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There are 16 eight-letter words containing A, B, 2C and L

BALLCOCK-ballcock n. A floating sphere, attached to a lever, that controls the level of liquid in a cistern.
ball cock n. Alternative spelling of ballcock.
BLACKCAP-blackcap n. A small Old World warbler, Sylvia atricapilla, which is mainly grey with a black crown.
blackcap n. Whitebark raspberry (Rubus leucodermis).
blackcap n. An American tit (Parus atricapillus); the chickadee.
BRECCIAL-breccial adj. Of or relating to breccia.
BUCCALLY-buccally adv. In a buccal manner.
CALLBACK-callback n. The return of a situation to a previous position or state.
callback n. (telephony) A return telephone or radio call; especially one made automatically to authenticate a logon.
callback n. A product recall because of a defect or safety concern.
CARBOLIC-carbolic adj. of, relating to or containing carbolic acid.
carbolic n. carbolic acid or similar disinfectant.
CASCABEL-cascabel n. A small, round, hot variety of chili pepper, Capsicum annuum, which rattles when dry.
cascabel n. A knob at the end of a cannon, cast onto the gun barrel, to which ropes are attached in order to control.
cascabel n. A bell attached to a sleigh or sleigh harness.
CASCABLE-cascable n. Alternative form of cascabel (knob at end of cannon).
CELIBACY-celibacy n. Abstaining from marriage; the state of being unmarried.
celibacy n. (by extension) Abstaining from sexual relations.
CLACKBOX-clackbox n. Alternative form of clack box.
clack box n. The box or chamber in which a clack valve works.
CLAWBACK-clawback n. (US law of evidence) A rule that permits a party to take back evidentiary materials that were mistakenly.
clawback n. (US taxation law) Money that a party is entitled to keep under one tax provision but is taken by another.
clawback n. (US, business) Any recovery of a performance-related payment based on discovery that the performance was.
CLUBFACE-clubface n. (golf) The leading face of a golf club; the side of the clubhead that strikes the ball.
COBALTIC-cobaltic adj. (chemistry) Of or relating to cobalt.
cobaltic adj. (chemistry) Containing cobalt in oxidation state 3.
COCOBOLA-cocobola n. Alternative form of cocobolo (tropical hardwood).
cocobola n. Alternative form of cocobolo (old coin).
CUBICULA-cubicula n. plural of cubiculum.
PECCABLE-peccable adj. Liable to sin; subject to transgress the divine law.

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Tarquino Shiraz Malbec 2014

Product code: 17TAR3B2014

This wine has aromas of plums, dark chocolate and blackberries with some spice and pepper notes.

  • Country:Argentina
  • Region:Mendoza
  • Vintage:2014
  • ABV:13%
  • Colour:Red
  • Product Type:Still
  • Bottle Size:75 cl
  • Grape Variety:Shiraz, Malbec
  • Closure:Screwcap

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This wine is made from a blend of Shiraz and Malbec grapes. It is a full bodied and powerful wine. With flavours of blackberries and blueberries as well as some sweet vanilla spice.

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Producer: Argento

Established in 1998 in Argentina’s most famous wine region, Mendoza, Argento has been the leading wine brand from Argentina in Europe for the last 10 years. Mendoza’s unique terroir of high altitude vineyards, desert-like climate and natural irrigation from the Andean snow melt creates the perfect conditions to produce world class fruit.

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The fermentation takes place in stainless steel vats at 25-28°C for 10-12 days. The wine ages for 3 months in French (50%) and American (50%) oak barrels.

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New Living Translation

Isaiah 45

Cyrus, the Lord’s Chosen One

1This is what the Lord says to Cyrus, his anointed one,
    whose right hand he will empower.
Before him, mighty kings will be paralyzed with fear.
    Their fortress gates will be opened,
    never to shut again.
This is what the Lord says:

“I will go before you, Cyrus,
    and level the mountains.[a]
I will smash down gates of bronze
    and cut through bars of iron.
And I will give you treasures hidden in the darkness—
    secret riches.
I will do this so you may know that I am the Lord,
    the God of Israel, the one who calls you by name.

“And why have I called you for this work?
    Why did I call you by name when you did not know me?
It is for the sake of Jacob my servant,
    Israel my chosen one.
I am the Lord;
    there is no other God.
I have equipped you for battle,
    though you don’t even know me,
so all the world from east to west
    will know there is no other God.
I am the Lord, and there is no other.
    I create the light and make the darkness.
I send good times and bad times.
    I, the Lord, am the one who does these things.

“Open up, O heavens,
    and pour out your righteousness.
Let the earth open wide
    so salvation and righteousness can sprout up together.
    I, the Lord, created them.

“What sorrow awaits those who argue with their Creator.
    Does a clay pot argue with its maker?
Does the clay dispute with the one who shapes it, saying,
    ‘Stop, you’re doing it wrong!’
Does the pot exclaim,
    ‘How clumsy can you be?’
10 How terrible it would be if a newborn baby said to its father,
    ‘Why was I born?’
or if it said to its mother,
    ‘Why did you make me this way?’”

11 This is what the Lord says—
    the Holy One of Israel and your Creator:
“Do you question what I do for my children?
    Do you give me orders about the work of my hands?
12 I am the one who made the earth
    and created people to live on it.
With my hands I stretched out the heavens.
    All the stars are at my command.
13 I will raise up Cyrus to fulfill my righteous purpose,
    and I will guide his actions.
He will restore my city and free my captive people—
    without seeking a reward!
    I, the Lord of Heaven’s Armies, have spoken!”

Future Conversion of Gentiles

14 This is what the Lord says:

“You will rule the Egyptians,
    the Ethiopians,[b] and the Sabeans.
They will come to you with all their merchandise,
    and it will all be yours.
They will follow you as prisoners in chains.
    They will fall to their knees in front of you and say,
‘God is with you, and he is the only God.
    There is no other.’”

15 Truly, O God of Israel, our Savior,
    you work in mysterious ways.
16 All craftsmen who make idols will be humiliated.
    They will all be disgraced together.
17 But the Lord will save the people of Israel
    with eternal salvation.
Throughout everlasting ages,
    they will never again be humiliated and disgraced.

18 For the Lord is God,
    and he created the heavens and earth
    and put everything in place.
He made the world to be lived in,
    not to be a place of empty chaos.
“I am the Lord,” he says,
    “and there is no other.
19 I publicly proclaim bold promises.
    I do not whisper obscurities in some dark corner.
I would not have told the people of Israel[c] to seek me
    if I could not be found.
I, the Lord, speak only what is true
    and declare only what is right.

20 “Gather together and come,
    you fugitives from surrounding nations.
What fools they are who carry around their wooden idols
    and pray to gods that cannot save!
21 Consult together, argue your case.
    Get together and decide what to say.
Who made these things known so long ago?
    What idol ever told you they would happen?
Was it not I, the Lord?
    For there is no other God but me,
a righteous God and Savior.
    There is none but me.
22 Let all the world look to me for salvation!
    For I am God; there is no other.
23 I have sworn by my own name;
    I have spoken the truth,
    and I will never go back on my word:
Every knee will bend to me,
    and every tongue will declare allegiance to me.[d]
24 The people will declare,
    “The Lord is the source of all my righteousness and strength.”
And all who were angry with him
    will come to him and be ashamed.
25 In the Lord all the generations of Israel will be justified,
    and in him they will boast.

Notas al pie

  1. 45:2 As in Dead Sea Scrolls and Greek version; Masoretic Text reads the swellings.
  2. 45:14 Hebrew Cushites.
  3. 45:19 Hebrew of Jacob. See note on 14:1.
  4. 45:23 Hebrew will confess; Greek version reads will declare allegiance to God. Compare Rom 14:11.

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Castle Bouscassé - Celestial Tears - Pacherenc Vic Bihl Moelleux - 13%

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Very sweet wine from a very refined selection

The wines from the grape Petit Manseng can compete with the best sweet (wines with particular softness). Naturally it aligns between acid balance and freshness. Harvested late harvest, the grapes are rich in sugar, they get so aromas of candied fruits. A gourmet wine, accessible and balanced; a pearl of the late harvest.

Grapes: Petit Manseng, Gros Manseng, Petit Courbu Vines 30-50 years of age. Pick up crates.

Earth soil composed of fine clay and limestone .

Winemaking and aging: breeding is done on fine lees for 6 months, the fermentation takes place it at 18 ° C .

Tasting Notes: a full wine aromas, sweetness is discreet thanks to the harmony provided by acidity. Fine wine, light and elegant.

Food pairing: variety popular with sommeliers, Le Petit Manseng Pacherenc Vic Bihl combines perfectly with foie gras. Tears Celestial also served as an aperitif or to accompany desserts.

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Alcohol : 13%vol Contains sulfites.
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Campagnolo Bora Ultra 50 - 28 Inches Wheelset Tubular - Dark

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Description of Campagnolo Bora Ultra 50 - 28 Inches Wheelset Tubular - Dark

The Bora Ultra 50 wheelset offers 50 mm deep full-carbon rims with 24.2 mm width, bearings with CULT technology and carbon hubs. It is improved in terms of lightness, aerodynamics, stiffness and comfort thanks to use of the new wider rim and front and rear hubs with different diameters. Every rider will be able to brake with total safety, in any conditions, thanks to AC3 technology on the braking track.

The Campagnolo Bora™ family of wheels has been synonymous with victory and have become and object of desire amongst not only the cycling public but also of the top riders in the professional peloton. This legendary status is achieved by combining premium materials and extremely advanced engineering that render them not only capable of offering a race-winning technical advantage, but to maintain that performance over time.
The attention these wheels get hovers around what makes them reliable and also what makes them fast. However, speed and agility necessitate control if a rider is to make it safe and sound to the finish line. The Campagnolo engineering staff has developed brake tracks that will confer a braking performance above and beyond anything found on Campagnolo carbon rims to date.

The new construction relies on AC3™ technology to create surefooted stopping power that is reliable and potent no matter the weather conditions. All Conditions Carbon Control™, or AC3™, was developed not only to generally improve an already great braking performance but also to address one of the principle drawbacks to the carbon fiber racing rim: braking performance in the wet. Aside from the externally obvious textured design upon the brake track, the construction of the new Bora™ wheels underwent some internal optimization to orient the fibers in a way to guarantee maximum integrity in the face of new input deriving from a new braking surface. The highly sophisticated resin optimized by Campagnolo engineering staff to withstand higher temperatures than the Bora™’s competition and to dissipate the extreme heat produced during the braking phase.

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full-carbon 24.2 mm wide tubular rim
great comfort and maximum aerodynamics for interacting with new tire standards. Extremely high lateral wheel stiffness and reactivity.

Exclusive rim printing system
rim painting no longer required. The weight is greatly reduced and the surface is free from imperfections.

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perfect balance of the spoke tensions on both sides of the wheel. Reduces stress, increases transversal rigidity and the transmission of power to the wheel. G3 eliminates vibrations even with "heavy" cyclists.

RDB™ Rim Dynamic Balance exclusive system that assures perfect balancing of the rim even at high speeds. Molded into the rim itself.

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the new blend increases the brake performance by about 40% on wet surfaces and 20% on dry surfaces without increasing the wear and tear on the pad. For a more modular and more secure stop

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the combination of the highest quality ceramic bearings with housing in special Cronitect® steel. Nine times smoother than the standard system. Eliminates oxidation and maintains performance over time. Aluminum axle
reduces the weight of the wheel.

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new, completely redesigned and lighter aerodynamic-profile wheel block. Steel spine and eccentric, lever with drill lightening and aluminum die. The eccentric-closure system allows cyclist to modulate the pressure necessary for heightened sensitivity to find the proper closure for the block. Easy to use, with a material resistant to wear and tear, rust, and pressure.

G3 geometry
Campagnolo® has developed an assembly architecture which, compared with a traditional wheel, makes it possible to improve energy transfer, reduce the stress on the spokes on the right and increase transverse rigidity. This is achieved because in G3™ geometry the right-hand side of the rear wheel is fitted with twice as many spokes as the left.

The results of G3™ system are truly extraordinary: better transfer of the driving torque, better lateral rigidity, reduction of the stress in the rear wheel spokes. And thanks to the G3™ system that compensates for the forces acting on the 2 sides of the wheel, there are no more wheel vibrations, even for heavier people.

The wheel is entirely hand-assembled by a specialised Campagnolo® technician and is checked in every tiny detail with electronic instrumentation. This ensures maximum performance and reliability for all Campagnolo® wheels.
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Product Name: Campagnolo Bora Ultra 50 - 28 Inches Wheelset Tubular - Dark
Manufacturer: Campagnolo
Item Code: CAM339177
Year: 2018
Manufacturer item code: Campagnolo: WH18-BOTFRDK
Shimano: WH18-BOTFRX1DK
Material: rims, hubs: carbon
axles, nipples: aluminum
Weight: approx. 1215 gram (wheelset)
approx. 520 grams (front wheel)
approx. 695 grams (rear wheel)
(manufacturer specifications)
Rim height: 50 mm
external/internal rim width: 24,2 mm outer
Spokes: aero spokes, double-butted
Spokes number: front: 18
rear: 21 (7x3) G3™
Hub axle system: front: 100mm
rear: 130mm
Fitting type of tire: tubular
Color: black/carbon
Included in delivery: quick releases, wheel bags, brake pads BR-BO500 / BR-BO500X, spacer for 9/10-speed cassetts (only shimano version), manual
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Campagnolo Bora Ultra 50 - 28 Inches Wheelset Tubular - Dark
in stock, delivery time 1-3 daysRear Wheel Compatibility: for Campagnolo 9/10/11-speed
in stock, delivery time 1-3 daysRear Wheel Compatibility: for Shimano 9/10/11-speed
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Even as Build America Bonds continue to transform municipal finance, one thing stays constant: hedging a portfolio of muni securities remains very difficult.

The BAB program has opened the market to new types of investors and traders, and potentially to greater liquidity and transparency.

That’s small solace so far to dealers, traders, and brokers of state and local government debt, who have found that hedging the credit risk in taxable municipal securities is just as elusive as it is in the tax-exempt space.

“For the most part, neither tax-exempts or Build America Bonds are that easy to hedge,” said a capital markets veteran. “It’s a long-only market, and it’s not super-liquid, with a limited ability to hedge spread risk.”

Whether in the taxable or tax-free municipal debt markets, the impracticability of hedging comes down to one thing: fully shielding an inventory of municipal bonds requires shorting municipal credit, and nobody has figured out a good way to do that yet.

In a sense, any decline in the value of a muni bond is attributable to one of two things: either the benchmark interest rate rises, or the spread of the bond’s yield over that benchmark interest rate widens.

Many market participants agree that hedging the former risk — which is known as duration — is not so tough.

Because U.S. Treasury debt provides the benchmark rate for just about all bonds denominated in dollars, and because Treasuries are among the most liquid and continuously traded instruments in the world, a trader stuck with a municipal position can hedge duration risk by shorting a Treasury.

Market participants say duration risk has also been hedged using Treasury futures or options, or short positions on the London Interbank Offered Rate.

That way, if prevailing interest rates spike and clobber the value of a dealer’s municipal bonds, he will recoup his losses with gains on his short position on Treasuries or Libor.

The risk of a widening in a bond’s spread over the Treasury rate is a different story altogether. A reliable method for positioning oneself to benefit from a municipal bond’s spread swelling out has yet to emerge.

Take the story of Fred Yosca, who trades both tax-exempt and taxable municipal bonds at Bank of New York Mellon. Yosca began trading BABs at the beginning of this year, and like many traders hedged his exposure by shorting Treasuries.

“My model was to hedge them fully based on duration, with the appropriate cash Treasury,” Yosca said. “That worked like a charm until May.”

From January through April, the nominal spread of the average BAB yield indicated by a Wells Fargo index tracking the sector over the 30-year Treasury rate compressed 40 basis points.

The long-BABs short-Treasuries model worked fine as BABs outperformed Treasuries during that period.

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Yosca was slammed with a short position on Treasuries, which strengthened 30 basis points in May, and a long position on BABs, which strengthened fewer than 15 basis points.

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Yosca’s lament: hedging duration risk does not address a shift in spreads.

The long-BAB short-Treasury hedge has since completely fallen apart, as the nominal spread has distended an additional 40 basis points since the end of May to about 200 basis points.

“There’s duration to hedge, and then there’s spread,” said one public finance banker. By shorting Treasuries, this  banker said, “you’d really only be hedging duration — you haven’t hedged that spread risk.”

This is not so foreboding a problem in the investment-grade corporate bond market, where traders have long had access to futures on a number of credit indexes that would decline should corporate spreads bleed out. That offers corporate traders a way to hedge duration using Treasuries, and hedge spread risk using indexes.

Municipal traders have no such index.

“It is very difficult to short state or local government credit in the U.S.,” JPMorgan municipal analysts Chris Holmes and Alex Roever wrote in a report last month. “In both the cash and derivative markets, shorting U.S. state and local government credits ranges in difficulty from 'challenging’ to 'outright impossible,’ depending on the target.”

It has been tried before.

In the mid-1980s, the Chicago Board of Trade launched a municipal bond index future based on The Bond Buyer 40 Index. In a paper written for CBOT in 1988, Richard Bookstaber, then a principal at Morgan Stanley, called hedging municipal inventory by taking opposite positions on Treasuries “largely ineffective.”

While shorting Treasuries does address duration risk, “it does not address the major sources of risk in the municipal bond market,” he said. Credit default threats and changes in the tax law are idiosyncratic risks posed by municipals and unanswered by a short Treasury position, he said. The only way to truly hedge a municipal position, Bookstaber argued, was with an instrument that responded directly to municipal bond prices.

Maybe so in theory, but the muni-bond index product in practice was bedeviled by a number of setbacks, most notably reports of index manipulation, culminating in CBOT dumping the product from its exchange in 2002.

By that time, the market had begun the process of forgetting about spread risk, anyway.

Roughly 46% of the $2.7 trillion of new municipal bonds sold from 2001 to 2007 were insured, according to Thomson Reuters. Tender-option bond programs had devised ways to arbitrage the municipal yield curve, keeping distortions in the relationship between tax-exempt and taxable rates to a minimum.

The market’s acceptance of the value of bond insurance, the stable interest rate patterns ensured by the TOB programs, and a widespread appetite for risk rendered municipals essentially a duration product — changes in municipal bond values were a function principally of changes in Treasury rates.

Spreads rarely played much of a role.

From the beginning of 2004 to the end of 2006, the ratio of the triple-A 10-year municipal to the 10-year Treasury averaged 83.6%, according to the Municipal Market Data scale. In those three years the ratio never dipped below 78% or ascended past 92%. That meant hedging munis with opposite positioning on taxable rates was eminently sensible. The average 30-day correlation between changes in the rates over that period was 0.88. At no point in those three years was it lower than 0.77.

In 2008, that all changed. The ratio climbed to a once-unthinkable peak of 186.1% as Treasury yields collapsed and municipal yields jumped. The 30-day correlation between changes in the two at times in the second half of the year approached zero. Changes in Treasury yields no longer explained changes in muni values — not exactly the ingredients for a stable hedge.

Phil Condon, head of municipal portfolio management at DWS Investments, said far from recouping losses on munis with short Treasury positions, many people in the financial crisis lost money both on their long municipal positions and on the short Treasury positions they had hoped would serve as a hedge.

The behavior of tax-exempt rates relative to Treasuries during the crisis challenged people’s assumptions about just how stable the relationship was, according to Condon.

People had long assumed the triple-A 10-year municipal rate could not persist above the 10-year Treasury rate for any appreciable length of time, he said. Yet it did for 73 straight trading days to close out 2008, and 22 days to open 2009.

“In ’08, they showed they can do almost anything they want to do,” Condon said.

Since then, munis have become more of a credit-spread product, tending to move in tandem with Treasuries but clearly exhibiting spread-shifting at times.

The difficulty of capturing this spread through a derivative or some other mechanism is perhaps best illustrated by the fact that municipal spreads often vary for the same issuer between the taxable and tax-exempt markets.

The tax-exempt market has strengthened in July, based on the ratio of the Municipal Market Advisors 30-year triple-A yield to the 30-year Treasury, while the taxable municipal market has weakened, based on the BABs spread.

Since the beginning of May, the taxable municipal market has weakened far more than the tax-exempt market, based on their respective relations to Treasuries.

The trailing 30-day correlation between the changes in BABs yields and tax-exempt yields has been under 0.2 at certain points this year. It has averaged 0.5.

While it would be an exaggeration to say spreads in the two markets are uncorrelated, they have not moved in lockstep.

How can an index or derivative offer a position on municipal spreads if different parts of the cash muni bond market do not even agree on what the spread is?

“While the credit may be the same, that doesn’t mean they’ll trade the same” in the taxable and tax-exempt markets, Condon said. “The buyers are different buyers. That’s the bottom line.”

Holmes’ and Roever’s report explored a number of short-selling mechanisms that exist in the taxable market that do not work so well for munis.

One of these is municipal credit-default swaps, which are essentially insurance contracts that gain in value when a municipality edges toward default.

These presumably provide a good way to short municipals, thus hedging the credit spread exposure of a bond inventory.

Just as the tax-exempt and taxable markets argue over the appropriate spread for an issuer, CDS contracts do not always agree with the bond market on spreads.

When the Wells Fargo index on BABs launched in August, the nominal spread over the 30-year Treasury was 179.6. The average spread on municipal CDS contracts compiled by Bloomberg LP was 174.

The two spreads have since walked divergent paths, at one point differing by 86 basis points — in November 2009, when the BAB spread remained elevated and municipal CDS spreads had contracted significantly.

Holmes and Roever explain that municipal CDS are thinly traded and “largely unused by the most experienced institutional investors.” They also point out that muni spreads are illogically high compared with corporate spreads. That suggests to them that most of the users of these contracts are people shorting municipals.

Directly selling a municipal bond short by borrowing it, selling it, and buying it back later is usually impractical because the lender of the security collects tax-free interest from the municipality but owes taxable interest to the short-seller.

Selling a taxable municipal security short is theoretically more plausible, but is hampered by the fractured maturity structure of the BAB market.

It would be dangerous to sell short a bond unless you thought you would be able to buy it back at some future date.

The roughly $120 billion of BABs state and local governments have floated since the program’s inception are split into nearly 15,000 Cusip numbers, according to Bloomberg. The peril with short-selling BABs is, who knows whether the particular Cusip you borrowed will be available for purchase later?

“For many issues, a short-seller could find it hard to locate specific bonds to cover his position,” Holmes and Roever said.

For those hoping that the development of the taxable municipal market will one day facilitate short-selling, Holmes and Roever warn that many issuers and some institutional investors have “strong incentives” to make sure selling municipal debt short stays as hard as possible.

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This book is not a memoir, although parts of it may look like a memoir. Nor is it a history of the jigsaw puzzle, although that is what it was once meant to be. It is a hybrid. I have always been more interested in content than in form, and I have never been a tidy writer. My short stories would sprawl into novels, and one of my novels spread into a trilogy. This book started off as a small history of the jigsaw, but it has spiralled off in other directions, and now I am not sure what it is.

I first thought of writing about jigsaws in the autumn of ????, when my young friend Danny Hahn asked me to nominate an icon for a website. This government-sponsored project was collecting English icons to compose a ‘Portrait of England’, at a time when Englishness was the subject of much discussion. At random I chose the jigsaw, and if you click on ‘Drabble’ and ‘jigsaw’ and ‘icon’ you can find what I said. I knew little about jigsaws at this point, but soon discovered that they were indeed an English invention as well as a peculiarly English pastime. I then conceived the idea of writing a longer article on the subject, perhaps even a short book. This, I thought, would keep me busy for a while.

I had recently finished a novel, which I intended to be my last, in which I believed myself to have achieved a state of calm and equilibrium. I was pleased with The Sea Lady and at peace with the world. It had been well understood by those whose judgement I most value, and I had said what I wanted to say. I liked the idea of writing something that would take me away from fiction into a primary world of facts and pictures, and I envisaged a brightly coloured illustrated book, glinting temptingly from the shelves of gallery and museum shops amongst the greetings cards, mugs and calendars portraying images from Van Gogh and Monet. It would make a pleasing Christmas present, packed with gems of esoteric information that I would gather, magpie-like, from libraries and toy museums and conversations with strangers. I would become a jigsaw expert. It would fill my time pleasantly, inoffensively. I didn’t think anyone had done it before. I would write a harmless little book that, unlike two of my later novels, would not upset or annoy anybody.

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Not long after I conceived of this project, my husband Michael Holroyd was diagnosed with an advanced form of cancer and we entered a regime of radiotherapy and chemotherapy all too familiar to many of our age. He endured two major operations of hitherto unimagined horror, and our way of life changed. He dealt with this with his usual appearance of detachment and stoicism, but as the months went by I felt myself sinking deep into the paranoia and depression from which I thought I had at last, with the help of the sea lady, emerged. I was at the mercy of ill thoughts.

Some of my usual resources for outwitting them, such as taking long solitary walks in the country, were not easily available. I couldn’t concentrate much on reading, and television bored me, though DVDs, rented from a film club recommended by my sister Helen, were a help. We were more or less housebound, as we were told to avoid public places because Michael’s immune system was weak, and I was afraid of poisoning him, for he was restricted to an unlikely diet consisting largely of white fish, white bread and mashed potato. I have always been a nervous cook, unduly conscious of dietary prohibitions and the plain dislikes of others, and the responsibility of providing food for someone in such a delicate state was a torment.

The jigsaw project came to my rescue. I bought myself a black lacquer table for my study, where I could pass a painless hour or two, assembling little pieces of cardboard into a preordained pattern, and thus regain an illusion of control. But as I sat there, in the large, dark, high-ceilinged London room, in the pool of lamplight, I found my thoughts returning to the evenings I used to spend with my aunt when I was a child. Then I started to think of her old age, and the jigsaws we did together when she was in her eighties. Conscious of my own ageing, I began to wonder whether I might weave these memories into a book, as I explored the nature of childhood.

Excerpted from The Pattern in the Carpet by Margaret Drabble. Copyright © 2009 by Margaret Drabble. Excerpted by permission of Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. All rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted without permission in writing from the publisher.

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In New York Times bestselling author Rachel Caine's latest Revivalist novel, Bryn Davis's problems quickly turn from dead to worse.

Already addicted to the pharmaceutical drug that keeps her body from decomposing, Bryn has to stop a secretive group of rich and powerful investors from eliminating the existing Returne addicts altogether. To ensure their plan to launch a new, military-grade strain of nanotech, the investors' undead assassin – who just happens to be the ex-wife of Bryn's lover Patrick – is on the hunt for anyone that stands in their way.

And while Bryn's allies aren't about to go down without a fight, the secret she's been keeping threatens to put those closest to her in even more danger. Poised to become a monster that her own side – and her own lover – will have to trap and kill, Bryn needs to find the cure to have any hope of preserving the lives of her friends, and her own dwindling humanity ...

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Rachel Caine is the New York Times bestselling author of more than thirty novels. She was born in White Sands Missile Range, which people who know her say explains a lot. She has been an accountant, a professional musician, an insurance investigator and, until recently, carried on a secret identity in the corporate world. She and her husband, fantasy artist R. Cat Conrad, live in Texas with their iguana, Popeye.

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ISBN: 9780143567042
ISBN-10: 0143567047
Series: Revivalist
Audience: General
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Number Of Pages: 320
Published: 24th July 2013
Country of Publication: AU
Dimensions (cm): 19.8 x 13.1  x 2.0
Weight (kg): 19.8
Edition Number: 3


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Distributed, Ambient, and Pervasive Interactions

First International Conference, DAPI 2013, Held As Part of HCI International 2013, Las Vegas, NV, USA, July 21-26, 2013. Proceedings

Distributed, Ambient, and Pervasive Interactions( )
Editor: Streitz, Norbert
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This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the 5th International Conference on Distributed, Ambient and Pervasive Interactions, DAPI 2013, held as part of the 15th International Conference on Human-Computer Interaction, HCII 2013, held in Las Vegas, USA in July 2013, jointly with 12 other thematically similar conferences. The total of 1666 papers and 303 posters presented at the HCII 2013 conferences was carefully reviewed and selected from 5210 submissions. These papers address...
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Hanz Kuechelgarten, Leaving the Theater and Other Works

Early Writings, Essays, Book Reviews and Letters

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Author: Gogol, Nikolai
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Nikolai Gogol is one of the geniuses of Russian prose and Russia's greatest comic writer.

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Nikolai Vasilevich Gogol was born in 1809 in the Ukraine. His father was an amateur playwright who had a small estate with a number of serfs. From the ages of 12 to 19, young Gogol attended a boarding school where he became known for his sharp wit and ability to amuse his classmates. After school he worked as a government clerk. He soon began writing memories of his childhood. His quaint depictions of the Ukrainian countryside marked his style and helped to make him famous.

Gogol quickly gained fame and formed a friendship with the influential poet, Aleksandr Pushkin. Gogol is largely remembered for his realistic characterizations, his rich imagination, and his humorous style. His works include Mirgorod, a collection of short stories including Taras Bulba. Gogol's wit is evident in his short story, The Nose, where a man's nose wanders off around town in a carriage. Gogol's masterpiece is the novel Dead Souls. In this work, a swindler plots to buy from landowners their dead serfs.

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Sorbet! (Namita Koppa)

From Namita Koppa. Email her at namita[AT]borderstan.com.

Summer fruits are the best, aren’t they? Blueberries, strawberries, blackberries, peaches, plums, nectarines, and cherries are all available in abundance these days, perfect complements to backyard BBQs and lazy Saturdays by the pool.

Like most of you, these fruits were an important part of my childhood and the simple passage of seasons. When I was growing up, my sister and I would scoop out the middle of strawberries, fill them with sugar, let them sit for about 10 minutes, and then stuff the entire fruits into our mouths. Delicious! Probably not the healthiest thing to consume, but a tasty snack for our jawful of sweet teeth.

My mom would make peach crisps complete with oatmeal streusel topping, which we would greedily demolish with Breyer’s vanilla ice cream. Late summers were filled with trips to the Blue Ridge Mountains, where we’d pick blueberries with our friends, eating them along the way until our tongues were stained a beautiful Duke blue. Around the holidays, we would bake plum cakes, dust them with powdered sugar, and give them to our teachers and postmen as gifts.

Sorbet: Easy to Make

In the last few years, however, my sister and I have both expanded our culinary horizons. As she has delved into the great world of canning and preserving, I’ve happily received giant jars of homemade strawberry-rosemary jam and blueberry-ginger preserves. When she (or any friends!) pops into my place, I’m able to share with her ice creams and sorbets.

With the temperature rising in DC and National Ice Cream Month having just ended, this frozen delicacy is an easy way to beat the heat. You may think of jaunting off to Pitango or Dolcezza for a lovely cup or cone, but I’d like to introduce a simple alternative if your ice cream habit is more an addiction than occasional indulgence: homemade sorbet.

A simple summer sorbet is an incredibly easy creation. All you need is fruit, sugar, water, and a blender. A beautiful thing about fruit sorbets is that you can use use fruits that are very ripe or even slightly overripe, as they yield the sweetest flavor.

How to Create Unbeatable Texture

If you’d like to step it up a notch for unbeatable texture, you can purchase and use an ice cream machine, but it’s not necessary.

  1. Make sure your fruit is refrigerated prior to making this! Wash, pit, and destem your fruits. You probably want to use about 2 pints of fruit per quart of sorbet.
  2. To your cut fruit, add sugar (1/4-1/2 cup, depending on how sweet you’d like it), a little water (1/4 – 1/3 cup) and let it macerate (rest!) in a bowl for about 10 minutes. If you’d like a little kick, you can also add one minibottle of your favorite liquor or ¼ cup wine at this point.
  3. Put everything in your blender and puree! If you’re seed-averse, you can run the blended fruit through a sieve. Otherwise, churn according to your ice cream maker’s instructions if you are using one. If you’re not, go to step 4.
  4. Freeze. Scoop out, enjoy.

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  1. Very informative article. I never knew that I could make Sorbet without a machine. I always thought putting it in a freezer would make it too ice-like. Looking forward to trying Cantaloupe or Watermelon Sorbet. Thanks!!

  2. Thanks Wayne! It can be a bit tricky, I’d like to add. The ice cream maker does the job of adding extra air to the base, so with a blender, it would be helpful to puree the mix and then run at a low speed to incorporate more air. If you add a little booze, it will definitely be softer.

    For some fruits, like pineapple, sieving is very important.

    And as with most homemade sorbets and ice creams, it will freeze hard due to lack of artificial softeners. Be ready to let it sit out for a bit before digging in.

    As mentioned, this is not a glam version of sorbet, just something yummy enough to indulge in once a day.

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It doesn't matter what we've experienced - whether it's the breathtaking scope of the Grand Canyon, the ethereal beauty of the Aurora Borealis, or the exhilarating view from the top of the Eiffel Tower - at some point in our lives we've all had the feeling of being in a complete and overwhelming sense of awe.

Awe seems to be a universal emotion, but it has been largely neglected by scientists--until now.

Psychological scientists Melanie Rudd and Jennifer Aaker of Stanford University Graduate School of Business and Kathleen Vohs of the University of Minnesota Carlson School of Management devised a way to study this feeling of awe in the laboratory. Across three different experiments, they found that jaw-dropping moments made participants feel like they had more time available and made them more patient, less materialistic, and more willing to volunteer time to help others.

The researchers found that the effects that awe has on decision-making and well-being can be explained by awe's ability to actually change our subjective experience of time by slowing it down. Experiences of awe help to brings us into the present moment which, in turn, adjusts our perception of time, influences our decisions, and makes life feel more satisfying than it would otherwise.

Now that's awesome.
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You will gain valuable insight into Chinese culture and business. And the cross-cultural skills and hands-on business experience you gain in China will set you apart from other students and strengthen your CV and future job applications.

Before you go

This programme is run by the British Council who - in partnership with the University of Bristol - will match you to an internship that fits your skills and interests.

The University will work closely with you to prepare you for your internship. You will receive training in inter-cultural skills, Chinese business culture and etiquette as well as participating in a twelve-week Mandarin course. All internships will be in English, so Mandarin is not a pre-requisite.

When you are there

You will travel and live with other University of Bristol interns.

While in China you can expect to receive:

  • Accommodation: in the form of two-bedroom serviced apartments, which will be a manageable commute from your work place.
  • On-site orientation on the first day of your internship
  • Pastoral care
  • Airport pick-up upon arrival
  • Social and cultural activities
  • Business and networking opportunities

Shenzhen is home to over one hundred Bristol alumni and we hope to link you with some of them. These alumni will provide a welcome to the city and potential mentorship opportunities during your placement.

On your return to Bristol you will be invited to a reception hosted by one of Bristol’s Pro-Vice-Chancellors, where you will be asked to present and share your experiences.

Shenzhen is a modern, dynamic business centre - and home to many of China’s most successful technology and manufacturing companies.

Internship opportunities are extensive, and you can expect to be able to access placements from a wide range of businesses (but you will be required to have a degree of flexibility on which organisation your placement is with). Industrial internships will potentially be available to students with relevant academic backgrounds, e.g. engineering.

You will experience life in a tropical climate, with excellent food and close proximity to Hong Kong.

Application process

The Bristol Interns in China programme has been set up to provide an international opportunity for students from backgrounds where participation in study or work abroad has traditionally been low.

Key dates

Find out key dates, including information sessions and application deadlines.

Contact us

If you need more information about studying or working abroad

Phone: +44 (0) 117 39 40205
In Person: 3rd Floor, 31 Great George Street, University of Bristol, BS1 5QD

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