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June 4, 2012 By upinvermont in About Women and Poetry, Childrens, Mother Goose, Poetry Tags: Annotated Mother Goose, dress was made of crimson, I danced o'er the water, I had a little nut tree, jet black hair, Mother Goose, Nursury Rhyme Analysis, the King of Spain's daughter	17 Comments
I had a little nut tree is easily one of my favorite nursery rhymes. There has always been something, to me, beautiful and mysterious about it. Of all the nursery rhymes, this is the only one that has ever had a touch of the profound and reminds me of the mystical poems one would otherwise expect from a poet like Rumi.
I had a little nut tree,
Nothing would it bear
But a silver nutmeg,
And a golden pear;
The King of Spain's daughter
Came to visit me,
And all for the sake
Of my little nut tree.
Her dress was made of crimson,
Jet black was her hair,
She asked me for my nut tree
And my golden pear.
I said, "So fair a princess
Never did I see,
I'll give you all the fruit
From my little nut tree."
I danced o'er the water,
I danced o'er the sea,
And all the birds in the air,
Couldn't catch me.
If any of you are already familiar with this rhyme, then I'm sure you're probably aware that it has been associated with actual events in English history.The poem was first recorded in 1797, printed in London in the Newest Christmas Box. At a later date, the antiquarian James Orchard Halliwell-Phillipps (who devoted himself to antiquarian research, specifically English literature, and later to a Life of Shakespeare) asserted that the poem was much older. Halliwell-Phillips was a man who loved literature. More importantly, and judging by his later interest in Shakespeare, he was keenly interested in the history behind the literature. When he gave up textual criticism in the 1870's, he devoted himself to piecing together the particulars of Shakespeare's life. This revealing bent for biography and explication is important when considering his opinions on the origin of A Little Nut Tree. As concerns this rhyme, Halliwell-Phillips wrote [this first link will take you to Google books and a reprint, I think, of the actual book from which the quote comes]:
"The following perhaps refers to Joanna of Castile, who visited the court of Henry VII in the year 1506.
'I had a little nut tree, nothing would it bear,
But a silver nutmeg and a golden pear;
The King of Spain's daughter came to visit me,
And all was beacuse of my little nut tree.
I skipp'd over water, I danced over sea,
And all the birds in the air could not catch me.'"
[Notes and queries, Volume 72, by William White p. 521]
Because of my abiding interest in all things science, I've learned the value of skepticism. That extends to literary scholarship. Worth knowing is that Shakespeare scholarship was, and still is, rife with speculation, excess and outright fraud. I haven't found anything to suggest that Halliwell-Phillips engaged in that sort of excess, but he was also a man of his times. If no information was forthcoming then speculation was fair game — the responsibility of the scholar, it seems, was often to speak even if there was nothing to be spoken of. This was a time when reputation often trumped the truth.
The first thing I wondered was whether the The Little Nut Tree was a fake. Don't think it's not possible. More than a few modern scholars speculate that some of the nursery rhymes in Mother Goose were cooked up. The 18th and 19th century was rife with forgers, the most famous being William Henry-Ireland. A recent book was written on Ireland called The Boy Who Would be Shakespeare. Or consider the struggling poet James Macpherson. He only gained real success when he fabricated the mythical Gaelic bard Ossian. He announced:
"Though the poems now published appear as detached pieces in this collection, there is ground to believe that most of them were originally episodes of a greater work … by a careful inquiry, many more remains of ancient genius, no less valuable than those now given to the world, might be found in the same country where these have been collected. In particular there is reason to hope that one work of considerable length, and which deserves to be styled an heroic poem, might be recovered and translated, if encouragement were given to such an undertaking."
The English of the 18th and 19th century were besotted with their "newly" discovered literary past. The true genius of Shakespeare was just beginning to be appreciated and the corpus he left behind would have made any nation proud. The British, naturally, wanted more. They began looking in dusty pantries, the shelves of old libraries, and any other nook that might yield a new literary treasure (and fame). If it couldn't be found, then arrangements could be made. To this day, scholars dispute the provenance of Double Falsehood. Just in the last decade, the Shakespearean scholar Brean Hammond made a name for himself by once again (just as the original scholar Lewis Theobald almost 300 years before) trying to link a forgery (at worst) to Shakespeare.
Collecting old sayings and nursery rhymes was undoubtedly part of this general besottment with literary history. There's no reason to exclude the possibility that there wasn't a touch of fraud in that collecting as well. Scholarly fidelity was understood a little differently. If a little ditty could be passed off as original, then what harm in that? It's not as if they were forging a Shakespeare play or a fifth biblical testament. The world could stand one more nursery rhyme and the perpetrator could go to his grave knowing, in some small anonymous way, that a piece of himself had attained literary immortality. Not all the Mother Goose rhymes may be original, but there's no way to know.
Fortunately, the modern scholar can narrow down the odds. For a rhyme like Monday's Child, one can find precedent going all the way back to the 1500's (and before). There are parallels, and poems like Monday's Child are mentioned, in passing, by writers during the 17th century. These sorts of clues suggest that Monday's Child is probably not a fake and could date back hundreds of years before it was officially recorded in the 19th century.
There's no similar precedent for Little Nut Tree, but we do get some verification. In the same passage already quoted above, William White mentions that one "Mr. C.W. Penny supplies from memory the same verses, which were taught him about 1842." Reading between the lines, this tells me that the question of forgery must have occurred to others, and the fact that the poem was being passed on, orally, in 1842, seems to have argued in favor of the rhyme's provenance (and sufficiently so for those concerned).
This brings us back to Halliwell-Phillips, On what basis does he assert that the rhyme may have stemmed from the visit of Joanna of Castile to the court of Henry VII?
Halliwell-Phillips provides no evidence to support his contention and he doesn't claim to (which, to me, works in his favor). He writes: perhaps. When you read other analyses of this rhyme on the Internet and elsewhere, and when the analyses are written with an implied certainty, just remember this: It's speculation. Just as Shakespearean "scholars", in the past and present, have a rich history of fabricating biography (leading some on the "wild goose chase" of an Oxford, Bacon, or a Queen Elizabethan), Hallewill-Phillips was probably compelled, by the same urge, to speculate on the origins of A Little Nut Tree. (This kind of speculation, by the way, is no different than the speculation surrounding Browning's My Last Duchess.) All of it makes for a good parlor game and keeps academics in business.
Wikipidia sums up the current thinking on A Little Nut Tree:
The characters in the nursery rhyme are believed to refer to the visit of the Royal House of Spain to King Henry VII's English court in 1506. The 'King of Spain's daughter' refers to the daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain. There were two daughters, Princess Juana and her sister Catherine of Aragon. The princess in the nursery rhyme is probably Catherine of Aragon who was betrothed to Prince Arthur, the heir to the throne of England. Arthur died and Catherine eventually married King Henry VIII. It was sad that "So fair a princess" had such a difficult life with Henry as she was the first of Henry's six wives and discarded by the King to make way for Anne Boleyn. Queen Catherine was much loved by the British who were not fond of her replacement. The young, 'King of Spain's daughter' relates to the young Catherine as a princess, and is immortalised in this old nursery rhyme.
Another site offers a variation on the same:
The characters in the nursery rhyme 'I had a little nut tree' are believed to refer to the visit of the Royal House of Spain to King Henry VII's English court in 1506. The 'King of Spain's daughter' refers to the daughter of King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain. There were two daughters, Princess Juana and her sister Katherine of Aragon. The princess in the nursery rhyme is probably Katherine of Aragon who was betrothed to Prince Arthur, the heir to the throne of England. Arthur died and Katherine eventually married King Henry VIII. It was sad that "So fair a princess" had such a difficult life with Henry as she was the first of Henry's six wives and discarded by the King to make way for Anne Boleyn. Queen Katherine was much loved by the British people who hated her replacement, who they called 'The Great Whore'. The young, beautiful princess relates to the young Katherine, as a princess and is immortalised in this old nursery rhyme.
The first question to ask is this: Why did Halliwell-Phillips suggest that Joanna of Castile (6 November 1479 – 12 April 1555) was the subject of the poem? No answer is forthcoming. There's nothing in the poem to suggest Joanna of Castile but for the fact that the rhyme mentions "the King of Spain's daughter". (Joanna of Castile was briefly a guest of a younger Henry VIII due to a shipwreck.) This is probably why later scholars decided a more likely candidate would be Catherin of Aragon. (If we're going to play this game, then the facts have to fit — at least a little.)
This is where interpretations of the poem remind me of Baconians or Oxfordians reading Shakespeare. It's easy to read into poetry evidence that isn't there and that's because poetry is notoriously figurative and open to interpretation. (That's largely what makes poetry so powerful.) So, if we want the poem to fit the facts, this is how we read the poem:
This line refers to the genitals of Prince Arthur, Henry the VIII's older brother. From there, we enter a hall of mirrors where speculation fits the poem to history and history to the poem.
This is said to refer to either Arthur's impotence or to infertility. (I personally think this is a peculiarly modern misinterpretation of the line.) Historians argue over whether Catherine and Arthur ever consummated their marriage. The matter was of paramount importance to Henry VIII (who later married her) and some historians speculate that Catherine expediently lied, claiming that she and Arthur never consummated their marriage. On the other hand, Arthur was quoted as saying (the day after), that "Masters, it is good pastime to have a wife." This sounds like a young husband who enjoyed himself. Then we enter into the hall of mirrors. Some scholars speculate that Arthur said this in order to cover up his impotence. Others counter that Catherine never raised the subject until Henry VIII evinced interest in marrying her. Worth keeping in mind is that nursery rhymes weren't meant to be historically accurate. Indeed, if this poem really was inspired by the events surrounding Catherine and Arthur, it could have started out in the spirit of a modern day limerick — a jest and a way to explain occurrences that were steeped in gossip.
On the other hand, it's also possible that the poem's meaning is quite straightforward. All boys are born with "a little nut tree" that, by itself, 'bears nothing'. That brings us to the next two lines.
Nutmeg was a very valuable and sought after commodity that can be dated back to the medieval cuisine. It was used both as a powder and (more importantly as concerns our rhyme) as an oil (expressed from the nut). Continuing with our interpretation, it's hardly a leap to interpret the "silver nutmeg" as a bawdy and humorous reference to Arthur's semen (presumably "expressed" by Catherine). The pear has a long tradition in pre-Christian and Christian iconography. According to an article by Jules Janick, "The Pear in History, Literature, Popular Culture, and Art",
The first mention of the pear is found in Homer's (9th century BC) epic poem, The Odyssey, confirming that the pear was cultivated in Greece as early as three thousand years ago. The pear is included as one of the "gifts of the gods" which grew in the garden of Alcinöus, the King of the Phaeacians…
By this, we learn that the pear was associated with divinity and royalty. Janick adds that "the grouping of pear, apple, and fig would persist in early Christian iconography, probably as a metaphor for sacred trees." The idea of royal lineage as a sacred tree was a common place. Now, mix this in with the English proclivity for bawdy humor (in just about anything) and we come to Shakespeare:
Your virginity, your old virginity, is like one of our French withered pears, it looks ill, it eats drily; marry, 'tis a withered pear; it was formerly better; marry yet 'tis a withered pear. All's Well that Ends Well i(1).
The comparison of a pear to a woman's sex could have been original to Shakespeare, but I think it more likely that he was echoing common bawdy that equated the pear's shape (just as we do today) to a woman's belly and hips (pregnant or otherwise). What happens when we put all this together? The golden pear turns into an expansive pun and joke that combines the notion of Arthur's lineage (the tree) and the golden pear (the royal womb). In other words, all that Arthur has to offer (and promise) is his semen, (the silver nutmeg), and an impregnated womb. The pear, or the womb, is gold because it will carry a royal child. (The mention of gold may additionally echo the gold of the crown.) "Nothing would it bear" can be understood, in the grammar of the day, not as meaning that Arthur is barren but that, because Arthur is a Prince, he can't offer anything but the gold of his lineage. In other words, the Little Nut Tree, the prince's genitalia, can produce nothing other than 'silver' semen and a 'golden' pear because of his royal lineage. Translation: The Little Nut Tree won't settle for anything less than an equally royal womb. The Prince must wait for a Princess.
More grist for the mill: From A Dictionary of Shakespeare's Sexual Puns and their Significance: Pear / pair, appear / a pair 1.) Testicles. Pear-tree ('pyrie' – TWR): penis, as in Chaucer's, 'The Merchant's Tale', where May, wanting 'peres', climbed up the tree to her waiting lover. 2.) Copulate (L copula, sexual union, from co(m)-, with apere, to fasten). Pair: a mated couple; to match, couple. Aperire: to open (F).
Knowing that the nut, then as now, was a pun on testicles, and knowing that Chaucer used the word pear as a pun for the penis, still more possible interpretations arise: Nutmeg = Testicle; Silver = Semen; Golden = Royal; and the Pear equals the Penis. If the rhyme originated during Elizabethan times, then we might well expect all these puns and connotations to have existed at once. I personally find it compelling that Chaucer was punning on pear as far back as the 12th century. This suggests that the provenance of the The Little Nut Tree may be far older than anyone has yet suggested – easily predating the events of Catherine and Arthur.
Lastly, Janick makes the observation that "In many parts of the world the pear symbolizes the human heart which it resembles." It's all there.
The king of Spain's daughter is visiting in order to be impregnated – for the sake of his "little nut tree", a euphemism for his royal lineage and its future.
This is where the rhyme, as a history of Catherine and Arthur, runs aground. It was well-known during the time that Catherine was fair skinned, blue-eyed and red-haired – (nothing like the common Spanish caricatures). This is precisely the kind of gossip the people of Britain closely followed. Apologists will argue that the originator (or originators) of the rhyme probably had to conceal the true target of the poem but I find that a self-defeating argument. If it's all but obvious to us, several hundred years later, who was targeted by the rhyme, then it would have been obvious to the court of Henry VIII. Would the change from red hair to "jet black" really have protected anyone? I doubt it. In fact, it might have been more insulting had Catherine's appearance been described as jet black. This would not have been considered praise.
This verse, given what has come before, is all but self-explanatory. Arthur will marry Catherine and they will 'to bed', where he will give her all the fruit of his "little nut tree". Many versions of this poem end here. If this rhyme is truly about Arthur and Catherine, then it would imply that the poem was created before Arthur died.
This beautifully poetic stanza is probably best appreciated as describing the exhalation of lovemaking. A Dictionary of Shakespeare's Sexual Puns and their Significance tells us the following:
Dance Fornicate ('daunce' — TWR). Dekker and Middleton, The Honest Whore I, III.ii: a reformed whore reviles her ex-bawd who 'guard'st the dore/Whilst couples go to daunching'. Danser: to dance, leap (Cot). Leap: coit (C;P). Cf. R2, II.iv.12 'ruffians [pimps – OED] dance and leap'. De la panse vient la danse: "when the bellie is full, the breech would be figging' (Cot.)
As I've written already, correspondences like this encourage me to think that the poem is as old or older than the events of Catherine and Arthur, though there's no way of knowing. But does all this sound convincing? The thing to remember is that this is all, every bit of it, hearsay and gossip based on speculation by a 19th century amateur, almost 400 years after the fact. I personally think it's a shame that this lovely rhyme, the loveliest of all nursery rhymes in my opinion, has been buttonholed as a reference to Catherine and Arthur. I was saddened to read a comment like the following:
"The rhyme is neither charming nor cute, but politically ironic in origin, like most nursery rhymes. This one refers to the arrangement to marry the Spanish princess Catherine of Aragon (who was by no means mad) to Prince Arthur (the elder son of Henry VII) and his failure to perform in the marital bed. Other cutesy 'nursery rhymes' originating in the Tudor/Stuart period include 'Four & Twenty Blackbirds' (ref. the decapitation of Anne Boleyn)'Little Jack Horner' (ref. a contemporary Fat Cat trying to cream off from the Dissolution of the Monasteries) and 'Ring-a-Ring of Roses' which references the Great Plague. Then there's 'Mary, Mary, quite contrary ..' – a snide Protestant reference to Catholic Mary Stuart ….. Not so beautiful, but life as it was: viz. people wanting to comment on the activities of their political masters but afraid to do so overtly. (So, whats new?)"
My own speculation (I can't stress that enough) is as follows: The wordplay, if that is what it is, makes me think the origins of the rhyme are contemporaneous with or predate the events of Catherine and Arthur. The original poem probably was not exactly like the poem that came down to us. It's possible that the rhyme was associated with the events of Joanna of Castile or Catherine of Aragon but there is no evidence to support this interpretation. (It's up to you to decide whether you accept this interpretation.) It's likely that the original 'girl' was not "The King of Spain's Daughter". This was probably an alteration meant to suit (what were then) current events or could have been for other reasons (which I'll touch on). If one is going to take the phrase "The King of Spain's Daughter" literally, as evidence that the poem was intended to describe either Joanna or Catherine, then it's willfully capricious and arbitrary to then disregard the fact that the rhyme describes the princess as having jet black hair. If the appellation "King of Spain's Daughter" strongly argues for Joanna or Catherine, then the princess's jet black hair as forcefully argues against the claim. As I wrote before, it was widely known that both women were fair skinned, blue-eyed and red-haired – qualities that were considered attributes of beauty, not dark or "jet black" hair.
I do not think this rhyme is about Joanna or Catherine.
"jet black hair…"
My own theory as to the identity of the princess with the jet black hair is steeped in folklore and mythology. In 1959, Eric Berne wrote an article called The Mythology of Dark and Fair: Psychiatric Use of Folklore. In the article, discussing northern European mythology, he writes that "golden hair was an attribute of the pure and innocent maiden, while dark hair suggested the ardent, passionate, inexpressibly terrible temptress who offers the treasure trove of a great sin." Dark hair and complexion was also seen, in a conventionally literary sense, as less desirable. It's for this reason that Shakespeare could write his sonnets to the "Dark Lady" in the full knowledge that his audience would "get it".
In the old age black was not counted fair,
Or if it were, it bore not beauty's name;
But now is black beauty's successive heir,
And beauty slandered with a bastard shame:
For since each hand hath put on Nature's power,
Fairing the foul with Art's false borrowed face,
Sweet beauty hath no name, no holy bower,
But is profaned, if not lives in disgrace.
Therefore my mistress' eyes are raven black,
Her eyes so suited, and they mourners seem
At such who, not born fair, no beauty lack,
Sland'ring creation with a false esteem:
Yet so they mourn becoming of their woe,
That every tongue says beauty should look so.
Shakespeare's contemporary, the poet Sidney, also stews in the sexual promise of the dark haired girl (and black's contrary associations with death and mourning):
ASTROPHEL AND STELLA
When Nature made her chief work – STELLA'S eyes
In colour black why wrapt she beams so bright?
Would she in beamy black, like painter wise
Frame daintiest lustre, mixed of shades of light?
Or did she else that sober hue devise,
In object best to knit and strength our sight?
Lest if no veil these brave gleams did disguise,
They sun-like should more dazzle than delight.
Or would she her miraculous power show?
That whereas black seems beauty's contrary
She, even in black, doth make all beauties flow!
But so and thus, she minding LOVE should be
Placed ever there, gave him this mourning weed;
To honour all their deaths, which for her bleed.
In Shakespeare's Sonnet 129, the inviting dangers of the dark lady's sexual excess are made explicit:
Th' expense of spirit in a waste of shame
Is lust in action, and till action, lust
Is perjured, murd'rous, bloody full of blame,
Enjoyed no sooner but despised straight,
Past reason hated as a swallowed bait,
On purpose laid to make the taker mad.
Mad in pursuit and in possession so,
Had, having, and in quest, to have extreme,
A bliss in proof and proved, a very woe,
Before a joy proposed behind a dream.
All this the world well knows yet none knows well,
The point isn't that Sidney or Shakespeare wrote the The Little Nut Tree, but that they wrote with the expectation that their audience understood the associations surrounding the dark haired girl and woman — that there is something of the forbidden and alluring about them: libidinous and desirable.
"the King of Spain…"
From what I can tell, the temptation has always been to assume that the "King of Spain" must be a literal historical figure. However, other features of the nursery rhyme don't quite add up. My own hunch is that the "King of Spain" was more a symbolic reference than a literal one – like the King of the Elves.
If we think of the rhyme as having originated sometime between the 15th and 17th century, we find that relations between England and Spain could be surprisingly cordial and warm. Most importantly, Spain had discovered the Americas. Whole new trade routes were being explored. New and exotic products — herbs, spices and fabrics — were being exported to England, along with stories of fabulous wealth and strange peoples. For a period of time, the King of Spain must have seemed, indeed, like the King of a fabled magical horizon burgeoning with strange delights, untold riches and fantastic stories. (The newfound wealth and trade routes of the Spaniards would increasingly rankle the jealous British aristocracy.) My hunch is that the King of Spain, in The Little Nut Tree, is better understood as a sort of mythical King in a land that allures with new and exotic wealth and strangeness.
In this light, the idea of the daughter with the jet black hair also makes more sense. She is the archetypal dark haired beauty who epitomizes the allure that is sexual, dangerous, promising, fecund, unknowable but desired. All of the previous analysis still stands, minus the intrusion of Catherine and Arthur. Not only that, but there's an inner mystical beauty to the rhyme that makes itself felt – and may account for it's survival.
As before, the nursery rhyme can be read as a little fable — a foretelling of every child's sexual awakening (and its necessity). The little nut tree is the boy and young man's genitalia. "I have a little nut tree", says the mother to the little boy (as though speaking for him) and "nothing would it bear". It cannot and never will without union (remember the pun on pear and pair) with a girl or woman. He has nothing to offer but a silver nutmeg (his semen) and a golden pear. The golden pair serves as a pun on his penis and symbolizes the fruit of his lovemaking – the golden (their combined love) pear or the impregnated womb.
The King of Spain is every father and the Princess in the crimson dress and jet black hair is every daughter. The King of Spain is the mysterious, feared and powerful King whose alluring wealth is his mysterious and exotic daughter with the jet black hair. Someday, says the mother through the nursery rhyme, the King of Spain's daughter will come to visit you all for the sake of your little nut tree.
Crimson, as we all know, symbolizes passion and sexuality, but also suggests the blood of a woman's virginity and her period – what she has to offer for the boy's silver nutmeg. The daughter's "jet black hair" (which is always symbolically jet black) symbolizes the daughter's sexual allure, mystery and libido. She promises pleasure and wealth by asking for the boy's golden pear (his penis). Their "pairing" (and his child in her womb) will make him a "King of Spain".
…a dress made of crimson…
In these lines we can hear the mother, through the rhymes, instructing her son. She will be beautiful. Do not be afraid. Give her all the fruit of your little nut tree. Give her your silver nutmeg (your semen) and your golden pear.
In the closing stanza, without which (in my opinion) the poem is only half the poem it could be, the mother promises the boy the physical and spiritual ecstasy of sexual union, love and lovemaking (in terms he won't yet understand). The mother could also be describing her own ecstasy, and that of his father's, during the conception of their son. Read in this light, the poem is nothing if not a beautiful prompting and celebration of love and procreation.
Naturally, the bawdy and humorous elements are there; and the poem is enriched by them.
But there's also a mystical undercurrent that captures my heart. We can read the little nut tree as our soul. The King of Spain is the physical world and his daughter, the princess, is the gift he offers our soul — crimson, jet black, sexual and of the earth. The beautiful girl offers us both life and death. If we freely give to her all the fruit of our soul when she asks for it (both sexual and spiritual), the reward will be a physical and spiritual ecstasy — the golden pear. On that day we will dance o'er the water and dance o'er the sea and not even the birds i'th'air will catch us.


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Q: Get cursor position in canvas I'm trying to get the cursor position in canavs when clicked but the following error pops into my console
Uncaught TypeError: canvas.getBoundingClientRect is not a function

here is my code:
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I simply cannot understand what's wrong. Any help?

A: The first argument that jQuery passes to your callback function is not the element but an event object. The element can be accessed via this.
From the jQuery docs:

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You could change your code to this:
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By Geoffrey Gray
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Big Boy is on a tear. The rarest, most expensive collection of vintages from possibly the most desired vineyard on the planet—DRC Romanée-Conti, a red Burgundy—has finally come up for sale, and he can't sit still. "Bid!" he barks, an unlit cigar dangling from his mouth at Café Gray last month. "Bid!" he yells again, staring down other buyers. "Bid!" one more time, reaching for his crotch. Like real estate and art, wine is one of the things the rich—often hedge-funders and tycoons making fortunes in Russia and China—are spending their money on. Many are like Big Boy, a 36-year-old real-estate investor and wine autodidact whose real name is Robert Rosania. The two-day auction, held by Acker, Merrall & Condit, shattered by over $10 million a one-day sales record of $14.4 million set by Sotheby's back in 1999. It was also friendly to this unstuffy new breed: John Kapon, the auctioneer, avoids using French "because of that whole accent thing," and describes how the taste of a '96 La Tâche "reminded me of an 18-year-old supermodel: way too young, but everyone has to stop and stare." Rock and roll! Last year, the total amount for wine purchased at auctions increased by 31 percent, to $166 million. Unlike art, which can hang on a wall for years untouched, wine is a liquid asset that disappears. At the Acker auction, for instance, one magnum of 1911 DRC Romanée-Conti doubled the estimate, fetching $100,000. That's about $8,333 a glass. "It's wild, just wild," says Peter Meltzer, Wine Spectator's auction tracker and author of Keys to the Cellar. "This just shows that there are serious collectors out there willing to pay a small fortune to own these things—and drink them." And now, "the question on everyone's minds," says wine consultant Brian Orcutt, "is when is this bubble going to burst?"
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A typical MPS scenario, according to Hancock, involved a vendor or its partner auditing the printing environment of a business.
"An MPS audit will look holistically at an organisation, including the physical layout of its office; whether it has got multiple buildings; and how many people per office," he said. "It will also take into account the kind of work. Some might do more copying, some might need scanning facilities."
Following the audit, the MPS consultant will propose how to better use existing hardware, in addition to recommending new hardware from the vendor(s) they represent. Recommendations are normally financed via a 'click charge' covering the new hardware, paper and toner.
Devices typically report print errors, toner levels and other information which can be used by resellers as the basis for remote management.
Handled correctly, MPS is a veritable goldmine because it provides a way for hardware, services and consumables to be 'locked-in' across a business, for a minimum three years. But not all printing vendors have yet given the channel the keys to take these lucrative revenue streams.
In recent years, HP has gone from offering MPS through the channel, to taking it back direct, to reinstating its resellers.. "Two years ago we put [MPS] out there for our partners and asked for dedication and investment but all we got back was a lot of, 'Yeah, yeah, we're going to it,' but not much more," HP vice-president of imaging and printing, South Pacific, Christoph Schell, said. "Only one company - Danke - really put its money where its mouth was."
Schell said HP took the concept back for two years, but had now warmed to offering it through partners again.
"We've been successful over the last two years, but I don't believe HP can grow it any more," he said. "In order for us to become a serious player, we will need a more balanced approach, so we decided to launch a new partner landscape four months ago."
Schell is looking to appoint 12 MPS resellers in the near future, selected from 16 applicants. The highest coverage will be in NSW and Victoria.
For many resellers, MPS is just an expansion of what many are already doing today, Gartner's Hancock said.
"At the end of the day, you can tie a business into a three-year contract supplying printers on an ad hoc basis, but to take 100 per cent of that print business - hardware, maintenance and consumables - can be very profitable," he said.
Channel-friendly vendors are also encouraging resellers to get on the bandwagon by pointing out the potential long-term revenue streams.
"MPS is not just selling a box, but 3-5 years of toner and service too," Schell said. "It's the perfect type of deal for a partner to lock an account in. Then they can go and sell other products and services."
Lexmark delivers MPS via a 100 per cent reseller model. Channel manager, Neil Campbell, said the channel's lower overheads gave it a potential advantage over direct selling vendors.


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5th Update from Connie
I have always known Kenya was a Country of extreme contrasts. The urban, the rural, the rich, the very poor, the highly educated, the uneducated. And now I see the extreme contrast with the angry, violent people and the loving, compassionate people. The team has heard stories of unthinkable violence and we are seeing the response from the Christians in Kenya of forgiveness and a desire for peace, healing and reconciliation.
Today we were joined by GOA pastor Kinjui in Nukuru. There are many camps in this area from people fleeing even their own communities. The first stop was a Catholic seminary. They had taken in 150 people who were staying in rooms used for seminary students. We saw some for medical and the social workers counselled some while Veronica and Penny did art therapy with the children. The children asked many questions especially about returning home. There was one woman bedridden. Daniel and Paul treated her. Her 6 month old baby died the day they arrived at camp. the priest told us there greatest need was for blankets and food. Also they had water from a tank but it was not safe water. We hope to return with a water dispenser and water cleaner.
The next stop was a very poor church in a rural area. There were both small children and very old men and women. Some of the women wanted to take us to show their homes and buisnesses that had been burnt. We found homes and buisnesses burnt to the ground and in some places they were still small fires. Medical saw and treated people mostly chronic diseases. Art therapy for the children and counselling. Still a lot of fear expressed. We left blankets, food, sanitary pads, and diapers. SN spoke to the local football and volley ball teams and then distributed the balls. You could see how sports is so important in developing countries for young Christian leaders. The captons of the team were obviosly the young leaders in the community.
The third camp was the largest with 250 people staying at a local dispensary. Imagine 250 people showing up at your place of buisness and not going home. Within minutes of getting off the bus the team had organized women in one group, the men in another, the youth gathered together and Nick, Charles, Veronica and Penny had about 75 children gathered singing and laughing. The woman were hungry for words of hope and encouragement. They sat with their babies on their laps listening to Laban, Jane, Penny and others give words of hope and encouragement. They asked me to speak to them. I could only tell them of Pastor Karanja's prayers and hope for Kenya and that Americans cared for them, loved the country of Kenya and were in constant prayer for them. They all clapped when I told them Pastor Karanja said Kenya will emerge as a springboard for a great spiritual revival. Laban interpreted for me and they laughed when he had trouble with the word springboard and had to demostrate with his hands. The military were there quarding the camp. It is important for everyone to understand the military in Kenya has not been called out. The country is not at war. The military are providing humanitarian help not military service. We spoke with them and they listened to all of the pastors when they spoke to the groups. This camp is managed by a committee. All 250 people were sleeping on a concret floor with open sides and only a roof. Their needs were blankets and food. Paul changed the dressing of a spear wound on a very old man. He was speared in the leg while trying to protect his home. His home was burned and he lost everything. We gathered everyone together before leaving and Jane and Penny led them in worship. You would not know these people had lost their homes, their belongings, some lost their loved ones and yet they sang and danced and gave praises to the Lord as the military men stood by giving protection. It is difficult to tell in an email on a Blackberry the feeling in this camp. It was difficult to leave not because we felt torn and despair as in the other camps but because of what we were receiving – pure love and joy in worship to the God they know and believe.
We returned to Nukuru to stay at the same hotel the April team stayed in When we went with the GOA leaders to Lake Nakuru. After dinner the team came together for sharing of the days work. First the team shared how encouraged with each other they were as they watched each team member do their part. People shared at some points throughout the day they found themselves not wanting to hear any more stories their hearts were so heavy with what people shared with them. But consistent from the people displaced was the hope they had in God. Njokie has become a counsellor. She like her sister Mary Mugo has the compassion in her heart for the hurting. She shared with the team how she listened to a 28 year old woman tell the story of her husband and his brother killing their 6 month old baby because they were of different tribes. She had been married for 10 years and had waited a long time for a baby. But she told njokie she knew God would give her a new husband and anther baby. Njokie thought please stop talking so I can go cry. Pastor Paul Muturi shared how his heart was broken when he heard from a couple of the murder of their child. Pastor thought of how much he loved his own children and how he couldn't bear to think of something like that happening to his children. One of the Luos with us shared how he was frightened as we left Naiirobi because he feared harm from Kikuyus. But now he felt safe and he thanked the Kikuyus for their love and support. Remember we have four tribes represented on our team. Samuel reminded the team their works would be written in the book and they wiould be rewarded. Much discussion about how they can work towards peace and healing in Kenya. The team also had a very theapeutic laughter when Njokie told of an 84 year old women who had over many years lost 6 husbands due to clashes but she was trusting God for another husband. Njokie said "wow that was faith". It was good for the team to share laughter as Njokie told the men she would take applications from them if they were not married – but the woman was looking for a doctor!
I personally never experienced anything like this. I always say it is a privledge to serve the Kenyans but this time it is truly at a new level. I ask God why He has granted me favor to be here.
Praying for peace and healing in Kenyan! Connie


Amid the rubble of two earthquakes in Spain Wednesday, a police officer (right) tries to console the daughter (center) of one of at least ten people killed during the natural disaster. Striking near the southeastern town of Lorca (map), the Spain earthquakes injured dozens, damaged historic buildings, and fractured highways, according to officials cited by the Associated Press.
The second, more powerful earthquake was a magnitude 5.3 temblor that struck at 6:47 p.m. local time, U.S. National Earthquake Information Center seismologist John Bellini told the AP. It came roughly two hours after a magnitude 4.5 quake rocked the town of 91,000. Both earthquakes originated from the same approximately six-mile-deep (ten-kilometer-deep) spot outside Lorca.
Situated near the boundary of the African and Eurasian tectonic plates, the Lorca area is no stranger to earthquakes, though most are too faint to detect without seismological tools, according to the U.S. Geological Survey.
A fallen bell tower lies at the foot of a church in Lorca after two earthquakes rocked the town in southeastern Spain Wednesday. School children frequent the church square in the early evening, and if the second earthquake had struck ten minutes later, the collapsed tower could have caused a "tragedy," according to a Spanish TV broadcaster who was on the scene, cited by the Associated Press.
A blanket-covered body lies in the San Diego district of Lorca, Spain, after Wednesday's earthquakes. Throughout the town, falling bricks and other building parts injured dozens, and at least ten people have been killed.
Cars sit crushed beneath a flattened building in Lorca, Spain, after Wednesday's earthquakes. Elsewhere in the city, a collapsed car tunnel trapped drivers, while cracks shot through roads and overpasses, according to the Spanish daily El Pais, cited by MSNBC.
Lorca residents seek the security of the open air outside the town after two earthquakes sent buildings crumbling late Wednesday.
"The population is scared and are very afraid to return to their homes," a regional official told national radio, according to MSNBC. "There are thousands of very disorientated people."
(Read about the science of earthquake prediction in National Geographic magazine).


With a dCS Rossini as digital source, Audio Research KT150-based Galileo GS150 power amp and Ref 10 line stage, the exhibitor in this room chose Wilson Audio Alexia for speakers. While the room of the same distributor we visited earlier sounded really good, here the to us typical Wilson sound dominated: too much and too bold. On visuals, the Alexia still had the yellow transport stickers attached. Even certain cellophane wrap was still on. We'll spare you our closeups. The devil is in the details.
Hansen Audio's The Dragon Legend E speakers were matched with Tenor Audio's 350M HP monos which in turn were preceded by Tenor Audio's Line 1 with its dedicated power supply. We now got a glimpse of what 6moons colleague Mike Malinowski has shared in his Tenor reviews. These composite-cabinet Canadian loudspeakers were masterfully controlled by their equally Canadian electronics. One of our impressions which we cannot prove but which gets stronger year after year is that systems composed of gear stemming from the same geographical region match better than components assembled from different parts of the world. It seems that there is a region-specific tonality at work which nets ultimate harmony when all constituent parts share that same tonality or sonic aesthetic. Anyway, here a big German Brinkmann turntable with its own tone arm was loaded with an Air Tight PC-1 cartridge to perform analogue duties while a Soulution 746 did digital. Franc Audio showcased their designer version of the passive power filter clad in a custom-made leather jacket. It worked wonders in the visual sense.
Strolling down the spacious and curved stadium hallway, we passed another well-visited headfi auditorium; and then another. Headfi is definitely happening.
How then we wished to have taken some headphones with us from one of the previous rooms. Not to listen to music, mind you, but to protect our ears from what we encountered next in the Devialet room. Aside from the at the time passive display of multi-amped B&W 800 Diamond floorstanders with four Devialet 200 class A/D hybrid all-in-ones feeding them, there was a Phantom "demo".
That really was an ear-splitting noise like a jackhammer rattling away at Count Dracula's dreary coffin. It felt like a moronic attempt to convince potential customers that the über boom box (which is all the Phantom proves to be under such abysmal circumstances) can execute square waves at high SPL without going up in smoke. We escaped this room in a hurry, staying just long enough for a few photos.
Publisher's comment: Marja & Henk are happy owners of two original Devialet integrateds. Any prior bias thus would be positive. However, their observations of this Phantom demo combined with my earlier one at the Munich show which was just as poor, questionable and seemingly oriented at a primitive audience in love with bassy techno at high levels, one begins to wonder. Devialet are one of today's best-financed hifi companies, being under the same luxury conglomerate umbrella as Louis Vuitton. But clearly money doesn't buy trade show savvy. Attending a hifi show with a more ambitious audience whilst aiming at the very lowest common denominator really doesn't seem smart. At least so far it's played very poorly with our crew. Perhaps we're just not getting it?
And now for even more headfi! Here we had a stretch which included pageant-sash wearing young beauties to lure solo listeners to sit down and in. But nice-looking young girls were not only here. All over the various show venues, we met them handing out leaflets, smiling at doors or being active as prompters to have one enter a specific room. It reminded us of a show in Moscow we attended many years ago. There girls hired for show duties came from an agency which normally caters to a very different target market than audiophiles (exceptions always possible).
The next room played a Quadral setup with components from their Aurum series. For some reason, we thus far have never lucked upon a demonstration of this German brand's speakers which appealed to us. This is a purely personal thing of course. Fortunately for this room's proprietor, visitors here seemed to have a different take from ours.
Under the brand name hORNS, Polish company Auto-Tech cater not only to the DIY/OEM market but also offer a range of turn-key speakers which are horns of course. For the DIY enthusiast, hORNS can provide acoustic horns, wave guides and other bits and bobs. You like yours bi-radial, spherical or tractrix? hORNS have your match. Want a full-blown bass horn? Ditto.
At the show the company demonstrated a Universum 3-way system with 15" woofer, 2" midrange and 1" tweeter beryllium drivers. Rated at 100dB sensitivity, the small My Sound EL84-based 12wpc power amps styled like Swedish Engstrom & Engstrom proved together with the Polish JR Audio turntable that vinyl, tubes and horns are still a great match. And by the way, all of it was Polish here.
Polk advertised with Love Out Loud and we hoped that it was only a silly advertisement slogan. We met silence during our visit, perhaps the preferable opposite?
More action and adventure were to be had in the Diesis Audio room with their large dipole loudspeakers topped with a horn tweeter and massive round subwoofer. The Corian-clad loudspeaker was the Caput Mundi and the Italian makers run a coaxial compression driver for the mid/high frequencies whilst the open-baffle dipole construction is in charge of the lower frequencies.
In the Bonham Tribute subwoofer, we had yet another dipole construction. Amplification was in the hands of another Italian company, Ångstrom Research, who provided their EL34-based Stella integrated amp. It showed off classy build quality inside and out and with the danger of getting repetitive and wearing out our needle, this was an all-Italian room.
The last active space of our stadium visit became a personal surprise. While deciphering the Polish show catalogue, we chanced upon the word Crystal Cable in a line of brands which a Polish distributor takes care of. We however did not expect to actually meet Gaby and Edwin Rijnveld, owners of Crystal Cable and Siltech. It is always funny when one meets familiar faces from around the corner of one's home but now hundreds or even thousands of miles away. Yet our conversations picked up where they'd last left off as we had a listen to the Crystal Cable Arabesque Minissimo done up in a cheerful Solar Orange with electronics from Accuphase. Even in background listening mode, the small loudspeakers lost none of their impact or dynamic charms. Only the SPL were low but all audiophile check boxes ticked off.
At the end of the hall, the show closed for us with a static display of Polish Tonsil loudspeakers. New this year was their Altus 380 with reworked tweeter and upgraded internal wiring. The Altus with its retail price of ~ €1200 euro looks like a real-world opportunity and already appears to be a popular choice in Poland as we learned. This concluded our first day of the 2015 Warsaw show. Already we felt tempted to say that in its current format, it was more than just the European runner up. After a good third of the show covered and comparing consumer interest between Munich and Warsaw, the winner was Warsaw. And still we had to see what the Golden Tulip and Radisson Blu Sobieski with another 91 rooms had to say about this. For now we took the shuttle bus back to the hotel, cleaned up, had dinner and dreamed happy audio dreams.
Here are some comments from show organizer Adam. "I see from your report that you spent Friday at the stadium. This probably means you spent Saturday at the Sobieski. I forgot to tell you to do it the other way 'round. I advise everyone not to go to the Sobieski on Saturday as the hotel is overcrowded with too many people who want to visit at the same time. The National Stadium is much better in this regard. Their corridors are much wider. Even on Saturday when we had a flood of people, it was still comfortable. Incidentally, I'm not sure whether you noticed but the rooms at the Sobieski varied in quality. Some were pretty beaten up—there were 28 of those—whilst another 54 were already renovated. Since acquiring the hotel two years ago, the Radisson Group began to renovate this location step by step. Those 28 old rooms were the last ones left out of the 400+ they have. They started renovating those last ones hours after our show closed so for 2016, all their rooms will look like new. Of course that won't solve the problem of overcrowding. Last but not least, with 145 rooms total, we had 35 more than in 2014. We had 11'214 visitors, another record for us. Munich does about 18'000 for contrast. If the stadium had 140 rooms, I would move the entire event over there. But we already maxed out what they have available this year."


Description: Battersea Park Children's Zoo in the heart of South London offers an exciting animal experience that combines a zoo, animal encounters, play area and relaxing cafe.
Have you ever come face to face with a ring tailed lemur? Or popped up right beside a meerkat? Have you ever spent time with a pot bellied pig? Seen an otter at work? Chatted with a mynah bird? Or patted a pygmy goat?
From giant rabbits to miniature Shetland ponies, monkey mayhem to the mouse house, plenty of parrots, this is the zoo that gets you up close and personal.
So go wild in Battersea and get on down to this animal extravaganza - check the webby for details.


Facials, Skincare & More – Interview with Restorations Holistic Skin Care Services (Raleigh, NC) | KinkyCurlyCoilyMe!
If there is one thing you may have learned about me throughout the past few weeks, it may be the fact that I, Miss FabEllis, am an advocate for healthy, beautiful skin. Having healthy skin really can help you feel confident in any atmosphere. Although I have learned a great deal about skincare throughout the years, I thought it best to take some of my questions to a licensed specialist.
KCCM, Miss FabEllis: What is the significance of a facial? How do they help the skin?
Tassie: A facial does more than just cleanse the skin and relax you although those are definitely true also. The benefits I like to point out have to do with the products used and the importance of the facial massage. Using the right products especially natural based products, during the facial helps to nourish the skin and with each application of product it is massaged into the skin which helps with penetration and circulation. Manual lymphatic drainage can also be done to help with congested skin and moving toxins along. Facials help the skin build up collagen, elasticity, moisture, and it helps cells to regenerate.
KCCM, Miss FabEllis: It is said that people should have a facial performed once a month. Do you agree with this theory?
Tassie: Yes, I do agree. Having a facial once per month goes along with maintaining healthy skin and circulation. Also, getting that deep exfoliation keeps the cells rejuvenated. I would also add, getting a facial from the same esthetician is one of the greatest benefits because it gives the esthetician an opportunity to get to know your skin, to know what works well for you, what your skin likes, and how your skin changes with the seasons. This can better assist you in knowing when to change up your daily routine and help you spot when there are particular changes taking place in your skin early on.
After this facial, my skin felt incredibly soft afterwards and very clean! I noticed the next morning that blackheads I used to see on my nose had disappeared. I can definitely see this being beneficial once a month.
KCCM, Miss FabEllis: There are many skincare systems present today from multi step systems like the Nubian Heritage African Black Soap Collection, which includes cleanser, toner, mask, exfoliant scrub, and moisturizer to single step products that only include a cleanser. What is your suggested method for facial cleansing?
Tassie: I believe in a three to four step process. There are many reasons why I don't recommend just using a cleanser, although I also believe that everyone's skin is unique so if this method works for you do what works. So here is what I believe using a complete three step process system which includes cleansing, toning, and moisturizing. First cleansing the skin removes excess dirt and makeup and if it contains any AHA's will help loosen dry dead skin to gently exfoliate the skin. Then following with a toner helps balance the pH in the skin and wipes away anything the cleanser could've left behind, finally in the three step process is moisturizer which should protect and hydrate the skin. The fourth step would be all the above in the three step process with the inclusion of an exfoliant which helps the cells regenerate and assists the skin in staying clear as well help with fine lines, wrinkles, and lack of moisture.
KCCM, Miss FabEllis: People constantly want to know the best steps for clear skin. What are your recommendations for clearer, brighter skin?
Tassie: This is the hardest question yet because EVERYONE'S skin is so unique and there truly is no "COOKIE CUTTER" way to clear skin. The only thing I can recommend is cleanse your skin daily, watch what you eat (that can be a big clue as to what causes your skin to break out), drink plenty of water, include herbal and nutritional supplements, exfoliate, and try to use as many NATURAL products as possible because they have more substance and nutritional value, and lastly stay calm (hormones/emotions aka stress also greatly affect skin conditions).
KCCM, Miss FabEllis: Do you have any final thoughts or suggestions?
Tassie: I would end with this, learn your skin as an individual. Know that what works for some may not work for you but it is good to try different things. Allow an esthetician to get to know your skin because they could be a GREAT asset to answer your skin questions but also help you possibly find a solution to your individual skin care needs. Don't believe all the hype, there are a lot of creams, drugs, and trendy treatments out there, take the time to research and talk with a skin care professional to see if a particular treatment is right for you.
Thanks again to Tassie for sharing her knowledge on skincare with us! I learned a great deal from our conversation and I hope you did also. To learn more about her services and/or schedule an appointment, click here. She also sells her skincare products in-store and online. Click here to view her products.
Share your thoughts! Have you ever had a facial?


A group of local artists have made artistic boats out of plant material harvested from the Apple River and will float them downstream this summer.
If you like to eat locally-grown food and buy locally-made products, what about making art produced with local materials? A unique project by a small group of St. Croix area artists seeks to promote sustainability by showing what can be made with plant material found along the Apple River, and then creating art that makes a statement about people's connection to the river.
In the fall, a small group of artists embarked on a journey with the purpose of exploring sustainable practices, learning, pondering our relationship to the river, and involving the community. They began by paddling down the Apple River, a tributary of the St. Croix, and gathering plant material to turn into handmade paper. They continued to meet regularly throughout the winter and spring to develop the project and created fifty small paper boats using only the plant material they had collected.
When the boats are launched there will be messages written on paper that dissolves in water "and the graphite continues to float so the words may float on for a while after the boat sinks," Bend said.
She said the messages will come from individuals' connection to the river through their life experiences and their hopes for the future of (the river's) health.


Climate change is usually discussed in terms of living standards and resource availability — less in terms of public health. But a research program in Bangladesh may kickstart that conversation after revealing a possible effect of climate change on fertility: Among the women of a coastal Bangladeshi community, an elevated rate of miscarriage has been recorded, and researchers say climate change is behind the increasing pregnancy loss.
The researchers followed more than 12,000 pregnancies between 2012 and 2017, finding that women living in the district of Chakaria, near Cox's Bazaar, Bangladesh, have a higher rate of miscarriage than women from the same community who have moved inland. More specifically, women living within 20km of the sea, and 7m above sea level, were 1.3 times more likely to have a miscarriage than the women who had moved farther inland.
Additionally, researchers say the number of miscarriages among the coastal plains communities seem to be growing.
The researchers say the difference is likely due to the amount of salt in the women's diets. As global temperatures and atmospheric pressure rises, sea levels rise and contaminate natural aquifers — natural underground stores of fresh water. This means that people like those living in Chakaria district are drinking, cooking and bathing with increasingly saltier water, consuming up to 16g of salt per day — three times the World Health Organization's recommended daily salt intake (5g). Excess dietary salt has been linked to a host of health problems, including miscarriage and preeclampsia.
While the increase in miscarriage is currently slight, among coastal women, without action climate change's effect on fertility "will only get worse, as Bangladesh feels the effects of climate change more and more," Dr Manzoor Hanifi, a scientist from the International Centre for Diarrhoeal Disease Research Bangladesh, the research institute behind the findings, told the BBC.
It may also worsen in other low-lying coastal areas outside of Bangladesh. In Kerala, devastating floods earlier this year contaminated drinking water across the state with sludge and garbage, drawing attention to infrastructure that is unable to withstand extreme weather events — which will increase as an effect of climate change. But little attention has been paid to how the rise in sea level — a much more subtle effect of climate change — may affect drinking water long term, and hence, public health, including fertility. Hopefully this study heralds more research — and more efforts to mitigate the fallout.


Hands clutched around a cupboard key.
Hands raised in anger, trembling.
Hands raised in triumph at the end of a race.
Hands stirring a pot of stew.
Hands raised in surrender after a long argument.
Hands washed in a kitchen sink.
Hands raised in greeting to a stranger on the porch.
Hands resting on a crocheted afghan.
Hands raised to throw a whiffle ball to a child.
Hands balled to fists behind a back.
Hands raised to shoot the last bullet from the last gun.
Hands folding a tea towel.
Hands raised to catch a tossed packet of biscuits.
Hands open, up, fingers wide.


My kids are required to put book covers on their school books, but I just can't bring myself to buy a $4 book sock! And–have you actually tried to handle a book covered with a book sock? It makes the book slippery and difficult to hold. Back when I was a teenager, we made our own covers. All we needed was a paper grocery sack and a little bit of tape. Anyone else remember making those?
So, if you're ready to get a little creative and have a little fun, I'll show you how to upcycle butcher paper, a paper bag, wrapping paper, or any paper into a unique book cover with my easy tutorial.
1 large paper grocery sack or butcher paper (I'll show you both ideas. My butcher paper came from a roll of drawing paper the kids use for coloring). You could easily do this with any paper. Tape together coloring book pages or drawings made by the kids until you have a large enough piece to cover the book.
Markers, paint, crayons, or colored pencils for decorating (permanent markers work well). Stickers would be fun, too!
This first method uses butcher paper. You'll find the paper bag book cover after this one.
Using any materials you would like, decorate your butcher paper. (You could even use wallpaper or wrapping paper so that you don't have to create your own design.) I created this one by drawing the design I've been doodling since I was in junior high! It looks kind of like wrapping paper, don't you think? Nope. It's just white butcher paper and markers.
Wrap the paper around the outside of the book, folding the edges inside the book.
Make sure your overlap is fairly even on both sides.
Fold the corners in like you are wrapping a gift.
Slit the bottom and top so that you can remove the overlap on the book spine.
Fold in the sides and tape them down.
Optional* Slide an extra piece of paper under the book cover.
Fold the edges of the book cover in to make the edges look more finished.
Not pictured (because the tape reflects funny off of the camera lens). Cover the entire piece of butcher paper with packing tape to create a protective, durable finish. *This step is optional. You can leave off the tape. The cover just won't last as long.
Because the colors show up better, I prefer the butcher paper book cover. Paper bag covers are completely free, however, and a little more durable. If you're not worried about color, I'd go for the paper bag.
This cover is created almost the same way as the other design.
Start by slitting open a large paper bag and removing the bottom of the bag.
Continue on with the same directions as above.
My original book cover was made from a recycled paper bag. It worked great, but Bear and I decided to make a new one because the vibrant colors she wanted didn't show up well on the brown bag.
You may notice that the inside of this book cover looks a little different. I put the extra paper over the folded edges instead of under (Step 6 in the picture).
So, what do you think? Will you give it a try? I'm a little biased, but I think the make-your-own book covers are so much more fun than the ones at the store! Have fun!
*This idea was originally posted in September of 212, but has been updated with new photos and ideas.
I did the paper bag version for all my books back in high school! Loved it cuz you can draw all over them. :-) Thanks for sharing at The Fun In Functional!
I used to draw all over mine, too, Jessi! That was half the fun! Thanks for popping by!
Perfect timing for back to school! Thanks for sharing this at Keep Calm and Link Up this week! Can't wait to see what you link up next Friday!
I really like the one covered with wrapping paper. You could also do that for ugly books that might not make it to the coffee table otherwise. Great idea!
Thanks! That's actually not wrapping paper. It's a drawing. Cool to know that it looks like real wrapping paper!
I thought it was wrapping paper too!! What a beautiful design!!
Thanks! I've been drawing that same doodle since I was a kid!
I remember making these for my books way back in high school. Ah, the memories. :-D Thanks so much for sharing on Tout It Tuesday. Hope to see you tomorrow.
What a great tutorial!! I remember always making mine from paper bags as a child or the school would get free ones from local businesses. Thank you for sharing at Sharing Saturday!!
We used to make these when I was a kid! Haven't seen them in so long. They work great and those ones at the store are not worth the price. Thanks for sharing at Gettin' Krafty this week!
Love this! I still remember covering our books with paper grocery bags and then doodling all over them.
I used to do the exact same thing, Barb! I remember even wanting to save a few at the end of the year. Memories!
Thanks for hosting, Jess. I always love your parties!
I remember doing this and vowed to have my kids do the same. Can't stand the book socks either. Love your pattern btw! Thank you for linking up to the Bloggers Brags Pinterest Party. I have pinned your post to the Bloggers Brags Pinterest board.
Thanks so much, Carie! My kids insisted on book socks last year, but we are back to paper this year. The socks are so slippery! Thanks for the pin.
You did such a great job with these book covers! Again, thanks for coming and linking up at The Weekend Social. All posts get pinned in our pinterest board! Please be sure to come back next week starting Thursdays at 9PM EST on culinaryflavors.gr ! I hope to see you there!
Thanks so much for stopping by and commenting, Katerina. I always love your party!
You're welcome, Debi and Charly! Thanks for popping by to leave a comment!
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Final Four decided for WSOP 2011 Heads-Up Championship
We're down to the last four in the World Series of Poker (WSOP) $25,000 Heads-Up Championship – and what a fantastic line-up it is with Eric Froehlich facing Yevgeniy Timoshenko and Gus Hansen taking on Jake Cody tonight at the Rio All-Suite Hotel & Casino in Las Vegas.
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American Froehlich is certainly expecting a hard ride in today's semi-finals after overcoming Russian Nikolay Evdakov as he believes "this might be the toughest field that ever got in the World Series of Poker in any event".
He reckons "it's been really fun" so far after having to overcome big-name pros throughout his run to the last four, saying he "started with Patrik Antonius, which is not easy", before then taking on Scott Clements, John Duthie, Steve Zolotow, and then Evdakov in the quarter-finals.
Froehlich – known as E-Fro – has been impressed with the line-up, adding that "every opponent I played is experienced – they've been around the poker world for a long time and they're all really strong players".
However, the 27-year-old – who is aiming for his third WSOP bracelet – believes that he's "ran good when I've needed to run good" during what have been long matches, although he has "been able to find a way" to win all five match-ups.
But the American "can't put into words how awesome it would be to win a third bracelet", although the humble pro added that he was "honestly just thrilled to be in the top four".
Froehlich continued by stating that he feels like he's "completely freerolling right now, even though the stakes are still so huge – and just getting bigger – and there's a bracelet on the line".
He is already "so happy" to have made the Final Four, but added that "the bracelet would mean more than words can possibly say".
Froehlich is very wary of Timoshenko, however, noting that, although he defeated "Yevgeniy in the first round of the 10K heads-up in the World Series event last year", he reckons the Ukrainian "is one of the absolute best players in the world – definitely top 10 on my list".
The semi-finalist also believes Timoshenko will "be an absolute struggle to beat" as the he reckons "he just plays phenomenal – the way he thinks about the game is fantastic".
There was just one round of play yesterday to cut the field in half from eight to four, with the cool Timoshenko – displaying fantastic reads and steady play – the first to win through after overcoming an early chip deficit to defeat Brookline's David Paredes.
On the button, Paredes minimum raised with the blinds at 10,000 and 20,000, while Timoshenko three-bet to 105,000. Paredes pushed the remainder of his chips in – about 540,000 – and Timoshenko snap-called. The Ukrainian showed Ah-10c to dominate Paredes' Ac-6d.
The flop came 7d-Jd-4d to give Paredes numerous outs, with any diamond or six winning the hand. However, the turn came 2h and, with the Qc on the river, it was Timoshenko who is guaranteed a minimum of $283,966 in the Final Four and Paredes was knocked out in eighth for $138,852.
The second player through to the semi-finals was Froehlich when he saw off the challenge of Evdakov in what was probably the most entertaining quarter-final of the day.
Neither player was afraid to push all their chips in, but – following a succession of huge pots and regular double-ups – it was the Virginia native who secured the last-four spot.
The winning hand saw Froehlich on the button, with 10,000/20,000 blinds, raise to 50,000, before Evdakov re-raised him to 150,000. Froehlich called and the flop came 6d-10h-2c. Evdakov bet 150,000 and Froehlich called.
The action went sky-high quickly when the turn provided the Qh. Froehlich checked and the Russian went all-in for 226,000. Froehlich snap-called to show Qc-6c and two pair, while Evdakov flipped over Ac-Qd for top pair and top kicker. Evdakov required an ace or 10 for victory, but the river showed 6h to give Froehlich a full house.
The action at the feature table was slightly more sedate as British player Jake Cody eventually wore down New Yorker Anthony Guetti.
It required a cooler to decide the winner, however. Rochdale's Cody made a small raise and Guetti quickly three-bet to make it 105,000. Cody went all-in and was swiftly called by Guetti, who showed 7h-7s – only to be faced with the Brit's 10d-10c.
They both stood up as Cody's supporters cheered loudly. The flop showed Jc-Ks-9s, meaning Guetti needed to hit a two-outer to stay in. No help was forthcoming on the turn as 3c showed, while the 6s on the river was also no good – resulting in a massive whoop of joy from Cody's fans.
Cody now faces Hansen in the semi-finals as both players – with numerous successes in Europe – aim to lift their first bracelet in Las Vegas.
However, most railbirds came to see Hansen employ a surprisingly methodical game to beat Toronto's Matt Marafioti.
The final hand saw a 10s-As-6h-Js board after Great Dane Hansen – winner of last year's WSOP-E £10,000 heads-up event – check-called a bet on the flop to place around 130,000 in the pot.
He then checked once more on the turn, before Marafioti – with 461,000 chips remaining – shoved all-in. Hansen was ahead with his Jd-6c making two pair, although Marafioti had numerous outs with his Qs-8h – needing a spade or king to stay in the game.
However, the river showed 4d to give Hansen the win, although Marafioti – who tapped the table in acknowledgement of the Dane's success – did leave with $138,852.
The semi-final winners will play a best-of-three heads-up clash.
Semi-final line-up:
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Jake Cody (UK) – 2,400,000 chips
2. Gus Hansen (Denmark) – 2,400,000
3. Eric Froehlich (USA) – 2,400,000
4. Yevgeniy Timoshenko (Ukraine) – 2,400,000
Places five to 16 with payouts:
5. Matt Marafioti (Canada) – $138,852
6. Anthony Guetti (USA) – $138,852
7. Nikolay Evdakov (Russia) – $138,852
8. David Paredes (USA) – $138,852
9. Tom Dwan (USA) – $67,436
10. Steve Billirakis (USA) – $67,436
11. John Duthie (UK) – $67,436
12. Olivier Busquet (USA) – $67,436
13. Richard Lyndaker (USA) – $67,436
14. Kunimaro Kojo (Japan) – $67,436
15. Mikhail Smirnov (Russia) – $67,436
16. Jonathan Jaffe (USA) – $67,436


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LESS USE OF 450 METRES.
Now that listening to broadcasting has become popular, the interests of the "listener-in" have become increasingly important, and here as in other parts of the world those who control the commercial use of wireless are taking as much care as is practical to see that wireless telegraphy does not interfere with broadcast reception more than can be helped. Much interference is at times experienced from the use of ship-transmitters operating on a wave-length of 450 metres, which is rather "close" to some of the broadcast wave-lengths, and arrangements have been made, and are nearly complete, providing that vessels shall not use this wave-length until they are 400 miles from any portion of the New Zealand coast line. This virtual removal of the 450-metre wave will prevent a great deal of annoyance now caused by the breaking in of Morse signals on broadcast reception.
A good many of the public are not aware that the P. and T. Department carries on its shipping station work upon what is known as an extended range, in addition to the sharp transmissions made in and around the coast of New Zealand. Vessels coming from Panama to New Zealand can be reached through the Chatham Islands station six nights before their arrival in New Zealand. This, however, involves a relay fee in addition to the usual coast station charge, but as soon as ships come within reliable working range of Wellington coastal station the relay fee for working through the Chathams is dispensed with and the ordinary, single charge is made. Messages are then transmitted direct by the Wellington radio station, although a vessel may be from 800 to 1000 miles distant. Wellington-San Francisco boats and vice versa are kept in direct communication, from and to Rarotonga. This means six nights out from New Zealand, and six nights before arrival here. There are sometimes exceptionally severe atmospheric conditions which prevent working at these extreme ranges, and on these occasions vessels are advised as within range as soon as they can be reliably worked. Such occasions are, however, very rare. Vessels on the intercolonial run are worked direct all the way to and from Australia from the Auckland, Wellington, and Awarua radio stations, and most of them are in communication during daylight as well as the dark hours.


Independent developer Poetic Studio has announced that it has successfully funded its Kickstarter campaign for Sacred Fire, its narrative-based, visually unique psychological RPG for PC, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.
Sacred Fire surpassed its initial funding target of $50,000 USD, and is set for release on PC in Spring 2018, and later for PlayStation 4 and Xbox One. Poetic Studio has revealed a number of new rewards and stretch goals for the remainder of its crowdfunding campaign, which is set to end on Thursday April 13th.
One of Sacred Fire's strengths is its unique visual style and focus on character creation. It's the deepest and most thought out design aspect of Sacred Fire, as it allows you to develop your own playstyle and create your own hero.
The design of Sacred Fire is oriented inwards, exploring the motives, emotions and conflicts of the protagonist. In key story choices, a voice over will breathe life to the inner monologues detailing a player's thoughts and motives.
This stretch goal ads partial voice-over for the 10 main story characters: the eight potential allies and the two powerful villains. This allows character defining moments to come alive and immerse players deeper into the story.
"Sacred Fire has been a labour of love for us at Poetic Studio and it has been humbling to see the response from the gaming community. With their support we are now able to deliver on our promise of a unique narrative-based RPG experience where, as we say, your heart hides all of the monsters," says Andrej Vojtas, Creative Director, Poetic Studios.


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There was no group of friends singing "Happy Birthday to you" for Alice Teetaert this year.
by Carol Rose GoldenEagle
Alice and Grandma social distancing
It's a significant year for Alice. She turned 10 years old on April 16th. The one and only time in any person's life when they welcome the change from single to double digits.
The year 2020 will always stick as a memory for Alice because there was no way to celebrate in the usual way. By having a birthday party. Her family had planned an afternoon of water-sliding, but those plans had to be cancelled because of the COVID-19 virus. But that doesn't mean Alice's day went by without festivity, her parents made sure of this.
The Teetaert family hosted something unique. A drive-by birthday party.
Alice's Mom Kristin explains the concept. "The idea of a drive-by birthday party was appealing. It is a pretty simple idea. It allowed for people to greet her from their vehicle or visit on the driveway and still maintain social distancing. We set up a table for people to set cards or gifts on and set out cupcakes so "guests" could take a cupcake if they wanted to."
Kristin says it was important for Alice to actually "see" her friends in person because it had been exactly one month since the last day of school, and that video chatting with them is not the same.
All in all, 20 friends stopped by. Some held signs out of their car windows. Others drove by with decorated vehicles to mark the occasion. It was a surprise for Alice, who didn't realize what her parents had planned until 15 minutes before guests started arriving.
For the birthday girl, Alice says it was a special afternoon. "I have had some pretty fun and awesome birthday parties, but this was by far the best. It was so special to see everyone, and that made it the best."
The day was celebrated with flair, despite self-isolation as reality.
By the end of the afternoon Alice would be able to reminisce that she indeed did hear a very special Birthday Song this year.
It came from Mother Nature as the voices of hundreds of Canada Geese flew over her home and then landed on Last Mountain Lake. As Alice walked across the grass on the home-made stilts built by her Dad, she heard their song. As the geese sang - it marked not just a change in season. It also marked the day Alice turned 10 years old.
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Paneer Tikka Masala is a Popular North Indian Gravy, made with Marinated & Grilled Paneer. It tastes divine with Chapathi,Roti,Poori,Phulka's,Fried Rice & Jeera Rice.It is one of the classic gravy for Paneer lovers. I tried to grill tikka's on stove top.It came out well. Even if you don't have oven, you can easily char the Paneer & veggies on tawa.So I wanted to share with you.
Fresh cream - 1/4 cup + 1 tbsp .
butter + oil - 2 tbsp + 2 tsp.
Cut the Paneer into cubes as shown in the picture.
Deseed the tomato & Capsicum , cut into cubes.
Take a Mixing bowl Mix hung curd, Ginger Garlic Paste ,Chilli Powder,Garam Masala ,Coriander Powder,Cumin Powder,Kasthuri Methi,lemon juice,salt & oil .
.Add cubed Paneer,Onion, tomato & capsicum Mix well Gently. Let it sit aside for 1 hour or you can Refigerate it.
Now, heat the tawa, add 1 tsp of oil, arrange the Paneer & toast on both sides, till marination dries up & it turns Golden. it takes 2 - 3 minutes to cook, else if you cook for more time Paneer turns rubbery.
Now remove the Paneer, in same tawa, add the cubed veggies & cook till it is chared, as shown in the Picture. veggies should maintain its crispness.
Now heat the kadai, add Onions, Ginger garlic Paste,cashews. Saute till onions turns Golden brown colour.
Add tomatoes, add chilli powder,coriander powder,turmeric Powder, Garam Masala & salt. Saute till tomatoes turns Mushy.
Then grind everything into a smooth paste adding little water.keep aside.
Heat the kadai, add butter & oil, then add fennel seeds.when you get Good aroma of fennel seeds, add Ground paste, dilute it with needed water.
When water starts boiling add grilled Paneer & veggies. Then rub kasthoori methi against your palms & add it.Mix well.
Let it cook in a Medium low flame for 2 - 3 minutes, until the gravy thickens. Then add fresh cream,mix it.Let it cook for 1 minutes. Then finally Garnish with fresh cilantro.
if hung curd is sour, adjust the lemon juice according to tanginess.
I used Green capscium, you can use yellow,red or orange capsicum for nice colours.
Toast paneer seperately & veggies seperately for even cooking.
Don't over toast the Paneer, else it turns rubbery.
you can also use oven to toast veggies & paneer.
For low fat option, you can replace fresh cream with 1/4 cup of Milk ,if so cook for 2 minutes.
Great share Gayatri. Love your marination. This recipe is a tricky one for me. Will try ur version.
Perfect and delicious recipe. YUMMY!
Though we hardly use paneer here, we usually prefer tofu. The gravy for this dish is really so tempting. Feel like spooning all up and yumming.


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Mogoeng urges nations to instil Madiba type value system
Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng says the nation needs to inculcate a Madiba-type constitutional value system in order to deal with societal sicknesses of corruption, racism and gender-based violence.
In the prelude to the 17th edition of the Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture, Chief Justice Mogoeng Mogoeng had a discussion with the chairperson of the Nelson Mandela Foundation Prof Njabulo Ndebele.
This is ahead of the much-anticipated Nelson Mandela Annual Lecture that will take place in Soweto on Saturday.
Prof Ndebele spoke of the need to treat the Constitution as an activist document, which has the capacity to galvanize South Africans' collective energies. He gave an example of the country's Rugby World Cup wins dating back to 1995.
"I think that you can agree our perspective to the World Cup victory is very different. I think we have gone beyond let's give it a go. We are one country, we are one people, it may be emotional, it may be sentimental but it is something to work with. So what I am trying to say is that anything that can contribute to a collective sense of purpose will help us and the constitution is at the centre of it all because it is clear what each of us has to do," says Ndebele.
Chief Justice Mogoeng, who will be the keynote speaker at the Lecture, has called on South Africans to be more vocal against the wrong-doings of their leaders and officials. Mogoeng has spoken about the need to confront what he describes as the ailments of corruption, racism, tribalism and gender-based violence that afflict society.
"Each and every one of us has a responsibility to contribute towards the realisation of our shared aspirations because when you do you are killing the disease you killing that sickness a failure to do what we are supposed to do in line with the constitution and Madiba's vision gave birth to the challenges that we have today. We have to confront them so this mind your business approach explains where we are," says Mogoeng.
Mogoeng says the social ills that have plagued society are a result of men and women of goodwill turning a blind eye. Mogoeng has also defended the right of judges to speak about matters of social justice, which he does regularly. He argued that it is not only in the judgments of courts where the battle for economic and social rights must be fought.
"Our struggle, our constitution, our challenges are all about the need to secure justice for the people of South Africa and you can't talk justice and not talk about racism, you can't talk justice and not about the land, you can't talk justice and not talk about what Madiba referred to as either trade justice or economic justice and you can't be shallow. You have to dwell deep and identify the dynamics below that which you are articulating," says Mogoeng.
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Soweto festival celebrates people with disabilities
22 November 2019, 7:59 PM
A concert to recognise people with disabilities takes place at the Soweto Theatre in Johannesburg on Friday evening.
Among the artists to perform at the "We Can Arts Festival" are musical legends Steve Kekana and Babsy Mlangeni.
The event comes as South Africa and the world will observe International Day for People with Disabilities on the 3rd of December.
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SAA to resume operations after wage deal
Operations at South African Airways (SAA) will return to normal from Friday evening – with salaries being paid as scheduled later this month. SAA had earlier warned it might not be able to pay salaries amid the wage strike.
The CCMA, Unions and SAA have all confirmed that the wage dispute has ended. The CCMA – who mediated the tough wage talks has praised the parties for remaining in the mediation process.
The National Union of Metal workers (NUMSA) and the Cabin Crew Association (SACCA) ended their week-long strike after signing an eight percent wage deal with SAA management.
Workers will get a 5.9% increase and a further 2.1% when the airline returns to profitability. Amongst other things, SAA has also postponed the planned retrenchments of 900 staff.
NUMSA's Phakamile Hlubi-Majola addressing union members outside the SAA buildings in Kempton Park, east of Johannesburg, says "We engaged in two days of marathon negotiations in order to draft an agreement which is satisfactory to both parties. We consulted our members and they have given us a mandate to sign the proposal and we are calling off the strike action at SAA and SAAT with immediate effect. Our strike was never just about wages . At the centre of our demands was to secure changes which could result in the long term sustainability and assist it to get back to the path of profitability."
SAA has also committed to paying salaries for the month of November to its staff, and thereafter. SAA had earlier warned it might not be able to pay salaries amid the wage strike.
"Salaries will be paid in November, salaries will be paid in December, government has committed to that. So the first big amount is being paid now for operational purposes and salaries and government has committed to another payment in January and that's going to pay for your 5.9%."
SAA says it will restore a full flight schedule in stages over the weekend. The airline says it will start operating a "near normal service" from Saturday.
This after the airline cancelled most of its flight at the high of the strike and only resumed flight based on capacity. -Reporting by Mbalenhle Mthethwa and Amina Accram
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ANC commends Hawks for toilet tender arrests
The ANC in the Amathole region in the Eastern Cape has welcomed the arrest of 10 suspects linked to the Siyenza toilet scandal.
They were arrested for allegedly colluding to access funds in the Amathole district municipality by flouting procurement procedures.
Nine of the suspects have been granted bail of R40 000 each and one accused was granted bail of R10 000.
They face charges of fraud, corruption and money laundering amounting to more than R600 million awarded to the Siyenza Group to build toilets across the province. It was discovered that over R200-million was paid by the time the project was put on hold.
The accused include former Amathole district municipality manager, Chris Mangqangwana, former CFO, Mpumelelo Shezi and Siyenza group director, Bongani Mpeluza.
NPA spokesperson Luxolo Tyhali says bail was not opposed and the case was postponed to the 5th of February next year.
ANC Amathole regional secretary Thembalethu "Terris" Ntuthu says the law should take its course.
"We really appreciate the work done by the law enforcement agencies in this case. The Hawks for arresting those who are alleged to be involved in wrong doing in the Amathole District Municipality toilet tender. We have no other option as the ruling party but to just accept and appreciate the actions so we don't see anything wrong done by the law enforcement agencies."
Thulsie twins pre-trail expected to come to an end
22 November 2019, 7:52 AM
Pre-trial proceedings in the case of terror accused twins Brandon-Lee and Tony-Lee Thulsie are expected to wrap up at the High Court in Johannesburg on Friday.
This after the Court ordered the State to ensure that all outstanding documents are handed over to the accused's counsel by November 22, 2019, so they can prepare for trial.
The twins were arrested in July 2016 for allegedly plotting a series of attacks on Jewish targets and the US Embassy in the country.
They were charged with conspiracy and incitement to commit terror-related crimes and their pre-trial has seen a number of delays over the last three years.
The twins' attorney Annelene van den Heever accused the state of using delaying tactics to delay the trial.
However, the state disputed the accusation arguing that it was due to technical difficulties that it has not managed to hand over all the outstanding documents.
A trial date is expected to be set on Friday.
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