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Deepika's 4 am 'date' with Ranveer!
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Deepika Padukone's growing camaraderie with Ranveer Singh has become the talk of the town. The two were again spotted chatting in a hotel restaurant in the wee hours of the morning.
"Apparently, after leaving the bash hosted by Neeta and Mukesh Ambani at Antilla on Saturday, August 18, Deepika headed straight for the hotel. Dressed in her Abu Jani-Sandeep Khosla outfit, the actress met Ranveer at the first-floor restaurant," reported Mumbai Mirror.
"It was 4am and Ranveer, who was wearing trackpants, looked like he'd just got out of bed. The duo spent a couple of hours chatting over food," the tabloid reported.
Last week too, Ranveer and Deepika were seen at Ek Tha Tiger screening together. After that, they also went for a party and remained there till early morning.
The 'couple' were also spotted at Ayaan Mukherjee’s party and a suburban restaurant with friends.
Ranveer apparently met Deepika at the workshop of Sanjay Leela Bhansali's Ram Leela, where the duo will be seen for the first time together. They apparently hit it off from the word go.
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Feeling a tad stifled about being stationed in Bombay for months now, I'm itching for some travel and adventure!
Sadly, thanks to work commitments and budget constraints, I was forced to get creative and improvise, even if it is like a weak nicotine patch to an otherwise vociferous cigarette craving.
My quick fix is to pretend. I grabbed hold of a girlfriend and set out with the sole intention of being whoever I wanted to be. We went on a walking tour of Ballard Estate in stilettos, feeling like the effortlessly chic Milanese women who walk around with little dogs. Next, we attended a photo exhibition, chanelling the local Parisians who frequent little art galleries in the alleyways of St. Germain.
We ended our fantasy excursion at a quaint little bakery, equivalent of a bäckerei in Munich where we sampled sugary treats and left with apple pie takeaways - the sweetest reminders of our little trip round the world.
{ skirt : zara, shirt : mom's closet, jacket : bought in london, shoes : christmas gift, bag : french connection, belt : lifestyle, bangles : gift, necklace : colaba, sunnies : prada minimal baroque }
Have you ever pretended to be somebody else? Share your story in the comments section!
Bisou bisou,
Anushka
Interesting post and fabulous shoes Anushka ! =)
Where from?
I might have to take an improvised vacation soon! I've been craving for a holiday since i-dont-know-how-long but thanks to work am stuck :/
i like what you wore on your little excursion! Grey and red.. love it!
I'm craving for a vacation too.. hope it happens soon!!
that's a lovely outfit!
hey anushka..thanks for showing all of us how to get ur gr8 vaccay even when u r stuck @ work...I totally adore your bangles..have been lookin for such since long..plz lemme knw wr wil i get such ones
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Anushka, amazing creations. Liked the beautiful combinations. Shoes, Belt....
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Friday, July 01, 2011
For a Cup of Tea
The Mashima* at 37B/1 was very stingy. Miser might be a better word to describe her. She complained about everything, about the corners not being swept, the brown stain not being scrubbed well from the teapot, the Rin bar getting over on the 28th instead of the 31st and about how much tea Manju drank throughout the day.
And the last one wasn't even true. But Manju kept quiet. The money here was good, Mashima's son who lived in Dallas made sure that Manju was paid well. And why only Manju ? He made sure that the cook Sarla's Ma, the watchman, the driver everyone got a good salary. Last time when he was here, he even gave Manju a perfume. It smelled of forest woods and dead flowers. One whiff and she would be transported to the tree laden haven of her childhood where the scent of new leaves mingled with wild flowers.
But Mashima was very unlike her son. As Manju swept the floors and scrubbed the bathroom, Mashima hovered along side always keeping an eye that Manju did not pour more bleach than necessary, did not run water for too long. And when Manju dusted the glass cabinets, carefully wiping the golden rimmed tea cups, the coffee mug with the blue windmill, the terracotta cups with white paisley pattern, Mashima sat at the dining table reminding Manju to be extra careful because they were all very expensive..
Mashima never drank anything in those cups. Neither did she ever serve anyone in those.The cups and mugs in the glass cabinet sat just by themselves, supercilious and a tad bored .
"There is a story wrapped around each of them. Those cups are my memories", Mashima would say. The golden rimmed china was her wedding gift from an Aunt in England who is no more, the mug with the Eiffel Tower was from her honeymoon in Paris, the black tall mug with the warli painting was what her son got her on his first job and the New Year coffee mugs was her grand kid's life in front of her.
"If you ever drop any of them, I am going to fire you", Mashima would threaten, drinking her morning tea from a chipped plain white cup with a rounded bottom.Manju drank her tea from a steel glass.Wrapping the edge of her sari around its warmth, she took a long sip, making a sharp sound with her lips. The tea was lukewarm and not sweetened at all. Mashima had been stingy with the sugar yet again.With a sigh Manju poured out the tea from the verandah, onto the downstair neighbor's potted tulsi plant.
Really with tea like this, there was no reason to work here anymore. But she couldn't do without the money either. And then there were the afternoons for which she pined.
The afternoons, when Mashima would go for a walk and her evening gossip sessions at the nearby park, Manju would let herself in to do the dishes and sweep the floor for the last time in the day. This was when Manju would put water to boil in a kettle, pour a generous amount of milk, add spoonfuls of sugar and stir in the tea leaves. Lovingly she would peel a knob of ginger and pound it in the mortar and pestle, to put in the boiling tea.
She would then pour the pale brown liquor in a cup carefully chosen from the glass cabinet after much deliberation.
Sometimes when the day was cloudy and there was a wind rustling over the horizon Manju chose the one with blue windmill, on especially hot days she picked the cup with the smiling sunflowers. But most she loved to drink from the mugs with the two girls on it. She would sit in the verandah with the cup in her hand, staring at the two smiling girls and think of the long limbed, dusty haired, brown girl playing in her village where the scent of new leaves mingled with wild flowers.
As the tea grew cold, Manju sat, counting the days until she would next meet her daughter.
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*Mashima -- though it means aunt, elderly ladies in Bengal are respectfully addressed as Mashima
This is my entry for the Of Chalks and Chopsticks event started by Aqua and hosted by me this time. The photo cue for the fictions was here. I will be doing the roundup next week so if you are running late, please send in entries over the weekend.
Posted by Bong Mom at 7/01/2011 11:46:00 AM
Labels: FoodFiction, General, Of Chalks and Chopsticks, Tea
A lovely read Sandeepa. You snuk the maid's daughter in the same way she sneaked in the cups of tea in those precious mugs. Billiant rendition of a tragic story!
Jaya -- Thanks. Tragic ? Do you think so ? So many mothers go out to work whether it is for 8 hrs or 8 months stretch and yearn for their offspring. Substitute Manju with a traveling corporate Mom and her b***y boss, situations would be same, won't it ?
Sad ? yeah but Tragic ? not really
Very vivid. I'm glad we're not like the mistresses of the previous generations who kept a strict watch on everything. I have to say I don't like them running too much water either, they just don't seem to understand it's a limited resource, and I do tell her everyday to limit the flow. Of course, not keeping an eye on their work tells on the housekeeping but we can't nag about everything, can we?
Sra
Here, though my cleaning lady does a good work, she has her flaws. In that case I remind her before she starts work. My last cleaning lady left because my Ma-in-law(who was visiting) had said she did not dust the room well !!!
I also get extremely tense with a fear that they might not do the work to my expectation so I prefer staying out of the house during that period :-D
Beautiful story and wonderful writing Sandeepa...I loved the way you wrote - wrapping her sari around the warmth of the tea :).
your last comment resonates with me...I prefer my cleaning lady coming during my office hours otherwise I keep telling her "how" to do things and then it bugs me to see her not do it my way :P...
wow, what a beautiful and well written story. Thoroughly enjoyed it :)
lovely read Sandeepa. I was just wondering what that masima would do if she comes to know about her precious mugs been used this way....:-)
Very, very well written. It was as if I was witnessing Manju's day myself.
The last line broke my heart.Here is Manju who is separated from her daughter due to poverty and need of money.
Here I am sitting in an AC office leaving my kids at home everyday. I don't "need" the money. But if I stay home, I'll drive myself crazy yearning for the mental stimulation my work brings.
Being a working mother, poor or rich, is very difficult.
-Mili
what a lovely story and very well written. I'd love to read more short stories if you care to write and publish someday :-)
- Mili
Lovely story! Liked how the cups were woven throughout. How nice that they did get used, whats the point of 'saving' them up.
Wow :)
Khub shundor kore details gulo diyecho. Khub bhalo laglo eyi chotto, smooth story ta pore. :-)
Loved reading your post. Nicely written
Beautiful story with the details very clearly etched!!! BTW wanted to let u know that i tried ur Macher kalia recipe and loved it!!!
A wonderful read. Loved it very much. I do wish the mistresses let out their human nature to peek out sometimes.
Loved it!! Nicely crafted
Nicely written! It is so typical of us desis to keep a hawk-eye on the cleaners! I did have a cleaner once who almost emptied a new bottle of bleach and I had the shiniest sink ever!!
Well written, San! Made for a nice read.
nice story - well written and I wonder why manju is heartless to drink the tea from the cups with mashima's grandaughters--- ;
Khub shundor golpo,Sandeepa!Loved reading it...you've beautifully woven a true fact of life into a very touching story:)
Cheers,
Wit,wok&wisdom
Hi Sandeepa,
Nice story, could relate to a lot of it.."jeno dekhte pelam Manju aar Mashima ke"..
;-)
Am leaving for India in a few days and have cups with me for the four grandparents this time!!
I know they will never be used.....
;-))
cheers
d
An engaging story..The ending made me shiver as i pictured Manju drinking tea in the old lady's most prized possession..
This is the first time I read you're short story...it was fantastic.I have a love for short stories and the finesse in you're writing just left me spellbound...I was for a moment transported to my childhood days where I had seen similar behaviour of my 'dida' to the maid.....
the ending was so good,just leaves you there with Manju and mashima....
Sandeepa,
Hats off to you lady! You are gifted. I am an ardent fan of your writing and keep looking forward to your posts with utmost eagerness... You must take up writing as a profession!!!
Regards,
Seema
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Amazing read Sandeepa. I simply love the way you manage to paint a picture with the words :). I've had only one maid in my married life so far and she was good at what she did. So I never complained. But 'Mashima' reminded me of my Boro Maami who used to do the same :D. I prefer to do all my household chores myself. That way I don't have to worry too much about things not getting done the way I like!
Sohini
Thanks Everyone
It was very interesting reading the different reactions and thoughts :) Your encouragement means a lot to me
Wow - what well rounded prose to frame such a beautiful story! :)
Miri
I simply loved this idea and this event. I loved your imagination too. The story is really beautiful. Please read my version too at
Hi Bongmom, I am so glad you took some time off and read my story. Thanks a lot. :)
This was simply brilliant....
Beautiful story...love the little bit of irony at the end.
Such a lovely story, Sandeepa. You should write a book!
My name is Arunima. I am in FB list.I have dropped a line there as well. I need to borrow your story. Need to talk/write to you. Please drop a line in FB or my email account.
Such vivid characterisation!!! Loved it. Got goosebumps.
What a twist to the tale Sandeepa . And the way you interspersed so many strains in it was wonderful .
Khub Bhalo laglo story ta pode :-)
Fantastic Sandeepadi... I love your style of writing - I can almost visualise Mashima:)
Beautifully written story. Totally loved it. Loved the way you have described every tiny detail - like Manju wrapping the edge of her saree pallu around her steel tumbler as she drank her tea. The descriptions are very vivid- I could see the entire story playing out in front of my mind's eye. You are a gifted writer.
It was so sad to hear of Manju waiting to see her daughter, and being separated from her due to need for money. At the same time, it was also sad to see Manju sipping tea from the mugs with the pics of Mashima's granddaughters on them, when Mashima herself refrained from doing so. | http://www.bongcookbook.com/2011/07/for-cup-of-tea.html?showComment=1309764139983 | 2013-05-18T10:12:21 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [
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Few things catch my eye as quickly as a book list. First, it’s a quick way to learn about new books, no long review of the book, just a snapshot. Second, certain types of lists test my reading. How many books on the greatest works of the 20th century/all time/American literature, etc. have I read? I like the lists where I’ve read many of the books, I feel affirmed.
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The list is designed to help us understand our current world and the first book is The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope, written in 1875, that would be 134 years ago. Actually, this isn’t the first time I’ve heard that book referenced, it’s about a financial and moral crisis in England and has a character that people have identified as Madoff. If only more people read their classics. . .
The list is a combination of fiction, politics, history, sociology, psychology, religion, environmental, and science. The topics chosen are interesting. A couple of books on terrorism, of course, but also the roots of British soccer violence. The environment is represented by Faulkner’s The Bear and Berry’s ode to the family farm in The Unsettling of America. Biographies include J. Robert Oppenheimer (American Prometheus by Kai Bird and Martin F. Sherwin), Whittaker Chambers by Sam Tanenhaus as one of the founders of the modern right, and Winchell by Neal Gabler as the original Rush Limbaugh. Race, war and film are covered also.
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Ovin pointed out that the steadying in cotton prices, which had earlier weighed on margins, was particularly good news for H&M.
In the first six months of 2012, H&M has opened 119 stores and closed 11. In total, it now has 2,575 stores worldwide.
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Its gonna be hard to prove the C's are worse with Rondo even if our record nose dives... We arent the same team cause we lost hof PG and emerging rookie Sully... without any replacements..
On the other hand, if the C's maintain a 500 pace without both Rondo and Sully.. well thats gotta be a wake up call to those that just cant believe we improved as a team sans Rondo..
In my view, we're a better team regardless if our record improves, worsens or stays the same based upon the level of play Im seeing... The ball is moving and players are much more engaged.. we have a life.. a more effective defense imo but it will suffer having Sully out..
The entire system shifted when Rondo went down and its for the better... if Doc has the nuts to confront Rondo and integrate him into the new Celts, then great. If not, we're heading back to the same old | http://www.boston.com/community/forums/sports/celtics/on-the-front-burner/putting-an-end-to-the-rondo-nonsense-/100/6536524?ia=15263921 | 2013-05-18T10:41:47 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Picking up steam
Mashing modern days with the Victorian age excites role players, artists, and other fans of steampunk
When Bruce and Melanie Rosenbaum bought a 1901 home in Sharon,.
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By Wesley Morris, Globe Staff | July 13, 2007
The Dwights are that loud, crashing family across the street or down the hall, the family no one wants to be. You see the mother arguing with either of her two sons in the driveway. You hear her off on a drunken tirade and wonder, "Do I call the police or the Academy": Brenda Blethyn is at it again.
"Introducing the Dwights," a grueling comedy about this screwed-up troupe, offers her another opportunity to play a force of maternal oppression. This time she's Jean Dwight, a Brit living in Australia as a cantina cook who does stand - up at night. Jean expects her two boys -- virginal Tim (Khan Chittenden ) and handicapped Mark (Richard Wilson ) -- to smother her with affection as she suffocates them with her insecurities. When they fall for women, she turns spiteful, lashing out, especially at Tim's girlfriend, Jill (Emma Booth ).
Nothing about this movie works, not the title (it used to be called "Clubland "), not Blethyn's attempt to inject comedy into her rickety stereotype of a character. We're meant to find these people a quirky and lovably dysfunctional lot, but what the director, Cherie Nowlan , and the screenwriter, Keith Thompson , think is cute (the family car is a moving truck) is aggravatingly so.
The movie is also shot and edited erratically. For the first 45 minutes, scenes end randomly to move on to the next unfinished development. Is this dark comedy? Is it domestic tragedy? None of the characters is stable enough to hold our attention -- anyone could have a tearful outburst at any moment. Jean is an egomaniac who has warped her children and driven her ex-husband (Frankie J. Holden ), a has-been recording artist, to cheat -- that's his explanation anyway.
With a more clinical approach , from France or Eastern Europe maybe, "Introducing the Dwights" might have come through as a psychological study. But it likes these people and these kooky scenarios too much to detach itself enough to simply observe them. And it doesn't understand them well enough to convince us they make sense.
It'd be a lot easier to tolerate Jean's antics were she talented. Or if the movie had any sense that she's not. In one of her routines, she says that making love to a big man is "like having a wardrobe fall on you in the middle of the night -- with the key still in the lock." This is sub-Roseanne Barr stuff. In the first or second scene Jean says she's trying to become a gay icon. But the filmmakers dutifully hold a pillow over any kind of camp sensibility until it stops breathing. That's the only thing that's done with any kind of confidence.
This movie doesn't tell us much about the Dwights, their friends, or their lovers. The last sequence is an emotional and psychological mystery, given what's come before it. Maybe there is a reason that an Englishwoman living in Australia would sing "Nutbush City Limits" at a loved one's wedding. But we never find out. A hundred minutes later and we still haven't gotten beyond introductions.
Wesley Morris can be reached at wmorris@globe.com. For more on movies, go to boston.com/ae/ movies/blog.
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Directed by: Cherie Nowlan
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Starring: Brenda Blethyn , Khan Chittenden , Richard Wilson , Emma Booth
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NH Supreme Court upholds murder conviction
CONCORD, N.H.—The New Hampshire Supreme Court is upholding the murder conviction of a man who, in an unrelated case, was tried four times and eventually cleared 10 years ago in a Nashua nightclub shooting.
The court ruled Wednesday that 32-year-old Dickens Etienne of Manchester will continue serving a life sentence for shooting 25-year-old Larry Lemieux once behind the ear in January 2004 after a simmering dispute over female acquaintances.
The justices rejected Etienne's arguments that the trial judge wrongly instructed the jury on self-defense and that prosecutors withheld evidence that a key witness got favorable consideration in an unrelated drug case.
The justices concluded there was "overwhelming evidence" of Etienne's premeditation to kill Lemieux, including statements he made to several acquaintances.
Less than an hour before the killing, Etienne instructed a friend to meet him at Etienne's Manchester house and to bring a gun. When Lemieux stepped on the porch for a pre-arranged meeting with Etienne, Etienne stepped forward and shot him behind the right ear, killing him instantly, the ruling states. Lemieux was armed, but there was no bullet in the chamber of his gun.
Etienne then drove to the Boston area, threw his gun in a reservoir in Brighton and gave his soiled clothing to his sister in Boston, telling her she would be his alibi.
Chief Justice Linda Dalianis parted with the majority and held that the trial judge erred in his jury instruction on the use of deadly force.
The judge told jurors that for Etienne to prevail on his self-defense argument, the jury must conclude that the amount of force used was "necessary for self-defense or defense of others."
Dalianis said there is no language in the law requiring a "necessity factor" on the use of deadly force. She said the majority grafted onto the statute a limitation the legislature chose not to include. She said, however, that she agreed with the majority on the remaining arguments Etienne made in his quest for a new trial.
Etienne's lawyer, public defender Christopher Johnson, could not immediately be reached for comment.
In 2001, following two mistrials and a conviction that was thrown out by the state Supreme Court, Etienne in a fourth trial was cleared of shooting three people at a Nashua nightclub in 1997. He had been charged with attempted murder and two counts of first-degree assault in relation to the shooting at an under-21 dance at the Bahama Beach Club.
He unsuccessfully sued the state for $10 million, claiming false imprisonment while awaiting trial on charges related to the nightclub shooting.
Etienne earlier this year was transferred to Connecticut's Northern Correctional Institution. He gained attention when he went on a hunger strike and wound up in a Connecticut hospital and in a Department of Correction complaint requesting a court order to force-feed him. He is now back in New Hampshire, incarcerated in the secure housing unit of the state prison in Concord.
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A Guide to Boston’s Neighborhoods: 14 do-it-yourself walking tours
A Guide to Boston’s Neighborhoods: 14 do-it-yourself walking tours of Boston’s Neighborhoods
Cities are best visited on foot; Boston is one of the best places to do just that. “America’s Walking City” is compact, relatively flat and pedestrian in scale. Especially targeted to city planners and those who are interested in planning, the Boston Planner’s Guide includes 14 do-it-yourself walking tours, each one-to-two hours long, that reveal the planning story of Boston as well as interesting parts of Cambridge and Brookline. The tours emphasize built environments created by planning, such as the new Greenway parks built above the new I-93 tunnel, the Harborwalk, and the “high spine” tall buildings in the Back Bay. The walking tours begin and end near subway stations. A small transit map is included in the Guide.
The Boston Planner’s Guide was prepared for the American Planning Association’s (APA) National Planning Conference being held in Boston, April 9-12, 2011. The Guide includes over a dozen walking tours highlighting sights of interest to city planners in Boston, Brookline and Cambridge. Through the self-guided tours in the Planner’s Guide, you will see and learn a lot about how planning in Boston and how our neighboring communities have influenced the way Boston looks and feels today. In addition, the Planner’s Guide includes a select restaurant guide at the end with short descriptions and a price guide. Special thanks to BRA Urban Designer Jessica Lord who was responsible for the graphic design of the Planners Guide. | http://www.bostonredevelopmentauthoritynews.org/2011/03/24/a-guide-to-boston-neighborhoods/ | 2013-05-18T10:53:04 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Boston Retail provides the highest quality, most reliable power products in the industry. Our UL and cUL listed Boston Gondola PowerStrips are the ideal solution for powering gondola shelving to create clean, safe and attractive retail environments. Various receptacle configurations are available for single and double sided units. And because they virtually eliminate the requirement for field terminations, overall labor costs are sharply reduced. Boston Gondola PowerStrips are a relocatable, reuseable sustainable product. If you can imagine it, we can create it.
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Favorite Store in Boston: Rag & Bone | Gant
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I for one am glad to see that backpacks are big right now. I have a large brown leather backpack that I have been wearing for years. It’s just so much easier to carry everything! And with all the great styles out right now you can look good doing it. He is not afraid of color, he pays attention to detail (look at that shoe/belt combo) and he is rocking an awesome backpack. Great look! | http://www.bostonstreetstyle.com/post/28197168400/self-described-style-classic-with-a-hint-of-rock | 2013-05-18T10:21:22 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
After a long winter, it's time to shed the boots & scarves and get out to enjoy the rites of Spring that Boston's famous for. From whale watches, walking tours, and Carousel rides to the first pitch at Fenway, April 8, the return of the Swan Boats to the Public Garden, April 13, Opening Night at the Pops, to Earth Day Celebrations and more - we invite you to share in Boston's favorite season. Put some "spring" into you step and join us for the 117th running of the Boston Marathon. Reigning champs Kenya's Wesley Korir and Sharon Cherop look to defend their titles while the Sox take home field. The Race also brings the inaugural Boston Running Film Festival at the Hynes Convention Center. Runners and spectators alike can enjoy a three-day festival of 19 full length and short films about running. Running attire not required.
Did you know that Boston is one of only two states in the country that celebrates Patriots Day?! Check our Calendar for the many commemorative events and activities planned in Lexington, Concord, Boston and beyond.
Does your closet need to get in shape this season? Run to enter (and win) a Marathon of Shopping. Prizes include 2 overnight stays, a dining gift certificate and multiple retail gift cards to Copley Place, Merrimack Premium Outlets & Wrentham Village Premium Outlets. Enter here. Spring means new beginnings so we'd like to introduce HUBa HUBa, The BostonUSA Blog -your source for wicked good things to do, see, explore, cheer, savor, learn, marvel, and simply enjoy in Boston, the Hub of the Universe (according to Oliver Wendell Holmes). Brought to you by the Greater Boston Convention and Visitors Bureau and hosted by area insider, Arthur Levine. Discover for yourself what all the "HUBa HUBa" is about!Here's a sampling of what you'll find:
What a Bunch of Clowns at City Hall! (Relax, It’s the Big Apple Circus.) The one-ring circus returns to town.Boston Marathon 2013: That’s One Long RaceDid you know it is the oldest annual marathon in the world? It IS Easy Being Green in BostonLearn how to ditch your car when you visit our fair city.Bruins and Brews (Bears and Beers)What's up with the team's jerseys? We've got the answers.This spring, ArtsBoston invites you to Get ARTventurous with over 10,000 half-price tickets to more than 50 of the region’s most beloved spring performances for kids and teens, and an exclusive opportunity to enter-to-win a VIP Experience with the Broadway world premiere musical Tuck Everlasting. Get ARTventurous from March 20 through April 30, 2013. is beautiful - especially in Spring - and the old cliche still holds true - a picture is worth a thousand words! Check out our BostonUSA Pinterest page filled with ideas about what to see, what to do, where to stay, where to eat and more!
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Get an Early Scoop on Summer!
Warm weather brings outdoor concerts and performances, movies by moonlight, sidewalk art exhibits, street festivals and a multitude of walking tours. Enjoy al fresco dining at fashionable sidewalk cafes, alongside the waterfront, picnicing in parks, and savoring cuisine from the many food trucks serving the city. July 4th brings Boston Harborfest 2013 an annual Festival with over 200 Daily Events concentrated in Boston's historic downtown and waterfront districts, with Main Events on Boston's City Hall Plaza. The Boston Harbor Islands beckon you to take a tour of historic Boston Light and enjoy an array of summertime activities - vintage baseball games, island yoga, kite flying, plays in the park, music festivals, clambakes, kayaking and more! Stroll through Faneuil Hall Marketplace where you'll find a lively atmosphere of street entertainers, unique shopping, history and worldwide cuisine.Summer Restaurant Week BostonAugust 17-22 & 24-29Cool food. Cooler prices at over 200 area restaurants.Boston Harbor Hotel's Entertainment Series offers evenings of complimentary entertainment where you can enjoy live music while relaxing on the harbor terrace.NEW this Year! OUTSIDE the BOX - a multi-arts festival of every artform; dance, traditional & spectacle theatre, music, circus, magic, mural painting, street art and culinary arts. For 8 days - 10 hours a day, from July 13 - 20 the city will host non-stop artworks and performances on Boston Common, City Hall Plaza, Copley Square, the Hatch Shell and other pedestrian-friendly venues. | http://www.bostonusa.com/visit/bostoneveryday/be/visitor-e-newsletter | 2013-05-18T11:01:24 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Event attendees will be happy to take these eco-friendly seed paper coasters home to plant flowers. Just send us your custom full color artwork, and we'll print the design right onto the seed paper. Not exclusively for coasters, this shape is also great for tags and promotional package inserts.
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GCSE grading crisis: fight to resolve 'injustice' (From Bournemouth Echo)
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GCSE grading crisis: fight to resolve 'injustice'
9:14am Thursday 13th September 2012 in News By Katie Clark
THE head of a leading Dorset academy is urging parents to write to their MP in a bid to resolve the GCSE English “mess”.
The crisis has seen thousands of students awarded lower than expected grades in the pivotal subject due to controversial grade boundary changes halfway through the school year.
Dr Terry Fish , head of Twynham School in Christchurch has now written to all parents encouraging them to hold all their MPs to account for the fiasco, which is having a “catastrophic effect on individual students”.
The school, which usually expects between 75 per cent and 80 per cent of students to gain a Grade C or above in GCSE English, was shocked when only 66 per cent of pupils had achieved a C grade or higher this year.
Dr Fish said: “We could not comprehend what had happened and it was only when the news broke across the country that we began to understand.
“As another head teacher said, the goalposts weren’t just moved, they were put on another planet.
“Our calculations show that 77 per cent of our students gained a Grade C in English based on the January grade boundaries.”
Commenting on the unfairness of the change in grade boundaries, he added: “Since we are not a school which “games the system” but concentrates on teaching well and submitting marks at the end of the course, our students were clearly very significantly disadvantaged and hence our English results.
“While this affects league tables, of far more importance is that about 67,000 young people across the country appear to have gained a Grade D in English rather than the C grade which they deserved since they had met the published criteria for that C grade.”
Dr Fish said any faith he had in the fairness of the examination system has been destroyed.
At The Bourne Academy in West Howe, Principal Jackie Steel said their English results had been slashed by 23 per cent.
She said: “They should have been similar to maths, which saw students get 61 per cent. Instead students in year 11 got a lower grade for English than the other subjects they took.
“Our students and staff worked their socks off to get good grades. They did extra lessons before school, after school, on Saturdays and in the holidays .
“We agree with Dr Terry Fish at Twynham School that it would be brilliant if parents and carers voiced their concerns and demanded that the Government ensures that the examination boards play fair for the children in this country.”
muscliffman says...
11:40am Thu 13 Sep 12
Ask any employer of younger people with these modern GCSEs in English and they will confirm it probably is best in many cases to ask the parents to write the letter!
This raising of standards was undeniably required and should be only the start.
How it was done on this occasion is naturally another matter and on this the Headteacher has a point.
simong says...
12:40pm Thu 13 Sep 12
Evry studint should get at least an 'A' grade for turnen up.
Its totilly rong to make these exams harder. Wat if you want to go to univercity and dont get in becus of this.
And the poor teechers mite have to do some extra work as well.
polblagger says...
1:54pm Thu 13 Sep 12
So what if the mid term exams were favourably marked in comparison. Pupils who take their exams early are nearly always in the upper levels of ability and would have gained good grades anyway.
This marking structure makes no overall difference in A level placements, the same kids are going for the same places in the same relative position they would have been anyway.
KermitTFrog says...
2:33pm Thu 13 Sep 12
polblagger says...
4:18pm Thu 13 Sep 12
Schools do not put C grade students forward to do exams early. Normally the kids that take exams early are A students, that's why the schools let them take the exams early, otherwise what would be the point?
Kids that are grizzling about getting a D instead of a C are going up against exactly the same people for A level and college places.
If a 6th form has 100 A level places that require a C pass, they're not going to reduce the course size if they have too few C applicants. They're going to take the best of the D students. In the same way they'd have had to choose from C students had it been oversubscribed.
The same kids are going to end up in the same places, just without the over inflated exam grades they wanted.
TBH the level of coursework in GCSE's makes them nearly worthless as a gauge of ability anyway.
Azphreal says...
5:10pm Thu 13 Sep 12
sea poole says...
5:45pm Thu 13 Sep 12
KermitTFrog says...
11:08pm Thu 13 Sep 12
This isn't about when students sat their exams or whether they were A grade or C grade students. Each student had to submit a piece of work which formed part of the overall grade. The pass mark for a C was up to 10 points higher in June than in January thereby putting those students who submitted their work in June at a disadvantage. Their overall grade was brought down by the higher pass mark required in June compared to January.
While I agree with you on the issue of the number of 6th form places etc it is not the only issue. Schools that failed to get a certain percentage of pupils obtaining A* to C in 5 subjects inc Maths & English are at risk of being classed as "treading water" or failing and being forced to become Academy Schools. Hardly fair when the goalposts have been moved rather significantly.
polblagger says...
8:08am Sat 15 Sep 12
If a student is capable of submitting a significant piece of course work 6 months early I doubt very much that they were on the cusp of a C/D grade.
As for the schools ranking system, they're in the same position as the students. If they were ranked 15th in their area last year, they'll still be ranked 15th this year.
KermitTFrog says...
10:44pm Sat 15 Sep 12
If you read the comments on the Times Educational Supplement forum you'll see the difference it makes.
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The following is taken from a news item on the BBC website which shows why the grades are important to the schools affected:
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polblagger says...
12:17pm Sun 16 Sep 12
As for school standings, the government can't turn every school that's outside the guidelines into Academies, so once again the status quo will remain unaffected.
I work with young people all the time and although exam results suggest that there are improvements year on year, my personal experience is quite the reverse. I work with young people who are post A Levels or degree, as interns and on work experience. Their standard of speech, written english and maths is mediocre at best. They have little or no problem solving skills and often lack leadership and social skills.
As an employer I have little or no respect for current qualifications. Apart from the generally vague standard the reliance on course work makes them next to worthless in my eyes.
Virtually every job has a degree of stress attached to it, not dissimilar to exam conditions, the idea that you can dodge that stress and pressure by doing coursework makes that qualification useless to me as a yard stick for employees. That's without getting into the fact that coursework can be palmed off to a third party, parents or plagiarised from the internet.
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On average - every day more than 10 young drivers are killed in crashes and over 700 are injured. Traffic crashes are the leading cause of teen fatalities..
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Text by Maria Santos. Pictures courtesy of Joanna Warsza
In a little over a week, the long-expected and controversial 7th edition of Berlin Biennale will open its doors at KunstWerke, presumably adding more and more virtual pages of vivid criticism to the many that had already been written.
Whenever I read the name of main curator Artur Żmijewski, it is always extremely close -in centimeters and meaning- to the adjectives “radical”, “controversial”, “provocative”, and so on, in what we could call the semantic field of the upcoming Biennale. But his name is also linked to the Applied Social Arts Manifesto. Convinced than art trascends the mere object and should focus on the intellectual discourse, he appointed curator and artist Joanna Warsza to work with him co-curating a show that seems to be symptomatic of the latests social events that have hit the world as we know it.
Their alternative way of conceiving the exhibition space as a platform for political statement is attracting many eyes on the subject. On the one hand, all this purpose still seems to be quite abstract for those who are impatiently wondering about the full listing of artists names, while on the other, some certain activist sectors don't fully agree with these ideas and are even talking about sabotaging the biennial. Not to mention the infamous Book Action... that aroused the whole debate around the freedom of speech, and the possible resemblance of this action with some infamous events in the recent history of Germany.
How can art change politics and evoke real effects in our society...?. Feeling especially concerned about the subject that the 7. Berlin Biennale embodies, I met Joanna Warsza at KunstWerke for a talk about their curatorial works and other things that came along the way.
Let's start from the very beginning. How did you meet Artur and end up on board of the curatorial team yourself?
I contacted him for the first time in 2010, when I wanted to work with an actor from one of his films. I knew that he was a difficult person, so I was expecting a casual, maybe not pleasant meeting, but we ended up having a really nice conversation. After that, we stayed in touch for a while and continued to talk sometimes. Then in January 2011, I got a one-sentence email in which he invited me to join the project as soon as possible. I still find surprising the fact that he trusted me even though we never worked together before.
You work as a team dealing with collectives and groups. How is that?
Yes, we work as a team and we also list the Russian collective Voina as associated curators. However they have never been to KW, they just continue working on their anti-govermental protests and on-ground resistance in Russia. Through our alliance their actions are again legitimized as art and they are legitimized as artists. We are also working with large collectives such as Occupy, we invited the groups who incited the shift of 2011 to make a parallel Biennale on the ground floor of KW, to advocate their ideas. It is an anti-curated space. We also work with Berlin-based think tank of artists and activists like the Center for Political Beauty, who look for moments of art in politics, or Mosireen from Egypt, who organizes what they call 'an image resistance' - initiatives like Tahrir cinema - to make people realize about the media manipulation and strategies.
Why did you decided to make an open call?
Artur Żmijewski announced an open-call before I joined the team. One of the reasons was to see how many people are interested in the cross-over of art and politics. If you get 5000 applications, you might think that all of them are. We decided to deal with all that material, to see the artists as part of the network, as social and political entities. We invited media activist Pit Schultz to reflect on the data. He inciated the online platform Artwiki, where artist can edit their profiles. This platform aims at privileging other then market-oriented representation in the internet. It has become a digital venue and will be launched on April 23rd and will last longer than the Biennale itself, hopefully for many years. But if you ask about our research I can tell you that we don't really do studio visits. We rather followed the news, and went to the places where important political or social events were taking place and looked how artists and culture producers responded to them.
You quote Okwui Enwezor and his idea of a Biennial (Biennales are the platforms for a real creative force and prompt curators to draw from within preexisting cultural and geographical loam). There's something inextricably utopic in this. Does it really sums up your goals, or better put, your mission?
I quoted him when I was doing a project at the Biennale de Belleville - Belleville is a district in Paris where a group of artists and curators decided to do a Biennale. I looked upon this extremely heterogenous district as potential readymade for a model of Biennale with national pavilions.The famous chinese restaurant Le President became Chinese pavilion, Niemeyer building -the site of the French communist party- a Brasilian pavilion- and a local super market the American pavilion. I used the infrastructure of the city to reflect on the local impact of this 'new community biennale' but also upon the Biennalisation at large, the dichotomy between the art and its urban, social and business effects. I definitely follow Enwezor anti-entertainment direction of Biennale construction, but I have to admit that we are probably more confrontative. We are not only showing art that intends to save the world.
Did you understand this as an exhibition about contemporary thoughts on politics or an attempt of political action itself?
The basic question for the research and exhibition was "how can art act for real", how can it be performative? I know, sounds like an avant-garde claim, but seems more than appropriate in our times. We feel the world doesn't need another Biennale as usual, maybe what is needed is an art strike from gallery weekends, dinners and deals. We rather try to make and represent the same scope of conflicts and issues going on in the society: (e.g. underrepresentation of Palestinian cause in the German debate, fear of hegemony of the church in the third world, discussion on controversial term of "expulsions of German population after World War II" and politics of memory, the questions about expanding the democratic field or exploitation of artists). Art is not a solution, is in fact a part of the problem.
What are the most common aesthetics generated from an artistic response that comes from the activism?
Well, pure aesthetics is not our criteria, but it also counts. The aesthetic judgement is to be done by the audience. A very important point for us is to show a parliament of opinions, not mere producers of aesthetic products. I still don't even know much about the formal aspects of the projects that will be presented at Berlin Biennale. In some cases we are also exhibiting things which won't be consider art by many people: like a billboard from a mobile company in Egypt that cut the connections during the revolution and monopolises on the image of the gathering people today.
KW has a strong identity, somehow that must be affecting the corporate image of a political Biennale, or even affecting the aesthetics of resistance. What degree of control do you have upon the desgin?
As far as I know, this institution is widely known for their most provocative exhibitions like Regarding Terror in 2005, an exhibition about the RAF that stirred a heated debate. Our design and aesthetic vocabulary is done by Bureau Mario Lombardo. The logo is composed of fonts used by Gazprom (Russian gas supplier oligarchs) the Euro symbol and a combination of contemporary power symbols. It refers to the transparency of current capitalist ideologies and makes them visible again. Yes, it is a strong image, you have to think about it, sometimes it takes a while to see something else than first associations.
How do you feel in Berlin? Is it really that free in here as people usually claim?
It feels very free but there is something in the background which one might call 'repressive tolerance', or even a dictate of “ Political Correctness”. But I will be probably one more curator out of thousands in the city, that will stay here with great pleasure.
During the conception process, did you have to change any idea? Had to let go some project or vary something?
When you work in such a big project it is normal to experience catastrophe and success every day. Martin Zet wanted to do a carpet out of the Thilo Sarrazin books forming a Turkish flag, but there are not enough copies for that. Only six books have been collected so far, even if he was touring Germany and meeting the collecting points. His installation will rather reflect on the lack of the books and the common resistance against the call.
You've been accused of many things: of being elitist, collaborate with the system, perpetrating sponsored acts of activism, generating bourgeois spectacle, and there is even that “'Polish Biennale” graffiti written there on the banner at the entrance of KW... What is your favourite critique so far, or the most hilarious?
Great question. Maybe the references to the sponsoring activism. I'm thinking that maybe we should collect all criticism we get and exhibit it, thanx for the hint.
What do you consider the first manifestation of art with a political intention in the History of Art?
Probably Futurism, and we feel directly inspired by this movement. They used to open their Futurist Evenings by addressing the audience as “Dear friends, or enemies perhaps”. They wanted to provoke people so they would have to defend themselves from the artists. Our idea is kind of the same: You will be asked to position yourself towards this Biennale.
I certainly learnt working with Artur Żmijewski to recognize what are our limits are, where exactly do I stand.
-There's been previous projects, ongoing ones and now everything is almost ready for the opening to the public on April 26th. What are you more excited about: the whole preparation, the launch, the reception... ?
I think I have to prepare for the earthquake that is approaching and, after that, for getting back to normal life after Biennale.
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Brand Health Check: Hovis
The bread brand has struggled to generate growth amid a fierce price war.
Hovis has endured a difficult time of late amid a fierce price war across the bread category, which has led some to speculate that its owner, Premier Foods, may sell off the family favourite to help secure its financial future.
In its 2011 full-year financial results, trading profit in its bread division was down a massive 90.4%, as aggressive pricing dominated the aisle, where Hovis is up against competition from the likes of Warburtons and Kingsmill.
As by far the biggest brand in the company's bread division, which also includes Mothers Pride and McDougalls, the writing down of the value of the division by £282m can only reflect badly on Hovis.
A dispute with Tesco in 2010 over passing on a price rise led to the retailer refusing to stock the range. While this was rectified last year, being absent from a supermarket with 30% share of the market has a knock-on effect.
Nonetheless, Hovis hasn't been standing still in the face of a tough market. In January, it revamped its packaging so that it now features a blue band running around the loaf to highlight the ingredients. In addition, a Union Jack design has been positioned behind the logo.
The brand also re-ran its blockbuster TV ad, 'Go on, lad', earlier this year in an effort to turn around its fortunes. The execution follows a young boy from 1886 buying a Hovis loaf, then running home through seven scenes from British history, including World War I, suffragette demonstrations and the miners' strike.
Earlier this month, Hovis also switched its ad account from Dare into JWT London in a bid to get some fresh thinking on its future creative strategy.
With the closing of one bakery, though, and the loss of 80 jobs, what does the bread brand need to do to raise its game?
We asked former Premier Foods head of marketing Sheraz Dar, who is now marketing director of Digital Property Group, and David Golding, partner at Adam & Eve, which works with FMCG clients.
SHERAZ DAR, MARKETING DIRECTOR, DIGITAL PROPERTY GROUP (FORMER PREMIER FOODS HEAD OF MARKETING)
Most of us can recall a Hovis ad. And let us not forget the 122-second 'epic' that celebrated 122 years of the brand a few years back. However, heritage and acclaimed advertising is only part of the brand challenge.
Hovis is a huge brand, so we do need some perspective. However, within an aggressive sector it isn't growing share and it isn't delivering the profits Premier Foods needs from it.
I sense consumers have fallen out of love with the brand and have leaned toward others such as Warburtons and Kingsmill in that space.
All brands can end up in aggressive pricing battles, but when the price point, in general, is higher, is there a stand-out reason to pick Hovis? Does it enjoy a quality advantage or motivating product differentiation versus the competition to justify it?
The fallout with Tesco last year when the brand was off the shelves will not have helped either. Who took up the slack and did Hovis ever get that back?
I get the impression that many of the challenges are operational, and not just marketing-centric.
REMEDY
- Is there an appetite to take Warburtons and Kingsmill head on? Creating a range of standout products could let Hovis embark on a consumer taste mission.
- Inject some fun into the product and the communications to help invigorate the brand.
- This will put it at the forefront of consumers' minds and liven up the category.
- Focus on improving retailer relations - no presence, no sales.
DAVID GOLDING - FOUNDING PARTNER, ADAM & EVE
Since the success of 'that ad', Hovis has suffered from the dual curses of a reduction in marketing spend year on year, and an inconsistent and more product-focused strategy.
It couldn't have picked a worse time to lose its mojo as it continues to be at the mercy of fluctuating wheat prices and de-listing spats with Tesco.
Consumers look to brands that display confidence during hard times and Hovis could have been a beacon of enduring values through thick and thin (the economy, not the slices).
It also feels as if the innovation in this sector is coming from the premium end, from 'proper' bakers such as Gail's and Paul. Artisan products and specialist brands are flourishing, but, sadly, Hovis has failed to secure a lasting brand health from that flush of success.
REMEDY
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- Recognise the power of creating a lasting emotional brand connection, especially in tough economic times.
- Enduring values need to be demonstrated in relevant actions. A combination of a consistent brand message and bright innovations around that would give Hovis a vital sense of momentum and trust.
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Michael Otis "Tiny" Felder was born 51 years ago today.
On this day in 1961 Michael Otis "Tiny" Felder was born in Vallejo, California. The Brewers drafted him in the third round of the 1981 January draft and he went on to have a pretty long major league career for a guy who was only listed at 5'8" and 160 pounds.
Felder got a cup of coffee with the 1985 team for his major league debut, and played parts of six seasons with the Brewers. He hit just .247/.301/.323 over 455 games but made up for some of that by stealing 108 bases in 135 attempts. That's still good enough for tenth on the Brewer all-time list.
The Brewers released Felder in spring training in 1991 but he went on to play four more major league seasons as a member of three teams. His B-Ref Bullpen page says he spent 2011 as an assistant coach at Academy of Art University.
Felder turns 51 today. With help from Brewerfan.net and the B-Ref Play Index, we'd also like to wish a happy birthday to:
- 2012 Helena Brewer Michael Reed, who turns 20.
- 2004-07 Brewer Matt Wise, who turns 37.
- 1991-92 Brewer Dante Bichette, who turns 49. We covered his birthday in this space last year.
Today is also 1988-91 Brewer Gary Sheffield's 44th birthday.
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Feb 26, 2012; Phoenix, AZ, USA; Milwaukee Brewers starting pitcher Yovani Gallardo (49) during photo day at Maryvale Baseball Park. Mandatory Credit: Jake Roth-US PRESSWIRE
Can the Brewers turn last night's come-from-behind win into a winning streak today? If you're in Wisconsin and near a TV you'll be able to watch them try as FS Wisconsin broadcasts their first game of the spring.
Follow us after the jump for today's pitching matchup, then join us in the comments to discuss today's game!
Today we'll see Yovani Gallardo (3.52 ERA, 3.59 FIP in 2011) make his spring training debut, the first of six scheduled Cactus League appearances for the Brewers' projected Opening Day starter. Gallardo is coming off a year where he pitched a career-high 207.1 innings during the season plus 19 more in the playoffs, so the Brewers are planning on giving him a light workload this spring.
Gallardo has never faced the A's during the regular season.
He'll face former National pitcher Tom Milone (4.50 ERA this spring, 3.81/3.56 ERA/FIP in 2011), spending his first spring with the A's after coming over in the Gio Gonzalez trade over the winter. Milone is 25 and just made his major league debut for the Nats in 2011, making five September starts. Prior to that, he had a career 3.05 ERA in 516.2 innings in the minors.
Here's some of what John Sickels said about Milone in his 2012 Baseball Prospect Book:
At some point, you just have to put the radar guns away. Tom Milone is a pitcher. His fastball is just in the 80s, but he has pinpoint location and mixes it with a good changeup, adequate cutter and curve. His delivery is deceptive, which plays his stuff up, and hitters just can't seem to pick up the ball on him.
Sickels listed Milone as a B- prospect for 2012.
As of this writing I haven't seen today's Brewer lineup. If you have, please drop it in the comments.
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21 March 2011
I am writing to you to explain the position of the University over the strike action called by UCU over pensions. I fully respect the right of union members to strike. However, I believe that the reasoning behind the strike is flawed.
The recent cuts in our funding from HEFCE are examples of the severely challenging financial environment in which we now operate. Growing existing and new sources of income will help offset funding cuts. However, we have to address the substantial cost pressures that face us, and the growth of pension costs is one of the most significant challenges we face.
Every three years, pension schemes undergo a formal valuation which calculates the value of their assets compared to an assessment of the value of the future liabilities of the pensions they are funding. At the last valuation of USS in 2008, the trustees calculated that the scheme was ‘fully funded’ as long as employer contributions increased from 14% to 16% of salary, which they did. Since then, the financial position has deteriorated significantly. An interim valuation in March 2010 calculated that USS had a deficit of assets, compared to liabilities, of around £7bn measured on an accounting basis. The University of Bristol’s ‘share’ of this would be around £140m.
We don’t know what the results of the 2011 formal valuation of USS will show, but we fully expect a significant deficit that will have to be addressed by either increased contributions or changes in benefits, or both. The University cannot afford to increase its contributions.
As members, we expect our scheme to pay us for a much longer retirement compared to when the scheme was established in 1975. The average life expectancy of USS members has increased by over 13 years since then, and longevity expectations continue to rise. These welcome changes in life expectancy have, unfortunately, added significant pressure to the affordability of the pension scheme, and pension benefits need to take this into account.
The proposals have been designed and communicated in such a way as to preserve the overall scheme. There has been extensive communication and consultation about the proposed changes to USS. A summary is available. The complete proposals are also available (PDF format).
Also, we must not lose sight of the fact that it will continue to provide final salary pensions to existing USS members and a career average salary scheme to future new USS members.
These proposals are born out of a commitment to the future of the scheme. The reason that the proposed changes were put forward is that university employers want to safeguard the scheme for existing and future members, with the best benefits that are affordable.
Professor Eric Thomas, Vice-Chancellor
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JULIA Gillard was at her best again in taking the fight up to her critics over the AWU affair. Well prepared and tough, she gave no quarter. Her message was: I've done no wrong, and if you think otherwise, make the accusation, produce the evidence.
As a lawyer, she knows how to defend herself. But also, no convincing case has been advanced to indicate she was party to wrongdoing, or knew of it.
She was, however, operating among dishonest people, one of them, Bruce Wilson, her then boyfriend, and the other, Ralph Blewitt, now a chief accuser, to whom she has given one hell of a character reference.
Blewitt returned to the fray on the ABC last night. For the Prime Minister to be in a public altercation with a self-confessed crook is hardly desirable, even though her word must be good against his. She is paying a high price for the rough company she kept in the 1990s.
The opposition's question time attack fell flat after Gillard's pre-emptive strike. But the Coalition is not backing off - in fact, Julie Bishop ramped up the allegations when she later said Gillard had been involved in a breach of the law.
It now comes down to how the public sees this battle. The opposition thinks that tarnishing Gillard will work to its longer-term advantage. The huge file that Tony Abbott's chief of staff Peta Credlin had when she was pictured with Bishop said it all.
Gillard is banking on ordinary people being turned off by the rehashing of matters ''re-recycled over 20 years.''
Putting the knife in, she told voters Abbott, unlike John Howard, did not have ideas for the nation's future - hence the ''sleaze and smears''.
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Curiosity Arrives on Mars
By Monday afternoon, we will know one of two new things about Mars: either NASA will have set a new rover down on its surface, or there will be a heap of metal where the rover tried to land. (See the ‘Seven Minutes of Terror’ video that has been making the rounds in the blogosphere.)
Given NASA’s generally strong record, we’ll bet on the former, which opens up a world of new things to know about Mars. The rover, called Curiosity, will put down at a destination within Gale Crater beginning at 1:30 AM EDT on August 6; through its homepage at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory of the California Institute of Technology, NASA will broadcast the proceedings online here. After it lands, it will spend nearly two years gathering mineral samples that it drills from rocks or scoops up from the ground, covering a distance of as much as a kilometer and a half each week. Curiosity’s overarching mission is to determine whether the landing area, at the base of a sedimentary mountain, “has ever had or still has environmental conditions favorable to microbial life.” If the rover provides evidence in the affirmative, it will change our understanding of the nature and history of life in our solar system. See here for more about the mission.
Curiosity will be the fourth rover on the planet. Following Sojourner’s arrival in 1997, two additional rovers, Spirit and Opportunity, landed on Mars in January 2004. They were charged with gathering information about the existence and state of water on the planet. Spirit and Opportunity, each with six wheels, analyzed the soil, rocks, and dust in the vicinity of their landing sites. Both rovers sent back evidence of past water—and Opportunity even discovered the first sedimentary rocks known to us on the planet, which appear to have lined the shore of an ancient sea.
Water is the without-which-nothing of life. Answering the question it is charged to take on, Curiosity will help fulfill one of the goals of NASA’s overall program for this initial phase of the exploration of Mars: namely, to determine whether life ever arose on the planet, to develop a comprehensive account of its climate and geology, and to prepare for human exploration of the planet. Stay tuned. | http://www.britannica.com/blogs/2012/08/curiosity-arrives-mars/ | 2013-05-18T10:13:16 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Caerleon Legionary Fortress
Priory Field Excavations 2008
Friday 24th July
"By Jupiter, we've made it!" Andy and Pete
A very busy final day, with a certain amount of stress, but things all worked out in the end. Even though we managed to avoid the temptation of digging up until the last minute, there are still lots of things to do to close the site down, and a thundery shower just after 9am didn't help. Luckily it didn't last - Jupiter was just playing a final game with us! Cleaning the tools and sheds and dismantling the tents occupied many of the team today, along with final finds processing, photography and recording. By about 3pm things were looking a little dodgy, but somehow it all came together and by 6pm we were enjoying a celebratory glass of bubbly, with the site covered in plastic sheeting ready for backfilling and only our own tents to take down.
This is the last blog entry for the 2008 season, and we would both like to say a final thank-you to everyone who has helped us - the supervisors, students and volunteers on-site and the wide range of other people off-site, including local politicians and police officers, members of Cadw and the National Roman Legion Museum, and of course our caterers Steve Ash and Lorraine Cashman. It has been a very successful season and we couldn't have done it without you.
We'll continue to periodically update this website with our progress on the post-excavation in the coming months, so do keep it bookmarked.
Andy and Pete
Thursday 23rd July
"It is the duty of a good shepherd to shear his sheep, not to skin them" Tiberius
Our penultimate day and we begin the final stages of recording and cleaning. The only work in the trench today was a quick overall clean for photographs of the whole area to be taken, recording the point which we have reached this season. We also got to work on processing our environmental samples, which should provide both ecological and chronological data about the various post-Roman phases we have identified, while the supervisors concentrated on finalising plans and context records.
During our afternoon public tour, we were delighted to welcome our 3000th visitor, Megan Thorne of Cowbridge. To mark the milestone we presented Megan with an inscribed tile. The level of public interest in and support for our work this year has been one of the most satisfying aspects of the excavation, and made six weeks living in a tent worthwhile! We couldn't have survived without a range of local supporters too, and we took the opportunity this evening to thank the people who have fed us and otherwise looked after us in the local community, with more inscribed tiles being presented and a few glasses of bubbly consumed.
Posted by Andy 28/7/08
Our 3000th Visitor, Megan Thorne
Finds Supervisor Chris Waite receiving her inscribed tile
Wednesday 22nd July
"They were once ruled by kings, but are now divided under chieftains into factions and parties. Our greatest advantage in coping with tribes so powerful is that they do not act in concert" Tacitus
Today was the last day of digging for 2008 and we have managed to achieve everything that we set out to do at the beginning of the week - at 5.15 this afternoon the team downed tools and we spent a few moments contemplating the site after almost 6 weeks of continual excavation. We have completely excavated the most recent medieval building within the trench, exposed the full extent of the second phase building(s) that appear to have been built up against, or possibly over, the front wall of the military warehouse, and we have also opened up large areas within the warehouse to reveal areas of internal and external floors associated with the legionary phase of occupation at Isca. The trench contains almost 1800 years of Caerleon's history and, although I am rather biased, I must say it looks fantastic.
We now have 2 days to complete the recording of the exposed archaeology, finish the processing of the finds and environmental samples, and pack away the tools and equipment to be taken away to Cardiff next week. Although this might sound like a lot of work, we have plenty of willing hands and I am confident that, with a fair wind behind us and a bit of luck, come the end of the excavation of Friday afternoon we will have it all done and be ready to celebrate the conclusion of another successful season at Caerleon.
PG
Tuesday 21st July
"They use either brass or iron rings, determined at a certain weight, as their money" Julius Caesar
The building inscription that James first uncovered all those weeks ago, and which Anna excavated last week, has been cleaned and now sits proudly in the finds cabin waiting to be moved to the National Roman Legion Museum. In Latin it reads:
> FLAVI
RVFI
PP
which when translated means:
"[built by] Primus Pilus (First Spear) Centurion Flavius Rufus"
So the stone was erected to commemorate the work of legionaries under the command the Second Augustan Legion's senior centurion, who was not the Rufinus or Rufinius recorded on the building stone discovered during the 1920s excavation of the amphitheatre as we originally thought. More research will be required to find out if we know any more about Flavius Rufus, but the Priory Field stone might add a new name to the (very short) list of Roman soldiers known to have served with the legion based at Isca.
PG
Flavius Rufus Inscription
Monday 20th July
"Power has no limits" Tiberius
Today we attacked the last remaining areas of rubble associated with the post-warehouse buildings, mattocking and shovelling across most of the western part of the trench. Many tonnes of masonry, brick, tile and soil were removed from the excavation in dozens of wheelbarrows as the students and their supervisors looked for the latest archaeological layers belonging to the military warehouse in preparation for our second season of excavations. Everyone worked extremely hard under the hot Welsh sun and in the evening we recovered from a tiring day as the team enjoyed a picnic in Wentwood.
Yesterday was the last day of National Archaeology Week. Over 1000 people visited the excavation during the week - thanks to all the students who helped giving tours and explaining the site to the public!
PG
Visitors to the site during National Archaeology Week
Sunday 19th July
"Rather let the crime of the guilty go unpunished than condemn the innocent" Justinian I
So our final week begins. We are aiming to spend the last day or two doing final recording and clearing up, so our number of full-on digging days left is alarmingly small now. In the time left we want to remove as much of the rubble that does not seem to be relevant to any of our structures as we can. Today we made progress on cleaning up a number of areas of walling associated with the post-warehouse structures for recording, including the collapsed earth-bonded wall (see picture below). The structure this relates to is particularly interesting, sitting as it does between the definitely Roman and definitely Medieval phases. We are constantly trying to figure out if it respects sections of upstanding Roman walling, or was built after these had been removed - unfortunately a direct physical relationship has not been preserved. Answering this question will have big implications for the building's date, not to mention its plan.
We are very pleased that this week several of the diggers from the earlier group of students are returning at various points to help out with the last few days. Hopefully this is a sign of a good dig! Actually I think that a major reason for this is the quality of the food provided by Steve Ash and by the White Hart. There are probably too many military metaphors in archaeology, but a digging team definitely marches on its stomach and this excavation wouldn't have worked without such fantastic local support.
Posted by Andy 21/7/08
Collapsed wall of post-warehouse structure (with unexcavated baulk at centre)
Friday 18th July
The form of the entire country [of Britain] has been compared by Livy and Fabius Rusticus, the most graphic among ancient and modern historians, to an oblong shield or battle-axe" Tacitus
Another Friday rolls around, and today has seemed quite tough for many people - the fatigue of several weeks in tents is starting to kick in. However, we still achieved a lot today and with a day's rest will be ready for the final push. At this point, we seem to have arrived at a good understanding of the broad sequence. We have our Roman warehouse, its external and internal stone walls partially robbed, but manifesting at least two major phases of activity. Then we have another, smaller structure, with internal partitions too, built of narrow, unmortared masonry which collapsed in several places. Associated with this structure appear to be areas of rubble surface and of rough opus signinum-like flooring. On top of the debris of the collapse of this building we then have the roughly flagged building, without any surviving walls (presumably these were of timber) but with a grain-bin of some kind at its centre. Finally, we have the large pit of mysterious purpose mentioned by Pete on Monday, which seems to be 14th century in date.
Thus the structural phases all fit in-between the construction of the stone fortress in the 2nd century AD and the 14th century, and our main remaining problems for this season are to do with tightening this chronology. Partly this will come from finds (and from radiocarbon dates we will be getting for some of our samples), but partly it will come from looking hard at the stratigraphy in the next few days and pinning down the key episodes of rubble accumulation and of stone-robbing that intervene in the sequence I've described. In this kind of archaeology, it's as much about what we aren't finding as what we are - when particular walls were removed is an important part of the story of life on this site in the Medieval period.
Having said that tomorrow is a day of rest, some of us will be on site during the day to welcome visitors as we approach the end of National Archaeology Week.
Posted by Andy 18/7/08
Thursday 17th July
"Wherever there is a human being, there is an opportunity for a kindness" Seneca
Another good day with lots of progress on site and lots of visitors, including the Welsh Assembly Minister for Heritage, Rhodri Glyn Thomas AM. It is great now to have quite a lot to show people visiting the site, with more elements of the Roman building emerging and adding to the complexity of the sequence we have exposed. Interestingly the foundations of the main walls of the warehouse are not as far down as we thought they might be, which should mean we have plenty of time in the next season to investigate larger areas of the internal flooring.
Within the area of the later (probably Medieval) flagged building we have also been investigating a curious slab-lined feature of some depth, which seems to have quite a lot of charred seeds in its fill and may thus be an an agricultural storage or drying facility (it is rather too deep to be a hearth). With the excavation of this feature, and removal of some of the standing baulks we'd left in the western half of the trench, we are gradually shifting our focus to the eastern side where the main line of the Roman building lies, and defining that more fully in preparation for the future phase of work.
Posted by Andy 18/7/08
Rhodri Glyn Thomas AM with Pete and Andy
Wednesday 16th July
"Remember all these things and consider nothing great but this: do what Nature bids you and suffer what Life brings" Marcus Aurelius
Today in Josh’s team we continued excavating and cleaning the cobbled surface in Area 2 and yet more ‘small finds’ were discovered. These included a coin, found by Emma, tentatively dated to the early 4th century by Mike our resident coin fanatic. Sadly I’ll be finishing my time here on Friday - the time has flown by so quickly that I can’t believe I’ve been here for three weeks already! I’ve learned so much during my time at Caerleon including how an excavation works from trowel to paperwork and I’ve also been given a taster of what it’s like presenting archaeology to the public. I spent a day giving tours of the site yesterday with Kim and I really enjoyed telling visitors what we have discovered so far - it made trying to overturn heavy wheelbarrows onto the spoil heap in the rain last week seem worth it! Even though I’ve previously been on several excavations I definitely feel I’ve become a much more confident digger over the past three weeks. I have also enjoyed myself far more than I imagined I would and this is not only due to some really interesting archaeology, but also to some really fantastic people - thanks guys, it’s been very very good!
Rosie Oliver, Undergraduate Student, Durham University
Tuesday 15th July
"Carpe diem! Rejoice while you are alive; enjoy the day; live life to the fullest; make the most of what you have. It is later than you think" Horace
Finally, we have found some walls belonging to the legionary warehouse! The front wall was robbed down to its rubble foundations, but at least one of the internal mortared walls and floors of two rooms survive in reasonable condition. We now think that our trench includes the remains of at least three buildings - the original warehouse, a masonry 'lean-to' structure built against the warehouse's front wall, and the flagstone building (possibly medieval) with associated yard surfaces. Anna was given the task of lifting the centurial stone while being filmed by colleagues from the National Roman Legionary Museum, who are planning to mount a temporary display about our excavations later this year.
PG
Interior wall of the warehouse, with floors either side and foundations of the outside wall in front
Monday 14th July
"They [the Britons] wear their hair long, and have every part of their body shaved except their head and upper lip" Julius Caesar
The pit being excavated by Mike's team ended up going down at least 1.2 m - we were forced to stop digging when we hit the water table with more rubble continuing downwards! To the south Josh's diggers recorded over 20 'small finds' (mainly metal objects) from a small area of soil overlying a cobbled surface, while Caroline and her team continued exposing and cleaning the area of beautifully laid flagstones. Meanwhile Deon's team completed the excavation of a trench to rob the masonry from the wall that possibly divided the warehouse's courtyard from the front range of rooms.
Many visitors came to see us today, including a group of Anglican bishops and several fellow archaeologists from Egypt and Kenya taking part in the International Curatorial Training Programme through the British Museum and the National Museum Wales. We were also pleased to welcome Rosemary Butler, National Assembly for Wales member for Newport West, to Priory Field to celebrate National Archaeology Week - we are grateful to Rosemary for her continued support of this project and British archaeology in general. In the evening a minibus drove down to Goldcliff on the Gwent Levels where we paddled in our wellies along the shore and skimmed stones on the Severn.
PG
Rosemary Butler AM with Peter Guest
Pete and Andy with Mohammed, Moamen, Lydia and Eileen (participants in the International Curatorial Training Programme) and Mark from the NRLM
Sunday 13th July
"Let each day be so fashioned as though it were closing the line of days and completely fulfilling life" Seneca
Today is the start of National Archaeology Week, the UK's annual celebration of all things archaeological co-ordinated by the CBA, and we will be running tours of the trench and activites of adults and children every day until July 20th. It is also the beginning of the last two weeks of this year's excavation and, sadly, we said goodbye to just under half of the digging team on Friday as we begin the push towards the end of the 2008 season.
Mike's team spent most of the day digging out a very large pit-like feature in front of the 'late' flagstone floored building in the centre of the trench. This formidable hole had been backfilled with large quantities of rubble and we were all rather surprised to find a sherd of 14th green glazed pottery close to what we hope is the bottom of the pit!
PG
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M/S of a man in an old-fashioned army uniform firing a musket. Various shots of army memorabilia at the National Army Museum; lots of rifles, pistols, general firearms. A woman works on restoring an old tattered flag, cleaning it with a water spray; other flags and pennants...
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Housewife who at weekends is a trial bike rider, Hounslow, London.
Wimbledon tennis match where Rene Lacoste beats H Cochet by three sets to one.
A 6 year old Parisian boy shows off his skills on his motorcycle.
French taxi-driver sets a new record by using seven parachutes in a single 1200 metres jump.
Footage of Girl puppeteer Rene Strange in action, London.
Assembly, pan of cabinet members, Gaillard shaking hands with Rene Coty.
French defence minister visits Indochina to meet King of Cambodia
President Rene Coty's drive through streets of Rome.
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Today’s Choices Ad
Today’s Irish Independent.
Yeah right.
A skinny guard.
Previously: The Choices We Make
Today’s Irish Independent.
Yeah right.
A skinny guard.
Previously: The Choices We Make
The New York Post reports:
The ad is a riff on Jackson’s viral video “Go the F–k to Sleep,” where he narrates a children’s book written by Adam Mansbach.
“It’s definitely going to get attention,” said Mansbach, who is writing the script for Jackson’s ad and said it would appear on YouTube on Sept. 24.
A promo trip around Clery’s, Dublin, in 1934.
Your host: Mr Cholmondeley-Warner’s camp brother.
Thanks Andrew Sheridan
‘Poem’
Ciaran le Cool writes:
I like this a lot. Dubliner William Armstrong has had his first test ad shortlisted for the Cannes Lions Young Director Award, which is announced this week.”It’s 60 seconds, produced for €0, ‘a car ad without a car’.”
Formerly confined to Metro London.
Now gone Underground
Isobel Byrne sez:
A genuinely offensive ad on the London tube. Good to know that everyone in the EU has our backs.
Rome Reborn is an international initiative to create a 3D digital model of the ancient city as it might have appeared in A.D. 320.
Rome Reborn: A Tour Of Ancient Rome As It Would Have Appeared in A.D 320 (Presurfer)
Update: It was IRISH-made!
Breffni O’Malley writes:
Did you know the Rome video you posted [above]was created by an Irish company? We’re Noho and we specialise in video, motion graphics and 3D, particularly historical and cultural content. We worked with Bernie Frischer and the folks at Rome Reborn for several months to update and add animations to their original model of Rome; it was a lot of work, but we’re delighted with the results! The footage is now part of an exhibition touring around Europe. We’ve got an interactive DVD and iPad app in the works for later this year too. | http://www.broadsheet.ie/tag/ad/ | 2013-05-18T10:42:02 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Today's open discussion thread, complete with your daily dose of Philadelphia Flyers news and notes...
- What can the Flyers expect out of Jaromir Jagr? We have a growing consensus: [FlamesNation]
- The Flyers finally announced they signed Tye McGinn to an entry-level contract: [Philadelphia Flyers] [CSNPhilly]
- Thank you, Google News: Ian Laperriere will be the Grand Marshal for Ocean City New Jersey's "Night in Venice Boat Parade". Simply amazing: [Cape May County Herald]
- Worried about Pronger? Here's a trade proposal to help allay your fears: [Philly Reign]
- A nice personal anecdote on why homophobic slurs have no place in society, let alone hockey: [Down Goes Spezza]
- An even better personal tale about being a gay Leafs fan: [PPP]
- Ugh, so who are the "easiest teams to root for"? You won't like the formula: [Puck Daddy]
- Have no fear, the Jets will be unveiling their logo soon. So stop sending them concepts: [Winnipeg Free Press]
- Reasons Steven Stamkos hasn't signed yet: [Down Goes Spezza]
- A great goal from an Israeli is now in the conversation for goal of the year: [Puck Daddy]
- This crazy video from the 1920s NHL is absolutely worth watching: [SBNation.com]
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New graduate student orientation - Sept. 14
Published on August 17 2010
The tradition continues
The Faculty of Graduate Studies continues its September tradition of welcoming new graduate students to Brock.
Marilyn Rose, Dean, Faculty of Graduate Studies, has invited all incoming graduate students to join her for breakfast at the annual New Graduate Student Orientation, Tuesday, Sept. 14. The breakfast will begin at 8:30 a.m. in Pond Inlet and will be followed by an information marketplace, from 9:30 to 10:30 a.m., where students can learn about the many services offered at Brock.
“This is one of my favourite events of the year as we bring together students from across all Faculties,” says Rose. “I look forward to meeting our new students and giving them the opportunity to meet each other. This is a wonderful way for new students to begin to find their place within our growing community of graduate researchers.”
New graduate students who plan to attend the breakfast must register online at experience.brocku.ca by August 20. For more information, please contact Tammy Woodhouse-Gilby at twoodhousegilby@brocku.ca | http://www.brocku.ca/news/12889 | 2013-05-18T10:31:36 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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conscientious objectors
UPDATED: So what happened with HG&D and school board?...
Why is that a problem? According to the editorial by Geophysicist Phil Chapman from the Australian:. | http://www.brookfieldnow.com/blogs/communityblogs/43481087.html?action=blog_archive&startDate=04-01-2008&endDate=04-30-2008&blogID=43473697 | 2013-05-18T10:13:01 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Ashley Furniture to open on Blue Mound Road
Ashley Furniture will open a store in the 33,000-square-foot former Linens 'n Things space at 16300 W. Blue Mound Rd. in Brookfield.
Gary Stein and Peter Glazer of CB Richard Ellis represented the landlord, according to an announcement from the real estate firm.
Ladies Night Event Raises ALL TIME High for Foundation Programs
The 7th Annual Ladies Night event sponsored by Pasternak & Zirgibel, S.C. was held on November 30, 2010 and raised an all time high of over $27,000 to help sustain and grow Foundation programs. Nearly 300 guests filled the Westmoor which was beautifully decorated for the holidays.
Guests had the opportunity to socialize with ladies from across the Elmbrook School District, enjoy delicious hors d'oeuvres and desserts, and take a chance to win one of the fabulous raffle/auction/mystery bag items donated by residents and members of our local business community.
Brookfield pays woman who brought gun to church $7,500:
Florida breakfast chain coming to Brookfield
First Watch, a Bradenton, Fla.-based chain of daytime-only restaurants, will make its Wisconsin debut at the Brownstones Shopping Center in Brookfield this year.
The restaurants serve fresh breakfast items and sandwiches, made to order.:
A Purrrfect Birthday Celebration at Elmbrook Humane Society
A purrrfect Birthday Celebration!
Elmbrook Humane Society Shelter Name Game!!
Elmbrook Humane Society Shelter Name Game
RIVALRY BETWEEN WISCONSIN AND ILLINOIS HAS GONE TO THE DOGS…AND CATS!
The epic battle between the Green Bay Packers and the Chicago Bears has polarized our residents, and now our best friends are getting into the rivalry! This Sunday, the Elmbrook Humane Society in Brookfield, WI. and The Anti-Cruelty Society in Chicago, IL. are betting high humiliation stakes on their respective home teams!
Fur for the Soul
There are a lot of people who think I am nuts. I live with 2 dogs, one cat, and 3 humans. The cat is the perfect housemate unless he wants to eat. Then he gets rather testy. The dogs go on walks (with me, of course) twice daily. The younger dog is involved in competitive obedience so we go to training sessions twice weekly and we also visit with people at nursing homes, schools, and adult day cares once or twice a month. The 3 humans are a ton of work. Still, you can find me most weekday mornings walking a few dogs at EBHS. When I walk through the gate, the greeting I get is beyond belief. If the dogs know me from previous walks, they are barking or wagging their tails. New dogs often stand there, shivering with anticipation. If I speak to them, they get even more excited. I am happy when I can get them outside; the barking in the kennel area inside can be annoying. Dogs are such social animals. Walking up and down the street for any amount of time or playing in the back, you’d think they’d gone to heaven. They don’t care who you are or what you look like or what you feel like. Just being with you is enough for them. If the weather isn’t that conducive to walking, they are happy to be brushed, petted, and talked to. I can come to the shelter feeling tired or in a bad mood and I always leave refreshed. The time I spend there is truly fur for the soul. Monica
Student charged with putting eyedrops in roommate's water, cites 'Wedding Crashers' for idea
A Brookfield woman who told police she was inspired by a scene in the movie “Wedding Crashers” has been charged with putting eyedrops in her college roommate’s water bottle to make her sick.
Luciana Reichel, 22, faces a single count of placing foreign objects in edibles, a felony punishable by up to 3 ½ years in prison. Her initial appearance is set for March.
Indoor Playdate to benefit Elmbrook Humane Society
Too cold to play outside??
Come to the EBHS Indoor Play Date
Saturday, January 29
Saturday, February 19
Saturday, March 19
10am-12pm
Location: Central Bark - W227N6193 Sussex Road in Sussex
Playgroup for dogs of all ages, sizes and breeds. $3.00 to play, per dog (all money will be donated to EBHS). Socialization for dogs during these cold winter months. Have your dog burn off energy and help animals in need! Meet some of our adoptable dogs!
Please feel free to post and promote this event.
In memory of William (Bill) Earl Polley ..... Physics teacher, Elmbrook Nature Center, etc.
Elmbrook retiree, William (Bill) E. Polley, passed away December 29, 2010 at the age of 88. Bill began his career within the Elmbrook School District as a physics teacher and Science Department Chair at Brookfield High School (later Brookfield Central High School) in 1955. In 1972, Bill accepted the position of District Coordinator/Supervisor of Science, Mathematics and Health (grades 7-12) and served in this position until his retirement in 1983. He was also the faculty advisor for the BCHS Photo Club.
Bill was the main person responsible for acquisition by the Board of Education of the 11 acre Nature Center site behind Brookfield East High School. During 1980-1983 he wrote competitive grant projects to the Wisconsin Department of Public Instruction for federal money to design, develop, and equip the Elmbrook Nature Center that is being used by every kindergarten through 6th grade student in the Elmbrook School district along with many biology students. Bill was proud of his work on this project, in particular, and he spoke fondly of the Nature Center up to the time of his death.
Abercrombie closed at Brookfield Square
Abercrombie has closed both its Abercrombie & Fitch and its abercrombie kids stores at Brookfield Square, as part of a nationwide pullback for the upscale teen clothing chain.
Abercrombie announced last year that it would close 65 stores by the end of January, and another 50 stores by January 2012. Abercrombie's sales have improved in recent months, after sliding during the two previous recession years.
Age Gracefully. Live Longer.
It has been a big eye opener for me to experience first hand through my client's stories how aging is affecting the quality of their lives. The majority of middle age men and women as they age succumb to their age related symptoms: low energy, loss muscle tone, loss memory, loss concentration, difficulty losing weight and mood changes. They feel this is ' how it's supposed to be '. Most of us are concerned about growing older and having to depend on someone else to take care of us or have to live with a chronic debilitating disease that will affect the functioning and quality of our lives. Most of us wonder since we have lived with chronic degenerative disease if aging healthy is really a possibility.
The good news is that working with my clients and the scientific community is that, though it is normal to have some bodily function decline, your quality of life does not have to diminish. In fact you CAN remain healthy, with vitality, stamina and energy for a longer time by aging successfully.
Packer "Pup" Rally
Join us for a pregame party that is going to the dogs!!
Packer "Pup" Rally
Thursday, February 3, 2011 from 4-6pm
Spa Paw and Tail
5055 S. Emmer Drive
New Berlin, WI.
Bring your best friend in for a "Packer Photo Shoot" by SMK Photography! Photos are $15 each and all proceeds help the animals at Elmbrook Humane Society. Commemorate the Green Bay Packer's trip to Superbowl XLV with your very own Packer puppy photo. GO PACK GO!
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FRIDAY, AUGUST 24: Football: Brandon Valley @ Sioux Falls O’Gorman Aberdeen Central @ Sioux Falls Roosevelt Lead-Deadwood @ Douglas Parker @ Baltic Sioux Valley @ Beresford Deuel @ Flandreau Sioux Falls Christian @ Garretson Aberdeen Roncalli @ Groton Clark/Willow Lake @ Hamlin Canistota @ Howard McCook Central/Montrose @ Platte-Geddes/Dakota Christian Canton @ Tri-Valley Vermillion @ West Central Volleyball: South Dakota State vs. Southeast Missouri State, Iowa @ Hawkeye Challenge, Iowa City, IA Brookings @ Rapid City Stevens Harrisburg @ Watertown Elkton-Lake Benton @ Chester Soccer: South Dakota State vs. Nevada-Las Vegas @ Lawrence, KS Pierre @ Brookings (Girls-4 & 6pm; Boys-6 & 8pm) Cross Country: Brookings @ Sioux Falls O’Gorman Invitational, 4:00pm Milbank, Sioux Valley, Tri-Valley, West Central, Howard @ Madison, 2:00pm Baltic, Dell Rapids, McCook Central/Montrose, West Central, Canistota @ Beresford, 10:00am Girls’ Tennis: Aberdeen Central, Marshall, Yankton @ Brookings, 1:00pm Boys’ Golf: Brookings @ Huron Invitational, 10:00am SATURDAY, AUGUST 25: College FB: Peru State @ Dakota State, 4:00pm Football: Huron @ Brookings (Live on KCountry 102 @ 6:30) Yankton @ Pierre Mitchell @ Watertown Sturgis @ Belle Fourche Sioux Falls Washington @ Rapid City Central Sioux Falls Lincoln @ Rapid City Stevens Volleyball: South Dakota State vs. Chicago State, Valparaiso @ Hawkeye Challenge, Iowa City, IA Brookings @ Rapid City Central Brandon Valley @ Harrisburg Huron @ Yankton Madison @ Milbank Howard @ Sioux Valley Sioux Falls Christian @ Tea Arlington @ Parkston Oldham-Ramona/Rutland, Chester, Tri-Valley @ Flandreau Clark/Willow Lake, Hamlin, Great Plains Lutheran, Waverly-South Shore, Colman-Egan, Dells St. Mary’s @ Estelline Dell Rapids, Garretson @ Canton Cross Country: Clark/Willow Lake, Deuel, Hamlin, Elkton-Lake Benton, Garretson, DeSmet, Estelline, Arlington, Chester, Dells St. Mary’s, Lake Preston @ Deubrook, 9:00am Girls’ Tennis: Jim Holwerda Jamboree, 11:00am, Hillcrest Park Courts Competitive Cheer: Brookings @ Aberdeen Central, 11:00am SUNDAY, AUGUST 26: Soccer: South Dakota State vs. Georgia @ Lawrence, KS MONDAY, AUGUST 27: Volleyball: Brandon Valley @ Sioux Falls Washington McCook Central/Montrose @ Chester TUESDAY, AUGUST 28: Volleyball: Sioux Falls O’Gorman @ Harrisburg Watertown @ Pierre Milbank @ Deuel Canby, MN @ Sisseton Redfield/Doland @ Hitchcock/Tulare Lake Preston @ Deubrook Estelline @ Hamlin Sioux Valley @ Parker Elkton-Lake Benton @ Flandreau Canton @ Madison Alcester-Hudson @ Baltic Elk Point-Jefferson @ Dell Rapids Garretson @ Sioux Falls Christian Howard @ DeSmet Arlington @ Colman-Egan Great Plains Lutheran @ Wilmot Oldham-Ramona/Rutland @ Dells St. Mary’s Cross Country: Baltic, Dell Rapids, Flandreau, Garretson, Arlington, DeSmet, Tri-Valley, West Central, Canistota, Chester, Dells St. Mary’s, Howard @ McCook Central/Montrose Invitational, 4:15pm Soccer: Watertown @ Brookings (Girls-6 & 8pm; Boys-4 & 6pm) Competitive Cheer: Brookings @ Watertown Invitational, 5:30pm BHS XC…Brookings opens the cross country season Friday at the Sioux Falls O’Gorman Invitational – the meet will be held at Pasley Park. Returnees include state placewinners Emily Berzonsky and Addison DeHaven. Head coach Chris Gruenhagen talks about the two teams: 9762C :59 “sophomore this year”. Brookings cross country coach Chris Gruenhagen. SDSU VB…South Dakota State will see Southeast Missouri State, Iowa, Chicago State and Valparaiso in the Jacks’ season opening volleyball tournament at the University of Iowa. Head coach Phil McDaniel says it’ll be good to play the Hawkeyes Friday night, in a Bg Ten atmosphere. He says SDSU’s shown more maturity thus far. 9762D :48 “we’ve got options”. McDaniel says fall camp’s been a time to brush up, and add to, the team’s systems – rather than teach a whole new style. SCHMIDT-HURON FB…Huron visits Brookings Saturday night for the football season opener, and Bobcat Athletic Hall of Fame game. Kickoff at Coughlin-Alumni Stadium is 7:00, with live coverage on Kcountry 102 at 6:30. Brookings head coach Lee Schmidt says Huron returns a nice defensive team. 97626 :27 “than we are”. Meanwhile, Huron head coach Mike Postma's biggest concern is developing depth as the season wears on. 97628 :32 “what we have”. Huron’s three wins last year were the most by a Tiger team since 2002, and three of the six losses came by six points or less. MITCHELL FB… The Mitchell football team is coming off its most successful season in recent memory by finishing 8-4 last season. A lot of new faces will be in the lineup, but some solid players return to help with the process. Head coach Kent VanOvershelde: 9762A :14 “guys with ‘em”. The Kernels and will feature only seven seniors on the roster. It looks as if Brandon Valley and Yankton are the strong forces in the ESD Conference and the rest will battle it out each week. 9762B :32 “in the ESD”. Mitchell will travel and play at Watertown on Saturday night with kick-off set for 7:00pm in Watertown. SUMMIT XC POLL…After winning its first cross country title in program history, the reigning Summit League Women's Champion North Dakota State and the South Dakota State men's team were tabbed the favorites to win the 2012 Summit League Cross Country titles in a vote of the league's nine head coaches. Atop the men's poll, the Jackrabbits, the league champion twice in the past three years, tallied 46 total points and five first-place votes. North Dakota State with 43 points and two first-place tallies finished second. A single point separated the third and fourth spots as Kansas City finished third with 33 points and South Dakota came in fourth with 32 points. For the women, the Bison were picked to repeat as champions and collected 64 points and eight first-place selections. South Dakota State finished as runner-up in the poll with 53 points. A narrow margin decided third and fourth-place with Kansas City tallying 48 points and one first-place vote ahead of South Dakota's 46 points. -DASH- A total of 13 all-league honorees return this season, including seven men and six women. On the men's side, Kansas City and South Dakota State lead the way by welcoming back two all-league selections. Returning for the Kangaroos are Cosmas Ayabei (first team) and Zach Mathias (second team). The Jackrabbits are paced by second team honorees Trent Lusignan and Jared Ailts. SPORTS NUMBERS… Participation in high school sports increased for the 23rd consecutive year in 2011-12, according to the annual High School Athletics Participation Survey conducted by the National Federation of State High School Associations.. HUNTSAFE…The South Dakota Game, Fish and Parks Department is offering an exciting new opportunity for schools to introduce conservation and safety training in their curriculum. Two training sessions are planned this fall that allow schools to participate in the HuntSAFE in the Schools Program. Trainings are currently scheduled for Fort Pierre on Sept. 19 and Sioux Falls on Oct. 15. The full-day trainings are open to all educators in South Dakota who work with youth ages 11-15. There is no charge for the training. Upon successful completion, teachers will be able to provide HuntSAFE certification to their students who complete the HuntSAFE course. POLE JOB… Former Dakota Wesleyan University football coach Brad Pole is now the offensive coordinator at Morningside College, another Great Plains Athletic Conference school. Pole, who resigned from Dakota Wesleyan in January and led the Tigers to a 6-4 record last year, is listed on Morningside’s athletic website as the team’s offensive coordinator. Morningside won the GPAC last year with an 8-1 mark and was selected second in the preseason coaches’ poll behind only Northwestern. Dakota Wesleyan was selected fourth. Morningside and DWU play on Oct. 13 in Sioux City, Iowa, this season. HUSKER OFFENSE…. BIG 12 TV… Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby believes a multi-year television deal that could be worth as much as $2.6 billion could be finalized in a matter of weeks. Bowlsby also says. SHIRT FLAP… says. | http://www.brookingsradio.com/pages/14068343.php | 2013-05-18T10:32:22 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Carved Dance Mirror
- Culture: Sioux, Native American
- Medium: Wood, pigment, glass
- Place Collected: Fort Snelling, Minnesota, United States
- Dates: early 19th century
- Dimensions: 32 x 3 3/8 in. (81.3 x 8.6 cm) (show scale)
- Inscriptions: "Sioux Chief's Looking Glass"
- Collections:Arts of the Americas
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- Accession Number: 50.67.96
- Credit Line: Henry L. Batterman Fund and the Frank Sherman Benson Fund
- Rights Statement: Creative Commons-BY
- Caption: Sioux, Native American. Carved Dance Mirror, early 19th century. Wood, pigment, glass, 32 x 3 3/8 in. (81.3 x 8.6 cm). Brooklyn Museum, Henry L. Batterman Fund and the Frank Sherman Benson Fund, 50.67.96. Creative Commons-BY
- Image: overall, 50.67.96.jpg. Brooklyn Museum photograph
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[ 002 ] When Elisa had performed her part, and brought her touching story to a close, Queen Filomena, a damsel no less stately than fair of person, and of a surpassingly sweet and smiling mien, having composed herself to speak, thus began:
“ Our engagements with Dioneo shall be faithfully observed; wherefore, as he and I alone remain to complete the day's narration, I will tell my story first, and he shall have the grace he craved, and be the last to speak. ” After which prelude she thus began her story:
[ 003 ] 'Tis a proverb current among the vulgar that the deceived has the better of the deceiver; a proverb which, were it not exemplified by events, might hardly in any manner be justified. Wherefore, while adhering to our theme, I am minded at the same time, dearest ladies, to shew you that there is truth in this proverb; the proof whereof should be none the less welcome to you that it may put you on your guard against deceivers.
[ 004 ] Know then that certain very great merchants of Italy, being met, as merchants use, for divers reasons proper to each, at a hostelry in Paris, and having one evening jovially supped together, fell a talking of divers matters, and so, passing from one topic to another, they came at last to discuss the ladies whom they had left at home, [ 005 ] and one jocosely said: “ I cannot answer for my wife; but for myself I own, that, whenever a girl that is to my mind comes in my way, I give the go-by to the love that I bear my wife, and take my pleasure of the new-comer to the best of my power. ” [ 006 ] “ And so do I, ” said another, “ because I know that, whether I suspect her or no, my wife tries her fortune, and so 'tis do as you are done by; the ass and the wall are quits. ” [ 007 ] A third added his testimony to the same effect; and in short all seemed to concur in the opinion that the ladies they had left behind them were not likely to neglect their opportunities, [ 008 ] when one, a Genoese, Bernabò Lomellin by name, dissociated himself from the rest, affirming that by especial grace of God he was blessed with a wife who was, perhaps, the most perfect paragon to be found in Italy of all the virtues proper to a lady, ay, and in great measure, to a knight or squire; inasmuch as she was fair, still quite young, handy, hardy, and clever beyond all other women in embroidery work and all other forms of lady's handicraft. [ 009 ] Moreover so well-mannered, discreet and sensible was she that she was as fit to wait at a lord's table as any squire or manservant or such like, the best and most adroit that could be found. [ 010 ] To which encomium he added that she knew how to manage a horse, fly a hawk, read, write and cast up accounts better than as if she were a merchant; and after much more in the same strain of commendation he came at length to the topic of their conversation, asseverating with an oath that 'twas not possible to find a woman more honest, more chaste than she: nay, he verily believed that, if he remained from home for ten years, or indeed for the rest of his days, she would never think of any of these casual amours with any other man.
[ 011 ] Among the merchants who thus gossiped was a young man, Ambrogiuolo da Piacenza by name, who, when Bernabò thus concluded his eulogy of his wife, broke out into a mighty laugh, and asked him with a leer, whether he of all men had this privilege by special patent of the Emperor. [ 012 ] Bernabò replied, somewhat angrily, that 'twas a boon conferred upon him by God, who was rather more powerful than the Emperor. [ 013 ] To which Ambrogiuolo rejoined: “ I make no doubt, Bernabò, that thou believest that what thou sayst is true; but, methinks, thou hast been but a careless observer of the nature of things; otherwise, I do not take thee to be of so gross understanding but that thou must have discerned therein reasons for speaking more judiciously of this matter. [ 014 ] And that thou mayst not think that we, who have spoken with much freedom about our wives, deem them to be of another nature and mould than thine, but mayst know that we have but uttered what common sense dictates, I am minded to go a little further into this matter with thee. [ 015 ] I have always understood, that of all mortal beings created by God man is the most noble, and next after him woman: man, then, being, as is universally believed, and is indeed apparent by his works, more perfect than woman, must without doubt be endowed with more firmness and constancy, women being one and all more mobile, for reasons not a few and founded in nature, which I might adduce, but mean for the present to pass over. [ 016 ] And yet, for all his greater firmness, man cannot withstand--I do not say a woman's supplications, but--the mere lust of the eye which she unwittingly excites, and that in such sort that he will do all that is in his power to induce her to pleasure him, not once, perhaps, in the course of a month, but a thousand times a day. How, then, shouldst thou expect a woman, mobile by nature, to resist the supplications, the flatteries, the gifts, and all the other modes of attack that an accomplished seducer will employ? Thou thinkest that she may hold out! [ 017 ] Nay verily, affirm it as thou mayst, I doubt thou dost not really so think. Thou dost not deny that thy wife is a woman, a creature of flesh and blood like the rest; and if so, she must have the same cravings, the same natural propensities as they, and no more force to withstand them; wherefore 'tis at least possible, that, however honest she be, she will do as others do; and nought that is possible admits such peremptory denial or affirmation of its contrary as this of thine. ”
[ 018 ] Whereto Bernabò returned: “ I am a merchant and no philosopher, and I will give thee a merchant's answer. I acknowledge that what thou sayst is true of vain and foolish women who have no modesty, but such as are discreet are so sensitive in regard of their honour that they become better able to preserve it than men, who have no such solicitude; and my wife is one of this sort. ” [ 019 ] “ Doubtless, ” observed Ambrogiuolo, “ few would be found to indulge in these casual amours, if every time they did so a horn grew out on the brow to attest the fact; but not only does no horn make its appearance but not so much as a trace or vestige of a horn, so only they be but prudent; and the shame and dishonour consist only in the discovery: wherefore, if they can do it secretly, they do it, or are fools to refrain. [ 020 ] Hold it for certain that she alone is chaste who either had never suit made to her, or, suing herself, was repulsed. And albeit I know that for reasons true and founded in nature this must needs be, yet I should not speak so positively thereof as I do, had I not many a time with many a woman verified it by experience. And I assure thee that, had I but access to this most saintly wife of thine, I should confidently expect very soon to have the same success with her as with others. ” [ 021 ] Then Bernabò angrily: “ 'Twere long and tedious to continue this discussion. I should have my say, and thou thine, and in the end 'twould come to nothing. But, as thou sayst that they are all so compliant, and that thou art so accomplished a seducer, I give thee this pledge of the honour of my wife: I consent to forfeit my head, if thou shouldst succeed in bringing her to pleasure thee in such a sort; and shouldst thou fail, thou shalt forfeit to me no more than one thousand florins of gold. ”
[ 022 ] Elated by this unexpected offer, Ambrogiuolo replied: “ I know not what I should do with thy blood, Bernabò, if I won the wager; but, if thou wouldst have proof of what I have told thee, lay five thousand florins of gold, which must be worth less to thee than thy head, against a thousand of mine, and, whereas thou makest no stipulation as to time, I will bind myself to go to Genoa, and within three months from my departure hence to have had my pleasure of thy wife, and in witness thereof to bring back with me, of the things which she prizes most dearly, evidence of her compliance so weighty and conclusive that thou thyself shalt admit the fact; nor do I require ought of thee but that thou pledge thy faith neither to come to Genoa nor to write word to her of this matter during the said three months. ” [ 023 ] Bernabò professed himself well content; and though the rest of the company, seeing that the compact might well have very evil consequences, did all that they could to frustrate it, yet the two men were now so heated that, against the will of the others, they set it down fairly in writing, and signed it each with his own hand. [ 024 ] This done, Ambrogiuolo, leaving Bernabò at Paris, posted with all speed for Genoa. Arrived there, he set to work with great caution; and having found out the quarter in which the lady resided, he learned in the course of a few days enough about her habits of life and her character to know that what Bernabò had told him was rather less than the truth. So, recognising that his enterprise was hopeless, he cast about for some device whereby he might cover his defeat; [ 025 ] and having got speech of a poor woman, who was much in the lady's house, as also in her favour, he bribed her (other means failing) to convey him in a chest, which he had had made for the purpose, not only into the house but into the bedroom of the lady, whom the good woman, following Bernabò's instructions, induced to take charge of it for some days, during which, she said, she would be away.
[ 026 ] So the lady suffered the chest to remain in the room; and when the night was so far spent that Bernabò thought she must be asleep, he opened it with some tools with which he had provided himself, and stole softly out. There was a light in the room, so that he was able to form an idea of its situation, to take note of the pictures and everything else of consequence that it contained, and to commit the whole to memory. [ 027 ] This done, he approached the bed; and observing that the lady, and a little girl that was with her, were fast asleep, he gently uncovered her, and saw that nude she was not a whit less lovely than when dressed: he looked about for some mark that might serve him as evidence that he had seen her in this state, but found nothing except a mole, which she had under the left breast, and which was fringed with a few fair hairs that shone like gold. So beautiful was she that he was tempted at the hazard of his life to take his place by her side in the bed; [ 028 ] but, remembering what he had heard of her inflexible obduracy in such affairs, he did not venture; but quietly replaced the bedclothes; and having passed the best part of the night very much at his ease in her room, he took from one of the lady's boxes a purse, a gown, a ring and a girdle, and with these tokens returned to the chest, and locked himself in as before. In this manner he passed two nights, nor did the lady in the least suspect his presence. [ 029 ] On the third day the good woman came by preconcert to fetch her chest, and took it back to the place whence she had brought it. So Ambrogiuolo got out, paid her the stipulated sum, and hied him back with all speed to Paris, where he arrived within the appointed time. [ 030 ] Then, in presence of the merchants who were witnesses of his altercation with Bernabò, and the wager to which it had given occasion, he told Bernabò that he had won the bet, having done what he had boasted that he would do; and in proof thereof he first of all described the appearance of the room and the pictures, and then displayed the articles belonging to the lady which he had brought away with him, averring that she had given them to him. [ 031 ] Bernabò acknowledged the accuracy of his description of the room, and that the articles did really belong to his wife, but objected that Ambrogiuolo might have learned characteristic features of the room from one of the servants, and have come by the things in a similar way, and therefore, unless he had something more to say, he could not justly claim to have won the bet. [ 032 ] “ Verily, ” rejoined Ambrogiuolo, “ this should suffice; but, as thou requirest that I say somewhat further, I will satisfy thee. I say, then, that Madam Zinevra, thy wife, has under her left breast a mole of some size, around which are, perhaps, six hairs of a golden hue. ” [ 033 ] As Bernabò heard this, it was as if a knife pierced his heart, so poignant was his suffering; and, though no word escaped him, the complete alteration of his mien bore unmistakable witness to the truth of Ambrogiuolo's words. After a while he said: “ Gentlemen, 'tis even as Ambrogiuolo says; he has won the bet; he has but to come when he will, and he shall be paid. ” [ 034 ] And so the very next day Ambrogiuolo was paid in full, and Bernabò, intent on wreaking vengeance on his wife, left Paris and set his face towards Genoa. He had no mind, however, to go home, and accordingly halted at an estate which he had some twenty miles from the city, whither he sent forward a servant, in whom he reposed much trust, with two horses and a letter advising the lady of his return, and bidding her come out to meet him. At the same time he gave the servant secret instructions to choose some convenient place, and ruthlessly put the lady to death, and so return to him. [ 035 ] On his arrival at Genoa the servant delivered his message and the letter to the lady, who received him with great cheer, and next morning got on horseback and set forth with him for her husband's estate. [ 036 ] So they rode on, talking of divers matters, until they came to a deep gorge, very lonely, and shut in by high rocks and trees. The servant, deeming this just the place in which he might without risk of discovery fulfil his lord's behest, whipped out a knife, and seizing the lady by the arm, said: “ Madam, commend your soul to God, for here must end at once your journey and your life. ” [ 037 ] Terror-stricken by what she saw and heard, the lady cried out: “ Mercy for God's sake; before thou slay me, tell me at least wherein I have wronged thee, that thou art thus minded to put me to death. ” [ 038 ] “ Madam, ” said the servant, “ me you have in no wise wronged; but your husband--how you may have wronged him I know not--charged me shew you no mercy, but to slay you on this journey, and threatened to have me hanged by the neck, should I not do so. You know well how bound I am to him, and that I may not disobey any of his commands: God knows I pity you, but yet I can no otherwise. ” [ 039 ] Whereat the lady burst into tears, saying: “ Mercy for God's sake; make not thyself the murderer of one that has done thee no wrong, at the behest of another. The all-seeing God knows that I never did aught to merit such requital at my husband's hands. [ 040 ] But enough of this for the present: there is a way in which thou canst serve at once God and thy master and myself, if thou wilt do as I bid thee: take, then, these clothes of mine and give me in exchange just thy doublet and a hood; and carry the clothes with thee to my lord and thine, and tell him that thou hast slain me; and I swear to thee by the life which I shall have received at thy hands, that I will get me gone, and there abide whence news of me shall never reach either him or thee or these parts. ” [ 041 ] The servant, being loath to put her to death, soon yielded to pity; and so he took her clothes, allowing her to retain a little money that she had, and gave her one of his worser doublets and a hood; then, praying her to depart the country, he left her afoot in the gorge, and returned to his master, whom he gave to understand that he had not only carried out his orders but had left the lady's body a prey to wolves. Bernabò after a while returned to Genoa, where, the supposed murder being bruited abroad, he was severely censured.
[ 042 ] Alone and disconsolate, the lady, as night fell, disguised herself as best she could, and hied her to a neighbouring village, where, having procured what was needful from an old woman, she shortened the doublet and fitted it to her figure, converted her chemise into a pair of breeches, cut her hair close, and, in short, completely disguised herself as a sailor. She then made her way to the coast, where by chance she encountered a Catalan gentleman, by name Segner Encararch, who had landed from one of his ships, which lay in the offing, to recreate himself at Alba, where there was a fountain. [ 043 ] So she made overture to him of her services, was engaged and taken aboard the ship, assuming the name Sicurano da Finale. The gentleman put her in better trim as to clothes, and found her so apt and handy at service that he was exceeding well pleased with her.
[ 044 ] Not long afterwards the Catalan sailed one of his carracks to Alexandria. He took with him some peregrine falcons, which he presented to the Soldan, who feasted him once or twice; and noting with approbation the behaviour of Sicurano, who always attended his master, he craved him of the Catalan, which request the Catalan reluctantly granted. [ 045 ] Sicurano proved so apt for his new service that he was soon as high in grace and favour with the Soldan as he had been with the Catalan. Wherefore, when the time of year came at which there was wont to be held at Acre, then under the Soldan's sway, a great fair, much frequented by merchants, Christian and Saracen alike, and to which, for the security of the merchants and their goods, the Soldan always sent one of his great officers of state with other officers and a guard to attend upon them, [ 046 ] he determined to send Sicurano, who by this time knew the language very well. [ 047 ] So Sicurano was sent to Acre as governor and captain of the guard for the protection of the merchants and merchandise. Arrived there, he bestirred himself with great zeal in all matters appertaining to his office; and as he went his rounds of inspection, he espied among the merchants not a few from Italy, Sicilians, Pisans, Genoese, Venetians, and so forth, with whom he consorted the more readily because they reminded him of his native land. [ 048 ] And so it befell that, alighting once at a shop belonging to some Venetian merchants, he saw there among other trinkets a purse and a girdle, which he forthwith recognised as having once been his own. Concealing his surprise, he blandly asked whose they were, and if they were for sale. [ 049 ] He was answered by Ambrogiuolo da Piacenza, who had come thither with much merchandise aboard a Venetian ship, and hearing that the captain of the guard was asking about the ownership of the purse and girdle, came forward, and said with a smile: “ The things are mine, Sir, and I am not disposed to sell them, but, if they take your fancy, I will gladly give them to you. ” [ 050 ] Observing the smile, Sicurano misdoubted that something had escaped him by which Ambrogiuolo had recognised him; but he answered with a composed air: “ Thou dost smile, perchance, to see me, a soldier, come asking about this woman's gear? ” [ 051 ] “ Not so, Sir, ” returned Ambrogiuolo; “ I smile to think of the manner in which I came by it. ” [ 052 ] “ And pray, ” said Sicurano, “ if thou hast no reason to conceal it, tell me, in God's name, how thou didst come by the things. ” [ 053 ] “ Why, Sir, ” said Ambrogiuolo, “ they were given me by a Genoese lady, with whom I once spent a night, Madam Zinevra by name, wife of Bernabò Lomellin, who prayed me to keep them as a token of her love. [ 054 ] I smiled just now to think of the folly of Bernabò, who was so mad as to stake five thousand florins of gold against my thousand that I could not bring his wife to surrender to me; which I did. I won the bet; and he, who should rather have been punished for his insensate folly, than she for doing what all women do, had her put to death, as I afterwards gathered, on his way back from Paris to Genoa. ”
[ 055 ] Ambrogiuolo had not done speaking before Sicurano had discerned in him the evident cause of her husband's animosity against her, and all her woe, and had made up her mind that he should not escape with impunity. [ 056 ] She therefore feigned to be much interested by this story, consorted frequently and very familiarly with Ambrogiuolo, and insidiously captured his confidence, insomuch that at her suggestion, when the fair was done, he, taking with him all his wares, accompanied her to Alexandria, where she provided him with a shop, and put no little of her own money in his hands; so that he, finding it very profitable, was glad enough to stay. [ 057 ] Anxious to make her innocence manifest to Bernabò, Sicurano did not rest until, with the help of some great Genoese merchants that were in Alexandria, she had devised an expedient to draw him thither. Her plan succeeded; Bernabò arrived; and, as he was now very poor, she privily arranged that he should be entertained by one of her friends until occasion should serve to carry out her design. [ 058 ] She had already induced Ambrogiuolo to tell his story to the Soldan, and the Soldan to interest himself in the matter. So Bernabò being come, and further delay inexpedient, she seized her opportunity, and persuaded the Soldan to cite Ambrogiuolo and Bernabò before him, that in Bernabò's presence Ambrogiuolo might be examined of his boast touching Bernabò's wife, and the truth thereof, if not to be had from him by gentle means, be elicited by torture. [ 059 ] So the Soldan, having Ambrogiuolo and Bernabò before him, amid a great concourse of his people questioned Ambrogiuolo of the five thousand florins of gold that he had won from Bernabò, and sternly bade him tell the truth. Still more harsh was the aspect of Sicurano, in whom Ambrogiuolo had placed his chief reliance, but who now threatened him with the direst torments if the truth were not forthcoming. [ 060 ] Thus hard bested on this side and on that, and in a manner coerced, Ambrogiuolo, thinking he had but to refund, in presence of Bernabò and many others accurately recounted the affair as it had happened. [ 061 ] When he had done, Sicurano, as minister of the Soldan for the time being, turned to Bernabò and said: “ And thy wife, thus falsely accused, what treatment did she meet with at thy hands? ” [ 062 ] “ Mortified, ” said Bernabò, “ by the loss of my money, and the dishonour which I deemed to have been done me by my wife, I was so overcome by wrath that I had her put to death by one of my servants, who brought me word that her corpse had been instantly devoured by a pack of wolves. ”
[ 063 ] Albeit the Soldan had heard and understood all that had passed, yet he did not as yet apprehend the object for which Sicurano had pursued the investigation. Wherefore Sicurano thus addressed him: [ 064 ] “ My lord, what cause this good lady has to boast of her lover and her husband you have now abundant means of judging; seeing that the lover at one and the same time despoils her of her honour, blasting her fair fame with slanderous accusations, and ruins her husband; who, more prompt to trust the falsehood of another than the verity of which his own long experience should have assured him, devotes her to death and the devouring wolves; and, moreover, such is the regard, such the love which both bear her that, though both tarry a long time with her, neither recognises her. [ 065 ] However, that you may know full well what chastisements they have severally deserved, I will now cause her to appear in your presence and theirs, provided you, of your especial grace, be pleased to punish the deceiver and pardon the deceived. ” [ 066 ] The Soldan, being minded in this matter to defer entirely to Sicurano, answered that he was well content, and bade produce the lady. Bernabò, who had firmly believed that she was dead, was lost in wonder; likewise Ambrogiuolo, who now divined his evil plight, and dreading something worse than the disbursement of money, knew not whether to expect the lady's advent with fear or with hope. His suspense was not of long duration; [ 067 ] for, as soon as the Soldan signified his assent, Sicurano, weeping, threw herself on her knees at his feet, and discarding the tones, as she would fain have divested herself of the outward semblance, of a man, said: [ 068 ] . “ My lord, that forlorn, hapless Zinevra am I, falsely and foully slandered by this traitor Ambrogiuolo, and by my cruel and unjust husband delivered over to his servant to slaughter and cast out as a prey to the wolves; for which cause I have now for six years been a wanderer on the face of the earth in the guise of a man. ” [ 069 ] Then rending her robes in front and baring her breast, she made it manifest to the Soldan and all others who were present, that she was indeed a woman; then turning to Ambrogiuolo she haughtily challenged him to say when she had ever lain with him, as he had boasted. Ambrogiuolo said never a word, for he now recognised her, and it was as if shame had reft from him the power of speech. [ 070 ] The Soldan, who had never doubted that Sicurano was a man, was so wonder-struck by what he saw and heard that at times he thought it must be all a dream. But, as wonder gave place to conviction of the truth, he extolled in the amplest terms the constancy and virtue and seemliness with which Zinevra, erstwhile Sicurano, had ordered her life. [ 071 ] He then directed that she should be most nobly arrayed in the garb of her sex and surrounded by a bevy of ladies. Mindful of her intercession, he granted to Bernabò the life which he had forfeited; and she, when Bernabò threw himself at her feet and wept and craved her pardon, raised him, unworthy though he was, to his feet and generously forgave him, and tenderly embraced him as her husband. [ 072 ] Ambrogiuolo the Soldan commanded to be bound to a stake, that his bare flesh, anointed with honey, might be exposed to the sun on one of the heights of the city, there to remain until it should fall to pieces of its own accord: and so 'twas done. [ 073 ] He then decreed that the lady should have the traitor's estate, which was worth not less but rather more than ten thousand doubloons; whereto he added, in jewels and vessels of gold and silver and in money, the equivalent of upwards of other ten thousand doubloons, having first entertained her and her husband with most magnificent and ceremonious cheer, accordant with the lady's worth. [ 074 ] Which done, he placed a ship at their disposal, and gave them leave to return to Genoa at their pleasure. So to Genoa they returned very rich and happy, and were received with all honour, especially Madam Zinevra, whom all the citizens had believed to be dead, and whom thenceforth, so long as she lived, they held of great consequence and excellency. [ 075 ] As for Ambrogiuolo, the very same day that he was bound to the stake, the honey with which his body was anointed attracted such swarms of flies, wasps and gadflies, wherewith that country abounds, that not only was his life sucked from him but his very bones were completely denuded of flesh; in which state, hanging by the sinews, they remained a long time undisturbed, for a sign and a testimony of his baseness to all that passed by. And so the deceived had the better of the deceiver.← PreviousNext → | http://www.brown.edu/Departments/Italian_Studies/dweb/texts/DecShowText.php?myID=nov0209&expand=empty&lang=eng&highlight=053 | 2013-05-18T10:31:54 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Is having 'bacne' holding you back from being able to wear anything, including those weather-appropriate backless tops during the sweltering months of summer? Covering up on the beach not because you're modest, but because you're afraid your friends will engage in an impromptu game of connect-the-dots when you reveal your back?
Bacne is a term for back acne, and as the name suggests appears on the back, upper arms and the buttocks. As with facial acne, bacne tends to occur around puberty when the production of hormones in the body increases and the sebaceous glands start producing sebum (oil). When too much sebum is produced pores and hair follicles can become clogged, attracting bacteria and leading to acne. Although all types of acne are more common during teenage years, the condition can persist into adulthood.
There are many factors thought to contribute to both facial and back acne. These include heredity or genetics. It is thought that the tendency to develop acne, especially severe acne, can be inherited from your parents. Another cause can be environmental stimulus such as stress.
But there are some other factors which are specific to bacne. Tight fitting, synthetic clothing is one of the main culprits of bacne. Collars, helmet straps or caps can cause perspiration to become trapped against your skin, leading to irritation, and synthetic fabrics of any type will trap heat and moisture against your skin increasing the presence of bacteria that causes acne.
So how do you get bacne off your back?
1. Wear lightweight, loose-fitting clothing made of cotton or other natural fabrics when working out. These allow your skin to breathe and are less likely to cause friction, another factor in acne creation.
2. Change out of your workout clothes and shower immediately after exercise, otherwise all the good effects from exercising-flushing the toxins out of your pores and controlling the hormones which lead to acne-will be lost.
3. For women, try to wear a clean bra every day and make sure the bra straps are not causing any undue irritation on the back or shoulder blades. Carrying a backpack can also cause irritation in the areas where the strap presses against the back and shoulders.
4. Change your bed sheets regularly and try different washing powders to see if there is any improvement in body acne.
5. For skincare products, look for those that are "non-comedogenic", which means they won't clog pores. Benzoyl peroxide solution kills the bacteria that worsen acne, unplugs oil ducts, and helps to heal spots. It can be found in many over-the-counter acne medications. Start with a five per cent gel or lotion once a day, and apply after washing. Gentle washing with a mild cleanser is also important, but too much washing, and excessive scrubbing can cause irritation.
6. If you have long hair, shampoo and conditioner may be irritating the pores on your back when you wash it, so make sure you rinse your hair and back well when bathing.
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Bandar Seri Begawan - About 100 architects, quantity surveyors and contractors as well as lawyers attended the Continuous Professional Development (CPD) Seminar on the Federation Internationale des Ingenieurs Conseils (FIDIC) - The Interpretation of FIDIC and Understanding its Potential yesterday.
The one-and-a-half day seminar was organised by PUJA (Pertubuhan Ukur, Jurutera Dan Arkitek, Brunei Darussalam) Engineer Division as part of its continuous professional development programme for the industry.
Present were Hj Zulkipli Hj Abd Hamid, the President of PUJA, as well as other members.
The course was organised to enhance knowledge of the different types of international contract documentation for the construction and engineering industry as well as the types of FIDIC suitable for the local industry.
The seminar was conducted by Professor Michael P O'Reilly from the UK, Professor Philip Jeyaretnam DC from Singapore and Professor Colin. Ong from Brunei Darussalam who are amongst the leading international lawyers and arbitrators.
For more information on PUJA's Continuous Professional Development (CPD) courses, the public can visit.
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February 28 is almost here: the NHL trade deadline.
That’s right folks. We’re just inside the two-week mark of the most exciting, most anticipated time of the hockey season. It’s that time where we’ll soon find out…who’s buying and who’s selling?
Is your favorite home team in the hunt? Do they have the chips to make that all important move to put you team over-the-top?
When you’re sitting at your computer on Monday the 28th from 8:00 a.m. to 4:00 p.m. — with one eye locked inside your favorite chat while keeping the other open on Darren Dregger and the rest of the TSN folk on Twitter — will your general manager make you jump for joy by landing the biggest, most sought-after name on the open market? Or is he doing to destroy your expectations of Lord Stanley’s quest by standing pat or making irrelevant moves for future picks and considerations?
While it’s fun to look back at some of the big names that have helped one team win it all by changing sweaters at the deadline, it’s even more fun to look at the over-priced blunders that have occurred throughout the years.
Why? Because hooking the big fish by the deadline rarely works.
First, let’s just take a look at the recent Stanley Cup winners over the last five seasons and some of their in-season transactions:
Cup-winners:
2010 Chicago Blackhawks:
- The Blackhawks traded defenseman Cam Barker to the Minnesota Wild for defensemen Kim Johnsson and Nick Leddy.
2009 Pittsburgh Penguins:
- Pittsburgh steals Bill Guerin – who waives his no trade clause — from the New York Islanders (61 games played, 16-20-36) in exchange for a conditional draft pick (Michael Lee)
- Claimed Blackhaws’ RW Craig Adams (2-4-6 totals in CHI) off waivers
- Acquired left wings Chris Kunitz (16-19-35 in 62 games played in ANA) and Eric Tangradi (OHL/AHL) from the Anaheim Ducks in exchange for defenseman Ryan Whitney. Kunitz: 1-13-14 in 26 playoff games.
2008 Detroit Red Wings:
- Acquired defenseman Brad Stuart from the Los Angeles Kings for a 2008 second-round pick (Peter Delmas) and a 2009 fourth-round pick (Ben Chairot)
2007 Anaheim Ducks:
- Acquired a whole bunch of non-factors, including Joe Motzko and Mark Hartigan from Columbus and shipped Zenon Konopka and Curtis Glencross to the Blue Jackets – Shane Endicott acquired from the Nashville Predators for Chris Durno
- Acquired Brad May from Colorado for goalie Michael Wall; and George Parros from Colorado for a 2007 second-round pick (T.J. Galiardi)
2006 Carolina Hurricanes:
- Acquired Mark Recchi (57 points at the time) from the Pittsburgh Penguins for former first-round draft pick, center Krys Kolanos, former eighth-round pick and left wing Niklas Nordgren, and a 2007 second-round pick (Kevin Marshall)
- “Rented” Doug Weight (and Erkki Rajamaki) from the St. Louis Blues in exchange for their own first round draft pick in 2006 (Matt Corrente), Toronto’s fourth-round pick in 2006 (Reto Berra), Chicago’s fourth-round pick in 2007 (Cade Fairchild), right wing Jesse Boulerice (who went on to play 19 more NHL games over the next five seasons), center Mike Zigomanis (has since spent most of his time in the AHL, and now Swedish Elite League) and rights to Magnus Kahnberg (who never saw any time in the NHL).
- Although headed back to Pittsburgh at St. Louis, respectively, that summer, Recchi and Weight each scored 16 points and had their names engraved in Lord Stanley’s Cup (for a small price).
The acquisition of Recchi by Carolina looks like a large sum on the surface, but this was one case where the rental(s) worked. The last time that a big deal went down that helped win the Cup, and that player stayed at least one more season, was in 2001.
Defenseman Rob Blake was shipped to the Colorado Avalanche in February of ’01 — along with Steven Reinprecht — for Adam Deadmarsh, Aaron Miller, Jared Aulin and the first-round pick in the 2001 NHL Entry Draft (Dave Steckel). Blake scored 19 points (six goals) as the Avalanche rolled through the Cup Finals, and went on to play four more seasons in the Mile High.
Now let’s take a look at some of the bigger named superstars who were moved (starting from the lockout) on-or-around the NHL trade deadline, their teams’ results, and where that player wound up the following season:
2010:
Everyone had to have Thrashers’ sniper Ilya Kovalchuk…who eventually went to the New Jersey Devils (with defenseman Anssi Salmela) in exchange for defenseman Johnny Oduya, first-round draft pick Niclas Bergfors, big junior prospect Patrice Cormier, and first-round draft pick in the 2010 NHL Entry Draft.
- Result: (This guy said it in January) The second-seed Devils got smoked by the Flyers in five games; New Jersey, who eventually inked Kovalchuk to a life-long deal, gets slapped by the NHL for circumventing the system, losing this year’s third-round pick, a future first-round pick, $3 million; were in salary-cap hell this year; and are now playing second-half catch-up, hoping to capture a playoff spot.
2009:
Calgary Flames acquired center Olli Jokinen from the Phoenix Coyotes for Mathew Lombardi, Brandon Prust, and the 2009 first-round draft pick (Tim Erixon)
- Result: Jokinen posts 2-3-5 in an early exit, losing in six games to the Blackhawks. Jokinen, with the Flames out of the playoff run the following season, is dealt to the New York Rangers for Christopher Higgins and Ales Kotalik.
2008:
In the mother of all deals, the Atlanta Thrashers shipped Marian Hossa (and Pascal Dupuis) to Pittsburgh in exchange for 2008 first-round draft pick (Daultan Leveille), Colby Armstrong, Erik Christensen, and top-prospect Angelo Esposito
- Result: The Pens lose 4-2 in the Cup Finals to Detroit; Hossa, who went nuts posting 12-14-26 scoring totals in 20 Pittsburgh playoff games, slaps the Pens in the face and inks a one-year deal with Cup-winning Red Wings
2007:
The New York Islanders acquired Ryan Smyth from the Edmonton Oilers in exchange for former first-round picks Robert Nilson and Ryan O’Marra, and their 2007 first round pick (Alex Plante)
- Result: New York gets bounced by Buffalo in the first round of the playoffs; and Smyth, who posted 1-3-4 totals in the post-season, leaves the Isle to join the Colorado Avalanche.
Detroit Red Wings acquired Todd Bertuzzi from the Florida Panthers in exchange for forward Shawn Matthias, a 2007 conditional draft pick (Nick Spaling) and a 2008 conditional second-round pick (Peter Delmas)
- Result: Detroit loses to the Anaheim Ducks — who went on to win the Cup — and Bertuzzi, who had seven points in 16 playoff games with the Wings, packs his bags and signs a two-year deal in Anaheim.
The Nashville Predators hooked Peter Forsberg from the Philadelphia Flyers for forward Scottie Upshall, defenseman Ryan Parent, and 2007 first- (Jonathon Blum) and third-round draft picks (Phil De Simone)
- Result: Nashville gets bounced in the first round by San Jose; Forsberg, 2-2-4 in five playoff games, becomes a UFA and eventually returns to the Avalanche.
Why all of this? It goes to show that landing the big cahuna, although making the fans go bananas, rarely works.
Arguably the biggest name this offseason, which has been floating around the Boston Bruins’ radar, is Dallas Stars stud center Brad Richards. I’d go on about how Dallas trading this player is highly unlikely to happen, but I’ll leave it to the guys from StanleyCupofChowder.com instead.
The NHL has seen some significat trades already. The Flyers got even better by landing former Bruin Kris Versteeg from the Maple Leafs for a first- and third-round pick. The Predators got deeper in the West by snagging Mike Fisher from the Senators for a first- and second-round pick. This only means — as good of players that Versteeg and Fisher are — that the price for a player of Richards’ caliber has shot to the moon.
It’s great to see GM’s make big trades to help their teams. But, as history has proven, sometimes what an already good-team needs is just a couple of smaller pieces to the puzzle.
So while you’re crossing your fingers for your team to hook that sublime player come the 28th, keep some of those previous duds that have happened in the past fresh in mind as well.
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NB: These maps are updated daily from live data sets and are checked and corrected retrospectively. They are useful for showing progress with recording and informing viewers about new finds, but they may also contain many temporary errors, especially in grid references and the names of species that are easily mistyped. For checked and standardised maps of species, always refer to publications such as the New Atlas of the British & Irish Flora rather than to online databases.
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I went through our entire house and couldnt find any reason for this, I noticed when I made the bottles they were getting a bubbly throff on the top when made up, so I stopped washing the bottles with dish detergent, Still got the bubbles,
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Since 2001, the American military has been stationed and fighting for freedom in Afghanistan. On January 31st, Seattle Marine Sargent William Stacey became the 1,189th American to die in Afghanistan. Stacey, 23, represents a growing number of Americans to die in the Middle East while fighting for America.
As the death toll rises, the investment of lives creates a double-edged sword when deciding to leave Afghanistan. America still faces questions about strategy. Some generals believe the plan should entail an Iraq like surge. Others think a more tentative approach is prudent. Historically Afghanistan has proven to be a difficult battle for world superpowers. In the past, Great Brittan and the former Soviet Union have lost wars in Afghanistan. Currently, America’s goal is to declare victory by 2014. | http://www.buckinghampost.com/2012/02/13/ | 2013-05-18T11:01:24 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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Meanwhile, separate research finds that a third of Year 6 children are obese or overweight. Four-fifths (80%) of primary care trusts (PCTs) in England report an increase in the number of obese children aged 10 and 11 over the past five years, data analysts SSentif said. Just over a third of PCTs report an increase in obesity in children aged four and five.
More than a quarter of children living in the London Borough of Southwark were classified as obese in 2011, said SSentif, which analysed statistics from the Health and Social Care Information Centre and the National Child Measurement Programme. Richmond and Twickenham PCT has the lowest percentage of obese children but still has one in 10 children classified as obese.
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SPAN202 Intermediate Spanish II
Department of Language & Literature: Spanish
Course Number and TitleSPAN202 Intermediate Spanish II
Number of Credits3 credits
Minimum Number of Instructional Minutes Per Semester2250
PrerequisitesSPAN201 (C or better) or equivalent
CorequisitesNone
Other Pertinent InformationStudents are expected to spend between six and nine hours per week outside of class in activities such as learning vocabulary, reading, completing written exercises, working on pronunciation, preparing oral presentations, and working with the multimedia files that accompany the text.
Catalog Course DescriptionA.
Required Course Content and Direction
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Planned Sequence of Topics and/or Learning Activities.
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Hello, Bucs Nation! This is my first visit here, so please be kind :-)
Today, the Colts added Xavier Fulton to their practice squad so I thought I'd do some research to understand a bit about him. I saw that Fulton was a 5th round draft pick of the Bucs last year, but had a season-ending ACL injury last September.
It also looks like some had hoped he would make the squad this year, either on the active roster or at least to the practice squad (after he was cut). My question is - how did he look last year? I know there was very little data to go off of (no more than 4 preseason games) and with a devastating knee injury he may never be the same, but I'm curious to know what Bucs Nation thought of Fulton before then.
Thanks in advance for your help!
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Despite the lack of a national hub-and-spoke carrier, Budapest continues to thrive as a destination for business, leisure and MICE business given its beauty and ideal location on the banks of the Danube river. This summer the airport will offer 88 destinations by 34 airlines. Of course, there are still some route opportunities which exist and we look forward to discussing these with you. More »
Budapest Airport believes in working closely with airline partners to ensure outstanding success for their routes. Through direct access to our regional catchment area and via our onsite marketing assets, we support airlines looking to grow their business. More »
The 8th Routes Europe will take place on 12-14th May 2013, hosted by Budapest Airport and partners. More »
Before proposing new services, the Airline Development team collects information about an airline’s needs and expectations and analyses the potential using various industry tools. More »
Based on market size data and industry intelligence, we have compiled a map showing un- or underserved destinations to showcase route opportunities. More »
Passenger habits and travel routines provide vital information for airline development so Budapest Airport carries out objective passenger surveys on a quarterly basis. More »
Financial support for new routes - In order to receive the financial support the operation needs to be year around service with at least 3 weekly flights. A new route is considered to be a service which has not been operated by any other airline 1 year before the launch. Considering the financial side of the incentives, the payment is a retroactive crediting. More »
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Budapest Airport entertained airline operators, travel agencies, hotel partners and other travel trade associates at its annual gala dinner and awards night at VAM Design Center in Budapest last Thursday, 16th February. Some 180 guests participated in an evening of networking and enjoyed a fun ‘presentation under the slogan: Quiz of the Year. More »
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on November 11, 2012 - 12:01 AM
Today, 2 p.m.: Not Just Words: Prose reading by Olga Karman followed by poetry with slideshow of collage art by Katherine Denison. Artspace Buffalo Gallery, 1219 Main St. $5.
Monday, 7 p.m.: Not Just Words: Dramatic Readings by Tim Newell and others including Ann Goldsmith, Kathleen Betsko Yale, J. Tim Raymond and Timothy Englert. Works to be excerpted include Shakespeare’s “Richard III” and Ann Goldsmith’s “The Plague.” Artspace Buffalo Gallery, 1219 Main St. $5.
Tuesday, 7 p.m.: Reading and book signing with Mick Cochrane, author of “Fitz,” a new young adult novel published by Knopf/Random House. Cochrane is professor of English and Lowery Writer-in-Residence at Canisius College. Fireside Lounge, 2nd Floor, Richard E. Winter ’42 Student Center, 80 Hughes Ave.
Tuesday, 7 p.m.: Not Just Words: “The Masks We Wear,” poetry workshop with Ann Goldsmith. Artspace Buffalo Gallery, 1219 Main St. Free.
Tuesday, 7:30 p.m.: Jewish Community Book Fair: Reading by Israeli-born poet Rachel Bergash, author of the memoir “Half the House, My Life In and Out of Jerusalem” (Sunstone Press). Jewish Community Center-Benderson Building, 2640 North Forest Road, Amherst. $6 to $12.
Wednesday, 7 p.m.: Not Just Words: Writing for Artists, a workshop with J. Tim Raymond. Artspace Buffalo Gallery, 1219 Main St. Free.
Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.: “Earth’s Daughters: The Next Generation,” a benefit reading for Earth’s Daughters magazine featuring many of the Buffalo-Niagara region’s leading younger women poets and writers, including Marina Blitshteyn, Robin Brox, Jennifer Campbell, Kim Chinquee, Sara Ries. and Janna Willoughby-Lohr, . Buffalo East, 1412 Main St. $10 to $20 (which includes a subscription to the magazine).
Wednesday, 7:30 p.m.: Jewish Community Book Fair: Reading by Bonnie Schneider, cable network meteorologist on CNN and HLN and author of a new book, “Extreme Weather” (Palgrave McMillian). Jewish Community Center-Benderson Building, 2640 North Forest Road, Amherst. $6 to $12.
Thursday, 1 p.m. to 7:30 p.m.: Canisius College Polish Legacy Book Fair. Runs 1 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. daily through Sunday. Montante Cultural Center, 2001 Main St.
Thursday, 7 p.m.: Book launch for “My Bookstore: Writers Celebrate Their Favorite Places to Browse, Read, and Shop” (Black Dog & Leventhal Publishers) featuring contributing essayist Mick CochraneDiscussion with Jon Welch of Talking Leaves Books on the role of independent bookstores in today’s cultural climate to follow. Talking Leaves Books, 3158 Main St.
Thursday, 7 p.m.: The Write Thing Series presents a fiction reading by Laurie Viera Rigler, author of “Confessions of a Jane Austen Addict” and “Rude Awakenings of a Jane Austen Addict” (both published by Plume in North America). Medaille College Academic Commons, Main Hall, 4th floor, 18 Agassiz Circle.
Thursday, 7 p.m.: Not Just Words: Poetry reading featuring Gene Grabiner, George Grace, and Ryki Zuckerman. Artspace Buffalo Gallery, 1219 Main St. $5.
Thursday, 8 p.m.: UB Poetics Program reading by Mónica de la Torre, a poet, editor and translator. She lives in Brooklyn and is senior editor at BOMB Magazine. Rust Belt Books, 202 Allen St.
Friday, 7 p.m.: Cynthia Carr, longtime critic at the Village Voice, discusses “Fire in the Belly” (Bloomsbury USA), her much-praised new biography of David Wojnarowicz. Hallwalls Cinema, 341 Delaware Ave. | http://www.buffalonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121111/LIFE/121119981/1057 | 2013-05-18T10:22:13 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
on January 15, 2013 - 12:03 AM
It is intolerable, unacceptable and outrageous that it took six months and legal action from The Buffalo News before both the Buffalo School District and the Town of Hamburg reluctantly handed over documents in separate cases involving taxpayer money.
Top officials in both the school system and town kept a death grip on information that should have been immediately available to the public. Those officials directly violated the state’s Freedom of Information Law, apparently believing themselves to be members of a secret society entitled to use taxpayer money without oversight.
The fact that town and school officials tried to hide information related to the competence and financial stewardship of high-level administrators is unconscionable.
The News took the school district case to State Supreme Court, and the documents finally revealed were nothing short of amazing.
In Sunday’s News, education reporter Mary Pasciak detailed the events surrounding the firing of Debbie Buckley. In less than a year and a half running the district’s grants department, Buckley directed more than $330,000 of anti-poverty money to benefit people and businesses close to her, including her son, her former stepsister and a struggling tutoring business that she had founded with her mother. An investigator’s 34-page report, with four pages of information redacted, along with 434 pages of related documents, all unredacted, were finally provided to The News.
The public had a right to know the circumstances surrounding Buckley’s firing, especially whether there was any mismanagement of public money. As usual, the attempt to cover up embarrassing information makes it seem worse than it would have been if the documents had been released when Buckley was fired.
Town of Hamburg officials took their own liberties with the Freedom of Information Law. The case involved a secret, expensive retirement agreement with the town’s controversial assistant police chief, Stephen E. Mikac.
As chronicled by staff reporter Barbara O’Brien, the settlement involved a tangled case dating back to 2011 involving sexual harassment charges made by Mikac against a town councilwoman, and counter-allegations by the town that Mikac violated policies involving a female police recruit.
Mikac retired last year with an extra $45,500 and a higher pension, along with a letter of reprimand. He dropped his claims against the town.
O’Brien’s article contains an account of the case along with documents involved. The retirement contract is a public record, a point made by Robert Freeman, executive director of the state’s Committee on Open Government, who wrote an advisory opinion stating that the settlement should be released.
The News filed a Freedom of Information Law request, which the town initially denied. The News appealed that denial and the agreement was released only after Joseph M. Finnerty, attorney for The News, met with Town Attorney Kenneth Farrell in recent weeks.
Public bodies have an obligation to operate in as open a manner as possible. A few exceptions are allowed, and the Committee on Open Government exists to advise governments and the public on the issue. Ignoring the committee’s guidelines is a slap at the public’s right to know, made worse because taxpayers have to pay for efforts to keep themselves in the dark. | http://www.buffalonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130115/OPINION/130119546/1032 | 2013-05-18T10:23:40 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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on January 23, 2013 - 9:29 AM
, updated January 24, 2013 at 6:48 AM
An Amherst motorist who refused to pull over in Clarence eventually was stopped and charged with driving while intoxicated, Erie County sheriff’s deputies reported Wednesday morning.
Deputies Simon Biegasiewicz and Dave Zamorek reported they were driving north on Transit Road, near Sheridan Drive, at about 1 a.m. when they saw a speeding southbound car. They tried to pull over the driver but he fled, driving through red lights at three intersections before he eventually stopped.
As deputies approached, the motorist drove off again, deputies said.
After the vehicle was finally stopped, the driver was removed from it, deputies said.
Zakariya H. Ibrahim, 37, failed roadside sobriety tests, deputies said, and registered a blood-alcohol content of 0.18 percent.
Ibrahim was charged with aggravated driving while intoxicated, reckless endangerment, resisting arrest, obstructing governmental administration, unlawful fleeing a police officer in a motor vehicle, as well as 14 violations of vehicle and traffic law. He’s in the county Holding Center, awaiting arraignment in Clarence Town Court. | http://www.buffalonews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20130123/CITYANDREGION/130129677/1046 | 2013-05-18T10:56:10 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
Done Deal: 495 Main Street Sold
Odd how no one ever wants to tear down crap like this. There was an amazing 6 or 7 story building on this site that was removed to build this piece of crud and it was hailed as great progress at the time. Use this as a guide to what is often sold as progress in Buffalo.
I heard Mayor Szymanski really likes this building, comparing to several architectural masterpieces in Pittsburgh and Cleveland.
yes, the rebuild in place of Beth Steel might look like this building only 10x larger.
more progress...
One of my favorite BRO comments ever!! So true.
Was this the site of the former New Century Theater that was torn down in the early 80s?
No. The Century Theater was behind this property, where the parking lot is now. The lobby of the theater was the only part that fronted on Main Street. Where the mural wall and new fence are now.
Had some dealings with the folks at WNY School of Bartending--total tools. So, this might not be a bad thing (unless "Dollar City" = Dollar Store).
Better than a vacant building.
That might not be true. If this becomes a locally owned version of a dollar store, it will probably not contribute much to the improvement of the block that are otherwise starting. There is a large population that could use a store dedicated to inexpensive, low quality merchandise, but that might not be the highest and best use of a property in that block.
It would have been better if this building had stayed vacant for another year or two until someone with higher aspirations had come along to buy it.
How's that for elitist jumping to conclusions?
Better than a vacant building.
Dollar city wholesale? Does this mean we're going to get a 2 story dollar general instead of that neat bartending school idea?
Dollar City Wholesale appears to be a wholesaler for candy making supplies.
So, will this become a candy store, an office or both?
Here is something for you all to reflect upon once again from my response to an earlier post. This was written 100 years ago and still applies today especially in this case.
"The evolution of the town presents many curious features, but nothing is more striking than the impermanence of improvements. What one decade achieves, the next destroys. The pride of today is the scorn of tomorrow. By 1837 most of the business buildings were of brick, and some of them of very good architecture. It is not always the poor and shabby that are replaced. Improvements depend upon eligibility of site, or enterprise of owners, or the accident of fire. Thus it happens that much of our best disappears for things newer but perhaps no better, and much of our worst, to our civic shame, remains."
Frank H. Severance from The Picture Book Of Earlier Buffalo 1912
Open for twenty years closed for fifteen. If the King works anything like the Clown “McDonalds” they only engineer their building to last twenty five years not saying they don’t use them longer. If so this building must some real structural issues being empty unmaintained for fifteen years plus the twenty years in use.
Amazing this crap hole gets a new life while some amazing historic properties are about to get razed. Way to go Buffalo!
We're probably getting a corner store.
Even though a quick search on Google shows that this company is a "candy making supplier" and Yelp says it’s a “candy store” (more appropriate), if the new owner is Shaker Abuhamra he owns at least 10 properties in Buffalo, and 2 in Kenmore, including 958 E Ferry ("Exclusive Gear/Boost Mobile/Express mart" - corner store), 1210 E Ferry and Fillmore ("Ferry Express Mart" - corner store/gas station) and the large 22,000 sqft 65 Grant near Ferry ("Shakers" - corner store). Check them out. Is this guy a good neighbor and smart business man, or just running cheap corner stores selling sugar, salt and shit?
There has to be a higher and better use for this location but it's a free market and after 15 years, maybe not yet. I don't blame him for picking this up. A corner store here on Main St will be very popular.
Why couldn't Lloyd have moved in here permanently?
The proposed new owner owns many other corner stores throughout the east side - at least 10 by my count. Here's hoping better for this space.
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on November 1, 2012 - 1:17 AM
, updated November 1, 2012 at 8:44 AM
A guard at the Erie County Holding Center may be able to keep his job despite a federal conviction for assaulting an inmate at the downtown jail.
Thomas J. Thompson, 40, of Grand Island, was spared prison time Wednesday and instead ordered to serve eight months at a federal halfway house in Buffalo.
The sentence would allow Thompson, an Erie County sheriff’s deputy who admitted taking part in the assault, to continue working at the jail while serving his sentence.
Federal prosecutors sought a year in prison for Thompson, a sentence that would have cost him his job. They declined to comment except to suggest that Thompson’s fate now lies with Sheriff Timothy B. Howard.
“It’s ultimately the employer’s decision,” said U.S. Attorney William J. Hochul Jr.
Howard could not be reached to comment Wednesday, but it was the sheriff who initially fired Thompson, only to rehire him after an arbitrator ordered him back to work.
In sentencing Thompson, U.S. Magistrate Judge H. Kenneth Schroeder said he wanted to send a message to guards at the Holding Center – violate your oath and you suffer the consequences.
“The crime and the seriousness of the crime is the violation of an oath,” Schroeder said. “The meaning of that oath is being lost on people. That’s the seriousness of the crime here.”
The judge said he also took into account Thompson’s economic and family circumstances, and the possibility he might lose his job, in sentencing him to a halfway house.
“A loss of employment due to his absence from work would be disastrous,” said James W. Grable Jr., Thompson’s defense lawyer. “This is something he will have to live with forever – that stain on his record.”
As part of his guilty plea in June, Thompson admitted recruiting other deputies on Jan. 18, 2010 to assist him in punishing an inmate, Stephen Heilmann. He claims Heilmann lied to guards about drugs at the downtown jab. He did so, and a deputy then punched him.
“Any police officer in this country that does something like this absolutely deserves the maximum penalty allowed by law,” Heilmann said in a telephone statement to the judge. “He needs to be sentenced, and he needs to be sentenced hard to send a message to the other guards.”
Heilmann interrupted the proceedings at least three times and, on one occasion, expressed outrage at the fact that Thompson was convicted of a misdemeanor, not a felony, charge.
“This an abomination,” he said before hanging up.
Thompson, who pleaded guilty to deprivation of rights under color of law, said very little during his sentencing, except to express regret at what he had done.
“I have no one to blame but myself,” he told the judge.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Trini E. Ross argued for a year’s prison sentence and suggested that Thompson’s actions as a police officer needed to be condemned by the court.
“With great power comes great responsibility,” Ross said. “Mr. Thompson had that power.”
Thompson’s sentence follows an out-of-court settlement of a lawsuit filed by Heilmann.
The terms of the settlement were not disclosed by the court, but the county said its portion of the settlement was $14,990.
The suit led to the suspension of three deputies and the firing of Thompson and two other deputies, but they were later rehired as part on an arbitrator’s ruling. Thompson, a sergeant on the force, also was demoted to deputy. | http://www.buffnews.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=/20121031/CITYANDREGION/121039879/1002 | 2013-05-18T10:41:52 | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | 1368696382261 | [] |
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The ball has dropped, the confetti has been swept up, and the kids are back in school. Another holiday season come and gone, in other words -- and if the transition from lights and tinsel to dreary January skies wasn't depressing enough, we've also got the annual switch from holiday blockbusters to last year's leftovers at the cineplex. Nothing says "winter at the movies" like a succession of reheated trickle-downs from the previous 12 months; the studios have long used January and February as a toxic dump site for films that have been pushed back 'til they can't be pushed back no more.
There's plenty of that going on in '08 -- hello, "The Eye" and "Vantage Point" -- but this winter may also signal a shift in the way the studios treat those cold winter months. Consider, for instance, the January 18 debut of the much-hyped "Cloverfield," a monster movie that would have had "summer blockbuster" etched onto it in any other year. This winter's slate also includes a new movie from Will Ferrell ("Semi-Pro"), the long-awaited screen union of Scarlett Johansson and Natalie Portman ("The Other Boleyn Girl"), and...well, it also has the third Rambo sequel and the latest horror from Larry the Cable Guy. These trends take time to change, people. Be patient.
A Chill in the Air
So
long, holiday cheer! Winter is the time for dark hallways, rivers of
blood, and plenty of terrified screaming -- and this winter provides
plenty of opportunities for all of the above. The scares start early,
with "One
Missed Call" on January 4, starring Ed Burns and Margaret Cho
in the story of a mysterious wave of killings whose victims' deaths
are prefaced by...wait for it...a missed call on their cellphones, accompanied
by a recording of what their final moments will sound like. Will it
be as scary as the nosedive Burns' career has taken since "The
Brothers McMullen"?
Later in the month, American filmgoers will finally be able to see "The Orphanage," the Guillermo del Toro-produced screamer that wowed European and South American critics last year. As if people didn't already have an aversion to orphanages, this one comes equipped with a malevolent spirit that might be wreaking havoc on the life of a woman who grew up there, and has returned to help restore its former lustre. No good deed goes unpunished!
Jessica Alba will look to send a different sort of shiver down your spine in February's "The Eye," in which she plays a blind violinist whose corneal transplants leave her tormented by unpleasant otherworldly visions. Originally slated to come out last year, "The Eye" represents the latest in Hollywood's series of attempts to put together a Japanese horror remake that works as well as "The Ring." Think this'll do the trick?
Also premiering in February is "The Poughkeepsie Tapes," which treats viewers to the shaky hand-cam footage left behind by a serial killer from -- where else? -- Poughkeepsie. Judging from the trailer, "Poughkeepsie" looks a little like "The Blair Witch Project" crossed with "Halloween" (the John Carpenter version, not the Rob Zombie one), and could wind up becoming this winter's biggest low-budget horror sensation.
Finally, April brings us "Prom Night," Screen Gems' latest exercise in '80s horror vault-raiding. Brittany Snow stars in the remake of the 1980 teensploitation cult classic. The original provided Jamie Lee Curtis with a gateway out of the horror-movie ghetto -- will the remake do the same for Snow?
Hot Winter Action!
Gray skies got you feeling like you want to strap on a machine gun and go blow off a little steam? This winter's collection of action movies might be able to provide you with a little cinematic therapy. After all, who embodies the action thriller more than Sylvester Stallone?
This January brings Stallone's long-mooted fourth "Rambo" flick to theaters in the form of "John Rambo," in which everyone's favorite Vietnam vet ventures into the Burmese jungle to rescue a group of Christian missionaries. Plot's secondary, though -- the only thing you need to know is that Stallone rocks a tank top, a machete, and a homemade sword as well as he ever did.
Later in the month, there's "Untraceable," featuring Colin Hanks and Diane Lane as members of a cybercrime task force who may have bitten off more than they can chew with a killer who broadcasts his murders live over the Web. Lane remains smokin' after all these years -- will her latest movie's box office be able to say the same?
Like a little sci-fi with your action? Then Doug Liman's "Jumper" is the winter film you won't want to miss. Hayden Christensen stars as a man with the ability to teleport -- an ability he has used to underwrite an opulent, shiftless lifestyle. His carelessness leads him into the path of a group sworn to eradicate "jumpers" like himself -- and into a special effects-laden battle with Samuel L. Jackson. And don't forget "Cloverfield" -- Abrams and crew are keeping most of the details under wraps, but at the very least, action fans can go in knowing they can comfortably expect monsters, explosions, and an unexpected twist or two.
Meanwhile, Sarah Michelle Gellar still enjoys making movies that require her to scream a lot, like February's "Possession," in which she plays a woman whose husband may have infiltrated the body of his good-for-nothing brother. Will this be a "Cruel Intentions"-sized return to form for Gellar, or another pitstop on the way to Made for DVD City?
February also brings "Vantage Point," which boasts an all-star cast (Dennis Quaid, Matthew Fox, Forest Whitaker, Sigourney Weaver, John Hurt) to go along with its action-packed storyline. Originally scheduled for release last year, "Vantage Point" actually looks like it might be one of the few pushbacks whose delay was related to scheduling snafus rather than overall lameness -- but the critics might have something else to say come February 22.
Few modern directors do big-budget action like Roland Emmerich, and in March, he'll show us how it's done all over again with "10,000 B.C.," in which competing tribes of ancient English-speaking warriors duke it out over a prophecy or something. Plot? What plot? Dig those special effects! Decidedly more cerebral are "Pride and Glory," which features Colin Farrell, Edward Norton, and Jon Voight as members of an NYPD family tainted by corruption, and "Stop-Loss," in which Ryan Phillippe and Channing Tatum deal with the military's refusal to let them return to civilian life.
Finally, martial arts fans have "The Forbidden Kingdom" -- which unites the ass-kicking prowess of Jet Li and Jackie Chan for the first time -- to look forward to in April. Early indications seem to point to more of a comedy than the true action epic that fans were hoping for, but with Li and Chan together onscreen, there's bound to be at least one great fight scene, right?
Winter Chuckles
First, the good news: This winter's comedy slate does not include a
sequel to "Wild Hogs." Now, the bad news: "Wild Hogs
2" is on its way, and this winter will bring you new movies
from Rob Schneider and Larry the Cable Guy, as well as painfully unfunny
comedies from the likes of Diane Keaton, Matthew McConaughey, and Eva
Longoria Parker.
To continue the good news/bad news theme, January brings us more of the lovely Katherine Heigl...but she's starring in "27 Dresses," which looks for all the world like a cross between "My Best Friend's Wedding" and "The Wedding Planner." (Translation: No boobies.) January also plays host to "First Sunday," in which Ice Cube and Tracy Morgan play con men whose probation has them doing community service in a church with a temptingly big collection plate. Sounds dreadfully formulaic...but Tracy Morgan is always good for a laugh, and at least it isn't another one of Cube's terrible "Are We..." movies.
There appears to be no good news associated with "Mad Money," which takes a true-life bank heist and turns it into a comedy starring Keaton, Queen Latifah, and Katie Holmes, along with a bewildered-looking Ted Danson. It's the type of film that the easy-to-please filmgoer in your life often refers to as "cute." Nothing to see here, people. Move along.
February brings us "Over Her Dead Body," in which Longoria Parker plays the dead fiancee of a man who's falling in love with the psychic he hired to put him in touch with her ghost. Ha, ha, ha! The month also marks Steve Zahn's return to comedy filmmaking with "Strange Wilderness," which follows the exploits of a local-access wildlife show's host as he goes to ridiculous lengths to save his job.
Speaking of ridiculous, how about Matthew McConaughey and Kate Hudson teaming up for the buried treasure action-comedy "Fool's Gold"? If you're in the mood for a tropical heist caper and are somehow prevented from renting "Romancing the Stone" or "Jewel of the Nile" on February 8, this is a must-see; otherwise, it looks like a lot of pointlessly lazy slacking from both of its stars. Also breaking no new ground -- albeit much more pleasantly -- is "Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins," starring Martin Lawrence as a star whose return home is greeted with something less than unqualified adoration from his family. And how could we forget "Witless Protection," the latest from biological stain Larry the Cable Guy?
The season's biggest comedy is doubtless "Semi-Pro," featuring Will Ferrell as Jackie Moon, the owner/coach/power forward of a minor-league basketball team. Yes, Ferrell has done this many times before -- he's running out of sports to spoof -- but he's very good at it, and with a cast that includes Woody Harrelson, Maura Tierney, and Will Arnett, odds are that he's good for at least one more sports-spoof hit.
In March, Owen Wilson arrives as "Drillbit Taylor," the bargain soldier of fortune who answers an ad and winds up playing bodyguard to a group of high school nerds. Wilson's personal life will no doubt be a large part of the publicity surrounding his return to the screen, but if "Taylor" is as good as its trailer (try saying that ten times fast), it could help him put last year's suicide scare behind him. Arriving not long after "Drillbit" is "Run, Fat Boy, Run," a collaboration between David "Ross Gellar" Schwimmer and Simon "Hot Fuzz" Pegg that stars Pegg as a man whose efforts to win back the woman he left pregnant at the altar lead him to run a marathon against a very healthy-looking Hank Azaria.
Finally, April brings a slew of comedies, including the Drake Bell/Ryan Pinkston boobiefest "College," Tina Fey's "Baby Mama," and the aforementioned Rob Schneider vehicle, "Big Stan" -- but the ones to watch are "Leatherheads," starring George Clooney and John Krasinski as teammates vying for the affections of Renee Zellweger; "The Rocker," starring Rainn Wilson as a washed-up hair-metal drummer whose nephew's band offers him another shot at the big time; and "Harold and Kumar Escape from Guantanamo," in which the two lovable stoners from "Harold and Kumar Go to White Castle" try to smuggle a bong through customs and wind up in the hoosegow to end all hoosegows. What does that have to do with Neil Patrick Harris riding a unicorn? You'll have to wait until April 25 to find out.
For the Kids
Face
it -- your kids are eventually going to get tired of playing with their
new toys and start nagging you to take them somewhere. Happily, if you're
too lazy to think up something to actually do with your family,
there are at least a few films the whole crew can enjoy this winter
-- particularly if your progeny are into "Harry Potter"-esque
fantasy adventure.
For instance, February will bring "The Spiderwick Chronicles," the first in a hoped-for series of adaptations of the best-selling children's books. Freddie Highmore leads the cast's juvenile contingent, while the grown-ups on hand include Nick Nolte, Mary-Louise Parker, Joan Plowright, and Martin Short. Expect a mystical quest and plenty of cute little magical critters -- some of them not so nice, so if you've got young ones, you may want to hold them out this time.
With March comes "Horton Hears a Who," the CGI-animated adaptation of the Dr. Seuss classic featuring a slew of famous voices, including Steve Carell, Seth Rogen, Will Arnett, and Jim Carrey, who will try to atone here for the Seuss mockery that was "How the Grinch Stole Christmas." Later in the month, Brendan Fraser stars in "Inkheart" as a man with the ability to bring books to life simply by reading them -- a power that drops him into the clutches of a nasty literary baddie with world-conquering ambitions.
Come April, Jodie Foster stars in the Walden Media family fable "Nim's Island," as an agoraphobic travel writer whose rugged alter ego is Abigail Breslin's only hope of saving the island paradise where she and her father are under assault from a pack of bad guys. Gerard Butler plays Foster's invisible friend, which is sure to be a source of amusement for tongues still wagging over Foster's recent coming out of the closet. Think the fundies at Walden will be laughing along?
And that, in a very large nutshell, is an overview of what you can expect to find at a theater near you between now and the end of April. But it isn't everything -- be sure to take a look at each of our monthly rundowns for more in-depth looks at each of the winter's biggest releases!
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A test version for my mom to be sure of the size. Finally, we like this version though, she suddenly care and will have the true version in 15 days!
Pattern : Pavot – Deer & Doe, 03.33 AMby sewuknow
Wow, bravo gigette. C’est très belle. J’aime ce patron beaucoup.
Dec 9, 2012, 07.22 PMby Mary Athey
This.versions fab for.a trial.run x
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