involve "live tissue training using live animals," Lt. Cmdr. Jamie C. Frederick, spokesman for the Atlantic Area, wrote in an email.
Frederick was responding after People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals called on the Pentagon to stop the practice. A congressman also has introduced legislation that would phase out the use of animals by the military for such training.
PETA said the undercover video it released from a whistleblower did show military instructors contracted by the Coast Guard cutting off an anesthetized goat's legs in Virginia Beach. The faces of the participants are blurred and they are not in uniform.
"Animals used in trauma training are supported and monitored by well-trained, experienced veterinary staff to ensure that appropriate anesthesia and analgesia prevent them from experiencing pain or distress," Frederick wrote.
In the video, the goat is still while its legs are cut. Later it makes noise and moves, followed by one of the men calling for another "bump" of anesthesia.
Other branches of the military use similar training on goats and pigs and have defended it as a way to replicate wartime injuries and prepare medics and front-line troops for treating catastrophic injuries in the field of battle.
The Pentagon declined to respond to an AP request for comment on the video.
"Effective combat trauma training and treatment results in lowering the fatality rate of U.S. troops deployed in combat situations," Frederick wrote.
He said the training has also proved invaluable in noncombat situations, such as when Coast Guard members were the first to respond to Haiti's devastating 2010 earthquake.
PETA and other animal rights groups, as well as some medical professionals, say the practice is cruel and unnecessary. They promote the use of human simulation models over animals.
"Learning how to apply a tourniquet on a severed goat's leg does not help prepare medical providers to treat an anatomically different human being wounded on the battlefield," according to Dr. Michael P. Murphy, an associate professor of surgery at Indiana University School of Medicine and a lieutenant colonel in the U.S. Army Reserves who served two tours of duty in Iraq. He was among the medical professionals who signed PETA's letter to Defense Secretary Leon Panetta seeking an end to the practice.
The group also asks U.S. Department of Agriculture to investigate "apparent serious violations of the Animal Welfare Act."
U.S. Rep. Bob Filner, a California Democrat, has introduced legislation that would phase out such use of animals by the military. He said he's faced fierce opposition from the Department of Defense.
"With these animals, they can break their limbs, or they want to simulate broken bones or a gunshot wound, and it's not clear if they're anesthetized or not," he said. "You're torturing animals when you don't have to."
People for the Ethical Treatment of Animals: http://www.peta.org/
Tier 1 Group: http://www.t1g.com/
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vicious and vile,
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LINDA BADHAM permalinkApril 20, 2012 5:06 pm
Fabienne permalinkApril 20, 2012 5:40 pm
Already signed the petition but going to make an event out of it as well…
TY darling ❤
jtwaldie permalinkApril 20, 2012 11:26 pm
for anyone interested…a group of us have formed a facebook page-U.S. Citizens Against Military Animal Abuse….anyone is welcome to join. WE are fighting this…we have contact information as to who to write to. Will Sessoms, Mayor-Virginia Beach-is a good start. We also have quite a few military contacts.


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This morning I'm heading into to London for a uni trip- where else would we be able to listen to Opera and spend hundreds of pounds on fabric in the same day?!
|It's too late to be drawing a new illustration for this post, so I thought
I'd use this 'illustration selfie' I did a few weeks ago :)
Having to get up at 7am tomorrow will be difficult, made even harder by the fact that I have to leave my bonsai trees behind for a whole week.
Seriously, I never thought I could ever be so connected to a plant... maybe it's just a coping mechanism when I get depressed about:
a. My student loan
b. My 'future'
c. Miley Cyrus' existence
d. All of the above.
We're visiting Harry Potter world tomorrow, which I am definitely far too excited about.
I had intended to sew myself a Ravenclaw robe to wear- you know, to actually get my £9,000 tuition fee's worth- but it ended up in the bottom of my wardrobe, where all my other half-finished projects go to die.
I need to try and find the self-restraint to not buy a wand, or else you may find me sobbing in a gutter, waving it and whispering 'accio, money'.
(Muggles, beware of HP terminology)
Looking at my overflowing suitcase, I fear I may have done my usual trick- packing everything but the things I actually need.
One year I went to Spain, forgot my swimwear and had to spend my time in ill-fitting, hastily-purchased bikinis that made a synthetic fart sound every time I moved.
(Sorry, that's probably an overshare, but it's the best example I've got)
The worst thing is, I usually remember what I've forgotten just as I reach my destination, so I'll keep you posted as to what vital thing I've left behind this time.
Spoiler alert: It's usually socks.
I hope you all have a fantastic Monday morning, and get to have the lie in that I wont be able to have.
I'm still debating whether or not to bring my laptop along, so if you don't hear from me for a week, you'll know why.
Watch this space
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As I mentioned before, I have been reading Intuitive Eating by Evelyn Tribole, M.S., R.D. and Elyse Resch, M.S., R.D., F.A.D.A. I am finding it fascinating and I know that it can help me.
I know I have hit the end. I have lost 100 pounds 3 times in the last 3 years. That is a rollercoaster of 100 pounds loss and gains times 3. It is not good for me. I have hit dieting bottom. Weight Watchers is not going to work. It is a good program but it is not for me. I am tired of dieting. I am tired of playing little games, obsessing on every little thing that goes into my mouth.
I have read the first 3 chapters and I am going to give me impression on it. One of the first things things that struck me was the amount of advertising money has increased from 1973 to 1991. In 1991, almost 5% commercials were on some sort of diet product. I can imagine how much it has grown since then. Are we any thinner with those commercials – hell no. As a matter of fact, we have gained more weight.
What kind of eater am I?
I am primarily an unconscious eater. Food has filled in for many things lacking. It was a friend when I was lonely, angry, miserable, bored or sad. Loneliness has filled my life from when I was a teenager until recently. I separated myself from people but I was miserable. When I didn't think my Mother cared, food was there. Food is there when I am bored. Food is just there. It is not just when I binged but if I was feeling down, the package of M&Ms were there as was the Burger King drive-thru. I was down a lot.
I also used food to handle unwanted and disturbing emotions. I used it to stop unwanted sexual advances. Who would want me if I was fat? Then the thoughts of worthlessness and its cousins joined in.
When I was actively losing weight, I did not follow any of the Intuitive Eating Guidelines.
1. Reject the Diet Mentality – No more counting points, saying that it is a "lifestyle" and not a "diet", stop obsessing over when and what you will eat. I thought about food 24 –7. I was never so obsessed with food in my life.
2. Honor Your Hunger – I was constantly hungry because I obsessed over food so much.
3. Make Peace With Food – This is something that I will struggle with. I viewed food as bad. I had no trust in myself. I didn't think I could have cookies in the house and have it last most than 2 days. I would eat the peanut butter right out of the fridge. It was me versus food. Food was the victor.
4. Challenge the Food Police – Can I be my worst food policeman? I can't eat THAT. I could never just have a treat. I never ate dessert at a restaurant when I was at my highest weight. I couldn't even treat myself once in a blue moon.
5. Feel Your Fullness – What? Was I ever full? I was hungry after 5 minutes of eating.
6. Discover Your Satisfaction – What? Never.
7. Cope With Your Emotions – What? Never.
8. Respect Your Body – I hated myself no matter what my size.
9. Exercise – Yes, please.
10. Honor Your Health ~ Gentle Nutrition – I couldn't do that if I did respect myself.
I am so ready to begin.


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Yasmin Mogahed Quotes About PainQuotes about: Pain
They say you don't get over someone until you find someone or something better. As humans, we don't deal well with emptiness. Any empty space must be filled. Immediately. The pain of emptiness is too strong. It compels the victim to fill that place. A single moment with that empty spot causes excruciating pain. That's why we run from distraction to distraction and from attachment to attachment.
There's something amazing about this life. The very same worldly attribute that causes us pain is also what gives us relief: Nothing here lasts. What does that mean? It means that the breathtakingly beautiful rose in my vase will wither tomorrow. It means that my youth will neglect me. But it also means that the sadness I feel today will change tomorrow. My pain will die. My laughter won't last forever but neither will my tears. We say this life isn't perfect. And it isn't. It isn't perfectly good. But, it also isn't perfectly bad, either.
For a wound to heal, you have to clean it out. Again, and again, and again. And this cleaning process stings. The cleaning of a wound hurts. Yes. Healing takes so much work. So much persistence. And so much patience. But every process has an end and an appointed term. Your healing will come... And like all created things, your worldly pain will die.
So often we experience things in life, and yet never see the connections between them. When we are given hardship, or feel pain, we often fail to consider that the experience may be the direct cause or result of another action or experience. Sometimes we fail to recognize the direct connection between the pain in our lives and our relationship with Allah SWT
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Election time and the fibbin' is easy. The first fat and juicy one came from Theresa May when she stood outside Number 10 and declared that it was the "national interest" that compelled her to trigger the snap election that she had many times sworn that she would not call because an early poll was not in the "national interest".
I don't blame Mrs May for seeking to enlarge the slim parliamentary majority that she inherited from David Cameron. To complain about a prime minister taking her opportunity to strengthen her position is as futile as moaning about what bears get up to in the woods. I have often enough in this space advanced the reasons why, from her point of view, it made sense for the Tory leader to seek her own mandate. So I was less surprised by her gambit than most. I just wish she'd drop the bogus piety and the gossamer-thin pretence that her stonking lead in the opinion polls has had nothing to do with her calculations.
The first big and ripe one from Labour came at its opening campaign event, when the party's leader was introduced with the words: "I give you Jeremy Corbyn, the next prime minister of the United Kingdom." I doubt that even Mr Corbyn really believes that he will be moving into Number 10 on 9 June. I will contend in a moment that the fewer people who believe that, the better it will be for the opposition parties. Their best hope of limiting the size of a Tory victory will turn on convincing moderate voters that there is absolutely no possibility of prime minister Corbyn.
That ought not to be too difficult when the Opinium poll that we publish today indicates a Tory lead over Labour that is just shy of 20 points, while other recent polls have put the Conservatives ahead by even larger margins. For sure, the polls are likely to move about over the course of the next seven weeks. There will be fluctuations. There will be rogues. There will be campaign wobbles. And this will suit the Tories just fine. A member of the cabinet tells me that one of his party's anxieties is suppressed turn-out among their supporters, some of whom might not bother to vote "because she is going win anyway".
This points to one of the ironies of this election. The Conservatives will connive with Mr Corbyn to maintain a fiction that there is a serious possibility that they could lose and the Labour leader could win Number 10. The Tories will do so in order to agitate voters to turn up at the polling stations to cast a ballot for Mrs May. They are already spinning "analysis" that supposedly suggests that the race is much tighter than the polls suggest.
I will not be surprised if there is a period when Conservative commentators opine that Mr Corbyn is a much better campaigner than they had anticipated – they may even write that the Tories ought to be scared by him. Something like that happened in 2015, when previously unfriendly voices began to describe Ed Miliband as a strong performer and the Tory press concocted pieces describing the first 100 days of a Miliband government. A fat lot of good that did Labour when the votes were counted.
Mrs May has embarked on her campaign by trying to reprise the tactics that worked so well for her party two years ago. She has rehired Sir Lynton Crosby, the strategist who guided the Tories to victory in 2015 and the Australian has clearly instructed his latest client in the favourite lines from his playbook. Sir Lynton specialises in focusing a campaign on a small number of sharp messages to be hammered at the electorate until voters' ears bleed. He will like Mrs May as an instrument because she is a reliably robotic regurgitator of simple slogans. Her signature theme at the start of the campaign was pure Crosby, when she defined this contest as a choice between her "strong leadership" and being governed by "a coalition of chaos" involving Labour, the Lib Dems and the SNP.
The faithful echo chamber of the Tory press is framing the election in exactly the same way. You can see why. When voters are asked who is the better candidate for prime minister, the Tory leader is way out in front and the Labour leader does not even come second. He comes third behind Neither.
No opposition party in Britain has ever won an election when it is behind on both leadership and economic competence. Labour has mammoth deficits on each and such critical fundamentals will not shift in seven weeks, whatever anyone pretends. The Tories want the prime question on the ballot paper to be: who do you want to be prime minister? If this election boils down to that, then Mrs May will secure the smashing victory that she is looking for.
The challenge for the opposition parties is to take the Tories' preferred question off the ballot paper and replace it with a different one. That question ought to be: do the Tories deserve the crushing majority that they are asking for?
The Lib Dems have been quick to twig this. In the interview with Tim Farron that we publish today, the Lib Dem leader swerves the Tory trap by ruling out being a participant in any sort of coalition after the election. He accepts that Mrs May will be the prime minister on 9 June. This liberates him to contend that the question at stake in this election is this: will Mrs May face effective opposition in the next parliament? Or will she amass such a huge majority that she can steamroller through whatever version of Brexit she comes up with and any domestic policy that her party wants to impose on Britain? Mrs May has given some unintentional encouragement to the Lib Dems by declaring that she is going to the country to create a Westminster that is "united" behind her on Brexit, as if the purpose of MPs is not to debate, but simply to nod through everything proposed by the prime minister. This impression that she is seeking a blank cheque from the voters and a rubber-stamp parliament is amplified by her refusal to engage with the other leaders in TV debates.
Electorates tend not to like it when they are taken for granted. Centrist voters may shiver at the thought of living in a country where some Tories talk about using a landslide majority to "exterminate" and "crush" the opposition. "We really have to watch that. That tone is completely wrong," says one cabinet minister who believes that an imperious and arrogant Tory campaign will drive more moderate folk into the arms of the Lib Dems.
Mrs May's ambitions to secure a smashing majority largely depend on how many seats she can harvest from Labour. The talk among Labour MPs is not about whether they will secure ministerial jobs in the Corbyn government; the debate among them is how low their party will go. Will Labour's defeat be merely calamitous or utterly devastating? Will it be similar to the rout of 1983, when the party was reduced to 209 seats? Could it be more like 1935, when Labour scored just 154? I have even spoken to Labour MPs with fears that it could be worse than that.
In the spring of last year, more than 80% of them declared Mr Corbyn unfit to be their leader. This leaves them vulnerable to repeated torture at the hands of opponents and interviewers who will demand how they can recommend him to the country as prime minister. The best answer to that would be the honest one: they don't. They have no expectation that Jeremy Corbyn is heading for Number 10. They urge a vote for Labour to support the party's broad values, which remain popular with many voters, and to ensure that the opposition in the next parliament is large enough to place some constraints on the Tories.
Most Labour MPs are currently reluctant to say that into a microphone. It is easier for the Lib Dems to acknowledge that Mrs May is going to win when Mr Farron's party starts with just nine MPs and the high end of Lib Dem ambitions is to raise their tally to above 40.
It is harder for Labour people to publicly acknowledge that they cannot win because it is not the done thing for the main opposition party to concede defeat in advance and it isn't great for the morale of party activists as they go into the toughest election of their lifetimes. Away from national media, on the doorstep, it will be a different matter. Many Labour MPs tell me that this is precisely the message that they will be delivering to their electorates. Vote Labour not to get Corbyn, but to restrain the Tories.
Mrs May plans to centre this election on who should be prime minister, as you would if you were standing in her stilettoes. If the Tories prevail in framing the contest this way, they will almost certainly smash it. If this becomes an election about whether the Conservatives deserve to be given a greatly engorged majority, about whether they can be trusted with a landslide, then the campaign could be a lot more interesting.


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Copps and Gonzalez spoke at last week's town hall meeting in New York on diversity and media ownership. The FCC is reconsidering a number of broadcast rules -including whether a single company should be able to own both a newspaper and television station in the same market. [includes rush transcript]
A town hall meeting on diversity and media ownership was held last week here in New York City. All five commissioners from the Federal Communications Commission were invited. Only two showed up — Commissioners Michael Copps and Jonathan Adelstein. More than 300 activists and citizens came out to show their opposition to further media consolidation as the FCC reconsiders a number of broadcast rules–including whether a single company should be able to own both a newspaper and television station in the same market.
- Michael Copps, FCC Commissioner.
- Juan Gonzalez, Daily News columnist and Democracy Now co-host.
AMY GOODMAN: This is FCC Commissioner Michael Copps.
MICHAEL COPPS: The FCC is in the midst of a hugely important proceeding right now to decide what the future of our media, our TV, our radio, our newspapers, our cable, even our internet, are going to look like for a long, long time to come.
A little history, just to set the stage for our discussion. Three years ago, under then FCC Chairman Michael Powell and over the objections of my good friend Commissioner Adelstein and myself, the FCC severely cut back — really "eviscerated" is a better word — the rules that were meant to check big media's seemingly endless appetite for more consolidation. It passed new rules, which have allowed a single media giant to own in a single market up to three television stations, eight radio stations, the cable system, the cable channels, even the internet portal, and the local newspaper, which in most cities in the United States of America is already a monopoly. And the agency did all of that behind closed doors and without seeking meaningful input from the American people. Can you imagine that? Authorizing a sea change in how news and entertainment are produced and presented over the people's airwaves, without even involving the people who own those airwaves and who depend so heavily upon them. It was a near disaster for America.
Thankfully, citizens rose up across the land. They sent nearly 3 million protests to the Federal Communications Commission. Congress rose up, too, and then a federal court sent those rules back to the FCC saying they were badly flawed and they needed to be reworked. That was good, and anybody that doesn't believe that citizen action can have an effect should just revisit what happened there. We checked those rules. You checked those rules from going into effect. It was concerned citizens at work, and it was a citizen consumer victory.
But, here's a reality check now. We're right back at square one, and it's all up for grabs again. And if we're going to have a better result this time around, doing something positive for media democracy, it's going to be because of more citizen action and more input from folks like you. So, this time we need to make it an open public process, instead of hiding in our office in Washington like the majority did in 2003. This time, let all the commissioners come to New York City — I wish they were all here tonight — and let all the commissioners get out across America and find out what's happening in the real world, beyond that Beltway that they bemoan so much but seem to love staying behind so much.
So, as we begin our discussion, then begin with that simple reminder: it's all of us who own the airwaves. There is not a broadcaster, a business, a special interest, and any industry that owns one airwave in the United States of America. They belong to you, and they belong to me. And, my friends, now is the time to assert our ownership rights.
AMY GOODMAN: FCC Commissioner Michael Copps at the town hall meeting on diversity and media ownership here in New York. A number of people spoke, among them, New York Daily News columnist and Democracy Now! co-host, Juan Gonzalez.
JUAN GONZALEZ: I thank Commissioner Copps and Commissioner Adelstein for their continued willingness to hear the concerns of the public, as the FCC prepares yet again to overhaul the nation's broadcast ownership rules, a process that has the potential to make a bad situation far worse than anyone can imagine. I am talking about the impact of media consolidation on news and information provided for and about the nation's fast-growing population of racial and ethnic minorities.
Just this week, the United States reached a milestone: the 300 million population mark. More than a third of that population, more than 100 million people, trace their origin not to Europe, but to Africa, Asia, Latin America, or to the original indigenous people of the hemisphere. By 2050, that figure will surpass more than 50% of the total U.S. population. Yet our news media, especially our broadcast media, have failed in stunning fashion to reflect in their ownership, their employment and their news coverage, this rapidly changing reality.
Worse, if present trends of media concentration continue, and if our government loosens even further its regulation of broadcast ownership rules, media ownership by racial minorities in my opinion will virtually disappear in the United States. We are in real danger of waking up one day with a de facto apartheid system, one where a small group of giant firms, run almost exclusively by white investors and managers, control the production and distribution of news and information to a largely non-white population.
Is this overly alarmist? Not if you consider some of the facts we've heard this evening. The last report the Department of Commerce did tracking media ownership was in 2000. It stopped doing the reports. And at that time, it found that 3.8% of all full-power broadcast stations in the country were owned by people of color. Now, when an independent nonprofit group does the job that the federal government should be doing, we find that the actual ownership by minorities has decreased since 2000. So, while the minority population of the country is increasing, the minority ownership of radio and television is decreasing. So this is a troubling trend that we have been trying to get data on. The FCC has not been mining its own data. The Commerce Department has stopped doing the studies.
While the race or ethnic background of an owner is hardly a sure guarantee of more balanced news coverage, the FCC's own studies several years ago, in response to the Adarand case, found a clear connection between minority ownership and more diversity in content and staffing.
For eleven years now, the NAHJ has produced its annual Network Brownout Report, as our executive director mentioned earlier. Each report examines coverage of Latinos on the evening news of the major networks. Every year, it shows the same depressing result: stories about Latinos have made up less than 1% of the more than 12,000 network news stories that air annually, even while the Latino population continues to explode. And this is going on year after year after year. When Latinos are covered, the two dominant themes are invariably undocumented immigration and crime. The harm done to our community and to the general society by this persistent marginalization of Hispanics and by the preponderance of stereotypical coverage cannot be overestimated.
As a veteran journalist, I know that ownership matters. There are few news executives in our time brave enough to buck the viewpoints of their owners on a day-to-day basis. It is not a matter of how many different channels, how many niche publications, on how many platforms or particular venues you produce your content. If it's the same owners, the viewpoint diversity, no matter how many different niche publications and how many outlets you have, will not be substantially different.
So, if there is no diversity in ownership, it is extremely unlikely the public will receive sufficient diversity in viewpoint and coverage. Because of media ownership concentration, our democratic discourse has been cheapened and distorted. We call on the FCC to use its regulatory powers to reverse this dangerous trend, to reassert the long-established principles of our national broadcast policy of diversity, localism and competition. If we do not reassert them, then we are headed for a de facto apartheid media system. Thank you.
AMY GOODMAN: Juan Gonzalez, the former president of the National Association of Hispanic Journalists, which was one of those organizations that sponsored the town hall forum on media diversity in New York.


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After Berkeley residents voted in 2010 to increase the number of medical cannabis dispensaries in town from three to four, it took the City Council six years to approve the first new one.
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After Berkeley residents voted in 2010 to increase the number of medical cannabis dispensaries in town from three to four, it took the City Council six years to approve the first new one.
Tuesday night, the Berkeley City Council unanimously named the iCANN Health Center on Sacramento Street as the city's fourth medical cannabis dispensary.
By Lisa Tsering
When David Prinz goes before a gathering of Telegraph Avenue neighbors Thursday to talk about the cannabis dispensary he would like to open at Amoeba Music, he will emphasize how his experience selling records will help him create a welcoming spot for cannabis patients. Plus, it will help revitalize the street, he will argue.
The owner of Amoeba Music, former managers of the largest cannabis dispensary in Oakland, a current Berkeley medical cannabis commissioner, and a group that has filed numerous lawsuits against the city, have all applied to open the fourth dispensary in Berkeley.
The quirky-looking building on the southeast corner of Telegraph and Haste, now Amoeba Music, has a colorful history that illustrates several chapters in Berkeley's proud, independent history.
Vinyl, it's not just for DJs anymore. The Oakland Museum of California's new interactive exhibit Vinyl: The Sound and Culture of Records, highlights the resurgence of the LP and the enduring appeal of leafing through a bin of albums searching for unexpected aural pleasure.
RESOURCES ROUNDTABLE California has been quite dry this year — but Friday's roundtable on the drought will be anything but. The Berkeley Energy and Resources Collaborative is hosting its annual day of panel discussions and lectures on April 18. This year's Resources Roundtable is titled "California's Drought: Challenges and Opportunities." Speakers — including several UC Berkeley professors — will trace the deep history of dryness in the state, and consider the current obstacles to, and potential for, addressing drought. The $10 tickets provide access to all events from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. at the David Brower Center at 2150 Allston Way. (more…)
Just as Berkeley starts settling into its pleasingly sleepy summer rhythm, the 9th Annual World Music Festival takes over Telegraph on Saturday, infusing the avenue with a jolt of energy. Running from noon to 9 pm, the free musical fest brings an international array of music to cafés and shops south of campus, with the action centering on the Amoeba-sponsored People's Park stage from 1-6 pm.
Update, 5:18pm: Writing in the Berkeley Voice, Doug Oakley reports that the owner of the Sequoia Building will begin tearing it down Monday, but it remains in danger of collapsing and is a public safety problem until that happens, according to city officials.
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The city of Berkeley and the merchants of Telegraph Avenue are encouraging the community to shop on Berkeley's most famous street this holiday season after a devastating fire left many people homeless on Friday and closed down one section of the commercial strip indefinitely.
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Why run one great affiliate site when you can run two? That's what the Australian crew behind MuchosPoker and RakeBackEngine believes. Like the BingoPort team, the guys behind MuchosPoker and RakeBackEngine have also relocated their lives and business to the European Union.
With RakeBackEngine, these Australians decided to reinvent the way the poker affiliate business operates by developing software to help poker operators and affiliates pay rakeback to their players. RakeBackEngine works by organizing rakeback player data on behalf of operators and affiliates enabling stat-tracking to be shared with players. The software has been a huge success. Currently, there are over 47,000 online poker rakeback accounts linked to the software efforts of the Australians behind RakeBackEngine.
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Health Risk from Fukushima Radiation
The Science of Medicine
Steven Novella
Skeptical Inquirer Volume 38.3, May/June 2014
Fear is a powerful emotion with clear protective functions. However, fear is not always adaptive. An emotion that evolved to protect our ancestors (chiefly from threats such as large predators) now is pressed into service in a complex technological civilization. The number of things we are told to be frightened of on a daily basis—by the news media, social and ecological activists, and others—is overwhelming.
Fortunately we have other tools to help us navigate the dangers we face, such as logic and evidence. These can help us put our fears into a proper perspective. These are all the more necessary, as the Internet has become a primary fear-spreading machine. Fearmongering memes are the new predators in our virtual environment, and they are always ready to pounce.
Information regarding the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant disaster, for example, remains widespread on the Internet. It is certainly reasonable to consider whether or not radiation from the reactors pose any health risks, but what does the evidence tell us?
On March 11, 2011, a tsunami hit northeast Japan. The flooding overwhelmed the safety measures at the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant, causing several reactors to experience meltdown and resulting in the leaking of radioactive contaminated water into the local environment (Marshall 2013). This has resulted in restrictions on fishing in the vicinity of Fukushima. Recent evidence also indicates that radioactive material continues to leak into the ocean near Fukushima, although in amounts much smaller than the original leak resulting from the tsunami.
The question remained, however: How far did radioactive elements from Fukushima spread, and do they represent a health risk to anyone outside of the local vicinity? In 2012, researchers reported detecting radioactive elements (cesium-134 and cesium-137) that could clearly be traced to Fukushima in Pacific bluefin tuna (Madigan et al. 2012). These tuna spawn off the coast of Japan and migrate across the Pacific all the way to the California coast, where some are caught and eaten. These fish were able to carry radioactive contamination all the way from Fukushima to dinner plates in California. This created fear that contamination from Fukushima might have been far worse than the authorities were telling us, and perhaps could be affecting environments all over the world. This fear was also spread through conspiracy-theorist bloggers who claimed that the Japanese and American governments were engaging in a sinister collaboration to hide the truth from American fish consumers.
Toxicity, however, is all about dose, even with something as seemingly dangerous as radiation. A follow-up study published in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (Fisher et al. 2013) found that the levels of radioactive contaminants found in Pacific bluefin tuna were negligible:
"The additional dose from Fukushima radionuclides to humans consuming tainted PBFT in the United States was calculated to be 0.9 and 4.7 µSv for average consumers and subsistence fishermen, respectively. Such doses are comparable to, or less than, the dose all humans routinely obtain from naturally occurring radionuclides in many food items, medical treatments, air travel, or other background sources." The advantage of communicating the relative risk of radiation exposure is that there is a certain background "natural" exposure that is unavoidable. When levels of exposure are less than this background, it is easy to make the point that any risk is insignificant.
The World Health Organization (WHO) has also reviewed the data concerning the radiation leaked, in all forms, from the Fukushima disaster. Most of the radiation was leaked in the week following the accident, but there have been continued leaks since then, mostly through ground water. The WHO review concluded: "A breakdown of data, based on age, gender and proximity to the nuclear plant, does show a higher cancer risk for those located in the most contaminated parts. Outside these parts—even in locations inside Fukushima Prefecture—no observable increases in cancer incidence are expected" (World Health Organization 2013). An independent 2013 review also found little evidence of any significant radiation outside the immediate area of the accident: "It is important to note that all of the radiation levels detected outside of Japan have been very low and are well below any level of public and environmental hazard" (Thakur et al. 2013).
Recent estimates are that water contaminated with radioactive elements is leaking from Fukushima into the nearby ocean at a rate of 300 tons per day (Kimura and Kawada 2013). This sounds like a lot, but the Pacific Ocean contains 714 million cubic kilometers of water. Simple dilution is reducing the concentration of radioactive contaminants below the level where there is any health risk, to sea life or to those consuming seafood. There does remain concern for the immediate vicinity, of course. For this reason Japan has banned fishing along the coast near Fukushima.
The Fukushima Daiichi disaster resulted in serious environmental contamination with radioactive contaminants. However, the contamination is mostly limited to the vicinity of Fukushima. Monitoring of contaminants in the Pacific, North America, and around the world reveal that they are at very low levels, below that which would cause any health concern or even peak above background radiation exposure. Even bluefin tuna spawning off the coast of Japan have negligible levels of contaminants and pose no risk to human health. This is all good news, but the environmental and health effects of Fukushima, which is an ongoing disaster, will need to be monitored for some time. There continue to be reports of new leaks from Fukushima, so this story is not yet over (Saito 2014). Hopefully, carefully collected evidence will dominate policy and public perception.
Nicholas S. Fisher, Karine Beaugelin-Seiller, Thomas G. Hinton, et al. 2013. Evaluation of radiation doses and associated risk from the Fukushima nuclear accident to marine biota and human consumers of seafood. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (April 18).
Kimura, Shunsuke, and Toshio Kawada. 2013. Fukushima: Radioactive water flowing into Pacific Ocean despite Japanese government claim. Global Research (October 11). Available at http://www.globalresearch.ca/fukushima-radioactive-water-flowing-into-pacific-ocean-despite-japanese-government-claim/5353898.
Daniel J. Madigan, Zofia Baumann, Nicholas S. Fisher. 2012. Pacific bluefin tuna transport Fukushima-derived radionuclides from Japan to California. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences (April 25). Available at http://www.pnas.org/content/early/2012/05/22/1204859109.abstract.
Marshall, Michael. Fukushima leaks will keep fisheries closed. 2013. The New Scientist (August 6). Available at http://www.newscientist.com/article/dn23998-fukushima-leaks-will-keep-fisheries-closed.html#.UwJKd2K-18E.
Saito, Mari. 2014. New highly radioactive leak at Japan's Fukushima plant. Reuters (February 19). Available at http://news.yahoo.com/highly-radioactive-leak-japan-39-fukushima-plant-045324842--finance.html.
Thakur, P., S. Ballard, R. Nelson. 2013. An overview of Fukushima radionuclides measured in the northern hemisphere. Science of the Total Environment (Aug 1: 458–460; 577–613. doi: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2013.03.105. Epub May 22, 2013.
World Health Organization. 2013. Global report on Fukushima nuclear accident details health risks. (February 28). Available at


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AT Europe: Paris – Designer Rental Apartments
Following in the footsteps of fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa, whose luxury rental apartments 3 Rooms opened a few years back in the same building where he lives and works, Stella Cadente designer Stanislassia Klein has designed a new and more gently priced hotel apartment on the Canal Saint-Martin.
Appart of Paris, as it is called, is a one-bedroom self-catering apartment in a hip 10th arrondissement neighborhood decorated in neutral colors with an understated contemporary Parisian vibe. There's a fully equipped modern kitchen where you can make your own coffee and meals, classic touches like a period fireplace, and poetic flourishes like angel wings over the bed. At €175 a night, €325 for the weekend of €975 a week, it can sleep up to four (there's a pull-out couch in the living room). And Stanislassia has left her address book of favorite haunts, plus an invitation to invoke her name around the neighborhood.
For those with more to spend, check out 3 Rooms at 5 rue de Moussy in the 4th arrondissement. Fashion designer Azzedine Alaïa has designed these upscale rental apartments located in the building where he lives and works with minimal kitchens and furniture from Jean Nouvel and Marc Newson. They don't have a website, but you can email them at email@example.com for more information.
– Kristin Hohenadel blogging from rue Vieille du Temple, Paris, France. She can be reached at kristinh @ apartmenttherapy . com


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"It's your life," according to Bon Jovi. So live it like a rock star and stay at the Hard Rock Hotel at Universal Orlando on your next visit to Orlando.
As if a 12,000 square foot pool, 260 foot slide and real sandy beach weren't enough to make your stay perfect, the Hard Rock Hotel pool features an underwater sound system. This is an experience worthy of a trip in itself. And if that doesn't rock your socks off, how about lounging in one of the themed cabanas like the "Yellow Submarine" and enjoying a drink in the shade.
All rooms at the Hard Rock Hotel are equipped with a 32" flat panel television to catch up on your favorite TV shows or the latest music videos and movies. To keep you up-to-date with the current music trends, each room also has a CD player, and select rooms are furnished with an MP3 docking station plus I-Home clock radios. Talk about the lap of luxury!
For those who have "made it" shall we say, there are 95 Club Level rooms and suites housed on the oh-so exclusive 7th floor of the hotel, featuring the tres chic "Club 7." These guests are treated to special perks, of course, like access to a rockin' library and CD collection, free health club use and happy hour with beer and wine from 5-7 p.m. daily.
Even if you don't stay at the hotel, stop by and have a look around - it's almost like visiting the Rock 'n Roll Hall of Fame. Plan your visit for the last Thursday of the month, and you can join your fellow music maniacs for Velvet Sessions. Partiers enjoy free drinks and hors d'oeuvres while listening to a warm-up act from 6:30-8:30 pm. Then the featured entertainment starts; September's guest is Colin Hay, from the band Men at Work.
At the Universal Orlando Resort, all on-site hotel guests are given the "superstar treatment." Which means you don't have to wait in line with the "other" guests. Hotel patrons can jump to the head of the line just by showing their room key at the attraction's express entrance. Wow!
Ok, so you say you haven't yet "made it." Well, rockin' hotels like this are made more affordable when you purchase your discount Universal park tickets at DWTickets.com.
Sunday, September 16, 2007
Hard Rock Hotel at Universal Orlando Resort
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Pregnancy is a delightful period in one's life and quality care is very important during this time. Regular visits to an qualified medical professional to get antenatal care is an essential part to having a healthy pregnancy and subsequent delivery. Regular antenatal care most often helps with early detection of any pregnancy related complications and timely clinical management as required.
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You need to fill in a Patient Registration form when you arrive at the clinic. Our staff can send you one so that you can fill it in your own time and bring it along with you. This might save some time when you arrive at the clinic. You are also welcome to do this at our clinic. Please allow an extra 15-20 min in you choose to do so.
The clinic staff will give you the pregnancy information pack that has information on the clinic, fee structure, RANZCOG college approved patient information leaflets and booking in form for Mater Women's and Children's Hospital. You will be asked to sign the informed financial consent form once you are happy with the information provided.


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Sarah Lind's New Movies
Storyline:With large parts of the US becoming uninhabitable as a result of global warming, parts of the population must be forcibly relocated. In order to meet this huge logistical challenge, the government has launched the Humanity Bureau, which aims to decide objectively and ruthlessly who will benefit the public good least. These selected people then have to relocate to the colony of "New Eden," where all those who are considered to be expendable to society die out of their lives. Even the single mother Rachael Weller (Sarah Lind) and her little son Lucas (Jakob Davies) are to be deported to "New Eden", but that does not want to resign Rachael and so she protests at her clerk Noah Kross (Nicolas Cage).
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Baze Daze
My fellow Bloggers (in particular Tote Board Brad) have news and photos on the hero of northern California.
Speed, speed and more speed on Polytrack last night at Woodbine, the penultimate Wednesday evening of the meeting.
Two juvenile stakes race on Saturday may have some bearing on Sovereign Award voting (which closes Monday). The Ontario Lassie Stakes features Catch the Thrill (Sam-Son) and Quiet Action (trained by Mark Casse), the one-two finishers from the fast Princess Elizabeth Stakes.
And trainer Sid Attard "bearly" has the lead in the trainer ranks over Reade Baker, who runs a bunch of Bear horses today and is gunning for his second consecutive Sovereign Award.


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How to Make a Handmade Leather Clutch
Tuesday, 07 March 2017
Clutch purse can go with formal as well as semi-formal attire. You can make a new leather clutch. You also can rejuvenate an old clutch with a new lining. Envelope-Style Clutch Cut the lining fabric. Use a square or rectangular lining fabric to make a cell phone, compact or lipstick pocket. Cut the patch enough
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An examination of the first presidential road trips.
Between 1789 and 1791, George Washington arranged to visit all 13 of the original states, an ambitious undertaking in an era when transportation was slow and hazardous. He passed through the middle states on his way to his inauguration and then traveled to the others in three trips: to New England (except Rhode Island) in 1789, to Rhode Island after it ratified the Constitution in 1790, and to the southern states in 1791. His stated purpose for these travels was "to become better acquainted with the principal Characters & internal Circumstances [of the states], as well as to be more accessible to numbers of well-informed persons, who might give [him] useful information and advices on political subjects." Breen (Professor at Large/Univ. of Vermont; American Insurgents, American Patriots: The Revolution of the People, 2010, etc.) conflates these travels into a single "journey" and imposes upon them two completely different purposes: "to bind scattered individuals and competing regions into a viable federal union" and "to engage with [the common people] in an ongoing conversation about the character of the republican experiment." He offers barely any historical support for these aims aside from the fact that Washington believed passionately in a strong central government. While the author ably describes the adulatory parades and receptions that greeted Washington in New England, he chooses to interpret what appear to be personal accolades as enthusiasm for constitutional government. He reports no speeches, addresses, or private pleas in explicit support of federalism and says little of substance about the southern tour at all. The narrative is presented in simple prose and a condescending tone in which all involved—Washington, state leaders, the people—appear as rather dim bulbs in need of learning or being reminded of something.
An unconvincing attempt to read extraneous political agendas into the first president's fact-finding tours.


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One of my favorite street photography haunts in Delhi is the area known as Nizzam Uddin (West) where stands the shrine of one of the world's most famous Sufi saints, Hazrat Nizamuddin Auliya (1238 - 1325). A Sufi saint of the Chishti Order in the Indian Subcontinent; he established an order that sought to draw close to God through renunciation of the world and service to humanity.
Raza Rumi in his book "Delhi By Heart" describes the settlement of Nizzam Uddin as "the quintessential Muslim ghetto of today's India. Congested, unkempt and stinking in parts, it retains a medieval air."
It is medieval, and perhaps it is the reason why I make it a must-stop whenever I am in his capital city. Over the years, I've seen Delhi modernize itself, with flyovers, gleaming international and national hotels, wide avenues, colorful billboards hawking the most modern of appliances...but Nizzam Uddin stubbornly resists all these. Modernity in Nizzam Uddin is measured by the number of cellphone ringtones based on the Muslim call to prayer, and the app that shows the direction of Mecca.
I imagine it's the time warp experience I feel when I first enter the area from Mathura Road...right next to the police station....that attracts me to it. It's certainly not faith or belief as I have none of either, but it's certainly a visual (and perhaps cultural) transfusion that takes over my senses. I enter a photographic "zone" during which I am totally immersed in the visual patterns that emerge in the to and fro of the people who come to pay their respects to the saint. It's not only the saint who's buried there, but it's also where the poet Amir Khusrau and princess Jahanara Begum both rest.
It is here where the essence of Sufism was postulated by one of Nizzam Uddin's disciples; Abdel Quddus Gangoh who wrote this:
"why this meaningless talk about the believer,
the kafir, the obedient, the sinner,
the rightly guided, the misdirected, the Muslim,
the pious, the infidel, the fire worshipper?
All are like beads in a rosary."*
Sheikh Gangoh wouldn't have found much acceptance for his admonishment these days.
*Delhi By Heart. Raza Rumi
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So Long, Farewell, Auf Wiedersehen, Adieu
The North Carolina School Health Training Center (NCSHTC) will no longer be connected with Appalachian State University after June 30, 2016. We have been honored to serve the state of North Carolina in the promotion of health education for 23 years.
The Training Center is relocating to East Carolina University and will be under the leadership of Dr. Michele Wallen. She can be reached at (252) 737-1535 or email@example.com. The relocated website, www.ncshtc.ecu.edu, will be available soon.


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Join us for a a talk with authors John Donvan and Caren Zucker on their New York Times Bestseller book In a Different Key: The Story of Autism.
Monday, March 14th at 6:30pm
Free admission, but RSVP is required. To RSVP, click here!
"Magnificent…Spellbinding—a fable about greed, power and betrayal told through the lens of autism…Chock-full of suspense and hairpin turns…This book does what no other on autism has done: capture all the slippery, bewildering and deceptive aspects…" – Anne Bauer, Washington Post
"Remarkable… In a Different Key: The Story of Autism tells a riveting tale about how a seemingly rare childhood disorder became a salient fixture in our cultural landscape. – Wall Street Journal
Three-time Emmy-winner and ABC News correspondant John Donvan and Peabody-winner ABC producer Caren Zucker, co-writer of the PBS series Autism Now, have written the definitive history of autism. The New York Times bestselling In A Different Key tells stories of human perseverance while delving deeply into how we understand autism as a diagnosis, a disability, and a social phenomenon.
This is one of 25 events across New York City that make up Brain Awareness Week 2016, a program of braiNY. Visit http://comebebrainy.com/brainy/ for a complete calendar of events.