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If you�ve watched a renovation show on HGTV or flipped through design magazines at your local home improvement mega-mart over the past few years, you�ve seen endless reiterations of the same look. Dark granite countertops, clean lines of cabinetry and the ubiquitous six-burner �professional-style� gas range are all the rage. The heavy grates, chunky front-mounted knobs and stark stainless steel range exteriors evoke the no-nonsense, high-volume bustle of a restaurant kitchen.
Stainless might look cool, but it can be difficult to keep clean. �If you�re a person who doesn�t mind a smudge or two but wants a very good showpiece and are willing to clean it up, then I think stainless is great,� said Steve Swayne of Whirlpool Corp.
Remember one size doesn�t fit all. Many kitchens can�t accommodate larger, commercial-style appliances without major alterations to existing cabinetry, countertops, exhaust, electrical and gas services. Some might even require extra bracing to floor joists.
Consider new technology. Consumer Reports is impressed with the new generation of induction cooktops, which work by magnetically heating the cooking vessel, not the element itself.
They boil water very quickly and hold temperatures precisely. However, they don�t work with all cookware and might demand upgraded electrical service.
Or at least that�s the romance. In reality, the luxury appliances in retail showrooms are modeled on the looks of their siblings in commercial kitchens, but they have been modified for home use. Most offer insulated ovens, electronic controls and devices such as timers that are not found in the original models.
These additions push the price up considerably, and according to some experts, these luxury appliances are far from a necessity. In many cases, they�re overkill.
Steve Swayne, regional technology leader for North America cooking for Whirlpool Corp., points out actual commercial models, with their high-output burners, are designed for a different style of cooking.
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The school follows the LEA and Governing Body Admission Policies that do not permit sex, race, colour or disability to be used as criteria for admission.
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I was reading a blog post about a guy and his debut novel and how well it's doing, and it got me thinking.
So all along my plan has been to do what I've been doing, which is writing and releasing Bloodletting as a series of short stories that I would ultimately consolidate into either one massive novel or a series of shorter novels. That's why they're divided up by character and book number. While each story is meant to be able to stand alone, the intention all along has been to collect them.
Originally, I planned on having an A-story and a B-story in each "book" and flip back and forth between them. I ended up only doing that in two of the books (2-Victoria and 3-Danny) and in the other two (1-Charlie and 4-Jack) I stayed pretty much exclusively in the past.
What I'm thinking is that I've got another Charlie story (1.4) that is just about done, and then probably one more that I still need to write (1.5) and that should finish up the entire Charlie "book." Or at least this phase of it. I'm still deciding how I want to approach the second half the main story. Either way, once I put out those two stories, I'll be able to compile the whole Charlie series into one book and essentially have a complete novel, following Charlie from when she runs away from home in book 1.1 to when she ends up where she ends up in at the end of book 1.5. I suppose book 0, Patricia, is also part of the Charlie series, though I'm not sure I'd put it in Charlie's book.
Either way, my point is that I'm considering finishing up the Charlie story entirely next. Finishing and putting out the mostly done Charlie 1.4 and then powering through 1.5, just so I've got a full novel under my belt. A book I can charge 5.99 for or whatever and put in the print store and see how it sells compared to the shorts.
It's a something I'm thinking about. I've got a pretty solid idea of exactly what happens between when I left off with Caroline and Charlie in Arizona and where that story ends, so it's really just a matter of writing it. The first three Charlie stories (excluding Patricia) are between 13k and 15k words each, and I expect the last two will clock in around that as well. all together that should be about 75k words, which is roughly 200 pages by Amazon's count. Not great for a print novel, but not completely unreasonable either. And for an ebook, that's perfectly acceptable as a full length novel.
I dunno. I still have to write What Danny Did, so it's not like I need to decide anything right now. It's just something I'm thinking about.


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But, I do have it. And, rather than looking at the negatives of being diagnosed with cancer, I choose to look at what positives have come out of my having the disease.
Please, don't send the white coats after me! I realize I have a deadly disease, from which I am likely to never recover. Nevertheless, let's spend a few minutes looking at the positives. After you read my list, let us know if there are any with which you agree or that you can add. Read more.


Absolutely, it is definitely possible. We like to call it "accent addition" rather than "accent reduction" - in other words adding a new accent to your repertoire of speaking styles, not simply eliminating your natural accent. You will learn strategies to use to make it easier for people to understand you in specific situations where it is necessary to use a more "standard" speaking style. Of course, practice, persistence and plenty of constructive feedback are essential when modifying the way you speak.
How long will it take to change my accent?
Well, that really depends on the individual. Some see improvements fairly quickly, but for others it takes a little longer. The bigggest indicator of success is the amount of PRACTICE! Just like learning any new skill, practice is required to become proficient.
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CINCINNATI - Kroger Co.'s third-quarter net income slipped 2 percent, hurt by a higher inventory accounting charge. But the performance beat analysts' expectations and the nation's largest grocery chain raised its full-year earnings forecast.
Like many grocer operators, Kroger has been dealing with rising costs. The Cincinnati company has been passing along higher prices to consumers to offset those costs and increased prices for meat and other goods.
The operator of Kroger, Ralphs and other grocery chains reported that its net income slipped to $195.9 million, or 33 cents per share, for the quarter.
NEW YORK - Barnes & Noble said Thursday it plans to invest more heavily in its Nook e-book reader and digital media, even as it reported a third-quarter loss as sales of physical books continued to decline.
But the New York bookseller, which is focusing on digital media to offset tough competition and seismic shifts in the way Americans consume books, sounded a positive note about the holidays so far.
Net loss for the quarter ended Oct. 29 was $6.6 million compared with a loss of $12.6 million a year ago.
Sprint Nextel Corp. is mending fences with independent subsidiary Clearwire Corp., pledging Thursday to use the data network Clearwire is planning to build and to participate if the company raises more capital.
The announcement is a lifeline for Clearwire, which is struggling financially. Overland Park, Kan.-based Sprint owns 54 percent of Kirkland, Wash.-based Clearwire, but doesn't have voting control.
WILMINGTON, Del. - A judge gave approval Thursday for an $89.4 mil- lion settlement between Del Monte Corp. shareholders on one side and the food maker and Barclays Capital Inc. on the other over Del Monte's $4 billion buyout.
Investors led by Kohlberg Kravis Roberts & Co. bought the maker of Contadina tomato products and Kibbles 'n Bits, Meow Mix and Milk-Bone pet foods earlier this year.
Shareholders claimed that Del Monte directors breached their duties and misled investors. They also accused Barclays of manipulating the sale to boost its own fees and of having a conflict of interest because, in addition to advising Del Monte, the London-based bank provided some of the buyers' financing.
San Francisco-based Del Monte agreed to pay $65.7 million in cash in return for being released from these and further shareholder claims. Barclays agreed to contribute $23.7 million in cash.
NEW YORK - Massachusetts sued five major banks Thursday over deceptive foreclosure practices such as the "robo-signing" of documents, potentially undermining negotiations between lenders and state prosecutors across the nation over the same issue.
JPMorgan Chase, Wells Fargo, GMAC Mortgage responded mostly with statements of disappointment.
WASHINGTON - Freddie Mac said Thursday the rate on the 30-year fixed mortgage loan rose slightly to 4 percent from 3.98 percent the week before. Eight weeks ago, it dropped to a record low of 3.94, according to the National Bureau of Economic Research.
The average rate on the 15-year fixed mortgage was unchanged at 3.30 per- cent. The average five-year adjustable loan ticked down to 2.90 percent from 2.91 percent. The average rate on the one-year adjustable loan also fell, declining to 2.78 percent from 2.79 percent.


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Urban Meyer Poaching the Irish as National Signing Day Approaches
Sure, every coach and college football program recruits players committed to other teams. After all, a verbal commitment is merely that - verbal - until National Signing Day on February 1st, when recruits in the Class of 2012 can begin signing letters of intent to play college football for their chosen programs. As a Fighting Irish fan, I had been ecstatic about the incoming class, which is excellent by any measure. Any excitement I had has now been destroyed by the new resident douchebag in Columbus, Urban Liar. Er, Urban Meyer. Regardless, Meyer has caused destruction to Notre Dame recruiting in his usual sleazy ways, stealing two coaches and one recruit already.
Urban "Liar" Meyer, the shadiest man in a shady sport
Normally, when you lose a recruit or player to an opposing school, you try not to take it too personally. Well at least for long. But the way Meyer recruits is to create personal enemies everywhere he goes. Now, the ESPN propaganda machine will disagree. They'll interrupt all regularly scheduled programming to show you his Ohio State introductory news conference, where it's all smiles about what a good man Meyer is. Deep down, however, this is a man who consistently wins because he has forgotten anything there is to know about ethics. And in today's college football world, that's the name of the game. Wonder why the SEC wins all the championships? Sure, they get great athletes, but so do schools like Texas, USC, and Oregon. No, the SEC makes winning the only important thing and allows academics to take a back seat. Want to oversign your recruiting classes well beyond NCAA limits and just wait until some of them don't qualify? Come on down to Tuscaloosa or Oxford. Want to randomly cut players whenever you want to meet scholarship limits? Athens and Auburn are waiting. Want to let football take priority over any criminal transgression? Baton Rouge and Gainsville are your shrines. And want to completely fall ass backwards trying not to meet basic academic standards for your athletes? Look no further than Columbia, South Carolina.
What's my point here? Meyer cut his national-stage teeth at Florida, a recent SEC powerhouse where he won two NCAA Championships. While there, he won his first championship with the help of Ron Zook's recruits, who occupied 20 out of the 22 starting positions on that first National Championship team. And he won his second title with the Tebowner at quarterback. What else did he do there? How about at least 31 players getting arrested in 6 years? Meyer never once took it seriously enough to curb any problems. All he cared about was recruiting stud athletes, regardless of character or academic aspirations, to help him win championships.
The limits to his shady recruiting knew no bounds. This is especially evident with his first retirement from Florida, where he retired for "health reasons" but then came back within days. Although any rational human being would consider his actions strange, Meyer decided to use this as a recruiting strategy. While recruiting Sharrif Floyd, the number 1 defensive tackle recruit in the country in 2010, Meyer told him that he had a dream that he was coming back to coach Floyd and win national championships, his health be damned. The quote, from one of Floyd's coaches:
"Sharrif was really confused and put a call into Coach Meyer. When they spoke Coach Meyer told him that he had a 'dream' the night before, and that Coach Meyer saw himself on the sideline coaching Sharrif. Told him that is was a 'message from God that I should come back and coach, as I guess if it's my time to die, I'd rather die on the sidelines coaching you than anywhere else in the world."
Floyd subsequently committed to Florida. Seriously, wow. This is college recruiting. Are you kidding me?! How much of a complete scumbag sleazeball do you have to be to pull this off? Well, for Urban "Liar" Meyer, it's just another day at the office.
Meyer visiting ND this summer for ESPN. Who knew this was a trip to get insider info.
When it came to Notre Dame, I wasn't too concerned when Meyer got hired, for various reasons. One, I figured that Meyer would be going head to head more with Brady Hoke at Michigan and other Big Ten schools for Ohio and midwest recruits. Sure, ND recruits in the Midwest, but they even moreso pull recruits from all over the country every year. Secondly, Brian Kelly coached in Ohio before and had established relationships with many of the high school coaches and players there. And thirdly, Meyer visited ND, a school he had coached for, over the summer for ESPN and got a deep in depth look at how Brian Kelly runs the program. So even when Meyer came in and abruptly stole two Notre Dame coaches, I was somehow still convinced that he hadn't been setting it up all along to take shots at Notre Dame recruits.
Taylor Decker, the latest Meyer flip
It was only today, when the recruiting drama surrounding manchild Taylor Decker came to an end with Decker dropping his Notre Dame verbal commitment to pledge to Ohio State. Decker was one of the earlier ND commits, pledging in the Spring of 2011. He was an Ohio kid that for some reason wasn't recruited much by Ohio State despite being 6'8, 280 pounds with the ability to grow into a dominating player. ND saw his potential though, being one of the first major programs to offer him, and Decker committed, not just to his position coach Ed Warriner and head coach Brian Kelly, but to the university that could offer him a 40 year plan, not just a 4 year plan. Decker was considered one of the more solid commitments in the entire class, reaffirming his commitment time and time again. When Meyer was initially hired, he again reaffirmed his commitment. When Meyer stole his position coach and head recruiter from ND, Decker came out YET AGAIN and said he was solid to ND, explicitly stating that he had committed to Kelly and the university, not just his position coach. Yet there he was this weekend, taking an official visit to Ohio State, and boom, wouldn't you know it - he drops the Irish for Ohio State. When asked why, he said something along the lines of "I just figured it out." Figured what out?! In one weekend, you figured that your nearly year long commitment to Kelly and THE UNIVERSITY OF NOTRE DAME wasn't right for you? No, I don't believe that nonsense for a second. This was simply the work of Urban Meyer for you. When a guy like Meyer, with zero ethics, recruits against a guy with integrity like Kelly, who's going to win? Meyer will the vast majority of the time.
Yeah, I'm an ND homer. And yeah, I'm pissed. But what does this say about the state of college football, a supposedly AMATEUR sport? And more importantly, what does this mean for those in Big Ten country who don't like this sort of thing? We're used to traditional football here, with big time programs who play by the rules (let's forget PSU for a minute) and churn out real student-athletes. We hate the shady tactics being used by the deplorable academic institutions in the SEC. Well, we better wake up. Good ole Urban Meyer has brought those tactics home to our area, to the perfect kind of school that would condone that sort of thing. Ohio State and Urban Meyer are a match made in heaven, two unethical schools who bend any sort of rules to get that extra defensive back, or offensive linemen, or wide receiver, that can take the university to new heights and bring back that big BCS paycheck. And really, that's all that schools like OSU and the SEC schools, and coaches like Meyer care about. The simple fact that these are all ACADEMIC INSTITUTIONS doesn't matter to them. And for a school like Notre Dame, which follows academic, ethical, and NCAA rules strictly, it could mean they get left in the dust for many recruits, including the Taylor Deckers of the world who buy the used car salesman rhetoric that Meyer sells. I wish that Meyer would leave his pulpit-like crap out of everything, but he can't, and he won't: he's the poster child of the New NCAA.
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The perfect union of Elvis Costello and Jenny Lewis
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He strides to the room seeming impossibly tall and endlessly poise. In a silk scarf and all black, he looks as sharp as his wit has ever been,and downright Dickensian, as if the word 'doff' was invented solely for use in reference to the hat sitting on his head. At 54, he's got the perfect dappling of salt-and-pepper scruff, which frames a pair of lips in a perpetual mischievous grin,ever the unambiguous counterpoint to those trademark square-framed specs. Elvis is in the building — Costello, of course — and it's enough to keep Jenny Lewis on her toes.
Well, somewhat. She's sitting, currently, getting a light dusting of blush before the next round of photographs with her avuncular counterpart, but her dainty feet are neatly propped by a pair of light brown pumps. Los Angeles' favorite daughter, our eternal indie darling regardless of her record label, is rightly stunning in a red dress and feathered cap, and as Lewis moves through the room she hardly disturbs the air. Whether this is out of respect to the dust or due to an innate grace is unclear, but to not stare — at either of this pair — is to miss history in the making.
The duet is nothing new to music. Neither is the appearance of an elder statesman on the album of a young star for posterity, nor the reverse for the sake of a little shined-up sparkle. But when a legend with three decades and 34 albums to his hallowed name is coaxed out of retirement by the sheer energy experienced in a day of studio time with an inspired young songwriter, momentousness abounds. Last October, Costello told MOJO magazine he wasn't "of a mind to record any more," that the MP3 had "dismantled the intended shape of an album" and that fans could hear him live or not at all, essentially.
But on April 22, Costello sneaked out his 35th album, and a few days later issued the following via his website: "Some of you may have heard rumours of an album called Momofuku... [which] came about because of an invitation I received from Jenny Lewis to sing on her upcoming record," He'd changed his mind. "That's what I do," he added. "The record was made so quickly that I didn't even tell myself about it for two weeks." His story only added to buzz surrounding an unnamed Lewis solo album reportedly recorded in organic and speedy contrast to Rilo Kiley's 2007 LP, Under the Blacklight. Costello's record was effectively a carry-over of Lewis' January session, and had named it after the inventor of Cup Noodles because "all we had to do... was add water."
Acid Tongue is now out, and it could be Lewis' most immediate work yet. An all-analog rock and roll record that sears as much as it sways, the follow-up to 2006's Rabbit Fur Coat trades in the alt-country scenery for further breadth and depth. Its sound is richer- a soulful mix of Southern-Gothic stomp, saturated balladry and campfire strum — and its inspiration digs deeper, with Lewis putting her pretty croon to use against the messy topics of sex, drugs, love, travel, illness and family.
Sometimes she sings in character; in other moments, she's addressing the very people recording with her: live-in beau Johnathan Rice, who co-wrote much of Acid Tongue; or her father, Eddie Gordon, a harmonica virtuoso estranged from Lewis until his recent cancer diagnosis reunited them.
Likewise, Costello's Momofuku sounds refreshed, thanks in no small part to Lewis' rag-tag gang. Though a few of her guests (Zooey Deschanel, M. Ward, and Rilo's Jason Boesel among them) had evacuated Van Nuys' Sound City Studios by the time Costello arrived, the "vocal supergroup" that lent his record so much of its particular vigor is also the core lineup behind Acid Tongue: Lewis, Rice, Dave Scher (Beachwood Sparks), and Jonathan Wilson (formerly of Eisley), along with Costello's bassist Davey Faragher. Momofuku is another sound entry in Costello's post-millennial rock catalogue, seething with the attitude and urgency he'd rediscovered with 2002's When I Was Cruel. His own band, The Imposters, might have something to do with that as well: keyboardist Steve Nieve and drummer Pete Thomas have been playing with Costello since 1978 — though not without the occasional break or falling out.
Truth be told, Costello has been threatening retirement since he was 26, according to his own liner notes for the Rykodisc reissue of 1981's Trust (though when asked about it today, he asks back: "Did I say that?"). And more than their mutual passion for detailed narratives, heartful ballads and, now, double drummers (read on), Costello and Lewis share the kind of creative restlessness that can make or break a career. They approach each record anew, band members be damned; she pushed on by the persistent fear that one day her well will run dry, and he without enough time in the day to tend to the flood.
Will Costello quit? Not likely. He's touring like a teenager these days, has a variety show debuting on Sundance Channel, and is finishing up a new album with T-Bone Burnett. Will Rilo Kiley split? It doesn't matter. Lewis remains, and anyway, that's a subject for another article at another time.
As we sit down to talk in one of the odd little atriums that dot a large woodsy yard, Elvis Costello removes his hat, while his unflagging cool and smirk remain. At his left, sharing a small divan, Jenny Lewis appears more petite than usual and a little bit nervous, despite the fact that she's directly responsible for Elvis' return to the studio. It's hard not to marvel at the sight.
A conversation with Elvis Costello and Jenny Lewis
The beginning is a fine place to start... How did you two meet?
Elvis Costello: It was mainly the doing of Tennessee Thomas [drummer for The Like]. The Imposters and I were down in Mississippi recording The Delivery Man, and Pete Thomas said his daughter had hipped him to [Rilo Kiley's 2004 album] More Adventurous. He played me the record and I thought it was fantastic. [To Lewis] I think I got your number and called you.
Out of the blue?
Jenny Lewis: Oh, yeah. My phone rang and I didn't recognize the number. I picked it up and it was Elvis. I truly thought it must have been some sort mean prank.
Costello: I was in this cottage I was renting right by the woods where Faulkner used to walk. It was quite a good spot and I had a lot of time to listen to records. I became a fan, and when Jenny made her first solo record... it was a different world. The storytelling on that album is amazing.
So you instantly thought, "This young talent needs to be in my new music video."
Costello: [Laughs] We filmed the "Monkey to Man" video in L.A., at the old Ambassador Hotel, and I sought it'd be funny if Jenny walked across the set like he'd gotten lost while on a Universal Studios tour.
Lewis: The awkward walk-by. Clutching my purse. Sweat on my brow
Costello: We'd decided the video would be populated by girls in bikinis and people in monkey suits. It was very tasteful; we were going for the feminist vote.
...And then one day in January, Jenny called you?
Costello: And then it was fun for the whole family. I was at home in Vancouver and The Imposters' bassist Davey Faragher — he lives in Southern California and was in the studio with Jenny — called and asked if I could sing a song on her new record.
Lewis: And I emailed you a clip of myself, Johnathan Rice and a puppet doing "Carpetbaggers."
Costello: Obviously, I was being asked to do the puppet's part. I told 'em I loved the song, but thought I would sing it differently than the puppet.
So you flew out to record. At what point did you decide to stay and make a record?
Costello: I didn't stay actually. We cut "Carpetbaggers" in three takes, and the band didn't have anything planned for the rest of that day. So I said, "Maybe we can cut something of mine." I had two songs — "Go Away" and "Drum & Bone," which I'd written literally he night before — and we just laid them down, Jenny and I in that little vocal booth, I'm playing rhythm guitar with a line out to the hallway, she's reading the lyrics off a piece of paper. And I couldn't believe it — she nailed every line.
Lewis: I was thinking. "This is your big shot, kid, don't blow it."
Costello: I had decided I was done with recording. Everything I'd have to do after the release of a record was making me miserable, but working with them reminded me of the bits that I liked. A week later, back in Vancouver, I called everybody up and said, "That was too good — let's do it again." That's when the vocal group came together. Davey is the only person in The Imposters who can sing, and with The Attractions, I used to track myself for all the vocals. These guys were coming up with killer parts, and the will to do them, at 11 p.m. We made the record in six days, with the same live feeling as Jenny's.
Lewis: I was so impressed with your pace. Is that how you've recorded in the past?
Costello: I think bands make more of a meal of it now because they can. We're all guilty of it. I recorded Spike [1989] in four cities [Dublin, London, New Orleans, Los Angeles]; I had a ridiculous budget. But it's gone around in one big circle — my first record [My Aim is True] was made in just 24 hours of studio time. The second album [This Year's Model] took 11 days. We thought we were being decadent taking three weeks for Armed Forces, and with Imperial Bedroom, we were making our big statement in the studio, hiring harpsichords and glockenspiels: "Let's take six entire weeks!" Now you hear of bands spending six months on a single.
Acid Tongue was done at an impressive clip as well, Jenny. What inspired you to make that record in only three weeks' time?
Lewis: I think everything I do is a reaction to the thing before it. Having come out from under the polished intention of Under the Blacklight — which took quite a bit longer — I just wanted the vibe to run the show. I was finally able to connect with a band and have it go down like a live performance. It was really liberating.
Costello: There's nowhere to hide in that room. When you listen to Acid Tongue, there's nothing there. It's just a voice and a couple of instruments, and it works perfectly. The more you went on with the record the more confidence you seemed to gain. To open with "Black Sand"... its the kind of confidence that marks great records. You know. "How could they open with that? That's ridiculous!". But soon you can't live without it.
You're both artists who have continued to surprise us over the years, approaching each album with different angles, different sounds and, often, different bands. Is creative restlessness part of what makes a great — or at least an enduring — artist?
Costello: I think too much is made of it — like it's some sort of puzzle where eventually the pieces will all fit and there'll be this big, smiling picture of Jenny going, "I told you so." The reality is: that was just the way the artist was feeling at that moment, and now you're in danger of missing what's actually being said and the genuine feelings that are in those songs. It's a trap that journalists fall into, which funnily enough never comes up with groups that have a strong, signature sound. It just doesn't occur to anybody to compare their records: "This one's got all those things that we already love!"
Lewis: All I know is that I just tend to get a little bored and I like to try new things. And, really, anything is good subject matter for a song. But I don't think that quality is exclusive to "the good artist."
Costello: Van Morrison has a signature sound, for instance, but he's a singular artist. I don't know that there's one better way to do it. When I was younger, I was guilty of being more confrontational for the sake of getting attention, saying things like, "We're here to completely ruin your life!" [Laughs] It's true there was some dull music out there and we were coming along with a bit of attitude — trying to get it right, where just playing was really the thing — but tearing others down wasn't the intention.
Neither of you have shied away from expressing the deeply personal on record, and you've dealt with an array of reactions to your public persona, from fan adoration to being dissected by the press. How does one stay level through all this?
Costello: It's true that since the mid '60s, people have based their songwriting more overtly on their life's experience than, say, Ira Gershwin did. In his day, they wrote songs that faded to black when the stickier subjects of love — physical love in particular — came up. But with people like Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell, that started to change. That was passed on to the next generation, then the next generation, then to me, then to Jenny, and we're writing about these things that are increasingly raw.
Fair or not, people associate you with these songs, and to whatever extent that you're putting your experiences in there, your mistakes are in public view Your heart is broken, the band splits, you find a new way to go in life, you have a drug problem, you sober up. There's a fascination with human frailty and an entire industry that makes entertainment out of it. I got disenchanted when I was younger, but then I realized that's just show business, and show business is based on the Menudo principal: They kick you out of the band when you're 18 and get someone else to appeal to the 11-year-old girls who, in turn, hit 15 and peel off to go to the new thing. That's not real life.
Lewis: I've just started, over the last couple of years, to receive feedback in that way, as well as from people that assume songs are about them, and it's all very uncomfortable. I still don't know what to make of it, and I try not to acknowledge it. I'd rather just write songs without having to think about where they'll end up or who will be offended.
Costello: I've gone through my less glorious periods and other times where I've felt on top of the world, but it's important to remember: You're not living in real time by writing songs. Even if you think you're writing the honest diary of your love affair, you're not — you're writing an edited version of it. Otherwise the album would be 20-years long.
So, 2003's North, for instance...
Costello: North is a very specific album about recognizing the end of one way of living and the beginning of another, but it's a song-written explanation of what it felt like to go through that. It's not the same thing, and it certainly doesn't take into account the feelings of the other people involved. Art is selfish; it's not a democracy, not even in a band. But if you're smart, you take the best of what people bring you — to a collaborative form like recording, for instance. I was just the beneficiary of that, when Jenny said, "Why don't we get Tennessee in here to play with Pete?"
Lewis: The fantastic father-daughter drumming duo.
Costello: I never knew that was going to sound so good. Next thing I knew, we had a record. And you know, Tennessee joined us onstage at the El Rey in Los Angeles after we played the Hollywood Bowl with The Police. I've been turning around to see Pete playing behind me for 30 years, and I look back that night and see him and his daughter. I've known her since she was born but, more than being a matter of pride, it just sounded fantastic. [To Lewis] Thank you for that.
Which is your favorite song from each other's new album?
Lewis: "Go Away," because it was the first.
Costello: "Godspeed," because it's got beautiful melody and mood. I was startled the first time I heard it. I also love the long, multi-part songs like "The Next Messiah," and I think "Sing A Song For Them," the up-tempo one at the end of the album is tremendous. And of course, "Carpetbaggers" because we got to do that together. I also like other version of it that we cut—a live take with the double drummers ...
So basically, you like everything, including the outtakes.
Costello: "Godspeed" is definitely my favorite but I'm attracted to ballads, so you're asking the wrong guy. I mean, I really love ballads—more than any other kind of music.
Lewis: I actually wasn't going to include "Trying My Best to Love You" because I was worried about Acid Tongue being too ballad-heavy — I wanted it to rock more than Rabbit Fur Coat — but Elvis was so set on it being on the record that I included it.
Elvis, were you impressed with Jenny's use of double entendre for the album title?
Costello: [Laughs] Old habits die hard.
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Douglas Lima will be really hard for Saunders to get past in the tournament finals the way he brutally knocked out Chris Lozano last night. Lima has looked good in the tournament thus far and is quickly climbing the ranks at 170 pounds. Saunders vs. Lima may not have been the likeliest outcome, but it should be a good finals match.
Foster was completely outmatched here and was submitted by Mann in relatively short order. Mann will now be a participant in the season six featherweight tournament next spring, giving him another chance to earn a title shot.
In the war of the fat boys, it was the most massive fat boy who pulled off the win. That is, the extremely tall and scary Thiago Santos choked out Josh Burns. With an injury in the heavyweight tournament, it looks like Santos might get a shot in the heavyweight tournament semifinals.


Traveling to Iran with children got a very warm response and are welcome everywhere you travel in Iran. It's not unusual to see Iranian children out with their parents in parks or shops by late night. All Pharmacies sell formula milk, baby food and disposable nappies for infants. Try to take a mosquito net for a buggy, and a parasol for sun protection.
Virtually all hotels, large and small, can accommodate children of any age in cribs, cots or roll-away beds. Many lodgings have several family-friendly rooms with one large double bed and one single bed. Family suites are also becoming popular: adjoining bedrooms with kitchenette and perhaps two bathrooms.
All hotels are happy to accommodate families with children, and finding a good location to stay should not present any difficulties. Everyone in Iran will do their best to help with any challenges to travel with a child or children.
Why difficult? In fact there are many opportunities for special activates like taking your children to bird gardens in Esfahan, or let them enjoy the flower garden in Shiraz, or take them to beautiful parks in Tehran so then can play and enjoy their time.
Public toilets rarely have changing tables (as in the USA), so you may have to improvise, but Persians will go out of their way to help in any situation, however, toilets in the airports and big bus stations have changing room for babies.
One of the first items to consider is to treat minor ailments and when to seek for medical treatments, so, make sure the children are up to date with the routine vaccines well before travel to Iran as some vaccines are not suitable for children aged under one year old.
In hot summer times, dry climates cause wound or break in the skin that may lead to infection, Iranian cities are very clean and well organized but try to avoid contaminated foods and water if you takes any tours to smaller area, if you travel in Iran with your kids and children and they have vomiting or already experiencing diarrhea, lost fluid and salts must be replaces. It may be helpful to take re-hydration powders for reconstituting with boiled water.
You won't see many dogs in Iran, but if you do, Children should avoid them, simply because of the risk of rabies. Any bite, scratch or lick from a warm-blooded, furry animal should immediately be thoroughly cleaned. If there is any possibility that the animal is infected with rabies, immediate medical assistance should be sought.
All children, regardless of their age will require a valid passport and a visa to for traveling to Iran, read more about Iran visa requirement.


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>>>    > that needs to go upstream for support for this as well?
>>> ov7670/cafe_ccic broke detection.  Jon, any ideas what this might be?
> The kernel is the rawhide variant 2.6.29.1 from about a week ago.
>> changes, a detection failure seems like a likely problem.
> but its always possible.
I hope not. To be honest, I can't imagine them doing that.
>> The fact that it's seeing something at 0x84 is a little suspicious.
> Cool. Thanks for the update.


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Prosecution chief nominee vows political neautrality
By Ock Hyun-ju
Published : Jul 8, 2019 - 18:47 Updated : Jul 8, 2019 - 18:47
Prosecutor-General nominee Yoon Seok-youl pledged to free the prosecution from political influence and reform the powerful law enforcement body at his confirmation hearing Monday.
"I take it with a heavy heart that the prosecution has been shaken and is not strict when facing the powerful," he said, vowing "drastic" changes in the organization, system and culture.
Last month, President Moon Jae-in picked Yoon to lead the prosecution, which many regard as reflecting his resolve to revamp the prosecution and redistribute its investigative power with the police -- one of his election pledges.
"We will sternly deal with political and election cases based on law and principles without taking sides," Yoon said.
Yoon also hinted at his support for the bill on establishing an independent body tasked with investigating corruption allegations involving high-ranking government officials, saying the creation of the body would better counter irregularities.
On redistributing the investigative power between police and the prosecution, Yoon signaled that the prosecution should maintain its control over police in conducting investigations.
The bill, which has been fast-tracked along with other reform proposals despite the main opposition Liberty Korea Party's strong counter stance, is designed to revamp the prosecution's investigative rights and give police greater autonomy to open and close probes.
The outgoing prosecution chief, Moon Moo-il, publicly criticized the parliamentary decision, stressing the need for measures to keep police authority in check.
The prosecution has been accused of being politically motivated and holding too much power, as it has the exclusive authority to indict criminal suspects and seek warrants.
The parliamentary hearing, however, became a battleground for rival political parties where Yoon faced questions over his ethics.
The Liberty Korea Party lawmakers raised allegations concerning his involvement in a 2013 case in which Yoon Woo-jin, ex-chief of the NTS Yongsan District Office, was suspected of taking bribes from a local businessman. Yoon Woo-jin is the brother of sitting Deputy Minister for Criminal Affairs Yoon Dae-jin, who is known to have a close relationship with the prosecutor-general nominee.
The main opposition party claimed that nominee Yoon had peddled influence over the investigation process to clear Yoon Woo-jin of the suspected bribery. They also suspected Yoon of having introduced a prosecutor-turned-lawyer to Yoon Woo-jin, which would be in violation of a law that prohibits public servants in positions linked to court trials or investigation from introducing a lawyer to the accused.
The ruling Democratic Party of Korea, on the other hand, argued that incumbent Liberty Korea Party chief Hwang Kyo-ahn should be brought to the hearing as a witness to clear the suspicions. Hwang was justice minister at the time.
Yoon was in charge of leading the investigation into the high-profile scandal involving former President Park Geun-hye. Under Yoon's leadership, the Seoul Central District Prosecutors' Office also investigated former President Lee Myung-bak and former Supreme Court Chief Justice Yang Sung-tae.
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Hello today we talked about household accidents.And in my opinion, the most common way to hurt yourself on accidents at home is by running into something. In English we have a phrase that if you running into something you accidentally crashed into it.
For example, I could say I ran into the table and bruised my hip and if you say that you ran into something. It doesn't mean you are actually running.No, you could be walking and still crash into something. So what is something that you have accidentally run into recently? For me i'm just recently ran into the table.


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Approximately 16 hours of structured independent study.
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Upon successful completion of the course, students will be able to discuss the issues involved in how to legally prove fraud and identify the relevant forms of evidence in investigating fraud claims.
Major topics are: burden of proof; prior, subsequent incidents; constitutional issues. In addition to the AEI produced textbook, students receive actual court decisions, which relate to the subject matter and present real-life court opinions that illustrate how courts have ruled in the past and are likely to rule in the future on important issues in claims. A proctored examination is administered for both levels of the credit recommendation. Scenario and case study-based questions, built around actual claims situations, challenge students to analyze and solve problems using applicable principles of claims law that parallel their own claim files. To broaden students' knowledge of the subject, graded exams are returned with helpful comments that provide a written explanation of why each answer is correct or incorrect. For the graduate level credit recommendation, students also prepare and submit an appropriate graduate level research project on a pre-approved topic or issue, in accordance with AEI's specific guidelines.
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In the upper division baccalaureate degree category OR in the graduate degree category, 1 semester hour in Insurance, Insurance Law, Legal Environment or Business Law (5/10) (5/15 revalidation). NOTE: Courses 510 and 512 constitute 2 semester hours in Insurance Fraud. NOTE: Courses 510, 512, 515 or 516 constitute 3 semester hours in Insurance Fraud.
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Anyone who has EVER worked in the health care industry knows that insurance has a high component of smoke and mirrors to it. Many outsiders don't know this, however; they think that their insurance will be there if some dreaded and costly illness strikes.
As we have said, however, America does not have a health care system, it has a health care INDUSTRY. That means that they are in business to make profits, not take care of sick people. As such, insurance companies aren't in business to pay your claim when you get sick. They are in the business of trying to figure out how to AVOID paying your claims. It's always profits not people – one hundred percent of the time. Try not to forget this, okay?
They may try to call your newly-discovered cancer an "undisclosed pre-existing condition" or they may say that any treatment is experimental and therefore not covered. If they can't do that, they'll just cancel your policy.
Don't kid yourself, it happens all the time. It is the inevitable result of a for-profit, pay-or-die system. And that is also why even the biggest, most fanatical knuckle-dragging wingnuts in other western democracies would never advocate that their countries adopt our system. They may be wingnuts, but they're not crazy!
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N2b budget for Ojo council
By Kemi Okunade On Jan 14, 2013
Ojo Local Government Chairman, Prince Yinka Durosinmi has presented a budget of N1.914 billion to the legislative council.
According to him, the "budget of sustainability" is 7.7 per cent than last year's.
He projected that the Internally Generated Revenue (IGR) would be N61.3million N865million and N45million are to come from Federal and State Statutory allocations.
Expected revenue from the Value Added Tax (VAT) and other grants, he said, are N700million and N300million, adding that 20 per cent would be used to liquidate liabilities.
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"It is the strong conviction of our administration to strike a balance among competing interests that require a combination of diplomacy, discussions, consultations, compromises and concessions; being flexible to the people where public infrastructure works and government services are efficient," he said.
Prince Durosinmi said the budget's focus would not be limited to roads, health, education, rural development and agriculture, security and water.
Some of the projects, he said, include construction of footbridges at Ponpoku-Ibode and Okulundu-Erekun; rehabilitation of St. Michael Primary School and Army Barracks Primary School; construction of staff quarters at Irewe; provision of computers to schools; completion of the secretariat and the beautification projects, and human capital development.
"We have come to terms with the increasing pressure on our staff for better services and the need for increased investment in automation through the use of technology. Our government will be pursuing means to improve its mode of payment of rates and levies by the good people of Ojo Local government," he said.
"Our administration in the last one year opted for programmes and projects with the greatest positive impacts on the lives of the people. We have sought to build on the worthy legacy of our first tenure. As at the end of the third quarter last year, the overall performance of the budget was 67 per cent," he said.
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Jennifer Lawrence is Officially the Sexiest Woman in the World, According to FHM
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At the ripe age of 23, Jennifer Lawrence has racked up a lot of awesome titles: amazing actress, Oscar winner, the woman we'd most want to be stranded on a desert island with…
Now she has one more to add to that list: sexiest woman ever! Jennifer Lawrence was named the sexiest woman of 2014 by men's magazine FHM, and we aren't surprised at all. Our favorite girl snagged the title from last year's victor, Mila Kunis, and beat out other hotties like Beyoncé, Sandra Bullock, and Cara Delevingne.
FHM based the win on a number of reasons, including how she was smoking hot in American Hustle and X-Men: Days of Future Past. But we say she deserves it for her down-to-earth take on Hollywood, her goofy and unfiltered sense of humor, and her sheer talent. Basically, the odds were definitely in her favor.
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October is a month fond in the hearts of many. The leaves turn their brightest colors, the air is definitively cooler and no longer fickle with the leftover climates of summer. And with Halloween on the horizon, we all know the domino effect of the holidays is coming. Most people agree that time is flying by, so lets make a goal for ourselves this month. Let's aim to really savor the beautiful month that is, October. Get out there and hammock!
Once the leaves have fallen, I think it's okay to get crafty with them. Don't go wheeling them out of the forests by the bucket-load, but I think Mother Nature would be cool if we used a few to commemorate this beautiful time of year. Try this Stained Glass craft with fall leaves.
It's Simple. Add peanut butter, roll in birdseed. Next, hang it in a tree and then watch the feeding frenzy from the comfort of your porch. Kids love this one!
Let's put your mixology skills to the test. Here's an opportunity to blend and use the spices of autumn that we all love. Add apple cider vinegar and hold the boos for a healthy elixir.
There are countless recipes out there, and whether you go canned or fresh, you'll find yourself in the pumpkin mood until spring. It's good stuff! Top with yogurt and some jam. Then, head to the front porch and indulge in pancake heaven in a fall wonderland.
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Portsmouth pharmacy says there is '˜so much wrong' with plan to relocate health walk-in centre
CONCERNS have been raised that the quality of care provided to Portsmouth residents will be sharply affected if the proposed closure of a health centre goes ahead.
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The Guildhall Walk Healthcare Centre, which contains the walk-in centre and a GP practice
Lalys Pharmacy, which provides support to the under-threat Guildhall Walk Healthcare Centre, warns moving services away will cause 'confusion' about where to go and see a spike in A&E admissions at Queen Alexandra Hospital.
The consultation is being run by Portsmouth Clinical Commissioning Group, which funds the centre.
Dr Raj Laly, director of Lalys Pharmacy, also based in Guildhall Walk, has grave concerns. He has already threatened to take the CCG to a judicial review if it goes ahead with its plans.
Dr Raj Laly
He said: 'There is so much wrong with the CCG's plan, from choice of location and lack of parking or public transport links, to the model of care and the approach to public consultation.'
The Guildhall Walk Healthcare Centre has a walk-in service and a GP surgery.
The CCG is looking at making a change as the contract is up for renewal in March.
There are four options for the walk-in centre. One option is for the services to remain as they are, while the other three options all involve the walk-in centre moving to St Mary's Treatment Centre in Milton Road.
The three choices for the GP practice, which has 7,000 registered patients, would be for it to stay where it is, move, or close entirely and patients register elsewhere.
The CCG's preferred option is to move the walk-in centre to St Mary's, and for the GP practice to move to another city centre location.
The CCG is listening to views over its proposal, and says the move would make healthcare 'fairer' – as patients at Guildhall Walk 'get better access' to GPs and nurses than everyone else in the city, because of the extra funding it receives.
And the changes would promote seven-day GP access for all, 'not just a few'.
But Dr Laly said there needs to be a range of options available to stem pressures on QA's A&E department.
Dr Laly said: 'At a time when the UK's most critical healthcare priority is to provide alternatives to hospital A&E, how can the only out-of-hours GP surgery in Portsmouth's city centre be closed?'
In 2012, Lalys Pharmacy was approached to provide services deemed essential to both supporting the centre and residents.
'We agreed to operate a 100-hour contract, 8am-to-8pm every day of the week, invested in premises and employed a staff of 12 people,' said Dr Laly.
'Now, just three years later, having built a great reputation and strong local following without any promotion, which is indicative of the demand for it, the Portsmouth CCG is now proposing its closure.
'Our primary concern is for the wellbeing of the community we have served for many years, but of course it was a shock when we became aware last year that, after being encouraged to expand our business to accommodate such a successful initiative, it is now under threat.'
A petition put together by Lalys Pharmacy against the changes has been signed by more than 1,700 people online, and another 2,400 patients have signed up in store.
The public consultation ends on February 19.
More information on the proposals can be found at portsmouthccg.nhs.uk/guildhallwalk


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We caught up with goalkeeper Louis Gray this afternoon to get his thoughts on his contract extension which will see him remain at Brunton Park until the end of the current season.
"I'm pleased to get it all sorted," he said. "I've known about it for a while, so it was just a case of getting it over the line, and I'm chuffed it's done now.
"I was obviously here last season, but that didn't pan out the way I wanted it to. It was good when I got the phone call from Dan Watson asking me to come back a couple of months ago, which I was delighted with.
"It's a great group of lads here so I was buzzing to come back and get going again."
"I've been enjoying the last couple of months," he told us. "When I came back it felt like I'd never been away and I settled back in really quickly.
"Being a goalkeeper can be difficult, because there's only one position to play for, but I've just got to do everything I can in training. I feel like I'm training really well at the moment, and I'm showing the coaches that I'm ready for the chance when it comes.
"I'd like to think I'm pushing Adam [Collin] all the way. He's performing really well at the moment so I've just got to make sure I'm ready, if I get a chance.
"I'll always back myself and my ability, and I think the coaches all know what i can do. I've just got to be patient and make sure I don't get frustrated so I'm ready when the chance comes."
On the change of goalkeeper coach, he said: "Dan [Watson] left a few days after I came back - but I don't think it was my fault!
"We had a few different keeper coaches in before Craig [Wight] was appointed, and he's been a breath of fresh air. He's full of enthusiasm and he makes coming into work every day enjoyable.
"Myself and Adam get on well, and it helps that we share a room wherever we go. We push each other every day in training.
"Adam is a bit older than me so he doesn't do as much as I do in training, he has to look after his body and focus on games.
"My priority is performing well in training and making sure I'm ready."
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In Memoriam – John Faulkner (1948-2017)
All at Cray Wanderers are saddened to hear of the passing of John Faulkner aged 69 who passed away on December 28th. John was one of the select few players who played for Cray Wanderers and later in the top flight of English football.
Orpington born John played for Cray for two seasons in 1967-68 & 1968-69 when Cray were in the Metropolitan League playing the likes of Arsenal, Tottenham and West Ham A Team's. Cray also had a good cup side at this time reaching the 3rd Qualifying Round of the FA Cup and also the last 16 of the FA Amateur Cup. Faulkner was a key part of the side under the astute ownership of Mick Slater making 96 appearances scoring 14 goals before moving to Sutton United in 1969. His performance in an FA Cup tie against Leeds United in January 1970 where he marked Mick Jones earned him a transfer to Leeds virtually straight away where he was deemed understudy to the aging Jack Charlton. He played four times for Leeds making his league debut in April 1970 against Burnley and a couple of European appearances but following an injury found it hard to dislodge Charlton before moving to Luton Town in 1972 where he spent six seasons helping the Hatters to reach the 1st Division in 1974-75.
He played 209 games for Luton scoring six goals before spending the latter part of his career in American football with Memphis Rogues and California Surf. He returned to England and became Reserve team manager at Norwich City in 1992 when Mike Walker was manager until 1995 and returned to Norwich in 1998 when Walker came back for a second time and became Assistant Manager at Carrow Road until 2000.
John is remembered fondly by all at Cray Wanderers and we pass our condolences and thoughts to his family and wish them peace at this time.
John watches on as Barry Diggins goes close against Eastbourne Borough in 1968
John in the Cray Wanderers team lineup from 1968-69, first left in the back row
John in his Leeds United days, first left in the middle row.
John went on to make 209 appearances for Luton Town between 1972-77, second left in the middle row pictured in 1974-75.
Here club historian Jerry Dowlen looks back at a game where John made a huge impact.
Two goals for John Faulkner as Cray defeat the Wombles
Cray Wanderers 3 Wimbledon Reserves 1
Metropolitan League (Autumn Shield)
Saturday 26th October 1968
This was an afternoon of contrasting fortunes for three Cray players of the 1960s decade … each of them named John!
Centre half and skipper John Dorey gifted Wimbledon an early goal after a mix-up with Cray's 'keeper Cyril Hill. And when Cray were awarded a penalty-kick in the 30th minute, John missed the target.
So it wasn't one of John Dorey's best games amongst the nearly 500 appearances that he made for Cray. But on 31 minutes Cray levelled the scores when winger John Mears netted with a fine shot. And then in the 55th and 89th minutes came goals from wing half John Faulkner, both from headers, to seal a good win for Cray at Grassmeade.
Writing his match report for the Kentish Times, Ernie Oglivie noted for Cray's opening goal that Mears 'slung a fast, rising shot that Guy knew little about.' That was the legendary Dickie Guy who went on to play nearly 600 games for the Dons first team and who once saved a Peter Lorimer penalty-kick in a sensational 0 – 0 draw in an F.A. Cup tie versus Leeds United at Elland Road.
Cray team: Hill, Bishop, Howe, Gauntlett, Dorey, Faulkner, McGannon, Wiltshire, McDermott, Hutchins, Mears.
1st January 2018 Club News
Greenwich Borough 0 Cray Wanderers 0 – Bostik South – 1/1/2018Happy New Year to everyone from Cray Wanderers and a prosperous 2018


We all know January and February are the most depressing months on your calendar. The Christmas decorations are down, those festive feels are so last year and don't even get us started on Dry January. So we're on a mission to cheer you up! Launching on Blue Monday (officially the most depressing day of the year), we've come up with a range of uplifting initiatives designed to kick those dreaded winter blues to the curb – from random acts of kindness to mindfulness, wellness workshops and even the chance to stay overnight with us for just £1. Read on to discover 6 great ways to beat the winter blues at Bullitt!
From Monday 21st January until the end of February, Bullitt's top team will be dishing out random acts of kindness to unsuspecting customers, from freebie coffees to rooftop cocktails, delicious dinners and overnight stays. We can't wait to brighten up your day with our Bullitt goodies and we want you to get in on the action too! Share the love this winter by doing a good deed for someone else in your life, no matter how big or small, and wait for those warm and fuzzy feelings to start flowing!
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Check out Bullitt's Winter Sale offers and indulge without splashing the cash this winter. We've got rooms from £85, three-course meals from £20 per person and two-course meals with cocktails for £20 per person. And for those that don't bag the £1 stay in Bullitt's Kip for a Quid competition, the promo code BLUEMON19 can be used to get 30% off overnight stays until 29th March 2019 (code must be used before 1st Feb 2019). Use your promo code and book your stay here.


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Category Archives: Egyptomania
Egypt in vintage popular culture.
Did MGM rebuild Shepheard's in Hollywood?
It's a beautiful poster and it belongs to the most politically incorrect film you're ever likely to see. This poster is Italian, but the film was American, released by MGM in 1933 as A Night in Cairo (aka The Barbarian).
The plot is an American socialite (Myrna Loy) arrives in Egypt to marry her terminally dull English fiancé, where she attracts the attentions of a sleazy desert prince (Ramon Novarro) who poses as a tour guide in order to make moves on foreign women. This charmer kidnaps, tortures and rapes her, after which she decides she loves him and the pair elope up the Nile. What got everybody heated up back then though was a scene in which Loy appeared to be naked in a sunken bath, modesty not quite preserved by floating petals.
Much of the film takes place in Cairo, the bulk of it in a hotel that is clearly modelled on Shepheard's. The shooting took place on an MGM back lot in Culver City, California, with Yuma, Arizona used for the desert scenes. Being a studio shoot there are no street scenes and only a handful of well-used locations, including a railway station, the Pyramids, hotel rooms and the desert. The hotel rooms are totally generic and look nothing like the photos I've seen of rooms at Shepheard's from that time. But then there are a couple of scenes in which the characters go out onto the hotel terrace and they baffle me. They look completely authentic. The doorway, the steps down to the street, the arrangement of the terrace all appear exactly as they really were. Check out the railings in the screengrab below and compare them with the actual photo of Shepheard's beneath it.
They are identical. In a scene in which Loy and party leave the hotel you see part of the name Shepheard's on the terrace wall (a bit dark, I'm sorry), as it was in real life (bottom image, taken in the 1920s).
No way did the studio fly out Myrna Loy (that's her in the screenshots) to shoot a couple of exterior scenes in Cairo, so this must have been a studio set back in California. How intriguing to think that in the early 1930s technicians built a replica Shepheard's terrace in Hollywood. I wonder, as was the way with these things, if it ever got recycled for any other films?
Filed under Egyptomania, Shepheard's
Tagged as A Night in Cairo, Myrna Loy, Shepheard's, The Barbarian
Fate wove a rug, and other pulp tales of Egypt
While searching for images for my recent post on Shepheard's in fiction I found so many wonderfully lurid pulp magazine covers on an Egypt theme (mostly harvested from pulpcovers.com) it seems a shame not to share them. One thing is clear: women who go around wrapped in bandages always end up in trouble.
So here you go.
Filed under Egyptomania
Tagged as Weird Tales
Sirena's creamy skin was wealed with lash marks, old and new!
"Every city has its something. Rome has St Peter's. Peking has its Summer Palace. Moscow has the Kremlin. In Madrid there's the Prado. In New York there's the Empire State. Constantinople has St Sophia. Cairo has Shepheard's."
If it seems like this site seems to bang on about Shepheard's hotel a lot, maybe the quote above goes some way to explaining why. It comes from the 1945 novel London Belongs to Me, written by author Norman Collins, which is a gritty slice of wartime British realism. What it illustrates is how familiar British readers were with the glamorous, internationally renowned Cairo hotel – it suggests that as a shorthand for the city, Shepheard's was maybe even more familiar than the Pyramids or the Egyptian Museum. I was reading another canonical English novel recently, Billy Liar by Keith Waterhouse, written in 1959, and Shepheard's is namechecked in that, too.
The hotel's fame and appeal to writers in the English language dates back far beyond the 1940s and '50s. In 1893, a reporter named Richard Harding Davis in a book called The Rulers of the Mediterranean, noted, 'Shepheard's is so historical, and its terrace has been made the scene of so many novels [my italics], that all sorts of amusing people go there, from sultans to the last man who broke the bank at Monte Carlo, and its terrace is like a private box at a mask ball.'
I've no idea what those 19th century novels were that featured Shepheard's, they're long gone, but there is a vintage genre of fiction in which Shepheard's frequently cropped up that is still read, and that's pulp.
Cairo was rich pickings for pulp writers: labyrinthine souks, inhospitable deserts, mighty pharaohs and ancient gods, treasures buried deep beneath the sands… and remote enough from the average reader's experience that a writer could get away with all kinds of distortions, exaggerations and stereotyping, not to mention outright racism. Weird tales writer HP Lovecraft took a swerve from his usual New England setting to collaborate with Harry Houdini on the story 'Under the Pyramids', which had the famous escapologist visiting Egypt and becoming imprisoned inside one of its most famous monuments, but not before a stop off at Shepheard's:
"We stopped at Shepherd's Hotel, reached in a taxi that sped along broad, smartly built-up streets; and amidst the perfect service of its restaurant, elevators, and generally Anglo-American luxuries the mysterious East and immemorial past seemed very far away.
The next day, however, precipitated us delightfully into the heart of the Arabian Nights atmosphere; and in the winding ways and exotic skyline of Cairo, the Bagdad of Haroun-al-Raschid seemed to live again. Guided by our Baedeker, we had struck east past the Ezbekiyeh Gardens along the Mouski in quest of the native quarter, and were soon in the hands of a clamorous cicerone who – notwithstanding later developments – was assuredly a master at his trade."
Lovecraft never visited Egypt and, like the story's protagonist, he probably gained all his information from a Baedeker, but not so other pulp writers, as reported in the Egyptian Gazette of 15 April 1929:
"There is an immense fascination about Egypt which never fails to appeal to imaginative folk and it is not surprising therefore that many well-known authors are constant visitors to this country. Just at the moment Mr Sax Rohmer, whose works include a number of stories with an Egyptian setting, is staying at Shepheard's. Mr Robert Hichens, who is a very regular visitor to Egypt – one might almost call him a resident here – is staying at Mena House. Mr AEW Mason spent the greater part of the winter in Aswan and Cairo, and Mr Rudyard Kipling, who finds this country so much to his liking that he is engaged in writing a book about it, only left these shores a short time ago."
Kipling's no pulp writer but Hichens wrote supernatural fiction and Mason turned out detective stories (as well as the novel The Four Feathers), while Rohmer is the pulpiest of the pulp, creator of the brilliantly over-the-top stories of master-criminal Fu Manchu. In 13 bestselling books and at least as many film adaptations, Fu Manchu plots to take over the world, only to be constantly thwarted (in the early books, at least) by the dogged colonial police commissioner Nayland Smith. Although Fu Manchu was Chinese, the orient was the orient and Rohmer's stories freely mixed the eastern Asian with the Middle Eastern and North African. The wily Fu Manchu was as liable to pop up in Cairo as Shanghai or London's Limehouse. Rohmer also wrote reams of stories and novels that did not feature Fu Manchu, and many of these were set in Egypt, a country with which he had a deep fascination.
Apparently Shepheard's was one of his favourite hotels; he once met Arthur Conan Doyle, creator of Sherlock Holmes, on its terrace, and it crops up numerous times in his novels (including in Brood of the Witch Queen, 1918, and Daughter of Fu Manchu, 1931) and short story collections (including Tales of Secret Egypt, 1918). There was even a short story called 'A Date at Shepheard's' published in Blue Book magazine, a slight tale of a mysterious woman imprisoned in room 34B.
Rohmer's frequent namechecking of the hotel apparently paid off: in his author's biography in the Blue Book, the editors claim that Rohmer (who died in 1959) never had to pay a bill at Shepheard's. The practice of product placement has been around a lot longer than you imagined.
Filed under Egyptomania, Shepheard's, Travellers' tales
Tagged as AEW Mason, Arthur Conan Doyle, Baedeker guides, Fu Manchu, Harry Houdini, HP Lovecraft, Robert Hichens, Sax Rohmer, Shepheard's, Sherlock Holmes
A visit to the Louxor
I was in Paris last week and I went to the cinema – not just any cinema, but the magnificent cinema above. It's a place I've passed it many times on trips to Paris over the years, but previously the building was always derelict and boarded up. Apparently, it had been that way since the 1980s. But recently it has undergone a three-year long restoration and the regenerated Louxor – Palais de Cinema opened in April this year.
It's a beautiful example of Egyptian-inspired Art Deco that followed in the wake of the 1922 discovery of Tutankhamun's tomb – except that this theatre was built the year before Carter's epic find, in 1921. One theory is, it was designed this way to capitalise on the massive success of the 1917 silent film Cleopatra staring Theda Bara.
After the cinema closed, the building was a disco and a gay nightclub. Now it's back to showing films. Good films, too, with an eclectic programme heavy on arthouse and world cinema, the latter reflecting the make-up of neighbouring multi-racial Barbès district.
The Ancient Egyptian theming isn't limited to the mosaics and columns on the façade – the main auditorium also has a painted relief spanning the whole of the room and moldings of pharaonic heads. I particularly loved the 1920s bar up on the third floor, which has a small outdoor terrace from where you can see the roof-line mosaics close up – or, if you are facing the other way, the domes of nearby Sacré–Cœur. You can use the bar even if you aren't intending to watch a film. The Louxor is in front of Barbès-Rochechouart Metro station, one stop from the Gare du Nord.
Tagged as Louxor cinema, Paris
July 3, 2013 · 8:54 pm
Glamour girls and sphinxes, part 2
Some time ago I posted a picture of Sophia Loren on a sphinx for no better reason that it was a beautiful photograph – well, in a similarly spurious vein, here is Russian ballet star Anna Pavlova (1881-1931) in front of a sphinx at the Serapeum, Alexandria in 1923. A regular trooper when it came to touring, she was in town for a run of seven nights of performances at the Grand Theatre Mohamed Aly (she'd also been in Egypt in 1910 and would return in 1928). Below, she poses in Cairo with a more famous Sphinx, while bottom that's her beside a hideous fountain in the garden at Shepheard's, which is presumably where she stayed.
Tagged as Anna Pavlova, Shepheard's
Sophia and the sphinx
I don't know what the background to this image is, I just chanced on it today while doing some internet research. The only information on the site where I found the photo was that it was taken possibly in 1954. That's the same year Two Nights with Cleopatra was released with Loren as Cleo, and the year after her first big break, playing the title role in Aida. Hence, probably, the sphinx. What I can add is the location – that's one of the pair of sphinxes that flank the obelisk on London's Thames Embankment. I should know, I pass it a couple of times a week heading to or from Waterloo station. So what, you might ask, is the relevance to the grand hotels of Egypt. None at all. It's just Sophia Loren and a sphinx. Isn't that reason enough?
Tagged as Cleopatra's Needle, London, Sophia Loren, sphinx


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Lego Education Builds STEAM Set for Pre-K
Lego Education has compiled a set of its DUPLO bricks and other components into a kit branded as "STEAM Park," intended to help preschoolers try out activities in science, technology, engineering, arts and math. Teams of students work to build an amusement park with rides, stands, animals and other attractions. In the course of building the park, the kids are introduced to the workings of gears and ramps, movement in water, chain reactions, probability, performance, problem-solving and collaboration, among other lessons. The kit is about $150.
A 48-page freely available teacher guide includes eight lessons and tips for how to use the set in the classroom. The kit includes 295 DUPLO bricks, which are larger than standard Lego bricks. The set has gears, tracks, pulleys, boats and figures, as well as eight double-sided building inspiration cards with 16 models to build.
"STEAM Park helps children learn the formative 21st century skills including problem solving, collaboration, creativity and critical thinking, which are needed to help them succeed in all subject areas throughout their education," said Esben Stærk Jørgensen, president of Lego Education, in a press release.
Dian Schaffhauser is a senior contributing editor for 1105 Media's education publications THE Journal and Campus Technology. She can be reached at dian@dischaffhauser.com or on Twitter @schaffhauser.


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Beware of Blondes (1928)
Directed by George B. Seitz
Run Time - 73 min. | Countries - United States | MPAA Rating - NR
Synopsis by Hans J. Wollstein
Known as The Caviar of Poverty Row, brunette Dorothy Revier was Columbia Pictures' first female star. In Beware of Blondes, a lurid melodrama typical of the studio at this early stage, Revier played a girl falsely suspected of being Blonde Mary, a notorious thief. In reality, she is a detective on her way to Honolulu to bring the real Blonde Mary (Hazel Howell) to justice. Matt Moore, formerly Mr. Mary Pickford, co-starred as a jewelry store clerk who at first suspects Revier of being a criminal, then grows to love her. A WAMPAS Baby Star of 1925, Dorothy Revier is best remembered for playing Milady de Winter in Douglas Fairbanks' The Iron Mask (1929), and for her on-again, off-again relationship with Columbia chief Harry Cohn.


EPIC is a member of the Last Chance Grade Stakeholder Group, convened by Congressman Jared Huffman, to help Caltrans in the development of a replacement project. Caltrans has developed a number of potential alternatives, which can be viewed here. These alternatives range from a long bypass, largely through Green Diamond Resource Company land, to a shorter tunnel through Redwood National Park.
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As common as it is, black hair has a special appeal. The overwhelming majority of people in this world have black hair. Still, black hair has its own magic and therefore attracts attention. The dark color conjures up visions of power and energy, transforms kitty cats into tigresses and turns an innocent young girl from Michigan into Dita von Teese.
Regardless the original hair color, applying permanent deep-black colorants to your hair will color every single hair deep-black. Mastering the black art requires keeping the hair shiny and free of visible roots. Beware that maintaining the magic allure of black hair requires quite a bit of effort.