text:
No one else's paintings look quite like Berkeley artist Grace Munakata's, as her show at the Paul Thiebaud Gallery confirms.

A lavish, gripping picture such as "Cedar Bark and Sky Blue" (2013) presents itself initially as abstract. It bursts with details asserting themselves first as "pure" painting, then as shrapnel of exploded imagery that, under a softened gaze, dissolves again into marks without reference.

Eventually a rough human figure emerges at the lower left of "Cedar Bark and Sky Blue," apparently squatting and reaching, as if panning for gold in a stream.

Here and elsewhere in Munakata's paintings, a human presence offers itself as a metaphoric narrator, or perhaps as a symbol of introspection or simply as a lost native of a certain kind of pictorial space.

Despite her fearless use of color, the emotional and atmospheric plasticity of picture space seems to be Munakata's true medium. The power of spatial illusion to modulate the psychological climate within a picture seems to correspond most closely to the sense of source material that her art evokes.

Her collages and paintings alike seem porous to memory, fantasy, historical allusion and spontaneous gesture.

Munakata shows us something we never cease needing to see: art as a realm of informed, disciplined freedom and pleasure.

Jägel at 16: "Second generation Mission School" might be the proper peg for the work of Jason Jägel at Gallery 16.

Chris Johanson, a founding figure of the Mission School had a large part in "Energy That Is All Around," the survey of that local early '90s phenomenon seen recently at the San Francisco Art Institute, and soon to open in Manhattan. Although Jägel is only a few years younger than Johanson, their works bear a strong family resemblance.

Jägel's drawing, like Johanson's, has echoes of untutored doodling and a sense of direct feed from the street.

But Jägel appears more mindful of earlier art sources. A painting such as "Animal Nature" (2014) brings to mind the chopped-up spaces of early German Expressionist landscapes. Crisply defined shapes in bold color signal awareness of a sensibility such as Ellsworth Kelly's and gray-on-gray patterns of brushstrokes generate a kind of tachiste camouflage.

The picture's interior feels dangerous, like the aftermath of a collapse of stage scenery. Areas of unpainted linen contribute to the palette of "Animal Nature" and offer a reassuring, though also false, toehold in undisfigured reality.

The 16 show samples a full spectrum of Jägel's work, from tiny wall-mounted assemblages, to big, stop-sign-simple paintings to crowded gouache on paper images invaded by scrawl and sculptures that might almost pass for things found alongside country roads.

"Everything in Between" (2014), a tight floor-to-ceiling stack of painted cardboard boxes, brings to mind another artist long associated with Gallery 16: Tucker Nichols. But Jägel may well think of the piece as an offhand tribute to Constantin Brancusi: his own "Endless Column."

The humor of Jägel's art, its slightness combined with formal alertness, its debt to low culture sources and nostalgia for a less calculating art scene make it feel sympathetic and necessary.

Wilcoxon and Fitzpatrick: Marin painter Heather Wilcoxon's work at Jack Fischer's makes Jägel's look almost formalistic.

Her art seems to burst like sparks straight from her nervous system, diverted only by coils of zany fantasy or outraged social consciousness.

"On the Run" (2013) represents the challenges Wilcoxon poses to interpretation. Manifestly a product of collage and mixed media, it has a sort of potato head, which might also be a vehicle, at its center. The X on this form can read as cartoon symbolism for a dead eye - comics art and graffiti plainly nourish Wilcoxon's art.

But nothing here has scale, not even the hairy foot intruding from the left. The lines curling from its toes might be hideously overgrown nails or, no less hideous, bamboo slivers inserted by a torturer.

We wisely distrust the mythology of art as direct discharge of pain or anger, but Wilcoxon may come as close as anyone to rehabilitating it. We might find scrutiny of her work unbearable, did it not contain granules of humor that she must enjoy as much as anyone.

Fischer has paired Wilcoxon's work with that of Chicagoan Tony Fitzpatrick, whose packed compositions surprisingly tend to work best at their smallest, as in the colored etching "Moth for the Naked City."

Grace Munakata: Paintings Through April 12. Paul Thiebaud Gallery, 645 Chestnut St., S.F. (415) 434-3055.

Jason Jägel: From the Sky Rivers Look Like Snakes: Paintings, sculpture, works on paper. Through March 31. Gallery 16, 501 Third St., S.F. (415) 626-7495.

Winter Work: Tony Fitzpatrick, Heather Wilcoxon: Paintings and works on paper. Through March 15. Jack Fischer Gallery, 311 Potrero Ave., S.F. (415) 522-1178.

Kenneth Baker is The San Francisco Chronicle's art critic. E-mail: Twitter: @kennethbakersf


Content-Type: application/http; msgtype=response

WARC-Type: response

text:
Red Eye: Drama. Starring Rachel McAdams, Cillian Murphy, Brian Cox and Jack Scalia. Directed by Wes Craven. (Rated PG-13, 85 minutes. At Bay Area theaters.)

Wes Craven takes his time setting up the airplane thriller "Red Eye" as if it were a Meg Ryan / Tom Hanks romantic comedy. Finally directing a horror film with no supernatural forces at work, the creator of "A Nightmare on Elm Street" can savor the fact that he doesn't have to eviscerate anybody in the first 25 minutes.

The destination is the land of subtlety, and it's a pleasant departure for the legendary horror director. Favoring precision filmmaking over cheap thrills, with a vibe more Alfred Hitchcock than Freddy Krueger, "Red Eye" establishes two intelligent characters and lets audiences sit back and enjoy an entertaining battle of brains and wills.

Rachel McAdams plays Lisa Reisert, a capable hotel manager returning to Miami on the evening's last flight. She meets handsome stranger Jackson Rippner (Cillian Murphy), who seems perfect at first, flirting harmlessly about her favorite cocktail and stepping in gallantly as another airport traveler gets out of line. When he turns evil, after more than a quarter of the movie has been a scare-free jaunt, the slow transformation makes the psychological fear-mongering at the center of "Red Eye" more horrifying and unnerving than all of Craven's "Scream" films combined.

Both actors are excellent. Murphy is alternately charming, creepy, funny and imposing -- sometimes all four in the same scene. He's the anti-Freddy, committing most of his worst deeds with conversation, yet still seeming capable of carrying out his worst threats.

But this is the rare case in movies where the psychopath is upstaged by the victim. McAdams plays a heroine in the mold of Clarice from "Silence of the Lambs" and Maggie from "Million Dollar Baby." She never screams or acts like an idiot under pressure, and when it comes time to fight back, she swings for the fences. Sometimes with just a cell phone conversation, McAdams sets up complex relationships with her movie father (Brian Cox, playing a nice guy for once), co-workers and fellow passengers, and the performance never seems false.

Carl Ellsworth's script is taut and filled with fun twists, masking the shortcomings of the broader story. There are some logic-defying moments -- after the film is over, you'll be able to brainstorm 10 or 12 easier ways to accomplish the same evil plot -- and there are too many convenient accidents.

At times, "Red Eye" seems as if it were paid for with frequent flier miles. The one special effects scene is blatantly cheap, and there are other low-budget distractions. (The worst idea: Colby Donaldson from "Survivor: Australian Outback" shows up in a speaking role.)

But "Red Eye" never insults the audience. The movie is a pleasant surprise at the end of summer, and an exciting detour from one of the most influential directors of horror films.

-- Advisory: This film contains profanity, plenty of violence and frightening scenes involving air travel. It should not be seen immediately before climbing on a Boeing 747 flying bound for Chicago at 11:53 p.m.

warcinfo:
robots: classic
hostname: ip-10-171-10-108.ec2.internal
software: Nutch 1.6 (CC)/CC WarcExport 1.0
isPartOf: CC-MAIN-2017-09
operator: CommonCrawl Admin
description: Wide crawl of the web for February 2017
publisher: CommonCrawl
format: WARC File Format 1.0
conformsTo: http://bibnum.bnf.fr/WARC/WARC_ISO_28500_version1_latestdraft.pdf


text:
2005-02-14 04:00:00 PDT Bethlehem, West Bank -- In June 1998, somewhere near CIA headquarters in Langley, Va., two rows of men in military fatigues posed for their graduation photo.

All of them were officers in Palestinian General Intelligence Service, charged with hunting down terrorists and preventing attacks on Israel. They had just completed a training course, paid for by the U.S. government, in which they learned firearms and counterterrorist tactics.

But the graduation photo holds a stark warning for the Bush administration as it gets more involved in Middle East peacemaking. Some of the men in the picture later swapped sides and began using the skills they learned in Virginia against the Israelis.

Such training courses, which were suspended with the outbreak of the Palestinian uprising in September 2000, will be an integral part of Washington's aid package for the new government of Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas.

"There will need to be some international effort, and the United States is prepared to play a major role in that, to help in the training of the Palestinian security forces and in making sure that they are security forces that are part of the solution, not part of the problem," Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said earlier this month on the London stop of her European tour.

Lt. Gen. William Ward, Rice's newly named Mideast security coordinator, will visit the region this month to "start looking at how to build Palestinian security forces," State Department spokesman Richard Boucher said Friday.

"What we're really all talking about is helping the Palestinian security forces get organized, get equipped, get trained and get the command structure that allows them to take care of security problems," Boucher said.

The men in the 1998 photo came from Bethlehem, Jericho and Nablus, which all became flash points in the four-year uprising, called the intifada. Kneeling fourth from the left in the front row is Raafat Bajali. In December 2001, Bajali was killed when a bomb he was making blew up in his face. He had become a member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades, the militant wing of Yasser Arafat's Fatah movement, said some of his comrades in the General Intelligence unit.

Bajali died in a fourth-floor apartment near Bethlehem's Manger Square, the home of Nedal Zedok, a colleague in the Palestinian security forces who also was moonlighting for Al-Aqsa. Zedok, too, was killed in the explosion.

Standing in the back row, second from the left, is Khaled Abu Nijmeh, from Deheisheh refugee camp in Bethlehem, according to two of his colleagues who are also pictured.

By 2001, he had become one of the most-wanted Palestinian militants in the city, suspected of involvement in a string of suicide bombings and shooting attacks against Israelis. In May 2002, he was one of 13 gunmen escorted from the Church of the Nativity siege in Bethlehem, flown to Cyprus and then to exile in Europe. Three of the group, including Abu Nijmeh, were given asylum in Italy.

"I am a member of the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and a first sergeant in Palestinian General Intelligence," Abu Nijmeh, now 36, told The Chronicle from his temporary home in Rome. "I personally received a course in antiterrorism and VIP protection.

"I was not alone. Many Palestinian security people were trained by the Americans. We hope they will continue helping us."

Abu Nijmeh and his 12 comrades will be allowed to return to Bethlehem under the cease-fire agreement reached last week between Israel and the Palestinians.

Israeli warnings

As Israeli commentators had been warning for years, the CIA inadvertently helped train future adversaries -- as it has done in other countries, including the anti-Soviet forces in Afghanistan who ended up as Taliban and al Qaeda militants.

"This has proven to be a very risky undertaking," said Israeli political analyst Gerald Steinberg of Bar-Ilan University. "Both the CIA and British efforts to train Palestinians during the Oslo process helped strengthen terrorist capabilities."

A U.S. official, who spoke only on condition of anonymity, said that if previous U.S. aid went to train would-be militants, "obviously steps will be taken so that any future training does not lead to a similar outcome."

The Palestinian security forces were created in the aftermath of the 1993 Oslo accords by Arafat to maintain order in newly autonomous Palestinian territories. The recruits were supposed to serve as the police force for the Palestinian Authority and to prevent terrorist attacks against Israel. The CIA and British intelligence services helped provide training and equipment.

But Arafat also used the new police forces to keep himself in power. Based on longtime loyalties within his Fatah political faction, he created 14 separate, often overlapping, security services -- including a naval intelligence unit in the landlocked West Bank.

Palestinian security forces were doubling as militants in the Al-Aqsa Martyrs Brigades and in Hamas, an Islamic group that has claimed credit for many anti-Israel attacks. Zedok, who was killed by Bajali's bomb, was among those dismissed from the security force after their connections were exposed by Israel. Others, including the Al-Aqsa founder and commander in Ramallah, Khaled al-Shawish, found refuge in Arafat's West Bank headquarters.

Clinton connection

The training given to hundreds of Palestinian security officials between 1996 and 2000 was sanctioned by a presidential order in 1996 by then-President Bill Clinton, who was deeply involved in peace-making efforts.

The order created a covert program that provided tens of millions of dollars to enhance the professionalism of the Palestinian security services and help combat anti-Israel terrorism. Under the arrangement, CIA contractors trained the Palestinians in firearms, counterterrorism, interrogation techniques and bureaucratic organization. The Palestinian graduates in the photo were instructed by International Training Inc., a private security- training firm that does contract work for the CIA.

The United States, the European Union and Britain also provided advanced radio communications systems, computers, vehicles and other equipment.

In October 1998, the Wye Plantation agreement -- hammered out between Clinton, Arafat and then-Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu at a summit in rural Maryland -- formalized the assistance provided by the CIA to Palestinian security, in cooperation with a special security adviser appointed by the European Union, a British former intelligence officer named Alastair Crooke. It was Crooke who escorted Abu Nijmeh and the 12 other exiles from Bethlehem to Cyprus in May 2002 while CIA officers cleared Palestinian weapons from the Church of the Nativity, officials involved in the operation said.

Even before the intifada broke out in 2000, the Israeli government was becoming concerned about the inadvertent help to Palestinian militants. In November 1999, then-Prime Minister Ehud Barak asked Washington to scale back its assistance to the Palestinian security forces.

"In recent conversations with senior U.S. officials, Israeli representatives expressed their concerns about the risk that sensitive information on antiterror methods and antiterror technology would be passed from the Palestinian Authority on to terror groups," the Israeli daily Haaretz reported at that time.

"The American aid to the Palestinians carries a great danger, because it is impossible to know exactly what the Palestinians are receiving, or who ultimately receives it," a Barak aide told Haaretz.

The Israeli warning was borne out by the graduation photo. Bajali and Abu Nijmeh, the two Al-Aqsa members, were not unusual in combining service in the Palestinian security forces with activity in an underground militia. When the Church of the Nativity siege ended in May 2002, Abu Nijmeh was just one of several security officers among the 13 men deported to Europe and 26 more banished from the West Bank to Gaza.

Among his colleagues when he joined General Intelligence, "there were five or six who were deported abroad and another 10 (from the West Bank) to Gaza," said one Palestinian officer pictured in the photo of the Class of 1998, who still is in the security forces and asked that his name not be used.

CIA session

The certificate -- complete with gold-leaf seal -- that the 1998 graduates received from International Training Inc. refers only to an "antiterrorist driving and motorcade operations" course. But the CIA-sponsored session provided firearms training as well, the officer and other participants in the course who spoke to The Chronicle confirmed. "They trained us on pistols and MP5 machine guns," said the officer. "There were fixed targets and moving targets in front of us."

He said the training was shrouded in tight secrecy, and in a manner that foreshadowed future problems.

"We arrived in Washington, then they took us in another plane," he said. "We were in Virginia for a day or two, then they took us to a military base where they trained us.

"I was shocked by one thing -- when they put us on the plane, its windows were blackened," he said. "And when they put us on a bus, the windows were covered. I asked our escort, 'Why have you covered the windows of the bus and the airplane?'

"He replied, 'For the moment we are friends, but we could also become enemies. It's not in our interest to show you the security bases.'


text:
New onstage

The Australian Bee Gees Show Broadway San Jose presents a touring concert-style celebration of four decades of the music of the Gibb brothers. Opens Tuesday. Through next Sunday. San Jose Center for the Performing Arts, 255 Almaden Blvd., San Jose. (408) 792-4111,

Gidion's Knot Jamie Jones and Stacy Ross star in Johnna Adams' incendiary drama in which a parent-teacher conference about a student suspended for bullying spins out of control. In previews. Opens Thursday. Through March 2. Aurora Theatre, 2081 Addison St., Berkeley. (510) 843-4822.

Hir Taylor Mac returns to the Magic Theatre with the world premiere of a gender-bending comedy in which a newly enlightened woman copes with her challenging and challenged sons. In previews. Opens Tuesday. Through Feb. 23. Magic Theatre, Building D, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco. (415) 441-8822.

The House that will not Stand Berkeley Rep performs the world premiere of Marcus Gardley's comedic historical drama about a black Creole matriarch and her daughters in 1830s New Orleans. In previews. Opens Wednesday. Through March 16. Berkeley Rep's Thrust Stage, 2025 Addison St., Berkeley. (510) 647-2949,

R. Buckminster Fuller: The History (and Mystery) of the Universe: Ron Campbell returns with his tour de force solo performance in D.W. Jacobs' fascinating biographical tale. In previews. Opens Wednesday. Through Feb. 23. San Jose Repertory Theatre, 101 Paseo de San Antonio, San Jose. (408) 367-7255.


text:
tim cook at goldman sachs conference

Tim Cook spoke with Goldman Sachs' analyst Bill Shope at Goldman's technology conference this morning. We listed to the interview and our live notes are below.

Here is the high level summary of what Cook said:

• Apple doesn't have a "depression-era" mentality when it comes to cash, despite what David Einhorn said. He says Apple has paid out a lot to shareholders and is actively looking at how to do more.

• He thinks Einhorn's lawsuit is a silly sideshow. What Apple is trying to do is make it better for common shareholders, and Einhorn is actually trying to make things worse.

Apple has done ~6 acquisitions per year over the last few years, and they're mostly small companies. Apple has looked at big companies, but passed because it wasn't a good fit. Apple could do big acquisitions if it really wanted, but it's not going to buy revenue. Only smart people and good products.

Apple's culture of innovation is based on the fact that it can do hardware, software, and services. At the intersection of these three, Apple has "magic," and its rivals are trying to catch up.

The iPhone isn't done growing. The smartphone market is big and getting bigger. Apple can grow.

Don't limit your thinking when it comes to an affordable iPhone. The iPad is an affordable Mac. There is a way for Apple to make a great, inexpensive product.

Worrying about the iPad Mini killing the big iPad is stupid. Just make a great product before the competition does.

Apple's services business can help its margins on its hardware sales.

Cook loves Apple's stores. If he's ever feeling down, he just goes there and it makes him happy. He likes the energy, he likes to see all the people.

Please follow Business Insider on Twitter and Facebook.

Join the conversation about this story »


WARC-Truncated: length

text:
Feb. 25, 2017
Home / Articles / News / Local News /  Briefs: April 1

Briefs: April 1

April 1, 2009, 12:00 am

Community Policing? The Santa Fe Police Department’s recruitment ads, which grace the rear ends of Santa Fe Trails buses, feature pictures of officers so heavily armored they might as well be headed for Afghanistan instead of Cordova Road.

The ads so bothered Ann O’Halloran, a weaver with an ACLU card who lives in San Miguel County, that she called the SFPD to complain. “I was on [a shuttle] with a bunch of visitors and they’re like, ‘Well! What is that? Do you have riots all the time?’ I was like, ‘No, this town is really mellow and we love everybody,’” O’Halloran says.

To her, the ad doesn’t say officer friendly. “It says, ‘Don’t think about protesting all the shit that’s going down right now.’ That’s what it says to me. Because people have bailout rage, or whatever,” O’Halloran says. “Hopefully they’ll take that down and say, ‘To Serve And Protect,’ instead of, ‘To Bash Heads.’”

Deputy Police Chief Aric Wheeler says the Edit House marketing firm in Rio Rancho advised the SFPD that the martial look would bring in applicants—and it did. The campaign has been running for at least six months, and the department is fully staffed.

“My personal feeling is it brings more of a patriotic sense,” Wheeler says. Years ago, “we actually did a lot of the community policing-type advertising. We didn’t really see big numbers, as far as people coming in for positions.”

The department’s recruiting website features a staged SWAT team photo in which officers aim assault rifles at the camera.

Drugs Out, Guns In: To combat the Mexico/US drug smuggling problem, some have suggested setting up southbound checkpoints on the US-Mexico Border. US Sen. Jeff Bingaman, D-New Mexico, told reporters on March 30 that he’d favor such checkpoints “at least as far as large vehicles, where substantial amounts of arms could be smuggled through. I’m not saying every car needs to be checked.” Bingaman also was asked about recent remarks by Mexican President Felipe Calderón, in which he laid some blame for drug smuggling on corruption on the US side. “I myself don’t believe that US officials and border enforcement personnel are part of this corrupt system,” Bingaman said.

Shocked, Shocked: Two weeks ago, this column reported Public Service Company of New Mexico’s request for a 23 percent increase to residential electrical rates, following a $230 million loss by its Texas subsidiary. On March 6, the utility agreed to a settlement with consumer groups that reduces the proposed rate increase to 4.6 percent. The New Mexico Public Regulation Commission will hold a public hearing on the proposal at
10 am, April 3 at the Boys & Girls Club (730 Alto St).

comments powered by Disqus

Morning Word: To Protect and Troll

Morning Word Santa Fe Police Sergeant Troy Baker has a lot to say about some of the people he's sworn to serve and protect ... and it isn't nice. ... More

Feb. 21, 2017 by Matt Grubs

* indicates required
Choose your newsletter(s):
January 25, 2017 by Matt Grubs
January 24, 2017 by Steven Hsieh
February 15, 2017 by Alex De Vore

@SFReporter on Instagram


text:
Feb. 25, 2017
Home / Articles / Music / Music Features /  We'll Meet Again
Shanti Ananda’s untimely death leaves a void in the Santa Fe music scene, but friends say that his legacy of kindness and unconditional love remain.

We'll Meet Again

Santa Fe loses one of its favorite sons

January 11, 2012, 12:00 am

Death, of course, is inevitable. We understand that we must accept the ebb and flow of life, and yet knowing this offers little comfort as we find ourselves face to face with this greatest of transitions. I can think of nothing harder to handle or understand than a life cut short long before expected. I speak of Shanti Ananda, beloved father, husband, son and friend who recently suffered a sudden brain aneurysm, costing him his life and creating a void in Santa Fe.

I’ve spoken with a number of Ananda’s friends and they’ve demonstrated how well he was loved and how well he loved them, but you may wonder, he not being a musician, why am I covering his death in a music column.

First of all, we’re talking about a man who was the very embodiment of what I consider to be punk rock. It’s not always about “Fuck this” and “Fuck you!” Rather, punk is about social change and having a positive impact on your community. With his non-judgmental style and gentle manner, Ananda brought a much-needed friendliness to the local scene as both Cowgirl doorman and music lover.

Kindness has been the word most used to describe Shanti by friends with whom I spoke after his death. I know I will miss the fleeting moments in which that wonderful teddy bear of a man would take the time to say, “Hello,” whether I was attending an event at the Cowgirl or just passing by on my way home. Shanti often walked right up to me with a great big smile, shook my hand warmly and asked me earnestly about my day or my life in general.

Secondly, Ananda was a fixture in both the punk rock and bluegrass communities for years. To be precise, his friends and family tell me that he championed multiple musical styles. Equally at home dancing like crazy in the pit or tapping his toes to reggae or Americana, Ananda loved music from birth. His brother tells me that Ananda’s mother, Chela, took a newborn Shanti to Woodstock—yes, the Jimi Hendrix Woodstock performance—where the two were caught dancing on camera, footage which now exists in a documentary about the concert.

“[Shanti and I] were both cut from that ’60s cloth, that revolutionary hippie movement which provided that type of consciousness uncommon in today’s culture,” Ananda’s brother, Sattva, says.

Finally, Ananda’s untimely death has been felt by dozens of friends who also happen to be local musicians. Musicians who are hard at work putting together a benefit show, or possibly shows, for Ananda’s daughter, Freyja. Final dates, lineup and venues are not confirmed, but names like 27 Devils Joking, The Elected Officials, These Charming Cobras and even Grimple are possibilities. SFR will have the details as they become available.

Considering I was, for all intents and purposes, a stranger to Ananda, I found myself moved by his ability to treat me like I mattered. Whenever I left his presence, I wondered why someone who didn’t even know me made such effort, and knew that the people closest to him were very lucky.

“If Shanti loved you, he really loved you and that was that,” Ananda’s wife Jessica Savage tells me. “Our friends keep describing to me how they felt safe around him, or like they were home.”

I truly believe no words can convey the sense of loss felt at the death of one as loved as Shanti; however, local musician and longtime Ananda family friend Sean Healen has tried his very best. “Through the rust and cold and wind are where we find our truest friends,” he says. “Santa Fe will never be the same again.”

A PayPal account has been set up for Shanti's daughter. Donations can be sent to sattva@thewaywegrow.com

Follow SFR music news on Twitter:

comments powered by Disqus

Morning Word: To Protect and Troll

Morning Word Santa Fe Police Sergeant Troy Baker has a lot to say about some of the people he's sworn to serve and protect ... and it isn't nice. ... More

Feb. 21, 2017 by Matt Grubs

* indicates required
Choose your newsletter(s):
January 25, 2017 by Matt Grubs
January 24, 2017 by Steven Hsieh
February 15, 2017 by Alex De Vore

@SFReporter on Instagram


text:
SGI-South Africa Holds Memorial Prayer Meetings for Mandela and Participates in Day of Reconciliation

prayer serviceAn SGI-SA member offers incense at a prayer service for former South African President Nelson Mandela

On the evening of December 6, following news of the passing of former South African President Nelson Mandela the previous day, SGI-South Africa (SGI-SA) held a prayer meeting at its national center in Johannesburg.

On December 8, responding to a call from the government for a national day of prayer and reflection to remember Mr. Mandela, SGI-SA held a second prayer meeting. After the chanting of Nam-myoho-renge-kyo and the offering of incense, participants shared their thoughts and memories of the former president. Among these was an SGI member, Douglas Myamya, who was imprisoned together with Mr. Mandela on Robben Island and recalled him urging fellow inmates to study and develop themselves while in prison. A poetry reading was also included, and participants sang well-known Mandela-related songs.

Reconciliation Day eventSGI-SA General Director Loren Braithwaite Kabosha (left) with other SGI-SA members at the Reconciliation Day event on December 16

SGI President Daisaku Ikeda’s statement on the passing of Mr. Mandela was read out and an account of the relationship between the two was also given. Mr. Ikeda and Mr. Mandela met twice in Tokyo, first in October 1990, following Mr. Mandela’s release from prison, when he visited Japan as vice president of the African National Congress (ANC), and again in 1995 when Mr. Mandela visited Japan as president of South Africa. Mr. Ikeda’s suggestion at the initial meeting to develop a human rights exhibition in Japan highlighting the struggle of the South African liberation movement was the genesis of SGI’s international activities for the promotion of human rights education.

The prayer service provided an opportunity to share and unite in the deep sense of appreciation for Mr. Mandela’s contributions and the profound sense of loss at his passing.

On December 16, a national interfaith prayer ceremony was held at Freedom Park in Pretoria marking the Day of Reconciliation, a national public holiday in South Africa promoting reconciliation and national unity. SGI-SA leaders were invited to represent South Africa’s Buddhist community at the event.

related article Lotus Sutra Exhibition Debuts in Malaysia Lotus Sutra Exhibition Debuts in Malaysia On February 16, "The Lotus Sutra – A Message of Peace and Harmonious Coexistence" exhibition created by the SGI-affiliated Institute of Oriental Philosophy (IOP) opened for the first time in Malaysia at Soka Gakkai Malaysia (SGM)'s Wisma Kebudayaan culture center in Kuala Lumpur. The interfaith prayer ceremony was attended by Deputy President of South Africa Kgalema Motlanthe, Minister of Arts and Culture Paul Mashatile and the City of Tshwane Executive Mayor Kgosientso David Ramokgopa. SGI-SA General Director Loren Braithwaite Kabosha and several other SGI-SA members participated in the ceremony. Representatives from African traditional religious communities as well as from Christian, Jewish, Hindu, Muslim, Rastafarian, Bahá’í, and Hare Krishna faiths were also present.

The ceremony was held at Isivivane, a sacred space within Freedom Park that is regarded as the spiritual resting place of those who died in the struggle to liberate South Africa. The various religious leaders offered prayers and brief messages of reconciliation. The SGI-SA representatives chanted Nam-myoho-renge-kyo and read a message recalling former South African President Nelson Mandela’s great efforts for national reconciliation and affirming the will of ordinary South Africans to continue his legacy.

[Adapted from reports from SGI-South Africa; photos courtesy of SGI-SA]

─── other articles ───

our story

page top


text:
Duke Nukem Forever Uses Steamworks on PC

BOOM widget 380153 After playing it coy about Steam for a fair while, Gearbox today announced that Duke Nukem Forever will use Steamworks on PC, meaning that all PC editions of the macho shooter will be tied to a Steam account.

Publisher 2K confirmed on its official forums that Duke is "using Steamworks and only Steamworks for both the single player and multiplayer components."

Also announced today were the pre-order bonuses offered by several stores. Buying at Walmart will net you a classy DNF trucker hat. GameStop goes highbrow with the 'Duke's Big Package' downloadable content pack, which contains Big Head Mode, a boost to Duke's Ego (health) and a pack of t-shirts for Duke to wear. The Australian EB Games, the retailer offering Duke's Big Package down under, gives a teasing peek at it. More retailer pre-order bonuses are still to be unveiled.

Duke Nukem Forever is due out for PC, Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 on May 3. A $100 limited Balls of Steel Edition exists for Duke diehards, with goodies including a hardcover art book, poker chips and a bust of Duke himself.


text:
Interview/Guest Post/Giveaway Requests
I am happy to do interviews, guest posts, and giveaways on blogs! Please contact me at and I will get back to you as soon as possible.

I do school, library, and bookstore visits, as well as festival and conference appearances. Please contact me at for more information.

Cover Art
Click here to download Surfacing cover.
Click here to download Troy High cover.
Click here to download Something to Blog About cover.

Author Photo
Click here to download a photo for online media. Email for a print media file.

Rights Information
Please contact Stephen Barbara at Inkwell Management


text:
Exclusive news and research on the wine, spirits and beer business

News Briefs for November 15, 2013

November 15, 2013

•Walmart’s U.S. sales were down slightly in the third quarter, but the retail giant’s beverage alcohol business was a bright spot. Yesterday, while discussing Walmart’s financial results, Walmart U.S. president and CEO Bill Simon said he was “pleased with the continued strength in adult beverages, which delivered a high single-digit positive comp” in the third quarter, ending October 31, 2013. While beverage alcohol sales were up on a comparable basis, Walmart is also placing more emphasis on the category, adding adult beverage sections to a number of Walmart Supercenter and Neighborhood Market stores around the country.

SABMiller chairman Graham Mackay has stepped down for the second time this year, following what the company called a “sudden worsening” of his medical condition. Deputy chairman John Manser, who served as acting chairman during Mackay’s first absence, has been reappointed to the role, effective November 14. Mackay took his initial leave of absence in April for surgery on a brain tumor, and returned to his non-executive chairman role in September. According to SABMiller, the company’s board is currently keeping the position under review.

Brown-Forman is launching its Jack Daniel’s Sinatra Select into additional U.S. markets through the end of this year. Previously available only in global duty free and Tennessee, the ultra-premium offering will now also be offered in the Chicago, Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, San Francisco and New Jersey markets, priced at $165 a 750-ml. The 90-proof whiskey is aged in specially designed “Sinatra barrels,” which feature grooves to allow for more barrel-liquid contact.

•Campari America has hired San Francisco-based ad agency Venables Bell & Partners to handle creative for its Skyy vodka brand, reports Adweek. The move marks the end of Skyy’s partnership with La Jolla, California agency Lambesis, which has led the vodka franchise’s creative for 15 years. Skyy, which is currently at around 2.8 million cases in the U.S., spent a total of $13.9 million on media advertising for 2012, according to Impact Databank. For 2014, however, the brand’s media spend is expected to rise to around $30 million, according to Adweek estimates.

Subscribe to Shanken News Daily’s Email Newsletter, delivered to your inbox each morning.

Tagged : , , ,

Get your first look at 2015 data and 2016 projections for the wine, spirits and cider industries. Order your 2016 Impact Databank Reports. Click here.

Previous :  Next :


text:
Are Hair Extensions almost dead?| Salon 10016 | NYC Salon

Could it be that hair extensions are nearing their life span? (salon 10016)

There are abounding affidavit that hair extensions accept a band following. They can enhance bigger strands, act as careful administration on accustomed coils, and add breadth to a aigrette that refuses to grow. But some braid aficionados are starting to abstain their admired sew-ins for a camp reason: they accept the hair to be cursed.(salon 10016)

A bacchanalia of weave-related thefts and murders in Memphis, TN, acquired bounded account aperture NBC-WMC to investigate the alarming apple of hair extensions. The journalists’ analysis appear that abounding are assertive that the could cause for these amazing crimes has a darker origin. A seek for “cursed weave” online after-effects in a assembly of claimed accounts from women about how their hair extensions accept led them to be possessed.(salon 10016)hair extensions - Shear Bliss NYC - Hair SAlon 10016 salon 10016 Are Hair Extensions almost dead?| Salon 10016 | NYC Salon hair extensions Shear Bliss NYC Hair SAlon 10016

“[Whoever’s] hair I was cutting on my head, that dogie had a bad augury and that bad augury followed her from India and came on top of my head, and I took on her spirit,” said YouTube user BBWKristy Love. Some anticipate that the hair becomes bugged during the Hindu ritual of tonsuring. This is a religious custom for which women barber their active absolutely at a temple, again accord their strands to God. This hair is generally calm and awash to actualize weaves.(salon 10016)

While abounding of the wearers of these extensions are assertive that they may accept purchased “a person’s hair and their aroused spirit,” some are skeptical. Members of the Christian association in Memphis don’t accept that demons would abide wigs. “That’s from animistic behavior . . . religions and cults that convenance this abstraction of angry alcohol demography control of angry things,” Dr. Bill Adkins, pastor at Greater Imani Cathedral of Faith, told WMC.(salon 10016)

Anyone who has approved hair extensions knows that their attitude changes already they see their new look, but is aplomb in your appearance absolutely a assurance of getting spellbound? If that’s the case, we’re appealing abiding our accomplished cosmetics accumulating is possessed, because we accept animosity already we accomplish a adamant curve or altogether authentic cat eye.

(salon 10016)

Source: http://g

— (212) 213-6050 —

#hair #salon #hairSalon #bliss #shearbliss #nyc #ny #murray #hill#murrayhill #salon10016 #nycsalon

Visit our other social pages for even more updates! :

Your Reviews and Feedback matter to us!
Thank you so much!
Shear Bliss – Hair Salon near Murray Hill. 10016

Salon 10016, hair salon 10016, ombre 10016, sombre 10016

Write the message

Your email address will not be published.


text:
World's Largest Sheet Music Selection

Christmas for Two, No. 3

By Traditional

Be the first! Write a Review

2 baritone horns - Grade 2-3
Composed by Traditional. Arranged by Lloyd Conley. Christmas. Set of playing scores. Published by Kendor Music Inc (KN.18012).

Item Number: KN.18012

Scored predominantly in contrapuntal style, these duets use a mixture of solo, unison, octave, canon and harmonized textures with excellent results. Lead lines are shared by both players; maintaining appropriate balance between voices will yield rewarding results.

  • Angels from the Realms of Glory
  • What Child Is This?
  • Away In A Manger
  • Good King Wenceslas
  • O Come, O Come Emmanuel
  • We Wish You a Merry Christmas
  • The Holly and the Ivy
  • Up on the Housetop
  • O Christmas Tree
  • I Saw Three Ships
Close X

I am a music teacher.


text:
World's Largest Sheet Music Selection

Jar Of Hearts

By Christina Perri

Be the first! Write a Review

By Christina Perri. Pop. Vlnsol. 3 pages. Published by Hal Leonard - Digital Sheet Music (HX.348163).

Item Number: HX.348163

About Digital Downloads

Digital Downloads are downloadable sheet music files that can be viewed directly on your computer, tablet or mobile device. Once you download your digital sheet music, you can view and print it at home, school, or anywhere you want to make music, and you don’t have to be connected to the internet. Just purchase, download and play!

PLEASE NOTE: Your Digital Download will have a watermark at the bottom of each page that will include your name, purchase date and number of copies purchased. You are only authorized to print the number of copies that you have purchased. You may not digitally distribute or print more copies than purchased for use (i.e., you may not print or digitally distribute individual copies to friends or students).

Close X

I am a music teacher.


text:
World's Largest Sheet Music Selection

Raise the Praise for about 10 Singers

Easy-to-Prepare Anthems for SAB Choirs

By Larry Pugh

SAB choir and piano
Easy-to-Prepare Anthems for SAB Choirs. Composed by Larry Pugh. Choral collection. Sacred, Choral. Lorenz Publishing Company #45/1136L. Published by Lorenz Publishing Company (LO.45-1136L).

Item Number: LO.45-1136L

Vibrant praise will indeed be raised by even the smallest of choirs when singing from this exciting collection of anthems from some of the top composers in church music today. With styles spanning both traditional and contemporary and accompaniments ranging from bongos to full orchestra, the smaller choir can easily achieve a meaningful ministry of music despite their limited resources. The Performance/Accompaniment CD makes it possible to hear the stylistic differences, rehearse with the voices and/or the accompaniment, and sing on Sunday morning with a professional accompaniment. It's a can't-miss, confidence-building worship enhancement, with nine new anthems at a fraction of the cost of purchasing them as separate octavos.

  • New Born Again  Performed by Larry Shackley
  • I Will Sing New Songs To The Lord  Performed by Joseph M Martin
  • Praise to the Lord the Almighty  Performed by Mary McDonald
  • I Worship You Almighty God  Performed by Mary McDonald
  • Make My Life an Alleluia  Performed by Ruth Elaine Schram
  • Praise To God Immortal Praise  Performed by Mary Lynn Lightfoot
  • Fill A Me Up  Performed by Pepper Choplin
  • Family Of Faith  Performed by Pepper Choplin
  • Ascribe To The Lord  Performed by Dan R Edwards
  • Ratings + Reviews

  • 5

    Difficulty Level:
    Early intermediate
  • 2017-02-08 16:57:46.0 Good selection

    These are some of our favorites, especially "Make My Life an Alleluia". Comfortable to sing.

    Was this review useful? Yes No
Close X

I am a music teacher.


text:
Start writing
Share this Story

Walker brothers to play Paul's character on Fast & Furious 7

Sarah grew up in Monterey, CA and now lives in Los Angeles. When she's not writing, you can find her enjoying a good book, fine wine, sunflowers and long walks on the beach.

Quickly welcomed into the franchise's family

Paul Walker's brothers, Cody and Caleb, are slated to fill in for their brother's unfinished scenes on the set of Fast & Furious 7.
Quickly welcomed into the franchise's family
Photo credit: Joe Alvarez/

Now that the dust is starting to settle after the unexpected and horrific car accident that killed Paul Walker, filmmakers are trying to get back to business as usual as much as possible. The first area of concern, of course, is the next installation of the Fast & Furious franchise, Fast & Furious 7. Walker was about halfway done shooting the scenes at the time of his death, and many have wondered how the movie will proceed without him.

Ice Cube to Paul Walker fans: "Don't trip" over MTV Awards >>

Universal Pictures announced last month that they will be using CGI technology to fill in the actor's unfinished takes, and today they divulged on the movie's Facebook page that Walker's brothers, Cody and Caleb, will have something to do with the approach, according to the Huffington Post.

"We have resumed shooting and now welcome Paul's brothers, Caleb and Cody, into our FAST family," read the statement. "Caleb and Cody are helping us complete some remaining action for their brother and fill in gaps left in production. Having them on set has made us all feel that Paul is here with us too."

After Walker's death, it was speculated that his character would somehow be written out or killed off, but according to the Facebook announcement, production felt allowing the persona to live on would be an appropriate way to commemorate the actor.

"We are just under a year away from the release of Fast & Furious 7, and this film is the most important we've ever done together. It will allow the character of Brian O'Connor to live on and let us celebrate Paul in his most defining role," states the Facebook page.

Homage was also paid to the actor just last Sunday, when MTV featured a tribute to the star at the 2014 MTV Movie Awards.

Cast members were left devastated in the wake of Walker's death. "It wasn't just losing a co-star, he was family for real," said Fast actor, Tyrese Gibson. "That's why it took so long to recover."

Hopefully, having Caleb and Cody on the set is sparking a healing movement among the cast and crew.

New in Entertainment

And you'll see personalized content just for you whenever you click the My Feed .

SheKnows is making some changes!

b h e a r d !

Welcome to the new SheKnows Community,

where you can share your stories, ideas

and CONNECT with millions of women.

Get Started


text:
Start writing
Share this Story

Box office recap: The Vow gets hitched to No. 1

Jenna Milly is a screenwriter. She co-created the TBS microseries "Gillian in Georgia." She earned her B.A. in Journalism from the University of Georgia and a M.F.A. in Screenwriting from UCLA’s School of Theater, Film and Television. Sh...

Romantic drama blows competition away

Who said there are no true romantics left in the world? The pre-Valentine’s Day weekend at the box office was a smashing hit for The Vow, a romance about finding love all over again.

Romantic drama blows competition away

The Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum romance about a woman who loses her memory and must fall in love with her husband again is a smashing hit this weekend at the box office, grossing an estimated $41 million, according to The Wrap. The Vow contributed to the record-breaking weekend for movies. More than four films opened over $20 million. That's a lotta cash, Hollywood!

Movie review: The Vow boasts to forget-me-not >>

This is a surprise for studios and critics who usually expect thrillers to take the top spot on opening weekends. There must be more than a few date night outings that helped this movie climb to first.

Coming in a close second, with an estimated $39.3 million is the thriller Safe House, co-starring Denzel Washington and Ryan Reynolds. The story is about a rookie CIA agent who gets more than he bargained for when raiding a safe house harboring a known fugitive.

Movie review: Safe House opens with a bang! >>

Bringing in an estimated $27.6 million and coming in third is the action adventure Journey 2: The Mysterious Island. The family adventure in the tropics stars the beefy Dwayne Johnson, Josh Hutcherson and Vanessa Hudgens.

Movie review: Dwayne Johnson's pecs go pop in Journey 2 >>

In a surprise ranking that really didn't surprise anyone, George Lucas grabbed a top ten spot with his 3-D release of Star Wars: Episode 1 -- The Phantom Menace. The mega epic appears to be unstoppable when it comes to getting fans into the theaters. Coming in fourth with $23 million, Phantom Menace is still a hit.

Last week's first place, Chronicle, couldn't hold onto its spot forever, but the film about teenagers who acquire super powers but then don't know what to do with them, grabbed an estimated $12.3 million, giving it the fifth place ranking in this top ten.

Movie review: Super powers create super problems in Chronicle >>

The Woman in Black, the exciting horror thriller starring Harry Potter's Daniel Radcliffe couldn't beat out Chronicle although it made a good showing with $10.3 million, landing it in sixth place.

Movie review: Daniel Radcliffe is scary Potter in The Woman in Black >>

Disappointing critics and fans alike, Big Miracle, the romantic comedy about the true life whale rescue starring Drew Barrymore and John Krasinski came in seventh with an underperforming $3.9 million.

Holding strong in the top 10 for several weeks are George Clooney's Oscar-nominated The Descendants coming in ninth with $3.5 million and Kate Beckinsale's vampire-action flick Underworld: Awakening coming in tenth with $2.5 million. Love is in the air at the box office. There's no telling what will happen next week.

Image courtesy: Spyglass Entertainment
New in Entertainment

And you'll see personalized content just for you whenever you click the My Feed .

SheKnows is making some changes!

b h e a r d !

Welcome to the new SheKnows Community,

where you can share your stories, ideas

and CONNECT with millions of women.

Get Started


text:
Start writing
Share this Story

Meet the new ladies of ABC's Once Upon a Time

Krystal Clark is a Los Angeles based entertainment writer who loves all things sci-fi, comic book and fantasy. When she's not consuming other worldly genres, she likes to soak up classic cinema. Krystal has a real soft spot for Frank Cap...

Mulan and Sleeping Beauty

Snow White, Cinderella and Little Red Riding Hood aren't the only fairy tale vixens in Storybrooke. Once Upon a Time has tapped two more legendary characters. Introducing Mulan and Princess Aurora.

Mulan and Sleeping BeautyThe ABC series Once Upon a Time has hit the jackpot. The fantasy has cast two new fairy tale roles for its upcoming second season. One is the lady warrior Mulan and the other is Princess Aurora from Sleeping Beauty.

According to Entertainment Weekly, former Real World star and Sucker Punch alum Jamie Chung will play Mulan. Most of us know the character from the 1998 animated Disney film, which featured Ming-Na as the title role.

The story of Mulan "originates from an ancient Chinese poem about Hua Mulan, a young woman who takes her elderly father’s place in the army." The heroine will be a recurring character during season two.

Once Upon a Time casts a big, bad mother >>

As for Princess Aurora, TVLine confirms that Sarah Bolger has landed the coveted role. The Irish actress previously appeared in Showtime's The Tudors, and the films The Spiderwick Chronicles and The Moth Diaries.

Sebastian Stan mad for Once Upon a Time >>

During the first season of Once Upon a Time, Maleficent (Aurora's nemesis) made an appearance in a couple episodes. But Sleeping Beauty herself was nowhere to be found. Like Mulan, Aurora will be a recurring role, which means her story could unfold throughout the season.

Enchanting decor from Once Upon a Time >>

Prior to Chung and Bolger's casting, ABC confirmed that Emilie de Ravin's Belle (From Beauty and the Beast) would return as a series regular this fall. She previously appeared as a recurring character during season one.

What do you think of the latest additions to Once Upon a Time?

Photo credit: Apega/WENN
New in Entertainment

And you'll see personalized content just for you whenever you click the My Feed .

SheKnows is making some changes!

b h e a r d !

Welcome to the new SheKnows Community,

where you can share your stories, ideas

and CONNECT with millions of women.

Get Started


text:
Start writing
Share this Story

Kellie Pickler comes out on top on Dancing with the Stars

Kristyn Burtt is an LA-based entertainment reporter who has covered everything from 'Dancing With the Stars' to the Oscars. If she’s not on the red carpet, she’s at home in yoga pants watching Netflix and eating potato chips.

She wins Season 16

On Tuesday night, country singer Kellie Pickler went home as the winner of Season 16 of Dancing with the Stars. The finale was a close race between Pickler and 16-year-old Disney Channel star Zendaya.

She wins Season 16

It was a long 10 weeks, but the winner was finally announced on Season 16 of ABC's Dancing with the Stars. After a heated battle on the dance floor between country singer Kellie Pickler and Disney Channel star Zendaya, it was Pickler who went home with the coveted mirror ball trophy.

The season was marred with lots of controversy from fans who believed the 16-year-old came in with a dance background advantage. She has studied hip-hop for years and she dances on her show, Shake It Up! Forums were crowded with comments from viewers who claimed she was a ringer for ABC, which wanted to promote the young star because she is part of the network.

Pickler did not have a dance background, but she had a natural grace and flexibility that most trained dancers would envy. Paired with the show's strongest choreographer, Derek Hough, she made a late run for the win after many assumed the teen would win.

Fun facts about Dancing with the Stars' final four >>

The final decision came down to Monday night's freestyle dance, elaborately staged production numbers. Zendaya, with her partner, Val Chmerkovskiy, opted for a routine that highlighted a bit of hip-hop but more ballroom than one would expect for a finale dance. The production number also included a group of younger dancers who look up to Zendaya as a role model.

Pickler and Hough went a totally different direction in a stripped-down routine that was simply about the movement. The couple wowed the audience with breathtaking choreography versus a super-sized production number that is typical of the last show. The strategy worked because it stood out among all of the final contestants, including Olympic gymnast Aly Raisman and NFL player Jacoby Jones.

When the news was announced, a shocked Pickler gasped, "Oh my God! This is amazing! Oh my God!”

The teen graciously handled the loss by talking about the journey of her season. She said, "I’m very proud. I’m very happy and I get to leave here with an amazing experience, so I’m very happy.”

Kellie Pickler goes bald to back bestie's cancer fight >>

The two female finalists were perhaps the most talented the show has ever seen in its 16-season history. They each represented different aspects of dance, but the viewers were treated to more complex routines and technique than in seasons past.

One final issue did mar the season ending: voting. On Monday night, the site went down while the live East Coast feed was airing. The network decided to not count the Internet votes and only use Facebook, AT&T customer texts and phone votes for the final tally. Whether this affected the younger contestants like Zendaya or Raisman is still being debated by fans.

Either way, the winner has been determined, with Pickler and Hough taking home the trophy. Zendaya and Chmerkovskiy placed second while Jones and his partner, Karina Smirnoff, came in third place. Raisman and Mark Ballas were eliminated in the first hour of the results show on Tuesday for a fourth-place finish.

Next season brings new changes to the aging show. ABC has eliminated the Tuesday results show in hopes that one jam-packed show on Monday night will draw more viewers to the dance competition series.

Image courtesy of
New in Entertainment

And you'll see personalized content just for you whenever you click the My Feed .

SheKnows is making some changes!

b h e a r d !

Welcome to the new SheKnows Community,

where you can share your stories, ideas

and CONNECT with millions of women.

Get Started


text:
Start writing
Share this Story

Vegan asparagus soup

Jennifer Farley is the creator, recipe developer and food photographer of Savory Simple. She graduated from the Culinary Arts program at L'Academie de Cuisine in Gaithersburg, MD where she trained in classic French technique. Jennifer cu...

Healthy and delicious

Cream soups do not need to be heavy. This vegan cream of asparagus soup uses nondairy milk to achieve a silky smooth finish.

Healthy and delicious

For a more traditional soup, simply swap out the nondairy milk for cream or half-and-half!

Vegan cream of asparagus soup recipe

Serves 4

  • 1-1/2 pounds chopped asparagus
  • 2 teaspoons extra-virgin olive oil
  • 1 large yellow onion, diced
  • Leaves from 1 sprig thyme
  • 3 cups homemade or low-sodium vegetable stock
  • 1/2 cup almond or soy milk
  • 1/2 teaspoon salt or to taste
  • Pinch of black pepper

  1. In a large Dutch oven, saute the asparagus in olive oil over medium heat, until slightly caramelized.
  2. Stir in onions and cook until translucent. Add the thyme leaves and vegetable stock, cover loosely and simmer until the asparagus is soft, about 10-15 minutes. Remove from the heat and cool slightly.
  3. Transfer soup to a blender and puree until smooth. Strain soup through a fine mesh strainer into a saucepan. Discard any solids. Add the almond or soy milk, salt and pepper and stir until hot. Serve.

More vegan recipes

Vegan cake batter ice cream
Vegan pasta salad
Vegan fettuccine Alfredo

New in Food & Recipes

And you'll see personalized content just for you whenever you click the My Feed .

SheKnows is making some changes!

b h e a r d !

Welcome to the new SheKnows Community,

where you can share your stories, ideas

and CONNECT with millions of women.

Get Started


text:
Start writing
Share this Story

Go wild: How to plan an African safari

Kortney Gruenwald is an internationally published journalist, writer and founder of lifestyle blog Western Charm. Originally a west coast American girl, she is currently living in Germany but still fueled by iced lattes (even in winter)....

Let’s go wild

Whether you were inspired by the place on Earth that Ernest Hemingway wrote about so lovingly or just a nature lover, an African safari is the vacation of a lifetime. It has something magical to offer for every traveler of every age, and has become a go-to stop for those hunting for luxury. Add a trip deep into the Serengeti to your bucket list, and start planning — this one takes some time, love and excitement.

Let’s go wild

Give yourself time

Tip: This planning timeline doesn’t include booking flights, which should be done very early when traveling to Africa. Also make time for vaccines if you plan to go to any extremely rural regions.

Planning an African safari is something that takes research, patience, time and sometimes even paperwork. If you’re looking to go the simple resort-and-scheduled safari route, four to six months should be ample planning time. If you’re interested in visiting various regions and booking a well-known guide or safari, give yourself at least a year to make sure every detail is perfect.

Decide who is going

Do you want to go soul-searching Julia Roberts-style or do you dream of a romantic adventure for two? Maybe your family is overdue for a reunion or you want to renew your vows alongside elephants. Decide who is going and start factoring that immediately into your budgets and trip itinerary. You could book a private safari just for your family or plan an outdoor massage session at sunset for you and your hubby. Africa is diverse, and so are the options.

Decide on a region

Each region in Africa offers something unique an unforgettable, so this is one of the most difficult decisions. One of the most popular and explored regions for tourists are in East Africa, focusing on Kenya and Tanzania area. This is also the best option for those on a budget, as there is no shortage of safari packages and deals. If you’re looking for something more unusual, southern Africa offers the most diversity and works well with a medium to high budget. This is also home to one of the seven wonders of the world: Victoria Falls in Zimbabwe. The south is a great option for families who also want to combine helping people with sightseeing, as there are many organizations such as children's shelters where helping hands and smiles are always welcome.

Let’s go wild

Decide where to stay

Do you want to camp fireside under the desert sky? Or perhaps lounging sauna-side in a luxury retreat in the middle of nowhere is more your thing. After you research your region, it is time to research where you want to stay on your safari off-time. Africa has some of the most luxurious resorts in the world, but if there was ever a time to step out of your comfort zone, it would be in Africa. Explore the wide variety of bungalows and hideaways (most accessible only by plane). Don’t forget that Africa has some of the most spectacular beaches in the world, so look into beachside cottages for a more romantic adventure.

Choose your season

The time of year is one of the most important factors to take into account when planning an African safari. The most amazing wildlife spotting happens during Africa’s dry season, as the whole animal kingdom gathers around watering holes. Dry season varies by region, so be sure to do your research on the best times. In Kenya and much of Africa there are two dry seasons: January through March and July through October. In Tanzania (where the great migration of herds takes place) the dry season is roughly June to November. Don’t be tempted to settle for the wet season to avoid tourists, as animals may be few and far between. Rain also happens in a lovely downpour-like fashion, so the chances of being stranded or encountering floods increases.

Book your tickets and plan

Booking your tickets to Africa early is the best choice. The cost of getting to Africa varies by your starting point, and flight prices outside North America usually climb rather than fall. I would book nine months to one year in advance, depending on the amount of time you need to plan. If you want pressure to add to the adventure, six to nine months is the time to find the right price. Also keep in mind you need time to plan secondary transportation upon arrival. Africa isn’t as easy as hailing a cab in New York or London. Buses, jeeps and tiny planes are in your future.

Have fun planning the most beautiful traveling memories of your life.

More adventuring

Best European cities for foodies
Checking In: Adventure travel
Frequent Flier: Where to stay, eat and play on St. Kitts

Follow Us

SheKnows Media ‐ Beauty and Style

New in Living

And you'll see personalized content just for you whenever you click the My Feed .

SheKnows is making some changes!

b h e a r d !

Welcome to the new SheKnows Community,

where you can share your stories, ideas

and CONNECT with millions of women.

Get Started


text:
Shelf Awareness for Monday, April 2, 2012

Random House: Shadow Man by Alan Drew

Workman: Summer Brain Quest - Get a Free Event Kit

W. W. Norton & Company: T2 Trainspotting by Irvine Welsh

Mira Books: The Orphan's Tale by Pam Jenoff

Little Brown and Company: The Forever Summer by Jamie Brenner

Algonquin Young Readers: The Wingsnatchers (Carmer and Grit #1) by Sarah Jean Horwitz

Reuters: Agency Pricing Settlement Progressing

Talks between the Justice Department and Apple and five publishers are progressing and could lead within weeks to the end of "Apple's so-called 'most favored nation' status, which had prevented the publishers from selling lower-priced e-books through rival retailers such as or Barnes & Noble," Reuters reported, citing "two people close to the negotiation."

The move, of course, would lead to the effective end of agency pricing, under which publishers set the price of e-books. Amazon and other e-tailers would then be able to discount titles as much as they want.

The Justice Department does not consider agency pricing illegal but is concerned instead that publishers and Apple "colluded" to introduce the approach.

G.P. Putnam's Sons: The Light We Lost by Jill Santopolo

Seattle Times on Amazon: Ouch

In separate articles over the past several days, the Seattle Times has painted local company powerhouse Amazon in largely negative light.

One story, entitled " trying to wring deep discounts from publishers," outlines the company's apparent effort "to rewrite the rules of publishing." A main example: McFarland & Co., which received an e-mail from Amazon late last year stating that as of the beginning of 2012, the company would buy the publisher's books at a 45% discount, "roughly double its current price break." (McFarland is traditionally a library-oriented publisher with lower discounts than many trade houses.)

Although Amazon represented nearly 70% of McFarland's retail sales and 15% of overall business, the publisher held its ground because, as Karl-Heinz Roseman, director of sales and marketing, said, a change in terms would have been both a money-losing proposition and would have gone against the company's tradition of having the same terms for all accounts. Discussions between the two companies have been solely by e-mail; Roseman does not even know the name or title of the person he is negotiating with.

And Berkshire Publishing Group, which sold at 40%, received a December e-mail demanding a larger discount. The company declined the demand, and Amazon, which represented 10% of its business, stopped ordering from it.

The Times noted that some publishers "say they're speaking out against Amazon partly because they're offended by its tactics. They describe Amazon's demands--made in e-mail, with no personal-contact information provided--as overly aggressive and leaving almost no room for discussion."

Concerning Amazon's expansion of its publishing program, the Times quoted Mike Shatzkin, CEO of the Idea Logical Company: "There's never been anything like the potential for domination by a single company in the U.S. book business like what we see now with Amazon."

By contrast, Jeff Belle, v-p of Amazon Publishing, recently told BloombergBusinessWeek: "What we're building is more like an in-house laboratory where authors and editors and marketers can test new ideas. Success to us means working with authors who want to find new ways to connect with more readers."

In the other story, called "Amazon a virtual no-show in hometown philanthropy," the Seattle Times outlines the company's somewhat meager participation in civic life in the city where its headquarters are, a major contrast to other large corporations in the area such as Microsoft. For example, Amazon, the paper said, contributed nothing last year to the United Way of King County and is "not a major donor" to various other important local charities or civic groups.

The paper noted that the company's below-the-radar approach extends even to its offices: there is no indication of who is housed in the company's "sprawling new campus on South Lake Union," and three years ago founder and CEO Jeff Bezos skipped the groundbreaking ceremony for those new buildings, an event attended by the mayor of Seattle and Governor of Washington.

The Times said that since 2009, Amazon has contributed to "some 80 writers groups in the U.S., including 19 in the Puget Sound region, with grants of about $25,000, and it gave the University of Washington $51,000 over a three-year period. But critics note that Amazon's support of writers groups coincides with the growth of its publishing business."

Still, Amazon has recently been "taking some steps toward greater involvement in its hometown," the paper said: earlier this year it pledged to establish two $1 million endowed professorship at the University of Washington in the computer science department and has made "small, often unsolicited, cash contributions" and offered volunteer help and in-kind donations to more than 30 local nonprofits.

For his part, Amazon's Bezos has questioned the value of traditional philanthropy. In 2010, he told Charlie Rose: "I'm convinced that in many cases, for-profit models improve the world more than philanthropy models, if they can be made to work." And last year he told the Times: "Our core business activities are probably the most important thing we do to contribute, as well as our employment in the area."

Soho Press: The Boy in the Earth by Fuminori Nakamura

Kentucky Approves Biz Incentives for Amazon

The Kentucky Economic Development Finance Authority approved a proposal last week that would give $10.25 million in business incentives to an Amazon subsidiary, AMZN.wacs Inc., "should it choose to open a $20-million customer support center in Winchester," the Sun reported. The agency also approved a $250,000 economic development grant agreement for the project.

Todd Denham, executive director of the Winchester-Clark County Industrial Authority, said that to receive the full tax credit, AMZN.wacs Inc. must create 550 full-time jobs and 600 part-time and seasonal jobs that would pay an average hourly wage of $20.33 with benefits.

The 70,000-square-foot center would be built on a seven-acre site to be determined, according to Denham, who has been working with local leaders on the project since October. "Because the City of Winchester entered into a confidentiality agreement with AMZN, the project was dubbed Project Rock until the company name could be released," the Sun wrote.

"We are still working with the client to continue this process, and we hope to continue to move forward to have this project come to fruition very soon," Denham added. "This is going to have such an impact on our community, our region, the state, and we're very excited, and there's a whole lot of people that have worked very hard to get us this far, so... we hope to have an announcement on this sometime in the near future."

Henry Holt & Company: Goodbye, Vitamin by Rachel Khong

Striking Toronto Library Workers Reach Settlement

The 11-day strike by library workers in Toronto has ended and branches reopened Friday. Under a four-year collective agreement approved by what the union called a "very strong majority," the 2,300 workers "will get a raise, though their wages will not keep up with the current rate of inflation," the Star reported, adding that "full-time and part-time workers will be protected from layoffs after they earn 11 years of seniority."

"We're very happy to be returning to work," said union president Maureen O'Reilly (center, in photo), though she expressed concern about the employment security provisions that leave part-time workers more vulnerable to layoffs.

And library patrons should take note: "Borrowers have two weeks to return books that were supposed to be due during the strike," the Globe & Mail wrote.

Photo: TPLWU Local 4948

HarperOne: Driving Miss Norma by Tim Bauerschmidt and Ramie Liddle

Ohio's Book Nook Closes

The Book Nook, Newark, Ohio, closed yesterday after 40 years in business. On the shop's Facebook page, owner Pat Luckeydoo posted the following message Saturday: "Well friends tomorrow is the last day of selling books. To say that I am sad is an understatement. But in all things, we can look to the future with happiness, and roll on with the changes. I hope to stay in contact with the people that made running it a joy."

Luckeydoo told the Advocate she is ready to retire, but could not find a buyer: "We didn't want to close it. But it was something we had to do.... We will definitely miss the customers. I'd like them to know they were very special to us.... I'm really sad it has to close."

Hawthorne Books: Narrow River, Wide Sky by Jenny Forrester

Image of the Day: It's a Brad Brad Booksigning

Recently Books & Greetings, Northvale, N.J., hosted an event for Brad Goreski of the Bravo show It's a Brad Brad World and author of Born to Be Brad: My Life and Style, So Far (It Books). Here is Groeski (l.) with Books & Greetings owner Kenny Sarfin.

Most Influential?: Ann Patchett

One of the nominees for Time Magazine's 100 Most Influential People of 2012 is Ann Patchett, author and co-owner of the new Parnassus Books, Nashville, Tenn. Time is allowing people to vote for one of the 100; its editors will pick the rest. To see more (and vote), click here. Polls close April 6.

The nomination reads in full:

"With books like 2001's PEN/Faulkner winner Bel Canto and the new State of Wonder, Patchett has demonstrated a singular ability to write smart literary novels that are also big best sellers. And when it comes to literature and books in general, she's put her money where her mouth is: in 2011 she opened Parnassus Books in her hometown of Nashville, placing herself on the front lines of several ongoing battles for the fate of the printed word."

Turning the Page: A 200th Booksigning

Speaking of author-booksellers, congratulations to Nora Roberts and Turn the Page Bookstore, Boonsboro, Md. On April 14, the store, owned and operated by Roberts's husband, Bruce Wilder, is hosting a signing to launch Roberts's 200th book, The Witness (Putnam). Other authors signing include J.D. Robb (no mystery there), Sophia Nash, Sarah Pekkanen, R.C. Ryan/Ruth Langan, Carolyn Turgeon and two local authors. The store hosts some seven signings a year featuring Roberts/Robb and at least five other authors.

Bookmobiles Going Off the Road

Bookmobiles, "those rolling reading rooms," are an endangered species, according to NPR's Weekend Edition, which cited as an example the Cobleigh Public Library in Lyndonville, Vt., which "had managed to keep its van rolling until about a month ago, when it died."

"We miss the bookmobile," said a child at the Stay and Play daycare center. Without it, librarians have been hauling books in their cars for story hour, but daycare provider Anneka Bickford told NPR it's just not the same: "It's getting the children involved with what a library is, how to check out books [and] how to return books. They would do programs with the children; singing, dancing, themes--so it's the excitement of the library that we can't give to the children."

Vermont's bookmobile fleet has dwindled substantially over the years, as outmoded vehicles were not replaced. "The first bookmobile was out of the dump, it was a plumber's van out of the dump," said Cindy Karasin, Lyndonville's head librarian. Since new ones can cost as much as $90,000, "that seems not the way we are going to go," she added.

'Beloved Bookseller' Pops Up in Cleveland

A pop-up bookstore will be opened in Cleveland's Shaker Square by longtime bookseller Richard Gildenmeister, "who first began selling books at Higbees in 1955, opened Richard Gildenmeister at Shaker Square in the 1970s and worked at Joseph-Beth Booksellers until two years ago," Fresh Water reported, adding that he plans to sell off his private collection in the vacant storefront.

"We all have dreams and nightmares," said Gildenmeister, who turns 80 this year. "Well, one night I had a dream with all these books moving around in my brain. I woke up and thought, 'Maybe this is a message. I've lived in this apartment 42 years and haven't thrown a scrap away. It's time to get moving.' "

He also told Fresh Water he thinks this is a new era in which smaller, independent bookstores will thrive: "The city had a lot of independent bookstores in 1955, and one by one they were knocked off, and then came the big guys. Now they're getting knocked off. I believe many more independent stores will open in niche markets."

Media and Movies

Media Heat: Gov. Nikki Haley Launches Book Campaign

This morning on the Today Show: Haley Kilpatrick, author of The Drama Years: Real Girls Talk About Surviving Middle School--Bullies, Brands, Body Image, and More (Free Press, $16, 9781451627916).

This morning on Imus in the Morning: Dr. Martha Herbert, co-author of The Autism Revolution: Whole-Body Strategies for Making Life All It Can Be (Ballantine, $26, 9780345527196).

This morning on MSNBC's Morning Joe: Carl Hiaasen, author of Chomp (Knopf Books for Young Readers, $16.99, 9780375868429).

This morning on CBS's This Morning: Rachel Dratch, author of Girl Walks into a Bar...: Comedy Calamities, Dating Disasters, and a Midlife Miracle (Gotham, $26, 9781592407118). She will also appear on the View and Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

This morning on Good Morning America: South Carolina Governor Nikki Haley, author of Can't Is Not an Option: My American Story (Sentinel, $27.95, 9781595230850). Tomorrow she appears on the ViewHannity and the Colbert Report.

Today on NPR's Talk of the Nation: David Crystal, author of The Story of English in 100 Words (St. Martin's, $22.99, 9781250003461).

Today on MSNBC's Now with Alex Wagner: Peter Popham, author of The Lady and the Peacock: The Life of Aung San Suu Kyi (The Experiment, $27.50, 9781615190645).

Tomorrow morning on Good Morning America: Karen Le Billon, author of French Kids Eat Everything: How Our Family Moved to France, Cured Picky Eating, Banned Snacking, and Discovered 10 Simple Rules for Raising Happy, Healthy Eaters (Morrow, $24.99, 9780062103291).

Tomorrow morning on the Today Show: Mary Higgins Clark, author of The Lost Years (Simon & Schuster, $26.99, 9781451668865), and Carol Higgins Clark, author of Gypped (Scribner, $25, 9781439170311).

Tomorrow morning on NPR's Morning Edition: Robert Shiller, author of Finance and the Good Society (Princeton University Press, $24.95, 9780691154886).

Tomorrow on Access Hollywood: Tori Spelling, author of celebraTORI: Unleashing Your Inner Party Planner to Entertain Friends and Family (Gallery, $25.99, 9781451627909). She will also appear on the Today Show, the View and Bravo's Watch What Happens Live.

PBS American Masters Tonight: Margaret Mitchell and Harper Lee

The new season of PBS's American Masters biography series continues tonight with back-to-back shows on Margaret Mitchell, author of Gone with the Wind, and Harper Lee, author of To Kill a Mockingbird.

As PBS noted, both writers are Southern white women, won the Pulitzer for their debut novels, had their books made into movies that have become classics and "were ahead of their time, challenging the social order and making a cultural impact with their books that still resonates today."

The film about Mitchell, American Masters Margaret Mitchell: American Rebel, includes segments with Tom Brokaw, Rosanne Cash, Pearl Cleage, Pat Conroy, Molly Haskell, Anna Quindlen, Scott Turow and Oprah Winfrey.

The film about Lee is called American Masters Harper Lee: Hey, Boo.

Books & Authors

Awards: Dilys Winner; Diagram Oddest Book Title

Ghost Hero by S.J. Rozan (Minotaur) has won the 2012 Dily Award, recognizing the mystery title of the year that members of the Independent Mystery Booksellers Association most enjoyed selling. The award is named for Dilys Winn, founder of the first mystery bookstore in the U.S. Rozan was presented the prize at the Left Coast Crime 2012 conference in Sacramento, Calif.

Juvenile humor reigns supreme, even after April Fool's Day. Saiyuud Diwong's Cooking with Poo, a recipe book that derives its title from the chef/author's nickname (which is Thai for crab), won the Diagram prize for the oddest book title of the year.

The Guardian reported that Diwong "lives in Bangkok's Klong Toey slum, where she runs a community cookery school." Her book bested a shortlist that included Mr. Andoh's Pennine Diary: Memoirs of a Japanese Chicken Sexer in 1935 Hebden Bridge; The Great Singapore Penis Panic and the Future of American Mass Hysteria; and Estonian Sock Patterns All Around the World.

There is no cash prize for the dubious honor, but previous winner Michael Young, author of Managing a Dental Practice the Genghis Khan Way, said: "Since the award of the prize, I am pleased to say that my writing career is once again flourishing. Editors are keen to publish my words. Being the winner of the Diagram prize has, I feel, given both the book and me a great deal of credibility, which perhaps without the epithet 'prize-winning' we would never have achieved."

Book Review

Review: Welcome to Paradise

Welcome to Paradise by Mahi Binebine, trans. by Lulu Norman (Tin House Books, $14.95 paperback, 9781935639275, April 10, 2012)

As Mahi Binebine's Welcome to Paradise begins, Aziz and his shivering cousin are seated in a café waiting to cross the Strait of Gibraltar. The cousin, suffering from a dreadful stomachache, has soiled himself in a fit of nerves, and the outraged waiter has just thrown them both out. They join other would-be illegal immigrants gathered in Tangier, now hiding on the beach, where dogs or police can spell disaster, where a crying baby can destroy them all. Tonight is the night.

They've been waiting for a month at the little Café France, entertained by Momo the trafficker, a crook with an unusual gift for friendship who has learned to take no chances after spending three years in a French prison. We meet the people who have paid him for passage one by one: Aziz, the young scholar from the School on the Hill who has failed his exam; Reda, his cousin, whose brother has had both his hands amputated, whose mother threw herself down a well; Nuara, clutching a baby who will not stop bawling, searching for a husband who has not returned; Kacem Judi, an Algerian teacher who has survived the butchery of his people; patiently determined Pafadnam and Yarce, who have come from Mali with their life savings; and Yussef from Marrakesh, whose two mothers and four siblings are all dead.

As they huddle on the beach, we learn their back stories and meet the families they've left behind. The two wives of Yussef's father, for instance, got along in perfect harmony, never quarreled, shared money, went shopping hand in hand, always sat side by side. But when his father stole a sack of corn, not realizing it contained rat poison, he accidentally killed both of them and all his children except Yussef.

Binebine tells all these stories through Aziz; through his eyes, in a spare, straightforward style, Binebine creates a compelling, all-too-human cast of characters ready to risk everything to get across the Strait. By the time they reach the last hours and prepare to attempt the dangerous crossing, the reader has been drawn into intense identification with their hopes and loves and fears.

The book's final stretches are agonizingly suspenseful, with a painfully believable ending that stays true to Binebine's heartbreaking commitment to his characters and his determinedly humanistic, profoundly touching vision. --Nick DiMartino

Shelf Talker: A group of desperate immigrants in Tangier await a new life of freedom--or arrest and possible death.

Powered by: Xtenit


text:
Gardening workshop open to all

March 14, 2014
Shepherdstown Chronicle

The Berkeley-Jefferson Extension Master Gardener Association will hold their annual Gardening 101 Workshop for beginning gardeners on Saturday, March 22 from 8:30 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the Kearneysville Tree Fruit Research and Educational Center, 67 Apple Harvest Lane, Kearneysville.

Master Gardeners with years of local gardening success will be sharing their knowledge and hands-on experience on diverse and important topics. Topics for this years class will be: The Basics of Setting Up a Garden; Successful Vegetable and Flower Gardening, and Gardening Tool Selection and Care.

The pre-registration deadline for the workshop is March 17.

We encourage participants to register early because the workshop is limited to 60 participants. The registration fee of $10 dollars covers materials and will be collected the day of the event. Unfortunately, we cannot accept credit cards for payment at the event, only cash or checks. Check-in on March 22 begins at 8:30 a.m.

A brochure and registration form to mail or on-line sign-up are available at the Berkeley-Jefferson website: or contact the Berkeley County Extension Office at 304-264-1936 for additional information and to preregister.

I am looking for:
News, Blogs & Events Web


text:
Sources: Strikeforce to Delay GP Fights; Targeting California for April

By Greg Savage Feb 21, 2011
Sources tell that Strikeforce will push back its April heavyweight tournament bouts. | Dave Mandel

With the first round of the Strikeforce Heavyweight Grand Prix in the books, April 9 had become the focus for the other half of the quarterfinals, but it now appears that fans will have to wait a little longer to see who will be squaring off with Antonio Silva and Sergei Kharitonov. learned today via sources close to the promotion that Strikeforce is planning to run its previously scheduled April date in California, and that the two remaining quarterfinal bouts will most likely be pushed off the card.

A fight between Strikeforce lightweight champion Gilbert Melendez and Japanese slugger Tatsuya Kawajiri is expected to comprise one of the top two spots on the bill, while welterweight champion Nick Diaz is expected to fill the other slot against a yet-to-be-named opponent.

Speaking with, Diaz’s manager and trainer Cesar Gracie said he was not sure which way the promotion was leaning, but that at least a couple different fighters were under consideration, including Paul Daley -- who fights Deep veteran Yuya Shirai next weekend in the UK -- and Tyron Woodley.

“I don’t know if (Daley) is willing to take the fight,” said Gracie. “I know Strikeforce is hoping to do the fight but he has to win his fight, come out healthy and then he has to accept the fight.”

Gracie also mentioned the possibility of highly-regarded prospect Tyron Woodley as an alternate opponent, but Woodley’s manager Sam Spira told that any talk of his client taking such a big fight on less than eight weeks notice “was a bit premature.”

Gracie also raised concerns about Diaz fighting on short notice, but was clear that his charge is not likely to turn down a bout with either Daley or Woodley.

“It is a little bit of a short notice but you know how Nick is,” said Gracie. “I don’t think he will have a problem being ready to go by then.”

Heavyweight Grand Prix participant Josh Barnett was contacted for comment on his fight being pushed back and the former UFC champion said it was the first he had heard of the change in schedule.

“I don’t really have anything to say about it,” said Barnett, “I have not heard anything from the promotion yet.”

Barnett said he has been preparing with an April 9 date in mind, but that he would just have to adjust his training to ensure he was in peak condition whenever he eventually steps in the cage with Brett Rogers.

Strikeforce Matchmaker Rich Chou offered no comment when contacted Monday evening. Promotion CEO Scott Coker has not yet replied to requests for confirmation.

Reader comments are active below. Chime in with an opinion or thought by signing in with your Facebook, Twitter, Google or Yahoo! account.

Fight Finder


text:
Womens Regular, White Dial and 30 metres / 3 ATM | GIFTS UNDER $250

Imagine getting a great diamond gift for under $250 at Shiels we make this possible and more than that the gift will have the perceived value far in excess of $250. Nothing beats the feeling that the person you love will get when he or she opens the box and finds a beautiful piece of a valuable jewellery. Browse online for that piece of jewellery at Shiels.
Set Ascending Direction
Back to top
  • Daniel Wellington Classy Sheffield 26mm Watch image-a
    Daniel Wellington Classy Sheffield 26mm Watch
    RRP $219.00
  • DKNY NY2401 Stanhope Ladies Watch
  • Daniel Wellington Classy St Mawes 26mm Watch
    RRP $219.00
  • Seiko SUP304P Solar Ladies Watch
    RRP $299.00
  • Seiko SUP880P-9 Solar Gents Watch
    RRP $299.00
  • Pulsar PM2171X Stone Set Ladies Watch
    RRP $149.00


text:
This item is currently out of stock.
  • Product Details
    • Dark Brown
    About This Brand

    Relaxed yet fashion-conscious men will find in Dockers Footwear a range of handsome, comfortable shoes for every casual or business-casual occasion. Dockers trademarked Stain Defender finishes that resist most water-based spills, and a special comfort-construction system that includes outstanding cushioning for the foot.Dockers Footwear has been manufactured since 1992 by Genesco, Inc. under license with Levi Strauss & Co., the famous blue jeans manufacturers who created the Dockers brand in 1986 to introduce a line of casual and dress khaki pants. The brand has since expanded to a wide range of casually stylish apparel and accessories for both men and women.


text:
Free shipping for orders over $49.95
Cart 0
Green Garden Gold CBD-Oil 100mg

Green Garden Gold CBD-Oil 100mg

$ 49.95

These deliciously flavored vape oils taste great and have awesome health benefits! This CBD rich vape oil has a plethora of positive side effects such as ant-inflammatory, anti-pain, anti-anxiety, anti-psychotic, and/or anti-spasm effects without causing you to be lazy or paranoid!

Each 15ml bottle has 100mg of CBD. This product can be taken sublingually or vaped in any vape pen or vaporizer.

More from this collection


text:
Free Local Classifieds
Search   in
My Location
> >

Masonry wet saw in Tools For Sale

Filter Search
$39.00   1 month ago
FlorCraft 4 1/2" Wet & Dry Cut Handheld Masonry Tile Saw - $39 (New Summerfield, Texas)

FlorCraft 4 1/2" Wet & Dry Cut Handheld Masonry Tile Saw$99.95 List Price**Open Box Return In Like New Condition - Tested and in Excellent Condition With Case**Versatile saw can be used to cut tile, marble, brick, granite and concretePowerful 10 Amp motorBevel cuts from 0 - 45 degreesMax cutting depth: 1-1/4"Non slip rubber gripRPM: 11,800UL certifiedIncludes 4-1/2" diamond saw blade

$155.00   3 months ago

NEW PRICE! REDUCED!! Wet tile saw for sale. Older but works fine. 10/9/16--NOW ASKING $160.00! Great buy!Reduced again to $155.00MAKE OFFER!Works!

$199.00   5 months ago
$1,200.00   5 months ago
*REDUCED*Stone Wet/Dry Masonry Saw - $1200 (Midland)

Stone Wet/Dry Masonry Saw14" Diamond bladeComes with Water pumpWorks great!$1750.00 O.B.O.

$350.00   7 months ago
Stihl Masonry wet saw ts400 - $350 (Middletown ct)

I have 2 Stihl Masonry wet saws for sale. If your interested in purchasing one or both please text me at the above number or email me.

Last Updated on: February 25, 2017


text:
Home > Shop By Vehicle > Jeep > Jeep Wrangler Accessories >

Jeep Wrangler 4 door Roof Insert Trim, 4pc. Set, 2007 - 2017
Jeep Wrangler 4 door Roof Insert Trim, 2007, 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017
You Pay: $159.00

Product Code::

Jeep Wrangler 4 door Chrome Roof Insert Trim, 4 piece set, 2007 - 2017

Fits ALL 4 door models, WILL NOT FIT the 2 door model

This is a 4 piece premium stainless roof accent trim polished for a bright chrome mirror finish. The trim comes with 3M adhesive backing and are laser-cut for a perfect factory fit. All you need to do for simple installation is clean the vehicle's surface, remove the protective 3M adhesive liner and stick. Our chrome accent trim requires no drilling or cutting.

Accent Trim Features:
  • Accent trim from ShopSAR.com features beveled edges that are rolled and smooth for a flush factory look.
  • Gives your car a high end model, chrome look.
  • Uses pre-applied 3M adhesive for simple installation.
  • Matches your existing factory and aftermarket chrome trim.
  • Laser cut for an exact fit.
  • Made to stay applied and brilliant for the life of your vehicle.
  • Made from highest quality stainless steel with smooth mirror polished finish.
  • Made in USA.

3M Auto Adhesive

Share your knowledge of this product with other customers... Be the first to write a review


text:
2339 HWY N, Gardner WI 54204-9769 $319,900

2339 HWY N, Gardner BD: 3 BA: 1/2 $319,900 Active

  • Single Family Home
  • Status: Active
  • Mailing City: Brussels
  • County: Door
  • 3 Bedrooms
  • 1 Full Bathrooms
  • 2 Half Bathrooms
  • Est. Square Footage: 2,300
  • Garage Size: 2.5 Car (min width 24`)
  • School Dist: Southern Door County Sch Dist
  • High School: SOUTHERN DOOR
  • Property Taxes: $3,583
  • Property Tax Year: 2016
  • Access Type: Bay
  • MLS#: 50152498
  • Listing Company: Mark D Olejniczak Realty, Inc.
  • Price/SqFt: $139

2339 HWY N Gardner WI 54204-9769 - 133' of Bay frtage! This expansive 3+ BR ranch offers gorgeous vistas from dawn to sunset yr round! Beautifully maintained & lndscpd w/sweeping wndws & lg kit/din & fam rm w/FP & rec rm. Other features inc lg deck & patio. Lg 2.5 stall gar w/woodwork rm. 2-200 amp service panels. New roof '13 new furn '10 new ht wtr htr '16. 1st fl lndry & sensational sunsets. SF p/seller. Excel rental too 20K+/yr

  • Master BR: 14X12
  • BR 2: 13X12
  • BR 3: 12X10
  • Family Rm: 18X17
  • Kitchen: 23X15
  • Living Rm: 23X14
  • Utility Rm: 07X05
  • Other Rm: 20X14
  • Bath: Full
  • BA 2: Half
  • BA 3: Half
Additional Features
  • Flooring: Carpet, Ceramic, Laminate
  • Construction Type: E
  • Ranch
  • Waterfront/Access: Y
Property History
MLS Number New Status Previous Status Activity Date New List Price Previous List Price Sold Price DOM
50152498 Active Oct 10 2016 1:19PM $319,900 137

Estimated Monthly Payment

$3,287 per month
Calculate Payment

Make An Appointment

Contact Shorewest

Schedule a Showing

Get More Info

Receive more detailed information on this property

Ask a Question

Similar Homes Near 2339 HWY N

Address Property Type Status Price Bed Bath Sq. Ft. Taxes
1126 S BAY SHORE RD Single Family Active $299,900 3 3.0 2,356 $5,100
8923 PINE LN Single Family Active-Without Bump $319,500 3 2.5 2,500 $3,161

Buyer understands that the information which is contained on Data pages is obtained from a number of different sources and which has not been independently verified or confirmed by the various real estate brokers and agents who have been and are involved in this transaction. If any particular measurement or data element is important or material to buyer, Buyer assumes all responsibility and liability to research, verify and confirm said data element and measurement. REALTOR *MLS* Equal Housing Opportunity

Rates and fees are subject to adjustments based on your credit score and the loan-to-value ratio. Rates and fees are also subject to change without notice. Other rates and loan programs are available.
All applications are subject to current underwriting guidelines and credit approval. EHL NMLS#280412

  • Heritage Title Services, Inc.
  • The Realty Alliance
  • Wisconsin Mortgage Corporation
  • Leading Real Estate Companies of the World
  • Luxury Portfolio International
  • Shorewest Financial Associates LLC
  • My Dwelling Metro Milwaukee
  • HSA Home Warranty - Because Service Matters