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NZ dollar retreats as Spanish optimism fades, US stocks fall 12 Jun 2012
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The New Zealand dollar fell more than half a US cent as optimism over Spain's 100 billion euro lifeline faded after questions were raised about who is going to pay for the bailout, sapping investor confidence and pushing stocks on Wall Street lower.
The kiwi fell to 76.87 US cents at 8am from 77.65 cents yesterday at 5pm. The trade weighted index declined to 70.15 from 70.48.
Stocks on Wall Street fell as investors reassessed the plan to bailout Spain's banking system, with the Standard & Poor's 500 index dropping 1.3 percent to 1308.93. European policymakers are yet to clarify whether the loan granted to shore up Spain's banks will come from the region’s permanent support fund, the European Stability Mechanism or its temporary European Financial Stability Fund.
"Overnight we have seen various calls from Germany and Finland that the money should come from the European Stability Mechanism," said Stuart Ive, currency strategists at HiFX. "The New Zealand dollar is taking its lead from overseas and it means we are seeing a risk-off scenario - at the moment the kiwi has the potential to go as low as 76.20 US cents and there will be more risk towards the end of the week with the Greek elections."
Spain’s rescue comes a week before Greece’s second round of elections on June 17. The result will be closely watched by markets in the event voters deiced to elect a government that decides to leave the region’s shared currency.
The package has also moved Italy into the front line on concern it may be next to succumb to the debt crisis. The yield on Italian 10-year government bonds rose 27 basis points to 6.04 percent, the biggest daily rise since Dec. 8, according to Bloomberg.
Germany, the Netherlands, Austria and Italy will all sell government bonds this week. The Netherlands will sell up to 2.5 billion euros of 2033 bonds on Tuesday, while Germany is set to offer 5 billion euros of 2022 bonds on Wednesday.
New Zealand's accommodation survey for April and electronic card transactions for May are scheduled for release by Statistics New Zealand this morning.
The New Zealand dollar was little changed at 77.87 Australian cents from 77.81 yesterday. The kiwi rose to 61.56 euro cents from 61.45 cents and dropped to 49.64 British pence from 49.90 pence. It sank to 61.04 yen from 61.83 yen.
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In a new campaign to stem the spread of AIDS, China's Health Ministry is urging the promotion of free condoms, prevention education and needle exchanges, moves previously considered taboo by China's leadership, the Associated Press reported. The proposals call for local governments to tailor the measures to high-risk groups, in some instances combining methadone treatment with needle exchanges to promote safe behavior among drug users, a group virtually overlooked in the past. China says 840,000 Mainlanders are infected with HIV and 80,000 have the full-blown disease, a number that health experts believe is much lower than actual. The experts warn that China could have 10m infected by 2010 unless stronger measures are taken.
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Exhibition: 02 April 2014 - 02 May 2014
Opening reception: 2 April 2014 17:30
The annual exhibition of images created by Regent’s University London students participating in photographic courses and the University's Darkroom Club.
The work encompasses both film-based and digital photography, and includes studio, documentary and photojournalist practice.
Opening reception: 2 April 17:30pm. Come and enjoy a glass of wine, meet the photographers and discover who will be the recipient of the Dean’s Prize this year.
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This delectable Chocolate-Cherry Pudding Cake is a low-fat vegetarian recipe that will have your family and friends begging for seconds. The combination of cocoa, cherries and pecans is so irresistibly delicious that they won’t be able to get enough. The pudding-like texture makes it the perfect comfort food after dinner or as an afternoon snack.
For 14 people
- 1 3/4 cups - All-purpose flour
- 1 1/4 cups - Granulated sugar
- 1/3 cup - Unsweetened cocoa
- 3 Tbsp. - Baking powder
- 3/4 cup - Skim milk
- 1/2 cup - Unsweetened applesauce
- 1 cup - Fresh or frozen sweet cherries, thawed and pitted
- 1/4 cup - Chopped pecans
- 1 1/4 packed - Dark brown sugar
- 3 cups - Hot water
- 1/4 cup - Unsweetened cocoa
- In a large bowl, combine the flour, granulated sugar, 1/3 cup cocoa, and baking powder.
- Stir in the milk and applesauce until the dry ingredients are moistened.
- Fold in the cherries and pecans, then spoon the batter into a greased and floured 13x9-inch baking pan.
- In a medium bowl, combine the brown sugar, hot water, and 1/4 cup cocoa, stirring until smooth.
- Pour the brown sugar mixture over the batter in the pan.
- Bake at 350°F for 35 to 40 minutes, or until set.
- The cake will have a pudding-like texture.
- Serve warm or at room temperature.
This delicious Chocolate-Cherry Pudding Cake is an easy-to-make dessert that is sure to become a family favorite. With its rich flavors and nutritiously sound ingredients, this cake is sure to be a hit at your next gathering. Enjoy it warm or at room temperature with a cold glass of milk — and don’t forget to save some for leftovers!

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Wymondham couple launch Norfolk gift box to celebrate the best of home-grown produce
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Norfolk Lavender, gourmet crisps and chutney are among the home-grown goods featuring in a new gift box celebrating the best of the county's produce.
Joanna Bell from Wymondham came up with the idea for Norfolk Gift Box after moving back from Sydney with her partner Rob Doughty.
Miss Bell, 38, has invested about £1,500 into marketing and stock.
'We both loved the area and wanted to support local businesses,' she said.
'It gives me the chance to work from home as well, as I am pregnant with our second child.'
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Our planet has been rocked by many-a-meteorite, and they’ve left not just themselves as space debris but also craters and even molecules needed for life. Now we’ve started to travel to them, and they might be a key part of our forays into deep space. In this episode of #Untold, a new #YouTubeLearning series from ACS, PBS, and YouTube, we’re talking about #meteors and asteroids, and why they should matter to those of us living down here on earth.
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The big gap in this blog is due to our going away for a weekend at a country house! Sister-in-law Edith had invited all the family and lots of friends to celebrate in style. She had hired "The Dower House", one of 6 houses in the grounds of Knowlton Court which is a large country house where they do wedding receptions, situated between Dover & Canterbury. Whilst it was not luxurious it was a lovely house, extremely comfortable and a good time was had by all.
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Senate Intelligence chairman Richard Burr faces intense pressure from Republicans to drop his subpoena of President Donald Trump’s eldest son and quickly wrap up the Senate Intelligence Committee’s Russia probe. Politico reports that despite a day facing attacks from the highest rungs of party...
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In another edition of "my console is more powerful than yours", we've been informed that Bethesda's Fallout 3
looks graphically superior on the Xbox 360 when compared to the Playstation 3. Or so says Playstation 3 magazine (PSM3).
You read correctly,
the UK's official
Playstation magazine PSM3 received some hands-on time with Fallout 3
and, as part of their game review, mentioned that "the PS3 version compares poorly to its Xbox  and PC counterparts." How very honest and un-fanboyish of them. But after their pro-360 words caused a stir within' the Playstation community, the PSM3 staff tried to calm Playstation fanboys by "clarifying" their Fallout 3
remarks. "The PS3 version looks the same as on Xbox, but things in the distance are slightly jaggier/rougher, the textures seem 'muddier' up-close and the frame rate is choppier, especially during the last few story missions." Nice attempt at saving face.

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KINGSBOROUGH COMMUNITY COLLEGE JOINS DENIM DAY NYC TO RAISE AWARENESS OF SEXUAL ASSAULT AND SEXUAL VIOLENCE
Wear Denim on April 29 to Raise Awareness of Sexual Assault and Sexual Violence
On Wednesday, April 29, Kingsborough and the extended college community will participate in DENIM DAY NYC to raise awareness of sexual assault and sexual violence. I am proud that our college is a registered participant, and I encourage our faculty, staff, and students to join me in showing our solidarity with, and helping to empower survivors of sexual assault and sexual violence by wearing denim next Wednesday.
DENIM DAY NYC@KINGSBOROUGH, jointly organized by the Women’s Center and the Public Safety Department, is in recognition of Sexual Violence Awareness Month. On April 29, Public Safety will also kick off a three-week “DONATE YOUR DENIM” campaign in the Breezeway. The campaign will run from April 29 to May 22. “DONATE YOUR DENIM” bins will also be located inside the Office of Public Safety, L202. Separately, donations for the ongoing Women’s Center Toiletry Drive, which runs through May 28, can be placed in bins outside M382, C123, and A216.
DENIM DAY grew out of a 1998 Italian Supreme Court decision that overturned a rape conviction because the victim wore tight jeans. The judges reasoned the victim’s tight jeans meant that she had to have helped her assailant remove them, implying consent. The following day, the women in the Italian Parliament came to work wearing jeans in solidarity with the victim. People all over the world were outraged, and wearing jeans became an international symbol of protest against erroneous and destructive attitudes and myths about sexual assault.
In 1999, Peace Over Violence, a Los Angeles-based nonprofit, organized the country’s first DENIM DAY event, which now takes place on a Wednesday in April during Sexual Assault Awareness Month. Since then, DENIM DAY has grown into a global movement; in 2014, more than 10 million people participated in events worldwide. Here are some sobering national facts: 1 in 5 women (18.3%) in the United States have been raped at some time in their lives 1 in 71 men (1.4%) in the United States have been raped at some time in their lives Nearly 1 in 2 women (44.6%) experienced sexual violence victimization other than rape at some point in their lives 1 in 5 men (22.2%) experienced sexual violence victimization other than rape at some point in their lives
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The International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) is a federation of national associations of certified radio amateurs, representing over 150 countries and separate territories around the world.
The three IARU Regions are organised to broadly mirror the structure of the International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and its related regional telecommunications organisations. The Regions comprise:
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Hotel La Vela has 13 bright and comfortable rooms equipped with TV, minibar, wireless internet and air conditioning.The hotel is in a quiet location surrounded by pine trees. From the large terrace situated in the back garden, you may relax looking at the beautiful sea views while lying on deck chairs . Because of its central location it is in walking distance from both the village centre and beach.
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8/10/22 “Lunge Feeding, Risso’s, & a Mighty Blue Whale”
Our Monday morning whale watch trip was a great success. The weather was nicer than expected as we embarked on our journey, and we quickly found Risso’s Dolphins a mile or two out of the harbor. The short stints of travel between sightings remained the trend for the rest of the trip.
Humpback whales were all around our end of the bay with lots of sea lions and birds in the mix. While no doubt the anchovy were being slain by the thousands we saw no surface lunges, but the whales fluked up consistently to the oohing and aahing of our passengers. We beat the weather in and ended our trip with a sea shanty and high spirits.

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Rating: Catch it or you’ll regret it! Go!
First, I have to confess I almost passed on this gem of a movie, Rainbow Sunset, because I’m biased for a couple of reasons… the homosexual theme which I wrongly thought will be tackled like it has always been tackled and the cast which again my poor judgment led me into assuming that the senior stars and the other stars do not have what it takes to put together a well-made MMFF movie. I’m wrong on both counts. It was not in my watch list until its big win. I watched TGiOD and was pleased with it despite being winless at the awards night. There was supposed to be a second movie, MMM, which I hesitatingly switched for RS, concerned that Ate K being of the younger generation may prefer the former from the latter. I’m thankful for that last minute change which would also be the last chance for me to see a 2018 MMFF entry. I guess that Ate K was pleased with that decision too even if we have to do with lack of sleep again watching the LFS preceding the first day of work for me for the new year. Now that I have put that out, I have to tell you why this movie is worth the accolades it is getting contrary to some reviews. For one, I was fully awake in the entirety of the movie considering I had a few hours of sleep coming from the holiday.
The movie has been criticized for its many subplots with the characters given some airtime for their stories. Except for one hanging issue on the son’s and son-in-law’s under the table deal, everything is accounted for within the two-hour frame. Yet these little stories provide the conflicts to put texture in this interesting twist of a LGBT movie that will tie up the main plot. The back stories weave the past to the present to make viewers understand why things are what they are. The use of color pop effect (splash of color on some parts of the frame with the rest in black and white) in these flashbacks is a nice touch.
Rating: What are you waiting for… Go watch it!
I get easily carried away with hypes on things. Am I a sucker…. yes, I am, yes, I am I have an almost childlike innocence when it comes to my movie-viewing habits and I readily accept the judgment of others…. questioning only after I render my own verdict after watching a movie. It happened before….. a lot of times actually
I was reserving this movie for a better time…. when there are extra funds or more ideal time or a generous soul who might treat me to a movie date. When work got suspended last Thursday, I actually considered watching a movie. My choice was a toss-up between the LLoydie-Sarah starrer I Finally Found Someone and Kita Kita. To be honest, I was leaning on watching the the more popular over the obscure first even if I intended to watch both. It was not the ultimate choice eventually as I opted to just get a much-needed massage at home. I said the movie can wait.
Until the sucker in me emerged after hearing and reading so much hype about the obscure film in the next two days. My usual movie companion, MD, wasn’t home. ED already watched the movie with MD actually. How could they have squeezed in a movie date with their skeds. I invited K, my trusted helper, to watch the movie with me in the evening. We set off after dinner.
Rating: Must watch
On the last day of the long holiday, we watched this year’s MMFF Best Picture winner, Sunday’s Beauty Queen. I’m glad to see the movie gaining more audience after its win.
The first three movies we watched, Saving Sally, ABSST FINE and even Die Beautiful had very low patronage rates. Maybe because we watched the LFS. It’s regrettable how we fail to appreciate artistic work and would rather get our fill from tried and tested formulas with shallow and predictable plots. The entrepreneurs in the movie industry might use these outcomes to go back to its old ways..I’m crossing my fingers and pouting.
Going back…SBQ deserves the nod it got from the Board of Jurors. The four-year in the making documentary was meticulously edited to showcase equally the lives of the five subjects. This is the kind of movie to see on a day off when one wants entertainment and just the right drama. It focuses on that one day off, their Sunday, when the subjects become queens and they forget all their troubles and the weariness of being a domestic helper in HK. It isn’t emotionally taxing and not your tear jerker of an OFW movie like Vilma Santos’s Anak. It’s not a conflict-filled movie. Yet, one feels for the characters when they shed real tears for the conscious disengagement from their emotions about what is missed back home…. their children, family and the important milestones. The movie is not about the important persons in their lives. References are made just to help the movie goers understand their situations and priorities.
Finally got started with a feel good, visually orgasmic novelty of a film for this year’s MMFF. How I managed to squeeze in a movie date on a work day with my hard-nosed son is an interesting back story in itself. Suffice it to say that I made a good pitch by nicely asking him to accompany me to an animated and 2D film in English. The popcorn bribe worked well in quelling the brewing dissent. So we got to watch the LFS of a movie that took 12 years of painstaking work, no… make that artistry… to finish. It is worth the wait and every cent I paid for the tickets and the
It is a typical love story with all the pain of unrequited love and the protracted pleasure of enduring love winning over all obstacles. With the protagonists drawn against the animated backdrop of what is obviously a stylized Metro Manila, moviegoers are not only engaged in the unfolding love story and its many twists but are constantly examining the celluloid for those bits and pieces of symbolism in the animation that give away the moods and feelings of the main protagonists. The few characters appearing in this film make for a good balance of simplicity in the story and relatability in their roles. The movie is in English, yet it is not the annoying sounding coño (conyo)-accented, shrill way delivery of some Filipinos. It’s spoken the way a Filipino speaks English naturally which is unslang and not irritating. All characters delivered their English dialogues in sync with their roles.
Rating: Blown away
I treated myself to a movie alone one cool evening in late January. A record for me as I have not watched a movie alone all this time. Not that it’s a big deal….but company is usually around and I always thought it’s fun to watch a movie with someone…Before watching this movie, I tried several times to find company but time and circumstance won’t allow me to have one. So I had to do what I got to do ….. and I’m glad I did…. coz I got to take it all in. It helped that I watched the movie on its last week’s run and we, a handful of movie goers, practically had the theater to ourselves. With this feat, I ought to do more little and big things on my own. My mind is on scrolling mode…
One more self-record is I didn’t blink once, afraid I might miss out on something good, bad or ugly. I had a bad right ear watching this movie and I can’t quite hear well on my right ear. So watching a musical only half-hearing the song and dance routines was a huge handicap. I had to keep both eyes open throughout the film. It didn’t take much effort, really. The movie was visually captivating from beginning to end. I cannot even afford to look at my drink as I grope for it on my seat’s cup holder… or maybe the other seat’s 🙂
Going back to the subject, it is almost a dream come true that I watched this endearing… this darling of a movie. I say that without exaggeration. It should easily make it to my all-time favorites. No movie has made me feel this good in a long time… I am reminded of Heaven Can Wait (1978), Somewhere in Time (1980), Steel Magnolias (1989), Driving Miss Daisy (1990), Pretty Woman (1990), As Good as it Gets (1997), Sweet Home Alabama (2002), The Notebook (2004). Yes, it’s that long… La La Land has the same elements as these movies. I can watch it over and over again and still get the same laugh, affection, tears each time I do. Put it on and I’ll lose myself in it anytime of the day. I bet my bottom dollars you will too. You won’t regret streaming these at Netflix or catching it on cable TV.
Sebastian unloading his obsession to Mia who doesn’t like Jazz
As of this posting, La La Land is on a roll as it continues to make good in every conceivable major awards bodies. Consider:
- La La Land Breaks Golden Globe Records
- La La Land Sweeps Critics’ Choice Awards
- SAG Awards 2017: Emma Stone wins Best Actress for La La Land
- La La Land wins big at BAFTAs
- La La Land ties all-time record for Oscar nominations set by “Titanic” and “All About Eve ” with 14 nominations
- How has La La Land fared so far?
What are our usual transport problems?
- High fuel cost
- Maintenance cost
- Cramped, unsafe public transportation
- Hassles of driving
The list goes on.
So when I tried my first Uber ride early last year courtesy of a friend who hailed the ride from Ortigas to my home, I was immediately smitten. I couldn’t stop thinking about it, read about it and soon had the Uber app in my phone. All the transport problems I hate dealing with are wiped out. It became my preferred mode of transpo when I need to go somewhere that is not easily accessible. I seldom ride taxis because I don’t feel safe. Uber is just the right vehicle for me because it is cost-efficient, reliable and safe compared to riding ordinary taxis.
This is a long-awaited post. I have been meaning to write on this to reach out to more people to hype more about this relatively new service that came to fruition in the last few months of the past administration. I may be wrong as the routes Makati to Trinoma/SM North Ave and vice versa and Makati to SM Megamall and vice versa have been in existence before the Alabang to Makati and vice versa route was launched on 26 April 2016. I’ve been a regular rider since I first tried it in its first week of operation and I can’t stop ditching my old transport mode of the UV Express which plies my village to Makati route. It used to be the safer and convenient alternative as its waiting area is inside the village and it brings me right in front of my office. There is a terminal in Makati Park Square for UV Express vans when going home.
Yes, that’s right. We should rave about this premium bus service for living up to its name… premium, point-to-point. Let’s look at what the buzz is all about…


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NEW DELHI: The Directorate General of Civil Aviation (DGCA) has launched a probe into AirAsia India after a pilot levelled allegations of safety breaches by the airline on social media.
The pilot, who airline officials say has been suspended pending inquiry into disciplinary charges, had levelled charges in a video that went viral on Monday.
Taking cognisance of that, the DGCA tweeted: “DGCA has taken note of the concerns raised by some stakeholders against a particular airline and its approach to safety. DGCA has already started an investigation into the issues flagged and shall take appropriate action based on the outcome of the said investigation.”
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Comments from AirAsia India were sought and awaited till the time of going to press.


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Eric Reid thinks NFL is out to get him with multiple drug tests, ejection on Thursday night
The Panthers safety says he's been drug tested a bunch and unfairly ejected
Panthers safety Eric Reid does not shy away from public attention. The Panthers safety, for the first quarter of the season, is claiming he's unsigned because teams colluded against him after he joined Colin Kaepernick in protesting during the national anthem.
After the game, Reid drew headlines for claiming that he has been drug tested five times -- five times! -- since he signed with the Panthers.
"This is like the fifth time since I've been here," Reid said. "They're not going to catch me on anything."
Reid signed with Carolina in late September and Thursday night was his sixth game with the team, meaning he's getting tested after roughly 80 percent of the games he's played in.
Worth noting here: Reid said "like the fifth time," so maybe it's just four? Either way, it seems as if he's been tested plenty by the league following Panthers games.
The league, for its part, pointed out that Reid being tested is not abnormal nor is it a targeted approach. Brian McCarthy of the league office tweeted that there's a computer program randomly selecting 10 players per team after each game.
Of course, it's likely that Reid didn't know that, since he also didn't know he could be ejected from an NFL game. Although considering how the ejection happened -- Reid was flagged by the refs for the hit on Roethlisberger, then they huddled up and heard from the league office, which decided to eject Reid -- maybe he was simply pointing out that he felt unfairly targeted by the league.
Ron Rivera did not agree with the call and Reid probably didn't either.
Plenty of people disagreed with that stance though, and thought an ejection was indeed possible/likely/warranted.
Maybe a different player gets a little bit of leeway on this -- even if you think the call was ejection-worthy, I guess it's possible the league doesn't make the call if the player involved isn't suing the league.
It's an unprovable situation for Reid, but you can bet he definitely believes the league is out to get him.
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The anticipation is already development to a brand new 12 months of Girls’s WorldTour racing with the Santos Girls’s Excursion Down Underneath saying a deeper box of most sensible tier groups in addition to a gaggle of headline riders for 2024 that features a trio of former winners.
The riders that will likely be on the place to begin of the January 12 to fourteen race come with protecting champion Grace Brown (FDJ-Suez) and 2020 winner Ruth Edwards (nee Winder), with the rider from the US finishing her two season retirement as she returns to the pro peloton on the Australian race with Human Powered Well being. Then there may be 2017 to 2019 winner Amanda Spratt (Lidl-Trek) who completes the crowd of former winners that supply plentiful gas for a gripping ultimate showdown on Willunga Hill.
“It’s at all times thrilling to start out a brand new season on the Santos Excursion Down Underneath and in 2024, there’s a bit extra to stay up for with the addition of Willunga Hill to the ladies’s WorldTour race for the primary time,” Spratt stated. “I will’t deny that I’ve my eyes set on a just right efficiency there, it’s a large objective of mine.
“General, I’ve nice recollections of this race having gained it 3 times and I’m keen to take a look at to duplicate that luck this time. I used to be shut closing 12 months, agonisingly shut you want to say, so I’m actually motivated to come back again to race for the victory in all places once more,” stated Spratt, who completed in 2d position total in 2023, simply ten seconds at the back of Brown.
Australian champion Brodie Chapman, Spratt’s teammate, can also be at the get started listing along South Australian native Tiffany Cromwell (Canyon-SRAM) at the side of Audrey Cordon-Ragot, Lily Williams and Megan Jastrab of Human Powered Well being.
The race – which was once cancelled because of the COVID-19 pandemic in 2021 and 2022 after which returned to the calendar with Girls’s WorldTour standing in 2023 – additionally seems to be set to ship a deeper box in 2024.
There have been six of the 15 Girls’s WorldTeams on the race in 2023, with attendance no longer mandated for the ladies’s most sensible tier squads. On the other hand, this time 8 most sensible tier groups have already been showed together with Girls’s Excursion Down Underneath learners Canyon-SRAM, Jumbo-Visma, dsm-firmenich and UAE Crew ADQ. They are going to face up in opposition to a returning FDJ-Suez and Lidl-Trek, in addition to Human Powered Well being and, in fact, Australian staff Liv-AlUla-Jayco.
“We’re delighted to announce that such a lot of UCI Girls’s WorldTour groups have thus far made the dedication to shuttle to Adelaide in January and compete on the Santos Excursion Down Underneath,” race director Stuart O’Grady stated. “To have such a lot of world-class riders is a testomony to our tournament and the continuing enlargement and recognition of ladies’s biking.”
The 3-stage ladies’s race will get started with a sprinters level from Hahndorf to Campbelltown on Friday January 12, shifting right into a difficult weekend with an afternoon for the all-rounders on Saturday and the Willunga finale for the climbers on Sunday January 14. The males’s WorldTour race then runs from Tuesday January 16 to Sunday January 21.


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and that they would not persuade themselves al because he is observed to be louder than ordinar man is really and truly a free-thinker, in any tole-every time the ghost of Hamlet appears. Other rable sense, merely by virtue of his being an athe- have reported, that it is a dumb man, who ha ist, or an infidel of any other distinction. It may be chosen this way of uttering himself when he doubted with good reason, whether there ever transported with any thing he sees or hears. Other was in nature a more abject, slavish, and bigotted will have it to be the playhouse thunderer, that generation, than the tribe of beaux esprits at pre-exerts himself after this manner in the upper-gal sent so prevailing in this island. Their pretension|lery, when he has nothing to do upon the roof. to be free-thinkers, is no other than rakes have to But having made it my business to get the best be free-livers, and savages to be free-men; that is, information I could in a matter of this moment, they can think whatever they have a mind to, and I find that the trunk-maker, as he is commonly give themselves up to whatever conceit the extra-called, is a large black man, whom nobody knows vagancy of their inclination, or their fancy, shall He generally leans forward on a huge oaken plant suggest; they can think as wildly as they talk and with great attention to every thing that passes act, and will not endure that their wit should be upon the stage. He is never seen to smile; but controlled by such formal things as decency and upon hearing any thing that pleases him, he takes common sense. Deduction, coherence, consis-up his staff with both hands, and lays it upon the tency, and all the rules of reason they accordingly next piece of timber that stands in his way with disdain, as too precise and mechanical for men of exceeding vehemence: after which he composes a liberal education. himself in his former posture, till such time as
This, as far as I could ever learn from their something new sets him again at work. writings, or my own observation, is a true account It has been observed, his blow is so well timed, of the British free-thinker. Our visitant here, who that the most judicious critic could never except gave occasion to this paper, has brought with him against it. As soon as any shining thought is ex a new system of common sense, the particulars of pressed in the poet, or any uncommon grace ap which I am not yet acquainted with, but will lose pears in the actor, he smites the bench or wai no opportunity of informing myself whether it scot. If the audience does not concur with him, contain any thing worth Mr. Spectator's notice. he smites a second time, and if the audience is not In the mean time, sir, I cannot but think it would yet awakened, looks round him with great wrath, be for the good of mankind, if you would take and repeats the blow a third time, which never this subject into your consideration, and convince fails to produce the clap. He sometimes lets the the hopeful youth of our nation, that licentiousness audience begin the clap of themselves, and at the is not freedom; or, if such a paradox will not be conclusion of their applause ratifies it with a single understood, that a prejudice towards atheism is thwack. not impartiality. 'I am, SIR,
Your most humble servant,
He is of so great use to the playhouse, that it is said a former director of it, upon his not being able to pay his attendance by reason of sickness, kept one in pay to officiate for him until such time as he recovered; but the person so employed, though he laid about him with incredible violence.
N° 235. THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 1711. did it in such wrong places, that the audience soor
HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 81.
found out that it was not their old friend the trunk maker.
It has been remarked, that he has not yet ex erted himself with vigour this season. He some times plies at the opera; and upon Nicolini's first appearance, was said to have demolished three benches in the fury of his applause. He has broken THERE is nothing which lies more within the pro- half a dozen oaken plants upon Dogget, and sel vince of a Spectator than public shows and diver- dom goes away from a tragedy of Shakspeare, with sions; and as among these there are none which out leaving the wainscot extremely shattered. can pretend to vie with those elegant entertain- The players do not only connive at his obstrepe ments that are exhibited in our theatres, I think it rous approbation, but very cheerfully repair a particularly incumbent on me to take notice of their own cost whatever damages he makes. They every thing that is remarkable in such numerous had once a thought of erecting a kind of wooden anvil for his use, that should be made of a very
and refined assemblies.
It is observed, that of late years there has been sounding plank, in order to render his strokes more a certain person in the upper-gallery of the play-deep and mellow; but as this might not have bee house, who when he is pleased with any thing that distinguished from the music of a kettle-drum, the is acted upon the stage, expresses his approbation project was laid aside.
by a loud knock upon the benches or the wainscot, In the meanwhile, I cannot but take notice of which may be heard over the whole theatre. The the great use it is to an audience, that a person person is commonly known by the name of the should thus preside over their heads like the di Trunk-maker in the Upper-gallery.' Whether it rector of a concert, in order to awaken their at be that the blow he gives on these occasions re- tention, and beat time to their applauses; sembles that which is often heard in the shops of raise my simile, I have sometimes fancied the such artisans, or that he was supposed to have been trunk-maker in the upper-gallery to be like Vir a real trunk-maker, who after the finishing of his gil's ruler of the winds, seated upon the top of day's work used to unbend his mind at these pub-mountain, who when he struck his sceptre upon the lic diversions with his hammer in his hand, I can
not certainly tell. There are some, I know, who *An admirable comic actor, many years joint-manager of the have been foolish enough to imagine it is a spirit play-house with Wilkes and Cibber; and known to the prese which haunts the upper-gallery, and from time to day, by the annual coat and badge, which he bequeathed time makes those strange noises; and the rather, prize to be rowed for by young watermen of the river Thames.
on the first of August.
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to be louder time side of it, roused an hurricane, and set the whole conjugal friendship); but no one, I believe, is by Hamlet appean cavern in an uproar.* his own natural complexion prompted to tease and It is certain, the trunk-maker has saved many a torment another for no reason but being nearly ering himself vier good play, and brought many a graceful actor into allied to him. And can there be any thing more gbe seserien a reputation, who would not otherwise have been base, or serve to sink a man so much below his layhouse thunder taken notice of. It is very visible, as the audience own distinguishing characteristic (I mean reason), manner in the is not a little abashed, if they find themselves be- than returning evil for good in so open a manner, g to do uportrayed into a clap, when their friend in the upper- as that of treating an helpless creature with uny business toge gallery does not come into it; so the actors do not kindness, who has had so good an opinion of him matter of the value themselves upon the clap, but regard it as a as to believe what he said relating to one of the aker, as he is mere brutum fulmen, or empty noise, when it has greatest concerns of life, by delivering her happian, whom monot the sound of the oaken plant in it. I know it ness in this world to his care and protection? Must rd on a bage has been given out by those who are enemies to the not that man be abandoned even to all manner of every thing trunk-maker, that he has sometimes been bribed to humanity, who can deceive a woman with appearnever seen to be in the interest of a bad poet, or a vicious ances of affection and kindness, for no other end at pleases a player; but this is a surmise which has no founda- but to torment her with more ease and authority? nds, and lation: his strokes are always just, and his admoni- Is any thing more unlike a gentleman, than when stands in lations seasonable: he does not deal about his blows his honour is engaged for the performing his profter which heat random, but always hits the right nail upon the mises, because nothing but that can oblige him to sture, till head. The inexpressible force wherewith he lays it, to become afterwards false to his word, and be gain at work them on, sufficiently shows the evidence and alone the occasion of misery to one whose happis blow is are: strength of his conviction. His zeal for a good ness he but lately pretended was dearer to him author is indeed outrageous, and breaks down than his own? Ought such a one to be trusted in every fence and partition, every board and plank, his common affairs? or treated but as one whose that stands within the expression of his applause. honesty consisted only in his incapacity of being As I do not care for terminating my thoughts in otherwise? barren speculations, or in reports of pure matter
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There is one cause of this usage no less absurd
of fact, without drawing something from them for than common, which takes place among the more him with the advantage of my countrymen, I shall take the unthinking men; and that is, the desire to appear liberty to make an humble proposal, that whenever to their friends free and at liberty, and without He sometince the trunk-maker shall depart this life, or whenever those trammels they have so much ridiculed. themselves be shall have lost the spring of his arm by sickness, avoid this they fly into the other extreme, and grow ratifies it old age, infirmity, or the like, some able-bodied tyrants that they may seem masters. Because an
critic should be advanced to this post, and have a uncontrollable command of their own actions is a e playhouse competent salary settled on him for life, to be fur-certain sign of entire dominion, they won't so much upon nished with bamboos for operas, crab-tree cudgels as recede from the government even in one muscle by reason for comedies, and oaken plants for tragedy, at of their faces. A kind look they believe would him as the public expense. And to the end that this place be fawning, and a civil answer yielding the supepersons should be always disposed of according to merit, riority. To this must we attribute an austerity incredis I would have none preferred to it, who has not they betray in every action. What but this can hat the given convincing proofs both of a sound judgment, put a man out of humour in his wife's company, and a strong arm, and who could not, upon occa- though he is so distinguishingly pleasant every sion, either knock down an ox, or write a com- where else? The bitterness of his replies, and the he lastment upon Horace's Art of Poetry. In short, I severity of his frowns, to the tenderest of wives, SeaWould have him a due composition of Hercules and clearly demonstrate, that an ill-grounded fear of Apollo, and so rightly qualified for this important being thought to submissive, is at the bottom of demo office, that the trunk-maker may not be missed by this, as I am willing to call it, affected moroseour posterity. ness; but if it be such, only put on to convince his acquaintance of his entire dominion, let him take care of the consequence, which will be certain, and worse than the present evil; his seeming indifference will by degrees grow into real contempt, and if it doth not wholly alienate the affections of his wife for ever from him, make both him and her more miserable than if it really did so.
No 236. FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 1711.
Dare jura maritis.
HOR. Ars Poet. ver. 398.
With laws connubial tyrants to restrain.
'However inconsistent it may appear, to be thought a well-bred person has no small share in this clownish behaviour. A discourse therefore relating to good-breeding towards a loving and a You have not spoken in so direct a manner upon tender wife, would be of great use to this sort of the subject of marriage, as that important case de- gentlemen. Could you but once convince them, serves. It would not be improper to observe upon that to be civil at least is not beneath the character the peculiarity in the youth of Great Britain, of of a gentleman, nor even tender affection towards railing and laughing at that institution; and when one who would make it reciprocal, betrays any they fall into it, from a profligate habit of mind, softness or effeminacy that the most masculine disbeing insensible of the satisfaction in that way of position need be ashamed of; could you satisfy life, and treating their wives with the most barba-them of the generosity of voluntary civility, and rous disrespect.
'Particular circumstances, and cast of temper, must teach a man the probability of mighty uneasinesses in that state (for unquestionably some there are whose very dispositions are strangely averse to
* Æneid, book i.
the greatness of soul that is conspicuous in benevolence without immediate obligations; could you recommend to people's practice the saying of the gentleman quoted in one of your speculations, That he thought it incumbent upon him to make the inclinations of a woman of merit go along with her duty:" could you, I say, persuade these men
N° 237. SATURDAY, DECEMBER 1, 1711.
Visu carentem magna pars veri latet.
SENECA in Edip.
of the beauty and reasonableness of this sort of behaviour, I have so much charity, for some of them at least, to believe you would convince them of a thing they are only ashamed to allow. Besides, you would recommend that state in its truest, and consequently its most agreeable colours; and the gentlemen, who have for any time been such professed enemies to it, when occasion should serve, Truth is in a great measure concealed from the blind, would return you their thanks for assisting their interest in prevailing over their prejudices. Mar- IT is very reasonable to believe, that part of the riage in general would by this means be a more pleasure which happy minds shall enjoy in a future easy and comfortable condition; the husband would state, will arise from an enlarged contemplation of be no where so well satisfied as in his own parlour, the divine wisdom in the government of the world. nor the wife so pleasant as in the company of her and a discovery of the secret and amazing steps of husband. A desire of being agreeable in the lover Providence, from the beginning to the end of time. would be increased in the husband, and the mistress Nothing seems to be an entertainment more adapted be more amiable by becoming the wife. Besides to the nature of man, if we consider that curiosity all which, I am apt to believe we should find the is one of the strongest and most lasting appetites race of men grow wiser as their progenitors grew implanted in us, and that admiration is one of our kinder, and the affection of their parents would most pleasing passions; and what a perpetual suc be conspicuous in the wisdom of their children; cession of enjoyments will be afforded by both in short, men would in general be much better hu- these, in a scene so large and various as shall then moured than they are, did not they so frequently be laid open to our view in the society of superior exercise the worst turns of their temper where spirits, who perhaps will join with us in so delight. they ought to exert the best.' ful a prospect!
It is not impossible, on the contrary, that part of the punishment of such as are excluded from bliss, 'I Am a woman who left the admiration of this may consist not only in their being denied this pr whole town to throw myself (for love of wealth) vilege, but in having their appetites at the same into the arms of a fool. When I married him, 1 time vastly increased without any satisfaction af could have had any one of several men of sense forded to them. In these, the vain pursuit of know who languished for me; but my case is just. I be- ledge shall, perhaps, add to their infelicity, and lieved my superior understanding would form him bewilder them into labyrinths of error, darkness, into a tractable creature. But, alas! my spouse distraction, and uncertainty of every thing but their has cunning and suspicion, the inseparable compa- own evil state. Milton has thus represented the nions of little minds; and every attempt I make fallen angels reasoning together in a kind of re to divert, by putting on an agreeable air, a sudden spite from their torments, and creating to them. cheerfulness, or kind behaviour, he looks upon as selves a new disquiet amidst their very amuse the first act towards an insurrection against his ments; he could not properly have described the undeserved dominion over me. Let every one sports of condemned spirits, without that cast of who is still to choose, and hopes to govern a fool, horror and melancholy he has so judiciously mingled
St. Martin's, Nov. 25.
⚫ Others apart sat on a hill retired,
In thoughts more elevate, and reason'd high
THIS is to complain of an evil practice which I think very well deserves a redress, though you have! not as yet taken any notice of it: if you mention In our present condition, which is a middle state, it in your paper, it may perhaps have a very good our minds are, as it were, chequered with truth and effect. What I mean is, the disturbance some falsehood; and as our faculties are narrow, and our people give to others at church, by their repetition views imperfect, it is impossible but our curiosity of the prayers after the minister; and that not only must meet with many repulses. The business of in the prayers, but also the absolution; and the mankind, in this life, being rather to act than to commandments fare no better, which are in a know, their portion of knowledge is dealt to them particular manner the priest's office: this I have accordingly.
known done in so audible a manner, that some- From hence it is, that the reason of the inquisi times their voices have been as loud as his. As tive has so long been exercised with difficulties, in little as you would think it, this is frequently accounting for the promiscuous distribution of good done by people seemingly devout. This irreligious and evil to the virtuous and the wicked in this inadvertency is a thing extremely offensive: but I world. From hence come all those pathetic com. do not recommend it as a thing I give you liberty plaints of so many tragical events, which happen to ridicule, but hope it may be amended by the to the wise and the good; and of such surprising bare mention.
prosperity, which is often the reward of the guilty and the foolish; that reason is sometimes puzzled, and at a loss what to pronounce upon so mysterious a dispensation.
Plato expresses his abhorrence of some fables of the poets, which seem to reflect on the gods as the authors of injustice; and lays it down as a prin ciple, that whatever is permitted to befall a just man, whether poverty, sickness, or any of those things which seem to be evil, shall either in life or
Paradise Lost, b. ii.
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Please not thyself the flatt'ring crowd to hear;
So softens and disarms the mind,
This thought will appear yet more reasonable, if we consider human life as a state of probation, and adversity as the post of honour in it, assigned often AMONG all the diseases of the mind, there is not to the best and most select spirits. one more epidemical or more pernicious than the But what I would chiefly insist on here is, that love of flattery. For as where the juices of the we are not at present in a proper situation to judge body are prepared to receive a malignant influof the councils by which Providence acts; since ence, there the disease rages with the most violence; but little arrives at our knowledge, and even that so in this distemper of the mind, where there is little we discern imperfectly; or according to the ever a propensity and inclination to suck in the elegant figure in holy writ, We see but in part, poison, it cannot be but that the whole order of and as in a glass darkly." It is to be considered, reasonable action must be overturned; for, like that Providence in its economy regards the whole music, it system of time and things together, so that we cannot discover the beautiful connection between incidents which lie widely separate in time; and by losing so many links of the chain, our reasonings First we flatter ourselves, and then the flattery become broken and imperfect. Thus those parts of others is sure of success. It awakens our selfof the moral world which have not an absolute, love within, a party which is ever ready to revolt may yet have a relative beauty, in respect of some from our better judgment, and join the enemy other parts concealed from us, but open to His eye without. Hence it is, that the profusion of favours before whom' past,' 'present,' and' to come,' are we so often see poured upon the parasite, are set together in one point of view: and those events, represented to us by our self-love, as justice done the permission of which seems now to accuse his to the man who so agreeably reconciles us to ourgoodness, may in the consummation of things both selves. When we are overcome by such soft insimagnify his goodness, and exalt his wisdom. And nuations and insnaring compliances, we gladly this is enough to check our presumption, since it is recompense the artifices that are made use of to in vain to apply our measures of regularity to blind our reason, and which triumph over the matters of which we know neither the antecedents weakness of our temper and inclinations. nor the consequents, the beginning nor the end. But were every man persuaded from how mean I shall relieve my readers from this abstracted and low a principle this passion is derived there thought, by relating here a Jewish tradition con- can be no doubt but the person who should attempt cerning Moses, which seems to be a kind of pa- to gratify it, would then be as contemptible as he rable, illustrating what I have last mentioned. is now successful. It is the desire of some quality That great prophet, it is said, was called up by a we are not possessed of, or inclination to be somevoice from heaven to the top of a mountain; where, thing we are not, which are the causes of our giving in a conference with the Supreme Being, he was ourselves up to that man, who bestows upon us the permitted to propose to him some questions con- characters and qualities of others; which perhaps cerning his administration of the universe. In the suit us as ill, and were as little designed for our midst of this divine colloquy he was commanded to wearing, as their clothes. Instead of going out of look down on the plain below. At the foot of the our own complexional nature into that of others, mountain there issued out a clear spring of water, it were a better and more laudable industry to imat which a soldier alighted from his horse to drink. prove our own, and instead of a miserable copy He was no sooner gone than a little boy came to become a good original; for there is no temper, the same place, and finding a purse of gold which no disposition, so rude and untractable, but may the soldier had dropped, took it up and went away in its own peculiar cast and turn be brought to with it. Immediately after this came an infirm old some agreeable use in conversation, or in the man, weary with age and travelling, and having affairs of life. A person of a rougher deportment, quenched his thirst, sat down to rest himself by the and less tied up to the usual ceremonies of behaside of the spring. The soldier missing his purse viour, will, like Manly in the play, please by the returns to search for it, and demands it of the old grace which nature gives to every action wherein
⚫ 1 Cor. xiii. 12.
The Plain Dealer, by Wy herley,
she is complied with; the brisk and lively will not want their admirers, and even a more reserved] and melancholy temper may at some times be agreeable.
THE translations which you have lately given us from the Greek, in some of your last papers, have When there is not vanity enough awake in a been the occasion of my looking into some of those man to undo him, the flatterer stirs up that dor-authors; among whom I chanced on a collection of mant weakness, and inspires him with merit enough letters which pass under the name of Aristænetus. to be a coxcomb. But if flattery be the most sordid Of all the remains of antiquity, I believe there act that can be complied with, the art of praising can be nothing produced of an air so gallant and justly is as commendable: for it is laudable to polite; each letter contains a little novel or adven praise well; as poets at one and the same time ture, which is told with all the beauties of language, give immortality, and receive it themselves for a and heightened with a luxuriance of wit. There reward. Both are pleased; the one whilst he re- are several of them translated: but with such wide ceives the recompense of merit, the other whilst deviations from the original, and in a style so far he shows he knows how to discern it; but above differing from the author's, that the translator all, that man is happy in this art, who, like a skil-seems rather to have taken hints for the expressing ful painter, retains the features and complexion, his own sense and thoughts, than to have endea but still softens the picture into the most agreeable voured to render those of Aristanetus. In the fol. likeness.
lowing translation, I have kept as near the meaning of the Greek as I could, and have only added few words to make the sentences in English sit together a little better than they would otherwise have done. The story seems to be taken from that of Pygmalion and the statue in Ovid: some of the thoughts are of the same turn, and the whole is written in a kind of poetical prose.'
PHILOPINAX TO CHROMATION.
There can hardly, I believe, be imagined a more desirable pleasure, than that of praise unmixed with any possibility of flattery. Such was that which Germanicus enjoyed, when, the night before a battle, desirous of some sincere mark of the esteem of his legions for him, he is described by Tacitus listening in a disguise to the discourse of a soldier, and wrapt up in the fruition of his glory, whilst with an undesigned sincerity they praised his noble and majestic mien, his affability, his valour, conduct, and success in war. How must a "NEVER was a man more overcome with so fanman have his heart full-blown with joy in such an tastical a passion as mine. I have painted a article of glory as this? What a spur and encou- beautiful woman, and am despairing, dying for the ragement still to proceed in those steps which had picture. My own skill has undone me; it is not already brought him to so pure a taste of the great-the dart of Venus, but my own pencil has thus est of mortal enjoyments? wounded me. Ab, me! with what anxiety am I It sometimes happens, that even enemies and en- necessitated to adore my own idol? How misera. vious persons bestow the sincerest marks of esteem ble am I, whilst every one must as much pity the when they least design it. Such afford a greater painter as he praises the picture, and own my torpleasure, as extorted by merit, and freed from all ment more than equal to my art. But why do I suspicion of favour or flattery. Thus it is with thus complain? Have there not been more unhappy Malvolio; he has wit, learning, and discernment, and unnatural passions than mine? Yes, I have seen but tempered with an allay of envy, self-love, and the representations of Phædra, Narcissus, and Pa detraction. Malvolio turns pale at the mirth and siphae. Phædra was unhappy in her love; that good-humour of the company, if it centre not in of Pasiphae was monstrous; and whilst the other his person; he grows jealous and displeased when caught at his beloved likeness, he destroyed the he ceases to be the only person admired, and looks watery image, which ever eluded his embraces. upon the commendations paid to another as a de- The fountain represented Narcissus to himself, and traction from his merit, and an attempt to lessen the picture both that and him, thirsting after his the superiority he affects; but by this very method, adored image. But I am yet less unhappy, I enjoy he bestows such praise as can never be suspected her presence continually, and if I touch her, I deof flattery. His uneasiness and distastes are so many stroy not the beauteous form, but she looks pleas sure and certain signs of another's title to that glory ed, and a sweet smile sits in the charming space he desires, and has the mortification to find himself which divides her lips. One would swear that not possessed of. voice and speech were issuing out, and that one's A good name is fitly compared to precious ears felt the melodious sound. How often have I, ointment; and when we are praised with skill deceived by a lover's credulity, hearkened if she and decency, it is indeed the most agreeable per- had not something to whisper me? and when frus fume; but if too strongly admitted into a brain of trated of my hopes, how often have I taken my a less vigorous and happy texture, it will, like too venge in kisses from her cheeks and eyes, and strong an odour, overcome the senses, and prove softly wooed her to my embrace, whilst she (as to pernicious to the nerves it was intended to refresh. me it seemed) only withheld her tongue the more to A generous mind is of all others the most sensible inflame me. But, madman that I am, shall I be thus of praise and dispraise; and a noble spirit is as taken with the representation only of a beauteous much invigorated with its due proportion of ho- face, and flowing hair, and thus waste myself and nour and applause, as it is depressed by neglect melt to tears for a shadow? Ah! sure it is someand contempt. But it is only persons far above thing more, it is a reality! for see her beauties the common level who are thus affected with either shine out with new lustre, and she seems to upof these extremes; as in a thermometer, it is only braid me with unkind reproaches. Oh may I have the purest and most sublimated spirit that is either a living mistress of this form, that when I shall contracted or dilated by the benignity or incle- compare the work of nature with that of art, I mency of the season. may be still at a loss which to choose, and be long perplexed with the pleasing uncertainty."
Ecclesiastes vii. 1.

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I don’t know how much of this art shrine sample was shown on TV last week… I certainly didn’t have enough time to demonstrate how I put it together, so here comes a tutorial to follow if you want to make your own 🙂
Today sees the publication of my first magazine project. It’s a Junk Drawer Journal, in association with That’s Crafty!, and is published in this month’s Mixed Up magazine. Mixed Up mag is an digital only publication and more details about it are available here. The digital format means that many articles can also include interactive elements such as videos and slideshows that wouldn’t be possible in a paper version.
I’m allowed to share little sneak peeks to whet your creative appetite, so I do hope they prompt you to go get your copy to see my step-by-step guide to making the project.
I promised to share my ‘now you see me, now you don’t’ technique for acrylic covers that didn’t quite get finished on air during my last Hochanda shows for That’s Crafty!. Below are some instructions along side the pics I took prior to the shows, and below those is a short video I have done to try and explain it a little more clearly! Apologies for the outside noises on the video – they’re wind chimes and a radiator warming up, if you’re wondering.
I was on Hochanda this week demonstrating techniques for using the acrylic covers effectively, for the A4 and A6 journals from That’s Crafty!. As always, there is too little time on air to fit in all my ideas, and only just enough time to fit in all I had planned! What follows below are photos and quick explanations of how to do your own. I really need to remember to take step-by-step photos as I make so that I can do a proper tutorial post! First is an unbroadcast cover, then the mirrored cover that didn’t go so right when rushed, and last for this post is the bubbling water effect shown in my first hour.
Following my TV appearance a fortnight ago, I do apologise for not getting a tutorial done earlier as I promised – I came down with a humdinger of a cold the week following the shows. Between the lethargy, the laryngitis and other stuff, I didn’t get to do what I wanted in The Studio. ‘Tis done now though, so grab a cup of your favourite beverage and start reading!
I thought I would show you how I created my stained glass window arch using the fabulous Arch Upright from That’s Crafty! since I didn’t get the chance to show it off on air. Mixing different types of ink (alcohol and Distress) and paint, and making full use of a Dinky Stencil, this window brings together a number of techniques to complete a mixed media mediaeval masterpiece!
I am live on Hochanda – the home of crafts, hobbies and art – available on Sky 663, Freeview 85 or Freesat 817, and on www.hochanda.com right now. With top tips for working with That’s Crafty! Surfaces, clock stacks and dreamcatchers, I’ll also be showcasing Pentart glass paints and Express Transfer medium.
I’ll be posting mini-tutorials for each of the projects over the next week. Don’t forget to check out the fabulous That’s Crafty! blog and the design team blogs (on the That’s Crafty! blog side bar) for more inspiration and projects.
Oh, I’m on at 11am as well, or you can catch up or watch again for the next 10 days over at Hochanda’s online TV Schedule – just set the date in the drop down list for 7th October and look for my shows at 8am and 11am.
I’m catching up on my Wanderlust course, and in week 6, we were introduced to origami wallets to hold small journal cards/zentangle cards in. To be honest, I didn’t like the style taught as it was open on all sides. So I dug around in Pinterest, and Google and developed this version. On the product list for the lesson was ‘lokta paper’ – which is quite fibrous, hardwearing and handmade in Nepal. So I searched for that too! I eventually found this wonderful vintage style paper that, to me, seems to be a cross between old leather and hand rolled tobacco leaves. The shop that sells it (PaperPod) was one flooded in York this winter, but still managed to get my order out to me in good time – fantastic since the shop is still drying out and all the (dry!) stock must be somewhere else.
I got a bit carried away and worked out all the sizes for my various journaling cards. All I need now is to monogram the fronts, label the bands, and get journaling! Note that the brown colour is a dye and moves about when wetted… I may seal it with a suitable varnish, or just let it do it’s thing as it is handled.


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The Scorpion KingApril 19, 2002
A desert warrior rises up against the evil army that is destroying his homeland. He captures the enemy's key sorcerer, takes her deep into the desert and prepares for a final showdown.
Release Year: 2002
Rating: 5.4/10 (45,864 voted)
Critic's Score: 45/100
Stars: Dwayne Johnson, Steven Brand, Michael Clarke Duncan
In an ancient time, predating the pyramids, the evil king Memnon is using the psychic powers of his sorceress Cassandra to fortell his great victories. In a last ditch effort to stop Memnon from taking over the world, the leaders of the remaining free tribes hire the assassin Mathayus to kill the sorceress. But Mathayus ends up getting much more than he bargained for. Now with the help of the trickster Arpid, tribal leader Balthazar and an unexpected ally, it's up to Mathayus to fufill his destiny and become the great Scorpion King.
Writers: Stephen Sommers, Jonathan Hales
(as The Rock)
Michael Clarke Duncan
Nils Allen Stewart
Warrior. Legend. King.
Universal Pictures [United States] – synopsis, trailer, downloads |
Release Date: 19 April 2002
Filming Locations: Anza-Borrego Desert State Park – 200 Palm Canyon Drive, Borrego Springs, California, USA
Box Office Details
Opening Weekend: $36,075,875
(21 April 2002)
Did You Know?
Dwayne Johnson has said that he intentionally shied away from using any trademarks of his WWF character The Rock, in order to give the Scorpion King character a life of its own. The only exception was "The People's Eyebrow," which he does in response to another character's reference to a harem. He said he included the People's Eyebrow to acknowledge the "millions and millions" of Rock fans. However, The Rock's Entry music is included briefly in the score.
When Mathayus escapes from the harem he cuts the gong and rolls it away for cover, he does not have time to return it to his sheath yet when he drops into Cassandra's chamber he immediately draws his sword.
[the barbarian chieftain is holding up a skull]
We have killed Babylonians!
[the barbarians cheer, he holds up another]
We have killed Mesopotamians!
[the barbarians cheer]
But we have never had the pleasure of killing… an Akkadian.
May the gods have pity on you, for my brother will not.
[Mathayas storms in and kills the Barbarians]
An enjoyable film that got action, comedy and a love story
Dwayne Johnson plays a natural-born hero called Mathayus He starts off
as an Akkadian mercenary crossing the ancient lands looking for his
brother who is slain before his blazing eyes by a Nordic barbarian
horde whose name is Memnon
What has kept the vicious tyrant as the absolute conqueror of the land
is the fact that he has a visionary sorceress by his side who knows
when he should attack his enemies Mathayus finds out that she's a sexy
gorgeous woman who looks amazingly beautiful (Surely the audience is
teased ceaselessly by her cleavage-revealing ). So Mathayus forgets his
commission to kill her, and a kind of romance begins to flourish
between the two as he tries to carry out his assignment
Kelly Hu plays Cassandra, the female sorcerer who had beauty, charisma,
cleverness, and enigma In the beginning of the film, we're not quite
sure where she stands But when she first sees Mathayus, she's
interested in the well-mannered warrior who's strong, brave, loyal and
sincere She realizes that he might me the future king who can save her
from her power-mad jailer
As the ruthless conqueror, Memnon (Steven Brand) has got all of the
skills needed to attain global domination He has also got the force
and the will to accomplish it The combination was pretty scary
Michael Clarke Duncan plays the fearsome Balthazar, the Nubian King,
the strong ally of Mathayus
Chuck Russell's "The Scorpion King" is a visual feast, and an
entertaining action film It has sexy harem girls, poison arrows,
quicksand, an army of red ants, black scorpions, cobras, explosions,
and a lot of fun So don't miss it!


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I've been raising this ginger bug on the counter for the past while. Every day I feed it some grated ginger and a bit of sugar. After a week or so, it starts bubbling and becomes the basis for a batch of ginger beer. The ginger beer is dry, a little fizzy, and very gingery. Delicious! Oh, and did I mention, loaded with lactobacilli, those friendly little organisms that keep your digestive system working?
I followed the recipe from Wild Fermentation, the book, but there's a similar recipe here.


text: Do you sell this cake? No, just for fun Share a little about the materials, processes, and techniques used to create this cake 3x 10" 2 x 8" chocolate cakes stacked, carved and covered with ganache and marzipan before covering with Satinice. All flowers were made with gum paste. What are you most proud of? That the finished item looked so realistic everyone kept asking me where the cake was. They thought they were looking at a flower decoration. What advice would you give someone starting this project? Give yourself at least 2 weeks to make all the flowers. You will also need to cover with a special fondant that does not rip.